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occasionally subtle
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if i look back, i am lost
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izzy's playlists!
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Misplaced Lens Cap
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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I can’t believe how easily you all abandon the Halloween spirit just because its November now. The way I see it, Halloween isn’t over until you’re forced to take off the skeleton mask because its making your little cousin cry at Thanksgiving dinner.
You think this is a joke?
You Are Not Righteous
If you’re ever worried about Tumblr being a hellsite, remember there’s always Youtube:
I am so exhausted with people making these huge, sweeping statements of condemnation all over the place like they are ever going to help anyone.
Like, you know where you are, right? You know the demographic here, you know your social circles. How is condemning all nonviolent protests advocates as completely useless forever going to help? It just makes you look ignorant and leaves people feeling tired. How is declaring that all white women have always ignored everything until this very moment going to create change? It just makes you look ignorant and leaves people feeling tired. In what way is scolding scared people for being happy that someone punched a Nazi moving toward a safer world for the people who actually need protection and support? It just makes you look ignorant and leaves people feeling tired.
“Demographic A in its entirety didn’t support/do X so I’m staying home and everything is terrible forever. Demographic B warned you!”
Who the fuck is this meant for on this here Tumblr dot com? Yeah buddy, be an ass to that white teenager for trying to be involved, that’ll totally make them a life long advocate and won’t make them dispirited and paralyzed at all. You tell those Jewish people how nasty they are for enjoying the feeling that someone is willing to literally fight for them. The whole intersectional history of nonviolence, with all of its complications, never helped anyone with anything, make sure people know that if they aren’t willing or able to take up a baseball bat against another human being that they’re incapable of helping.
Good job justice hero.
Listen, I’m not saying that everything needs to be praise and sunshine all the time. There are legitimate problems with most things and there are people who ought to be condemned for their actions/inaction. But leaving people HERE confused and exhausted by putting words in their mouths and telling them that they’ve never done anything right and will never do anything right is not useful or good.
What i want to know is how can house Tyrell be dead? what about willas? Garlan? they dead too?
Im fairly sure Margery & Olenna planned to marry sansa off to willas at one point …am I wrong?
The TV series has trimmed a lot of minor family members out of the picture. In show-continuity Loras and Margery are Mace’s only children, Mathas Seaworth and Trystane Martell are only children, Edric Storm was merged with Gendry, etc
Please if you are involved in any fandom, reblog this because it is extremely important and needs to be seen.
There is SO much I could say about the shipping discourse because it is such a complex topic, but for this post I want to focus on something very specific i’ve noticed among most people claiming to be against problematic fiction/shipping. The phrase “don’t ship -x abusive ship- unless you use it to cope”.
1. The first problem with such statements is it expects people who have suffered abuse to out publicly to a bunch of strangers their history of abuse. Otherwise, how can you decide who is and isn’t using it to cope? You can’t. You can make assumptions but you cannot know another stranger’s life story. Forcing people to do this is extremely disgusting and harmful to sufferer’s because they shouldn’t have to owe anyone an explanation of their abuse.
2. What exactly equates as the level of abuse necessary to be justified in shipping for coping? Does it have to be the exact same type of abuse on the same level as such a ship? Can it be relative? Not the same abuse, etc.? It starts to get messy and involves strangers determining who’s abuse is and isn’t valid, when you have no idea what the victim personally experienced so in the end are only working off assumptions. It plays back into point 1.
3. Not every victim uses shipping to cope. Some people indulge in problematic fiction for other reasons outside if coping with trauma, but what if they were also a sufferer of trauma? Do they get to indulge in fiction for being a sufferer even if it’s not being used to cope?
4. Some people who indulge in problematic fiction use it to cope and don’t even realize it. When I was a high school student I used to read all sorts of abuse shipping fiction with no understanding of why. I had little to no awareness of my abusive situation. It was actually the fiction that not only helped me realize my situation was as such, but it also wasn’t until much later that I realized the fiction I read would at times mimic the abuse I experienced and helped me get through my situation with it’s reliability. Not everyone is fully aware of their situation and might be indulging to cope without even realizing it, and policing them because they aren’t aware because you assume they aren’t victims just harms said individuals.
5. What about people who suffered certain types of abuse but do not remember them due to situations like dissociation? What if they have indicators that something happened to them but can’t be for sure because they lack physical memories? It sort of plays back into point 4 where what if they indulge in the media because it helps them on a subconscious level and does help them cope, even without their conscious awareness but they can’t know what happened to them for sure?
6. At this point many people will understandably start listing that they are abuse victims without actually being such to get a pass to indulge in their fiction. Which is terrifying that people have to pretend to have suffered something serious just to look at or draw some art or read some fanfiction. It also starts to create problems for actual victims.
See how all these points start to messily play into each other? What if someone gets harassed for indulging in problematic fiction without being a victim, but say they are and just don’t want to out such on the internet to strangers because it’s a triggering topic for them? Then they have to suffer harassment and abuse and being told they are a supporter of the types of people who harmed them. Or in another situation, what if someone claims to not be shipping to cope then gets harassed but in actuality they are but just don’t realize they were abused or don’t have the tools yet to recognize their situation is abusive and the fiction they indulge in is coping with that? Then you are just further harming another victim. It goes on, but hopefully now you get the idea.
Even more repulsive, anti-shippers bring young teenagers into their movement who see these statements about how victims need to be protected and are eager to fight for a cause they think is helping the greater good. But without the proper guidance they quickly become a mob lead to believe that they are doing good by creating hate blogs dedicated to ships they don’t agree with, spamming tags and communities, harassing individual users going on about how these people are ‘scum’, ‘the worst’, ‘as bad as real life perpetrators’, allow death threats to be sent, but then at the last minute go “oh but this doesn’t apply to you if you are a survivor”.
What these adults and misled teenagers don’t realize is even with that disclaimer, what does that even really mean to them? They are still causing harm by forcing these survivors to watch and witness their witchhunting while bringing down survivors with them. It’s as if people who throw those words around are trying to use it as a disclaimer to remove blame from their actions when it does cause harm and become destructive.
Why is it that whenever victims point out the flaws in these movements centered around these ways if thinking, they are suddenly accused of being apologists or abuse supporters, or in some cases abusers themselves? Why is it that they are told that their feelings are less important if they don’t share such extreme mindsets when these people claim to care about victims? Along with that, why are those who view things in such extremes suddenly more valid in their feelings or allowed to have them while the former isn’t? It’s some weird cherry-picking of which victims are valid to them and which aren’t and it almost seems like they just want victims to justify their behaviors and right to witchunt and harass, but don’t actually care about victims as a whole. The reality is that not everyone will see this complex topic the exact same way but that doesn’t make them any less important (it’s even worse when it’s other victims enabling these behaviors).
The scary thing about this anti-shipping movement is it makes broad accusations and connects things that should not be connected to each other, such as how challenging these skewed view points that actually causes emotional damage to innocent individuals somehow makes you an apologist or supporter of actual horrific abuse, or worse, one yourself. It’s almost as if the word ‘apologist’ is now used as a silencing tactic for anyone that wants to challenge these extreme views or point out how they are being hurt by this movement.
Even if their hearts are in the right place, these topics cannot be easily broken into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ categories. They are extremely intricate as explained in my first points and due to this, there is so much MORE harm being done in this policing than good, and if you choose to ignore this reality that there are so many flaws in your online movement, then you are being willfully ignorant by this point.
Millions of Bernie Sanders ballots have been found amid a widespread cover-up of the Senators landslide victory at the California primaries this week.
So NOT surprised by this! We all knew that this one was rigged from the beginning. Millions of votes NOT being counted should make everyone in this country furious!
Tell me again why people don’t trust or believe HRC/DNC
So not just a hundred thousand after all? Debbie Wasserman-Schultz needs to be fired and then indicted.
At least 3 counties FLIPPED so far. LA county is said to have 2 to 1 voting for Bernie in uncounted ballots. And there is a lawsuit alleging voting FRAUD filed in Ohio for starters. More to come.
Reblogging for added comments
Holy fucking shit batman
Fuckin lol
Please check your sources people. YourNewsWire is not a reliable website.
TO EVERYONE FREAKING OUT ABOUT THAT BULLSHIT DEVIANTART SOLD YOUR ARTWORK POST
http://www.dailydot.com/geek/deviantart-hot-topic-shirt-art-stolen/
“We appreciate the rallying of the community around the rights of this artist. Rights and ownership of artwork are an important cause which we do not take lightly. DeviantART does not retain any ownership nor right to ownership of any artwork posted to deviantART. The point of question in our Submission Policy is one which gives us the right to present the artwork you submit to deviantART on deviantART.
By the same token, because we do not retain any ownership of artwork submitted to deviantART, we cannot license it to others either (be it individual or company) without the express permission and written agreement of the artist.”
It’s just hot topic being shits and stealing everything
The Importance of communication.
If you have an issue with something your partner is doing.
Talk to them.
If you’re unsure about something.
Talk to them.
If you aren’t feeling a ship but they’re still excited about it.
Talk to them.
I cannot tell you how many times a relationship with a writing partner has gone downhill all because they would not talk to me about something. Blocking with no explanation, blocking because you don’t like what the other person said (not harassment, you just don’t like what they said), blocking because you’re angry is not the correct way to handle these situations. Some people will take that blocking very negatively, especially if you don’t talk it through, offer any explanation or give any indication as to what drove you to that to start with.
You could trigger a panic attack, cause someone to suffer a relapse or even drop back into self harm because they don’t know what they did wrong.
This is not how you handle these things, this is not how you treat other people. There needs to be ample and even communication on both sides. If you are angry, upset or anything like that then step away for a bit. Go do something to calm down and THEN come back and talk to them.
A majority of drama on this site is caused directly from lack of communication or misunderstanding.
If you want to respect your partners then you need to take the time to LISTEN to them. You need to have the ability to be patient and try to see what they’re saying. If it turns to harassment then, yes, block them by all means. If not, then you need to try and listen.
Do not block your partners without trying to talk through the issue first!
You have no idea how badly this post needs to be signal boosted. None of you (except for a few close friends) have any idea how many people have done this to me, just unfriend/unfollow/block me and I’m left in the dark with absolutely no idea why they did it or what I did wrong. Even as I write this, I still have no idea what I do wrong. I really wish it hurt less the more it happened but no, it hurts more every time and every time it happens, I further doubt myself. And NOW? NOW I have a “I’m not looking for friends” policy because so many people do it to me that I just can’t take it anymore, and I honestly can’t trust anyone to not do it to me.
And that’s funny because I came to this particular side of this ridiculous site for that very reason - To make friends.
Bottom line, don’t block your partners without talking it out first. I don’t give a fuck if you have anxiety and you don’t like confrontation - Anxiety or a fear of communication does NOT give you a free pass to block your partners when you think they’re not looking, it only makes you a selfish fuck and it WILL hurt someone down the road.
OP, I have no idea who you are. But I love you for making this post, and I want everyone to see it.
Always reblog this.
callout posts
if you see a callout post and:
you don’t know the person who made the post
you don’t know the person whom the post is about
you have no personal connection with any of the things that went down in the post
there is no definitive proof of any of the claims made in the post, or the proof provided is questionable, or looks like it could have been edited (either by wholesale fabrication or selective removal of context)
don’t reblog it. it’s 2015. we’ve all seen this cycle enough times to recognize how the goodwill to protect abuse victims can be weaponized by abusers. it is better to abstain from something that is not your business or responsibility to rectify than to potentially contribute to what has been well established as one of the most ruthlessly effective ways to destroy somebody.
mashes reblog
this reblog brought to you by seeing 2 artists i like have lies smeared about them on this site :)
this reblog brought to you by seeing 7 and counting artists i like get attacked, 3 by the same pair of petty, jealous assholes
Hahahah so Marvel just donated 1 Million Dollars to Donald Trump and y'all aren’t even saying anything ???
Like if DC doesn’t do a small thing then everyone loses their mind but Marvel actively supports a racist bigot and it’s all cricket sounds ..
Y'all hate just to hate not because there’s a valid reason to
Marvel supports who!!!??? I thought it was about superheroes doing good… this is so disappointing…
SO it looked it up and yeah it’s appearently a thing that happend
Ok so people really need to READ the article but Marvel didn’t donate it, their CEO did- on his own. Out of his personal money. And he didn’t even donate it to like, the guys campaign fund. he donated it to what is (supposedly according to what they are claiming) a fund for veterans.
The CEO is a known jackass, and many of his staff do not like or agree with him. (also in the article) He isn’t allowed to make any decisions regarding the Marvel films, and many of his suggestions or opinions are ignored by editors and writers.
He is literally just the guy who runs the business end, he is not in charge of the stories and his personal views (however shitty they are) should not reflect on an entire company where so many staff ARE really trying to change things.
Stop acting like the CEO always holds supreme power over the entire company because in this case, he REALLY doesn’t.
STEVEN UNIVERSE FANDOM, LISTEN UP
The number of viewers has been going DOWN during this “Summer of Steven” event, and that stinks! Yes, I know a lot of people saw the leaked episodes, and all that. I don’t blame y’all. But please, PLEASE, make sure to watch the show when it airs on TV! The Crewniverse needs the numbers, because that’s all that Cartoon Network cares about (well, that and merchandise sales). If you have cable, and live in the US, please watch the show when it airs! Buy some of the merch from Cartoon Network’s store, or Hot Topic. Send messages of praise about this show (CN checks social media sites, too!)
This is one of the best animated shows that I’ve seen in a while, please give it the ratings it deserves <3 Thank you, and spread the word!
yeah don’t fucking tell me that the leaks aren’t hurting. if you watched the eps that aired in paris instead of waiting for them to air here on CN america then you are part of the problem.
THIS. ISN’T. HOW. AMERICAN. TV. RATINGS. WORK.
Support the show by watching it on TV if you are part of the Nielsen representation group, otherwise just buy the merch (including DVD’s) and watch it wherever however you please.
For real guys… if you don’t have a Nielson box, you watching the show on air makes no difference, there’s no way for them to know you were watching.
If you’re asking yourself “what’s a Nielson box?” right now, then odds are you don’t have a Nielson box. It’s a voluntary thing that you have to opt into and they only contact people by complete chance in order to get a random sample. The latest numbers I could find said there were about 6,400 American households with Nielson boxes, compared to 116.4 million households with TVs in America.
This means that you have an 0.00005% chance of having a Nielson box in any given household.
If you are one of those 6,400 people households, make sure to tune in! If you are a member of the other 99.99995% of us who do not have a Nielson box, you can and should watch the episodes live, but it won’t support the show’s ratings. BUT there are still ways you can support the show!
One thing they DO track and pay attention to is their numbers for people who watch the new episodes live on Cartoon Network’s website!
If you have any of the following cable providers, then you can watch Cartoon Network live online for free as a part of your subscription!
When the episodes are premiering, if you have one of those cable providers, go to www.cartoonnetwork.com/livetv/ to watch the episodes live. You can also access this through the official Cartoon Network mobile app.
Other ways to support the show:
Buying the episodes on iTunes/Google Play after they come out
Watching the episodes on Hulu once they’re added there if you have a Hulu Plus account
Watching clips and full episodes for free on the Cartoon Network app.
Watching clips from Cartoon Network’s official YouTube page
Buy and play the official Steven Universe game Attack the Light on iOS or Android
And of course, buy official merch
Please please PLEASE stop spreading misinformation about how American TV rating system works!!
These images prove that Disney Princesses can be blood-spattered Space Marines, too
@geekdynasty submitted:
Initially found these through a geeksaresexy.net article, but started clicking around a bit and found this Revelist article with it’s lovely commentary. More Warhammer Princesses, please!!
Finally someone has a made a re-imagining of Disney princesses and a Warhammer 40K crossover that I can get behind - and the creator is giving away the high res images so you can make your own prints. if you want to.
- wincenworks
Actually no because none of the princesses are genetically enhanced to even use that kind of armor, let alone have ANY kind of combat experience to survive a 40K battle. Those are awesome drawings but it proves jack and shit and jack left town.
Why do you hate fun.
So pointing out how illogical their comment was means ‘’I hate fun’’? That’s pretty retarded honestly.
Their comment was in the context of things like this
http://bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com/post/53585900930/ami-angelwings-from-this
And this
http://bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com/post/79647734354/what-is-your-opinion-regarding-the-adepta
No one was saying anything about whether the fanart was canonically plausible, thats not even remotely the point.
I have my doubts, considering their lack of knowledge about the 4K universe in general, so forgive me for standing by what I said earlier.
Feel free to do so while World Eater Ariel continues to collect thingamajiggers for the thingamajigger throne
These images prove that Disney Princesses can be blood-spattered Space Marines, too
@geekdynasty submitted:
Initially found these through a geeksaresexy.net article, but started clicking around a bit and found this Revelist article with it’s lovely commentary. More Warhammer Princesses, please!!
Finally someone has a made a re-imagining of Disney princesses and a Warhammer 40K crossover that I can get behind - and the creator is giving away the high res images so you can make your own prints. if you want to.
- wincenworks
Actually no because none of the princesses are genetically enhanced to even use that kind of armor, let alone have ANY kind of combat experience to survive a 40K battle. Those are awesome drawings but it proves jack and shit and jack left town.
Why do you hate fun.
So pointing out how illogical their comment was means ‘’I hate fun’’? That’s pretty retarded honestly.
Their comment was in the context of things like this
http://bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com/post/53585900930/ami-angelwings-from-this
And this
http://bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com/post/79647734354/what-is-your-opinion-regarding-the-adepta
No one was saying anything about whether the fanart was canonically plausible, thats not even remotely the point.
These images prove that Disney Princesses can be blood-spattered Space Marines, too
@geekdynasty submitted:
Initially found these through a geeksaresexy.net article, but started clicking around a bit and found this Revelist article with it’s lovely commentary. More Warhammer Princesses, please!!
Finally someone has a made a re-imagining of Disney princesses and a Warhammer 40K crossover that I can get behind - and the creator is giving away the high res images so you can make your own prints. if you want to.
- wincenworks
Actually no because none of the princesses are genetically enhanced to even use that kind of armor, let alone have ANY kind of combat experience to survive a 40K battle. Those are awesome drawings but it proves jack and shit and jack left town.
Why do you hate fun.
Needy families must now choose between being able to take their kids to school or being able to feed them.
This would be especially terrible for rural people. I don’t live in Alabama, but I do live in a rural area with no public transportation, period.
Unless someone can drive you somewhere in a car, when you’re in a very rural area, you can’t go anywhere at all. Even the closest gas station is over 10 miles away from my house. It’s an additional 10 miles to a grocery store or doctor’s office. And some of the specialists I see for my health are over 200 miles away, which is like a 400 mile round trip.
Cars are very important in many cities, particularly for people who live in neighborhoods without good public transportation and for disabled people for whom public transportation may not be accessible.
But there’s no way to really survive for most in rural areas unless someone in the household or a consistently available community member has a car to take you places.
please note this also intersects with ableism as many of us are not able to reliably take public transport.
isn’t… like… everything in America based around having a car?
Yup.
your choice will be between being able to buy the food and being able to get to where its available
so either way, you don’t get to have food
Arthur Orr submitted this bill, so if you want to drag him to hell for it, here you go:
DISTRICT 3 ADDRESS:
P.O. Box 305 Decatur, AL 35602 Phone:(256) 260-2147
MONTGOMERY ADDRESS:
Suite 730 Alabama State House 11 South Union Street Montgomery, AL 36130-4600 Phone: (334) 242-7891
FIELD OFFICES:
Decatur 2128 6th Avenue SE – Ste 504 Decatur, AL 35601
Huntsville Madison County Legislative Delegation 726 Madison Street Huntsville, AL 35801 (256) 539-5441
Athens Limestone County Legislative Delegation 110 College Street, Suite E4 Athens, AL 35611 (256) 262-9038
Ok, I don’t think this is true, and definitely correct me if I’m wrong and you find a reputable source saying otherwise.
AL.com, an Alabama local news site, quotes the manager of the Heartland institute which helped form this bill. "Asset tests are one tool states can use to ensure all food stamp dollars are used only by those families truly in need. Currently, 14 states require an asset test to receive food stamps,“ Pike said. "The assets examined in Sen. Orr’s bill would not include home equity or a primary vehicle, but would include bank account balances and recreational vehicles, such as snowmobiles, boats, motorcycles, jet skis, ATVs, as well as other valuable assets."
Also got this from Snopes.com, who seem thorough when researching-
The legislation would cut eligibility for Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF) from five years to three. It would also require TANF recipients to sign a paper acknowledging they would stick to the requirements of the program, including those related to work. The bill would also prevent the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) from seeking work waivers for those receiving SNAP, and would also require EBT cards for recipients of public benefits to have photos on them.
So there may or may not be parts of this bill that harm those who need food stamps, I’m not sure. But it doesn’t seem like it’ll prevent them from owning primary vehicles.
Don’t go “dragging someone to hell for it” until you make sure they’re doing this horrible thing.
And the USDA provided guidelines and limitations for SNAP, (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/fact-sheet-resources-income-and-benefits
