isn’t your pfp the picture of young angel on handsome jacks desk in the presequel. seeing it for the first time made me cry
it is, yes.
i could write a lot about what that single piece of set dressing says about him as a character, and reflects how monsterously abusive parents still think of themselves as genuinely loving the children they are knowingly harming....
but the borderlands fandom did what fandoms always do, and decided the actual text was irrelevant and that the TRUE jack was a misunderstood hero saviour sex god, and aggressively turned on anyone who dared to discuss the story as written, finally solidifying for me that "fandom" is not a welcoming or kind place for someone wanting to engage with the themes and allegories of media beyond shipping and horny fanfic...
At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.
You must unlearn this.
You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.
If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.
getting a whole bunch of new activity and followers because a popular tumblrer reblogged an old post that wasn't even mine, it was screenshots my gf took of someone else's rant on twitter
why are youse following ME over that??? it's not even my work lol
the legend that i am remembering today is that australia's most decorated soldier did war crimes in afghanistan, a figurehead for the many war crimes and atrocities the ADF has lead and participated in throughout history, usually in defense of a larger empire's interests at the cost of the safety of our own people
Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.