#and none of them are antis

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

Jedi Antis: The Jedi are too caught up in politics! They have power to change things, they just don't!

Meanwhile, the Jedi:

Every time they argue with a politician, they are shot down.

I wonder what that could mean? That maybe they don't have as much political power as the antis seem to believe? That maybe *gasp* they were meant to be the victims of Palpatine's manipulation the whole time?

[GIFs aren't mine. Credit to @david-talks-sw ]

[austin-friars]

So with the new Harry Potter series and the UK Supreme Court case...it's super important to know that JK Rowling funded and stood behind this decision, and rallied with many, many transphobic people to get this done. She poured money into this.

If you are going to support her series, you are actively participating in the silencing and erasure of trans people, especially trans women, who've been Rowlings common victims. Even if you are trans....

I say this because I often times see a lot of people who 'reclaim' Harry Potter, saying that they are lgbt+/queer/trans. And when I look on their blogs or what have you, yeah, they are trans, but rarely, if ever are they transfeminine people. Rowlings bigotry, though she goes after all trans people, is built on the violence of trans women, and eradicating their existence by painting them as violent predators.

So for all the people trying to 'reclaim' HP, because you think being a trans or queer person and reclaiming it makes it somewhat okay, it's not, especially if you aren't a trans woman.

And in general, trans, queer, or whatever, it is concerning if you are still supporting that series after this.

This was an attack specifically going after trans women, which will in turn go after all trans people.

The new series is coming out. And so many people, especially other queer/trans people are super excited. You are still part of the problem if you support it.

[expectiations]

text posts: Doctor + River version [2/?]

time to cleanse my mind, body, soul, spirit, life, etc. of the takes I've been seeing of my blorbos on a daily basis lately. and it's still wednesday.

[bugwolfsstuff]

'The gods don't change'

*points at Hades*

*points at Zeus*

*points at Hermes* (tho this is one is more implied through Apollo's mentions)

*GESTURES AT THE ENTIRETY OF TOA*

Run that by me one more time?

[buckydeservesthebest]

I'm going to write my own general response since some Sam Stans have started with absurd posts about how in their distorted version of reality Bucky "has been a bad friend and betrayed every black person he has ever met"... *sight* this could not be more stupid, untrue and unfair.... 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

On the subject of Bucky and the rest of the New Avengers "working for Valentina", I already wrote a long rant explaining that there is NOT a single shred of proof of this. And that at the end of it all, the OG Avengers literally were formed by a government organization (SHIELD), Sam was going to form his own team of Avengers at Ross's instruction and was going to work alongside him had the Red Hulk scandal not happened and Ross not ended up in prison. THE AVENGERS WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT SOMETHING NEW. BECAUSE WORKING WITH THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T MEAN BEING SUBSERVIENT TO IT.

Bucky having his own team literally does NOT in any way in the remotest way affect Sam, because literally nothing detracts from him or minimizes him as Captain America or in any other way, nor does it somehow prevent him from being able to form his own Avengers team and operate as he sees fit.

So this description of "traitor" to refer to Bucky COULD NOT BE MORE STUPIDLY FALSE AND BE FARTHER AWAY FROM REALITY.

And for those who complain that one of Bucky's team members is John Walker, does everyone forget that they already worked together briefly at the end of TFATWS to capture the FS and there was no problem??? Bucky does NOT hate John, literally the only disagreement from Bucky and Sam towards Walker was over the possession of the shield, and that problem is over, so don't come whining that Bucky can now be his ally, because there is literally no moral impediment of any kind for them to be part of the same team.

And do people forget that, again, Sam was going to work alongside Ross?? The same guy who ordered the extrajudicial execution order (which is literally illegal) against Bucky, convicted him as guilty for the UN bombing without a fair trial, which is literally also a violation of his human rights, and on top of it all lamented that the SWAT team couldn't kill Bucky. Ross is a horrible person (no better than Valentina) and literally ordered Bucky's murder, and I don't see anyone calling Sam a traitor because he was going to form an Avengers team under his instructions and was going to work in conjunction with his government.

So don't come with your shitty double standards calling Bucky a "traitor" either, when no one called Sam a "traitor" for allying himself with the one who ordered the murder of his friend.

It's almost funny how no Sam Stan has ever wanted to acknowledge the ableist and victim-blaming attitudes Sam directed at Bucky. All those horrible jokes and tasteless comments like "cyborg brain", "bionic looking machine that killed almost everyone he met", "we're not assassins" "you're going back to your frozen rat diet of your time as the Winter Soldier", that only in the mind of imbecile could be funny. All of this disgusting shit is ableist.

Sam literally held Bucky responsible for what he was forced to do as the Winter Soldier ("you were stopping all the wrongdoers *you* enabled as the Winter Soldier" ep. 5) and gave him "advice" that is exactly the same as Dr. Raynor's, and is nothing more than re-victimization.

There is absolutely nothing healthy about telling a victim of abuse that they should "make amends" for something they were a VICTIM of. Let alone showing up with the other victims of the same abuser and apologizing as if Bucky was the victimizer and not another victim. This is extremely dangerous and damaging to both parties. Already a real life therapist created a Twitter thread where she explains absolutely everything that is wrong with this.

Sam is NOT a victim of abuse or mind control, nor is he a therapist trained to talk to people who are victims of this situation, so he can NOT go around pretending to give advice on something he knows absolutely nothing about. That is unethical.

If you think that telling this truth is "racist", let me tell you that there are people in the black community who think exactly the same thing. Are they racist too??

...

Oh and regarding the Wakandans issue...I've talked about this a lot before, but in light of some Sam Stans wanting to revive this ridiculous issue as an excuse to try to vilify Bucky.. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

*sigh* first of all the reason T'Challa offered Bucky assistance in removing the Winter Soldier's programming from his brain, was not because of how magnanimous T'Challa is in wanting to help a poor man who had suffered too much, but rather that that assistance was given in the form of an apology for having spent it trying to kill him without being sure if Bucky was the one truly responsible for his father's death, and also in the form of thanks because thanks to him and Steve, T'Challa was able to get to the one truly responsible. The canonical comic Avengers Infinity War Prelude literally said so:

So while Bucky is grateful for the assistance Wakanda offered him, he does NOT owe them lifelong loyalty nor is he limited to only doing what feels right to them and did not represent a damage to their pride, because that is a stance worthy of an abuser.

So NO. In absolutely no way did Bucky betray Wakanda because Zemo's temporary freedom does NOT affect them in the slightest. Literally Bucky always intended to send him back to prison and literally Ayo understood this and that's why he gave him the 8 hour deadline to come back for Zemo, and literally Bucky NEVER objected to this.

Regarding Zemo. Literally the plot gives Bucky the reason to enlist his help and assist him in his escape, because as "the foremost expert on Hydra and the super soldier program" his knowledge was needed to figure out how the serum was recreated to get to Karli. This is what canon book The Art of TFATWS says, and it literally also says that Sam knew this and agreed.

People deliberately and conveniently forget that Zemo is NOT only responsible for the death of T'Chaka and the other dozen people from the UN bombing. Zemo was also an ABUSER of Bucky and one of the people who hurt him the most in his life. Zemo framed him for the UN bombing causing everyone to try to kill him, put him in the crosshairs of any Hydra member that still existed, had him imprisoned in cell that was electrocuting him all the time, subjected him to mind control and forced him to kill people and fight his friends which caused more charges to be added against him, etc, etc, etc. Now it turns out Wakandans know more about their own abuser than Bucky himself?? This is bullshit.

In just world part of Zemo's sentence should have been for all the damage he caused Bucky.

And the point is, again, Ayo understood and agreed with Bucky's plan and that was why he gave him an 8 hour deadline to come back for it. Ayo was NOT upset about that. Ayo didn't handicap and dehumanize Bucky because she felt "betrayed" but because she was upset that he had stopped her from committing unjustified murder against Walker. Bucky tried to reason with her and only defend himself with non-violent techniques, Ayo disconnected his arm in a low and dishonorable move, and now it turns out that Bucky is to blame?? 🤡

"Bucky betrayed the Wakandans" say the same people who always planned to betray him by putting a kill-safe (on a prosthetic that he didn't even request to have in the first place, but was given to him by T'Challa himself for him to fight for his nation) behind his back whose unawareness could have proved fatal to him, in case by sheer bad luck something could activate it when Bucky was hanging on to it for his life...

IT IS NOT JUSTIFIED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TO REMOVE DISABILITY ASSISTANCE FROM A DISABLED PERSON.

BEING A BLACK PERSON DOES NOT GIVE YOU A FREE PASS TO HAVE ABLEIST AND VICTIM-BLAMING ATTITUDES TOWARD ANOTHER PERSON.

And yes, people in the black community also think Ayo's attitude was unjustifiable.

Are they "racist" for daring to say this?? Of course they are NOT.

[themoonandthedogstar]

You’re telling me Hayley “set up the deaths of 12 people to get information on a family she thinks abandoned her” Marshall and Freya “has sacrificed children for a family she’s known for a year” Mikaelson raised Hope and she became a martyr?! I don’t believe it sorry 😭

[arabella-s-arts]

If the show thinks that that is going to make me forgive Eddie. They are sorely mistaken.

Frankly, I don't care if Eddie saved Buck's life, that's his job, and not everything can be solved with a grand gesture. That doesn't mean nothing can be solved with a grand gesture. Some things can, like if you embarass somebody, so you do something embarassing that they would enjoy to make it up to them.

But using your friend's deepest insecurities against them, telling them they are being selfish for mourning their dad, gaslighting them. No, that can't be solved with a grand gesture. Shows and movies like using grand gestures because it's an easier way to get a storyline cleaned up. But that isn't what is needed to fix this. To fix this, Eddie has to f*cking apologize, and he has to have a repeated pattern of doing better. That takes time, it's not as interesting as Eddie acting like a hero, so I always knew they were never going to do it, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with their decision.

I kinda hated seeing Buck clearly having forgiven Eddie. Buck still has the right to be mad or upset. Or even if he's neither of these things anymore, he still has the right to create space between him and Eddie. But Eddie saved him, so apperently everything's all well and good. Buck's inconveinent feelings can be brushed aside now.

[navree]

"rhaenys could have ended the war by dracarysing all the greens right there" yes because a distant relation to the throne deciding to barbecue an anointed and publicly positively hailed king and his entire family who is well loved within the city and in multiple other parts of the country for the sake of the succession of a far-away princess no one was ever on board with who hasn't been seen by the populace in literal years, her psycho husband, her three obvious bastards, and two toddlers from the psycho husband would go over super well with westeros and especially in king's landing where scores of the still-cheering population were killed for no reason by that same dragon who would do the barbecuing, because when targaryens act unilaterally without thinking of how the people would react there's never any problem, which is why the storming of the dragonpit and robert's rebellion were actually just collective delusions dreamed up by readers who hate rhaenyra and not key parts of the story and house targaryen's history that directly contributed to their demise and are intrinsic to the plot

truly team black stans are made up of only the most genius and media literate amongst us

[laeana]

Whenever I see a post with people that say that the hate on Lando has come out of nowhere and people have no reasons to, I’m like; you know what, maybe you’re right and some people did start to hate on him because that’s popular.

But it’s also very funny to try to reduce the dislike people can have for a driver by saying “you have no real arguments, you just jump on the train”, because you don’t want to hear your favorite driver has done and said things that soured his reputation, when it’s actually “no, babe, I’ve been finding him insufferable for years, but this year he has reached a peak, and I could list you the reasons why he gets on my nerves, but you probably would brush it off anyway”.

[acourtofthought]

Not people trying to act like Elain means God answered me when they're literally changing the name to make it fit 🤦

Eliana is not what Sarah chose for her.

Gwyn = Blessed, Happy

Azriel = God is my help

Elain and Lucien = Light ☀️

[deerscradle]

spn fans (?) who hate sam are soooo embarrassing you ask them why they hate sam and they list the MOST INNOCENT incidents happened in the whole show yet they baby castiel and dean for their selfish decisions and mistakes

[doctahchang]

a big fan of how in once upon the time neelix almost screamed at janeway that she doesn't fully understand his situation because of her privileged upbringing. they should have done this more often

[sukibenders]

#those 911 fans acting like there's hardly any queer rep on the show just because they want their fave yte guys to get together are so annoying. Don't even get me started on how some of them are bus drivers for a lot of homophobic and racist and misogynistic rhetoric too in this fandom, like it's crazy.

[extremely-judgemental]

When did Nesta even take credit for killing King of Hybern? When did Elain want credit for it?

If Elain hadn't snuck up and delivered the first blow, Nesta wouldn't have survived. But the King is also a fae with healing abilities who is verse in magic like no other and the only one to use something as powerful as the Cauldron itself. One stab wasn't going to kill him. If Nesta hadn't finished the job, all three of them would be dead.

Nesta and Elain killed the King together. But neither of them wants glory for it.

[top-vi]

and if i say it’s interesting how the ending of the first two episodes were alicent and criston having sex and the ending of this episode is alicent and rhaenyra having a confrontation in the sept, yet this episode’s ending scene seemed even more intimate…….

[franklyopinionated]

Let's be clear about a few things in the PJO fandom

Racism is the fact that none of the actors of the main trio in the show are book accurate yet the only one that 99% of people keep complaining about is Annabeth. Racism is also the fact that there are a ton of "Annabeth in every universe" post showcasing the other versions of Annabeth's (who are white), but we rarely see "Percy in every universe" post showcasing the other versions of Percy. That points to folks being able to accept a non book accurate Percy as long as he's white but needing reassurance that a white Annabeth still exist in the world because they need to find comfort in their being other versions of her besides the black girl in the popular tv show.

Annabeth was one of my favorite character when she was a white blonde girl in the books and she's one of my favorites now that she's black dark haired girl in the show. She's my favorite character regardless of what her race, hair or eye color is. A lot of people seemingly cannot say the same since their treatment, love, respect and care about Annabeth seems to depend on the color of her skin. The haters also cannot say they treat Annabeth the same regardless of how she looks since their hatred and lies that they've made up about the character seems to be more exaggerated now that she's black.

And yet this problem only exist for Annabeth even though Percy, Grover, Luke, Clarisse, Thalia are also not book accurate. And yes, Clarisse and Thalia actors are partially black but they're not the female lead so the push back was not extreme and hateful as it was for Annabeth's casting (though some pushback still existed). Clarisse got the least amount of push back between the three girls cast and make no mistake that's because she's playing a bully. Racism plays a huge part in the level of comfort some people feel with race swapped actors when they're playing animals, monsters, bad guys, bullies or minor characters.

The problem has never been book accuracy, it's always been racism and people not wanting to see the heroic female lead of the show (lead behind only Percy), being played by a dark skin monoracial black girl. That racism plays a huge role in the uptick in people using words like abusive, toxic and mean to describe Annabeth. Now that she's black, they cannot comprehend that the character is a hero and a good person so they're inserting their own brand of racism on the character to attempt to villianize her.