In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I'm not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn't worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.
Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn't even work for the council. They were supposedly just some 'good samaritan' who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn't bother putting the statue up again.
Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan' had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It's even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.
2007-2021 dir. Hideaki Ano (insp)
*slams fist on table* WHY HASNT THIS BEEN DONE YET YOU COWARDS
you all seemed to really like the other set, so here's more!
advice from the Todoroki siblings
My dear lgbt+ kids,
“You are too young to decide you are lgbt+, what if you change your mind? You’ll ruin your life and regret it”.… Let’s do a little reality check on statements like that.
They are based on the idea that identifying as lgbt+ is this huge, life-altering, irreversible decision - but is that true? Let’s assume you identify as lgbt+ for a few years as a teenager and later, as an adult, you don’t feel that way anymore.
Asexual and aromantic: The worst case with those two labels is that you don’t have sex or not date for a few years. This wouldn’t hurt you and is actually not uncommon at all - straight, cis people can also be single for multiple years or start having sex a few years later than their peers without ruining their entire life. If anything, we should be happy about that: Even if you only identify as asexual because you are young and not ready for sex, it still means you won’t have sex before you are truly ready for it (and there’s no risk of STDs or accidental pregnancy!).
Gay, lesbian, bisexual etc: Worst case here is that you date someone you later aren’t attracted to anymore. This is a fairly common experience anyway: Many adults look back at their teenage crush, think “What the heck was I thinking” and laugh about it. First loves are often “experiments” that just teach you more about yourself and what matters to you in a relationship. Your first love doesn’t need to be true love, so it’s not the end of the world if they were the “wrong” gender.
Trans, nonbinary etc.: The worst case for a teenager is in almost all cases simply that you have to go through the effort of telling people to use your birth name and your old pronouns again (and maybe you will change your clothing style or get a hair cut). The only medical option available to teenagers are puberty blockers and their effects are reversible! So, next to changing back your name and pronouns, there may also be the task of talking to your doctor about stopping puberty blockers. But that’s about it. No matter how much transphobes yell about it, it just isn’t true that doctors take one look at their teenage patients and go like “You get surgery! And YOU get surgery! Everybody gets a surgery!”. Generally speaking, doctors do not perform gender affirming surgeries on (or prescribe hormones to) minors at all. (Even as an adult, the journey to surgery is so long and oftentimes difficult, there’d be plenty of time to change your mind.)
Even if you end up changing your mind, you’ll be okay. There’s unnecessary fear-mongering around this topic. Teenagers (and adults) constantly change their mind about all kinds of stuff - exploring and learning new stuff about yourself is a normal part of life. You won’t ruin your future.
With all my love,
Your Tumblr Dad
Akiren: Tell me, Goro. Who did you kill?
Goro: …. Whom
Akiren: ???
Goro: The correct term would be whom did I kill.
Akiren: THAT DOESN’T ANSWER MY QUESTION!
persona in omori style
he really is out for blood
[ID: An edited Brooklyn 9-9 meme with Tecchou instead of Rosa. In the first picture he's looking straight into the camera. He says "I've only lost Jouno for ten minutes". In the second picture he's drawing his sword and and is looking down with his eyes hiddedn in the shadow. He continues "But if anything happened to him, I will kill everyone in this room and then myself". End ID]