I need everyone to know that I looked it up, and Noah Lyles is doing this as part of an ongoing bet he has with shotput competitor Chase Jackson. She’s wearing Naruto accessories every day, and if Lyles whips out Yugioh cards at every race, then for the shotput finals Jackson will re-enact the scene of Rock Lee dropping his weights.
This is now the only part of the Olympics that I care about.
Update. Chase Jackson followed through. (And also secured her spot to the Olympics with a first place throw of 20.10 m).
people who are just finding out about internet tracking and data mining in the year 2025 and that your special robot friend does not respect your privacy lol
“I don’t like the fandom content this person posts!”
Then unfollow them.
“I’m not following them, but they’re in all the tags!”
Then block them.
“I blocked them but all the people I follow reblog their posts!”
Then unfollow those people.
“But I like their other content!”
Then add the person’s username to your blocklist.
“But—”
No. Stop. Listen. You cannot control what other people post or how they interpret your favorite characters or what ships they like. All you can control is your own actions and your public responses. Block them, filter out their username, then post your own stuff to carve out a space for yourself and people like you in your fandom. You will be a million times happier if you focus on what you’re doing and what you enjoy instead of on the people you don’t like.
Do this instead of harassing people
If u got the energy to hound em off the internet, u got more than enough energy to just put their name into a blocklist and move on
After growing up during the I Can Haz Cheeseburger era, I’m glad that we as a society have progressed to the point of understanding that cats’ internal narration should be extremely dignified and comically formal for a creature so dumb. They really are like
Sir, I fail to see which part of this situation you could possibly find amusing. Can you not see that I am stuck, trapped onto this couch by my own claw, and shall consequently die?
“heterosexual men can’t be oppressed” -> trans men
“cis-het men can’t be oppressed” -> intersex men
“perisex men can’t be oppressed” -> disabled men
“able-bodied men can’t be oppressed” -> neurodivergent men
“cis-het perisex white able-bodied neurotypical men can’t be oppressed” -> buddy let me tell you about wealth and class and homelessness and immigrants and minority languages and cultures and being a child and being an elderly person and and and
we can keep doing this all day but the reality of the world is that very few people don’t face any kind of oppression at all and everyone exists in a complicated, intersecting web where they have privileges over some people in some contexts and some others are have privilege over them in other contexts. no one individual is incapable of enacting oppression and if you think that about yourself you need to go away and interrogate that belief.
i truly think that this recent trend of “if you relate to a post about a different identity than your own you are ~derailing~ and taking over the conversation” is incredibly harmful.
i recently experienced some pretty severe transphobic abuse in my workplace (children’s home) that included having food thrown at me, being called slurs, being told i was a pervert because i am trans. one of the managers talked with me afterwards and shared that he had had a similar experience as an Asian man. this wasn’t him derailing my experience, or talking over me, or making things about himself. he was communicating “hey, i know how it feels and how much it sucks. you’re not alone.”
THAT is what solidarity IS. i don’t know what it’s like to be Asian, he doesnt know what it’s like to be trans, but we both had a similar experience and we were able to turn a horrible experience into an opportunity for bonding and comfort.
stop looking at people’s attempts as solidarity as an attack. and hey, you never know - you could find an opportunity to grow closer to other people.
In therapy there’s the term “joining” for the art of relating to a patient. This can take a large number of different forms, like matching their energy or vocabulary, engaging with their interests, talking about places you’ve both been, or sharing personal experiences that might compare to the patient’s story. It’s a very basic idea to make someone feel seen, respected and comfortable that can be hard if they’re in a vulnerable place, and people should try it.
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