#i'm tired of america

[aniseandspearmint]

About covid being over: are we just meant to put our entire social lives, our entire society on pause forever? My mental health plummeted during lockdown and will take years to recover. Now that there's vaccines and crowd immunity and less deadly strains we ARE meant to learn to deal with it as a given, the way we have with many deadly diseases in the past, and move on. So for the sake of life moving on at some point it's **normal** to treat it as a cold, and I'm saying this as someone who's lost people during the pandemic too. Please do not fear monger.

No, but you SHOULD care about other people enough to still mask.

I am NOT fearmongering.

Covid is still dangerous, especially to the many MANY people who are immunocompromised and people who cannot get the vaccines (for whatever reason).

I know several people who THIS YEAR caught permanently disabling covid, despite all being fully vaccinated.

I am not saying you have to quarantine yourself anymore. That was NOT a thing I said. There is a world of difference between wishing that other people cared enough to MASK, a thing that is NOT HARD AT ALL, and demanding that people still observe full quarantine protocols.

Plugging your ears and closing your eyes and refusing to listen when people are still justifiably worried, and not listening to experts that haven't been pressured by the government to say 'COVID IS NOT A THREAT ANYMORE YAAAY!!!' just makes you a fool.

I know that's harsh, but it's the truth.

Hospitals are no longer required to report covid cases and covid deaths as such. This is a GIANT RED FLAG that people are happily ignoring so they can feel safe.

[likeabxrdinflight]

looking at the news and seeing shit about the primaries as if the 2020 election rigmarole wasn't like, five minutes ago

[hurtcomforted]

imagine that, in the first avenger, before pre-serum steve's training montage, we get a flashback with sarah rogers to explain his perseverance. imagine that when he goes to save bucky and after losing him, we get flashbacks to them as kids.

imagine that, in civil war, instead of (or along with if that's what it takes) more of tony's daddy issues we also get to see little steve with sarah to also understand him better.

imagine we get more of steve's backstory.

[hbosscreations]

John Constantine Hellblazer: Dead in America Solicits

I've had weird feelings about this run for a bit, so I decided to look at the solicits all together and...am I the only one who gets a weird vibe from these?

One and two feel pretty normal and true to what happened in book. Issue 2 is a little overdramatic, but that's how you get people to buy. No problems here, good hype, though I do think it's hilarious that issue one is billed at 28 pages, which means that of the rest of the issues it's the only one not filled with ads.

Issue 3, the numbers have gone up, the description has gotten small, and this was also where I started to question just what was happening. This was where this series started telling 'stories about the American dream' in overlong framing devices that really don't have anything to do with anything.

For me, Issue 4 is Issue 3 done correctly, and the solicit feels fine. It's sparse on the details because we're doing a mystery, but I thought it felt a bit rushed. I think in the previous run, this owuld have been a two parter much like Scrubbing Up or Britannia Rules the Waves, and I think it would have been better served that way, but whatever, this isn't about my feelings.

Issue 5, my second favorite main cover and least favorite issue so far, feels deeply misleading considering what we actually get out of the issue. Issue 6 also doesn't really tell us anything that's the actual main focus of the book.

But then BOOM!

Issue 7 comes along and I was genuinely surprised that we were getting more issues, since I hadn't heard that the books were selling especially well, but I don't have the sales figures to back it up. Once again, the solicit is technically accurate, but I'm noticing a trend of the 'he's a corpse! he's got to deal with that!' in the solicit and the comic...not actually doing that in any meaningful way.

Issue 8 has the smallest solicits of the entire run and nothing meaningful happens. We could have scrapped this entire comic and gone straight to LA, but for John Constantine: Hellblazer, he hasn't really done any blazing of Hell in this book, so I suppose it was necessary?

Issue 9's solicit is a lie and a nothing burger. It tells us nothing, and for good reason, because once again, NOTHING PLOT RELEVANT HAPPENS.

I'm living for the Hanged Man tarot cover of Issue 10, but I don't know about number 11's solicit. It's the final issue, why isn't it beefier? Why doesn't it SELL the finale?

I have suspicions, thoughts and theories, but all of it basically amounts to 'not enough oversight'. Most of my problems with these books amounts to the fact that the story feels like it wasn't finished when they started producing the comic (That's a thing in the industry, I know, but it's also not a good sign for longevity or future sales, so I don't know why it's a thing), and that unlike the previous run, Spurrier doesn't seem to really have anything to say beyond 'look at how bad America is!' and it just feels very out of touch.

It also feels like we've opened the story to get more traditional characters involved without thinking about the ramifications of adding them. This story didn't need Dream, it didn't need Etrigan, it didn't really even need Swamp Thing. I still like the inclusion of Swamp Thing, but at the end of the day, this run feels like it's not interested in John Constantine, which is a problem when it's called John Constantine: Hellblazer and not 'Wizards in America: We Fuck Shit Up'.

[mirai-desu]

On the MSATD News

I didn't have time to post a knee-jerk reaction (which those of you from the Downton days know I was apt to do - thank you to all my long term mutuals of my side blog for sticking with me through those days), as I saw the news as I was getting ready to head out for work and it's been… a bit of a day.

Suffice it to say… I am devastated. And my initial reaction was (well after cursing), that it should have ended with S4, but with a different (happier) conclusion. It's called Miss Scarlet AND THE DUKE for a reason. And after all that happened in S4… it really feels like… what was it all for?? Especially if they knew WHEN FILMING THIS?? "Goodbye for now" is NOT "goodbye forever." They really, really really fumbled this.

There's a lot of theories going around, and I will admit it's too hard for me to listen to Stuart's new interview, but going off what other's have said and the parts of the transcript I did manage to read… I just cannot feel like this was actually his decision unless there's something else going on with him (either in his personal life or maybe he has some secret role he's got, because supposedly he hasn't worked since he did ADR on S4). He's been the captain of the ship, and he has always been enthusiastic with discussing the show and had just great insight into playing William. It doesn't feel like he himself was ready to move onto other things (and that's not even how it's worded - some BS about how the show needed it him to be gone for ~longevity~ of the show), like I've seen with other actors are on shows (e.g. Dan Stevens). He still promoted S3 (which came out in the UK after they filmed S4), he still even promoted S4! He was an executive producer for S4!!! Nothing makes sense!

So if it's due to RN… why keep having the other characters say William was only going to be gone a year? Why bother to have the flashback? why bother to have him stay at at Eliza's to recover?? hell I'm surprised they just didn't keep in the coma then--

But really, why even bother to have Eliza write to him? Or have Ivy say what she said to her?? The time apart was supposed to be them looking at their options. They literally foreshadowed him joining Eliza at her agency upon his return. So… what happened?

If it was actually for personal reasons that Stuart left, he has a right to his privacy. But then they should have rewritten S4 to be the end then, since they knew all this time. I can't believe we are getting the full story on this, one way or the other. The more and more I think about it... I do think it was RN's doing though.

Just two nights ago I drafted up a whole meta extolling how one of the best things this show has done has been how they developed William and how he grew as a character. The progression he made as he not only accepted Eliza having a career but encouraging her. His mentorship of Fitzroy. How he came from nothing, from a teenager living on the streets, to become an inspector at Scotland Yard. But they have chosen to toss that all out the window.

Who knows, maybe S5 ends with Eliza deciding to go to New York. But it doesn't seem like they are handling this like Babington's absence in Sanditon. They will make Eliza quickly fall for someone else, and slap fans in the face who have been following their friends to lovers slow burn for five years (because we had to wait for S2 in the first place thanks to the pandemic). And what sucks is that we still got promo saying they are in love with each other. From Stuart, from Kate, from Rachael New herself. We have still gotten promo promoting the romance. Why not have them have a big fight then or something, idk. They gave us hope. And you know what Fellowes says about false hope.

So I'm just supposed to believe that William gives up on Eliza and doesn't return…? No, I cannot. As much as we hated the deaths on DA when they wrote out actors, at least those characters still died in love with their spouses. And while I'd still be foaming at the mouth in anger if they killed him off… yeah.

William's last lines of the show is a flashback including him saying "is it all worth it?" And the answer is… no it's not.

[robin-in-a-hoodie]

בכנות, חברי'ה. עייפתי

ציונות אנטי ציונות אנטישמיות פלסטין ישראל מי מזהה מדינה מי לא מזהה מדינה מלחמה רצח עם אירוויזיון אוניברסיטות עניינים, ביבי טיבי כוס של הפיבי, נשבר לי הזין. לא יודעת. מבחינתי מנהיג את המדינה חד קרן. די עם הזבל הזה. אני מבקשת שמישהו יבצע לובוטומציה או איך שלא אומרים lobotomy בעברית כי זו הדרך היחידה להוציא את הזבל הזה מהראש שלי. די עם כל ה"חשיבה" וה"נואנסים" בנושא ה"מציאות" ושאר סחלע. תוציאו אותי מפה. לא רוצה את היכולת לזהות את המילים האלה אפילו. אני מספיק צריכה לעבוד בשביל כסף, תנו לי לפחות בזמני הפנוי לא לשמוע או לראות או לחשוב על הדבר הזה מדי פעם. רוצה כלום. רוצה נתק. העם דורש אפס שכל כבר עשרים שנה, ואני סופית במאבק כנגד המוח. מצות דם פלסטיני טעימות לכל היהודונים, עייפתי.

[finley-and-friends]

Sleep Deprived Rants <3

What do I bring to the fandoms I'm in? Well, that's easy. 1: how instruments work, 2: Scouting of America mannerism.

And I'd like to bring this to your attention.

Specifically how his hand is positioned.

(Cub scout salute, using two fingers)

(Scout salute, using three fingers)

As you can see, the way America salutes is more like the Cub Scout salute than the boy scout one.

Headcanon that America shaked with his left hand, and when he shakes with his right hand he puts his index and middle finger on their wrists bc shaking with your left hand is the official Scout handshake and putting your index and middle fingers on someone's wrist while shaking is the official Cub Scout handshake.

[thatpacifictheatregirlie]

A collection of memes I made for the beloved and extremely talented @sunnylolli, also known as one of my favorite artists on this platform.

Sorry for the terrible quality, Tumblr does not seem to like uploading my photos correctly (not joking, they were all fine in Files, but the moment I uploaded them Tumblr decided to make everything blurry.

I hope you like them, some might not fit perfectly with CISFAYOT (I'm only partway through), but they were all a lot of fun to make. You have some incredible talent!

[billowingangel]

Headcanons on which Hetalia characters would survive in the Quiet Place

I just finished watching the new movie, it's really good!! These headcanons are based on if they were humans because I have zero clue how the other countries are fairing in the quiet place universe but probably as bad as what was shown in the movies.

Alfred/🇺🇸 - If he somehow didn't manage to die in day one I think he'd be able to last for 3 to 4 weeks but then while out getting supplies he'd knock something over or when he thought he could talk due to rushing water he'd still be too loud.

Arthur/🇬🇧 - Almost died a couple times the first day. Would be the type to bolt if someone causes any noise and not give one shit if that person gets eaten. I think once he'd set up a shelter/homebase he'd be pretty set. But if there are other survivors with him I could see that end up sabotaging him.

Ivan/🇷🇺 - Would survive day one until someone makes noise and then 🔨bonk he'd try and kill that person "shut up" but he'd make more noise killing them.

Yao/🇨🇳 - He's got a bunker already prepared, he's actually the most prepared for the end of the world and has supplies already. Would venture out to try and find his family and get them home but may give up on that and just go home himself

François/🇫🇷 - Dude screams and dies day one. He'd do ok once realizing he needs to be quiet but then if spooked he would scream on accident.

[grem-archive]

y'all can pry baseball player alfred from my cold dead hands

wanted to do more general action poses. but more ass was decided by democratic vote as i started sketching in-stream. so you guys get more of it. also got bored enough to draw the full uniform.

[whateverthought]

Creator's Pets That Get On My Last Nerve

Aka "Poor Baby, Never Did Anything Wrong, All Eyes on Them, Always Right"

Felicity Smoak from Arrow

Steve Rogers from the MCU

Clarke Griffin from The 100

Caitlin Snow from The Flash

Bakugou Katsuki from My Hero Academia

Hayley Marshall from The Originals

[novodontia]

Headcanon: Alfred LOVES the song American Idiot by Green Day and relates to it a lot, but he doesn't like admitting it because it's definitely insulting his country a bit and he doesn't like admitting it

[rowandarling]

and what of the little orange tufted sunbird?

was it not she who protested most vehemently

when you clipped her wings and bound her feet?

still you clamp shut her beak

as if she had nothing to speak

and tear her children far from her reach

her husband's head bobs in the stream

as her mother's bones rot in the street

yet with a torn throat she will scream

"from the river to the sea,

palestine will be free."

[queerryan]

Begging gringos (and some latin-americans descendants who were born and grew up outside America Latina) to learn somethings.

There's no such thing as "white passing Latino" unless that person is indigenous.

Stop saying that you're not white because you're Latino, you are white. You're not a victim of racism for being Latino, you're affected by xenophobia.

Latino it's not a race.

If one of your parents is Latino and the other is not you're not "half Latino and half white/black/asian/brown etc" you're whatever race you are AND LATINO, you're both, the entire thing, no half.

Latinos aren't mixed or biracial for being Latino and white/black etc.

Latino it's A CULTURAL IDENTITY, an attachment we have to the country we came from. And that country HAVE TO BE PART OF AMERICA LATINA.

French, Italians, Spain people, THEY'RE NOT LATINO. (I can not believe I have to say this) yes, Latino have this linguistic meaning of people who speak a latin language and that includes french and Italian, but no one use the word in that sense most of the time. Latino it's a cultural identity related to only America latina.

PEOPLE FROM SPAIN AREN'T LATINOS, they're Hispanic, Wich is also not a race and does not make white Hispanics less white. Hispanic are people who are born in spanish-speaking countries, that's it.

For the mother of god STOP SAYING LATINX. Not only is completely useless when you're speaking in English since the English language ALREADY HAVE A NEUTRAL FORM OF SAYING LATINO (literally "Latin"), but also not even inside America Latina with our languages we say "Latinx" since people with Dislexia here often have a problem pronouncing and reading that. Insisting In the use of that is ableist and stupid. Either say "Latin" or "Latine"

NOBODY LOOKS LATINO, we don't have "Latin phenotypes", you could show me a picture of a Chinese family, tell me they're Brazilians and I would believe in you because that's how diverse america latina is, no one look Latino.

Doing this list because I was reading ultimate Spider-Man and miles called himself "Half Hispanic" and that pissed me off because he said that as a response of someone saying that he's black. As if this would make him less black or half black and he's both black and Latino, no halfs.

[churchsideblog]

I guess I just...I know there's a lot in our history that we've done wrong, but is wanting to be proud of my culture really so much to ask? To say who I am in public without being treated like an object of pity for how I grew up? i'm terrified to tell my friends what I believe in case they reject me over stereotypes. the catholics think we're not Christians, the liberals think we want gay people dead, my brother's best friend moved to evangelical country and started talking like we were monsters, and I can't even find solidarity within the church because everybody's too busy trying to assimilate with people who want us dead.

[hannibalthecolossus]

DEATH TO AMERICA!

DEATH TO AMERICA!

DEATH TO AMERICA!

DEATH TO AMERICA!