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NOT A SPOILER FREE BLOG... 28 | She/Her/Hers | Leo | Year of the Rat

[emma-blackthorn]

Casual Reminder

Cassians wings are in ruin

[emma-blackthorn]

“Aelin was insane, Dorian realized. Brilliant and wicked, but insane. And perhaps the greatest, most unremorseful liar he’d ever encountered.”

— Empire of Storms, Sarah J. Maas

[emma-blackthorn]

Can we talk about how I posted this almost five years ago and it’s still getting reposts?

[emma-blackthorn]

Jesus Christ it’s been almost 9 years since I made book quote posts 😭

[fipindustries]

if i ever become a showrunner i will actually do the fake series finalle followed by the true ending where the popular gay ship is confirmed just so i can forever poison fandom with the idea that it can happen for real and then they will truly never let that hope go for all other subsequent shows they watch henceforth. just for the sake of making the world a worse place

[destiel-news-channel]

nazis aren't just bad cause they want to destroy the wrong people, nazis are bad cause they think destroying a people is justified

[ravabiye]

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[destiel-news-channel]

couldn't leave that in the tags

[Image ID: Two screenshots of tumblr tags, the first read:

aside from antisemitism the other core tenet of Nazi ideology is murder. the Nazis believed all problems could be solved by killing the people responsible. they thought certain people were inameleorable drains on society and everything would be fine if they were just dead. which is something i've definitely never heard before or recently.

the second tags are by @lem0nademouth and read:

this is what i mean when i say 'violence is okay if the victim is someone i have decided is Unacceptable' is nazi ideology. because it quite literally is nazi ideology.

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[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: Tags which read: '#idr think this applies to billionaires by the way. if you can actually place where the hurt and oppression is coming from with accuracy and #not prediction and hatred then i think you do actually have a moral imperitive to get these people out of society'. /End ID]

no offense, but this is exactly what this post is about. there is NO group of people you are allowed to kill. the nazis also were convinced that Jews were 'where the hurt and oppression us coming from'. killing people is not the solution. killing people is never 'moral imperative'. we can acknowledge that billionaires have too much power, that they further oppression and bigotry, but playing the nazi's game is never the solution.

[otakuvampyre]

I was literally gonna add that if you didn't, op. The Nazis literally believed the Jews were the rich and powerful. They LITERALLY used this excuse.

[astra-the-dragon]

people continue to believe that now, and it isn't only the conservatives.

[helianthus-hellion]

also it's genuinely kind of frightening how many people jump straight to "if we kill all members of [group], it will fix everything!"

first off, killing billionaires wouldn't fix anything. their wealth won't magically redistribute itself, it'll go to their heirs (or just disappear because most of it is tied up in shit that is not actually tangible money in any way, shape, or form).

secondly, why the fuck is your first instinct "we should kill them"?why do you want to kill people? ever? there's definitely people i think we, as a global society, would be better off without - but fuck, i don't wanna kill them. i'm sure there are situations in which i would take a human life, and i'm equally sure it would haunt me til the end of my days. are you really considering what that would be like? or do you just wanna make someone else do it, so you have an easy, violent solution and you can offload the consequences onto some other sucker's conscience?

i think the casual ease with which some people discuss murder is fucked up, actually.

[destiel-news-channel]

#like to be clear i do not wanna draw away from the antisemitism aspect bc that is very central to the post #but just. idk. it's so UNSETTLING how many people jump to "kill all [x]!" as a solution to problems

- prev tags

yeah, what i wanted to make clear is the fact that those people ARE WILLING TO MURDER. they have an, as you said, unsettling readiness to resort to violence. and it is much easier to convince someone who is already willing to murder to murder, for example, Jews, than it is to convince someone who doesn't believe murdering anyone, no matter what they did, is right. with the right words people on the left who scream about punching Nazis all day long can get convinced to punch Jews. and some of them already do. it doesn't help if you know nazis = bad. that won't protect you against becoming one. you need to know *why* exactly Nazis were bad, and that's not just cause they killed Jews and Sinti and Roma and queer people (the latter being somehow the one that gets more and more focus these days despite their murder also being motivated by antisemitism) instead of, say, billionaires (and as already been said before, the belief that Jews have to much power and money is a common antisemitic conspiracy). the problem is also their WILLINGNESS TO KILL. THE BELIEF THAT KILLING ANYONE WILL MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.

if you (general you, not you prev) really are anti-Nazi then you should learn from that and get rid of the notion that killing people is anything other than a last resort in moments of extreme crisis. the main focus should be on non-violent ways to archieve a goal. you want nazis out of society? then how about you try to find a way to educate young people that prevents them from falling into conspiracy theories? how about you start fighting antisemitism, especially your own? how about instead of belittling people and shoving them away if they say something you don't agree with, something that is antisemitic or racist or queerphobic or misogynistic, you try to educate them? if you're shoving them away you'll shove them right into the arms of people like Trump, if the only people willing to talk to them are right-wing extremists, they will also become a right-wing extremist.

You know what would have prevented the Holocaust? Not killing Hitler or any other of the high ranking Nazis, others would just have taken their spots. No, the best prevention of the Holocaust would have been to fight the prevailing antisemitism at that time. If the Germans hadn't been willing to murder the Jews, a whole people, because they believed all the antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews, then Hitler wouldn't even have gotten that far. The best way to prevent something like that happening again is to correct biases, both other people's and your own. The nazis were people, just like you and me, they were my ancestors, and just like they could be convinced to murder Jews, we could. But we can make it a hell of a lot less likely for that to happen by examining our biases and fighting against them, informing ourselves, and getting rid of the notion that any group of people should be killed.

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: A comment by @thisaccountdestroysfascists saying: This is all true but at the same time the Allies defeated the Nazis by bombing the shit out of Germany so there's also that. /End ID]

answering this here cause i think my reply above already says something about this.

for me there is a difference between acting in self defense or defense of others and murdering people cause you think it's 'right' or 'justified' or 'the solution to all the problems'

there's a difference between realising it might be too late for a completely peaceful solution and basing your ideology on murdering people. yes, the allies killed a lot of people in world war ii and thus defeated the nazis. but that does not make the murder of civilians less of an atrocity. 'bombing the shit out of germany' wasn't good just cause it got rid of the nazis.

and it didn't solve everything. antisemitism is still there. Nazis are still there. we can't even say that there is less antisemitism now, or that the world has learned from the events leading up to world war ii.

and 6 million Jews still died.

in an ideal world the Nazis wouldn't even have gotten in a position of power, they wouldn't have found so much support in the society, they wouldn't have been ignored for so long by politicians from other countries. in an ideal world the people in germany wouldn't have been so ready to rob and torture and murder their Jewish neighbours.

what this post is about is that, in order for something like that not to happen again, we need to be clear that the willingness to murder people in the name of 'the right cause' is the problem. cause what we have to be clear about is: these people are willing to kill other humans. and with the right words you can convince them to kill just about anyone in the name of 'the right cause'. and it doesn't even work. if hitler had been killed someone else would have taken his place, if you had killed all the nazis in 1930 you would probably have radicalised a lot of people, and just given them more 'proof' of 'a great conspiracy to eliminate the aryan race'.

you cannot eliminate bigotry with murder. this is what this post is about.

[sunshinetrinket]

i hope im not just a mutual to you but also a really annoying stranger who is somehow always going through something

[notentirely]

no idea if this is true, but it feels true

[pleasedontsqueezetheshhh]

I heard an interview, can’t remember the psychologist, but he was explaining this idea and encouraging people to stop and take a deep breath and literally drink in small moments like you’re a dryass plant when something is ever satisfactory, positive, mildly successful, randomly joyful so your brain can code and integrate that experience because our natural lizard brain will quickly tape over it with mostly unnecessary negative survival shit. Sounds dumb and dorky but sometimes I remember this when I’m feeling good about a moment because our cave brains are still catching up with modern life without sabertooths. I like that it’s not just a pollyanna gosh just be more positive thing but more of a legit brain wiring phenomenon can be gradually hacked through small behavioral changes.

[elidyce]

Another super important one: Take the time to tell yourself, when something you did or bought or decided works out “That was a good decision and I’m glad I made it! Go me!” 

Seriously, it can have a huge impact. suddenly you go from remembering nothing but bad decisions to adding in a series of Excellent Choices You Feel Good About, and it makes things so much better. 

[silentwalrus1]

#we’re all running happiness software on survival hardware and we gotta do our own firmware updates   from @galwednesday 

[aprillikesthings]

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” —Kurt Vonnegut

[kairwolf-blog]

grandma has been run over by a reindeer every Christmas eve since 1979 and frankly i’m beginning to believe it isn’t an accident

[hunterhogwarts]

#so get this #you know that christmas song

[sam-winchester-cries-during-sex]

IVE BEEN WAITING TO REBLOG THIS AGAIN FOR TWELVE MONTHS

[wendibird]

Akkk! I almost missed it!

[hellygf]

JSBSJSNSJJSKSJS

[mando-lore]

[saturniata-remade-deactivated20]

ohhh i DEEPLY regret teaching my cat how to talk

[kawaii-kozume]

Oh? Would you elaborate?

[saturniata-remade-deactivated20]

okay so one night like a week or two ago kurt was meowing at me and one of the meows sounded like he was saying “hewwo” so since then I started saying “hewwo” instead of meowing back at him (like I do with all his cat sounds, naturally) and slowly his meows evolved into something vaguely “hewwo”like with the one or two True and Powerful Hewwo’s a day

but now that you have backstory I was just standing in my kitchen making rice, everythings dead silent, and suddenly this fucking “HEWWO??” echoes through the whole apartment and it almost killed me

[evilauthor]

I actually got in huge trouble with my fiance’s sister for that. One night, I heard Fish meowing and it kinda sounded like she was saying “hello” so I decided to encourage it. If no one was going to try to get the cat to stop screaming at 3am, I wanted to try to get her to scream words so everyone would be as disturbed about it as I was. For the better part of three years, I used treats to reward her whenever she “spoke” while not letting anyone else know I was trying to teach her stuff.

One day, my fiance’s sister goes to give Fish a treat and the cat whiffs it. Misses the treat completely and it bounces under the fridge, so she’s trying to stick her paw under to get it back.

“Oh no, Fish. You lost your snack!”

“I know I know.”

Instant chaos. It wasn’t even Fish’s best words. If she had only said it once, maybe no would have noticed, but the repetition got attention and everyone just lost it. I made the mistake of praising Fish and suddenly I have the sister turn on me. “Are you why she says ‘oh no’ all the time?” Apparently Fish rarely “meows” properly anymore and will say “Oh no” whenever she’s mildly inconvenienced and wants a human to fix it for her.

[moomoozuzu-deactivated20220918]

Ya'll be like "Shang was having a bi freak out, realizing he was into Ping". NO HE WASN'T. He already knew he was into men. His bisexual freak out was when he realized Ping was Mulan and hey maybe he's into girls too whatdoya know?

[moomoozuzu-deactivated20220918]

Legit you think a bi man who has always been in such a male-dominated space like the army hadn't already figured out that he liked men? Come oooonnnn... It's women he has rarely had contact with and has no idea how to talk to or flirt with (you fight good) I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL.

[moomoozuzu-deactivated20220918]

In "A Girl Worth Fighting For" Shang has zero lines I REST MY FUCKING CASE.

[gottalovecatss]

[moomoozuzu-deactivated20220918]

[socialjusticeace]

I am Looking at these tags my guy

[ID: Screenshot of tags that read:

ppl don’t like to imagine bi ppl coming to terms with being bi after identifying as gay bc they think that’s a downgrade lol. That’s why there’s like 100000 stories about cishets realizing they were bi and like 2 of gay ppl realizing they were bi.

:END ID]

[adhd-induced-happiness]

A Checklist Of Possible Reasons I Am Upset, To Review When I Can't Seem To Figure It Out:

did not eat

new hyperfixation and no time for it

have not done a creative in 24 hrs

Bad Sounds

clothes are touching my body

cold

people

one (1) comment is stuck in my brain like a popcorn kernel

last time I drank water was ??????

nervous nervous nervous nervous

got a Slightly Worse grade than expected

last hug was ??????

slept a full 45 minutes

lonely ............

guts are shredding (again)

have not seen sunlight in 24 hrs

stuck inside

too much screen time

Yay Overwhelm

room is disaster area

have not talked to Person in a while

bored

imposter phenomenon (again)

no current routine

how long have I been working???

Too Much Socialization

and then. and THEN. I may consider:

something is actually wrong

[personification-of-anxiety]

Ye I'm printing this and putting a checklist on my wall

[happyhealthycats]

Citra is REALLY bad at meowing. She sounds like a broken party favor when she remembers to actually meow.

[timemachineyeah]

OH MY GOD

[heatherwanderer]

Being an orange female kitty is already rare, but you had to go adopt the one in a million who can’t cat properly

[happyhealthycats]

She came in a two pack so I had to.

Simcoe (left) and Citra (right), both girls. Both rescues. Both biological litter mates (sisters). Both long term loving projects to teach human trust to.

Simcoe got 100% of the meowing capabilities.

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

[siren-kitten-his-deactivated202]

[clairelovexo]

WAIT! WAIT!! So, are you telling me that actual, normal meow was the sister? Who, seemingly, just meowed at the moment because she saw her sister struggling so she tried to help by giving her an example???

[happyhealthycats]

THAT was actually Seymour. Who does also love Citra, but wasn’t really helping. He’s just very vocal because he’s an exclamation mark in a cat’s body.

[emma-blackthorn]

"Sydney—what’s going to make you feel better about creatures of the night? Easy escape on the first floor or distance on the second?”

— Rose Hathaway, Bloodlines: The Fiery Heart, Richelle Mead

[solassitudes]

oh. maybe. maybe this it. maybe that’s the problem.

[ofgeography]

[starpeace]

i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

[starpeace]

“WHO TAUGHT YOU LIGHTNING BEFORE BASIC TELEKINESIS. LOSING MY MIND WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST DID IT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAST WITH YOUR BARE HANDS”

[elidyce]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU’VE ‘HACKED’ MANA DRAIN

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘DRINK SOME JUICE’

WHAT IS ‘LOW BLOOD SUGAR’

WHY IS THIS WORKING

I HATE YOU SO MUCH

[superjustaguyblog]

Okay but other direction can ALSO be a lot of fun

“What do you mean I don’t have to burn half my blood to create a fireball?”

“Why can you teleport more than once without vomiting? WTF is ‘quantum displacement awareness’???”

“You know HOW many spells? HOW? ... What do you mean ‘my spell book’?”

“Ooooh, you’re just summoning water portions from the Plane of Water... Lol I thought I HAD to combine hydrogen and oxygen molecules to generate water in small amounts. That’s so much easier then what I was doing!”

[anachronistic-cat]

Tags via @mia7437

[welcometotheballpit]

I adopted a clown that was hiding amongst a liter of puppies in the parking lot of Walmart... that was a few months ago. Ever since she, who hasn't yet told me what her name is, found out about your tumblr... it's all she talks about. I think she's venturing into Fandoms on here and I'm a little worried about how dependent on my phone she's becoming...

Well well! I am most pleased to hear that I have become the role model of a young clownling. However, I believe your dearest little clown lacks real life clown role models. Try and arrange playdates if you can. Like human children, she needs others of her own kind to model herself after as well as distinguish herself against. She is looking for an identity, and these crucial moments will define the clown she is to become.

And since she reads fluent human according to you. May I be so bold as to address her directly? Here we go:

Dear little one,

Look at you, your colorful carapace, your joyful heart. You are the latest in a grand legacy. Our people came to this dimension as refugees, fleeing the homeland that birthed us, points of light and color in a world that may never completely understand us.

Just know that you are not alone. We have never met but we inexplicably linked, lines in a song that has been sung since before time itself.

Stand strong dearest one, show your joyful heart, sing and there shall be a reply.

[emma-blackthorn]

Lmao fam I just realised group chats aren't a thing anymore. Shows how much I've paid attention to tumblr in the last year