Kevin Day Has Done Nothing Wrong Ever In His Life. My Source: I Reread Aftg Like Three Times This Weekend

Some of you have never thought about Nicky’s PTSD from his time in conversion therapy, and it shows.

Nicholas Esteban Hemmick is dyslexic.

i like this so much ohhhhh my god oh my GOD oh my godgod considering who he is and where he’s from he probably didn’t get diagnosed or helped at all and just, imagine him going to palmetto and he doesn’t talk about it to Bee (therapy is difficult for him) but maybe Dan or Matt mentions something about it when Nicky complains about being bad at reading and Nicky’s like….o h. Oh I’m okay?I’m okay,

Started rereading the Hunger Games series and I feel like it’s so overlooked how in 74th and 75th Hunger Games, we don’t know every Tribute’s names, with Katniss only referring to them by their District numbers but in TBOSAS, we knew every single Tribute by name. We associated them with the clothes they wore on the Reaping Day and Suzanne even goes so far as to describe how they looked, however briefly. We see these Tributes and we’re familiarized with them by the little tidbits provided to the mentors and to Snow and Lucy Gray. But we never get this in the original trilogy.

In two generations, President Snow alienated the Districts from each other so much that Katniss didn’t even care to know all the names of the Tributes sent into the Arena with her, with the exception being those who posed great risk against her safety and those she felt great compassion for (e.g. Cato, Thresh, Rue, Mags, Betee, Wiress etc.). Katniss even went so far as to call the D6 Tributes in the 75th Hunger Games morphlings, for their affinity to imbibe in the drugs that help them forget their own traumas (an incredibly hurtful description, in my own opinion, to be known by the qualities you hate the most about yourself). We never know the real name of the 74th D5 girl, with Katniss only referring to her as Foxface and we don’t even know Marvel’s name until we get to the second book and he was Katniss’ first personal kill. Katniss even kills the D4 girl in the books with the same tracker jacker venom that killed Glimmer and yet still, we don’t know her name. We are so removed from the identity of the other Tributes that we don’t even know what some of them looked like beyond brief descriptions of mangled bodies and dead Tributes in the bloodbath at the Cornucopia.

And, the thing is, Suzanne established the importance of names in the series. Even in real life, we recognize the importance of being named. It is a fundamental aspect of being human. If you’re ever in a perilous situation where a person might be placing your life in danger, we’re told to remind the person that you’re human. “Keep saying your name, how old you are, where you came from. Remind them you are a human being just like them.” Before any propaganda can work against a group of people, refusing to recognize a person’s name is the first step to dehumanization. And just like the people of the Districts, we don’t care enough about the other Tributes to even want to know their names. Their propaganda worked on us, the readers.

In two generations, President Snow completely wiped out any sense of familiarity and camaraderie the Districts may have shared with the other. In two generations, Snow sowed the seeds of distrust and division into the Districts so deeply that even we, the readers, were affected by the effects of Capitol propaganda. In two generations, the Districts ceased to genuinely care about the others beyond the vague sense of injustice they feel for their shared plight. It’s why Career Districts don’t seem to care about killing the other Tributes. How can you care, to show your compassion and humanity, when you can barely see them as people? Yes, they may have been in the Arena with you. Yes, they may have been starved and beaten and forced into labor like you were. Yes, they might be children just like you. Yes, they might be subjected to the same deplorable system that turned you into virtual slaves. But they are not your friends. They are not your allies. They are strange, with different customs and traditions that you have. You do not share the same values. They do not care about you. At the first chance they get, they will kill you with your bare hands and they will do it with alacrity if it meant their survival. There can only be one Victor and it can’t be them. It has to be you.

The Hate You Give

Not to be affiliated by the movie (even though that movie was amazing and so eye-opening)

Imagine this: you had a hard day at work, you’re pretty exhausted. You open up your phone before you go to bed ‘cause it’s has been blowing up all day with Tumblr, (or Twitter/Instagram) messages and asks. You open the app and the smile on your face quickly dissolves into pure and utter disbelief and sadness.

You’re disgusting.

I don’t like ________ about you.

Do you hang out with __________? Stop hanging out with them.

I hate you.

I’m unfollowing.

I can’t believe you did this. How could you?

I can’t believe you said that. How could you?

We made you famous. You owe us.

You’re ugly. You’re too skinny. You’re too fat. You’re this. You’re that.

You’re gross.

You posted this 10 years ago on your Twitter, you’re sexist, racist, homophobic, you’re ________.

And just like that, you’re questioning yourself. You hate this or that about yourself. You can’t stand to look at yourself. Maybe you should stop hanging out with this person or maybe you should stop doing this-

You are Joshua Rush.

You are Kevin Hart.

You are Ariana Grande.

You are Tom Hiddleston.

You are that girl who’s scared to go to school because those girls in your English class might hurt you again.

You are that one boy who’s scared to come out because nobody accepts that idea in your school and so you know you’ll be hated.

You are everyone and anyone who’s ever been hated on.

And that is not okay. Saying those things are not okay. Hiding behind a screen and yelling digital slurs at a human being is not okay. Saying those things directly to a person is not okay. It hasn’t been okay in the past, it won’t be okay now and it won’t be okay tomorrow. So fn stop. Stop being cowards.

Don’t forget that under all that hair and skin, you have the same make-up, you are a human. Act like it.

Hurting another human being to the point where they have to take a break from social media is not okay. Hurting another human being to the point that they think twice before they say something or even do something is NOT okay.

A fact: celebrities don’t owe you anything. It is not their fault you liked their content, that is on you. They don’t need to act on your beck and call so stop telling them what to do or not to do. Joshua Rush doesn’t need to stop hanging out with Ethan Wacker. He doesn’t need to stop having political beliefs. He’s just a kid, let him live his life. The bad jokes that Kevin Hart made ten years ago don’t define him, he’s a changed man. If he wants to host the Oscars, let him. If Finn Wolfhard refuses to autograph something, he doesn’t have to because he has no obligation too. Like I said before, he’s just a kid and doesn’t have to do anything but live his life.

And here’s another fact: for every millions of praising comments a person receives, it’s that one hateful comment that sticks by them. It’s that one comment that catapults them into hurt and depression. That is the cold hard fact.

So think hard the next time you spurt out something that is ugly and awful because you might be making that smile disappear, you might be hurting someone deeply, you might be pushing someone over the edge.

Change your ways.

Be kinder.

Understand.

Appreciate and praise more.

Support and protect.

Please reblog so more people understand that this is not okay. And so the haters understand that they need to step back and reflect on their damn actions because this shit is getting out of hand.

Someone who’s my friend: actually verbally says we are friends or tell me they enjoy being with me

Me: this is literally the best moment of my life and I will cherish this in secret forever

these gays all thirsting after kevin day is hilarious 

“I saw him first,” Nicky said.  “I thought you had Erik,” Neil said.

and Andrew’s probably watching them both stare at Kev like ‘he’s Mine anyway u bitches can suck it’ 

this is the gay cat

if you reblog this you are either:

• gay

• love cats

• both

nobody will know which one

I’ve talked about muslim!renee before ? yes. I have. have more.

renee loves islam. she loves feeling close to Allah. He helped her get back up her feet and gave her something to fight for. a life. a future.

she’s a lesbian. a feminist. and a muslim. she’s all these things and more and she knows, she knows He listens and understands.

she’s not haram. she’s not haram. she’s not and never will be.

most of the money she makes with the foxes go to charity. she works hard and try, try to remain kind, no matter the hardships she has to go through. she’s not afraid. she has faith.

her hijab is colorful and moves in the wind and she laughs and laughs and laughs. she is happy. she is peaceful.

her ghosts are there and it’s hard, so hard but she became an expert at repelling them off. no more knives. no more dark.

there are days in which she makes salah five times a day and her smile is never as bright. sometimes she can only make dua. sometimes neither. sometimes, her past is too heavy on her frail shoulders and she can’t get up. it’s okay. her relationship with islam is her own. it’s all okay.

she gets comments in the street for everything she is. for allison’s hand in her own. for the color of her skin. for her devotion to a religion they’re not willing to understand and accept.

she doesn’t hear any of their hateful word

she holds on tight.

there’s the wind again and she smiles.

nicky has super soft skin pass it on

If I ever get a chance in an AU fic to have Nicky work at Lush I’m gonna, you know that boy EXFOLIATES and MOISTURIZES!!!The upperclassmen and drunk Kevin have multiple times been like “ooooo soft” and patted Nicky’s face or arms in wonder. Nicky, who craves attention and physical contact, is Lovin It

kevin calling wymack dad? love it. kevin begins to call him dad often enough that the foxes accidentally do it too? LOVE that. i feel like kevin might be embarrassed about calling him dad in front of the others at first, but then they would all call him dad to make him feel better. bonus points if someone says "coach dad"

supporting kevin as he figures out how to have a dad is so important and good thank u for thisImagine how Wymack gets choked up the first time he hears Kevin call him “Dad.” It’s too fast and too loud because Kevin had to psyche himself up to do it and everyone stares for a second because Kevin just shouted the word “DAD” across the courtKevin’s face is bright red and he knows he was planning to say something after that but he can’t rememberWymack coughs and makes sure his expression is properly grumpy and says, calm as he can, “Yeah, son?”(They get back to practice but Renee pauses to clasp Kevin’s arm on her way to the goal) (ALSO once all the Foxes are used to calling Wymack dad they do it all the time. The Foxes lying around the meeting room thing in the court while Wymack is trying to get work done in his office and just going “Dad. Dad. Coach Dad. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. Dad come out here,”Wymack stomps into the room, shaking a fistful of papers, and shouts that only one of them is actually related to him so they all can get out and leave him alone. He grumbles at them to eat a proper dinner before they go. Can’t have his athletes falling over in the middle of a game because they don’t know how to feed themselves.They’re annoying, but they’re his kids, so what can he do?)