If you genuinely enjoy being alone, do you ever wonder if it is an inherent part of your character or if it stems from feeling inescapably lonely in the first place until you taught yourself to enjoy the peace and happiness one can find in solitude? what if the reason you now prefer & choose solitude at every turn is because you were a very lonely child, or teenager, not by your own choice, and that’s how you learnt to thrive and grow, so you no longer know if you can do that around people? There might also be an element of personal pride, an unconscious “you can’t fire me I quit” point when your brain decided to switch your feelings about solitude from distress to relief. I often find myself defending my love of being alone, to people who worry that I can’t possibly be happy to live in an isolated house in the woods; I insist that I do! I really do specifically enjoy the isolated factor and chose to live here because of it, but then I wonder how to differentiate an ingrained love of solitude from an acquired ability to thrive off unchosen loneliness, to learn from it and be nourished by it; to what extent it might be a form of contentment built on a bedrock of resignation.
He’s hot in a jjba type of hot godaaaammm
Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin called JK Rowling a nasty basic bitch back in like, 2004? We should have listened
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Thank God Croatia beat those colonizers
god. white adjacent poc who defend racism drive me b@tshit! my dude, the whites dont actually want you, so why are you doggedly attempting to earn approval points by telling them that appropriation is kool, fun, and completely ok? do you honestly think that by surrendering an aspect of your culture to white appropriation, that you’ll attain some manner of magical immunity to racism and violence when the supremacists come knocking at your door, because you defended them and told them it was ok to steal and disrespect cultural practices and symbols?
also, who tf died and made you the token spokesperson for an entire marginalized culture? (esp. with things that are shared between cultures that have historically overlapped and mingled – it isn’t really your place as an individual to give permission to white people to appropriate smth.! if it isn’t from your culture (or entirely from your culture alone) or the same thing/something very similar belongs to neighboring cultures (possibly as a product of historical interaction and cultural overlap, like e.g. henna, or maybe the wearing of feathers in a specific manner amongst various indigenous groups (all for different purposes but it isn’t the place of one person to sign over Permission for whites to wear ceremonial headdresses of that type), then it isn’t something that you alone can actively “give away” to white people.
white adjacent poc who defend the actions of whites who are guilty of cultural appropriation are the reason that marginalized identities are literally made into halloween costumes and fashion accessories.
this also contributes to the idea that poc aren’t as worthy to be white equals; like we have to “earn our place” by actively giving/surrendering to white people something of ours for them to use/benefit from (and this leads to white artists using sacred/culturally-specific imagery and profiting off it immensely, while creators from that very culture get approximately nothing) which is also not a good look bc we shouldn’t have to “earn” equality as it’s a basic fucking human right but ok
i understand that in some cases, this is driven by a desire for representation and to be seen/appreciated by white people, but this isn’t the correct route to be taking, here. if you want to share your culture, how abt finding somebody who, idk, actually fucking respects and genuinely appreciates both you and said culture first? idk man just a Thought
can I just say you're the only one in the unhealthy/ healthy tomco post that's reasonable?? the person who posted it is legit dodging Toms flaws and things he's done wrong but you point them out and reason both sides. I have respect for you dude. I ship tomco and I wish some people would understand that even though Tom is making up for it, he did do bad things. you list that. applaud to you dude. (I'm kind of scared saying this tbh but I feel like I can trust you a bit)
I think my biggest problem with a lot of theory/ analysis/ discussion blogs on here is that i always felt like they were very biased.
Usually ship biased.
I prefer to usually be open minded when i talk about stuff then being that person who denies everything for their ship. Every ship has it’s flaws, and if you pretend they don’t it just sounds ignorant because you making one ship out to be utterly perfect while every other ship is bad because it has flaws just makes me think of you as unreliable. Even things you like, you can accept aren’t perfect, and that’s fine.
I love tomco, but i won’t sit here and deny the flaws within the characters, or the ship. I can acknowledge their flaws, and love the ship endlessly.
Tom is a fascinating character to me, i adore him. He’s not perfect, he makes bad choices, but i can understand where he’s coming from and why he makes them, it doesn’t make them any better but it does allow you to really get his character.
It makes him relatable, 3D, he’s no flat character who does everything right all the time, he’s a kid who is clearly going through a lot and in turn he does things that understandably make Star and Marco mad…which in turn makes you feel for him since you know all Tom wants is to be loved and feel proud of himself. And he keeps driving away two people who have the making to be his best friends.
Tom is not an angel, but he’s also not the heartless monster a lot of the fandom treats him as.
He’s an understandable character, and i know in the future he and i’m sure some other characters will do things i will call them out for. But i’m glad the crew wanted to take this route with him, I really hope we see Tom grow to feel proud of himself and love himself someday and I’m glad Marco is here for him and stays by his side despite everything, because Marco didn’t have to do that, but he just cares about Tom and it’s just sweet of him to want to still hang out with him despite his flaws and everything in their past.
They’re too good for this fanbase.
I can’t wait to watch them learn from their mistakes and grow closer in future seasons.
And thanks, i’m glad people enjoy my thoughts on the matter. ^^;