"i am undone without you"

"hup"

Listen, I know it said back flip, which is objectively hilarious here, but I cannot see "hup" and think of anything but this

(Ft. Poorly drawn fence)

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Bandy Baluigi Badboon….

…..Sulk Donk….

Bong King 😏

compare the backlash lil nas x is recieving for a 3 minute music video vs. supernatural running for 15 years, having a cameo from every biblical character, making Thee Christian God bisexual, killing that Bisexual Christian God™, replacing him with lucifer's son, having a gay angel, and on and on and on. compare his THREE MINUTE VIDEO to lucifer, the show that has ran on for five years, about the redemption of a bisexual satan. this is about race. what they're doing to him is because he's Black. white people get to do whatever the fuck they want with Christian mythology and no one blinks an eye.

you know what's going on with lil nas x is persecution, right. it's not "just" internet trolling—he's only 21 and being targeted by SITTING SENATORS for his art. this is textbook persecution, complete with the coalescing of religion and political power, and the fact that he can fire off meme-y one liners doesn't change that! fucking hell! it horrifies me how this is being played off for laughs, even by leftists and "we are the daughters of witches you couldn't burn" crowd. it's terrifying and the actual, bodily threat to him is VERY REAL regardless of how funny his responses are.

I'm not Black so I didn't think it was appropriate of me to talk about his Blackness but dear GOD the disparity between lil nas x's vulnerability and openness about his sexuality in his art and public appearance, and the amount of backlash and discrimination he's suffered for it vs the amount of public recognition and institutional support he's gotten as compared to harry styles who put on a fucking skirt and got hailed as the King Of The Gays™ is so blatantly racist.

this is just from my tags but i 100% agree. at the max cishets and all of those 'christians' will accept white lgbt artists and barely anyone else. nas, being a black, darkskin man with obvious (beautiful) afro features is also playing a big part in this - people are saying hes doing too much, hes pushing a demonic agenda, hes harming their children meanwhile harry styles barely if ever gets this type of backlash; lighter-skinned black artists do have a privilege in the music industry (for ex. i hate to use her here but cardi b was embraced a lot easier compared to megan because she could actually choose to embrace her blackness or not which is a whole other story but).

the only reason all of this hate didn't come earlier is because since nas had tattoos and wore clothing people agree men should wear, that hes darkskin and goodlooking therefore hes not really gay because hes not acting typically feminine enough. <- which is another example of him being demonized and people are still going around saying its such a pity he's gay bc they want his bbc.

black artists in general whenever they get popular are always surrounded with rumours of selling their soul, being the devils puppet and etc. which is really harmful for obvious reasons. when u have white artists who actually gaybait, like taylor swift, they dont get these same reactions. harry styles no matter what he does will never get this type of reacting from the general public, hes still a white man.

then, again bc of racism, colorism, demonization and all of that shit nas isnt even allowed to showcase any anxiety or nervousness towards this issue. hes giving those funny tweet replies only because thats the only thing he can do right now to alleviate the situation somewhat and not make it drastically worse. if we're being honest, if he publicly said he was hurt and affected and even planned to take a mental health break, nobody would take him seriously. if he took the legal side of dealing with things... like u said actual senators would attack him so

[id: tags that read "#yall are forgetting hes black so hes not gonna get the harry styles treatment #important #antiblackness" end id]

I think also, he had the audacity to be a Black gay man who entered into a genre that’s almost entirely white (and, these days, blatantly white-supremacist in the “we love the KKK” kind of way). He didn’t “stay in his place.” He said “bitch, this IS my place, shut the fuck up” and The White Establishment At Large didn’t like that.

I’d suggest further that he’s suffering because he’s a gay man, as opposed to a lesbian or bisexual woman. WLW don’t have a cakewalk either, but there is a certain level of queerness women can get away with in the public sphere that men can’t. (As an example, although both these people are white: when Lady Gaga came out as bi, she was a “bicon” and it was “fresh” and “brave.” When Adam Lambert came out as gay, it destroyed his American career. These two things happened within a year of each other.)

LNX is that intersectional person the right yells about as “unrealistic,” and I suspect that’s the thing that’s most damning of all. He’s a Black gay male (who is gay! And a man!) who just kind of said “fuck genres they’re boring” and treats gender roles as a bad suggestion. Every item on that list is one more tick-off for a large subset of American culture, and that’s why it’s so fucking bad.

No but seriously as I’ve gotten older I realize more and more that although white gays do face certain levels of oppression they are still white people.....like does that make sense?

Like yes a white lesbian has some form oppression against her but she’s still a white woman..... and the same thing for white gay men and white trans men and women like they’re still white !!!!!!

Like I don’t mean this in a rude way but like if we’re going to be honest about the lgbtq community we should also talk about how the white people in said community oppress poc and it doesn’t change just because they’re in a minority group they’re still white people

And like personally I’ve seen that white lgbtq ppl hate when you bring up that their still white because they’ve separated themselves in their mind as being better but they’re still white!!!

Hello white people should definitely be looking at this and reblogging it lmaooo

Hey if you’re schizophrenic/psychotic I just want you to know that you’re a wonderful person and that you deserve so much better than the demonization, marginalization and stigmatization you face in this society.

Please consider reblogging this/other positivity posts for schizophrenic/psychotic people every once in a while. If you have more than 100 followers, odds are that a couple of them experiences psychosis and that they rarely see positivity posts for people with their symptoms.

The Last Of Us Part II

I played and finished The Last Of Us Part II last week and it has been on my mind ever since. I obviously understand that a lot of people have problems with this game, and that’s okay. I’m not here to change anyone’s views on the game or anything, I just want to kind of write down my opinions and takeaways as, again, it’s been on my mind since finishing it lol. Nobody may see this and this will mean nothing, that’s fine. 

Anyway, this post will contain SPOILERS

My Overall Thoughts

I’m not entirely sure how to structure this so I guess I’ll just start with a broad statement lol; I loved The Last Of Us Part II. In my opinion, it’s a beautiful and well-crafted story about loss, grief and consequences, with how each of these things affect different people. 

Discussion 

From what I’ve seen, I see a lot of people hating on this game for its handling of Joel and the decision to have the player play as Joel’s murderer, Abby. I’ve also seen a lot of people say that the message is as simple and plain as “viOleNcE iS bAd”, but I personally think it’s so much more than that.

The Last Of Us Part II doesn’t just tell you that violence is bad, but it shows you the ramifications of it by dealing with the emotional toll as well as the consequences on not just the main person involved, but their loved ones too.

As we all know, at the start of the game, Joel is brutally killed by Abby and we go with Ellie on a mission to avenge him by killing everybody involved. We see it all from Ellie’s point of view, hardheartedly seeing Abby as the villain as she just killed the character that we know and love as we have an emotional connection to him after the first game. His death is supposed to make you feel angered. It’s not like you’re supposed to be joyed by it. His death scene left me feeling empty and sick, wanting revenge alongside Ellie. 

However, as the game goes on, we start to see the story from Abby’s point of view. We learn that the doctor that you, the player, had to murder at the end of The Last of Us is actually the father of Abby. This is brilliant. Now we see one of the main themes of the story, consequences, and I was immediately on board. Joel is not a good person, at all. He murdered hundreds of Fireflies and took away the possible cure for humanity for his own personal reasons. This is incredibly selfish, even going to the lengths of lying to Ellie about the events as he knows that it isn’t what she would want. Technically, Joel is the villain.

Joel had been through so much, so you may think it’s justified. But the point is, Joel isn’t the only person in the world of The Last of Us. Everybody he murders aren’t just mindless NPCs, they are people. People with their own problems who have gone through their own share of pain and loss, people with their own loved ones. Such as the doctor, who had Abby, whom he loved very much and Abby the same. So, understandably, she would feel incredibly angry and feel the need for revenge, just the same as Ellie and the player after Joel’s death.

There is now a cycle of revenge. Ellie goes on to kill Abby’s friends, and so Abby tries to kill Ellie and her friends. It’s not until Lev talks Abby out of it that the cycle seems to have been “broken”. Abby and Lev put it behind them, however, Ellie cannot and nor can Tommy, which means that the cycle is not broken. Ellie continues her hunt for revenge, thinking it’s still what she needs. Just as she’s about to murder Abby, she sees it’s completely useless.

Here I’m going to talk about another core theme of the story: loss. As Ellie is about to kill Abby, she realises that Joel is gone. Completely gone, and killing Abby is not going to change that. She now has Lev, and if Ellie was to kill Abby, Lev would only lose Abby, leaving him in the same situation Ellie was in at the start of the game, which in turn means Ellie is becoming what she set out to kill. It’s no use. Revenge only causes more pain and loss. This cycle is so vicious and nobody wins, and Abby realised this once she found Lev, and found that revenge is a futile thing that does not achieve anything, especially not bringing back her dead friends. She managed to break the cycle herself, and in turn, she found a life worth living, a live with Lev. However, Ellie could not manage this, choosing to still seek revenge.

Because of this, she faces the consequences. She loses all of her loved ones. She loses Dina, she loses Jesse and she loses her baby son, JJ. Tommy is the same too. Tommy couldn’t break the cycle, and he loses his wife, Maria. And guess what, Joel is still gone. All of that loss, yet Joel is still dead. It’s all been for nothing. Ellie is now completely alone, which is what she said she was scared of in the first game, all because of revenge. The way forward is not anger, rage or revenge, but acceptance and love. That’s my takeaway.

You may think this treatment of Joel and Ellie is “disrespectful”, but I disagree. In the first game, you do a lot of bad things as these characters. Yeah, you go through a lot of pain, but so has everybody else, yet they still face the unfavorable consequences. It only makes sense that Joel and Ellie would too. In my opinion, this only helps to build the world of The Last of Us and show that just because Joel and Ellie are the main characters, they aren’t invincible, and the world doesn’t revolve around them. They just happen to be two people who live in the world amongst so many others, which for me, makes it so much more realistic. This is emphasised in the incredible detail in the gameplay of each enemy having names, with other enemies interacting with eachother as you stalk them. It makes them feel so much more real and only increased my enjoyability.

From a story like this, which is so dark and gritty, I don’t expect a happy ending. You’re not supposed to like Ellie by the end of this story, as she serves as the example of why the cycle of revenge is horrible. You’re not supposed to feel satisfied by it, you’re supposed to feel empty, hurt and sad. That is literally the point. 

You have to realise that The Last Of Us is a piece of artistic storytelling told and made by artists. It would have been so easy for Neil Druckmann to write a boring and two-dimensional story to appease players and make bank. But he didn’t. He chose to craft an intricate, heavy and creative direction for his material, and I hugely respect that. At the end of the day, he doesn’t owe you anything. This is his story, and these are his characters, he can do what he wants with them. If you don’t like his creative vision, then great! You don’t have to. If you don’t like something, just don’t play/watch/read it. If you loved the first game but hated the second, then just pretend it doesn’t exist and come up with your own fanfiction for these characters, it probably wouldn’t have been as good as this.

A lot of people blame “bad writing” when they don’t like something. There’s a difference between feeling bad about something than it being bad writing, you know. Just because it wasn’t what you wanted, doesn’t mean the writing is bad. By you feeling angry about Joel dying, Neil Druckmann’s writing has accomplished its objective. And I’m not trying to say that everybody who doesn’t like this game didn’t like it because their fanfiction didn’t come true. You cannot like this game solely because you don’t like the direction it took, and that’s fine. Because again, this story is a piece of artistic storytelling, and art is subjective.

This entire post is just my opinion. I personally loved this story and these characters, and it was exactly what I wanted to get out of this game. Everything about the game I just adored. I loved the plot, the writing, the characters, the gameplay, the music, the visuals, the performances - everything. And if you didn’t, then great. That’s your opinion. It just hurts me to see so many people dismissing the incredible things achieved in this game solely because of one plot point. I don’t know. As I said, I’m not trying to change your opinion or anything, I just thought I’d share mine.

I only scratched the surface of my thoughts and opinions on this game. I could talk about it for hours, which only goes to show the extent of its achievements and how incredible it really is. I doubt anybody is reading this and that’s fine, apologies if none of what I said made any sense at all lol, I’m awful at articulating my opinions aha.   

pls tell me im not the only one

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YOU DO ALWAYS COME BACK

I freaking love this show

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I freaking love this show

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So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.

Oh! I forgot to mention! I saw him at lunch the same day, and he ran up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, pointed at this super sweet girl who comes to GSA and asked if she’s gay. I told him he should ask her because that’s not my place and he said he would.

I thought that would be the end of it.

Except ten minutes later he came back and told me he found out (she’s bi) and that both of us have a shot. I said “You more than me.” because he’s attractive and popular. 

But this wholesome dumbass looked really confused and asked, “Because I’m tall?’

So this isn’t lesbian/jock solidarity but I thought you guys would want to know-

My math teacher was trying to fix the rolling whiteboard and he just offhand said “This would be easier with a wrench”

And deadass, dudebro said “Hang on” and then proceeded to pull a fucking wrench out of his backpack

Update- after school today he saw me in the library and he didn’t say anything? He just pointed at the book he was holding and I gave him a thumbs up because it’s a pretty good book, and he went “Yes!” Really quiet and pumped his fist and then left

Okay so today he asked me if I know how to help people having a panic attack and I was like yeah? And he smiled at me and then went “cool I think I’m having one”

And I was like what the fuck Colin we’re in the middle of Tech class sit down and we went out in the hall and sat there for a while and he told me about the test he’s stressed about so we kind of went over his study guide and when he was feeling better he kind of like… smacked his head against mine gently? And I helped him up even though he’s almost a foot taller than me and yeah

Today at lunch we walked to the football field and laid in the grass and I told him thank you for being my friend (because I don’t have that many) and fistbumped me and said, “You always looked so nice and chill, how could I not want to be your friend?”

And honestly y’all, I would’ve started crying if he hadn’t sneezed and accidentally smacked me

thinking about how the first draft of Toy Story had Woody written as just an absolute mother fucker and has been described as “one of the most repellant things you’ve ever seen on screen, i mean you couldn’t WATCH it” because he was that much of an asshole

did you know that woody was so much of a shithead that it almost got the film CANCELLED? it was mostly from a storyboard reel he was in called the “Black Friday Reel” named after the day it was aired. so this reel was shown to studio executives and it was a scene that showed a different take on how buzz would get knocked out of the window. the execs were disgusted by what they saw that they nearly shut down the production of Toy Story, with the production team requesting for two weeks to rework everything out and make the film better. plus John Lasseter and Tom Hanks also hated Asshole Woody. so you may be thinking “how bad was the Black Friday Reel?” well… see for yourself 

Motherfucker Absolute. Would fuck your dad and call him a whore.

Spoiler for the new Buzzfeed Unsolved Supernatural: The Unbelievable Horrors of the Old City Jail.

Ryan-

Shane-

You guys I can’t with this show. The bad ass lady general gets forced into an arranged marriage and ignores her husband to dote on his concubines and treat them better than even he did. They like her more than the husband. He admits that she “stole” them from him, and they admit they never want her to leave because she spoils them rotten with “random jewelry, perfumes, makeup, silk gauze fabrics, and takes us out to afternoon tea”. She helps out their families and treats their families well too!

Sometimes a family is a bisexual lady general and her three super femme wives. 

She explicitly tells them the first time she ever meets them that they need to dress up and wear fancy jewelry when they want to because they’re young and pretty. 

I just. 

Bless this show. The concubines are scheming to get the husband to fall in love with his wife so that she can keep spoiling them. 

When you come home from work and your three femme wives are cheering on your butch wife as she practices her swordsmanship in the yard, and all four of them ignore you. 

“They’re lesbians, Harold.”

He’s refusing to admit that he is turned on by how lethal his wife is. He’s a walking example of “scared AND horny” any time he’s around her. He’s adorable. 

The show is “Oh My General” btw. It’s on Viki and probably Youtube as well. IT IS HILARIOUS Y’ALL. I’ve literally been watching it for 10 hours straight. 

Me whenever my life goes down the shitter

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