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#but who is the twitter shit starter you speak of
goodnightmemes · 1 year
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GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2022) SENTENCE STARTERS
❛ You can’t keep making excuses for every one of [name]’s insane whims. ❜
❛ Genius always looks like insanity at first, though, right? ❜
❛ Hey, please stop fire-spinning inside. ❜
❛ I say it like I see it, no filter. If people can’t handle it, that’s their problem. ❜
❛ You’ve got to stay off the Twitter. ❜
❛ Are you mocking me? ❜
❛ This can’t Shazam. It’s a lamp. ❜
❛ Where’s my speargun? I gotta pack. ❜
❛ He told me you haven’t left the bath for a week. ❜
❛ My mind is a fueled-up racing car, and I got nowhere to drive it. ❜
❛ I need danger, a hunt, a challenge. ❜
❛ There’s someone here for you! With a box! ❜
❛ Hello, stranger danger. ❜
❛ Excuse me, I love your accent. I had to try it. ❜
❛ You must be very special. ❜
❛ When you throw a murder mystery party, you do it right, buddy. ❜
❛ I’m not here. ❜
❛ He’s just staying here. He’s going through things. ❜
❛ This rich-people shit is weird. ❜
❛ This is stretching my stride-taking abilities. ❜
❛ Okay, let’s stop talking and actually start hanging out and having fun. ❜
❛ Why is it on the roof? ❜
❛ I wanted to ask, what are you doing here? ❜
❛ Is this part of the game? ❜
❛ I’ve learned through bitter experience that an anonymous invitation is not to be trifled with. ❜
❛ You really try. I like that. You really make an effort. ❜
❛ You never know when shit’s gonna go down. ❜
❛ I’m uncomfortable. I’m gonna go for a swim. ❜
❛ It’s true. I say it like I see it. ❜
❛ If you want to shake things up, you start with something small. ❜
❛ That’s the place where you have to look within yourself and ask, “Am I the kind of person who will keep going?” ❜
❛ That was some real red-pill stuff. ❜
❛ Every single one of you is holding on for dear life to [name]’s golden titties. ❜
❛ Wow. That was so real. ❜
❛ I’m a truth-teller. Some people can’t handle it. ❜
❛ It’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth. Don’t you think? ❜
❛ Are you calling me dangerous? ❜
❛ A few cocktails before I’m murdered. ❜
❛ Halle Berry! That has a kick. ❜
❛ This simple thing that you thought you were looking at, it suddenly takes on layers and depth so complex, it gives you vertigo. ❜
❛ Every time we’ve gotten to the point where I’m going to strangle you, you pull something like this, and it’s magic. ❜
❛ I wanna be responsible for something that gets mentioned in the same breath as the Mona Lisa. ❜
❛ This is reckless. And you’re gonna get somebody killed. ❜
❛ It’s been a memorable weekend already, to be sure, but now the real fun starts. ❜
❛ Tonight, in this very room, a murder will be committed. ❜
❛ Well, to be clear, I mean, I didn’t know what a “blood diamond” was so… ❜
❛ What am I supposed to do now? Play Yahtzee all weekend? ❜
❛ I like the Glass Onion as a metaphor. An object that seems densely layered, but in reality the center is in plain sight. ❜
❛ It’s like putting a loaded gun on the table and turning off the lights! ❜
❛ Well, I’m out of here. Tomorrow morning. Gone. ❜
❛ You’re murdering my vibe. ❜
❛ So you come here, in your Gucci flats, telling us that we owe you? ❜
❛ What do you want? A check? You want performative pity? ❜
❛ I want the truth! ❜
❛ But me, I’m tired of pretending like you’re the victim in this game. ❜
❛ That changes things, right? ❜
❛ Have we ever not pulled through? Pulled it off? ❜
❛ We won’t know the cause of death without an autopsy. ❜
❛ Listen, I must insist that nobody touch the body or disturb anything around it. ❜
Are you treating this as a crime scene then? ❜
❛ I’ll pay you one billion dollars to tell me which one of them tried to kill me. ❜
❛ Oh, fiddlesticks. ❜
❛ Is that a speargun? ❜
❛ Oh, hell’s bells! Just, everybody, just stay here! ❜
❛ I can peel back the layers, I can take it to a point, but what lies at the center, only one person can tell us who killed [name]. ❜
❛ You’re not in the bath again, are you? ❜
❛ Heavens, the dog ate the caviar again. ❜
❛ It’s a stupid idea, right? ❜
❛ Listen, I want to be clear, huh? I am not Batman. ❜
❛ Any feelings of reverence or respect that you had for me when you crossed my threshold, buttress those feelings now. ❜
❛ Yeah, I’m trying real hard to buttress, but this sounds nuts. ❜
❛ Is this safe? ❜
❛ I shouldn’t be here. This is nuts. But I’m here. So let’s do this. ❜
❛ The reality-distortion field ends here. I can’t let you do this. ❜
❛ Look me in the eye! You know it’s a lie! ❜
❛ You must be really great at Clue, huh? ❜
❛ I’m very bad at dumb things. My Achilles’ heel. ❜
❛ This is your last chance to back out. ❜
❛ I think it’s really shitty what they all did to you. ❜
❛ I sold my soul for this. ❜
❛ I thought you said you didn’t drink? ❜
❛ That’s hard kombucha. That’s Jared Leto’s hard kombucha. ❜
❛ We’re running out of time! ❜
❛ Please. Think of the danger here. You gotta step back and let me handle this. ❜
❛ I never email anything that I wouldn’t want to see on the front page of The Times. ❜
❛ I think maybe you should take up drinking. You’re just killing it. ❜
❛ Something is just teasing the edge of my brain. ❜
❛ Oh, if I ever meet Jared Leto, I’m gonna whoop his kombucha-brewing ass. ❜
❛ My therapist says this is a toxic relationship. ❜
❛ We will do what we always do. Deny, half-apologize, and then go silent awhile. ❜
❛ Please tell me you did not think sweatshops are where they make sweatpants. ❜
❛ I will do whatever I have to do to save myself, and he is my only lifeline. ❜
❛ This never happens in Clue. ❜
❛ He’s a son of a bitch. Leave his ass. ❜
❛ I don’t feel sorry for him. He deserved what he got, and you are better off without him. ❜
❛ Please don’t kill me! Oh my God, please don’t kill me! ❜
❛ I’m not trying to kill you, you crazy bitch! ❜
❛ Shitballs! ❜
❛ It hides not behind complexity, but behind mind-numbing obvious clarity. ❜
❛ A veritable minefield of malapropisms and factual errors. ❜
❛ Oh, please. Just tell us who tried to kill me. ❜
❛ Nobody tried to kill you, you vainglorious buffoon. ❜
❛ What is reality?! ❜
❛ Does he keep a vial of poison in his tooth or something? Is that a rich person thing? ❜
❛ Oh, it’s so dumb, it’s brilliant. ❜
❛ No! It’s just dumb! ❜
❛ You dim-witted, brainless jackass! ❜
❛ Your one murder, with any panache at all, and you stole the whole idea from me. ❜
❛ Wow! We got some big accusations flying around here. ❜
❛ You need evidence, and you’ve got nothing. ❜
❛ Anywhere you go, it’s going to be your word against mine. How do you think that’s gonna go? ❜
❛ There’s nothing I can do. Except maybe offer you some courage. ❜
❛ I hope your little bitch tantrum gave you closure ’cause it accomplished nothing! ❜
❛ You’re ruined. ❜
❛ Did you get the son of a bitch? ❜
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just-jordie-things · 9 months
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I’m honestly trying to find someone to give me some insight / confirmation the whole jjk fandom isn’t like this because I’m genuinely so disheartened.
So I have a friend who lives in Japan I met online who goes to lots of conventions. She told me that gojo has been confirmed straight by the creator Gege in multiple magazines and interviews in Japan. After I was told that I did toms of research and saw proof that was true.
I’m someone who likes to follow canon simply because I like facts and like to be respectful to the authors creation. Obviously he people want to headcanon that’s fine! I just like following canon.
Earlier today I made a theory post about something which I briefly brought up gojo being confirmed straight and sited my sources (it wasn’t even the MAIN point of the theory. It was a part of it but not the main focus)
IMMEDIATELY after , like 10 minutes my inbox was SWARMED. I had people calling me homophobic (when I’m in the community) a piece of shit, I disappointment. I got told to off myself. My favorite fanfiction blog with a BIG following dmed me to delete my account and to shut up.
All because I said Gege confirmed Gojo to be straight in canon with sourced proof.
I really really don’t feel well after this? For one my favorite blog dming me that was upsetting, people telling me to kill myself also upsetting.
I don’t even understand why though?
Like the proof of Gojo being confirmed straight is on Twitter with magazine translation from Japan where Gege said it. It’s been said in more than one interview with Gege.
So why are people so mad about it if it’s canon?
As I said head canons are fine feel free to make them.. but sending death threats to people like me who follow canon is just crazy?
Now I feel like leaving the fandom and tumblr. Like this is crazy.
As someone who follows canon I follow Gojo being a straight man as that is what Gege has confirmed in multiple interviews.
Gojo is straight in canon that’s what Gege confirmed that’s what I follow.
But why am I getting death threats for that? What’s wrong with canon?
I just don’t get it and honestly it’s really just made me not like this fandom and I wish someone would explain what I did wrong by following canon and linking sources to prove it- I’m just confused
for starters, i am so sorry for the hate that you received. it is never ok to send someone death threats/tell them to kys. it's ok to have differing opinions, it's ok to debate and argue (granted ofc you're allowed to delete/ignore messages if you want, you're not obligated to explain yourself to anyone), but if you can't do that respectfully then you must be too young to be on this app. period.
i'm sorry you had that experience. everyone's allowed their own opinions. whether it involves headcanoning or following canon, everyone's entitled to feel the way they want. at the end of the day, they're fictional characters. personally i love satosugu. i think their story is so angsty and complicated and fascinating. do i care if someone has a differing ship? no. ofc i don't. it's a fictional character. i go about my day like an adult.
obviously i'm getting one half of the situation here so i won't speak to why people were calling you homophobic, if you were just providing sources i don't see the big deal. but (i am also a member of the alphabet soup) i know how it feels to be questioned and prodded at for my (a real life person!) sexuality, and my instinct is to get defensive to protect myself and my peace. i might be making leaps there... i'm just trying to relate that in real life, it's easy for people to spread homophobic rhetoric without realizing that's what they're doing.. you know? (ie: i'm bi and my partner and i are het presenting. i get an earful from toxic family all the time. 'are you sure?' 'if you marry him, aren't you straight now?' etc etc. i'm sure you get the gist)
i'm not trying to say that's what you were doing. again, i've only got half of the picture here.
and again, you should not have received the treatment you did. it was immature and cruel.
i hope i articulated this well. feel free to ask any questions if i confused you. <3
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edzasks · 2 years
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your page is literally a haven for toxic fans and tabloid gossip and you're complaining about drama on Twitter? you created it. what do you think speculating about his health and drug use is? your lack of self awareness is embarrassing.
This ask really pissed me rightfully off, so I’m just going to give you a brutal fucking response because of how disgustingly disrespectful you are, and the lies you’re spreading about me. So here we go. I never talk like this, but you can rightfully fuck off.
For starters babe, please shut the fuck up — respectfully.
My page is not a haven for “toxic fans” get the stick out of your ass — I barely come on here anymore, and I don’t feed into this apparent “toxicity.” Just because I post anons and stay neutral doesn’t mean “rumors are pushed.” Neither are those my opinions either. Just because I post them, doesn’t mean I agree or participate in them.
I didn’t create Jack shit either, you just want to bitch 😂😂🤣 and make up fucking bullshit. Cause you all can’t stand that fans have other opinions or want to discuss or chat about their fav which is Zac — that’s how it works every fucking time, there’s always one anon 🙄 who wants to bitch because (on every Tumblr ask blog, if they aren’t jerking off fav celeb 24/7. There are Taylor blogs out there 50x bigger than my blog about Zac and they get the same shit from cupcake anons like this who cry and bitch because they’re that obsessed in their fantasy about the celeb they made in their head. That’s why blogs like mine drive you insane.
If you ever actually spent time on my blog too — then you’d know the anons I get are mainly positive, or neutral. (Back when I was up Zac’s ass, and always stated my opinion firmly, I was still damned, so whatever I do whether ‘perfect’ or not I’m damned always .🤷‍♀���) They are completely mild compared to most ask boxes about bigger celebs. Majority of the time I’m also being neutral (therefore, not really a response) or denying, x, y and z.)
Lastly let me educate you on PR. That’s not how rumors are created you absolute fucking dumbass. Tabloids have never picked up a “rumour” here, ever. You need a fucking whirlwind of people to do that — and guess where those start on? Deuxmoi. One or two anons speculating whatever the fuck they like, doesn’t start shit, but platforms like Deuxmoi have started rumors daily about Zac that been false every fucking time. Why don’t you focus your energy there?
“Speculating about health and drug use” 🤪🤪🤪 yeah, okay anon. If you didn’t have reading comprehension and talking out of your asshole, you would know I never once said Zac was doing drugs, dumb fuck. People speculate all the fucking time and make headline news (there is nothing you can do about it because that’s unfortunately his past)— you also have his ex-girlfriend yapping to radio hosts and booking interviews crying about his issues with drugs and how he struggles. IF YOU used common sense and stop talking out of your ass, you’d be able to put 2 + 2 together (very simple math babe) and realize it’s shit like that reignites the gossip bird.
Additionally addiction is fucking black and white you dumbass — as someone who have family friends who work in rehabbing people, and have lost family & friends to addiction, you aren’t just “sober” and “addiction is over” … Life isn’t rainbows and daises and a walk in the park after. Sobriety is discipline and struggle — what can I tell you? Even Men’s Health magazine already got people speculating on Deuxmoi already, or mentioning his past cause they think he got plastic surgery.
Also next time — get the fuck off anon and speak to me directly and have some balls if you’re gonna shade me on Twitter.
I’m tired of fucking logging in every fucking time and hearing one pissed off stan with their panties in a knot acting like a knight in shining armour. By the way by crossposting to another platform and crying and throwing your hissy fit — you’re the one who WILL start rumors and giving more publicity to my blog, so thanks for the clout babes.
Keep on hating and being obsessed — love my fans 💋
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applekissims · 7 years
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Lee, dump twitter shit starter Nez we should get together boo 😘
Who is that? I don’t know him. 
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and I can’t get together with you sweets. My boyfriend hates sharing and he crazy
@arnezthabully
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citylightsrpmemes · 3 years
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Snapcube's Sonic Fandubs Sentence Starters
[ specify the muse on multis || feel free to change as necessary || lyrics taken from here ]
“Ha! Ha! One!”
“I miss my wife. I miss her a lot. I’ll be back.”
“So this is the fabled Tilted Towers.”
“I can’t understand you through your thick accent but I still like you because you’re my friend.”
“Hey, wait a minute! You interrupted my flashback!”
“I can’t believe your tits are one polygon!”
“I’m going to kill you and then kill you again.”
“I think we should let her vape. Give her the freedom to vape.”
“I found this used copy of Sims 4.”
“Speak for yourself, motherfucker.”
“Top thirty anime deaths. Number one: Your fucking ass!”
“I peed on your wife, she’s mine now.”
“This? It’s my arm.”
“You fool! I have 70 alternative accounts!”
“My head’s full of jellybeans...”
“You should have known I have terrible taste.”
“I’m always sad! That’s just my thing!”
“I’m really glad you changed your toxically masculine ways. Now you can be a good boy like me!”
“Okay, I’ll say something cool too.”
“I can’t believe he came to his intervention drunk.”
“And I’ll be the twink!”
“The desert... Count how many sand is here. That’s your first mission.”
“HATSUNE MIKU?”
“Can I bury the body?”
“That was an illegal left, by the way.”
“You are nothing but a fake gamer and you will never find happiness, you piece of shit.”
“I would eradicate three colors. Yellow, silver, and then silver again.”
“You know what? You’re a twink. I’m gonna go smoke some weed now.”
“There’s a hunk of junk here and I’m not talking about you!”
“I’m not in the sky, dicknips.”
“By the way I’m bisexual, I forgot to announce that.”
“Who posted my nudes on twitter dot com?”
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whitehotharlots · 3 years
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The point is control
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Whenever we think or talk about censorship, we usually conceptualize it as certain types of speech being somehow disallowed: maybe (rarely) it's made formally illegal by the government, maybe it's banned in certain venues, maybe the FCC will fine you if you broadcast it, maybe your boss will fire you if she learns of it, maybe your friends will stop talking to you if they see what you've written, etc. etc. 
This understanding engenders a lot of mostly worthless discussion precisely because it's so broad. Pedants--usually arguing in favor of banning a certain work or idea--will often argue that speech protections only apply to direct, government bans. These bans, when they exist, are fairly narrow and apply only to those rare speech acts in which other people are put in danger by speech (yelling the N-word in a crowded theater, for example). This pedantry isn't correct even within its own terms, however, because plenty of people get in trouble for making threats. The FBI has an entire entrapment program dedicated to getting mentally ill muslims and rednecks to post stuff like "Death 2 the Super bowl!!" on twitter, arresting them, and the doing a press conference about how they heroically saved the world from terrorism. 
Another, more recent pedant's trend is claiming that, actually, you do have freedom of speech; you just don't have freedom from the consequences of speech. This logic is eerily dictatorial and ignores the entire purpose of speech protections. Like, even in the history's most repressive regimes, people still technically had freedom of speech but not from consequences. Those leftist kids who the nazis beheaded for speaking out against the war were, by this logic, merely being held accountable. 
The two conceptualizations of censorship I described above are, 99% of the time, deployed by people who are arguing in favor of a certain act of censorship but trying to exempt themselves from the moral implications of doing so. Censorship is rad when they get to do it, but they realize such a solipsism seems kinda icky so they need to explain how, actually, they're not censoring anybody, what they're doing is an act of righteous silencing that's a totally different matter. Maybe they associate censorship with groups they don't like, such as nazis or religious zealots. Maybe they have a vague dedication toward Enlightenment principles and don't want to be regarded as incurious dullards. Most typically, they're just afraid of the axe slicing both ways, and they want to make sure that the precedent they're establishing for others will not be applied to themselves.
Anyone who engages with this honestly for more than a few minutes will realize that censorship is much more complicated, especially in regards to its informal and social dimensions. We can all agree that society simply would not function if everyone said whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. You might think your boss is a moron or your wife's dress doesn't look flattering, but you realize that such tidbits are probably best kept to yourself. 
Again, this is a two-way proposition that everyone is seeking to balance. Do you really want people to verbalize every time they dislike or disagree with you? I sure as hell don't. And so, as part of a social compact, we learn to self-censor. Sometimes this is to the detriment of ourselves and our communities. Most often, however, it's just a price we have to pay in order to keep things from collapsing. 
But as systems, large and small, grow increasingly more insane and untenable, so do the comportment standards of speech. The disconnect between America's reality and the image Americans have of themselves has never been more plainly obvious, and so striving for situational equanimity is no longer good enough. We can't just pretend cops aren't racist and the economy isn't run by venal retards or that the government places any value on the life of its citizens. There's too much evidence that contradicts all that, and the evidence is too omnipresent. There's too many damn internet videos, and only so many of them can be cast as Russian disinformation. So, sadly, we must abandon our old ways of communicating and embrace instead systems that are even more unstable, repressive, and insane than the ones that were previously in place.
Until very, very recently, nuance and big-picture, balanced thinking were considered signs of seriousness, if not intelligence. Such considerations were always exploited by shitheads to obfuscate things that otherwise would have seemed much less ambiguous, yes, but this fact alone does not mitigate the potential value of such an approach to understanding the world--especially since the stuff that's been offered up to replace it is, by every worthwhile metric, even worse.
So let's not pretend I'm Malcolm Gladwell or some similarly slimy asshole seeking to "both sides" a clearcut moral issue. Let's pretend I am me. Flash back to about a year ago, when there was real, widespread, and sustained support for police reform. Remember that? Seems like forever ago, man, but it was just last year... anyhow, now, remember what happened? Direct, issues-focused attempts to reform policing were knocked down. Blotted out. Instead, we were told two things: 1) we had to repeat the slogan ABOLISH THE POLICE, and 2) we had to say it was actually very good and beautiful and nonviolent and valid when rioters burned down poor neighborhoods.
Now, in a relatively healthy discourse, it might have been possible for someone to say something like "while I agree that American policing is heavily violent and racist and requires substantial reforms, I worry that taking such an absolutist point of demanding abolition and cheering on the destruction of city blocks will be a political non-starter." This statement would have been, in retrospect, 100000000% correct. But could you have said it, in any worthwhile manner? If you had said something along those lines, what would the fallout had been? Would you have lost friends? Your job? Would you have suffered something more minor, like getting yelled at, told your opinion did not matter? Would your acquaintances still now--a year later, after their political project has failed beyond all dispute--would they still defame you in "whisper networks," never quite articulating your verbal sins but nonetheless informing others that you are a dangerous and bad person because one time you tried to tell them how utterly fucking self-destructive they were being? It is undeniably clear that last year's most-elevated voices were demanding not reform but catharsis. I hope they really had fun watching those immigrant-owned bodegas burn down, because that’s it, that will forever be remembered as the most palpable and consequential aspect of their shitty, selfish movement. We ain't reforming shit. Instead, we gave everyone who's already in power a blank check to fortify that power to a degree you and I cannot fully fathom.
But, oh, these people knew what they were doing. They were good little boys and girls. They have been rewarded with near-total control of the national discourse, and they are all either too guilt-ridden or too stupid to realize how badly they played into the hands of the structures they were supposedly trying to upend.
And so left-liberalism is now controlled by people whose worldview is equal parts superficial and incoherent. This was the only possible outcome that would have let the system continue to sustain itself in light of such immense evidence of its unsustainability without resulting in reform, so that's what has happened.
But... okay, let's take a step back. Let's focus on what I wanted to talk about when I started this.
I came across a post today from a young man who claimed that his high school English department head had been removed from his position and had his tenure revoked for refusing to remove three books from classrooms. This was, of course, fallout from the ongoing debate about Critical Race Theory. Two of those books were Marjane Satropi's Persepolis and, oh boy, The Diary of Anne Frank. Fuck. Jesus christ, fuck.
Now, here's the thing... When Persepolis was named, I assumed the bannors were anti-CRT. The graphic novel does not deal with racism all that much, at least not as its discussed contemporarily, but it centers an Iranian girl protagonist and maybe that upset Republican types. But Anne Frank? I'm sorry, but the most likely censors there are liberal identiarians who believe that teaching her diary amounts to centering the suffering of a white woman instead of talking about the One Real Racism, which must always be understood in an American context. The super woke cult group Black Hammer made waves recently with their #FuckAnneFrank campaign... you'd be hard pressed to find anyone associated with the GOP taking a firm stance against the diary since, oh, about 1975 or so.
So which side was it? That doesn't matter. What matters is, I cannot find out.
Now, pro-CRT people always accuse anti-CRT people of not knowing what CRT is, and then after making such accusations they always define CRT in a way that absolutely is not what CRT is. Pro-CRTers default to "they don't want  students to read about slavery or racism." This is absolutely not true, and absolutely not what actual CRT concerns itself with. Slavery and racism have been mainstays of American history curriucla since before I was born. Even people who barely paid attention in school would admit this, if there were any more desire for honesty in our discourse. 
My high school history teacher was a southern "lost causer" who took the south's side in the Civil War but nonetheless provided us with the most descriptive and unapologetic understandings of slavery's brutalities I had heard up until that point. He also unambiguously referred to the nuclear attacks on Hiroshmia and Nagasaki as "genocidal." Why? Because most people's politics are idiosyncratic, and because you cannot genuinely infer a person to believe one thing based on their opinion of another, tangentially related thing. The totality of human understanding used to be something open-minded people prided themselves on being aware of, believe it or not...
This is the problem with CRT. This is is the motivation behind the majority of people who wish to ban it. It’s not because they are necessarily racist themselves. It’s because they recognize, correctly, that the now-ascendant frames for understanding social issues boils everything down to a superficial patina that denies not only the realities of the systems they seek to upend but the very humanity of the people who exist within them. There is no humanity without depth and nuance and complexities and contradictions. When you argue otherwise, people will get mad and fight back. 
And this is the most bitter irony of this idiotic debate: it was never about not wanting to teach the sinful or embarrassing parts of our history. That was a different debate, one that was settled and won long ago. It is instead an immense, embarrassing overreach on behalf of people who have bullied their way to complete dominance of their spheres of influence within media and academe assuming they could do the same to everyone else. Some of its purveyors may have convinced themselves that getting students to admit complicity in privilege will prevent police shootings, sure. But I know these people. I’ve spoken to them at length. I’ve read their work. The vast, vast majority of them aren’t that stupid. The point is to exert control. The point is to make sure they stay in charge and that nothing changes. The point is failure. 
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Alright I’ve had this on my mind for a little while and I just need to type it out.
Acecourse absolutely fucking eludes me. Both sides of it. I do consider myself an exclusionist but holy shit both sides of this discourse are completely fuckin’ wild. (Quick TW for the uncensored q slur just being used in a general context)
For context, I am not asexual or aromantic. I’m doing my best to understand the perspective of ace inclusionism, and I apologize for any inaccuracies.
Just to outline the main points:
- What IS the LGBT community?
- Why would an asexual/aromantic person want to be included in the LGBT community?
- Why would the broader ace community want to merge with the LGBT community?
- Can cis asexuals/aromantics reclaim “queer”?
{What IS the LGBT community?}
As most people probably know, LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transsexual. It exists as a civil rights movement to combat centuries of both social issues and systemic oppression. The main activism seen in the LGBT community is the rights to marry, adopt... exist, really, and has had close ties with the leather/kink community, especially during the height of LGBT protests. I’m not gonna get into every bit of history, but this is the base I’m working off of. 
{Why would an asexual/aromantic person want to be included in the LGBT community?} If I had to guess, especially for adolescents who identify themselves as asexual or aromantic, the sense of isolation that inherently comes with any “atypical” sexual experience makes the idea of a community very appealing. The LGBT community is very widespread at this point and generally accepted in the mainstream online world, making it appear extremely welcoming to any person who feels lost and isolated from their peers for their orientation. 
My counterargument to this is -- asexual communities and groups do exist. I’ve heard the argument before that “exclusionists invaded and ruined ace communities”, but I have not seen any proof of such a claim, nor is it like that communities exclusively for asexual/aromantic people don’t exist. For starters, there’s AVEN, which I would think is a great place for a young person who’s questioning if they’re ace/aro to turn to for information and support. Additionally, doing a quick search, there’s quite a few Discord servers specifically for asexual/aromantic people (most notably Acecord and The Aro & Ace Cafe, which both have 500+ members), as well as Twitter pages (such as AsexualOutreach). There IS a decently sizeable ace/aro community, and this is just surface-level resources I’ve found. 
{Why would the broader ace community want to merge with the LGBT community?}
Activism, I guess. The LGBT community is already sizeable and pretty well-known, with a strong presence both online and in the real world. From pride parades to campaigns and media representation, more people are generally aware of LGBT than they are of asexuality/aromanticism. It does initially seem like a good idea from the ace/aro community’s perspective to combine forces with a larger community in order to get a boost on their own activism. The issue comes with what I can only describe as a conflict of interest.
As I stated towards the beginning, LGBT is a civil rights movement. The community exists to fight oppression and civil injustice first and foremost. In many places, it is illegal to just be openly gay or transgender. It is illegal in many places to get married or adopt if you’re LGBT. Many LGBT people are still imprisoned, murdered, or demonized as predatory simply for expressing their sexuality, love, and/or gender. From what I can tell, this has not been an issue prevalent within the ace/aro community.
I’m not gonna claim that asexuals/aromantics don’t face social issues. That would be ignorant of me to say. However, they do not face civil rights issues, or at the very least nowhere near on the same scale as LGBT. I can’t really think of any places where it is illegal to express being ace/aro, or where being ace/aro would deny you basic civil freedoms such as marriage, adoption, a job, or your life. Some people have made the argument that the LGBT community shouldn’t or isn’t about oppression, except... it is. Again, that’s why it was formed at all. If you are not oppressed, what do you have to gain by being in the LGBT community and being involved in our activism -- most of which has to do with fighting oppression? I can certainly see the overlap in social issues, don’t get me wrong, but when it comes to the rest of it? I genuinely don’t see what the ace/aro community would have to gain from a majority of LGBT activism without oversimplifying it to “accept other people for their orientation”.
Additionally, the LGBT community has been historically VERY sex-positive and expressive. Many pride parades involve kink and shameless sexual expression, which makes sense after centuries of being denied even the most basic of sexual expression. Also as stated before, the LGBT community has/had close ties with the leather community. Personally, I don’t see why an ace/aro person would want to be involved in that. Obviously not every ace/aro person is sex/romance-repulsed, but even allos tend to be uncomfortable with some of the shit that goes down at pride events, for example. It also creates a bit of a dilemma. Should LGBT people curb their sexual or romantic expression for the comfort of aces/aros, or should aces/aros curb their discomfort for the sake of LGBT people’s sexual/romantic expression? It’s a win/lose on either side, generally speaking. 
{Can cis asexuals/aromantics reclaim “queer”?}
Aaaand here’s the dreaded queer discourse. I’m gonna put this as bluntly as possible: if you do not experience same-gender attraction or are transgender, you do not get to reclaim a violent anti-LGBT slur. You have nothing to reclaim if you or your community have not been the target of the word. I’m just gonna leave it at that. “Queer” has always been used against people who are attracted to the same gender as their own, or transgender people. It isn’t a fun word to describe an atypical sexual experience, and it should not be treated as such. Just in general. I can’t even play the devil’s advocate on this one, it’s just completely beyond me.
Please, if anyone wants to add onto this, feel free to do so. I’m just spewing my brain out on how I feel about this whole discourse. Ultimately, I don’t care that much if aces/aros are included within the LGBT community. Like, that doesn’t directly harm me. I just don’t understand why they want to be/should be.
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the thing about stepping back and having rational considered opinions and ideas on a piece of media is that it is heavily HEAVILY influenced by the communities you’re in. like when pokemon sword/shield came out i was super involved in a lot of pokemon communities (both specific ones like dedicated forums and larger things like a lot of fans on twitter) so even if you would usually step back and think normally about something the nature of those communities being so reactive and hyperbolic and honest to god fueled by discourse and Unpopular Opinions meant i had to have An Opinion and make that, like, part of my identity. I’m the girl who believes yadda yadda about dexit and that makes me Cool And Edgy. And like I probably would have had those opinions to begin with but those communities’ reactive nature meant i REALLY had those opinions and i was super forceful about it -- it wasn’t enough to just believe, say, that dexit was probably fine as long as they had a certain amount of pokemon and in particular popular ones like starters and lucario, and that really the bigger problem here was the absolute nuts development cycle of one-game-a-year; it was also that other people were stupid for not getting that and they weren’t seeing clearly enough and i felt like a badass stating my opinion which was so cool and different to theirs. 
and it was stupid! it was -- it was fucking stupid!! i DO believe pretty much everything i just said there about ‘dexit’ but once i removed myself from those communities i realised wow this really doesn’t... this isn’t that important? and that distancing allowed me to develop my opinions in a more natural way and work out what my actual issues were and why i was getting so angry. and the same shit goes for three houses; i used to be a stupid huge edelgard stan back in the day and now i can just step back and go “well she is my favourite but the point of the game is a lot more complex than this”, and I’m also experiencing this a bit now with tokusatsu now that i’m removing myself from certain online communities and i’m able to not get so mad all the time about people Stating Their Opinions about kamen rider zero one
it’s hard to articulate precisely the complex boiling emotions that happen on internet communities like this for most topics and just how much it clears your head to be away from them for at least a while and step back and think about things normally; especially when you have other people to talk to who are just fucking normal about it rather than stuck in the Discourse like you were before. but i’m sure a lot of people have been in this situation and can speak to this experience it’s just something i’ve gone through a lot and i try to avoid it a lot more now; communities are important for things but they can so easily boil over into toxicity not just sometimes but as like their natural state and status quo
this is what politics is like all the time btw
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dontcallmesnapmap · 3 years
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🔥 intro // headcanons 🔥
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[introduction]
🔥 hello, im the admin, please call me kirby! 🔥 any (neo)pronouns work!! 🔥 main account is @kirby-itsashowdown 🔥 banner by @moonlit_isles on twitter 🔥 this is a roleplay blog specifically tickle based 🔥 also does not represent Sapnap in real life. i’m portraying his minecraft + dsmp character 🔥 pls ask to roleplay before sending starters! 🔥 100% sfw 🔥 please do not interact with personas or oc blogs, however character anons are okay! (ex: strawberry anon, cow anon, happy anon, etc.) 🔥 be aware that it's against Sapnap's boundaries to use his real name 🔥 dni if you are an nsfw blog / sideblog, dsmp / mcyt anti, dream anti, proshipper, racist / ableist, lgbtqa+ phobic, terf, exclusionist
[general headcanons]
🔥 he's nineteen
🔥 height is about 5'10
🔥 pronouns are he/him
🔥 his body type is mesomorph, not lean but not heavy either. he's in-between
🔥 his hair is naturally brown, however he dyes it black. sometimes he gets lazy though, which causes his roots to fade and turn brown again
🔥 he has a small fear of the dark, and a fear of being forgotten
🔥 very high-energy, chaotic evil, solely focuses on his close friends and his own gains
🔥 however, he's only uppity with those he's knows. around new people he's an entirely different person. he's reserved, and shy, hesitant to share.
🔥 will only initiate physical contact with close friends, and if contact has already been made.
🔥 the start of a small stubble, but it's faint
🔥 very crude humor and inappropriate jokes
🔥 he has a temper, low tolerance, not very patient
🔥 greek is his native tongue, he speaks semi-fluently
🔥 talks a lot of shit, and won't back down once the bed has been made, very stubborn
🔥 scared shitless of the paranormal
🔥 tongue-piercing
🔥 constantly smells of ash
[dream smp headcanons]
🔥 he was raised human, but his species is not human. he has the power to manipulate fire, however he shows no physical traits of any mob
🔥 when he gets angry, his hair turns into fire. when very sad, his hair turns into blue fire
🔥 bad often had to keep him near warm surfaces when he was younger, he couldn't stand the cold for long. that's why he was "raised in fire, born in lava"
🔥 he doesn't lie when he says he's human, he prefers to live as one
🔥 he can sense heat signatures, meaning, anything with heat he can feel. (i.e people, animals, etc.)
🔥 the only people who do know of his abilities are Bad, Skeppy, Dream, and George. even then, it's easy to forget because he never uses them
🔥 always been a lover, but never the loved. has always been a fighter, never the fought for
🔥 abandonment & trust issues
🔥 he absolutely still thinks of dream very closely, he tries to say he's moving forward and is ahead of the game, but he can't help but have attachment
🔥 he was pretty young when the wars first started, when he fought on Dream's side against L'Manburg's first war he was close to Tommy's age but still older fifteen
[tickle headcanons]
🔥 rating of tickle spots, most to least. (10/10) underarms, ribs, bellybutton, thighs, stomach, feet (5/10), scalp, neck, hips, shoulders, back, ears, hands (1/10)
🔥 secret little spots are back of ribs and back of thighs
🔥 he's very teasy, already uses nicknames but he'll call you every petname under the sun. his favorites are cutie and darling
🔥 also pretty good at handling brats, he'll make you ask for it
🔥 rough tickles are his main, he'll only use light tickles if he knows they're more effective or if someone asks him
🔥 stubble tickles + raspberries + nibbles
🔥 always the one to start tickle fights
🔥 kisses fluster him a lot, especially if you make noises with them too
🔥 a giggler, he giggles at any anticipation
🔥 he's either bratty or shy, no in-between
🔥 he likes a good chase
🔥 absolutely gets revenge 5x more
🔥 the type to lean in and talk into your ear
🔥 when lee, 50/50 times he can say "tickle"
🔥 he blushes a bit easily
🔥 he covers the lers face all the time
🔥 very noisy, cackles and shrieks
🔥 he says "please" constantly
🔥 he really likes bellybutton, neck & scalp tickles
🔥 pretty even switch
🔥 denies he's ticklish
🔥 he likes getting his back traced
🔥 another secret is he can't stand nails, whether they're short or long they tickle too much
🔥 sometimes, when tickled, he'll fluctuate between English and Greek
🔥 he really adores affectionate tickles, they hit different
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Hello I was wondering if you had any non ableist sources for learning about DID? I want to learn but a lot of what I find on Google feels very...dismissive and harmful
Sorry for answering so late but yes I have a few!
One good YouTube resource is the Alexandrite system, they have DID and make educational videos.
Also it's more a community than a resource but I've found #PluralTalk to be a good twitter community, it's mainly inclusive people and they're usually more than happy to answer singlet questions although of course each person can only speak for their own systems and will have some bias but that's ok.
In general my advice for telling if a resource is good or not is the way the information is framed.
For starters if it's making a lot of general claims like "Truama is the cause of DID" (which isn't incorrect, trauma is A very common cause, but if you read the DSM5 it mentions that trauma is correlated with DID but not guaranteed to be the cause every time.) or "systems identify as [X]" (ignores that systems aren't a monolith) then it's either a not well informed resource or is a case of one system thinking they can speak for all of us. (If a system says this is their own experience and isn't speaking for the whole community though it's good!)
Is it made by a singlet or a system? Often singlets even if well intentioned spread misinfo. For example Anthony Padilla made a video about DID that interviewed some DID systems (one of which was later exposed for a lot of gross shit but I don't want to get into that discourse here but that's one reason I don't recommend the video you can dm for more details if you want) but let their bias effect the quality of the video and in my opinion furthered our stigma far more than put a stop to it by only painting us in a mysterious and victimized light and in addition spread some misinformation (one system trying to speak for the whole community but getting some things wrong which then went unchecked and the like.) Basically. You want to find systems who will either speak about their own experiences and not for the whole community or to find a resource that talks about common DID experiences in a factual and general way so as to not make any untrue claims.
Does it focus on the structural theory of dissociation? (The idea that no one is singlet as a child but between the ages of 6 and 10 (if I remember correctly) fuse into one person and that if a child is traumatized in that time they won't fuse) This theory has been put under a lot of scrutiny as it was created by a singlet psychologist who later lost his licence for using this theory to psychologically and even physically abuse the patients he treated for DID. Now, it's not that no system fits into this theory but it's generally not seen as a constant for even DID systems and the theory in its original form is in support of eugenics towards systems because it deduces that we have to become singlet through therapy to become "whole" again. A lot of systems have medical trauma surrounding this theory so as a singlet I would avoid learning about it unless it's from a source that's properly critical about it.
Is the post actually a discourse post? If it's tagged with anything like "sys/course" (without the dash) or has language that seeks to invalidate or fakeclaim any kind of system or system member (stuff like "fictives are delusions, non-human alters are that way because of trauma and aren't actually non-human, pseudomemories are [always/inherently] a cover for trauma that happened to the body" etc.) Posts like these may try to say their informational or infographics but they're inherently biased. These posts are not (or shouldn't be) for singlet consumption because these are all intracommunity discussions, please disregard them if you're singlet. If you need to know something specific about a system experience for the sake of supporting a friend or loved on then it's best to ask them directly as no one system is the same and it's up to them to decide what their experiences are.
Oh also if you want to support plurals as a whole (more than just DID systems but DID systems are very much included and centered here) an official advocacy group is the plural association. It's also important to find mutual aid posts from systems and share them or donate if you have money. A lot of system support comes at ground level.
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You Spin Me Right Round...
I’ve never written a meta post about an episode before, so with only three episodes left, I figured this is the perfect time to start. It typically takes me a few days to process and gather my thoughts, because much like Dean this season, I’m rather slow on the uptake. By the time I have something to say, it usually feels like the moment has passed. But what the hell. We’re three episodes from the end and I have FEELINGS.
To start, I’m going to back up a moment and talk about 15X16 (see “slow on the uptake,” above). Lots of fans, myself included, found themselves frustrated with watching what at first glance seems to be your run of the mill MOTW episode. A *good* MOTW, for sure, but still, with only four episodes left to go, it felt like we should be past this by now. In fact, “aren’t we past this?” seemed to be the theme of the entire episode and that alone should have clued us in that despite appearances, this episode was anything but just another MOTW. If that was too subtle, Billie’s pointed “you’re working a case? Now?” should have been a dead give away that we needed to look deeper. And many tried, but the most a lot of us could come up with was the brothers’ big emotional argument at the end and even that was a giant moment of “been there, done that.” Why at what should be a pivotal point in the series are we rehashing the same arguments we’ve been watching for the past 15 years?
Jumping ahead to 15X17 for a moment, we see Dean absolutely breaking down. He’s losing it. Imploding. Leaving aside all of the problematic comments about and to Jack (we’ll come back to that), Dean lays out the crux of the problem when he and Jack are talking in the Impala: he doesn’t know what’s real. Like he’s been saying all season, he’s lost the perspective to be able to tell what about his life has been his choice and what has been Chuck’s machinations. He’s stuck in Chuck’s hamster wheel. Going ‘round and ‘round. Repeating the same scenes, lines, hunts, and arguments on a loop. Wait…why does that ring a bell?
Back to 15X16 and NOW it makes sense. Why are we stuck in yet another MOTW episode? Why is Dean lying to Sam again? Why is he once again sacrificing someone he loves, leading them “into the meat grinder?” Why is he backsliding on all that great emotional growth we saw last season? Why is he repeating the same destructive patterns that thanks to Kaitlyn, we know he’s been stuck in since childhood? IT’S THE HAMSTER WHEEL. Round and round we go…but whose hamster wheel is it?
Back to 15X17, LOTS going on in this episode and I’m not going to touch on all of it. But some highlights [and these are in no particular order because 1) I’m scatterbrained as hell and 2) the fuck does it matter anyways, because as we’ve established, we’re just going around in a big ass circle here]:
We see some absolutely masterful manipulation by Chuck. Manipulating Dean in order to manipulate Amara because he knows thanks to their “bond,” she’ll never turn on Dean…unless he betrays her first…which brings us to two of the biggest points in this episode. First off, we learn that Chuck didn’t write the Dean/Amara bond, which, as many more brilliant meta minds have pointed out before me, mirrors Dean and Cas’ profound bond, which we learn at the end of the episode was also NOT written by Chuck (and in fact pisses him off quite a bit, to put it mildly.) This reminds us that though he claims to be omniscient, Chuck is definitely NOT omnipotent and while he may be able to control space and time, one thing he can’t control is human emotional bonds and relationships. And this friends, this is important. In fact, it’s everything.
Right before Chuck confesses that Castiel is, as Cas fans have long insisted, the very embodiment of free will (more on that later), Sam references Eileen, which, yes, is very sweet, but also...also, is a call back to their relationship, specifically, to Eileen’s fears that her feelings for Sam weren’t genuine. She wonders what about her and Sam’s relationship was real and what was Chuck, which we knew at the time was a mirror to Dean’s “What about all this is real?” The answer, of course? “We are.” And now we have confirmation: emotional bonds/relationships are REAL. They might be manipulated by Chuck, but they aren’t created by him and clearly, he can’t understand them. That’s illustrated several times in this episode. His reaction to Dean’s “icky” bond with Amara. His inability to "feel the love" of the angels she took him to see. His cold manipulation of his sister. The throwback to the way he threw Adam and Eve, his first human children, out of the Garden and then used their sons to further his own plans. His consternation with Castiel for not doing as he was told after he raised Dean from perdition.
Chuck doesn’t understand and didn’t create emotions. Which seems obvious wen you think about the fact that his first sentient children didn’t have them. Emotions are a specifically HUMAN creation and that is what makes humans so frustrating and incomprehensible to Chuck. It’s why he hates them. Not only are a few of them very disobedient pets, as a whole they've created something he cannot. What a blow to the ego that must be.
The second thing referenced by Amara and Chuck’s conversations about Dean is his betrayal of her. Chuck’s telling Amara that Dean is sending her to the “meat grinder” is not a coincidence. That language is a deliberate mirror to Dean accusing his alternate future self of sending Cas to the meat grinder in The End (That’s only one of several parallels Unity makes with The End. For a much more thorough accounting, check out castielslostwings’ Twitter thread.), which, as I referenced above, also parallels Dean’s willingness to send Jack on a suicide mission. What do these things all have in common? Each time, Dean is ignoring his own instincts, his own “moral compass,” in favor of a plan. In The End, he regrets his choice to say no to Michael…to veer from Michael’s, aka God’s, aka Chuck’s plan and is trying to recreate it by killing Lucifer/Sam. Now he’s following Billie’s plan, even though it clearly feels wrong to him. We can see that in the way he tries to distance himself from Jack. The way he tries to convince himself that Jack isn’t family. That he’s different from Sam and from Cas, even though he’s told Jack before that he IS family. Even though when he was angriest with Jack and distraught with grief over Mary, he still told Belphegor that Jack was “our kid.” We can see it too in the way he reacts equally defensively when Sam brings up how they’re about to betray Amara in 15X15 and again in 15X17 when we can see Dean flinch when she tells him they’ll always help one another. This feels wrong to him, but he’s doing it anyways because he thinks he has no choice.
Looking back over seasons’ past, the two ever-present themes in Supernatural have been free will (obviously) and found family. They’ve always been intertwined. We’ve watched time and time again as Sam, Dean, and Cas choose one another. But now we have those two themes coalescing more than ever before. Every time any of them chooses “the plan” over their family, shit goes sideways. And now we know it’s because, as Chuck has made pretty damn clear in his manipulation of Billie’s plan, he’s omniscient and he controls all time and space.  All plans are HIS plan.
But what doesn’t he control? Emotions. And the bonds they create between people. It’s in choosing one another that Team Free Will has always thwarted Chuck’s plan. Dean refusing to go down the path laid out for him in The End. Cas refusing to "hurt Dean Winchester." Sam refusing to reap MoC Dean. Dean refusing to shoot Jack in that cemetery. The boys refusing to hurt one another, again and again and again. The boys choosing one another again and again and again. And I think that's what Chuck really wants to break. Why he's so obsessed with getting his ending. This is what Becky was getting at in her critique of his story. Chuck doesn't understand his characters, because he doesn’t understand feelings. He hates this creation of humanity that has become more important to them and more defining of them than anything else, including him. So, he wants to conquer it. He wants to manipulate the situation to make his characters choose something of his divining over their emotional bonds to one another. Those bonds he didn't create and that he, in all of his omniscience and power, cannot sever.
15X17 confirms that free will is real. Cas chose to disobey. That wasn’t written by Chuck. And speaking of Cas, let’s look at our biggest two parallels of the season: Dean and Cas. (Sorry Sam. Sit this one out.) Cas, who Chuck has just identified as the epitome of free will. Cas who, once a mindless soldier, abandoned heaven’s plan. Who found his new purpose when he chose to become a father. Who follows his instincts over the plan because “something went wrong” and “the plan changed.” Versus Dean. Dean who has spent this entire season feeling trapped. Who keeps choosing “the plan” over his family and finds his cage getting smaller by the minute.
Back to 15X16. I asked before whose hamster wheel is Dean on? Dean says it’s Chuck’s, but that assumed that free will was a lie. Now we know it’s not. Free will is real and Chuck never even had to take it away from Dean. Dean gave it up as soon as he started following someone else’s plan instead of his own. Dean’s hamster wheel is of his own making.
There are so many more things I could say about 15X17. For starters, those chapter titles…are they referencing Chuck’s story? Or are they chapters in his death book, the one we saw in this episode and Chuck himself referenced? After all, Billie’s read that book, so she must have known “her” plan would fail. But she went down that path anyways…And speaking of Billie, I haven’t even touched on her or the Empty. The Empty says Billie wants “everything back where it belongs” with angels in heaven and demons in hell. Wait. That sounds familiar. Oh yes! My new favorite demon, Zack, said that in our other most recent “just a MOTW” episode. It seems Rowena wants something similar. Isn’t that interesting? And speaking of Rowena, if there’s one thing this show loves, it’s duality. Parallels. They’re everywhere…except, it seems, when it comes to the queen of Hell. Who will mirror Rowena? How interesting that we visited that empty throne room in Heaven last week…
BUT…the main thing here is this: Unity. This episode was about unity and now we have a unified Chuck and Amara. We’re going to need a unified TFW in order to defeat them. Because that is the key to defeating Chuck. Choosing one another…choosing our found family, the ones we’ve created those bonds with…again and again and again.
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ditzbaby1 · 4 years
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naruto characters as animal crossing tropes
naruto : a dog character but for some reason is orange and looks like a fox. runs through your flowers and wears pixel shades, has shit lying all along the ground.
sasuke : called his town hyrule and called his character zelda even tho his character is dressed like link. probably gold furniture and a gaming room with all the hacked NES games. probably wishes he can send letters to his in game mom.
sakura : time travels so that she can breed flowers while simultaneously growing more weeds. will restart her town for a whole week until she is offered the perfect map, with cherries, a heart shaped pond and marshal and raymond as her starter villagers. Expects nothing else than 100 NMTs and 10 Million Bells when selling a villager. only has played acnh.
shikamaru : never feeds his villagers and has messy hair and roaches all up in his floor cuz he's the type to think animal crossing is a girl game or sum. Only plays on holidays then doesn't touch the game for months.
ino : puts cleavage on her designed clothes and has Gracie (the alexander wang of animal crossing) sweating. Regal furniture or gorgeous furniture. possible animal crossing sugar daddy
choji : actually enjoys the game at his own pace and is constantly having people over. Cancels and reports you on twitter if you step on his flowers and probably wears those ugly ass anime girl glasses.
shino : wears the round shades or HMD shades and for some reason his basement is furnished as a drug dealer. sells weeds on nookazon for 5 NMT a pop. loaded with a completely upgraded house. All his trees are money trees.
hinata : cries when a villager is mad at her cuz she forgot to fulfill a request and sends an apology letter. cries when they leave. leaves her house as it is after 2 upgrades. cottage core slut. ignores your text cuz she is talking to wolfgang. has a knitting basket somewhere in her house
kiba : jock dog character that snorts protein powder and the only place to sit is a toilet next to a watermelon table. gives you stationary after delivering his item. weeds and fished up trash are his only town decorations. never heard of the golden watering can.
neji : spits on animal crossing pink themed instagram account. refuses to time travel because of his religion morals, and calls anyone who time travels mudbloods. Played animal crossing since population growing. me.
tenten : japanese themed town and house, wears kimono in game. decided eyebrows was now a thing in animal crossing and she hasn't been able to shut the fuck up since. will request a town tour and will give you fake compliments on ur non japanese styled town. gives villagers kimonos to wear and disbands them from existence if they change to any non japanese outfit.
lee : live laugh love is a design he created that he plastered on his walls because he felt the ACNH interior options didn't speak to his true creative expression hence he had to create his expression. Will take instagram photos on your flower beds and trample them up. Gives everyone letters because he has the energy to do so. Wears green skin tight suit and bowl haircut with eyelash eyes
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itachi : deleted his brother's saved file from the memory card on the gamecube.
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sadaboutniall · 4 years
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Seventeen. April, 2015.
‘Hey, has everyone got a minute to talk?’
Harry pokes his head around the corner into the dressing room and Niall, who had been lying back on the couch scrolling aimlessly through Twitter, nods, kicking his feet down off the couch to make room for Harry. On the other side of the room, Louis picks up the football he’d been kicking at the wall, and Liam puts his phone down, too. It’s still a little weird, being a foursome—Niall always finds himself feeling like someone is missing. 
‘Great show tonight,’ Harry starts, taking the spot Niall’d cleared for him. They’re in Dubai, the final show of this leg. Ahead of them the boys have two months free before kicking things off again in Cardiff. Niall’s already thinking about sleep. 
‘Was sick, yeah,’ says Louis, skeptical already. ‘Have you got something you actually want to say, or?’
‘Yeah, yeah,’ Harry sits up straight, runs a hand through his hair. It’s getting way too long and Niall keeps finding random strands of it all over the place, but it suits him, at least. ‘I just feel like—well, I feel like things are going really fucking brilliantly for us right now.’
‘Okay…’ Louis doesn’t look convinced. Niall bites back a laugh. 
‘I mean, we’re on top of the fucking world’ Harry runs his hand through his hair again. ‘And I just think… wouldn’t it be a better idea to quit while we’re ahead?’
-- 
The sun is rising in Dubai and Niall is drunk. After Harry’s suggestion—which seemed more like a decision he’d already made for all four of them, really—he and Louis went out, just the two of them, to celebrate, to mourn. They did shots high above the city, in some exclusive sky bar that looked identical to every other exclusive sky bar Niall’s done shots in over the past few years. They screamed over loud, thumping music and Niall made out with a stranger in the lounge in the back for a little while, letting her kiss down his neck while the room spun around him. They held up their drinks and cheersed to what they lost, to the impossible, beautiful, improbability of the last five years. They stumbled into a cab as the sun began to peek over the horizon, Louis reeking of smoke and alcohol, Niall feeling like the entire world was about to fall out from under him.
And now he’s here, lying on his back in the middle of a massive bed in an indistinguishably expensive hotel room in an indistinguishably expensive city that just happens, this time, to be Dubai, staring up at the ceiling. He can’t help but think about the fact that his entire life is over. 
He doesn’t know what comes after this, if anything. He doesn’t know what’s left for him, if anything. Harry’s got a solo career in the pipeline, Niall can tell that much, and Louis is the best songwriter he knows, and Liam has a better voice than Niall could ever dream of having. There won’t be space for all four of them, plus Zayn. There won’t be anything left for Niall. 
Slowly it dawns on Niall that this could be it for him—that he’s already lived his best years, that it’s all downhill from here. He peaked as a teenager and wasted it all, completely unaware. He’s going to have to live the rest of his life thinking about what he lost. 
Niall bolts upright in a sudden burst of nausea, sure he’s going to throw up all the alcohol in his system. He makes it to the bathroom in record time but relief doesn’t come—instead he hunches over the bowl on his knees, forehead pressed to the cool porcelain to keep himself from overheating, for what feels like hours. He dry heaves a few times, his body convulsing painfully and, eventually, tears prickling at the corners of his eyes from the physical effort of it all. His heart hammers like a thunderstorm and every move feels like running a marathon, every breath like a pathetic triumph. 
Eventually his knees protest painfully and he forces himself to stand up, one hand on the sink for support, the other holding his throbbing head. Body prickling with heat, oversensitivity, pain, Niall makes his way back to the massive bed and strips down. Lying on his back in the middle of it once again, he realizes belatedly that he’s just had a panic attack. 
He wonders if the rest of his life is going to be like this. 
It takes him a few moments of wallowing in self-pity to realize what he’s feeling. It hasn’t happened to him in a few months, and he wasn’t expecting it now, of all times. Now, when his entire life is falling apart. Now, when nothing is working and he needs to come up with a Plan B that he’s never had. Now, when he feels like the world is ending. 
All he wants to do is call Isla. 
In the logical part of his brain—which feels like it’s quickly dying—Niall knows he shouldn’t. He knows this isn’t fair. He knows Isla deserves better. 
On the emotional side, he doesn’t give a shit. 
He gropes around the bed for his phone, finds it buried under the folds of the duvet, and dials. He doesn’t let himself think about what he’s doing. 
‘Niall?’ Isla sounds a million miles away. Belatedly, Niall realizes that she is. ‘Are you okay? What’s going on?’
‘Happy birthday,’ he says. Talking makes his head spin. 
‘My birthday is in January. It’s April.’ Isla sounds annoyed, and Niall hears a door open, then close, on her side of the world. 
‘Yeah, well, I didn’t call you then so I figured I’d tell you now.’
‘Are you drunk?’ The sound of a faucet turning on. 
‘A bit,’ Niall admits, closing his eyes. He wishes he had it in him to get up and close the blinds, too. ‘A lot.’
‘I can tell,’ a click, Isla turning on an electric kettle. ‘Thank you for the birthday wishes, but we probably shouldn’t be doing this.’
‘Why not?’ Niall turns his head, presses his cheek into the pillow to block out some of the rising sun. 
‘Well, for starters, it’s four in the morning in London,’ says Isla, and Niall feels a pang of guilt, on top of the anxiety. ‘And my boyfriend is sleeping, so.’
‘Right,’ Niall slurs, squeezing his eyes shut tighter. ‘Sorry to wake him.’
‘It’s not that,’ Isla’s pacing around her kitchen, Niall can tell from the sounds of the floorboards underneath her. She sighs. ‘Sorry I said it like that. That was shitty of me.’ 
‘S’alright. You’re not wrong.’
‘Where are you? You sound a mess, are you somewhere safe?’
‘Yeah, Dubai. I’m in my hotel room.’
‘Is it not, like, seven in the morning in Dubai?’ Niall can hear Isla pouring the kettle. He wonders if she’s making one cup or two. ‘Why are you drunk at seven in the morning?’
‘Not gone to sleep yet,’ Niall says around a yawn, his heart rate finally starting to settle down. ‘Went out last night.’
Isla hums, and Niall can imagine her, the way she curls in on herself when she’s got a fresh cup of tea, holds it against her chest to breathe in the warmth. He thinks of her on the couch, in a flat he’s only seen tiny pictures of on Instagram, phone sandwiched between her ear and her shoulder, wearing that Derby jumper he gave her a century ago. She says, ‘it was a good night, then?’
‘No,’ Niall admits, without even thinking about it. ‘We broke up.’ 
‘Oh,’ Isla coughs a little, then: ‘I didn’t know you were seeing someone. I’m sorry to hear that.’
‘No, no,’ Niall shakes his head into the pillow, even though she can’t see him. ‘Not seeing anyone. The band.’
‘The—what? The band broke up?’ 
‘Yeah,’ he doesn’t have it in him, he thinks, to explain the stupid hiatus idea right now. He’s so fucking tired. ‘But don’t say anything. We’re not announcing it yet, like.’
‘I won’t,’ Isla promises, but Niall already knows she would never. He lets her carry on: ‘Maybe it’s a good thing, though. You deserve some time to rest. You could work on some golf stuff, or write your own music, even?’
‘Dunno that anyone wants to hear my own music.’ It feels okay to say it to Isla, to let it out of his racing mind and into the space between then. He knows she won’t throw it back at him. ‘Dunno where I go from here.’
‘I’m interested,’ says Isla. Niall hears her slurp at her tea on the other end of the phone.
‘You’re interested in everything I do.’
‘Not true. I really don’t give a shit about golf. Like, at all.’
Niall laughs, and it’s a shooting pain behind his eyes and in his head, but he feels better for it. His mouth is dry, and his stomach is starting to grumble. He thinks he might be feeling a bit more human. ‘Maybe if you gave it a shot.’
‘Don’t want to, if I’m honest. Maybe you should give going to sleep a shot.’
‘S’why I called ya,’ Niall yawns again. ‘Talk to me about law or something. Bore me to sleep, Boyne.’
But Isla doesn’t answer right away. Instead, Niall hears the phone jostling, muffled speaking, a deep, tired, masculine voice. He hears his own name, a quiet sigh, retreating footsteps. Bile rises in his throat again.
‘Sorry,’ Isla’s voice is full volume again. ‘Listen, Niall, I should go. It’s really late. Or early, whatever, and you’re drunk. And this is… we can’t keep doing things like this.’
‘What do you mean, doing things like this?’ There’s a flame of aggression in his stomach—not aimed toward Isla, but toward Jack, who he’s sure is the reason she’s hanging up so quickly. ‘We haven’t spoken in ages.’
‘I know, I know, but. This… this thing, Niall. Always coming back to each other. We’ve got to move on.’
‘I’m not—’
‘I’m sorry, Niall,’ Isla sounds small. He thinks of her, back in school, stressed about exams and uni. ‘I shouldn’t have picked up. Take a sleeping pill and make sure you drink a load of water. You’ll feel better in the morning.’
‘Isla—’
‘Whatever comes after this, it’ll be the right thing for you. You’re brilliant, Niall, you really are,’ he can hear Isla standing up, moving the phone away from her ear. ‘Sleep well.’
She hangs up. 
--
Fourteen hours later, Niall wakes up. He has a headache, a dry mouth, a sore chest, and one, singular text.
Isla (9:49am): Let me know when you wake up so I know you’re okay. You’ll be grand. Xx
He flips his phone over, screen pressed into the mattress. He needs to take a shower. He needs to eat. He needs to get laid. 
He needs to fall out of love with Isla.
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cerastes · 4 years
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Thoughts on 5th gen so far? You can answer this after they all debuted though
I can finally deploy this one!
Ok so first I’ll briefly speak on their designs. For a Vtuber, personally speaking, their character design is very secondary, tertiary even, because end of the day, I’m there for their content and their entertainment value as streamers. That said, an appealing design always helps, so:
Lamy: REALLY love her design. The fanart has been to die for. 
Nene: I was initially neutral towards her design, but seeing it move and breathe in stream, I came to adore it, hahaha, I really love it now. I’ve a big bias towards Chinese looks. It’s actually a very multilayered design that makes a lot more sense once you see it in motion and see how the different layers of clothing and capes move to reveal more clothing or tasteful skin underneath! I really adore and respect this simply because it was made with a Live 2D experience in mind: The static design is pretty basic, but it takes on a whole another life when she’s actually moving in stream, it’s very well thought out and visually pleasing! They didn’t have to do this, but I am glad they did.
Shishiro: It’s fine, don’t got much to say about it otherwise.
Mano: I’ve a huge bias towards demons so of course I love her. I love the asymmetry of the horns! The balance of her design and clothes is also really good.
Polka: I don’t much care for animal ears, with exceptions: Bunny ears is one such exception. Fennec Fox ears is another exception, and Polka’s got Fennec Fox ears so I’m INSTANTLY on board. You may also have noticed that she, much like myself, is a clown, so that’s already a double elemental multiplier to my love. It becomes a triple damage multiplier when you consider she’s got such a playful, lovely design: The spade-shape pupils, the little card suits under her eyes, the eccentric but very well balanced assembling of her outfit. What I mean is that they didn’t just throw random colorful rags on top of a girl and called it a day, there’s actual thought put behind the design so it looks very good! Definitely my favorite with Nene’s!
Now, about the debuts!
Lamy: Holy fucking shit, Seiso/10. IRL hobbies include flower arrangement and calligraphy, and apparently she’s a 7-dan calligrapher? Which, for those not in the know, is pretty fucking huge for someone of her age. Very soft spoken, but she’s in for a good laugh too as we’ve seen in the post-debut free talks the 5th Gen has been doing this week after each debut. I think she’d have some very nice collabs with the likes of Mio, Subaru and Kanata.
Nene: You know, normally I’d say Bully/10 but I’ll keep it real with you: I was watching this and all I could say was “oh my god you poor thing”, she was so obviously IMMENSELY nervous, but she kept the show rolling and it didn’t suffer from those nerves, if anything, that only made it more charming. Nene absolutely neutralized the sadist in me and I only wanted to help her out whenever she got nervous, bwahaha. She has such a lovely voice, too, I can’t wait to hear her sing, it’s definitely my favorite voice of the 5th Gen (which is packed with pleasant voices). I like how she’s perfect for jokes and goes along with them. I think she’d have amazing collabs with others that can lead and are good with the mic, like Marine and Fubuki, since she’s good at following up jokes and playing the punching bag/straight man. She’d also go along wonderfully with the likes of Okayu, who are really good at playfully teasing.
Shishiro: Definitely not the voice I expected but that’s not a problem at all, I love her voice as well. I appreciate her enthusiasm for video games a lot! I really wanna see her play games and she seems like she’d have insightful and entertaining commentary all the while. She’s also all in for a good joke too and can lead pretty well so her compatibility for collabs will be nice to see, haha. I’d like to see her play a game with other big game enthusiasts like Aqua and Korone, and honestly, I think she’d be right at home in bigger collab stuff like Project Winter streams.
Mano: KUSOGAKI/10, She’s got that SHITTY BRAT voice that I love so much, so that’s immediately a Please Collab With Shion from me, and they gotta title the stream “BRATZ” because they are 100% triple-A grade KUSOGAKI. I’ve otherwise not fully figured her out yet, she doesn’t seem to have an obvious specialty, but just from what I’ve seen so far, she seems like she’d be fun in a variety of streams. I don’t know who I’d pair her up for collabs just yet aside from fellow kusogaki black belt Shion.
Polka: A solid Pierrot/10, what a fun goober, bwahaha. First of all, she’s a big HunterxHunter fan so you know she’s real, and obviously I really love the clown motif she’s got going; in most of Asia, including Japan, clowns are not really a common motif and are considered a very Western thing, and not even one they often borrow like, say, Alice In Wonderland aesthetics; Japanese people don’t understand why Westerners are afraid of clowns, for starters. So Polka deliberately going for a clown motif already says something about her, and I love that something. She was absolutely hilarious on Twitter the whole week and even showed up on stream with several instruments and toys just for that extra oomph, plus, I like the editing she did for a lot of her spots in her debut stream, I appreciate the effort! As for content, well, she definitely delivered, bwahaha, she has a very lovely voice, was ice cold calm during the stream and was clearly having a lot of fun with it, just 1 hour of cheerful laughter, it’s great how she felt right at home. I also appreciate her love for TRPGs and Horror games! I think she can do some wonderful collabs with people that can straight man for her while also shitting around like Pekora, Marine, Aqua and Shion.
So yeah! Loving all of them so far! Favorites are Polka and Nene! Can’t wait to see more of them all!
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—may 24th, 2020.
today is a very important day for me! ♡ and so, i come with an extremely long and semi-emotional post (for me, at least) that follows under the cut.
three years ago today, i was accepted into my first tumblr krp ever—rookies. ♡
it was a difficult decision moving to tumblr rp. for starters, i was a 16 year old who had never tried properly rping, and that too on a platform like tumblr. so everything was completely new to me. and, quite frankly, it was scary. and while i dabbled in fic writing, at some point i felt like it wasn't enough for me. i wanted to challenge myself and my writing. luckily, my sister convinced me to give rookies a shot, because it had been running for a while and she had heard good things about it. so, after about three weeks of convincing, we joined together: me with rkmeiqi, and my sister with meiqi's now-npc cousin, vivi.M/small>
the experience was quite overwhelming. in a good way, because everyone here has always been so welcoming, and i've noted that with every second muse i have brought in since i first joined. however, it was extremely overwhelming in a bad way too, because i was a teenager with bad anxiety and it was an unfamiliar environment and i didn't know anyone. everyone was older than me and i couldn't help thinking "no one wants to write with a kid like me."
because it was my first time in a tumblr krp, i was so self-conscious that i didn't even know what to do with rkmeiqi; i had to look at everyone else's old acceptances and blogs to see what was normal—what i should do—instead of deciding things for myself. i didn't know how to write for rp, or what a script was, or how to plot. i was a mess. you could see that much in my app (and i apologize to the mods for making you read that shit).
honestly speaking, if you look at my acceptance and compare it to the threads i write nowadays, the change and growth is glaringly obvious. it's a little embarrassing, to tell you the truth. scratch that—it's super embarrassing. but it's also kind of amazing to see the struggling newbie blossom into someone who can pump out a 5-paragraph reply in less than half an hour. sometimes i don't even recognize myself.
i wanted to drop rkmeiqi so many times, i even made polls on twitter to ask you guys if i could! surprisingly enough, it's my sister who yelled at convinced me to keep going no matter what, because i had already lasted a few months and if i dropped rkmeiqi, i would lose all that progress (the gall my sister has, forcing me to keep rkmeiqi when she had dropped her muse within the first few weeks!).
so i held on. i kept holding on, and then meiqi got signed by nova in december of 2017 and i was over the moon. but i also felt guilty, because i hadn't been in rookies for too long and i didn't put in half as much effort as some other people, but i was getting an offer too good to pass up.
i still feel guilty sometimes, because i've been extremely lucky with rkmeiqi—she got signed pretty early on, she got big opportunities like the sn project, and now she's a debuted idol with and*roma. all in the span of three years. it feels surreal, and it's also a little unnerving to think that i've actually done all this, and that i've been in one place for so long. this has never happened to me before!
along the way, i tried my hand at various second muses, since i love rookies so much, but i always failed with them. only recently have i picked up hangyulrk, but he's lasted longer than any other attempt. i love writing for him as much as i love writing for rkmeiqi, and i fully intend to keep him around for as long as i can. (please plot with him♡)
i guess what i'm trying to say (and failing at saying, because i'm too caught up in emotions and reminiscing and it's 3am as i draft this post) is that these past three years have been... pretty darn good. i can't think of any other way to put it. while stressful at first, i have really blossomed in my three years here. rookies has given me the chance to develop my writing to a level i never thought would be possible; rookies has given me an outlet and an escape from real life; rookies has introduced me to a lot of wonderful people.
while my muse (just rkmeiqi, because i haven't decided to torture hangyulrk just yet) has definitely grown and changed, it's not an exaggeration to say i've also grown and changed while here. it's only three years, but i've gone from a high schooler who struggled to get out of bed in the mornings, to an adult who has learned that the world isn't perfect but it can still be nice once in a while. i've learned a lot of things in the past three years, and i've overcome so many hurdles, and i couldn't be happier to be celebrating all this progress—both in my life and with my writing—with you guys.
i never thought it would happen. but i'm here, i'm grateful, and i hope i can continue to write with all of you for many more years to come.
to everyone at rookies, whether we talk daily or we’ve never even interacted, each and every one of you in this beautiful rp, thank you for making the past three years into something that is precious to me! ♡
love, sunny!!!
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