#she cannot just get away with it

[ickypuppi3]

post starcourt billy lives au where no one moves to california and el’s super uncomfortable with karen wheeler because now she’s classed as one of the bad people who hurt billy

#billy hargrove #el hopper #tw karen wheeler #i need someone to call her out for the good of my mental health #she cannot just get away with it #i need it to be addressed i need steve to perhaps say something too that would be fun #and el bringing it up to billy ??? i’m upset #and him trying to play it off but if there’s one person he can’t lie to it’s el #he’s all ‘i’m a guy it’s what we do no biggie’ #but el /knows/ how he actually feels #and no one else knowing or understanding why she’s off with mike all the time because that’s all she can think about #because el’s mom never stood a chance right #never had the opportunity to /be/ a mom thanks to brenner #and we all know about billy’s #but karen? she was meant to be a good mom #maybe that’s what el thought moms were like #like in her head yeah joyce karen claudia etc etc that’s what a mom is #but now there’s this conflict and disconnect #because moms can be bad people too #and not only did billy’s own mom hurt him but so did mikes #yeah #idk i have thoughts #i just need el and billy to hug maybe

[hanzajesthanza]

“what does geralt get from that friendship…”

another post examining the weight of geralt and dandelion’s friendship… because i don’t think people recognize how painful and debilitating loneliness can become.

the witcher as a deconstruction of the genre takes fantasy tropes to their most logical ends—it asks us to consider what The Lone Swordsman feels, looks into the humanity in a Cold-Blooded Killer. and it turns out he’s not cold-blooded at all.

that despite some superhuman abilities, he laments and worries and curses himself, just like any other worker of any other profession. just as the farmer is scorched by the sun, the washerwoman’s back aches, and the scholar goes half-blind studying, a witcher deals with all of the pains and annoyances and dangers of his job in a mundanely human way.

but the farmer, the washerwoman, and the scholar have something the witcher does not have—they’ll always be seen as human and part of their society. at the end of the day after enduring all of their labor, they have their wife to caress, festivities to attend, and taverns to frequent. but for a witcher? after the killing is over, what does he have? no one and nothing. not even a thank you. he is met with fear and hatred everywhere he goes, baseless bigotry and dislike.

I did my job. I quickly learned how. I’d ride up to village enclosures or town pickets and wait. If they spat, cursed and threw stones, I rode away. If someone came out to give me a commission, I’d carry it out.

so he faces not just loneliness, but being deliberately ostracized and cast out from society. geralt can’t even find a polite word in most settlements, much less a friend.

‘(…) Tell me, where should I go? And for what? At least here some people have gathered with whom I have something to talk about. People who don’t break off their conversations when I approach. People who, though they may not like me, say it to my face, and don’t throw stones from behind a fence. (…)’

this kind of loneliness is not a mere inconvenience. it’s completely altering to your self-perception and ability to see the positive in the world.

each day is not lived, but endured.

day in, and day out—forced to the most difficult and lowest labor in order to survive, and knowing that were you to die, no one would search for your body, few would miss you, hell, they might even spit “good riddance”.

in this situation, to find a friend, is not only friendship, but a rescue.

without dandelion, geralt may have drowned—drowned in solitude, amidst a sea of strangeness.

‘(…) And I’m alone, completely alone, endlessly alone among the strange and hostile elements. Solitude amid a sea of strangeness. Don’t you dream of that?’

No, I don’t, he thought. I have it every day.

because dandelion is not only a bright soul, characteristic rippling laughter and the strum of a lute, but someone who will intently listen to geralt, someone who mutually enjoys his company.

‘(…) you almost jumped out of your pants with joy to have a companion. Until then, you only had your horse for company.’

someone who doesn’t see him as strange and at the fringes of society at all, but as an utterly normal man.

and doesn’t impose demeaning, sappy sympathy onto him, but sobering and realistic “quit your bullshit” which ridicules the very thought that he should internalize societal hatred.

Do you know what your problem is, Geralt? You think you’re different. (…) [You don’t understand that] for people who think clear-headedly you’re the most normal man under the sun, and they all wish that everybody was so normal. What of it that you have quicker reflexes than most and vertical pupils in sunlight? That you can see in the dark like a cat? That you know a few spells? Big deal.

dandelion isn’t “willing” to accept geralt for himself—he already has accepted him. and to him, it’s no difficulty, it’s nothing worth discussing, because he sees no abnormality and no strangeness in him.

while others “prefer the company of lepers to witchers,” dandelion has already offered geralt to share his room and board. not out of sympathetic pity, not out of fetishizing curiosity. because… they’re friends.

and what else does this friendship save him from?

not only from others, but from himself.

worse than enduring others’ apathy and hatred is one’s own thoughts—the darkness and negativity which builds from witnessing and experiencing such behavior.

dandelion’s ability to counter and dispel geralt’s pessimism and self-flagellating tendencies—again, not out of pity, but out of friendship—is undeniably invaluable. someone to rescue you from your darkest thoughts, when you begin to spiral.

and in this darkness, all you can do is cry. you cry, beg for someone to help you, please—

Help! Why doesn't anyone help me? Alone, weak, helpless – I can't move, can't force a sound from my constricted throat. Why does no one come to help me? I'm terrified!

to be alone, the saga reminds us, is worse than a death sentence. to be alone is to “perish; stabbed, beaten or kicked to death, defiled, like a toy passed from hand to hand.” to be alone is to suffer, and to be with someone is to save them from that suffering.

'(…) I wouldn't like anything bad to happen to you. I like you too much, owe you too much-'

'You've said that already. What do you owe me, Yennefer?'

The sorceress turned her head away, did not say anything for a while.

'You travelled with him,' she said finally. 'Thanks to you he was not alone. You were a friend to him. You were with him.'

it is true that geralt has saved dandelion countless times, helped him, gotten him out of some scrape… but to ask what did geralt get in return? are you kidding me?

did you ever consider that it is dandelion who saved geralt?

by being with him. by being by his side. by being his friend.

indeed, dandelion has rescued geralt, countless times, from the yawning jaws of endless loneliness. he’s helped him, chased away the danger of geralt’s own rumination. and he’s gotten him out of scrapes, his own insecurities and bitter helplessness.

so what does dandelion give geralt? what does geralt get from their friendship?

an amusing question. what one gets from friendship is the friendship itself. and that is more than enough.

#the witcher books #gerlion #geralt of rivia #dandelion #jaskier #the parallels with ciri’s story makes me so emotional like… #ciri is just geralt but younger and alone. and thus she suffers so immensely #i included ciri’s nightmare because i think that’s how it feels to be alone #you just cry out ‘help! why won’t someone help me?’ and no one answers #and the funny bit is that everyone is like ‘ugh you cannot get RID of dandelion’ like #i think that’s the most comforting and relieving thing about him. he will never leave and abandon geralt. #there is nothing geralt *would* or *could* do to ever push him away #the kind of friendship where you never worry about being too ‘weird’ for them because they straight up dont care if youre weird #honestly idk how more people dont see them like this because i feel like loneliness is so pervasive right now #does everyone else just have this kind of best friend and for that reason take dandelion’s presence for granted #s: i want to be by your side #c: geralt #c: dandelion #excerpt #analysis #like. this is how it is: #the entire world: ‘you’re nothing you’re worthless and you’re inhuman’ #dandelion is NOT like ‘omgggg of course you are something 🥺🥺 pwease don’t think badly like that’ #no. he’s like ‘the hell? that’s the stupidest thing ive ever heard. why the hell are you even listening to that’ #dandelion has a kind of masculine energy that the fandom does not like lmao

[code31-onthedancefloor]

what do you think dros was thinking when he first saw the phasmid? was he experiencing wonder; serenity? did he feel the world was still playing sick tricks on him: did he believe he was going insane from isolation and this was one of the symptoms? was it helplessness - that even though this miracle of nature stood before him, his beliefs prevented him from telling anyone about it? did the phasmid stand over iosef, watching him watch martinaise through his scope? did he feel her eyes on him for hours, until he forgot the eyes and the pheromones burnt a hole in his brain where she used to be? is he in a kind of grief over her absence in his head? is it a coincidence that the character who is most unable to move on from his past is on an island where the only other living being tells the player to turn from the ruin and move forward? that the most self-appraisingly noble and hopeless of causes has looked at the future for too long, and it is destroying him...

#this too is yuri #i find it funny and heartbreaking. maybe he did love the bug - in a way. #companionship. he never shot it. it just stood there and watched him until his mind eroded... #also? the sorrow in her voice when she tells you this? #she cared for him in a way that the future might take pity on the past. but ultimately it washes away. #into the wild pale yonder. because the people of the present cannot dwell unless they crave stagnation #and the other two stagnated men - stagnated socially; financially; ideologically; occupationally - capture a piece of something beautiful #while the man who sat and dwelled until that miracle next to him dissolved into mundane fractures falls apart himself in grief #and confusion. the world truly has no place for him anymore. #in other words: #get stickbugged #<- that is their ship name now #txt #disco elysium #insulindian phasmid #iosef dros

[fruitsyrups]

I think it's so interesting to think about the unique social implications of things on the islands. Like, the animal hats & how they originally existed for the practical purpose of protection & they kept wearing them even after that wasn't a factor anymore. & how the hats we see in the present day (when Finn & co visit the islands) don't really resemble animal hats, do they? & maybe that's just to make the significant human characters (who do still wear animal hats) seem more distinct but you best believe I'm going to make it into something bigger. Oh I'm so bad at putting my thoughts into words but it's something how the hats evolved into a new meaning. & when robo susan rips friedas hat off its like a very violating moment. Something something hats, the lack thereof, vulnerability. I don't know. Sorry. I was going somewhere with this but I don't know how to explain it. You get it though. Hats are interesting.

I like to think that (when everyone got sick and lots of them died and the rest moved to a new island) there was a bunch of small shifts & the animal -> abstract hats was one of them. And Frieda still wearing her dog hat shows her still holding onto the past in some way. There we go, that's something. This isn't a total nothing post after all

#like if only i could write my dream longfic about susan&frieda with big focus on frieda's relationship with the islands especially after #susans betrayal (using the word betrayal lightly because of course it wasnt her fault but i think that was the way it felt to frieda) #and susan reconciling her childhood memories with the life shes built for herself #its so interestinggg theyre so inferesting 😭 #bc theyve both got 2 perspectives all on their own. the one they had growing up and the one they have as an adult #frieda wanting freedom and then 'accepting' not having it... and susan being all about upholding the system #and then having that taken away from her by literally losing her memory. and gaining a whole new perspective entirely divorced from her old #one. soorry im just saying a whole lot of words. anyways #thats my dream introspective dual character study longfic that i would write if i could #but alas i cannot even write a shortfic. and ive got tooo much schoolwork i need to catch up with anyway #sorry but the islands are SO FUCKING UNDERRATED??!? under-talked about. its crazy im crazy seriously they gave us all these crumbs #and can u really expect me NOT to think about it just so much. im still thinking about it #<- only thinks about it somdtimes #i get overwhelmed when i think about things im like unironically bad at thinking

[toomuchracket]

okay but in theory. if sweetheart george and girlie were pregnant how does she tell george/the guys 🤭

george figures it out before you do, because you're getting nauseous at things you love and just generally feeling Icky all the time - he suggests a test (quite excitedly, actually) and you're both overjoyed when it turns out you're having a baba. in terms of telling the guys... you have to tell the healys first, because of course you do, which is funny because they announced they were having a baby a couple of months ago (hi dylan!), so you go for brunch with them (and thank you to vee @abiiors for this idea). you decide you're going to tell them after you've caught up for a bit, but actually you don't even get to do that properly, because the sight and smell of the scrambled eggs on george's plate is making you wince; flatmate girly is like "oh, yeah, eggs gave me horrendous morning sickness in the first couple of months of my pregnancy", and you just sit in silence and smile as you watch her eyes widen. you're like "yeah, i think i'm the same", and matty immediately starts crying and grabs george in a hug like "this is the best news. healy daniel friendship round two!", while his wife is like "oh, congratulations! i'm glad we get to go through this together" as she hugs you - george is like "yeah, mate, we get to go through not smoking together too lol" to matty (god help you btw like the two of them jonesing for cigs while the two of you are throwing up? you're all insane). but yeah, hugs all round - matty's like "this is so fucking mental. only feels like five minutes ago that you and george admitted you fancied each other at my eighteenth" to you, and you hug him like "yeah, and you told me you were in love with your wife on the literal day you met her", and she and george stop hugging to be like "hang on WHAT" so you have to explain that one lmao. but yeah. so cute! <3

#also cannot help but imagine denise like miles away just getting an overwhelming feeling of stress the same second you share the news lol #another healy daniel friendship she has to deal with? god help her #nah it's cute she gets two grandkids now! #mads answers asks #george asks #sweetheart!george #dad!george #flatmate!matty #dad!matty

[hamartia-grander]

Jesus fucking christ I hate the US south

#Cw gun mention I guess #I was feeling super nauseous so I went into the kitchen to get ritz crackers #And we're at my grandma's rn for Christmas and she has windows in the kitchen that look out at the road/other houses #And NO curtains or blinds because she's old #And anyway I turned a small light on so I could see the crackers and I hear a fucking man outside shout “WHO'S OUT THERE” #In the heaviest southern accent. Mind you every fucking person in this area has a gun bc there's lots of trees with squirreld they shoot #And logically now that I am calming down I know it was just a bad coincidence and he was probably yelling at smthn in his yard #But jesus fucking christ I felt such immediate intense fear my head went cold #Ran to my baby brother's room bc I was certain someone was gonna come kill us #Then the rationality took over and I just told my mom about it. But now I'm sitting outside his room eating crackers bc I'm fucking paranoid #It is almost 4am and I haven't slept a wink I cannot do this rn #But literally the last time I went for a walk around here my dad told me not to go alone and also not to say anything stupid #And also stay far away from houses bc I could get myself shot #Literally what the fuck is this. #“Afearican” except I'm still very much in the US #Not to mention almost every fucking house has a blue lives matter flag and some have isr*el flags now too like #I fuuuuucking hate it here

[isfjmel-phleg]

😶

#random personal stuff #personal whining feel free to ignore #library booksales are kind of a big deal for me #I don't get to get out much so they're a good excuse to go on an adventure with friends #back in December one of my friends asked me to come to that month's sale but I was sick and couldn't be allowed to expose her baby to that #so I had to decline and that was disappointing and oh well maybe next time #today she blithely messages me that she dragged her husband to a library booksale and she found a lot of Sayers #I had no idea this was happening no idea she was going #she saw me on Thursday and apparently never thought to bring it up? #and I don't know if this was just thoughtless on her part or what but OUCH??? #(this is in a town forty-five minutes away by car & I cannot go there unless someone else invites me to ride with them)

[alexkablob]

Other favorite bits from the Dorley reread: Lorna's Paranormal Investigator Arc™

#tfw you're the only normal trans girl in a story about a forcefem kidnapping ring #and you're dating your ''cis'' girlfriend who gets you hormones ''from the internet'' #and slowly noticing how there's things she's not telling you and how her and her friend group are all weird about the same things #and then one day your girlfriend's equally cis friend is tired and distracted and asks your girlfriend if she can use some of her ''pills'' #and they both briefly freeze and then awkwardly smooth the interaction over but you KNOW #your whole social circle is trans people you go to trans rights rallies on the regular you KNOW that social interaction #you know this cis girl just asked your cis girlfriend if she could borrow some of her estrogen and what the FUCK #and all the little things are adding up and you start digging and they're all connected to this one dorm on campus-- #and IS MY GIRLFRIEND IN A CULT??? #WHAT IS HAPPENING #you're infiltrating this incredibly foreboding institution and all these girls are smiling too evenly at you and trying to steer you away #and IS THIS THE STEPFORD WIVES??? ARE THEY GOING TO HUMAN SACRIFICE ME??? WHAT IS GOING ON #because that's what Dorley is like looking in from the outside #and then all the while you see from the other PoVs what she's up against: #just the stupidest most neurotic group of codependent trans girls who are flailing rapidly in a comedy of errors #trying to figure out how to tell you the truth without you freaking out #or without it sounding stupid as hell #they're so fucking stupid Lorna I cannot emphasize enough what a pack of idiots these girls are it is NOT a slick operation #dorleyposting

[skipblebee]

Oh dear oh dear Skip seems to have caught Snufmin Child Fever oh maybe it's in the air

#moomins #snufmin children #IN THE REALS⁉⁉ BY SKIP⁉⁉ more likely than you think actually #people probably think Shula's adopted but she just stares into their souls for a minute straight and runs away. icon #they arrived on lillypads #as all babies do/j #moominvalley #adventures in moominlad #moomin ocs #snufmin #please notice that Shula's nose looks like Joxter's 🙏🙏 #I think Joxter would be so so sooo very happy to see that actually #Like “OMG!!!!! I AM ACTUALLY!!!!!! A GRANPA??!!!?!?!! ;o;” #not a finalized design actually. maybe I'll give Shula more fur?? hmmm idk idk #I cannot get over how funny Okko’s face looks 😭😭 my dude looks like he’s having the secrets of the universe revealed to him #Skipsart

[madhushala]

everyone prioritizes their family and that means even extended chacha ke chacha fufa ke tau etc and i can't even prioritize my sagi one i hate myself

#and its not that they're bad or anything #but im such a people pleaser i feel validation from strangers is more important than family #its because maybe ive watched them too closely and nothing about them fascinates me anymore i know the pattern #and my fun is meeting new people cracking the code #but still #i hate that people will cut your calls leave your message unread kyunki aaj poora din bua mausi aaye the #wish i was that focused on my relatives #ill literally text call anyone even in a middle of a fucking apocalypse #idk yall should tell me if im doing something wrong do yall keep your phones away and forget to text your friends #but i can't focus one thing for too long i cannot physically see messages decking up and not reply #i hate this #do people simply not check. there phone as often or am i an addict #or have i still not learnt to be in the moment #and tomorrow night i leave for home and my friends have planned a meet up #now frn 1 comes to home for one month in her holidays so giving one day or even two days to friends doesn't matter #frn 2 lives in hometown so there's no problem but mind you if she comes she has to leave in 2 minutes because her mom calls every five #minutes just to get her back to home for nothing #frn 3 comes home same as me aka 4-5 days so giving 1 day to friends is parents saying tumhe hamse matlab nahi hai tyohaar mei bhi har baar #milne jaana hota hai #etc #but im home past 4 days ivd literally done nothing papa bhai se utni hi baat hui jitni phone par ho jaati hai #haan for mummy i spent time with her #but most of the time i was on tumblr or scrolling insta to kya hi matlab hua mere ghar aane ka #that means unhe bas meri physical presence chahiye #na ghar par bua aayi na mama na koi #lekin ab kal mujhe jaana hai to kal mama aa jaayenge #why are things this way

[thatoneluckybee]

i need to draw the new strawberrry cake girl or im gonna d i e

#I am school i cannot :( #And i. Wouldn't even share it on tumblr cause i am so paranoid of having an irl find my blog #But i need to do this so much #fambles #im l osing it at 12:07pm on a tuesday #Update I am still eepy cause again i did not get to sleep much but hyperfixation hath awoken me >:3 i must THEORIZE AND PREDICT #And im not dying as much as I was this morning 👍 if im still like. Owowowooww by tomorrow or late tonight doctor but like its #Going away kinda. #I get strange health things often just wait it out :^ #Rambles #SHE LOOKS SO DHEKNWHAJSJSJN #i am going to theatre kid cringe in the yttd fandom because guys guys the curtains and the stage match up she's dressed like a rich #Theatre goer or almost like she's a puppet or a marionette or the puppeteer #I'm gonna lose it i love her aesthetic and design and shhsbsjsjsnnsnansnnsnannbb #Two sides of my I LOVE THIS #dark purples and my edgy middle school phase #And pastel pink with her SKIRT AND FRILLS AND HER RIBBONS AND

[pilferingapples]

Cosette " abandoning" Valjean : "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? `Monsieur Jean'? What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything happened?" ....

"I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask permission of my husband for you to be `Monsieur Jean.' I hope that he will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good."

He made no reply.

She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness.

"Oh!" she said to him, "be good!"

And she went on:

"This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,-- there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Arme, not giving us riddles to guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, breakfasting with us, being my father."

He loosed her hands.

"You no longer need a father, you have a husband."

Cosette became angry.

"I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to things like that, which are not common sense!"

...

I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me rage, all of you. I am greatly vexed. I don't understand. You do not defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am all alone. I arrange a chamber prettily. If I could have put the good God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of Nicolette. We will have nothing to do with your dinner, Madame. And my father Fauchelevent wants me to call him `Monsieur Jean,' and to receive him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in your abominable Rue de l'Homme Arme. I was very desperate indeed there, that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of grief. Fi!"

And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and added:

"Are you angry with me because I am happy?"

(all text Hapgood, the Lower Chamber)

*Abandonment solely seen via Valjean's patented Traumavision!

#she's so scared and hurt and feeling isolated #he's hitting at her whole identity! #' I am no longer Cosette?' #HE'S THE FIRST PERSON SHE REMEMBERS WHO CALLED HER BY *NAME* #the ONLY family she knows about the ONLY anchor she has #and he's taking it away! #she thinks it's her fault! #AAAAAAH #she is begging him to stay! She says over and over she's hurt and scared and angry!! #and he just cannot hear it #GAD #my HEART #the older I get the worse this part is

[baltears]

its truly not that i have a problem with ppl continuing to engage with a persons work after theyve been called out for being problematic or whatever but the way m//lanie m//rtinez stans literally just convinced themselves all the allegations were false, called the alleged victim a liar and then proceeded to pretend it all never even happened is frankly chilling to me

#like i think her music sounds good!!!! but i just cannot fw her stans ever bc you truly just never know #do they know shes an alleged abuser and just make the personal decision to continue engaging (fine) or are they one of those people. #i make this post like annually lol im sorry. it just continues to really creep me out that people just don't talk about it #and when they do it's just the party line. no actual interest in the truth #like. sorry i think irl abusers should be accountable and not just get away with things bc they're cute girls w a cool aesthetic&good art #her fanbase at large just feels so ghoulish to me like there was almost nobody pushing back on this insane conspiratorial victim blaming... #the total lack of any level of concern or even basic respect for survivors in a lot of these people was very transparent #anti melanie martinez #cw assault

[luumeow]

God I just HATE the way warriors treats it's she-cats!!! Everytime I think of Leafpool, Yellowfang, Bluestar, Smoke, Squilf..... and the way their mates/toms who've done the exact same thing are treated I just get so mad for them!!! FUCK Raggedstar for getting to be remembered as a heroic leader and leaving Yellowfang with the guilt of his son's actions!!!! FUCK crowfeather for getting off with minimal punishment and shaming for having kits with leafpool and not taking responsibility and then getting to a debuty position when Leafpool can't never live up to what she did in the eyes of the clans and living her life being hated by her kits when Crowfeather abused his son and got to be a dad just by being nice once!!!! FUCK Onestar for having secret kits with Smoke and abandoning her and their kit because it was inconvinient for him and then being forgiven because he killed that kit AND THEN he has the fucking audacity to be there to judge Leafpool and squilf for wanting the best for their kits!!!! I AM SO MADDD

#i have a lot of opinions on the she-cats :'D #i just cannot stand onestar in particular #he gets away with so much and is just treated as a hero for killing his own son who is this way because he abandoned him #(I don't think Darktail was a redeemable guy) #and the fact that raggestar is just a heroic figure makes me wanna bite someone #yellowfang #brokenstar #raggedstar #leafpool #crowfeather #onestar #smoke #darktail #bluestar #squirrelflight #warrior cats #yowling

[itspileofgoodthings]

like. Nina listens to Taylor, moderately keeps up with the front-facing aspects of her life, enjoys her quality, has her minor critiques, recognizes her place in the current culture, can set her down and do other things when she wants to, and most importantly knows who Taylor is through her art.

#you cannot engage with Taylor completely casually it doesn’t work #you won’t get to know her #you have to let her in. go on a sunset walk with your headphones in and open your heart to her and just HEAR her #and then once you know who she is you can go from there #but there absolutely is this level of refusing to get to know her #and I am truly (once again) not addressing people who have that door simply closed (my mom! my older sister!) #people whose opinions matter so much to me #but I am talking to the people who wrestle and want to love her but actually hate her and idk. I feel that it is something where—- #well it’s like people isn’t it. you have to get to know her without judgment #and without bias #you have to know her FROM her #(which does not involve Easter eggs OR celebrity headlines if you hate both of those things #and then if you don’t like her you do in fact have to leave without making that other people’s problem #especially Taylor’s! #I am thinking of this girlboss journalist who wrote a piece on Taylor the other day #that was LIVID with Taylor for sharing only positive reviews on her insta story #(as is not only Taylor’s right but literally normal behavior??????????) #and was practically foaming at the mouth about how Taylor’s level of power was getting scary #and it’s like. I’m so sorry for swearing but BITCH #a lot of the numbers are out of Taylor’s control and also NOT REAL. Taylor also DESERVES her success and is simply doing her job very well #and riding the waves of virality she knows how to create in ADDITION to that #also stop worshipping power and money!!!! the way you clearly do!!!!!!! #Taylor is not doing anything with it except her job!!!!!!!!!!!!! #she is also CLEARLY a human being who suffers #SEE HER AS SUCH #and end it THERE #INSANE #turning off reblogs for this one #because I have gotten carried away but wow

[iguessitsjustme]

Alright friends, I have seen many wonderful posts about Tinn’s mom, but I can’t sleep so I’m writing one of my own. I have many thoughts and feelings about her because I ADORE her.

There are so many things to talk about regarding her relationship with Tinn and her journey on how to accept and best support him BUT I’m not gonna talk about that. I’m barely going to mention Tinn. I need to talk about this because I haven’t seen it mentioned yet: she is damn good at her job. I love that we had a misdirect at the beginning of the show from Gun’s perspective that she would be an antagonist that’s out to get the music club. Then we shifted to Tinn’s POV and we got to see that she isn’t out to get anyone. She’s a high school principal just trying to make sure her school keeps on running. We don’t know the exact details of what scuffle the music club got into the previous year. But as the principal, it makes sense that she is making tough choices. Clubs that cause problems that result in damages that need to be paid during a time where she has to tighten the budget? It makes sense that she would consider disbanding the music club. Tinn and Gun’s worldview is smaller because they are students at the high school. They can’t see the whole picture that Tinn’s mother sees and has to see in order to keep the school running. Does she make things more difficult for the music club? Absolutely she does, but not because she wants to. It’s literally her job. She needs to make sure the rest of the school can still function.

She also never stops the music club from trying. In fact, I’d say she encourages it, even though they might not realize it. She signs off on letting them compete but only once they’ve improved their grades. It feels unfair and impossible to the band but it is completely reasonable. “Keep up your schoolwork and your academics and you’ll be allowed to participate in this extracurricular activity with the school’s blessing.” That was a rule at my high school. It isn’t her job to just give students what they want willy nilly. It’s her job to make sure the students are set up for success in the future. Once their grades improve, she signs off on it. She might be skeptical and it might not be her thing, but never once does she stop a student from exploring their own interests.

Then we get to the homophobic teacher. She listens to his story while he demands punishment. She asks Tinn if what he said is correct. And she’s asking him because he’s involved, because he’s her son, but also because he’s the school president. Tinn has proven he is responsible and she takes that into consideration. She looks at the situation as a whole. She wants to make sure she hears both sides of the story. So many principals of people in authority will take the teacher’s side and not once ask for the student’s side of the story. But she is fair and she sees her students as people who deserve to be heard. And that entire scene I wasn’t worried about Kajorn’s punishment because I knew she would be fair because she is good at her job. Kajorn needed to be disciplined for using violence, but not for standing up to the homophobic teacher. And she punished accordingly. Then she moved on to tell the teacher what she would do regarding his role in the situation. She was being pressured by the other teacher’s regarding Tinn’s sexuality but she remained professional the entire time and did her job to support her students. And at the prom, standing right next to two of the homophobic teachers, who I’m sure texted her, she loudly told the students to cheer for Tinn and Gun.

She is doing everything in her power to make that school a safe place for students even if that means she has to face backlash. She does that because it’s her job. It’s not her job to judge students. It’s not her job to make life more difficult for students. It is her job to make sure each and every student in that school has the best chance for success when they eventually leave.

#my school president #my school president the series #my school president bl #sorry if the formatting is weird I’m on mobile and it’s being weird #anyway I very rarely get to gush about characters in administrative roles #and that’s literally what I do #I’m not really in education #kind of like a side step away from it #but I am an administrator and damn good at it too #and I have spoken to many incompetent principals #i have spoken to many school officials who do not care about their students the way she cares #I’ve also spoken to principals and school officials that do care and care a lot #I’ve had difficult conversations with many of them because they fight for their students but my hands are tied #it’s important that she shows tinn that she loves and supports him even if he dates a boy #but the importance of her loudly supporting them in her position cannot be overstated #more kids than just tinn are going to hear that #and they’re going to know that the highest authority in the school is safe #anyway I just had to geek out over the one administrator in all of the shows I watch that is good at their job #i really like administration okay