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My aunt used to write horoscopes for the newspaper as a part time job. She had a friend in college who a)always read that newspapers horoscope and b)didn't know my aunt wrote it. So whenever the friend had a shitty episode my aunt would make her horoscope as positive as possible to cheer her up. Long story short they recently got married and are both my aunts now.
what do mean “long story short” give me this entire sappy gay romance novel right now
Capitalist argument against welfare, single payer health care, a universal basic income, or any other social programs funded by taxes: “You’re not entitled to benefit from other people’s labor.”
Capitalist argument against business being required to pay a minimum wage that’s a living wage: “You’re entitled to benefit from other people’s labor as much as possible.”
this tea is delicious
Writers: Bad people are still people with their own problems and emotions, even when they cause problems and distress and hurt other people.
Tumblr Gremlins: Problematic. Blocked.
If you portray bad people as good people, then you’re normalizing abuse. Of course that’s fucking problematic.
Newsflash: people and good people are not synonymous.
If you portray a villain, that villain has thoughts, emotions, desires. Maybe even loved ones. They have things they want. They have reasons for what they do. And none of this excuses their villainous acts.
If you portray a good person, all of the same things apply. Thoughts, emotions, desires, loved ones, things they want, reasons, etc. And when you look at the acts they commit, you think to yourself, “That is a good person. I consider this person heroic, someone worth emulating.” Whereas when you see what the villain does, you think, “Man, that is fucked up.”
The entire difference between a good person and a bad person is not whether or not they are people, but whether the things they do and their reasons for doing them are good or bad. So you can portray a bad person, who abuses people, as having emotions, and desires, and thoughts, and they can still be a bad person.
So yeah. The OP says “bad people should be written as if they are people.” This is true. “Normalizing abuse” is what happens when you write bad people as if they are incomprehensible evil monsters with no common humanity with the rest of us, because this tells abuse victims, most of whom love their abusers, “You’re not really being abused because the person you love is not a bad person! Bad people are 100% evil monsters and the person who is hurting you obviously has feelings!” No. Bad people are people. When you write an abuser, write them as a person, with thoughts and feelings, because real abuse victims know that their abusers are people, and you don’t want to convince them that their abusers can’t be abusers because only monsters are abusers. You want them to understand that abusers are human too, because they already know the person abusing them is human. What they don’t know is whether or not they can consider what’s happening to them to be abuse.
“lol Android users be like-” your phone is designed to break down after a year, your apps are all programmed to draw unnecessary power after 2 years, all your accessories and hardware are arbitrarily made with only 1 kind of plug in mind so you can’t use them with anything else or get them from anywhere else, the cables are 150$ and break in a year, your phones will not charge if there is lint in the port, the stores will ask you for 150$ to remove that lint, the phone itself is 900$
But your chat bubbles are blue so that balances it out right
they literally removed the audio plugin and called it a benefit that it can now only work with their arbitrary wireless headphones. They coloured the phones a pinky gold and sold it for twice as much.
This isn’t a drag against you this is a drag against apple, the company. Their products are price hiked to an insane, impossible degree. They aren’t selling you the product, they are selling you the superiority of being able to smugly say you have an iphone.
They deliberately built up a culture of apple supremacy (especially as a class barrier but i aint even gonna go into that), and now people are making posts like “lmao android users have a bad camera” (they dont) or “lmao android users send bad snapchats” (the android version of snap is deliberately coded to force lower resolution images in order to, surprise, get people saying that exact thing to further encourage #iphoneculture)
Buy an iphone if you want lord knows I’ve bought frivolouss things but can you PLEASE recognize youre being deceived??? theyre playing you every single time you make a post about your iphone and buy into their culture to squeeze more and more money out of you and divide the market and inevitably the classes.
If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead
The iphone stands as a testament to the power of brand loyalty. theres no qualitative reason to buy iphones.
Just look at how they’ve price-hiked their phones to an insane degree over the 11 years since the Iphone 3G price dropped to capture more market because they knew they could due to brand loyalty
Iphone 6 suddenly want to $650 after the Iphone 5 was $200. Iphone X was an insane $1000 for the base model. A $200-$300 increase between generations Despite their phones lacking features as basic for smartphones as an SD card slot.
Apple literally price gouges people just because they know they’ve developed this cult of personality and culture of paying for the logo that lets them.
My Galaxy S8 may be a bit overpriced but at least I know it does what I want and has the full functionally and unlocked OS I expect at that enthusiast price-point.
For your Maia month prompts: any Maia/Izzy maybe and Maia & Alec being buddies because I live for their friendship :)
“So, are you gonna give me the shovel talk?” Maia asked, chalking the tip of her pool cue, her eyes wandering over to Izzy standing at the bar with Magnus.
Alec snorted, shaking his head. “I don’t have to. Izzy is more than capable of calling out any funny business all by herself.” He bent over to take his shot, squinting one eye to aim. “Besides, I’m not sure I could take you even if I wanted to.”
Maia laughed. “I don’t know, I’ve only been at this a few years. Weren’t you brought up on blood wine?” She hummed, tapping her chin. “Oh, no, my mistake. That’s the klingons. Same difference,” she shrugged.
“You’re dating a klingon.” Alec reminded her, smirking with satisfaction as he sunk the ball.
“I’m kinda into it, honestly.” Maia replied, and Alec rolled his eyes.
“You and Izzy are meant to be.”
Maia beamed at him, leaning on her cue. “Damn right we are.”
“I can’t believe it took Magnus this long to set you up, honestly. He’s slipping.” Alec murmured, tutting as his next ball bounced off the corner pocket.
“Must be the old age.” Maia quipped, her eyebrows raising as she heard Magnus clear his throat behind her. She grinned over her shoulder at him, and he glared playfully at her. “You’re looking damn good for it, though.”
“Mmmmm, I’ll remember that next time you get a breakout and you need some of my spot treatment.” Magnus hummed, passing Alec his drink.
Izzy pressed into Maia’s side, kissing her cheek and waving the fresh bottle of beer under Maia’s nose. “Is it our turn?”
“Yeah, it’s yours, I think.” Maia swapped the pool cue for the beer Izzy was holding, taking a swig as she watched Izzy line up a shot, her mouth falling open as she potted two balls with one shot, the two of them skidding into different pockets. “Babe?! Have you been going easy on me?!”
Izzy shrugged, flicking her hair over her shoulder. “Maybe a little.”
Magnus and Maia gaped at her as she sunk another ball.
“There’s a reason why she’s the only Lightwood with a laboratory.” Alec chuckled, shaking his head. “Why do you think the rest of us refuse to play games with her? She’s like this with cards, too.”
“Hey, don’t be bitter because I’m the superior sibling,” Izzy straightened up, having missed her third shot. “Mom and Dad love you more it’s only fair I got the brains.”
“I have ever been so attracted to you.” Maia announced, wrapping her arms around Izzy’s waist. “Have I told you that you’re a badass lately?”
Izzy squinted, looking at the ceiling. “Twice. Today.”
Maia grinned, and kissed her shoulder.
People defending Sc*rlett J*hansson stealing roles from minorities by saying “she’s an actress, let her act”, bold of you to assume she can act
brendon apologized for his past actions in the interview and said he was wrong. people are allowed to grow and make mistakes as long as they realize that they weren’t fine.
Every time I post something negative about him, I get a bunch of hate telling me he’s “apologized” but has he really? My problem with Brendon Urie is that he’s expressed one of the most consistent patterns of disrespect out of any celebrity but he half-asses an apology every once in a while and people want to pretend he’s changed. If he’s apologized for his transphobic comments, I guess that’s nice. But he still continues to make offensive comments/jokes and thinks that a half-assed Twitter apology will placate fans and allow him to keep doing the same thing. AND IT DOES. He’s said more problematic things than most universally banned fcs and everyone largely doesn’t know about it or ignores it because they like his music / think he’s hot.
And as far as this interview, he basically states he’s not interested in a connection with men at all earlier in THE SAME INTERVIEW. So maybe you should actually read the whole thing:
“These two girls invited us out and she knew the bouncer so we just got in. I remember just being hit on all night and it was awesome. I was getting drinks all night. These guys would just come up and I was like, “I’m flattered but I’m not interested but thank you.“”
The above quote is also supposedly from an incidence when he was seventeen so let’s not pretend it’s because he was with his wife since I know that’ll be where people immediately go.
If you want to read more about Brendon’s other racist, sexist, biphobic, transphobic, fat-shaming, and ableist comments and then come back and tell me there isn’t a pattern of disrespect towards minority communities in his past behavior, I’m willing to discuss it.
If you still want to like him, go for it that’s your prerogative, but please don’t tout him as representation when there are so many other celebrities out there who actually do the most and he’s just being the worst and looking for credit after working against so many communities for so long.
I kind of want to steal Magnus's entire wardrobe tbh
Interviewer: Why do you write? Margaret Atwood: It’s for me, it’s for my soul, I don’t understand your question.
It’s a strong rejection of the legislation in its current form
HELL YEAH GUYS 318 VOTES TO 278 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
The fight isn’t over though.
Although this form of the legislation has been rejected, the Parliament is planning to revise it in September, so we need to keep making our voices heard.
Here’s what you can do now:
Find out who your MEPs are on the European Parliament website (search by country and constituency)
Go to VoteWatch EU to find out which way your MEPs voted (if the site is down check back later – it’s getting a lot of traffic right now!)
Edited to add: This Tweet also shows which MEPs voted which way
Contact your MEPs to thank them for voting to reject the legislation, or to express your disappointment if they voted in favour of it. (Every MEP’s email address is on their page on the European Parliament website.)
Not sure what this is all about?
Basically, new copyright laws have been proposed in Europe and two of them – Article 13 and Article 11 – are considered by most people to be Very Bad For The Internet.
Here’s a post I made about why Article 13′s proposed upload filters would be terrible for fanfic sites in particular.
Article 11 is less relevant to fandom, but still terrible – if it had passed it would have become illegal to display the headline in the link at the top of this post, without first getting permission from The Verge.
Here’s more detailed information from the Electronic Frontier Foundation about what these laws would mean if they passed.
Me: *listening to various genres of god knows what* Spotify trying to make my discover weekly:
Every time I hate my body I remember that there are millions of old rich white men who benefit from my self hatred and if there’s one thing I hate, it’s old rich white men so I snap out of that shit instantly cos I ain’t EVER giving them the satisfaction.
Oh my fucKING GOD
Wait stop this is a game changer.
i have reblogged this 4 times; i have thought about this every fucking day
Reminder!
“If every woman in the world woke up tomorrow and decided that she loved herself and loved her body just the way it is, how many industries would go out of business?”
IMPORTANT
Hey look a few more industries for us millennials to kill!
This is the most motivating thing I’ve ever seen in regards to me stopping hating on my self
Even I need to contribute positivity sometimes.
Wait, why did my school teach me that Poe was like a creepy pedophile who was obsessed with his cousin if they were actually just friends and he married her to provide for her family?
For the same reason the safe money says your school, like mine, taught you he was probably a drug addict who hated everybody and had no friends and drank himself to death.
Because by some wacky mix-up, somehow the right to legally execute Poe’s literary estate and therefore the public image he carried following his death was transferred to a dude who openly and without shame hated Edgar Allan Poe.
Due to some legal mumbo-jumbo and trickery, this dude Rufus Wilmot Griswold somehow managed to get the rights of literary executor to Poe’s estate from his aunt (which she didn’t technically have the power to give, that power remained with Poe’s sister), and he and Edgar Allan Poe hated each other SO MUCH in life, that after he died, this asshole published a memoir of Poe’s life in which he was totally demonized.
Rufus Wilmot Griswold is one of the most successful character assassins of all time. Because of him, schoolchildren are taught that Poe was a depraved misanthropic lecher who lusted after his underage cousin, was never sober, and died of drinking too much even though all of those “facts” have been discredited. Poe was a shy and reserved, though generally personable, man who married his cousin so to establish legal guardianship and provide for her financially.
He was also apparently a total lightweight who got tipsy after a few sips of wine, but occasionally drank socially or when feeling particularly down. His doctor insisted there were never traces of opium in his system. Poe’s friends insisted that he was not an alcoholic. At the time of his death, he had quit drinking, and the idea that he was one was heavily promoted by other members of the Temperance movement who claimed his death was a relapse as a cautionary tale. The most commonly accepted theory as to Poe’s death is that he was abducted, drugged, and beaten by political agents who forced him to vote for their candidate, changed his clothes, and then forced him to vote again and again to stuff the ballots.
Anyhow. This is why you should evaluate the validity and agendas of your sources.
That last bit seemed exceedingly peculiar to me and I had difficulty believing it, so I looked it up, and apparently it’s not the most commonly accepted theory at the moment, but it is a legit possibility and a thing that actually happened in the 19th century often enough to be given a name. It was plausible enough for quite a few of his biographers across several decades to agree on that theory, at least. So that’s a thing.
His exact cause of death is mysterious, especially since most of the records have been lost, but the drinking binge theory is unlikely. It’s more plausible that he died of an illness or foul play.
BLESS THIS ENTIRE POST.
Rufus Wilmot Griswold is the villainest name ever
favorite story: apparently, while filming “black swan,” the director would try to pit mila kunis and natalie portman against each other, telling them that the other woman was doing a better job, in hopes of making their characters’ rivalry seem more authentic. but it completely backfired, since instead of getting angry or competitive, natalie and mila would just congratulate each other on doing such good work.
Directors who do stuff like this are pieces of shit
What men think women are like verses what women are actually like
also this:
Let’s name the director: Darren Aronofsky. He has since directed mother! where he forced Jennifer Lawrence to reshoot a scene after she broke a rib or something. He is still really praised in cinephile circles, which is why I want to name and shame him.
And let us all admit that directors like Darren Aronofsky are not being praised DESPITE this behaviour but rather BECAUSE of it. They’re seen as edgy and willing to take risks and do what needs to be done, no matter the fallout, to get the perfect shot. They take risks for their art. Except, of course, they don’t. They make other take risks, they push and damage other people, not themselves.
‘bi people can pass as straight!’
anyone can pass as straight, if they silence themselves enough.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
