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[bellaswansong]

you say "dont go in the notes" and i hear "free blocklist to keep my tumblr experience bearable"

[crimeronan]

sometimes i have strong opinions but they're also so inane that halfway through writing a post i'll be like "yeah, this is Absolutely not worth the energy it's taking" and delete everything. but then the opinion is still in my head. and i still want to share it. so within five minutes i go "you know, i bet i can phrase it more succinctly this time" and anyway. you all see where this is going. sometimes i do this four times in a row before i give up on the specific inane opinion and instead write a vague post about the concept of opinions as if that'll satisfy the urge to post the entirety of my inner monologue online. may or may not be relevant to what you're reading right now. and now all our lives have been enriched. you're welcome

[nekotachiriba]

death note (2015) is kind of... good...

[llawlieta]

I think it's pretty kind the way that Sayu is the main character of Death Note but she discreetly stepped aside to let Light have his protagonism too. few talk about this. it speaks to her gentle character

[beyond-birthday]

I love how the Yagami siblings both make the “:3” face

[kiyomitakada]

[ID: Death Note manga panels, one of Light saying smugly, "Narrowed it down? I've been acting from the start to lead them to that conclusion, Ryuk." and one of Sayu smiling as she says, "You know… Light's starting to act like a real teenager." They have the same smile.]

[mossycakes]

we cant talk here. pictochat. room c.

[markadoo]

I don't believe in justice. That is, I don't think it's a moral good when evildoers suffer. And when people argue that in some particular instance we can reduce total suffering by inflicting suffering on evildoers, my instinct is to doubt them, because they probably wanted to inflict suffering on the evildoers in the first place.

[markadoo]

reading comprehension questions:

1. do you think the author is cute?

2. the author chooses not to refer to their opponents as “vicious sadists thinly disguising their love of violence”. what does this say about them as bf material in comparison to their opponent?

[tikysplickytok]

(via antekbras101)

[winter667ws]

[denizenhardwick]

sometimes i see some cool art of Blorbo but before i reblog it i peek in the notes and discover. it is not, in fact, art of Blorbo. it is art of Squub. i have no idea who Squub is.

[antifainternational]

Help refugees by salvaging tents and camping equipment from music festivals this summer! [NL/BE]/[UK]

[the-cheshire-cat-grin]

Lil nas x coming back during pride month to tell us hes been taking care of his physical and mental health, finishing rehab and getting treatment for bipolar disorder, and telling us that he is excited to not only make new music but also just to live his life???? And during mens mental health awareness month????? Oh i missed him bad

[glorious-spoon]

While I sort of get the impulse, it does always get my back up when people talk about something like Animorphs with this attitude of 'omgggg remember these books, how on EARTH were we allowed to read these books, they're so grim and dark and violent and tragic, no adults could possibly have known what they actually contained or they'd have been banned.'

And like. Allowing for the fact that there absolutely are adults who think every distressing topic ever should be banned from children's literature - they're children's books. You were allowed to read them when you were a kid because they were written for kids. Bridge to Terabithia is also a children's book. So is Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and The Giver and loads of other books that deal with heavy, difficult topics. It is appropriate and good for children to have books about these things that are tailored to their reading levels and it genuinely really bugs me when people act like they're somehow not really for kids because bad things happen in them or they end tragically.

[comradekatara]

there is definitely room to critique the latent misogyny in atla, which is true of basically all art and media (we live in a society), but saying that the world of avatar is largely patriarchal and the position of women in society reflects that system is not a legitimate critique. feminist media is not simply when the story-world is reimagined to empower women even if such a schema doesn’t make sense alongside the other structures maintained in conjunction with patriarchy. liberal feminist ‘girl power’ narratives that refuse to implicate patriarchy as the fundamental contradiction that feminism seeks to resolve cannot be actively feminist media because it elides the central tenet of feminism as an ideological project. feminist media must necessarily depict patriarchy to critique it.

does this mean i think that atla is a particularly feminist show? no, not really, but it undeniably has its moments. as far as depicting the ills of sexism through didactic moral lessons to be processed by children, sokka’s arc in “the kyoshi warriors” & katara’s in “the waterbending master” are rather well done, albeit simplistic by virtue of their intended demographic. the subtler ways patriarchy manifests throughout the world of avatar are, i would argue, more interesting—which isn’t to say that katara fighting pakku doesn’t make me extremely emotional, because it always has, and always will. but the narrative deliberately recognizing and portraying the ways in which women are only granted conditional power under patriarchy (such as in azula’s case) or stripped of autonomy entirely (yue’s positionality merely being the most blatant example) is not a design flaw in a show that otherwise purports to be empowering for girls; it is presenting a world, much like ours, in which the girls who inhabit it must fight for their liberation and the eradication of patriarchy. katara fighting pakku is such an inspiring moment because she is also inspiring every young girl in the audience to fight for their agency and refuse to be cowed by men in unjust positions of authority.

the notion that somehow portraying sexism is itself sexist is patently ridiculous. by that metric, atla is also pro-genocide because the protagonist is a genocide victim whose entire arc is about resisting the eradication of his culture and its values. yes, atla depicts the realities of existing in a patriarchal society, and that does mean that the positions of authority in such a world are occupied by men who enact and benefit from misogyny. atla is also narrated by katara, a complex, three dimensional teenage girl who is the hero of her own story and resists injustice at every turn, including the sexism she faces as a byproduct of living in a highly unjust and violent world. she is the linchpin of the narrative, of equal importance (at the very least!) to aang. dismissing her as “the token girl of the group” is simply incorrect; this is never her position in a narrative wherein she is quite literally its primary storyteller. depicting a consistently patriarchal world that the heroes must fight to overcome does not equate to endorsing that worldview—quite the opposite.

[blinkees]

updated the character limit on the blinkie maker! previously 15 characters, you can now attempt to cram a whopping 25 characters on your blinkies!! certain fonts and font sizes WILL cut off. use your best judgement ok?

[fasciation-fascination]

perfect

[dreadwedge]

LOL so the other day I was scampering about squeaking and looking for cheese and such when I saw the farmer out in the field and, get this, he was trying to pull a turnip out of the ground, but the turnip was like really big, right, so he couldn’t do it 😅 like he was really struggling. Weak fuckinh farmer. So he calls over his wife and she holds onto his waist and starts pulling too but the turnip is still stuck. So she calls over their kid and she grabs onto her grandma and now all three of them are huffing and puffing but the damn turnip won’t budge. This is one crazy ass root vegetable. So they call over the dog and I’m thinking, girl, this is not going to work. but the dog bites down on the kids pants and starts pulling. It’s like a damn conga line. No dice. The dog starts whimpering and next thing you know the cat wanders over and bites the mutt right on her tail and starts pulling. So I’m laughing my ass off at this point but the cat starts looking at me. And normally we don’t really get on, the cat and me. But there’s this desperation in her eyes. In all of their eyes, really. Like, if I can’t dig up a damn tuber then who am I. What’s the point of it all, if there’s an enormous turnip that’s stronger than me. And I can see the future unfolding in my mind. The cat will never respect the dog again, and dog will never obey the kid, who will probably run away from home to find a new jacked grandma. And the farmers wife will leave him, and the whole damn charade of masculinity will crumble and fall. And I shouldn’t care right. I have no stake in this. This is some funny shit. But how funny would it be if little old me pitched in and the turnip actually came uprooted. I’ve got no ego. nobody respects a gay little mouse in this city. If I don’t make a difference here, no loss. But if I save the day? Can you imagine? Outdid by a mouse? The farmer would be delivering me fresh brie on the daily and the cat would probably have to move to a different area code to escape the mockery. So, in the spirit of cooperation, I grab the cat’s tail, and I give a little tug. Just the one. And I swear to god, it feels like an earthquake. Up comes the turnip, big as a house, and the farmer falls on his ass, and so does his wife, and all down the line. And I hop up on the cats head and scamper up the backs of the team as they catch their breath, and I leap up onto the turnip itself and I take a big bite out of it. And let me tell you: that shit? Tasted like a turnip

[aizawashuichi]

it still fucks me up that Misa was in their same suite </3 once upon a time, there were six men...

[kiyomitakada]

[ID: Death Note manga panels, first of the task force (Aizawa, Ukita, Mogi, Matsuda, Soichiro, and L) sitting on floral-patterned sofas surrounding a coffee table and discussing something fervently, second of Misa from the final chapters flouncing delightedly on one of the same-looking floral sofas with the same-looking coffee table and saying over the phone, “I don’t know why, but I’m in a deluxe suite at the Teito Hotel. Must be their way of apologizing or something. It’s great!” She is alone in the room.]