This has happened to me before when I was in college at a frat party. This girl comes squeezing herself in between me and my friend and throws her arms around me. “Amanda, I am so glad you decided to come!” I was so confused and just figured she was drunk and mistaked me for someone else, until I saw the panic on her face. She leaned close and whispered that a guy was following her, was certain that he had put something in her drink and if I would please play along. I looked behind her and sure enough, some creep was watching her like a hawk. We invited her to hang out with us the rest of the night and even waited until her ride showed up just to make sure she was safe. Always look out for each other!
If you ever feel scared like this just come up to me like we have been friends since kindergarten, call me any name u can come up with ill play along.
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Stay together, stay safe
Perfect advice. I’m reblogging this as a guy, because first of all, if you”re a guy : DON’T DO THAT. Don’t be that creep.
And if you’re a guy and you notice some creep is following or stalking a girl, and that she’s obviously uncomfortable or panicked, go ahead and say hi, long time no see, pretend to be her cousin, and tell her discretly you noticed there was a shady guy. Ask her if something’s wrong, if she feels unsafe, if she wants your help (very important - she may not trust you enough, no one could blame her, don’t take it personally). (and don’t you dare take advantage of the help you offered for a flirt opportunity, that would make you no better than the creep)
We can all stop “witnessing and do nothing”, and set an example.
Reblog every time because there are new stories every time.
Listen there was one time I was on the subway at like 1am and this dude was staring hardcore at this girl who was standing by the doors. And after every stop when the train emptied a bit, he’d move seats across the car that much closer to her, all while keeping eye contact. It was obvious he was trying to jump out the train at whatever stop this girl got off at, and the train stations in my neighborhood are dark and isolated as fuck. Girls get assaulted and abducted all the time.
So I got up from my seat went next to her and was like “hey do you know how to get to Rockaway?” And she told me that I’d have to get off this train and wait for another one to come by to get there (which I knew).
So I said “Ugh that sucks. This might be weird but can you wait with me? I wanna make sure I get on the right train.” And she looked like she was gonna say no but I whispered “That dude looks like he’s gonna follow you home just get off when I do.”
So when we got to my stop and the doors opened, I waited until the conductor was about to close them before grabbing her hand and hauling ass out the car. We turned back and saw that dude smacking and punching on the glass of the closed train door looking furious, cursing the both of us, saying that he was gonna kill us and beat the shit out of us. This poor girl was definitely younger than me and she was near tears so I was like “calm down, I’ll buy you a sandwich from the bodega and I’ll buy you an Uber home.” I didn’t let this girl out of my sight until she got into the Uber, and I made her text me when she got home.
Not to be dramatic, but I might’ve saved that girl’s life for all I know. Please be alert. Look out for other women, especially late at night. Be smart. Keep each other safe.
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.
so this might seem dumb but its helped a lot instead of saying “i wanna die” in normal conversation or like in my head in response to minor inconveniences like even as a joke, saying “i wanna go to bed” has like. improved my life tenfold no joke
