#idk how to get involved in activism

[spacedace]

Fuck whatever DC is doing with the al Ghul's characterizations and story lines, I've decided that from now on the al Ghul's are gonna be DC's version of the Addams Family instead.

Now I don't mean just give the various al Ghul's the exact personalities of the various Addams and call it a day. That's boring, that erases all the interesting parts of the al Ghuls, that's just using "find & replace" and not actually adding anything. I mean give them the vibes of the Addams Family.

Keep the al Ghul's as the al Ghul's with all their scheming and machinations and world domination attempts but give them all the unhinged energy, the casually insane view of the world, the deranged levels of love and devotion for family. Make them that group where objectively they are batshit insane but also you cannot argue with the fact that they are indisputably the most stable and functional family in the entire universe.

They're creepy, they're kooky, they're mysterious and spooky. Ra's many opulent homes and impenetrable fortresses are a museum and the al Ghul's really are a screa-um whenever people come to see-um (or when they lay waste upon their enemies in a surprise attack that has been planned for months and is just the first domino in a series that will ultimately lead to achieving a far greater goal).

They all love each other and want each other to be happy, they express this primarily with stabbing and murder attempts (its fine, death is a thing that happens to other people).

And forget the League of Assassins being a cult. Just make the whole vast globe spanning organization a collection of cousins/aunts/uncles/dear old friends ect. No one (not even the al Ghuls, if they cared to keep track of such things) is sure who is actually related to them and who just got absorbed into the ever expanding family tree based on their vibes being right.

(Is Sensei Ra's father you ask? Well he's certainly someone's father - probably.

Anyway have you heard about Cousin Cheshire? Despicable poisoner of a young woman, capable of the most horrific things imaginable - yes she is the sweetest dear. Like I was saying though, she just had a baby!

Everyone in the family is just so excited to throw a baby shower to celebrate! Ubu has really gone all out with the spike traps, he does so love getting to welcome a new addition to the family.

Talia of course has cultivated a brand new strain of the most toxic plants imaginable to make a brand new kind of necrotizing poison. You know, as a nice little romantic gift for Cousin Cheshire and that young man of hers. It really is so important to make sure you take time for you and your partner to go on dates and have a few pitched battles to the death on dark rooftops in the pounding rain when you have children.

Now there is some to-do about it all of course, you know how family get together can be. Everyone is arguing over who should get to give little Lian her first weapon and what it should be. Nyssa is pushing for grenades but Ra's is insisting on a sword - he's traditional like that you know - but Dusan has the vote so far on throwing knives. You know the kind that have the little divots along the edges of the blades them to make it easier to get the poison you dip them in to stick.)

I'm just saying that the al Ghuls should be a delightful cross between the Bond Villains they were originally conceived as and the lovingly unhinged Addams Family. It just feels correct in my heart.

(Again keep the interesting aspects of the characters and the nuances of who each of them are like their drive to save the world through destroying humanity and their strong environmentalist leanings and their constantly playing 5D chess and everything, but like, take away the racism and the cartoonishly evil for no reason bullshit and give them some fun feral energy to go along with it).

#batman #ra's al ghul #al ghul family #talia al ghul #nyssa raatko #cheshire dc #sensei dc #no more racism and fucked up dark family dynamics #the al ghuls aggressively adore each other #violence and schemes is their love language #in the full au version of all of this i'd like to imagine how canon plot points change with the al ghuls having these vibes #Just imagine Damian still trying to kill Tim when he first ends up in Bruce's care #but instead of it being a ploy to get rid of a threat its because he's just so excited to meet one of his big brothers #and attempted murder is just how you tell someone in your family that you love them #Tim just SO CONFUSED because Damian is talking so animatedly about how happy he is to get to have some brotherly bonding with Tim #while ACTIVELY trying to run him through with a sword #idk how things change with Cass exactly but i feel like they would in this #like either David Cain isn't an absolute monster or the al ghuls catch wind of what he's doing & are like #This is NOT how al ghuls treat family! what is this shameful behavior! She can't even insult you while you fight! #fighting and violence is a perfectly healthy way to express your love but only if there's actually LOVE involved! #The Heretic & other Damian clones still get made but only because Talia just misses her son so much that she makes more of him #Nyssa has just been bopping around the world for a few centuries & pops up every now and then to have a death match with her baby sister #i just have a lot of strong feelings about the al ghuls deserving better and combined that with the vibes of my favorite unhinged family #Dick still hates Talia but Talia takes all his insults as her darling step son telling her how much he loves her #which only drives Dick even crazier #Tim rocks up to the League of Assassins during his whole trying to prove Bruce is alive thing already seen as an al ghul #Oh yeah that's Cousin Timothy he's one of Talia's kids - never met a truer al ghul in your life #You see how he blew up all those bases? Ra's cried he was so proud #Ra's spoils his grandkids absolutely rotten which is giving Bruce SO MANY gray hairs

[topaziraphale]

"Stop saying Crowley won't help Aziraphale in S3 he'd go back to him in a HEARTBEAT and nothing would stop him" I get it no one likes the idea of Crowley being bitter after what happened for a long period of time but like can we at least acknowledge that he's currently going through probably the most emotional pain in his life since falling? Can we agree that he's opened his heart entirely - something you couldn't pay him to do unless the world is literally ending and he's desperate - to Aziraphale, and got shot down? Can we understand that he did it AGAIN only to lose Aziraphale again? Not that what Aziraphale did isn't without Crowley's own shortcomings (hiding the truth of Heaven's cruelty from him) but like,,,,

The appeal here isn't Scorned Crowley Doesn't Love Aziraphale Anymore, or Never Wants To Help Him Again, the appeal here is Crowley learning enough self respect to not just walk back right to Aziraphale like nothing happened after Aziraphale has had a pattern of consistently refusing him. Going years ping-ponging between "We're not friends I don't even know him" to "That's what friends are for right?" and "We're friends, why would you even say anything?" and "Friends? We're not friends. We are an angel and a demon!"

Like I get it, Crowley is a heartbreakingly forgiving person. Of course he's gonna forgive Aziraphale, I'll be surprised if he didn't forgive him by the time he walked out the bookshop door, but gdi he could at least grant himself the luxury of being at least a little irritated for longer than however long it takes to make a globe and some books float and angrily cry out to God in his flat. But due to the change of pace and dynamic that is establishing part of the conflict for Season 3, I just really like the idea of him for ONCE prioritizing himself and being like "Okay, fine. We'll get back at it when you're ready, then," instead of just taking Aziraphale back like his words and actions meant nothing to him, when clearly they have an effect on him.

What is Aziraphale going to learn if Crowley just accepts what he did so quickly, like he always has the entire time they've been friends? Idk maybe I'm just projecting too much darkness on their dynamic but I mean, if the pattern of Aziraphale pushing Crowley away/disrespecting him one day and then being fine with his friendship the next + Crowley never stopping to be like "Hey, that's not cool, at least give me a little credit" or smth was fine all along and will continue to be fine in the future, then why, after 6,000 years of being friends and loving this demon, can Aziraphale still not accept that Crowley is just fine the way he is, and instead got excited to promote him to an angel in a heartbeat once the opportunity presented itself? You can't blame all of it on Heaven when Aziraphale has demonstrated his free will/defiance to Heaven so many times. Or, I don't know, I guess maybe we can? Maybe I'm just craving too much angst to the point where I'm letting it cloud my analysis of canon. Idk.

#derpy speaks #good omens #good omens 2 #no i dont think crowley is gonna ever hate aziraphale for what happened but he's allowed to be angry #he's allowed to be done with it all. he's allowed to be exhausted. just look at his face when he drives away. #meh. idk. but i dont know how i'll feel if crowley just INSTANTLY accepts aziraphale back in a situation involving #idk - ''hey help me stop the new apocalypse'' #at least. without like. SOME pushback? it can even be something small like ''are you SURE you want ME to help you? do you really need me?'' #doesnt have to be a straight refusal but i'd like SOME kind of action to show that crowley is putting his foot down for once #he deserves that self respect #do NOT reply saying that im insinuating that aziraphale is actively malicious or doing it on purpose. #everything he has done up until now is his own complicated response to all the trauma and guilt he's been through #but despite that crowley is STILL allowed to be upset... it's messy. i can write a whole paper about how this whole thing #is just unfortunate on both ends. again. we didnt get queerbaited we got communication baited 😭 #but help me out here. am i just too fandom-brained to have these expectations from the story? #is there something obvious im missing that is making me sound like a complete asshole here? do i need to get my head out of the gutter? #someone please explain it to me if so because whatever it is‚ i can't find it #not queued

[good-beans]

My current Milgram predictions, not meant to sway anyone or anything, I just want to put them down somewhere

I honestly don't know if an inno Amane would actually attack Shidou, I think the scissors were meant to make us aware of the supply closet, for Haruka's sake. I do think he's is going to try something with said supplies. (I’ll mention it in a separate post but I think it’s 50/50 whether he’ll hurt himself or someone else)

I think an inno Amane would, however, succeed in converting Fuuta. It wouldn't be harmful to him (it would make him insufferable to us but I think he’d feel really good about it), and it ties into my Kotoko prediction.

(I think on the extremely slim chance Amane does attack someone, an inno Kazui would step in and stop the whole thing – especially if it’s Mahiru, who he feels guilty he couldn’t protect last time.)

Because Kotoko is so destined for guilty right now, there’s going to be some kind of force opposing that (not to manipulate votes, but to give an even balance of motivation for either vote). Specifically, I think she’ll be in danger of death if voted guilty. Definitely from an inno Mikoto, but even if he’s voted guilty, I think a converted Fuuta would now have the cult’s ideas of punishment and judgment in his mind, and he’d lash out against her. 

I genuinely don’t know what she’ll do, but I think Yuno will get involved with something big since she’s the only one who hasn’t been part of any of the drama yet… As one of the forgiven I think she’ll be more on the side of causing trouble than coming to harm.

#milgram #i dont WANT any of this to happen ;---; but i do think theres a chance #i wont fight for these or anything - #i think the team is good at coming up with clever surprises so that no matter how we vote things will get majorly fucked up #i wont be surprised if amane attacks shidou but i dont think its as guaranteed as people make it seem #and im wondering if yunos big thing will still be isolation from people -- she witnesses an attack or something but actively chooses not to #get involved and help #but idk she does genuinely care still... #anyway dont come on here just to tell me im wrong but if people have other ideas/comments feel free to share! #rose posts

[klanced]

Man ty for popping up on my dashboard. I miss voltron, but whenever I try to check what's up I get reaaally bad flashbacks as to how the fandom was. It's kinda worse when u accidentally triggered a community of a popular ship (its not kl@nce) :')))) hnghjgn idk how u do it

voltron is just. such a funny phenomenon. the show was like a C+ at BEST but we all stuck around anyway clinging to the hope that things would eventually improve and then they NEVER did. & so we all had to make do with literal scraps and we were RESOURCEFUL!!! 😭 I have honestly never seen a fandom where the fan content was so divorced from the actual source material like 💀💀💀 and i think this scarcity of good content forced people to be extra creative, which is why the voltron fandom was 1) so genuinely hilarious and 2) full of content producing MACHINES

Literally all we could do was just talk to each other. we were forced to survive off each other’s kindness & it made everyone super co-dependent. it really was a bunch of high schoolers forming parasocial relationships with other high schoolers; of course it got messy!!

also this is such a minor detail in the grand scheme of things but voltron hit tumblr at like the exact time social media became more accessible to people under 13 years old. and like. conflict and discourse is an inevitable part of fandom. but the end result was we had college students picking fights with LITERAL middle schoolers. and I genuinely cannot believe we all thought this was normal behavior!!!!!

#I genuinely get sad when I hear people talk about how voltron caused them so much stress. and then they mention that they’re not even 18 yet #like… wow #god I hope emma does not become an active and involved member of a fandom it’s just. it’s not very moderated. #also people often trivialize voltron’s messiness down to ‘ship wars’ and they were ship wars. but there was a very moralized element to it. #and people were heavily invested in fighting over this. not just because muh ships but people were also very much coming at this #from a place of personal trauma or experience. and in hindsight were just retraumatizing themselves. #ugh. idk fandom kind of sucks. but tumblr in 2012-2015 was such a fun time for me & it was a formative experience #and then I hear people say that voltron turned them off from fandom forever when they were 14 and I go :( #sigh. I’m very tired and on mobile where I can’t really see or edit my tags lol so I apologize for the mess #anyway to answer your last question anon I think that people who were 16+ in 2016 (like me) #had an easier time coping with voltron during + after simply by virtue of having been alive a little longer and therefore #having had more time to establish a solid sense of self/identity. if that makes sense. #ask #anonymous

[shepherdenjoyer]

this is the information that we had about D dog. that's the info on her page (put through a translator, but its accurate) regarding how she is with other animals, and during the interview reactivity was only mentioned as a possibility not as a known fact about this dog. only dog? no problem. no cats? even less of a problem. potential for reactivity? sure. it can happen with any dog. known aggression towards other dogs? why the hell are you waiting for people to apply and go through a fucking interview before letting them know a week later that they're not fit for this dog and that that's the reason why. all that does is give people false hopes and upset that could be avoided by clear, direct, honest communication of a dog's issues/challenges. i heard about the specific language/way of wording things shelters and rescues use but i had hoped it wouldnt be a universal thing, at least not something i'd experience myself. turns out i was wrong!

maybe im being immature and unfair to these people, they probably dont all have the same amount of knowledge of the dogs and communicating all that inbetween volunteers/workers/and us can be difficult. but im angry and im allowed to express that ffs.

#mine #back to puppy plans and not terribly happy about it and not optimistic either #(more than)half expecting every breeder we get in touch with to assume we're in it for the looks or cool factor #or that we wont be active or involved enough and basically tell us to fuck off in polite terms #idk if im resilient enough to have to explain how invested and enamored i am with those breeds over and over only to be rejected - #- because i wasnt born doing 50 diffferent sports with a dog #maybe im wrong and it'll be a great and supportive experience. find that hard to imagine at this point though #which is also why im trying and mostly failing to think about other things right now. bc ik this isnt a good mindset to be in. #i just want a dog. why does it have to be so fucking complicated #it seemed like we were finally going somewhere and we werent and this whole deal was pretty much all for nothing

[bylertruther]

i don't like season three when viewing it as a continuation of seasons one and two, but i do very much like season three when viewing it as the prequel to seasons four and five... hmmmmm.

#rewatching it bc i wanted to make another foreshadowing compilation post for myself regarding what will's actions will #likely be in season five re: vecna and lmao. so many things are just... it's like. it makes me laugh how In Your Face it is now #that we know all that we know. so many direct parallels both with dialogue and actions. mike/will/lucas/el foreshadowing their s4 roles. #the flaying of the holloways and the creels. the dormancy / activation shit. the building shit. the natural progression of their arcs. #the different ways that their characters approach problem solving and how we see tht reinforced by s4. it's so fascinating #genuinely i think idk it was just such a big culture shock i guess u could say from 1 and 2 that it was hard to digest on its own for me #but now that 4 is in the same vein it's like Oh. Okay. Yeah no. I get it now. That's cool. I'm forever bitter but I get it and respect it. #3 4 and 5 are a package deal considering they also said 4 was like part 1 of 5. #it also makes sense bc the point of 3 was that everyone was changing and building themselves in a new way and that #includes vecna so. just so fascinating how they link everything and how their vision is so consistent with certain plots and characters #like. the lucas max mike n will + el involvement is right there. the idea that they have to kill vecna and not just his puppets is right #there. that 2nd point starts in season two but three is where it really turns into an ''the end justifies the means'' situation #(especially for will which i think is something a lot of people overlook but—) #s3 is painful when considering their personal character arcs but fucking delicious when considering the overarching supernatural vecna plot #bc thts also when he starts his ''there is no stopping this'' shtick and actually enters the story #and he's fucking slimy lol. which i Love #anyway. omg first i defended mike in the rain fight and now i'm saying i kind of like season three who the FUCK am i!!!!! #crazy what feeling the need to defend a white boy's honor will do to you 😳

[bluejayblueskies]

turns out i'm still mad at how everyone in t/ma treated jon actually

#like. okay. #without getting to far into discourse bc frankly it's not worth dragging that all up again out of the depths of hell where it belongs #and because i have thought about the other characters' motivations and about the nuances of how a terrible situation impacts all involved #etc. etc. #there really was no reason to go so hard on the 'jon is The Embodiment Of Everything That Has Ever Gone Wrong In The Podcast Ever' thing #it got to the point where it was actively frustrating to listen to especially in season five #((and tbh listening to rq commentaries only made it worse bc it made me realize 'oh they. they don't think that the way jon was treated #is actually as bad or as big of a deal as i did' #which kinda turned me off canon tma content for a while)) #anyway. idk i just sometimes question whether or not the other characters acting the way they did toward jon was actually #necessary or if it was just a remnant from when jon was supposed to have a corruption arc that was never corrected for some reason #discourse #tma discourse #(if this shows up in the tag i'm sorry i just. hghhhhh. if tma2 starts pulling the same nonsense i am quitting immediately #and retreating into the arms of male/volent my beloved)

[yardsards]

,,,i miss Her (the ocean)

#eliot posts #i live in a landlocked state and can't really afford to travel #but when i was a teen me and my sis would get sent off to spend a couple weeks w our cousins by the beach #(while our parents stayed home and kept working but enjoyed childlessness lol) #but a mix of adulthood and covid and my aunt passing away means that hasn't happened the past couple years #i miss my aunt as well she was a sweetie pie but that's not a quirky text post you know #my grandparents are taking me on a cruise later this summer though! #i'm excited but a bit nervous bc i've never been on a cruise before #but i do love boats so yay #idk how much i'll enjoy the Activities involved w being on a cruise and i think i may dislike the crowds #(also the pollution put out by the cruise industry oofa doofa) #but i'm excited to have this bew experience at least once in my life #first i gotta clean my apartment and find a petsitter and prolly get more covid shots and pack my bags. bleh. #oh also! i'm hoping to move to savannah georgia after i graduate! #fingers crossed that all works out #but it seems like a near perfect city for my personal needs #just gotta find a job and apartment there after graduating #also. gotta graduate lol

[coyoxxtl]

when i go off like that its never about how i think Voting Is Pointless, thats never my point, though i know that’s what some of yall will take from that

#i just think voting is the barest minimum. its easy. its really easy. #you do it like a handful of times every couple years and stop thinking about it until the next time #its truly a get out of real activism free card #thats how yall see it anyway #as a voter myself idk how you can get to This point in your political involvement and Not think voting is a nothing action #its not NOTHING but its pretty damn close #yall need to do more. I need to do more. if yall give a shit about changing things for the better you MUST do more #if you dont. fill in your ballot and shut up. let other people do the dirty work in peace. #txt

[lloonlloon]

Can I just say I wish it was as easy to find a healthy and good tempered dog as the internet makes it sound?

Do I still adore my reactive and fear aggressive dogs? Of course! I’m glad I have the interest, motivation, time, resources, and professional assistance to educate myself to manage those issues, and that’s definitely a privilege I have, not something I just bootstrapped.

Do I wish it was easier? Of course! Clap if you think it should be easier!

What definitely does not make it easier is taking another lap around echo chamber mountain to argue about who has it worse.

#something I see on tumblr a lot is just naming and renaming the problems #which doesn’t do anything to help anyone #imo there are lots of micro steps that can be done that aren’t ‘breed your dogs’ #like. getting involved with breeds and activities you’re interested in #meet breeders and build relationships. find out what needs are in your community and how you could contribute to filling them #idk man internet activism being the majority of involvement aint it #dogblr

[dbssh]

you can tell i think theyre actually interesting tho because i have things to say about them other than heehee cowboy funny evil lady sexy. like woahhhh an overwatch character thats actually a memorable person with interesting traits and lore? that im invested in seeing more of? that feels like there was effort snd creativity put into more than checking boxes on a flowchart? wow...

#red.txt #sorry i rewatched the sojurn and baptiste origin videos and its like such a bummer to me #baptiste at least is a very funny and charming character to be around and is sexy but sojurn feels so sad #her origin is very nothing her lore and gameplay feel very cookie cutter and its a SHAME because she COULDVE been cool #but like even characters i personally really like like cassidy and moira and reaper and orisa #are just honestly truly not that interesting as people. their powers are cool but lorewise its very nothing #the lore in ovw is so weak that its an active detriment to most characters; placing artificial limits on who and what they can be #and making a lot of them much more stale than neccessary for the sake of Involving Them In The Lore Of Over Watch #so like you get a character like brig who is really only defined by her relationship to other characters #even cool ones like ana. its still like. most of her stuff is about how she relates to 76 or gabriel and its like. siiiiighhhs idk #i just wish they were less concerned with an Interconnected Universe and more concerned with cool stuff #like. i dont want another ninja just because she Knows hanzo and genji i want her to be her own personnnnnnnn

[theghostofashton]

sometimes i think about how being asian is often just being forced to be invisible. never having our achievements celebrated because they were expected from the beginning. people not wanting to hear about our issues because we’re all doctors/lawyers/engineers anyway so clearly they can’t be that bad. we’re just expected to be emotionless robots, not to express anything human. we’re not seen as human. there’s so much suppression that is constantly reinforced and. idk. it’s exhausting. 

#i've been wrestling with this for years and it just keeps getting worse? #our pain is ignored our accomplishments are ignored #by the world but also by our own communities #and idk what can even be done about it or how to unpack the damage that this has done #it just feels like something we have to live with that keeps getting reinforced #but when anyone wants to talk about it they get shut down and silenced yet again #like i remember going to my campus mental health center when i was really struggling and asking for help #and the guy doing my initial eval asked about my grades and the clubs i was in and was like you have a 3.9 and you’re actively involved #is it really that bad #and how i’ve been fucking terrified to ever do something like that again #it is just. it’s so tiring #no one cares lol #sorry i’ve been kinda emotional on here lately lol #i’ve been going through it if you couldn’t tell #neha rambles

[icharchivist]

it’s funny when i was a teen i was not following mainstream stuff because i was deep into ~i’m not like the other teens~ (and just liked stuff that weren’t mainstream anyway) but nowadays my biggest argument to not follow mainstream is that we turned every big things into pure FOMO where if you don’t watch something big right away you will know everything about it in the couple of months that follow and it will suck any enjoyement out of it if you decide to watch it later and it’s honestly pretty depressing.

#and i don't mean like knowing vague spoilers #i'm going to watch the new Thor for a bonding activity #i don't really care about Marvel and skipped all of phase 3 and half of phase 2 and 4 #but it became a bonding activity to watch the newest movies even though i have very little interest #i figured i should at least watch the 3rd Thor that i skipped in case i needed it and all #and i remember reading some interesting takes about it #but it was legitimately depressing to just have the feeling i've seen every single thing in gifset #there was genuinely nothing that i thought 'oh i didnt see that before' #the movie is objectively okay with better themes and directing than most mcumovies #and i came out of it underwhelmed because i saw all of it before #and idk it's sad as hell #i've also been feeling it for like. TV shows i am just midly interested in that i'm forced to bing on release date #like holy shit this is not the type of emotional involvement i want with those shows they're not engaging enough for this #(at least to me personally it doesn't talk about quality because the stuff i love the most qualify as trashy) #and it genuinely annoys me that i have to pour the same energy into mainstream stuff i only slightly care about #than i would pour into stuff i truly love #like when the new S/tranger t/hing season came out at the same time i wanted to follow up the last update in one of my mobage #i'm mostly following mindlessly and i don't care enough about it esp not how ppl talk about it online #but i had to postpone something i really wanted to read bc i was already seeing major spoilers online #and i think it's a shame that a show based on suspense get its spoilers everywhere on day One #i've spent yeas fighting the edgelord in me always saying i didn't care about mainstream just because i don't 'care for normies' #but now i'm circling back to it on the account of 'it makes social media unbearable and makes it sounds like homework and it sucks' #so yeah pretty sad i'm becoming an edgelord again that's it #ichasalty #ichatalks

[sunfoxfic]

I absolutely HATE that recently I feel like I want to write so much but I can't find the story I want to tell. And yeah for ML part of that is that we're on hiatus but I've also wanted to write fic for like. Spy x Family and The Owl House and I literally have spent a lot of time thinking about these shows and watching them and I'm coming up with nothing. And ML fic hasn't been much better, though that might get better with S5.... I don't know. I'm just. Tired. I wanna write.

#i guess the other thing is that i've been trying to get more involved with the projects i've been doing lately? #idk i mentioned it but i spent so much time on that one generator that didn't pan out and that generator literally made me so excited #and i was actually learning for it. basic html yeah but i was actively pursuing something that i had no idea how to do #and i was setting up a spreadsheet for the ml bingo using some excel functions and stuff #it's more tedious than it is complicated but i guess the stuff i've been interested in making has all been stuff i need to apply myself for #and i guess i don't really need to apply myself for writing if that makes sense? #i mean. i'm sure there's lots i could learn or attempt to do #but i don't know if that's really where i want to take my skills #grumbles