Sometimes Your World Just Crumbles Around You                  and You Have To Build Something

i haven’t seen any posts about this going around on tumblr yet, and i know theres a lot going on around the world but this is an issue that needs (and has always needed) more coverage tbqh.

Kylie Jenner has recently been under fire for her clothing line in collaboration with Kendall Jenner, Kendall + Kylie, refusing to pay Bangladeshi apparel workers making their products. the company is owned by Global Brands Group, which has decided not to pay the workers due to the lack of sales during the pandemic. people started speaking up about the payment issue on Kylie’s instagram, but instead of a proper response comments were being deleted and eventually limited.

however, the issue doesn’t begin and end with Kendall + Kylie, the treatment of factory workers in Bangladesh is a problem with a long overdue response. most of these people are women working in gruelling conditions, being paid in dust and recieving little to no benefits. their lives are seen as disposable. during the quarantine, factories continued production but laid off a quarter of the workforce while the rest still face the threat of wage cuts and lack of access to healthcare.

all the fast fashion we consume like Gap, Primark, Forever 21 and C&A comes at the cost of labour exploitation in developing countries like Bangladesh. this is the country where the main source of income is textiles, where the 2013 Rana Plaza incident killed 1,100 factory workers alone, where workers constantly protest for better salaries and safer conditions, and yet they recieve not even an ounce of dignity for their hard labour. change needs to happen, better sooner than later. will reblog with what you can do to help (since tumblr hates posts with links).

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It’s a minor pet peeve, but it is everywhere today so errrr…. please keep in mind that “Rest in Peace”/RIP literally comes from a latin phrase and is a very very deeply Christian expression.

When talking about the departed, Jews say “may their memory be a blessing.”

So please, when talking about a dead person who is Jewish, try to keep in mind that RIP is a Christian phrase.

this is how you nip internalized self hatred in the bud

I think in the rush of fics and headcanons to make Geralt apologise to Jaskier because that’s (rightfully) what Jaskier deserves, we do tend to demonise Geralt a bit too much. 

He’s a man that’s been emotionally, mentally, physically, and psychologically abused, and tortured, since he was a little kid. Abandoned like trash by his mother, raised in an environment that wasn’t going to nurture him and consistently gave corporal punishment. He learned that emotions are a weakness, that staying alive meant being alone because nobody but a fellow witcher could be trusted - and that ‘trust’ can be dubious at best with witchers not from the same school. 

Ostracised by many different races - not just by humans - and has lived his life in a cesspit of evil and unimaginable horrors clutching onto his morals like a lifeline because they’re all he’s got besides his swords and his horse. It’s implied that he talks to Roach because that’s the only conversation he gets with a being that doesn’t want to do him harm, doesn’t have ulterior motives with him. 

Geralt is fucked up.

He’s not gonna have the communication skills of someone like Jaskier, who’s grown up in the lap of luxury as a viscount and someone who was university educated. In fact, a lot of his humour is deadpan and misses the mark and hurts other people probably without him realising it. 

“But twenty-two years is a long fucking time!” I hear you yell, and I get it. But 22 years is a blip on the radar for someone who has lived just over a hundred now, staring down the barrel of a couple hundred more of the same treatment from the people he tries to rescue. 

Please don’t make Geralt needlessly cruel in your fics and headcanons. He is not. His attitude is that of a man who’s been tortured for most of his life and doesn’t know what to do with the kindness he gets, so he keeps it at arm’s length.

I think we need to keep in mind that not only does Geralt need to apologise for hurting Jaskier, but he also needs to start coming to terms with his own trauma in our fics and headcanons, and understand that whilst it does not excuse how his actions have hurt other people, it does give him an opportunity to grow as a person and be kinder and more considerate of the people he cares about. He just needs to be given the chance.

Tip:

When it comes to stuff like racism, sexism, homophobia, etc, I’ve found it’s usually way better to think to yourself ‘I don’t want to be’ than ‘I’m not’.

I.e. if someone goes ‘that thing you just did is ableist’, instead of going ‘I’m not ableist, I don’t hate disabled people!’ it’s usually a lot better to go ‘I don’t want to be ableist, I should rethink what I’m doing/saying/etc in light of that fact’. Because that shifts your thinking so rather than jumping straight into denial and attempts to defend your character, you’re instead more inclined to look at how your actions could be misrepresenting your intentions. Or whether you’ve overlooked something, been callous, or acted in ignorance.

You get to the river of Styx and I’m the boatman and I tell you to get in and it’s just a big one of these