think this through

i have no idea what im doing except maybe thinking. My political opinions can probably best be summarized as “Don’t be a dick.” too many fandoms (I know I’ve been posting a lot of Scott Summers stuff recently but I swear I’m not an X-Men blog.) Art tag is lapse in art. Sometimes I write stuff. Find me on ao3.

[killy-deactivated20241228]

it really hurts me to see so many gazans asking us for help, though that's through no fault of their own. they've been forced to use a social media site that they're probably not familiar with (because tumblr has kind of faded out of popular consciousness), to interact with us in a second language, to distinguish themselves from the scammers who are taking advantage of genocide, and to ask strangers for help. i don't think there are any cultures where it's easy to ask for help like this, but i'm intimately familiar with how humiliating it can be in arab culture. please be kind, gracious and helpful to the gazans in your inbox. this is a desperate time for them, and in addition to the physical danger inflicted by "israel", the prices of basic resources in gaza are extremely high due to scarcity, and those that manage to escape to egypt are financially exploited by landlords there and have an extremely difficult time finding work due to their unofficial status as refugees. these families will continue to need our help and i hope we can all continue to provide it to the best of our ability.

[killy-deactivated20241228]

masterpost of palestinian fundraisers

operation olive branch fundraiser spreadsheet

[nezumysh]

But how can I tell if they are real:

Any advice?

[killy-deactivated20241228]

Yes! Use tumblr’s search feature to look up their URLs. If they’ve been vetted by Palestinians, there will be a post about it. The users el-shab-hussein and nabulsi made a vetted fundraisers spreadsheet that comes up in a lot of search results too, I’m on mobile and don’t have it on hand presently but it’s easy to find!

[ardl]

Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser List

Fundraiser List Vetted Gaza Fundraiser List,This list was researched and created by @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi on tumblr. It is not co

[joygucci-deactivated20160123]

Reblog if you're black tumblr.

You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and your for us.

[redheadsims-cc]

[remus-sanders-is-the-bestest]

BLM is still a thing. If you don’t reblog this, but would’ve in June/July you were only in support of black lives when it was a trend. They still need justice

[liongrl321]

everyone deserves equality <3

[hr-rep]

Shane and His Three Older Sisters from an AU that I will never write 🙂‍↕️🤝🙏

[lexicanons]

Irina isn’t thrilled her son is in a relationship with a man. She’ll never disown Ilya. She’ll never call him slurs, never call Ilya the things her older son called her baby boy or use the names her late ex-husband used to describe men who slept with other men. Ilya is her son, he would always be her son and she would always love him. She just didn’t know if she could ever love this part of him. Shane is nice. He is a great hockey player, not as good as her son of course, and he seems to have his head on his shoulders. Ilya’s husband seem to have a good upbringing and came from good stock…if only Ilya’s husband was Ilya’s wife. Irina is cordial when Ilya brings Shane around but Irina can tell that Shane can tell she isn’t exactly approving. She was sure that if it was up to Shane, he would never appear before Irina again and Irina would be fine with only seeing Shane on television. They’re both playing nice for Ilya. Irina knows Ilya wants his two favorite people to love one another as much as he loves them and Irina is trying, she swears she is. It’s just that every time Ilya and Shane leave, she clutches the cross around her neck. Tears slip from her eyes as she kneels down in prayer. She fears for her son’s soul and asks God to save him.

[codelyokooutofcontext]

[queerpunktomatoes]

Hi, quick clarification for baby leftists.

Privilege is when you lack barriers another person faces due to your identity (or perceived identity!) and social position, and it's often unnoticeable that you're experiencing it until someone points it out.

An example: I have privilege over my POC friends because I am perceived as white. My man friends have privilege over me because I am perceived as a woman. So my Puerto Rican man friend and I have privilege over each other in different ways, him because he doesn't face sexism and misogyny the way I do, and me because I don't face racism the way he does.

Relative Privilege is when one person with the same identity as another experiences discrimination or barriers to a lesser degree than the other.

An example: My friend and I are both Autistic, and we both experience discrimination due to that. Our autism presents differently, and (generally speaking!), I am more disabled by it than he is. Thus, he holds relative privilege over me. He is still discriminated against more than an allistic person is, but he is discriminated against for his autism less than I am for mine. This is relative privilege. This can also be applied more broadly, for example, I hold relative privilege over many disabled people who are not Autistic but are also otherwise disabled, because they experience more barriers than I do.

Also please note that privilege, because it's given or denied from larger social structures, is often more about how people perceive your identities than your actual identities! For example, I am not a woman, but I am perceived as a woman, and thus experience discrimination based on that.

Experiencing privilege is not a morally bad thing, and experiencing discrimination is not a morally high thing. It's easy to fall into the identity olympics, but it's not helpful. Where you have privilege, use it to lift the voices of those who don't. You are essential. Where you don't have privilege, learn your history, find your community, and embrace yourself. You are essential.

[rookiecookie12]

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!

[muttsandmustelidae]

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

[muttsandmustelidae]

Because people will pay attention to cute animals, here are some of the critically endangered/endangered species housed at the Nashville Zoo!

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

Look at them!!!! Look at them and fight like hell to save them!!!!

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[kuragin]

this is the most underrated part of rockin’ and rollin’ yoda

[bunjywunjy]

Luke’s face is what makes this.

[marlynnofmany]

For today’s lucky 10k who have not seen the sacred texts – enjoy. It will be stuck in your head for a while.

[lavenderprose]

Also. And I promise I'll shut up after this (🤞🏼) the reason Shane likes calling Ilya baby and the reason is pleases Ilya to hear him do it is because they both know it's gender-affirming for Shane. Not that either of them would use that terminology. Because they do not have it. Because they are jocks. But at the core yeah it's gender affirming.

[missjoolee]

Guys, I think this might be more upsetting than chocolate guy.😭

[andmaybegayer]

[lavenderprose]

Actually FUCK IT list of times Shane calls Ilya baby:

- Ilya gets a sunburn during the first cottage summer and neither of them realize it until Ilya is taking his shirt off that night and Shane sees the lobster-red flush across his shoulders. He sucks in a hiss through his teeth and says, "Oh, baby, ouch," and presses the big, broad pads of his fingertips so tenderly to Ilya's shoulder and Ilya has to close his eyes because he feels like he's going to crack apart.

- When he answers the phone and he's alone. "Hi baby," said so softly if it's been a long day. Or a hard one. Or if it's late. "Hey baby," more energetically, usually in the morning, in a way that reminds Ilya of how his teammates answer the phone to their girlfriends and wives. Masculine and jockish and very North American in a way that makes Ilya feel pleased for Shane, in a weird way.

- Glass on the floor in the kitchen. Ilya blindly following the sound of the shatter and not really even thinking about it until he's standing amongst the shards and Shane is gesturing frantically with the broom. "Put on some fucking shoes, baby, please! Fuck, where are your slides--no, don't move, I'll get them--"

- Said gently, as a question, on days when he perhaps stays in bed longer than can be justified by sleepiness.

- "Hey, baby," said some mornings when Ilya comes downstairs dressed for the day and Shane really likes his outfit. Usually an indication that Ilya will not be wearing those clothes for very long.

- In bed less often than you'd think. Really a vanilla sex only thing, because being called baby can sometimes bring Ilya out of it when he's really in the groove. But Shane will lose it a little sometimes, when Ilya says, "Tell me you like it," and Shane says, "Yes baby fuck fuck I like it fuck please don't stop fuck baby please let me cum" and that's. Very good. Obviously.

- Said with a very particular warning lilt and only AFTER Shane has already said, "Ilya." and then, "Rozanov." In the same tone. This is actually one of only two circumstances where the very elusive 'babe' comes into play. If Shane REALLY wants Ilya to stop whatever he's doing or saying, it's a hand around the wrist and the word, "Babe," quiet but firm. And it does shut Ilya up approximately 100% of the time.

- Other instance of 'babe': Any sort of crowd. 'Ilya' is three syllables (Because Shane...pronounces it a bit wrong.) and unique enough that Shane sometimes worries about drawing attention. 'Babe' is one syllable and can be barked above the crowd in the Captain Hollander voice loud enough that Ilya will have no choice but to hear him if he's within the surrounding 500 feet. They have Marco-Polo'd themselves back to each other with 'BABE' and 'SHANE' multiple times in multiple countries.

- One time someone accidently brings several bottles of fortified wine to the barbecue. It's quite high proof for wine and several people get tipsier than normal, including Shane. Halfway through the evening he puts his head on Ilya's shoulder and plays with his fingers and murmurs, "My baby," into the seam of his shirt and Ilya, looking down at him so fondly, says, "Yes. Yours. Drink some water for me, sweetheart."

- "YES BABY." Yelled directly in Ilya's face during goal cellies. Obviously. This is also the first thing Ilya hears when the ringing in his ears stops after he scores the game-winning goal in overtime in game seven of the Stanley Cup finals. Knees on the ice, sobbing, screaming, laughing, and his husband barrels towards him at damn near light speed, tackles him, skids onto his knees and sends them sliding along the ice together, knocks Ilya's helmet off and puts his hands on his face and yells Yes baby! Fuck yes, baby! We did it!

[itskurwanumber5]

@ Montreal

Ilya: (watching people burn fake Rozanov in the car park) Boys. It's Russian Mardi Gras this week.

Raiders: wat

Ilya: Let's go eat crepes next to that burning scarecrow.

Raiders: So that Metros fans can burn you too, are you nuts?

Ilya: (typing something on his phone) Firstly, it's Canada, they don't have balls for that.

Raiders: That's what you think.

Ilya: Nah it's fine, I just ordered 10 kg serving of crepes, it will be delivered to car park, gonna be enough for Metros fans too, they won't burn the hand feeding them, right?

Raiders: aRe YoU oK dUdE

...

Later, on Ilya's Instagram:

[picture of Ilya eating a crepe next to his own burning scarecrow]

Ilya: Huge thank yous to Montreal for hospitality, haven't had a proper authentic Maslenitza in years!

Comments:

xx: die

xx: go die

xx: die motherfucker

Kolya Andropov: thanks for crepes, real tasty stuff, dm me the cafe's address plz, I miss blini too

JJ: SO THAT'S WHERE YOU GOT THOSE CREPES FROM KOLYA HOW COULD YOU

...

JJ: Our rook is fraternizing with the enemy.

Shane: (awkward silence)

Kolya: What? He's a troll, but he's fine. We were on the same team in junior league. He even saved my ass once. By being asshole.

Metros: ???

Kolya: It was winter, blizzard, we played in some asscrack of Siberia, proper airport couldn't take us because bad weather conditions, so we landed in closest city and hired a bus to get to place. Stopped on the route for toilet break, because gas stations were too far in between, you know? So it was like road in the middle of forest. I was last one to go take piss in the trees, Rozanov peeked out of bus door with phone to take pictures. I start zip my pants when he screams murder "Kolyan, get your ass here NOW". Well, it was forest, I didn't ask, I ran. When bus door closed, bus shook like earthquake. Because Amur tiger crashed into bus door.

Hayden: tiger

Kolya: Yep. Whole team was never much into wildlife picnics ever since, maximum under-Moscow dachas. Quiet, no predators, just squirrels, snakes and drunk moonshine dealers.

...

2017 @ Shane's cottage

Shane: Here, that's what a loon looks like. (shows picture on the phone) Nothing scary.

Ilya: YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT CAN COME OUT OF THE FOREST

Shane: (grins) ...like Siberian tigers?

Ilya: EXACTLY

Shane: (sigh) Ilya, it's not my first year here, you know?

Ilya: So?

Shane: I have a shotgun.

Ilya: ...oh

Ilya: Not just Mr Real Estate, but also Mr Dangerous, I see.

Ilya: (getting all comfy head in Shane's lap)

Shane: (mouths silently) babygirl

[goldenonthemoon]

Shane, Ilya, Yuna, and David all watch Everything, Everywhere, All At Once on a random Friday during the summer. Ilya had insisted they watch the movie and they never had a chance to when it was in the theaters, not with their schedules.

Every single one of them cried. Yuna held Shane in the end, bringing Ilya into the hug. She whispers "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." and Shane is shaking his head, too overwhelmed to speak. Ilya presses a kiss to his forehead and David joins the hug.

[lapseinart]

Can I just say I want to give the Hollanders my sort of experience with EEAAO which was my thought it was a good movie to watch for Mother’s Day and had no clue about the plot?

Like Ilya hears about the movie from Harris maybe who calls it a great piece of queer cinema about family relationships and motherhood and when he looks up the poster he thinks it looks kinda wacky and cool and they’re Asian so he suggests it for movie night. Doesn’t even see its rated R. So the butt plug fight kinda came from left field and Shane is side-eyeing Ilya hard but David likes sci-fi stuff and Yuna doesn’t seem to mind so they keep going and tHEN the emotional devastation hits

[violet-prism-creatively]

I tried my hand at one of those two-column (contrapuntal) poems! I have a new level of respect for anyone who writes these lol

You can also read it on ao3 where I learned how to code an HTML table for this.

[uncreativeblob]

GAGGED.

[shutyourmoustache]

When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

[party-gilmore]

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!