“Reagan Is Killing Me,” Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day, San Francisco, California, June 28, 1987. Photo by Saul Bromberger & Sandra Hoover. The first cases of AIDS in the United States were reported in 1981; President Ronald Reagan gave his first address on the subject on May 31, 1987, weeks before Pride celebrations took place across the country. By the end of 1987, over 40,000 people in the United States were dead from HIV/AIDS-related illness. #knowyourhistory (at Market Street San Fancisco)
Do NOT harm yourself. That doesn’t help, and asking you to do so doesn’t help.
Instead? Tell your parents. Tell your family, tell your friends, your teachers, your employers, EVERYONE you know and interact with, that you support and even romanticize abusive content. Tell them that you think it’s harmless.
Well?
We’re waiting.
I do tell a lot of people. My mom, for example. She’s a writer too and she knows that I enjoy writing dark stories. I said people were mad at me on the internet over a ship and she immediately guessed which (very problematic) ship it was and was shocked that people had told me to die over something so ridiculous. I recently told my therapist that I write and enjoy darkfic sometimes, specifically mentioning the sort of sexual content they involve. His first impulse was to worry that I might feel guilty about my harmless interest. I told my previous therapist that I get off to violent fictional media and she said it was fine because she knew I’d never hurt a fly in real life. I’ve told my coworkers about the sort of movies I like (horror) and they didn’t care at all. Turns out people who work at libraries know how fiction works. My childhood best friend has known I’m a sadist for as long as I can remember and it never seemed to bother her. I still have a reputation as a very polite and helpful person, and my friends feel comfortable telling me secrets and asking for advice.
You know what always shocks people? When I tell them about the hate I’ve recieved online for my ships. My mom regularly says she’s proud of me for standing up for myself and others online, and my therapist considers it a very positive act. I don’t tell EVERYONE I interact with about my problematic ships (hi I’d like a number 1 combo with cheese also I think Thor and Loki should kiss), but I don’t hide it at all. The worst I’ve ever gotten is people being mildly surprised that someone as silly and positive as me loves horror.
Tell your family, tell your friends, your teachers, your employers, EVERYONE you know and interact with
“and that’s all 300 pairs of fictional characters I want to kiss each other. any questions?”
“ma’am this is a wal-mart”
Told my mom I wanted to rip open kylo rens abdominal cavity and she just shrugged so op idk what you’re expecting to happen here
“Hey young people, i want you to initiate sexually explicit conversations with lots of grown ups you barely know”
NICE TRY JARED FROM SUBWAY
But are the people telling shippers who ship ‘problematic’ to stop doing that involving their loved ones in their hobby?
Are they telling their parents and siblings and friends that they regularly tell people writing stories online or posting fanart online to stop doing the thing those people enjoy?
I was concerned that there was no price listed per sq ft on the source site, so I looked it up and they are CHEAP AND AFFORDABLE NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE. The bigger homes cost around $34.74/sq.ft (one of the smallest runs ~$15k, but a 4-bed 4-bath home is ~$66.6k, which is damn affordable when comparable homes in my area are closer to five times that price). Color me in love. [x]
ok this has become a somewhat popular post, and I just want to add on because I realise this just says about dating, but it extends to friendships too. just be aware of this and remind the person of their worth, yeah? Even if it’s just a friend and not a partner
In nations that have known the horror of dictatorship or foreign occupation, there are often long traditions of what Poland’s national poet
once called “patriotic treason.” In Polish history, this kind of
activity has ranged from armed resistance — in the 19th century against Russian occupation, in the 20th century against the Nazis
— to peaceful efforts by bureaucrats who quietly tried to work “within
the system” on behalf of their country. I once researched the story of a
Polish culture ministry official who churned out Stalinist prose but
also used her position, during the years of communist terror, to quietly
help dissident artists.
In occupied countries, large public events can spontaneously take on political overtones, too. When the Czech hockey team beat
the Soviet Union at the world championships in 1969, one year after the
Soviet invasion of the country, half a million people flooded the
streets in a celebration that became a show of political defiance. In
1956, 100,000 people came to the reburial of a Hungarian politician who had been murdered following a show trial. The funeral oratory kicked off an anti-communist revolution a few days later.
I
am listing all these distant foreign events because at the moment they
have strange echoes in Washington. Sen. John McCain’s funeral felt like
one of those spontaneous political events. As in a dictatorship, people
spoke in code: President Trump’s name was not mentioned, yet everybody understood that
praise for McCain, a symbol of the dying values of the old Republican
Party, was also criticism of the authoritarian populist in the White
House. As in an occupied country, people spoke of
resistance and renewal in the funeral’s wake. Since then, public
officials have also described, anonymously, new forms of “patriotic
treason” within the White House and in comments to Bob Woodward and the New York Times. As in an unlawful state, these American officials say they are quietly working “within the system,” in defiance of Trump, for the greater good of the nation.
There
can be only one explanation for this kind of behavior: White House
officials, and many others in Washington, really do not feel they are
living in a fully legal state. True, there is no communist terror; the
president’s goons will not arrest public officials who testify to
Congress; no one will be murdered if they walk out of the White House
and start campaigning for impeachment or, more importantly, for the
invocation of the 25th Amendment, the procedure to transfer power if a
president is mentally or physically unfit to remain in office.
Nevertheless, dozens of people clearly don’t believe in the legal
mechanisms designed to remove a president who is incompetent or corrupt.
As the anonymous op-ed writer put it in the New York Times, despite “early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment,” none of the secret patriots “wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis” and backed off.
You
can imagine why this would be. Leading members of Congress might resist
invoking the 25th Amendment, which would of course be described by
Trump’s supporters as a “Cabinet coup.” The mob — not the literal,
physical street mob, but the online mob that has replaced it — would
seek revenge. There may not be any presidential goons, but any senior
official who signs his or her name to a call for impeachment or removal
will certainly be subjected to waves of hatred on social media, starting
with a denunciation from the president. Recriminations will follow on
Fox News, along with a smear campaign, a doxing campaign, attacks on the
target’s family and perhaps worse. It is possible we have
underestimated the degree to which our political culture has already
become more authoritarian.
Maybe we have also
underestimated the degree to which our Constitution, designed in the
18th century, has proved insufficient to the demands of the 21st. In
2016, we learned why it matters that our electoral college — originally
designed to put another layer of people between the popular vote and the
presidency, or as Alexander Hamilton wrote,
to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of
any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite
qualifications” — has become a stale fiction. Now an important
constitutional amendment seems, to the men and women who are empowered
to use it, too controversial to actually use.
The result: institutional and
administrative chaos; our military chain of command is compromised;
people around the elected president feel compelled to act above the law
and remove papers from his desk. The mechanisms meant to protect the
state from an incompetent or dictatorial president are not being used
because people in power no longer believe in them, or are afraid to use
them. Washington feels like the capital of a state where the legal order
has collapsed because, in some ways, it is.
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