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SERIOUSLY THOUGH

I get so annoyed with him!

The part that always sticks out in my memory is when Val brings up that Armand lied to his teacher when he was a child about being queer. Armand reasonably point that Val was a child and his teacher was a bigot, and Armand wanted to protect his son from that cruelty.

And Val then tries to give puppy dog eyes? I think the line was “I still need protecting”

It makes me grit my teeth because Val literally just got done arguing he’s not a child and can make the choice to get married! I want to grab his shoulders and shake him “you can’t have it both ways! You don’t get to pout and stomp your feet and say you’re an adult and then immediately pivot and say you need to be protected like a child”

Except he does get to. Because Armand loves his son and wants to protect him and wants to see him happy.

Imagine finding out that not only is your child so ashamed of his parents that he wants his father to hide who he is, but that he thinks you’re beyond asking.

Your very existence in the same space as the people he wants to impress is too humiliating to possibly be allowed. You being yourself ruins everything he wants—and he doesn’t even feign being upset about it.

SERIOUSLY THOUGH

I get so annoyed with him!

The part that always sticks out in my memory is when Val brings up that Armand lied to his teacher when he was a child about being queer. Armand reasonably point that Val was a child and his teacher was a bigot, and Armand wanted to protect his son from that cruelty.

And Val then tries to give puppy dog eyes? I think the line was “I still need protecting”

It makes me grit my teeth because Val literally just got done arguing he’s not a child and can make the choice to get married! I want to grab his shoulders and shake him “you can’t have it both ways! You don’t get to pout and stomp your feet and say you’re an adult and then immediately pivot and say you need to be protected like a child”

Except he does get to. Because Armand loves his son and wants to protect him and wants to see him happy.

The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.

The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"

For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.

The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

Soon after, in the city of Himeji, he founded Gojinkai, an NGO helping other yakuza leave the criminal life. Gojinkai aimed to address a major issue for anyone trying to ditch the yakuza and join the legal economy. Authorities consider them members for five years after leaving – meaning they are left unbanked, unable to find employment, and more susceptible to rejoining the underworld. Ex-yakuza “are afloat in the grey zone,” says Herbert. “So there is no way for them to get out of the criminal scene.”

By 2020, when Nishimura first met Takegaki, he was often quoted in the media predicting the yakuza’s demise. She began visiting the Gojinkai office once a month, joining Takegaki and other former yakuza in a street-cleaning exercise. It was “wonderful to see such a bigshot in the past taking the initiative to pick up trash”, she writes. Nishimura’s inability to leave her criminal past behind had left her poor, alone and jobless. But she was inspired by Takegaki. “If he can do it,” she thought, “so can I.”

"Teach me, eh?" Hans climbed over him, leveraging his weight to press Henry's body further into the ground and planting his lips against Henry's brow as he spoke. He traveled lower, a loving assault that ended just below his chin.

Commission Based on 'amor et virtus' by Nerdybirdnerd on AO3

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