#fuck the troops

[madeupfromglue]

pov you get cut off by this asshole

[anarchotahdigism]

yt ppl who say shit like "you can't blame settlers for the actions of their governments" are just settlers who know they could be doing a lot more to stop the actions of their governments but won't because they don't actually care enough to risk arrest, injury, or death to halt genocides they just wanna be told they're one of the good ones as they go back to brunch to spread COVID we can and should, in fact, blame people who support their genocidal regimes and think that voting in more genociders or sending letters or calls to genociders will do anything, ever, to stop genocide you don't have to be at the front of a riot throwing molotovs or shooting cops, you just have to be willing to help people targeted by cops & soldiers & other genocidal bigots for resisting genocide in its myriad forms

There's a lot you can do to help others-- you can share skills, resources, demand spaces & people mask, provide peer support, or any other form of mutual aid that helps people survive & thrive. You can even do that online! But whining that it's unfair and unethical to condemn those who choose to do nothing of impact or, worse, choose to actively support genocidal regimes is not only absurd criticism, it's genocide apologia. If settlers do not want to be lumped in with their genocidal regime leaders, then they must reject the socipolitical norms promulgated by those genociders & their regimes; they must support the taking up of resistance against genocide and understand that anyone who refuses to support resistance is siding with the oppressor. The people who could most easily and most quickly end a genocide or the regime behind one are those within the protected class of the regime, the settlers and citizens who derive support & comfort from the functions of the oppressive system. If yt Americans, for instance, had the courage of their supposed convictions, they could easily pressure Genocide Joe into ending his unlimited support for the genocide of Palestinians. Instead, they are constantly explaining why it's never the time to riot, never the time to punch Zionists, never the time to do anything that demonstrably threatens the American empire. Most yt American leftists leave militant radical acts up to the most marginalized and oppressed because most yt American leftists do not experience the kind of persecution that drives people to abandon any lingering attachments to the oppressive American system & its social norms. They don't have skin in the game, they are tourists to the suffering and struggle of others, and come from the outside to it and find it is extraordinarily easy to exit such areas of pain and hardship. The abandonment of the BLM movement as soon as people got vaccinated and felt they could safely embrace the eugenics of the fascist Big Lie of "back to normal" is a scathing example of just how easily yts claim to resist, for a time, until it becomes difficult, and then they find reasons to abandon the struggle. Thus ever with settlers.

[racashew]

No you don't get it, I joined the US military because I personally benefited from it, not because I *like* the military.

[heehoohatman]

Happy 4th of July you fuckos

[jarmes]

Redditors are bootlickers. Burning American flags is sick as hell

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[drmonkeysetroscans]

Fascist queen.

[yuepants]

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Hey man, I miss your collar bones

I love the way your skin feels on my collar bones

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[simplyfroggy]

people will say “we can have adult scooby doo, it would look like this ___!” and then literally describe the plot of scooby doo: mystery incorporated

[spacedace]

Girl scout cookie season has to be fucking hell in Gotham

Like, okay so I don't actually know anything about girl scouts, but it has to be intense right? Every girl scout in the city has to know that Bruce Wayne is a soft touch and will buy out your entire stock if you just look at him with even a hint of a sad frown. Which means outside of Wayne Enterprises and Wayne Manor is prime real estate, the kind of hot spots that scouts and their parents are willing to go to war for. Like, full on street brawls breaking out between these little girls and their rival troops over common Bruce Wayne locations.

And it's *Gotham* so you know there are like, Gotham Specific badges for things like "Improvised Weaponry" and "Urban War Tactics" I bet there are badges for helping people during Rogue attacks, with like a badge for each specific Rogue and a badge you get if you've earned all the others.

Just. Gotham Girl Scouts have to be scarier than any Marine, and are probably on so many watch lists, both ad potential heroes and villains.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Count Sforza

F-Troop; V is for Vampire (1967)

[anarchotahdigism]

"the vast majority of Israelis aren't to blame for the genocide! Sure, almost every single one of them wants the genocide and occupation to continue, but maybe half or more don't like Netanyahu and just want a gentler regime! It's not their fault! Sure it's rare for 'Israeli' settlers to refuse service or to riot against the cops and military, but they're not ALL to blame! You can't just expect every single person involved in genocide to be held accountable, that's not fair!" Fuck y'all Death to white supremacy, death to zionism, death to Israel 1.8% of 'Israeli" settlers believe the occupation's violence against Gaza was excessive. 1.8%!!!! Those are your "good" settlers. Those are the ones who are reaching the minimal levels of horror requisite to be considered a good person. Even then, I don't see 1.8% of "Israeli" society rioting and burning down the occupation. Instead they performatively wring their hands and hold public guilt-assuaging rallies which only serve to spread the living hell that is COVID It's a white supremacist colony, a white supremacist society, and virtually every single adult member is actively complicit in genocide. Literally their main export is violence. Violence against Palestinians, violence against those who the occupation trains as police forces & military, violence against those their cyber security industry targets, violence against those who disagree with theofascism. Y'all excuse them because you don't want to look at how complicit you are in genocide wherever it is you live in the world.

You forgive those whose violence isn't yours to forgive or forget because you yourself are inherently violent and hoping to avoid consequences for your own actions, having done nothing substantial to aid others save what little you will muster to muffle the whisper-thin ghost of your conscience

[nedlittle]

every single explanation for why mikey wasn't decrepit but was covered in blood is insane like

he's a vampire and is draining the other three of youth

it was for his own safety. if he went on stage in all his 2005 scene queen half of jersey all of warped tour glory the seismic shockwave of two dozen nostalgia bait emo bandman dissolving their marriages for a chance with that sopping wet twink would have levelled nevada

bad ending where instead of the band breaking up and mikey getting help they drag the band's shambling corpse around until mikey dies young. pulling back the curtains on how unhappy and unhealthy they all were during the era that wwwyf is trying to capitalize off. you want us to keeping going back to 2005 for the sake of your nostalgia? okay mikey's fucking dead now (makes me unbelievably upset to consider but exactly the kind of shit they'd pull)

he died in normandy

[findafight]

Ohhh fic where Steve and Robin and Dustin and Erica all casually make funny little haha jokes with each other about getting tortured/almost caught by the Russians under Starcourt because they all have that shared trauma and had many a long late night calls reassuring each other they're alive and playing dnd together and fulfilling lifetime supply of icecream obligations.

They do this because sure the rest of the party knew there were Russians under Starcourt but everything they went through in that basement was sorta...forgotten in the aftermath of literal flesh monster. And with Hopper dead and the Byers moving, there's so much happening that whatever happened to Steve's face (lost another fight...) and why he and Robin went from mildly antagonistic co-workers to codependent goobers who couldn't go literally a day without seeing the other or what made Dustin always ask if Erica was going to come for party hang outs are all sort of brushed under the rug. Not a big deal, really. Bigger things happening after everything.

And they cope together and scoops troop is a weird little section of the party no one but them really understands. Robin and Steve are attached at the hip and to a lesser extent so are Erica and Dustin (but they'll never admit it), and they all have mini gatherings together.

So, the casual mentioning of starcourt and specifically what went down with the Russians is commonplace for them. (Erica is quick to remind them she saved their asses, and are they so lame they need her help again? but she smiles and Steve and Robin just laugh and give her a big hug.) And somehow, they forget that not everyone really knows what went down before July 4th 1985.

And I want them to do it in front of everyone. I want them to have their stupid "this was so fucked up but we're alive and we got through it so now we have to laugh or we may never stop crying about it" banter at a big "we saved the world again!" Barbecue. I want the rest of the folks there to go silent and them not to notice.

I want someone to mention Steve not getting a black eye this time, congrats! and Robin going "the only reason why I didn't get one last time was because the Russians said-"

And Steve, who is lying with his head in her lap, reaches up to gently cup her cheek and says in a terrible Russian accent "don't worry, we will not ruin your pretty face!" (everyone is quiet around them, they do not notice)

She laughs. "And punched me in the gut a few more times. I peed blood for like, three days."

Steve goes "ewwww" only to be pinched by robin.

"you peed blood too, dingus. You got it worse than me and my pretty face."

He giggles and opens his hand up for a high five "pissing blood buddies, hell yeah!" And shifts in her lap. "But they bruised my pretty face. Rude."

"aww. It's okay, Stevie, your face is still so pretty. Prettiest boy in Hawkins."

"thanks Robin."

"at least Dustin and Erica got us out before they started ripping out fingernails." She shudders.

"or used the bonesaw"

"mmm. Unfortunately not before we got funky truth serum drugs though."

He leans up, looking at the two "y'all couldn't have been a bit faster?" But he's smiling, teasing. A well worn joke.

Dustin and Erica respond simultaneously with "I'm missing bones, Steve, what do you want from me?" And "I was ten and my legs were short as shit. Beggars can't be choosers." Respectively.

It is at this point an Actual Grown Up butts in.

"what. What do you mean ripping out fingernails?"

Robin and Steve look towards Joyce, who asked.

"like. To interrogate us? Because we just kept saying we worked for scoops even with the truth serum."

"because they thought we had to be superspies to get into their creepy lair and not a bunch of kids."

"mmhmm"

Hopper jumps in "wait. You were tortured by them?"

Robin and Steve give him eerily similar looks that express how obvious the answer to that is.

"yeah, duh."

"I don't go looking to get brain damage every year, you know."

Hoppers eye twitches. "Why didn't you say anything?"

[karter-kat]

You can’t tell me Goofy was a cheer leader and not expect me to draw it!!!

[diablo1776]

Abbey Gate and the failed Afghanistan withdrawal. It's all on you, Biden regime.