Lavender Disaster Demon

Taliesin stop creating disaster bois for me to love. Formerly disaster gun son, but currently Mollymauk has my undivided attention. Critical Role, Torchwood, D&D, HP, MCU, Man from U.N.C.L.E., and any other stuff i pick up i guess

[dalish-kunoichi]

In case anyone was thinking of starting critical role, here’s one reason why you absolutely should. the cast isn’t perfect and unproblematic, but damn did they make sure to use the correct pronouns for Bryce and correct each other when they didn’t. On top of the NPCs there are multiple main characters in both the first and second campaign who are LGBTQ+. There are characters who are working through trauma, PTSD, and dealing with marginalization and racism. There is a focus on forming bonds and chosen family. All done by some nerdy ass voice actors who wanted to stream themselves playing D&D.  The community is great and supportive of one another, and there are multiple donations made to charities, especially charities focused on helping children in need, using funds raised during streams and one shots. 

[notaficwriter]

hypothesis: the salt & pepper diner experiment can no longer be conducted as it stands, because everyone is now fully attuned to the opening bars of tom jones’ “what’s new pussycat?”, classically conditioned into a fight-or-flight response. however, this experience can be replicated using 21 back-to-back plays of lou bega’s 1999 hit song “mambo no. 5″, as the general response to “mambo no. 5″ being played twice in a row is not, “hey someone’s playing “mambo no. 5″ again,” but rather, “hey, lou bega’s 1999 hit song “mambo no. 5″ is a lot longer than i first thought.”

[nickyvmlp]

So what’s the “It’s Not Unusual” in this situation

[calkoscc-deactivated20181204]

Livin’ la Vida Loca

[criticalsorcery]

Vax is back

[autasticanna]

Facts that adults don’t tell you about bullying

- Communication doesn’t work on bullies. Telling a bully they’re making you feel bad is the wrong way to go. They want to make you feel bad. That’s the point.

- being kind to a bully doesn’t always mean they’ll stop. Sometimes it means they’ll just use your kindness to manipulate you while still continuing to bully you.

- not every bully has a sympathetically tragic home life. Sometimes people are just mean. Sometimes people just get off on hurting others.

- on that note, a tough home life is a reason, not an excuse. You don’t have to put up with bullying because somebody’s life sucks, just like you don’t have to let someone mug you because they’re broke.

- in order to forgive someone, they have to apologize first. If your bully has not apologized to you, you do not owe them anything.

- getting bullied as a kid can still mess you up in adult life. Maybe kids grow out of being bullies, but the marks they left often don’t go away.

- there are ways to get people to stop bullying you, but they almost all involve being mean back.

- as long as parents keep raising shitty bullying kids, there will be bullies. No amount of assemblies and hand-drawn posters will fix the problem. It’s the parents’ fault.

[13faeinapenguinsuit]

- It’s not your responsibility to fix your bully or to stop the abuse they send your way, but some adults sure will act like it is.

[emeraldmercury]

- Many times (especially in the case of girls) your friends can be your bullies. This makes things even worse as these are people who know you and your intimate secrets and use them to their advantage. If your friends are bullies, don’t take crap from them. Get new friends. 

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

im gonna throw in that its never your fault, people will pick a target to gang up on because theyd rather it be you than them. even if you think “this must be because im weird”- everyone is weird, in different ways. anyone can be made a target. it’s not just you for some reason in particular, i promise.

[veganvenom]

The way the media has been treating Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin’s dynamic during the Deadpool 2 promotion tour is giving me an insight into how all these homophobic fanboys can look past how blatantly queer the film is:

They think it’s all a fucking joke.

Josh Brolin has said repeatedly that he’s had a crush on Ryan Reynolds for a long time. That he admires him, that he finds him attractive, that his feelings for Ryan are complicated and unrequited but real.

And yet all I’m seeing are articles and youtube compilations about Josh’s “hilarious” “man crush” and how “funny” it is every time Josh talks about Ryan or they interact.

And I would suspect it was intentionally meant to be part joking and part queerbaiting for the purpose of fanning the movie’s hype except that:

Josh is out there correcting people who call it a bromance - saying “It’s a real romance”.

He’s having to tell people that “It’s not a joke”.

He’s calling interviewers out for laughing.

He’s saying that the only reason he feels weird admitting it is because people are treating his crush as funny.

And this audience attitude is the same one that allows Deadpool to come onto Colossus with the exact same context and tone he came onto Vanessa in the first film, and still lets straight fuckboys think it’s a joke.

It’s why Cable and Deadpool can explicitly flirt, and even have Cable do something as hugely self-sacrificing and romantic for the other man as he does, but there will still be people hypothesising that their strong connection is because Cable’s wife is Deadpool’s daughter or something.

At first I was annoyed that the film was too chicken to end with the two characters getting together, even though (without spoiling it for you) it wouldn’t have felt quite right for the plot so soon.

But now I’m suspecting that even if we’d had a passionate, candle-lit sex scene between Cable and Deadpool, these douchebags would still think it was some hilarious joke.

The franchise can capitalise on that homophobia to get more queerness into the movies, and to be honest it probably already has.

But I’m doubtful that they can do anything that’ll get through the thick skulls of these fuckboy-fanboys.

[cowboyvampyr]

I haven’t seen the movie just yet, and i don’t doubt what you’re saying! H o w e v e r, I’d really like some sources or at least a point in the direction to find those specific interviews with Josh Brolin!

[veganvenom]

Sure! There’s so many interview videos out there right now, some with only a couple hundred views, and I wish I’d bookmarked all the relevant ones for now but alas I didn’t. Here are a few which hopefully get my point across, but there’s more like it:

The Jimmy Fallon interview:

Josh: I mean he’s tall, he’s ha- … Why am I talking about Ryan Reynolds so much? Jimmy: You have a man crush on Ryan Reynolds? Josh: I do! I don’t- [Jimmy laughs] Josh: I feel weird admitting it in front of you because you’re laughing at me right now, but I feel… I feel confidence in my- [Josh gets awkward and hides behind a magazine]

The Build interview:

Josh: I am a huge Ryan Reynolds fan, and that’s not a joke.

The Getty Video interview:

Will Njobvu: Now, I’m seeing this bromance blossoming between you and Ryan Reynolds, even a bit on screen, and- Josh: I think it’s more of a romance. Will: A romance? Josh: Like, a real romance. Will: Really!? Josh: I like him, man. What’s not to like? I like not liking him. It’s a lot of fun to have friction and tension between Ryan Reynolds and myself. Y’know, we can talk about the characters, and the Deadpool and Cable thing, but it has nothing to do with that; it’s him and me.

[red-eye-radio]

@keyismykitty

[quinzelade]

He looks genuinely upset in the first gif. Poor guy.

[lokispriestess-deactivated20181]

fucking let people have casual same sex crushes it’s not a joke just cos he’s ~conventionally masculine~ doesn’t make it funy what a brave dude fuck

[nomtheburritos]

Don’t you ever, EVER hate on these precious, amazing, hard-working best friends.

They deserve LOVE.

[stalessiastan]

john mulaney talking about how much he loves his wife and roasting other male comedians that just talk shit on their wives is why The Gays like him so much because he’s what Straight Culture should be

[bellaxiao]

[bando--grand-scamyon]

No but for real.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

What’s with the newfound fear of little girls wanting to be princesses?

If your five-year-old starts saying she wants to be a princess, tell her ‘princess’ is a political position and that she has a responsibility to look out for her kingdom. Say you’ll be her royal advisor and help her improve her stuffed animal subjects’ standard of living.

See THAT’S how you empower little girls. Not by taking away something they like, but showing them how what they like can be empowering. 

[imhungup]

never have i seen a more relatable character oh my god

[enterheavenalive]

[pineapplejarritos-deactivated20]

Cause it slaps next question

[southernsideofme-deactivated201]

[cyan0corax]

You’ve heard of mlm/wlw solidarity now get ready for: the opposite of that

[van-dyne]

way to break your old man’s heart kids ;)

[997]

YALL BETTER STREAM THE SHIT OUT OF THIS. THIS IS TALENT. THIS IS CONSISTENCY. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR IMO

[hufflepuff-headcanons]

honestly the harry potter fandom is so wild like we’ve all collectively refused to accept cursed child as canon but some college kids tell us hufflepuffs are particularly good finders and we don’t even question it

[blaukrautsuppe]

I didn’t truly get the whole “death of the author” paradigm until I watched the harry potter fandom collectively divorce JKR

[maxbegone]

Matt, any chance he gets: THAT’S MY WIFE!!!!!!