#now it's a privilege to be dead?

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[super-nova5045]

sylvia plath, todd anderson and virginia woolf (aka ACTUAL tortured poets) watching taylor “im breaking up with my boyfriend for his intense depression and blaming it on him, im dating a racist who enjoys watching woc being brutalized and harasses young woc artists, i sent my fans out on a hate train to attack a young woc actress for a line she had to say as part of her job to show how mentally ill her character was, im dating a maga supporter, i refuse to say anything about a current genocide despite being the most influential person in the world right now, i am a billionaire, i fly 13 minute flights and have the highest carbon emission of any celebrity, i am a known white feminist who only speaks about issues when it affects me and has constantly let my fans get away with extreme racism and even encouraged it by associating myself with known racists” swift call herself a tortured poet (her writing sounds like a bunch of thesaurus words slapped over gabba hanna and rupi kaur-esque poetry that was created purely as a trinket for an edgy pinterest board)

[pandorem]

Okay so I don’t feel the most qualified to talk about this, especially to make any value judgements on how any of this was handled, so I would love other people to add in if they feel like it, but this is eating my brain actually so.

Esther Finch is a funny villain. She’s a joy to watch on screen, even if part of that joy is in hating her. But there’s something that feels very deliberate in the fact that the only two girls (barring in the animated flashback) we see her target are black girls. Becky Aspen and Crystal. I don’t think we’re supposed to infer from this that she only ever targets black girls, but the casting of Becky feels deliberate. While there’s plenty of in universe explanation for why she wants to use Crystal to feed to her snake afterwards and doesn’t ever say, specifically target Niko, it’s still there. And though Niko was just hurt because she got in the way, she’s also another woman of colour we see Esther hurt.

And then at the end Crystal, who many have pointed out has been a voice for women throughout the whole season, stands in front of Lilith, the goddess of wronged women, and screams to her about who gets justice for all the little girls Esther hurt. And then Lilith, played by a black woman, is the one to drag Esther away.

Crystal says to Esther that she knows how anger can poison you. Esther says she learned to be predator instead of prey a long time ago. Do I think that the show literally wants us to think that Esther is a racist who deliberately targets black girls? No. Do I think the casting choices that they made bring up themes of the kind of people who, because they have been hurt or marginalized, want to push others down to have others that they can have power over instead? Whose problems with societal oppression is not that it exists, but that they aren’t the ones who get to benefit from it? I think so.

[yangjeongin]

HYUNJIN | 230903 • WOLFGANG @ 5-STAR DOME TOUR 2023 NAGOYA

[scribbleboxfox]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT WAS WORSE THAN I EXPECTED

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

people who treat being Unable to do something as a privilege are baffling like “what if you were in poverty?” i'd be homeless and die on the street. that’s what happens to disabled people like me without support systems. having wealth is obviously a privilege, but being marginalised And having wealth doesn’t make your marginalisation disappear or become an advantage it just keeps us from fucking dying. if utilising privilege to stop yourself from fucking dying from oppression made that oppression a privilege there would be no oppressed groups.

[mijukaze]

Banned from bringing bugs inside so she somehow brings something worse

[imaginarianisms]

more asoiaf comparisons, parallels & antiparallels to the first dance of the dragons vs the second & final dance of the dragons (& possibly the sixth blackfyre rebellion): the blacks being daenerys i targaryen's supporters, the golds being aegon vi targaryen's supporters, tommen baratheon being a close equivalent to gaemon palehair & his mother essie & sylvenna sand which may be interpreted as a parallel with queen cersei lannister & taena merryweather of myr, trystane truefyre being a close equivalent to aegon/young griff & perkin being jon connington & the shepherd being the new high septon the high sparrow, dalton greyjoy being euron i greyjoy's ancestor & the latter surpassing him, alyn waters later alyn velaryon resembling aurane waters later aurane velaryon & finishing what their ancestors started. history repeats itself.

[porcelaintoybox23]

There is a time and a place for everything. Right now is NOT the time to be lecturing people on voting for Biden in 2024. I will vote for him next year, but with even more disdain than I did in 2020. “Lesser of two evils” is an option that dies more each day. The problems he was supposed to stop have persisted and now he openly supports genocide. I’m fucking disgusted.

Stop lecturing people when they are grieving and afraid. Humanity doesn’t disappear for an election. The dems need to get their shit together and probably pick someone who hasn’t explicitly supported genocide, but since the senate, including Sanders and Warren, agreed to a “humanitarian pause”, we’re kinda fucked regardless.

No one wants to hear from a white, not Jewish, not Palestinian, person on sucking up their privilege. Shut the fuck up

[snekdood]

bitches really be treating you like a dumb bimbo when you're blonde huh

[swordmaid]

the fact that you can know recruit minthara via grove raid defence means that she can finally be a companion in shri’iia’s playthrough …!!!!

[neiptune]

man oh man am I but an absolute SUCKER for the talented enemies to forced buddies who complete each other dynamic

[widevibratobitch]

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[darksteelreign]

How adorable are you? tagged by: technically no one, I'm just doing it for Barnabas, too. tagging: @phoenix-flamed @sharpnosedscout

"...No."

[egopathic]

how to cope with your partners parents being spineless, pathetic pieces of shit who bow down to the every whim of their 19 year old princess who never mentally left middle school