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I have a theory, and I’m interested to know if I’m right. What’s your mbti (myers-briggs type indicator)?

I don’t know where to start to be honest.

The terrorists had arrived as 4 people in a taxi. One of them got to the carpark, and started firing all around. The people were scared, so they got to the inside of the airport. And they got the policemen’s attention. While the policemen were going to the carpark and the innocent people were trying to get inside, the other three terrorists ran inside of the airport and in all that chaos no one noticed. (According to news, it’s similar to the Brussels attack.)

The terrorists got to the very entrance of the international part of the airport, I repeat: INTERNATIONAL. Our tourism sector has been suffering from the terrorism for a long time. And terrorism wanted it to suffer even more. And our relationship with Russia have just got better, so the Russian tourists have started to come in our country again. But noooo, the terrorists wanted to smash it again. Oh, and Putin was going to call our prime minister at 12 o’clock today. Coincidence?

You guys all know how our government is trying to get in the EU (Yes, our government. I’ve seen some people whining about how Turkey’s been trying to get in the EU and never going to succeed and how we’re all humuliating our selves blah blah etc. but if you ask the people, the majority is going to say: “No, we don’t want to get in the EU.”, including me. So the people doesn’t want it, only our government wants it. Believe it or not. Also I think we’re not going to succeed too but I don’t want to be succeed, anyway.) The EU was going to decide if the vizas were going to removed between Turkey and Europe. And now an attack to the International part of the central airport of Istanbul? Hah. Coincidence?

And to the ones who don’t know: Istanbul Atatürk Airport is the most secured airport of the Europe. I’ve been there, expecially the International part. All the people in there were almost  going to be searched to the underwear. The attack was in the entrance, not inside  of the International part. So security couldn’t check the terrorists.

And now, we open the televisions, see the news and you know what we say? We say: “Again?!” We say again?  Do you know how many terrorism attacks directed to Turkey in the last year? Do you know how much innocent people we lost? While you were praying for Paris, we were also praying for Istanbul. While you were praying for Brussels, we were also praying for Ankara.

When are we going to feel that we’re secure? When are we going to walk in the streets feeling free? When are we going to go to any place in this beautiful country not feeling that we could explode any time? When?  When?

And if there’s still some guys out there who are Islamaphobic or thinks that these terrorists are Muslim, these words are for you: How many proofs that we have to give to you? You know which month is this? I mean in the Hejira? It’s Ramadan. A month that is more greatful than the one thousand months. And these are not my words, every single Muslim knows it. Ramadan is called: “The Sultan of 11 Months”. You know what do we do in this month? We fast. Meaning: we do not eat, or drink, or gossip, or say bad words, or look at “haram”, literally rest our soul from every single “haram” thing, plus dicipline our desires and greed for some time. (The time changes from country to country. This year in Turkey, that’s 17 hours. Yes, we do stay 17 hours without food and water. Believe me, it looks impossible but actually it’s not. I do it, and I can assure you, you get more hungry between the break of meals.) Plus it’s the month of peace, sharing and brotherhood. Did the terrorists act in these terms yesterday? Have the terrorists ever act in these terms? No. Plus, we are inside the last ten days of Ramadan. Meaning: The Qur’an was delivered to Earth in “The Magnitude Night” which is inside the last ten days of Ramadan. People say it’s the 27th day of Ramadan but it’s no exact, The Magnitude Night is basically hidden in these last ten days. In these days, we Muslims worship and pray even more and more. We try to make people happy even more. We try to act nicely and give ourselves to our religion even more. Is this what the terrorists who call themselves “Muslim” do? No. Let me tell you even a more tragic-comedic thing. These so-called Muslim terrorists say “Allahu Akbar” when they’re about to bomb someplace, or explode themselves right? Do you have any idea where “Allahu Akbar” must be used, I mean like a proper use? It must be used in “namaz”, when we’re about to go to the “secde” position. It’s basically a very very holy saying, and saying this when you’re about the butcher, slaughter, murder people…this is not Islam. It’s far from being Islam. And if these evidences are not enough for you, then I don’t know what to say to you anymore.

And for the last thing, I’d like to show you how Istanbul looks like to those who’s wondering how it looks like, to those who’s never been there and expecially to those who think that we ride camels. (Seriously that was one of the funniest thing I have ever heard.)

First, I love that you’re an INTJ. Your voice is very INTJ: “nonsensical ramblings … substantially reduced.” I teach writing, and two of my best students were INTJs, and I’ve noticed INTJs have very similar writings voices, which I find interesting. I myself am a stronger “F” than most INTJs (I was professional typed by two seperate experts and I was usually about 52% T and 48% F), so sometimes I come across as an INFJ, but yeah, I’m naturally an INTJ. So, hello, it’s nice to meet more INTJs on Tumblr. There are a lot of us on the internet. More than I’ve found when I walk out my door on a typical day, certainly. 

As for the couples I mentioned, they all share some similarities and the latter who I spent an inordinate amount of time analyzing only to be disappointed in the end.

Smoke/Eric from the True Blood books was probably the one that I think from a narrative perspective is most reminiscent - enemies to reluctant allies to friends to lovers, you get it. They were built up so beautifully and consistently over the course of the series. I’ll admit the writing was at times lacking, cliche even, but the undertones were what kept me hooked. There was the “Finn” character in the form of Bill (whose former lover showed up and was far less mature than Raven) and “Lexa” in the form of Quinn (who ultimately put his family before Sookie). Needless to say, though I’m sure my shipper goggles didn’t help, Eric/Sookie just made sense - he never betrayed her trust and was ALWAYS saving her (I’m a sucker for that trope; it must say something about me.lol). Anyways, spoiler alert: they do get together and everything seems right in the world and then the last book comes out and she ends up with essentially the “Wells” character in the end. My only explanation is that the author had a midlife crisis or was abducted by aliens. There’s just no other reason for the break in story. As you can see, I’m still worked up about it. 

Brucas (One Tree Hill - another CW show) is kind of interesting in that I think they are the “Clexa” relationship - one that was introduced as a foil to the original couple, but took off like wildfire. I suppose I have only myself to blame with this one. Though, in my defense, the Brucas love story was far more developed. In fact, the writers toyed with the “who will Lucas choose - Brooke or Peyton” thing for literally 6 seasons spanning over half a decade. The two characters playing Brucas got married in real life, so the chemistry was there - but then they got divorced and it was quite the scandal. I feel like you’d have the same dilemma as I did - the initial narrative (and ultimately the endgame) worked against Brucas. Had they allowed them to just run their course in season 1 and then pick up with “Leyton” thereafter it would have been acceptable. But, they didn't. Instead they seemed to shift course and laid the groundwork for Brucas (and another couple). I’m getting into the weeds and without watching the show (and the travesty it became), this all probably makes me sound like a crazy person, so I’ll stop there. 

Like Casey, I only say this because I keep seeing people attack or condemn others (especially other women) for not being enlightened enough to reject rape culture. Well, the problem with that is that it’s not so easy to do.

I didn’t think Enzo could hurt me that bad?? Please tell me I’m not the only one who felt like Enzo was hurt when he realized Caroline was into Stefan? His face in that scene is just

So the latest thing about the Ebola outbreak is how racist the US is for hiding a serum that could have cured people is all over my dash.

Melisandre is the daughter of Shiera Seastar and Brynden “Bloodraven” Rivers because of reasons….

U.S. officials are confident they can be treated without putting the public in any danger.

Confidence doesn’t affect the spread of any disease.  Confidence, if anything, relaxes a person and removes their due diligence that their practices and methods are in place, and that’s when things go wrong.  By them having confidence, I do not have confidence. Also, I’m concerned, that as large as a country we are, this article states that we only have FOUR centers to treat something like this: the patients are being treated at “Emory University Hospital…just down the hill from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is one of only four sites in the USA capable of handling high-risk patients infected with serious, infectious diseases.”

So if an outbreak occurs, what then? 

I'm not saying we shouldn't be careful or that there's no reason to be concerned. I just think that people don't realize how "handicapped" the healthcare workers in Africa are in trying to manage this disease and most of those factors are non issues in the us.

Looks like you’re Captain now.

So a friend of mine had the misfortune of dealing with rape culture from a police officer. She gave me the permission to post this on Tumblr so the name of this officer and her story can spread.

So let’s be serious for a second guys please -

Last night around 2 a.m. my friends and I decided to take a drive around Hutchinson island, and when upon returning into Sewall’s Point we made a stop underneath the causeway. We decided to stop, listen to music, and stand outside the car. Not intoxicated, not under any substance abuse, and not in the possession of any weapons - we were having clean wholesome dumb teenage fun. Without doing anything incriminating it still was unfortunately interrupted by Officer Scott Donlon, when he drove around the causeway and approached us with his lights on. We turned down the music and waited for him to approach us outside my friends car. The lights almost made it impossible for us to see his face or communicate with him without holding my arm in front of my face.

He walks up to us and says,

"I sure as hell can’t wait to hear this story."

I took the liberty to talk for my friends, because they were visibly intimidated and frightened by this officer.

I responded,

"Honestly officer, we were on our way to the beach when we decided that it was probably too late and unsafe. We decided on our drive back to stop here and enjoy ourselves. We are good people. None of us are under the influence or intoxicated we are more than willing to take a breathalyzer if you have any suspicion that we are."

That’s when he made the most disturbing comment of all,

"Yeah because running around in your underwear -"

I couldn’t believe it, he decided that my outfit of choice constituted as underwear to him. My floral top that showed my mid-drift and my high-waisted shorts was something he was going to demean and call “underwear”?

I tried my hardest not to be rude to him, but I responded with,

"That’s extremely rude and offensive sir. I don’t think my outfit should be considered underwear."

He continued to walk around my friends car trying to be intimidating and aggressive, so I spoke again:

"Sir, are you detaining us?"

Which he responded, “Yes.”

So I said, “What for?”

"For wearing underwear."

I was fuming. I was disgusted. I was baffled. I couldn’t believe that right before my very eyes rape culture was brought to light by this officer.

Again everyone - Scott Donlon, Officer of Sewall’s Point, who’s name I asked for because I was not going to let this white old privileged male think he could demean the four of us.

Luckily another officer, rolled up to us in the middle of this, he who was much kinder and diffused the situation by saying,

"Do not try him, you need to just give him respect. You could make things so much worse for yourself."

I wanted to say,

"What!? Excuse me? It’s your job to protect us, not to make us feel like our lives are threatened because he decided that he wants to be intimidating?"

Instead I said to the other officer,

"Officer, I mean no offense, and I’m sorry if I upset him, but he told us we were being detained for wearing underwear. Look at the four of us, we may be showing our stomachs, but we’re fully clothed and that’s by no means okay."

He responded,

"Well if he says you’re being detained. You’re being detained."

We were never detained.

It was all an intimidation tactic, and because of course it wasn’t worth the fight, I apologized for MY behavior and for disrespecting HIM. I let him continue to say I was running around in my “underwear.” I continued to let him say, “If I was in a bad mood tonight, I could have got you in so much more trouble.” I continued to let him discriminate my age by saying “I don’t need some 19 year old giving me attitude thinking she knows the law better than me.” I continued to let him completely dominate the situation and degrade us.

I’m not okay with this, I’m not okay with another officer fluffing his ego because he has some fucked up authoritative mentality.

Below I’ll add the photo of the outfit I was wearing, you guys let me know if I missed out on the memo of what defines underwear now.