My burden to bear.

Imagine in your early childhood, you received a minor wound. A tiny little cut on the knee. The cut never got a chance to heal because it was constantly reopened by other people, and the gash grew wider and wider until you could barely stand it. You were constantly bleeding. Your parents not only didn't care, but mocked you for crying about the wound and getting the wound in the first place. They put salt in the wound thinking maybe the wound would go away and you'd finally shut up, but it only got worse. You are desperate for the wound to go away, by any means, and you FINALLY come across people who have the same wound that you do, and they have a solution- they put a bandaid on the wound. The bandaid is colored white, pink, and blue, and sometimes even comes with cute anime and fandom stickers! Honestly, at first, you're skeptical, because you can SEE that it's literally just a bandaid, but you're told there's no other treatment for this specific wound. And look, people have been wearing this bandaid for many, many years, look how happy they are! So, you decide to finally slap the bandaid on it… works, you guess, for a few years. You can forget about the wound, you think nobody else sees the wound, and you're happy, it gives you confidence, you feel shielded from everything that gave you that wound in the first place so now you're finally going out and making friends and having fun. But… the wound is still there. Deep down, you are still bleeding. Finally, one day, you rip the bandaid off, and realize what you REALLY need to heal the wound. So, you start working on it, and talk to others who have healed the wound successfully. You realize that these healed people have been shunned into their own corners by people who are still wearing the bandaids. The bandaid wearers say you're oppressing their right to wear the bandaid. You aren't. You just KNOW that the bandaid doesn't work from EXPERIENCE and you so DESPERATELY want them to see that they could be SO SO SO much more happier if they ripped the bandaid off too and actually healed the wound. In some cases, you think the bandaid actually makes the wound worse because it's just a way to go longer and longer without actually healing the wound. You can see the wound on other people has starting to fucking rot. You feel sick to your stomach when people slap the bandaid on children. But. You can't say any of this out loud. You know that you can't question the bandaid. Nobody will listen to you. They will stomp their feet like stubborn toddlers and call you bigoted, call you horrible names, tell you that you don't know what you're talking about and you never even really were wounded in the first place. The only other people who see through the bullshit of the bandaid as you do… they aren't against it for the same reasons that you are. They are the evil people who gave you the wound in the first place. You know they are sick evil people who laugh at the suffering and pain of others and will just use your story as a tool for their own gain. So… you keep it silent. I may have healed my wound for the most part, but there is still a scar, and when I see someone walking around with a large gaping wound and they are still convinced that their bandaid is working, it stings my scar just a little bit. I am so tired. I am so tired and I can't even escape it. I see the bandaid being flown everywhere. In my fandoms, I see so many, many wounded people I cannot save. I can't speak out. I can't talk about my own experiences or my concerns. This is a living fucking hell. And I don't know how much longer I can carry this weight. I have no mouth and I must scream.

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Dust in the Wind by Kansas

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When I ship stuff I pretty much never expect it to become canon, so when it does I’m really surprised. 

The only time I was a little smug when a ship became canon would have to be cygate. 👀 I rarely get grief, which I’m thankful for, but I had a few people telling me cygate would never become canon, which I wasn’t expecting it to, and just basically being annoying to the point that I blocked them. Then bam, LL#18 comes out and I’m sitting here with a big smile. 😎😎

i forgot the login to my drizella blog and im so sad 

NO

MY BROTHER STARTED ON THE NEXT SEASON OF THE NINJAGO

AND THE EPISODES FRICKING DISAPPEARED. LEGO DELETED THEM. WTF?????

"he would not fucking say that" but you ever be looking at fanart and suddenly its "he would not fucking have abs"

IS ANYONE ELSE GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS OR

Genre of character: submissive like a guard dog is submissive

idk y’all should treat fat men better. and i don’t mean mildly chubby guys i mean honest-to-god love-handles-and-double-chins fat guys. stop calling them shit like discord mods or gross weebs or nasty creeps or neckbeards or that they’re stinky or sweaty or beer bellied or whatever else. fatphobia isn’t cute, even repackaged in a neat little box of “ew men”

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

this literally never stops being funny like dog they made starship troopers with the Baby's First Satire cranked up to 11 and these people are still fucking dumbfounded that the creators don't share their politics

Percy at ease

Percy calm, but a little on edge

Percy when mildly angry

Friendly reminder that Percy jackson - our beloved silly adorable seaweed brain - is absolutely terrifying. When he’s angry, when he’s scared, when he’s on edge - he’s not warm and fuzzy.

No other character gets that reaction from people. Jason (the sweetie) is perceived as calm and in control, nico (our favorite self-outcasted outcast) is perceived as solemn and creepy, reyna (girlboss queen slay) is perceived as confident and assertive, and annabeth (our girl) is perceived as fierce, clever, and formidable. They are all intimidating to an extent.

But not like Percy. No. Becasue even when he’s at ease, he’s described as wild and disobedient. And when he’s not at ease, even if just little bit, he’s perceived as powerful, dangerous, and scary. Someone who NOBODY wants to mess with. Nobody even questions his power. One look from him has literal gangs running the other way. One look from him has Leo so scared that he’s literally shaking, and feeling the same innate fright and alarm that he does when jason summons an ear-piercing, earth-shaking, deadly bolt of lighting.

like… HELLO??? can we all just sit on that for a moment?? good lord

One angry look from percy has people thinking one thing: Run.

Percy is, canonically, the character that people find the most frightening and intimidating.

And unless he’s in a good mood - which you better hope he is - the reality is that most of us would be completely terrified of him if we met him.

The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.

Wuling vans

English added by me :)

something so fucked up about Chat Noir’s whole deal is that he is in a lot of ways Adrien playing a character. Like Adrien picked up his miraculous and was told he’d be a superhero so he was like “ok, time to act like a superhero!” and he lets himself have fun w it and play up the role and let loose and kind of just allow himself to be silly and goofy and have fun and for once in his life not care about performing Perfection™.

But. But none of the other characters KNOW THAT. So everyone just sees Chat Noir and is like “look at this guy’s ego. He’s so full of himself. Surely it’d be fair to knock him down a few pegs” without being aware of how few pegs he actually HAS. He’s like the “insecure character who overcompensates in ego” trope except he’s really not doing it unironically, he’s just having a fun LARP pretending to have self worth in his off-hours but nobody else is on the same page about it being a game and he refuses to tell them. He just dramatically pouts about it and lets them laugh and pretends like he’s not internalizing it and it is almost 3 am and my brain forced me to write this instead of sleeping I’m gonna take a melatonin