#massive reflection

[spokenforinvaliduser]

iced nitro cold brew with vanilla sweet cream

[jakeperalta]

the thing is I already know that men and society at large hate women. I know that young men in particular increasingly skew right and towards misogyny (I've read the articles, although all I really need to do is spend any time on any part of the internet to see the evidence). but then every so often something like this happens where it still somehow surprises me. like my god.. they really hate us this much.

[quantumshade]

there's an interesting thing rtd said from the commentary about the "real mom" line:

i get not liking the line but like. it's an intentional mistake and an intentional character choice, and something we'll return to in the future, and that seems like important context to have when talking about the episode.

[clumsypuppy]

someone left me a comment asking abt my pokeask days so....... i drew my old muses ^_^

[kobochasketch]

Various Citadel boys from last year's sketchbook. ;)

[johnnyshrine]

★ 159 // “Mental Inventory Check”

[alicedrawslesmis]

I just saw a post saying that sometimes people click out of a fic if their fave is suddenly good in bed asdfghjkl and it got me to think if we were to take les mis super realistically, Enjolras would be bad at sex. He's uninterested in it, maybe even sex-repulsed but if we were to assume he's explicitly celibate by choice and not by temperament, he's still a huge virgin who does not engage in the whole exercise

But! If we take les mis as intended with it's fantastical supernatural elements and the narrative symbolism, Enjolras would be so divinely good at sex that he would maybe cause people to orgasm so hard they go blind.

[izunias-meme-hole]

Big Loki. A rarity.

[capsfriendly]

with the caps at home vs the panthers tonight, i wanted to come on here and say a couple things about the panthers’ visit to the white house.

i’ve seen some people on here and on twitter pointing out the hypocrisy of certain players who have vocally supported diversity initiatives in hockey turning around and doing a photo op with a man who is nakedly trying to strip marginalized people of their rights. the sense of betrayal those fans are feeling is completely justified. despite appearances, conservative politics are incredibly popular among nhl players. i’m not writing to defend any of these men (my views lean pretty far left), but to share my understanding of the ways north american hockey as an institution perpetuates conservatism.

1) barrier of entry

ice hockey requires a lot of equipment to play. to be able to put a child through the decade or more of club dues and equipment fees required to begin seeing returns on investment—in men’s hockey, this begins with stipend pay at the major junior level in north america—requires an amount of money that many families simply cannot pay (though there are a bevy of charities trying to combat this). sports like soccer and basketball, which require comparably little equipment, are far more popular among both players of color and players from low-income families, especially in countries where hockey isn’t a national pastime.

because of this economic disparity between those who can play hockey and those who can’t, locker rooms can turn into echo chambers of privilege.

2) lack of higher education

i’m not sure of the data for other countries, but in the united states, there is a high positive correlation between holding a college degree and voting for democratic candidates. north american players are drafted to the nhl from major junior and collegiate teams, and entrance to professional leagues cuts their education short.

nhl players drafted from collegiate teams often enter the league without completing a bachelor’s degree, getting a year or two of higher education. during those years, many pick classes that they already have a strong knowledge base in, aware they’ll need to keep their grades up to maintain their university’s gpa requirement for athletes. because of this, many miss out on subjects that would teach them about systems of inequality like statistics, sociology, and studies of groups of historically marginalized people.

major juniors players, who move away from home in their mid teens, are even worse off. they leave school, usually completing the bare minimum requirements of a high school diploma to focus on their development as players and travel for games. and up until a recent vote, athletes from the canadian major junior hockey leagues were ineligible from playing ncaa hockey.

3) body economics

like all athletes, hockey players’ bodies are their jobs. the natural decline of their bodies over time limits their playing careers to the years of their lives when they can physically compete with both opposing players (to win games) and their own teammates (for roster spots).

the mean nhl career is 7 years. many hockey players don’t learn another trade and have no guarantee of making a successful career transition after retirement from playing (though some go on to coaching and media positions).

this creates a pressure to make as much money as possible while they still can, knowing that every time the take to the ice to do their jobs, they risk the very things they use to earn money: their bodies.

the physical nature of hockey means that a career-ending injury could come at any point. holding onto their earnings, knowing they’ll likely make up the bulk of income over their entire life, is essential to ensuring the comfort and health of themselves and their families.

earning high paychecks for an inherently limited number of years, it becomes attractive to these players to support candidates who promise to cut taxes for the rich, something popular among conservative politicians. while players may bear no ill will to members of historically marginalized groups and may even support their rights and freedoms, their personal economic situations lead them to vote for politicians who perpetuate that marginalization.

there are plenty of straight-up bigots playing major league sports. the panthers shouldn’t be singled out for visiting 1600 pennsylvania avenue. not because supporting the current administration isn’t reprehensible, but because it isn’t unique among hockey players—or even among athletes.

[oneluckygoose]

It might just be the architect in me but I can see the Herondale’s childhood home in my mind as clearly as if it were a memory

[karinablisx]

My vitamin D deficiency was screaming for some sun the other day!

This is the last month my OF will be free!

I just added a poll to see what kind of content I should make next / what you would like!

Leave a comment with you’re thoughts here too 😜

[rawliverandgoronspice]

anyway to end the series on ganondorf tp's writing, my take (which isn't canon but arguable as a valid "death of the author" read imo) is that he is at his most iredeemable AND that's because he has zero things left to lose and no community left and his goal doesn't even make sense anymore he is parasitic and a ghost and pathologically obsessed by his own godlike legitimacy because that is the only thing he still has and it has prolonged his life in a horrible diminished state in a nightmare dimension so SURELY it must mean something right right RIGHT

[ysaefinn]

Do we call you suguru's wife or suguru's husband?

Suguru's strange clingy cat that bites

[sunshinechay]

Ming really has learned in both the best and worst ways. He has changed yet he is still stagnant. He is so different and the exact same person Joe knew 2 years ago.

Ming has learned to be more direct. He is so much more honest with what he wants and isn’t afraid to say it out loud anymore. He wants Joe to come back to him. He wants the chance to prove to Joe that he loves him, that he waited for him.

But he is still so selfish and single minded. He will still stop at nothing to get what he wants, to the detriment of others. He clings to a version of Joe that no longer exists. He waits for that Joe to come back even after the fortune teller tells him that Joe will come back to him in a way he never expected.

He wants his Joe back to badly that he will take advantage of Joe’s money troubles and his mother’s medical emergency to get a feeling. To get the sense that Joe 2.0 gives him. To feel like he is around HIS Joe again. And because of that, he is missing that Joe has come back to him. He misses that he is just repeating the same actions he did 2 years ago that caused Joe to be in the situation he is in.

I posited a few weeks ago that I think Ming is too in his own way to truly get what he wants. I think his actions this episode prove that even more. Ming will single mindedly ruin the lives of others and himself because he can’t get out of his own way, out of his own head and realize that the world doesn’t revolve around him nor around his feelings for Joe.

Right now he’s missing the forest for the trees and he needs to take a step back and honestly think about whether or not anything that he is doing right now is worth it or if he’s only screwing up his chances at getting back together with Joe. He might not know now that Joe 2.0 is his Joe, but when he finds out, he may just have to step back and think. Or he’ll risk losing Joe forever.

[intricate-ritualz]

fics where connor is written as just a strange fucking guy >>>

[bougiebutchbinch]

gotta say it's very funny having requested all clinical notes for my case before I move to a different part of the country

and seeing a couple doctors arguing over me ksldlkdshkjdsg

just to say please don't send in any asks requesting details about my medical situation.... it's very complex, very miserable, and very private. ABSOLUTELY no hard feelings - I understand curiosity! I myself am very fascinated by disease! It's kinda my job lmao! But I've had a couple asks that I didn't want to answer and just deleted, and this is why xxx