#and that you would defend yourself

[sarcasmisfluffy]

So, I’m watching Downton cause I’m super late to the party and people have probably pointed this out but the way in the first season Robert (and the Grantham’s as a whole) is like, “Now Matthew, you can’t fire Mosely because you can manage without a Butler or Valet because it would be bad for Mosely and we as the upper class have to give our peasants jobs so they feel useful.” And later on with Mr. Mason, “Well, we have to offer this man a tenancy at the farm because he’s Daisy’s father in law and we can’t have him out in the cold” 

But then in the same season looks at Thomas, the man who saved his daughter from burning to death and is the favorite of all the grandchildren and is like, “Ew, no throw him out in the trash. His job is out of fashion. I don’t know why he just can’t go to another house and get his unfashionable position there. Let’s start referring to him as the Barrow Problem where he can hear” and Carson and most of the other staff are like, “Let’s isolate him and make it unbearable to stay here because Andy might catch *The Gay*” then is all surprise pikachu face when Thomas tries to end himself. 

AND THEN they still are like, eh, Thomas, get thee gone even when Mosley is leaving to become a teacher and Carson gets to wear the surprised pikachu face when “Oh dear, I only have one footman left! What will I do now that I’m getting to old to do my job?” 

I don’t know. Maybe that’s why you should have kept your underbutler instead of yeeting him out the door because other high class families lost their money so it wasn’t fashionable to have an underbutler anymore? 

I just can’t with them. Maybe if there had been another Cricket match during the finale season Robert would have fought to keep Thomas on

#Bonus points for Lady Mary asking Thomas to specifically stir up trouble while they’re in Scotland #and then being like #no #that's too much trouble #Thomas Barrow #The trouble was only supposed to effect the other Butler #even though I know you caused yourself to get dressed down in public #and that you would defend yourself #cause WE of course won't #unless there's a Cricket match at stake #you're not Carson afterall #or the Bateses #downton abbey

[paperglader]

I’m a little obsessed with hsr’s mc so far cause she literally only has two modes:

1) imma smack you with this cone thing I just found

And

2) Literal wet dog. Dead in the eyes. Just done with everybody else’s shit from minute 0. Got dumped in the middle of a spaceship with no memories, no past or explanation, and now everyone’s trying to kill her at every turn. Just straight up not having a good a time.

+ she has a girlfriend

(She’s actually really funny too, and snarky, but I’m too lazy to find those screenshots)

Edit: I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT SHE HAS LIKE A BOMB IN HER CHEST. So. Like, the whole thing makes sense if you think about it.

#honkai star rail #stelle #march 7th #she would be a barbarian for sure #march 7th was like hey! there’s a stick laying over there you can try to defend yourself with it if you want! #and the woman just started swinging left and right #and then later she jumps unprumptedly in front of her to save her from getting scorched by a dragon-like creature #just cause #I diagnose her disaster gay and mentally ill #like they had literally just met and she just jumped #it worries me 😂

[coockie8]

wait there are actually people out there who think roy would be completely 100% useless in a fight without his alchemy???????

I cannot even begin to express how much I desperately hope any and all posts I've seen that even remotely imply this are joking, because, unfortunately, yeah, some people do genuinely seem to believe that, and it drives me insane.

#fullmetal alchemist #Roy Mustang #I'm sure it's like 80% because the shows/manga play up the ''useless in the rain'' jokes way too much #and I don't think we ever see him actually fight without his alchemy #but regardless of all that I still think it's fucking obvious that the trained military Colonel would know hand-to-hand combat #he just clearly doesn't favour it #I'm not saying he'd be fucking *amazing* at it #he obviously favours his alchemy for a reason #I'm saying claiming he wouldn't know how (which is what you're saying when you claim he'd be useless without his alchemy) is insane #knowing how to defend yourself in a pinch with little resources is quite literally a requirement to becoming a fucking soldier #you'd be piss poor at your fucking job if you caved the second you got unarmed :/

[seventh-fantasy]

阁下！不用理由就会相信、没有力量也要保护的人，阁下难道没有吗？ your excellency! someone you would believe regardless of reason and protect despite being powerless - does your excellency not have someone like that?

#being feminine in a world so dominated by masculinity that it's inhospitable to your presence you have to conceal your face #and then you become a mystery. and never become yourself again #hlht #lhl #鹤唳华亭 #莲花楼 #my posts #lwx would be lxy if she was a guy. lxy would be lwx if he was a girl #but either way it's about how being a girl in the world is very hard. THANKS FOR COMING TO THE TED TALK. MIC DROPS #OKAY so this post has been in my drafts since last week #but ana's thoughts from today is so spot on for it!!! about llh being made to wield a sword time and over literally slowly killing him - #as a performance of masculinity by someone who doesn't want to do it but is burdened / forced to do it - #out of overwhelming sentimentality and emotions to fight for / defend people very important to him. #then you have lwx gripping onto the other end of the blade cutting herself and don't care. in order to protect her family. HELLO!!!!!! #they're holding both ends of the sword and it's killing them. #and they'll do it to the bitter end bc there's no turning back no home to return to #HLHT/LHL BRAINROT FOR MARK AND MEEEE and ana too if u r into this ily <3 #credits to mark for planting the lwx/llh comparison in my brain!!! #i can finally release this into the wild!!! 😭😭 it's so important to me. if you even care

[dennisboobs]

i think everyone on sunnytwt needs to be sat down so i can explain to them what basic human empathy is. and then maybe i put them in a blender until they agree to write meta about the characters instead of whether or not charlie day got facial reconstruction surgery.

#ada speaks #u do not exist in a vacuum and your words have the capability to harm others #celebrities may not see your tweets but your balding transmasc mutual and your follower who feels self conscious about her nose will #it is fucking bizarre the way these people conduct themselves online #really. really fucking weird man #and then you see them acting like ppl are 'defending rich white men' #instead of taking issue with the actual shit theyre saying #whether or not you think rcg has been 'under the knife' or not #a) how is this any of your business. you are not entitled to this info nor do you have a free pass to criticize someone's personal choice #b) ask yourself why you feel you need to critique alleged surgeries and how they stack up to imposed conventional beauty standards #c) you do not *own* them. you can have opinions on your own attraction to them but #a person getting plastic surgery or hair plugs or whatever is up to them. not you. if it helps to make them feel better then who cares. #just because it doesn't make them attractive to YOU doesn't mean its okay to point and laugh #if a trans guy got top surgery and it was 'botched' would you act like they were stupid for getting it in the first place? #if a trans woman decided she wanted to surgically shave her jaw would you shame her for that? #it's their body. it's not yours. #for the record i don't believe any of them have gotten work done but think its a stupid thing to speculate on regardless #ive watched family members go through plastic surgeries of varying success. ive seen them get botox and hair plugs and everything #normal everyday people do it and it's not always about vanity #it can be for gender reaffirming reasons (and yes this includes when cis people do it) to alleviate dysphoria #trying to point out alleged surgical alterations made is just. gross #not to mention that holy shit MOST of the shit ppl are saying is like. age. different hairstyles. different facial expressions. #maybe if these people actually watched the show theyd be able to see the gang in action instead of staring at pics like spot the difference

[elfantasmadejanis]

can't believe that i just saw people reblogging a post that said they 'dont think that the fire nation is discriminatory and that the water tribes are' and 'as the most technologically advanced nation (...) they're also the most advanced in thinking' and in regards to sexism and homophobia the water tribe is 'a bit less accepting of these things/ignorant'

why are you even watching atla if you hate indigenous and dark skinned people this much

'most advanced in thinking' about the people who spend the whole series comitting multiple genocides

'not discriminatory' even if we ignore canonical sexism and homophobia in the fn (which we shouldn't) is racism, classism and actual g e n o c i d e not discrimintation now

pinkwashing and purplewashing has really rotted so many people's brains i hate it i hate it

#if you are watching atla n find yourself defending the colonisers n the superiority of their nation just stop and look at what you're doing #or just stop. just stop. #i don't think most people in fandom would state it quite so awfully #but you can see traces of this fucking everywhere #start listening to indigenous folks in the fandom n people who actually know about the mechanics of colonialism #before you start coming up with stupid ass racist bs commentary #this was a zukka shipper too #zukka nation will be anti-colonial or we are shutting this whole thing down rn

[freckleslikestars]

You and your timing.

FARSCAPE | 4.22 Bad Timing

#farscape #farscape gifs #johnaeryn #john x aeryn #claudia black #ben browder #john crichton #aeryn sun #my gifs #bad timing #theyre so in love #thinking about that post i reblogged earlier about the best ship dynamic being 'i love you so much it's terrifying - a love so profound so #quickly that you need to run immediately before you hurt yourself and your love' and how that's literally Aeryn's MO from the beginning #and then you have this line 'I always could [see how this would end]' and it kills me because she knew. She knew the moment John said 'not #lot. not much at all' that she was going to fall for this stupid alien #because he intrigues her - she's spent her whole life following orders. knowing that curiosity was something to be quashed. and then she #meets this idiot who's got no idea about anything and he stands on a planet marveling like he's never stepped outside his own home #and she's curious. She thinks hes a useless waste of space and resources. but she's curious. Because he stands up for her. he intuits that #she's going to be executed and so he defends her. he doesn't know her but he does that for her. And that - that is a kindness she's unfamil #ar with. #and then he goes and tell her she can be more. more than her upbringing. more than her training. and she knows that she's ruined. she can't #go back to the PKs either way and in that moment she's not sure she wants to #and you can see her resist so many times. it's like she can see their fate and resists. she makes purposeful turns to leave and every time #she's dragged back to him. time and time again. and every time it's like she knows its going to happen #but this love she sees. this future. it's different and its terrifying and so she leaves him. And then she falls back to Moya and for a #couple of episodes she thinks it might be okay to let their love play out. but then someone else dies or is put in danger and its too big a #scary for her so she hides it away. knowing full well that their love is inevitable. She wouldn't leave her nice known life for just anyone #claudia black gifs

[rotzaprachim]

you’re thinking about how easily massive numbers of the wildly antisemitic tankies would have been pulled into the actual political tenets of (esp early to mid 20th century) armed Zionism and you’re laughing?????

#This folks is why analysis of ideology and the structures of an ideology is important #Rather than just random ass ethnic signposting #A lot of people see Zionism as something suspicious and jewy that had to do with Jews - I don’t like them #But the reality of Zionism as an initially distinctly leftist branch of political ideology that sought to liberate an oppressed people #With that tiny niggly wiggly issue of the fact people might #Already have lived on that land???? Ohhhh boy #All these cottage core back to the land the world would be better if I could reject modernity and return to the ancient ways of Farming #Society is broken it cannot be fixed the only option is to found a New Tough society that will fix all our previous problems #And we’ll get round to it in heavily armed leftist commune farming settlements #Which we will defend with violence because any violence in the name of an oppressed people is justified and our legitimacy comes from the #Rifle!!! #The only reason you see this ideology as inherently removed and bizarre is antisemitism and the only reason you see yourself removed from i #Also antisemitism!!! #You would have done numbers in ahdut ha-avoda you would have called Ben gurion abbaleh/ #Remember: a bunch of the people who got sucked into this of ideology weren’t the *rich Republican aipac Jews*!*’ your head #They were broke often very secular Jewish leftists working dead end gig economy jobs in farms and sweatshops for whom the idea of a Brave #New World with a. Brave new culture was very appealing and liberating #It offered something new to the broken. #It’s important to talk about this stuff to talk about how it can be undone #But also. The world is not divided into the Oppressed and the Unoppressed #Your political ideology does not stop you from hurting others #No political ideology even anti capitalism or leftism is innately pure- all can harm others #No ethnic and cultural identity no matter how oppressed is free from the potential to subjugate others #No identity or ideology is greater than the right of other people to live freely #Cycles of oppression and the pyramid structure of many empires result in oppressed people harming other oppressed people #Many many goyim think that they’re removed from the logic of Zionism because they aren’t Jews because it’s something wierd and jewy #But I see a lot of the most destructive logics parroted by leftists every day

[celestial-narwhal]

On Stereotypes and Aventurine

Gotta get this out of the way before I start using my Aventurine more because it is an important part of how I will play his character.

Aventurine is rarely ever genuine. He plays to the role people expect him to be, or to the role that will get him the best cards in the deck. If people expect him to be a flirt, he will flirt. If people expect him to be frail and naive, he will be frail and naive. If people expect him to be intimidating and a threat, he will be a threat.

He is a social chameleon, and no, it is not because he is Sigonian, but because he grew up in an environment that forced him to be like this.

Stereotyping will always have a profound effect on a developing person, and when a child grows up hearing that they are scheming, untrustworthy, and manipulative without any other lens to say otherwise, it is highly likely that they will grow into said lens. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

There must be a reason people look at them and assume so, after all. Their words must be true. Why would the majority say so otherwise?

So, just as a child who's been reminded constantly that they are bad, Aventurine became "bad".

It's tiring to a waste your breath and prove otherwise. Especially without a community left to uplift and support you. To remind you that you are more that what people assume you to be. A person. A person who's culture is fated to be written over by the winners of a war, and those who held grudges against them.

"Aventurine" plays up to stereotypes, because that is what got him to where he is now, and is what everyone told him he had to be. It keeps people at arm's length, keeping them far, far away from █████████.

█████████ can't be hurt anymore if he doesn't come up to the surface, after all.

#AventurescentReflections (Aventurine HCs) #InclusionsofGold (Aventurine) #((me ringing my thematic racism in Aventurine's story bell)) #((They write it well and it hits a lot of personal notes for me as someone who has been at the receiving end of many many stereotypes)) #((If anyone calls Aventurine weak for not standing up for himself when such shit happens i will smite you)) #((imagine being the only person left of your entire culture and having to defend it on your own)) #((after years and years of systematic abuse)) #((It's not as simple as you would think)) #((especially when you were conditioned for a majority of your life to hate yourself)) #((survival's guilt is a nasty disease and Aventurine is barely keeping himself above the surface))

[the-worst-fe-player]

Just found out most Americans don't own guns I feel very stupid

#Like I thought it would just make sense as you know have defend yourself if someone else comes at you with a gun #And I know a lot of people are pro gun control but I thought they would still own a gun and just give it back if that law ever does pas #Dumb British boy things I guess #cw gun mention

[symbioticsimplicity]

I just had a terrible day, don't mind me projecting hardcore.

What if the most trying part of getting Billy healed after everything isn't getting him to be nice? It isn't getting him to let his guard down or trust the people who are trying to care for him, or any of the obvious things they're prepared for.

What if its getting him to recognize when people are being unkind to him?

Like reasonably he knows when people are being shitty to him, feels the anger that comes with it, but after years and years of pushing it down or redirecting it, he's lost faith in his own ability to know when his anger is justified. Its always there, and he's become conscious of it, so its really hard for him to tell when its ABOUT something.

He's been treated like shit by pretty much everyone who's known him too, so he's also shaky on what constitutes someone being actually shitty to him. Sure, he knows hitting is bad, even when its him (although that also took a while), but mean words? Ignoring his needs? Not lending a hand to help him when someone easily could? Those are all just so normal to him, its like he's blind to it.

It takes the group MONTHS to get him to the point where he can assess how someone is treating him and tell if its bullshit or not. And even then its not always accurate because he often slips into justifying why they're treating him that way.

#stranger things #billy hargrove #having a real shit day #and i couldn't stop thinking about how this would HAVE to be an issue he'd struggle with #probably the most out of the entire healing process #like what do you mean it takes valuing yourself to continue to heal???! #even if The Party start treating him like ya know a person #there's still the whole rest of the town #and I can't imagine a town that watched a teenager drown like that would be ANY help with his recovery #Eddie's gonna run into the same shit but he doesn't have as much to heal and he's already used to telling the town to fuck off #Billy however needs to learn that hes allowed to value himself enough to defend himself against people's shit #as well as how to defend himself in a REASONABLE way

[arklayraven]

...I am seeing literal hate for Solomon's new event outfit on twitter rn?

...bro...wtf?

#;little raven speaks #;raven om calamity #i hate him but even I won't deny the outfit is cute and looks nice on him. #yes its something I would of expected Asmo to wear but Solomon looks good in it too. #ugh fucking defending solomon here. i am fighting off the dark thoughts rn and now these bitches got me defending him too? #YOU PROUD OF YOURSELF? LMAO

[highpri3stess]

Nicki Minaj. Queen of rap. You had 24 HOURS to come up with a response. 24 HOURS. And you came up with BIG FOOT???? BE FOR REAL💀 If you are gonna be pressed about 1 line in a song, at least do it well.

If that lady had logged off twitter and kept quiet, maybe she would have come up with something minutely good, cause nothing beats Hiss fr.

Big foot, six foot. What a joke 💀

#Hiss #megan's law #megan thee stallion #megan on top #notice how megan respected herself and hasn't gone back and forth with nicki even though she would be justified for it #because that line about megan's dead mother??. #nicki your dad is dead too are you not embarrassed talking about people's dead parents over a line? #if you didn't want to get dragged then maybe don't associate yourself w/ sex offenders??? if it bothers you so much #how do you even defend her #people love tall ladies btw

[saltwukong]

Bitches will literally tell you a story that they were the villain of.

#rwde #''hey lets vent a little by listing all the ships we dont like for whatever reason'' someone get them help. they really think that's normal #y'all be talking about toxicity and then not even knowing what it looks like. #like iunno what you think toxic shipping behavior is SUPPOSED to look like but it looks like exactly this. that's not cute and normal. #like if just an ordinary group of friends did this? maybe. still sus. #but since you all self-indentified as fans of the same ship it just becomes a united front of haters circle-jerking themselves stupid. #not to mention the actual way this post reads like. girl? that's what you thought would make yourself look rational and other people petty? #like really? your go-to exaggerated example of something nasty or uncouth that someone would rabidly defend shipping is...that? #like obvious question 1) what exactly is wrong with gangbangs lol. sorry that you hate fun. #and obvious question 2) uhhh why when crafting a nominal objectioner did you specify 'black' like.......explain it. #tell me how that was supposed to come off because i don't know why you'd say that and not think 'this sounds really racist' unless..... #the whole wide world full of inc/st r/pe abu/se apologia on top of pe/do shit and the villain in your post is..... #someone shipping a pairing that contains a black man. okay.

[welcometoteyvat]

xingqiu should meet heizou they’d bond over uptight older brothers, a strong sense of justice and being second sons who are pushed to take on their family or father’s line of work 

mr light novelist goes over to inazuma and, while performing acts of chivalry for the common people, meets an easy breezy detective with whom he gets along surprisingly well—heizou seems to know quite a lot about him! rather uncanny, but he supposes it’s all part of what a good detective should be able to deduce. maybe he can use this material to improve his writing—he’ll finally be able to master writing a good mystery novel! except there seems to be more to this handsome young detective than meets the eye... this is delightful! xingqiu will get to the bottom of this puzzle, and perhaps discover something about himself in the meantime....

#pov you see yourself reflected through a mirror oh no what do you do !! study your mirror under a microscope of course #anyways. xq makes yet more friends from inazuma arc. they'd be so cool together too like xq is a prankster and hz takes it in stride #xq is a martial arts buff and hz has pretty negative/averse feelings towards it but mayb hed throw around some inazuman martial arts styles #for casual conversation like namedrop them you know and xq would get super excited and then they can bond #xingqiu #heizou #also hz has a teapot line that talks about how he wants to protect people who have a true and hardworking/passionate spirit who really belie #believe in what they do #and while i dont think xq fits that description entirely #he does have like a youthful naivete about him and how he conceptualizes justice #and i think hz can see that it is something worth defending (?) #teyvat thoughts #genshin impact #shikanoin heizou