#Nobody wants peace

[godisarepublican]

Does anyone REALLY believe that the Ukraine wants peace? Well. Try this one on for size:

One of Zelensky's conditions for peace is that Russia's leadership agrees to stand trial for war crimes.

There can be no peace until Putin surrenders to Zelensky to stand trial, according to Zelensky.

That's among the conditions that Zelensky requires before he'll accept peace. And Joe Biden is paying for this guy to launch terrorism at Russia, risking nuclear war... because he's so reasonable, one presumes.

[somewhereincairparavel]

Literally where do people get the idea that Jason was full of himself and that he thought he was better than Percy? This is legit brought up in so many 'why-i-hate-jason-grace" arguments it just screams lack of reading comprehension and obvious Percy bias saltiness. Like just say you are bitter that Jason is written as percy's equal and that you want Percy to have nobody rival him 💀

Never once in his povs did he ever think about how much better he was, on the contrary it's just him not feeling good enough about himself. He and Percy NEVER said anything bad about eachother.

His and Percy's rival is just a joke between two powerful demigods who have rival dads, that's literally it. Even if Jason did indeed think he's better, so what about it? What's the big deal?

he has worked hard and accomplished great things, so he has like, every right to be confident in his power, stop acting like hes all weak and inferior when he canonically killed a titan with like his bare fucking hands till the point Krios swore vengeance on him. No he's not "weak" or morally inferior to Percy as a person. You are merely trying to cope. Not to mention the way people judge a character's worth SOLEY based on their abilities is a huge red flag in itself, but that's a discussion for another time.

he shouldve canonically had more achievments and power than he originally got in the books as a son of jupiter. but rick made Percy too OP and fumbled jason for the sake of keeping percy's spotlight intact. Has it ever dawned on people that Percy is shown to have cool abilities like bending tears but Jason is never shown to have abilities like controlling lungs? Yeah, that's authors privilege for ya.

Y'all put Percy in an obnoxiously high pedestal and that's not a good thing. It diminishes his flaws and makes him appear so saint like and Gary Stu even though he's not. the fact that ppl get so sensitive over their rivalry and try to belittle jason by making up scenarios (like claiming jason thinks he's superior and shit) and go around saying that to ppl to reduce his value DESPITE being well aware that he has like enough hate already, is so insanely petty. BOTH Jason and Percy deserve equal amounts of respect.

God forbid a teenage boy say he's better than the other as a joke, he's such a terrible, stuck up, and shitty person who deserved death for that, isn't he?

[mikakuna]

why do anti-jason fans always have an opinion on his characterization and how we write him in fanfic as if they've read anything beyond comics where his character is completely assassinated and written by individuals who despise him?

"you're not actually a jason fan if you remove everything that he's done in canon"

answer me truthfully: would you accept a comic as canon if it was written by someone who hates your favourite character? i'm not a tim fan so i'd mess up his entire storyline if i wrote a comic for him. would you read that and happily accept it as canon? because i assure you that i'd purposely mess his entire character up just because i dislike him. it would be full of bias because i don't understand his character as well as an actual tim fan does. would you still accept this comic as canon?

literally the majority of jason comics are written by people who don't like him and don't even know his source material. why shouldn't we nitpick what we wanna accept as canon??

[adamsrcnan]

i love abby to the moon and back and she is a rock but when she said "my foxes chose to fight back" a part of me broke same as jean because he DID !!! he tried !! he fought as long as he could at 14 until he became so conditioned and resigned to his fate. he has all the capability and instinct for it as well with the way he shoves jeremy away, he pushes coach lisinski into her car ! and he boots lucas in the chest like that boy is not to be messed with physically but the mental toll his abusers took on him was far too much at such a young impressionable age and it's fucking heartbreaking because he truly believes he deserves it and he knows that's wrong and he shouldn't but it's his only way of surviving it with the "i know my place. i will endure" mantra. and you can see the pain and anger in him when people think he just lay down and accepted it from the jump but he can't do anything about it because it's a warzone inside his head and nobody will ever truly understand

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[sandreeen]

Tumblr April Fools Boop with Sung Hyunjae & Han Yoojin, inspired by @transsongtaewon's post

[carrot-felisidad]

Why I prefer my pookie as bottom?

(answering the question you never asked)

Because FANFICTION or even ORIGINAL WORKS in general are usually bottom-centric. If Jiang Cheng is the bottom in a fic, there will be detailed idealization of his pain and suffering and as a bottom, the story will promise him a gentle care and acknowledgement of a Top (aka Lan Xichen), which will nourish me as a reader of course. I will always prefer a pookie-centric fic, sorry I don't make the rules. Lan Xichen also has his own pain, (dare I say he got one of the most tragic ending in canon), but he's not my pookie, so... Sorry man. I can't ship Jiang Cheng with Nie Huaisang because NHS is also my pookie and if they're in a fic together I will combust.

And that's why I ship XiCheng and not SangCheng. I have no care of the canon and the chemistry, I just want the purple man to bottom.

Thank you for reading my important feature essay.

[pureseasalt]

family...we have truly gotten out of the trenches....

[therighthandofvengeance]

Ivanova: What the hell are you doing at my quarters at 0300?

Garibaldi: I was stress-baking, and then I remembered that you were probably stressed, too. Then I was thinking about you, so I was thinking about Russia, and therefore its history. Russian history obviously contains the November Revolution, so I was thinking about Lenin and “peace, land, bread.” I figured the military life won't offer you peace, and it’s highly unlikely you'll be given land all your own. But I could give you bread. Because we're friends, or comrades, or whatever.

Ivanova: This couldn’t’ve waited another few hours?

Garibaldi: The bread's fresh.

Ivanova: Understandable, thank you.

[2nd-mushroom-circle]

as an antizionist jew, it really fucking sucks that every time i see a post about antisemitism i have to scour it to see if it implies or could be interpreted to imply that antizionism is antisemitism. what’s even worse is that it does and it can, every time! it’s gotten to the point where i avoid any discussion of antisemitism at all, because im worried to add any fuel onto that fire.

and it really sucks because it does seem like antisemitism is on the rise! but i can’t fucking tell because all you’ll talk about is a fucking human rights movement that is frequently spearheaded by jewish organizations! get it together!

[childrenofthesun77]

I'm fully aware that it's probably not an issue in their eyes since mikuni has so little expectation of others that he does all the important tasks himself and that lily's way of thinking was probably strongly influenced by the time he grew up in (we can assume 17/18th century france under absolute rule), but you would think with so many people, who in a lot of cases used to be enemies, working together to try and stop them that maybe, just maybe, one could start to think mikuni is not suited to be the leader of a peaceful new world.

Even an absolute ruler is no king without his people and mikuni is exceptionally bad at making true allies. Even most of the ones he does have don't like or trust him (Johan, jeje, tsubaki). Does lily not remember that the people of france eventually hated their kings so much that they had one beheaded?

[nuuralshams]

feeling extremely at peace and content and yet there’s a gaping hole in my chest that yearns for a lover (affection starved for five years now)

[wintertundra-art]

"Why don't you come visit more often?"

Bro you literally told me go make children or at least get a partner because otherwise I'll die alone?? Like it's not my fault nobody wants me bro??? Bro I don't even want to be alive in the first place why do you have to make it worse 😭😭😭

[morangoowada]

I already stated before on my intro post, but I will say it again in case people haven't seen that

Please do put trigger warnings in case you post anything related to suicide, as I feel deeply affected when I see stuff about it

That's it, thank you

[thehappiestgolucky]

Day 2! Instincts go BRRRRR

Hollow is a gentle giant, truly, but that doesn’t mean they won’t start glaring at anyone who negatively affect their natural instincts to protect their smaller siblings

[bwaldorf]

also alicole's self-flagellation as foreplay (born out of their guilt & seeing their own desire as sinful) was such a crazy fun concept i ate it up sorryyyyy 🫣