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[christel-thoughts]

[runawaymarbles]

also, sometimes: everybody is talking about this, but not on the specific tumblrs you follow or: everyone is talking about this, but guilt trips get more notes.

[gotg-archive]

say it with me

liking a character ≠ condoning their actions

understanding a character ≠ condoning their actions

relating to a character ≠ condoning their actions

never assume that only because someone likes/understands/relates to a character that they see this character as “perfect” and don’t recognise their flaws

[infinityuserboxes]

[madastowa]

Goro Akechi interacting with the rest of the PT

This is a big thing I feel the game and to an extent the fandom is missing. Goro’s love for and jealousy of Akira is very much there and it’s beautiful and sad and enthralling to watch but I want to see him develop friendships with the rest of the characters.

-I want to see Goro just being able to vent to Yusuke about the stigma of being a bastard child because Yusuke would understand and even teach him to see beauty in a world that has been nothing but cruel

-I want to see Goro working out with Ryuji and gushing over sweets with Ann

-I want to see more of Goro’s competitive relationship with Makoto especially because they seem to go to the same cram school; I want to see them study together as friendly rivals for top of the class

-I want to see Goro watching Featherman with Futaba and discussing different restaurants with Haru

Fandom, give me more of this if Atlus won’t.

[madtomedgar]

thinking about the statement that all maladaptive coping mechanisms were helpful and, well, adaptive, at some point, and that they become maladaptive when the circumstance changes or when their detriments outweigh their benefits, and how the framework of “this is no longer helpful to you” is probably better than “this is a bad habit/this is bad for you.” How much better “you don’t have to live like that anymore” feels than “that’s a bad habit you picked up when you were in a bad place.” “It’s ok, you can look now,” vs “you’ve been tainted/infected/sullied by a previous bad circumstance.”

[soyeahso]

There are a couple of things about current shipping culture that confuse me.  

1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not.  Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”

2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.” 

Sometimes shipping something does mean that.  Sometimes shipping something means “Person A is a trash bag who doesn’t deserve person B but I would love to explore how Person A might grow to deserve Person B.” Sometimes it means “I want these characters to live together forever in a conflict free domestic AU.”  Sometimes it means “I want Person A to forever pine after Person B.  Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.”  And sometimes it just means you like their faces and want to see Person A and Person B bone in various configurations and universes. 

[mominmudville]

Listen to your parents, kids.

[handypolymath]

This really should be one of a handful of Public Service Announcements randomly and chronically inserted into one’s dash.

[violent-darts]

Hell man sometimes it means “these two are TERRIBLE and I want to watch them burn like a catastrophic forest fire as a proxy for all the shit I don’t actually want in real life (like to light my own apartment on fire and scream) and then laugh at the destruction at the end.” 

[mikkeneko]

All “I ship it” really means – really – is “I think there’s a story in those two, and I want to hear it.”

[mad-madam-m]

All “I ship it” really means – really – is “I think there’s a story in those two, and I want to hear it.”

[quantum-angel]

Hey PSA as con season is building up:

Unless the cosplayer has already done so themself, DON’T FUCKING TAG REBLOGS OF COSPLAY PHOTOS WITH HOW THE COSPLAYER IS MARGINALIZED.

Because, here’s the thing. When you tag someone’s photos as shit like “#poc cosplayer” or “#disabled cosplayer” without us specifically setting the precedent that it’s okay to do, your entire reblog becomes a massive backhanded compliment like “wow, she’s pretty good…for a person like THAT.” This goes double for shit like “#plus size cosplayer” because hey, guess what, a lot of people don’t like having that pointed out! 

And please, please, please, for the love of all things good in this world, do NOT add “#trans cosplayer” or “#lgbt cosplayer” or whatever to someone’s post because if you do CONGRATULATIONS THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE YOU JUST OUTED SOMEONE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT.

[fuhime]

A good alternative to this: tag as ‘cosplay inspo’ or similar. The sentiment behind tagging poc/disabled/trans/etc cosplayers is that they stood out to you in some manner. You feel as though this manner should be pointed out because it really caught your eye and you want to reach that level of skill/confidence.

You could say they…..inspired you.

Tag it as such.

[quantum-angel]

Hey PSA as con season is building up:

Unless the cosplayer has already done so themself, DON’T FUCKING TAG REBLOGS OF COSPLAY PHOTOS WITH HOW THE COSPLAYER IS MARGINALIZED.

Because, here’s the thing. When you tag someone’s photos as shit like “#poc cosplayer” or “#disabled cosplayer” without us specifically setting the precedent that it’s okay to do, your entire reblog becomes a massive backhanded compliment like “wow, she’s pretty good...for a person like THAT.” This goes double for shit like “#plus size cosplayer” because hey, guess what, a lot of people don’t like having that pointed out! 

And please, please, please, for the love of all things good in this world, do NOT add “#trans cosplayer” or “#lgbt cosplayer” or whatever to someone’s post because if you do CONGRATULATIONS THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE YOU JUST OUTED SOMEONE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT.

[prokopetz]

Just as the phrase “what the entire fuck” implies the existence of fractional fucks, the phrase “what the absolute fuck” implies the existence of both positive and negative fucks (or else there would be no need for an absolute value operation). Taken together with the phrase “what the actual fuck” (which implies the existence of imaginary fucks), we may thus conclude that fuckery is isomorphic with the complex field.

[news-queue]

Tips For Staying Civil While Debating Child Prisons

Recent incidents of Trump officials being confronted in public for their role in the administration’s separation and imprisonment of immigrant families have driven renewed concern about the lack of civility in U.S. politics. The Onion presents tips for staying civil in a debate about child prisons.

Avoid unkind generalizations like equating the jailing of ethnic minorities with some malevolent form of fascism.

Consider that we all have different perspectives stemming from things like age, ethnicity, or level of racism.

Recall that violently rejecting a tyrannical government goes against everything our forefathers believed in.

Find common ground by recognizing that some kids are huge assholes.

Make sure any protests are peaceful, silent, and completely out of sight of anyone who could actually affect government policy.

Give your political opponents the benefit of the doubt by letting this play out for 20 years and seeing if it gets any better on its own.

Realize that every pressing social issue is solved through civil discourse if you ignore virtually all of human history.

Remind yourself that you’re just two people having a cocktail at the same D.C. party and that politics is a game to you.

Avoid painting with a broad brush. Not everyone in favor of zero-tolerance immigration wants to see children in cages—it’s more likely that they just don’t care.

[kingjaffejoffer]

Executive chef at a top Thai restaurant tells Gordon Ramsay that his Pad Thai is trash [x]

[minusthelove]

Lmao “what do you want to know from me?” Fuck!

[katjohnadams]

So no one thinks that Gordon’s being “Put in his place” or something, this is from Gordon’s show where he specifically goes to places around the world to be schooled in how they do their cuisine and un-fuck the British (Imperialist but we can’t admit that on TV, but he does hint STRONGLY at it in some episodes) way of cooking “exotic” dishes by learning from the people who do it best.

That’s the world’s most successful chef putting himself in a position to learn from chefs around the world in world-class restaurants, grandmother’s houses, in a cramped make-shift kitchen on a rocking and speeding steam train, and more. He doesn’t shy away from learning from people who’ve never been in the remote vicinity of a culinary arts school or run a “professional” kitchen.

And here he’s showing a chef what he thinks of as Pad Thai and if you don’t think one of the most talented chefs on earth didn’t know he was specifically setting himself up to fail to make a point to his audience, then hopefully you do now! <3 

[brunhiddensmusings]

the context- he wasnt saying ‘heres my world famous pad tai for you to sample, a recipe i hold more dear then my own mother’ its closer to  ‘here, this is how i was taught to cook pad tai in liverpool by a man named charles, how far off am i?’

[thecooler]

Having separate flags is good bcos it’s good to have a symbol for your particular identity to embrace but it also important to remember the rainbow flag unites us all. All LGBT+ people can use it. I feel like it’s somehow become assumed by a lot of younger lgbt+ people that it’s only fr gay men, which it isn’t and never has been

[villanevehaus]

The rainbow flag when originally created by Gilbert Baker in 1978 actually contained 8 stripes that were assigned values and specific meanings that were meant to show what unites us and what we value as a community, 

It took 30 people to hand dye AND hand stitch the first 2 pride flags- 30 people of various identities came together to create the first symbol of pride. Hot pink was removed due to fabric shortages and turquoise was mixed with indigo to have the darker blue we have today.

Having individual flags is great to show your identity but I think we shouldn’t forget that the rainbow flag isn’t reserved for gay men, it was created to show what we all have in common regardless of identity. 

[pervocracy]

[epicallyepicepicosity-deactivat]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[quantum-angel]

Also reminder that rent costing no more than 1/4 of your income is “only” a recommendation - but most landlords will REQUIRE that rent be no more than 1/3 of your income in order to rent to you.

So, inb4 “just spend more on your rent than the recommendation then :/”

[xvisualtreasure09x]

[sinkies]

*me getting under the covers* I’m in

[maxknightley]

I’m ending the debate once and for all

Fahrenheit is better than Celsius because you can truthfully see that it’s 69° outside and go “nice” rather than immediately collapsing from heat exhaustion

[fenderjess]

also you can cook and reasonably often set your oven to 420°