Living the Illusion

Drag Queen, Photographer, Makeup Artist, Eyebrow-Snatcher, Cat Aficionado.

[beyonslayed]

Pulse is also a predominantly black and Latinx club too which makes this hurt even more.

[papayapom]

Don’t make this about race.

[official-albert-wesker-deactiva]

It wasn’t about race, it was about the fact that those people were members of the LGBT community, don’t bring race in to this.

[asmrosa-deactivated20170831]

It DOES include race especially since last night was latino night and he planned it out and traveled two hours on LATINO NIGHT to commit the mass shooting. the majority of the members were LGBT latinxs. he also became enraged at two men kissing in miami, which more than likely the couple was also latinx. it absolutely includes race shut the fuck up.

[themeganpixel]

Pulse is a multi-ethnic bar and the attack happened to be on a Saturday night/Sunday morning which also happened to be Latin night where a close friend of mine was performing.

All we know is that he targeted the club because it was a gay establishment. Using the ethnicities of those who were slaughtered as a motive is pure speculation and the perfect example of REACHING.

[junglelauren-blog]

[fuckyeahnerdpr0n]

whelp, I can now turn off the internet, I have seen everything

[eldritch-elegy-deactivated20131]

He also wore sweaters because of tattoos I believe he got in the Navy.

[mu5icliz]

All this time i thought he was the image of suburbia. Turns out he’s more street than i am

[themeganpixel]

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mrrogers.asp

Google is your friend, y'all.

[today-ifuckedup]

Today, I fucked up... by saving my husband

I once thought my husband was falling out of bed, so I grabbed him tenderly, cuddled into him and sweetly said “It’s okay darling, I’ve got you…”

That’s what half-asleep-me thought I was doing, anyway. In reality, I threw my palm onto his face like the Facehugger alien and screamed incoherently into his ear.

Also, he wasn’t falling out of bed.

[vinylmationnecklaces]

[tropiuz-deactivated20200618]

I FUCKING HATE THUIS WEBSITE DELETE THIS FUCKING WEBSITE

[acakewalkofcrocodiles]

Didn’t even unmute and I died

[themeganpixel]

Omg

[coolnightbreeze]

If you can’t recognize that Rollins vs. Ambrose at MITB 2015 was so amazing that it could be the match of the decade, then you don’t deserve to call yourself a wrestling fan. That match was a fucking masterpiece, who gives a fuck who won? You know who really won? WE did. For getting such an epic match. It was a completely clean and even match up to the very end.

I would have preferred Ambrose won too, but I’m not mad, because there were no losers in that match.

[themeganpixel]

If you consider that match to be the match of the decade, then you obviously haven't watched the WWE in the past 10 years. That match was garbage with a dusty finish, much like the rest of the PPV.

[themeganpixel]

When you take that Barbara Streisand cosplay too far...

[donidarkowitz]

Just a blurb about the Kylie Jenner Challenge

[dreadedphilosphy]

Lmfao she said natural selection

[greyisunavailable]

She said college rule paper. Lmaooooo GET EM

[2003rapvideo]

“Anyway….I look pretty today” 🙏

[themeganpixel]

Yeah, we should totally call it “brown girl challenge” like she said because, you know, white people can’t be born with full lips…

[themeganpixel]

Call me colorblind, but since when is purple and silver, brown/black? Y'all are some reachin’ ass bitches.

Y'all are so concerned and uptight about a damn photo that is not even close to a classic example of blackface and so quick to claim “appropriation” because some chick made herself up like an alien.

Someone wears an Indian headdress as a fashion statement? That can be offensive. A white girl wears a bindi dot at Coachella with henna on her hands? That can be offensive. But reaching to much to claim Kylie Jenner was in black face is the most ridiculous claim I’ve ever heard from the PC Police. Pick your fucking battles and educate yourself on what real blackface is.

[gobblechopstv]

[kurtiswiebe-deactivated20170725]

This perfectly summarizes why I love the Simpsons and hate Family Guy. 

[wolvensnothere]

Yup.

[lookatallthosereblogs-deactivat]

So this.

I watched that episode with my family and I could just feel how uncomfortable everyone was. Honestly, it was a really jarring, unpleasant episode.

Homer is a terrible dad. So is Peter. But Homer’s saving grace has always been that he tries—he’s bad at it and he fucks it up a lot, but he loves his family and he wants to be better than he is.

One of my favorite Homer moments is in “Diatribe of a Mad Housewife.” Tl;dr Marge writes a steamy romance novel starring herself and Ned, and when Homer finds out, he chases down Ned and, rather than attack him, asks him to teach him how to be a better husband.

There’s some part of his stupid self that wants to do better.

I never got that impression with Peter. Instead, the family has gotten more and more abusive towards Meg. It’s really unsettling for me when I started realizing that’s what happens sometimes in abusive families. Abusers sometimes single out one child to abuse, and quite often the other family members take the abuser’s side. After all, it’s easier to side with an abuser than to run the risk of becoming the target yourself.

There’s never really a point where it seems like Peter cares at all that his shitty behavior impacts his family. It actually seems to have gotten worse over the years. He expects everyone to clean up his messes because that’s always what happens; there’s really no reason for him not to be shitty.

And it’s easy to see how Meg is affected. She doesn’t have much of a character, really, because so much her screen time is devoted to being abused. The bits of character development all seem to hinge on her being this sad, neglected person who’s trying her best but never really gets any help from anyone. Quite the opposite; there have been a lot of episodes where her family sabotages any attempts to be herself.

It can be easy to forget how awful this behavior is when the only context is the show itself (frankly, everyone on Family Guy is kind of terrible). Seeing it played against the Simpsons, who are a flawed and dysfunctional but ultimately loving family, was painful to watch.

[withelephantsandcoffee]

Omg it was a funny episode -_- if you don’t like it, don’t watch. Yes, you have a valid point, but holy crap.

[drakatha]

HAHA OKAY NO

"If you don’t like it shut up and don’t watch it" has its place. This is not it. Allow me to educate you on why you’re wrong.

Family Guy is a detriment. Plain and simple. Vox wasn’t too far off when they called this show “a blight on humanity”. Yeah, it has its moments where a couple of the quips they make get a laugh out of the audience. The show having long since lost its funniness isn’t the issue.

Everything this show stands for is absolutely sickening, and its more prominent in this episode than it has been in years. 

Literally everything wrong with Family guy is jam packed into this episode. Here’s a list of just some of the things I can rattle off the top of my head.

It’s generally just unpleasant. There are a lot of moments that stood out in this episode as being really fucking awful, even by Family Guy standards (Stewie kidnapping/torturing people and telling Moe his daughter is being raped as a “prank call”, Meg carving Lisa’s name into her arm, etc). Family Guy has a nasty habit of thinking shocking/disturbing = funny. It doesn’t. It’s just unpleasant and not fun to watch.

The gags are unfunny/drag on for too long. This happens in almost every modern FG episode, but it’s really bad in this one. (The car wash scene, Homer and Peter’s fight, and just the majority of the episode really).

MacFarlane is using this series as a means to jerk himself off. The amount of self gratifying bullshit that Seth threw into Simpsons Guy was nausea inducing. The entire first—what, ten minutes of the episode was about how everyone calling out MacFarlane on his racist, sexist, and generally awful bullshit are, in his eyes, a load of oversensitive braindead idiots with no senses of humor. There are ways to respectfully make jokes about awful subjects. South Park does it all the time. Family Guy does not. Not only that, but MacFarlane plugs his other shows left and right and even goes so far as to shit on Bob’s Burgers—an INFINITELY superior show—in order to fuel his own ego. He’s a LITERAL MANCHILD.

Now, let’s get to the big issue. Family Guy’s messages are absolute trash, and the fact that it still makes money means that PEOPLE ARE BUYING IT. This show’s morals are just horrific. “Sexism is what makes men men” (I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar), “Abuse victims should stay in abusive relationships for their abusers’ benefits (Seahorse Seashell Party), and that’s definitely not the worst of it. This show is teaching its primary audience everything that is wrong with society. It doesn’t matter that these ass backwards lessons are being told in the form of jokes, they’re still normalizing and enforcing ideas that NEED TO STOP.

And the only way they’re gonna stop is if we raise fucking hell about it.

Also, no. It was not a funny episode.

[fairy-space]

I happened to catch part of this episode the night that it premiered, and I was horrified at what I saw. It was uncomfortable to watch. When they put the Griffins in Springfield, everything that was Family Guy related stood out 100000x more, giving us the ability to be more visually horrified by what MacFarlane’s characters portray. His messages and the way he sells his work makes me sick to my stomach. I used to nearly worship the man when I was younger, but fortunately, now that I see it, I see how shitty his work has become and how negatively the messages from his shows impact us.

I HATE the way they portray Meg. Their character development is mediocre and I have absolutely nothing to pick at with the above comments that go into depth on the subject. It’s bad enough that because of this show, I’m always being made the butt of Meg jokes because we happen to share the same name. But what they do to her is horrific.

What they don’t realize is that there are young girls out there going through the exact thing that Meg faces every time we see her. And it’s possible that because of the influence of this show that it happens. It influenced my siblings into normalizing abusive languages and behaviors that we weren’t only experiencing at home, but were seeing as normal on TV. I grew up watching this show in an environment where I was made fun of every day and everyone would stand behind my stepdad while he made fun of me. They think it’s harmless comedy, but this shit happens to kids everywhere and is a very real issue. It happened to me and continues to happen because men like my former stepdad and men like Peter Griffin really do exist.

They normalize this abusive behavior in such a way that it is seen as okay and part of normal life.

This photoset is a clear view into everything wrong with Family Guy and yes, something does need to be done about it, because 1.) I am personally tired of becoming the joke because of normalized abusive behavior 2.) teaching this to the viewers is only going to make the current situations we face socially significantly worse. Hopefully now with a full visual comparison between what is smart humor and what is the “Urban Outfitters” of animated comedy, we’ll be able to really take a look at what we watch when we sit in front of a television.

[scrollingplayers]

 Thwitcheemon:

Posting again, because more commentary has been added, which makes it even more relevant.

The worst part is that MacFarlane is fully aware of how serious Meg’s abuse is. In the aforementioned “Seahorse Seashell Party” episode, alot of the plot circulates around Meg finally snapping and lashing out at her family for the years of abuse that they’ve put her through. She calls them out on exactly the same things that we, the audience, are criticizing “Family Guy” for, effectively making Peter, Lois, and Chris come to terms with their utter moral ineptitude.

Finally, right?

Wrong.

Instead of taking this empowering moment and having it be a turning point for Meg, the show quickly gets steered back into more familiar waters by having Meg “realize” that her abuse is a positive thing, and that she is the “lightening rod” meant to absorb her family’s dysfunction lest it be deployed against the rest of the Griffins. By the end of the episode, Meg -the victim- has apologized to her family and gone back to being treated like scum.

Which is so wrong. “Family Guy” has surpassed the whole “funny yet morally inept show that doesn’t understand its actions” trope; MacFarlane displays an understanding of what abuse is, and shows support of it. In “Seahorse Seashell Party”, the audience is shown that extreme emotional and physical abuse isn’t only wonderfully comic- it’s right. Victims of abuse are taught to view their abuse as something to be not fought against, but embraced, as acceptance of abuse will help protect the one inflicting it. Which is a good thing. And not at all a symptom of Stockholm Syndrome. Though that’s probably positive too.

I’m sorry for inflicting upon you all my poor writing skills and stupid opinions, but this show is awful on so many levels

This is the 21st century. Abuse should not be glorified- especially by its victims. Family Guy isn’t being funny, it’s deliberately encouraging emotional molestation

[themeganpixel]

Y'all. It's a TV show. With made up characters. In a fake town. If you don't like the show, don't watch it, because as much as you guys wanna bitch and moan about how terrible the show is, y'all are doing a fantastic job giving us the cliffnotes of each "problematic" episode.

Go outside. Enjoy the fresh air. Ride a bike. And quit bitching about things that mean absolutely nothing.

[ohmyasian]

2114. Chineasy by Shao Lan Hsueh. Cute drawings to help you remember some easy chinese characters!

[cishits]

Casual reminder that “dating preferences” that invalidate the identities of people (ie “I’m gay but I don’t date trans men” / “I’m a lesbian but I don’t date trans women”) = blatant transphobia.

"Dating preferences" that exclude entire groups of diverse people (ie "I don’t date Black girls" / "I’m just not attracted to Mexican guys") = blatant racism.

There is no way around this. There are no excuses. You’re a piece of shit.

[themeganpixel]

So if a straight person doesn't date a homosexual are you homophobic? I have to disagree with labeling someone as transphobic for not wanting to date someone who is trans. Part of having a healthy relationship is being compatible in the sex department and I know, as a gay man, I would not be satisfied with a trans man.

[gabbythegawd]

I think I just found my new favorite vine

[nataliemeansnice]

holy fuck lololol

[themeganpixel]

Of course I'm #1 in the Kim Kardashian Hollywood game. #kimkardashianhollywood #gay #iphone

[themeganpixel]

It's terrible that we live in a world where we make light of, and laugh at the fact that Solange attacked Jay Z in an elevator, whereas if he were to have defended himself, everyone would have been up-in-arms about it.

[themeganpixel]

The Snow Queen/Elsa in Once Upon a Time

In the story of The Snow Queen, there is an enchanted mirror that causes whoever looks into it to only see the worst of whatever is in it. The mirror is broken into tiny pieces and gets into people's eyes, causing them to hate the world and those around them, as now they can only see the bad in others, not the good.

With that being said, I'm sure that will play a HUGE part in the upcoming season. What better way to ruin everyones happy endings by causing those who are in love to no longer see the good in one another?

The only reason Rumple and Belle have lasted so long is because Belle "can always see the good" in him. With such a huge build-up and with their recent marriage, be sure that The Snow Queen/Elsa will ruin it.

[themeganpixel]

I'm calling it now...

The "dark fairy" that Blue Fairy banished and took her wand is the Snow Queen/Elsa revealed at the end of Season 3. Notice how Emma used her wand to open the time portal? It's not very farfetched.

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[taylorplease-deactivated2024100]

phew. 8 lives left