julibernardo

[julibernardo]

one thing that's so sexy about Spike's character is that he is so self-aware, about his feelings, motives and he's so unapologetic about it all, and as self-loathing as he can be at the same time, most of all he's so self-aware of what he's good at, knows Buffy comes back to him in season 6 because he knows he makes her feel good, knows he has nothing to be scared of when he realises Wood is trying to kill him despite his soul because he knows how strong he is and you can just so clearly see it even though he's never the one we know it from

[julibernardo]

"tumblr humor is only funny to tumblr users" NOT true. those bitches on pinterest love us.

[julibernardo]

[julibernardo]

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia + Memes

[julibernardo]

if I ever strike gold and end up writing a popular book series i'd love to keep an eye on the fandom to determine the smallest crackship and make that the only one that goes canon

[julibernardo]

[julibernardo]

honestly white feminists can whine all they want about Still Star Crossed, but the truth is that a dark skinned black woman being a heroine, a romantic love interest desired by two men, and a woman from an important family in 1300s Europe is freaking revolutionary. black women, especially dark skinned, never get to be the lovely heroine wearing beautiful dresses that everyone desperately falls in love with. interesting to see that period dramas and stuff à la Reign are suddenly not cool anymore when it’s filled with black and brown people lol

[julibernardo]

get to know me meme >> Favorite Friendships [38/?] Maya Hart & Zay Babineaux (Girl Meets World)

Do you remember when I first got here and everybody was washing the car? You sat next to me on that bucket, you talked to me, I talked back to you? Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember how you were very nice to me, but you didn't really know me, but you sat next to me and talked to me anyway? Yeah... Did - did I say something important? Didn't matter what you said. It was that you sat there next to me. That time I was feeling like an outsider. I remembered that. I appreciated that.

[julibernardo]

I'm writing this post because I don't want people in other countries to imagine an ever-present warzone when they think of Ukraine.

Think of your ordinary life. You go to work, go out with friends, build plans for a summer holiday. You have neighbours, maybe you don't know all of them well but they live next to you and you say hello when you see them. You live in a good apartment, with all amenities, modern appliances and stylish furniture. You pay bills for heating, water and electricity. Maybe you're renting out or it's your own place. You are a part of a globalized world although you don't think about it on such a scale.

And then one day there are explosions in your city. At first it seems shocking and unusual. But you hope it'll end soon. But they don't stop. They become more frequent. You witness your hometown get demolished. The places where you spent your free time or ran errands - the windows get shattered and the walls begin to crumble. It looks weird in the middle of a modern city.

Soon the explosions happen so often that you have to go and live in the basement. You, a person, who has a modern home, must move to a basement, with other people like you, where you don't get enough light or fresh air, let alone enough tap water or a decent place to sleep.

And then you witness death. In fact, many deaths, not just one. You get the news of people you knew, maybe your neighbours or relatives, getting killed. They are just gone. At some point you become so desensitized, the news of a dead body lying outside doesn't shock you. Sometimes you have to go outside and help other people dig out the bodies from under debris or bury them. Sometimes you see other apartments being on fire and you can't do anything. Nobody can and there's no point.

The shops are closed and you become so desparate that you start hunting pigeons for food. You share tiny portions with other people because, even though the conditions are terrible, you remain a human.

You lose everything that you owned and cherished. And it all happens in three months. You basically lose any sense of belonging to a modern society in three fucking months. That's what happened in Mariupol. When you see the photos and videos of people in dirty ragged clothes, looking like they came straight from the middle ages, in front of a ruined street - it's easy to think of them only like this. But they never lived like that before. They lived just like you. They had everything you had - TVs, computers, cars, internet, medical care, shops with stylish clothes. And then just in three months russia made them turn into dejected shadows of themselves who forgot what normal life feels like. That's a real tragedy and that's what russians have done and are still doing to us. They are ruining our normal life which isn't much different from your normal life.

[julibernardo]

russians bombed a train odesa-dnipro today (it was in dnipro), as well as civilian infrastructure is dnipro and samar cities, killing dozens and injuring hundreds. if you saw it anywhere in the news it means someone is still doing their job

[julibernardo]

Jude: And thus, by slowly taking larger and larger amounts of these small doses, our bodies will become used to the poisons, eventually making us immune to even lethal amounts.

Cardan: I thought we were just doing drugs together.

[julibernardo]

Jude and Cardan 🥀

[julibernardo]

22nd June 2024: the Osnovyansky district of the Kharkiv, Ukraine after the bombing of a 5-storey residential building, a private house, five non-residential buildings, 16 shopping pavilions, 25 vehicles, 1 trolleybus, 2 pharmacies, and a car dealership. X

[julibernardo]

travelling when russia is your neighbour

[julibernardo]

So many reports of injuries after russia launched ballistic missiles at Dnipro city, damaging dormitory, school, administration building and passenger train 💔

[julibernardo]

Crimson Peak (2015) dir.: Guillermo del Toro

[julibernardo]

The thing I noticed a lot of people from non-postsoviet countries don't understand and frankly don't care about is the importance of NOT calling the Soviet Union just Russia and soviet citizens just russians. Because it wasn't just Russia, it was a multicultural state with lots of nationalities in it and after the collapse of the USSR they all finally gained independence. It was not just russians who fought Nazis in the WW2, it was not Russia that were destroyed and exploited by them the most.

You don't call the whole European Union just Germany or France or whatever because it's not, it's a union (that also acts like a union and not like a totalitarian regime that suppresses all the national identities and forces on everyone just one specific identity that it deems to be superior).

By calling USSR Russia people enable and support russian narrative of all the countries that were a part of the Soviet Union being also a part of Russia. Which is not fucking true and is actually the driving force behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

So please be mindful of what you say.