"UWU op defends Israel UWU"-

Have I not made it clear enough what I think of the Israeli government? Have I not made it clear enough that what infuriates me the MOST about all of this shit going on is that neither government gives a damn and civilians will CONTINUE to die because Hamas and Netanyahu are cranking that war machine for their own benefit? Have I not made it clear that I think what the Israeli government is doing is fucking horrific, a war crime, murder, a violation of human rights?

Why do I even need to MAKE that clear? Why is it that you can talk about LITERALLY anything else, any other country, and people don't rush to fucking accuse you of personally supporting the government when you discuss the wrongs committed against a people, but the SECOND you're a Jew you have to justify your stance about Israel?

Why is it that I cannot even be angry about the slaughter of MY FUCKING PEOPLE. Innocents. Civilians. Fucking CHILDREN. The slaughter of the Palestinian people. Innocents. Civilians. FUCKING CHILDREN.

Without one of you absolute fucking monsters deciding to slap some shit on an unrelated post about how "uwu op defends an apartheid state just ignore that"? Do you have to make it part of EVERYTHING I do? Do you consider everything I put out there tainted somehow because I don't support your joy, your cheering, your unrestrained GLEE at the murder of Jews? Do I need to publish a fucking thesis on my stance on Israel, Palestine, and their respective governments like a fucking disclaimer any time I want to talk about myself, my oppression, my experience as a Jew, or a disabled person, or a queer person, because you fuckers cannot for five seconds be NORMAL about Jews?

To decide to slap something about Israel and Palestine on a post I made about MY oppression, about how people will oppress you no matter who you actually are- it all depends who they think you are. It's a bit ironic, isn't it? Doesn't QUITE fit, but it's funny that someone would read that post, agree with it, and then think "Ah yes, THIS is the place to put some tags about how OP, a Jew who has been reeling for the last couple of weeks about the violence, who has been checking on their Israeli friends every day to make sure they aren't fucking dead, who is dealing with vicious antisemitism from people who they thought were friends, who watched as the people claiming to be progressive supporters of human rights on this hellsite and others OVERWHELMINGLY reply to the murder of their people with good they deserved it fuck you, is CLEARLY a defender of an apartheid state and that makes them a bad person because something something I don't know what nuance tastes like and I am a bigoted ass."

I am TIRED.

"we need more men in--"

no. no we do not. we do not need more fathers, we do not need more men in healthcare, we do not need more men in universities, or boys in school or whatever

we do not need more men PERIOD

what we actually need is more women in all these fields getting paid their fucking dues

the less men there are, the less war, the less violence, the less terrorism, the less economic collapses, the more we have a chance at fixing these worldwide catastrophes and healing the earth (this has the entirety of human history's worth of documented and observable evidence)

women and girls are not only healing society but the earth; the fact that boys and men hate that school is no longer boy's club, the fact that they have made themselves useless if not destructive without their precious fabricated masculinity, the fact that they keep expecting a parade in their name for doing the barest of minimums isn't our problem, it isn't a human crisis, it is a crisis of the male identity

no one needs to resuscitate it; let it die a natural, deserved, overdue death

You're allowed to dislike children, but you still have to be polite and reasonably kind to random ones around you for the same reason you're passingly polite to random adults in you're daily life: Because they are people

The Brazilian media (specially the right-wing & Zionists) are slandering President Lula for speaking FACTS! They're insisting on the narrative that what Lula said is antisemitism, and want him to get impeached.

It was about damn time to someone to say something and I'm glad he did!

Now, Israel decided that President Lula is now a "persona non grata" (someone who isn't welcome in the country) until he apologizes for what he said and Lula said he won't apologize for anything.

I wish his boldness to inspire other countries leaders to do the same, and to USA to stop financing this genocide asap.

Links to help Palestine!!!

Educational Thread

Daily click

E-sims

Care for Gaza

Menstrual hygiene funds

one of my favourite things about campaign 3 is the hostility between chetney and imogen laura and travis really said we've been graph paper lovers, now it's time to upgrade...reluctant allies

"Gee V, Johnny sure likes you, huh."

i'm sorry but all these creators shitting on how dream face revealed without having any context should actually shut the fuck up and work on making a video that can actually hit one million views before they try shitting on dreams 52 mil hit. what's cringe is the fact that you think you have the fucking ground to stand on right now

would you believe me if i said it takes zero effort to ignore something you don’t like on the internet instead of creating literal accounts for a hateful purpose or making the conscious decision to hate on something that someone else really enjoys in the hopes that they’ll see it and feel bad about themselves over something that helps them get through the cruelty of day to day life?

BECAUSE GET THIS!! IT LITERALLY DOES!

here's your daily reminder to leave rants like this in your PRIVATE BOOKMARKS. i'm on my way to munich to see harry and you just had to ruin my day.

i don't care if you don't love the story. i'm the furthest thing from being good let alone a pefect writer but you don't have to throw that all in my face when i spent months of my life writing this story for free, pouring a lot of personal shit into it, not just from my own life but from others' too. it's just a bubble to you but i crafted it the best i was able to. it might not be a good fic but i put my heart into it and seeing these comments hurt.

and you all actually whine that authors are leaving. maybe take a look in the mirror.

Spirited was heartfelt in a way I didn't expect. I've read A Christmas Carol before and seen the many adaptions as I'm sure all of you have too, but I loved how this one tied in the Old Scrooge with the New One. Clint meeting Present who is so similar to him yet so different, for the fact that the whole time Present seems as if he's looking at a horrific fun house mirror, while Clint is meeting maybe the only person who has deeply and intrinsically connected with him. Clint learns that Present knows what its like to be a cruel controlling money hungry leach who desperately fears that when he tries to make up for it, no matter what he does, he won't ever be able to rectify the pain he caused. And yet? Present still tries, and inevitably is able to convince Clint to as well. Wasn't really a Christmas Carol beats wise but it was a realistic answer to the question; what happens after the story is over? Does the mean old Scrooge become a good man indefinitely? Or does he realize that it's not about desperately grasping at the idea of what is good, but instead about embracing and excepting his past, present, and future so he can move forward with honesty and without shame? Realizing he had to choose everyday to not say Good Afternoon, even though he knows he'll fail sometimes, and try to give grace when he does. It's the age old question; Can a bad person be a better one if they try? The movies answers, yes, everyone can do a little good.

do you ever end up accidentally getting super attached to a trope so specific and rare you don't even know how to look for it? 'space aliens failing to understand that a human showing teeth usually isn't a threat display' isn't even an ao3 tag. finding that shit in published fiction or tv shows is next to impossible

shout out to Tom Hanks and the movie A Man Called Otto for FORCING my parents to sit through a story in which an autistic man, an immigrant family, and a young transmasc have happy endings. five stars

please know that if you made sure to read my rules page shortly before/after you follow or interact with my blog, you've earned a kith to the forehead or a series of headpats, whichever you prefer.

Okay so I just caught up on season 5 of Cobra Kai, and you what? You know what I demand next season? I want Johnny and Daniel's friendship to be just as intense and weird as their rivalry! None of this "oh Chozen and Mike Barnes are Daniel's friends now too, just like Johnny, haha"-- NO! I want it explicitly stated that Johnny and Daniel have a weird thing. Don't let them be normal. EVER.

if any of you are still feeling weird about that infamous interview, here is what alex said about it (and why that ashley girl doesn't like him). i really want to point out that what alex says here is the exact same thing us, miles fans have been saying since forever. so, if you are a fan of alex, but throw shit at miles, just remember that your favourite also supports him. and maybe think twice before starting arguments with miles fans and keep in mind that alex has the same opinion about it all.

Alongside Arctic Monkeys, Turner has a long-term side-project called The Last Shadow Puppets with his best friend, the Birkenhead singer-songwriter Miles Kane. During the promotion for their last album, the two did an interview with a female journalist from the music webzine Spin. Turner was being his usual unforthcoming self, so Kane attempted to break the ice with some groan-inducing banter. This included inviting the journalist up to his hotel room when she asked what he was doing after the interview, which, in hindsight, was pretty stupid (he realised as much the next day and emailed her to say sorry). The result, though, was a lengthy op-ed calling out Kane’s unprofessionalism and the misogyny of the music industry at large. Personally, I found some of her complaints against him a tad flimsy — holding eye contact for too long, high-fiving her, “yanking” her in “for a not entirely consensual kiss on the cheek” as she said goodbye, and not least the idea that interviewing a rock star is ever supposed to be an exercise in professionalism. What did Turner make of it all? He sighs. “I think he made a joke he shouldn’t have made and realised he had misjudged the situation.” I thought it was a bit OTT, I tell him. “Yeah, I’m not sure it was deserving of that response honestly, but you just can’t make a joke like that.”

(from 2018, this interview)

I don’t know how to tell people who frequent AO3 that authors are not obliged to tag their works with more than the rating (using ‘not rated’ is more than okay) and the warning (‘choose not to warn’ is a perfectly valid warning to use). An author doesn’t have to add relationship and/or general tags. I know it can be really annoying and bothersome, but these authors haven’t committed a crime and fics aren’t catered to you specifically unless it’s a gift fic. Even ‘deliberate mistagging’ isn’t against TOS.

Now, there’s obviously a fandom etiquette relevant here in which it is nice and proper of an author to add relevant tags, like kinks (watersports for example) and certain aspects (mpreg, murder, etc). However, fandom etiquette also applies to the reader, i.e. KINDLY asking the tags to be added and/or clicking out of the fic—you can even block or mute the author if you want. Just use your common sense and be polite. Complain in private, but be aware that it’s possible the author you’re obliterating for not tagging ‘canon typical violence’ may very well be in your group chat.

(And before you say that the ‘mistagging’ has been done on purpose, remember that it’s not very likely that you’re a mind reader and that you don’t know the reasoning unless told otherwise.)