#to ensure people see it

[elizabro]

please consider how you engage with aaron bushnell's death. you may react to it as you will, but it's crucial to remember that his death was specifically a call to action. it was not meant solely to shock but to draw attention to a vast moral hypocrisy: that to many, a soldier dying in a campaign backed by the U.S. government is noble, even if the soldier kills innocents to do so, even if the cause is morally bankrupt--but this? this is insanity. a man taking his own life, on his own terms, in an attempt to help others while hurting nobody else, is somehow less rational and more horrifying than the mass killing of civilians.

of course aaron's death was horrific. but as he said beforehand, it is realistically no more horrific than what's happening in gaza. if we can't stomach this, then why can we stomach children being bombed? thousands being starved? for all that self immolation is, it brings death in a matter of minutes. it is a fraction of the amount of pain, fear, and grief that people in gaza are experiencing. it's just that we are able to quantify it. and this tiny, quantifiable sliver of horror is still so unbelievably awful. how can anyone bear to think about anything else when this horror is happening a millionfold in palestine? this is the question aaron bushnell was asking. and he wanted you to face it, head-on, watching him burn to death.

I've been seeing people make fanart. minimalist graphics to sell on t-shirts. to commodify his death, to mythologize it not a day afterwards, is not only in poor taste but a hindrance to his message. the answer is not commodification, nor is it defeatism, nor is it rejoicing in his death. if you want to honor aaron's legacy, take action. channel your horror and your outrage into making a material change. this wasn't about him. this was about palestine. remember that it was always about palestine.

#aaron bushnell #I didn't want to make another post about this but #watching that video changed me irrevocably. #there have been many instances during this genocide that I've felt that way. and today is another one of those days. #I have been radicalized permanently by these events. #people speak to aaron's death as a result of hopelessness #but I see it as him having profound hope. he had hope that his death would change things. #and it is up to those still alive to ensure that happens. #free palestine

[kagoutiss]

pelican town, ‘72

#stardew valley #stardew valley spoilers #sdv #sdv spoilers #grandpa #mister qi #mr. qi #idk how dates work in stardew universe im just bullshittin #i love qi’s huge fucking eyebrows you dont notice them at first but theyre there #(gives our collective grandpa a ponytail) i think he had one. whatever #’why isnt mister qi blue’ my hc is he is blue from long-term iridium supplementation #and was originally just a regular person #but also it’s nice to see ur fav be like a normal human color #if u read tag essays tho consider this: #qi discovers secret to immortality (consuming iridium in a specific manner) #wants to share discovery with his farmer (player’s grandpa) and in that way. they will have all the time in the world to build #a perfect farming/business empire whose legacy will last forever and ever and theyll be 2gether forever #but it turns out. like a lot of normal people would. his farmer does not want to live forever #and obv he doesn’t #in an attempt to try not to ever lose the thing that means more to him than anything else in the world. qi inadvertantly ensures he will #because his farmer is dead. and he’s going to live forever #but. it’s kind of ok. because he has infinite money and was able to figure out how to talk to his dead bf #and now YOU help them fulfill their joint goal of making the farm’s legacy last forever #smile. heart #sobbing

[nightgoodomens]

Thank you, Georgia.

So Michael Sheen and David Tennant are confirmed boyfriends now.

I’m totally chill about this.

#I DIDNT SEE THIS I ONLY SAW THE PICTURE #FUUUUUUUCK #michael sheen #David Tennant #michael x David #it is the fact that it is boyfriends not a joking wife as before #and the fact that she put him on the same level as Anna just to ensure people grasp the concept #it’s not a joke #NightGoodOmens talks Michael and David

[treasureplcnet]

also quite obsessed with karl being as detached from the story as he is. there's nothing that makes him have to be the detective that has to be involved, but he unknowingly dooms himself by agreeing to work with the KYAL cult. every other detective basically deals with elias head on except weissman, who only meets him right before he kills him. like he's right when he says "by my choices" because everything that leads him to being mixed up with the mannix cult is himself. it's the gambling debts and the choice to do the dirty work for an organisation he knows nothing about. he's the only one that doesn't encounter that body doing police work and it's specifically because he's told to cover it up. he gets himself into the mess and eventually fixes it but the fact that esther always dies in the doomed timelines and he's always too late even if he starts wanting to change things ("till this child. esther.") it just makes me very ill

#sorry jane who heard this on her dms but now im posting it to tumblr cause im having a category 5 woman moment. AND ALTERNATIVELY: #i am also EXTREMELY obsessed with how its a time loop and the idea (so sorry tumblr user whose post i have lost and was inspired by) #weissman was just so fucking hard to deal with that they made sure that he was in their pockets. i just like the idea of the loop-- #--having like. fixed points that elias would need to ensure the dystopia (body is covered up/the investigation closes/etc) but #how they get there is a slightly slower process and the earliest loops were the messiest/most unpredictable #and what we see in the show itself is like. the most streamlined version over hundreds of loops and attempts #so karl specifically. lonely that he is and determined to survive. AND with a cruel streak against people he doesn't like #kept nearly blowing their operation so they began to incorporate him in it instead #there's also another tragedy in there if /esther/ is what they realise works best against him.. #just love and kindness for a girl that weissman comes to see as family and they immediately exploit it after learning during an early loop #im ignoring specific plot points here (polly seemingly panicking when esther shows up at the station) but I DO NOT CARE. #THERE'S ANGST HAPPENING RN. IM CREATING SCENARIOS TO HURT ME #now if i could write coherently this would be written as a fic but im stuck writing too long textposts #karl weissman #bodies 2023 #bodies netflix #sorry to the other detectives. weissman in particular is my babygirl who i devote most of my brainpower to #personal

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

you are pitting Jesus and Santa Claus against each other. I am acknowledging Santa as both a mythic symbol of Christ and a cultural legend based upon a real man whose faithfulness to Christ was used by God to grant common grace not just to the people of Myra but throughout the entire world. we are not the same.

#- HK #I know anti-Santa people who are not smug but the anti-Santa influencers are getting smugger and smugger each year #my generation was not raised to cope with loss of childhood #pro-tip: it comes back when you have your own children #I know because I get a taste of it whenever I visit my friends’ kids #mobile #x #Christmas #Christianity #history #mythology #let kids believe in magic again #you know what believing in magic did for me? trained my heart to recognize the wondrous when I see it #trained me to accept that I don’t and can’t know everything #trained me to live by the faith of adherence when i cannot enjoy the faith of assurance (Matthew Henry) #I was the only person in any of my friend groups who ever believed in Santa #and you know why I didn’t feel betrayed to find out I’d misplaced my belief? because Santa is real. #someone moves even terrible parents to give good gifts to their children on the same holy day every year #someone moves the imagination to ensure that the darkest week of the year will produce the most ethereal lights #someone moves the ancient and forgotten back into our conscious present minds #and if you’re wondering whether I’m talking about Jesus or Santa that’s a GOOD thing! #that’s the whole point! #the Santa mythos *impacts* people all over the world. and that is an act of Providence whether you believe in God or not

[lakesbian]

Thinking once again about how much the contemporary response to Brian, which has only gradually been fading if it even is fading, was racism ("I do not want this young black man in the story") masquerading as 2010s geek feminism ("I do not care about this male character"). Another blast from the SpaceBattles past that people getting into the fandom now might not have picked up on: while some of the Worm fandom's f/f focus is a consequence of Wildbow's own focus on female characters, and some of it is a result of the large portion of the fandom that is lesbian, a very large proportion of it is het male fans who don't want a male love interest character to make them feel insecure in their sexuality/insecure in their masculinity/"cucked"/etc. It is not hard at all to see why Brian gets hit especially hard by this process. I enjoy a lot of Taylor f/f ships but I cringe so fucking hard every time I see someone shit on Brian to prop them up, label the plotline comphet, etc, because, like, if you actually put some thought into it I don't think you'd like where those ideas are coming from

yeah

#ask #you guys gotta start making these Posts. this is just a say not an ask. you are functionally only ensuring less people see the post! #wormblr #parahumans

[perfectlyvalid49]

So is your position that Palestinian death and suffering is fake, or deserved/their own fault, or a regrettable necessity for securing Israeli safety? Or some combination of the three?

Oh man, this is a really weird ask to get out of nowhere on a blog that posts about Jewish stuff a lot.

Hang on, weird wasn’t the word I was looking for. What is it, it’s right on the tip of my tongue…

Antisemitic! That’s it. This is a really antisemitic ask to send to a Jewish blog. It is antisemitic to ask a Jew to give/defend their opinion on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict out of nowhere with no other context. If you want to have a conversation, that’s fine, but an anonymous ask out of nowhere is not how you start one in good faith.

Given that the ask is antisemitic, I refuse to answer. I’ve been posting on this blog about the conflict A LOT over the last five months. If you really want my opinion, read through and figure it out for yourself. I’ll give you a start, here’s what I said as soon as I could form words after the attack. If you’re in a rush, I’d recommend the 5th paragraph down.

And Anon? Go fuck yourself.

#asks and answers #antisemitism #asks like these tell me that something I've said has made it to the people that really need to be seeing it #not that they'll actually take anything away from it #but at least they saw it #what did they think I was going to say? #those filthy inhuman Palestinians are getting what they deserve and Israel should do more to ensure they are well and truly wiped out! #I enjoy seeing dead civilians! #look at the mean old nasty Jew that deserves the hate that she's getting #get bent

[fluorescentbrains]

gamer dudes DON’T understand shadowheart and it’s ANNOYING…. I’ve seen so many comments acting surprised that shadowheart is down with polyamory and excited to have a four-way, calling it out of character. My man that simply is her character. sorry you projected some vanilla fantasy of innocence onto her but she’s a freak and always has been. do you think they’re doing missionary in the shar cloister?

#maybe if you submitted to abdirak in act 1 with her in the party you would get it #brains liveblogs bg3 #gawd it annoys me. they really did the most to ensure you understand shadowheart is bisexual and kinky but people still see waifu

[leo-kinnie]

Kiiinda unhappy w the fact that a mutual made a post essentially saying “if you support / interact with this proship neutral dont interact with me + DONT harass the account i mentioned” and then immediately got condescending/manipulative replies, asks, and Extreme dogpiling by the accounts friends/affiliates to the point of having to leave their account.

Personally I think if you can’t handle other people saying what you are, you maaybe should rethink identifying with that label.

#miscellaneous post #i dunno. proship people have this tendency to say their proship and then #get VERY MAD when antis say ‘’that person is proship dni with me if u support them’’ #we’re all pro safe spaces until… someone ensures their safe space ? #idk just confusing #its also really gross to see such a large number of harrassment heading their way when the og post clearly #stated not to attack the proship account? like ok … but the antis are the bad guys. right #IDK GUYS. im not very happy with the community rottmnt has established #on twt it was miserable and on tumblr it seems equally as miserable if you dont pick the path of least resistance #SANDRO WOULD BE UNHAPPY WITH THEM PEOPLE IS ALL IM SAYIN 🫵 #the mutual wasnt even a big account ???

[nozomijoestar]

Asuka is a tragic figure, a figure of mystery, a wild card, all because the only thing she wants in life is peace and quiet for herself and to feel in control- yet her secret heritage that may be hidden from her for her own protection and the reality that life is unpredictable and will go on with or without you keep ruining that delusion, that vision of how the world is meant to work to her, and she suffers regardless of what she wants, what she does, and how little she understands anything

She was born into a family preaching peace and balance and order while being a creature of violence, and puts a dozen mental locks and excuses over this truth to justify giving into her impulse for fighting by pretending she's justice when she does it

She keeps trying to build a place of safety but she's using sand and life is a wave that destroys, yet she stubbornly persists rather than give up, not drowned to the point of self centered suicidal loathing like Jin- there's contrast, where Jin is cloaked in death Asuka stubbornly clings to life and humanity as a normal person in a terrifying world

She's not a fucking narrative clone for Jun's own purpose, Asuka's purpose must be determined by Asuka herself

#tekken #Jin is born of two worlds Jun walks between two worlds Asuka is at the crossroads of two worlds #Jin is broken by it Jun traded part of her humanity to reconcile it and now Asuka has to accept it yet persist- she is always persisting #that's her strength that no matter what she's always still herself #'For being so very Y o u' as Lili told her bc she sees it #she's an interesting character BECAUSE she's not Jun and she's not Jin and she's not aligned with them entirely #stop waiting for her to be something she's not #also i think it's GOOD she doesn't know everything or everyone in her family bc that builds mystery and suspense #it gives everything a tension in the background for when the normalcy charade will be broken by the bigger family drama catching up w her #what's happening to the Mishimas should be something no one is dragged into yet the one family member who's the least connected #is going to run out of time at some point and get hit by that trauma anyway and she doesn't even Know it's coming for her eventually #isn't it fucked up. how everything catches up with you in the end #and you won't even understand it until it's too late ie. her involvement in T8 global war now #also a character that wants peace and order but actively pursues violence ensuring she will never truly have those things bc of her nature #AND she's already been traumatized by T5 Feng and T6 Jin that just makes her retreat to seeking comfort in detachment- in the familiar #which only prolongs her avoiding the world outside what she can control- and then Lili won't let her live in ignorance not to punish her #but bc she wants to help her bc the Mishimas have already put their claws in Lili- they won't catch Asuka off guard #what is it with people sanitizing the messiness and humanity characters represent in favor of 'If they just acted logically the way I want #then they'd solve the entire story 1 2 3 and we'll have everything wrapped up easy' THAT'S NOT A STORY THAT'S A MATH EQUATION #FEEL SOMETHING INSTEAD OF ALWAYS NEEDING TO SOUND SMART AND HAVE PERFECT ANSWERS YOU STUPID FUCKS #IN TRYING TO MAKE EVERYTHING HAVE A PERFECT SOLUTION YOU'VE LOST SIGHT OF WHAT'S IN THE TEXT #AND ALSO ASUKA BEING VIOLENT BUT STILL CARING ABOUT PEOPLE AND DOING GOOD DESPITE IT #and AsuLili is about two similar people who've been traumatized finding safety in each other once they put down the trauma responses #this is all in line with T8's tagline of Face Your Fate btw this is literally what was always coming finding you & you face it

[softerhaze]

ruthie’s last week of high school 😭 (♪)

#ts4 #*ts4gameplay #z #ruthie has another week as a teen but she'll be on summer break :/ #SO my honest review of hsy: a v cute concept but just too broken in ways that make it v obvious #the devs weren't really thinking about how it would integrate into saves or how people like....actually play the game #social bunny was fun at first but got repetitive FAST (and was broken) #and schools not ensuring that you see the same people every day is so??? you shouldn't need a mod for that #sneaking out was cool but needed mods to integrate with parenthood -_- #like the BASE of the pack is there but the execution just isn't and once again modders save the day thanks 4 reading #*ruthie #*sunday save #*sunday save gen 1

[johnmeowston]

top ten guys who would shatter if thrown at a wall number 1

#thinking abtpers ERMM sorry always think abt him late and then i get self concious. BUT i think #''yknow that life we lived is over. and when we were living it it didnt mean anything anyways'' < THAT. THAT MAKES ME THROW UP AND SOB #because it DID mean something to him!! it meant everything !! #it was the one thing that kept him going he was trapped w laius or wahteva #the idea that if there was even a SLIM chance of him escaping and meeting back up with coyot and things going back to the way they were. it #was worth it enough to endure torment and try to not go crazy < wanted 2 be somewhat normal when he caught up w coyot #even though it never did turn into a reality and instead he came across gunner #and it wasnt until after he had grown to love his new life and the people around him that he saw coyot again . circumstances aside he still #was so happy 2 see he was alive and well. was happy to see that coyot also lived with the people he loved and was doing alright for himself #and was in a better mental state and was well fed and ! #he loved coyot. im so emo over that. love was there but it saved nobody < shaking and crying and throwing up #and thats why i think him dying would be the best outcome 4 him tbh. having to kill your old family must be fucking devastating #and he only did it to ensure a false sense of safety. FML!! #txt

[ashenberry]

some of the stuff aa fans draw the line at is soooo. funny. “MvK may have killed a man because he got him a penalty on his record and he may have tampered with evidence and assaulted Maya and Phoenix and other in text crimes I’ll be real I forgot how the first game goes but I draw the line at implying he may have been a bad dad” as if miles and Franziska are normal well adjusted people

#you don’t get those perfection complexes by yourself!!! #second funniest is when implying Kristoph may have been a piece of shit #”he may have killed two people bc he couldn’t win a card game and forged evidence to ensure he beat his brother in trial just to later fram #it on another guy and he may have point blank accused Klavier of hysteria in court to discredit him but don’t you dare imply he wasn’t a #perfect brother” like cmooon #<admittedly these are rare for me to see people say this but a YouTube video who’s thumbnail implied that showed up in my YouTube recc

[wineonmytshirt]

hmmm unfollowing and blocking lots of people

#this is raw in the tags so if you're easily triggered by mental health stuff don't read it!!!!!!!!! #last night i reblogged one of those asylum posts before i was like wait that's fucked up and i deleted it and i feel really bad #like i've been to a mental health hospital a few times i know what it's like in there and how dehumanizing it can feel #i remember everything that happened. and the things i saw and the people i met there. the time i was threatened with sedation. #watching you take your meds and ensuring you swallow them because you can't be trusted #the hard beds and them opening your door every 15 minutes to make sure you aren't hurting yourself #taking my clothes off in front of people multiple times to prove i didn't have drugs and that my self harm scars had already been there #and i'm seeing lots more and other mental health/lobotomy/asylum 'memes' and jokes and it's.... it's really not okay guys #you have to think about how this might make someone else feel who has been through this shit #it's reality and it's not a meme #please be more careful #jen talking to herself #ttpd

[absurdumsid]

killer & ink call that ship name kink

#i actually prefer inker #emptyduo #if you will #sid rambles #honestly not even romantic more like “we are one and the same. we are hiding ourselves to ensure the people around us dont see how flawed we #+ are. despite our vulnerabilities being laid bare in front of them all. we are open books out on display but never read. #i know you are the same. i know we are mirrors of each other. i know this but i will never accept you much like how i cannot accept myself.

[stuckinapril]

I love the research lab I’m in 🧪🧸

#popped into lab for a couple hours today then spent the whole evening in my pi’s office studying #I’m talking until 10 pm #and as I was leaving I ran into like two people I knew #this was TEN PM. #i know everyone on the research floor #there are some people I’d rather never see but on the whole I love my beloved uni’s chem department #the lab I’m in is watching me grow up in real time #it’ll be sad when I leave for other prospects but for now I’m focused on doing chemistry and enjoying it #me and the phd student i shadow banter all the time #honestly I have a good relationship w everyone in that lab #i adore them all #so many professors I’m buying gifts for when I officially leave . i am so serious #i am so determined to make a splash in this lab & truly leave an impression on everyone w my contribution #the workaholism I inherited from my mother will ensure that #p