Apple Juice, Bitch

skooter | she/her | twenty-one | lesbian

[swirlseypop]

gifs from my unreleased film

[snailszontheside]

Kyle being a jealous little bastard when it comes to Stan, the compilation

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[kyuka-bse]

[leonaadraws]

lets play “guess that girl from south park” (don’t look it up in tags okay jeez)

[bluebirdlester]

just as a reminder to all, the real Quileute tribe was not consulted whatsoever on the twilight series and had a lot of their culture just fully lied about & made up, which is not a remotely harmless act. you should donate to fund their cultural preservation and moving of vital centers out of tsunami zones! i try to throw in a few bucks any time i watch any twilight related media.

[bluebirdlester]

further reading: i am by no means an expert on this topic but lets all learn something real together today!

quileute tribe website with sections on culture and history

quileute wikipedia

truth vs twilight (archived site made in response to the series)

as of 2018 there are only 808 members of the tribe. twilight is the single biggest spotlight theyve gotten and all it did was "lol these native people are like, a kind of magic animal. not even really human. lets use their name and never give them a single cent of this multimillion dollar franchise"

[julieandthemothman1]

hey bro lets move to suburbs its gonna be so fun

[crtscreen]

throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, our generation was inundated with aave. it eclipsed lolcat as the "funny way to talk." ain't nobody got time fo dat turns into dat boi o shit waddup. this is blatantly not an "aracial" or "gen z" way to talk. it IS black english. not to mention the amount of black reaction images!!

WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's

and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.

we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.

all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?

it feels like the effort to categorize slang as AAVE and not 'gen z' or 'gen alpha' slang has really petered out. it feels like we stopped talking about digital blackface in an era where the administration is posting ai-generated videos of black women who speak and act like exaggerated stereotypes and it frustrates me because we all have a responsibility to understand our generation's role in normalizing this type of racist shit for kids today. this needs to be addressed!

[julieandthemothman1]

[apah-720]

First day at The Skeld, where nothing can go wrong :)

[julieandthemothman1]

girlies

[julieandthemothman1]

charlie rules the world

[nematophila-deactivated20160907]

I wanna know about how unpopular macdennis was. The evolution. I can see Sunny being a small fandom, but at the same time, it seems so strange to think people would not have just always default shipped them. I am so here for a lesson or story.

So I think the thing to understand most aboutMacDennis’s unpopularity is that we have to trace it back to the beginning andwho the first wave of Sunny writers and tumblr fans were. These people camealong in 2013 and they were Charlie fans because they were by and large fans ofPacific Rim that migrated when Pacific Rim fandom started to wane. They weremost interested in reading stories about and talking about Charlie. 

Enter CharlieMac. 

Back then, CharlieMac seemed like the idealchoice for this first wave of fans. Charlie and Mac were both very cute andthey were old friends. Mac had an advantage of being canonically gay which wasappealing to fans of the show who were lgb. 

This post is from November of 2013 (shortlybefore I was on the scene - you can ask my girlfriend @sketchlynx​ moreabout what it was like back then) and represents some level of shipdistribution from back then.

You can see here that a small faction ofMacDennis shippers existed, but CharlieMac people definitely had the throne.There was a MacDennis tag but it was slow, and there was a little bit of lowlevel antagonism in CharlieMac ships that placed Mac in a position whereCharlie rescued him from Dennis.

There was a very low opinion of anddisinterest in Dennis in 2013. In the abstract, this makes sense. He’s not cutelike Charlie and Mac are and his whole existence is basically a triggerwarning. When people started to examine him more closely as a character, therewas a trend for a while to tag posts about him as ‘dennis reynolds cw’

The common progressionof a Sunny fan’s love for the show back in 2014 can be found here. As you can see, the first wave ofSunny (and Dennis) lovers had an emotional process that does not really existanymore.

So who were MacDennis fans in the old days?Well, much like CharlieMac fans, they were primarily people who migrated to thefandom from Pacific Rim. Instead of looking for a Charlie ship, they sawMacDennis and, like in the post above, said ‘hey that looks like canon’and began shipping it in small numbers. Gradually, Charlie began to beoverexplored as a character and so people turned to the other characters forexamination. Lo and behold, a small handful of people (and I’m so sorry aboutcitations but people change their name all the damn time) looked at DennisReynolds and said ‘holy shit. You’re actually fascinating.’ and thusDennis fans were born. 

You can see some of the pieces falling intoplace. Fanfiction requires examination of the characters, and nobody had reallywanted to touch Dennis in depth. Early MacDennis fics were mainly pornographyand Mac-centric pieces. A trend begins where people realize there is potentialin the fact that Mac and Dennis live together. Around this time, ‘mastermanipulator Dennis Reynolds’ is born. This version of Dennis is invested ingetting Mac out of the closet in a way that Charlie never was because of hisneed for control. This trope is very appealing because ‘coming out of thecloset’ and ‘internalized homophobia based on religion’ are very populartropes in any fandom.

Here, I think, is where it gets veryinteresting.

So by late 2014, there is a much largersection of fandom (though obviously still small) that ships MacDennis. Thesepeople are primarily purveyors of meta and graphics although at this point intime around 47 fanfictions have been written. They are, still, mainlypornography and Mac-centric stories.

What happened to make it grow from 47 fics toa 282 fic juggernaut? By this point we were the most popular ship in thefandom, but 47 fics is still small and doesn’t quite qualify for the label of ajuggernaut. What changed?

The answer, myfriends, is mentally ill Dennis Reynolds. Before late 2014, this conceptwas not touched in fic. After people started writing it, it tinged pretty muchevery subsequent MacDennis fic.

Now, mentally illDennis Reynolds is a given in the fandom, but it wasn’t always. There is a longand storied pre-season 10 history of pushing back against the idea. In 2014,some people had mentally ill headcanons for the gang etc. but this was regardedas inappropriate and ‘problematic’ by many on the edges of and even within thefandom. However, people who were invested in them pushed forward, and shortlybefore season 10 aired, there were a handful of fics that showcased mentallyill Dennis Reynolds (and, sometimes, other members of the gang being mentallyill as well).

I will admit to beingone of the earliest content creators for mentally ill Dennis. I was very investedin it, and I still am.

Season ten was reallya landmark. It led to a few very interesting things. Because season 10 was theyear of Dennis’s mental breakdown and it also was the year of not muchMacDennis content coming from the direction of the show. People during the onseason (and in a short while during the hiatus) found a lot to explore in avery short period of time with this new information. Around sixty fics werewritten in quick succession in 2015 and then – the fandom died. All at once foraround eight months the MacDennis fandom dried up. I think a lot of peoplethought they were out of things to say.

At this point in time,MacDennis was the most popular ship in the fandom but still, I think, that wasn’tsaying much in comparison to how it is now. Because it’s true that we experiencedtremendous growth, but it wasn’t assumed that if you were in the fandom youprobably shipped MacDennis and wanted to talk about it and read it. Feeding theMacDennis tag took work and although it became more self-perpetuating in late2014, we see that this only lasted for about six months and the content outputis still not comparable to how it is now. 2014 and 2015 were the transitionfrom nothing to significance but 2016 is the year of significance tojuggernaut. We’re six months into 2016 and almost as many fanfictions have beenwritten this year as 2014 and 2015 combined.

So what happened here?I think, to people who have been around for some amount of time, this answer isclearer. Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs happened!

Now Mac and DennisMove to the Suburbs did some very important things in the way people approachedthe fandom. I will say this as analysis of current trends because in a yearthere may be additional ripple effects that we don’t know about yet. But thereare some very clear things (to me) that happened with Mac and Dennis Move tothe Suburbs. From the moment the title was released, people started to haveMacDennis on the brain again and so from January forward, people startedreassessing their relationship, speculating about what might happen in thefuture, and looking at the pairing with fresh eyes.

A large influx of newcontent creators filled in the gaps where the old ones used to be – and theywere excited. At this point in time, the pairing had over a hundred fanfictionson ao3, and people had things to read and an actual history to build theirstories on. Spaces for mentally ill and lgbt headcanons had been carved outover the past two years and it was now acceptable for people to discuss themfreely. It was assumed that you were interested in both mentally ill Dennis andgay Mac – and why wouldn’t you be? They had a precedent now in canon and infanfiction. Their relationship was compared to a marriage for the third time.Fanfiction and fanwork production skyrocketed, and so MacDennis became thefandom juggernaut that it is today.

[nheyguys-deactivated20181204]

“hey um, kyle, it’s stan, i think i might’ve like. left my flash drive in your computer? call me back if you get —”

“hey stan”

“oh hey kyle. what’s up”

“not much. yes i have your flash drive.”

“oh, cool! cool. great. um. did you see —”

“i saw the self insert john elway fic where you both turn into werewolves yes”

[nheyguys-deactivated20181204]

[gallonsofliquifiedhorsemeat]

kyle finally smiles :] and it only took 15 posts

my mains my GOATs my losers, i love playing them whenever i can . and this might be a controversial take but i love kite's design, it's rlly cute!

and i had to give kyle the "snoopy cap", i think im legally obligated to give him weird hats with weirder ears at this point

[victusinveritas]

There's worse to come, folks. Strap in and stay strapped.

[hubblegleeflower]

All news posts are stronger with receipts:

8 convicted in Texas immigration center shooting and protest are sentenced to decades in prison

Eight people accused by the Justice Department of having ties to antifa have been sentenced to decades in federal prison over a shooting out

[auxryn]

You can support imprisoned people by sending them letters of support and money to use for the commisary and phone calls. Being in prison is expensive. Don't write anything that would get them in trouble. Prisoners' mail is read by guards.

[cannabiscomrade]

I wasn’t going to derail the disability pride month post for people with peanut allergies but in relation to that topic

I have never seen another allergy that has been so viscerally hated and mocked by people working in education like nut allergies. I’ve seen fellow teachers cringe that their classroom was the “nut free” classroom that year. Support staff that are trained and willfully don’t follow cross contamination protocol in the lunchroom because it’s too “tedious” or “time-consuming”. Full preschools + childcare centers that refuse to accommodate nut allergies. Schools where the only free lunch is a PB&J. Before/after school programs and summer programs whose food curriculum has nuts and doesn’t provide an alternative activity.

Allergy discrimination is so so insidious and prevalent. It’s happening behind their back and it is everything from the exposure joke to possibly causing someone to go into anaphylaxis from willful ignorance.

Also other parents in the classroom are guilty too. The “not my child not my problem” brain rot means that those lunchboxes are like bombs for airborne exposure allergies

[cannabiscomrade]

A woman with a severe peanut allergy says airline staff laughed at her and ignored her requests when she tried to fly to Costa Rica

A 22-year-old woman said Lufthansa staffers were not sympathetic to her condition when she tried to explain her life-threatening peanut alle

I was not downplaying this. The stigma is real, and people are 100% willing to let people with allergies die.

This woman was laughed at for asking for allergy accommodations at multiple points in her trip, and was denied to the point that she was practically told she’d be refused care in the event of anaphylaxis.

[bethany-sensei]

I work in healthcare. I cannot get my coworkers to consistently change their gloves after handling a PBJ. They literally do not think of it, and I don’t understand why. I also don’t know how to make it stick in their brains that this is a thing they need to do.

[trixree]

I grew up in the early 2000s with severe allergies to not just peanuts, but ALL nuts as well as beef, pork, shelfish, seeds, kiwi, and some food dyes. The resistance that my family faced from educators in the early 2000s is frankly bananas, not to mention the shit other parents and kids got up to.

When my mom tried to enroll me in preschool, the school principal refused any basic accommodations like asking everyone to wash their hands after lunch before re-entering the classroom, not bringing straight up peanuts to snack time, etc. There was no such thing as a nut free classroom at the time. The principal told my mom and me (I was 4 at the time and definitely in the room when this happened) “if she’s so sick, she belongs in a bubble, not at school.” THE FUCKING PRINCIPAL! My mom had to threaten legal action under the ADA to get them to comply.

Look, I was on a 504 accommodation plan under the ADA for the entirety of my formative education (elementary thru high school). That’s all 12 years!!! And yet I have had teachers hand me items I’m allergic to as a “reward”. I have had other kids intentionally try to send me into anaphylaxis. One girl in 3rd grade asked me why I “wasn’t dead yet” when she had put on a lotion with almonds in it and then held my hand. I’ve had other parents write letters to the school saying what a terrible inconvenience it was to them to not be able to send their kiddo to school with PB&J, demanding I be Removed to a special education only class if my “needs” were such a “burden” to others. During elementary school “parties” held in the classroom on holidays and for student birthdays, I was always sent to sit out in the hallway or go to the library, because even though parents were only supposed to bring safe foods into the room (they had a list of all my allergies) they never once got it right. Administrators fought me tooth and nail for the right to carry my epi pen and other meds on my person at all times. Why they thought I would start dealing benadryl on the playground, I do not know. At lunch, I was always sat at a specific segregated table labeled the “Nut Free Table” alone because who the fuck is going to sit there with the literally segregated outcast? But ONCE notably I was sat on one side of a line of blue masking tape down the table top with the rest of my class on the other. One side was the NUTS side!!! As if allergens would respect that tape barrier. (Spoiler alert: they do NOT!)

Literally from preschool to my senior year of high school, I was “the peanut kid”. Other parents gave my mom books about how to “cure your child’s food allergies from HOME” by micro dosing with things they are allergic to (please never ever ever even attempt anything like a food challenge with a known allergen outside of the care and supervision of a medical professional, holy shit that’s so dangerous). My mom joined the PTA in my last year of high school so that I could maybe participate in all the senior-focused events like pool parties and breakfast at school on the first Friday of the month. The number of times another parent either (a) decided it wasn’t worth it to care or (b) intentionally brought peanut products to an event to spite either me or my mom??? I literally could not count. It happened constantly.

College was better, but I still occasionally had people BALK when I asked them to please not eat a Nature Valley bar with whole nuts in it right the fuck next to me in lecture, thanks. Work parties and catered lunches were always impossible. A few conferences I went to as an undergrad were SUPPOSED to be nut-free, but always fucked up the catering. At one, they set up snack tables by every exit of the conference auditorium so that when people left after the talk, they all congregated around the exits and opened macadamia nut cookies and granola bars. When I had subsequently had a massive allergic reaction and needed help getting home (I’d walked) after taking like 200mg of benadryl, the staff offered me a stack of napkins and a lukewarm apology.

Food allergy is a disability which touches literally every aspect of a person’s life. Everytime I share with someone new about what it was like growing up with my allergies, they have never heard anything like it in their lives. They’re always like “holy shit, seriously??? People did that??? Kids tried to kill you??? Parents wanted you kicked out of the classroom????” Yeah, man. Yeah. My own brother (who doesn’t have any allergies at all) doesn’t understand why I don’t “eat more adventurously” and why I won’t travel internationally. So, saying it REALLY LOUDLY for people in the back:

FOOD ALLERGY IS A DISABILITY FOR WHICH EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ACCESS ACCOMMODATIONS AND HAVE THEM TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

[radar-and-his-one-am-thoughts]

So this story is less about me and more about an acquaintance of mine. About a year ago some classmates and I were privileged enough to go visit Germany for 3 weeks as a school trip. My acquaintance, who for the sake of her privacy we will call Amy, had a deadly allergy to sunflower seeds and certain other grains. I do not know for certain if the flight attendants were made aware of this fact.

When on the flight Amy was fed bread that contained multiple things she was allergic to. The packaging was completely unlabled and she was never offered an allergy warning before or during the 13 hour flight. She had an allergic reaction and had a very hard time breathing and had to take the ONE epipen she had access to for this whole trip that day. She would not be able to get a new one. The flight attendants did not give a singular fuck about what happened to her and the position she was put in because of their carelessness.

Fast forward to the end of the trip. Luckily Amy had no further incidents during the trip. We get on the plane for the flight home and Amy asks about the food for the flight and if she can have the ingredients list. She also makes it clear to the flight attendants that this is really important because she has already had an incident and no longer has her epipen.

Do you want to know what the flight attendants did?

They kicked her off the plane. They kicked a seventeen year old off a plane and left her behind in an unfamiliar city because they would rather not deal with her disability. She delayed the flight for several minutes begging and crying for them to not leave her there. She told them she had no way of accessing a new epipen here, but they said she couldn’t fly without it. Me and my friend who were sitting next to her held her and argued with the flight attendant to keep her on the plane. She sobbed as she said she could just not eat anything, or that she could eat what she brought aboard. They still kicked her off. Bless the chaperone that chose to stay behind with her so she wouldn’t be alone.

You want to know the most fucked up part after that? The flight attendant who kicked her off was amused about the whole thing like it was some funny joke. Another one complained that “In all his years of working this job he had never been so disrespected.”

Amy and the chaperone ended up sleeping at that airport over night before they could get on another flight. I don’t remember if she was able to get another epipen for the flight home but I think she was.

Case in point, allergies are a serious disability that NEED to be treated with more respect and severity. Regardless of what they are. Someone’s life could be at stake. When someone has a disability they need to be accommodated. Don’t give them a hard time or make jokes at their expense. So what if you have to give up a thing or two to make sure they don’t die. You’ll survive not eating that specific thing for a bit. And as someone who grew up with someone with a serious allergy, I promise you it is not that hard to give something up for the safety of others.