Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

Mar 16

shadowcat:

people who laugh so hard at their own jokes that they can’t even finish the joke because they’re laughing so hard are my favorite kind of people

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covermespidekick:

manhood

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Anonymous asked: For the shipping meme: Les Mis Bonus Round: MCU

Just one second, buddy.  *buries face in pillow and screams*  SOMEONE DID THE THING NO ONE DOES THE THING.  *emerges from pillow, straightens clothes* I’m good, I’m fine, let’s do this.

LES MIS  (actually I have next to nothing on my Tumblr for this musical and I should have things because I have approximately all of the feelings)

• lowkey otp
  I think Joly, Bousset, and Musichetta are pretty.  Fucking.  Cute.  Okay?  Okay.  Also I kinda like Jean Valjean/Javert but…like…I have some concerns about those two.  Valjean/Fantine is kinda cute, too.
• highkey notp
  Okay, it’s not that I don’t love Marius in all his uselessness, but Eponine/Marius is a NO because my poor angry vicious street girl Deserves Better Than This Oblivious Fuck.  (Also because I think he’s good for/with Cosette, but look, Eponine is my favorite hardcore-as-fuck character and I feel like she just…wanted so much for Marius to be the love of her life that she forgot to wonder if she actually wanted Marius and if she had considered that I think she would have come to a ‘no,’ yes?  Also because she deserves someone whose response to their girlfriend going out to kick ass is “HEART EYES MOTHERFUCKER” and not slamming their head into a tree for two hours.)
• [softly] don’t notp
  I just…any configuration of Combeferre/Enjolras or Courfeyrac/Enjolras or…ai, I think I found Combeferre/Grantaire once and I was just like.  Listen honey.  Look at your life.  Also: do not ship Gavroche with people, he is a child, seek Jesus.
• highkey otp but i’m scared of saying it because it’s not a very popular choice
  I am THE MOST boring.  I mean…like…I found Valjean/Fantine that one time like I said and that has the potential to be super cute but I don’t know if it’s strictly speaking ‘unpopular,’ yanno?  Otherwise I got nothing.
• highkey otp and anyone on my tumblr knows it
  Okay, see previous re: not putting a lot of Les Mis on Ye Olde Blogge, but…ENJOLRAS/GRANTAIRE.  THE IDEALIST REVOLUTIONARY GOD AND HIS CYNICAL DRUNKEN WORSHIPER.  THAT’S MY DUMPSTER OF CHOICE AND I SHALL NOT BE MOVED.  I just…let me put it this way, my roommate inflicted this movie on me and less than fifteen minutes after it was done I turned to her and went “Do you want to feel feelings?”  She said no, obviously, and I ignored her, obviously, and I went “King and Lionheart, for Enjolras and Grantaire.”  And there…there was some keening.  And some violence.  I am just a complete sucker for the ‘I would rather die at your side than live in a world without you’ dynamic, a COMPLETE sucker, like if you quiz me on ships, I will have a lot of those ships.

MCU (Marvel is never the bonus round, Marvel is the assumed-to-exist round)

• lowkey otp
  Started out not a huge fan of Steve/Bucky, and I’ve kind of reconsidered, have now gotten to the point of ‘I’ll take literally any configuration of these two fucks.’  Darcy Lewis/Literally Almost Anyone, but especially Natasha Romanoff (it is my JAM and it is so RARE and it is FRUSTRATING).  AND ALL OF THE CANON SHIPS.  Like, okay, Tony/Pepper?  CUTE.  AS.  SHIT.  SIGN ME THE FUCK UP.  Jane/Thor?  LOOK AT THOSE FUCKING HEART-EYES.  SHE’S SO TINY AND CUTE AND HE’S SO BIG AND ENRAPTURED.  Sam Wilson/A Large Whiskey, because God know’s he’s earned it.  Peggy/Steve (do not touch me I am not okay I will never be okay again) and also Peggy/Being Better Than Everyone.  Matt Murdock/Making Better Choices (way to get a less flimsy suit, babe, proud of you).  And (this isn’t a canon ship but it SHOULD BE) Bucky/Warm Blankets/Affection From Friends.  I really want them to do Wanda/Vision.  Bruce/Betty Ross (I would fight you for Betty Ross’ dignity and honor, but she would probably just hand me her lab coat and do it herself while I swooned, okay).  OH BUT LEST I FORGET.  I DO NOT SHIP ALL THE CANON SHIPS.  WHICH LEADS US TO…
• highkey notp
  BRUCE.  AND.  NATASHA.  And like the thing is I can’t even sit here and be like “Oh, well, I ship this other thing and I just can’t give it up” because, while I DO ship another thing (Clintasha), I’ve been a-okay with ships being broken up from time to time.  No no, all my problems are about execution and inherent issues with characters and the sudden disappearance of Betty Ross.  I have a fucking THESIS, okay, and like ten single-spaced pages of it are “So you want to sell a relationship between a man who doesn’t trust professional liars and a woman who is a professional liar and furthermore who demonstrably struggled with the fact that she was actively afraid of the Hulk, and you’re not going to offer us ANY backstory, you’re just going to fucking drop this in our lap and expect us to take it and run with it.”  Another, like, five pages are “HOW YOU DONE FUCKED UP WITH NATASHA CONSIDERING HERSELF A MONSTER” and there’s like THIRTY FIVE pages about “WHY is this ham-fisted relationship necessary for women to ‘connect with the movie’, and why did you have to structure it as Natasha existing solely to soothe all of Bruce’s issues and then there’s that scene at the end where she’s pining and that’s not at all consistent with her personality.”  And there’s about ten more pages about how I feel like Bruce has had a disservice done to him (given that most of this is about how I feel like Nat had a disservice done to her) and an entire chapter titled “Why Did You Feel The Farm Thing Was Necessary If Clint Was Not Involved.”  And the whole thing is titled “WHERE THE FUCK WAS BETTY ROSS” because if you’re so determined to put Bruce in a romantic relationship why not add another BAMF scientist to your crew.  And honestly I’m not interested in getting anon hate for this, so if you ship it, hey, live your life, and please feel free to depart quietly, I’m not going to stop you or call you names, but I’d damn well appreciate the same courtesy.
• [softly] don’t notp
  Steve/Tony…I just can’t.  Like.  Live your lives guys.  I’m not gonna stop you.  But I just can’t.  Also Tony/Bruce.  Same thing.  Also Loki/Tony or Loki/Natasha (noooooooope).  Wanda/Pietro.  Peggy Carter/Jack Thompson.
• highkey otp but i’m scared of saying it because it’s not a very popular choice
  Is it redundant at this point to say Bruce/Betty?  But in addition to that, I quite like Bruce/Darcy.  Pepper/Tony seems weirdly unpopular for being so adorable.  I mean…I’m pretty open about my ships.
• highkey otp and anyone on my tumblr knows it
  Clint and Natasha.  Because their backstory is so interesting and they’re so in sync and they’re so desperate to save each other at the cost of all else.  I tend to think that when she’s talking to Loki and he says “Your world hangs in the balance and you bargain for one man” there’s a part of her that’s like “…yeah, you’re damn right I do, what do I need to do to get him back” and she only backs down when she knows that Clint is coming to HER and she can get him back by force.  Honestly fuck ‘enemies to lovers,’ give me ‘I literally almost killed you once to I’d literally burn the world to the ground for you.’  I also really like the dynamic of “Person A can play 12 different instruments, got into Harvard, and is organized, and Person B once ate 15 cold hot pockets at once, trips over the laces of their shoes, and claims they can fight 2000 bees” and I hardcore feel that for Clint/Nat.  I have a gifset to that exact effect on the blog somewhere.

lupinatic:

captainbluebear:

captainbluebear:

tbh marginalised men deserve to be protected, and it’s good and valuable to talk about the specific issues that effect them

i’ve been staring at this for ages trying to work out if it should be affect or effect someone help

affect, I think

Definitely affect.

penfairy:

Consider this: Gwendoline Christie playing the romantic lead in a Jane Austen adaptation, or indeed any period piece. Nothing else changes. Nobody draws attention to the fact she’s a woman. It’s just two solid hours of Gwendoline Christie on a horse and wearing a suit and sweeping maidens off their feet

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• WiFi: connected
• Me: then fucking act like it

a different shipping meme

swearydroid:

tentaclabia:

give me a fandom and i’ll reply to you with my:

• lowkey otp
  
• highkey notp
  
• [softly] don’t notp
  
• highkey otp but i’m scared of saying it because it’s not a very popular choice
  
• highkey otp and anyone on my tumblr knows it
  

pls drag me

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Why Mental Illness Doesn’t Excuse Abusive Behavior

edcynic:

Back during a time when my mental illness was at its worst, I was extremely emotionally, verbally, and physically abusive to my now husband, then boyfriend. Behaviors I would exhibit (and am not proud of):

• Slapping him
• Name calling
• Throwing furniture
• Guilt tripping  him
  
• Shaming him
• Becoming extremely possessive over him, checking his messages, emails, and becoming irrationally upset when he would communicate with any female
• Become extremely resentful when he would spend more time with his family than me
• Text or call him at inappropriate times and would become suspicious angry when he wouldn’t respond ASAP
• Blame him for all of my shortcomings (if he wasn’t so _____, I wouldn’t behave this way!)

That’s just a SHORT list of the things I put him through, not even taking into consideration the eating disorder part of my mental health.

And to make it perfectly clear, there was nothing my husband ever did to warrant or justify any of my behavior. That man has never hit me, yelled at me, manipulated me, shamed me, called me names, become jealous, kept me from spending time with other people, etc. He’s treated me like a queen for the last 11 years, and it wasn’t until I did some deep recovery work that I realized 100% of my behaviors had all to do with me and nothing to do with him. I’m surprised he stuck with me, and although I am eternally grateful that he did, it took a long time for me to not only make amends to him, but to change my behaviors in order to finally come to a place of sanity within my relationship.

Here’s the thing:

Even though a large part of my behavior had to do with mental illness, my husband deserved 0% of it. Regardless if you are sick or not, your behaviors affect other people. If your illness “makes” you abusive, you are still abusive. If my husband decided to press charges for me slapping him in the face, telling authorities, “BUT I HAVE A MENTAL ILLNESS!” would not absolve me of the fact that I physically assaulted another human being.

People are hurt all the time due to the shitty things people do because of their illnesses, and they can’t just tell themselves, “Well, they are sick, so I have to deal with it.” or “I can’t let it affect me because I have to understand they are sick.” Like, no. People do not have to do that. They are not obligated to support and/or stay with you if they cannot deal or cope with how you act within your illness.

People are not obligated to be punching bags just because you are sick, especially if you do nothing to change or manage your behaviors.

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