#just BE NORMAL

[texaschainsawmascara]

LMAO

[stillagoodwitch]

everyone here is SO MEAN omg i’m not made for mean environments it’s not like i thrive on my own but i constantly feel like crying now

[badolmen]

Soldiers kill sheep in the streets and I see bison skulls piled high, the bullets are made in the United States.

Trees are set ablaze by tanks and I see Moses kneeling in fear and reverence, God does not speak from these flames.

The people starve and I see seaweed gathered in baskets on Irish shores, Dutch tulip bulbs boiled with rabbit bones.

When they said ‘never again’ it was never for love of the hundreds of millions murdered, nor fear of the systems that allowed such evil to rise. They said ‘never again’ to shipping lane inconveniences, to stock market woes, and to being seen for cowards.

At least a coward would sit in quiet fear, content in inaction. Now they sign over billions, condemning millions to the total destruction. Where is the shame? Where is the apathy? At least in that I can call them mere cowards. What else am I to call them but the evil they so long taught me to revile?

God have mercy on their souls. God have mercy on ours. For the body is doomed - the bombs will still fall, the blood will still spill, the graves of thousands will fill.

(How long is the queue to the pearly gates? Is St. Peter agrieved to see so many young faces? Are wives rejoicing or grieving the reunion with their husbands? Does the brother laugh or cry when he finds his sister among the crowd?)

From Carthage to Auschwitz we were warned. From Roman roads to shipping lanes we watched the weapons trade hands. And when we cry out to the powers that be, they turn away - unseeing, unhearing, unfeeling. Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts.

But the horror is in knowing they are not machines. This is not their nature. They are men. Born with a love for humanity in their hearts, a desire for community and companionship and art. How did they lose such a fundamental part of their being? Was it beaten out of them by bitter men before them or did they discard it themselves, as though it were a cancer to be excised? Does it matter when they so zealously jump knee deep in blood and bone among bomb shattered homes?

And while it is troubling to consider that, being human, we too can have our hearts hardened, it is far more uncomfortable to consider that, being human, they may one day revert to natural compassion. And what does one do when the machine becomes man again? When he proves it was a choice all along? A choice he refused and snubbed until the bodies cooled and the graves grew grassy with age?

God forgive what I cannot.

[bigassbowlingballhead]

I'm a bit confused lol. Do you actually think everything that Taylor and Nick do together is the way that friends behave? Nothing seems different to you?

i beg of you to not take the F for fun out of this.

[cannibal-king-brat]

I hate that I can usually tell someone’s gonna treat me different because they don’t like looking at me. I just think it’s crazy some ppls subconscious is so strong that they actively treat ppl differently like gd

[dhaaruni]

It isn't the job of online partisan Democrats to analyze why demographics (non-college white and Hispanics, urban Asian Americans, etc.) are increasingly averse to voting Democrat but it's also not useful to loudly moralize at pundits/journalists who discuss these shifts.

[messybouquetoflilies]

my bestie took me out for brunch a couple weeks ago, n the way i look like a scared animal any time someone pulls out a camera will never not be funny to me

[a-demonic-duck-of-some-sort]

Gynosexual people be like: I see a guy and I no sexual!

[reverend-meat]

I hate fandom drama but:

*Starts fandom drama*

Just saw someone very popular in a fandom that I'm in post this big huge rant about how no one is characterizing their fave character "correctly" in fanfic? And how its clear "Nobody who writes him has played his spinoff game!"

Its like

chill out.

It's fanfiction. Literally the nerdiest fucking thing worldwide. It is so 100% such a completely unserious way to spend our time?

We are all literally grown ass adults playing makebelieve with our favorite characters. We are smashing these fictional characters around like Barbies and making them do dumb stuff for our own amusement.

ITS FINE.

ITS LITERALLY FINE.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHARACTERIZE SOMEONE "PERFECTLY".God, you don't even have to write "good" fanfiction? You can literally just write total dogshit and post it and so long as it makes you happy thats fine??

Write bad fanfiction. Write dumb takes. Mischaracterize someone for fun. Make them do dumb shit they wouldn't do in canon. Write 100k words about two characters in different timelines doing shit that is literally impossible in canon. ITS FINE. LITERALLY NO ONE AT ALL IS BEING INJURED BY YOU WRITING MAKE BELIEVE SHIT.

ITS ALL FINE.

YOU'RE NOT BEING PAID TO DO THIS WHY WOULD YOU LISTEN TO SOMEONES SOUR ASS TAKE?? Especially on something you decided to dedicate your own time and effort to and post for free?? Radical self love is the future babes.

[straycalamities]

okay realtalk

[youareinlove]

come on, Tampa swifties. We are counting on you to not be weird. Don’t be weird. I’m literally begging you to be as normal as Florida is capable of being.

[mala-santa-radfem]

why are tifs so obsessed with will graham..... youre never gonna be him babe

[aphiepilled]

i'm gonna be real some of u guys r so freaky with the madcomposting blogs. like it's so easy to be normal and watch from afar but nooo

[rambrandt-the-painter]

i can't say this enough if you dont respect trans people my art is not for you. I'm literally just trying to have a good time, perfect my craft, and express myself

[phant0mh34rt]

Hey guys, friendly reminder that Nate is a human too so don’t do weird shit, cool? Cool. Saw some really weird shit in the chat yesterday.

[messybouquetoflilies]

can i have one normal mental health day, or do we have to cycle through all the mental illnesses first?