“The cardinals assembled at Perugia after the death of Pope Nicholas IV in April 1292. After more than two years, a consensus had still not been reached. Pietro, well known to the cardinals as a Benedictine hermit, sent the cardinals a letter warning them that divine vengeance would fall upon them if they did not quickly elect a pope. Latino Malabranca, the aged and ill dean of the College of Cardinals cried out, “In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I elect brother Pietro di Morrone.” The cardinals promptly ratified Malabranca’s desperate decision. When sent for, Pietro obstinately refused to accept the papacy, and even, as Petrarch says, tried to flee, until he was finally persuaded by a deputation of cardinals accompanied by the king of Naples and the pretender to the throne of Hungary.”
“The double agent for the patriarchy is basically just a woman who perhaps unknowingly is still putting the patriarchal narrative out into the world. Is still benefitting off, profiting off and selling a patriarchal narrative to other women. But it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You know, just because you look like a woman, we trust you and we think you’re on our side, but you are selling us something that really doesn’t make us feel good. You’re selling us an ideal, a body shape, a problem with our wrinkles, a problem with ageing, a problem with gravity, a problem with any kind of body fat. You’re selling us self-consciousness. The same poison that made you clearly develop some sort of body dysmorphia or facial dysmorphia, you are now pouring back into the world. You’re like recycling hatred. I find that really dangerous and I think it’s unacceptable and I don’t care if you’re a woman. I think constructive criticism is needed for anyone to ever evolve. For our gender to evolve we need some sort of constructive criticism. As long as we do it in a somewhat careful way. (…) So many of the worst things in the world have happened motivated by greed. And I just don’t think that’s an acceptable excuse anymore. How much money do you need? Really how much money do you need? How much money do any of these huge influencers who are worth millions or billions sometimes… why are they still promoting appetite-suppressant lollipops to young girls? And it’s not a fight against obesity. They have young, already slim girls, in their adverts for Flat Tummy company, this company that are absolutely everywhere, and they’re even being advertised in some of the most mainstream magazines, women’s magazines, and they have a billboard in Times Square. The money is built on the blood and tears of young women who believe in them, who follow them, who look up to them like the big sister they never had. It’s so upsetting and it feels like such a betrayal against women.”
yo treasure planet was literally the best 2d disney film ever made like the setting? the colors? the flawless transition? the gorgeous world building? the three dimensional characters? a main character who’s never pressured to get into anything remotely close to romance? complex relationships? an antagonist who has layers to his character? the soundtrack? i could go the FUCK on,
PLUS THIS SCENE?
AND THIS????
We’re all just suckers for lonely heroes accidentally acquiring a dad.
seriously the reason i barely use facebook, instagram much or had a twitter account, its because its feel like they only way to thrive there is to be popular.
here on tumblr? nobody freaking cares, you could just be some nobody and there is always at least someone who is gonna laugh at your silly joke post, or whatever oddball thought you have there. even if its just 1 note, hey im glad i made a persons day. and its much easier to find people that share my common interests. you dont have to be good looking by societies´s standards, in fact i see a lot of people here basically criticizing that and say like hey, its ok if you are not conventionally pretty, beauty is subjective or a person doesnt need to be attractive to be treated like a human being.
I guess this thinking helped with my self esteem a lot, i used to hate looking at myself in the mirror. of course this site might not be prefect, but if i were to compare that with the lookism prevalent on facebook and instagram? i will choose this hellsite over it.
Plus it doesnt trigger that feeling that my peers are doing bettter than me and im a failure. i loathed how everyone on facebook just kept posting party pictures, and look where i travel for vacation. Not to mention the reminder and now were all out of college im not part of their lives anymore and everyone has moved on, and doing things while i feel stuck in a corner. of course im not mad at them for doing this its just its just how that site is structured. Like here i am feeling bad for myself for struggling to get my shit together and feeling like im falling behind and seeing this doesnt help. i actually abandoned my first instagram account and just created a new one just to put my amateur photography stuff without following real life aquaintances. i only follow other art, photo and fan stuff there.
I dunno you guys there is also like less pressure here to look like you´re better off than you really are, i have seen users be more willing to be show their vulnerability and open up to people of what is troubling them in their life, instead of just showing nothing but smiling pictures. Yes iam aware that in some cases constantly post nothing but negativity might not always be a good way to cope. But at the same time the first step to recovery is to admit you do have a problem and then you can start figuring out the necessary steps to deal with it. and its nice to actually have place where you can talk about these things and in a more anonymous matter. you dont have to use your real name or face if you choose to.
Do you know what would have happened if i posted half of those things to people in i knew in real life? They would either would look at me with pity or as the weird one. it would just be like middle school or highschool all over again. i already have enough trouble opening up to people face to face. it doesn t help that im pretty much used to having people make wrong assumptions about me or underestimating me. Talking is hard because everyone around me is so outgoing and extremely talkative, that by the time i actually get the courage to add to the conversation, they already changed topics. and while iam slowy getting better of going out there making conversation ( heck i managed to give a presentation on my thesis so i guess it counts for something, at my last year of college i was more socially active) it still takes a lot more effort on my part.
iam much better at putting thoughts into writing then talking, i get to stop and think and say what i want without any interruptions. or be silly as much a i want, or opening crush over my interests. and if some also asshole gives you shit for it here? just block their ass, and you will never have to deal with them again. if someone acts like an asshole to you on facebook or you call them out? it´s dangerous, they know you´re real name who you are or where you live, they might even be someone you know. Or how about those twitch streamer that get swatted since the trolls in question know where they live.
in an anonymous setting it actually is much harder and requires effort to dox someone.
basically what iam saying, for all this site´s faults, some of them more toxic speech, failure of the staff of actually moderate bad content and the bugs, there was still some good things that come of it i still managed to create a nice little space on the internet for myself. and dont forget how much creative stuff i have seen coming from people here.
will it all end when the site bans goes through? Maybe or maybe not, maybe it will continue on some other site somewhere, if people survived the Livejournal exodus we will survive this. maybe i have to start over again , its not my first exodus. but i will be sad when that part of tumblrs weird fan culture will dissapear from this site.
Seeing there is only a few days left before the purge I´m not gonna delete my blog and leave the site completely after the 17th, at least until i find some place better that isn´t you know twitter. people have been suggesting pillowfort, but im gonna wait out and see if it holds up.
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