#of it.

[nancynailbat]

i don't want to be on the spectrum how do i get off

[sunny-aside]

So many straight men won't lift a finger to take care of their bodies, it's wild. They'll be like, "oh I lost a tooth and now I'm developing some mysterious rash. I'm sure it'll just sort itself out." And then they drop dead at 50.

[mithliya]

How do you feel about white Europeans telling people who aren’t European they can’t speak on things like racism across Europe? There’s a white European radfem from Germany on here who is constantly getting so weirdly pissed and defensive when Americans on here discuss racism that’s prevalent throughout Europe. And as a dark skinned Indian-American woman I experienced a fuck ton of racism when I studied abroad in many European countries. My study abroad program was set in Spain back in 2018, but when I visited France one weekend I had off my classes, I overheard a French couple comment about how dark my skin was saying something like “dark skinned people always look so dirty and they must never be clean.” I have never once forgotten the deflated and exhausted feeling that remark made me feel. I remember being excited on that day because as someone studying linguistics I was there to broaden my horizons about their culture and language and yet I had such a bad experience there. But anyway, after having that experience (and others) I’m just confused as to why as an “American” we wouldn’t be allowed to comment on the horrific racism seen in European countries. She has a recent post about this too and I feel like this is such a weird time to post something like that knowing how many white Europeans have just been exposed for being racist. I know you’re middle eastern living in Germany so I wondered your opinion on this.

i always hate when ppl pretend that theres noooooooo way to have any awareness of the state of a country unless u actively are living in it. first of all as u mentioned, plenty of people living in europe are not european and its weird telling us that we cant speak on what we have experienced in europe bc we arent from there. ive also experienced several instances of racism in the european countries ive lived in and if someone told me "ur not european dont talk about it" i would just think thats a weird way of silencing the group of ppl often facing racism in europe. secondly, some aspects of racism in other nations can easily be confirmed and are things ppl can learn about without having actively lived in that country. i didnt need to visit ukraine or poland to know theyve got a racism problem for example bc the news i was reading on how poc were treated in life-threatening situations (when students of colour were trying to leave ukraine whn the war started, for example) is enough to give me that impression. comparatively, i dont need to live in the southern US to know that the southern US has a racism problem....several news on that part of the world, information from poc in the south, and the history of southern US is enough to clue me in on that.

that said, i can get being frustrated if people are speaking on something and act like theyre quite informed but actually are not. sometimes people rely entirely on stereotypes and speak on experiences in certain parts of the world without having actual understanding of it. i have seen that too and it does annoy me at times when ppl discuss things in my region as if theyre quite informed on it when theyre actually not accurately reflecting our realities. so i can understand such a comment in certain contexts but also, people are far better informed about europe than they are informed about idk south africa. so sometimes that statement can just be a way of dismissing opinions u dont like, but in some cases it at least is a reaction to real ignorance. so my feelings on it depend on the context

[rosykims]

varric's seeing red quest is ridiculous and i hate doing it. obviously destroying lyrium is a good thing but its just. so poorly executed. like wow congrats girl you punched one big red lyrium crystal into approx 60 smaller red lyrium crystals ! thats going to help us for sure <3 and dont worry abt the 70 surrounding crystals eating into the rocks/earth/etc :) what's important is that you punched THIS crystal specifically <3

[lovemedifferentmp3]

The thought of a fried chicken sandwich truly the only thing getting me through this day

[m--rtyr]

I hate it because sometimes I’m all ‘aphmau’s stubborn and strong willed in MCD’ and other times I’m ‘Aphmau is given very little choice in her romantic life, from Laurence blatantly ignoring her boundaries to her never really choosing Garroth or Laurence because Garroth is gone before she ever gets to pick. The only choice she’s given is Aaron and that’s a choice that we as watchers cannot agree with because we cannot understand her motivations for lack of demonstration of their relationship beforehand’

[johnnytoronto22]

Sometimes I feel like I’m watching a different sport from Lewis haters. How do you see everything he’s accomplished and not be amazed? Like you don’t have to like him but the only reason you keep saying he’s not the best is because you are racist. Like there cannot be any other reason people spend so much time on the internet trying to degrade his achievements. The best drivers like Schumacher and Hamilton have had the same advantages. Schumacher probably even had more with teammates that weren’t allowed to compete and things made specifically for him. He’s still one of the best drivers ever. No one degrades his achievements because of the advantages he had.

[lostjulys]

eugh.