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I fully agree with you that Taylor can’t control her fans and I feel she shouldn’t have to censor herself bc some fans are unhinged and unwell and will use her words as a weapon against the people they/Taylor dislikes. It’s not fair to her to put that pressure and expectation on her, because there’s not a lot she can do to stop it. She can say “hey stop attacking my exes” but that won’t matter. She did pretty much say that on tour before singing Dear John and people just doubled down with it instead.

But at the same time it’s so conflicting bc I don’t doubt that she KNOWS the lengths her fans go to to “defend” or “protect” her. She sees what we do and say and how we behave. She knows her fans will take her words at face value and react how they see fit, and often times that involves hating on her exes. So I’m like…

No, I don’t want to censor Taylor, that’s unfair to her. She deserves to speak her truths. But I also just wish she wouldn’t say things, or phrase things in certain ways, that will send out the dragons. I want her to speak for herself and speak freely, but I also want there to be peace and freedom for the people like Joe, who face collateral damage yet truly did nothing wrong. It’s all very complicated.

Yeah, that's very well put, anon! Thank you for sending this!

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(this is a response to that reblog and not about what you said)

Yeah, I’m sorry. We’re not putting the reaction to what she has to say about Joe on Joe fans. That is a Swiftie created mess.

What I mostly see are Joe fans reacting to what is being said knowing how her fans are going to react or how they have reacted. Taylor can say what she wants. I may find it immature and I side-eye the hell out of her for re-writing history and some of her quotes and comments, but I wouldn’t have a problem with her words if it wasn’t a known fact what her fans have done and will continue to do to someone who has kept their mouth shut.

IMO, she has a certain amount of responsibility to understand that her words and actions are going to be interpreted in a certain way by her massive fanbase (and this is not just a breakup with Joe issue, this is a every issue that Taylor has ever had issue) and yet she knowingly continues on. She’s not dumb. We all know that if this was Joe saying these same things, both Taylor and her fans would be out for blood. So for some Swifties to be going on about how Joe fans don’t understand her and how she processes things and it’s not about Joe - I think we get her loud and clear and we don’t like what that means. But who cares, right? Nobody cares about that ugly unemployed actor who only got jobs because of her and made her live in the basement and made her miserable. His fans are just overreacting to how she processes (while he receives death threats and worry about what this means for him)!

Yeah... as I said, my problems with the article have NOTHING to do with Joe.

It's normal to feel like you wasted your time after a relationship ends! It may not be true, but she's entitled to that feeling!

It's normal to change your mind about the level of privacy you wanna have!

It's normal to want to talk about those things!

It's all very normal!

What's not normal, on the other hand, is fans' reaction to her words.

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the fact that in 2021, Joe was away in Ireland for months. Ms. Swift decided she wanted to go too, and I'm sure he's very sorry he didn't take the key to their house with her "hiding" inside so she would stay away from him. He was away a lot in 2022 as well. Looking back, when Joe would spend all that time away working and promoting through the years, why didn't she go on her "adventures"? I smell a big fat lie here. Something doesn't add up T Swift.

Thanks for pointing this out. She was so obsessed with Joe that she couldn’t even stay 3 months away from him, she took her jet and followed him to his work. She rerecorded the whole red tv in belfast during cwf shoot, she even moved her studio there because SHE wanted to be with Joe. Sometimes I wonder how suffocating it must've been for him, to have her follow him everywhere and not give him any space even for his creative work. Not only cwf belfast, she also went to Croatia and Panama when he was filming other stuff. Like girl let him breathe...he is not going anywhere. She knows this very well btw "I never leave well enough alone//for never leaving well enough alone"

That being on the other side, Taylor also moved to London so she could be with Joe all the time, she was all loved up with him in her rented apartment and she was also sightseeing in London, just in an incognito way. Even in miss americana documentary she said while she was out of the public eye, she was having the best time of her life. In her own words, "It was happiness without anyone else's input, it’s just that we were happy" but now she's gonna act like the phone call drama made her hide in a rented apartment in a foreign country and switch the narrative of how she's been locked up and bullshit, like sorry girl you don’t fool us anymore....

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Imagine your ex describing the entirety of your relationship as years they'll never get back in a journal article celebrating them as the person of the year

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So there has been some recent pushback around certain things in the tentative SAG agreement regarding the use of AI not completely protecting the interests of performers and a few aspects where the agreement creates a conflict of interest for SAG and gives them the power they were trying to prevent the AMPTP from holding over its members

I don't think this will be over until it's amended....

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I, STRAHD, by P.N. Elrod

[intro post]

rubs my horrible little goblin hands together hello yes it is time

IT IS HALLOWEEN AND IT IS TIME

this book is, unironically, the best thing i’ve ever read. almost nothing in it was new information to me, bc i was halfway through a CoS campaign at the time, and also Vampire of the Mists gives a pretty comprehensive cliffnotes version

but the important thing is, imo, knowing whats going to happen did not decrease my enjoyment of it one bit. this aint Game of Thrones dear reader! mind-bending twists are not what this book leans on!

there are some significant differences from the (much shorter) account in Vampire of the Mists, but honestly those i can chalk up to Strahd straight up lying in his diary

because yes, this entire book is Strahd’s fuckign diary, and its beautiful

Keep reading

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How sharing bed with gojo satoru feels like

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Everyone gives Sherlock Holmes a hard time about being mean about Watson's writing, but honestly imagine you told your roommate "sure, you can write up an account of my work for the newspaper," thinking it would be like, about the murder, but then he publishes it and it's 90% about you, as a person, and it's a huge hit and now everyone in London knows that you hoard newspapers and do cocoaine when you're depressed. Because I think you'd be little miffed too.

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Thanks i really neede this....hope you're doing well too

Yeesh looks like im not the only one whose been having it rough this past few weeks(last week for me specifically was pretty rough) but Ive been feeling better!

With that said I just wanted to encourage whoever is reading this that I hope it gets better for you soon, It’s hard right now but I really do hope things get better for everyone and that everyone gets through whatever their going through! You can get through this and I wish everyone a speedy recovery/hope you get a break soon <3

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Catslug’s Sanity System 🧠

Because the D&D madness system in the DMG sucks ass, I have made a custom sanity system for Ravenloft and other more horror based settings. The system below is a Frankensteinian abomination made from the Call of Cthulhu 7th edition Sanity system, the Ravenloft 2e Fear, Madness, and Horror system, and the Bloodborne Insight mechanic- all of which have been packaged into a 5e compatible framework. I personally use these mechanics in my Ravenloft/CoS games. System complete with roll 20 macro codes for automation.

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Catslug’s Sanity System 🧠

Because the D&D madness system in the DMG sucks ass, I have made a custom sanity system for Ravenloft and other more horror based settings. The system below is a Frankensteinian abomination made from the Call of Cthulhu 7th edition Sanity system, the Ravenloft 2e Fear, Madness, and Horror system, and the Bloodborne Insight mechanic- all of which have been packaged into a 5e compatible framework. I personally use these mechanics in my Ravenloft/CoS games. System complete with roll 20 macro codes for automation.

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I genuinely think William’s real name is actually still William, just with a different surname.

Hear me out.

#1 — irony.

Remember the omake where Bonde asks him and he’s got his ☺️ face ‘that’s a secret, heh heh heh.’

Lol William is the biggest mischievous jokester going. This would be his exact reaction if people were asking like 👀 omg what is it?? And all along he’s like, lol will.i.am guys, chill. No-one cares about your first name, it’s your surname which means anything around here. You’ve all been barking up the wrong tree. Which brings me on to my second point ~

#2 — symbolism.

I cannot scream enough about how bloody genius it would be for William’s name to be, in fact, just William, but with a more common surname like ‘Smith.’ For the purposes of this discussion, let’s call him William Smith. As an orphan, he gets adopted into the family Moriarty, where there is in fact another William: Master William James Moriarty. Immediately, you have two boys of similar ages with the exact same first names, highlighting how, in fact, they should be equal if we’re looking at their basic information and identifiers. But what is it which sets them apart, and is the very message and theme running through the heart of Yuumori? Class inequality. And what dictated your social class at the time, so very unfairly? Your family lineage.

The name of Moriarty is what gives Albert’s little brother his superior, privileged position in life, over William ‘Smith.’ And yet, they are both young boys, both Williams, both should have the same sort of start in life in the equal world our William wishes to create. But they do not; the moment they are given their surnames — the moment those are penned on the paper of their birth records following ‘William’, the chasm that divides these boys is immense and unfair.

#3 — interesting coincidences, hints and clues in the text.

• William loves Shakespeare — that’s part of his identity in the same way being a mathematician is. He quotes Shakespeare all the time, he grew up in a library and has all of the plays memorised. Shakespeare’s first name was also William. Additionally, Shakespeare’s birthday is believed to be April 23rd. William’s birthday is listed as April 1st — April Fool’s Day, and it has been confirmed that this is a fake birthday, so we don’t know his real one currently. (But my guess is it’s still in April).

• The Moriarty’s never call William by his name, pre-fire, but the children at his orphanage do, and they call him Will.

At the Moriarty house, he is on the receiving end of more hate than Louis; they seem to despise him to the nth degree. I wonder if this might be because he shares a name with their precious William, and this irks them. They refuse to call him by his name because that doesn’t belong to him, filth from the streets, it belongs to their beloved son who can do no wrong.

I can see a mother like Lady Moriarty refusing to call another boy by the name she gifted her son, especially when William reminds her that there is something she had in common with his own mother — someone who she would view as completely beneath her: they chose the same name. What a disgrace, to be associated or viewed as having a similar mind to a woman of such low standing!?

We also see William only ever call William Moriarty with the title ‘master’ in front, as though he also feels the need to make the distinction. This could just be because he’s trying to be polite, though. I could honestly dissect the entire first chapter panel by panel and highlight how William being William is such a simple but perfect concept which highlights this noble family’s insecurities, discrimination and narrow mindedness. William Moriarty feels the need to constantly reaffirm his own identity in the presence of our William.

Because … if they share full names now, with the adoption … the lines are blurring. What makes one William Moriarty superior to the other? A worrying thought indeed for this boy. (Answer: there is no difference, they’re both equally deserving of opportunities in life.)

It all makes such perfect sense and explains away the awkwardness of the writer having to avoid use of William’s name simply because ‘it needs to stay hidden to create the mystery.’ This gives the characters themselves reason within the text to avoid using it, which makes everything so much more authentic and real. It makes sense because it does, not because it has to for the plot.

• William promised not to steal anything. Twice, we see him reassuring and then reaffirming that he wouldn’t steal anything, and both times are in the presence of William Moriarty.

If we want to take this statement in light of names, and toy with that lovely device foreshadowing, William having always shared the same first name would in fact mean that statement holds true — he did not steal William’s name; it was always his own to begin with, and Moriarty was a name given to him as part of his adoption, the same as it was given to Louis. He really didn’t steal anything, despite the fact that he was probably made to feel guilty or worthless every day because of the name he shared with William Moriarty.

This also means that William probably never actively deceived any of the townspeople, either; it really was just a case of mistaken identity which he manipulated for his own cause.

The townspeople made the mistake, rather than William outright lying. William is, by trade, more of a master manipulator who turns situations to his advantage with his quick thinking, rather than straight up lying or deceiving people (see: The Merchant of London.)

• Sherlock saw his birth name but never mentions it. And still chooses to call him Liam. Yes, we might’ve had a conversation happen off screen. Yes, Sherlock might choose to do that because that name is sentimental and William has asked not to be called his true name for reasons unknown. But it would fit so beautifully if William really is his name, and Sherlock’s realisation that day when he read the birth records was that oh, so this — William ‘Smith’ — is Liam’s real name. Naturally, he would continue to call him Liam with no discussion needed, because it’s a shortened version of William.

• We have lots of characters who share the name William, but with different variations on the shortened version; another symbol of how people can be equal in some senses but also their identity can be individual to them also. William H Bonney is Billy the Kid, the mathematics genius William and Sherlock stumble upon in Durham is called Bill Hunt.

#4 — practicality and marketing.

People become attached to characters and their names, and there comes a certain point in a work where it’s very difficult to alter a character’s first name and still retain a fan base’s sense of identity for that character. Calling William say, Robert, from now on, or revealing that as his true name while we continue to see him referred to as William is all sorts of confusing, emotionally. Perhaps it’s just me. But the idea that I’ve been calling William the wrong name all along feels off and sad, whereas the knowledge that he’s at least been able to keep that part of himself consistent, when everything else has had to be an act, is actually really comforting and empowering.

I’d love to write another thought dump on why William being William all along is also, so very emotionally delicious when you explore the implications in the story; it’s heartbreaking and makes him an even more sympathetic character who I just wanna hug, so perhaps I’ll come back to this! Because re-reading those earlier chapters with this in mind really hurts so good.

He stole nothing; he was always the true William, that at least is one thing that always belonged to him — it was only society and us that dictated there was one William worth knowing more — was more interesting and held more narrative power — than the other.

This is still William’s story.

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Chapters: 3/? Fandom: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru, Gojo Satoru & Nanami Kento Characters: Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru, Amanai Riko, Kuroi Misato Additional Tags: Day At The Beach, Beach Holidays, Skinny Dipping, Beach Volleyball, Canon Compliant, Star Plasma Vessel | Hidden Inventory Arc Spoilers (Jujutsu Kaisen), Star Plasma Vessel | Hidden Inventory Arc (Jujutsu Kaisen), those two days at the beach, Satoru and Suguru make the most of the time they have, And they believe they have all the time in the world, Soft Getou Suguru, Horny Teenagers, More like Horny Gojo Satoru, Light Angst, Fluff, Eventual Smut, Eventual Sex, Rough Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Virgin Gojo Satoru, Bottom Gojo Satoru, Top Getou Suguru, Light Dom/sub, If You Squint - Freeform, They are in love because I said so, I Wrote This While Listening to Cigarettes After Sex's Music, two days in Okinawa, Satoru Gojo is so Horny, Suguru Getou is a tease, Gojo Satoru looks back at his blue spring of youth, There is no angst in here of course no hahaha, Past Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru, Getou Suguru is Bad at Feelings, Pls read this its fun and sexy I promise, POV Gojo Satoru, Before Toji happened, Canon-Typical Angst, Love Confessions, Boys In Love, Summer Romance, Gojo recalls their trip to Okinawa, its like one long flashback, riko is their child because i said so, Banter, i made a playlist for this, Geto Suguru Smokes, Underage Smoking, they are stupid and in love, Rough Sex, Gojo Satoru likes it rough Summary:

"Him, and the summer sunlight by the ocean. In another life— in another time— it wasn’t just him then. That summer, in Okinawa. He wasn’t alone. In retrospect, there seemed to be far more people than he would have preferred. A smile curved his lips at this memory, thinking of everything he did that summer; and everything he could have done, but didn’t. He thought of long days spent lazing by the beach, of cold watermelon slices and warm fire pits, of sweet drinks and seafood. He thought of his youth, that summer. He was only seventeen. Life as he came to know it had not yet begun. At seventeen, awareness was confined to the moment sprawling ahead, a panorama within his cerulean gaze. He wasn’t aware, that summer, of the inscrutable undercurrent within his heart, dormant and waiting to ascend, like a blue phoenix at the peak of the sky. He was oblivious to what he felt, then, for him."

Gojo Satoru, on a vacation with his students reminisces about his time in Okinawa, that last summer of his youth, with his best friend, the only one he had.

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Satosugu are not "doomed by the narrative" these bitches doomed the fucking narrative

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Sick to my stomach

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This made me tear up

Some thoughts on what could have happened had Geto called Gojo or Shoko after finding Nanako and Mimiko