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[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

zylahbee

sexism in medicine kills people. racism in medicine kills people. fatphobia in medicine kills people. queerphobia in medicine kills people. classism in medicine kills people. ableism in medicine kills people.

do not downplay people’s fears about being mistreated because they are a part of a marginalised group. it is a matter of life and death and you should be angry about it.

unconventiononthelawofthesea

atheist quarterback throws a hail darwin

akindlyowl

agnostic quarterback throws a hail maybe

frodo-of-the-nine-fingers

immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand

ninewheels

#at least once a month I think about that one post about laminating a paper towel#and how that makes it immortal but also forever prevents it from fulfilling its true purpose#yes you will live. but at the cost of everything that makes you You

(courtesy of noknowshame)

nutongzhi

golongbyjoannanewsom

obsessed w this person in the replies

creature-adjacent

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

questionablepastries

scribefindegil

the thing is. any character who expresses discomfort with or behaves in ways unsupported by Standard Heterosexuality is going to be open to queer readings. but they're almost always going to be open to *multiple* queer readings. this character seems uncomfortable with the concept of marriage and never has a love interest: is he ace? aro? gay and closeted? trans and closeted? bi or even straight but unwilling to pursue a relationship for other reasons? too misogynistic to want to share his life with a woman (an uncomfortable reading, but often a valid one)? some combination of the above? very often, you could make an argument for any of these interpretations, and your argument would be supported by the same pieces of textual evidence.

similarly: this woman rejects all the men who express interest in her and seems exhausted by the whole affair: is she a lesbian? aro and/or ace? trans? bi or straight but with standards that no one has canonically met? someone who values her autonomy and knows how much that will be curtailed if she gets married? unless the text is very explicit about her reasoning, we don't know, and it could again be any of the above or a combination.

now, sometimes the text *is* very explicit and people still ignore it. I see this very commonly with ace and/or aro characters where fandom loves to ignore the character's own stated feelings and preferences to make them more shippable. this sucks. or there's instances where a character has an opposite-sex love interest and people really let their misogyny show by claiming that she never really mattered and you can/should completely ignore that relationship and not make it a part of your character analysis. this also sucks.

but. in many/most cases, there are multiple readings you can take from a given text. obviously people have their own preferred interpretations, but it's important to remember that other people can look at the same text as you and draw different conclusions that are just as well supported. the canon itself exists in a sort of nebulous state of quantum uncertainty where The Character could be any one of a number of different identities, and while any given transformative work is likely to collapse the waveform to a singular interpretation, that doesn't undo the ambiguity present in the original text.

figglypuff

necrolentil

Goddamit i hate this fucking post. I hate it because obviously if “twelve” followed the same pattern as the other teen numbers it wouldn’t be “twoteen” it would be “seconteen”. Think about it. It’s not “threeteen” it’s “thirteen” as in “third”. It’s not “fiveteen” it’s “fifteen” as in fifth. So with that in mind, you count “first, second, third, fourth, fifth,” and so on, so eleven would be “firsteen” and twelve would be “secondteen” or “seconteen”. “Firsteen, seconteen, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen….” It just drives me absolutely mad everytime i see this post that this obvious pattern was overlooked and i cant hold in my rage anymore.