#people were so nasty to her

[werewolf-transgenderism]

gwen from merlin deserved better

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

if anyone has no idea what I've been talking about recently, I suggest you go to @fanonical or @nyancrimew , who explain this better than I ever could, but from what I can tell, basically staff has been ignoring reports of harassment against trans women, one member of staff was actively banning trans users, and the CEO started a smear campaign against a trans woman because she jokingly said she wished he would get exploded with hammers (you know, the kind of thing I say regularly--because he wasn't doing anything to protect trans users and hired the aforementioned transphobic staff member), claiming that it was 'a death threat' and that she was 'being violent'....nevermind that she was getting much worse anon harassment with actual death threats on the regular. And then when he banned her and she went to a different site, he followed her there to continue the smear campaign instead of being normal and dropping the subject.

[fromtheseventhhell]

Zutaras are really the original self-insert, "we understand the story soooooo much better than everybody else" girlies and they just never moved on

[thespineoftherighteous]

the way Nora has pulled up after being gone forever just to drunk tweet, make goofy jokes, call Elon musk a rat, and flame up fake deep people with their rupi kaur ass posts like.

[sukibenders]

HOTD showing Viserys having little to no interaction with his children besides Rhaenyra, to the point where he ignores them, which obviously impacts how they turned out as adults.

Some fans: Okay but it's Alicent who raised them, so it's her fault really. Viserys was a good dad to Rhaenyra so---

[thespoonisvictory]

this is a very specific dig but suvi could be closely compared to someone who wants to work for a defense contractor that also does space stuff because of her parent's work in the industry, but her parents were doing groundbreaking scientific research on space exploration, and she is helping manufacture missiles.

and like yes, those things are in the same industry and are far from separate from each other, but it really does feel like it makes a difference in the moment she finds out how much her parents really contributed.

[nerime]

my coworkers are being turbo transphobic and literally refuse to listen to answers to questions they fucking ask argh!!! I can just tell you!!! I can just answer you!!!!! I have answers!!! to the ridiculous questions you ask in a mocking way!!!! if you listen for one second I can just fucking explain!!!! 😡😭😡😭

[voskhozhdeniye]

[jacarandaaaas]

instagram is bringing back mirabel “princess” discourse for the 483747374637th time

[captainofthetidesbreath]

I'm actually really happy that Dani is back on camera for a feature, even for something as small as a short lore video. I remain absolutely irate at the people who attacked and bullied her so deeply that she became camera shy.

[chiiyuuvv]

THIS TAEIL THING IS CRAZY

[magstorrn]

about to leave a scathing review for a historical fiction book on goodreads (felt so strongly about it i made an account for the first time) then chickening out once i realised i'd put down my full name and i dont want to offend the author TOO much in case we end up working in the same field as historians

[chicago-geniza]

This sounds insane but Natasia Demetriou gained almost exactly the same amount of weight I did (from ~8 stone to ~11 stone rather rapidly) and the fact that people are chastising her detractors online and the fact that I find her insanely attractive in seasons 4-5 have done more for my self-esteem than anything else, despite being a five-foot transmasc dyke who looks nothing like her. Being attracted to people about my own size makes me feel better about being fat lol

[theheadlessgroom]

@beatingheart-bride

After breakfast, August decided to briefly retire to his room, just to collect himself before returning to the company of his family, who were gathering in the attic to peacefully enjoy the rest of their morning, a way to unwind after their conversation in the graveyard: He looked forward to it, he looked forward to taking that first real step towards leaving the past behind and living in the moment with his family, but he still needed this moment to himself.

Standing in the bathroom mirror, splashing his face with some cool water, he sighed heavily as he looked at himself, replaying his family's words over and over in his head: The past was in the past. We've made peace with what happened. We have all eternity to be together, and we'd rather spend it happy than resentful.

All wise words from the younger generations, but still a hard pill to swallow. He'd spent so long resenting himself for his addiction, and the ripple effect it had had on his wife and daughter...it was hard to conceive, being able to move forward, even with these words of encouragement from his family. It wasn't that he didn't want to be happy, of course, he wanted to be content, to accept the past and embrace the future (especially when the future meant being with his family again), but...

He was just sighing and toweling off his face when he heard something from the door-peeking out of the bathroom, he saw a piece of paper slid onto the floor, a drawing, he realized, as he picked it up. An endearingly messy drawing of himself and his great-grandchildren, standing together outside of the mansion, the Crayola messages innocently wishing him well and assuring him that they loved him-clearly, a joint effort by Lon and Erika.

August smiled at the drawing, careful not to shed any tears on it as he set it on the nightstand before leaving his and Josephine's room, and heading up to the attic, his old dead heart soothed by such earnest, childish encouragements.

The past was in the past-it was hard to let go, there was no denying that, but with the people he loved believing in him so strongly...

...it didn't seem that way anymore.

[strangeandinteresting]

saw the stex revival today slick they could never make me hate you

[turtlemagnum]

when i was younger and hung out around my uncle a lot more than i do now, i remember whenever he referred to things regarding his native heritage, he always just called it "indian". called himself an indian, called the words he taught us indian, so on. since i was a little kid who didn't know any better, i didn't know that "indian" in the context of indigenous americans was a very broad, frankly bastardized term to paint a vast variety of cultures spanning two whole damn continents with one brush. it only occurred to me as i got much older than i was at the time that there'd be more than one "indian" language, and up until now since i had no idea what tribe(s) he even is i couldn't even begin to know where to look unless i found a download of every goddamn interlingual dictionary available and painstakingly checked every godddamn one for what their word for "thunder" is

the word he taught us meant thunder was hiloha. i didn't even know how to spell it until now, because he only ever said it aloud. literally just a few minutes ago, i decided to ask my grandma (his sister) if we knew what tribe(s) he belonged to. and apparently he's a mix of choctaw and makah. which gave me a lead, which led to me finding a dictionary on libgen, which led to me word searching "thunder" in the choctaw to english dictionary. it's the only word i remember him teaching us, and i'm unsure if he ever tried teaching us others. but it was his dogs name, and he was a damn good boy, so i remembered it clear as day. though, they normally shortened it to "hilo".

so, i guess what came out of this is that i now know a bit more about my uncle's heritage, and where to look for more research. so, if you're gonna have a takeaway from this, i'd appreciate it if you remembered the word "hiloha". it means thunder. and aside from being the name of a very good boy who deserves to be remembered, i think it's even more important to remember the histories, cultures, and of course the languages of all the indigenous folks who came before us and did their damndest to preserve their cultures in spite of it all.