#hard pass

[liberalsarecool]

Republicans demand submission. The 'indoctrination' bullshit is such an admission.

They fcuking hate babies/kids/students.

#projection

#gen z #hard pass

[joelsgreys]

i got my first dick pic on tumblr

level completed i guess

#it’s too early for this #and it wasn’t a bot #hard pass

[justalittlebluetiefling]

This is the most terrifying concept of Santa I have EVER heard in my LIFE.

#SANTA CLONES HIMSELF MULTIPLE TIMES?! #hard pass #the unsleeping city #dimension 20

[crinolinedream]

So now they’ve gone and done a cut and paste and are trying to sell knockoff William. smh

#miss scarlet and the duke #miss scarlet pbs #hard pass #who thought this was a good idea #bye

[meromessy]

eughhshh sob sniffle pc nooo ahuuugh huhu gurgle sniff pc don't go down thwre huhuhu ahsjhjhuh cough pc!! cough auughh

#(avoids the schism event like the plague) #i just love the poetry of it all #but aint no way im gonna do all that trauma to my pc #hard pass #get well soon tho wraith #i dont normally post this much wips but idk if ill finish this one so might as well just put it out here #dol ivory wraith

[ninjas-and-coffee]

Remeber when Jay used to be a ginger?

His crazy made sense and now it's what?!

A personality trait?

#hard pass #lmao im kidding #half the fandom still draws him a ginger anyhow so its okay #jay walker #coffee speaks

[villababes]

why would they throw in the option of a marriage proposal?? with MC as the proposer?!

#hard pass #litg #litg s5

[bklynmusicnerd]

Buddy Games, Reindeer Games. We are tired of the games. Enough.

#bb25 #hard pass

[lyledebeast]

I have written so many times about the prisoner exchange scene in the The Patriot, but I don't think I've appreciated enough how essential it is to my favorite scene in the movie, which follows close behind it. Both scenes involve a colonel manipulating General Cornwallis: Martin to get his men back and Tavington for permission to use the tactics he finds most effective. Dean Devlin, the movie's producer, describes Tavington as seducing Cornwallis into giving him what he wants , as though it has absolutely nothing to do with Martin. But if Tavington could have gotten it from whorishness alone . . . he would have done!

Devlin, and many others, have failed to pay attention to the drastic changes in both men from their last meeting to this one. In previous scenes, Tavington is polite to the point of obsequiousness, biting his tongue when Cornwallis berates him, first for his total war tactics and later for failing to protect supply lines from the militia. This scene begins with Cornwallis, again, taking out his frustration with Martin outsmarting him on Tavington, but Tavington is a whole new man.

"Quite impressive for a farmer with a pitchfork, wouldn't you say?" This mockingly repeats an earlier jab from Cornwallis, and it is by far the cuntiest thing Tavington ever says to his superior officer. He seems to know that he can get away with it, though, because, for once, he is not the true object of Cornwallis's anger. When they spoke of "The Ghost" before the man materialized, Cornwallis refused to even hear Tavington's self-defense. Now, for the first time, Cornwallis is willing to listen. Martin's actions helped to bring that about.

One of the most frustrating interpretations of The Patriot, and certainly the one its makers support, is that the British characters make choices and Martin simply reacts in the only way he can. By downplaying Martin's choices, they also absolve him of their consequences. This reading does not stand up to scrutiny. In one sense, Cornwallis is reacting to his pride being wounded, but he is also reacting to Martin's unreasonableness. Martin invites Cornwallis to make his grievances known, but when he does Martin shuts him down with Your Officers Started It. The trouble is, Cornwallis has already restrained Tavington, and if Martin does not know that it is not from any lack of evidence. The men who took his men prisoner are very visibly part of the same regiment that is introduced to the story as having slaughtered surrendering Colonial troops. Without someone having curbed Tavington's behavior, Martin would not be sitting here negotiating for prisoners' release; he would have eighteen extra corpses to dispose of. It would take no great logical feat to conclude that the British general lecturing him on the conduct of a gentleman is responsible for this change.

Of course. Martin is not really here to debate the rules of war; he has already decided how he is going to behave, which involves getting everything he wants from Cornwallis while giving nothing in return. He reunites Cornwallis with his dogs only to snatch them away at the last second. He agrees to send him his personal effects, including uniforms, taken from supply trains, but the scene with Tavington finds Cornwallis in a suit apparently crafted from floral upholstery. It is as much about humiliating Cornwallis as freeing his men. Cornwallis has two choices here: either do nothing and allow Martin to continue making a laughingstock of him and killing his officers with impunity or try a different approach. Tavington's meandering around Cornallis's room, a class of the general's claret in hand, can only be described as a victory lap. And he hasn't had to do a single thing besides name his reward.

The measures Tavington takes are horrific but effective. The militia is temporarily disbanded, and even when they reconvene there are no further attacks on supply trains, allowing the British to prepare for the final battle. If Martin had put as much energy into planning some kind of defense for civilians as he does into nursing his inexplicable hate boner for Cornwallis, perhaps he could have minimized the casualties Tavington inflicts. Instead, he is shocked to inaction when Cornwallis responds to his "Tavington started it!" with "And I'm going to let him finish it, too!"

#the patriot #william tavington #charles cornwallis #benjamin martin #pouring myself a glass of claret too #you did it martin! #you convinced Cornwallis that patriot lives DON'T matter #he met one of his colonial brethren and said oh no #hard pass

[britcision]

Got to talking about NaNoWriMo with a friend the other day and it’s so funny how oppositely our matching ADHD asses went about it

They’ve been writing the same story every year, doing 1k words a day when they can, and sometimes rewriting, but always signed up and putting words on the website. And, y’know, haven’t hit 50k in one month yet because that’s how 1k works

I shoot for 2k words a day because that means I can have up to 5 days off, write something different every year, and have absolutely never even signed up to the website at any stage. I have passed the 50k mark I think twice in 17 years, but neither got to the end of the story

And I mean, if I was doing the website every day, I absolutely couldn’t do 2k words/day. It’d take the time and energy away from the writing and it’s hard enough to just maintain?

We do both do fanfic for it though, which is fun, but we wound up just looking at each other like “I could simply never do it the way you do I could not function”

#nanowrimo #look being signed up online means people might somehow see it #and also having to remember to paste words in #hard pass

[negrowhat]

Me reading the plot for the Love Syndrome prequel that's coming out

#because wtf is that plot? #hard pass #love syndrome #leave it in the drafts

[unseemingowl]

Well, the remake of Speak no Evil looks terrible. Also way to go for the trailer to spoil the entire thing. Come on.

#and I like James McAvoy ugh #hard pass #speak no evil

[shame-of-chimical]

The bot got my name wrong and I'm pretty sure that's a sex bot or something! 🕷️🥺😳😐😭😱🙄👉🏻👈🏻

#seriously #no thanks! #yeet #go away sex bot #not interested #go bother someone else! #spider is out! #hard pass #lol nope! #iprefer eight legs over two legs

[cloama]

Did @staff take away profile pictures so that we could pay more attention to their stupid little badges? On no website would I want to follow a user without seeing their avi first. Like I'm having to work around that urge to ignore people. Tumblr user pissvortex might be a cool blog.

#pissvortex is NOT a good blog. #hard pass