I need the Lily to my Remus (platonic), I need the James to my Sirius (romantic), and I need the Evan to my Barty (insane)

God I'm a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they're completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they've chosen to listen to. That's the good shit

the bond between an aroace person and the fictional character(s) they find hot is a sacred thing

I'm curious as to what types of punishments y'all received during school, there might be different terms and such in different countries but these are just the ones I know as a US American

everyone's all like "be gay, do crimes!" but when I, lestat de lioncourt

Space nerds how we feeling

first kill is a modern romeo and juliet with lesbian vampires that came out during pride month and if you dont think that’s exactly what william shakespeare would want, you have a vast misunderstanding of that man

is the plant bothering you king

The scene where Nick notices Charlie’s haircut is 100x gayer in the show compared to the novels, because in the comic Charlie gets a drastic haircut anyone would notice, and so Nick noticing is still very hashtag bisexual energy, but probably not even in his top 10 ‘he’s totally straight’ moments.

But in the show? They honest to god didn’t do shit to Joe Locke’s hair, which makes sense due to filming scenes out of order and such, but it means that when Nick notices it’s like... Bro. You are down BAD. You are WHIPPED. Not even his sister noticed he got a trim and she lives with him 24/7. But you noticed after 2 seconds of looking at him with your bisexual goggles.

And yet every character on the show is still somehow convinced he’s straight

I've seen people say that if cas and dean ever kiss on screen it'll be the most uncomfortable closed mouth kiss in the history of television and I'm like- if you think these two deluded men wouldn't deliver the most passionate wet slurping snail of a kiss while able to hide behind it being just for tv then I dunno what to tell you other than we're not the same

lmao

Intellectually, before I had trouble walking, I knew that there were widespread accessibility issues for disabled folks basically everywhere.

However, living with mobility issues myself has brought me so much more awareness of the multitude of difficulties disabled folks face. There's little things everywhere-- the lack of space between tables in restaurants, the items on store shelves that are hard to reach, the long walk between elevators-- that I would never have noticed on my own if I hadn't been forced to navigate them.

If someone pointed it out, I would have noticed that these were accessibility issues. On my own, without experiencing those problems myself, I probably wouldn't have.

I don't think that's a bad thing, necessarily. I think it's a human thing. If something is outside the scope of your experience, it's not something you instinctively pay attention to.

I don't expect my friends to instinctively avoid stairs, for instance. I just expect them to listen to me when I tell them I need to take the elevator.

So, in summary: you won't always understand or notice systemic accessibility problems if you aren't affected by them. That's okay! Just listen to those who do experience/notice them and try to adjust your behavior appropriately.

god i love aromantic polyamory

i miss prev tags so bad shes like a wife to me idc about the "history of tumblr" i want to be able to follow a trail my friends left about a podcast character

one argument I keep coming across in relation to Israel is that "no one deserves an ethnostate" and, even ignoring my own discomfort at applying a white supremacist term to a Jewish state, it's an argument I hate for a few reasons:

It's wrong - Israel may be a Jewish state and thus built on Jewish traditions, culture and religion (but is that any different than Muslim nations like Pakistan, or even Western countries which have Christianity built into their foundations?), but not all Israelis are Jewish; there are Muslim Israelis and Buddhist Israelis and Christian Israelis

'ethnostate', by virtue of having been coined by white supremacists, bring to mind a swathe of white, US/European colonisers, and while many Israelis have European/USamerican ancestry, there are Israelis from North Africa and the Middle East and South Asia as well - many of whom came to Israel fleeing persecution in their own lands, which brings me to:

the argument is ignoring historical context; Israel is not the result (solely) of a European imperialist mindset - why do Jews, specifically, get a state of their own? Well, because historically, we have been kicked out or (attempted) ethnically cleansed from all other countries - the fear of pogroms, the anxiety of wondering when we'll have to flee again, is built into our culture, traditions, our DNA, and the only way to avoid a government that'll suddenly, from one day to the next, decide that it hates Jews and wants us dead, is to make our own country and our own government

and finally: it's a useless point to make. Whether you think Israel is a legitimate state or not doesn't actually matter or make any difference; the fact of the matter is that Israel is an internationally recognised state, and that's the fact we have to work off.

Does all of this mean Israel hasn't committed war crimes? No. Does this mean that Palestinians deserve to be murdered and driven from their homes? No.

But it does mean that, once again, leftists online need to come and join the rest of us in the real world - which includes nuance and historical context and other such complicated things - if they want to help foster real change.

Happy New Years! Here's a quick list of simple things that everyone should strive to do throughout this new year;

Don't stop talking about Congo

Don't stop talking about Palestine

Don't stop talking about Sudan

Don't stop talking about Yemen

Don't stop talking about every country that is actively experiencing atrocities