“I used to be a little boy…so old in my shoes….”
“The bitterness of one who's left alone….ooh, the years burn…” (“Disarm” by The Smashing Pumpkins)
My bestie Miri surprised me today with this beautiful drawing of Severus, who’s gifting his mother some flowers for Mother’s Day (which takes place today in Germany). She knows, that I have an immense soft spot for Sevy in his younger years. He triggers my inner “overprotective goddess of revenge”, who wants to save this boy from harm at any costs.
Thinking about Severus and his hardships of his childhood and teenage years, makes me realise, how much I miss my job since I’m struggling with ME/CFS. I’m a pedagogue, who used to work as a social worker at the government office for youth welfare…and damn, I’ve seen a lot of terrible things. And yet, I still miss my professional self…with all my duties and responsibilities.
I hope, that one day, I’ll be able to look into the mirror and see this woman again….the intelligent, interesting and caring person, who I’ve been before this disease made me become nothing else but this shadow of myself.
Thank you so much for this amazing artwork, my sweet friend! 🖤🥹
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Can't wait to go check on the bar later tho. Maybe make some drinks who knows
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“Well? Don’t you want to save your friends?”
Iconic moment with Iguin and Coco 🪄 So excited to see how that storyline goes
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i feel like. if i continue school(college). rn. i will probably kill myself. but. if i dont continue school(college). my parents will kill me. so i guess im just going to kill myself
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I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.
it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"
plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.
anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.
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finding out how many minutes of music people listen to in a year is so interesting especially as someone whose stats are comparatively low. how do you 60k minutes per year people focus on anything. that’s a skill you should put on your resume
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