#very good point

padawan-historian:

DIVERSITY IS NOT SAMENESS.

kissingcullens:

I see #MidnightSun trending on Twitter, and as a recovering Twilight fan myself, I just want to urge fans to consider making a donation to support the Quileute Tribe’s Move to Higher Ground Project: a project dedicated to moving the community from a tsunami disaster zone at the edge of the Pacific Ocean to a safer, better and higher ground.

–and also to support other causes that directly benefit Native people such as the Navajo Hopi Covid Relief Fund. https://www.gofundme.com/f/NHFC19Relief

As we speak, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is fighting against disestablishment by the Trump administration- you can learn more about how to help on their website and this great article in Teen Vogue: Native Tribe’s Rights to Permanent Homelands Are at Risk.

As someone who LOVED the Twilight series, read fanfic, made fanart, and will most definitely have a raucous, drunken read-aloud party of Edward’s inner monologue if Midnight Sun does actually drop… 

I think it is so important to never erase that Twilight perpetuates racist and othering ideas about Indigenous people, and the series’ success did not benefit the Quileute Tribe monetarily while SMeyer and the franchise rocketed to mega-success, fame, and wealth. 

There’s a lot of talk about the series’ misogyny, which is important, but I think that in 2020, anybody who’s White and who’s still participating in the fandom should centralize critiques of the series’ racism, learn about the issues, and more than that, should back that up with funds and material support.

crimsondoom39:

awesomebutunpractical:

Here’s the thing. Practical self-care, such as showering, feeding yourself, talking a walk, cleaning your space, getting rest, ect. will not solve every problem you have. Especially the big, serious ones. But it will solve a ton of smaller problems that are building up, adding to your stress, and using the energy you need to cope with those big serious problems.

You can feel as awful as you want, just eat a sandwich first.

I think there’s this little instinct we have that rejects solutions to our problemsif I feel better after getting my sandwich that means my problems are less validand therefore if I want my pain to be REAL it can’t be relieved in any waywhich is nonsense the reason why my problems feel smaller when I take care of myself is that I have more energy to cope with themand that’s a GOOD thingThe whole “oh must be nice to think that getting outside cures depression” movement is notin my opiniona victim complex so much as it’s a “I’m in pain and when you try to give me an easy solution it feels like you’re not listening to me”reaction 

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thenonbinarydetective:

I’ve said this before, but maybe if I change how I say it more people might like it. Games!Ned does have a personality.

But he does suffer from something that affects a lot of characters throughout the games, especially in the later ones. Lazy writing.

Really Frank and Joe actually suffer from this too. I don’t remember enough about Bess and George in the later games to say this totally applies to them as well.

Anyway, I was talking about this with some other people in the fandom a while back but I just remembered to make a post about it. Something that all three of the boys suffer from is having their personalities be reliant on another character.

Joe’s personality becomes HEAVILY reliant on him being Frank’s kinda goofy younger brother

Ned’s personality becomes HEAVILY reliant on being Nancy’s boyfriend

And Frank’s personality becomes HEAVILY reliant on being a tired older brother to Joe and being awkward cause he has a crush on Nancy

All of us noted that in the earlier games this really isn’t the case. All three of them have fuller, independent personalities that disappeared or got weaker over time.

All of those things their personalities became reliant on are often things that fans made clear they associated with each character.

But I also don’t think that it’s like entirely a blinded by fanon issue. I think that HeR just got like a little lazier or whatever better/more descriptive word could apply and just focused each character on another character they’re meant to be associated with.

Like it’s extremely easy to focus the Hardy Boys’ personalities with each other and how the other reacts to it. Frank is a tired older brother of a guy who’s kinda goofy, sure. But that’s not it. It’s also really easy to write the main thing about the protagonists boyfriend being that he’s her boyfriend and nothing more. When that’s not all Ned is.