When you talk to people outside of Tumblr and forget they don't speak the same language as you.
- Me: omfg send help I'm dying
- Them: what?!
- Me: i can't even omg
- Them: you can't even what?
- Me: I just can't even okay I just tHEY ARE TOO PERFECT IM SOBBING I CAN'T
- Them: WOW WHY ARE WE SCREAMING ALL OF A SUDDEN
- Me: I just have a lot of feelings aojhshfkndjfoejfomdvoebmo
- Them: .....what is that
- Me: my feelings on a keyboard sIGH
- Them: ....riIiiiight
- Me: UGH I HATE THEM FOR DOING THIS TO ME NO THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THIS I LITERALLY CANNOT HANDLE ALL OF THE FEELS sjkdjdncdenci
- Them: then why don't you just stop reading/watching all of that stuff if you hate them?
- Me: nO I CAN'T ARE YOU CRAZY I LOVE THEM SUHOUHVDHIFJEOFJ THEY'RE KILLING ME BECAUSE FEELINGS BUT I LOVE THEM THEY'RE MY BABIES
- Them: wow it's just fictional characters/celebrities, stop overreacting, you're being dramatic
- Me: NO OKAY YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
- Them: I understand plenty, you're being dramatic like I said
- Me: NO YOU DON'T GET IT suchdifhrojgorgjorgjo ugh my emotions I can't take this tHEY ARE FLAWLESS
- Them: .....
- Me: literally dead omfg
- Them:
- Me: SOBBING
- Me: JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL
^ This is why teams in the Hunger Games should be illegal…
OK, this makes me think of something I want to add to that post about people claiming that shipping is antithetical to people caring about worldbuilding or plot or characterization. It bothers me when people say that shipping or loving certain characters trivializes “serious” books or movies or shows. Yes, The Hunger Games is about a totalitarian state that abuses children. Yes, most of its characters probably suffer from PTSD and other trauma-related psychological and physiological injuries. No, sex and romance are not going to solve any or all of their problems, and their relationships are most likely going to be informed by what they’ve been through. But as readers we’re allowed to care about the whole character, and this can include their sexual and romantic lives. And we’re allowed to find the characters attractive too.
One thing I always have to remind myself when I feel guilty about being attracted to a character in a book with heavy subject matter is that it’s quite likely that the author intended for the characters to be appealing in some way. Suzanne Collins chose to make Peeta charming, funny, selfless, kind, intelligent, and physically attractive. It’s hard to expect people not to react positively to a character like that. And even if the author didn’t intend it? That’s still your right as a reader. Just like we’re allowed to be attracted (or not attracted) to whoever we want in real life, we’re allowed to be attracted to, or to ship, whoever we want in fandoms too.
Also, I am reminded of the whole “first world problems” thing, and the rebuttal by Teju Cole and others that people in “third world” countries care about technology and clothes and relationships too. We’re allowed to care about who Katniss ends up with, and to write fic or make art or talk about it. The characters care about these things themselves. And calling yourself “Team Peeta” or “Team Gale” or whatever does not in any way imply that you don’t understand or care about the wider implications of the book. “Team Peeta” and “Down With Snow” are not mutually exclusive sentiments, even if Peeta (or some other character) is what draws you to the books and the fandom. True, some people might have a shallow understanding of the material. But there are lots of people with shallow understandings of material who aren’t shippers or fangirls, either.
Avenging
- German: Hey
- German: Hey guys,
- German: You know what would be fun?
- German: If we put one half of the verb where it's supposed to be,
- German: And then the other half at the very end of the sentence.
- German: People will get so confused.
- German: It will be hilarious.
Argentina JUST PASSED a groundbreaking gender identity bill!!!
From now on, people will be able to change the name and gender on their ID without needing psychiatric permission or any body modifications. Furthermore, anyone who does want hormones or surgery will be able to access them for free through the public and private health system.
It was passed unanimously today by the Senate :-D
(via racialicious)
I walked by this bus stop ad every day for at least a week before I recognized who the golf-playing, vasectomy-considering gentleman was.
WHAT
DEAN NO
Cannot stop laughing.
(via ladderax)
“I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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