cherry-blossom-nats:

(Eta: there was an addition to this post that adds a bit more.)

I know the joke about Izzy is “human dropped into a muppets movie” but the tragedy is that he’s a queer-coded character from some 1940s or 50s popcorn flick dropped into a pride parade in a floating gayborhood & he flat out has no idea how to deal with it. We learn he’s a great swordsman in the most homoerotic way possible when he uses his skills to cut open a man’s shirt. We see him react more openly and with less inner conflict when Ed slaps him on the back and says “I need you here” than when Ed implies to him, a minute earlier, that he could be a captain. When he’s part of an overtly queer scene where other characters get the romance & he just gets the subtext, Con O'Neill’s body language stands out even more—go back to the scene where Izzy tells Stede that Ed adores him, the way he strokes his fingers down the curtain dividing him from Stede. There is literally no straight explanation for this choice, but there is also no explicit acknowledgement that the character is queer; in a different, older show or movie, that body language would be the acknowledgment. He imbues the character with the looks and pauses that you would see in, like, Ben-Hur or something, where everyone knew a character was gay but nobody could say it out loud. Keep in mind that in the comedies where these characters would exist, the subtextually gay man would sometimes be best friends with a Strong Leading Man who got the girl in the end.

We hear him say outright that there’s no retirement for people like Izzy & Ed, only death, which is itself a hugely loaded analogy next to the title statement “our flag means death” when you consider our history & our use of flags throughout. And Izzy’s so focused on pure survival that he ends up nasty, manipulative, violent—the only way men like him can survive in his mind, or in the genre he’s from, if they don’t have a Strong Leading Man best friend like, say, a Blackbeard to protect him from the narrative. When Ed starts to live in Stede’s world, Izzy is both losing his subtextual boyfriend and also acting as though Ed’s going to get himself (and Izzy) killed if he keeps going down this path.

I will never be sane over this. Izzy is a Celluloid Closet case study who’s been dropped into a Logo TV original, and so much of the conflict of his character comes from his trying to use the coping techniques from that world (including techniques used by queer coded villains! He’s not healthy!) in a world where these techniques are actively harmful rather than a way to survive.

we just keep on winning

[ ID: screenshot of the tumblr trending page. “Our Flag Means Death” is in 4th place, “ofmd” is in 5th, and “Rhys Darby” is in 6th place. In every single one of them, the first post is a gif of Ed and Stede kissing. End ID ]

begendered-mogai:

Stede from Our Flag Means Death is a gay, cupiosexual man with NPD, PTSD and anxiety! He uses he/him pronouns!

Edward is a gay, demiromantic, greysexual man with ASPD, autism and PTSD! He uses he/him pronouns!

For anon!

The characters of the day are Mariana, The Doll Maker and Aunti G from Red Haze

Made by @aestheticgamer

Fairly certain someone just died right outside my house.

It was all over the news and Tumblr that Brennan Lee Mulligan tried to steal the identity of a dead poet with a similar name.

edserhatesyou:

I want to pre face this by saying I’m not suicidal before someone try’s to offer me the number for a hotline or whatever.

I’m at a point where I feel like I’m running out of options and I can’t keep going. I don’t shower one day to the next and I don’t sleep either.

Today I requested my GP start me on bridging HRT (testosterone) as I won’t be able to go to a NHS gender identity clinic for years because of how long the waiting lists are.

The problem is I worked myself up so much to ask that if now I don’t get the outcome I need I’m going to struggle. I already struggle everyday, in the past few months I’ve lost 15 lb because of my mood effecting my appetite. I’m loosing the ability to do things every day because of my lack of sleep and food as well as my already low mood. I’m really struggling and I can’t cope.

I’ll force myself to keep going because I have too but it’s getting harder each day and all I want is to just turn to dust and become a distant uncared about memory to my loved ones but that’s not possible. I feel trapped and I don’t know what to do.!

This is a vent post and I want to reiterate I am not suicidal. I have no intention of committing suicide but I am struggling and needed to vent my emotions right now.

I wanted to update. I’m still in this headspace and my doctor did hours of research and unfortunately the GMC updated their advice so unfortunately he can’t unless he gets the go ahead from a specialist now which I’ll have to pay for or wait longer for the clinic.

At the moment I’m working on saving to pay for my appointment because I need this.

I want to pre face this by saying I’m not suicidal before someone try’s to offer me the number for a hotline or whatever.

I’m at a point where I feel like I’m running out of options and I can’t keep going. I don’t shower one day to the next and I don’t sleep either.

Today I requested my GP start me on bridging HRT (testosterone) as I won’t be able to go to a NHS gender identity clinic for years because of how long the waiting lists are.

The problem is I worked myself up so much to ask that if now I don’t get the outcome I need I’m going to struggle. I already struggle everyday, in the past few months I’ve lost 15 lb because of my mood effecting my appetite. I’m loosing the ability to do things every day because of my lack of sleep and food as well as my already low mood. I’m really struggling and I can’t cope.

I’ll force myself to keep going because I have too but it’s getting harder each day and all I want is to just turn to dust and become a distant uncared about memory to my loved ones but that’s not possible. I feel trapped and I don’t know what to do.!

This is a vent post and I want to reiterate I am not suicidal. I have no intention of committing suicide but I am struggling and needed to vent my emotions right now.

wonderwondered:

The gothic vibes of Jason waking up in his own coffin single handedly make the “Superboy Prime punching universe” resurrection story superior to “resurrected by Lazarus Pit”

keplercryptids:

in the wake of yet another black person being murdered by police, here’s a list of relevant fundraisers and organizations that could use your support right now. 

this is specifically a call to action for fellow white people. if you’re white and you’re in any way able to, donate.

• George Floyd’s memorial fund
• Minnesota Freedom Fund: “We value a society that values its people, their freedom and recognizes their contribution to the greater good. A society that does not condition pretrial freedom on class or identity, that has ended mass incarceration, and that invests in restorative and transformative justice.”
• Black Visions Collective, an org that strives to “shape a political home for Black people across Minnesota. We aim to center our work in healing and transformative justice principles, intentionally develop our organizations core DNA to ensure sustainability, and develop Minnesota’s emerging Black leadership to lead powerful campaigns.”
• Reclaim the Block, which “organizes Minneapolis community and city council members to move money from the police department into other areas of the city’s budget that truly promote community health and safety. We believe health, safety and resiliency exist without police of any kind. We organize around policies that strengthen community-led safety initiatives and reduce reliance on police departments.”
• Black Lives Matter National

prokopetz:

When I was a kid, any time you encountered dangerously bad instructions on the Internet, you could be reasonably assured that there was a human being on the other end of that document, who was trying to hurt you on purpose, out of malice. These days, that tutorial that’ll probably get you killed if you follow it is likely as not to have been written by a search-engine-optimising robot that’s belching out machine-generated misinformation by rote and lacks the faculties to appreciate that it’s just instructed you to brew up a war crime in your kitchen, and even more than the chemical burns, it’s the loss of that human connection that hurts.

crypticcanine:

A S

Y O U

W I S H.

My mom: *goes through my phone, thinking she will find normal teenager stuff*

The images of actual decomposing dead bodies in my camera roll from Forensics Class:

Villain has the upper hand and says something snarky just before they try to kill Hero. Fortunately, Hero gets rescued by Sidekick, with only a few moderate injuries.

Years later, Hero has to fight Villain again. They’re frightened going into it; but eventually Hero gains the upper hand, and they throw Villain’s words right back in their face.

tweetingukpolitics:

[Image ID: a tweet thread by Nazir Afzal, @nazirafzal. The first tweet reads:

“Boris Johnson is the first sitting prime minster to be judged guilty of a crime

Sunak the first Chancellor to be fined

Carrie the first PM’s wife to be fined

Downing Street is a crime scene”

It is tagged #Partygate.

The second reads:

“Let’s be clear this is the most atrocious leadership during the worst public crisis since WW2

He made the law
We complied with the law at great personal cost - all of us
He & his Govt broke the law

Without the rule of law, there is no democracy”

The third reads:

“To those saying ‘now is not the time’ for Johnson to resign

Those of us who lost loved ones to covid & couldn’t attend funerals also believed that 'now was not the time’

But we responded to the greater good, we decided to comply with the law & we made sacrifices while he didn’t”

The third reads:

“LAW BREAKERS CANNOT BE LAW MAKERS”
It is tagged #BorisJohnson, #RishiSunak, #TheRestOfThem, and #Partygate.

The last reads:

“I lost my brother to covid & my mum to a broken heart in the 1st lockdown
I have been asked by numerous media outlets to be interviewed about Johnson

I’ve turned them all down because I’m so angry that I don’t know what I would say

When the anger subsides, he’s still a liar”

End ID]

Professor:That means you have to die first, doesn’t it? Is that something we should-

Student: Be concerned about?

Professor: -be arranging?

lokipagan:

thebeserkingblacksmith:

anexperimentallife:

It’s called ‘being able to see the corpse’

So if I put you in an L-shaped swimming pool, and you knew there was a corpse around the corner, you’d be fine?

loving the implication that I’m a little animal and you’re a scientist putting me into various bodies of water to test my corpse:water ratio tolerance

a-fanfic-fan:

counsellorsuggestion:

rottentrauma:

counsellorsuggestion:

stop insulting yourself. it doesn’t help.

But what if it’s true

it still doesn’t help. you can call yourself as many names as you want, but it won’t make you a better, happier, healthier or kinder person.

punishment doesn’t work. only positive reinforcement does. be kind to yourself and get better.

*murders someone* I’m great at managing anger

this isn’t the only other option.

there aren’t just the polar opposites of “never acknowledge you have flaws no matter how many people you harm” and “beat yourself up mercilessly for everything whether it’s your fault or not”. i’m not saying to compliment yourself for hurting others; i’m saying not to insult yourself for it.

“okay, that was shitty. why did i do that? how can i better myself and avoid doing that in the future?” is so much more constructive than “god you horrible piece of shit, you’re worthless and need to die.”

for instance, since we’re total strangers it was a little rude to be sarcastic rather than ask for clarification. i don’t mind because i’ve had way worse on here, but if i was younger or thinner skinned you could’ve really hurt my feelings. it’d be much better to ask if someone really means something that absurd if you run into this situation again.

and that’s exactly the way you should try talking to yourself. critical, certainly, but not insulting.