#it’s so ingrained and systemic

[argxstxs]

Ohhhhhhhh shiv’s face when she realized that she’s going to be cut out of the boy’s club AGAIN and this time with a baby she can’t even talk about with her husband without risking being seen as soft … Kerry being humiliated by Marcia and the rest of the family… shiv falling down in front of a room of snickering men… gerri being thrown out as easily as garbage… connor’s mom being talked about less like a human being and more as fodder for a pr campaign…

#like yeah this show is about the horrors of the top 1% destroying and reforging our moral and ethical codes #but more than that it’s also a story about women #the women of this show are shown time and time again to be disposable #it’s so ingrained and systemic #no amount of privilege and whiteness will ever save you from being a woman!! #misogyny predates white supremacy!! you will never escape it!! #GOD this show is good #my god I hate how much I love it #I was just sitting there the whole time biting my nails I was so anxious #succession #succession s4 #succession spoilers

[ahkmenraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

okie dokie time to address smth that’s been bothering me for a BIT.

Ahkmenrah. Why is he infantilized so much in this fandom? You guys protect him and his innocence like it’s that of a child? He’s not??? He’s 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 thousands of years older than everybody else! (This is conscious life, I mean, he’s been ALIVE longer than everybody else he obviously doesn’t pre-date Rexy lol)

Meanwhile, nobody ever does this to Sacagawea!? She’s presumably the age she was during her time in the expedition based off her exhibit, which would put her at SIXTEEN OR SEVENTEEN years old.

And this brings me to my point. If you say she’s not that age, then you would be CORRECT. She’s lived as long as everybody else in the museum! She’s the same age as Teddy! If you all think this is okay, because they were both essentially “born” the same night when the tablet first arrived you’d be RIGHT. Teddy says this himself, he’s not Theodore Roosevelt, he’s just a wax figure made in a factory. this would make Ahk so fucking grandpa compared to everybody else lmaooo my boy is ANCIENT. Why y’all treat him like a child is FAR beyond me.

#natm #night at the museum #natm ahkmenrah #I have SO many gripes with the way some characters are treated in this fandom #Like am I missing some crucial piece of media or are y’all just weird #I’m not TRYING to diss anybody’s takes on ahk but it’s just so ingrained in the fandom perception of him it annoys me #THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO SYSTEMS WHERE AHK IS A HEADMATE PLEASE KEEP DOIN UR THINGS I KNOW DID INHERENTLY CHANGES CHARACTERS FROM CANON DW.

[holocene-sims]

List 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to simblrs whose sims you adore ✨️

thank you so much for sending this to me!! ✨️💜 i really appreciate it!! and i'm so sorry for letting this sit in my inbox a long time 😭

i may talk about him a lot, but it's never enough, so here are five new facts about the king of my blog aka grant 👑

when grant wants to feel something, he'll watch videos of the curiosity rover on mars singing happy birthday to itself 🎂 it's so incredibly sad but cute to him, so it immediately turns on the waterworks lolol 🥲

objectively, grant is NOT a car guy; he's 110% an airplane guy. however, he owns a car that makes him look like a car guy and gets him approached ALL THE TIME by people who want to talk cars. it's a 1960 ford galaxie and it looks like this, except i think it would be a nice shade of light, almost minty green or maybe blue (no, i haven't decided, and probably won't because there's no cc version of this car for the sims 4, so we'll never see it lol) 💚💙

why is that his car? 🚗 well, it was his grandparents' car, which he bought off them when they wanted to replace it; they have never had a garage or a carport in their entire life, so the car was exposed to the elements for fifty years, and it was, thus, fucked up. they were also tired of fixing it. however, it's a sentimental car because aoife and joseph met working on the same production line at a ford auto factory, and this car was the first one they bought as a couple in their marriage (even though aoife ironically does not know how to drive lmao). they wanted it gone but also didn't, you know, so grant bought it because he also didn't want to see it gone; he'd spent his whole life sandwiching into that backseat with 8 billion of his cousins. oh, aaandddd he bought it even though the necessary repairs were extensive, which he did all by himself with help from his grandparents and uncle (aka people who know shit about cars)

a shorter fun fact: he smokes luckies 🫢

grant has been on TV before! it was very brief, for like five seconds, but he was interviewed by his hometown news station after his high school hockey team won the state championship game one year and he was granted the MVP title. he was very nervous, and his friends ended up nicknaming him "mr. team effort" because his entire interview was him just saying things like, "oh, um, well, it was a team effort, and we worked really hard...together...as a team..."

#asks #hlcn: grant #hlcn: oc info #hlcn: story extras #fun fact grant's house doesn't have a garage either LMAO #so that car is still going through it with the weather #but grant has like 100000000000x more disposable cash than his grandparents so it's fine #and btw realistically grant would figure out cars on his own given that he is a pilot and a former aerospace engineer #but also the systems are different so of course he would ask people who know what they're doing #ANYWAY this concludes the mostly nerdy fun facts show #but some more comments: #it is ironic that grant is so sober now but still smokes all the time #i think it's been referenced in the story but he's quit a billion times and then still goes back to it #it's unfortunately ingrained in him because his entire family smokes except for...like...three people #his attitude is “even if i didn't smoke i'm probably still fucked by all the secondhand smoke and the family history of cancer *shrugs*” #which is a bad attitude to have and vaguely contradictory to his attitudes on drugs and alcohol but what are humans but contradictory #anna stop yapping challenge failed

[snivel1]

I've been carrying them in my pocket all my life basically. Insane how quickly time passes but they still rotate in the back of my mind constantly.

He's got that kyphosis swag <3

#homestuck #aradia megido #aradia #sollux captor #sollux #aradia homestuck #sollux homestuck #arasol #they've been ingrained into my system so much they're their own entities inside my head #they're everything to me <333 #snively doodles #sollux with his flat ass <33 #comfort characters #traditional doodle

[moodr1ng]

a thought in my head: a lot of the time people express like, complete bafflement and frustration at the fact that a mode of oppression or an oppressive political stance exist at all, like in the "i just dont understand how people are racist/transphobic/homophobic/etc" or "i dont GET how people believe in nationalist bullshit" type of statement. i see this from centrists to liberals to hardcore leftists, though i tend to think that the further towards 'centrism' aka status quo preservation someone leans, the more the thing they supposedly 'dont get' is likely to be something they themselves believe in/promote, just in less obvious ways. but that aside.. is this genuine? are these statements genuine expressions of confusion, or performative ones? i honestly struggle to tell.

like, ive never had a ""right wing phase"", ive never leaned right-wing politically in essentially any way aside from like, 6 months when i was 17 when i was into the lightweight transmed shit, which is the deepest ive been into reprehensible politics. but i literally do get it. it doesnt make me think any different about the positions but i get where they come from. i understand the emotional, social and cultural reasons for believing reprehensible things. i do get how people are nationalists - im not sure id be good at explaining it, but i understand it. i understand the impulses and urges that lead to right-wing politics and oppressive beliefs and on some level i do recognize them in myself and am continuously working to disarm them in myself.

and i feel both a sense of... not necessarily shame but impropriety? at admitting this, like by saying 'i understand the reasoning and emotions that go into oppressive thinking' im in some way revealing that im like, tainted or ethically bankrupt. which is why i ask 'is saying you absolutely dont understand this performative' - because i feel like it could be? saying that you dont have the slightest idea how people get to awful political stances can make you appear as if youre so morally pure that you could never lower yourself to even understanding the thought patterns of immorality, right? but at the same time... i have a hard time trusting in people who repeatedly exclaim that it is so beyond their understanding how anyone could be a bigot. it kinda feels like, implicitly, theyre saying 'i trust so deeply that i am wholly removed from bigotry that i am not in fact doing the work of figuring out which of my thought patterns and impulses can lead to reactionary ideas'. so even if the statement is genuine.. well, idk, maybe thats a bit worse??

idk. thoughts?

#97 #long post #its just bizarre to me that people will say like 'racism is deeply entrenched in our society and culture and is ingrained in all of us' #then go on to say something along the lines of 'i just dont understand how you can hate someone based on their skin color' or whatever. #like so which of these do you believe? that you like all of us have ingrained racist beliefs taught to you systemically? #or that youre so detached from racism that you cant even fathom it?

[i-bring-crack]

Currently floating in the deep void of the universe with yall but thinking about Antares finding his vessel in Haein who is force to become a vessel from such a young age and takes a toll on her body as well as mental state (she has seen the timelines before them and boi) but during that time she is also forcing him to slowly accept emotions over the course of the series so by the end of the story we have a human who slowly has transitioned to a Souless Monarch and an Emotionless Monarch who has become human.

#solo leveling #sung jin woo #cha hae in #sl antares #sl ashborn #id like to think that antares loving someone isnt in the same way as humans love #its in the way of debt actually and Ashborn had once been there to save him so of course since hed save his life he will now be there to #repay it one day but Ashborn is freakishly strong so there was never a point where his life was threathenen #until the fight with the rulers where he wasnt there to witness or even help him out so the debt doubles in a way but at the same time 'he' #is alive and doesnt need to pay the debt back. so theres a conflict there. #like thats why dragons are so loyal bc there is no love ingrained in their system but rather they repay their debt of being brought into #life and being cared for by following the dragons around them. for their life is so precious because their life is the most extraordinary #thing in this unvirse #and whoever tries to protect it gets a personal guard until they can repair their debt #and whoever tries to harm it will be looked down and hurt upon because they dared to try and take a powerful species for themselves when #they are below them #of course the dragon too seeks revenge for the hurt theyve been done but if they have descendants or other dragons they helped those too. #for the debt. will also try to protect the person that has been hurt.

[dump-troy-marry-me]

"you know i'd do anything you did" goddddd just say youre in love just say you love him

#i watch regional holiday music mostly for that line fksj #also the fact that abeds been thinking abt ways to ger around troy not being able to celebrate christmas #its. ok. not to get into my whole gay troy truther thing but #troy is v clearly not content with his religion #he wants to celebrate christmas and his birthday and he feels constricted #but being raised as a JW is important to his identity as a straight man #its an ingrained belief system that tells him what he has to be: straight #hes not ready to denounce that and have to come to terms w his attraction #so he cant just celebrate christmas for no reason #and abed knows that. and knows that they have to work around it #so he finds a loophole. a way around it. a way to give troy a bit of relief #without having to confront what hes not ready to confront #also love this episode for the ending tbh #its so sweet #community #community tv #nbc community #troy barnes #abed nadir #trobed

[crippledanarchy]

It's officially been a week since surgery and I did not anticipate the euphoria to be so immediate or last this long but long story short, it feels so fucking good

#surprising no one i did not realize how intense my reproductive system dysphoria was #that ever present crushing weight? gone #that deeply ingrained fear of having my body weaponized against me without my say #they taught me that Mary was highly favored so god stole her body and called it a gift #it scared me so much it made me sick that if i was bad i would burn but if i was good i risked a sentence worse than death #now my body is mine alone and no one can ever change that #my body is not a temple it is my home #bex talks to themself

[soullessjack]

first it was celebrities signing the thank you letter to Biden then it was Disney then it was Starbucks and McDonald’s and then Stanley cups and now it’s the stupid fucking Super Bowl all running alongside the most disgusting ethnic cleansing and humanitarian crisis ever and just consistently proving how dystopian American capitalism and consumerism has become. how conditional our activism and empathy are as soon as our comfort and celebrity worship is jeopardized and how complacent we are with all these systems specifically because they perpetuate that comfort. As encouraging and comforting as it is to see how many people do care, how much outrage is being expressed worldwide and how there are people that broke out of the system, at the same time there’s still so many who are just lethargically unempathetic about it to a horrifying degree.

#American capitalism is a conditional system that will give millions for a Super Bowl ad and an imploded submarine full of rich cucks #while homelessness rates get worse and worse #that conditionalism is exactly what breeds our lethargy and specific brand of allyship/activism #“I’ll help you out but only if you’re nice to me and don’t put your struggles above my priorities” so to speak #god i am just so fucking tired #sometimes i feel like there’s hope for the world but then i remember I’ll probably be old or dead before it’s ever truly really fixed #it’s just so ingrained #cal.txt #super bowl 2024 #palestine #Gaza #rafah #I HATE THE GOVERNMENT SO FUCKING MUCH I SWEAR TO GOD

[devilsskettle]

just saw someone call horrorstör by grady hendrix “cozy horror” i’m sorry but in what world. you have to be so removed from the reality of what working retail is like to be like hehe cozy horror because it takes place in haunted ikea :) also like. was it so super cozy when that girl gets possessed and starts choking on her own snot lol like some of the shit he describes in this book is so vile so please explain to me what part of the book is cozy

#it’s about like. inhumane treatment of prisoners in the past and the imposition of the protestant work ethic on people working #for inadequate compensation and the way that exploitation of labor persists in our modern work lives despite attempts at reform #because the system is so ingrained in a history of abuse fueled by the moral weight of the protestant work ethic #and our culture is so attached to the self made man ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ narrative #and ladder climbing mentality and ideas about what types of job ‘deserve’ minimum wage vs a livable wage #and we’re so used to pouring all of our time and energy into our jobs that we become part of the corporate machine without having time and #energy left to thrive in our own personal lives #but sure it’s ‘cozy’ because ikea smh #idk it just annoys me because people will just be out here saying shit that doesn’t mean anything because it’s a buzzword

[lunatheskier]

In the light of Netflix Daredevil cannon being very vague of when Matt and Foggy met I have made the head cannon that they met in undergrad first or second year as that is what makes the most sense in my head. That being said sometimes I forget that is a head cannon and sometimes get very confused when reading fanfiction and the fic does not follow my head cannon.

#Daredevil #Matt Murdock #foggy nelson #mattfoggy #Netflix daredevil #headcannon #headcannons #sometimes I forget what is cannon or not #its really bad with Harry Potter because I read so much fanfiction and cannon is already so loose #but its not usually a problem with anything else #some of the other ideas ive read for when matt and foggy meet literally dont make any sense with how the American college system works #id say about half of them are fine though and could reasonably have happened that way #love having head cannons so ingrained that you forget they aren't actually cannon #tea talks

[bioswear]

Idk hot take for a Saturday morning, but maybe people shouldn’t be SO quick to switch to a mentality of: “well I’m not voting at all” about American politics in regards to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict/genocide just bc America has had its dick in those affairs LONG BEFORE fucking Biden Presidecy and people are seemingly just NOW feeling publically vocally outraged about it bc it’s in the forefront news (as you should be), but maybe also let’s use our fucking brains for a moment if you are American:

we should, and can easily, also still focus on that which is in our own backyard, if you don’t vote fucking blue, because green/third parties are not actually viable in the deeply established two party system we have had for CENTURIES, we get fucking DeSantis or some other horrible Fascist Republican and then America is going to have its own genocide against LGBTQ+ people, fascism goes up, continued attacks against drag/immigrants/etc.

You also know damn well that any Republican, If one were president, would be doing the same fucking thing of providing aid to Israel, so I guess personally I’m just confused as to why everyone is surprised biden is doing the same.

You can and should support a free Palestine, and hold contempt for Israel and condemn their actions, AND also know that voting blue is Americas literal only chancE RIGHT CURRENTLY NOW this upcoming year, to remain somewhat of a democracy instead of a ChristoFascist regime, especially with Biden being one of the ONLY blue candidates like… our hands are TIED

Like YEAH it’s gonna fucking suck to vote for Biden but like you also gotta fucking Buck up sometimes and do things you don’t particularly WANT to do. It’s called duality and compromising in life and sometimes it’s fucking unavoidable.

But idk what the fuck do I know 🤪 I’m just a girl who thinks maybe you shouldn’t just fucking give up one of your only recognized rights in America just because some actions you can’t control from a crusty old moderate blue white man in a country whose affairs are more complicated than your messiest situationship is upsetting (rightfully so, I might add) you

#personal txt #I’m sorry that tragedies are like trends these days but I haven’t seen ANYRHING about any of the crises we had earlier in the year #like yeah ALL of it is important but also #you can’t NOTvote next year you will actively be contributing to a horrible fascist regime in America #please use your fucking eyes and brain: I did NOT say Americans shouldn’t support Palestine. they should #I’m saying maybe don’t base your gut reaction politics on things that have been out of the public’s hands for DECADES. US has always backed #Israel. it isn’t right and it’s corrupt and it’s awful yes. all those. but it won’t change #just like how the two party system is so ingrained that it nullifies 3rd parties #vote blue just so we don’t fucking die in America and then hope Biden kicks it or smth #Kamala takes over. elections come again. we hopefully have more democratic candidates #but like #we CANNOT not vote #I will literaally kill myself if Trump or DeSantis win all because you fuckstains #learned your politics from fucking tiktok and tumblr #come at me if my hot take (which isn’t even a hot take but PURE observation) #bothers you enough but idc #I’m seeing too many people being like WELL NOW IM NOT VOTING AT ALL #good job on giving up one of your only rights in this world you fucking Sheep #the amount of people goingIM NOT VOTING. IS CONCERNING TO ME #like y’all can’t do this right before fucking election year 🫠 #republicans WANT you to not vote you stupid clods. why would you willingly give them what they want #Biden sucks so fucking much and I’d rather eat glass but I know in the big picture voting blue fucking matters #like MULTPLE things can be important at once #but imo it’s important to know what you do and don’t have immediate control over #can you control what’s happening in Gaza? not a fucjing chance. these people hate each other so much and for so long #and yes it’s terrible and horrible and Israel needs to just fuck off forever #but like I highly doubt they would listen to the opinion f outside affairs #also I don’t think majority of people even understand just HOW complicated the US relations with Israel is and I don’t either so I won’t #pretend like I do #you can more easily control the outcome of the US political landscape by FUCKING VOTING

[muppenthings]

(in old english) magic is more a myth nowadays. some people even refuse to believe its real

Anonymous asked: Elmer no offense but did you miss the part where we stated that no one believes in magic anymore? Apparently the government knows but other than that you won’t find any magic users around. Besides the llama thing that is- but we don’t talk about the llama -🐈

Elmer: You said people thought Giants were myths, which is reasonable as we avoid humans... I thought you were just bad at magic but... Humans forgot it? How... that doesn't make sense. That's like me forgetting how to shift! *he shifts just to illustrate* ... And what's a llama??

#Ask #your-local-crackhead-gremlin #🐈 anon #Muppen doodles #oc Elmer #Mmm yeah Elmer thinks humans are magic-y like fairies #His sister did ingrain to avoid ALL humans or else bad things may happen xD; #So he was left to believe that all humans knows Rune magic #(Rune magic is just a branch of an overall magic system) #(it has different names and symbols depending on world region!) #And the LED llama light was never spoken of as a llama #so this is the first time he hears the word llama xD #*By 'you' he means every human in the cave #He thinks you have magic you're just really bad at it 😂 #and thus unable to use it to free him xD

[echidnana]

it feels so fucking awful knowing we are stuck here. that the body is stuck here. we can't even really take comfort in being ourselves as individuals within the body because we KNOW the consequences. it's just all such bullshit

#we can't be a visible system. it just isn't safe to be #and even online there are lines we draw #tons of us would speak very differently but we don't because we KNOW it would sound 'cringe' or like a roleplayer or something. #we almost always go through the mask's filter when speaking/typing/writing because it's safer and we sound more 'normal' #and it just sucks how deeply deeply ingrained this mindless existence is in us #in the body #i think we're better now than we were before #before we were aware of our plurality and more at peace with the way we interact with the world #but it's still so hard sometimes. #revali.txt #confluence posting

[beatcroc]

I just wanna say thank you for reblogging all the stuff spreading awareness of recent antisemitism that you have recently. You are the only person I follow who isn't jewish who I've seen do so at all (Unless I'm mistaken and you are jewish too). I know not everyone is aware of every single bad thing happening in the world at any moment, and don't think people HAVE to reboot about negative events or whatever, but how much you seem to care really warms my heart and reassures me we aren't alone (Unless, once again, I am mistaken and you are jewish)

👍but nah i'm not jewish, just pissed off

#doing the talking for this one IN the tags bc i would really rather be answering this privately lol #feels so weirdly like. performative. to say it out in the open but whatver #i just have so much. anger. abt this shit #every time i turn around and learn about some random history/culture event or fixture its like #'oh yeah and originally this got started to shit on jewish ppl' and its just like how is this so deeply fucking ingrained in everything #and like i'm black so. without trying to compare the two too directly for obvious reasons #i do in some ways understand the thing with the whole system being slanted against you like that #AGAIN not comparing 1:1 because the history of jews being scapegoated for everything ever and always getting the shit end of the stick #is like leagues apart and beyond stuff thats gone down w/ blacks' histories #but i get the infuriation and the sting of people just. not fucking caring or even NOTICING The Issues #to be clear i am unbelievably sheltered and ignorant about like every culture ever+ usually unmotivated to search things out on my own #so endless thanks to my jewish friends/mutuals for just bein themselves and passively keeping me like. informed. #abt basics for not being antisemitic and how to respect jewish culture #cause god knows im not gonna hear it out in everyday society or whatever #yeag. and anyway i also have personal beef #from being raised christian and having to get away from [gestures broadly at the whole of christian teachings] #and im like. you killed people for this? to do things this badly? you stomped out their culture and practices to bring THIS into the world? #literally fuck off and die nothing you taught me is even a fraction as... idk. rewarding? as the fragments ive seen of jewish culture #rewarding or like. hopeful or meaningful maybe. its hard to put an exact word to it but to speak it more directly- #i am Wildly Misanthropic but whenever i learn stuff about jewish culture im like. #you know if these sorts of ideals were more widespread i probably wouldn't hate humanity so much. #[i also feel this way abt native americans but thats a whole ass other thing.] #[similarly seeing people whose ideals i also value being consistently treated like shit tends to just fuel the misanthropy soooooo...] #its like these are the people who actually know how to live and this is what the greater populace thinks of them? lmao ok #[to be clear i live in the usa so you can imagine the kind of culture im Actually exposed to lolllll] #at any rate reblogging a post on social media really feels a negligble gesture but im glad it's appreciated nonetheless

[arcademgmt]

arcade being the main hero of miitopia means he by the nature of the story use multiple jobs but at his core he is and always will be a thief because thief is the epitome of Just Some Fucking Guy and thats his whole deal

#also hes not physically strong enough to be lugging around a heavier weapon and is magically deficient in most ways so like. #carrying around daggers is sort of just the obvious choice #and also he hates the wealthy and was gay miitopia robin hood for a while before becoming the hero. peace and love ❤️ #whenever i create a character meant to represent me in an RPG with a class system like this i will always choose thief if given the option #its ingrained into my being i think