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Alex Haahaard (they/them) on twitter:

"at some point we should probably have a conversation about how the normalization and glorification of physical exhaustion during medical training contributes to producing deeply ableist doctors.

Like a) it makes the field completely inaccessible to many disabled people whose knowledge is deeply needed there and b) it supports a deeply f*cked up worldview in which pain and fatigue are things you can and should "just push through"

ulibeanzz

hey quick question why are all adult cartoons like that

ulibeanzz

like why is it that adult cartoons could build upon this beautiful format for storytelling used in children’s cartoons to deliver more complex, powerful narratives and include themes with more depth and comedy that adults can relate to, but instead it means “hey here’s an array of every nasty vile bigoted thing u can think of drawn in the most tedious ugly obnoxious art style” like why did we go so wrong..

frogopera

*cracks open a bag of candy and a jar of salt* SO, HALLOWEEN PSA TIME

legsdemandias

You need to realize that no amount of bullying asexuals or tucutes or polyams or whatever will make straight people respect you. The cishetero patriarchy doesn’t like you. They won’t like you if you bully and hurt and ostracize the ~weirdos~ in your community. They won’t respect you more. Oh yes, they might might might laugh with you for a little. It might be a great little bit of bootlicking fun when you two are laughing together at someone else.

But in the end they will always kick you in the face and laugh at you again.

legsdemandias

And there’s no justifying hurting polyams or tucutes or aces or whatever outside of “i want to be homophobic, but in a popular way” because what’s even the point? You don’t get medication from doing it. You don’t get representation in media. You don’t get rights. You don’t get respect. All you get is to take your vindictive hatred out on people just like you who want and need the exact same rights as you. There’s actually no benefit to it besides gaslighting, bullying, and straight up bootlickin.

Stop kidding yourself, you’re scared and angry and tired of being stepped on by someone bigger than you, so you started stepping on someone smaller than you.

owiez

Nobody bullies polyam asexuals to appease the cis hets ♥️

legsdemandias

So why DO you bully people hm? Please explain to me, I’m giving you my platform to give a voice to you and all the people like you who firmly believe that you bully people for valid reasons. Enlighten us your unique reasons.

pommegranatte

When given the chance to actually explain themselves, these sorts of people resort to shit like this. They don’t care about the community as a whole. They care about arbitrary little sections of “””acceptable””” gays. Who’s in those little sections? Only they know because they make up the rules on who’s in or out. This really is a case of hurt people turning to their own community to attack others. All to look like one of they “good” gays to the outside. Which is fucked up.

themadcapmathematician

People like this dont realize that “because its funny UwU” is the more or less the same thing. You’re doing it bc systematic oppression has made polyams and aspecs and vulernable trans people easy targets and made the abuse of us funny, and putting us down bc you think we’re lower than you is buying into and upholding these systems

At the end of the day, that’s what bullying is, hurting people you can get away with hurting because everyone else is doing it, because the culture of your enviroment makes that not just possible, but easy and rewarding

whitepeopletwitter

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

old people are so mystifying. I had to go into tractor supply today and there was a guy with a beautiful pointer I knew had to be a birding dog. I asked and he said yeah and while we waited in line (at a safe distance) we talked about birding and how I prefer setters to pointers etc.

Anyway I brought up Grouse hunting and he said there’s no ruffed grouse around here anymore, and I said that’s true, their populations never fully recovered from a blizzard that happened over 50 years ago now, the final nail in their coffin when populations were already struggling.

And he said no. It actually had to do with the Soviet economy collapse.

And before I could get him to elaborate he was finished checking out and left.

I have the degree in wildlife but he said that with such confidence I’m so scared. What does he know that I don’t?? How did the collapse of the Soviet Union affect ruffed grouse populations in southeast Ohio

iloe

they needed to be dumb and run away from things more

themauvesoul

Hate diet culture so much bitches will b like “don’t eat processed carbs they’re so bad for you” like and??? So what?? God did not give us grain and stone to grind it with for no reason. Bread is inevitable. Bread is food for the heart and the soul. U think I’m gonna give that up in pursuit of instagram fitness?? U think I’m gonna deny myself the simple pleasure of toast with jam so I can endlessly chase an ever-shifting standard of beauty that ultimately means nothing? In 20 years I will no longer be beautiful and in 60 my body will be vacant food for other, smaller creatures. But the taste of fresh bread? Of homemade donuts and still-warm pie? I will carry the taste on my tongue into whatever follows this life. So like. Stop telling me I should diet lmao. I’m not abt to martyr myself just to get a man to look at me.

princenaveen

Human screentime of Disney PoC characters in 3 of the last 6 PoC-lead WDAS films

issaredbih

Makes you think huh

mysharona1987

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[ID: Two tweets.

The first is by Tayari Jones (@ tayari) and asks, “What’s the best professional advice you’ve ever received?”

The second is a reply by Octavia Butler knew… (@ Nikyatu), posted at 8:58 PM on 4 December 2019, that says:

A toxic work environment is more likely to change you than you are to change it.

Get out.

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aucatgirl

Ditch the boys!! Just for tonight anyway

cognitohazardous

i think we gotta drop the term antifa and go back to saying the full "anti fascist" so fascists will be forced to drop their precious antifa strawman and admit theyre fascists lmao

insomniac-arrest

lesbian loneliness hits differently than normal loneliness

insomniac-arrest

girls are complex and interesting and I love them, but we’re all out here respecting each other’s boundaries so hard that we are in different houses on the other side of town not looking at each other

newhologram

fournationsmeta

It’s Hama’s fault Kya is dead

This is one of my favorite theories behind atla and I wanted to share my own breakdown of it.

SO the raids on the SWT began in 40 AG. They continued until each and every waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe had been captured. (Note: captured)

Worth noting is that Hama refers to herself as the last waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe.

Here’s where the conspiracy gets juicy. Hama was the only one who managed to escape. She created bloodbending to get out of the prison. And she says herself that she’s the only one who escaped. This could be for one of two reasons:

All of the other prisoners had already succumb to the conditions or been killed

The remaining waterbender prisoners were murdered after Hama’s escape

The second option is more plausible. Hama displayed a dangerous, powerful, unknown form of waterbending and overtook a Fire Nation guard’s body. She had him unlock her cell and fled. If there were remaining waterbenders in the prison they would have been killed out of fear once Hama escaped.

They Fire Nation couldn’t risk anyone else in their prison possessing this power. So they were all murdered because of Hama’s escape.

Look at Hama’s reaction to hearing that the raids continued. A kind of casual “oh, you poor things.” Hama knew that the raids continued because she escaped. All of the waterbenders had already been caught! The only waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe that was known at that time to be free or alive was Hama.

And she knew better than to return to her home, where they were sure to come looking for her. She stayed and hid right under their noses because she knew they were going to tear the world apart trying to track her down. She was too dangerous.

When Yon Rha comes to the Southern Water Tribe in 94 AG Katara is still a child. Their tribe has been in shambles for years at this point. Katara is the tribe’s last hope and they’re a tiny tribe at that point in time. Do you honestly think that word of a child waterbender would have made way to the Fire Nation?

Do you think that the Water Tribe would ever release that information willingly? I don’t. I think that the Southern Raiders had no idea that another waterbender had been born into the Southern Water Tribe.

Why else would Yon Rha have accepted that an adult was the waterbender he was looking for? The intel didn’t say that a new waterbender was born, the intel said that there’s one waterbender left. The Fire Nation already knows about the last waterbender of the SWT. She escaped. And they’re still trying to find her.

The Fire Nation is adamant about finding the last waterbender because they’re looking for Hama. Hama, who can control people’s bodies. Hama, who managed to escape a high-security Fire Nation prison without any water. Hama, the only waterbender to best the Fire Nation. And the only one left.

Kya offers herself up as prisoner to Yon Rha. Because she knows that the past raids meant that the Southern Raiders took the waterbenders prisoner. But that has changed.

Why would their procedure have changed? Why did they stop taking waterbenders as prisoners? Because of Hama. They stopped taking waterbenders prisoner after Hama’s escape.

Tl;dr the Southern Raiders were never looking for Katara, they were looking for Hama.