instead of arguing about the no-fly list and the memes it spawned, please consider donating to CAIR (Center for American Islamic Relations) or the CCR (Center for Constitutional Rights)
CAIR, specifically, is group of muslim lawyers who routinely represent muslim americans fighting for their legal rights - all for free
both groups have already won multiple cases for muslim americans who have been wrongfully profiled and surveilled by the government, and they’ve announced plans to take even broader legal initiative to protect our rights. it’s because of their work thus far that the supreme court recently ruled that muslims who have been wrongfully placed on no-fly lists are now allowed to sue the government for damages
we still have a long way to go, but organizations like these are doing so much work to make sure we get there
Me: Caring for fictional characters is stupid! They’re not even real! I don’t know why people care so much about them.
Also me, the entire time watching Obi Wan Kenobi: *tenderly* sir please. Just take a nap. Just a little rest. please. I love you so much.
idk why but i feel like being a punk is for he/hims and doing ballet is for she/hers
i think it’s difficult to understand the complexities of misa and light’s relationship unless you yourself have been through a toxic relationship.
my ex-girlfriend cornered me into a one-sided relationship and forced me to stay with her despite me telling her several times that i could not love her (i am aroace). but she put me into a position where i had to agree and never let me leave her, she would keep coming back and threatened me with the fact that she could destroy my social life at any moment and turn my circle of friends against me, due to her being at the top of our school’s social ladder and me being at the bottom. it took nearly a year for me to get out due to her constant gaslighting, and i managed to piss her off enough to make HER break it off.
the point of this is NOT to say that these experiences are equal to what happened between misa and light. i am not defending either of them. the point is that light did not “corrupt” misa. misa is not your cute little girlboss who can do no wrong. misa and rem still FORCED light into a relationship with misa despite him repeatedly saying “no,” or “i can’t be your boyfriend,” and so many people ignore that.
misa still did bad things. so did light. the situations they were BOTH under were likely extremely traumatizing. i don’t hate misa at all, nor do i hate light. i just think many people in this fandom are overlooking the fact that rem and misa still forced light’s hand.
Making up a reason why Steve was barefoot all the way to the Gun store + adding some extra spice to that "Big boy" remark 😏
demon eater
being a jew studying preholocaust european jewish history is just *mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns-*
God may be dead but his excuses sure aren’t.
yknow out of every show/movie/whatever thats tried to do the whole ‘girl power’ subplot, ATLA is the the only one I’ve seen stick the landing. cause like, they didn’t try and condense it down to a one episode problem then never speak of it again, but they also didn’t subject us to constant misogyny during the entire series. and they were also realistic about it! the point they wanted to make was that gender has nothing to do with a persons capabilities, and that is the point they wound up making every time!
probably the best example is the katara vs pakku fight, cause like. any other show would probably have katara kick his ass, and that would convince him to teach her and also drive home the girl power theme. the conflict of the story is katara not being allowed to fight bcause girls are considered too weak; if she loses a fight to a man, then it just proves him right, she has to win. but that’s why the message always falls flat in other stories, because it wouldn’t make any sense for katara to beat pakku in that fight. she’s a teenager with literally no training, and has spent all season struggling to teach herself the basics, while pakku has decades of experience and is one of the most skilled waterbending masters in the world. if katara won the fight, it would be contrived bullshit, and make the intended feminist themes painfully heavy handed, and a blatant token effort. but instead, we get a hardcore two minute smackdown of katara trying to murder the everloving shit out of pakku, and making him work to kick her ass. like yeah she loses, but it’s a vicious fight, she manages to hold her own despite all the odds stacked against her, and it’s the first real display of intense combat waterbending in the show. and despite losing the fight, she still wins the overall argument, because she successfully gets through to pakku about the patriarchal system being damaging to everyone - up to and including him.
my point is katara going absolutely fucking feral against pakku is the best fight scene ever, and atla is a really good show
Mostly fandom stuff. Just putting this here so people won't think I'm a bot. Still figuring out how to use the website
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