women who perform sexual acts on underage boys deserve to be thrown under the prison never to see the light of day again right next to the men who perform sexual acts on underage girls
and if you disagree you don’t deserve to be around kids. i wouldn’t trust you with my toenail much less a child
reminder to the aussies in this fandom that our current and past governments have been condoning racist acts for far too long and we need to take a long hard look at who we have voted in to sit in parliament.
soon it will be our time to show our politicians and government won’t and shouldn’t be condoned in this country.
Victoria (end of Nov) and NSW (early 2019) have elections coming up as well as the federal election which will be called sometime before June 2019.
i strongly encourage every one of you to do some in-depth research about what your local MPs are standing for because currently our nation is in a very disgusting place.
we have a very long way to go when it comes to racism (as well as homophobia and sexism) in this country. now is not the time for silence
ALSO when researching PLEASE remember that while a specific candidate may have similar values to you and is promoting those values it is also important to look at the values of their party too because it is extremely rare for anyone to vote against party lines.
26 days til the Victorian election !!! check if ur enrolled here or get enrolled here
don’t bring “leak” content into my notes, i don’t put my posts out there for people to comment conspiracy theory bs on it when its completely unrelated
learning how not to fish for compliments can really help how you interact with others. here’s some common phrases i’ve noticed:
“here’s my shitty art”
“lol i’m so ugly in this selfie”
“you’re so creative. i’m nowhere near as creative as you”
“your writing is amazing! i wish mine was that good”
what all of these have in common is that they all involve putting yourself down. when you do that, those around you feel obligated to compliment you, which can make them feel frustrated that they have to just to be polite. not only that, but by talking yourself down you feel worse about yourself. the latter two phrases also centre your problems, distracting the attention from the person you’re trying to compliment. that often makes them feel bad!
here’s how to fix those phrases:
“here’s my art”
“selfie time!”
“you’re so creative. how do you do it?”
“your writing is amazing! do you have any tips?”
by cutting out the negativity, you make it so nobody feels obligated to compliment you. you’ll usually get more compliments this way because people don’t feel uncomfortable! the latter two phrases now also centre the artist and their knowledge. not only do they make the artist feel good, they also might score you some good advice.
this strategy will also help to boost your confidence in the long run. if you stop prefacing every compliment with negativity, you’ll be able to internalise them better.
You know, the news is really sheltering gentiles from the full horror of what happened this morning when they keep using the phrase “Brit Milah.” Yes, that’s what was happening in the synagogue this morning, but do you know what it is?
It’s a baby naming.
Every bit as important as a christening or first birthday.
That is what this shooter opened fire on. A baby naming with people praying for that baby’s health and happiness and future.
Goyim, please take antisemitism seriously and work to actively critique the antisemitism within and around yoi, whether it is implicit or explicit. So many of us are in mourning after Squirrel Hill bcz we’re terrified of stuff like this happening. We need you to be in solidarity, supporting us. There’s a better world out there, and we can build it, but one of the requirements for that is rooting out antisemitism. Z”L
As a whitey i can tell you you cant “accidentally” say the N word. Ive known how bad it was since i was a kid. If you are mad and that word comes to your lips its because its a part of you. Your anger is stronger than your fear of commiting horribly racist acts, which makes you hella racist
I have literally never said the n word in my life and neither have any of my friends. you can’t say it on accident. it just doesn’t happen.
Enemies to “ugh I can’t believe I’m saving your life” to “ugh we have to work together or the world ends but it’s not like I like you or anything” to “oh we actually connect pretty well but that doesn’t mean anything” to “I would die for you but don’t read too much into it” to “I’ll kill anyone who lays a finger on you” to Lovers.
anyways hiruzen was a dumb ugly insensitive inconsiderate fuckin bitch for not allowing anyone who knew naruto’s parents around him during his growth. like it literally impacted his development so much – he didn’t even get a caretaker or anything? he just grew up by himself with the entire village shunning him for a reason he didn’t know and he just had to deal with it. and we can assume that hiruzen was one of the only people that naruto could come to, as he KNEW what happened the day of his birth and saw naruto regularly to give him his monthly allowance from a young age plus he didn’t seem to shun him like the rest. but because of the detached treatment he gave naruto, NARUTO DIDN’T FEEL LIKE HE COULD GO TO HIM ANYWAYS AND FOUND COMFORT IN A FUCKING RAMEN VENDOR, IM SO FUCKING MAD. IN THIS MOTHERFUCKING ESSAY, I WILL
found family is a good (gay) trope but tbh i’m wary of it these days bc i feel like it’s reached a critical mass of people weaponising found family as a concept as a foil for implying gay sexual and/or romantic content between characters (who are absolutely not related by blood/marriage/bond/etc in the source material) is predatory or incestual or w/e, and getting away with it because they’re not explicitly being homophobic in an easy to read, easily identified fashion.
just say X/Y is your notp and you prefer them in gen/as friends, easy done. there’s no reason to go full maude flanders and weep about the sanctity of male friendship and/or create from whole cloth increasingly bananas incestual interpretations as the nuclear option of wiping out gay interpretations, you feel me? relax. let it go. use a tag blocker if a non-found family character combo really wiggles your jello, ‘cause ultimately the only person who can moderate your own experience is you.
(but also i guess maybe indulge in some introspection as to why ‘actually i think they’re brothers’ is the automatic fallback to shut down gay interpretations or why people feel such a burning need to wig out about how X/Y is so bad and unwholesome without ever getting to the heart of the matter (ie 'i don’t like it because i just don’t like it’) but, hey, one step at a time)
ok. you’re takashi shirogane. you’ve been a clone for several months and also simultaneously living inside the consciousness of a black lion where your only interaction was a feeble attempt to reach your best friend before said best friend literally disappears from all of your lives. he comes back and he’s two years older and fucking hot as hell. abs? pecs? hot mom? you are screwed. you get brainwashed. boy takes on a fleet of cruisers and then follows you into literal death, fights you, gets permanently scarred, saves your life somehow anyway.
so you wake up and he’s there. he’s like. your rock. your everything. you fall asleep on him and when you wake up again it’s to his voice begging you not to die. he leans down, pauses, and then presses his face into your neck for a hug. you’re internally dying. this is so much. you’ve come back from death maybe four times now all thanks to this suddenly hot as fuck funky alien boy and then you get stuck in the lion whose consciousness you possessed along with his mother and the team’s collective father figure.
shiro spends one night bunking with keith while krolia and coran sleep one bed over and dies all over again.
anyway obviously there just was more room in the green lion’s cargo bay.
just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog
oh hey!! I’m not a janky radfem I can do it myself!
makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a “lazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. you’re supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and that’s uuuuuuh what’s the word? bullshit.
Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and you’re done.
0 products also works great
because I’m gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but it’s really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all
I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but that’s up to you
I’m sorry if I didn’t express this clearly enough in the original post but I’m not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how it’s Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter
no face should be “required” to have “a minimum” of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.
makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.
this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that
the notes: so like……. what youre saying is……. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 instead… i gotcha
Really the only makeup you need is eyeliner but that’s just my personal opinion
This is a new blog to promote and encourage the creation of woman/woman content for the Voltron fandom! In addition to reblogging general wlw and female character content, this blog will also be hosting a monthly minifest involving one or two prompts that people are free to create content for.
At the moment, I’m still setting the blog up, so I’m just posting this to see if there’s any interest in this!
What can you do for now?
I’d love a signal boosting reblog to get the word out about the blog so I can see how many people are interested. I’ll soon be posting some more information about the monthly minifests, and some rules and FAQs.
The first month for the minifest will be November unless I see enough interest in the next couple of days to quickly put together a post for October.
The minifest is designed to be super low stress, so it will just be one or two prompts that creators can make any kind of fanwork for and self-post to be reblogged here and added to an AO3 collection (for fics).
*This blog will be discourse and hate-free, and no content will be reblogged if it contains any discourse or anti-sentiments (ship hate, character hate) within the post.
The only reason Lotor wanted power was because everyone kept showing him that the only way to stop getting hurt is to be more powerful than the people who want to hurt you, not because he’s some “bad dude” who just “wanted power all along”
That’s what Voltron is about. You need power to fight. They needed Voltron the most powerful weapon in the galaxy to win. And isn’t it funny people WITH ALL THE POWER hating on others trying to get some power so they can save themselves and the people they care about. And I’m still mad they act like he didn’t tell them he wanted unlimited quintessence right from the start. It’s not like he tricked them into doing it.
Not only do they hate on others for trying to get the power to be able to defend themselves, they also condemn people without the necessary power for not doing more.
Take the way Allura speaks to the BoM in the s2 finale. When they can’t confirm if Thace’s part of the plan worked they want to pull back. Allura tells them that they’ve been pulling back for far too long and that that’s the reason why Zarkon is still in power, completely ignoring the fact that the BoM cannot afford to risk themselves like this because they didn’t have an indestructible nuke aka a cheat-coded robo on their side.
They are condemned for not trying harder by the person who has been sleeping on a super weapon for 10k years.
The fact that this happens isn’t necessarily bad for the story, stories need conflict, but the way the narrative frames it is wrong. The team are never called out for it and the narrative frames it so that Allura turns out to be right which, imo, feels kinda like it’s a big fuck you to anyone trying their best in the hellscape of no good options that Zarkon created.
It’s a double standard setting and it’s incredibly frustrating to watch, especially when the narrative keeps washing the team’s hands of any responsibility (like, say, the power vacuum they created after getting rid of Lotor because they had to jump the gun on their emotions and play at being judge, jury, and executioner).
“kids these days are so cringey w their fortnite dances-” are none of yall going to acknowledge the shit we did. are we not going to acknowledge gangnam style. what does the fox say. if we go older hamster dance. crazy frog. the fucking duck song. the llama song. charlie the unicorn.
do all the jeff goldblum stans realize that he’s on his third wife and she’s literally half his age
Half his age, as in she was born in 1983 making her 35 years old and an adult with adult agency and life experiences to balance out the inexperience and power dynamics that make age gap relationships questionable at best and predatory at worst?
Like I get where you’re coming from, a lot of the time there is good reason to side-eye wide age gap relationships. But there’s also sometimes nuance, like the fact that they met and got engaged when she was 31, and as near as I can find from a quick google search, his other marriages although having ended, did not end for awful or violent reasons. Sometimes people just realize they made a mistake or their needs change, and they are allowed to do things to rectify them, like responsibly end a marriage for the sake of those involved rather than continue torturing each other.
Also if the objection is to how many times he’s been married, his second wife
Geena Davis (also in her 30s when she married him)
has been married four times. Is that unacceptable too?
I’m not trying to be hostile and I don’t particularly care about him either way. This just seems like such vague phrasing designed to provoke an inflammatory response and I can’t seem to find any receipts to back it up other than the fact that he has indeed been married three times, married a younger woman in her 30s, has a son with her, and has talked openly about how they go to couples therapy to deal with their shit, which is actually, if you think about it, a very healthy thing to do.
And for what it’s worth, his first wife
Patricia Gaul was born in 1945 making him the younger of the two (1952), but
making them of comparable and compatible ages when they got married to each other in
their 30s. Like I’m just not seeing the behavior or someone here who is a
repeat offender of chasing after vulnerable young women in the same way say, Drake is blatantly grooming a 14 year old girl.
Horrible, horrible lad. I hate his nasty tube arms. Floats in the air like a god damn coward. His wailing/bellowing noises peeled the paint off my walls. I had to kill him with a damn anti-aircraft gun and not even my cool big sword and flame feet. Was rude to Jeanne, which I’m pretty sure is illegal in 49 countries. I hate his big stupid face. I feel like he’s about to tell me about how much he admires Margaret Thatcher. I’ve never fought a video game boss that reminds me more of my republican grandfather.
4. IUSTITA
Well first of all it hurt Cheshire so that makes them immediately un-valid. But even if it hadn’t, what the fuck. This is the nastiest mess I’ve ever seen. They really just let any fucked up asshole be a Cardinal Virtue. I think I dodged and triggered Witch Time perfectly each time, out of just utter primal fear of being crushed between
Iustitia’s big spiky plant nuts. The disgusting open mouths with their weird gross blob-hearts evoke the same kind of feeling in me as hearing someone say the word “vore” in real, actual life. To top it all off, there’s that creepy tube-baby which is about the last thing I want to associate with an angelic boss whose name I keep misreading as “Lust-ia”. I feel no lust looking upon this monstrosity.
3. JUBILEUS, THE CREATOR
The thing about Jubileus is that it’s not really her fault, it was my asshole dad’s. If I was woken up from my ten-thousand year nap by that aging twink bastard, I would probably be grumpy, too. So that part is valid. Turning me into a child version of myself a bunch of times was a little weird of her, though. And she kept on opening that portal that would suck me into the cold void of space, which is why we had summon Queen Sheba to kick her ass. Granted, my beloved wife Jeanne did stab her in the eye, but we could have talked about it. Next time try using your words, Jubileus.
2. SAPIENTIA
Now this is a gal I’d love to keep in an aquarium on my desk. She is immediately valid for looking like a cool lizard and not having a single tube in sight. I enjoyed surfing, it was fun, it was kind of like I was sexy lesbian Ahab and she was the white whale. I wasn’t even too upset when she tried to chomp me, she’s just living her life. Sapientia is valid, except for the time she caused a big explosion that was really hard to outrun. That seemed unnecessary.
