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nonbinarysasquatch

If there’s one thing I’ll give 2017 over 2016, it’s that it’s kind of stunning that the year is mostly over?

2016 felt like the year that would never die.

2017 is a hectic nightmare that never slows down enough for you to be aware of the passage of time.

taraljc

accurate.

smalltownboymp3

All kinds of people can be good people.

ks-jins

Matthew Daddario just casually talking about butts

“It’s like the face of your back.” - Matt on butts.

newtemotions

#Bossy Newt runs the world

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(insp.)

sarahseeandersen

tastefullyoffensive

by Sarah Andersen

princessrhcenyra

mostlydeadcowboy

this was a wild ride from start to finish

c4tto626

“omg you can’t play video games on easy mode!!”

listen if i wanted to struggle with some dumb task and fail a dozen times for bullshit reasons only to get some underwhelming reward once i finally get it right i would just live my actual life and not play video games smh

pls love urself

introvertunites

If you’re an introvert, follow @introvertunites.

ewdaviiid-deactivated20210325

it would be great if you took this time to listen to a filipino.

I’ve been seeing a lot of comments about My Family’s Slave and how it glorifies slavery by humanizing slavers and romanticizing Lola’s plight, but please take the time to read this.

If you grew up with a sophisticated understanding of oppression, you will not understand why having this conversation in the first place is a huge leap towards progress for us. before that article was released, no one had the wherewithal to call what was so ingrained in our culture something as severe as “slavery”. why should we? we feed our yayas and give them a home. they raise us like second parents. they are constant witnesses to our pain and victories. isn’t their toil only a testament to unconditional love? the author paints this picture of familial loyalty very clearly, and it’s easy for anyone who grew up with a yaya to empathize with it. slavery is a foreign and far away concept to filipinos, and it’s something that we find hard to recognize within ourselves especially when most of our oversees workers and lower class citizens are part of the service industry.

this is why it’s so important that someone told Lola’s story. it’s a reminder to us that there are lives similar to hers, living in our own homes. it’s a wake up call that no matter how much we see them as family, we are still complicit in the practice of class slavery. there are so many Lolas out there who deserve a chance at life before it’s too late, and that’s something that we, as a nation, need to come to terms with. but before we can do that, we must give that cruelty a name. the point is that we’re finally calling it slavery.

and if you cannot fathom the bravery in calling your own culture broken when the entire world is already bent on dismissing your existence, then you’ve missed the point entirely. and there’s a filipino narrative here that you are not listening to: this is the price we pay for the american dream. this is our lives as immigrants. this is the kind of cruelty we are willing to forgive for greener pastures.

aflawedfashion

awwww-cute

Hear my battlecry … rawr (Source: http://ift.tt/2rfzeqm)

animusrox

amorverde

honestly i cant control how much i dislike people who are racist or homophobic or transphobic. i used to be polite in my arguments so that whoever i was arguing against would take me seriously but that never got me very far. fuck you for bringing harm to innocent people and then hiding behind “it’s just MY opinion!!” yeah it’s JUST your opinion? well your opinions have death tolls and body counts, shut the fuck up.

lesbianbatgirl-deactivated20181

i hate writers with a violent passion who justify their shitty writing decisions by saying “it’s good that people are upset/hurt/angry about this, it means we’ve done our jobs as storytellers”

like fuck you, your writing doesn’t exist in a vacuum and you can’t just create any emotional response and call it successful. there’s a type of pain that comes with a really satisfying character death or heart-breaking plot twist, and then there’s the type of pain that comes from storytelling that is disturbing in a real world context. one means you’ve written something well, the other should be apologizing for and learning from. and it’s not that hard to tell the difference between the two if you take your head out of your ass for a few seconds.

lexacomeback

I’m having thoughts. More specifically about story creation in The 1OO.

So I listen to this podcast on the regular called Writing Excuses, and it’s got me thinking. One of their more recent episodes is dedicated ‘Stakes’, defining the word as, “The thing that keeps your character from being able to walk away from the conflict.” There has to be something important enough at stake for a character to stay in the conflict.

I thought on this, trying to link why I personally thought that Murphy’s and Lexa’s story arcs were the most interesting to me during season 3. Why I really enjoyed many aspects of season 1b and the whole of season 2. Then I listened to the podcast some more and they went on to talk about how the film industry very often falls into a pattern of raising the stakes in each new movie/season, but they don’t do it in quite the right way. They move from ‘saving the friend’ to ‘saving the city’ to ‘saving the world’. I mean, it makes sense, right? The problem getting bigger with a bigger consequence? More of a reason for the heroes to succeed? Well… yes.

But also no?

Perhaps I’m not part of the majority when I say Clarke could have and maybe, perhaps, almost should have just walked away from Arkadia and it’s problems after Lexa was killed. And I’m not saying this because I’m bitter (because I am) but because at that point, her people couldn’t have cared less about her. The only people who Clarke really had a stake in their problems was her mother and Raven. And maybe that is the reason she stayed with their little Ragtag Team of Delinquents when they went out to find Luna. Or maybe it was the “raised stake” of if they don’t stop ALIE, she will destroy more than just Arkadia. Hell, Clakre even said herself in ‘Hakeldama’ that she wasn’t sure if Arkadia was home anymore.