Today I saw a ballet adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and it was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen and I have so many different thoughts and emotions weaving together.
The costumes! The humor! The acting with no words, only dance and movement and expressions! The fact that ballet is one of the most elegant and arduous art forms there is! How ballerinas are literal swans of the dance world because they are STRONG and because STRONG they move SO SMOOTH! The fact that Queen Titania had butterfly wings and King Oberon had dragonfly wings! The fact that all the fairies became fireflies by adding lights to the back of their costumes! How the ballet ended with Titania and Oberon in the middle of a ring of butterflies (tiny kiddo dancers all making their wings shiver and flutter masterfully), twirling and spinning under a sunsets glow…!
I love the ballet. I love A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Next weekend I’ll be seeing a ballet about fairytales, and I am so very happy, I can’t even tell you.
so the people I talk astrology with seem to be of the opinion that if you're a cusper you should go with what resonates with you, but out of curiosity have you ever run your sidereal chart? It'll probably give you a way different sun sign but you might be a Scorpio stellium or something over there
I’ve never heard of a sidereal chart! Is there a link to one that can be provided? I would love to see what I get.
I agree with your friends, I just don’t resonate with Libra the way I do with Scorpio. Also, the famous folk who share my birthday are listed as Scorpios so I feel double justified in claiming it! I will say that by and large I get along with Aquarius folks SWIMMINGLY, and I think I can credit it that to Libra.
Every time some astrological guide/calculator tries to tell me I’m a Libra and not a Scorpio, my soul gives a feral cat hiss and honestly, that response is just more evidence that I’m a Scorpio.
Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants. These
conservative cartoons
from ~1913
depicting angry suffragettes as brutal anarchafeminists were somehow actually supposed to make the subjects
look bad, instead of amazingly badass.
The fact that they’re still tight about this after all these years is so funny to me like they must think about it every single day
Man it wasn’t even the copypasta. I saw folks eviscerating the guy for daring to write YA stuff. Teen love for teens. And how that made him a pedophile. Like that’s what’s being talked about here. Not the cock monologue. It was the endless hate and vitriol like I remember distinctly my dash being flooded with “he’s a grown man who writes stuff for kids. That’s super sus of him” and him literally being called a pedophile and other such smears. Like the cock nonsense was the absolute least of what happened. Don’t be a derisive dick. If you’re referencing that then obviously you were around to see all the toxic bullshit too and you should know all of this
But oh noooo! It was obviously the goofy taste of balls post that did it! Because tumblr is good and always correct /s
It is particularly cruel to me that John Green was harassed essentially off of the internet in the way that he was because the poor man has OCD and is very open about it.
The way he was treated is horrible and disgusting for anyone at all, but John Green has for years and years (along with his brother Hank) tried to make the world a measurably better place while living with a horrific mental illness. A mental illness that makes something like being called a pedophile over and over again horrific in ways that unless you have OCD, or are very very close to someone who does, you will never understand because OCD targets whatever you value and makes your world a living hell over it.
And you know what? He still writes his novels, and he is still out here doing absolutely everything he can to make the world a measurably better place. The cock monologue was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
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Also if anyone did this to my brother I would never ever forgive anyone involved. Never. The fact that they are still engaging with the internet in the way they do, with vulnerability and kindness is remarkable.
The notes on this post are shit so just to be clear: if you’re following me and you think it’s funny to harass someone, or that it doesn’t count if the victim is above a certain age or if the harassment happens online, or that it’s worse to speak out against harassment than to harass someone, unfollow me because I don’t fucking want you to interact with me
On the positive side, here’s two replies that are actually decent:
“Harassing someone non-stop for months, including graphic sexual harassment and disturbing baseless accusations of child abuse, is funny as long as I think the victim is annoying!” -a lot of people, apparently
Here is a statement that I sincerely and deeply believe to be true: enjoying harming other people makes you a bad person.
No matter what the context, or the situation, or the reasons. It does.
Now, this does not apply to things like kink or boxing or football or whatever other sometimes painful activity consenting persons might engage in, because ‘hurt’ is not the same thing as ‘harm’. It doesn’t apply to things like setting a broken bone, which hurts but is beneficial, not harmful. It does not apply to harm inflicted in self-defense, or duty, or obligation, but harm inflicted for the pleasure of doing so.
Using the word ‘harm’ to connote willful damage, injury, distress, inflicted on an unwilling person, I want to be really clear…
If you get pleasure out of causing any form of harm to another being, you are a bad person.
No other qualification is needed. Enjoying torturing John Green or another celebrity online is ethically exactly the same thing as enjoying torturing a kitten, or a child. The fact of enjoying inflicting harm is the defining characteristic, not the choice of target.
The nature of the target is completely immaterial. To enjoy causing harm is ethically and morally wrong in and of itself. To quote Vimes “You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”
I am not advocating any sort of pile-on for the commenter up there (leave them alone, it’s not worth it), but there is something so nakedly and aggressively disgusting about mocking someone for being upset they were bullied.
A man with OCD was called a paedophile for writing YA books, FOR YEARS. Of course that’s left a scar. Seeing him and his brother open up about it, and what an awful time it was… you choose to laugh at him for still caring? You think it’s funny that his trauma didn’t evaporate? The take home message about bullying is ‘If you ever discuss it again you are laughable’?
What a very sad way of viewing people. I hope some serious introspection takes place soon.
