getting a lot of tags from straight people who are confused about how to just compliment people’s hair so i promise that when you’re not trans it’s just like this. its fine
I will never understand why this Christmas song goes so hard.
OKAY MOTHERFUCKERS LISTEN UP
BECAUSE THIS SHIT IS NOT CAROL OF THE BELLS
IT IS CHRISTMAS EVE/SARAJEVO 12/24 AND IT IS SO MUCH FUCKING MORE THAN CAROL OF THE BELLS.
so during the bosnian war (which was this nasty-ass conflict in bosnia and herzgovina) there was this badass cello-playing motherfucker named vedran smailovic. He was from Sarajevo, was upset about all the shit and nastiness that came about through this war (this was full-on brother-killing-brother shit!) that he went around to bombed-out, blown up buildings and funderals––where he was at risk of FUCKING SNIPER FIRE––and playing the cello. This guy was so set on providing one tiny spot of beauty in a seriously nasty war he was risking being fucking SHOT OR BLOWN UP.
AND THIS IS THE GUY WHO INSPIRED THIS SONG.
He’s why there’s the calm cello part at the beginning before everything gets all violent-sounding. It’s THEMATIC.
THAT’S WHY THIS CHRISTMAS SONG GOES SO FUCKING HARD.
There’s the wikipedia article about him and yes…true story…
It’s also important to understand that Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 was not originally a Trans Siberian Orchestra song. It was originally recorded by Savatage, a metal band, for their concept album “Dead Winter Dead,” and when some Savatage members formed TSO, they adopted that song as a TSO song because yeah it’s fucking amazing.
Friendly reminder that this exists.
Friendly reminder that Vedran’s performances also included a pile of rubble that used to be a fountain IN THE CENTER OF A TOWN SQUARE WITH NO COVER.
When asked years later why he’d down something so apparently suicidal, he shrugged and replied
that it was his way of proving that “the spirit of
humanity was still alive in that place, despite all evidence to the
contrary.”
May we all be as brave and stalwart in protesting violence and injustice as Vedran “The Most Bad-Ass Cellist Ever” Smailović.
Also, despite what some articles may say, Vedran was not an old man when
this happened. He’s only in his early 60s today, which would have made
him no older than 37 when he was playing in the ruins of Sarajevo.
Never let anyone tell you it’s only old men who can make a difference.
I made a viral meme thing that went like, “Bro doesn’t even know he’s a metaphor for _____” and it would be stuff like capitalism and alcoholics n such, I believe someone used it on me and I was a metaphor for insecurities and it messed me up a little.
i hate talking about dysphoria with cis ppl because they immediately clock it as body dysmorphia, and only as body dysmorphia. (i say only bc some trans ppl can and do experience both)
i can’t talk about how i hate how my thighs make me feel/look feminine because they always say “but you look fine!” or “i think you look amazing!” or “but you should love them!”
and it’s so hard to describe dysphoria, especially to ppl who don’t experience it, or who don’t want to understand it isn’t dysmorphia
and no matter how hard you try to explain they always try to make you love this body you have because “you should love yourself as you are!”
but i do love myself. but not quite exactly how i am. i love what i know I can be. i love knowing that one day i’ll have top surgery scars i can trace with my fingers and a scratchy beard from T. i love knowing that I can eventually do my silly little effeminate gestures without hating how it makes me look. i love knowing that eventually i can look in a mirror and grin at the man i’ve become.
but that’s not right now. i may cry a little when a shirt doesn’t fit the way it should, but i don’t hate the body that makes it that way. I may feel a pit in my stomach when I realize the way that i’m standing makes me look girly, but i don’t hate that i’m standing that way.
i don’t hate that i used to be a girl but i hate when people still think i am.
i don’t hate my body, i just hate how it isn’t what it’s supposed to be quite yet. could that make any sense to the cis folks reading this?
I am trans and I love my body, just sometimes it doesn’t love me back. and one day it will.
i think if yanks can’t even recognise that the only reason they find farenheit intuitive is because they were raised with it, there’s basically no chance of being able to get them to analyse all the other, more important implicit biases they’ve been raised with
oh wait i want to be a hater. the stupid fucking phenomenon on th of people using those cutesy graphics for trigger warnings is literally one of the most annoying things ever just fucking have a LISTTTTT of things that someone can easily read instead of having to look at cute pixel art gifs with the text PHYSICAL ABUSE right beneath
like come the fuck on with some of these
oh wait i just completely fucking forgot about this one. help.
my problem is i love bits too much. can never resist a good bit. you set out a piece of cheese under a box propped up by a stick with a string tied to it i’ll fall for it just because it’d be funny
seing people write ‘unaliving’ and 'g-cide’ or whatever other stupid self-censorship is so absolutely annoying because like - for one, we’ve already acknowledged that there was never any proof that saying 'kill’ would actually lead to posts being algorithmically suppressed, and the entire thing was just paranoid self-reinforcement - and for two, who fucking cares if your post doesn’t go #trending, if it means not writing in an infantile and euphemistic way about an ongoing genocide?
yknow whats crazy about the capybara thing? they arent even a weird animal to like. they are very popular and considered cute by tons of people. your coworkers are real fucking freaks.
ohhhhh I get it now. the “gifted kid” discourse exists because people see it fundamentally as a sign of Privilege and not as a largely meaningless category that puffs up weird children before setting them up for the same unremarkable lives as everyone else; thus they interpret people going “the educational system gave me false expectations before ultimately abandoning me to the same heartless world as everyone else” as “why am I, The Main Character, not getting everything I ever wanted.”
no i don’t have an “astigmatism” i can just see the halos of the angels that live in car head lights that you losers are too spiritually closed off to see
The thing with ADHD memory issues isn’t that I’m blissfully ignorant of all the things I’m forgetting. I’m stressfully ignorant. I’m never suddenly hit with the unexpected feeling of “oh, I think I’ve forgotten something”, because the feeling is never unexpected, nor does it ever leave. That alarm is blaring 24/7. If I didn’t tune it out, I’d go insane.
You can see the video here where an asshole with a “My pronouns are find/Jesus” shirt asks if this guy supports LGBTQ rights or economic stability, and this king up here^ just keeps repeating, “Why can’t you have both? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don’t have to pick one. I refuse the question.” Conservatives have absolutely nothing but whataboutism, and when people don’t play their game, they have no comeback. Good on this guy for refusing to go along with the bullshit question
I think people are just joking around, but the thing is that a lot of people will fall into the right’s “DEBATE ME BRO” trap and wind up in heated arguments, and people lose sight that sometimes it really is a lot more effective at shutting down their arguments to just not engage at all
.. I feel like another big reason this is a thing/joke/question at all is the implication that this guy doesn’t “”“look like”“” someone who would support queer rights or refuse to debate conservatives and like
We can agree that’s a shitty conclusion to leap to from appearances, right? Yeah? 😕
I mean, I just loved this guy absolutely refusing to entertain the bullshit question, and I would’ve gotten a kick out of this video regardless of his appearance because of how casual and amused he was about the whole thing. One of the people in the screenshots above said this:
So I don’t think everyone was making fun of his appearance
why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?
A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.
Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.
Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.
And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.
The psych nerds found out ages ago that punishments that make the child think for a few minutes (about one minute or year of age until they’re tweens) is much more helpful to develope social intelligence and understanding than punishments which prevents thinking, like the ones that involve pain. In fact, corporal punishment encouraged lying, extreme reactions, violent outbursts, go figure, they don’t trust you.
This is all really fucking serious and important and I’m mainly reblogging for that, because this correct mentality needs to be spread around more, but I’m also reblogging because I absolutely lost it at the child who dreads having to wear the normal blue hat of shame.
like man doesn’t it fucking suck that there’s not really any public space. that you can’t go anywhere without spending money on food or transportation, that unless you wanna sit on a mall bench all day or browse library shelves you basically can’t do anything in public? even standing in front of a building without paying for something (“loitering”) is illegal. everything is built to punish homeless people which means if you ever want to sit down or rest or exist in public every building and park bench and windowsill is telling you to kill yourself instead. maybe that has something to do with the unpleasantness of online spaces, where everyone is shoved together into a giant digital chamber because it’s the only “public square” still available while also being isolated and alone in their room on their phone because everything sucks and a global pandemic is still happening. like I’m just saying I think that has more to do with how annoying people are on the internet than like mcu fanfiction
guys why the fuck aren’t we talking about what’s happening in the uk right now
nobody outside the uk is talking about this. why is nobody talking about it
prev!!!!!!
again, i know it’s depressing and i’m sorry for putting negative stuff on everyone’s dash but it’s so fucking frustrating that nobody is talking about this because if nobody listens to us then nothing will happen and nothing will change, please please please start speaking up
actually you have a mama’s boy and then you have whatever the hell percy jackson is because that kid PRAYED to his MOM instead of his father who’s an actual god .
