Without fear of their return.

Stateside fangirl who is arguably too old for this shit. Likes video games, animation, werewolves, and writing in third person.

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

Let Supergirl yeet a man into the sun! (Spoilers for Supergirl)

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[bowlifecomics]

It makes me happy when they listen

[cheap-pink-mints]

[bowlifecomics]

YES. YES YES YES THANK YOU

[annabelle--cane]

"this is an inaccurate adaptation" okay but is it good "this didn't happen in the book" does it make sense in the context of the new work though "they totally changed the plot" and is the new one good or bad "it's completely different" not what I asked "they changed all the stuff I like" then I get why you wouldn't be into it but I'm asking about its own artistic merits "this character is meant to be blonde" I couldn't give less of a fuck

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

She right

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

@free-range-tiddies

[swordy-da-goat]

#artists

[swordy-da-goat]

Edited for all my writer friends out there

[seltja]

Oh? VOGUE?

[rhymewithrachel]

Happy pride month to the bisexuals

[victusinveritas]

[frasohei]

[anaphoraholic]

found this on reddit thought id post it here too 👍

[silyaspider]

I think this explains a lot of trans discourse on here, too. Well, a lot of queer culture generally. Realizing you’re personally trans doesn’t mean all the dumb gender stuff you were raised with goes “poof” and vanishes from your mind. Until you put in the work, you’ve still got all the old crap in there, it just has a big “but trans!” sticker slapped on it.

[saintjosie]

i need white people to understand that the reason that we are here in nazi america today is because many of you cannot comprehend liberation for all because of your distaste for some.

the lack of actively dismantling your anti-blackness means that you are passively participating in white supremecy.

[thirstkanaphan]

[northernolddragon]

[thethirdromana]

The worst types of cookbook:

The Ottolenghi - it is vital that you use 1g of this very expensive ingredient. It comes from a 500g bag with a one-week shelf life.

The time machine - 15-minute recipe! First, leave to marinate overnight...

The dishwasher - one-pot recipe! Now decant your ingredients and wipe out your pot. And again. And again. And again.

The optimist - cook the onions until caramelised (2 minutes).

The kindergarten teacher - get one nommable little tree of broccoli and bosh that into boiling water. Delish!

The brand names only - ingredients: Ritz crackers, Philadelphia cheese, Cool Whip, orange Jell-o...

The 1950s palate - use one (1) clove of garlic and a small pinch of chili flakes (omit if preferred).

The why bother with a cookbook - to make beans on toast, gently heat a tin of beans and put on top of freshly buttered toast.

[yorgen-sh]

[shamebats]

[asingularcanadian]

You are not safe from this. You, the person reading this, are not safe from this. No matter how educated or open minded you think you are, you are not safe from this. The moment you think you are safe from it is the moment you become the most susceptible.

Its similar to why you cannot put bad people in a class of their own. The moment you do that you stop being able to see the bad things that the people closest to you do a la "my best friend couldn't have said that racist thing, they're not evil."

The moment you think you are immune from this type of backslide into right wing nonsense is the moment you stop questioning yourself enough to keep yourself from backsliding into right wing nonsense a la "I mean im not antiscience, im vaccinated, I just think that fluoride in our water supply is imparting children's ability to learn as fast as they otherwise could without it."

Remember, being progressive means progressing, its about always moving forward. The moment you rest on your laurels and stop putting in effort to keep the progression is the moment you start becoming left behind.

[thestuckylibrary]

#I'm a millenial and I have caught myself saying things#it can and will happen to you#the trick is to notice#the trick it to keep being curious#the trick is to resist calcifying your brain#keep thinking and keep moving#nothing made by humans is perfect#we can always improve#that perfect plan you thought would fix it all when you were 20#will age like everything else#and the goalposts do move because there will always be bad actors#reinventing all the old evils so they look new and harmless again

[three--rings]

If you will allow a 46 year old a moment. The trick, ime, is to continue to spend time around young people, continue seeking out and experiencing new things.

It's really easy to stop paying attention and suddenly find yourself surprised and confused by new things, new ways of things, what the kids these days are up to. And it's pretty human to react by saying "oh well, that's stupid, I hate these kids, things were fine the way we did them." And that's sorta the first step. That first kneejerk "I don't understand this and therefore feel negative about it."

But spending time around younger people, spending time online with people younger than you, people in different communities, it's a vaccination against that.

(Also I've seen so many people people fall down the crunchy granola to conspiracy theory to antivax pipeline. BEWARE.)

[chickdoop-deactivated20251214]

I think another really important thing is to learn to accept being in a degree of discomfort. Often people fall into this stuff for the feeling of predictability and comfort it gives them, which is also why they can be so incredibly difficult to reason out of it. They don't really care about the issue as much as it simply validates their sense of superiority and makes them feel comfortable in general.

The secondary useful thing is to learn to research and assess data, this stuff thrives on kneejerk reactions. Does an article make you angry, is a person listed as being xyz without saying what the actual issue is? Check. Confirm it. Try to understand the u familiar in more detail and ask people who are experts in the subject with lived experience to help you if needed. Be immune to clickbait even if it is designed to affirm your anger. This emotional reaction is often targeted algorithmically to up engagement and polarise arguments.

You can absolutely still be angry and still have beliefs to fight for. That is important and valuable because anger informs justice. But it needs to be backed up by accurate info or you risk fruitlessly expending your energy on simply doing the media's work for them.

I do agree that spending time with younger people is wise. I read as quite childlike myself and I also don't have the supposed bad experience with Gen Z that get constantly thrown about, they are mostly much nicer than the boomers and better informed. I would say this is also important the other way around.

But this is just one example of not getting polarised by groups, people get radicalised and dehumanise others when they get marooned in one demographic. They also are typically happier because being scared and hateful towards others is not typically a pleasant state of mind. This also means if it is safe we might need to occasionally interact with people who make us annoyed or a bit uncomfortable for this reciprocity to happen, but that is much safer as part of a varied community as that will dilute the ability of that person to cause harm.

I think part of the problem is when these varied communities get fragmented as people become alienated...this is in a way better in terms of class now, but much worse in terms of wealth, power and inequity unevenly distributed as it separates people from the reality of other people's lives. If you are a politician or financier with no idea of how your decisions will really impact others you are going to be innately radicalised and siloed in a very harmful way. And with nothing to balance or correct it.

[prokopetz]

The author's poorly disguised fetish

The author's proudly displayed fetish

The author's fetish you're pretty sure they don't realise they have

The author's fetish which they're firmly convinced everyone has and is just pretending otherwise

The author's non-sexual special interest which just sounds like a fetish because of their habitually unfortunate phrasing

The fetish the author is making a well-meaning effort to cater to in spite of clearly not understanding it themselves

The author's fetish that never quite makes it into the text because they keep getting sidetracked by the requisite worldbuilding

The author's utterly pedestrian sexual preference which the text treats like a bizarre fetish because they've got shit to work through

The author's seemingly innocuous recurring trope they're going to have a personal revelation about ten years down the road

The author's fetish you missed on a first reading because it's so far out of pocket, it never occurred to you that you could sexualise that

[toastyglow]

Really pleased with this month's Patreon Requests! Got really excited about inking as you can see

[darkmanifest]

Goddamn, "Leviticus" was a good fucking movie. I see some people saying they enjoyed it but it wasn't long enough, didn't expand on enough details, didn't explain enough, etc., but no, I disagree, the narrative was tight, it did everything it needed to do point for point and didn't linger on the irrelevant. Every little detail that I thought was insignificant or would be forgotten about was brought to the forefront again when it needed to be, any questions I had were answered the more I thought about what was said or suggested right in front of me without trying to overexplain itself, and the ending absolutely made the film for me. It took the allegory behind the horror and made it mean something powerful and bittersweet but still hopeful.

I haven't felt this delighted coming out of the cinema since "Sinners". I would compare the two as both being incredible at using supernatural monstrosity to explore systemic prejudice. But aside from that, I feel spoiled at having both of those excellent experiences in the theater.

I don't own any Bluray films at the moment, but I need to start buying some.