#but i will defend

[wherestoriescomefrom]

why did you people come up with russian names for what is supposed to be a movie set in italy. what was the thought process here. why does she sound like she walked out of a tolstoy novel

#just read a post defending katyas crimes #katyas crimes are that her husband is operating the mafia empire in italy #when she rightfully belongs in idk petersburg. #goncharov #hello void this is ridiculosity #unreality #I beg of you people when you encounter this post #Please go into the notes and find a reblog where I acknowledge your drags #PLEASE

[hymnsofheresy]

everytime i tell europeans my favorite cuisine is texmex & sonoran they are like “American bastardized Mexican food?” and i feel like im going insane. its not bastardized. its their fucking cuisine.

#never spoke to a tejano person in their life #im left to the task of explaining the mexican american war #as well as the texas independance #and how the border moved not the mexicans #and that their food with be shaped by a different geopolitical context #they get bored quickly #but i will defend the chimichanga

[aropride]

looks at the ethics board with my big wide autistic eyes and they say fineee you can do human experiments and i say YAYYY :3 !!!!!!!

#text #DO U KNOW HOW MUCH I AM HINDERED BY ETHICS BOARDS IN MY IMAGINARY SCENARIOS. ITS WAY TOO OFTEN #why do i spend so much time imagining scenarios where im defending an experiment to an ethics board Well i cant answertthat

[noonstate]

i need well meaning cis people to stop attemping to steelman trans healthcare conversations because it basically always ends with them just lying about easily checkable things "no minors are getting irreversible treatments" wrong not true "no minors are having surgery" also false, like instead just say the truth: currently some minors (few, but some) are able to access hrt that will have some irreversible changes on their body, some (even fewer) minors are able to access surgery.

the counter to transphobes screaming "these kids are being irreversibly changed" isn't "no children are accessing this care" it's "puberty is also an irreversible change" and "i think under 18s and even under 16s should be able to make medical decisions actually"

"no minors are accessing this care" means that transphobes can easily point to the examples of minors who are accessing that care, which just make us look like liars. sometimes teenagers and children need to make medical choices on their own. i think a 14 y/o should be able to get an abortion. i think trans kids and teens should be able to have the approriate care, which for some will just be like, picking a new name or haircut, and for some, sure, could be surgery.

#*m #so many journalists / youtubers / podcasters try to defend trans people but just like. say this shit that is basically a lie #i get why i get it's an easier convo to have but actually having the hard conversation is really fucking important. #not for the transphobes those people are fucked but like. for the well meaning libs who listen to x news piece or x podcast u know

[lover-praxis]

life has become so much better since deciding to consume media with unbridled joy. i don’t care if people think it’s cringe, i don’t care if there are flaws. i can simultaneously acknowledge these faults while loving and consuming media that brings me joy.

#love is inherently cringe #joy is also inherently cringe #no piece of media will ever reach perfection #i won’t defend it #but i will defend my own happiness #heartstopper #red white and royal blue #rwrb

[onesidedradiostatic]

NOT TO MAKE ANOTHER "LOOK AT THIS STAYED GONE FRAME" POST BUT THIS ONE IS MORE MISSABLE THAN THE MULTIPLE TIMES VOX DOES THE RAINBOW TV BARS. literally a blink and you miss it frame. cause why is it a literal straight up BI FLAG right after alastor reveals vox tried to ask him to join his "team". like the rainbow tv bars you could brush off as them just deciding to colour the tv error bars a bit different. but this. this is just the fucking bi flag like there's no ifs ands or buts about it. what was the reason.

LIKE COME ON

#osrs.txt #radiostatic #staticradio #onewaybroadcast #hazbin vox #hazbin hotel vox #vox #vox hazbin hotel #vox hazbin #like this absolutely CANNOT be a coincidence I cannot defend him for this #hazbin hotel #bisexual #<- adding this because it is extremely relevant

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

#my art #feralnette au #birds of a feather #long tags #sorry I went apeshit in the tags #LETS SAY IT ALL TOGETHER NOW #I - M - A - G - OOOOOOOOO #its fun drawing marinette's back to Alya and having her appear stout and unstoppable and totally logical #and then you see her face and she's like two seconds from completely snapping and is keeping it together by a thread #as a note just because mari feels very certainly abt smth doesnt mean she's right. feelings can be valid and also irrational #in the throes of grief she decided it was better to be alone than to lose someone again so she started pulling away #and lila made pulling away very very very easy to do #shes also vaguely aware she's being unfair in pinning this on alya which is why she started spinning the drain on cockmoth again #legitimately all the shit that's happened to her wouldn't have been so catastrophic if he was never in the picture and she knows it #but the bitterness of her bestie choosing a fantastic liar over her at the worst of times stiiiiiings #alya's personal timing was bad but lila really took advantage of the fact that marinette had been acting off and weird #she basically clocked marinette as being unstable from SOMETHING and made up a lie about her #knowing she wouldn't have the strength to defend herself #between her social life going tachy bc of lila and losing fu in a way that felt like personhood death marinette was really put on the spot #and alya doing her thing of busting in there and assuming her bias is correct was a terrible combo #essentially marinette is highly unstable and alya is just realizing that #busting in and giving her a lecture when she's slightly hysterical and definitely delirious from exhaustion is NOT the way #to show her she's self sabotaging #cuz thats just gonna make her double down on self sabotaging. bc marinette will not accept that she is also a CHIIIIILD

[knifebun]

look. so many people use the classist card for this, but if you can't afford to feed an animal a diet that's not going to cause serious medical issues that will either kill it or require medical treatment for the rest of the animal's life, then maybe you shouldn't own this animal. "poor people deserve to have animal companions too" yes absolutely i agree, but maybe not at the expense of the animal's health.

#this post was brought to you by people defending feeding cats ferrets hedgehogs and various rodents dry cat food #'oh no why did my hedgie turn yellow :(' because you fed an insectivore food that doesnt contain insects #'oh no why does my ferret have neurological issues' because you fed it dry cat food #'i soaked kibble in water and my cat still had renal failure' because soaking it only solves one problem #I'm not even going to touch mice and hamster breeders that feed their animals cat kibble #szad.txt

[bloodybellycomb]

I really do think that it’s good for the soul to be unironically pretentious about something. Not in a gatekeeping kind of way but in a “yes, it really is that deep and I would love to enthusiastically and passionately explain why” kind of way.

#mine is shakespeare #hamlet #specifically #although i will defend #romeo and juliet #to the ends of the earth #also #the iliad #the odyssey #literature #writing #classics #although it can be so much more than just books #i also think that I would defend the story of kingdom hearts like this as well #probably homestuck too #completely unironically #birdy chirps

[trans-pilled]

genuinely cannot imagine dickriding the watcher guys the way some of you have been. like they made a bad business decision! they alienated their audience! they made jokes about "eating the rich" and then one of their owners turned around and bought a tesla! they said they'd pull all their old content off youtube and then immediately backpedaled and started gaslighting the people who noticed it! they're just guys on the internet, they're not your friends and they are not anti-capitalists. they just want money and they don't care about their primarily young/international/non-wealthy audience.

#yall are parasocial as hell #they don't deserve your $60 annually when they're putting out one thing per week!! you don't have to defend them!! #yes i understand that this is a business and they need to make money #but this is a slap in the fucking face #watcher #watcher entertainment #steven lim #ryan bergara #shane madej #watcher tv #1k #2k

[jibril-thelibraryangel]

Hot take but… “Gale was a teen soldier who got brainwashed, by a manipulative dictator, into the idea that sacrificing a small number of troops was worth it to definitively stop the government that had spent years ruining the lives of him and his people” and “Gale’s gross disregard for human life directly led to the death of Prim and thousands of other civilians including children, and Katniss is justified in her anger and has no obligation to ever forgive him” are two statements that can and should coexist together.

#the hunger games #I feel so often Gale just gets painted as this one dimensional villain that was just hiding his true evil all along #which is dumb #but the only people who I ever see defend him are the ones that think what happened was just an accident and Katniss should’ve forgive him #which is even worse #katniss and gale #katniss everdeen #gale hawthorne

[sketchnwhatevr]

I really like them a lot🔥💧

#ember spam texts him at work #THEY’RE JUST REALLY REALLY CUTE #I will defend this movie and these babies with my life #he’s such a malewife #he captivated me #their relationship and dynamic captivated me #the way their unlikely friendship blossomed into a natural and beautiful mutual understanding and relationship CAPTIVATED ME #this movie captivated me #I’ve been captivated #captivated #no cap #my art #elemental #wade ripple #ember lumen #ember x wade #wade x ember

[marzipanandminutiae]

quotes by Victorians about the 1920s view of their generation's women

"We are frequently told that the Victorian woman...generally behaved like a pampered and neurotic infant. This is all moonshine. I do not think that I ever saw a woman faint before I came to London in 1869, and not often after then...they enjoyed a hearty laugh, and a good many of them a contest of wits with any man." -Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review, 1927 (written by a man born in 1850)

"What queer ideas the girl of 1929 has about the Victorian period- they are not a bit true...Marriage was by no means the end and aim of our existence. Oxford and Cambridge claimed quite a few of us after school days were over. We had great ideas about 'life' and what it all might mean to us." -St. Petersburg Times, 1929 (written by a woman born in 1853)

"True, debutantes were chaperoned at balls. But that fact did not prevent them from dancing as frequently as they chose with their favorite partners. The idea that girls in the Victorian era spent their days sewing seams and practicing scales is another fallacy." -Gettysburg Times, July 1, 1927 (quote from the Dowager Lady Raglan, Ethel Jemima Somerset, who lived from 1857 to 1940)

#history #when they were still alive to defend themselves #maybe- much as I rag on modern historical fiction -we've gotten a bit closer to the truth than our grandparents did #see this is one reason I love studying the Victorian era (besides hoarding their detritus like a dragon I mean what) #it just is One Of The Eras Of All Time in pop culture #and it means so much to so many people that getting to the real human bottom of it fascinates me #spoiler: it boils down to 'people were people and always have been'

[jojo-schmo]

In this house, we cherish Helpy. We thank him for his hard work and pat his head and give him all the candy that he wants because is a good and lovable little cub!!

#I forgot to make him look like a robot haha whoops #my love for him blinded me I guess #he’s just my favorite little skrunkly and I will be among his top defenders forever #I am kissing him on the forehead #Helpy fnaf #freddy fazbears pizzeria simulator #Michael afton #art #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #Helpy

[yantao-enthusiast]

genderfluid icon

#“cal shut up you’re exaggerating” #no i’m not. fuck you. #i get to have lgbtq opinions on mario characters #and you can’t stop me!!!! #genderfluid #kamek #kamek koopa #super mario bros #mario #mario and luigi #mario and luigi dream team #actually why am i defending myself. this is the website that made bowuigi. lmao

[sourcabbages]

"i got sent as backup to this mission and it turns out its u im backing up"

#klance #voltron legendary defender #is this trope still alive i rmb loving this tropeeeee #that one fic where lance is like aha..im kinda trying to rebound from this guy rn so *flirts* what do u think #and bom keith is like “who the hell is this guy ur tryna get over” #ohhhhHHhhhhhhh #artfart #mine