a kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder.

lover, you should've come over. richie; xviii; she/they/he

[fagsamwinchester]

i. you're nothing without your father — a truth that's been tattooed onto your skinbonesbrain from the day you stumbledshoved from the burning husk of childhood, a truth as constant as the rattling of green army men in the vents of the impala. scents of sweat and gunpowder hug you the way he never did. you think the embrace of his leather jacket is a good enough imitation, but you never had the guts to even hope for any affection. (you're a damn coward, dean, can't even ask your old man for a pat on the back, but you'd covet a drunken punch to the jaw and caress the deliberate finger-shaped bruises on your upper arm.)

ii. your brother is stuffed overfull with righteous anger. younger siblings, trailblazers, ones in your shadow who feel most constricted by the chains you've come to treat as an extention of yourself. you don't feel anything but resignation and the quiet ember of desperate wishing that one day he might look at you with anything but anger. it didn't happen when you shot that pregnant shapeshifter in the head, it didn't happen when you set fire to that family of werewolves, but it just might if you can stop sam from leaving.

iii. you can't stop sam from leaving. (you can't do anything right, can you, dean?)

iv. you aren't sure if you tried your hardest to tie him to you. deep down, you think he doesn't deserve to be tangled in the sin of the winchester family, not like you. your entrails are inextricably knotted with your father's machete and pistol. machineboy, weaponboy, but never sonboy. you barely feel humanboy sometimes, letting yourself finger the hem of a girl's skirt in portland but jolting away when a boy with electric blue eyes touches your hand in pontiac. sir's eyes are everywhere.

v. you're a grown man now, as he would say, a real man. the scars on your hands and the hardness of your biceps tell that, it's true. maybe he wouldn't say that if he saw your soft fleshy insides and repressed yearning, but you've learnt to hide it. the rings on your fingers click against the metal of your gun. a daddy's boy through and through.

- a tragedy in five parts // rk

[jareckiworld]

Zhang Gong — Beijing No.3  (acrylic on canvas, 2014)

[marisatomay]

CDC says fully vaccinated people can now stand on the overpass and scream at the cars, “I WANNA GET BETTER”

[final-boy]

[fagsamwinchester]

hello i am looking to move out of my abusive household!!! finally!! im going for a house inspection on saturday so any tips for what to look for/moving out tips generally will b much appreciated

[bollyswood]

today it was revealed that a white woman in brownface was amita suman’s stunt double in shadow and bone. 

at a time when hollywood is preaching to stop aapi hate the show has shown us, twice so far, that they don’t care about our community. by having a south asian coded character make racist remarks towards an east asian coded character they added nothing to the plot or character development- all they did was try to create a divide between our communities. this hurt more especially because zoya was never racist in the books.

they condoned putting a stuntwoman in brownface because they couldn’t be bothered to find a desi stuntwoman for amita. there are truly so many talented desi dancers and acrobats out there but shadow and bone refused to cast accurately solely because stuntwomen are supposed to show up in blurry or fast moving shots, making it “easier” to rely on brownface. this speaks volumes about how much they care about diversity.

for a show that has been praised for representation and diversity and was going to mean so much for asian viewers, shadow and bone failed to deliver time and time again, showing us that all we can count on when it comes to south asian representation in hollywood is constant disrespect and racism.

netflix and leigh bardugo along with the rest of the showrunners and writers marketed the show as being a diverse fantasy but were surrounded by a team that approved brownface should tell you all you need to know about how much they respected desi people in the first place. so many south asians were excited to finally see themselves onscreen in inej and zoya, especially as the show was praised by reviewers and writers as being diverse and accurate representation and this is what we got.

amita was so excited to play inej, a strong brown woman whose identity was not solely defined by her race and i can’t imagine how she felt watching a white woman paint herself brown so that she could perform stunts that amita had trained for as well. if anything, this proves that hollywood’s pushing of diversity on screen does nothing to help poc and representation unless that same diversity exists behind the camera.

[ryan-sometimes]

COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

[ryan-sometimes]

Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and “donate” or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go “Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3” when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.

[comradesaucegay]

african and latin american countries are also pushed by pfizer to give up sovereign assets as part of their vaccine agreement

[thingsthatmakeyouacey]

They’re not only hoarding and blackmailing, but the cherry on top is that the US, UK, Australia, most of Europe, Brazil et al. actually voted AGAINST waiving intellectual property agreements for the existing vaccines, something that India & South Africa proposed MONTHS ago to the World Trade Organization, and which most of the Global South voted yes to. So rather than letting countries manufacture these vaccines themselves, meaning they could have their own supply, they’re being kept, by multiple measures, beholden to the Global North for donations. The US voted multiple times to block this, before and after Biden’s inauguration.

Read more:

Overview from JANUARY of this : https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/01/02/india-south-africas-covid-vaccine-proposal-wto-patent-waiver-must-considered-compulsory-licensing/id=128652/

Update from February: https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news21_e/trip_23feb21_e.htm

Recent coverage of the deal not being met (again): https://www.law360.com/lifesciences/articles/1363457/wto-fails-to-reach-deal-on-covid-ip-waiver-proposal-again

Map of the vote (colorblind-friendly): https://twitter.com/comradesquirrel/status/1370595876536729600?s=21

[Image description: a world map. Countries in black (US, Brazil, most of Europe, Japan, Australia) opposed; countries in green (Africa not including Algeria/Libya/Western Sahara/Eritrea; China, South Asia, and most of southeast Asia; and Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua) are co-sponsors/full supporters; countries in yellow (Canada, Mexico, Chile) are undecided; countries in light brown (Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, Thailand, Bhutan, the Phillipines, and Papua New Guinea) are general supporters; and the remainder are gray, which is not designated as anything]

Meanwhile as India is getting hundreds of thousands of new cases a day and running out of oxygen tanks for hospitals, the US won’t lift restrictions on raw material exports that would support vaccine production: https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-defends-restrictions-on-export-of-covid-19-vaccine-raw-materials-amid-indias-request-to-lift-ban/

On vaccine nationalism: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-vaccine-justice/

Vaccine Nationalism Is Patently Unjust

Poor countries are paying more for the doses that remain after rich countries have had their fill.

[thingsthatmakeyouacey]

and, like, WATCH border policies change because of this

[bi-dazai]

yeah and the irony of australia voting against waiving that shit is that our vaccine rollout and supply has been absolutely terrible because we have to ship these vaccines over from Europe and the US to here which is an insanely long distance, when we could be making it in the university laboratories that were initially contributing research to the vaccine. Brisbane labs were contributing significant research, even I had a friend working in a lab that was doing COVID research and development. We have the capability to manufacture these vaccines ourselves but the lib government would rather have a dangerously slow vaccination process rather than fund public healthcare and education (as most of the research was done in university labs).

[dailylgbtq]

“I was thinking, ‘Well, am I completely non-binary? What am I?’ And I realized, actually I am who I am. I’m first and foremost, just a human being who likes what I like. I am also a woman, and that’s how the world has viewed me the majority of my life. I’m proud of that as well, and I can identify with both those things. I think that’s the thing with your pronouns and gender identity, you can just be who you are. That was so freeing to me to understand that I could have multiple pronouns and some friends will refer to me as they, and some will refer to me as she, and that’s okay … I’m proud to be gender nonconforming. I’m proud of all my friends who are the same. Hopefully as time goes on, it becomes something that more and more people feel they can talk about.”

Jessie Mei Li for Elle photographed by Danny Kasirye

[oretscvs]

“ we live in a society where the female experience and the length and breadth and width of ALL DIFFERENT WOMEN aren’t fully represented on screen yet . and i have felt restricted by that in my career and in my life , and like i said –– when i saw nina i went ‘ oh my god . finally . i feel some representation … and i would hope that other people would feel that as well from this show . and not just through nina , but through ALL THE CHARACTERS . because i think leigh bardugo has made an effort to do that . i think the show runners have made an effort to do that . as a show , we can’t fix society , and this has been a systemic problem for so long … but we are , i would hope , a STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION . and we haven’t forgotten that or taken that for granted . we have worked , but we can’t fix the problem . but we can just be –– i can just be the best nina that i can be … BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT ME BEING NINA IN A NETFLIX SERIES DOESN’T TAKE AWAY ANYONE ELSE’S NINA . everyone owns their own nina from reading the book for the first time . i’m just adding a version to the already existing versions , and i don’t want to say that because i’m here now , this is the definitive version . I DON’T BELIEVE THAT IT IS . ” –– danielle galligan on playing NINA ZENIK 

[thefudge]

my contribution to fandom

[birdmans]

Shadow and Bone + 👀

[cowpokeprose]

Maybe you aren’t annoying, maybe they were just annoyed. Maybe your entire personality can’t be boiled down to actions others found disruptive. Maybe peoples feelings are subjective views of you, not objective. The same way we teach kids to say “I feel angry when you do this thing” instead of “you made me angry!” maybe you should consider that people, due to their own personal beliefs about social interaction, felt annoyed in response to your actions but that that doesn’t necessarily mean you did something bad or are something bad. And while its sweet that you want to make sure people don’t have negative feelings, there’s a lot of humans in this world and we’re always going to be stepping on each others toes so maybe don’t let people feeling annoyed with you define you. 

[boyworstie]

SUPERNATURAL + TAROT CARDS (4/?)

[sam winchester → the hanged man] the hanged man understands that his position is a sacrifice that he needed to make in order to progress forward - whether as repentance for past wrongdoings, or as a calculated step backward to recalculate his path onward. this time he spends here will not be wasted; he does this as a part of his progression forward.

[fagsamwinchester]

this just in: second dose of covid vaccine makes you homophobic

[qwertyfingers]

can't believe peiople are earnestly posting Again about gay vs bi character discourse when half of these takes are from someone arguing uncritically that men are encouraged to be gay lmfao

[qwertyfingers]

i literally dont even CARE about the character interpretation angle and never have because i dont read fic for any specific identity but every single one of their posts is arguing something that just literally doesn't exist lmfoa

putting this under a cut because i dont want it to be all over the place and with any luck this will be the only post about it but for the record theyre being a complete clown and really need to just. step back and reassess what on eart theyre actually tryign to say

"i think the thing with a lot of gay dean headcanons is that even the non-reactionary ones seem to come from a kinda mindset that bisexuals are an entirely different species that we don't have any shared experiences with gay people"

okay show your working lol. to me it sounds liek YOU don't understand (or don't want to admit) that sexuality is complex and personal and that one person interpreting a character as gay doesn't in any way discredit you personally identifying with them as a bisexual. gay people are generally more likely to see a person as gay, and bi people are generally more likely to see them as bi. that's not a fight it just makes sense? that's how things work?

like, imagine if i said it was homophobic to interpret any male character who'd shown to date men and women as bi, because their attraction to women could be forced or ~comphet. you'd propbably feel pretty fucked off right? so why can't you see that it's weird to say it's biphobic to interpret men as gay if they've shown any attraction to women? obviously there are very few stats on how many gay people have never dated the ~opposite sex, but in my experience across most demographics the answer is Very Few.

"if he’s gay, he kinda has a whole other level of self hatred and repression going on and i don’t see him being that unaware of his sexuality all the way to the age of 41"

do you like. talk to older gay people at all. i've met men who only realised in their SEVENTIES. 41 really isn't all that old and someone who's clearly having a really hard time with mascuilinity and gender faces additional complications when it comes to accepting sexuality. this is true for gay and bi men! but its impossible to overstate the psychological effects of compulsory heterosexuality and how much harder it often is to accept a lack of attraction to the ~opposite~ sex than to accept the presence of it to your own. this has nothing to do with dean it's just something a lot of gay people have talked about over hsitory and is important to keep in mind here i think. again this is not a given truth, some gay people find it easier to accept theyre not straight than to accept that they are gay, but a general trend

literally every argument on their page is like. 'gay dean people think its more woke for dean to be gay than if hes bi' no they just personally dont interpret his interactions as genuine attraction for whatever reason. 'gay dean people don't interpret anyoen as bi' i have literally not once come across a person who headcanons every queer person is spn as gay. never.

really this is just. one persons insecurity being played into a political conversation that spreads and spreads and ends up upsetting a lot of people because theyre literally saying 'gay dean truthers are biphobic as a group and excluding bisexuals from queer spaces and etc' and its just not grounded in reality at all and honestly shades over like. actual problems. this whole thing is completely facetious and a built up straw man because people are upset about their personal view not being everyones view and its obnoxious to start pulling out academic ass language that literally says 'bi women are encouraged to be straight but bi men are actually encouraged to be gay'

[eclogues]

knuckle tats that say TEEN WOLF

[fagsamwinchester]

darklina is awful sorry im a malina stannie now