I want no one to beat you but me

and honestly? when you’re keeping secrets to protect yourself even though you know they directly impact people and are sometimes even about other people just as much as they are yourself (see: lana and the stones), at some point they actually do have a right to know more.

is it clark’s fault that he was raised to hide himself and be afraid at every turn? no. is clark a teenager and going to make mistakes? yes. does clark treat people he claims to care about like shit when they want to know more about things that directly impact their lives? also yes.

the whole fucking point of clark’s situation and his relationships is that they are not simple. his life is not simple. it sucks to be clark kent smallville. that doesn’t mean he didn’t still hurt the people around him. it doesn’t mean that the things he chose to do to keep himself safe didn’t endanger others. it doesn’t mean that his choices didn’t have a lasting effect on his friends.

there is no correct answer to this debate and there never will be. i wish people would just accept that instead of using it as a way to put other members of the fandom down. clark is a deeply flawed character and so is everyone else in smallville and there really is no point in pretending otherwise. and the chaos of their lives just makes the whole thing worse.

Lex was supremely talented, authentic, creative, intelligent, unique, and funny, and it’s a loss for the world we didn't get more time with them

they archived about a thousand Rosenbaum photos and shared the folder with me and a couple others, and I'm planning to share one set a day at @michaelrosenbaumarchive

I highly recommend checking out their clex fics as well as their lex luthor tag and michael rosenbaum tag

there will never another like them 🖤

like that isn't the problem there. these people were already enslaved. everything about how society and the economy and whatever was structured was premised on them not being human. The Problem is for what propose they were being counted as 3/5ths of a person. it was for apportioning representatives and taxes. the south had millions of people enslaved. 3/5ths of those millions were considered for how many representatives the states had in congress. the more slaves, the more political power. and this had repercussions that echo down through to today. and this is reflected today in prison populations being counted for political representation but incarcerated people being disenfranchised. and in gerrymandering and in gutting the voting rights act. in the continued denial of political power to black people.

literally like everything this country does is a badge of slavery. everything is reproducing slavery while trying to forget it.

oh and the other side of the compromises: the taxes. the south could continue to benefit from slavery and accumulated political power as long as it meant the north and the federal govt could accumulate wealth and capital in tandem.

friend whos always available: i can do whenever

friend whos constantly busy: im sorry i have work and then school and then the labyrinth and then more work :( i can do tuesday at 3:00 am for five minutes tho

friend with the randomly generated sleep schedule: (no response)

friend who went missing in the woods behind their house 12 years ago and hasn't been heard from since: (no response)