yfip culture and the pressure to publicly criticise your faves’ problematic behaviour is very strange to me because it just displays a fundamental misunderstanding (willful or otherwise) of human behaviour
for instance, a few days ago i was with my girlfriend and two of our friends and we all love morrissey but we sat around discussing some issues we had with some things he said in a particular interview, and i’m sure lots of people do the same with their faves around other people who love them, and the idea that it’s hypocritical to then go online and not address those issues is odd to me, because people really, truly love celebrities and regard them as people to whom they owe a lot, whether it be happiness or a sense of acceptance or relationships with other people they’ve met through a mutual love of that person or whatever, in the same way that people regard friends and partners
when a friend says something that upsets you, you (if you’re anything like me and my friends) might discuss that with other friends who you know also love that person, because they can help you to deal with the issue/your feelings without completely condemning someone you love even when you’re upset with them, rather than slating them online where people who know nothing else about them may well see it and judge them accordingly, and the same goes for celebrities
it’s very difficult to sever emotional ties with people when they disappoint you, and more than that, it’s a totally unfair expectation given that a) people can grow and change and b) nobody’s perfect and we’re social animals who need other people in our lives and if we cut someone off every time they upset or disappointed us we’d end up totally isolated and that’s not healthy for anyone
basically i just wish people would learn the difference between “i’m choosing not to discuss this thing a person i love has said/done on my personal blog because they mean a lot to me and i’d rather not have this conversation publicly with people who don’t know anything about them and don’t even know me for my own emotional wellbeing” and “i completely endorse everything this person has ever said or done and think they can do no wrong”
Unbelievable. That’s just a recipe for disaster. They work together! Are you jealous? Oh, please.
We clearly get along really well.
It is possible that I ship Swarkles harder than I have ever shipped anything.
Letter to Vicky Foxcroft MP for Lewisham, Deptford (Labour) on the coming Parliament vote regarding EU membership
This is a copy of the letter I’ve sent to my MP using the WriteToThem website by MySociety.
Dear Vicky Foxcroft,
I’ll keep this one brief. You get your mandate from Lewisham, Deptford, not UK voters as a whole, not Hull, not in some village in Cornwall. You’re constituents overwhelmingly voted to remain part of the EU. All I’m saying is that when invoking Article 50 hits Parliament, that you vote in solidarity with the people who sent you to Westminster and depend on you to represent their interests there. That’s all.
We live in a representative democracy and you are our representative. Nearly 70% of Lewisham voters supported remaining in the European Union. That’s 86,955 voters. That’s a super majority. While the UK as a whole was only marginally in favour of an exit, the message from this borough’s voters in the referendum was crystal clear.
And yet, only 63% of eligible voters in our constituency turned out. It’s impossible to say what those people who didn’t vote actually think, or why they didn’t submit a ballet, but it means a significant portion of the population was left out. Add to that the fact that the population who has the most to either gain or lose wasn’t even allowed to take part. Our population under age 18 wasn’t allowed a voice, and yet this will impact them more than any other population segment. The vast majority of these young people want to remain connected to Europe as every poll on the topic has consistently shown.
In spite of what the media and anti-EU campaigners might say, the referendum was not the end, but the beginning of the democratic process on this topic. The people who are now chanting “it’s over,” and “get on with it,” and “it’s time we all accept the decision” are actually trying to rob all of us of our full democratic rights and freedom of speech under this system. Now is the time to work with our representatives in advance of the actual vote on whether the UK will become an inward-looking, isolationist presence off the coast of Europe, diplomatically and strategically weaker and economically more vulnerable. I hope you’ll take the chance to help steer this country back into the global community in which it still plays an important role.
We know the Leave Campaign dealt in fear and plied voters with false promises, many of which it is already distancing itself from. The results are already visible, with far-right hate groups in some parts of this country already feeling emboldened to target members of our society who they’ve decided for whatever reason “don’t belong.”
Democracy requires an informed vote, and the bulk of this country wasn’t given that chance. I’m proud of the direction my community chose, and I hope you are too, and will support their voice when the decision of whether to leave the EU or not comes to a vote of our MPs.
All right, it wasn’t so brief, I guess.
I’m actually very proud of living in one of the Remainiest areas in the country.
how i met your mother - s01e01
↳ it was like something from an old movie, where the sailor sees the girl across the crowded dance floor, turns to his buddy and says, “see that girl? i’m gonna marry her someday.”
One of the reasons I have found myself on tumblr today, incidentally, is that this is always where I want to come when I am having an insane quantity of feelings about something that nobody else seems to quite understand ;-) I am two thirds through my second watch of all of HIMYM, and am being dramatically reminded of how many fictional feelings there can be in the world.

I have more feelings about this man’s face than is strictly necessary.
The moment Dame Judi Dench photobombs Zoë Wanamaker at the Olivier Awards during a red carpet interview (x) | 3rd April, 2016
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(Source: queenoftherebels)





