#does this make sense

[xiiotro]

chainshipping angst au where lawrence gets reminded of adam all the time. a person with short black hair? adam. white shirt and blue jeans? adam. a person smoking? adam. a person taking photos? adam.

#does this make sense #chainshipping #saw #adam stanheight #lawrence gordon #sawposting

[ura-niia]

Narinder and Forneus. There's genuinely not enough content for that specific duo. I want to see Narinder share stories of his experience with Aym and Baal. Then I want to see Forneus have a silent grudge on the former god because she never got to see her kits grow, they were taken away from her too soon. I want to see Forneus feel a misplaced anger on Nari, heartbroken at the thought of her kits growing up in the afterlife prison with none to give them the warmth that they deserve, a mother's warmth.

The former god never asked for company in his time in chains, yet his eldest sibling had sent him twin kittens as a gift. And deep down, Nari does care for them and sees them as his own (with odd ways of trying to show it)

So Narinder remains patient to Forneus. He basks in the serene atmosphere within the place, and listens to a mother's melancholic hymn.

#does this make sense #it's late at night as im typing this #please i need to see narinder and forneus co-parenting #i need to see them bond over the wamrth they share for the twins #cotl narinder #cotl #cotl forneus #cult of the lamb

[sidesteppostinghours]

aro4aro chargestep be like: you are two people who were told how to do things right for as long as you remember, so when you meet and you two click you have to assume youre in love. and you dont want to lose them so you try to make it work. follow the rules. make things right. but then it all falls apart and youre sure you must have done something wrong, but then again– is that so bad? you dont think youll ever do things right, and you dont want to. youre so tired of being told what to do, and you think they are too. maybe you can do it wrong, and maybe you can relish in choosing to do it wrong. together. yk?

#does this make sense #idk im very tired its past my bed time #these bitches cannot deal with social convention bullshit seperating friendship and romance #theyre going to kiss their homes and theres nothing you can do about it #ortega #sidestep #chargestep #fhr #pulp speaks

[inkskinned]

hard 2 explain but. barbie movie is kind of like astrology. if you're normal yes we can have a conversation about how it's def not the epitome of feminist praxis but was fun & largely harmless. if ur a weirdo about it & use it as an excuse to mock women: congratulations it's now my single favorite movie and i love it and nothing is wrong with it literally at all and it's actually better than any movie ever made

#does this make sense #how ppl respond to other ppl liking certain things .... like girl it's harmless why do u care #like literally what badge are you winning. so what that ppl are just having fun

[bogan-mac]

#does this make sense #webweave #webweaving #web weaving #web weave #like they want the type of victim who has lost everything and is just so so sad. by staying happy and living free you are rebelling. #you are winning through the power of love and acceptance my guy

[plaguedocboi]

“Haha mermaids were probably just sightings of manatees how lame” you fool. You don’t want to get in the water with her? You don’t want to go for a swim with her? Fuck you

#does this make sense #don’t care. send post

[thetisming]

every month is autism month if youre autistic

#does this make sense #is this funny #dont kill me #autism month #autism acceptence month #actually autistic #autism #april

[rwsdarw]

pretend this is a good caption

#miraculous lb #miraculous fanart #mlb #miraculous ladybug #miraculoustalesofladybugandcatnoir #adrien agreste #chat noir #gabriel agreste #I guess he’s there?? #hawkmoth #I have parental problems obviously #does this make sense #very short comic #this abt the one episode where um #the one where they reveal identities and Adrien’s bald?? #i cannot remember

[klapollo]

like how do i put this. i feel like a lot of people, intentionally or not, see trans womanhood as this isolated thing with a narrow scope rather than just "this is a type of woman and she can be anything a woman could be." trans women can super feminine programmers who love anime yes but they can also be butch lesbians, grandmas, wine moms, art museum enthusiasts, horse girls, house mothers, librarians, line cooks, runway models, HR managers, plumbers, goths, wives, teachers, lacrosse jocks, historians, real housewives superfans, architects. they can be literally anything. theyre women. theyre people. theyre not an isolated entity or a concept, but three dimensional humans.

#does this make sense

[investigativeweirdo]

I’m so interested in how people view the Hunger Games as a love triangle because while rereading gale and katniss’s relationship feels much less like “omg are they gonna get together” and much more like “this is a story about how a close relationship can completely fall apart”

#everlark #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #does this make sense #i’m very high #slay #thg

[wildgeesedotpdf]

HOW TO LISTEN TO THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

Step 1: be convinced there is something wrong with you

Step 2: stay silly

#the mountain goats #does this make sense #do you understand

[shellxrls]

why has drew filmed something that’s literally in my favourite genre of porn

#does this make sense #either way i want this so bad oh my god #nutted in my pants i’ve watched this like 10 times over #rafe cameron #drew starkey

[awakefor48hours]

I'm really glad that it was stereotypical Barbie in the movie that went through her identity crisis because I think it shows just how hard literally every women has it when it comes to beauty standards.

Stereotypical Barbie is supposed to be this absolute beautiful woman but her body is going through changes (pretty minor ones at that) that make her sad even though she's still very beautiful. The movie itself even makes a joke about how having a character played by Margot Robbie call herself "not pretty" was a bit ridiculous. The beauty standards that all women have to go through are really extreme and even women like Stereotypical Barbie can't achieve them.

#does this make sense #i hope it makes sense #barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #top posts

[icaruspendragon]

like you don’t know where i live. but my mother does. but my mother doesn’t know i like women and i like men and i like when someone says “hand this to them” when the them is me and i want to know what it’s like to experience boyish joy and i love being a woman. but you know that, don’t you? you know that because i am you and you are me. we’re not our mothers because we are each other. she knows where i live, but she doesn’t know me. not like you do.

#does this make sense #okay to reblog :)

[shaunashoochiebae]

gf who served VS gf who ate

#yellowjackets #yj #shauna shipman #jackie taylor #jackieshauna #lesbian #wlw #does this make sense #hope so! #like she served.. herself #and she ate her #like you get me??

[inkskinned]

one of the things that i think we should pay attention to, socially, about the disney v. desantis thing is that it is really highlighting the importance of remembering nuance.

in a purely neutral sense, if you engage in something problematic, that does not mean you are necessarily agreeing with what makes it problematic. and i am worried that we have become... so afraid of any form of nuance.

disney isn't my friend, they're a corporate monopoly that bastardized copyright laws for their own benefit, ruin the environment, and abuse their workers (... and many other things). this isn't a hypothetical for me - i grew up in florida. i also worked for the actual Walt Disney World; like, in the parks. i am keenly aware of the ways they hurt people, because they hurt me. i fully believe that part of the reason florida is so conservative is because it's been an "open secret" for years now that disney lobbies the government to keep minimum wage down, and i know they worked hard to keep the parks unmasked and open during the worst parts of Covid. they purposefully keep their employees in poverty. they are in part responsible for the way the floridian government works.

desantis is still, by a margin that is frankly daunting, way worse. the alternative here isn't just "republicans win", it's actual fascism.

in a case like this, where the alternative is to allow actual fascism into united states legislation - where, if desantis wins, there are huge and legal ramifications - it's tempting to minimize the harm disney is also doing, because... well, it's not fascism. but disney isn't the good guy, either, which means republicans are having a field day asking activists oh, so you think their treatment of their employees is okay?

we have been trained there is a right answer. you're right! you're in the good group, and you're winning at having an opinion.

except i have the Internet Prophecy that in 2-3 months, even left-wing people will be ripping apart activists for having "taken disney's side". aren't i an anti-capitalist? aren't i pro-union? aren't i one of the good ones? removed from context and nuance (that in this particular situation i am forced to side with disney, until an other option reveals itself), my act of being like "i hope they have goofy rip his throat out onstage, shaking his lifeless body like a dog toy" - how quickly does that seem like i actually do support disney?

and what about you! at home, reading this. are you experiencing the Thought Crime of... actually liking some of the things disney has made? your memories of days at the parks, or of good movies, or of your favorite show growing up. maybe you are also evil, if you ever enjoyed anything, ever, at all.

to some degree, the binary idealization/vilification of individual motive and meaning already exists in the desantis case. i have seen people saying not to go to the disney pride events because they're cash grabs (they are). i've seen people saying you have to go because they're a way to protest. there isn't a lot of internet understanding of nuance. instead it's just "good show of support" or "evil bootlicking."

this binary understanding is how you can become radicalized. when we fear nuance and disorder, we're allowing ourselves the safety of assuming that the world must exist in binary - good or bad, problematic or "not" problematic. and unfortunately, bigots want you to see the world in this binary ideal. they want you to get mad at me because "disney is taking a risk for our community but you won't sing their praises" and they want me to get mad at you for not respecting the legit personal trauma that disney forced me through.

in a grander scheme outside of disney: what happens is a horrific splintering within activist groups. we bicker with each other about minimal-harm minimal-impact ideologies, like which depiction of bisexuality is the most-true. we gratuitously analyze the personal lives of activists for any sign they might be "problematic". we get spooked because someone was in a dog collar at pride. we wring our hands about setting an empty shopping mall on fire. we tell each other what words we may identify ourselves by. we get fuckin steven universe disk horse when in reality it is a waste of our collective time.

the bigots want you to spend all your time focusing on how pristine and pretty you and your interests are. they want us at each other's throats instead of hand in hand. they want to say see? nothing is ever fucking good enough for these people.

and they want their followers to think in binary as well - a binary that's much easier to follow. see, in our spaces, we attack each other over "proper" behavior. but in bigoted groups? they attack outwards. they have someone they hate, and it is us. they hate you, specifically, and you are why they have problems - not the other people in their group. and that's a part of how they fucking keep winning.

some of the things that are beloved to you have a backbone in something terrible. the music industry is a wasteland. the publishing industry is a bastion of white supremacy. video games run off of unpaid labor and abuse.

the point of activism was always to bring to light that abuse and try to stop it from happening, not to condemn those who engage in the content that comes from those industries. "there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism" also applies to media. your childhood (and maybe current!) love of the little mermaid isn't something you should now flinch from, worried you'll be a "disney adult". wanting the music industry to change for the better does not require that you reject all popular music until that change occurs. you can acknowledge the harm something might cause - and celebrate the love that it has brought into your life.

we must detach an acknowledgment of nuance from a sense of shame and disgust. we must. punishing individual people for their harmless passions is not doing good work. encouraging more thoughtful, empathetic consumption does not mean people should feel ashamed of their basic human capacities and desires. it should never have even been about the individual when the corporation is so obviously the actual evil. this sense that we must live in shame and dread of our personal nuances - it just makes people bitter and hopeless. do you have any idea how scared i am to post this? to just acknowledge the idea of nuance? that i might like something nuanced, and engage in it joyfully? and, at the same time, that i'm brutally aware of the harm that they're doing?

"so what do i do?" ... well, often there isn't a right answer. i mean in this case, i hope mickey chops off ron's head and then does a little giggle. but truth be told, often our opinions on nuanced subjects will differ. you might be able to engage in things that i can't because the nuance doesn't sit right with me. i might think taylor swift is a great performer and a lot of fun, and you might be like "raquel, the jet fuel emissions". we are both correct; neither of us have any actual sway in this. and i think it's important to remember that - the actual scope of individual responsibility. like, i also love going to the parks. Thunder Mountain is so fun. you (just a person) are not responsible for the harm that Disney (the billion dollar corporation) caused me. i don't know. i think it's possible to both enjoy your memories and interrogate the current state of their employment policies.

there is no right way to interrogate or engage with nuance - i just hope you embrace it readily.

#does this make sense #to do be deleted probably yikes #(takes a swing at a wasp's nest) #like i think ppl have started to just be really quiet when they like something 'problematic' #and im like... u can be like - #girl tswift NEEDS to just TAKE A BUS . LIKE????????????????????? #while also being like. #''she's a lot of fun'' #if ur personal policy is that u don't support her for that reason that's great #but it's like. eating meat??? #like yeah some people won't bc the environment. but the fact i eat meat doesn't mean i hate the earth #like i can say that i think the meat industry is HORRIFIC and also downright cruel to its employees #but like. still enjoy a chicken nugget.... #there are people who choose otherwise. it's okay . we are people. i make like no money. u probably don't either #us fighting about whether or not it's Right To Eat The Chicken Tender just distracts from like. #actually turning your ire on the corporation #i hope it's clear what i'm saying here is like. when we fight each other for Purity Reasons #we are just doing the work of corporations . for free. like they WANT us to be doing this lol #it's the fucking DREAM of the upperclass that now ALL forms of responsibility fall on the individual