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[james-spooky]

i hate what podcast has become synonymous with because please i’m not listening to alpha male gym bros deny climate change i’m listening to my gay blorbos go through the horrors there’s a big difference

[eeriedragone]

Who told him about them

[d1sc0-1nfern0]

Hello Jon, Apologies for the Confection.

[sizzypheanloop]

You think the horror of this episode was the whole alchemist mutare materia bit? No no no, it was Gwen getting bounced around government helplines searchling for guidance.

[james-spooky]

grab your shirts everybody WE MADE IT!!!!!!!

[threedollarsdotcom]

dont talk to me or my clone or my shadow self or my reflection or my me ever again

[evidently-endless]

being offered ai at every turn

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

all these fellas out here looksmaxxing but they need to be booksmaxxing.

[rabbitkinglune777]

when I see people reference or trace my art I get rly happy

I know most artists see this as unnecessary evil but I think it's extremely charming that people take what I make and use it as a source of inspiration

[the-haiku-bot]

when I see people

reference or trace my art

I get rly happy

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[yossyislandd]

racism literally bleeds through the cracks of everything and if you dare to even barely point it out everyone will kill you

[yossyislandd]

racism runs so deeply in people that if you call it out you are calling out them, and instead of sitting down and examining their own racism they lash out at you for being sooo meansies to them. you don't even have to be talking about anyone's racist behavior in particular because it makes racists so uncomfortable they will come forward themselves and act like you're targeting them specifically. it's okay when they do it because they're doing it in the correct way, in the nice way! they don't mean it like that. in fact they're actually being progressive. you're the cruel one for acting like their racist behavior is racist. you're the problem if you're bothered by their comfort racism. you're the bitchy colored person who makes eeeverything about racism when it so clearly isn't. i'm fucking sick of this.

[vcoolestlol]

Indonesia angst? Indonesia angst.

Okay context: This is based off of my “fun” headcanon that back in the colonial era, Ned used to obsess wayyyyy too much over how Indonesia looked (it’s the “precious jewel” analogy except I made it wayyyy more angsty because YALL AREN’T MAKING THEM TOXIC ENOUGH), so he was always kept under strict protection and was always told to never get himself hurt or dirty because “it’d be a shame” if he did.

These two drawings were supposed to represent Indonesia before and after independence. Everyone else sees him losing his innocence and his appeal, while Indonesia just sees a version of himself that made him feel trapped that he needed to destroy in order to be the free nation he wanted to be.

[nobodysdaydreams]

One thing I haven’t seen talked about a lot is one of the most symbolic twists of the new knives out movie being that Monsignor Wicks was the “harlot whore” everyone had been fearing all along.

This is according to Wick’s own standards for why his mother was a “harlot whore”: he A) had a child out of wedlock who grows up with at least one absent parent and B) had a love of power and material possessions that lead him to scheming to get his grandfather’s jewel back so he could be rich. He also removes all symbols of Christ from the church because he claims it's more important to remember the "harlot whore" he had for a mother, and Father Jud even tells Blanc in frustration that none of Wicks' homilies are about Christ at all, but about Wicks himself.

And the key telling point is that it was never the removal or death of Wicks' mother that brought Christ back to the church: it was Wicks’ own removal. He was the "harlot whore" that was keeping everyone from Christ. Not just in the literal sense, but spiritual as well. Though the literal is beautiful too: Father Jud brought back the symbols of Christ and renamed the church “Our Lady of Perpetual Grace” (meaning mercy and love), and literally named it after her. There is only one member of the Wicks family whose name is on the church it’s not Prentice, or Monsignor Wicks, or Cy. Because the church was never about what any of them wanted. It's about the grace that Christ offers.

[astrotheyge]

"The hearts of men are easily corrupted." Wake Up Dead Man (2025) & Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Bonus for @mykingdomforasong:

[firawren]

I love how former Star Wars director Rian Johnson showcased both the light and dark sides of a religion in Wake Up Dead Man. This is expressed both visually in how the cinematography plays with light and has it shift dramatically in a number of key scenes, but most importantly, it's expressed thematically in how the film condemns the corrupting and harmful aspects of Christianity at the same time that it celebrates the core tenet of grace that Christianity is built on.

The theme of grace is most glaring in the character Grace, of course, who was never shown grace in her life by her family or church, and then is finally given it at the end by her condemner Martha. But I like the smaller graces shown throughout the film too, like Jud taking time to console Louise on the phone, showing her that loving grace when he started out so impatient with her. That was one of the best parts of the whole film.

And I like how even the non-religious character Benoit Blanc gives grace. He's willing to humble himself and pretend he can't solve the case all so that Martha can give her confession in the way that's important to her as a woman of faith, even though he doesn't have any faith of his own. He sacrifices his pride for her, even though she's a murderer and doesn't deserve it. Because that's what grace is about, showing love even when it's not deserved. Choosing kindness over justice. It was beautiful.

So even though Jud, with his dark hair in his black priest garb, and Blanc, with his light hair in his light suit whose name literally means "white," are set up as opposing sides, even at the very end, still opposed in their beliefs, neither one swayed in their faith or loyalty to their side, they are shown as unified in their core values and who they are as kind people. They respect each other and complement each other and make each other stronger. Again, such a beautiful balance and beautiful message on how we can love and work together with people who may seem very different from us.

[redhairandpronouns]

yall are so fucking weird about gnc people. a woman wears a suit and she's "conforming to the patriarchy". a man wears a skirt and he's Secretly A Trans Egg. have you considered It's Fabric

[vinterfeminism]

You would not believe the things I have heard as a transfem butch.

[dumbdogdiscourse]

I once said something along the lines of "why does everyone assume that every gnc cis man is an egg" and was harassed for it and sarcastically told that obviously the treatment of cis men should be our biggest concern and that I didn't know anything about egg culture (I do). You do realize that gnc people are queer too, right? You realize I can concern myself with "smaller" problems, because I love gnc people and am concerned about their well-being? You realize that telling people they must be trans because of their presentation is just as bad as telling someone must be cis for the same reasons?

I'm never going to shut up about how shitty the queer community treats gender non-conforming people, especially gender non-conforming men.

[redhairandpronouns]

also the treatment of gnc cis men tells me a lot about how you'd treat gnc trans men. like, you think that if a man likes feminine clothing he's secretly a woman? do you know how many people have told me i'm not "actually trans" because i like feminine clothing? stop reinforcing gender norms i am Begging

[kayla-denker]

Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

[kayla-denker]

I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

[kayla-denker]

Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.

[askanordic]

If each of you were to choose one task from any season Taskmaster, which would you want to do?