Black. Lives. Matter.

Artist, musician, writer, scholar. Also, Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2006. Twitter/IG: DarthIndomitus Snap: thedavidvallejo

[knightofleo]

[herpsandbirds]

Common eider

[phynoma]

This needs to be immortalized because it's what made me turn on the sound. And they were right

[yaoipussy]

I'm gonna be real with you, i don't think weirdo kinksters should be considered acceptable collateral damage when banks/credit card companies enforce adult content bans on sites like patreon and ko-fi

[yaoipussy]

"sure it's just the weirdo fetishists getting hit now but soon they'll try to censor normal queer people!!!" you should care about the fact the 'weirdo fetishists' also lost their livelihoods too

[yaoipussy]

this post is already doing numbers so idc if you reblog this addition or not, but this was specifically in reference to fansly cracking down on specific fetish creators, starting with slightly niche areas like hypno and ageplay under bullshit claims over "dubious consent" (in and of itself, a kink umbrella), as well as public/exhibition kinks with stringent privacy rules (ie; must be in a backyard that is properly fenced off and hidden from view of others). I've seen these changes 'justified' and even brushed off by some larger creators in that space, or moralized as 'oh fansly doesn't like making these changes either, it just wants to stay in mastercard/visa's good graces :( don't be mad guys'

It wasn't until fansly wholesale banned furry nsfw of any kind, including anthro, with the reasoning being that it's "simulated bestiality" that it received heavier backlash.

banning kink art, even kinks you find repugnant, isn't a "stepping stone" towards censorship. it's censorship straight up.

[supersumc]

Reblogging this after Steam was forced to ban many of the adult games on the platform after Collective Shout sicced the payment processors on Valve.

"Slippery Slope" is almost never a fallacy.

[niyarest]

[boccher]

you'd think "nudity on its own is not taboo in many cultures of the world" is essential trivia that everyone encounters by the age of ten, which informs people how taboos are non-rigid social constructs. but no, every day you will meet people containing a lifetime of informed opinions and moral frameworks, whose world views would be shattered by telling them "nudity on its own is not taboo in many cultures of the world"

[superdillin]

Everytime one of these "protect women and girls" orgs go viral for doing something evil I like to take a look through their "wins" and see if they've ever helped protect even one single living woman or girl.

Collective Shout has:

Gotten a hotel to cancel a legal-aged porn star's reservation

Gotten a venue to cancel a Playboy Bunny themed party - again, attended by only adults

Pressured the Breast Cancer Foundation to pull ads that they found too sexy

got ads for a sex doll company removed because they felt the dolls resembled children

Got a beer coozy that had pinups of adult women printed on them discontinued.

Got an H&M ad pulled for back to school clothes for saying "Turn Heads"

Got Tyler the Creator banned from performing in New Zealand

I'm still scrolling and I have yet to see a single instance of a real, living woman or girl being protected by any one of their actions. They have on multiple occasions punished real, adult women for the audacity to be naked in some capacity they find distasteful.

Adding to this that they have lobbied to get a real pedophile released AND supported Cuties, which objectified and exploited real living children.

My main point is not that you have to love any of the things above, you can even hate them and wish they didn't exist. but they were able to dismantle the entire games industry and set a dark precedent regarding banks deciding who is morally good enough to spend money - and they aren't even helping any real women or girls in the process.

[psychotic-gerard]

me, every single time i see people (especially women) talking about the divine feminine energy, or the sacredness of the womb or whatever it is now:

[image description: a two-panel photo of a person dialling a number and then placing the phone to their ear. the contact is saved as ‘Ursula K. Le Guin’ /end ID]

context is this quote by her:

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #6648:

According to an Indian-American* on this webbed site it's problematic for lightskinned Bollywood actresses to wear sari. She acknowledged they're wearing they're traditional dress but "they're white-passing and it looks like cultural appropriation so they shouldn't do it". Can we please take words like problematic and cultural appropriation away from Americans until they learn what they actually mean?

*Indian as in they're family immigrated from India

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

If you think you have a cool new question for Christianity which is going to tear this shit wide open and prove it's false I promise you some random person already fully addressed the issue six hundred years ago and came up with four arguments for your point and proceeded to debunk them.

[naomisramblings]

[what-even-is-thiss]

So many people who get periods are like “Ugh it sucks that having a menstrual cycle makes you almost die every month” like no that’s not normal you need to go to the doctor

[what-even-is-thiss]

If any of your symptoms go beyond “just like, super annoying ugh whatever” levels you should probably go see a doctor about that

[what-even-is-thiss]

You should not feel so depressed you want to die, you should not be getting mood swings so bad that you become violent, your cramps should not be so bad that you can’t get out of bed, your period should not last more than a week, you should not be losing so much blood that you feel dizzy. Go to the doctor.

[summer-fruits-and-cream]

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)

Endometriosis

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

Uterine Fibroids

(Cleveland Clinic & Mayo Clinic are both pretty good about using gender-neutral language in their articles).

[supersciencegeek]

This goes for all ages. If your periods have always been relatively normal, then suddenly in your 40s or 50s they are Horrible, don't assume it's just perimenopause.

[changelingfangs]

I finally made the meme I've had in my head for over a year

[changelingfangs]

[autisticexpression2]

We need the obnoxious atheists back. I know they engineered their own destruction by being annoying and pretentious, but it has become apparent how essential to the ecosystem they were. The religious fanatics have become too bold without their natural predators. Jesus wojaks would have been torn to shreds in 2011.

[friendlymathematician]

the solution is female obnoxious atheists. the male ones all went obnoxious atheist -> virulent misogyny -> right wing extremist.

[autisticexpression2]

There was no social justice campaign to silence all atheists. That is Christian levels of persecution complex. The anti-theist movement went hard right in 2016 because they hated Islam (and feminism, for some reason) more than they actually cared about the human rights that are violated by religious extremism. They're still doing this shit. Bill Maher praises JK Rowling and Richard Dawkins joined the dogpile on Imane Khelif.

I regret using soft language in my original post. You people engineered your own destruction by being every bit as hateful and close-minded as the fandamentalists you hate.

I encourage you to be as irreverent about religion as you like, but you also have to take responsibility for your community.

[forthegothicheroine]

Remember when Richard Dawkins started making War on Christmas posts, about how secular/Jewish/whatever people were trying to make Holiday Trees and Holiday Vacations? What the fuck was that about.

[headspace-hotel]

We still have a huge supply of people who claim all religion is toxic and then their reasons are things that at most apply to a specific sect of Christianity.

And people that act like atheists are the most oppressed religious minority

And people that say things like "when we eliminate religion..." not realizing that is lowkey a genocidal fantasy (necessitates eliminating cultures)

[takashi0]

"Fundies are annoying and controled the culture so we should be constantly annoying and seize control of culture to be annoying right back! What do you mean Fundamentalism is on the rise again, HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN!?!"

[chirhos]

thinking about how one of the messages of Christianity is not that bad things will not happen, but that bad things are not the last things. of course we will all suffer - even Jesus suffered and died a horrible death on the cross - but that's not how it ends. it ends in victory over sin, over sorrow, over death. Christianity asserts that the way will be difficult, but also that difficulty is not the end

[scleroticstatue]

If it's not okay, it's not the end.

[ruinedchildhood]

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

Literally tho, what is wrong with this??

Take it from someone who had shit teachers until highschool (save for the one who taught me how to read) and thus didn’t understand math till then: teachers who put in extra effort to make the class fun or easier to pay attention to or easier to understand will always be a good thing.

[emmaubler]

God forbid the man have a little fun on Halloween

[weaver-z]

It's really funny to take Spanish with people from different Spanish-speaking countries, because the ones from South American countries are like "Yeah no one uses vosotros, we don't know what it's doing here" and the ones from Europe are like "If you don't give our beloved second-person plural its due respect, the Hounds will find you"

[breadcunt]

Why would they speak spanish in europe

[weaver-z]

Spain.......

[princeofnerds]

[queer-cosette]

I love how tumblr is full of people who aren’t afraid to hang around on the bottom rung of the moron ladder. You make me feel better about every stupid thing I’ve ever done in my life including the time I glued fake moustaches to my eyebrows.

[darthindomitus]

Hi

[syro-malabar-baby]

Guys guys guys, I just saw a post that said something like Catholics do some sort of "mental gymnastics" to justify the Blessed Mother's sinlessness?!!

I didn't know that "God absolved Mary's Original Sin right from the moment of her conception THROUGH the same Salvation of the Cross bought by her Son" was mental gymnastics. I was under the impression that "God is not bound by space and time" was just...common sense. 🤔

[syro-malabar-baby]

Spiritual state of a baby after the Sacrament of Baptism = Spiritual state of Mother Mary at the time of her birth. (I actually confirmed this w/my Spiritual Father just now, y'all it's fine).

We Catholics were all at the same level of the game as the Blessed Mother once. She just made better choices afterwards and stayed ahead. 😗 She isn't a "sinless diety," she is just an extremely smart and holy woman with better instincts, thanks to the Holy Spirit! Like Ven Fulton Sheen once wrote (I'm paraphrasing), "Mary is the example of what happens when a human life goes exactly the way God had planned it - when the Creator's plan is in perfect sync with the Creature's freely made choices."

It bonks me head every time to think that, after each Confession, I come closer to Mary's level yet again, just to be stupid and fall back in the muck. 😭 Mary is just better than us at everything, y'all, the sooner we understand this and seek her help to get closer to her Son the better. 😅

[sandmandaddy69]