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someone: Who are the vocal line in BTS?

me: *shows this video*

me at family gatherings

#no guys you don’t understand #this is super important #mental health in korea is literally awful #you can lose your job because you’re being treated for depression #the fact that this big name star is opening up about it is huuuge  #so thank you gong yoo 

the screenshots here are from near the end of the interview, which i think makes it even worse, because the interviewer listened to everything he’d said and still didn’t treat it very seriously. there are other parts where she seems very smart and intuitive, but then other times he’d say something like “i hate myself to death and feel like i’m an empty shell” and she’d just laugh and move on while i’m just like !!!

i was really impressed by how open he is about it though, even the “ugly” symptoms that aren’t really talked about normally — like how he said he used to lock himself in his apartment alone and drink and “bang on the walls” because he didn’t know how else to cope with all the pain he was in, and he even mentions hurting himself and talks about scars and refers to himself as a “masochist” and says a coworker once referred to him as “someone constantly trying to hurt himself.” the fact that he was able to talk about all this so openly, despite the reaction he got, was so impressive and amazing to me

it’s really heartbreaking though because he’s obviously never had the support he needs — at one point he mentions that the first person he ever opened up to about all the pain he was in (back in his mid-20s, when he says it was much worse) was a director who was considering hiring him, and he later found out that that director had told people she thought “someone like that” would be “too difficult” to work with, and it caused this rumor/pre-conceived notion about him to spread that affected the way his coworkers treated him. now that he’s famous and has had other work he’s literally known for how charming and nice he is to everyone, but at that point his coworkers all thought he was moody, pretentious, and rude and always avoided him on set because of this, all because he opened up about his severe depression to the wrong person

Bonus:

I re watched it and I really needed to draw this eheh. Also the part 2 is coming soon 👀👀

GUYS HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?!! HAVE YOU READ THIS PRECIOUS LOVE STORY?? WHICH NOW IS GOING TO GET ITS OWN SERIES.

Bonus:

I’m so mad because this worked

help me roger

Reblogging myself because

Originally posted by gifs-for-the-masses

Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?

O_O

………my friend has made me curious

help me roger

Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director

These never work for me, but here’s to trying.

Eh Roger is cute I might as well

That fish is so happy it makes me happy.

Reblogging myself because I reblogged this yesterday and got promoted today!

Why not. Do me a solid Roger

roger it’s time. i hope i have not asked for too much from you but you know what i want.

C’mon Roger. I need you.

Help me get mew

a) Roger is a cutie.

b) someone who reblogs this might positive-think themselves into something wonderful even without Roger’s help.

I will never doubt Roger again. After I reblogged him, a box with two Integrity dolls I’d ordered back in OCTOBER that the USPS had lost was delivered yesterday.

star wars + planets

“Okay, three, two, one, let’s jam.”

For Accompaniment

this is it, this is my favorite piece of CB fan art ever

at this point… every detail remains vague, amid the darkness 

 山崎 宗 介

History repeats itself?..

Gt….foh?

This is inaccurate, I’ll try to frame the situation on migrants/asylum in Italy.     Here asylum seekers aren’t allowed to work until their request for asylum is  accepted. It’s a very long process because there are thousands of people arriving on the coasts of Italy monthly. Migrants who request the status of refugee present their case and their life story with a cultural/linguistic mediator in an interview in front of  a commitee. International law about asylum is quite tricky and since we’re in a state of emergency with arrivals, there is a “hierarchy” so usually Syrians and Eritreans have more chances to obtain protection. While they are waiting for their request to be accepted, refugees live in centres where they are given food, shelter and a small allowance. As I said, they aren’t allowed to work until they reach a legal status of refugee and it can be discouraging and dehumanizing to live waiting for an interview that decides your future. Some refugees try to get out of this helpless situation but often end up being exploited by mafia for labor in farms(!!!) Many of these centres are in small towns and in some occasions asylum seekers have decided to actively help the community that host them, for example during the very recent earthquakes. (https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/earthquake-italy-refugees-migrants-help/). A member of the cabinet proposed community work for asylum seekers waiting for their request to be accepted and those who have a diploma and qualifications will get internships with firms. 1. This is still a proposal that may or may not be implemented 2.They are not trading work for the right to asylum, that would be morally inacceptable and illegal.

Italy’s management of the situation with refugees/migrants of the last years is FAR from perfect.There are a lot of problems and lots of issues that I’m very critical of, for example the sketchy situation in some centres but slavery 2.0 is not one of them. Italy can and must definitely improve, but it should be considered that most of the other EU countries with whom we share a common policy do very little while Italy has had to deal with a phenomenon of this proportion on its own for a few years now.

In addition to the really good commentary, how about Americans on tumblr dot com stop comparing everything happening in Europe to what happened in the us (namely: slavery) when they have no fucking idea of how things work here thankyouverymuch

ANYWAY!!!

1) ITALY HAS BEEN ACTIVELY RESCUING REFUGEES FOR THE LAST DECADE, ON OUR OWN DIME, WAY BEFORE IT WAS COOL FOR THE EU TO GIVE A DAMN ABOUT IT, NOT NOT MENTION FUNDING. AND I REPEAT: ‘RESCUING’, NOT JUST HOSTING. SENDING THE COAST GUARD OUT AT SEA TO FERRY REFUGEES TO SHORE BEFORE THEY CAN, Y’KNOW, DROWN. BECAUSE WE WANT THAT SLAVE LABOUR SO BAD.

2) SOUTHERN ITALY, WHERE REFUGEES LAND, IT’S NOT EXACTLY THE RICHEST REGION IN EUROPE. I’M PUTTING THIS FOR CLARIFICATION BECAUSE I DOUBT OP COULD FIND IT ON A MAP IF IT WEREN’T SHAPED LIKE A BOOT.

3) THE ITALIAN ASYLUM SYSTEM IS SADLY FLAWED (VARYING GREATLY FROM REGION TO REGION AND REFUGEE CENTRE TO CENTRE) BUT CONSIDERING THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF STRESS IT’S BEEN UNDER FOR THE PAST 10+ YEARS IT’S DOING PRETTY WELL. IT’S ALSO, DARE I SAY IT? DONE QUITE A BIT OF GOOD FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THOSE YEARS.

4) SO YES IT CAN BE BETTER. NO IT’S NOT FUCKING SLAVERY. Y’ALL ARE ON THE INTERNET. USE IT.

5) ITALIANS BLOG ABOUT THIS. IN ENGLISH. QUITE  A LOT!! BUT I’VE NEVER SEEN A POST MADE ON ITALIAN TUMBLR GET MORE THAN 500 NOTES. I’VE SEEN PLENTY OF INACCURATE POSTS ABOUT ITALY MADE BY NON-ITALIANS GET TENS OF THOUSANDS.

6) MAYBE!!! NEXT TIME!! TRY RESARCHING STUFF FOR .5 SECONDS OR ASKING PEOPLE WHO MAY KNOW MORE BEFORE MAKING THIS KIND OF INFLAMMATORY POSTS!!!!

THANK YOU.

5) ITALIANS BLOG ABOUT THIS. IN ENGLISH. QUITE  A LOT!! BUT I’VE NEVER SEEN A POST MADE ON ITALIAN TUMBLR GET MORE THAN 500 NOTES. I’VE SEEN PLENTY OF INACCURATE POSTS ABOUT ITALY MADE BY NON-ITALIANS GET TENS OF THOUSANDS.

I’ve been to an asylum center in Belgium. My impression was: how can these people live in such crowded conditions for YEARS without being able to work? They literally have NOTHING to do, they have language classes and they do learn quite quickly and successfully but that’s it! Other than that they try to create some stuff to do, one guy started studying psychology, for example, they organize meetings, events for people from the asylum and so on. In Belgium it takes around a year - year and a half for their files to be processed and for the decision to be made about their residence. People, most of them with higher education too, spend YEARS doing nothing, being unable to do anything! That can drive anyone mad! Free job, as an opportunity to find them an occupation, as a way to better the hosting society as well - that s wonderful. So shut up your talking and research before making outrageous conclusions about shit you don’t know.