#it's wild – @shikai-the-storyteller on Tumblr

Loving the new counterpoint that not only is posting activism, not posting is complicity. Why doesn't everyone with any fame or internet presence immediately release a lengthy but perfectly-worded statement telling us where they stand on every issue? Is it because they're evil??? It must be because they're evil

And then the usual answer is "they don't post online very much". Which is all very suspicious, don't they know everything of importance is done by posts on social media now

lizardsfromspace

Okay I'm going to talk about this for the last time bc currently the stupidest manifestation of this I've ever seen is unfolding, and nothing can top it or explain this phenomenon better

So Amal Clooney was one of the lawyers who advised the ICC to charge Netanyahu with war crimes & issue an arrest warrant. But apparently there was already a backlash over her "not speaking up" which is already dumb, like, as far as I can tell she has no social media, but also she's a lawyer, she can't comment freely on cases, that could literally destroy the case

But she was trending bc people were saying she should be forgiven, for not posting. But also there are people adamant she not be forgiven. Because she should have spoken up sooner. Helping charge Benjamin Netanyahu with crimes against humanity is not good enough, she should have been posting, she needs to be held accountable for her lack of posting while she was, again, serving as a legal advisor on a international humans rights case against Benjamin Netanyahu.

Like when you're at the stage where people ask where a celebrity was, and the answer is "helping arrange an arrest warrant for Netanyahu", and your response is "why was she doing that instead of posting online" I really just have to conclude you think posting online is more important than anything else. Also that your online activism revolves around finding righteous ways to dislike celebrities you have entrenched parasocial relationships with that you rationalize by going "well I obsessively hate them so it's okay". But mostly the Posting Is More Important Than War Crimes Tribunals part

#Bell your tags are so frickin real and so based #but yeah #it's wild #and people are like ''if ___ person doesn't post a perfectly worded post within 10 seconds ___ event happening they're evil and should die'#Idk man this mentality is wild #like I'm literally doing activism work / social justice stuff FOR A LIVING actively helping people #(keeping it vague here on purpose but that's the jist)#I cannot imagine someone online going ''I can't believe you don't care about ___ because you didn't post about it''#like wow sorry I didn't post about ___ I was too busy writing articles about it #and writing newsletters that reach tens of thousands of people #and harassing my boss and my boss' boss and our CEO trying to get them to talk about it #but no you're so right I should definitely reblog this post that hasn't been fact-checked #and contains tons of misinformation #you're so right I should definitely do that instead of doing actual work that actually helps people #these tags aren't very eloquent but I'm mad because this has been on my mind for a while #politics #news #<- general tags

shikai-the-storyteller

Something something the passage of time or whatever, but I've been following a particular artist for AGES and out of the blue I saw a post from them that just said "My daughter loved what I made for dinner tonight :)" and I was genuinely like "Your WHAT???????" when I read it.

Like, logically yes I know people Age, but my gut reaction is still "I followed you like 7 years ago when you were a baby, what do you mean you're not still a college student."

#i talk #it's WILD #This isn't just an online problem my concept of time in general is just Very Bad #I know part of it is the whole ADHD thing but I think this has just always been an issue for me in general #I always saw my cousin as [redacted] age #and now I'm older than that and I'm just like huh. Not A Fan Of That #idk man it's been a weird brain day for me today #<- implying it hasn't been a weird brain day for the last few years #today was just really frustrating #also obligatory ''sorry if you're my friend and I keep ghosting you'' message #I'll talk to a friend and be like ''ah that was fun :)''#and then 5 months will pass and I'll be like ''no I just talked to you yesterday what do you mean?''#o(-(#It's an eternal ''I've thought of them so surely that means I've talked to them''#like no. no my friend. that is not how things work. you cannot psychically send vibes to people to let them know you're thinking about them #my best friend (bless her) has always been so nonchalant about it #it's no biggie if we haven't talked in a week or something we're just chilling. We're close enough that we don't need to text 24/7 #also we're both busy being Constantly Crushed Under The Weight Of Reality's Many Horrors #idk I lost the plot of this post but in summary: I love my friends and I especially love my best friend #I'm very lucky to have her

shikai-the-storyteller

Check out my shiny kids and their cute nicknames! (Click for captions)

I’ve been having some unusually good shiny luck with online raid dens in SWSH (that is, until yesterday’s update made refreshing the stamp refresh page impossible). It got to the point where chucking a Masterball at things made me start to feel guilty, so now my rule is I can only throw a Masterball at G-Max shinies since their catch rates are so low anyways. It feels more fun and satisfying when there’s a struggle! Plus it’s nice to be able to match Pokemon to specific pokeballs (like in Requium and Mango’s case). That being said, my heart was definitely pounding when I threw a Luxuryball at Muramasa, haha.

#i talk #I'm playing Pokemon #Shiny team #Half of these guys are super special shinies (square + stars)#It's neat!#I'm so used to having to breed for shinies #that now that I have so many I'm like ''GOTTA USE ALL OF THEM IN BATTLE''#somehow #I have a giant sheet trying to figure out battle teams #and I've been breeding Milotic because I love Milotic and I like having one on my team #but it feels weird because they defo won't be a shiny so now I'm like ''Hm''#it's very fun rolling up to the Battle Tower with an all shiny team haha #I do feel bad that I probably won't ever use certain Pokemon in battle though #I ought to take them all camping sometime #It's been very soothing EV training Pokemon again #didn't realize how much I missed that #That being said I didn't realize how OP my XY team was until I started using these guys in battle #and I actually compared stats #it's WILD

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airagorncharda

Some of y'all don’t want fandom to be fun at all you want it to be like some kind of gd AP Lit class where all we do is have pointed debates over the most Correct interpretation of media like NO get fucked I will project onto my favorite character and write whatever shitty nonsense fic for whatever illogical pairing I want die mad about it

#LITERALLY THO #SOME OF Y'ALL WANNA GET INTO ARGUMENTS SO BAD #AND THEN GET EVEN ANGRIER WHEN PEOPLE WONT ENGAGE #it's WILD #fandoms