by any other name

they/them, queer, adhd, very occasionally fanfic happens, fandom old with eclectic taste, reblog a lot because I have a job and I'm tired. icon by https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/1564386

[brainrockets]

Stuff I wrote:

Misfits and Magic 2 fic following the events of episode 6.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Nancy Drew AU where they're followed to Europe when Nancy is a baby.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Zora has a hobby.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Ryan Hudson needs a new plan.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Kara Lee thinks about her choices and a certain messy bisexual.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Finale fix it sort of.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[brainrockets]

Amazon MGM Studios is not moving forward with Martin Gero's Stargate revival, which was to begin filming this fall. (UPDATED)

They canceled it because it was aimed at the people who already love it???

[greengableslover]

Oh, look at you. Oh, you haven’t changed a bit.

Neither have you. I’ve been aching to see you.

[red-eye-radio]

So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon

[victoryyodel]

#This is the representation I’ve been looking for

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[veneratedrot]

🐅

[gatheringbones]

[“When everything runs smoothly, the housewife fades away—becomes the background. Cleanliness maintains the ghostly character of women’s work, keeps it systematically hidden. Even critics of capitalist work have failed to take note of the labor that takes place beyond the factory gates. The political philosopher Hannah Arendt pointed out, for instance, that Karl Marx, following public opinion at the time he wrote, characterized the work that took place in the home as unproductive labor, which left “nothing behind.” Arendt noted that Marx and many other male philosophers exalted work performed outside the home as the only real form of work, while they characterized domestic work “as parasitical, actually a kind of perversion of labor” because it “did not enrich the world.”

Arendt saw this hierarchy of work as a fundamental misunderstanding of what happens in the home—a misunderstanding that arose from the unique temporal features of care work and housework: the labor performed in the home moves so quickly, and produces so rapidly, Arendt wrote, that “its effort is almost as quickly consumed as the effort is spent.” Ancient political philosophers, Arendt writes, at least recognized the vital productivity of their servants, who, they believed, left behind “nothing more or less than their masters’ freedom or, in modern language, their masters’ potential productivity.” In antiquity, the work performed in the home was understood as constant, life-sustaining work that always produced: indeed, it produced the very possibility of public productivity; it created the possibility of shared communal life outside the home.”]

amanda montei, from touched out: motherhood, misogyny, consent, and control, 2023

[lanotteviene]

my best friend linen my brother in arms cotton my partner wool my beautiful sister silk

[lanotteviene]

our sick deranged enemy polyester....

[threeture]

the demon lord, prince of lies, "Vegan Leather"...

[catchymemes]

[wereopossum]

The sheer energy. The beauty of this woman. The women hugging in the background. The man in rainbow parachute pants. This whole video is art.

[inthefallofasparrow]

XXI. The World

[taboo-delusion]

This is what world peace looks like

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[brainrockets]

Why is this post flagged as mature???

[knightofleo]

Happy Pride Mnth.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Alaska Blood Bank declares critical shortage as World Cup cuts off national supply

Blood Bank of Alaska CEO says the state can no longer rely on outside reserves and is urging Alaskans to donate now.

I wanna hear europeans bitching about new jersey public transit some more.

[byjove]

‘Nuclear Family Month’ is so funny as a concept. I have never seen a nuclear family worth celebrating.

[dragonessmiralis]

The Addams

[byjove]

Do Grandmama, Uncle Fester and the rotating cast of possibly existent cousins mean nothing to you? 😔

[dragonessmiralis]

I may in fact be stupid

[byjove]

It’s okay. Understanding the enemy (the concept of a nuclear family) is the first step to defeating it.

[a-totally-reasonable-username]

I'm wishing a very Happy Pride Month to all the queer people who:

are disabled

are chronically ill

can't celebrate for health reasons

disability gets in the way of their gender representation

disability got in the way of a relationship

don't have anyone to celebrate with

have homophobic caretakers

Happy Pride Month to all disabled queer people

[akleewrites]

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