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uncanny-tranny · 5 months
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Basically, my philosophy around disability fakers is: I would rather a thousand people fake a disability than have one disabled person suffer without care, aids, compassion, or any help.
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acearchivist359 · 3 months
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you know that feeling of wishing you could go back in time and read your favourite book again for the first time? watching pjo tv feels like being able to do that
like i’ll never be 11 years old reading percy jackson for the first time again but i think this is the closest feeling i’ll ever get to that like i feel like 11 year old me got to watch that and i’m so happy for her and that’s a feeling that i am so grateful for right now
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holyvirgilscriptures · 4 months
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When a person belonging to a minority group says or does something bad, you are, of course, free to criticize them. But it still does not give you the right to be a bigot. Noah Schnapp sharing stupid, careless, and uninformed geopolitical opinions deserves to be called out, but it does not mean that you suddenly get to tell him that he should have been gassed by Hitler or killed by anti-Jewish hate groups or terrorists — both things I've read on Twitter and on Tumblr. It does not justify you calling him homophobic or antisemitic slurs.
"But he deserves it!" you argue. First of all, why do you think so? What makes it okay for any person to be given the green signal to get called slurs, or have people advocate for them to get hatecrimed? And more importantly, you are only signaling to your Jewish friends that you are actually capable of antisemitism. Same thing goes with your queer friends, or any friends belonging to a minority group. When you justify one form of bigotry, even to just one person — you justify all forms of bigotry.
So if you find yourself doing any of these, ask yourself why it's so easy to slip into bigoted rhetoric instead of simply focusing your criticism on what a person did/said.
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bodega-catto · 23 days
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The fact that no one truly understands or truly likes Gojo’s personality and sense of humor except for Geto and that’s why he feels so alone. GEGE!!!!!
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fellthemarvelous · 3 months
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Holy forking shirtballs
I'm choosing violence today. I started this on Twitter, but I'm going to finish my thoughts here like I always do.
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But what really blows my mind the most is the way that people look at Aziraphale's "choice" at the end, as if he had one to fucking begin with.
I'm sorry, but Aziraphale knows how messed up Heaven is. He told The Metatron, more than once, that he did not want to go back to Heaven! We can debate what each of us means by "choice" all night because my "choice" and your "choice" might be two different concepts. He could have been strong armed by The Metatron or he could have looked at where things were headed and realized he had no choice but to intervene himself.
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You need to ask yourself what Aziraphale has a moral imperative to do.
What do we owe to each other?
Seriously, if you have not watched The Good Place, I recommend you go and watch it, because it absolutely shaped how I've viewed Good Omens 2 since its release.
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My levels of frustration with the bad faith mischaracterizations of Aziraphale are off the charts. If you are blaming him for everything, implying that he should have to grovel and that Crowley has a right to hurt him back, you have missed the point of Good Omens entirely.
I defend Aziraphale, but I don't think one of them is more right or wrong than the other. They're equals. They're a group of the two of them, acting and reacting to each other throughout history. They're Alpha Centauri.
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I cannot even begin to explain how fucking devastated I felt when Crowley said these words, knowing he was fighting a losing battle. What he said took a lot of courage because he's finally admitting something they've both been too scared to publicly define for 6,000 years. Crowley has had to spend so long with a rough outer shell because he fell and had to hide all of his softness.
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The look on his face was one of pure joy when he created that nebula, but I think the fact that he got to share that moment with Aziraphale is what has always stuck with him.
So yeah, seeing Crowley with a broken heart at the end of "Every Day" was sad for me as well.
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My brain still lives here!!
But Neil has said that Good Omens 3 is not quiet, gentle, or romantic. I imagine it's going to be more like the the first season in which they are not central to the plot. GO2 will help us make sense of how they ended up where they are when we see the bigger picture with all the other major players involved with GO3.
Aziraphale was still a soldier and accidentally got himself discorporated in his own magic circle in season one. He had a platoon waiting on him to start Armageddon, and he deserted them to go save the world with Crowley instead. Aziraphale is a deserter. I need everyone to remember that. He yeeted himself out of Heaven and sought out Crowley before even locating a body just to warn him about what was happening so they could try to save the world together.
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I can't help but think of 1941 and that magician who had been arrested for being a deserter.
Aziraphale disobeyed orders. That took courage but it branded him as a traitor against Heaven. They tried to destroy him for it the same way Hell tried to destroy Crowley for his part in stopping the war.
Aziraphale and Job are the only characters we have seen interacting with God directly. Aziraphale has spoken to God before and he is determined to do so again.
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Aziraphale knows Heaven is flawed, but he also knows it's supposed to be good. He wants it to be good. He does not like the way the system works and he wants to make a difference. (And I'm pretty sure he's also determined to talk to God without being intercepted by The Metatron.)
Since when is that a bad thing? I don't get it. And I've had this discussion before.
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If you need to change the system by burning the old one to the ground, it's still change, and we don't know what Aziraphale has planned.
It seems to me that people just want to see Aziraphale fail because it would punish him for returning to Heaven instead of running off with Crowley.
Some of y'all take everything Aziraphale says or does and twist those things into malicious anti-Crowley actions because you think the only reason Aziraphale exists is to make Crowley happy, and if he isn't thinking only about Crowley then he's doing something wrong.
Aziraphale does not exist as a plot device to further Crowley's character. They come as a pair. They've been learning from each other for 6,000 years. Crowley challenges Aziraphale just as much as Aziraphale challenges him.
You can be mad at Aziraphale all you want, but villainizing him is gross. Defending Crowley does not mean you have to tear down and mischaracterize Aziraphale anymore than defending Aziraphale means you have to tear down Crowley (but I don't see that happen on nearly the same level it happens to Aziraphale). Stop painting Aziraphale as an abusive partner, for fuck sake.
Aziraphale knows there are flaws in the system. He wants to make a difference, and since he has seen that Gabriel can change, then maybe the whole system can. He has to at least try, and if he can succeed then maybe he and Crowley can stop hiding and finally be together without having to look over their shoulders all the time.
Why is that a bad thing? He's just as protective of Crowley as Crowley is of him!
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But don't forget that Aziraphale's wing was covering Adam and Eve too. As much as a wants to protect Crowley, he has a moral imperative to keep humanity safe as well.
He sent Adam and Eve into the unknown with a flaming sword so they could protect themselves.
As much as he wants to be with Crowley, there are 8 billion people on Earth heading toward the Second Coming and Judgment Day. They'll work together to fight alongside humanity in the end. Aziraphale should not have to humiliate himself just to earn Crowley's forgiveness. That's a rancid notion.
The Resurrectionist was a whole ass moral dilemma for Aziraphale, which is why I brought up The Good Place earlier, but that's a post for a different time.
Aziraphale has his own motivations and they're just as important as Crowley's, and they don't have to be chalked up to Aziraphale being the bad guy. Weird, I know, but shades of grey.
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"To the world."
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allonsy-gabriel · 10 months
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screaming crying wailing lamenting she was the heart of the group she was young and ambitious and callous and cunning and ruthless and she was the heart that tied them all together she was their daughter their sister their lover their friend she was their heart and she was living on borrowed time and for a moment she was loved and in that love she allowed herself to give in to stop fighting and it cost her everything and still she was their heart. she was spy and a murderer and soaked in blood and violence. she was rotting before she even started to ripen and still her last words were those of love.
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solarpunkani · 10 months
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"Oh no, someone's attracted to the aesthetics of my -punk movement but doesn't know the praxis and history behind it like I do--"
OK. Tell them. Make it a teaching moment. Everyone who's in your movement learned the background from somewhere at some point, maybe this is that point for that person. Give them a jumping off point that they can dive into later.
"Oh but I shouldn't be responsible for teaching baby -punks about the history and the how-tos and--"
OK. Then don't tell them. You don't have to be responsible for teaching people with a budding interest in your group the ins and outs and how-tos. That's fair and valid! It can be a lot of work. Someone else will handle it
"But I'm annoyed that they would try to claim to be part of/be interested in my community without knowing all the details that I know after being in it for months/years/decades, they're dumb, they're posers, they're--"
OK. Then don't engage with them, if it's that bad. Maybe someone else will come around and tell them the history, maybe they'll pick it up on their own, maybe they'll just enjoy the fashion elements for awhile.
"But they shouldn't claim to be part of the -punk community if they don't know the--"
I feel like we have a few options here. People can either talk to them, share the history, share the values, share the praxis. Or they can just chase off anyone who even thinks about dipping a toe in their community, and then wonder why it's dying off later down the line.
I dunno, maybe I'm too naive and patient or whatever. But if people are entering your -punk spaces without knowing The Rundown of what you feel they need to know, maybe being nice about it and informing people instead of immediately assuming stupidity and malicious intent could help you make a new friend. Even the loudest voices in a space had to learn from somewhere, and not everyone has the luxury of being in the space as the History was Happening--whether it's an age thing or a not being aware of the space thing. Or maybe I just don't see what the big deal is behind people hating people who like the aesthetic of something and don't know the behind the scenes history about it yet.
Because I believe in the word 'yet.' No one comes into this world knowing everything about everything, and we're all constantly learning new things. I'm not gonna degrade someone and call them a poser for not knowing what I know. Because if it were me, interested in a scene but getting chased out and called a poser? I wouldn't hit the books and study up, I'd go 'that fuckin sucks, those people sucked' and then avoid anyone and anything having to do with it.
So chase people off and call them posers if you want. But if your community starts dwindling, don't be fucking shocked.
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manikas-whims · 1 year
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See I have no issues with people shipping whatever the fuck they want but this has gone too far.
AND THIS IS ONE OF THE WRITERS OF “SHADOW AND BONE”
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“sometimes you need some skin on skin”
NO.
Not only is this caption extremely disrespectful and erasing Inej's trauma but by extension also being ableist and making fun of Kaz's touch aversion. Not to mention, ignoring Inej's struggles with touch.
And ofcourse, entirely erasing the fact that Tolya is canonically aroace.
At this point, I feel like only Amita Suman cares or even addresses Inej's trauma.
The fact that nothing about Inej's trauma was ever addressed in this entire season, they made Tante Heleen's death seem like it meant nothing to Inej. And now, even making such disgusting jokes..🙂
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homophyte · 27 days
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people keep bringing up eugenics in my evolutionary bio class
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no i am not over how one of the first things kris does of their own accord without our input is to lay down their life for this weird ipad kid they met five hours ago no i am not over "hell yeah i am here to humiliate you fucker" no i am not over "did you miss me? because i missed you!" no i am not over how much not only susie but also kris (and ralsei) genuinely care about their new adopted little cousin guy and the fact that he went from having no friends at all to 3 ride or die bffs who were willing to do what every adult in his life failed to do which is stand up for him i-
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the-force-awakens · 1 month
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Still not used to this life or death situation stuff. That's good, 'cause I'm not either. You never get used to it.
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anotherpapercut · 8 months
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genuinely so many of you want to be leftist and "punk" and countercultural soooooo bad but you refuse to become comfortable with the concept of people taking drugs for fun because they like it and not because they were somehow tricked or forced into it without knowing what they were getting themselves into
you'll be like "addiction is a disease!!" but think you're better than those degenerate stoners because you only drink energy drinks and white claws and would never touch "illegal drugs"
many if not most drugs CAN be consumed completely safely with almost 0 risk to the user and even if that werent true and all drugs were extremely dangerous you still wouldn't be better than those of us who love doing drugs recreationally
lighten up and grow up. get offline, talk to real adults, and stop being shocked to discover that they enjoy doing stuff that adults do like have sex and do drugs and even listen to rock and roll
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nelkcats · 10 months
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Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!
See, ghosts got bored, a lot, Danny did too. When Amity became a neutral and cooperative zone they decided to go exploring. Which was mostly fine, since most of them didn't really mean any harm. And the GIW had been dismantled, Danny preferred to let people speculate why rather than answer.
The problem arose when the ghosts of the Realms encountered other types of ghosts. Apparently there were spirits that did not reach the Realms and became weak or simply vengeful (spiteful?)
The ghosts Danny knew were very upset because apparently "weak" ghosts were extremely rude. So he started talking to them (when they didn't want to talk, or refused, the thermos was a good solution)
Very quickly people started calling him "Ghostbuster", he found it ironic since he wasn't actually repelling ghosts, he was attracting them and sometimes collecting them. A ghost named Deadman yelled at him for not "respecting the rights of the dead", to which the halfa raised an eyebrow. The ghost vanished before he could explain that all ghosts were in the Realms or Amity (where people didn't really mind sharing a house with a spirit).
He shrugged and continued visiting all the ghosts that his friends pointed out to him. He argued with a certain "Zatanna Zatara" and "John Constantine" for disturbing the rest of the dead. Danny rolled his eyes as he chose to ignore them.
It wasn't long before Justice League Dark branded him a "ghost threat" and people in general called him out asking for help with their haunted houses (Danny hadn't really considered turning his travels into a job but at least he was getting paid). The halfa wondered how wizards would react if they knew he was ghost hybrid and his "Ghostbuster Team" was full of ghosts.
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aajfa · 5 months
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would it kill you people to play miles edgeworth ace attorney: investigations. and gyakuten kenji 2 unofficially known as miles edgeworth ace attorney investigations 2: prosecutor's path. hit duology for the nintendo ds. would it kill you people.
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cardassiangoodreads · 3 months
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One of the things about a lot of antisemitism in the West and especially coming from people who are culturally-Christian but non-religious, is how many people see Jews as tied into their issues with conservative and hegemonic Christianity. Christian teaching frames Judaism as a sort of "prelude" to Christianity, as an incomplete form of it, but Jews are responsible for the bedrock of what they believe (they claim) because the Jewish scriptures are the basis of the Old Testament and Jewish prophecy is appropriated in Christianity to foretell the coming of Jesus, etc. etc. And this is one of the many things that a lot of people who stopped being Christian, but never fully questioned how their upbringings framed those beliefs they rejected, have a lot of brainworms over that plays out in the form of a particular kind of antisemitism. They see Jews and Judaism as the origin point for everything they can't stand about Christianity, as the villain-behind-the-villain so to speak. So of course it's easy for them to buy into this idea that Jewish people and culture are just naturally oppressive -- they were where all the oppressive things about Christian culture started, after all! It's easy to buy into the idea of Jews secretly controlling things or having a lot of hidden power. It's the reason people love the overly simplistic use of "colonialism"* to try to suggest the state of Israel is the exact same as the British or American Empires, because of this idea of Jews as not just white and Western, but maybe the whitest, the most Western, because they are behind everything "bad" about that. And in that framework, being antisemitic is just an extra special level of being progressive, of rejecting what your fundamentalist Christian parents raised you with and fundamentalist Christian culture more generally, especially in the United States where Zionism is such a big force on the evangelical right (and much more of the reason that American media is so resolutely pro-Israel than anything coming from Jews, in fact). It's seen, perversely, as sticking it to the man.
(*Sidenote/clarification: This is not to suggest there's nothing colonial about Israel; the issue is that a lot of the historical and present goals of Western empires in their dealings with Israel get conflated with the Jewish project of creating a Jewish state, when people use this over-broadly, in a way that does actually seem to be suggesting that Jewish people fleeing a recent genocide were somehow "colonizers" by going to their historical homeland. You can see the problem with that conflation, right?)
Anyway, consider this a PSA that actually, the way your fundie parents and broader Christian culture taught you about Judaism is completely wrong. Jewish teaching and practice, historical and present, have very little to do with the way that Christian culture frames them, including having a concept of the Messiah that Jesus doesn't fit at all, encouraging debate and discussion and wrestling with the text (which a lot of progressive Christians now do and there's a long tradition of scholars doing, but not fundamentalist Christians, and historically has been one of the major differences between the two religions), and various other things that I think would shock a lot of people who get 100% of their ideas of what Judaism is from (especially fundamentalist) Christianity. Christianity has appropriated Judaism to seem like a precursor to its own narrative, but that hasn't been with Jewish permission, and it's reshaped the actuality of those teachings in order to make them seem more in line with Christian dogma than they actually are. Judaism is a living religion of an ethnic group that has been an oppressed minority everywhere on Earth they've gone, most especially in Christian cultures. Their pre-1948 status as a stateless minority (and which is still the case with many Jews in diaspora) is much closer to a group like the Kurds or the Sinti/Roma than colonial empires.
All of this is saying nothing about what are the specific solutions that should come about with I-P. But I do think maybe that unpacking the particular ways that culturally-Christian ideas about Judaism encourage you to see Jews as being much more powerful and sinister and oppressive than they actually are, encourage you to scapegoat them for the problems of Christianity that they actually have nothing to do with, will help more people understand why a lot of progressive Jews on here who absolutely do oppose the Netanyahu government and the oppression of Palestinians and support a Palestinian state, are so unnerved and creeped-out and worried by the way that a lot of culturally-Christian "leftists" talk about Israel and Zionism. And in particular why, regardless of how much you agree with it or not, the way some on here have started talking about Zionism as the same as Nazism (I literally saw a DNI the other day that put "Zionists" and "Nazis" next to each other) is more than a little fucked up. Something like that does look a little different when you recognize that the group behind it is one that has not had hegemonic power anywhere else in the world before that, that has been pushed out and mass-killed everywhere else, right? When you center how Jewish people see it, rather than how Jews have been used as framing devices in Christian religious narratives? And none of that is to, again, excuse pushing out the people who were already there when establishing that homeland, or how centering national identity on an ethnic or religious identity in general tends to be oppressive no matter who does it (and has been, in practice oppressive in Israel). But it hopefully helps clarify why a lot of the frameworks that non-Jews use to discuss I-P are rooted more in culturally-Christian misconceptions about Jewish people and Judaism than in the reality of Jewish life and history.
And like, I was raised Christian, and more progressive than most but even progressive Christians treat the Book of Isaiah as prophesying the birth of Jesus. I got this shit, too. But I also always had Jewish friends and talked to them about it, and it's really clear that's what's missing for a lot of you in your understanding of Jewish culture and religion and Jewish politics, including Zionism. You're seeing this purely through a raised-Christian context that is keeping you from understanding the historical and present reality of what it is to be Jewish in diaspora on just a fundamental level.
The point is that Jews are not fictional characters from the Bible who exist to stand in for all your issues with Christianity. They're real living people who are oppressed by that same Christian hegemony, whom hate crimes against are on the rise everywhere. Be careful you aren't contributing to those ideas with how you talk about them.
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miinsang · 1 year
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ateez friendships | woosan for @sanchelinz
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