Damn Skype Is Getting Shut Down In May, End Of An Era

I really, REALLY need people to stop focusing on whether or not any of the people deported to El Salvador committed any crimes. Nothing justifies being sent to a concentration camp. Nothing. And focusing on criminality at all just lays the foundation for denial and continued oppression in the future. We've seen this happen in the past. Romani people were just as targeted as Jewish people in the Holocaust. There were several places that successfully wiped out their entire Romani population at that time. After the fall of Nazi Germany, some Romani people were kept imprisoned BECAUSE they were supposedly imprisoned for crimes, not their ethnic background. But we all know how racial profiling and biases in the justice system lead to disproportionate targeting of racial minorities. The ethnic cleansing of Romani people is routinely erased from discussions of the Holocaust because they were already a group treated as being inherently criminal, and therefore deserving of being locked up. And they are still seen that way by white Europeans to this day. We see this exact same mindset with the way that many groups of immigrants are treated in the USA today.

The line needs to be drawn in black ink- human beings should never be treated like this. Nobody from anywhere, regardless of what they have or have not done, should be sent to that prison. Not Salvadorians, not immigrants to the US, not legal residents, not US citizens, not even genuine gang members. Nobody.

If we had a nickel for every time Colin Firth played a posh and repressed British character named 'Darcy' who openly swoons at their love interest, we'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird godsent that it happened twice

“so lucerys / jaehaerys / rhaenys died for nothing?”

that’s the point that’s the point that’s the entire fucking point - in the book as well!! there was never any POINT!! there is never going to be a winner here!!

rhaenyra will die, aegon will die, alicent and daemon and jace and aemond and helaena will die. for nothing. because the end of this will be a broken, traumatised, dead-inside eleven year old aegon iii on the iron throne with an eight year old jaehaera for a wife who commits suicide at the age of ten, two years after being forced to marry the broken king.

the dance of the dragons is a dragon eating its own tail. it’s all for nothing and no one wins.

Rewatching Ghosts (cbs) and realizing that ghosts are basically cats: they like watching bird baths, sitting in a warm shaft of light, starting petty squabbles, crowding the kitchen to smell food they can't have, and somehow managing to rule the entire house. 😼

thinking about Jason never being the hero of his own story. he's a supporting character for piper and Percy and Leo and Apollo. his tragic final stand is part of Apollo's story. it's so fascinating actually because while Thalia thrives by and benefits from never being the main character, Jason gets failed by the gods and doomed by the narrative.

reading an offer from a gentleman and every time sophie references her bag of belongings my brain jumps to

book!colin is always up in everybody’s business 💀

how to love without being a parasite

Remember when they said beauty marks make people attractive? well they were absolutely right