GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3

GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3

Remeber how we used Hunger games rethoric to talk about the met gala like the capitol and the games? I think we could use catching fire to understand the celebrity blockout and its repercussions.

While celebrity culture is absolutely being fed to us to undermine and overlook the palestine situation, I think we might be targetting the wrong people here. I'm specifically thinking about a conversation in the hunger games catching fire movie between Plutarch and president Snow. After the second rebellion starts to sprout, Snow worries that the current victors (AKA Katniss) will be taken as a symbol for the uprising. So, what to they do? Ump up their screentime, work on their PR, glamorize their image. As they put it, one second you're watching children die on the streets, the next second you're seeing people debate what the wedding cake will look like. And this is all intentional: they want their districts to get angry at Katniss and Peeta and start seeing them as opressors, dropping them as their symbol. And it would've been very effective if it weren't for the quarter quell, which victimized the couple and made them back into symbols.

The thing is, us redirecting our hate into celebrities and celebritie culture might discract us from the real problem here. It's easy to block Zendaya, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande of whoever you want, but that won't solve the situation in Gaza. Think about it, what's the best we're going to get? What's the most they will be allowed to do by their pr teams? Most want to remain apolitical, uncontroversial, and singers and actors are tied to management teams and contracts who won't let them speak up anyway. Celebrity culture should be dismanteled, but not for gaza. The press should be dismanteled for palestine. Two party systems should be dismanteled for palestine. War propaganda should be dismanteled for palestine. Hypernationalism should be dismanteled for palestine. Islamophobia should be dismanteled for palestine. Social media has helped families flee to egypt and educate people, blocking celebrities isn't the best move for us. As Finnick Odair says, remeber who the real enemy is.

What I think these rockstars would do with social media:

Kurt Cobain would've been on tumblr from the start. He would also have a twitter, but only to complain and fight for social justice.

Freddie Mercury would exclusively post pictures of his cats and follow like 20 accounts of opera singers.

The Beatles would do 'guess the drummer' tiktok videos, and Ringo would look miserable.

John Lennon would've started posting with his band, but once he meets Yoko he would start writing long poems for her and a bunch of problematic shit, so they would take away his twitter.

This is literally based on nothing and comes from a conversation with a friend. Feel free to add suggestions.

Can we please make the Wolverine x Deadpool ship be called Logan Pool?

Please make this a thing. It makes soooo much sense for either closeted or repulsed acespecs to be called armadillos. Why?

1. Armadillos curl up into a ball to avoid threats. That's literally me choosing to not come out to not have to explain, or face acephobia, or all of that.

2. Armadillos curl up into a ball to avoid threats. That's literally me when I'm exposed to anything sexual. Don't want to watch/engage? Curl up into a ball.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

a while back i posted screenshots of a conversation with a demi friend who afaik is otherwise cishet and extremely not on tumblr. i guess he's just gonna be a recurring character on this blog.

here is me (badly) explaining the deal with unicorns and dragons to him, and a message he had for acespecs in response.

make armadillo ace a thing. do it for him.

Cheatsheet to writing ED'd characters (masterpost)

This will be focused on Anorexia and bulimia because those are the ones I experienced, but feel free to reblog with info abour EDNOS/BED/pica/AFRID pr whatever.

- ED'd people think about eating and food almost all the time. I've been in recovery without lapses for about a year now and it's still the thing I think the most about

- EDs are more about control than they are about food. They function similarly to OCD obsessions and addictions

- You don't hate yourself all the time. Once you lose weight, you get a confidence boost and suddenly become super cocky in your weight 'accomplishments'. You can't stop touching your collarbones once they start to show, you caress your waist and circle your wrists and that is very soothing.

- Most of us never look or feel sick enough. Ever.

- Some people forget that not eating leads to not having energy, which leads to being tired all the time.

- Being tired leads to being boring, losing your personality, losing interest in everyone and everything and hating stairs

- I cannot emphasize enough how much we hate stairs

- Once you starve yourself for long enough you may start to be cold all the time, lose hair, get bruises easily and lose balance. If you're anything like me, you'll get intense headaches and be dizzy all the time

- Most girls/people with uteruses don't lose their period at all. No ED'd people I know have lost their period, although I've heard about some who have

- Your breath will stink and you will fart a lot. It's gross and people will notice

- Once you start eating again, you will get diarrhea and lose control of you sphincters. I have shat my pants a lot during recovery. The reason this happens is that your guts stop getting used to food and they just let it out as it got in

- Refeeding is very dangerous. People die from eating again too suddenly. Their organs literally burst with food

- You will be hungry all the time, but you will have no appetite. Once you're in recovery, you'll get filled very easily and people will be mad because they think you're not taking it seriously.

- Some people with bulimia lose their teeth and get ulcers. Thankfully, the worst I got was a sore throat for a full week

- Vomiting is hard. Like, very hard. You have to stick your whole ass hand in there. There's a technique to it but It's a bit dangerous to say it on the internet, or at all. Just know that it's not easy and the first time it will take from 10 minutes to an hour. I don't know of any bulimics who got it right on the first try. For me, it took like 20

- People who use objects to purge are risking their lives. There's a lot of self care involved in bulimia, and most posts you will find online are harm reduction.

- Vomiting feels like shit but also like heaven. There's a bit of a rush after you do it, and the first time I did it I felt so proud that I told my fellow ED'd friends about it. None of them were proud

- Lots of EDers develop their illnesses while healing from addictions, specially self harm

- Lots of EDers actually develop addictions during or after they have their ED. Alcohol is not that frequent, as it has calories, but anything that suppresses appetite is very tempting

- Like, very tempting. I know people who have paid people with prescriptions for extra strong laxatives and appetite suppressants

- Speaking of appetite suppressants, we can't live without black coffee or green tea

- Contrary to popular belief, lots of EDers love cooking. We also watch lots of cooking channels and mukbangs and wonder around grocery stores without ever buying anything. Choosing what to eat is horrible for me even after recovery. I always need to know in advance

- People hide food in their rooms, not only to eat in in secret, but also to let it rot because you'rescared of being found out. I once hid a handful of cherries in my bag and they developed mold and I had to carry it by hand out of the house because my mum inspected my trash.

- There was a very prominent ED scene in the early 2000s. People used to meet up from the internet to binge and purge together. Bestie goals I guess. Now the forums still exist, but it's not the same

- No EDer has just their ED. Everyone has another mental illness. My favorite (and my personal one) is ED + OCD. It's a hellscape but it's my hellscape

- Laxatives don't make you lose weight. People use them to feel clean. I've never used them, but I heard they're very addictive and not worth it

- There are people with Anorexia fetishes. These people are also usually pedophiles

- ED'd people will usually get angry at you if you insinuate that they may have an ED. The only time I yelled to my mother is when she tried to talk to me about it

- Fights and fights and fights. Every relationship ever will be strained and you will feel like shit, but your ED is more important. You start resenting people for caring about you

- Most people won't ever notice. Everyone has the same tricks for being undetected, but you will feel like a fucking genius for it.

- Some people move from Anorexia to eating very healthy and only what they consider clean and worth it. In other words, some people move from Anorexia to orthorexia

- The average recovery time from Anorexia is 7 years. Some people have chronic EDs, and some people think no EDer really ever recovers at all

- Every day I'm as thankful to have recovered as I am tempted to relapse

Finally, make sure to be very careful writing your ED'd character. There's hardly any serious representation in media, even less of good ones. Probably Charlie Spring from Heartstopper is the best ED representation I've ever seen. It legitimately made me cry of how relatable it was. Make sure to check out OfHerbsAndAltars in youtube, they make great ED and drug related videos that are actually realistic and accurate. Also there are forums if you want to risk your mental health. Good luck and happy writing!