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3 players: Irene, Sherlock, John.
1st roll was Irene.
2nd roll was Sherlock.
FIRST FUCKING ACCUSATION!
I didnāt even get to roll! FML
Though itās awesome that John shot Moriarty at the pool.
Itās the only possible solution!
Reblogging again because I'm fantastic.
Fandom, Mental Health, and Jared Padalecki
Hey Tumblr, itās been several years since Iāve contributed to you other than a reblog here and there. Whatās up? Hope youāre well.
Iāve started this post in my head several times, but as it comes to type it out, I donāt know where to start. I was even going to hold off until I could articulate better, but the #SPNFAMās troubled big brother went and got charged with assault. Weāve all heard it by now, and itās brought up a lot of repressed feelings on fandom for me. Maybe I should just start with what fandom was to me specifically.
For me (and for a lot, if not most of us) Fandom is/was a place for escapism and community. My fandoms spanned bands, books, movies, and shows like many others. Given my mental health struggles in my late teens/early to mid twenties, I leaned heavily into fandom for escapism and distraction. At first, finding people into the same āweirdā stuff I was into and making connections with them was brilliant. Then everywhere I looked fandom politics became more prominent than the media itself and it became toxic and I had to step away. Iām not going to name specific fandoms, but if you care enough, glancing at my tumblr will lay it out pretty clearly.
Now, I do still enjoy media and can occasionally become obsessive like that again when my illness flares up, but I try not to dive in head first. I still go to concerts and live shows for artists I support and am active and admin in a couple fan communities. Itās just not my life anymore.
In the communities Iām still in, there are hundreds of posts and comments about how the artists saved that person. At Q&Aās Iāve been to, there have been several people at each session telling the artists how theyāve helped their mental health, telling them how they saved their lives, crying at them because of this, and so on and so forth. I used to feel the same way about different people at different parts of my life and different phases of my illness. Iām not judging these people; I think itās great they got to express their gratitude in person or in a comment online. I just kind of got over it when one of the artists pointed out that they (the artist) themselves hadnāt done anything other than provide a tool the fan had chosen to use as a coping mechanism at that time - simple as that. Nobody else can save you; you save yourself.
I bring this up because of the whole #SPNFAM thing. Jared himself has been extremely open about his struggle with depression. There are countless tumblr posts, tweets, and other fan-media expressing how much heās helped the poster/creator with their mental health. And thatās awesome. It really is. Thereās the whole Always Keep Fighting (AKF) thing and if it helps people, fucking awesome!
But Jared has always been problematic, and thatās dangerous because of the position heās put himself in as a mental health advocate. Hundreds, if not thousands, of impressionable and, dare I say it, vulnerable people lean hard on him and his positive mental health message and his continued bad behavior puts them at risk. Whether it be publicly feuding with an airline (weird, but essentially nbd), publicly shaming customer service people when heās upset (there are several examples floating around including this one), using his non-apologies to defend his actions and make it seem like bullying others is an actual defense, making rape jokes at conventions, or now getting arrested and charged with assault, I think he needs to step up and live up to the pedestal heās had no small part in placing himself upon.
I mean, yeah, celebrities get themselves into shit all the time, but it just kills me to see someone looked up to in the way he is behave the way he does. He literally has teenagers reaching out to him for help, and his most newsworthy stuff is him being the BIGGEST jackass. I used to be a huge Supernatural fan until the rape joke thing and I couldnāt separate the art from the artist anymore and havenāt been able to sit through an episode since.
When placing himself into the position he has with AKF, heās GOT to know people are watching and looking up to him. Like I said in the last paragraph, literal 15-year-olds are reaching out to him for support. No, itās not his place and he didnāt ask for that. Yes, it happens anyway. Thatās the nature of celebrity and the nature of finding support for mental health outside of the professional field and the nature of fandom and of #fandomfamily and the #spnfam itself. You end up idolizing someone. Then seeing them at their worst and publicly messy like this is heartbreaking. This whole thing really just reiterates the whole ādonāt meet your heroesā thing. Only with tabloids and the internet, thereās no separation between the heroes and the fans anymore. You canāt help but meet them and get to know them in this weird one-sided relationship we all have. Sometimes that person ends up sucking or being a really sad human being. Be better than this, Jared.
look I like memes. I love memes. but where the fuck did the shaggy meme come from. itās so fucking random. what is this. who thought ālet me make a meme from the 2004 cast interviews for the live action Scooby-Doo, and have everyone go on about how shaggy gained powers that can kill everyone, so they explain how they avoided that. also letās make him kill godā what the fuc k
Listen I would die for Jameela Jamil
I justā¦ love herā¦ so much we donāt deserve her
When youāve got low self esteem and are having a bad day
i was playing pokemon blue on stream earlier at 350% speed and i got to thinking
what if the reason nobody in the pokemon world has any good teams is because its considered a dick move to have a proper team comp
like culturally everyone is likeĀ āhaha pick the pokemon you want! if youāre happy with three geodudes, thats you and your life!ā and then youāre supposed to just have a friendly battle with any other pokemon trainers and whatever pokemon they just happen to have
like the average trainer is probably just walking around with a growlithe because thatās their pet, or a hiker has three geodudes because the geodudes help him with hiking. and if this pet owner and geodude hiker meet, youāre supposed to have a friendly battle but nothing too serious
now imagine the 10 year old kid that has six pokeballs on their belt comes up. youāre likeĀ āhaha, weāll have a friendly battle!ā and you throw out your geodudeĀ
and they throw out a fucking gyarados, and it one-shots your geodudeĀ
and then you throw out your pidgey you have because the pidgey helps you navigate mountains because youāre a hiker
and then electricity crackles around the gyarados and a thunderbolt flies off of this giant dragon and evaporates your pidgeyĀ
so youāre down to your last pokemon. you tell them youāre gonna send out your bulbasaur. the ten year old is likeĀ āoh okay in that case iām gonna pull out my vulpix.ā like not only is this kid walking around with an amped-up super dragon, but theyve also got multiple pokemon specifically for making type advantage counter-picks?
this kidās a fucking asshole! really, kid? what are you trying to prove here? this is a friendly match between strangers for fun! why are you composing real-ass competitive teams? what a fucker!Ā
i mean if you look at how npcās talk about their pokemon, theyāre service animals mostly. some of them are just pets. apparently they really enjoy sparring, so you let them battle other peopleās pokemon for socialization, itās like going to the dog park.
hell yes iād be mad if i took my chronic pain support chow-chow to the dog park and some asshole with four rottweilers and a husky was like SIC EM THUNDERNUTS even if my dog enjoyed the tussle at first.
look, kid, the paras helps me weed the garden. itās not a special forces attack paras. itās just a bug that eats dandelions. please calm down.
This is precisely why Cooltrainers are exiled to the mountains
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Reblogging cause one day it just may be neccessary.
It became necessary
Ringing that bell my comrades
IM HOPPING TO SOUP.IO IF YOU NEED ME
PSA: āHealthierā does not mean low calorie, low fat, low sugar, low carb. Healthier does not mean less. Ā Healthy is relative to each personās needs.
Also, guilt-free is not a description for food. Ā Guilt is not an ingredient; it is a feeling. Ā No matter how many ingredients or calories you remove from that food, the guilt is in your mind, not the food.
I wonāt stop reblogging this.
I have to remind myself of this continually. That other peopleās definitions of āhealthierā are often the polar opposite to what āhealthierā needs to mean for me.
homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay
People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.
Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldnāt be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis
The Alan Turing statue on my campus
He should not be forgottenā¦
most blessed social interaction of the day? there was a dog in the car next to me at a stop light and his owner noticed me cooing over him so she rolled the window down and i rolled mine down and she shoutedĀ āHIS NAME IS CHECKERS!ā and i saidĀ āHI CHECKERS!ā and checkers, that amazingly good boy, lit up like a christmas tree and wagged his beautiful tail
i know its the mets, but this is the coolest shit iāve ever seen a human being do
Smoove with it tooĀ
This is the kind of shit you see in anime that shows that a certain character is stronger than other characters.Ā
āPathetic. Ā You canāt even hold the bat you dare step to the plate? Have you no respect for the sport?ā
reminds me of this gif
Baseball players are to be feared
Reblogging for the last one
^Same for me
They just kept getting progressively more āwoahā
much woah
Oh my god this is a lucky universe
every time this post comes around, my favorite part is theĀ āI know itās the Metsā qualifier at the beginning lmao like how baseball that this zillion note posts starts withĀ āsorry for putting this hellteam on your dash, bUTā
can we just talk about the time that Lupin was recovering from a full moon and Snape taught the DADA class and made all the students write essays on how to kill werewolves for Lupin to read when he got back I hate Snape so much itās not funny
Lupin gets back and he feels like crap and suddenly his best friendās son is writing an essay about how to kill him like that is so fucked up
Bear in mind that an ex-Death Eater does this to someone who was in the Order, risked his life fighting against said Death Eaters and lost his best friends to the Death Eaterās genocidal leader, for the sole purpose of screwing him over, and as far as we know he experiences no consequences whatsoever for doing so.
And if that wasnāt enough, he made them write those essays hoping some of them would realize Lupinās a werewolf. And one did, but Hermione is a fucking DECENT HUMAN BEING and said nothing. Apparently the āinsufferable know-it-all'Ā can keep her mouth closed, when itās for something important. Just like SnapeĀ didnāt do at the end of the book.
Iām getting mad, so hereās something Iāve realized while reading The Order of the Phoenix again. (Please keep in mind that my books are in Italian and some concepts might be hard to explain, I apologize for my English mistakes)
In chapter 14, when The Trio talked with Sirius, he said that two years before Dolores Umbridge had written a law against werewolves that made it almost impossible for Lupin to find a job.
Now ask yourself this question. Why two years?
What had happened two years before? During Harryās third year? Oh, right. The Magical World had discovered that one of Hogwartsā teachers (someone who was in constant conctat with their children) was a werewolf. Does that ring any bell?
But thatās not all! If we take a look at chapter 15, in the Daily Prophet article we can see a familiar name: Remus Lupin. In a newspaper. Where everyone can read it. āThe werewolf Remus Lupinā. No wonder he couldnāt find a job! And itās not the first time the Daily Prophet has written about him, as itās stated in the article itself. There must have been a huge scandal when it had all come out.
So basically, when Snape decided he couldnāt bear not having what he wanted (for example, SIRIUS BLACK GETTING KISSED BY A DEMENTOR) and spilled the secret, he didnāt only tell the whole school. He didnāt only tell the kidsā parents. The told the whole Magical World.
He told the whole Magical World that a man who had kept his condition secret all his life was a werewolf.
And the Magical World responded with a law against werewolves.
So, basically, Snape didnāt only ruin Remus Lupinās life. He ruined the life of every single werewolf in the UK.
But, you know. Bravest man I ever knew.
FUCKING HIT THAT REBLOG SO FAST THANK YOU
Not Fred and George but god I had to reblog. For all those out there who still believe Snape was actually a good guy.
Immortals, Long Cons, and the Building Fury of the Art History Department
Iāve mentioned my favorite art history professor to @systlin a few times, but thereās one story of him that stays with me. So for you, Plant Aunt, Iāve crafted a tale of one immortal spitefully making sure another immortal finally gets his:
The running joke among Davidās students is that our beloved professor is clearly an immortal. How else could we explain his small office crammed with illuminated manuscripts, Scythian and Mongolian bows, 3rd cent. Roman gladii, near-Eastern rugs and ancient swords? The way he sighed wistfully in class and told us how beautiful the Parthenon was when it was new and,Ā ānot just a damn tourist attractionā? It wasnāt uncommon for us to see him hefting a sword over his shoulder, leather trench coat flapping in the wind, flipping off the head of security who really should have stopped trying by now.
It was also a running joke that our favorite immortal just did not getĀ technology. I worked at our Help Desk for all four years of college, and David would always request one of his students to come and fix his computer.Ā āThis computer isnāt fast enough,ā he told me once, polishing an enameled chalice. Google maps was still loading on the page, trying to parse the coordinates he entered. It was likely looking ten centuries too late. āIt needs more of that RAM. Really. I could be soaring over ancient Rome like a bird!ā
After repeat requests, he got a brand-new Macbook Pro, which he promptly abandoned for his antique slide projector.Ā
āI just donāt get the new technology,ā he shrugged.Ā āYou canāt get the feel of things.āĀ
That was the only sentiment he shared with his nemesis.Ā
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*Screaming in pure, unadulterated GLEE*
MOMMA BEAR TEACHER
16 years laterā¦
What u age like when u mind ur business
You also have these baby teenage mutant ninja turtles to protect you.
This is actually such a good tactic for people with serious anxiety problems. Thank you. Really. Omg.
Also immunity cat protects your blog from āif you donāt reblog Iām judging youā posts
<3 IMMUNITY CAT IS A FRIEND <3
Jason Windsor, who was 18 when he made āEnd of the World,ā has returned with āEnd of the World (Probably for Real This Time).
HOLY SHIT
oh my god
- chibi loki for your background~
never let people forget that the main target of nazis are jews.
Lgbt people are targets, black people are targets, other poc are targets.
but their main targets are always Jews. donāt forget about us. Donāt forget that theyāre targeting jews.Ā
because everyone seems to be doing so, and its not fair. Weāre real people, being targeted. our death, our elimination, is being Claimed as a main goal publicly on television by these neo-nazis.Ā
You donāt get to leave us out of your solidarity posts about the victims and targets of these white supremacists.Ā
To do so is to perpetuate the very antisemitism that these people are spreading. To do so is to be complicit in these neo-nazis goals.Ā
I know most people making posts in solidarity with the targets of these people mean well, but you canāt leave out their main target, for any reason.Ā
Please, if youāre not jewish, reblog this.Ā
