Ooh this teen talk has -Intense Freddie- huh

I know it's not how you rationalize it to yourself, but your posts about Israel/palestine come off as a support of the destruction of Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Insisting that it's a war (Palestine isn't allowed to have an army, and Israel cannot claim self-defence against a territory they occupy), denying that Israel is at fault, obscuring support of Palestine in general as being motivated by antisemitism - it paints a picture.

At least 30 000, probably closer to 100 000 Palestinians have been killed as of now. That is so monumentally worse than anything currently happening to Israel / zionists. So when you spend most of your energy focusing on those wrongs, or insisting that people talking about Palestine should focus on them, it comes off as brushing it off or trying to diminish its importance.

You don't have to answer, as I'll be blocking you, but I'm asking you to please consider what you're willing to support, excuse or tone down, and why. I know what it's like to be too focused on the discrimination we're facing to really take in what other groups might be going through.

hey anon, that's some great useful idiot syndrome you got there. how much college debt did you go into to earn it?

It’s easy for people to criticize protectors for how we react to perceived threats —

Some of us get defensive, some of us get loud, or completely freeze up, or run for safety, or suddenly collapse and can’t move, or become mute, or have extreme fawn reactions … and to the outside, it seems over the top.

Or maybe you think it’s not fair that we saw you as a threat because you got angry and yelled. Maybe you think it’s childish that we sprinted out of the house or scary that we kicked into “fight” mode.

We had to identify threats fast. We had to do what it took to survive. To protect our system and our physical body and mind.

And we can and should learn to react more proportionally. But our instincts aren’t ridiculous or made to victimize you. They made sense in the traumatic environment that created us. They’re the only reason we’re still here now.

We still fall back on that because it worked and we survived.

Being a South Park fictive is so funny because I’m nine years old, so our friends associate me with child things like Hello Kitty, Care Bears, Bluey, Paw Patrol, etc., but if you watch even a second of South Park, Care Bears and Hello Kitty are probably the last things you’d ever associate me with.

-Kenny

I know that we’re all waiting and excited for Euron Greyjoy to serve the Eldritch apocalypse in TWOW, but frankly I’m more interested in what Jon and Bran will be up to. Bran is probably spending the majority of the book under the tutelage of Bloodraven (and potentially breaking from it). He’s probably going to unlock, or rather expand, new powers and there could be elements of greenseer magic that we probably haven’t seen yet.

Then we have Jon who, post-resurrection, will have magic crashing into him like a dump track: old god magic, R’hllor magic, and all that other weird stuff he can do. All the powers he’s been suppressing in ADWD will come spilling out and I’d imagine part of TWOW will be Jon trying to adjust to this magic as he’s going through all this rage and resentment (brought on by learning the truth of his parentage and dealing with the betrayal at castle black). I expect TWOW to have Jon in a really dark place and there’s the chance that magic will spill out as he (understandably) lashes out; whether he’s using magic knowingly or unknowingly, who knows. There’s even potential for Jon to get a magic mentor in the form of Melisandre; though it’s unclear how long Mel will hang around at the Wall because she needs to get back to Stannis so that the Shireen-bonfire can happen.

And - this is pure speculation on my part - TWOW seems to be the one book where magic is dialed up to 1000; I’m envisioning magic in this book to be a constantly pulsating element that as some point bursts into a huge explosion. With the Others coming and whatever Euron’s doing (and potentially Dany and her dragons), magic should have a heightened presence which makes me think that Jon and Bran are going to be experiencing some upscaling in terms of raw power. As magic becomes more and more prominent, Jon and Bran will do bigger more impressive things. I really cannot wait to see what they pull off in this book.

2023 reads // twitter thread

This Doesn’t Mean Anything

NA contemporary romance about a sex-repulsed girl starting uni and meeting an upperclassman who hangs out in the same study room and coffeeshop as she does

struggling with her asexuality, new friendships, and harassment

Quick stranger things intermission because I found my old notebook with some drawings I never posted, and it’s been a minute since I reminded everyone that I’m a Henry Creel apologist

Also yeah everyone’s friends now, what are you gonna do about it?

i think the accessibility issue is the fact that it clogs the dash & scrolling thru it quickly can cause photosensitivity problems as well as making other posts harder to access. a tag would solve the problem easy

i get that part to some extent, but even with filtered tags it still leaves the post you have to scroll past, so it’s not necessarily minimising photosensitivity problems if you’re scrolling past them fast. it Does clog the dash but i’m not sure that’s an accessibility issue so much as it’s an annoyance, since reblogging is the point of the site even if seeing only the same post can get boring and annoying real quick.

all that said, while i do want to be accessible for people, we’ve all got different ways of functioning, and i think this might be one of those times where neither side is wrong but there’s still conflict between them (<- not an argument conflict, but a mismatched experience). spam reblogging is one of the hallmarks of expressing my enjoyment, and has been since i started this blog, so if it is posing a Danger over an Annoyance, than i think it might be safer if i was unfollowed

finally playing Stray for the first time and getting so stressed out my heart is pounding

deleted my twitter app (not account) bc i really can’t handle the intense no-nuance high-stakes takes right now. not that here is all that much better but it’s definitely less of a time sink

hmm.. on the whole, i’m not a fan of introducing kryptonite-style ‘magic weakness materials’ like vengestone simply bc it ends up being a copout excuse to deprive characters of their powers instead of actually constructing complex scenarios where their powers are still useful and relevant but aren’t enough to solve this specific problem, but with ninjago the alternative was just. them forgetting/losing their powers for whole seasons again so. tbh not really sure whether it was a loss or a gain

The bitter truth is that I don’t believe in medications and I refuse them to the best of my ability. I had this belief long time ago and more and more it gets stronger, especially the more I know about how powerful food is as a medicine and other natural remedies. I know that majority of medications help patients but I think we are never treating or even looking at the root cause. I’m currently reading a book which is not only shocking me with facts but quite frankly making me question how long I can continue doing my job. Specialising in a non-medical specialty is appealing more and more with the days and I truly don’t see myself long term here. The future does not belong to us doctors.

Man I be rewatching 1x10 of daredevil and it’s not helping anything

i’m at a point with this whole situation where i truly don’t know what the state of my blog is anymore. i’ve always wanted it to be a safe space for both myself and the people who follow me but right now that’s a very hard place for me to be at when this fandom has so clearly not designated itself as safe for me as a person of color.

i’ve always been a believer in trying to do my part to combat negativity and hate with my own love and joy- namely through my own works but it’s getting to a point where it’s starting to feel futile

i don’t know how many times we can have the same conversation with racist ass people only for them to ignore and harm us further. im getting fucking sick of it to be honest.

it’s a weird place i’ve found myself in and i don’t know what to do now. im not leaving that’s for fucking sure but i don’t know how this’ll all change if i stay either

Since there’s discourse in the fandom (again) and I’m too far behind to understand what the fuck is going on, I think I’m gonna sit in a corner drawing my silly little picture and writing my silly little nonsense. Feel free to join me if y’all want i’v been needing human interaction.

me: reads Becky Chambers for fluff

Chambers: does an Angst

me, upset: puts the book down for months

me: finally starts reading again

Chambers: fixes the Angst within a single chapter

me: