#fucking mic drop

[trying-to-jew]

Jew-hatred rots your brain so badly that bitches will straight up prioritize attacking Jews over doing ANYTHING to help their own community.

[outraged-honk]

[save-ben-swolo]

Snoke knew Ben Solo’s destiny was not with the darkness but the light.

“But what role the boy would play in the future was less clear. He called himself Kylo Ren, but as with so much else about him, that was more wish fulfillment than reality. He had never escaped being Ben Solo, or learned to resist the pull of the weak and pathetic light, or had the strength to excise the sentimental streak that had destroyed his legendary grandfather. And then there was his most glaring failure of all: his inability or unwillingness to use his power to redirect the course of his own destiny.” -Snoke thinking about Kylo Ben in TLJ novel by Jason Fry pg.222

[hanasaku-shijin]

Now some of you may be thinking, “why was the first thing Yang said to Ruby ‘I love you’? not ‘I’ve missed you so much’’ or ‘I’m so glad you’re safe’?”

Well let me freaking tell you why because I have been upset about this for over 2 goddamn years since volume 3′s finale.

Because before she leaves, the LAST thing Ruby says to her big sister is “I love you” and Yang is too distraught and angry and never says it back. 

So she makes it the FIRST thing she tells her when she sees her again 6 long months later.

[derrickperegrine]

ace discourse

those of you who know me know that i am aromantic asexual and proud of it. i’m thankful that i was able to come to terms with my identity much easier than other people have, and although i am disadvantaged by it (along with my agender identity) i am grateful for the perspective and lessons it has given me in life.

so it bothers me a whole lot that there are people who seek to undermine the value and hardships of the ace experience. there are people who say that we don’t experience prejudice and violence against us, and that we don’t deserve to have acceptance or respect.

this fucking infuriates me. how dare you spout this absolute nonsense about aces if you’re not fucking ace yourself? as far as i’m concerned, as long as you’re not ace, your words have no weight and you have no right talking about the ace community this way; nor do you have any reason to judge the ace community in this manner.

if you call yourself a member of the queer/lgbtqia+ community, you should be able to recognise that this same discourse was also directed against lesbians and bisexuals before, in history. you should know that it isn’t right, and that no one should go through this again. it fucking disgusts me that you are inflicting this kind of hate upon people, hypocrite.

aces suffer prejudice and abuse from both straight society and the queer community. don’t try to deny it. straights abuse us and call us broken for our identity, and other queer people reject us because we’re not ‘queer enough’. by the way, who the fuck has the authority to judge whether someone is ‘queer enough’ or not? stay in your fucking lane. sexuality ‘policing’ is not okay. no one takes us seriously because no one values us as people. try and tell me i’m wrong; you’ll fail because in doing so you’re proving my point.

also, just because someone is ace doesn’t mean they’re basically ‘straight people who don’t have sex.’ fuck you, ace people can be homoromantic, bi/panromantic, transgender/nonbinary, and all sorts of other things. it’s fucking narrow-minded and fucked up that you think that ace = automatic ‘disqualification’ from the queer community, as if the queer community is some kind of stratified system that you need to ‘qualify’ for. that’s absolutely ridiculous, you should hear yourself fucking speak because you’re making me laugh.

as for the argument that aces do not experience the same level of violence as other queer people? think again. i’ve been told as many times that i’m broken as my gay/bi/trans friends have been. i’ve been told as many times that it’s just a phase as my gay/bi/trans friends have been. i have been accused of using my identity as an ‘excuse’ as many, if not more times than my gay/bi/trans friends have been. i have been physically and verbally threatened as many, if not more times than my gay/bi/trans friends have been, by people who think that my identity is just an ‘excuse’, or that i’m just ‘inexperienced’ so i ‘don’t know better.’

you think being ace is just an excuse so we can turn down people we don’t find attractive or some bullshit like that? you have no clue how hard it is to turn down someone by saying you’re ace and have them take you seriously. you have no idea how many people then try to force themselves on you and take advantage of your ‘confusion’. you have no idea, so maybe stop pretending like you do.

maybe sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. you don’t have the right to tell us that we’re ‘not queer enough’ or ‘not valid enough’, or that it’s ‘just a phase’, ‘just an excuse’. you know nothing of how we live. you have no right to raise suppositions about our lives.

moreover, you have no moral superiority or ‘queer’ superiority (since it’s seems like that’s an actual thing that exists, however fucked up that is) over us. the fact that you think that is so disgusting and reprehensible. please evaluate what you’ve said and think deeply about how you behaved as a person.

because as far as i’m concerned, you haven’t behaved like a proper person at all.

[marshyoongs]

mIN YOONGI I WILL SUE GOD DAMMIT (I just wanted to be productive)

[nneahwalker]

anyway idgaf i’m healed. i’m free. i don’t need em. would like an apology someday! but i know damn well apologies are rarely what brings a person peace. i don’t need to enact revenge. living well is the best revenge. stay mad. watch me rise. i don’t need to see you lose everything you tried to take from me even though i know that’s what’s gonna happen cuz you tried to ruin me through spellwork. and it worked, yall saw that. and i still lived. i still grew from it. i fucking ranked up spiritually from surviving all that shit. i got ten times closer to my spirit husband cuz of that shit. congratulations motherfucker. you played yourself.

[youngwildmildlyinsane]

Highlights of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2016 Commencement Speech

Can be found on YouTube here. Lin’s speech begins at 2:30:51.

“In fact, ‘painfully aware’ is pretty much my default state. “Oh yeah, that’s Lin, he’s... painfully aware.”“

“Alexander Hamilton lived at 79 South 3rd Street when he began his extramarital affair with Maria Reynolds,” (pause for cheers) “creating the time-honored precedent of political sex scandals and mea culpas. You guys, The Good Wife wouldn’t even exist if Hamilton hadn’t gotten the ball rolling on this dubious American tradition!”

“You can have scrapple, soft pretzels, and Wawa hoagies whenever you want. You win, Philly. You win every time.”

“This act of choosing, the stories we tell versus the stories we leave out, will reverberate across the rest of your life.”

“Penn, don’t front, you’re a Playboy Magazine ranked party school, you KNOW you did things this week that you’re NEVER mentioning again.” (laughter, and Lin points at himself) “I know what you did this summer.”

(Lin tells a story of his sophomore year at college, which is a bit too long for me to transcribe here! It begins at about 2:36:49. Here’s a powerful bit.) “He looks me in the eyes and tells me, “You’re trying to avoid going through pain, and causing pain. I’m here to tell you that you’ll have to survive it if you want to become any kind of artist.””

“For you Office fans, they’re Jim and Pam... And I’m Roy.”

“I think to myself as these strangers tell me their... stories (of being the first in their families to go to college)... I do understand. And that sounds pretty high-stakes to me.”

(Referring to Hamilton) “A story that reminds us that in the beginning of the great unfinished symphony that is our American experiment, time and time again, immigrants get the job done.”

“There will be moments you remember and whole years you forget. There will be times when you are Roy, and there will be times when you are Jim and Pam. There will be blind alleys and one-night wonders and soul-crushing jobs and wakeup calls and crises of confidence, and moments of transcendence when you are walking down the street” (I think he’s tearing up) “and someone will thank you for telling their story because it resonated with their own.” 

(Lin puts a hand over his heart.) “I feel so honored to be a detail, a minor character in the story of your graduation day. I feel so honored to bear witness to the beginning of your next chapter. I am painfully aware of what’s at stake... I can’t wait to see how it turns out.”