Ménage a Whaaa?

Hello! My name is Dr. Tsus. Wish I could be a writer but more an editor/beta disposition.

[paper-mario-wiki]

If you’re 14, please don’t hit on 20 year olds.

[paper-mario-wiki]

lotta people saying “yeah but also 20 year olds also shouldnt hit on 14 year olds!”

yeah, 20 year olds know that, and the 20 year olds who arent shitty people respect that.

but 14 year olds don’t really think to stop themselves from getting crushes and hitting on people way older than them. it makes people like me who are 18+ feel super uncomfortable.

it’s flattering, sure, but it still makes me feel weird.

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

good lord the ppl fuckin intentionally misinterpreting the point of this post so they can pat themselves on the back for pretendin they’re destroying an act of injustice. lemme break this down for u

here’s what the usual scenario would be

heres what people have been misinterpreting this complaint to be about

there are infinite responses ‘countering’ the post by saying that “it’s the adult’s job to shut the child down,” which is insinuating that 1) we’re talking about adult-child relationships, and 2) that the post is claiming children are at fault for them. except we’re talking about a child engaging in flirting outside their age group, and that they should stop this behavior.

what u seem to be forgetting is that, yknow, context matters. @paper-mario-wiki made this post as someone with tens of thousands of followers, and the event that prompted it was me complaining to him about my own experiences, as someone with also tens of thousands of followers. so its more like this

add onto that that we’re dating, and that a lot of young teen/tween girls really like to latch onto internet personalities AND gay relationships, and u got 2 prime fuckin targets for a lot of unwanted attention. {to be clear: a lot of young teenage girls seeking a relationship.} it gets particularly less tolerable when the kid takes to more drastic measures for attention, like private messaging, sharing photos, and trying to engage in inappropriate behaviors they think will make them be taken more seriously.

a lot of people tried to argue that our concern should be that the kids might do this frequently with other adults and get themselves into serious danger, and that we should be more focused on letting them know it’s wrong. you’re completely right! we should! we should communicate to them that this behavior should stop! here, lemme whip up a quick post about it.

perfect

the point of this was to gently lay the word down on a website that’s particularly popular with that crowd. the fact that so many people are reaching so far as to claim that this is fucking pedophilia apologist is like, gut-wrenchingly awful. shame on you for making such a serious accusation like that out of a post that could not have even mildly insinuated that somehow a child is at fault in an abusive predatory relationship.

im disgusted bc you and i both know damn well that’s not what was being said, and yet you took it as a chance to put those words in his mouth so you could make yourself feel good for berating him.

anyways, i stand by the initial point of the post 100%. if you’re a minor, do not try to appeal to people who are beyond your age group. you are going to instantly make them uncomfortable not only because of the unsolicited attention but also because you are putting them in an incredibly awkward position due to your age and the nature of the conversation.

it’s not their job to have that discussion with a child about what’s inappropriate and why. don’t put that on them. for everyones sake, dont flirt with adults.

[godspeedimpala]

There’s been incidents before where teenagers have sent very risque, or even nude photos to internet personalities/celebrities before (looking back, now I’m very glad I was too embarrassed to take a topless photo of my friend to send to her favorite band). It’s incredibly dangerous how to handle physical or digital copies of those. If it’s discovered they’ve been in your possession and you’ve destroyed/deleted them, people will say you’re trying to hide evidence of child pornography. Trying to send it back with a letter of rejection, then you’re accused of secretly carrying out a relationship with a minor and trying to break it off before being discovered

Lots of questions have to be asked, and just like what happened on this post, people quickly jump to conclusions. Facts are misinterpreted and some people’s lives can never quite recover.

[the-discourse-prince]

i’ve been seeing a lot of posts saying “ship whoever you want” so here are some reminders

do not ship adults with characters under 18

do not ship siblings together (includes adoptive)

do not ship parents with their children

do not ship any family members together

do not ship canon lesbians with men

do not ship canon gay guys with women

do not ship abuse victims with their abusers

and since it can’t be said enough

stop drawing/writing porn of child characters (including aged down characters) it is illegal and disgusting

stop sexualising children’s media, not everything is or has to be sexual, let things made for kids stay for kids.

this doesn’t apply to survivors trying to cope (but still don’t do anything illegal you could get in trouble and i don’t want that) but for all non-survivors you absolutely do not do any of these things you gross fucks

[godspeedimpala]

I’m just gonna say it outright and I don’t care who flames me since I stopped using Tumblr for anything other than looking at my fandoms, but it’s people like you that made me complete stop caring about anything SJW.

Do you think trying to shame people like this is actually going to work? Do you think people having these “kinks” actually means they don’t know right from wrong in real life, or do they just offend you (and you go out of your way to get yourself worked up)? Have you ever actually talked with a real therapist or rape crisis counselor about these? Either will tell you, as long as you know it’s wrong, you’re not victim-blaming, and you’re hurting anyone, it’s not wrong.

It’s understandable with so few canon non-heterosexual couples in media even in this day in an age that shipping a non-hetero with the opposite gender seems like that person is just trying to some sort of “straight-washing” because they’re uncomfortable with going outside what’s considered “normal”. But consider why those people pair up characters in the first place. There must be some sort of chemistry they see. How come you aren’t non-canon slash shaming too then? Despite all the evidence those fans see, plenty of people say it’s wrong to go against canon. If you say it’s because those people aren’t hurting anyone or spreading any hate, don’t you see the hypocrisy? It’s “problematic”? Why? Unless they’re actively denying that said non-hetero wasn’t in love with their same-sex partner or trying to “fix” them, why couldn’t that character be bisexual?

And the incest? The entire damn world has been fixated on it for god knows how long. It’s in our folklore (Greek and Egyptian) and religions. The underage thing? We’re not gonna forget about it. The fact that it’s taboo and there’s laws against it makes sure of it. We all know it’s wrong. Telling people to stop any shipping isn’t going to stop it from happening in real life. People know incest and having sex with a minor is wrong, but writers still do it. How many did you see call for George R.R. Martin’s head though? Because Cersei/Jaime was so forbidden was what kept people so fascinated. I see very see few people complain about thirteen year old Daenerys with Khal Drogo. Why is that?

I’m going to do little to change your opinions really, but I just wanted to let you know it’s attitudes like these, while with the best intentions at heart I’d hope, that made me see just how similar anti-kink shaming, and over the top SJWs act to McCarthyism. You probably heard of the incident where a girl was cyberbullied to the point of trying to commit suicide due to a picture she drew of Rose Quartz people accused her of being “too skinny” (granted they found issues with other pictures as well). All these accusations of her being fatphobic with nothing to back it up other than a picture. While McCarthyism was supposed to stop a great threat to the nation, it ended up being an era of making unfair allegations with little evidence to back it up. As wikipedia described it, “ [It] was a widespread social and cultural phenomenon that affected all levels of society and was the source of a great deal of debate and conflict in the United States.” Sound familiar?

I no longer wanted to be a part of a movement where if I stepped out of line, I’d be accused of all these horrible things by people who have little qualifications to make them. Writing a story about rape normalizes it? Where are your studies? We’re driven crazy all the time when Fox News provides all these skewed numbers, but where’s are ours, outside of a few personal stories?

TLDR; We might say that we’re protecting the victims from being traumatized again and stopping these crimes from being normalized, but where’s the research? We aren’t going after other shippings because we think they’re problematic, we mostly go after them because they offend us.

[blindbee]

[avodaco]

me when i get my student loan

[g8dtier]

this is the money cat. reblog in 30 seconds and you will find yourself with more wealth

[strikercorbie]

#this is the only money cat i will reblog because it’s actually doing the manekineko pose151,646 notes (via lolwhutninja)

OMG YOU’RE RIGHT

[nonespark-blog]

and it has its right paw up! the correct paw for this. and from the markings on its ears, it looks like it might be a calico cat. which is the luckiest kind!

[carrionbeast]

extremely lucky cat

[the-archlich]

Dynasty Warriors Character Analysis: Xiahou Dun

TL;DR: In fact and in fiction, he’s Cao Cao’s right-hand man, and he fits his role perfectly.

Keep reading

[godspeedimpala]

To answer the question about the eyeball, the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms is responsible. During the battle where the arrow hit his eye, Xiaohou Dun pulls it out and essentially yells how he won't let any of the parts his parents gave him be thrown away. And I guess Lo Kuan-chung decided the best way to go about that was to have Dun eat it. True or not, it epitomizes just how loyal and badass he is.

[adelembe]

I’m a Catholic whore currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at the military abortion clinic. So hail Satan and have a lovely afternoon, madam. (x)

[godspeedimpala]

But in all honestly, does it make any more of a difference to bang your black Jewish boyfriend within wedlock to these kinds of people?

[godspeedimpala]

With the upcoming release of Persona 4: Dancing All Night, can we be in agreement that Persona 4 is Atlus’ equivalent of Final Fantasy 7? All the spin-off games, the animations, the fighting game, the cross-over with other titles in their franchise. The big difference being it didn’t take Atlus almost 20 years to remake their game...

[madlori]

After the ice bucket challenge: they raised $115m for the fight against ALS. So how did they spend it?

When a viral challenge raised $115m to fight ALS, the charity that got the money was overwhelmed. As the first breakdown of spending emerges, David Cox asks what happened next — and what it means for patients

Wanna feel better about something?  

Of the $115M raised, ALSA has given 70% of it to research projects, including genetic research that might be the best bet for a treatment.  Another 20% was used to reopen assistance centers shuttered during the crash, restore funding to others and build some new ones, and provide assistance to ALS patients all over the country.  The remaining 10% went to publicity, additional fundraising and administration.

Their spokesman said that the increase in visibility and awareness for ALS is immeasurable, and ought to benefit them for years to come.

So next time you get sick of a viral campaign, maybe reconsider.

[godspeedimpala]

This is especially reassuring after I heard about how little money some organizations were really donating to their cause for the amount they were making.

While I know some people did the challenge for s’s and g’s, most viewers knew how the challenge came to be and the significance of it.

[un-rare-deactivated20151106]

this is the money cat, repost in the next 24 hours and money will come your way!!

[godspeedimpala]

It just occurred to me

I know One Piece has fish people, merpeople, giants, etc, but does it actually have any black characters? Not saying Naruto or Bleach are any better manga just because they have them, but even they have characters that are meant to be black (Japanese names or not, i.e. Karui and Omoi from Naruto), even if they aren't part of the main cast. I really can't think of any off the top of my head.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

The Shocking Finding From the DOJ's Ferguson Report That Nobody Has Noticed

This post was co-authored by Oren Nimni, a civil rights attorney in Boston and member of the National Lawyers Guild’s executive board.

In the city of Ferguson, nearly everyone is a wanted criminal.

That may seem like hyperbole, but it is a literal fact. In Ferguson — a city with a population of 21,000 — 16,000 people have outstanding arrest warrants, meaning that they are currently actively wanted by the police. In other words, if you were to take four people at random, the Ferguson police would consider three of them fugitives.

That statistic should be truly shocking. Yet in the wake of the Department of Justice’s withering report on the city’s policing practices, it has gone almost entirely unmentioned. News reports and analysis have focused on the racism discovered in departmental emails, and the gangsterish financial “shakedown” methods deployed against African Americans. In doing so, they have missed the full picture of Ferguson’s operation, which reveals a totalizing police regime beyond any of Kafka’s ghastliest nightmares.

The Department of Justice’s 102-page report is a rich source of damning facts about the Ferguson criminal justice system. But tucked halfway in and passed over quickly is a truly revelatory set of figures: the arrest warrant data for the Ferguson Municipal Court.

It turns out that nearly everyone in the city is wanted for something. Even internal police department communications found the number of arrest warrants to be “staggering”. By December of 2014, “over 16,000 people had outstanding arrest warrants that had been issued by the court.” The report makes clear that this refers to individual people, rather than cases (i.e. people with many cases are not being counted multiple times). However, if we do look at the number of cases, the portrait is even starker. In 2013, 32,975 offenses had associated warrants, so that there were 1.5 offenses for every city resident.

That means that the city of Ferguson quite literally has more crimes than people.

To give some context as to how truly extreme this is, a comparison may be useful. In 2014, the Boston Municipal Court System, for a city of 645,000 people, issued about 2,300 criminal warrants. The Ferguson Municipal Court issued 9,000, for a population 1/30th the size of Boston’s.

This complete penetration of policing into everyday life establishes a world of unceasing terror and violence. When everyone is a criminal by default, police are handed an extraordinary amount of discretionary power. “Discretion” may sound like an innocuous or even positive policy, but its effect is to make every single person’s freedom dependent on the mercy of individual officers. There are no more laws, there are only police. The “rule of law,” by which people are supposed to be treated equally according to a consistent set of principles, becomes the “rule of personal whim.”

And this is precisely what occurs in Ferguson. As others have noted, the Ferguson courts appear to work as an orchestrated racket to extract money from the poor. The thousands upon thousands of warrants that are issued, according to the DOJ, are “not to protect public safety but rather to facilitate fine collection.” Residents are routinely charged with minor administrative infractions. Most of the arrest warrants stem from traffic violations, but nearly every conceivable human behavior is criminalized. An offense can be found anywhere, including citations for “Manner of Walking in Roadway,” “High Grass and Weeds,” and 14 kinds of parking violation. The dystopian absurdity reaches its apotheosis in the deliciously Orwellian transgression “failure to obey.” (Obey what? Simply to obey.) In fact, even if one does obey to the letter, solutions can be found. After Henry Davis was brutally beaten by four Ferguson officers, he found himself charged with “destruction of official property” for bleeding on their uniforms.

None of this is even to mention the blinding levels of racism, which remain the central fact of police interactions in Ferguson and nationwide. The overwhelming force of this violent and exploitative policing system is directed at the African American population. In 2013, 92 percent of Ferguson’s arrest warrants were issued against African Americans, and black Fergusonians were 68 percent less likely than others to have their court cases dismissed. The racism is so blatant and comprehensive that the DOJ concluded that “Ferguson law enforcement practices are directly shaped and perpetuated by racial bias.” Considering the qualified and colorless language typically deployed in government documents, this is an astonishingly forceful statement.

Ferguson’s racism has been central to the media coverage of the release of the DOJ report. But in a certain way, by focusing entirely on disparate racial impacts without examining the sheer scale of the brutal state juggernaut, one misses crucial facts. MSNBC listed as the DOJ’s number one “most shocking” finding the fact that “at least one municipal employee thought electing a black president was laughable.” But the existence of racist views in the department is not the most shocking fact, not by a country mile. Rather, endemic racism in policing comes standard. However, that racism occurs in the wider context of an ever-enlarging interlocking system of administrative bureaucracy and police violence.

The other pitfall in analyzing the Ferguson report is to see it as being about Ferguson. There are 19,492 municipal governments in America, and the chances that Ferguson happens to be the worst are extremely slim. In fact, there is strong evidence that in the world of better funded, more militarized, more technologically advanced police departments, Ferguson is simply a high-profile case study. While the Ferguson nightmare may dwarf the problems in cities like Boston, American policing is so out-of-control that Ferguson-style practices can occur on at least some level in almost every department.

It’s hard to believe, but the Ferguson police department’s massive deliberate racism only represents one of its problems. The DOJ report shows not just a racist criminal justice system, but one in which the very act of being alive has been made a crime, and in which nearly every resident is wanted by the law at every moment of every day.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

H/T: Nathan Robinson at Huffington Post 

[godspeedimpala]

God it makes me wish I could find that comment someone made about the John Legend Academy Award speech's statistic of there being more black men under correctional control today than were under slavery. It was along the lines of how we shouldn’t treat them like victims, those people are in jail for a reason so it’s not racial bias. Wanna see their defense now that we know there’s clear evidence of it going on.

[egberts]

life honestly gets so much better when you stop hating pop music for no reason

[godspeedimpala]

Can I dislike it because the only thing they ever play at my job is the top 10 over and over, and the top 10 seems to always be pop? It’s the same reason anyone in retail hates the holiday season music; they have to listen to the same music tracks over and over again. A little variety would be appreciated, especially nowadays when it’s more because of the artist making the song and not the merit of the song itself that things are becoming chart toppers.

Was “Shake It Off“ good because it was actually a good song, or just because it was by Taylor Swift? The song completely failed as her “diss track” (’see how much you guys don’t bother me, I’m gonna write a song about it’) and every time I hear it I just hear a spoiled pop princess claiming how hard she still has it despite being one of the world’s top selling artist. You can say those aren’t good reasons to dislike the song, but they’re reasons. And you didn’t say they had to be good reasons, just that I had to have a reason.

[godspeedimpala]

So, the Oscars...

I like Neil Patrick Harris as much as the next person and I know his zing about "The best and the whitest" is going around, but let's not forget he made David Oyelowo make that crack about Annie- it just reminds me of the whole, "but my black friend said it, so how can it be racist?" kind of sentiment. The problem now being that a white guy wrote it and purposely had a black man say it to make it all right.

After Dana Perry talked about her son's suicide he made joke of her dress rather than something slightly more empathetic. It had me cringing instead of chuckling.

I really do like him, but everyone saying his performance was spectacular I think needs to step back just a little bit.

[littledonkeyburrito]

you know how a period is supposed to last 3-7 days

who is that asshole that only has to suffer 3 days

[godspeedimpala]

But think of it like this, all of that comes out in 3 days. It hits you like:

[kodabomb]

PEN PRESSURE IS STILL NOT WORKING I’VE TRIED EVERYTHING it’s not my tablet, it’s my laptop, because I tested the home computer and it’s working but seriously what do I do help

[godspeedimpala]

Hope this helps: http://vanoty.tumblr.com/post/82222796698/for-windows-my-friends-and-i-occasionally-have

[mineralgarbo]

okay source the artwork that you post because it is not yours and you need to give credit to the original artist or don't post anything at all

Hi who are you? And the tag I put on the art works are from my role playing account on Instagram sweetie.You’re quite pathetic trying to tell me things you don’t know about while hiding behind an anonymous blog. XD

I put the @sexy.d.luffy tag on them so no one will steal my edits (which has happened in the past)

I even have a disclaimer on my info. So bye honey. Scoot away. ;)

[godspeedimpala]

But you see how you putting your tag on it implies that it's yours is a much larger theft (regardless of your intention to or not) than someone stealing your edits? Granted I haven't shared anything I've drawn in a long time, but if I saw any of my old art work being used with someone else's name of it, I'm gonna be pissed and I'm only gonna think this person is trying to take credit for it. I've seen the mindset of "it's a good way for more people to see art", but the fact is, they're not really seeing the exposure.

I just find it slightly ironic you asked Amaitsumi for the source of a comic when she puts it every post.

[godspeedimpala]

Guess who got cast as Francis Dolarhyde for Season 3?

This guy:

is playing:

in the Hannibal TV series.

Who's The Great Red Dragon now Smaug?

[kitikattt7]

A friend of mine has not watched One Piece in a while, but still wanted to watch this episode…but didn’t want spoilers…

so i gave her this.

[godspeedimpala]

I haven't laughed this hard in a while