all we gotta do is be brave and be kind

a little bit off-genre.  

[kim-jong-chill]

i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

[mattheuphonium-blog]

fabulous 

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

[counterpunches]

#HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY

[elizabethan-memes]

(also female saints performed miracles)

(and witches were hanged not burned)

(not that that’s a great improvement)

[booasaur]

The Expanse - 4x10

[thatswhywelovegermany]

[fruitffish-deactivated20250218]

Excerpts for a 1920's newspaper during the Spanish Flu

[prokopetz]

Generational spin-off media is like “okay, what would be the most in-character way for the previous show’s protagonist to comprehensively fail as a parent?”

[30-minute-memes]

What adulthood really feels like

[coveredinyou]

me in the beginning of 2020:

me at the end of 2020:

[theoreocat]

What are your pet's favourite places?

[greenishness]

oh to be jensen ackles signing on to play a red blooded all american main character in 2005 and ending up playing love interest to lucifers insane gay little brother

[lyeekha]

you only unlock this emotion by being terminally online for the last seven years

[mylittleredgirl]

everyone i’ve encountered today has been like “you… seem different? lighter somehow?” and i’m like how do i explain how i and the many strangers who have been stranded on this fucked up desert island of a website for the last 8+ years reached a state of time-traveling collective catharsis last night without first having to summarize entire geologic eras of internet fandom culture

[ladydisofdurin]

the chaos we’ve created here tonight has been immaculate I forgot that tumblr used to be like this 24/7

[senritsu]

if anyone cares, Putin is not officially stepping down. Only news source as far as I can tell that’s reporting that is the NY Post, which is basically a tabloid, and that report is based on a second hand source. Putin had said nothing, and no reputable news orgs have weighed in as of yet

[ineedtogooutside]

Destiel also isn’t canon -_-

[harlivy]

you're laughing. I tell you castiel is in super mega hell for being a homo and you're laughing.

[shanesmadej]

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

nothing on this earth feels as weak as swearing in english. there are no proper swear words in that language

[vrabia]

at some point when i’m less out of it i’m gonna make a longer post about how eastern european farm workers are mysteriously omitted from talks about essential workers during the pandemic despite propping up western europe’s food industry literally at the cost of their lives. like i wanna be super crystal clear here: if you’ve eaten fresh produce or meat products in, or imported from, germany, uk, the netherlands, italy or spain this year (maybe thinking you’re doing your part in supporting the economy by buying locally even) - eastern europeans have gotten sick and died so you could do that. yet somehow, for some reason, they are not essential workers.

‘but this kind of thing doesn’t make it to the news! how could i have known about it?’ fine. ok. here’s what 15 minutes of googling will get you:

‘forced to sign contracts in german, dutch, or other languages they don’t read, [workers] often find out upon arrival that their working hours are longer, their salaries much smaller than promised and their living conditions abysmal, with housing and living with little protection against covid-19’

romanian farm worker nicolae bahan got infected with covid-19 while working on an asparagus farm in germany. according to several fellow workers the farm owners refused to provide healthcare and a space to safely quarantine and instead locked him inside a container out in the field where he died shortly. 

another romanian worker on the same farm talks about how until the end of march they were not provided soap in the bathrooms and risked having their hours cut if they stopped to have a drink of water while out in the field.

germany flies in thousands of romanian workers at the height of the pandemic. farm owners claim they can’t hire domestically because ‘most germans are not used to working stooped in the fields for hours on end. they complain about backache. romanians and poles are stronger and they work weekends and public holidays.’

despite a severe workforce shortage many brits refuse to take on farm work, citing contract length, location and family duties. meanwhile romanians (who are regularly underpaid and abused by employees) are now lauded as ‘key skilled workers’ during the shortage (but no mention is made of adjusting their salaries to reflect either their skill or the fact that they are in high demand)

over 1500 east european workers at german meat processing plant tönnies tested positive for covid-19. 

former romanian employee at tönnies talks about poor working conditions and workplace abuse. employees were forced to work overtime without pay and told not to take sick leave. 

romanian and bulgarian workers infected with covid-19 while working in other german meat processing plants. employers pay by the hour and don’t check working conditions.

bulgarian workers in italy have rocks thrown at them by angry crowd while protesting the lockdown that will likely cost them their jobs.

if you didn’t know before, you know now. and if you can be outraged at injustices and abuse happening on another continent you can be outraged at injustices and abuse happening the next town over that make it possible for you to get your reasonably priced five-a-day. not just this year, in the middle of a pandemic, but for well over a decade.

[vrabia]

i really appreciate this post and the work op put into making it and then further explaining things in the notes, so i want to reassure them that what follows is not a criticism of them personally, but me trying to articulate something i’ve seen both here and on fb over the past few days since this anti-trans law was passed in romania.

‘I know this isn’t as important as what is currently happening in america’ why not?

usamericans are fully justified in thinking what’s happening there right now is the most important thing in the world, and i stand in solidarity with them. i also recognize that compassion fatigue is a thing, so as bitter as i get sometimes about how little give-and-take there is in spreading that solidarity around, this isn’t the time to be like ‘it is Bad bc they refuse to allocate 2.17% of their currently very occupied attention to problems in another country.’

but why do we impose a hierarchy of disasters on ourselves only to decide the one we’re currently dealing with does not deserve the top spot? why is the systematic dismantling of lgbtq rights in romania, hungary and poland not as important as systemic racism in the us? queer romanians, and especially trans romanians, face discrimination and violence in a legal, social and cultural environment that’s determined to do less to protect them and more to harm them with every passing day. and i’m sure the situation is similar in hungary and poland. who gets to say this isn’t as important as what’s happening in the us right now, and why? why is the very real possibility of living under a new dictatorship decades after bringing down an old one not the most important thing right now? in romania the first people who took to the streets in support of the us protests were lgbtq and roma. why are they, to us, not at the very least exactly as important as what’s happening in the us right now?

so far i’ve watched romanian lgbtq activists from a distance. next year, thanks to a project i’m part of, i’ll have the opportunity to get involved directly, and i honestly don’t know how i feel about it. i thought i’d be happy, that it would be like a homecoming for someone who traded identity for safety in their teenage and young adult years. but, without taking away from all the good they’re doing, it’s so painfully obvious that most of them are alumni of the american school of queer activism. and i’m just. i’m fucking tired of that.

i’m tired of the ‘west gave us our rights’ attitude, which i’m now trying to unlearn

tired of having to speak a hybrid language when i talk about my identity bc there’s no word for ‘queer’ in romanian, ‘lesbian’ doesn’t really cover it, and there are no visible efforts in the community to create our own concepts around these identities

tired of scrolling through community fb pages trying to figure out what is unique about romanian queer culture and finding communist secret police records of arrested gay men and romglish memes, and very little in-between

we stand in solidarity with americans fighting injustice, but at the same time fail to recognize how deeply, deeply colonized our lgbtq culture is. we mistake adopting concepts and politics and cultural trends wholesale for learning from their experiences and applying those lessons to our own reality. and maybe because of that we feel that we have to pay some kind of tribute by saying ‘i know this is not as important as what’s happening in america’

we have to start prioritizing ourselves and our own, and not just when it comes to protesting violence or trying to right injustices retroactively. not after people have been harmed or killed. we have to start prioritizing ourselves and our own now, and in the way we speak about our identities and experiences, and to understand that this can absolutely be done without taking up someone else’s space, because solidarity and compassion are not a zero-sum game.

we have to start acting like there’s a fucking future and it is waiting for us, and we can thrive and be happy there.