This photo was life-ruining for me(and @sweatyflytrap ) honestly....

something that really pisses me off is this headcanon that ice would have been or was against mav pulling bradley’s papers for the academy.

like i’m sorry but I need some of you to think for a second. this is a man whose jet wash indirectly also led to the accident that resulted in goose’s death and probably carried that guilt for half his life too. this is also the man who was there to watch mav and carole grieve for the brother/husband they lost for YEARS. not to mention he was close to goose as well since they were both at the academy. like he would have wanted to protect bradley just as much as mav did when he made the decision to pull the papers. it’s a dumb moment for both of them but again. 100% they would have both thought they were doing the right thing for bradley.

genuinely funny (and mildly irritating) to see so many people up in arms about gerri's refusal to comfort roman lol. when the stone cold killer bitch is a stone cold killer bitch :/

"YoU cAnT liKe ThAt ChArAcTeR tHeY [bad action which is integral to the story and why the story is so good in the first place]"

My brother in Christ,

They are not real.

Okay I said I'd wait until the season was done before forming final opinions and I WILL but-

- what the fuck was that

Why do people hate Bendis? <- asked by someone who only ever has read his writing from YJ

Something something Spiderman something something Jon Kent age-up something something was allegedly rude back to rude people on Twitter something something

probably i SHOULDN'T migrate elsewhere if tumblr goes belly-up. i just scrolled thru my dash for 20 minutes and in that short span i could feel myself transform from a mildly tired 27-year-old butch into an active serial killer.

Many of you in this fandom overstep boundaries. When I talk about anti-blackness and misogynoir in the fandom in general and HoTD specifically, it is not your place as a white/non-Black person to tell me that “akshually, I don’t think it was anti-blackness. I think the writers were just lazy.” 

That is an egregious overstep, and it annoys me very much. Black people in fandom can have conversations about the misogynoir and we can even disagree, but where the fuck do you, as a white/non-Black person, get off? You not only insert yourselves, but you question the experiences of Black people in fandom as if you have any authority or personal understanding. 

I cannot give credence to the opinions of individuals who cannot even recognise the presence of anti-blackness in their shipping communities. There is nothing you can say that I am interested in hearing. Our conversations are not for you to intrude on, they are intra-communal and I am getting sick and tired of you lot inserting yourselves where you don’t belong.

My quest to learn sewing skills would be a lot easier if 90% of search results weren’t for ~25 Beginner Sewing Projects!~ that are (1) extremely not my aesthetic and (2) fundamentally useless. Sorry to all the many people who are apparently delighted by the idea of decorative fabric pumpkins gathering dust taking up space giving off cutesy hired your grandma as interior decorator vibes, but I guess I’m built different.

Like I swear I’m neither a joyless asshole nor completely immune to the lure of the material, but I have spent much of my adult life living in studio apartments. I like pretty things! But I like functional pretty things and I already made myself one kitchen apron, it’s not like I need another.

NOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOO I TAKE IT BACK NOOOOOOOOO

europe is so interesting. they treat me like a cute kid, backpacking across europe at age 21. the next second they ask me why i'm responsible for gun violence in the united states.

We need to stop giving ableist people control over words in the first place. "Brainrot" is a fun word! However, the R word is NOT and the reason why the R word is not okay to say is because it has ties to eugenics and other nazi stuff. "Aspergers" is no longer a term being used because of the nazi scientist of that same name.

... alright, so there's a whole lot to deconstruct in this four sentence ask.

1) A word being "fun" is not, and never has been, a measure for how ableist (or racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, etc) it is. There are a whole lot of words that a ton of people believe are "fun" that are still slurs, and still shitty to say. "Brainrot" may be fun for you, but that doesn't fucking change the fact that it's ableist and based on negative views about disabled people with neurological disabilities. Please challenge your own understanding of what makes something ableist.

(On a personal note, as someone with a brain injury, someone coming into my inbox to defend an ableist term for neurological disorders because it's "fun" is so fucking offensive. Fuck off.)

2) Why are you assuming that the only thing that makes something ableist is ties to fascism, specifically Nazism?

The R-word is not okay to say because it is shitty to use derogatory terms - or ANY terms - for disability to make fun of someone. Because "mental retardation" was a term in the DSM (as late as 2013, when the DSM-V came out and replaced it with "intellectual disability.") And because it was, and continues to be, a derogatory term/slur for someone's intellectual abilities.

The R-slur has been in use since the 1400s, and very popular as a legal and medical term from the 1800s on - in many, many countries, (including the US, Canada, UK, etc) far before Nazi Germany existed. And believe me, I was there in the early 2000s when conversations about removing the R-slur from our language were first taking place, and “the r-word is nazi shit” was not a part of that conversation. The way that the Nazis treated disabled people was abhorrent, as is any form of eugenics. But the Nazis/other fascist regimes were not (and are not) the only governments capable of eugenics, and the R-slur was in use far, far before they came about, and for a long time after.

In a similar thread - yes, Hans Asperger had Nazi ties, but a very big part of why Aspergers is no longer used is because of growing research showing that it isn't separate from autism. It was removed from the DSM and made obsolete as a medical term in 2013 (again, with the DSM-5). To quote this article (by the National Autistic Society of the UK), "Historically, Asperger syndrome was used as a diagnostic term for some autistic people who did not also have a diagnosis of a learning disability. Broadly, it is now agreed that what was referred to as Asperger syndrome is part of the autism spectrum and there is no need for a separate term." Yes, the Nazi ties are part of why the term is no longer used socially, and it's great that there's that recognition! But it isn't the only reason. (And I would be extremely skeptical that it’s a reason why it fell out of use as a medical term.)

I'm saying this because it is remarkably dangerous to assume and conflate all ableism with fascism/nazism. Yes, fascism (including Nazism) is heavily, heavily ableist and eugenicist. We know that disabled people were part of the Nazi's genocide. We know that the Nazis were remarkably harmful to disabled people, and absolutely we should be examining the terms we use for ties to fascism. And, in case it isn't obvious, I am heavily condemning both the eugenics and the ableism (and all other aspects of Nazism - the antisemitism, the other racism, the homophobia and transphobia, etc).

However - however - non-fascists are just as fucking capable of ableism too. Non-fascists (include anti-fascists) are capable of ableism, racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and every other form of bigotry. If you believe that only fascists are capable of bigotry, then you will miss and ignore the work that needs doing in your own house. You will miss your own ableism, and your own bigotry, and that of your friends who you believe have the correct political views. (And yes, this includes literally every form of politics, I don't care how progressive you think you are, everyone has work to do on unlearning ableism and racism and sexism and transphobia and homophobia. Everyone.)

Which brings me back to the start! If the only reason that you think you need to stop using ableist terms (or any other slurs) is because they have ties to eugenics and fascism - then you have a lot of unlearning to do. You are, quite frankly, wrong. (And your statement that “brainrot” is “fun to say” shows me that you’ve got work to do.) There are plenty of ableist terms that aren't tied to either eugenics or fascism - and they're still shittty and harmful. You can cause harm even if you aren't a fascist or if you believe eugenics is wrong.

TLDR: 1) It doesn't matter how "fun" a word is, it can still be ableist/racist/homophobic/transphobic/sexist etc. "Brainrot" is an ableist term, whether you like it or not. 2) Ableism is not just a tool of fascists, and you need to do some work on unlearning your own ableism.

(Footnote - I do want to note that I've talked about the DSM-5 a few times here - not because it's the be all and end all of medical terms and "what's an acceptable term" but because it's important to understand the role that medical terminology has when we're talking about ableism, and how medical terminology is used in regards to disability.)

what you’ve got to understand about working conditions in education (and also other care-oriented careers) is that if they’re shit, two things are true at once:

that does not ever excuse being cruel to a kid, no matter what

until those conditions are fixed, education will continue to suck absolute shit

this is because when working conditions for teachers are really bad, many of the good teachers who recognize when they are reaching a point where they can no longer be the sort of teacher the kids deserve due to burnout WILL quit. they will do the responsible thing and go away for their own sake and the sake of the kids. and you end up stuck w a combination of new teachers who are trying their best but won’t last long, burnt out teachers who are trying their best but have nothing left to give and therefore aren’t very effective at actually teaching, and cockroach shitheads who take out their misery on the kids.

we have all had terrible experiences with bad teachers, many of them flat out traumatic, but for fuck’s sake please try to look at the systemic underpinnings of the problem for one minute. spitefully declaring that teachers don’t deserve good working conditions or even the right to complain about bad working conditions because ms. whoever in 5th grade was a bitch is only going to create more of her. if you want good teachers then we need an education system they can survive in

shaking wren violently by the shoulders. he loves you so much you idiot stop this

It's not so much that I refuse to accept that the movie version of Wolverine is tall (because Hugh Jackman is tall). It's just that I'm so invested in how short comics Logan is that I forget the movie versions of Logan and Scott are basically eye-level.

Sometimes I think about posting the one meme which goes "I want to ____ you" and see what your muses fill it in with for my muses but knowing my muses, I can already foresee an army of "kick" "beat" and "kill" <- in that order