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[sistertaxon]

this shouldnt be the funniest thing in the world to me but here we are

[silverhand]

So, I hate to be That Guy, but this is legit terrifying.

I can’t claim any particular expertise in loony tunes fascist beliefs, but I follow a number of people who are experts. To grossly oversimplify, “mutant” is fasc-speak shorthand for non-humans who pass as humans. This is the part of the RW ecosystem that literally believes there are humanoid reptiles who wear human costumes to pass among the general population.

Like so much fascist belief, when you write it out that way, it just looks silly. The mythos is deliberately constructed to make it as hard as possible for “normies” to take it seriously. (See Sartre’s quote about debating fascists.)

The point is not belief or non-belief in reptile people. The point is that the leader of a fascist movement is telling his followers that they’re correct, there are non-humans trying to subjugate us by prosecuting me. What immediately follows is that it’s okay to kill them. They are, after all, not human. This group of mutants includes trans people, queers, Jews, Muslims, and Democrats.

He’s calling for violence. He’s just doing it in a way that everyone who isn’t on board already can’t hear.

Put another way, he’s playing with matches in a fireworks factory, and there are a lot of people who should know better who are helping him do it.

[saintjustitude]

Other explanations I’ve seen:

Really wish the journalists reporting this bothered to do the actual research to understand what he’s saying instead of shrugging it off as “crazy talk”.

[anarchblr]

@soul-hammer @professorfaber

thoughts?

[soul-hammered]

I don’t think it’s necessarily fascistic even if it is stupid and evil. Lib capitalists dehumanize their opponents too (calling people ‘superpredators’ ie)(which isn’t quite the level of repeated odium on display here but still). Hell, social democrats popularized calling people ‘chuds,’ which were originally from the movie C.H.U.D.S, and were like mutants crossed with zombies. You don’t need to be a palingenetic ultranationalist to dehumanize your enemies (but it helps!).

[byjove]

I never thought I would be siding with the pope’s involvement in politics and cheering him on. I will say that.

[byjove]

[dovesndecay]

Microaggressions against polyamory in interpersonal interactions are important and should be discussed, but I do wish more of the conversation focused on the ways that systemic amatonormativity impact things like family units, taxes, healthcare, inheritances, housing, childcare, etc.

I'm not dating or married or related to anyone I live with, and our household of four adults can't get any kind of financial or food or housing aid because we count as three separate households despite our semi-blended finances and living together for a decade. There are laws that have been proposed (at least, I don't know if any passed) that limit housing to nuclear families.

Amatonormativity and polyphobia are not just theoretical "people are kinda mean about this sometimes" -- they are real and materially impactful systemic issues, and they affect all of us.

[avocant]

okay so I'm having a debate with my flatmates

are these all different things and if so what do you call them

[moonywithatrafficcone]

#1 is a hoodie. No doubt about it. Zip is there, hood is there. It is a hoodie.

#2 is where we start to question a little bit. But the answer remains the same. That is a hoodie.

#3 is not difficult at all. That is a jumper. NOT A SWEATER. A sweater is not ugly unless it is a christmas sweater that is intended to be ugly. That third one is a jumper (or a pullover if you want to be different).

am i correct

yes

double yes

no (put your answer in replies)

vanilla extract/results

Voting ended onApr 11

[arovoidfrog]

1. Jacket

2. Hoodie

3. Sweater (or jumper, ig)

[digitalwizard01]

There's something thats just so incredibly funny about the Afroman lawsuit cause theres literally no substance to it. Seeing all these cops getting upset and offended by Afroman music in a courtroom setting is just so fucking funny. Like a lawyer asking a cop "what private information of yours exactly was breached by the phrase "receding hairline dipshit"?" Like you could have saved yourself the extra humiliation, but instead you guys took it to court and now everyone has seen your sheriff literally break down crying over a song that says she licks pussy. Thats just objectively hilarious

[digitalwizard01]

I can't get over this. Afroman releasing individual diss tracks about each of the cops is so good. Cause like its one thing to make one or two songs about the house raid, but then to proceed to make a song called "Randy Walters is a son of a Bitch", call him out by name and say you fucked his wife, and then have that same cop go on court record saying he cannot confirm or deny that he got cucked by Afroman. Like congrats man. Before, everyone just thought he was joking about fucking your wife, but now you wont deny it

[pouletpourri]

so about that one "what now" poster by glitch-

[stromcuzewon]

this is probably my favorite tiktok of all time and I finally got around to showing it to my dad the other day and now he comes home every day and tells me about all the places he saw crumbling concrete and says "guess they didn't add enough chinchilla flakes"

[thatdisasterauthor]

My dad has worked in construction is whole life, primarily with a company that does concrete foundations, and I immediately sent him this back when I first found it on TikTok, and he IMMEDIATELY shared it with everyone he worked with. They apparently still quote it on his job sites to this day.

[dumyhead]

“you really were the lesser of the two”

[fireflychaosdemon]

look if I see one more person say “Percy is modern Odysseus”

I am going to go apeshit

THAT BOY IS A GENDERSWAPPED PENELOPE AND I’M RIGHT

[punkeropercyjackson]

You'd think Penelope!Percy Jackson would be when transfem Percy finally takes off,especially considering the inherent womanhood of Penelope within her story and significance of her patriarchy/misogyny commentary,and yet............

[exactwriter6016]

I have had this idea rattling around in my head about a Penelope!Percy fic where he goes into Tartarus alone and the death mist awakens Penelope’s memories, and he manages to capture some of the death mist in a jar or something, and when he gets back to the Argo II he gives it to Annabeth and tells her about the effects and says, “Only if you want to wise girl” and she without hesitation opens the jar and remembers her life as Odysseus and they have a swapped version of the song “Would you fall in love with me again” with Percy as Odysseus’s part telling her about what he did in tartarus. Oh my god I would love it,

Athena is in owl form watching stunned, Poseidon, watching from the waves, is torn between hating Annabeth/ Odysseus for this time being with his son, and letting the feud die, Aphrodite is kicking her feet on a cloud and giggling about true love.

Tell me what you think, I really love this idea!

Update: I made a series about this, go check it out!

Post by @exactwriter6016

Alone again: An EpicPenelope!Percy Fic Pt. 1 Percy: I dove toward Annabeth, catching her right before she fell into the pit, and I am hangi

[anjels001]

What If Percy Jackson Was Actually the Reincarnation of Odysseus?

Okay, I had a crazy idea after reading this fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59618584/chapters/155132764#workskin.

We've seen stories where Percy is the reincarnation of Hyacinthus or even Icarus, Daedalus' son. But what if, instead, he was the reincarnation of Odysseus? And not just that—what if he inherited his memories and scars?

This is where the fusion of the Percy Jackson universe (by Rick Riordan) and EPIC: The Musical (by Jorge Rivera-Herrans) comes in.

Percy has always been a reluctant hero, but what if that reluctance stemmed from a past he doesn’t consciously remember yet still haunts his soul?

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The Styx's Curse and the Revenge of the Scars

Divine weapons don’t just wound the body; they scar the soul.

Every time Odysseus is reborn, he carries the scars of Poseidon’s wrath—the trident strike from centuries ago.

These wounds remain dormant until Percy’s third year, when they begin to manifest physically and painfully.

But there’s a deeper reason for this.

The River Styx, tired of the Olympians breaking their oath not to have more children, decides to take revenge where it hurts most—through their children.

Zeus: proud and arrogant, would have a daughter who feared his authority so much that she would seek independence at the first chance, eventually joining Artemis’ Hunt and forever rejecting him.

Poseidon: a god who deeply values family, would have a son who feared him since infancy.Percy would develop an instinctual fear of the ocean and everything connected to his father—a pain greater than any curse.

And worst of all? Percy is Odysseus, the very hero Poseidon once cursed.

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The Bleeding of Souls: Percy or Odysseus?

Percy wouldn't just be different—he’d be more mature and intelligent than most demigods his age. There would be a bleeding effect between his personality and Odysseus’—the general of Athena and King of Ithaca.

Trapped between the present and the past, the young prince of the sea and beloved son of Poseidon would constantly clash with the war-hardened strategist he once was.

He doesn’t understand why deception, planning, and manipulation come so naturally to him. Why, even without formal training, he knows how to fight, how to lead, how to survive.

But what haunts him most are the dreams—visions where he is not Percy Jackson, but Odysseus, surrounded by blood, enemies, and a sea that never let him return home.

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The Lost Prince of the Oceans

The culture of the sea was vastly different from that of the land.

While the Olympian gods saw their children as tools or threats, the ocean viewed its young as sacred. Children of the sea were unconditionally loved and protected by all marine creatures—harming one was a crime punishable by death.

This is why Percy’s fear wounds Poseidon more than any curse ever could. Because every being in the ocean would love him unconditionally… except his own son.

[pelideswhore]

guys. au with cannibal!achilles is this something

[sushxisss]

Menelaus in modern media be like: Yeah, I’m a bloodthirsty, screaming Spartan war machine straight out of Hollywood. Never mind that isn’t even my era of Sparta. I despise Helen, I despise everyone, and my entire personality begins and ends with revenge, My wounded pride is meaningless because I'm just a hurt and annoying ex interrupting the romance between Paris and Helen, I don't care if other people die, it's all about me! Haha.

Menelaus in the illiad: I'm depressed.

[that-faerie-in-the-corner]

i think Agamemnon loved his kids but a part of me thinks that if he was able to live he would be similar to his wife in the treatment of their remaining children--I don't think he'd have reason to be outright cruel to them, but what if he emotionally abandoned them. He sometimes forgets he still has children while in Troy. His guilt over her eats not only his entire memory of her, not only his memory of his last wishes, but all the love for the rest of his kids. He doesn't want to acknowledge what happened to Iphigenia, or anyone's emotions around it, including his own, but it hurts to talk about her younger siblings, so oftentimes he just doesn't. He wants to erase any evidence he loved Clytemnestra, so then the last vestiges of that love didn't die with their firstborn daughter. He stalls meeting his children when he gets home. Doesn't want to look them in the eye. It would be better if they weren't born. He's doomed them just by bringing them into the world. If he was smart, he would have let his branch of the bloodline die with him.

Before he can work up the courage to face them, his brain is already spilling out into his bath.

[creature-crow-deactivated202512]

brb trying this

[hyenangel-deactivated20241224]

[blue-the-flyingpyrochef]

[chromegnomes]

[queer-as-city-folk]

So do people realize that we aren't building new train tracks when we expand the amteak network, I have multiple times seen people say that we shouldn't expand the network because it would destroy protected lands, which would be a fair criticism but Amtrak doesn't build new tracks, we use existing tracks. We are not destroying protected lands, we are using land that has already been clear for a century

[queer-as-city-folk]

Also the alternative is more highways which destroy significantly more land for less capacity than railways. So the question is do you want to keep complaining about something that isn't happening and let the environment get damaged as a result or do you want to actually learn how things work

[catboymothman]

So, wait... Were the tracks not in use at all? Or was it like *only* commercial transport on those tracks? Either way, its good that amtrak will be able to use them again, but one would be much more frustrating

[queer-as-city-folk]

Almost all rail tracks in the US are either abandoned or only used for freight rail at the moment

[mudkipspropaganda]

Jesus, we really have no excuse for having such a lackluster rail system, do we?

[queer-as-city-folk]

Sure we do! The US government hate both rail and you personally