Is now a bad time to mention I actually don’t hate this site? I hate the owners. Hate the staff. Hate the incompetence of whoever is in charge here.
But I love the site, love the format, love my mutuals, my followers and all of the amazing content creators here. I don’t know what I’ll replace this with if anything.
scarjo dropped out of rub & tug but please remember that that doesn’t make her a good person. she still auditioned for that role, she still took it, and the only reason she dropped it is because she couldn’t handle facing the consequences of her transphobic actions.
Concerning yourself with whether a celebrity you don’t know is or is not a “good person” in their hearts is a distraction from targeting discriminatory behavior that actually matters. What matters is Hollywood’s actual actions, and public outcry spearheaded by trans people resulted in a positive action here – if it was just “caving to public pressure”… good! That’s what the point of the public pressure was! Reward good behavior, punish bad behavior, and don’t waste time worrying about how celebrities really feel in their hearts.
It’s possible she’s actually learned. It’s also possible she hasn’t, but wasn’t allowed to get away with it. I don’t care which as long as she doesn’t do it again.
Exactly! The whole POINT of public pressure is to generate change – to then judge that change on the person’s purity of heart is pointless.
If the lesson here is “you fucked something up, you apologize, you don’t do it again, and your career isn’t (badly) damaged,” that’s good.
If the lesson here is “you fucked up, you apologized, you don’t do it again, but no one cares and people hate you personally forever and ever,” then there’s no point in dropping out of projects like this. Once the damage is done, they might as well continue on because people will hold it against you anyway.
You should WANT people to change. That’s the goal.
(And let’s not forget the shitty white man, Rupert Sanders, who cast her as a transman, and ALSO as an asian woman.)
AU where Loki survives Thanos, fighting by Thor’s side as he tries to protect the Universe from Thanos.
AU where Thor still has something to lose and it makes him less reckless, reminded constantly by the huge, awful bruise on Loki’s neck what might have happened, so he needs to stop Thanos, to protect what he has left at all costs.
AU where Loki is still rebuilding Thor’s trust in him, and we see him struggle and succeed to be the good person Thor can see in him somehow.
AU where they argue because Thor doesn’t want Loki anywhere near when he fights Thanos at Wakanda, because look what happened last time.
AU where Loki won’t leave his side, not again, and we get our hug.
AU where Loki survives,Thor didn’t have to lose everything and they face Thanos together, for their people
AU where Loki survives it all, then gets taken from Thor in the Snap anyway
If you’re an adult, do the stuff you couldn’t as a kid.
Like, me and my sister went to a museum, and they had an extra exhibit of butterflies. But it cost £3. So we sighed, walked past, then stopped. We each had £3. We could see the butterflies. And we did it was great. We followed it up with an ice-cream as well because Mum and Dad weren’t there to say no.
I was driving back from a work trip with 2 other people in their early 20s, and we drove past a MacDonalds. One of the others went “Aww man, I’d love a McFlurry.” And the guy driving pulled in to the drive through. It was wild. But it was great.
I went to a park over the weekend and I was thinking “Man, I’d love to hire one of those bikes and cycle round the park.” It took me a few minutes to go “Wait, I can hire one of those bikes!”
I guess what I’m saying is, those impulsive things you wanted to do as a kid – see the dinosaur exhibit, play in the fountains with the other kids, lie in the shade for 2 hours – you can do when you’re an adult. You have to deal with a whole lot of other bull, but at least you can indulge your inner 8 year-old.
me, looking at the current state of the world, crying:I wish none of this had happened…
Gandalf, materialising in my conscience, smiling kindly: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, besides the will of evil.
There are people who watch Thor and they see Loki transform from the mildly annoyed slightly jealous brother of Thor to this totally unhinged mess with an acute identity crisis so horrified by who he really is that he goes on a destructive rampage and attempts to kill himself and they honestly believe all of that happened because he was jealous and wanted the throne, so he had a temper tantrum when he couldn’t get what he wanted even though he was canonically given the throne in Odin’s absence without him having to take it by underhanded tactics or brute force. Do y’all who think this just tell your selves that being adopted by Odin should have been enough for him? That he should have been happy for the privilege? Do y’all think it’s just fine and dandy to discover that the world you were adopted into thinks you’re a monster? Really???
like whats the average lifespan of an asgardian? like yeah thor is 1500 but what if thats just like 23 in human terms
googled “asgardian lifespan” found this,
so if thor is currently 1500 years old (said in infinity war)
5100/1500 = 3.4
so thors current age times 3.4 would be the average lifespan of an asgardian
to change that to human terms the average lifespan of a human is about 80 so
80/3.4
lsdmkfgjdfjsd oh my God…
thor really out here having the worst time of his life and hes like 23
this metric gets even weirder if you do it for loki’s age
according to Thor 1 loki was a baby in 965 AD, making him not much older than 1000 years (1053 counting from this year,) so considerably younger than Thor.
Doing the same calculation as above, 5100/1053 gives a ratio of 4.8, that is to say that the average life span of the aesir is 4.9 times as long as loki has lived, so 84/4.8 places him comparative to a human life span at:
….17.
LOKI YOU ARE NOT EVEN OLD ENOUGH TO *VOTE,* LET ALONE HOLD HIGH OFFICE! YOU GET DOWN FROM THAT THRONE RIGHT NOW!!!
If I see one more fucking guilt tripping ‘why are you sleeping on X’ posts about net neutrality, the tax bill, healthcare, the judiciary, Sinclair broadcasting or ANYTHING ELSE I’m gonna walk off a pier
Because honestly, what are you doing? What is your goal? People are angry, and scared, and feel hopeless, and your plan to get them to protest is to make them feel guilty for being angry and scared and feeling hopeless. That’s not fucking motivating, it’s crushing.
‘but I put in good info in that post too!’ Yah, but you made everyone reading it feel like shit first so now instead of feeling like ‘wow this is fucked up and it’s hard but here’s a tool I can use to do my part’ ppl think ‘everything is useless and I’m a bad person god I can’t believe how fucked we are there’s no hope anyway’ and then! Not only do some of us fall into the spiral of self loathing so hard we can’t protest, the content we do send out is flat, it doesn’t provide any sort of reinforcement, but it sets up activism in the same purity culture that’s debilitating to long-term engagement. It builds up our apathy, it makes protesting *that much harder* because no one is perfect and no one can protest 24/7, no one can corner every single issue, we will quite simply die if we do.
You gotta build people up. Shit is fucked, we all know that! We don’t need the reminders! Just give us the tools and point the direction and Build. People. Up.
God Damn.
Bless every square inch of this goddamn post. Because this and the whole ‘bet you won’t reblog this’ rhetoric actually violently makes me not only want to not reblog the thing, but to actually block it. I’m not pushing your guilt trip forward.
I'm a defeatist but I don't have to be 