青龍

She/Her | Writer | Bisexual | Español/English | Venezuelan

[el-moscorrofio-y-el-mercachifle]

Gotta love those scenes wayyy before the actual plan and Armando falling in love, when you can tell he gets carried away with Betty: smiling, coming too unnecessarily close to her; touching her chin or shoulders, and overall having this kinda playful demeanor for a moment... Until Betty does something that reminds him she's "ugly" (like laughing with her characteristic laugh or saying something "nerdy") or someone interrupts them and it's like he comes back to his regular more detached self, sometimes even going as far as rolling his eyes or something like that, as if overcompensating.

It's hilarious when you rewatch these scenes because they're SO obvioussss no wonder Calderon was teasing Armando since the beginning!

This man was swimming against the current from the START lmaooo

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[martindykewood]

not to sound like a christian facebook mom but some of yall need to have grace in your hearts for the people in your lives or the people you pass once on the road and never see again like you literally need to stop assuming the worst of everyone and their intentions it is poisoning your brain. you can be careful and responsible without being a miserable person. it is possible i promise

[martindykewood]

you are a tar pit and you live this way because you choose to.

[martindykewood]

honestly i have been responding to some of these replies at face value bc i do also think you have a duty as a human being to be nice to people. but if you think this post is scolding you to be nicer to people then youve already lost the plot. this post is about how assuming that everyone you meet is hostile and wants to hurt you is bad for you. it ruins your life and it is a choice you are continually making.

[plumpydoll]

I can vouch personally for the validity of this campaign, as well as @gazavetters (#213 on the list).

They urgently, URGENTLY need your donation.

A reblog, that’s all it really takes. There are campaigns on here with tens of thousands of notes — how do you think they got there?

By everyone scrolling past? Complain about morality OCD and compassion burnout all you want. My friend Zeina’s family survived the bombing, but they are not safe.

Even after the so-called ceasefire, their lives are still hanging by a thread. At any moment I am not speaking to Zeina, it is possible that she has no food, no shelter, no safety this is what “after the war” looks like in Gaza.

Think about living with ruins instead of homes, fear instead of stability, and the echo of everything they lost. There’s no “getting used to” that as your constant reality.

So when I ask you to reblog this post, think about the lack of effort it would take to flick your thumb and realize it could still be saving the lives of 14 people, affected by destruction and trauma far beyond what you could possibly imagine on your own.

[voxel0id]

Medical Ethics with Muzan - Informed Consent

[jilted-love]

This long fic is completed now so I can post about it again with complete tags. Sharing chapter by chapter was actually difficult.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Title: Flowers Be With You

Summary:

"You must know you're on a very thin line here, right? You're playing with fire."

"Oh, trust me, Yusuke. I know how to handle fire amongst other things."

"Bullshit. You think you know everything because you're so old but you almost died from being wrong once and you can be again."

"Are you threatening me? A young little thing like you, making threats against me?"

"Um, hey," Kazuma called for their attention as he got back on his feet and dusted off his ass, not that there was much dust in Shuichi's apartment anyway. Everything looked so prim and proper and new. "What's going on? At least explain it to me? I could help."

(Kuwabara Kazuma died young and left his loved ones broken and burdened with irreparable guilt. Kurama disappeared and neither Yusuke nor Hiei knew where he had been until he was found again lurking around a human soul, in search of love. Kurama planned to get what he wanted even if that meant manipulating the very people he loved and finding loopholes in the rules that united the three worlds.)

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Rating: Explicit

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Archive Warnings:

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence

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Categories:

M/M, Multi, F/M, F/F (mainly Team Urameshi OT4)

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Fandom:

幽☆遊☆白書 | YuYu Hakusho: Ghost Files (Anime & Manga)

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Relationships:

Kurama/Urameshi Yuusuke/Kuwabara Kazuma/Hiei, Urameshi Yuusuke/Yukimura Keiko, Kuwabara Kazuma/Yukina Yukimura Keiko/Yukina (more specific inside certain chapters)

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Characters:

Kuwabara Kazuma, Kurama | Minamino, Shuuichi, Urameshi Yuusuke, Hiei (there are more characters that appear but these are the ones whose point of view the story is told from)

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Additional Tags:

Reincarnation, Post-Canon, Stalking, Unreliable Narrator, Polyamory, Angst, Relationship Problems, Miscommunication, technically there is major character death, but look at Kazuma he's alive isn't he?, Comeplay, Face-Fucking, Deepthroating, Philosophy, Identity Issues, Dom/sub Undertones, Fighting Kink, Blood and Injury, Blood Kink, Pain Kink, Everyone is Versatile, Voyeurism, tail pulling, Frottage, Biting Kink, Double Penetration, mention of fear play, cock squirting, fountain man Kazuma, Nipple Play, mention of past torture and interrogation in Makai, Overstimulation, Threesome - M/M/M, Choking, Temperature Play, if fucking a fire demon is playing with fire, mentions of felching, Rimming, Flip Fuck, switching sex positions in the middle of the sex, Spanking, Organized Crime, fox mythology, Depersonalization, Body Horror, Grief/Mourning, Orgasm Control, Edging, Dacryphilia, Street Fighter References, Hair-pulling, Attempt at Humor, Courtroom Drama, Japanese Mythology & Folklore, Somnophilia, Dubious Consent, Ritual Sex, Foursome - M/M/M/M, Angst with a Happy Ending, Haunted Houses, Found Family

[exclamaquest]

"depiction is not automatically glorification" can and should coexist with "some depiction is glorification and you need to be able to tell the difference"

[ecrivainsolitaire]

Please add to that list "apparent glorification in the first 15% of the thing does not constitute real glorification if the remaining 85% is dedicated to suffering the consequences, deconstructing the damage and changing ways" because some people around here don't understand how the three act structure works.

[exclamaquest]

Y'know yeah i will absolutely add this especially since people keep saying fight club is an example of glorification. Genuinely thanks for having one of the few good additions to this post

[anti-parent]

i needed to write this out anyway for my book so here is the actual dialectical materialist argument for family abolition and youth liberation, by the way:

the continued existence of capitalism depends not only on the circuit of production but also the circuit of reproduction. social reproduction is the process by which the working class prepares and maintains itself for the exchange of labor-power for a wage. this can also refer to how the bourgeoisie maintains its power generationally. marx introduced this concept in capital but did not explore it in depth.

there are two scales of social reproduction: day-to-day and intergenerational. the labor pool is replenished via three processes: gestation (having kids), immigration, and slavery.

day-to-day social reproductive labor is usually carried out by women. this includes the work of cooking, cleaning, budgeting, and all the other work that goes into running a household. the wife in a typical nuclear family does this labor unpaid, but many affluent households choose to hire cheap migrant laborers (usually also women) to carry it out for them.

intergenerational social reproductive labor is usually understood as the work of raising children - that's as far as it's been theorized in existing marxist feminist work. but i believe that children are responsible for the bulk of this type of labor. the work of formal and informal education for the dual purposes of developing job readiness and internalizing capitalist norms - it's not recognized as labor by, well, much of anybody but i hope that changes in the future.

one of the key features of capitalist education is establishing the alienation of labor, so that by the time children grow up, they're ready to integrate into a compliant labor force. another key feature of education is maintaining the reserve army of labor, which works to undercut attempts to organize labor or establish worker solidarity. the neoliberalization and globalization of the economy has extended this second feature of education both to adults and previously inaccessible labor markets around the world.

this (unpaid) labor occupies most of childhood and its imperative is reinforced by three pillars: the family, the market, and the state. you could argue for the education system to be considered a fourth pillar since it operates somewhat independently of other state apparatuses, at least in the US. depends on how you look at it. the family, the market, and the state work together (imperfectly, unevenly) to reproduce capitalism.

the family is the smallest unit of social reproduction. the nuclear family form developed around the same time as the industrial revolution and is inextricable from patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, and all the other -isms we usually talk about. the family form in general developed after the agricultural revolution, as a mechanism for inheriting wealth and maintaining socioeconomic hierarchies. families aren't just a source of violence and coercion; they're also most people's primary source of care and support. but abolishing capitalism also necessitates abolishing the capitalist family form (as stated in the communist manifesto).

family abolition doesn't just mean tearing families apart. it means expanding systems of care so that the family isn't the only place that people can receive it. in their original writing, hegel, marx, and engels all used the word aufhebung to refer to abolition, which is really better translated as "positive supercession." so people should still be able to get care from their families if they like, but it shouldn't be their only option. marx believed that this principle was well represented in the paris commune. i believe that the 2022 cuba family code referendum also provides a great model.

to me (an adult), if a socialist/communist movement is going to last, it requires a thorough analysis of minors as an oppressed class. the continued existence of capitalism depends on the extended disenfranchisement of young people until they internalize capitalist norms and prove themselves capable of capitalist reproduction. this process is absolutely key to establishing the alienation of labor. dialectical analysis of children vs. their parents, children vs. the state, working class children vs. the bourgeoisie is all sorely needed. the thing is that hardly anyone has explored this! marx and engels make some passing references to it, and contemporary marxist feminist theorists like m.e o'brien and susan ferguson incorporate this idea into their analyses somewhat. but nobody that i can find has approached this question comprehensively or systematically. which is why i'm here! writing! a lot!

sources!

the communist manifesto (lol)

the origin of the family, private property, and the state by friedrich engels

capital by karl marx (heinrich's introduction to capital is much more beginner-friendly btw)

marx's 1844 economic and philosophical manuscripts (to understand the theory of alienation, specifically)

childhood in world history by peter n. stearns

social reproduction theory: remapping class, recentering oppression by tithi bhattacharya

family abolition: capitalism and the communizing of care by m.e. o'brien

making workers: radical geographies of education by katharyne mitchell

schooling in capitalist america: education reform and the contradictions of economic life by samuel gintis and herbert bowles

[shamesawconquer]

~boyfriends~

[thedreadvampy]

male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.

[thekidsfromyestergay]

Nobody ever talks about the fact that heavy metal basically only exists because of a disability

[thekidsfromyestergay]

For context: the reason metal sounds the way it does is because Tony Iommi, guitarist of Black Sabbath, lost his fingertips in a factory accident. Doctors told him he would never be able to play again, so he spent months burning down plastic and covering it with leather to essentially create new fingertips. Of course, he still couldn't play in the same way, so he downtuned his guitars and found new ways to play parts that made them sound even bigger and heavier than before, and that's how the sound of heavy metal was created!

[thekidsfromyestergay]

Not to use him as inspiration porn but it really is incredible that an entire huge genre exists not in spite of but specifically BECAUSE of a disability

[carpintransa]

Also worth mentioning he was inspired by Django Reinhardt!

"My friend said, "Listen to this guy play", and I went, "No way! Listening to someone play the guitar is the very last thing I want to do right now!" But he kept insisting and he ended up playing the record for me. I told him I thought it was really good and then he said, "You know, the guy's only playing with two fingers on his fretboard hand because of an injury he sustained in a terrible fire." I was totally knocked back by this revelation and was so impressed by what I had just heard that I suddenly became inspired to start trying to play again."

[katebeckets]

In theory, maybe I get the “we’re all just playing with barbies, they’re fictional characters, no interpretation is incorrect because it’s an interpretation” argument. But actually no, not all takes are equally valid. Framing something as an interpretation doesn’t mean it inherently has merit. Some takes are completely incorrect and betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the source material. They just aren’t a reason to harass people or send death threats

[overseer-picard]

[moniquill]

This is a legitimate and damaging cultural shift for all involved parties and it needs to be addressed.

[3liza]

not letting children have age-appropriate amounts of privacy and autonomy stunts development and damages mental health in measurable and consequential ways. it also creates a child-rearing culture where parents are not expected or equipped or supported to prepare children for autonomy of any kind, which is a major contributor to problems young people AND their parents are currently facing and how hard their lives have become. there are ways for children to have both adequate freedom and adequate safety and if i had a ten year old with a GPS locator and always-on listening device strapped to him 24/7 i would throw him out the front door with his bicycle, a battery pack and a machete every morning starting the first day of summer vacation. and then i would be arrested, but everyone at family court would get sick of my bullshit immediately

[the-last-spring-together]

I had so many plans for this summer. Instead I'm obsessing over Kuwabara Kazuma and making YuYu Hakusho about the messiest poly relationship ever.

I'm having so much fun.

(Apologies to all the people I'm stalking rn, I'm just starving ngl)

[tricitymonsters]

Mastercard and visa have reported to a couple news outlets that they are currently being swamped with calls and complaints. Keep up the pressure and try to (politely) insist that you leave a complaint via phone instead of letting the rep direct you to emails. It's way easier to be overwhelmed by a much smaller number of calls so each one counts for a bit more!

[tricitymonsters]

This blsky thread has scripts and hotlines so if you wanna reblog this version instead that would be appreciated!!

[niyarest]

[theivorytowercrumbles]

As a head's up, their phonelines are swarmed, but you can also send emails:

[email protected]

b2b.mastercard.com/contact-us/

[arburi]

If their phones are swarmed, send an email.

Then call again later until you reach a real person. If their phones are tied up for days? Try again for days. Large companies hope that backlash dies down over time, so it's important that you ensure they don't see an end in sight.

Collective Shout only succeeded because they were fucking annoying, like most anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups. If you want to get payment processors to back down off this puritanical hate bullshit, you have to be more annoying than the opposition.

[walnutsupreme]

I called VISA just now as of writing this post. The representative directed me to [email protected] as mentioned above. However, the phone was picked up very quickly when I called. Metrics of calls received still make an impact.

Please remember as you’re calling these services that these representatives you are speaking to are not responsible for these decisions. Speak to them as calmly as you can muster and understand that they are just doing what the company has told them to. Don’t be an abusive caller

[wasongo]

keep calling, but be polite!

more resources/scripts for calling:

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

[tiredgaykakashi]