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happy anniversary to this actual work of art
#apparently i never posted these last year wtf?? ?? ?#tumblr HATED these files btw it did not want to let me upload them#rtvs#deltarune#spamton#spamton sweepstakes#my art
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Like, you try not to be resentful and bitter that everyone else is spending time with their family right now, and you're just chilling alone in your apartment as always. Like. That's an effort.
But sometimes it isn't easy.
But you try anyway cause you don't want to be That Guy and also being resentful and bitter doesn't do you any good.
#but you're still a little resentful and bitter#lol apparently my dad wanted to visit my sister and niece and she told him off for saying absolutely nothing when our maternal grandma died#she said she made him cry which i do feel bad about cause the dude's 75 years old#but also wtf dude#but also i haven't heard from him since the beginning of november and he's NEVER ONCE offered to visit me#like literally never in my entire life#also in the uhhh 15? years since i left home my mom's come to visit me like 4 times?#and only once in the last 6 years#so.... yeah actually i am resentful and bitter lol#so seeing everyone's social media posts about happy family time is a fucking bummer
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WIBTAH for sending my (21NB) SIL (20F) stuff to help with her pregnancy when her mom said she doesn't want us to?
✨️✨️✨️❣️✨️✨️✨️ <- so i can recognise the post
so for some context, SIL didn't tell us she was 2 months pregnant until last night. She'd been planning on moving across the country (we live in the USA so across country is 3000~ miles/4500~ km) to go live with her boyfriend (22M) for a while now. None of us wanted her to go regardless but now that we know she's pregnant we wish she were here even more so we could help with anything she needs. She left this morning for her flight across country with a guy our family barely knows - some of us only learned his name last night.
my MIL - her mom - says she was gonna send her a car before finding out about the pregnancy but since SIL said she's gonna go to school and work online cus she wants to stay home with the baby, the mom doesn't want to send her a car that the idiot who got her pregnant (and was the one who convinced her not to tell us about it) is gonna end up using instead of her.
so, i brought up sending her some stuff to show her that she has people here who will help her (even if she is across the country) and show she's not alone. MIL was worried it would convince her to stay there. My worry is that not giving her any help will push her to stay over there where she doesn't know anyone instead of staying with family or, at least, someone she knows better than her bf of a few months.
I know she doesn't like it here, and at first I supported her moving out before I found out it was across the country with a guy she met *This Year* (2023 when submitted - idk how long thisll take to post). I don't think she should have to stay in this house, I understand she has trauma here and I fully support her moving out but the thought of her alone and pregnant on the other side of the country where she has absolutely no one other than her bf (who doesnt seem to be taking this situation seriously At All) and his family - who none of us have ever met - is just terrifying.
I dont think what I want to send her is something that would end up being a present for the boyfriend instead of her like the car. I have a pregnancy pillow from a surgery I had last year and thought even if she ends up not wanting it, sending it to her would at least show her that she's not alone and we still love and care about her from all the way over here. It isn't much and I don't think it's anything that would convince her to stay over there so I don't see why it should be a problem.
For full transparency, I *do* hope sending her support might convince her to come back, even if she doesn't move back into the house, I hope she doesn't stay in a place with a guy who clearly isn't ready to help, people she doesn't know, new rules, new everything. It all just seems too stressful under regular circumstances, let alone during her first-ever pregnancy. That being said, her staying or going is her choice, all of us agreed that trying to force her to stay/come back would only stress her out more and would be bad for her and the baby.
for extra context- when i say we dont know the bf at all, i mean it. i met him yesterday, the rest of the family has met him 2, maybe 3 times. he made a speech last night at dinner that only made me worry more, "I may not be the best for her", "Yeah, I'm in school but I'm not studying anything right now" (wtf does that even mean????), apparently he wants to be a cop (which i dont like personally) but isnt doing anything to accomplish that? and when FIL asked if we could visit her, he completely waffled as if he had never thought of the fact that we would like to go see her?? and her child??? Everyone throughout dinner made it very clear to him that we Don't know him and we're entrusting the baby of the household, the Princess of the household, with him - all of this was before we even knew she was pregnant. He didn't even tell the dad about the pregnancy before they left, he made MIL do it.
tl;dr- SIL's bf convinced her not to tell her family she was pregnant until the night before she moves across the country to live with him. I want to send her stuff to help with her pregnancy & show her she's not alone & we're here to help with whatever she needs but MIL worries sending her things will convince her that she doesnt need to come back home, i worry that not sending her anything at all will make her not want to come back at all.
What are these acronyms?
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Dead Seagull: Do Not Eat – Albatrosses, Seagulls, and Guilt in Our Flag Means Death
(for future reference: written 10/6/2023, ~36-48 hours after the first 3 episodes of S2 were released)
Hi, all! I, like many of you scrolling the #ofmd meta tag, have a head filled with nothing but the Gay Pirates. This has been the case since 12am PST on 10/5/2023 and will remain the case for several months to come. On my 3rd watch-through of the first 3 episodes of season 2 of OFMD, I started paying closer attention to potential symbolism so that I could maybe predict how the rest of the series is going to play out and get a better idea of what’s going on in these little guys’ brains. This post is the introduction to a short series of long posts wherein I rant about symbolism that may or may not be in the show. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I haven’t written anything even close to a literary analysis since high school, and I generally don’t know wtf I’m talking about. I’m just having a lot of very normal thoughts about The Pirate Show and I need to put them somewhere; if anyone has more ideas relating to this please add to it!! And to the best of my knowledge, the thoughts I express here are my own – please let me know if there are other analyses that say similar things that I should link to.
TWs: animal death, blood, eating animals, starvation, emotional abuse, physical abuse, gunshot injuries, suicidal ideation, canon-typical mental health problems
MAJOR OFMD SPOILERS THROUGH S2E03!!!
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What originally prompted this whole rabbit-hole exploration was the conversation that Ed has with Frenchie at the end of s2e01.
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You know there's a bird that never touches ground?
It's born in the air. Never once lands. Spends its entire existence in the sky.
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As Frenchie astutely notes, this seems…kind of impossible. How could a bird be born in the air? I could see potentially never landing, but surely every bird has to come down at some point to lay eggs (or to hatch from them), right? So I did a quick Google search for birds that spend their whole lives in the air, and the first result that came up was the common swift, which apparently spends up to 10 months out of the year in the air, never once landing (or only landing very occasionally) during that time. They catch food in the air, sleep while drifting on air currents, mate in the sky, and only land to nest and lay their eggs.
So that seemed…promising? I guess? But not exactly what Ed was talking about. After all, these birds aren’t “born in the air,” and they certainly don’t spend their entire life without landing. And this still could be what Ed was talking about; it matches fairly closely, and it’s possible that whatever Ed heard was either mis-told, misheard, or intentionally exaggerated. But I think there’s a more elegant answer to what bird Ed is referencing here, and it has much more potential for analysis than the common swift: the albatross.
This is the second thing that I found while searching, and this piqued my interest much more than the last result, since - as many of you probably know, spending time reading tumblr metas – the albatross is an extremely pervasive metaphor in literature. It usually represents a psychological burden that one has taken on, most often as a result of having made a mistake that resulted in others getting hurt. I’ll go into more detail about the source of this symbol in a little bit, but the basic gist is that a dead albatross gets hung around one’s neck until whatever guilt they have is resolved – albatrosses are huge birds, so this represents an enormous weight.
Before I go on, I’ll add that, at first glance, the albatross actually seems to fit Ed’s description less well than the common swift does – albatrosses are known for being able to glide for a long, long time, but they do land…on the water. One of the first things that comes up when you search for “birds that never land” is that albatrosses spend years and years never landing on shore. There’s a similar problem here to the common swift in that no bird actually hatches from an egg while in the air like Ed is implying here. But I would argue that the albatross is indeed what Ed is talking about. Whether he misheard, someone misspoke, or a tale got distorted from it being verbally passed down, Ed is referencing the image of an albatross that spends its entire life above (or on) the sea, never once going to land.
And this fits. In the context of the conversation that Ed is having with Frenchie, Ed is lamenting the fact that he can only exist in one place, fulfilling one role – on the sea, performing the role of Blackbeard. He imagines the life of this fictional albatross as quite lonely, I think, never once leaving the place it has spent its entire life (again, this isn’t exactly how the birds behave, but I believe Ed views them this way based on how he’s interpreted whatever he heard about albatrosses). He’s resigning himself to never leaving his habitat, and quite literally never going back to shore.
“…We’re gonna sail…rob…raise hell forever…and ever…without end.”
Right. So, if I am to be believed, we’ve established that Ed is actually diegetically referencing albatrosses. So what?
Well, as another disclaimer, I’m not 100% sold on these ideas myself. Especially only having the first 3 episodes of S2 to go off of, there’s plenty of time for these ideas to be proven wrong in as few as – checks watch – 6 days. There are lots of different, potentially overlapping, potentially conflicting ways to interpret this information. I’m probably going to split this up into parts, for ease of access and reading. Because all this so far has just been the introduction :))
In one part, I’m going to talk about what is probably the most intentional reference: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the original poem that the albatross metaphor is pulled from. Beyond just the link to the “Impossible Birds” conversation, there are some other elements in OFMD that seem like pretty clear references to this poem. Based on references to this poem in popular culture, I suspect that parallels here would be non-diegetic – meant to be apparent to the audience, not to the in-universe characters. Link Here!
Next, I’m going to talk about another poem, simply titled “The Albatross” (French: L’albatros). This particular poem is maybe less likely to have inspired references in OFMD, but if there is an intentional link, this poem reflects a lot of how Ed sees himself and his life thus far. I’ll admit that I’m a bit biased toward this poem since I had to memorize it in French class in high school and it’s stuck with me – but it was also one of the first things on Wikipedia that was linked on the page of the metaphor of the Albatross. Parallels in this poem are what I would suspect to be diegetic – despite it being an anachronism, I think Ed has at some point read this poem, and he relates to the albatross/poet. [Link Here!]
Lastly, there are some loose ends that I’d like to pick up that may not tie into anything, but I feel like they’re worth mentioning, especially as they relate to the albatross metaphors and parallels. This section is going to talk more generally about birds and bird imagery in OFMD, and how these instances can support or refute my albatross theories. [Link will go here: haven't written yet :)]
#our flag means death#ofmd#ofmd s2#ofmd meta#ofmd spoilers#ofmd s2 spoilers#ofmd s2 meta#ofmd season 2 spoilers#ofmd season 2#ofmd season 2 meta#ofmd blackbeard#stede bonnet#albatross#the rime of the ancient mariner#literary analysis#media analysis#frenchie ofmd#izzy hands#lucius spriggs
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d-day tour | myg x fem!reader
description: You and Yoongi go everywhere together.
summary: Yoongi is on tour, you have an album release a block away and your impossibly busy, somehow you still manage to be together, despite the public, despite your hectic schedules you still manage to make it work and make the most of your beautiful time together.
a/n: Is this real????? WTF i have been gone, disappeared, i think last time i posted like a chapter of something was in like september last year, i'm so sorry, but anyways context of what the fuck happened, school is consuming, i'm in a special school for supersmart people and it's killing me, also i went though a bit of depressive episode, my parents had some problems along with my family, i also had some problems in school because everyone around me hates me because apparently i'm a total annoying cringy stuck up bitch☹️☹️☹️ and every guy hates me ☹️☹️☹️ and all the girls think i'm annoying☹️☹️☹️ and i'm just a problem, IT'S ME HI, I'M THE PROBLEM IT'S ME………um anyways i'm over everyother fictional character, i literally cannot remember why i even liked matt murdock anymore 🤮🤮🤮🤮 buuuuut my best friend is army and she converted me in like february and ever science i have been in a mental relationship with MIN motherfucking YOON goddamn GI, i love him, hes the love of my life, i have never felt so much for ANYONE EVER BEFORE, i might burst and die for all i feel for him, and of course i already made a fucking script but i just cant fucking shift becasue my mind loves to fuck with me but whatever i'm writting this becasue i'm in summer vacation, bored, in love and hot for my man, i love him so please have this and i hope someone likes it. So basically what this is, is Yoongi is on tour, and you beautiful reader are a super extremely famous model actress singer picture the best of the best, it's like if you combine the level of a model that bella hadid is, the actress that angelina jolie is and the singer that ariana grande is, combine that, yeah that's you beautiful, well you’re together, and in between Yoongi's concerts you decide to live the cities, have a true tourist experience, so yeah basically, loooooove, me, xoxoxo, kissseeeees💋kissseeeees💋kissseeeees💋. I love you beautiful person who read all my trash. Btw miss girl is a self insert of me so in my head shes tall (+175) black curly hair, i'm mexican so kinda white mixed with indigenous, shit like that yk, but theres really no description of anything but i think curly hair and like maybe brown eyes? whatever.
tw: bad writing, fluff, min yoongi, cringe, alcohol, me, self insert, y/n, badly written smut, just trash.
wc: 13k.
japan.
#yoongi smut#yoongi x reader#min yoongi#yoongi fluff#suga#agustd#d day album#agustd dday#d day is coming#d day#d day tour#min suga#bangtan#suga bts#suga x reader#suga x you
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okay hear me out, hurricane paranormal society dashboard simulator
actually that's a dumb idea forget i said anything
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🎮 gamerswag39
jesus fucking christ i'm so upset rn. literally got a call over NOTHING. so what if the animatonics are moving at night that doesn't mean shit man. they move at night at my location. they move at night at the pizzaplex. they moved at night in the 80's and 90's. they just do that. and then they had the nerve to get mad at me for not wanting to deal with it? like? just get a technician to deal with it if it's that big of a problem?
📞 phone-a-dude
lmao didn't they like. kill night guards in the 80's/90's
🎮 gamerswag39
yeah? jake our boss's husband literally got assaulted by mangle?
📞 phone-a-dude
yeah i remember him talking about that lmao
📞 phone-a-dude
just checked some company records my dad almost got killed by chica back in like 93 lol
🎮 gamerswag39
didn't your dad literally kill those kids?
📞 phone-a-dude
lmfao yeah
💙 stanleyblogs
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⚙ exo-gurl
Alright, today's the day guys, gonna be showing off the exosuit in my robotics class. (Made it with a bit of help from @ history-with-shelly but no one in my class needs to know that. Thanks btw Shelly, you're a real one.)
⚙ exo-gurl
I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD I'M GONNA KILL REED STRAIGHT UP TOMORROW. IT IS ON. SIGHT. THEY ARE SO DEAD.
⚙ exo-gurl
HEY SO GUESS WHO HAS A BUNCH OF BROKEN BONES AND DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL AFTER GETTING INTO A REALLY NASTY FIGHT
🖥 coding-and-cats
you're welcome 👍
⚙ exo-gurl
YOU ARE LITERALLY THE REASON THEY'RE BROKEN IN THE FIRST PLACE. DIE.
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🌀 tgirl-sonic-the-hedgehog
Me and my gf are going on a date later hopefully nothing weird or paranormal happens!
🌀 tgirl-sonic-the-hedgehog
Hey what the fuck is Faz-goo and why is this random kid I don't know warning me about it.
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🔧 cob-rulez
not to name names, but istg i'm this close to dropping one of my friends. he literally went like, 50 in a school zone, almost ran over tobes' boyfriend, and he didn't even fucking apologize? he just kept driving like that didn't happen? like? wtf?
(pete when you see this i'm really sorry my friend almost hit you)
🏈 absolutely-footballin
YOU WERE IN THAT TRUCK TOO????
🔧 cob-rulez
yes unfortunately.
💛 aimees-corner
And this is why I've been telling you to drop him for the last few years.
🔧 cob-rulez
in my defense i haven't been in a truck with him before i thought everyone was just like, exaggerating when they said he's a terrible driver
💛 aimees-corner
Need we forget all the times he's ended up on the news? Enough to where there's a whole post about it?
🛻 trucks-n-shit
gang i'm like, RIGHT HERE.
🌐 certified-hurricane-moment
Certified Hurricane Moments in history
🔧 cob-rulez
HELLO?
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🧃 applesauceboy
Okay so I kinda always figured? I was adopted? Since me and my parents don't look alike at all. But WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE AN OLDER BROTHER I JUST NEVER KNEW ABOUT? I'm hanging out with him right now and like? How did we just never know?
🧃 applesauceboy
His name is Devon btw if like, any of you guys know him.
📓 kaiju-fanboy
I work with him, I guess? He joined the paranormal team I'm in because he accidentally killed a classmate once.
🧃 applesauceboy
HUH?
OZ YOU CAN'T JUST SAY THAT LIKE IT'S A NORMAL THING?
👾 gregorygaming
oh yeah I know him too lol. apparently he went to that abandoned freddy's out in the woods with his friend and said classmate and the classmate put on a springlock suit and bled out? but then devon went back a week later and his classmate was there and they were fine and then everyone just moved on like nothing happened.
🧃 applesauceboy
WHAT
🧃 applesauceboy
NO WAY YOU GUYS ARE BEING FOR REAL I'M GONNA ASK HIM.
🧃 applesauceboy
WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE ACTUALLY DID THAT SHIT?
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🦊 yargfoxyforever
hey guys what does it mean if my cousin has blue eyes and his name is freddy and he's really nice
💖 m4rl3y
Alec please stop borderline shit-talking my younger brother I really don't see what the issue is
🦊 yargfoxyforever
chat, Does She Know?
💖 m4rl3y
Alec what does that mean
💖 m4rl3y
Alec
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🐻 mnm-fazbear-facts
Hey guys, Mandy here with some exciting news!!!! I'm gonna be visiting Utah next week to see my friends!!!! I'll let you guys know if I can learn any cool info on this trip!!! See you guys in a week!!!! ^v^
🐻 mnm-fazbear-facts
Guys I think I'm being haunted.
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🧢 thegreendemon
WHO TOLD MY BROTHER ABOUT KELSEY
🧢 thegreendemon
@ kaiju-fanboy @ gregorygaming YOU TWO.
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🌹 heather-the-musical
This close to kicking this random blonde dude out of Film Club, he's annoying when it comes to directing and he can't use a camera to save his life.
🌹 heather-the-musical
No fucking way he just showed me literal footage of a Freddy's just to prove he's a good camera man. What the fuck.
🌹 heather-the-musical
IS THAT A GHOST?
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💀 tomb-and-gloom
like this post if you love yuri
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🍀 sir-gee-oh
stuck on a phone call with matt. ignoring him isn't enough i need to kill this guy.
#sorry if you see this and calico's back to back while scrolling on my blog#this is really stupid sorry gang#unreality#unreality warning#long post#hps#hpsverse#fazbear frights
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welp I’ve caught your sisters attention and I’ve apparently got my own tags now, yay..
idk how tf I got on your sisters radar, nor do I understand what she’s talking about in particular with her post. (I post i only saw bc an anon sent me an archive link btw, I’ve had her blocked for months)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240122022451/https://www.tumblr.com/pleasetiemyshoe/%20740178068838203392/oh-someone-wants-attention
I’ve never come after sunny, yeah we used to interact but that was a while ago, unfollowed him before you and him fell out. (Not for any particular reason, i just stopped enjoying his content) To the best of my knowledge I've never even talked about sunny after we stopped interacting and I don’t remember saying anything bad about him ever?
I have Courtney blocked, i definitely didn’t want her attention as she implied. Or the attention of any of the gossip blogs for that matter bc, to the best of my knowledge, I have them all blocked.
The “honey” and “sweet lamb” shit, along with her graphically saying I’m a waste of my fathers orgasm, makes me super fucking uncomfortable. on top of sounding really condescending she also sounds like my ex who raped me. Bc he was also a condescending asswipe and talked like a “poorly written high school bully” (to use a previous anons words)
she claims I think rape is “just a spat” even tho I am open on my blog about being a multiple time rape survivor (including but not limited to me being raped last year by my ex) and also I’ve never said that “rape is just a spat”, like WTF obviously that’s not what rape is. Idk how tf she came to the conclusion that I thought it was.
she also said I’m supporting two rapists? I’m guessing one of the ppl she’s referring to is you (bc she claims you raped her in multiple posts) but who tf is the second one?? I’m so confused.
and of corse the post has no screenshots of me saying or doing any of these things, she just spat out my url so others could see. So I have nothing to go off of here like- genuinely idk what I did to piss her off other then not publicly hate you.
idk why I’m coming to you about this but I genuinely could use some kinda support here bc she’s honestly freaking me out. My anxiety disorder can’t take this shit. I’ve been harassed before online, I was groomed as a kid and teen and was doxxed as a teen and more, but never have I ever got the attention of someone as obsessed as her before, so I’m terrified of what she might try to pull. The way she talks reminds me of my ex and that’s definitely not helping the panicking at all. I’ve seen how unhinged she behaves when it comes to you and I’m honestly scared rn of wtf this woman is gonna do. I have no idea what she’s talking about and I genuinely don’t know what I did to catch her attention. I think I’m just trying to vent out my panic attack so sorry if this is annoying to you but I honestly don’t know what to do bc I already have your gossip blogs blocked and that didn’t help so I’m kinda up shits creek atm. Like- WTF DID I DO TO GET HER ATTENTION? I’m confused. I like your posts sometimes and occasionally comment under them? Was that all it took?? Jfc I’m so confused. Idk what to do, any advice? Kind words? Idfk I’m just panicking I’m sorry I’m a bother I know this ask is fucking long but I’m super freaking out here and don’t know what to do or who else to turn to
Courtney is nothing. She can't hurt you outside of sending a mob to harass you. She's not a survivor of anything she claims to be a survivor of, she's a perpetrator of them.
The fact that you've gotten Courtney this tilted isn't even surprising because she's ALWAYS tilted.
The lucky thing is that she's also a coward. She's threatening my life for months and hasn't made good on any of them.
Block her, block anyone she sends your way, and just put her out of your mind.
You're gonna be okay, Golden. You're a lovely person who I've always liked seeing in my notifications.
#brittany johnson#courtney peet#britts galaxy brain#courtney orchard#lily orchard#harassment#stalking#transphobia
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Asks Compilation 16/10
The old finale of SBaHJ. (201?-201?)
Gone, but not forgotten.
Homestuck is SBaHJ #55. Dave's trying something new this time.
Honestly, spam away. It's become a lot more easier to handle asks now that I'm doing them every weekend.
WTF, SBaHJ historians rewriting history!
Well if that ain't absolutely perfect casting. Grey's Mandy would be a perfect Rose, and honestly, her Azula is a pretty flawless Vriska.
Both of these ideas for Dave's modus refer to him dealing with arbitrary restrictions - and I have talked before about how Dave seems pretty good at working within Sburb's.
The Tree Modus is harder to untangle, though. Trees are such a general symbol (and John's the one with the apple symbolism), and as a data structure, they're awfully abstract. The fact that she calls it elegant when it's obviously as janky as all the others is a good metaphor for her own feigned elegance, though.
I do really like the idea of analyzing people's modi, so I'm going to keep doing it.
[ this is actually true, I didn't know! it was announced in April 2021 apparently, this is what you miss when you stop following the fandom 😂
"In early 2020, Hussie officially left What Pumpkin to work on new projects unrelated to Homestuck. In the time since, they completed a new project called Psycholonials. The final chapter of this visual novel was just posted today, and is available on Steam and mobile platforms. While Hussie still retains ownership of the Homestuck IP, they decided last year to fully discontinue their creative involvement in any future Homestuck projects, and instead plans to continue independently developing more projects like Psycholonials." ]
No kidding?
It's kind of weird to be liveblogging the heyday of a comic which has essentially been orphaned by its author. It's a little sad, to be honest - it means that eventually, I'll run out of original Homestuck material, and there'll never be any more. Well, what can ya do.
The worldbuilding, of course, I'll love, but it'd also be fascinating to read a deconstruction of a fandom I was never part of. Maybe I'll try to reverse-engineer what the fandom was like from the fic itself.
I'm building up a proper list here! I'm going to have to make a page for it on the blog, I think, so I can compile my recs.
We know he's not really omniscient - and so does Terezi, actually - but it seems as if Vriska completely buys into it. I'd still call it an assumption, but it's a completely reasonable one, given the circumstances, and especially given that he's trying to mess with her head.
It's interesting, because if Vriska really believes he's 'never wrong', then how could she possibly expect him to lose at Battlefield-chess? Is she just that competitive? Why am I asking a question I already know the answer to?
Shit that's good. I'd love to get my hands on a compilation of these ship names.
Oh, I actually didn't catch the pool reference! And it's funny that someone whose name alludes to the Father Of Lies claims never to lie...
So that's the scratch explained, but what about the doc? He sure ain't healing anyone, and the 'omniscient' have no need for research.
The table actually kind of makes sense, since he wears an enormous, green, rectangular-looking coat. It's also fuel for my half-serious 'Felt megafusion' theory - all the cueballs are in the pool table at the end of the game, after all.
Yup! Hass (I presume) knows how to name 'em.
If it helps, Notepad++ is what all my initial notes go into as I liveblog. In a way, it is a wertsearch application!
Hell yes! I find it weirdly complimentary that anyone would pull a late-nighter to read my ramblings. Hope the rest doesn't disappoint, and welcome to the live readers' club!
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Doctor Who 1.1 - Rose
I found this post in my drafts, where it’s been for 10 years.
*****
So, the Doctor blows up the department store. What about the security guard who was locking up just minutes ago? How long was Rose wandering around the basement?
Rose brings the plastic arm into her flat. Why hasn't she tossed it out a window or something?
Mickey comes to make sure she's alive, then immediately wants to go see a match at a pub. Can't criticize, since I'd do the same thing. And Rose doesn't seem to mind.
News says no fatalities, but they can't possibly know that yet. We know Wilson's dead in there somewhere. Maybe they mean no bystanders died in the explosion?
The arm crawls out of the bin, and back up to Rose's flat. Why? The Doctor only shows because he's tracking the arm, so what is it hoping to accomplish in Rose’s flat? If it just wanted the Doctor it could have stayed in the bin until he got there. It went to a lot of trouble to get up the stairs and unscrew the cat flap, for what?
"That won't last, he's gay and she's an alien." How does he know that?
He's never seen his face before, so must have recently regenerated.
The plastic arm can fly. So why can't the other mannequins?
Rose won't let the Doctor leave without explaining WTF is going on. He half-explains, acts very mysterious, and disappears. Rose decides to research him.
Rose conveniently finds someone local who's looking for the Doctor.
Clive says the Doctor turns up all over the place, but he only has pictures of his current face. Convenient.
Mickey gets eaten by a garbage bin. This always amuses me.
Rose apparently sees nothing amiss with Plastic!Mickey.
Rose has decided that Clive's insane and the Doctor's not worth chasing. She's discussing job possibilities and considering going back to school. Plastic!Mickey tries to interrogate her about the Doctor. She still sees nothing wrong with him. Perhaps Mickey always acts a bit dim and jealous?
The Doctor shows up and Plastic!Mickey goes on a rampage.
"The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan can't get through those doors, and believe me, they've tried." I WANT TO SEE THIS.
The Doctor is using Plastic!Mickey's head to trace the Nestene consciousness, which he couldn't do with the arm earlier. Why would the plastic people have their control mechanisms in their heads? Deep in the torso would make more sense; much harder to hack off.
The Doctor starts explaining what the TARDIS is and Rose starts crying, thinking Mickey is dead. The Doctor doesn't spare a moment to tell her Mickey's probably alive. Of course, he's busy trying to save the planet. In his mind they don't have time to worry about one person. Starting to see Time War damage here.
Rose says she'll have to tell Mickey's mother he's dead. Isn't Mickey supposed to have no family?
The Doctor's forgotten about Mickey again. That war really fucked him up.
The Doctor tries negotiating with Nestene whatever. Rose finds Mickey. Doctor puts up very little fight when things go wrong, Rose saves everyone.
I've seen a lot of people saying Rose was a useless whiner obsessed with the Doctor, but I can see why he took a liking to her already.
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Why that one theory (probably) doesn’t work
Ok
I've read the essay in the google doc everyboy’s apparently reading now.
It was an interesting analysis! However, I don’t agree.
It will probably be lost in the ocean but it would be nice if someone saw it.
I also don’t know how tumblr works so here I post it one more time separately. The link to the original meta can be found in the previous post.
So here’s a long post about why I don’t think (at least most of) it is true.
First, I think the ‘Metatron rewriting the Book of Life’ concept is interesting but I don’t think it concerns the flashbacks. Or I’d rather it didn’t because I truly enjoyed the first three episodes and they seemed in character for me.
Here’s a few thoughts:
In Job’s minisode glasses may be needed in direct conversation with God’s fav man, who maybe wouldn’t like to talk to a demon at all (Crowley pretends to be human there. He doesn’t however directly interact with anybody in the Arc or Calvary minisodes and, frankly, people there have more important things to pay attention to). And come on, strange to assume he changed his hair 4(?) times in the last half of XX A.D. but hadn’t touched it in the first 3000 years. Idk I also liked the scene of Aziraphel eating ox, felt in tune with his self-hatred in the end of the episode but also pretty cathartic on its own.
The resurrectionist mini episode worked alright for me as well. I agree it would be very cool to connect it to Lazarus but I also respect that people don’t come from the dead in this universe. (except for 2x04 but man wtf was 2x04)
I agree that the statue, the gun in the book, drawing instead of taking photo and cakes (lol) should have been revisited. And preferably in this season. If it happens later it would be a treat. But frankly if it doesn’t… I won’t be that upset. Maybe I just was betrayed by screenwriters too many times but I kind of don’t expect that. You say ‘Trust Gaiman’ and I want to! but… ok, there’s nothing left but to wait and see. But some dots certainly won’t be connected and that’s alright.
I agree about Maggie. There is something weird about her.
There are also things that I think are meant to be left unresolved now and revisited specifically in season 3, because they are pretty big: Shax and Furfur’s alliance, the whole deal with the Book of Life (weather it has been changed or not it is still a thing that will come up again), Crowley’s backstory (which includes the ‘Ask him properly’ and the ‘Memory wiping’ deal).
The biggest problem for me is ep4 because it is completely pointless and has nothing to add either to the plot or character dynamic. Absolutely empty and a bit confusing (maybe I missed something?) But I mean it’s fillers for you guys stop clutching your pearls like it’s something you’ve never seen before. It happens in every show and that’s the norm.
As to why Aziraphel didn’t take anything to heaven, I suppose he thinks he will be able to come back because the shop is not going anywhere and there will be no one to forbid it. Also because he was very upset and couldn’t think properly.
Now I thought about lack of narration as well. But I interpreted is as God hasn’t spoken since the not-apocalypse. I think Gabriel & Beelzebub’s arc works specifically if you keep that in mind. The whole deal with angels vs demons was due to the End of the world. Now it is gone and God doesn’t say what to do next. So yes, nothing seems to matter and you could as well go and hook up with a demon. And I believe the difference between Gabriel and Aziraphel is that the latter actually cares about doing good and helping people and not just taking orders. We see it multiple times. He helped create people, he always tries to protect them – it was very emphasized when demons surrounded the bookshop. Aziraphel is doing what he thinks is right and not necessarily what he is told. And yet he still believes that, apart from several individuals, Heaven is Good and the system should be in place. Many things have been written about religious trauma, sometimes specifically in GO discourse, and it has always been important in the show. And much more pronounced than certain components of this theory.
And that is why I believe his conflict with Crowley in the end was in character. You say they’ve spent 6k years together they should know each other. But isn’t it the point? I mean, it was on the nose but... The apology dance without actually speaking about why he is apologizing in the first place?? The ‘lighter shades of gray’?? Did Crowley tell Aziraphel what he had seen in Heaven in ep6? Did he tell him what had happened in Hell before he had asked for holy water? Did he tell him how his execution had gone? I suppose he didn’t. And Aziraphel didn’t ask. They don’t speak and it seems like they are on the same page but the whole sequence of flashbacks says the opposite. And seeing how easily Aziraphel slipped into ‘we are not friends’ in season 1, I think the conversation ‘let’s establish what we are’ was a good decision. Like it was said, other people’s relationship seems so easy from outside. And would it really take two lesbians who you’ve known for a week to shatter your confidence in something you’ve supposedly known your whole life? Exploration of their relationship in this season was Real and important.
About the end many things have been already written as well. But the point is they live under an oppressive system that manages to find them time and time again and both the ‘go and change it’ and ‘keep running for the rest of time’ resolutions have their flaws and that is a dilemma just alright. The last conversation felt authentic to me. They love each other very much and the conflict in the end happened not because something has changed in that regard. If drugging was in place the whole point of the conflict would be lost and even though I agree that the ‘second in command’ is a bit upsetting it is not that of a big deal to indicate that the whole conversation was ingenuine.
I assume Metatron could change something in the Book of Life but it certainly isn’t be THAT big as to cancel even half the canon. And I don’t believe that is what lead to the last scene in the season 2. Assuming that actually feels unfair to the characters.
All in all, I believe sometimes when a show tells you ‘they don’t communicate enough’ and ‘he wants to help people’ you should take it instead trying to find meaning in something that is written between the lines at the expense of the literal plot. It is ironically exactly the miscommunication they warned us about.
And idk, if Neil is THAT crazy as to declare this whole season basically not canon, it had to be done differently. I mean, it theoretically could work and be very unique buuuut has he really done something that huge and at the same time that incredibly subtle before?
I am not a professional writer but if that was my plan I would either go deeper into unnatural filter/ truly uncanny (not just “bad writing”) characters/ abrupt montage to emphasize that the memories are fake. And something in the end that would confirm that. Because Metatron being just manipulative in a ‘human’ way like ‘You like human food? Here’s coffee. You like your demon? You can still have him’ makes more sense to me than declaring 90% of the season a dream sequence.
I mean, yes, as far as I know a lot of people (me included) agree that the writing this season was not very good but they still felt very passionate about what went on between two main characters and that part was very well executed, so taking it away wouldn’t be nice. That is how I see it at least.
Finally, the last season will have the Second Coming in it. It is said in the last episode and showed in the opening. And I also believe that many themes are to be discussed there. It feels like a very rich plot. I think they intentionally left something for later so that the narrative was more consistent, that’s why, for example, they left 4x02 that uneventful. Every season has its purpose.
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All right, so I like to have multiple WIPs because sometimes I'm just not in the mood to write a specific one, so it gives me options, so I'm letting you guys pick which one I write first. (Spoiler alert: They're all CM, most of them are Garvez.)
Forgiveness: This is post-13x20, and Garcia is crying about her brother being angry at her after learning what happened to their parents. She says one of the things that hurts the most is that her parents died disappointed in her. JJ mentions the case from season 12 where the bullies' families were being killed, and how the first girl had something similar, her mother's last text to her was "I'm disappointed in you." She then goes on to explain that "disappointed in you" is the wrong phrase, because she has children, and she has never been disappointed in them, but in some of their decisions. "They weren't disappointed in you, they were disappointed in your choice. You are not your teenaged poor decisions." (one shot)
Meet the Family: A few years after getting together, Luke and Penelope go down to California to visit her brothers, this is his first time meeting them. They absolutely adore him, there's a lot of shipping and sibling teasing, it's great. She also takes him to her parents' grave to "meet her parents" and they have a little picnic. This does turn into a proposal fic, just saying. (multi-chapter)
Sensitivities: This is a canon divergence where Luke and Penelope are already dating in season 14. Based on the line "Oh, Luke, no one has time for my sensitivities." (bc apparently I'm obsessed with that line and scene in particular because GOD have you seen it??? Garvez as FUCK.) Essentially emotional hurt/comfort fluff because god help me I'm a sap. (one shot)
Abby Jenkins: Luke's niece is kidnapped, and when she's found, she says some things to Penelope that make her think. Luke's sister also makes an appearance, and there's a lot of nice family shit and teasing and Garvez anf good times. Very OC heavy, and not really a case fic, but has case elements. (either long one shot or multi-chapter, haven't decided.)
Mrs. Alvez: A Garvez secret marriage fic. Luke is injured in the field, and while Matt waits in the hospital, the doctor informs him he's called Luke's wife and she'll be there promptly. He calls their new tech to learn said wife's name, and lo and behold... (multi chapter, but not many)
Two Can Play at this Game: At a family dinner, they're catching up with Penelope, and she mentions she's been seeing someone. They ask her who, and she goes on this long, loving rant about the guy she's dating. Luke, sitting right next to her, is fighting every instinct in his body not to make out with her in front of everyone. When she's done, Emily asks if anyone else has a secret relationship they'd like to share. Well two can play at this game... (one shot)
Our Spot: Another party at Rossi's, I haven't decided what exactly the party is for, but it's a party. At one point there's a moment where they're separated from the group (just like that scene) and she asks him, "Do you know where we are?" He looks around in confusion. "Rossi's backyard...?" "Yes, but more than that. We're in our spot, Luke. This is where you asked me out." "Would you look at that, it is. So what would you say if I kissed you in our spot for the whole team to see?" "I'd say these lips aren't going to kiss themselves." (one shot)
The New Tech: (Title subject to change bc I'm not crazy about it but don't have any better ideas atm) The new tech (who totally isn't a self-insert OC, stfu,) has recently gotten engaged, and while telling the team the story, she mentions, "Luke, I actually saw you and Penelope at that restaurant" and everyone's like "??? Wtf were you doing with at a romantic restaurant with Penelope on a Saturday night???" and the new tech's like "aw shit I said smth I wasn't supposed to, didn't I?" (one or two shot)
Liquor-loose Lips: One night at O'Keefe's, Penelope drunkenly plops down on Luke's lap in front of the team and tells him she loves him and that should tell everyone they're dating. He tells her that that's very far out the window right now. (one shot)
#plz help a girl out#i have so many ideas#they're all gonna get written at some point but idk what to start with#garvez#criminal minds#luke alvez#penelope garcia#jennifer jareau
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I moved out from my moms house a few months ago and I was hoping that the abuse would end. My mom is completely unaware that she's abusive and even when several therapists suggested an unhealthy relationship between the two of us, she simply forbid me to see that therapist ever again, and at some point, to see any therapist.
She called me today and yelled at me for so many things, that are her fault, at the base.
(Not to get too deep into it) I should get money from the state two years ago, but I would've needed her signature (because back then I still lived with her). She refused so I never got anything. When I told her, she accused me of failing getting the money (though they wrote the missing signature as the official reason) and trying harder, so many times, that I just lied to her at some point and said, that I receive it now. I wrote the bureau (from which I'd get the money) that I take back my application and would go without the money, because it was just too much trouble for me, for not that much money.
For some reason, this bureau wrote me twice a year, that they needed more proof and I always wrote them an email, referring to my old email, that I never gotten anything and don't expect anything but peace and quiet. They never answered so I thought it was okay. This was always big trouble, because my mom always opens my post and would yell at me, whenever that letter came.
And today I got a letter to my old address (my moms house) and she opened it and it was said bureau, saying that I need to pay back 4 times the amount of the money that I could have, but never did, get. Because I couldn't give them enough proof I deserve it. This is much trouble for me, because of the moving I lost access to my bank account and can't show them, that I never gotten anything (this whole moving is a mess in itself) and, well, because my mom read this letter and yelled at me and I had a hard time covering my old lies because imagine what would happen if I told her I lied to her for 2 years.
And then she had the audacity to yell at me "You could've taken yourself a therapist who could help you with all of that, but now it is too late" as if she didn't forbid me to do? I am looking for a therapist, almost since the day I moved out, but waiting lists are 1 year or more.
And then (idk she apparently remembered what she hated on me, once she started yelling) she yelled at me because I always wear the same outfit (I visited her last weekend) and I shouldn't dare coming to her house with that outfit again (nothing against the outfit itself). That she'd drag me shopping soon enough, if I don't get myself something else.
And this is so fucked up, because she raised me with so much self hate towards my body, my weight, my curves, slut shaming every visible collarbone, that this is my only comfort-summer outfit by now. I can't even look into the mirror without self hate, but sure, my fault that I don't own a more diverse wardrobe.
And she did lie to me in the past, that we would drive somewhere fun and when we arrived it was a shopping mall and I was forced to spent 10 hours there, until I bought enough to satisfy her. I am afraid she'll do something like that again and I will avoid getting into her car in the near future.
You know, I feel so fucked. I feel like that shitty bureau hates me, because wtf? I always feel like everyone just waits to stab me in the back, but they really proofed it. And my mom, who yells at me as if any of this was my fault? As if I didn't do all I can just to survive and everything else is an extra? Nobody appreciates, what I do, that I go outside with all of my self hate, that I try to find a therapist, no, it is never enough, I am never good enough and it is all my fault.
Hi anon,
I'm so sorry to hear about what you've been going through. It sounds like your mom often criticizes you and fails to understand your circumstances or perspective, to say the least. It seems like your mom puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on you and discourages healthy and open discussions with her by making you feel like everything is somehow your fault.
When you've been experiencing this for a long period of time, it can be easy to internalize these messages and feel like you aren't good enough or that everything is your fault, but please remember that you are worth so much more than this and you are trying your hardest. You do not deserve to be treated this way.
It sounds like your relationship with your mom doesn't benefit you in any way. Since it seems that you're living on your own now, have you considered cutting her off? It would be a big change and may come with a complex range of feelings, but it's also worth self reflecting and asking yourself what you deserve, and if your mom's behavior aligns with that. I do also understand if the situation with the bureau is preventing this.
Please remember to practice self care during this time. You deserve to be gentle with yourself, especially after everything you've been through. If anyone has any comments or suggestions, feel free to add on. Otherwise, I hope I could help, and please let us know if you need anything.
-Bun
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Hi!
For all the NS/SN fics thing, I completely agree with you. I think the problem is that some people don’t actually understand how sex works. Your personality doesn’t influence your sexual preferences… Or even your apparence. So claiming thing like "Sasuke/Naruto is clearly a bottom because he is more feminine" or "Naruto/Sasuke is much more possessive than the other, it’s a top behavior" doesn’t make any sens.
Personally, I’d said I prefer NS, simply because I’ve found more of bad written, anti Sasuke SN fanfictions than good written ones. I don’t like the way either either Sasuke or Naruto are portrayed in most of SN fanfictions I’ve read. Sasuke is a just a cold, perverted bastard and Naruto is a crying little cutie pie. It made me uncomfortable, because in some SN fics, I had the feelings that Sasuke was an adult and that Naruto was a child.
But I can say the same with NS characterization. In some fanfictions, Naruto is just a dumb sunshine and Sasuke is just a blushing tsundere. And, even it’s a part of their personality… They’re so much more than that. I still like NS fanfictions more, because the majority of them treat Sasuke like an actual human and not like a monster. And I’ve seen sooooo much SN fonctions bashing Sasuke and praising Naruto. I’ve seen much less NS fanfictions bashing Naruto, on the other hand… I mean, most of the people in the Naruto fandom like Naruto’s character, so…
But of course, I don’t want to generalize anything! It’s just what I’ve observed.
Have a good day 💕
Hmm... Makes Sense and you're totally right.
Again, My whole gripe about that discourse and especially my annoyance towards that one side (you know which one, right??) is that CRINGEWORTHY HYPOCRISY & BASELESS SELF-ENTITLEMENT & TOXIC BULLYING...
You could actually question me like, "Hmmm... You said you don't care about fanfiction portrayals of N and S and yet why you get annoyed over this discourse... You could simply ignore them."
Well, I was doing that for the entire time and if I am being honest I was more oblivious to it and never wanted to involve myself in it. And I would've stayed that way had that not muddy the canon portrayals and write-ups.
Last year around March, I was a total newb to this Fandom. At that time, I was simply following tumblr blogs and there were some posts about fanfictions, which I never quite understood what it meant. I simply scrolled them down and moved on.
Even after I started to write Asks, I was thoroughly oblivious about it. For example, Look at this Asker's ask... [Link].... That post was from September 2021... You could see that I have no idea as to what the Asker was asking about. All I know was they were talking about some random fanfiction portrayal and I responded with Canon basis. The Asker was saying Sasuke is Asexual... I said, Canon and Kishimoto's posters says otherwise.
And a month later in October 2021, I got this another one... [Link]... And my first reaction was like, "...WTF... Noooo". Back then I didn't know which faction of SNS this ask came from. I simply answered it with canon basis. But somehow, that ask negatively stayed in my mind... forever.
And then I came across a string of very irritating posts which portrayed Sasuke as this Vulnerable, Insecure, Aloof, Non Obsessive, Non Possessive, Goal Oriented guy whom Naruto forced him into submission for Sasuke's own good... Naruto was the one who chased Sasuke (romantically and for his sexual desire)... But all of a sudden Naruto rejected Sasuke's non-verbal confession, broke his poor little uwu heart and became a scumbag.
This above portrayal proves Sasuke was forced to fall in Love with Naruto because Naruto chased him....
And when I came across these posts... I kept on reminded of that ask which stayed in my mind negatively..... Then I realized "Wait a minute!!! These portrayals of Sasuke are alllllllll from a certain faction of SNS fandom and it's all horribly wrong.. Why is that???". And when I digged deep, I felt that they are making Sasuke into a version of some vulnerable and difficult woman who needs constant reassurance.
Basically NS bottomline is like a girl (Yeah, Sasuke's shipping self inserts are majorly girls, that's why I used the word Girl) saying, "I have mental issues... I have goals... I need space... Can you tolerate me??? Can you deal with me??? Can you care for me??? Can you devote yourself for me???"
See... It's all about me me me me... Just like how Sakura makes it all about herself in SS. There's literally no care about Naruto and his character.
That's when I understood... "These guys are fucking cringe worthy and annoyingly hypocritic... Is this what this 'Division of Fandom' all about??? These guys hide under the In-Canon BS but clearly carry a stupid agenda and blame the other side for OOC portrayal when in reality they are also doing the same thing."
They accuse the other side for multi-shipping Naruto... Which is fair... Even I am not a fan of it... But they also make Sasuke into a cum-dumpster by shipping him with Kakashi, Itachi, Orochimaru, Jugo and every other guys with stick.
If Hypocrisy and Cringeness is one side... Then Intentionally Bullying, Name calling, Stalking and Openly hating Naruto but still shipping SNS is the another side. Of course, I have 4 different ugly discourse tumblr links that happened at 4 different periods of time to prove it... which I don't want to attach it here. But you are welcome to Direct Message me and I will be glad to send you those links to see it for yourself.
Yes, Sasuke hate is real... But that was actually before 4 or 5 years ago though. Now... Naruto hate is the reality... And I am clearly seeing it from that one side (most of the times).
That's why I am being very vocal about it... My annoyance doesn't stems from the Portrayal of N and S in any of the sides. Truly. My annoyance stems from "How are you any different?? Why are you bullying?? Are you any better? And why do you bring Fan fiction portrayal into Canon?? Why do you hate Naruto and ship him with your self-insert character Sasuke??"
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hello hello~ i saw your post about rw&b from another blog and decided to give your blog a look through. i just wanted to say really thank you for bringing these representation issues to the conversation, even if it's tiring and hard :')
i thought about it and i really could only name a few characters on tv that i've seen recently who were jewish (jake/gina from b99 and dr. taub from house md). as a jew, even nonreligious like many of us are, the culture is still such an important part of the community, and yet none of us really get to see this representation on screen - especially minorities within the jewish minority (i have a friend who's half chinese half jewish for ex).
i didn't grow up with religion (we only celebrated passover sometimes and we usually forgot to light the hanukkah candles after day 3), but we ate latkes and matzah and hamantashen and my mom and grandparents (also nonreligious jews) regularly used yiddish words like schlep and schmutz which I didn't know wasn't normal until i had college friends ask me what they meant.
anyway this ask doesn't really have a point but i'm really glad to see that this kind of issue is being talked about at some level, especially as you've seen, it keeps getting denied and pushed down (like saying having a jewish producer on a movie means we shouldn't have jewish actors??? wtf). even though i haven't experienced much discrimination myself (i don't have an easily identifiable/stereotypical jewish name or appearance) many many people have (for literally thousands of years) and there's so much antisemitism in our society. it's exhausting seeing it, hearing about it, reading it in books, etc. sorry for the very long message but sending much love and gratitude <3<3 you're amazing
Thank you so much for this!!!
I was just talking to someone else about Jake from Brooklyn 99, I’m gonna watch the show because everyone keeps telling me great things! And Taub… yikes… his character isn’t bad, but man do they really use his Jewishness as a punchline sometimes, granted House does it with everyone, but it feels more offensive with Taub. Dr Cuddy in House is Jewish too, played by Lisa Edelstein. But that was more of the case that she was Jewish and they let her character be too. But yeah, Jewish rep is such a small fraction of characters, and meaningful Jewish rep even more so.
There will be “Jewish” TV shows like The Goldbergs or Maisel, and people consider that rep… but 1. There are almost no Jewish actors in either of those shows, 2. Heavily stereotyped, 3. If the only time you can see more than one of two Jews on screen is in a show that is about Jews… It’s still othering Jews by literally putting them into a different show. I can easily name more than a dozen shows with no Jewish characters, which is just so terrible. Especially because there are so many different Jews in the world. Not every Jew is from New York and speaking Yiddish. There’s an entire other type of Judaism called Sephardic Judaism and there’s almost no rep there. Plus, there is barely any rep for Jews of color (especially played by Jews of color). I also have a friend who’s Jewish and Chinese, apparently that’s a super huge sector… yet, I can’t remember the last time I ever saw that represented by an actor who is. Sorry, little rant.
I love hearing about people’s Jewish upbringing, because there’s such a diverse range in the way people live their Jewish lives, and it doesn’t make any Jew more or less Jewish than another. I’m really glad you’ve never been discriminated against, like honest to god that makes me so happy. I’m the total opposite. Nearly been killed and attacked a handful of times, so any time another Jew tells me they’re able to live without worrying for their life, it makes me so happy and hopeful that maybe one day we all can. Probably a big hope lol, but maybe.
And yeah, Jewish representation is something that people don’t wanna hear about, because it would require people to understand more about Judaism and Jewishness, and due to history/society/culture, many think they already know everything and learning more would make them reevaluate things. And many don’t want to.
Thanks again for your message, Anon! Great to hear from you!!
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the censorship of books in libraries + schools is a subject that's near + dear to my heart. you all probably know that over the last few years, far-right groups and individuals are attempting to challenge + ban swaths of books, the majority of which are written by/about lgbt folk or bipoc. what makes this whole thing strange is that, regardless of political affiliation, something like 70% of people oppose book bans. so wtf?
as someone who heavily uses my local libraries, i'm super concerned about not having access to books that i personally want to read, but i'm also crazy concerned for these authors + the people in my community that will lose out because of these bans. it's wild to me that what is apparently a minority of militant conservative are having such a huge effect on society's overall ability to freely access books + information.
i guess what i'm hoping to do with this post is make others aware of the problem + give y'all access to some tools that might help. for me, i've never known how to draft a letter to my representatives or how to effectively express what i'm taking a stand for.
luckily, the ALA (american library association) and unite against book bans seems to keep close tabs on this particular topic. i've been signed up to receive updates from them for a while now + i've been hounding my representatives with my support of libraries/disapproval of book bans. basically, they make it really easy to contact your reps by emailing you forms that find your representatives for you + have pre-written (but customizable) messages that you can use to get your voice out there.
(here's the link to the ALA's latest call to action, sent earlier today in response to the hearing in congress about book bans.)
libraries are an important resource + a huge help for those living in impoverished areas + especially to kids living in poverty, speaking from experience. it's my hope that by pushing back against these people, we can protect libraries for everyone.
(i'm also aware that not everyone gets to have much of a say in what happens in their state. (i see you, other liberals living in the south!) but our voices still matter + it's more important than ever to vote in your local elections. we gotta do whatever we can to get these people out of here.)
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Same anon and update to the situation
We are no longer friends and honestly I’m glade it ended
Last Monday they told me that they were going to visit their boyfriend that lives 2 hours away on Tuesday. I didn’t think anything of it, but 8am the next day they show up at my door asking if I’m ready to leave and I’m kinda like wtf are you talking about apparently they expected me to make the 2 hour drive to drop them off (when they originally told me they never specified that I was driving them) I told them no and they started whining that they already made plans weeks ago and that I was ruining them and if I was in their situation that they would do the same for me. long story short we got into a big argument and we haven’t talked to each other since. On their Instagram story and Snapchat they publicly vague post about me and how I’m a “terrible friend” etc and one of my mutuals who is on their close friends story on Instagram sent me a few screenshots of them shit talking about me and them twisting what happened and the reason why they can’t afford gas is because they spend it all on their little brother who they babysit twice a week (funny thing is their parents pay them $200 each time) and I was selfish for not helping them out when they needed it most. Also later I saw them trying to sell my designs that I gifted them for free (the designs don’t have any extra art or anything) for over $50+. I already know that the money is going to go towards buying new characters instead of something actually important which kinda pisses me off ngl, but it’s out of my control and the best I can probably do to prevent it is to pm anyone that shows interest in purchasing the designs. This whole situation makes my head hurt I can’t believe our 6 year friendship got ruined because of cs it’s such a stupid reason
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yeeeessshh that is not a person you want in your life and yeah definitely for the best they burnt that bridge on their own. just a horrible person to deal with all around
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