A weird thing about getting older is realising how far north you are. As someone who used to go to sleep by ten and wake up at half six I was completly unaware that summer nights are about four hours long.
every piece of ""autistic representation"" in hollywood sucks not just because of the infantalization and inspiration porn but because movie executives always fail to realize the real universal autistic experience: spending your childhood slowly and unfalteringly realizing all of your friends not so secretly hated and/or merely tolerated you at best and you've missed every social signal about it ever
Just to be clear, I am not actually American. I do not stay up to date on American politics. It come up on the news and I'm like 'that's wild. Anyway-', partially because they don't go into depth and partially because I have better things to do than worry about things I can't affect. I get involved with local stuff but I've only got so much time and energy.
If Biden stood where I am everyone would stare and wonder how the hell that nut job got so far. Then go and vote for someone who will actually try to make the country better, or at least won't be actively making it worse.
I draw the line at actively screwing over the people you're responsible for, at pissing on migrants and refugees, and trying to start a war.
alright gang, let's do a fun little thought experiment.
for the sake of this thought experiment, let's ignore actual real-world alliances between countries. it can be london, or paris, or athens, or barcelona, or rome, or berlin, or even an american city like new york or new orleans or los angeles or honolulu. this is all a hypothetical after all.
really consider it. if you're gonna bother to yap in my notes, at least try to engage with this question in good faith. imagine opening up the news, and you see that a bomb was dropped on this city, and then the bombs never stop. imagine you had a friend there. imagine you'd had a trip planned to meet them and see the sights. imagine every museum, every historical monument, every theatre, every university destroyed. imagine that one day, you lived in a world where this city existed, and the next, it has completely ceased to be. it's effectively been pompeii-ed out of our world entirely. there is no longer a big ben, or a parthenon, or a colosseum, or what have you. there is no longer that foreign musician you loved from this city. there are no longer sweet old grannies to share old family recipes from this part of the world. there is no longer the online friend you wanted to visit. there is no longer your vacation plans.
don't hit me with, "but it's netanyahu doing this," because israel would literally run out of ammunition in weeks without the US. don't hit me with, "but trump!" because that quite literally is not the fucking question.
which city has to completely cease to exist before you even consider that this system isn't ever going to work?
if you are still planning to vote for biden, then either a) biden could drop a nuke on any city on earth and it wouldn't be a dealbreaker for you, or b) in your mind, people and places are divided into ones that are acceptable to destroy and ones that are not. or at least, there are ones that are more acceptable to destroy than others.
come up with your answer and either realize you sound like a fascist and work to change it, or embrace that you are a fascist and stop lying to us about caring about people of color.
I HATE IT WHEN RHAELYA FANS SAY THAT ELIA WANTED RHAEGAR TO TAKE LYANNA AS A SECOND WIFE.
UHM???? FUCK NO!
DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THIS.
first of all, elia was the only daughter of the RULING PRINCESS OF DORNE. do people think her mother sent her off to king’s landing to be disrespected? to be humiliated? NO. she was sent there to be the next fucking queen. aside from political ambitions, the princess of dorne was canonically friends with both joanna AND rhaella. she entrusted her daughter to her friend’s son.
second, elia knew how different the rest of westeros treated their women. sure, dorne isn’t the land of equal rights and milk and honey and all that shit but she definitely enjoyed more rights and higher standing back in sunspear, especially as the daughter of house martell. she knew how precarious her status can be despite being the crown prince’s wife. what fucking good would it do to her if she allowed her husband to forcibly break a betrothal between two MAJOR houses? to basically declare to the entire world and in history forevermore that she wasn’t enough for her husband and he had to get another wife?
third, HER CHILDREN??? she gave rhaegar two healthy babies. maybe she could have given him more had she gotten proper care (no, i do not fucking trust pycelle. he’d probably been sabotaging rhaella’s and elia’s pregnancies to please tywin). rhaegar getting another wife and thus having legitimate children not hers would put aegon and rhaenys IN DANGER. sure maybe lyanna would be oh so kind enough to not contest their inheritance but do people forget the STAB alliance??? the dance???
fourth, er the mere fact that lyanna was betrothed to robert fucking baratheon? disregarding the entire shit about lya running off (or not) with a married man after shitting on robert for being a manwh0re, YOU DO NOT JUST BREAK AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN TWO MAJOR HOUSES. even if the crown had a good reason to do so (which they didn’t), it was an agreement between house stark AND house baratheon. they DO NOT get a say in it. lord, this is contract law 101. robert’s rebellion was built on a lie my ass. the rebels had every good reason to rebel bro.
I CAN GO ON FOREVER BUT ILL JUST BE MAD
When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on"
When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”
When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“
When you're looking for that one fanfic. Is it on AO3, is it on ffn?
No, it's in your head
Time traveling AU. Where everyone in Mafia, and I mean everyone, travels back in time except Tsuna.
People in Tsuna’s time as Vongola Decimo traveling back in time. Simultaneously. Now, imagine all the popular headcannon of Vongola Boss Tsunayoshi.
Hot damn, TYL Tsuna. All the mafioso tripping themselves over to get closer to him. The big, bad, scary Mafia Bosses hiding behind pillars stalking to admire Vongola Decimo’s hotness/cuteness from afar. Cause the bosses are a bunch of highschool girl going thro first love when in presences of Vongola Decimo. All the subtle and not-so-subtle fights for the attention and affection of Vongola Decimo. This is Mafia Harem asking for one Vongola Decimo please.
Uh-oh. Run. ‘Cause somebody just had to destroy a city again so there’s another stack of paperwork waiting. That means an unhappy Vongola Decimo, and an unhappy Vongola Decimo is an angry Vongola Decimo. You know how scary an angry Vongola Decimo is. The whole Mafia knows. (burn….to….death….I’m sorry not sorry for falling in love with Admin Kei’s line)
Just, imagine all the awesome headcannon of Vongola Decimo. Badass, kind, strong, loyal, charismatic, smart, sexy, Dame is actually Moe now, dangerous, has the whole Mafia under his charm, Vindice bows to him, Acrobalano fights over him, Guardians bend over for him, dead people raising from the grave just to see him again (Attention Past Vongola Bosses and Guardian: You’re dead. Stay dead. Stay in your rings). All of them, everything and anything, mixed into one.
Now, imagine the confusion when everyone returns back in time. To Pre-Reborn period. Now, sit back and watch the chaos unfold.
Well, of course there would be the most hideous and nasty things going on if the entirety of Mafia suddenly gain future knowledge. I mean, just look at Shimon Famiglia after the whole time-traveling parallel world business. But that’s not the story here. The story here, is about the Mafia, who is in love with one Vongola Decimo, and Tsuna, AKA Dame-Tsuna who is everything but his future self. This is how Tsuna’s self-proclaim defenders for his chastity. Of course, those defenders are his Guardians. What a lie, you guys are the bigger threat here. Maybe even add in the Vindice, Kawahira and Iemitsu and Nana. Acrobalano as the greatest wall of protection and number one threat on par with his Guardians.
It matter’s not to them that the Tsuna now is not the Tsuna they know TYL. They just love him that much. Kindness and love is really something.
A story in which the entirety of Mafia, dead or alive, tries to woo one Sawada Tsunayoshi for the person he once was(is?), the person he is now, and the person he would now become.
Dame-Tsuna has no idea what’s going on, who these scary people are and what in the world they are trying to do. (Psst, they’re wooing you, Vongola & Mafia styles.)
Omake: Vongola Decimo in the future is just wondering why the entire Mafia has fallen asleep and not waking up. For the moment, he doesn’t care, there’s no one to cause paperwork or meeting. This is his long awaited vacation. After he stop the world from breaking down without the Mafia running.
Bonus: Policeman time traveled back too. Policeman who wants Down with Evil, Down with Mafia & policeman who’s in it to woo Tsuna too. Competition is tough.
oh my god i love this. i’m such all27 trash.