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[animentality]

[anjomecanico]

The appeal to emotion arguments of pro-forced-birthers do not convince me because I don't think taking away a life is inherently bad. I eat meat, I feed meat to my animals. I'm all for people killing rapists and pedophiles and for self-defense/defending someone else. I don't think a parent is a murderer monster for refusing to donate an organ to their child, even if this child will die without this donated organ. I think the conscious being having their body leached to sustain another life who's physically attached to them should have the final say on whatever they want to continue being a source or not, despite the other being inevitably dying without having them as a source. These cheap ass attempts won't catch me.

[the-truth-within-the-lie]

Same. I am pro choice about everything. Our bodies are our own, our life and death are our own.

I am currently brushing up on hospice skills to work again with Right to Die patients. We should have the right to decide if we want to peacefully die after a terminal diagnosis instead of lingering painfully for years.

Death isn’t a bad thing. It can be profound. Peaceful. Gentle. As sacred as birth.

The entire conversation around abortion would change, I think, if people really understood this.

[weedvapeuser]

I remember reading something about abortion and that it has allowed an infinitely kinder society than we have had previously.

Parents can choose to terminate pregnancies with fatal diagnoses, preventing untold suffering for only a small extension of life.

Unwanted pregnancies can be aborted, instead of an infant being left on a hillside to die of exposure, or tossed down a well, a la the Catholic Magdalene Laundries (because yes, the church did this too.)

Before abortion, your family planning meant infanticide. Saying "no thank you" to sex wasn't an option. Safe abortion wasn't an option. Birth control wasn't an option. So what happened when your husband knocked you up again and you already had 6 mouths to feed and none of them were getting enough? You popped that baby out while plowing the fields of your subsistence farm, and tossed it in the forest for the wolves. People didn't NAME their kids until they were like a year old. They didn't believe children had souls until like age 4. History had always been pretty fucking bleak for 99% of humanity.

[thesunnahthebetter]

they should normalize saying "I'm thinking of you fondly but don't have much to say and frankly I don't even really want to talk rn but you have appeared in my thoughts and it's nice"

[argumate]

terrifying thought that people might be permitted to live near transport infrastructure

[argumate]

The sweeping expansion would dramatically increase the total number of activity centres from 60 to 210, essentially turning almost every train station in Melbourne into a high-density housing zone.

sentences that make the homies come

[argumate]

It has already faced fierce backlash from some councils and residents’ groups, which have accused the government of a centralised power grab that erodes local communities’ say over high-rise developments.

sentences that make the homies weep tears of rage

[daemonvatis]

I'm pretty sure a *few* train stations need to be in high-density commercial districts, maybe a mega hospital or two, but yeah surround every station with at least 3 blocks of skyscrapers.

[nickrbg]

Thinnothy Drake / Thin Drake. Ugly ass owl.

[dcxdpdabbles]

Danny: Mom! Dad! W-what are you doing here?

Maddie: Your father and I knew that you were disappointed to miss out on the family reunion because of your husband's surgery, so we decided to skip it this year and come give you some support in caring for him!

Jack: As well as giving you a break. You must be under so much stress taking care of him and the kids!

Danny, having been lying about his marriage for the past two years to get out of family obligations: Wow... that's so sweet of you.

Maddie: I'm so excited to meet everyone! When you said you were moving to a new Earth, I knew communication through the Ghost Zone was going to be rough, but only being able to connect audio calls once every four months was much harder to endure than I thought it would be.

Jack: Not to mention traveling here. We had to do so many pit stops to fix up the Spectator Speeder and let me tell you, some of those floating rocks were hard to land on. Sometimes makes me wish we had your ghosts powers.

Danny: Yeah....you both went through so much effort. To vist me. In a different dimension.

Maddie: We three! Jazz is here too.

Danny: *gulps* The whole family is here.

Jack: Oh, don't make that face. The Fenton Reunion happens every four years. We'll see your aunts, uncles, and cousins next time. You're much more important to us, so no need for guilt.

Danny: I- right. Of course. Um, have you guys eaten? I can treat us to some dinner before we go back to my place. My, um, husband is at a doctor's appointment with my eldest while I did some work. I'm going on emergency family leave but I had to fill out the paperwork at the office today. Yup yup, thats why I'm here. At my workplace.

Maddie: You alright sweetie? You're sweating a lot.

Danny: I'm fine!

Jack: You work here? This office building is so nice. What does Wayne Enterprise do? I know you have a management position but I never really understood what department exactly.

Danny, who works in the mail room: Um, Wayne Enterprise does a little of everything. I'm in... communications.

Jack: But what exactly does communications do-

Danny: Excuse me for a bit. I have to let my husband know I'm going to be a little late.

Maddie: Oh! Don't tell the kids we're here. We want it to be a suprise. We brought gifts for all of them! Jazz is actually wrapping them up in the Speeder now!

Danny: Ha ha ha ha of course! Excuse me! *walking away pretending to be tapping a contact on his phone* shit shit shit. What do I do???

Damian appearing from the shadows: You told falsehoods.

Danny: Agh!

Damian: ....

Danny: Mr. Wayne Al Ghul! I-ugh- hello! I mean, good afternoon, sir. I ugh-

Damian: Silence

Danny: Yes sir.

Damian: I heard everything, and while I normally find lies distasteful, I find your parents endearing. It could benefit my family. I shall give you aid in your facade.

Danny: What?

Damain: My father recently had surgery on his right hip- a accident on our extreme skiing trip- and refuses to listen to our family doctor. He will not get the proper bed rest he's been ordered, but he would if you acted like his very upset husband with visting in-laws.

Danny: I- Mr. Wayne would never agree to that.

Damian: You seem to believe Father has a choice.

Danny: I-

Damian: I messaged Richard about the plan. He's gathering my siblings' support as we speak. When you arrive after dinner with your family, Father will have no time to deny anything. We shall trap him in social expectations. By the way, you are Timothy's safe queer adult who was there for him in the early years of his self-discovery journey and now he wants to help you. Its how we guilt trip father.

Danny: I can't lie to Bruce Wayne like that!

Damian: It's too late. Timothy already made a shirt of your face with the words "My Gay Yoda" on it. Your path has been chosen.

Danny: What-

Jack: Danny? Who's this?

Damian holding out his arms for a hug: Grandfather, I am Damian, Father's and Dad's youngest.

Jack: Damian! Its so nice to met you. Call me Gran-papa! *crushes him in a bear hug*

Damian in the most monotone voice ever: Gran-papa, I can not feel my arms.

Maddie: Aren't you just the cutest! Danny used to say the same thing at your age whenever his dad hugged him. I'm your Gran-mama, by the way! JAZZ COME MEET THE BABY!

Danny in a horrified whisper: Did my boss trap me in my own web of lies?

[shamebats]

Most people who say they want a "village" really want socialism/a social welfare state, but they're Americans so they can't just say that.

[shamebats]

The #1 defining characteristic of a village is that everyone's always up in each other's personal business and your ability to get your needs met depends on your interpersonal relationships and your reputation. Your ability to conform to the rules and expectations the village has set for you.

That means that if the village says you shouldn't get pregnant when you don't have a man to provide for you and you get pregnant regardless, they can refuse to support you. They can reject and stigmatize your child.

When you make a decision—any decision—from what you wear and who you associate with to who you will be romantically involved with and what that will look like, to your education and career, family planning and whether you will leave your partner if they abuse you—the village has a say in all of it.

A proper social state, however, decides which services to provide, how much to fund them etc, there are still cultural biases there, but it won't tell you how to live your life. If all university programs are free, you can go study liberal arts instead of law, your parents can't stop you, and if the state provides a stipend, free housing and free meals while you study and also takes care of your basic needs afterwards, you have the ultimate freedom to do whatever the fuck you want to do with your life.

Want to have 8 children and a trad lifestyle in the countryside? Cool, they'll have healthcare, schooling, meals, competent teachers, after-school activities, public transit, public parks and activities—all for free. And none of that will be dependent on how many people around you like you and your kids personally and what they think of your lifestyle.

You want to be aggressively transgender and live in the city with your 8 person polycule and spend your days doing art and running a café that only does matcha? You can do that too. You'll get free housing for all of you and the business space provided for you, even if everyone in your neighborhood thinks you're weird.

The bureaucrats handing out the collective resources ideally shouldn't give a shit what you do with them.

When I applied for uni and chose a liberal arts degree instead of STEM, nobody told me "yeah no sorry we don't approve of that, you'll have to do something we think is useful or pay for it yourself". I got a free education plus a stipend, subsidized housing and food and everything else.

Unless you want a community of people who get to have a say in everything you do, you don't want a village. Socialism or perhaps communism might cause less despair maybe?

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[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

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[gunsandfireandshit]

COME THE FUCK ON!

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[nuttynutcycle]

Prompt 441

The crowd tittered in front of City Hall. By the time the hero arrived, they were too late to stop the dozens of news cameras focused on the new addition to the building.

"Oh geez," the hero groaned, dragging a hand across their face. "Not again!"

It took exactly one week for the cleaners to remove the very large, somewhat artistic, and extremely explicit graffiti mural of the hero and the villain.

[homunculus-argument]

Squatters' rights apply to grandmas. If someone's not visiting and looking after their grandma, but you will, after a set amount of time once you've settled in, that's your grandma now.

[shoutingtothevoidtilldeath]

Someone tried to do that with my grandma once. The guy tried to become her kid so they could inherit the house and money.

My grandma people pleases in a way where she lies all the time, so it was really hard to figure out whether or not she wanted to be in that situation, but after she was started to disown my mom (who would travel a couple hours every week to see her) we started fighting the guy. We’re now in a legal battle because he’s been using some sort of squatter’s/tenet’s rights to keep her house, and has had access to the grandma credit card(cuz she just let him borrow it). And my people pleasing grandma is now staying with us, and says she seething hates the guy.

[homunculus-argument]

Idk who needs to hear this, but this is your reminder to go clear out unwanted squatters from your grandma.

[darkmodepls]

Amity's location shifts all across the Midwest. The one time Vlad convinced the town to exist in Wisconsin he gloated so hard that it immediately relocated to western Kansas.

[moss-covered-thoughts]

Now that's a hilarious prompt

[escuerzoresucitado]

[churlsgonewild]

[viktor-sbor]

A combination of barrier mesh animation and anamorphic projection on elegant porcelain.

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[alkallier]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH FOLKS!!!