#it also depends of the country

[theend]

#this is to settle an argument but also out of curiosity #also I know this is subjective and probably dependant on country but there IS a right answer #poll

[grendelsmilf]

i love characters who are ostensibly womanizers but are also flaming homosexuals. it’s the funniest shit in the world to me. i call it. the baoyu paradox

#fruity asf faggots who apparently love nothing more than bedding [checks notes] women.?.?.?!?!.? #o #100 #i need a honglou meng tag #also YES this is about kabru but this is ALSO about rodolphe and henri from a day in the country (watched it yesterday) #also touga technically except i need to kill him with hammers so not really #also michael cassio depending on how u play him. i suppose.. #ALSO. TO BE CLEAR. THIS ISNT the same thing as being bisexual #SOME of these characters are certainly bisexual (baoyu for example) #but some of these characters are straight. some are gay. it’s not simply a matter of ‘bisexuality’ #but alas….. were it that simple…….

[flashhwing]

“uh duh I paid attention in history class, I got an A” skill issue. I slept through every single history class and still got an A

#this has been a post #also thinking about how much they genuinely did not teach us in my history classes #versus what you usually see people say ‘they didn’t teach us this in history class!’ #I swear every time I’ve seen someone use that as an excuse. it’s about something they 100% did teach in my school #(in my school as a qualifier because I am Well Aware your mileage may vary depending on such factors as #what country you live in. how much funding your school has. how good your teacher is. what your curriculum is #basically there’s no guarantee of anyone learning any particular piece of history in school)

[anotherpapercut]

the girlbossification of ruth bader ginsburg has to be one of the most just plain annoying aspects of white liberal feminism. like it's not as actively harmful as a lot of other shit obviously. but it is soooooo annoying. if I never see another notorious rbg tote bag as long as I live it will be too soon

#her opinions and amicus' in many cases were iconic! not denying that certainly. she is absolutely AMONG the better justices in us history #HOWEVER her record on policing/the carceral system is very bad! genuinely bad! #and she just would not hold the conservative justices accountable. her and kagan are way too placating #and then she refused to retire in 2009 when there was a sitting democratic president and a fucking DEMOCRATIC SUPER MAJORITY #saying basically that no one else could do the job as well as her which is insane because sotomayor and KBJ literally are better :/ #its also unbelievably conceited and just incredibly fucking selfish to knowingly doom the country because you think youre hot shit #started ranting abt this at work bc literally any talk even adjacent to the supreme court will set me off abt all of us court history #and my coworker was like 'well i dont think its very fair that she had to have that much riding on her decision to retire' #it literally is fair because that is the fucking job that she signed up for. this has literally always been how it fucking works #its a lifetime appointment. you either die unexpectedly or retire strategically #she accepted a position in which the entire country would depend on her but its not fair for the entire country to depend on her??? #bullshit #im not fucking buying it. she did this knowing roe would likely be struck down as a result #she should absolutely be held accountable for that lmfao. you can know that she had a hand in a lot of great decisions for this country #while also knowing that she did a fucked up and extremely selfish thing

[uncanny-tranny]

The Cass Review coming out and the media frenzy surrounding it makes it feel like the world is falling apart around us. I'm very fortunate to live outside the UK at the moment, but my heart goes out to the trans people that are facing these current circumstances. It feels like the US will follow soon, and the rug will be pulled out from under us at any point.

How do we survive? How do I know if my friends will be okay? What if I fully transition just to be persecuted for the rest of my life? What will happen to us?

It's terrifying out here right now - if you have any advice on how you handle any of it, it would be greatly appreciated.

- a young trans person

I think so much of this relies on community support - you won't be alone in this, so you shouldn't live life alone in this. Regardless of potential intracommunity bickering, regardless of if we perfectly get along, no matter if someone passes or not, or has a complex identity or not, we all are affected by transphobia. We have to be in it together, to fight and support together.

Nobody knows, truly, what the next few years or decades are in store for us so, frankly, I think we invest as much as possible for the future, but also try to live. You don't just deserve to survive, you deserve to thrive. So whatever you do, I hope you're able to pause for even the briefest of moments. I hope you eat well, I hope you smile genuinely, I hope you laugh, I hope you dance. Fear and stress will literally kill you. I know for me, the stress I felt pre-transition absolutely would have killed me eventually - I don't wish that on anyone. It's absolutely reasonable to be scared about the future, I'm not saying it's not, but what I am saying is that you deserve a break. You deserve hope.

From a (perhaps slightly) older trans person: It can absolutely get better. Those tiny glimmers of hope that you cling to like diamonds won't be so few and far between. That sounds like absolute bullshit when you're on the receiving end of this, and I know that because I've been in that position, but something else that helps me through those "negative" feelings is this:

We survive. We have always survived. We have lost an unconscionable amount of people, but they won't be forgotten. No matter what happens, we keep surviving. The world cannot leave us behind without leaving behind swaths of humanity because we belong in the fabric of society. And something about that reassures me, because it is a reminder that we have existed and will continue to exist. And that means that we will outlive the hatred.

You're going to survive with us. In fact, I think you can thrive and not just survive, and I think that's something that doesn't happen in spite of the 'phobes, but rather it happens because you are an inherent equal person who is entitled to happiness.

#ask #anon #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #whatever action you can reasonably take in your position or country is worth pursuing as well... #...such as things like protest but it's also a nuanced subject in that... #...you might not be /able/ to do some of that stuff and frankly i don't think it's always the best option for some folks... #...so i tend to try to also emphasize how important you as an individual *and* the broader community are #because you have inherent worth regardless of what you contribute. your worth never depends on Proving Your Worth

[cellbitupdates]

🟩 Dos mods do Cellbit/🟥 From Cellbit's mods/🟨 De los mods de Cellbit:

🟩 Voltaremos quando o Cellbit voltar de Los Angeles/🟥 We'll return when Cellbit gets back from Los Angeles/ 🟨 Volveremos cuando Cellbit regrese de Los Ángeles ❤️

🟩 O que provavelmente será amanhã ou no final desta semana. Na segunda-feira ele mencionou que poderia tentar entrar no QSMP para conhecer o novo criador coreano Jungryeok, mas ele não disse nada definitivo.

🟥 Which will likely be tomorrow or later this week. He mentioned yesterday that he might try to log onto QSMP for the new Korean creator Jungryeok but didn't say anything definitive.

🟨 Que probablemente será mañana o más tarde esta semana. El lunes mencionó que podría intentar entrar el QSMP para conocer al nuevo creador coreano Jungryeok, pero no dijo nada definitivo.

#cellbit #when will he be live #<- gonna be the tag for whenever the schedule changes. maybe. #first real update since people are probably wondering when he'll go live this week #i think his flight back was yesterday (hence the time sensitive stream) so he is probably back home #it's just a matter of whether he feels up to streaming yet or not tomorrow #also how do people feel about this in terms of translations and formatting #is it obnoxious to do it like this or does it work #bc i dont want to like put everything in english at the top and then every other language below if i can help it #like for transcripts it'll probably be different but it just depends #and im not sure if i'll always be able to do translations depending on the post it's a lot and again i'm not fluent #but anyway. here's this #also i'm gonna put his usual stream schedule in the pinned eventually i just wasn't really expecting to make an updates account and then #well it happened #i can also emoji code translations maybe? like do it based off the lang colors on twitter (so its not country based) #so red = eng yellow = esp green = ptbr #i dont speak french well enough to translate for that so unless someone wants to help with that it'll just be those three usually #anyway im overthinking this to the max here you go he might be live tomorrow he might not #mod bell

[ikemengoessbrrrrr]

His name is 10 Not that he has so many names, he literally just 10 (Ten, Sepuluh, Deka, or any language)

A cutie patootie blorbo 10/10 fine and totally doesn't have mental ilness/lies

#Usually I just called him Ten #tho I also called him Sepuluh #Its really depend on the country lmao #nev's oc #original character #nev's original character #oc #oc art #not so villain

[doctorwhoisadhd]

so wait, since i was just reminded of the recorder thing donna talked about in the giggle, i now have a question for uk ppl: do yall learn the recorder in school? like in a music class? and like how much do yall have music class over there?

#this is a very interesting topic for me as a music educator from the us #ik a guy from ireland and he said there was no music class in schools for him and like not the same country BUT same island #(as northern ireland. not the others in the uk but still) #and its so wild and fascinating music education is a fascinating field and the way we do it in the us seems to be largely vvv unique to us #for clarification on how things are different so ppl have a better idea on how to answer my question lol: #in the us music class is standard in elementary schools and most places have general music until abt 5th/6th grade (year 6/7) #(general music = basics- music games learn recorder SOME notation-reading; often classroom instruments eg boomwhackers claves maracas #orff instruments if you're lucky/from a school district that isnt poor. also some world music) #its less standardized after that and not every school will have music after middle school but concert bands and choirs are both huge here #choirs start right on the heels of general music classes (sometimes start earlier + students elect to be in choir instead of general music) #bands USUALLY start in 4th grade (year 5) but sometimes can be later 5th/6th (year 6/7) or even 7th (year 8) (WAY less common) #depends on the state generally 4th is most common i think (choirs start at around the same time i think so probs 4th but choir isnt my area #orchestras are weird bc theyre a lot less common but can commonly start younger bc of one of the big approaches to music ed (suzuki method) #so like maybe 3rd grade (year 4) maybe 4th w/ band (year 5) but i have a friend who teaches at a private school #& said they have 1st/2nd graders (year 2/3)!! orchestra is also not my area though #also marching bands: vv common! usually just in hs (starting 9th grade / year 10) bc it supports the football team at games #but starting in 8th grade (year 9) is also common (sometimes even 7th / year 8) #theres two different styles: collegiate/show band and competition. former is very rah rah pop music etc; competition is more abstract #show bands are clearly designed to entertain whereas competition is designed to be more impressive and tell a story #so more impact moments abstract shapes/lines on the field and has movements - opener ballad closer (fast-slow-fast)

[mrsmiroir]

*banging pots and pans loudly* the crows are, at least at the start of the first book, working class, and more modern alternate universes should reflect that.

#even from country to country like in general so much depends on the location !! #there would have to be some hefty adaptations to make it even slightly realistic #u can’t just copy paste the book into our universe #but also hi this is super important why r we ignoring this #why are so many fics shoving them into the middle class #dare i say. the usamerican suburbs. #h e l l o ? #soc #six of crows duology #six of crows #crooked kingdom #inej ghafa #nina zenik #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #kaz brekker #matthias helvar #grishaverse

[canonically-a-genloser]

You should stop me from possibly killing off Bear

THE FUCK I SHOULD HES TOO SWEET TO DIE

#sayu <3 #it genuinely depends on his story arc #a satisfying ending does not mean a happy one /ref #if it benefits the story i cannot stop u but i will cry #theee baby boy ever (i say gesturing vaguely to every clone oc u have created) #ALSO BTW I SAW YOUR POST I SHOULD MAKE A NEW OC AND WE SHOULD PUT HIM IN A SITUATIONSHIP OR SOMETHING #-WITH ONE OF YOUR OCS #it would be a little funny #its been ages since i made a star wars oc TAKE ME HOMEEEE COUNTRY ROADSSS

[laundrybiscuits]

(grace coming out of the void tag)

He mixes Eddie a passable gin and tonic, adding a little squeeze of lime and a couple cucumber slices, while Jeff heads back out to the party. 

“So, you and Helen…?” Steve asks. He thinks he sounds totally normal. Casual, even.

Eddie laughs, then stops abruptly. “Oh, shit. You’re serious? I’m gay, dude.” 

“Oh.”

“I—huh. I really thought you knew.” Eddie looks thoughtful. He’s frowning a little. “Guess this puts a few things into context. Gonna be honest, I’m surprised you missed it. Hell, I’m surprised Robs didn’t spill the beans one way or another. Love her to death, but our girl’s not the greatest with keeping a lid on things.”

Steve feels a wash of heat in his face, and he’s not even really sure why. “I mean…it’s not like I didn’t guess you were, y’know, something. I thought—bisexual, maybe?” 

It’s not totally true, but it’s not totally false, either. Steve hadn’t gotten so far as putting any specific words around what he thought Eddie might be or what Eddie might like, he’d just wondered in a formless sort of way. 

“Nah,” says Eddie. “I mean, never say never, but. Historically, no.” 

Steve lets the word historically roll around in his jaw, in his back teeth. He feels okay about it, he decides. He knows it’s not—Steve had a serious long-term girlfriend less than a month ago. He’s just always been the jealous type, even when he knows it’s not right or fair. He’s working on it. 

Steve gets these stories in his head, is the problem. He gets to thinking like everything’s going to work out because it has to; like all the pain and bullshit will all make sense someday and be worth it. 

It’s kid stuff, thinking that way. Sometimes things just hurt, and there’s no point to it. Sometimes pain’s just pain, and Steve Harrington is single at Christmas again, dying slow in a one-horse town. 

“Hey, this G&T’s pretty good,” says Eddie. He grins all bright and boyish, looking nineteen again for a second. “Thanks, man.” He tips his glass towards Steve in a little salute, then saunters out of the kitchen.

———

Once, Steve had asked his mom: why didn’t you guys ever move out of Hawkins?

I don’t know, Steven, she’d said. Well, your dad’s job was here. We thought it was a nice safe town for you to grow up in. Don’t you like Hawkins? 

Steve had shrugged and said sure and that had been the end of it. He does like Hawkins. He likes seeing familiar faces around, though it seems like there’s fewer of those every year. He likes how safe it feels, because he’s made it that way. He’s bled for Hawkins. Feels like that’s some kind of bond he can’t break. Sometimes at night when he can’t sleep, he grabs his old nail bat and goes to stand out in the woods, breathing hard, waiting for something anything anything to come at him. 

Nothing ever has, not since 1986. It makes him feel a little crazy to remember that the time when he fought monsters and Russians was only about three years all told. It had felt like forever at the time. He really had thought that that was going to be his life, his real life. Everything else—school, work, girls—had felt like stuff he’d been doing in his downtime between the real stuff: hauling around ungrateful brats and beating the shit out of the forces of evil like something out of Saturday morning cartoons. 

But it’s been six years of downtime, and lately he’s been wondering if that’s just how life goes. Vivid and wild at the start, but then the colors fade. 

Last year, he’d gone to Christmas at Laura’s parents’ house. It had been a big house that looked almost exactly like the one he’d grown up in, with twinkling white lights outside; inside was a big tree by a crackling fireplace. There’d been an Irish Setter named Dooley who was pretty great. All the ornaments had matched. He’d had two glasses of white wine and went home by nine to have perfectly good sex with Laura and go to sleep at a reasonable hour. 

He’d woken up at two in the morning for no reason. He couldn’t grab his bat and go into the woods because Laura had been right there sleeping next to him, so he’d just stared up at the ceiling not thinking about anything as his heart beat faster and faster for a very long time. He’d known then that he had to break up with Laura, even though they’d only been going out for a couple months, but he kept putting it off because it just hadn’t seemed worth it to end things. There hadn’t seemed to be any point.

#fic: grace coming out of the void #this is increasingly unseasonal and idc #something I have discovered about myself is that when I am on a cold damp island I write about morose winter angst #and when I am on a sunny tropical island I write about sassy summer shenanigans #who could have predicted!! wow!! I need to leave this country. #anyway I also wrote the ending to this fic today so it'll be finished for sure at some point. #I think I have...maybe three more scenes until the end? depends how long I spin out Steve's Depression Hour. #just gotta post the scenes so I stop fussing at them

[sunkissedlouis]

riri, i've seen many people say that the queuing system based on the time of purchase is frequently used in asia and i wanted to ask if you've seen it used for larger crowds too and if it works as well as for smaller crowds? i'm guessing it needs a ton of coordination from the venue, but since it's the first time i heart about it and on paper it looks really interesting, i wanted to ask you your experience with it?

hiiii shari!

so far, it's been used for larger crowds, but it also works for smaller crowds. i've not experienced it for smaller crowds though.

the camping culture before for the shows are similar to what happens in usa/europe where people would camp days (or a week) before the actual show. based on my past concerts, when i attended some kpop shows, the shows are usually announced in advance and then the fans are given a few weeks to prepare for the actual ticketing.

the queuing number will then be generated based on the time and date of purchase of your ticket. so basically, the earlier you buy your ticket on the day of the ticketing, the lower qn you'll get. so if you purchase your ticket on the dot, the bigger chance you'll get of getting a lower qn.

then a week or a few days before the shows, the promoter will release a special link where you'll input your ticket number or reference no. and it will generate your queue number for you. here's an example of a queue number (from my past show hehe) the 2593542 is the ticket number:

you'll show this queue no. then get in line according to the other guidelines released by the promoters prior the show.

(more below the cut!)

this system was also used in ltwt in manila although since there was a venue change, the prior queuing for the first venue was changed and lnph asked the attendees to fill out a google form. same thing applied there - the faster you fill out the form when it's released, the lower qn you'll get.

see my queue number for ltwt in manila below the cut:

with this system in place, although lines and crowds are harder to control for bigger show, at least concert goers have proper guidelines prior to the shows re: where to line up and what time to line up.

#shari 🫶🏻 #the camping culture now only gets that intense and messy when there are in-person ticketing for shows happening (another topic al2gether) #would also like to note that in the ltwt jakarta show with no qn in place had the same guidelines with the upcoming fitf jakarta show #the ltwt jakarta resulted in a mini stampede that left some fans injured according to kei (ms-softgoods) who attended the show #(thanks kei! MWAH) #thats why fans are upset with the changes...2 DAYS before show orz #this is the norm for most asian countries now and also really depends on who the show organizer is #altho most show organizers follow this qn system nowadays #if anyone from asia would like to add #please feel free to do so! curious if it applies for smaller shows too

[arrgh-even-more-whatever]

just thoughts. I hear so much about "I'll betray my own morals for you" trope but GOD how I love the opposite of that trope. "I love you but duty comes first". love it when characters betray their loved ones for the sake of loyalty to their family or their country

#they might not even love their family or their country that much but they know that there are people who depend on them and trust them #might delete later #i barely slept again so my brain is foggy and chatty #also this is what happened to Pablo and Maurice (unless is was already obvious) #sort of. it could've gone better if not for Pablo's temper #okay i should stop now

[laststandx3]

I see... we're in the Solomon Tozer resurgence era

#solomon tozer #he's an active character he's in half of the scenes #his actions have direct consequences on others #he's so lost and so heartbroken but he's also the best shooter here #he's one of the fews who keeps his head clear till the end #on the villain side for survival AND for his crush #he cares so much that when he's looses his best friend he gives up all his belief (country-duty...) to make it alive #he's so main character from a gritty action movie coded #he's a bad henchman #he eats his boyfriend's boyfriend #he's so co-dependent he would move to vermont with hickey and join his cult

[plural-culture-is]

plural culture is not having did or osdd1a or 1b. like we have memorie issues but we can still kinda remember enough , and our headmates are distinct enough to be seperate people. what the eff ( can any1 help :C ?)

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#plural culture #actuallyplural #plurality #plural system #anonymous #there's not really a certain amount of amnesia you need to have did (other than at least some obvi) #(although that depends on the country) #also you could just say osdd-1 if you want #or you don't have to label it

[suncaptor]

makes me feel a bit insane that Britta is seen as being insane and selfish for being upset her parents who she's spent her life trying to get away from are using her friends to stalk her just because she's suffering financially and needs help.

#incoherents #community #britta perry #britta #she lists random events that are clearly indictiative of abuse from parents who cant even renember her childhood #and shes tried so hard to avoid them she's moved across the country at least on one occasion #and her friends spend game nights with them!?!?!? #like i do sort of get being willing to borrow money if you want to help her through them but even that is making her financially dependent #she's seen as insane for being willing to pay her parents back and drop her friends and change her while life because of this #but shes been betrayed by them??? theyre treating her as if shes crazy???? #also speaks volumes to the fact her friends are SO cruel to her. she is consistently bullied and treated badly #i dont like. particularly like her all the time or anything but the way everyone including the show treats her is horrendous #regardless of if shes a great person her friends shouldnt be cruel to her all the time????? #tracks that theyd do this 🙄🙄 #just rememberer jeff telling her shes selfish for being too proud to use her own support system and am full of rage again. like. #if you cant afford to help her without borrowing from her parents tell her oh my GOD #also the line about tinder. like she is fr being stalked and monitored against her consent #and it's treated like i guess a good thing since shes been homeless?????????? #ahhh