Satomi-kun. Kyouji-san? Lookin' good, all soaked in the rain. Wha... What are you doing in a place like this? Oh, I-I couldn't go home... because of the rain.
I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.
Also just for even more horrific context on the original twitter thread?
Salvation Army reached out to Milknmuffins and asked what shelter she’s at with the promise to address the abuse in it. She…ended up saying where she was. She was thrown out onto the street. It’s also all on Twitter.
They invited her to a personal talk so she could explain the situation in person.
And then they threatened her with a screenshot of a rape-threat made supposedly by her:
And then threw her out into the street while claiming she broke house rules that
So yeah, the Salvation Army is a bunch of entitled assholes that will treat the most vulnerable like shit if they dare try to do anything that makes them look bad
The “Fuck Salvation Army” posts are making the rounds again, so conisder this your reminder:
Do. Not. Give. These. Assholes. A. Single. Fucking. Penny.
A mxtx crossover event where all the red-black characters had to fight, I believe, would result in a very interesting rock paper scissors scenario.
Wei Wuxian, being the Ghost Whisperer, could probably beat, or at the very least subdue Hua Cheng. We know Hua Cheng is weak to Ghost Stuff a la the Mount Tonglu opening incident, and Wei Wuxian has dealt with extremely powerful spirits in the past.
That being said, I think Hua Cheng could take Luo Binghe in a fight. This guy bested 33 heavenly officials, his swordplay is unmatched, and Luo Binghe is very powerful but I imagine that power comes with the side effect of very little finesse. Additionally his protagonist halo probably wouldn’t save him here since he’s not the only protagonist.
However, Luo Binghe would totally destroy Wei Wuxian. With his itty bitty Mo Xuanyu core he doesn’t stand a chance. Tearing through an army of the undead is the exact sort of op bullshit Binghe excels at, so that option is out too.
That being said, if their love interests are also fighting, Xie Lian bodies those fools. I’m sorry but even though Lan Wanji is excellent and SQQ is a peak lord, they do not stand a chance. Xie Lian’s favorite trick for 800 years was to break boulders on his chest while he had no access to any spiritual energy. Dude folded the heavenly emperor like a lawn chair. No contest.
I love it in moshang fics when Mobei Jun is smugly self-satisfied about 'winning' Shang Qinghua, while everyone is just kind of ??? about it.
MBJ: I have at last seduced Qinghua with my fat tits and skillful murdering of things.
LBH: oh you were... you were doing that on purpose? you, uh, wanted his... attention?
MBJ: who wouldn't?
Simultaneously glance over to Shang Qinghua, who is literally skulking around the nearest throne, wringing his hands (he's nervous) but it looks like a stereotypical cartoon villain's gestures. It's been four days since he remembered to wash his hair. He has dark circles under his eyes. He smells of stale fear sweat and has ink splotches on his hands and the edges of his sleeves. After darting a quick look around, he reaches into his sleeve and produces some kind of food item, which is barely visible before he starts stuffing it -- rodent-like -- into his cheeks.
Look. Look. I think the hardest thing about your twenties is the shift from getting shoved towards new frontiers of maturity by, like, puberty and education and the logistics of gaining independence, to you having to shove yourself. It’s a mental recalibration from “you grow up whether you like it or not” to “you can and should keep evolving, but now you have to choose it. And you have to choose it a half-dozen times a day in increasingly annoying ways. And this sucks but the reward is that you get to be a person in the world.”
Will Graham will look at a crime scene and be like “this isn’t a murder, it’s a master’s thesis. our killer is getting their mfa in killing.” and everyone else will be like “ah yes of course. Murder Grad School. you’re a genius, Will.” and then Will goes to therapy and Hannibal is like “would you go to art school if you could, Will?” and Will looks up at him through his coquettish whore eyelashes and he goes “I’m more of a painter than a sculptor.” and Hannibal nods and takes notes but all his notes just say “Mrs. William Graham” in different cursive styles with hearts over all the i’s. and then Will drives home to Virginia and has a dream where he’s like sculpting a stag out of marble or something while he’s sweating through his only set of bedsheets. great show no notes love u Bryan Fuller <3
Grief does serve a purpose. Evolutionary psych is all speculation, but like, the existence of grief is essentially a really strong motivator to protect your loved ones. Protecting your loved ones... is a way to help ensure your reproduction and survival. The former because often your loved ones share either your genes or a responsibility for parenting children with your genes, and the latter because your loved ones will help save you when you're in need, later. Because they also feel love, and grief
Just because something evolved because it was a good survival skill in the environment (grieving the loss of community members IS a good survival skill in our traditional environment. for reasons stated above.) doesn't mean we can't find our own meaning in it. Grief exists because the people who grieved were more likely to survive and reproduce. I think that can be interpreted in a beautiful way on it's own, and failing that, you can experience your own grief in a way that is spiritual and not intended for survival; you are not beholden to evolution
Heyo, i think the person asking about pro-shipping probably meant pro-shipping as in incest and MAP shipping, etc, something pro-shipping is often associated with (for the record i wholeheartedly agree with your stance tho, just thought this might clear things up sorry ^^")
Sigh
I appreciate your attempt to clear things up, but I know exactly what bullshit they meant and were trying to start and I'm not here for it. The rest of this is not directed at you, personally, but something I am going to say in general.
Gonna get long so buckle up.
The issue is that "proshipping" isn't really... a thing. There's fandom, existing as it ever has and ever will, and there's a group of people calling themselves antishippers and generally making a nuisance of themselves, if not acting outright dangerously toward real people, doing things like sending death threats. And that second group has decided for everyone else that if you're not on their side, then you're a ~*~proshipper,~*~ and therefore evil. But the thing is... I have far more respect for any kind of shippers (yes, including ~*~those~*~ kind) that are minding their own business and only dealing in fictional characters than I do for any antishipper that attempts to harm actual human beings by attacking them over fictional characters. Incest, underage, noncon, dubcon, extreme violence, murder, MCD, dark fic, super kinky smut- ALL of it, ANY of it- there is nothing, not one single imaginary thing, that someone can do to a fictional character (aka a fake person) that is worth bringing real harm to a real living flesh and blood person. This goes all ways; there is nothing anyone finds/reads in fiction that justifies hurting real human beings in the real world, just so we're clear.
How you treat actual real life people is far, far more important to me than how you treat fictional characters, and antis are well known for hurting real people. That concerns me far more than which fake people someone I don't know is having do bad things to other fake people in said someone's sandbox, particularly if that sandbox (regardless of what's inside) has a clear label that says "these are the things you'll see if you step into this sandbox, enter at your own risk." As far as I'm concerned, that's a law abiding citizen of their fandom. The antis careening around making it everyone else's problem that they made the bad decision to participate in the self harm of entering sandboxes that hurt them despite the warnings... are not.
And they may not be the exact same assholes as the ones that got huge swaths of fandom (including a LOT of collateral damage) cut down in the past, but they're the same ilk, and just as intolerable. They're starting with the biggest, hottest buzzwords they can find, they're doing their level best to try to associate and equate mundane shipping and general fandom (which has traditionally included all of the good and bad and weird, and should continue to contain all of the good and bad and weird) with horrible real life things happening to real life people in an attempt to stop people from doing fake things to fake people because They Don't Like It and are for some reason physically incapable of minding their own fucking business. They're trying to make anyone that writes about a subject equal/equivalent to anyone that participates in that subject in real life, which is so absolutely ridiculous I don't even have words for it.
They're trying to make shipping a dirty word, when it's not. They've always been trying to do this in some fashion, it's not new. The word shipping literally exists because of the split between "relationshippers" and others in the X-Files fandom, to distinguish between people that shipped and people that didn't because the people that didn't, didn't want to be associated. And antis are doing the same thing now, and being much bigger assholes about it, creating the word "proshipper" and then trying to set up a false equivalency around it. And I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to help the antis. I'm not going to let them make my word a dirty word. I'm not going to "I'm not like other girls" this word. I am a shipper. There's good and bad and weird in that, like with all things. Other shippers or writers/readers write about and read about all SORTS of things for all sorts of REASONS and it's none of my fucking business what things they're making or reading about fake people, or why. It doesn't matter! Making or consuming those things, regardless of what they are, is not remotely the same thing as hurting real people in real life.
My business in fandom is to mind my fucking own. I've been here 25 years, I will be here at least 25 more; I will remain long after antis have chosen new buzzwords and tactics and names for themselves (and put fandom in new boxes of their own design like "proshipper" what a fucking eyeroll) when their crusades either fail or wreck something for everyone. Fandom has existed since long before me, and whether it proceeds intact or with another scar, it will pick up and endure long after I am gone.
This is a Ship And Let Ship household. This is a Don't Like? Don't Read household. This is a Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That's Okay household. This is a Real People Matter More Than Fictional People household. This is a Protecting All Of Us Includes Protecting The Least Of Us household. This is a The Back Button Is Right There And It's Free household. This is a Curate Your Own Experience household. This is a mind your own fucking business household.
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