#it was never built for us

[uninterruptedafricans]

We all know that this Roe.vs.Wade ruling is about controlling women, White women specifically, because they maintain the legacy of white supremacy through their wombs. Yesterday, Abortion clinics in West Virginia were immediately closed down after the ruling even though there’re were White women scheduled months out to have procedures that day. They already know that some women will travel outside of the state to seek terminations but most poor White women will not have the means & will just end up giving birth.

This is why the U.S. granted an exemption to Ukrainian asylum-seekers into the country while simultaneously keeping BIPOC asylum-seekers back-logged & waiting outside of Mexico. U.S. conservatives want the offspring of Ukrainians to assimilate into “American whiteness”. They want White babies to continue this reign of White power they have in the United States. That’s what Amy Coney Barrett means by “Domestic Supply of infants”.

This is also why illegal hysterectomies were performed on Central American/Latin women at Immigration detainment centers & the Black maternal mortality rates is not addressed within the government & the medical field.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women. “Cassidy said that while Black people make up a third of the state’s population and experience higher rates of pregnancy-related deaths, “if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear.”

A lot of Black/POC are taking this news to heart (as they should because this decision means 33% rise in pregnancy related deaths for Black women) However, BIPOC were never a factor in any of this. This time it’s not about destroying us ⚫️ this is about preserving them ⚪️. But as usual we are the collateral damage. 

This ruling was in the works for a long time WITH the cooperation of the Democrats & White women in power …..because White preservation is ALWAYS this Country’s priority.

Since we were not a factor in this heinous decision. The colonizer shouldn’t be a factor and how we choose to create life. Prior to colonization the concept of we now call “doulas” included the role terminating unwanted pregnancies. My mother grew up on a farm in the Caribbean & when a fetus was threatening the life of the mother, A skilled member of the community would be summoned to end that pregnancy.

I am in 100% support of mutual aid providing contraception as the first line of defense. But, also an underground network of Black & POC reproductive service providers because (it’s apparent) that the system that currently provides our services can care less whether we (Black women & femmes) all suffer and die.

#black woman is god #roe vs. wade #supreme court ruling #the only Supreme I answer to is my God #stop centering whiteness #it was never built for us #and the point of it all #this is a one party system #Biden is an op #black community #abortion rights #mutual aid

[fallenstarzz]

Thinking many many thoughts about how Jean was Riko's partner for a YEAR and was still rooming with Goon #3. Because that was how unwilling Riko was to let go of Kevin. And how that implies that Jean was placed as his partner both because of the practicality of Kevin being gone AND as a punishment for letting him go in the first place. Being partners with Jean could actually slow Riko down depending on how often he's hurt (because I don't think Riko was all that exempt from the rules to the point where his partner's performance would completely not matter) and he was still placed there. Riko was just THAT angry at him over Kevin's escape. And all the while he was keeping Kevin's side of room like an altar, even back when he didn't even think Kevin could PLAY, because of an injury he caused.

#'average aftg fan thinks about Kevins side of the room once a day.' factoid. headboard georg (me) is thinking on it at all times #everything about the perfect court makes me so absolutely insane i am chewing on glass #do you guys think that Jean would still have distracted Riko if he knew Kevin was going to leave? #moreover. do you guys REALLY think Jean didn't at least suspect he was leaving #because tsc is probably going to prove me wrong but I think he would and he knew #anyway. i said it before and i will say it again #the kevriko toxic teen girl homoerotic friendship rizz is unparalleled #riko moriyama the man that you are. they could never make me think you're uninteresting I want to use your brain as a saltshaker #I don't think Riko (or Tetsuji for that matter since he prompted it) ever actually realised what Kevin's injury MEANT. like for real #it wasn't putting him in his place it was destroying the very idea of the perfect court. it was DONE #if Kevin hadn't recovered. if the plot of AFTG hadn't happened. how long would it have taken for Riko to realize #that HE killed the very thing he built his life around and was just dragging it behind him like a corpse (Jean) #kevin day #riko moriyama #jean moreau #the sunshine court #all for the game #the perfect court

[arthursfuckinghat]

"I was gonna say you're like a son to me.. but you're more than that."

"It ain't that complicated!"

How quickly that shoulder pat of comfort turned into a condescending one.

#he makes me feel so emo #this life was never meant for you but your fate was forced #the way dutch (and hosea) talks to arthur like he's stupid will never sit right with me #like they've been by his side over 20 years they KNOW he isn't stupid because if he was he would have been gone a long time ago #not only is arthur incredibly emotionally smart but he's a trained conman vault breaker gunslinger horse rider you name it #the fact that his own adoptive parents break him down like that hurts #it's a manipulation tactic on dutch's end - break your victims self esteem to make them chase your praise and approval #hosea I believe has just gone along with that kind of attitude but in a different way he just likes to jest lightheartedly #arthur doesn't see the difference though and it's understandable but he takes it to heart #the worst part is that hosea sees through his tough guy act and has called arthur out on it #his act is a defence mechanism to protect himself from being too vulnerable - in arthur's mind #and it isn't a sudden thing it's very likely something that has built over the years given the life he has lived #and hosea notices he knows this #but they still jab at arthur #oh it hurts #is he your son dutch? or is he your guard dog? your personal workhorse? #playing through the second time is opening my eyes more and more #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #mick squeaks #mick rants #mick gifs #arthur morgan #dutch van der linde #liveblogging #you guys gotta understand - arthur seeks and longs for dutch's approval he'll never say it but it's the key motive behind his loyalty #and arthur *rejects* dutch's comfort #he doesn't *want* dutch to pat him on the shoulder because he knows dutch is digging them an even deeper hole #he doesn't want that touch he craves #it's so insanely monumental for such a small scene because it shows us how arthur feels without telling us

[milquetoad]

of the many injustices put forth toward the show by fans i think the most overall damaging and telling of a complete lack of critical viewership is the idea that sam riegel builds his characters with nothing more than the bit in mind. like you are only telling on yourself if you think characters like scanlan shorthalt and veth brennato are one-dimensional and depthless

#if im being exTREMEly generous i can maybe understand this view of scanlan if you started c1 and then gave up 30 episodes later #he played the long game with him more than any other and a lot of his growth could be looked at as shallow if you DIDNT watch til the payoff #but any time this opinion is used as a blanket over all of his characters including tary and even FCG.. like be serious #i mean at this point im definitely biased bc he is my favorite player at the table. However. that wasnt always the case #and even when i was myself writing some character choices off i NEVER applied that to the characters themselves. how can you?? #seen sooo many ppl criticize him for making veth an alcoholic or scanlan irreverent & hedonistic as tho it’s only possible #to play these traits as shallow jokes or at best played out satire…. and then the same person will turn around #and praise how percy was built to be pompous & superior and jester immature & self-centered and caleb steeped in self-effacing hubris #why are these characters and their players given a near universal acceptance of nuance and acknowledgement of growth & healing #but SAMS CHARACTERS ARE NOT!!!! #this turned into such a rant but it bothers me SO much. everyone at the cr table is so goddamned talented #and takes the game as seriously as it deserves #so many more points i could argue but this is already so goddamn long no one is reading this far. i love sam and all of his characters <333 #critical role #sam riegel #scanlan shorthalt #veth brennato #my posts

[useless-catalanfacts]

Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.

#I'm from a seaside town that has become popular with tourists who come for the beach and the mediterranean climate #and the typical whitewashed walls of mediterranean coastal towns #in just a few years the average rent has gone up so much that now the average rent id #*is over 1000€ per month #one thousand! #that's a whole salary! #in the past 2 years they've been building a new neighbourhood. they've destroyed the vinyeards to make a new neighbourhood that will make #the town 1/3 bigger than it is. that's a lot. but all those houses are luxury houses with private swimming pools for rich foreigners (we #already have 2 private British schools high schools and college(in the british sense)/baccalaureate where their kids go and never have to #interact with locals. I teach some of those kids and they're very prejudiced against locals and very bigoted against the catalan language #(which ofc they never bother to learn) #there's a law in catalonia that says that for every certain amount of houses you build you are obligated to build a certain percentage of #affordable housing. so in this new neighborhood they built the bare minumum affordable housing which is still too expensive for us #and since there's so few of them everyone is competing to get them. the city hall and the bank have had to make an official competition for #them but you only classify if the renr would not be more than 1/3rd of your salary which is impossible. my cousins who are in their mid 30s #and have been working a good qualified job for 15 years (and their partners too) are considered too poor to be considered for the #affordable housing #everyone is having to move out to other cities away from their friends and family and current jobs. the only jobs left here soon will be #mostly directed at tourists #and the only way to continue living here if you're a normal person and not rich is if you're an only child who one day might inherit the #parents' house #but we look around at what's happening in nearby cities and we see the next step which will be airbnb taking the houses that are left #in many places (I've posted about thia before) there aren't any flats for rent or sell anymore that isn't an airbnb #I'm still lucky in my town when compared to other places like Barcelona which are already full of the airbnb plague #actualitat #airbnb #tourism #touristic massification #gentrification

[compacflt]

in regard to the icemav convo about american made cars: I think it would be funny if after mav gets his regular license, ice buys him a truck that they can use for transporting stuff to the hangar and when he gifts it to mav all the man can do is laugh bc stamped across the ass is MAVERICK. It’s a 2023 ford maverick (in area 51 bc I’m partial to that color)

and mav likes it, but he doesn’t love driving it bc it’s so big (and he just likes being a passenger princess too much), so ice drives it mostly which inspires a whole lot of jokes about ice liking having maverick’s name stamped on his ass. bradley gags from the other room every time.

if it matters to u, i agree with this hc 150% on rhetoric grounds. thank god for your mind.

however i would like to raise the issue that recent american pickup trucks have become non-useful, overexpensive, and suburban-coded in a way i think ice and mav would reject. the ford maverick was built with the intention of dropping kindergarteners off at school, not of actually doing hard labor. see below infographic for what I mean.

It’s a fucking travesty. Trucks are so ugly and useless now. the maverick is not immune to this. (maverick below)

what good is having a fucking truck if it can’t even hold two REGULAR ASS BIKES in the bed. & when the bed is empty the chassis is unbalanced in a way that leads to more accidents etc. (tbf that was true in the 70s/80s too but im feeling more hateful towards modern trucks rn). In short—the modern American pickup truck is no longer useful, it’s a way to virtue signal to other Americans that you *think * you know what hard labor is, even when you’re driving around in a glorified odyssey with a teeny tiny bed that can barely hold a couple bags of mulch for the back garden

ice & mav don’t even have any little kids anymore, i think they’d consider a backseat useless & a waste of space

SO i would like to offer you a Compromise, which is that ice & mav buy either (or both) a 1974 ford maverick AND/OR a 1990 ford maverick

for the Funny Name & coolness factor (& the “making Bradley vom cause of how cute his parents are” factor), and then soup up, like, a 1984 Chevy C10 for actual towing/hauling purposes.

#*slaps roof of 2022 ford maverick* you could hit so many grade schoolers with this bad boy #the 1974 ford maverick is. admittedly extremely sexy and i am only kind of a ford guy #god the 1990 maverick too. just kind of beast mode. i can see that. #love the ask though. i hope you don’t mind my tweaks. we’re on the same wavelength #my vitriol for the modern american truck stems from my hatred of my grandfather’s 2020 f250 #which he has never used to tow anything once and constantly complains about how hard it is to find parking in suburban california 😀 #yeah brother no shit! #the one cool thing about new trucks is you can use them as a generator for a few days though #we lose power for days on end where i live during fire season and that truck has been really helpful #but it’s ass ugly and not otherwise useful. #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #bradley rooster bradshaw #asks #mav being a passenger princess has to be canon #a man physiologically built to sit shotgun ❤️ #if u get a truck with an actual bed u can drive ur war hero husband out into the desert #& lay out a blanket in the back & make out with him under the stars #can’t do that in a 2023 maverick

[smimon]

okay i know you probably have enough drawing ideas for giant k but i just had this idea invade me.

you know how in snow white (not just the disney version) she pushes together the beds and sleeps on like 3 or more of them sideways? anyway giant k sleeping on 3 beds pushed together. and now i'm just picturing giant k as snow white and everyone else as the various dwarves

Ohoho big brain!!! 👀👀👀 Big brain. I love this idea so much and not just because Snow White is my favourite fairy tale hdjsbdbdfh

Thank you!!! Of course I have to draw it and not just once, let's make it into a comic! Let's gooo

Giant K series #16: once upon a time, in a land far, far away...

To be continued 😉

#thank you so much 🧡 i was rotating it in my head all this time #sorry it took so long 🙇 (it will take even longer because im planning a continuation) #i did some math and looks like this princess needs at least 4 beds #and there is never enough ideas for giant k 🥺 i feel so moved that people care enough to come up with new stuff for this little series 🙏 #thank you #ask #hazzybat #i based them specifically on the 7 Zwerge movie series because the dwarves are average sized men there do you get it #this ask made me rewatch the first movie and it is still so good hdjdhbshdh can i explain who is who? of course i can this is my blog #mikke is tschakko because to me there is some tschakko quality to him. even more so than jere for some reason #and he can carry his cameras in those bags #jesse is brummboss because he's the manager #lärvinen as cookie because if Käärijä has a friend who runs a cooking show then i am making a use of this knowledge #jaakko as sunny because he has this cheerful energy. allu as cloudy because he's always so cool. jukka as speedy because he's a polite fella #häärijä is bubi. the mascot the childish man the little menace #and securityman as ralphie because they are built similar i guess #yee #giant k series #käärijä #rpf #art by op #my art #fanart #also when i watched the movie as a child i always felt so sad about ralphie being constantly rejected #and this might have influenced the way i write giants up to this day. now look. this has come full circle #🥹

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

“entrapta joined the horde so she deserved—”

no. no one deserves to be dehumanized. no one deserves to be put on a leash and dragged around. no one deserves to be mistreated just because they happen to function differently from people around them.

i bet y'all wouldn't be saying the same thing if catra was the one treated this way.

#it's crazy how people excuse ableism in entrapta's case #someone who built weapons for the horde but was never directly involved in the war #then accuse us for being ableist when we criticize catra #someone who attempted mass genocide and killed at least one person in her lifetime #makes total sense #spop critical #spop salt #spop criticism #spop discourse #spop #she ra #anti spop #entrapta #anti perfuma #ableism tw

[heich0e]

MORE HANDWRITING PLZ

#liv got mail #also why do i feel like ur going to use these handwriting samples to frame me for a crime or something #pls don't do that i never even got a detention i'm not built to thrive in jail

[shoecrabs]

continuing with my Leo with prosthetics propaganda (by giving him an arm gun his little bro :))

zoomed in pics of my faves as well

#leo valdez #leo valdez fanart #pjo fanart #hoo fanart #festus the dragon #pjo harley #they are brothers your honour #fambly :)) #harley built all the first prosthetics almost singlehandedly while leo was recovering and relearning motor skills #he decided he's leo's idea man when improving the designs and came up with a fully functioning rocket powered wheelchair #(apologies for the likely incorrect wheelchair btw i didn't use refs for this) #my art #ms paint doodles #can anyone guess which character i have brainrotted over the most consistently over the years #fun fact: this entire au is based on the idea that regeneration isnt the same as healing #the cure is said to heal anything #but it never said anything about regeneration so i just uh #*takes limbs and gives him wholesome recovery arc*

[flovoid]

floyd’s little record store: ECO OF EGO

#floyd cyprus #sims 4 #ts4 #simblr #show us your sims #my sims #sims 4 screenshots #imma lose my mind. #i wanna credit the build to the original owner which was cc heavey) BUT I CANT FIND THEIR ACCOUNT. #I did LOTS of changes from the inside because i delete half of my ccs but still. where did you gone my beloved person who built this #honestly i wanna check their account again BUT THEY ARE GONE. MISSING. ig #I also had this build since last year??? #cant believe I never took a picture of it again- glad I still have a floyd to brag with it #I fuckin miss lis. #;floyd

[biggiedraws]

watching fruits basket for the first time is like "haha what a silly coincidence that the zodiac members can still hug each other! at least theyre all in it together" and "woah akito sure freaked out when hatori wanted to get married! wonder what his deal is" and then watching it for the second time makes you want to commit an act of violence because its been there the ENTIRE TIME its BUILT INTO THE CURSE thats WHY THEY CALL IT A CURSE IM GOING TO SCREAM AND THROW THINGS

#its always been an extension of the story that started it all...... #it has to stay like this forever. the 14 of us against the world. no intimacy with anyone else ever #you all have to love me forever no matter what. we have a good thing and we have to hold on tight so it never ever disappears #like. i could tell from early on that akito is toxic and controlling and that the family focuses too heavily on tradition #and that it was going to be a major part of the story. but its BUILT RIGHT INTO THE CURSE IM GOING TO EAT DRYWALL #fruits basket #fruba

[puppyeared]

Jitterbug

#whenever my meds kick in it feels like im gonna piss myself. not literally but its really really feels like it #and now whenever that happens my mind goes back to pancho (grandmas dog) at a xmas party years ago #bc he peed when we arrived bc he was so excited to see ppl and my cousin had to clean it up :o) #well for better or for worse i know that feeling now when im pumped on 20mg of adderall #im still getting used to this whole diagnosis thing cause ive gone untreated and undiagnosed for the longest time. so theres probably a lot #i still dont know and have to learn to get myself to be.. functional on my own? self managing???? #i even set up reminders on my phone for work periods meals and stuff. but the problem is actually getting myself to stick to that to a T #because the minute i slack off or something gets in the way it throws it all off until i can be bothered to get back on track. it sucks #at least ive built up other habits like writing notes and setting alarms ahead of time.. but i feel like i could do better #its always hard to change something if youve been doing it wrong for the longest time. especially behaviour and thinking patterns. sigh #in other news my glasses bailed on me so i have to get a new pair sometime. i just realized i never draw my sona with glasses but thats #mostly bc i forget. id love to get some browline glasses like my old pair but im picky and its hard to find one id like for the next 5 year #i also finally managed to collect all the fish in my animal crossing file!!! pulled out a char last week and boom now i have a poster :o) #THAT was a moment where i almost peed myself for real. id love to get all the bugs but i cant stay up late on the switch :o( #yapping #my art #myart #doodles #personal #diary

[lizord-lord]

Leo: oh come on, seriously? the everyone-but-Leo fort again??

Donnie: How many times do I have to tell you it is NOT the everyone-but-Leo fort, it is the autistic-people-only fort. The “no Leo’s allowed sign” is CLEARLY not there use your eyes.

Leo: then explain why Mikey is in there!

Donnie: W- RAPH! YOU CANT KEEP LETTING MIKEY IN THERE- WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT RESPECTING THE SANCTITY OF THE AUTISM FORT!!

Raph: He gave me the puppy eyes Don!! what was I supposed to do!!

#raph and donnie r the autistic duo whilst leo and mikey are the adhd one #i take no criticism #projecting onto donnie my evil autism #we r simply built different #with our ability to use words for what they actually mean #autistic world domination under donatello hamato when #raph is a terrible right hand man in this revolution unfortunately #cmon man get with the cause #they could be nine or they could be fourteen whose to say #you are never too old for pillow forts #and never too old for diabolical schemes #rottmnt #tmnt 2018 #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise leo #rise donnie #rise raph #rise mikey #disaster twins #autism

[odysseys-blood]

guys and their 20+ lb phones

#cliffnotes/.txt #whb #whb paimon #WHY IS IT SO HEAVYYYY #BUILT LIKE A FUCKING NOKIA #never let paimon lay down and scroll #i fear the impact if their phone drops #(<- ik canonically paimon uses he/him but also i like paimon playing gender chess so i use all pronouns for pai) #paimon is transgender in every direction to me like how link and zelda are to a lot of ppl ok

[puddeneen]

free advice for anyone thinking about adapting the last airbender in any medium at any point in the future: if your vision does not feature the sky as a whole character in and of itself, you have failed right out of the gate - not only as an adaptation, but in Getting The Point, and the scope and the scale of the tragedy (and the hope) that drives this story, and its main character

#serious business #writing #atla #netflix atla #aang #air nomads #this post is not about natla hate if you rb it please do not try to make it so #but if you give a shit abt Themes And Motifs you will give us the gaang Living in the sky. not just journeying through it #you will give us zuko in his anger in his grief always tethered to the ground and always looking Up #you will give us people in the earth kingdom/water tribes/fire nation staring past the walls they've had to build/had built around them #you will give us not just comets and eclipses but shooting stars and auroras and migrating creatures and weird clouds and storm breaks #you Will Give Us the empty space where an entire nation should be. and may never be again