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It’s such an annoying white feminist go-to move to say it’s misogyny whenever you’re challenged on bad behavior. “If I were a man…” Yes, double standards are pervasive and something to always be aware of but the goal of feminism shouldn’t be to be able to get away with the worst of what terrible white men can get away with.

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chill lo-fi canary chirps to mine to

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frightening lo-fi canary silence to evacuate the mineshaft to

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tbfh i love when people will headcanon characters as being of their culture and then draw little comics of them participating in traditions that the artist is clearly intimately familiar with. like YESSS share your personal cultural experiences with me through the blorbos!!! i love to see it!!!!!!!

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“It’s not a vampire shark, it’s a were-bard. SIX HUNDRED POUNDS OF HORNY HEATSEEKING DEATH.”

-the rogue, after the dhampir bard gets nibbled on by a shark

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🎃🍉🎃🍬🎃 Happy Summerween! 🎃🍉🎃🍬🎃

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Imagine Derek and stiles having to put a wooden spoon attached to a harness on their kid cause they can slip through the fence and escape. And they’re still getting the hang of their shift so when they turn into a little wolf it’s even easier to slip through so the wooden spoon keeps them from escaping.

I imagine it's not only the fence but the stair balusters (which nearly gave Derek a heart attack when he had to dive across the room to catch their kid).

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I'm in this picture and I don't like it

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what movie do y’all know front to back like it doesn’t even have to necessarily be Good,, it’s just something you’ve seen so many times that the dialogue is printed into the very core of your being

#shrek #unironically #my brother and i used to quote the entire movie when we were bored

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Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan MS MARVEL | 1.01 “Generation Why”

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Ben Styer, “Melody for Walk to the Reservoir”

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THOR: RAGNAROK (2017) dir. Taika Waititi

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A flower dragon.

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There’s a particular attitude I often see on the internet that goes something like “If you aren’t part of a particular marginalized group, then you could never understand their experience, so don’t pretend to relate.” And while obviously you’re never going to relate to every aspect of that identity unless you are also of that identity, I feel like this attitude really diminishes opportunities for finding kinship and bonding in similar experiences even if those experiences aren’t exactly the same and/or are the result of different identities.

For example, I’m white and neurodivergent, and I was talking to a Black neurotypical friend about masking, and how I feel like I have to change the entire way I present myself in order to not be considered weird in public. She responded with “Oh, some of that sounds kind of like code-switching— how I have to switch away from using AAVE in white-dominated settings in order to be accepted.” And then we bonded over how frustrating and ridiculous it is that AAVE and stimming are both considered unacceptable in “professional” settings.

Another time, a straight Jewish friend was telling me about a book she had just finished reading, which was written by a Jewish author and had a Jewish main character. She was saying that it was really nice to read a book written by a Jewish author, because even when gentile authors do their research and write a pretty accurate Jewish character, they never quite feel Jewish— you can always tell the author was a gentile. And I said “Oh that sounds kind of like when I read queer characters written by straight authors— you can always tell the author was straight even if they do their research and get things fairly right. So even though I’m happy when any book features queer characters, it’s really especially nice to read queer characters written by queer authors.” And we bonded over this similar experience, and we were both excited that the other understood even if we were coming to this experience from different angles, and then we swapped book recommendations. This conversation is also a great example of when that internet attitude DOES apply— when someone outside of a particular group is trying to understand that group’s entire experience well enough to accurately write the world as seen through their eyes. They’re never quite going to get it right, and that’s ok! It just means it’s important to also have Own Voices authors writing those types of stories also.

Sometimes it seems like people who have been in internet circles exhibiting this attitude for too long are afraid to ever try to relate to the experiences of anyone in any groups other than their own for fear of causing offense, which is honestly pretty counterproductive. Understanding each other and bonding across groups should be the goal! Relating to each other is not a bad thing!