What's My Motivation

Alpaca / Fem / 31 and officially too old to be posting fandom ftw so I no longer have to feel guilty muahahaha / Capricorn / INFJ / Canada I mostly post Star Wars, Bioware and Intersectional Feminism. My own art on occasion. [hardly ever! sorry~]

[revanknightwoman]

Which SWTOR villain do you like to hate the most?

Darth Baras

Darth Thanaton

Darth Zash

Darth Angral

Darth Jadus

Lord Vivicar

Emperor Vitiate

Agent Hunter

Skavak

Tarro Blood

Master Ardun Kothe

Master Nomen Karr

Voting ended onFeb 17

[socialistexan]

Never let anyone tell you that lesbians and trans people are diametrically opposed enemies or that lesbian=terf. The like us even more than we like ourselves, and anyone who ever interacts with the community outside hyper-online spaces can tell you that our two communities love and support each other.

The vast, vast majority of transphobia comes from cishet men and on top of that, the vast majority of TERFs are cishet women who are trying to pit our two communities against each other and try to use lesbians as a weapon to attack our community.

I love you, lesbians ❤️

[internetplz]

[countmackulla-deactivated201809]

What the fuck

[mango-thot-deactivated20190520]

This comes around every thanksgiving for like 3 years running now and it activates my fight or flight response

[beyonceisstraight]

The only thing I trust is the cake but there’s a huge cursed vibe like a god of chaos and disorder decided to have a photoshoot and this is the result

[mysteryskulllistener-blog]

[sanguinifex]

This is art

[teaboot]

God in Heaven forgive me but this was how it felt to go to a church basement potluck in Midwest America for the very first time. I’m so so sorry everyone was so incredibly kind and generous but this is the entire mood and I can taste no-bake cheesecake in my molars

[irreparableteacup]

i only like enemies to lovers if it’s gay because i think men who are mean to women don’t deserve to live

[queeranarchism]

It's a real shame that online reply guys have made 'thought experiments' into a constant ordeal of 'would you let me say the n-word to save 5 black children?' bullshit, when actually, real thought experiments are important training tools to unlearn acting on bigotry, biased instincts and propaganda.

In life you're going to encounter ethical questions that you've never considered before or you'll find reasons to question ethical questions that you always thought that you knew the answer to. And when that happens, you have to be comfortable thinking the whole things thru from all angles, even though your gut instinct tells you to settle for the easy answer that makes you comfortable.

You have to be able to ask questions like 'but is anyone harmed by the thing that disgusts me?', 'is this about improving the world or just about punishment'?, 'what if my assumptions about why people do this thing are wrong'?

You have to be comfortable not being sure yet what your conclusion will be. You have to be comfortable exploring opinions that differ from what your friends think. Thought experiments teach you this.

If you don't get comfortable doing that, propagandists will trick you into accepting a comfortable answer based on your preconceived biases and whatever new biases they want to slip in there.

[queeranarchism]

I regret to announce that I need to actually explain to insufferable people in the notes why 'would you let me say the n-word to save 5 black children?' isn't a clever little thought experiment. Let's start with a little story:

I work the door at a feminist club sometimes. We've got a big sign at the door in bold letters reading "No touch of any kind without consent, you will be kicked out". When new guests show up, we point out the rule and ask them to confirm that they'll follow this rule.

Every night, there will be a few guys whose response to this is to immediately put a finger somewhere on my body, like my shoulder or my arm, and ask "not even this?". If those guys are allowed to enter the club, they ALWAYS end up groping people. Their response to a boundary that was put in place to prevent harm, is to immediately push it, test it, see if they can do a little bit of harm, see how much harm we will tolerate. That's what that finger and "not even this?" shows.

In this club, little innocent touches without prior consent definitely happen. It's loud and it can get crowded on the dance floor and around the bar. Shoulders touch, people tap each other on their arm to signal that they want to get through the crowd. No harm is done. But "No touch of any kind without consent" stays up at the door because its an effective filter to keep out the predatory guys.

Social conventions around the n-word are a lot like that. While it is technically true that the sound of the n-word does no harm on its own and it's the intent that makes a slur into a slur, to point that out is to misunderstand why the "don't say the n-word ever" social rule is there. It's a test, like our "No touch of any kind without consent" rule. People who see that rule and respond by pushing its boundaries are telling on themselves. They're showing that they want to explore how much harm we will tolerate.

So you're not particularly clever if you invent a thought experiment that shows that the n-word isn't a magic sound that does harm on it's own. We all knew that already and you're not cleverly exposing purity culture or dogmatic liberal behavior. You're just telling on yourself. The "don't say the n-word ever" social rule is a filter that exists to get people like you to tell on yourself.

[queeranarchism]

This also branched into a bigger thing about thought experiments: Thought experiments are NOT neutral lenses which reveal inevitable truths. They're artificial realities controlled by their creators, and as such they're extremely subjective.

Clever, insightful thought experiments have no clear answer and challenge us to examine all sides of an issue, to dig deeper until we get to a more complex nuanced understanding of moral issues.

Thought experiments whose only purpose is to create a scenario in which we must inevitably say the n-word, or we must torture someone to defuse a bomb, etc. are not insightful, they just reveal that their creator would really like to be alloed to say the n word / torture. They're blunt manipulations and we have every right to refuse to play that game.

[viralfrog]

[citizenquacks]

[asmeesh]

Doodled while watching the calves in the field

[asmeesh]

One more cow doodle. Ghost and her calves.

[guccimeme]

Now this is fashion

[liberalsarecool]

This post is not about ballet.

[three--rings]

I had a friend whose spine never fully ossified because she started gymnastics at like 2 or 3. She went into dance and could touch the back of her head to the back of her knee.

She had knee surgery by the age of 16, ending any potential dance career due to an injury from cheerleading (which she never really wanted to do but was pressured into).

People spend their entire lives with complications from football injuries from grade school, including anger and impulse control problems from head injuries.

This isn't about keeping kids from doing harm to their bodies.

[sulagnamisra]

important addendum:

"how bad football is for the body"

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

anger and impulse control problems from head injuries.

oh... that explains a lot

[sotiriabellou]

im going to learn embroidery weaving pottery oil painting hagiography miniature crafting fiddle arabic mandarin spanish perfect french and im going to do it all within the next six months.this is true and incredibly possible and doable and i will do it all

[thesilliestpotato]

I was looking for references and stumbled across a series of paintings from 1930s by Soviet painter Alexander Samokhvalov called "The young women of metro construction"

[mister13eyond]

Seeing a lot of new people show up in my notes with like "proship dni" or whatever so RENT LOWERING GUNSHOT: IM AN ADULT WHO DOES NOT CARE IF PEOPLE HAVE PROBLEMATIC SHIPS, IM OLD AND BELIEVE TABOO FICTION IS SAFE AND HEALTHY, IM AN OLD MAN WHO THINKS IT'S FINE TO HAVE SHIPS THAT WOULD BE BAD IN REAL LIFE, I BELIEVE IN TABOO KINKS AS HEALING PLACES, I DO NOT DO SHIP DISCOURSE, I THINK IT'S OKAY TO WRITE ABOUT BAD THINGS HAPPENING TO GOOD PEOPLE WITHOUT CONDEMNING IT IN THE NARRATIVE, I THINK IT'S OKAY TO GET OFF TO MAKE BELIEVE BAD THINGS!!! THANKS

[theofficialinternetloner]

Another rent lowering gunshot: the older members of fandom are proship because they had to go through a time (that is, unfortunately, starting to become reality again) where everything was being censored. Entire fanfictions and fanarts were lost because websites removed them due to pressure from people very similar to current-day antis. This eventually led to the creation of AO3.

On a personal note, don't ever come to my blog with your anti garbage, especially if you've got 'pRoShIp DnI' in your bio and you're liking my anti censorship posts. You can go fuck yourself.

[artsekey]

[artsekey]

[eziojensenthe3rd]

Sign the Petition

Stop Bill S-209’s De-Anonymization of Every Canadian Adult

[atlas-spade]

Just in case any of my moots/followers are Canadian

[anomymous2]

@teaboot

[goth-queen]

[poetrylesbian]

literally crying laughing at this

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#i'd kinda assumed there was more alpaca in an alpaca

[ladydei]

Nope, all wool

[slingerapen]

cats know keyboard shortcuts even microsoft doesnt know about