Confessions of the Quiet One

The person who sits at the back of class, terrified of saying the wrong thing, so they say nothing at all.

[makerissues]

getting to watch the finale early by purchasing the episode before it was removed is the closest i’ll ever get to feeling like the 1%

[and-fishing-equipment]

armand "no one has painted me in over 400 years" and daniel "depicted him so vividly and compellingly in his book that he's gained a cultish fan following" molloy are gonna kiss on screen. btw. [fireworks go off, the crowd cheers, world peace is declared]

[reticent-vampire]

[666chevy]

Capcom needs to put some RESPECT on my girls' names.

[500-moths-in-a-trenchcoat]

oh yes it's that time of year again

[sailorsally]

everyone rejoice, Ao3 is back

[tumblr]

well done everybody for being so brave about it

[homunculus-argument]

Amazing how on the internet you see memes that people your age are making that are like "wild how I used to be able to stay up all night drinking Juice Of Make Yourself Allergic To Weather and snorting Acid That Corrodes Your Bones every single weekday since I was 15 and now that I'm 30 I'm fucking ancient and crumbling and every time I can sense a storm coming I sneeze so hard that I break all my ribs. Getting old fucking suuuuucks."

Like mate I know that telling you this now is massively unhelpful, but your situation was not inevitable.

[liberalsarecool]

“All cruelty springs from weakness.” - Seneca

[tea-and-hockey]

Shout out to Flavor Flav for actually respecting women’s sports! Love that the women’s team is gonna have a place to celebrate their historic achievements in a place that actually values them and wants them there.

[brehatano]

The US women's hockey team has medaled at every Olympics. The men haven't done it in 46 years. To hear the mens team laugh as the president makes a misogynistic joke about their fellow teammates is disgusting. Especially when the women have earned the right to be there and arguably played better than the men.

It's not surprising that Trump would say something so misogynistic. He's shown time and time again who he is. A misogynistic felon who will do anything to tear down women and those he views as lesser than. What is disheartening is to hear the entirety of the US men's hockey team agree. That message is clear. "You don't belong and don't deserve to be here."

It's a disgusting message to all of the women on Team USA who worked incredibly hard to be there and those who paved the way for them to be there. At the end of the day, women deserve ice time. They deserve to play the same sports and to be in the same spaces. I'm proud that the US women's hockey team declined the invitation. I know they won't, but I hope the mens team follows suit.

[justaxriaxa]

and also with Hughes boys laughing at Trumps misogynistic joke, is gross on so many levels, they were laughing at the team they have friends on, a team they have praised multiple times and laughing at their mum and all the work she put in. They cared and worried more about impressing a pedo than their mum. Their mum was a standout on the US women’s team but never got to be an olympian because they didn’t HAVE a women’s Olympic hockey team. She missed out. Her sons got to live out her dream and then laughed at it.

[neutraldilfmotel]

the ‘well what did you expect’ reaction to the u.s. mens post-win-shitshow is so frustrating cause. actually i think these are really unique circumstances we’re living in and it’s more than just oh white man is republican, and i think a lot of people are normalizing the acts of this administration by acting like it isn’t. the shit happening over here has gotten so undeniably egregious so yeah it is a bit devastating seeing them party with ultra mega super evil overlord’s henchman who is playing an active role in ripping people’s lives apart, and then going above and beyond locker room talk by also parading it around on the internet after the fact. i literally do not give a fuck how drunk they were these are grown ass men who fully know what they’re doing.

and none of that is even to mention the side issue of the hughes brothers, whose mother has played and is STILL playing an active role in the expansion of women’s sports, going on their little pr zoom calls and media availability and glazing women in sports just to turn around and punch down on them with neo-hitler himself.

nuance exists but it does not exist here. having grown up in the south as a leftist like yes it is so complicated seeing people you love turn out to be morally inept pieces of shit but these are rich white men you do not know. there’s a major difference between not really knowing where they stand vs now having it splayed out in front of you. you do not need to support them. frankly i hope not a single man in that room feels the touch of another human being for the remainder of their lifetime.

[thepplprty]

When I was young, I was told about the men who died for my freedom, but I was confused because as far as I was aware from everything I was learning about our history; the United States Military has never once fought for the freedoms of the American people.

In a sense, though, they're right, just not about the US military. The people who died for my freedom were never a part of the military. They weren't white men in uniform planting a flag on land that isn't theirs. The people who died for my freedoms did it here, and they did it in the streets. In our neighborhoods. In our schools.

The POC who have fought—and still are fighting—to be treated like equals both in the eyes of the government and in the eyes of those around them. The women who have fought—and are still fighting—for freedom from the patriarchy and bodily autonomy. The queer people who have fought—and are still fighting—for the freedom to simply exist and be who they are without scrutiny from the government. The Native Americans who have fought since the beginning for the right to preserve their own culture and land. Our freedom fighters aren't white men in green vests halfway across the world, they're marginalized groups in our own front yard.

"Freedom" doesn't look like this:

"Freedom" looks like this:

And they're dying today. Every day is another news story. Every day another person dissapears into a detention center never to be seen again. Every week another innocent person is shot and killed in the streets. Most of these people didn't even sign up to fight. They are mothers, trying to get home. Innocent Americans trying to get to work. Now, an ICU nurse who tried to help a women who got pepper sprayed was executed in broad daylight. They didn't sign up to have their life on the line, but I will always remember them. I will always remember. We cannot forget their names. THESE are the people who died for our freedoms.

And now, Alex Pretti. Trust me, more have died then are on this list, as well.

We cannot remain silent. We cannot allow these deaths to be for nothing. We need to be LOUD. We need freedom now more than ever.

[onlytiktoks]

[socialistexan]

This coming out just days after it was revealed in the Jeffrey Epstein email dump that powerful people manipulated American and British news, political figures and forums to push transphobia to distract from people looking at their child abuse ring.

This includes chief anti-Corbyn-ite in Labour Peter Mandelson, directly feeding anti-trans stories to UK and US newspapers, actively bullshiting "biological studies" that trans people are idk ontologically evil (we have proof of Epstein pitching this exact thing), and creating /pol/ and then feeding anti-trans conspiracy theories for years until it all boiled over.

And over and over we found out each plank of this argument was rotten from the start but people are choosing to keep the bigotry.

[segamascott]

[harocat]

JD VANCE TRIED TO TAKE OUT WOKE ALT BADDIE LESBIAN REFUGEE IMMIGRANT DAUGHTER ALYSA LIU.

[harocat]

He failed and now she is a two time Olympic gold medalist. WOKE IS BACK.