#and other stuff 🙃

[bloodentitled]

I like how I go from high activity to falling off the face of the earth for a month +

#I went on vacation #and other stuff 🙃

[statementlou]

I feel like when people ask famous personalities to participate in activism, they may be influenced by the parasocial relationships they have formed with these celebrities and not that they really care about what is going on. They expect famous individuals to act as role models or representatives of their beliefs. That's why I think, it is crucial to maintain a critical perspective and not depend solely on celebrities for activism. This can result in a passive approach to social change and disregard the significance of collaborative action and personal engagement. The majority of celebrities don't care lol even who speak up about it publicly. Their reality is different from ours, like Gigi Hadid also drank Starbucks the other day, Bella Hadid worked with a lot of Zionist brands and did a photo shoot with them recently, etc etc. And let me not start on stans culture... the worst thing ever

Okay this is fascinating because yes! I agree with you so much! But then I was completely floored by the choice of the HADIDS (literal Palestinians who never shut up about the cause) as examples- but actually I love it because I think it opens up two really really important points that maybe get to the heart of the whole issue. Gigi and Bella Hadid are, as I said, literally Palestinian, and have throughout their public lives (not just recently) never been silent or backed down in defense of Palestine even when it has very publicly lost them (Bella primarily) jobs and opportunities, and they both continue to be outspoken even while literally targeted and threatened by zionists. Pretty much everything anyone has wanted or asked for from any celebrity, right?! But here we have, first of all, Gigi having all of that discounted because she bought Starbucks, a brand that is not even an official boycott! I feel like this is a perfect example of prioritizing performative and symbolic activism over actions with material impact, if someone who has been so consistent and stalwart can see all that dismissed because they spent $5 on a coffee (that, again, has no material financial relationship to Israel). I personally think that on a scale of good done vs harm, Gigi can afford a lot of problematic coffees, and this is not even getting into the Hadid families finances which involve huge amounts of money being used and moved around in ways that do more to help the cause than any image choice can unbalance. And then you say that Bella has worked with zionist brands- I don't know anything about this so I can't speak to it. Given that we are also apparently considering starbucks a zionist brand despite the company not operating in or having any ties to Israel, I would question what this means. But it doesn't matter- I think the point is that consumer/ individual purity isn't possible! No one is making pure consumer choices, no matter how many brands they boycott, and certainly no celebrity can continue to be one without having unsavory connections. I think that BY DEFINITION no celebrity is politically pure because if they cut all those ties, THEY WOULD NO LONGER BE A CELEBRITY. Whether the pursuit of purity is realistic or desirable is a much bigger issue, but the point is that as you say, looking to celebrities to be activists will end only in disappointment. Their job is to entertain in specific ways and they do that; if that's not working for you, then consume some other celebrity's product (persona). As I have said from the start, if you want to stan Louis because he is talented and hot and kind and smart and fun then you are in luck! But if you are looking for an activist spokesperson, he is not going to be that, and yelling at him (or people who don't consider that a deal breaker) isn't going to change that.

#I'm aware that some people don't agree with me about what tactics are effective- welcome to activism! tactic squabbling is our signature! #but I do not appreciate having my opinions on tactics dismissed as defending a celebrities actions at any cost #which I don't think I have remotely done ever honestly I have repeatedly said that if you're looking for an activist #neither Louis nor any other celebrity is that or is going to be and I would recommend giving it up #I think dismissing my arguments as that is not only inaccurate but a bit of a bad faith topic change #but it is what it is🙃 #blah blah blah #palestine #I have another ask that I will answer later and get more into the Louis part specifically #but first I'm gonna go do real life stuff! wild but true #starbucks discourse

[mostdisconcerting]

They’ve been doing this for the finales for the last three seasons, soooo 🙃

#patrick nash #msatd #eliza x patrick #eliza scarlet #miss scarlet and the duke #miss scarlet pbs #scarnash #the way I ran to post this when I saw that comment- #But why do they smile at each other like that? #Hell why do they write stuff like this into the script if it’s platonic? #Not that I’m complaining they are adorable #And I think they find each other adorable as well🙃

[hillerskas]

I Miss you Exceptionally (ao3)

Alex’s jaw clenches more and more tightly as he catches Henry’s name floating around in various strangers’ conversations. It’s not a surprise, obviously, but it doesn’t really sit well.

‘I can hear your teeth cracking,’ Nora says, shoving his arm.

‘I’m sorry if I’m not exactly thrilled that my ears are getting railed by the name of the guy who flew across an ocean to avoid me.’

‘I thought you were into that.’

Or, Alex Claremont-Diaz has been blanked for five years after kissing his college roommate, when said college roommate writes perhaps the most devastating novel Alex has never read.

#rwrb #rwrb fic #firstprince #au fic #it’s been a minute 🙃 #still working on other stuff but this just happened #my stuff #red white and royal blue

[yourprobnowdumdum]

By the way, if anyone looks up the cold opening for 'That's Amorte' on YouTube, be aware that an upload from the Deutschland Adult Swim channel with the full opening will pop up in the search and it has a spoiler on its thumbnail in case you want to avoid that

#Rick and Morty #So probably keep to the Tumblr links to be safe #yes I'm a bit annoyed #so thought I'd say something in case someone looks up Rick and Morty stuff #I watched this one first thinking it wasn't any different than the other uploads until I compared #then you realize you saw something that shouldn't have been out yet and it's like 'oh OK 🙃'

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

It's so so disingenuous to claim that Dany should have taken the time to separate xyz privileged persons in Meereen because "not everyone sanctioned the murder of those 163 children 😞". Oh ok. So that very wealthy, very influential man did not personally give the order. Maybe he doesn't even have slaves. But riddle me this: Where did their wealth come from? What are the historical foundations of their political power? In a society that continues to practice oppression (and a society where wealth and status is defined by it), how is it that they continue to hold as much influence and social capital as the "direct evil"? None of this is happening in a vacuum. And like....this is a society where the dehumanization of slaves is systemic. It runs policy and economics. And the people in power obviously know each other and support each other (considering the fact that they can keep wealth and influence!!!). So does it matter if xzy didn't give the order? Does it matter if they were not the ones nailing those kids to the posts? What matters is that they saw oppression, did absolutely nothing in the face of it, and continued to benefit from it. They are not innocent. Evil isn't just related to the guy pulling the trigger. The devil is also the one who's standing in the back, watching, and counting his coffers. And it terrifies me to think about what some of you would be saying in the real world, in the face of oppression. "I cannot be held accountable because I wasn't the one who pulled the trigger"....but you continued to benefit from the privilege afforded to you by the oppressive system AND DID/SAID NOTHING. By turning a blind eye, you have taken the side of the oppressor. So I'm sorry sweetie but you 👏 are 👏 part 👏 of 👏 the 👏 problem 👏 big time!

#saw something and got terribly triggered by it - like I had a whole awoop jumpscare! moment #can't believe this has to be spelled out lmao but everyday I'm reminded why I dread going into 90% of the discussion regarding dany #it's so so tiring #oops hot take -> #IF ONE CONTINUES TO KNOWINGLY AND WILLINGLY BENFIT FROM PRIVILEGE THAT IS BORN OUT OF AND THRIVES IN AN OPPRESSIVE SYSTEM #THEN THEY ARE AN OPPRESSOR #and yeah I have a very emotional reaction to slaver's bay because well *gestures vaguely* I'm bla- #we have these discussions all the time in the real world whether it's about capitalism racism other forms of bigotry etc #it's not even about being a slave master apologist but trying to say that those who knowingly and willing benefit from oppressive systems #shouldn't be held accountable - this is so strange to me and so disheartening #how people talk about slaver's bay is a good litmus test me thinks 🙃 #daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #my stuff #ramblings and rants #le sigh

[zorlok-if]

As you enter into their field of view, Danny looks over at you.

You're used to their expression being (either:) familiar, one of recognition (or:) warm and comforting—but that's no longer the case. Not really.

(conditional) To be honest, you wish their gaze was devoid of all emotion. That there was no overlap between the way they used to view you and how they must see you now. That would be easier. But it's just... different. Changed. As Danny's gaze meets yours, some of that softness remains but a twinge of mistrust disturbs the depths of their cold green eyes—a hesitancy that catches like hooked burs at the back of your throat.

In that moment, you realize that you don't share the same past. You are little more than a stranger to Danny. You're a person they're stuck with. Someone they need to rely on but know they cannot—or should not—trust.

(conditional, either:) This knowledge kills whatever sad approximation of a soul you have. (or:) This is for the best. Probably... (or:) Good. The less Danny knows, the better off you are.

Art by the amazing @fooltofancy!

Danny is a character from the interactive fiction game Zorlok. Click here for more info or play the prologue.

#happy sunday everyone #thanks vin for this amazing piece!! #go check out their other work #and yes #still here just dealing with an onslaught of family stuff and the stress of multiple jobs lol #work is still underway #and actually going quite well! #☺️🙃 #danny #zorlok art #commissioned art #id in alt text

[venigni]

So Lies of P got nominated for best art direction and best role-playing game...we all know it should've been nominated at least for best music, too, but at least it wasn't completely snubbed. 😭

#lies of p #lop #it isnt going to beat bg3 for best rpg lmao 😭 #it MIGHT have a chance for art direction #esp given everything else in that cat was also nominated for a TON of other stuff 🙃 #can it beat name recognition of zelda tho i doubt

[cinematicnomad]

before i came to visit my parents i talked to my therapist about how if my brother and them start to argue about politics i should just remove myself from the situation, so guess who's sitting upstairs in the guest bedroom browsing tumblr on her work computer bc she left her personal laptop and phone downstairs???

#i'll give you one guess #it hasn't reached the height it sometimes does #but i can hear their voices echoing up the stairs so i'm just gonna wait here until they start talking about other stuff #my chest feels tight and my stomach is in knots. i hate this!! #🙃🙃🙃 #kat liveblogs her life #nvm now they're yelling

[hes-a-tough-kid]

I’ve been thinking a lot about how Spider felt when he hit puberty and started growing facial hair, making him even more different to the Na’vi. I wonder if he hated it.

Also the inherent tenderness of a boy trusting someone else enough to help him shave for the first time… something about it makes my chest hurt. I really tried to capture it in Foreign Body but there’s so much more that I wish I’d left space for.

#is this me admitting that i might go back and add even more content to my already published and completed fic? perhaps. #spider socorro #jake sully #avatar 2 #idk why im posting this im just feeling so soft for spider growing up and battling with his… foreign body (ba-dum tss. i am boo’d off stage #but fr the way he tries and tries and tries to assimilate and his inescapable humanness is a constant reminder of his incongruity with #pandora… like he cant be truly na’vi and growing up he is presented more and more evidence that he will never be #im still turning the Spider as an allegory for second generation immigrants thing in my head… the draft post is getting a bit too long tbh #but i just cant shake the feeling that he struggles with this foreignness a lot- ESPECIALLY knowing his parentage (father) #anyway here are a couple of drawins from the pages and pages of spiders i have in my sketchbook #for me and and maybe 1 other person who thinks about this stuff 🙃 come get yall juice (cricket sounds) #theyre not very good but im really enjoying being nobody out here #so i can post my bad drawings and run away 😌 #i'm trying to learn to draw please be kind <3 #kid’s post

[soulsxng]

I’ve got more additions to the picture offerings, I had to do some emergency maintenance on my desktop real quick. So gimme like…ten more minutes and I’ll be back for that and some writing!

#[what is she getting us into now? -ooc-] #it’s been giving me some graphics card related issues the past few days and I’ve been too lazy to fix it #and then right after I posted that thing for Jas and JJ (Or Lir and Jai anyway) #it caused some other stuff to completely crash #so due to my own laziness I now have to fix more than what I would originally have had to in the first place 🙃 #anyway it shouldn’t take me too much longer!

[traitorsinsalem]

bg3 is crazy for being a massive $70 larian + wotc collab game whose accessibility menu features subtitles that are present for less than half of all idle character dialogue and almost zero battle dialogue

#succ speaks #not to be the 'paizo wouldn't let this happen' guy but god this is actually insane #like why even have an accessibility menu at that point? i'd rather watch a youtube video with automatic captions #same energy as devs complaining that everyone was making their pcs a white human guy in early access while they had no asian human options #like bro i just want to know what bestie karlach is saying but if u make her mumble with no captions even tho i have subtitles on #tf am i supposed to do.....🤨😡😭💀 #baldur's gate 3 is fun but this is pissing me off. like i'm prob not gonna keep playing this solo & only play online with friends #it's fun but. not fun enough to mimic the actual wacky bullshit i do with charisma rogues and bards in dnd or pf #i think i'm also used to having real humans around for ttrpg antics and dynamic character interactions so bg3 feels bland in comparison lol #also because irl i can ask people to repeat what they just said 🙃🙃🙃 #joining the mob by accident was admittedly funnier in bg3 than it was in dnd though considering i stumbled into the base out of nowhere #i guess it just falls under ny philosophy that dnd is most fun when wotc has zero actual say in what happens and what we can do 👍 #however as much as pf > dnd...bg3 > kingmaker. i think pathfinder is just to true of a ttrpg to adapt into a video game super well #like. the writing in wotr was WAY better than bg3 but still sometimes bad enough to be infuriating ESPECIALLY in regards to iomedae #but the weird ass iomedae stuff is also true in the adventure path itself and plenty of other people have complained about it #but hey at least in wotr the subtitles told me what she was saying every time she spoke 👍 #wotr was still rly fun tho no hate to the game in general this is a quick slam of being pissed at bg3 again 🙏🙏

[cloneboywonder]

LOOK WHAT WE FOUND AT A USED CD STORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#KSNFKFKWWK 😭😩😐😭😩😩😐😭😩😐😐😭😐😐😐🙃 #when I brought it to the counter I was talking to the guy about chekcing other stuff and I think I was being too silly #and he cleaned it and he’s like ummmmmm there’s a little scratch I’m just gonna give it to you #I OOVE YOUUUUUUUBI LVOE YO I LOVE YOU #and we talked about colored vinyl presses bc I was sooo sad about me wanting them #and he kept being like I’m so sorry we can’t get you those ones they are very out of print #and he’s like you can try a site called discogs and I was like bro I live on there #I was on it Like 5 mins ago lmaoo #I love people so much he works there bc he loves music and he loves people I love humanity society etc #my posts #TAI #THE ACADEMY IS

[tvrningout]

my job sure is testing me this weekend but it’s fine i’m fine

#will i be here like i wanted to be? we’ll see bc i’m fully expecting tomorrow to suck #my manager is super sick and called out today and maybe tomorrow and nobody told me or my coworker 🙃 #and tomorrow we got a bath bomb party that i’ll probably have to run by myself 🙃🙃🙃 #i’m just very irritated bc there’s other stuff going on too and it’s just a big mess #give me strength bc i’m gonna need it… but for now i’m gonna present some nari fc options 💜 #i hope y’all are having good and safe days!! #get ready to ramble | ooc #tw vent

[bipunkharrington]

My friends keep recommending Hazbin Hotel to me and I don't have the energy to get into how the creator hates trans men/enbies and how as a transmasc enby I just... don't wanna watch it.

For now I'm just blaming it on being busy 😅😂

#too busy to watch this show #is easier than the creater of this show turns my stomach for x reasons #also i dont care about other people enjoying it i just have no desire to engage with it #and its difficult to tell people the issues you have with something #without making it sound like your telling them they shouldnt engage with it #and i dont wanna ruin my friends fun #especially cause were all varying flavours of neurodivergent and i know how much it sucks #trying to disengage from a hyperfixation because you learn shitty bts stuff 🙃 #transphobia #tw transandrophobia #tw transphobia #tw enbyphobia

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

..

#hehe hoho I did it again #said something that probably would've been better left unsaid 🙃 #ohwelllllll #(it was on the topic of doctrinal differences #whilest eating lunch with two hallmates #blehck :p #one day I'll learn to just stop while I'm ahead. and not say everything out loud that's in my own brain.) #delete later #{though on the other hand... I'm really tired of not having opinions????? I wanna say stuff???? is that wrong????? #I'm working really really hard not to be too abrasive or confrontational while I'm here at college #but I'm also really working on confidence and speaking my mind even if it's wrong --bc how can I know that it's wrong if I never say it!!-- #and it's so HARD to find a balance????)