#and blah blah blah

[bubblergoespop]

once the first redacted 101 video drops, i’m gonna be bouncing off the walls.

like, yes please, tell me more about your silly little universe, sir :)

[lzkvii]

That's definitely a boy

[alphacrone]

is it weird that like. my main goal of this year is to improve my handwriting. in this digital age of ours

[asafeplaceforus112]

Not to be a kill joy for the "LOL James Somerton is cancelled" stuff

but like, don't be mean, just like, regardless of his shittiness, regardless of the loss of trust, there are millions of us and one of him, and regardless of his disrespectful actions, no person can prolly deal with this amount of negative attention without imploding in some way

so I just ask people to be constructive, just because he has chosen to not respect creators, does not mean that we have to be unneccessarily cruel

[sasudou]

[xovera-toz]

Would you look at that! I finally finished something.

Time to go into hibernation I guess.

[aseriesofunfortunatejan]

Making a sudden shift to hating on Eurovision and people who have enjoyed it brings nothing to the table and, rather, closes the door to newcomers potentially being receptive to your message.

On top of that, it is my personal opinion that we can bring about substantial change by being vocal about our enjoyment of the show - what we enjoy about it in comparison to what we don't, and why we want it to get its act together. It's likely that the people who are the most passionate about Eurovision will be the ones to bring the loudest concerns to the EBU, broadcasters, artists and their labels. It is people who love Eurovision who are looking up official accounts and tags and paying attention to whether Israel is participating. It is people who love Eurovision who are aware, months ahead of the finale, that something bad is going on.

Complaining that the show isn't that good or that important or worth watching does not bring anything to the table. It's a fine personal opinion to hold, but it shouldn't be presented as an example of the right "activist" path. It does not teach anything about boycotts, why exactly we are calling for boycott, or how to boycott.

You can only really boycott if you were a customer in the first place.

I have also seen reactions from people who probably discovered Eurovision recently and seemed appalled that Israel was ever included and even won "one time" (they won four times). I think that if we want things to change we need to understand the history of the contest, why Israel was included and what happened as a result. I think it's possible that someone who makes such comments doesn't realise how long Eurovision has been going, how much has happened within it, and as such is likely to see it as just another problematic and unimportant show.

Everything can be unimportant if you want to be nihilistic. Realistically, though, I personally want to argue that the symbolism of a scandal about Israel's participation is influential.

It's important to be aware of your priorities - which won't look the exact same depending on your living conditions, your geographical position, and such factors - and to focus on actions that can impact Palestine positively in a direct manner. It's happening now, so it's important not to let yourself be distracted. However, that doesn't mean that you have to ignore Eurovision, what it's doing, and its impact. Our actions and debates about Eurovision can have their place on our to-do lists if we think we can make use of its influence to spread an important message to a large audience.

When so many people are watching their TV and a YouTube stream at the same time, whatever they see will impact them. Your personal distaste for Eurovision or lack of interest in it does not change its viewership.

Si vous êtes fran��ais et vous lisez ce post, je me permets de vous recommander de faire part de votre déception à l'agence de Slimane, qui a été sélectionné pour représenter la France. Vous pouvez aussi contacter France Inter, car c'est la pression des pays participants qui a causé le retrait de la Russie du concours par le passé. Même s'il y a peu de chances que la France, qui fait partie du Big Five et qui est confiante en sa défense d'Israël, soit vraiment un des pays qui décide d'exercer une pression sur ce sujet, que des français aient exprimé leur désaccord a un impact. Votre voix, votre boycott, votre vote, a toujours un impact. C'est juste comme ça.

[dramadaisies]

I love that sooheon (before the mood swings, mind you) beat the complete and utter shit out of those female iljins who bullied soyeon

And that he didn’t feel the need to deliver some cheesy “I also hit girls” line before he did it, the guy just went for it

[ssreeder]

Suki: I can't believe you didn't tell me about you and Zuko this whole time 😔

Zuko: I can't believe you lied to me about the otter-penguins 😠😔

Anyway, I loved the newest chapter. Katara and Aang are so sweet and love Sokka so much and they are so worried, I'm gonna die.

Iroh, Jee and Rasu reuniting with Zuko kind of reminds me of the time when Hakoda reunited with Sokka. Just two fathers (and Jee and Bato) finding out about the horrible, terrible things their sons went through. Fun! Sokka must be feeling just as left out as Zuko felt in the Water Tribe camp.

One of my favorite things about this story is that Zuko, one of the main characters, never has a POV! What is going on in that kid's head! I love the mystery.

Bato likes Chang! And they're going to Ba Sing Se?? Yess. Zuko's uncles will meet each other?? Ara will find out about Shen's death? Sokka will find out about Jet ratting them out to the Earth Kingdom? What are Quon, How and Long Feng up to???? This story is so good I love it so much!!!

Also started rereading LIAB because it's been awhile and I might have forgotten some stuff so... Ara is making me sad 🥺.

Thank you for being a wonderful writer and just giving this stuff to us for free...

I mean… Suki has the right to be upset

but Zuko should be FURIOUS! how dare Sokka lie about the great otter-penguin wars?! Come on dude get it together!

Haha I’m sorry but you’re probably going to die even more next chapter because yeah… they love him but it’s like hugging a cactus haha.

at least Zuko got to see Sokka in the SWT camp iroh is like “sorry Zuko can’t come out to play and no you can’t come in to see him go home…”

OMG BATO IS LIKE CHANG IS FUNNY - & hakodas like damn it he kind of is……

Hahaha iroh and Chang in the same room together is terrifying can we throw jee in there too just to make him uncomfortable?! I love to see that poor man suffer.

You’re amazing & I love you for leaving me this ask and I’m sorry I’m horrible and take forever to answer. You’re amazing & yes Ara is sad and it gets worse ha poor girl. Wait until she finds out Shen is dead *cue emotional music*

[chrissy-n-eddie]

You NEED to tell us about demon Eddie!

demon Eddie is in the rafters of the church that chrissys family goes to and she's the only one who can see him. maybe chrissy runs youth group events and eddie flits around after her in the storage rooms. and chrissy is saving herself for marriage with Jason and eddie is smoking demonic joints and trying to make conversation that chrissy stubbornly ignores. and she mostly (sometimes) succeeds in ignoring him. until he follows her home..........

[ohnoitsthebat]

How about we don't tell people how to feel about their personal trauma? How about we try doing that?

[sapphos-tooth]

mom was freakin earlier over her past relationships and exes...and started reflecting onto me and trying to drag me into it....like bestie...this isn't about me.

[robertsbarbie]

yes everything is a marketing ploy but viewing everything as a marketing ploy is genuinely destroying us as a society

[sarasa-cat]

I don’t want to be party pooper on main

So instead I’ll be aca vague blogger 

Have seen a handful of different posts over the past few days that make statements about the purpose of the arts in truly ahistoric/revisionist ways.

Yeah, normally for the past century it is either a right wing thing to do that, or a hardliner authoritarian revisionist thing (because the far so-called-left has done it too in various nations) but... ugh.

The purpose of the arts has been so incredibly varied throughout history right up through the present and when a supposedly western leftist/progressive take ends up being revisionist and extremely reductionist, you aren’t doing yourselves any favors other than, maybe, a self righteous ego stroke.

TL;DR: lots of bullshit takes on what the arts are by western progressives on my dash for the past week. I just happen to be a progressive leftist and a scholar, btw, and I really believe in the importance of acknowledging the absolute breadth of historical and current opinions about the purposes of the arts rather than making some hot-take weaponized statement to score points against the other side. That is especially true when the hot-take erases inconvenient aspects of personages and histories in and of the arts.

[nauti-ca]

boyfriends .. and girlfriends!!!

[michaels-reality]

you always on that damn 'Untitled Document'!