we are in an incredible age of medicine where you can easily get most of them treated, you can get vaccinated against some, and even HIV is no longer a death sentence (and i believe a cure is in the works rn). it is not a big deal. be safe, yes, but also don't be a judgy weirdo to people who do get infected because they weren't "being safe." especially because if you do not perpetually mask in public you have less than zero ground to stand on there.
exactly!!! like, when my friend wants to hang out but I have the flu, I say "sorry I have the flu i don't wanna get you sick" and i will not rest until we live in a world where it's just as normalized to say "sorry I have chlamydia I don't want to get you sick" when someone wants to have sex
[ID: A tweet and a reply. First is by @.Vickcantmiss, with an image of a Black man behind text reading, “iCarly was right. Live life… breathe air… I know somehow we’re gonna get there”. @.eurydicejones replies, “this is my least favorite kind of meme/joke because the humor is entirely reliant upon a juxtaposition with blackness itself”. End ID.]
Do you know that the "gotta be one of my favorite genders" meme is just a truly random black man's selfie that some transphobic white gays shared in a group chat a ton? I think about it alot.
a few years ago it was “hehe haha what the fuck even is digital blackface why are yall so mad” now they’re using AI to make fake videos of angry black women trying to use their EBT cards in places that don’t accept it
the term digital blackface is believed to have been first coined by Joshua Lumpkin Green in 2006 and popularized by Lauren Michele Jackson in 2017. conversations around the evolution of minstrelsy, which always has been and always will be a tool of inciting antiblack violence, have been ongoing for decades. imagine if yall took this shit seriously back then instead of laughing it off as implausible like yall always do. people could very well lose their lives over this. but hehe haha terms like digital blackface and misogynoir just sounded too silly to be real right?
and actually i’m not ready to move on from this. omitting the police involvement in adam’s injury so that ronan is never arrested and adam never says “can i press charges” is crazy. even with everything else they cut for time or content (im always straight, repugnant, am i invited?, ronan’s alcoholism, etc) i think that was pretty structural and it’s bizarre to me they’d remove that
why are you all so dedicated to a shitty white supremacist novel by an author who poured 78,000£ into anti trans legislation that PASSED in the uk. i dont care if you put the cop in a dress i dont care if the nazi grows out her hair all emotionally I WANT THE STUPID FUCKING SERIES TO DIE!!! WHY DO YOU WANT IT ALIVE SO BAD??? IS IT WORTH THE SAFETY AND COMFORT AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS AND SIBLINGS IN THE UK??? LET IT FUCKING DIE
Why Are You The Fucking Protagonist - a somewhat bitter review of Samantha Barnes
hello. it’s me. tumblr user colonelkepler. a little while ago i made a little post asserting my dislike for sam “thebrightsessions” barnes, after extensive reviews with my colleague @aihera. i am here with that essay i promised. maybe. i’m writing this until i get bored of talking about sam essentially. we’re gonna split this up into sections that encompass her main issues but if anyone has any further comments just slap ‘em on. i’m gonna put this under a read more bc it might be longish.
The Bright Sessions: How a Podcast About Therapy Manages to Stigmatise Mental Illness
At the start of 2020, I decided to embark upon relistening to a podcast that I considered ‘one of the original greats’: The Bright Sessions. I had started listening to it when it was only 28 episodes in, and the website’s own chronological listening page now lists 74 different episodes in the show’s canon. This isn’t including numerous spin-offs, such as two books, two Luminary podcasts, and seemingly more scheduled to come. However, relistening to The Bright Sessions (TBS) back in January made me realise something: it… kind of… sucked?
When I first listened to it, I was 16 and easily swayed by online fandom spaces, so when everyone tells you a show is amazing, you learn to agree. But coming back to it at 20 (now 21) years old, having developed some crucial critical thinking skills, one of the biggest flaws about TBS (and its extended universe) that overshadows almost everything else has to be the portrayal of mental illness. This is especially ironic, given the show’s original premise (that it managed to stick with for a whole two seasons) was about a therapist’s office. However, when every single villain in your show is visibly mentally ill, and the most representation you get are people who are labelled “Class E” (the dangerous class) purely because of their brain chemistry, you start to wonder if there ever even was a psychologist consulting on this show - like its writer claimed so many times.
mmmm, love the cold takes op. especially the one about agent green, the man who:
- has trouble standing his ground
- can talk to strangers (it is his job, after all) but has issues with wording and general social skills
- takes audio notes because written notes don’t work for him
- finds it easier to give gifts and compliments then to express his feelings in an outright manner
-fixates so heavily on his work that he doesn’t sleep
is… a neurotypical good guy who is good because he’s neurotypical? as a neurodivergent person… green doesn’t explicitly have any diagnosis, but he seems neurodivergent. Wadsworth also doesn’t have a diagnosis and yet you compare them as if she’s the “more mentally ill” of the two because she has a crisis of conscience… something green also has— additionally? you’re allowed to have antagonists who are mentally ill? especially if you have protagonists who are as well, which they do.
looking at sam, her anxiety is never seen as “pretty”, and obviously it’s going to be a plot point in a podcast about therapy. she answers the phone with more efficiency because she’s going to therapy and learning how to cope with her anxiety, and in most (agent green not included) cases, she is friends with the people calling her, which certainly helps. we can assume prior phone calls she struggled with weren’t friends, because she didn’t have friends.
looking at the adam point, he may not be the “only person with depression caleb’s ever met” but he could be the only one:
a) that got close to him
b) that has super intense emotions
c) that has that “soulmate connection” adam and caleb seem to have
tldr: your post was cold take after cold take, mentally ill people dont have to struggle constantly to be mentally ill, you can have mentally ill antagonists
Also we could be here all day talking about Damian and Helen and how they’re actually wonderfully written and are an obvious symbols of how absolute power corrupts absolutely and about privilege and how it can blind you to the struggles of others (Damian) or how harmful institution corrupt both the people who are trapped within them as well as the people who run them and how the entire Helen plot says “nothing good can come out of tier five” but like. I have places to be
agree to disagree i guess. but maybe at least try to listen to mentally ill people’s takes on their own representation. why do we have to accept this shitty, shoddy representation as “symbolic” of privilege. why do the symbols of corrupted power and privilege have to be members of some of the most oppressed minorities in the disabled community. why the fuck do i have to praise that
The Bright Sessions: How a Podcast About Therapy Manages to Stigmatise Mental Illness
At the start of 2020, I decided to embark upon relistening to a podcast that I considered ‘one of the original greats’: The Bright Sessions. I had started listening to it when it was only 28 episodes in, and the website’s own chronological listening page now lists 74 different episodes in the show’s canon. This isn’t including numerous spin-offs, such as two books, two Luminary podcasts, and seemingly more scheduled to come. However, relistening to The Bright Sessions (TBS) back in January made me realise something: it… kind of… sucked?
When I first listened to it, I was 16 and easily swayed by online fandom spaces, so when everyone tells you a show is amazing, you learn to agree. But coming back to it at 20 (now 21) years old, having developed some crucial critical thinking skills, one of the biggest flaws about TBS (and its extended universe) that overshadows almost everything else has to be the portrayal of mental illness. This is especially ironic, given the show’s original premise (that it managed to stick with for a whole two seasons) was about a therapist’s office. However, when every single villain in your show is visibly mentally ill, and the most representation you get are people who are labelled “Class E” (the dangerous class) purely because of their brain chemistry, you start to wonder if there ever even was a psychologist consulting on this show - like its writer claimed so many times.
mmmm, love the cold takes op. especially the one about agent green, the man who:
- has trouble standing his ground
- can talk to strangers (it is his job, after all) but has issues with wording and general social skills
- takes audio notes because written notes don’t work for him
- finds it easier to give gifts and compliments then to express his feelings in an outright manner
-fixates so heavily on his work that he doesn’t sleep
is… a neurotypical good guy who is good because he’s neurotypical? as a neurodivergent person… green doesn’t explicitly have any diagnosis, but he seems neurodivergent. Wadsworth also doesn’t have a diagnosis and yet you compare them as if she’s the “more mentally ill” of the two because she has a crisis of conscience… something green also has— additionally? you’re allowed to have antagonists who are mentally ill? especially if you have protagonists who are as well, which they do.
looking at sam, her anxiety is never seen as “pretty”, and obviously it’s going to be a plot point in a podcast about therapy. she answers the phone with more efficiency because she’s going to therapy and learning how to cope with her anxiety, and in most (agent green not included) cases, she is friends with the people calling her, which certainly helps. we can assume prior phone calls she struggled with weren’t friends, because she didn’t have friends.
looking at the adam point, he may not be the “only person with depression caleb’s ever met” but he could be the only one:
a) that got close to him
b) that has super intense emotions
c) that has that “soulmate connection” adam and caleb seem to have
tldr: your post was cold take after cold take, mentally ill people dont have to struggle constantly to be mentally ill, you can have mentally ill antagonists
Also we could be here all day talking about Damian and Helen and how they’re actually wonderfully written and are an obvious symbols of how absolute power corrupts absolutely and about privilege and how it can blind you to the struggles of others (Damian) or how harmful institution corrupt both the people who are trapped within them as well as the people who run them and how the entire Helen plot says “nothing good can come out of tier five” but like. I have places to be
agree to disagree i guess. but maybe at least try to listen to mentally ill people’s takes on their own representation. why do we have to accept this shitty, shoddy representation as “symbolic” of privilege. why do the symbols of corrupted power and privilege have to be members of some of the most oppressed minorities in the disabled community. why the fuck do i have to praise that
Ibtisam Al-Habil is a single mother of 6 children who is facing multiple crises. In 2014, her husband was killed by the occupation during its assault. She and her oldest son Omar found work to support their family.
They were doing well until the occupation’s 2023 invasion. Their home was destroyed, along with their entire neighborhood. Ibtisam lost her job and her children lost their education. They were displaced to multiple shelters, at one point narrowly surviving an IOF bomb attack on a school.
Ibtisam’s daughter Nour suffers from Congenital Heart Disease, a serious medical condition which has left her immunocompromised, and she requires frequent hospital visits. Receiving the care Nour needs to survive has become ever more difficult, dangerous, and expensive. Further, centers are overcrowded, and the IOF’s sabotage of Gaza’s water and waste treatment systems have made them into centers of disease transmission. For Nour, this could be deadly. She is frequently sick now, compounding her prior condition.
Ibtisam’s oldest son Omar, a nurse who recently married and was expecting a baby with his wife Bashaer, was helping support the family however he could. Tragically, Omar was martyred by occupation bombing several months ago while looking for firewood. His younger brother was seriously injured in the same attack. Omar never got to meet his baby girl.
Ibtisam’s family is now completely without income, displaced, and constantly running for their lives. Nour remains ill, and finding the medical care she needs gets harder every day.
Originally Ibtisam was raising funds to evacuate her family to Egypt. This is probably still the plan for the future, but for right now, Ibtisam and her family desperately need funds to survive. Donations will be used to procure food, water, medical care, and shelter for the foreseeable future.
This family has suffered so terribly already. Please help give them a little hope for the future. Please reblog this post, boost Ibtisam’s posts on her blog, and repost the campaign link across all your social media.
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as a black lesbian I've found you can't assert your own culture or history without getting pushback or being labelled as policing for doing so. misusing AAVE "isn't real" because Google doesn't tell you you've been misusing it from the first result nor does the claim matter because "there's no written evidence"/it's an oral history. in fact nothing is antiblack because a (white) academic did not write essays or books on the topic, or if there are resources on antiblackness theyre supposedly inaccessible and aren't nuanced enough. same with the topics of stone identities, and the most tedious conversation, black specific lesbian terms because again - blackness automatically devalues your history and culture for most people, as well as misogny being a driving force, it's constant devaluing and diminishing.
Name ten female characters you like, you get zapped if it's jsut a male character you call a babygirl or other feminine nicknames because I can't see people calling Lestat coquette again
yeah there are. and isn't that fucked up? isn't it fucked up that so many companies, restaurants, brands, clothing stores, etc care more about money than people? care more about profit margins than people dying or the planet being poisoned?
oh hey real quick since it seems were all getting asks from gazans try and be mindful of how you speak and how what you say may be translated, especially through flawed translation like google
avoid acronyms and slang and id go so far as to divide compound words to avoid any confusion
so instead of saying something like "np! ill rb your post to gain more traction" say "it is no problem. i will share your post so my followers can see it"
be specific and be concise, it will help for those who arent fluent in english
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