You are human. You deserve love.

"We made the world we're living in and we have to make it over." ~James Baldwin bisexuwhale allosaurus / transasauras rex White Over 30

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Debt ceiling negotiations // updated trolley problem?

We will blow up the bus unless you use it to run over people

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This likely reflects poorly on me for following the wrong people but I’ve seen a few “Biden worse than Trump posts”

Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett vs Jackson

Coup in Bolivia, attempted coup in Venezuela + almost started wars with Iran and North Korea vs ended occupation of Afghanistan

Biden is a US President; he is evil beyond redemption and I hope he suffers before he dies and Trump was horrifyingly worse.

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Fmk

Father, Son, Holy Spirit

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Season 1 Bashir is SUCH a chaser omfg

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Worf is such a painslut

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Tumblr don’t fail me now

A friend of mine is looking for SFF book recs

yes:

inspiring

engaging

thoughtful

original

BIPOC

female

no:

angry

depressing

inaccessible

neolib

[fipindustries]

like seriously, im sorry ive been keeping this in my back for a while but i got to say it, the whole house elves being slaves is silly, they are elves, they are literally santa's elves, they are the oompa loompas, in the chocolate factory that is hogwarts, that is the thing they are meant to evoke, dumbledore is a very literal willy wonka/santa claus figure and the elves working at hogwarts are supposed to work under the same "dont think too hard about" logic that those other stories are supposed to work under.

but then rowling goes on and fucks it up by actually trying to make the story serious and gritty and have real life consequences and a real life grounding. but any criticism that doesnt take this into account is fundamentally, purposefully dense and dishonest about the framing of the thing they are tackling

[sigmaleph]

very inconvenient how jk rowling having repulsive political views inevitably frames the discourse around the fucked up implications of her worldbuilding, which would be treated entirely different by the fans if she was a politically anodyne liberal who mouthed something about trans rights being human rights on twitter every couple months

[torschlusspanikattack]

not following this from the post above it—what does her real beliefs have to do with the strength (rather, weakness) of her worldbuilding? it’s self-destructive regardless of her affiliation

[sigmaleph]

I said it frames the discourse around them; i think JK Rowling being in fact a hateful bigot towards at least one group of people makes it easy to say that every time her fucked-up worldbuilding can be read as having unfortunate implications for some other oppressed group, that was a result of her putting it there deliberately rather than failing to think for five seconds about the implications of her writing.

I.e. if Rowling wasn't a TERF people would be much less quick to say house elves say something meaningful about her position on real-world slavery.

[ironbite4]

Oh let's face it, her worldbuilding is shit to begin with.

[sigmaleph]

"good" and "bad" are not the only opinions you can have on an author's work

i don't much care for rowling's worldbuilding, but there's a lot more you can say about it than 'it's shit'.

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This ignores the fact that Rowling WAS an anodyne liberal during the peak of the fandom, and even then I never saw someone say “they’re just Santa’s Elves” I saw “yeah *awkward face* *change topic*” ditto people pointing out that Umbridge is implicitly raped off screen or the naming of Cho Chang. The goblins being antisemitic is the only thing from that era I remember people defending as saying “this is just European folktales” to which someone else would grimace and add “though of course those folktales” and trail off and then everyone would reflect on the prevalence of antisemitism in early modern Europe and change to subject.

I guess what I’m saying is we don’t have to ask “what sound this critique look like if JKR was a milquetoast liberal and not a goose stepping fascist because the criticism and transformative works from like 1998-2018 answer that question

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DSA needs a little more D/s Gay imo

[grecoromanyaoi]

george forgets which neopronouns his partner uses. elaine starts dating a guy with her birthname, and discovers his birthname is elaine. jerry takes newman’s comment that he isnt “really” butch because he uses bath salts to heart. an ominous horoscope drives kramer to audition for rupaul’s drag race.

[3dmonstermaze]

JERRY: Well, maybe it’s any pronouns.

GEORGE: No, Jerry, it’s not any pronouns! I’d know if it was any pronouns! If they used any pronouns, I would’ve defaulted to “she” by now!

JERRY: Yeah, you would have, wouldn’t you.

(LAUGH TRACK)

GEORGE: Look, Jerry, please, you gotta help me. They’re gonna be here in less than ten minutes, just ask them while I’m in the room. Ten seconds, over and done with. Please.

JERRY: You want me to ask for pronouns?

GEORGE: (FALLS UPON KNEES) JERRY I’M BEGGIN’ YOU!

JERRY: …Tell me I look butch.

GEORGE: WHAT?

[3dmonstermaze]

JERRY: You heard me. Tell me. I look. Butch.

GEORGE: Jerry, I - I can’t -

JERRY: See, you hesitated! What is it? Is it the shirt, the hair -

GEORGE: Jerry please, we don’t have time for this! JERRY: Ten seconds to ask your new partner what their pronouns are, and you can’t spare any time to tell me what about me passes as femme? GEORGE: …The deodorant is a bit much, I mean, peach-scented deodorant -

JERRY: I KNEW it!

(KRAMER enters through the front door, dressed in nothing but a bra, flesh-colored leggings and a long, blonde wig) KRAMER: Do either of you have any spirit gum? It’s kind of an emergency!

[3dmonstermaze]

KRAMER: You know I hate to intrude, but uh, what kind of pronouns would you mind me using for you?

(Both JERRY and GEORGE turn discreetly to listen) BRICK: Oh, thank you for asking! Any pronouns are fine!

GEORGE: AAAGH!

(GEORGE stumbles to the floor.)

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I have never watched an episode of Seinfeld but posts like this make me understand why people would, I think

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What is wrong with me

So there’s a trope “you can’t be friends with someone you have a crush on”

And I am like the opposite I am almost exclusively friends with people I have a crush on or would like to fuck or date. (A lot of my friends are exes who broke up with me).

But like from the general conversation this seems like it is generally labeled bad/unhealthy/toxic behavior and just like

What makes someone only friends with people they are at least a little attracted to? Is it just from being super shallow?

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I swear that the hotter I think someone on OKC us the more likely they are to be ace.

I think it has to do with style and aesthetic?

[tonyzaret]

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Ironically I was just remarking to my best friend that since braking up 2 years ago our relationship has improved by a huge amount and we are much more emotionally intimate than when we were dating 🤣🤣🤣

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What’s the hottest thing a woman can do and why is it leyning

*yearning intensifies*

[velociraptors-in-hats]

Benoit Blanc is trans

Exhibit A:

I rest my case

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Exhibit B

[thunderon]

hilarious how in gtn harrowhark spends all this time writing instructions for gideon to make sure she stays out of trouble and meanwhile it’s harrowhark who’s passing out in random places, stealing heads off of bodies, and actively antagonizing every other person in the room at all times

[thunderon]

@johnpallo harrow is 100% convinced that she is the only adult in the universe. harrow is 17.

[whatimdoing-here]

WARRIOR NUN S2 | Ava and Beatrice small Moments.