she-rando:

princessnijireiki:

tumblr purged all the map / pedo positivity tags too lmaoooo 🥂🎉

noxiouszombie:

racers-cigar:

swimmingferret:

kvltovcoyote:

pop-titty-epic:

menalez:

that-deist-dude:

ifreakinglovemantarays:

thisbibliomaniac:

Me on Fourth of July like

Anyway, stop spreading white nationalist rhetoric and toxic nationalism thanks

Nobody said anything about race. Stop that.

It’s nationalist to state facts now?

How is this toxic?

Show me countries better than the USA.

economically

x

human freedom

x

quality of life

x

social progress 

x

income equality (america was among the worst)

x

healthcare

x x

gender equality

x

what exactly makes america the “best country” here? america doesn’t excel in anything.

I was gonna say aren’t we like #1 in a bunch of bad stats? Like aren’t we the top for rape and abuse?

we are superior in waging wars, exporting and using firearms, and incarcerating the population among a lot of other terrible things. how depressing is patriotism and nationalism?

I remember this epic moment from The Newsroom

Americans just buy into the propaganda they are the greatest country when there is absolutely zero evidence to say so.

don’t you just love when americans (especially young ones) are taught absolutely nothing about this stuff in school or by anyone except people on tumblr.

America used to be great, its just that we aren’t anymore and everyones too blind, racist, sexist and bigoted to see how terrible we’ve become all because of the terrible things we’ve been doing. America was great. Now its shit.

luckthebard:

fwishbone:

luckthebard:

I know this is an unpopular character interpretation, but:

Fanon!Molly is much nicer than canon!Molly was, and I really wish more fanwork, meta, and fic for him didn’t downplay the fact that he could be a dismissive and condescending asshole at times.

I never really understood people who said Molly’s charisma score didn’t match how Taliesin was playing him – in my opinion, Taliesin was very much playing a character with a 10 Charisma. He had good intentions and thought he knew best, but he wasn’t great at communicating. He was also stubborn to a fault and bad at listening to other people’s points of view. The group conversation with Nott after Caleb tried to steal the scroll is a great example of this, as is his attitude toward and general dismissiveness of Kiri.

I just think all of those flaws made Molly a really interesting character, and it’s weird to me that fandom has flattened that so much. I’m not in any way trying to say he couldn’t be nice, there are plenty of examples of that too, but his foibles tend to be left out of fan memory of the character, which then misunderstands the whole of who he was. Perhaps it is part of coping with the character’s death (choosing to highlight and remember the best of him), but I wish we could honor the complexity of the character more.

I’ve talked with a few people about this too. It’s easy to get swept up in fanon content when you’re having fun, but I do miss seeing portrayals of him as the arrogant asshole he was. I think your last point is right – his best traits were pushed to the front and everything else was shoved aside. He was idealized, deified even, as a way of coping with his death, especially since he was such a fan favorite.

Which is really interesting to me – how we highlight all the good in the people we loved and admired after they’ve passed. I think the Mighty Nein did this, too. He’s this sort of saint or martyr in their eyes. A true north for their ~moral compass~ to do good because it’s what Molly would have wanted. And there is a kind of truth to that, but in doing so, you also inadvertently erase the humanity of them, I think? They lose a lot of what made them a person like you and I, in favor of becoming a concept instead.

I don’t hate fans for doing this, I think it’s a very normal way of dealing with loss like this, but I do think it’s important to keep this in mind when creating content about this character. Or any character, for that matter.

Thanks for this addition! Yeah, the fact that the Mighty Nein did this in-character too is really telling, and perhaps influenced some of the fandom portrayals? 

Idk, but it is interesting.

iztarshi:

DnD race suggestion: Wall Lizardfolk

You can shed your tail to escape being grappled or distract an enemy, but your dex and con are affected while it grows back.

Also you get a really good bonus to climbing walls.

necphilak:

minim-calibre:

fagtrender:

unthrash:

rocky horror is the worst and is also transmisogynistic can we please finally get over this shit movie

ok but like the writer is transgender nonbinary and the language used in the play was the preferred language by trans people of that time can we not deny parts of our history because we’ve evolved since then thanks

So fucking much this.

PS, youth of today: you’ll be saying the same damn thing about art from this time before too long, for good or for ill. Terminology will, in fact, change. Definitions will, in fact, shift. It always does, they always do. 

PPS, it is pretty much impossible to overstate how life-alteringly important this movie was to kids who didn’t conform to standard expectations of gender and sexuality, back in the day. Especially when back in the day was the mid-to-late 1980s, when the only queers you saw on TV were neutered AIDS tragedies, Bowie was playing straight, and even Elton John was married to a woman, and midnight showing of RHPS were pretty much the only place that felt like home. It was mental life raft for a lot of people.

I was one of them.

#the queer youth of today has forgotten all its history and is spitting on its ancestors and i hate it (via @gaythreats​)

beautifully phrased