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i honestly dont get why people stopped reblogging things they like on here bc like what are you afraid of??? people thinking youre cringey?? guess what bitch! youre on tumblr! it's all cringey! reblog everything you like and do it shamelessly no one fuckin cares

Listening to the Amber Heard tape disgusts me. She sounds just like my emotionally abusive sister. My sister has said crap like this for years. It took so long for me to save myself, and I hadn’t really begun to heal until about 7 months ago when I finally cut her out of my life for good. I hope both Amber Heard and my sister get the help they need, but their actions are indefensible. Stop blaming the victims, no one deserves what he or I went through.

I’m a traitor. I’m a strong woman from a family of strong women. I was raised by people who respected me and expected me to respect everyone, no exceptions. I apologize to my four older sisters and all my fellow women of the world for failing them so spectacularly. But I will never ship a pairing I disagree with because I’m told I should. I refuse to be reduced to only my gender and denied my individual identity.

Reblog if you’re a traitor to your sisters 😔🤟

I get so annoyed when other women act this way towards their men. My mom died when I was 6 years old, and I spent most of my childhood raised my dad and his two older brothers. My five older siblings were off either starting families, working, in college, or in the army (there’s a large age gap) but I’d spend weekends and stuff with them. And I had aunts, other uncles, and cousins who helped out too. But day-to-day, it was me and my three old guys. They were all in their fifties at the time. I couldn’t have asked for a better childhood. Yes the loss of my mom hurt like hell, but I was surrounded by so much love. My dad always made it clear I was his world, and I was my uncles’ baby.

And the men my sisters have married are all amazing men who are great husbands and fathers. They have daily routines with their children, such as reading to them before bed every night, and just are constantly involved in their lives. And never letting my sisters feel it all falls on them. Whether cooking dinner, doing dishes, or watching all the kids so my sisters can relax and read for a few hours.

When I was fourteen, my dad died, and one of my older sisters took me in because my uncles were in bad health. My brother-in-law Bobby, I’ve known him since I was two, was an awesome mix of brother-dad, and was always there for me. He filled in where my dad couldn’t but never tried to take his place.

My fiancé is great with kids, better than I am. He knows when we eventually have children, as their father he is as equally responsible for every aspect of their welfare as I am. We must be equal partners in everything. We have discussed this in-depth multiple times because it is something we both consider immensely important. Especially for me because it’s always in my mind what would happen if I died.

Sorry I feel really strongly about this because I always hear woman talk about their men like this but I wasn’t raised around men like that. I was raised to expect more and if they don’t live up then they’re boys pretending to be men. And boys pretending to be men are not worth my time unless they are willing to make an effort to be better.

I just left my husband alone with our two children for sixteen days. I was not worried about anything regarding the house, their food, or their wellbeing. I put all the appointments in the family calendar and my husband checked it and kept them. I literally did not worry about them. I missed them, and I was sad that they missed me, but I didn’t worry about them AT ALL. I need to impress upon you all that I missed their company, but was not worried for their welfare.

I also did no meal prep. I don’t even think I went shopping right before I left.

This is not about apples and oranges. This isn’t even about my husband. This is about the fact that this is apparently WEIRD.

Another mum at my daughter’s school is leaving for ten days. She’s taking her youngest (who is a very small baby) and leaving her husband with their two girls. She has been cooking for days preparing freezer meals. She’s panicking and deputizing her six year old to remind him how to make school lunches. AND I AM APPALLED.

A) He is definitely not helpless. (He’s a doctor or something.) What gendered bullshit. B) THAT LITTLE GIRL IS NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER AND HER SISTER’S WELLBEING. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. C) Why is she married to this person and creating children with him if he’s this big of an idiot?

While she was laughingly recounting this, the other mums were nodding and smiling sympathetically, like oh yes, I too have my caveman at home!! Such managing required! I was the only one who was like “Dude, he’ll be fine. Literally. He will be fine.” I said it a lot. She was not convinced. She kept bringing up her older daughter. She’ll be like a little mum!

NO.

NO NO NO NO.

NO.

Straight women, don’t do this shit. It’s gross. Don’t infantilize your husbands and then expect your daughters to pick up the slack. So fucking gross. So. So. GROSS.

On Fandom

It is becoming ever more difficult, in the current climate of fandom, to like things. It seems that the majority of the experience of being in a fandom for a work, involves hating the work itself. And once the prevailing attitude of a fandom goes negative, it’s an incredibly hard attitude to shake no matter the actual quality of the work.

You would never be any the wiser if the quality changed for the better.

This post was supposed to be about Doctor Who, in light of Steven Moffat leaving the show to be replaced by Chris Chibnall, but it also applies to the general fan reaction to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, to some extent. No matter what way I look at the criticisms of Episode VIII, nothing seems to justify the sheer amount of vitriol it has received for simply existing. Even if I agreed with every criticism of it, I could not find it in me to rate it below Episodes I and II. Yet that is exactly what many people such as The Armoured Skeptic are saying about it.

Similarly, I have found Steven Moffat’s time on Doctor Who to have been punctuated by fairytale set pieces, snarky dialogue, pretty aesthetics, and a general sense of fun which not always but sometimes undermined a genuine emotional beat or two. I have also seen it punctuated by some of the most vitriolic hatred one creator has ever faced. Nothing I have ever seen of Doctor Who while Steven Moffat was running it, could justify the prevailing attitude of the fandom, which at best seems to be “Steven Moffat is making the show bad, and we need to wait for Chibnall to take over so it will be good again”, and at worst seems to be “Steven Moffat literally murders an LGBT woman every time he opens his stupid mouth”.

My conclusions in both cases are the same: The fandom’s prevailing attitude has shifted to one of hatred, and a well has been poisoned in each. There is no recovering from it.

So I’d like to offer everyone some advice, from experience: As attractive an idea as it might be, to be able to share your experiences of a piece of fiction with other, like-minded individuals, do not participate in fandoms, especially not popular ones. In the end, the fandom itself will kill every last ounce of joy you got from the work in the first place. Enjoy something on your own terms, by all means, but forming a collective around it is a bad idea.

That brings me to my next point: Remember to enjoy yourself. Remember, perhaps, that you don’t HAVE to be experiencing this, and that someone out there put a lot of effort into it. Don’t be too critical if you can avoid it. And if you truly are not getting enjoyment out of something, you should stop engaging with it. Don’t do what some fandoms do, which is continue, say, watching new episodes of a TV show every week despite hating it. Every time this happens, they get more and more vitriolic with their criticisms, and you may find that every grievance becomes more and more petty. Where a few weeks ago, the complaint may have been “the writers utterly ruined this person’s character arc by having them do something out of character!”, a fresh complaint may take the form of “well this character didn’t do something which would have made no sense but made for a great shipping moment!” And it will only get pettier from there.

In my opinion, Steven Moffat had a shaky start, but in the end gave us some of the greatest episodes of Doctor Who we’ve ever had. He gave us at least two all-time great companions (Rory and Bill), some of the greatest and most ambitious plots, some surprisingly thorough and internally consistent canon (capped off in Twice Upon a Time with a superb callback to the events of 709 episodes ago), a whole bunch of progressive values (which detractors vehemently deny him either having anything to do with, or executing properly for some reason or other), and most importantly, he gave us indispensable and timeless wisdom from the mouth of The Doctor. I could fill a book with all of my favourite wisdom from Doctors 11 and 12 (and War). Whatever you think of the man, don’t discount what he was trying to say in every episode.

Take a bow, Steven Moffat. You’ve earned it. May your Doctor Who legacy be remembered more fondly in retrospect.

Doctor Who supports Net Neutrality.

me: male feminists have to put their body on the gears and use their privilege to confront true wrongness in order to be useful

john oliver: *publicly lays into dustin hoffman about his sexual misconduct*

me: ….. good

Watch John Oliver grill Dustin Hoffman about sexual harassment allegations

So, Michael Rapaport is a complete asshole.

The famous opening scene in Dracula A.D. 1972 - originally with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee - manip with Capaldi as Van Helsing

Vampire Hunter Kit

“Cased vampire killing kit, in a rosewood and ebony case with inlaid silver stringing and mother-of-pearl inlaid plaque. Contents include a black powder percussion 2-barrel pistol, a powder horn and bullet mold, bone handled dagger with crucifix, three small crucifixes, mallet and two wooden stakes, book of common prayer, two small framed portraits of Jesus, holy water and four glass vials with crystals. 4"H x 16"W x 9.75"D, Circa - 19th C”. [Propnomicon]

So my boyfriend of almost two years (Dec. 20 is our anniversary) and I just got engaged. His mother is pissed. She's originally from mexico but is an american citizen. Since we've started dating she's made it very clear that she doesn't like me cause I'm white. She's always pressuring my fiancé to date a nice Hispanic girl. Today she did so again right in front of me after knowing for two days that we're getting married.

My fiancé and her don't get along but I want to keep the peace because both of my parents are deceased. The problem is since we've told her she has been extra cruel to me. Calling me ugly and complaining about me being a tomboy. Needling my insecurities. I don't want to be the reason he doesn't have a relationship with his mom.

This situation is tearing me up which in turn tears him up which tears me up even more. I'm not an amazing person but I wish she'd see pass my skin and realize we're good together. Put her love for her son above her prejudices.

I find it somewhat funny because my Texas redneck family completely embraces him, and he gets along great with them. They see we are perfect for one another and accept it.

For us it's never mattered that I'm white and he's Hispanic. We bonded over all our similarities. We're both nerds. We met at work and for six months before we started dating we talked about star wars, batman, and harry potter. I thought I'd always be the girl trapped in the friend zone until he asked me out. He calls me beautiful even though I'm not and I call him dork because he really is. He's a misunderstood goofball who I love and want to spend the rest of my life with him. We're soulmates.

unmute

Reblog if you respect fanfiction writers and believe a fandom would be nothing without them.

Reblog if you hope that APH America will annoy the hell out of Trump so he quit being president

America to Germany, right now

America: Germany

America: Germany help

Germany: Ja? What is it?

America: yOU'VE DEALT WITH HITLER BEFORE

America: WHAT DO I DO ABOUT THE OVER-RATED ORANGE DUDE

Germany: i

Reblog if You Think aph America Would Make a Better President Than Donald Trump

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: The Musketeers (2014) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu/Milady Clarick de Winter, Aramis & Athos & Porthos, Athos | Comte de la Fère/Milady Clarick de Winter Characters: Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Milady Clarick de Winter, de Tréville (Jean-Armand du Peyrer), Athos, Aramis, Porthos Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Politics, Established Relationship, Treville is director of the secret service, Armand and Treville are frenemies, Milady and Athos weren't married, Past Relationship(s) Series: Part 4 of Mr. & Mrs. Richelieu- Washington Elite Summary:

The Richelieus are targets of assassination threats.

actual conversation I had today

me: I fangirl over older guys. sos send help

best friend: what about that guy you're talking to? he's your age.

me: yeah well my chances with Alan Rickman, Peter Capaldi, John Barrowman, and David Harbour are practically non-existent so, he's alright I guess.

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: The Musketeers (2014) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu/Milady Clarick de Winter Characters: Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Milady Clarick de Winter Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Politics, Established Relationship Series: Part 2 of Mr. & Mrs. Richelieu- Washington Elite Summary:

Armand is overworking himself yet again. Milady is there to sort him out.

Me when I hear free food 

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: The Musketeers (2014) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu/Milady Clarick de Winter Characters: Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Milady Clarick de Winter, Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Politics, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Past Rape/Non-con, Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Marriage Series: Part 6 of Mr. & Mrs. Richelieu- Washington Elite Summary:

When a political negotiation on Armand's behalf goes wrong for Claire, he must balance destroying the person who hurt her while taking care of her.

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: The Musketeers (2014) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu/Milady Clarick de Winter Characters: Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Milady Clarick de Winter, Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Politics, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Past Rape/Non-con, Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Marriage Series: Part 6 of Mr. & Mrs. Richelieu- Washington Elite Summary:

When a political negotiation on Armand's behalf goes wrong for Claire, he must balance destroying the person who hurt her while taking care of her.

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Musketeers (2014) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu/Milady Clarick de Winter Characters: Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Milady Clarick de Winter, Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Politics, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Past Rape/Non-con, Hurt/Comfort Series: Part 6 of Mr. & Mrs. Richelieu- Washington Elite Summary:

When a political negotiation on Armand's behalf goes wrong for Claire, he must balance destroying the person who hurt her while taking care of her.