What makes the whole thing with Sammie ratting Ian out to the MPs even worse is that Ian and Mickey were literally the only ones who didn't do shit to her and her kid. In season 5, even if they WANTED to deliberately put Chuckie in prison themselves, they sorta kinda had their hands full with, I don't know, maybe THE FACT THAT IAN WAS IN THE WORST MENTAL STATE HE HAD EVER BEEN AND HE WAS TRYING TO MANAGE HIS BIPOLAR DISORDER UNMEDICATED AND MICKEY WAS DOING HIS BEST TO BE THERE FOR HIM AND TAKE CARE OF AND HELP HIM IN ANY WAY THAT HE COULD AND KNEW HOW. I get Sammie was mad about the whole thing Carl, I mean how could she not be, her son was put in juvie because of it. BUT WHY FUCK WITH IAN??? LITERALLY THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS KIND TO YOU AND WHO HAD 0 INVOLVEMENT IN THE WHOLE THING.
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Taz's statement in his recent Instagram post
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To anyone who may have interpreted my fundraiser for The Red Cross as remotely political in any way, It was not and I’d like to kindly clarify a few things:
The Red Cross/ Red Crescent movement does not take sides in hostilities or engage. That makes the work they do possible.
I have said nothing about conflict, yet many assumptions have been made without me uttering a word.
All I have done is wake up at 6am on New Years Day, with my parents beside me, to run, cycle and swim for 11 hours and 48 minutes straight… In the hopes of getting medical aid to victims of war, disease and natural disasters… Including the refugees that arrive on the shores of my home town in Tenerife, on a daily basis, whom The Red Cross aids and have been aiding since I was too young to understand what that meant.
To anyone referencing my Lebanese heritage. Yes I am proudly half Lebanese… And this also has nothing to do with believing in humanitarian aid for innocent people, on both sides of any conflict.
My only job is to do what I can to help the victims of circumstances that are less fortunate than mine.
The innocent casualties around the world are the people I was and will continue to be raising money to help.
My efforts will never be in aid of supporting any aggression. It will only ever be in aid of helping those whom are affected by them.
If a human being is injured and needs help, I want them to receive the help they need.
If they are hungry, I want them to be fed.
And if they are thirsty, I wish them to have water… Regardless of where they are from or what they believe in.
Thank you to everyone who supported me. You’re awesome.
Much love,
Taz
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High Noon Yone: The haunted man doesn't breathe, just leans against the hitching post and squints into the frontier dusk—but it ain't him. Not really. The real Yone is shadow and gunsmoke, roiling as it sinks back into the stillness of his corporeal form.
“How'd you wind up split like that?” the young Powder Witch asks. Yone sighs, “It's a long story, kid.”
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Thinking about the newer bats (Duke, Cass, Steph, Tim) speculating on Jason's age because he looks like a recently divorced 30 y/o but he's younger than Dick, and he acts like a 50 year old man (he still has a Nokia, out of the loop on Internet and pop culture, primarily listens to dad rock), and after they've exhausted all their guesses Dick breezes in, informs them he's like 24, and then leaves.
The bats then have to come to terms with the fact that Jason NINETEEN when he took over the criminal underground.
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the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.
sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.
you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.
it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.
but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.
they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.
they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.
barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.
and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.
but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.
they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!
this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.
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top 3 pavitr prabhakar moments:
"and this is where the british stole all of our stuff!"
"now let me guess you're gonna ask me about saffron and cardamom and naan bread which is the same as saying bread bread which is the same as saying CHAI TEA >:(" "oh i love chai tea" "NO"
"well that was another easy adventure for spider-ma---" [everything explodes]
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