ID: a screenshot from a Uquiz where the instructions say to “Pick One: Cowboys, Dads, Sluts.” End ID.

"they deserve it" you don't know ANYTHING about living in a country with no press freedom. you don't know anything about the legacy of soviet meddling, habsburg meddling, deep poverty, a country where alcoholism is the norm, where people are prisoners of the unspoken trauma of the 20th-century. my aunt committed suicide seeing the results. she was born under soviet occupation, she has lived 12 years already under this new regime. she is in hospital, she is poor and troubled, but the westerners from their stable homes, with their press freedom and buildings that don't fall apart they should ashamed of themselves.

What they mean: Yes I am screaming crying throwing up but what other words do I have about watching a Latine nonbinary character on my TV not only being called by their correct pronouns but by the name they chose by basically everyone (and Nana as the exception, someone who wants to recognise Jim but is caught in old habits is ALSO important), this is a show where the queer is not subtext but text, it’s flashing neon signage with a song from THE Fleetwood Mac “fucked up relationships” album playing while one lost soul physically reaches out to touch the man he loves, this is a show that is using the most beloved romance tropes as a shopping list, it saw we were hungry and offered a buffet for the heart, and all the while that I’m leaning forward, repeating lines in the sotto voice of joyful disbelief there is a part of me is both so angry this sort of story is rare and so grateful this show is acting like this is a normal story to tell.

EDIT: For those wondering where to watch the show, click here to see my second post about that. 

NO I'M NOT OKAY AND I NEVER WILL BE OKAY

Breathe if you agree

Tom Felton and Emma Watson in Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts  

beautiful take on grief by Andrew Garfield

What do you remember about your first Comic-Con, when you came out of the audience wearing the Spider-Man costume and read that note you’d written? I remember it vividly. It was one of my favorite moments of my creative life, in terms of finding a purpose in my life and knowing that I was in the right place and the right time and that I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Where the idea came from is that I wanted to mark it for myself: I didn’t want to do just a panel, I didn’t want it to be, “Here’s the actors talking about the film,” because that creates a separation and a literal status level, because the actors are on a higher level on the stage than the people are in the audience, and I’m not comfortable with that. It’s okay when you see a play because it’s elevated reality or whatever, but to have the Comic-Con audience look up at me … that simple action, I wasn’t comfortable with. I wanted to be in the crowd, that was it. That’s where I belong, because I’m a fan. It also came out of being very anxious about saying hello and having to say, “Hey, guys, I hope you don’t mind that I’m English.” — Andrew Garfield | San Diego Comic-Con 2011

Them.