Embiggened Fists of RAGE

“Little lollipops and hamster unicorns, they’re amber colored, start floating around us as I cast Major Image.”

aka the moment everyone and their mother realized that Caleb is in love with Jester.

PSA on Britney Spears and the #FreeBritney movement for anyone that needs or wants more information on what is going on with her. It’s a fucking rabbit hole, so buckle up.

A little backstory first. Britney was a child star starting at the age of 4 years old on Broadway, and then worked her way to the Mickey Mouse Club, and eventually the solo career we know today. Her career has been on autopilot her entire life. If you look back at her music, she’s been telling everyone for years she’s too controlled and treated as a product if you listen to the lyrics of most of her hits. Examples include: Lucky, Overprotected, My Perogative, Circus, Piece of Me and Gimme More. Her music videos, social media posts, tour props and photoshoots regularly show her in a cage or in chains. If anyone has ever seen videos of her when she was younger, you’d know her REAL singing voice is very similar to Christina Aguilera’s. Her record label didn’t like it, as they were both on the Mickey Mouse Club and about to release their debut albums at the same time. So they had her voice retrained to sing in the baby voice we all know today because they believed it to be more iconic and would create a brand and career for her instead of her real voice. It’s unhealthy, and it’s been destroying her voice over the years, thus why she is known for lip syncing. She wanted to make an acoustic type pop album in 2006 titled Original Doll and reinvent herself using her real voice. The album was shelved and cancelled once her label realized she would be singing in her real voice. She isn’t allowed to sing live because she will either fail terribly, or she’ll have to sing in her deep voice that she isn’t known for. Her entire career she has been treated like a product meant to sell.

Now, for the real tea.

Everyone remembers the 2007 meltdown. Everyone. Leading up the meltdown Britney was going thru a public divorce, had two children under the age of 2 at the time and was VERY much the focus of the public. We all saw her on every magazine cover. We all also saw the photo of her with one of her kids on her lap while driving. Go on YouTube once and look up ‘Britney Spears paparazzi’. You’ll watch her be chased and followed by hundreds of them, even trying to get into a public restroom to photograph her, videotaping her in tears asking them to leave her alone, and even filming her thru the windows of an ambulance while she was naked being taken away for her final mental health hold.

After the public meltdown, shaving her head, locking herself in her home with her children, speaking in a british accent on regular basis, wearing the imfamous pink wig everywhere, and shopping naked, she was hospitalized twice. After the hospitalization, her father petitioned the courts to be a TEMPORARY conservator to her until she was mentally stable and for only one years time. 2 months after her hospitalization she did a guest appearance on How I Met Your Mother. 6 months after her hospitalization, she drops the Womanizer video and starts to promote her new album Circus with its worldwide tour that grossed $131.8 million. If she’s so unwell, why did she start working right away?

Her father after one year petitioned the courts for the conservatorship to become permanent due to her ALLEGEDLY having EARLY ONSET DEMENTIA in her TWENTIES. It passed and has been that way ever since. For 12 years to be exact.

Now for everyone that doesn’t understand what that means let me break it down for you.

Britney Spears is a now 38 year old woman who is not allowed to do the following without her fathers permission or he can legally lock her up in a mental health facility:

• drive a car

• vote

• get married

• have children

• spend HER OWN MONEY

• see how her money is being spent

• see her children (she has 30% custody of both of her boys due to her dad assaulting one of her sons)

• leave her home

• hire her own lawyer

• have any control over her career

• speak about the conservatorship publicly

• do interviews that aren’t scripted and all final cuts are approved by her father as well

• use a cell phone without being monitored

• use social media unmonitored

• contact ANYONE without being monitored or having them extremely vetted. (Iggy Azalea allegedly had her house searched for drugs top to bottom when they collaborated on a song together)

• go shopping

• go for a walk

• get Starbucks

A conservatorship is meant for people with mental health issues or decaying health. Most likely grandparents or people with actual dementia etc. They are meant for people who literally cannot take care of themselves. If she is so unwell that she isn’t mentally capable of doing anything for herself, why is she still working? Since the conservatorship began 12 years ago she has:

• released 4 albums

• done 3 worldwide tours

• did a FOUR-year Vegas residency

• was a full time judge on X-Factor

• released multiple perfumes and a lingerie line

• made $138 MILLION DOLLARS or so A YEAR

In January of last year, Britney was placed in a mental health facility for 3 months after being seen driving her car to In-N-Out with her boyfriend without permission and for refusing to take the sedating medications her father has doctors prescribing her to keep her under control. She testified to a judge in documents that she was held there against her will by her father. After it was leaked to the press that she was there against her will, the Free Britney movement picked up speed causing a judge to open an investigation into the impact and legality her conservatorship has on her life. Britney’s mother Lynn was also liking and commenting on Free Britney posts saying she agrees that Britney is trapped by her father. Britney’s team had Twitter disable the Free Britney hashtag, and regularly threatens any celebrity that speaks out using the hashtag with a lawsuit if they don’t remove their support for the movement. She was seen shortly after leaving a hotel thru the front door (99% of celebrities park underground to avoid paparazzi unless they WANT to be photographed) stumbling while carrying her shoes, and out of it. Her team used that moment to justify to the public that she needs this conservatorship. She is not allowed to have any say in the hiring or firing of anyone on her team. Every year she pays $1.1 million dollars in fees for the conservatorship to continue, including paying her father a solid $100k+ salary and paying a lawyer she isn’t allowed to choose. She is allowed an allowance of around $1,500 a week for bills, shopping and essentials. Her net worth is $250 million.

So, when everyone sees her on Instagram walking up and down her hallways like it’s a fashion show. That’s all she is allowed to do. She has NEVER had control over her life. I don’t care if you personally like her or her music, NO ONE DESERVES THIS. All this woman wants is to see her children, make the music she wants to make, and go get a frappuccino in her car. She is a light of sunshine in this world, and we must protect her at all costs. So please, do not make fun of her, support the Free Britney movement, and send good vibes her way. She has a court date this month to review the conservatorship and decide if it is abusive or will continue to be in place. There are so many details to this that i left out that would make this post entirely much longer than it is, but a simple search will show you what else is out there. Spread this far and wide. ❤️ Free Britney

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

Note the date, people:

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.

MARVEL WOMEN + Knowing their own strength

What

Yeah in America that’s just an average Tuesday

In case y’all thought this wasn’t a real thing:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52045958

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/us/politics/coronavirus-fbi-shooting.html

https://time.com/5810734/fbi-terrorist-bomb-coronavirus-hospital/

and those are just the top 3 results when you google “missouri hospital terrorist”

Just to emphasize how bad the coverage for this is, I live in Missouri and didn’t even know this was a thing that happened

yo I heard NOTHING about this wtf??????

my absolute favorite cr2 thing is when they say things purposefully that they know would antagonize the cr1 characters, like “whoever invented guns must have been a very smart person. she must have been a very smart person indeed.” or that time when caleb was like ‘who needs so many daggers.’ like it makes me lose it every time

everything in the notes of this post is fantastic and i can’t decide who to reblog from so im just gonna add them all here

[Image description: various replies and reblogs.

@.randomanswerforrandom… “Life does need things to live” “Who said that? That’s a stupid saying”

@.lostsometime: “BARDS SUCKS”

@.artaphant: You are missing the lovely moment Taliesin called Whitestone a tourist trap.

@.a-case-for-wonder: #Nott episode 1:I love Trinkets! killed me dead

@.chainsaws: when jester is like “i don’t care about the cost that sounds reasonable to me” and you can almost see the pain in Laura’s eyes as she says it

@.a-dot-fell: “He was basically a god.”

@.cammycammybangbang: “Whats your mothers name” is always an instakill for me]

Baby Appa is here to heal your soul

elementals

[images are 8 paintings of big cats with fantasy elemental motifs: a dark brown lion with stylized flames in place of its mane; a blue snow leopard with snowflake patterns in its coat and icicles forming on its fur; a clouded leopard shrouded in grey stormclouds; a cougar perched on some striated rocks, with geodes dotting its fur; a tiger prowling with bright green vegetation sprouting from its stripes; a winking cheetah with a bright arc of lightning running along the length of its body; a blue jaguar, floating serenely with a ring of water splashing around it; and a purple-tinged panther prowling, with bright pink cracks of arcane energy creeping up from its paws and tailtip. bright diamond sparks float around it.]

I think you’re gonna be a bad teacher.

he could remember that long password but not what any given electronic is called

Remembering the password is *useful*, rememebring the name of Goobers isn’t inherently so.

fair

the bit of animation where peter throws the monitor behind them as they run is basically my favorite thing

he got that password by watching a mirrored reflection of her hands, through a grate in the ceiling.

but still has to peck at the letters with single fingers

#listen the inherent core of any Spider-Man is a blend of hyper-competence and absolute chaotic disaster energy #this is just the middle-aged disaster version instead of the teenager disaster version (galwednesday)

now that everyones seen this movie ill put this here lmao

If courage isn’t the absence of fear but doing the right thing regardless of it, maybe confidence isn’t the absence of insecurity but knowing you have real worth despite it

this is beautiful

By this same token, maybe goodness isn’t the absence of bad thoughts or impulses, but the conscious choice to behave according to your moral ideals in spite of them. 

If you haven’t seen this story, look up his name: Francisco Galicia. 

Expect to see him come 2020, when the debates begin and the political battle heats up. Expect to see him in a suit testifying in court, or before Congress. This young man is a witness and a victim, and the fact that this isn’t a more prominent story on every news station is what truly frightens me.

From The Dallas News:

I would remind you that concentration camps are actually real. 

This is happening.

[the screencapped tweets are in initial link]

just saw bindi irwin got engaged and apparently her fiance is american. she’s 21 and they’ve been dating for 6 years. I wonder if his family lives in aus/works in conservation because imagine just being a random 15-year-old tourist at the zoo and having a meet cute with steve irwin’s daughter lol 

apparently that’s exactly how they met. bindi just happened to be giving tours the day his family visited. love is unreal. how is this not a teen romcom yet

It gets better. Terri is also American and met Steve Irwin the same way, by chance at the Australia Zoo, in 1991. Terri was devastated when he immediately offered to introduce her to his girlfriend Sue, until Steve called Sue over and a dog came bounding up.

Multi-generational love at first sight.

types of aros (incomplete):

1. never once thought they had a crush, never understood romantic attraction, thought crushes were a myth, have only recently realized that romantic attraction is a real thing that happens to people in real life

2. misinterpreted platonic attraction as romantic, consistently believed that they were in love with all their friends, were confused about how people only have one (1) crush when People Are So Great 

3. Thought crushes were a choice and just picked a celebrity/classmate to be their crush and assumed that was how everyone else did it

4. always knew it was a thing and thought that Everyone Around Them Is Just Not Good Enough To Like before realizing ‘what shit this actually isn’t normal’ and identifying as aro

5. dated like. a billion people and never understood why it was tiring, and the emotional connections just felt lacking and performative. discovered too late that wait, wait, thats not how that works??? ohhhhh. aro alright

6. got confused when people said they had a crush on someone who is unavailable or “not good for them”, and not getting why they can’t just move on?

7. “I prefer to be friends before I date someone” in order to see if this “spark”, “chemistry” thing happens. So *becomes friends* *doesn’t date the person because doesn’t “feel the thing”* *friend leaves because only ever got close to them with the agenda of becoming partners* oh

8. Assumed crushes and love were things only adults experienced and was genuinely confused when they turned 18 and romantic attraction didn’t magically appear

9. Is naturally friendly and constantly makes other people think they are flirting because they cant tell when a behaviour can be interpreted as romantic

10: Didn’t understand that romantic attraction was an actual thing for years but was coerced by friends into believing they must have a crush on somebody, usually one person of the opposite gender who was relatively good looking, and just took that as fact until years later realising that no, thats not how it works

11. Had “crushes” on unavaiable people/almost strangers only and reacted with great confussion and disgust when someone actually tried to liked, introduce them to those crushes.

12. Tried to figure out if they had a crush on a new friend, and whether or not the friend was flirting with them. Was relieved when they found out the friend was already in a relationship. “so i guess i don’t have a crush on them. it would be inconvenient.” subsequently was way more relaxed around said friend.

13. Knows everything about different kinds of attraction and (almost) every aspec label but not what they feel and are in a constant state of confusion

14. Has no idea what romantic attraction does or doesn’t feel like, so you seemingly have a crush on everybody who’s even slightly nice to you, but don’t actually know if it’s a crush or not.

Tag yourself; I was 4 before I knew what aromanticism is and now I’m a hopeless 13

Critical role spoilers with no context