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Heyo ✨ i’m Ollie! (he/they)

mushroom guy trying to get by 🍄🐌 i use tumblr very inconsistently

transsexual, nonbinary, audhd 🤙

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Oil on Canvas

it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao

kidzbopdeathgrips

like so much of Everything today is premised on the idea that the earth-shattering catastrophe which happened within living memory of everyone older than a third grader has had no meaningful material or psychological effects on the general public and i don't think that's good, lol.

"(some of) the top-line economic indicators (sorta) recovered (in most places) so everything is fine and we don't need to talk about it" is not a sustainable framework for interfacing with reality

kidzbopdeathgrips

"why is everyone so angry and paranoid now?" "why is politics so dysfunctional now?" "why is [x] [y] and [z] now? blah blah blah"

2020:

irisbleufic

Friendly reminder that Good Omens, the novel, was written by two people. The Terry Pratchett erasure since S1 of the show came out in 2019 has been a bit much to bear. If you read his solo work and then compare it to the text of GO, it’s not hard to see that the bulk of the writing style is his. He was the senior writer on the project in more ways than one.

Please consider reading the book (if you haven’t already) and love it on his account. His memory deserves to be honored. There is no reason to stop loving GO when its original iteration was written by one of the best, most-loved genre writers the world has ever seen 💙

indecisiveavocado

I hadn't actually read much of either writer when I first read Good Omens. Just bits. Norse Mythology, I think, some bits of his book Trigger Warning, for Gaiman. I'd tried to read some of pratchett's work--equal rites, I think--but found that the lack of chapters was annoying.

But as I read it, the lines--and especially the good ones--kept striking me as distinctly pratchett-y. the overall format, too--long chapters with lots of little section breaks. the asides.

if you don't want to give money to neil gaiman, there's a pdf (weirdly formatted in a way that suggests it was converted from epub or something but WHATEVER) here.

#im finally reading some discworld and it's so starkly clear to me how much of good omens came from pratchett

wtf people are rly still getting excited over good omens?

#guys please get it into ur heads.... the media u consume matters #if u care more about ur shows than whether the creators hurt people #pls unfollow me #and block me too so i don't have to follow u #this goes for harry potter fans especially #to clarify im talking about the tv show. see above post

cursmudgeon

Maybe being good at social media should not be the main qualifier for all creative work

cursmudgeon

Seeing the notes on this talk about all the other careers that I hadn't even considered being affected by this is just depressing. What do you mean you need to be Instagram famous to have a career as a hairdresser?

#yeah #ur telling me i have to be chronically online as part of my job?????

arctic-0-cean

Alexandria. 126 BC

Barty in the form of a lapwing. This bird is called rechit in ancient Egyptian.

#ahhhhhh bart art on my dash... and it has a bird....#bartimaeus

firstgrave

people celebrating the florida law allowing the death penalty for sexual assault have me so sick rn. like you guys really do not think deeper into an issue at all. not only is the law specifically designed to target trans communities, but it does literally nothing but increase the risk for victims of sexual assault. soooo many children already do not come forward about abuse because they feel guilty about getting their abuser in trouble (and the abuser will specifically guilt them into silence by discussing the potential punishments they may face), which will only get significantly worse if death is on the table. it also means families will be more inclined to handle incidences of abuse “in house,” because they also do not want to have the perpetrator, who is also likely a family member or close friend, killed based on an accusation. plus it just provides greater incentive for the perpetrator to kill their victim in order to prevent anyone from testifying against them. giving the government increased power to kill its citizens without consequence is not and has never been the solution. please utilize your critical thinking skills

firstgrave

and people going “oh dw the Supreme Court has already ruled you can’t use the death penalty in cases of sexual assault” I promise you that is not a solid or reliable argument whatsoever

firstgrave

a lot of tags mentioning that this will also specifically impact Black men which is sooo important to mention because the Supreme Court has already previously acknowledged that the racial disparity in who is sentenced to death and who isn’t and they have ruled that it is “inevitable” that there be racial bias in these decisions but that statistical discrimination is not enough to overturn these sentences. the government knows, wants, and intends for these rules to apply specifically to Black communities, it is not accidental

nielution

Subjective desire to see abusers burn is not what’s relevant here.

Ask yourself— do I want the state to have the power to kill people? Do I trust the state with that kind of power? Can any governmental authority with the power to kill its citizens be trusted?