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[moonsnqil]

The Sunshine Court spoilers

I feel like I haven't seen anyone really talk about this specific scene yet but something about it really gets to me like imagine going through hell and back to be the best only to hear that these other guys are enjoying themselves and have, y'know, basic things like autonomy and somehow managed to be nearly as good. Jean starting to realize maybe everything the Ravens did was for nothing and genuinely wanting to know why he had go through all that but the Trojans didn't and is it unfair? did he just waste 3 years of his life? If everything was rewritten could love have coexisted with being the best?

#im not wording this well bc my brain goes static when i try to form coherent thoughts about this book #but this scene !! #i feel like the foxes beating the ravens was a tough pill to swallow but theyre foxes for a reason #their lives are shit too and they have mafia kids already on their lineup #but the Trojans? mr. sunshine and his team? what horrors have they endured that could even compare? thats why itd be so much more jarring #tsc spoilers #the sunshine court spoilers #aftg #tsc #the sunshine court

[leedee013]

Something that weirdly pisses me off but like

Andrew Minyard shouldn't be an undercover book nerd or something. This fandom is so obsessed with forcing Andrew into a specific vision of him that they WANT to see that they miss out on a lot of potential regarding the content that's actually given to us.

Andrew Minyard has an eidetic memory and has most likely watched way too many movies or TV over the course of his life.

Anyone who claims that he's too poetic/fanciful with words to not be into literature is simply ignoring the fact that there are stunning movie/film scripts out there that are worthy of being held on an equal pedestal as literature. And I'm saying this AS AN ENGLISH MAJOR. I literally majored in reading books. But shoving bookish Andrew into fanon is something I simply will never stand behind.

I have an entire slew of headcanons about why Andrew actually does hate the act of reading if anyone ever wants to hear them too

#aftg #all for the game #andrew #andrew minyard #the foxhole court #listen the idea that people are also only 'smart' or 'well-versed' if they like reading is inherently ableist <3 #tough pill to swallow I know but sometimes people engage in stories that are simply told in other ways #manga though? I think Andrew could get behind reading manga? it might be different ENOUGH but still #nah

[theshadowrealmitself]

MJ and Gwen Stacy getting married to each other, and Peter’s happy for them, but at the same time he feels sad and lonely with both of his exes having moved on and finding happiness with each other while he’s still single and feels like his friend group is leaving him behind

So some of the other heroes, who don’t know his identity or who his exes are, are just comforting him like “just don’t think about it buddy!” while the wedding pictures are everywhere, like the billboard right next to them, and everyone’s talking about it because MJ is really famous so it’s a huge event

#MJ is super famous in my heart #that’s my lil headcanon for her #I just love the humor of ‘don’t think about it!’ while it’s everywhere #he doesn’t wanna be sad about it he is really happy for them #but it’s still a bit of a tough pill for him to swallow #Spiderman #spider-man #spider man #Peter Parker #MJ #mary jane watson #Gwen Stacy #what’s Gwen’s and MJ’s ship name?

[creekfiend]

I think a lot of this 'religion is necessarily oppressive' stuff honestly is kind of like the confusion about ppl thinking that like, slavery and scientific racism and etc came about BECAUSE OF beliefs that Black people etc were not fully human rather than those beliefs -- those ARGUMENTS, really -- being JUSTIFICATIONS that were invented to allow white ppl to continue to engage in slavery which was at its core about economic exploitation. Like that most systemic bigotry serves a Useful Purpose to those in power and that's why it exists; the policies aren't put in place because of the beliefs. The cart isn't pulling the horse. Christian stuff was used to justify the same things that later, "scientific progress" was used to justify in the west (e.g. scientific racism, eugenics, etc. Very very very much rooted in the idea of certain beliefs and cultures as inherently more rational and forward thinking because BEING RATIONAL AND VALUING SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS WERE CULTURAL VALUES AT THE TIME.) (This does not say anything about Science. It says things about Institutes and power and oppression.)

Similarly, you see a lot of people saying "well religion is used to justify oppression by the people in power" and its like yes. Religion is not unique. Beliefs about what is true about the world -- ideology -- can always be used to do this and frequently is.

When there are common beliefs held by a majority of people in a given culture those beliefs will be used by the people in power to explain and justify the things they do to maintain power and control in society.

This isn't a function of religion. It's a function of power.

When people say "well, this religious rhetoric is/was used to justify misogynistic legal standards in this society" the answer is yep. And if it wasn't that it would be something else because that society had an investment in that specific kind of oppression of women. We have seen this morph into 'rational' 'scientific' explanations for women's inferiority and justifications for making women second class citizens once the cultural values swing more towards rationality and science, as well. Thats... regular.

Like... love to have a good faith convo about this with someone who doesn't get weird and reactionary about "Religious People" but sure not seeing much of that going on. Weirdly.

Anyway.

#jewish #i think this can be a tough pill to swallow bc it necessarily involves #accepting that your secular ideology and philosophy can be exploited just as easily for violence and harm #as religious ideology can #because thats humans babey #fascinating also to me is the phenomenon of people believing that bc they do not subscribe to any beliefs that they see as #''religious'' or ''spiritual'' they are immune to magical thinking of any sort. #i promise you that is not true in the slightest. #and also the things that we each identify as SILLY AND OBVIOUSLY UNTRUE FAIRY TALE SHIT is... culturally determined hee hee #im sorry to tell u that no one is objective about reality. thats rough buddy!

[thesherrinfordfacility]

do you think current crowley wishes he could go back to the angel he was and tell him that his nebula, his stars, will be safe, that he himself will directly help to save them, and not only the stars but also the earth and humans that that sparky other angel likes so much. reassure him that his efforts won't be for nothing, he doesn't need to ask questions!!! he doesn't need to challenge anything, because it'll all be okay and he can trust that everything will work out fine

but then also stop. calculate, and understand that in order for everything to be okay... crowley has to ask questions, has to go through what he did, the pain and rage and abandonment and silence that comes with it, it's inevitable - because if he doesn't fall, doesn't become the demon he is now, everything that follows will never have happened, he'll never experience humanity, never get to buy the bentley, or feed the ducks, or grow his plants, or save the world, or fall in love??? and actually consider if the fall was worth every bit of pain and rage and abandonment and silence... if, in exchange, he gets all that????

#good omens #this makes no sense whatsoever but it suddenly hit me that if crowley does magically find a way to time travel #or at least manipulate the past from the present #he probably could make it so his former self doesnt ask questions - no matter how illogical that would be #illogical in that it would create a paradox (ive watched dw i know that's a Bad Thing) BUT to not do it would mean #accepting that the fall was worth it??? unreliable narratorship or not thats a tough pill to swallow #anyway ignore this

[landlordevil]

I like those kinds of polls because it gives me a sense of where parts of the userbase are at in terms of wanting drugs/sex/alcohol but all the people going "WAIT why is no one drinking and having sex and going to clubs?? Thats so embarassing" r like so wild. Never grew out of the middle school mentality of thinking these are true markers of adulthood

#it's a tough pill to swallow for some #but actually the annoying tumblr users you see on this website? #them being sexually active and/or drinking/doing drugs would not make them less annoying #i know this bc being sexually active and drinking and doing drugs has not made me less annoying. not even once! 👍

[wantbytaemin]

crying alone in my car feeling very #american

#swallowing some tough pills you know how it is #<- only metaphorically of course no one worry pls 💖🫶🏻

[therapythoughtstogether]

I'm not in love with who my ex is now, I'm in love with the person my ex used to be...

The body is kind of the same, so that confuses me. But the inside has changed a lot...

Tough pill to swallow.

#therapy thoughts #tough pill to swallow #divorced #in love with my ex #but they are not the same person anymore #I need to accept that they have changed #and move on #bpd #actually borderline #bpd fp #actually bpd #mental health #bpd favorite person

[crazycatsiren]

One tough pill to swallow for many white gentile witches in the 21st century is that Christians didn't steal squat from them.

#hot take #tough to swallow pill #witchblr #witches of color #witches of tumblr #witch community

[xcziel]

picky eater/supertaster update:

so far the Sneaky Peas system has been a success. best practice is 6-8 frozen peas washed down between every few bites of minute rice with campbell's golden mushroom soup straight out of the can (delicious to me for nostalgia reasons)

now if only i could figure some convenient way of rendering broccoli or like spinach into frozen easy-to-swallow form ...

#those little 60sec microwave cups of minute rice are a game changer for me too #i have eaten more rice and more 'vegetables' in the last couple months than in the last two years in total #and that is not me joking #i am fine as long as i can't taste the vegetables but that's why the supertasting thing is tough #and i'm fine taking supplements but evidently they won't completely substitute for real vegetables #so: frozen so i can't taste them and easily swallowable like a pill #what can i get this way besides peas is the question

[dxfiedfxte]

Long Overdue Update

Hello again, hope everyone is doing alright.

So I've been away for a while and I wanted to pop in and explain (as I'm working my way to coming back here) It hasn't been a great on my end for the last few months. Last time I updated, I mentioned my grandpa being sick, and that has played a major role in my lack of being here.

I wanted to apologize for not only my absence here, but as well as my limited contacts with people. (Notably the discord messages I haven't responded to yet.) When times get increasingly difficult, I tend to surround myself with a very small tight-knit circle of people and don't reply to many messages during hard times.

3 days after my birthday, my grandpa passed away, leaving quite the hole in my heart. So it's been pretty rough coming to terms with that.

I'm slowly starting to recover from it now that it's all over and done with. I truly value and appreciate all the patience, so thank you for that.

I work today and tomorrow but it shouldn't be a hard day today, so I plan on coming back here either later after work, or tomorrow after work(since it's a day shift)

Thanks again for all the continued patience with me.

All my active threads will be continued accordingly upon my return. None have been dropped by me.

That concludes my update

Can't wait to come back to my blueberry (and my other active blogs too)

#tʜᴇbʟᴜᴇʙᴇʀʀɪᴇsaʀᴇmɪssɪɴɢ ( ooc ) #mᴀss dᴇsᴛʀᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ( tᴏ bᴇ dᴇʟᴇᴛᴇᴅ ) #This has probably been one of the most difficult times I've had in a very long time #Now I no longer have any grandparents left #And that reality is a tough pill to swallow #anyway thanks for the patience #special shout out to my gf for being a huge pillar of support for me in this #I probably would be having even more of a hard time without her #see you all very soon #tw: sickness #cw: sickness #tw: death #cw: death

[bookantique]

i need to start accepting the fact that im disabled.

#but boy is it a tough pill to swallow #especially when my family think youre not disabled if its not an extreme case #chronic pain

[hungerpunch]

imo, in the same way that thought crime is fake, so is the opposite. which ig would be thought virtue? anyway you're not better/more evolved/enlightened/smarter than other people just because you think certain ways. walk the talk or ur exactly as neutral or harmful as the ppl u purport to be above just by thinking.

#action > thoughts and words every time #every single time #a tough pill for this entire webbed site to swallow #text post

[futurewife]

torn between needing to seriously lock in as a 26 year old adult and stop watching my life go down the drain and having selfshipping be my only joy and welcome distraction. Like I would ideally be keeping a balance where it's something that supports me morale wise rather than something that prevents me from moving forward and achieving personal growth 🤕😭

#like do I need time with just me and real life in my brain to take a good hard look at myself #It's terrifying to look in the mirror and truly see what I have done to myself and my life. what it's turned out to be #but I feel like i need to confront my truth and be for real with myself. I am the problem and I ruined my life #not through being malicious or anything but by continuing to perpetuate the same cycles and destructive habits #and it's embarrassing and shameful to me that I did that to my own life. Squandered it all. :( #but I can also do something to the best of my ability to gtfo of my hole... somehow #like it's a tough pill to swallow though 😕