What is the most important step a man can take?

she/they || 30 || @shepard-approves for video games

[ink-ami]

Time go fishing made me go from "wow this movie is so great" to "this is my favorite movie ever" twice, and now i bought the book in english.

[comradekatara]

thoughts on what toph knew of other nations and their bending styles, or how she would've adjusted her ideas on the gaang as she learned? ex i've wondered what assumptions she had about how katara learned waterbending. i don't see toph's parents caring to have her learn much about the war, let alone the fire nation's raids on the SWT. so when she was first getting to know katara, she had no clue how much she fought to learn. ofc we know that she initially saw sokka as deadweight for being a nonbender lol- but that holds much more weight if she knew that the SWT was almost entirely nonbenders

YES I have so many thoughts on this actually. something I neglected to discuss in my post last night is that toph is incredibly sheltered, and she knows it, and she resents it. she and katara were brought up in diametrically opposed ways, and their respective worldviews as informed by that is the basis for their clash in “the chase.” toph grows and learns a lot over the course of the show, far more than people give her credit for, beyond merely advancing her earthbending. before meeting aang, katara, and sokka, she had never met an air nomad (obviously) or anyone from the water tribes before, and not only that, but she almost certainly had very limited information regarding their cultures and histories. while she is knowledgeable regarding earth kingdom history, politics, and culture, it’s unclear whether her education extended to studying the fire nation beyond merely its impacts on the earth kingdom, but her tutors almost definitely did not educate her about the water and air peoples. and coming from immense privilege, it’s also clear she lacks the emotional context to understand the gravity of the genocides her friends (barely) survived. she is far better able to immediately empathize with zuko than with katara or aang, as someone who was also raised in an abusive noble household.

she probably has no idea what katara had to go through to learn waterbending, and while she may logically appreciate that aang is the last airbender, acknowledging the emotional reality of what that means is difficult for a child who has never been a victim of genocide (as illustrated by how many fans of the show don’t seem to understand aang, the protagonist, at all). but, crucially, the more she grows to know them, she does adjust and expand her views. she goes from dismissing sokka due to his lack of bending to trusting him entirely, loving him enough to open up to him & let him support her, following his command without hesitation. she grows to acknowledge that the differences between katara & herself are not insurmountable, accepts it, lets herself love her. she grows to believe in aang as the avatar, as someone who must end the war, beyond merely seeing him as an opportunity to escape her stifling home. she had no personal stake in ending the war when the show began, but by the end of it, she is willing to risk her life to fight alongside her friends to liberate the peoples of the world she once knew nothing about, whose struggles she had once dismissed out of ignorance from her luxurious shelter. the beifongs are wealthy and insulated enough to be able to afford to view the war as current events, occurring elsewhere, far away from anywhere that could breach their mansion. but toph is not satisfied with simply being a beifong; she is not her parents’ complacent doll whose only understanding of the world lies within the walls of her family estate. she refuses to be.

[luckthebard]

There is a part of me that thinks there’s a possible fascinating opening for Bolaire as a character to explore the idea of like. How much are you willing to tolerate or endorse someone whose autonomy requires the destruction of another person’s autonomy? Where do we draw the line of competing needs if one individual’s need causes ongoing harm to a series of people? Do you trust anyone to only perpetuate that harm against “bad” people? Who gets to decide what is morally “bad”?

But I’m also still not convinced the narrative is interested in exploring this deeply and not just sitting in “yeah he takes people’s bodies and imprisons their minds but don’t think about it too hard”.

[blonsh]

Project Hail Mary - Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[valtsv]

i don't even gaf about shipping discourse because i'm a big boy and a bad person for other worse reasons but if i can be real for a moment "proship DNI" in bio means nothing to me. if you want to keep me out you're going to need to line your blog with salt and iron or rat poison or something.

[valtsv]

actually if i were to be less flippant and more brutally honest with you all my disdain for it stems from how much of it is just a thinly veiled excuse for people to fight about their fictional relationship preferences or simply for the sake of arguing without any investment in the reality of what they're claiming to represent and then take pride in their empty, performative activism. i still recommend the rat poison though.

[valtsv]

girl help they are calling me a pedophile sympathiser in the notes for trying to point out that being disgusted by something is not the same as meaningfully working to prevent and safeguard against it by critically engaging with the complex reality of it. can i please just have the rat poison.

[finnglas]

when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.

[finnglas]

I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.

[finnglas]

oh no is this what we’re doing now

[finnglas]

…relic…

*crumbles and blows away on the wind*

[inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy]

hate how I will have a very simple thing (tagging flashing lights is a bare minimum of accessibility) and people crawl outta the fuckin woodworks to tell me how stupid that is like bro

[inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy]

Banging my head against a wall literally you’re correct and it is blatantly ableist to say otherwise

[morning-stars-avenue]

[Image ID: Two Tumblr hashtags which read "like hey guys. people can die from that." and "it isnt stupid people can fucking DIE if you dont tag for it". /End ID]

[inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy]

reblog this version please

[inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy]

Tags: please remember epileptics like me. Seizures can kill people at any point and not just from injuries they cause. Literally it’s called sudden unexpected death by epilepsy. additional tag: disability awareness

[your-turn-to-role]

seekers (the only group that didn't know) + reactions to hearing wick's family has a celestial in the basement

[stargirl-and-potts]

@child-of-flame-and-sky It was eight times!

In the book it’s even more—I count thirteen, including three times for joy. He’s so deadpan but so tenderhearted. It’s one of my favorite things about him.

[wutheringheightsfilm]

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

[wutheringheightsfilm]

i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post

[nourishedbytime]

[scarlct-vvitch]

one day grace hurts his right hand somehow and he's all upset bc he's like gosh dang it now i have to do everything left-handed. and rocky's like ?????still have other hand?? and grace explains the idea of dominant hands and rocky is like. you only have two hands. the FUCK do you mean only one of them can do anything

[scarlct-vvitch]

project hail mary is insane bc the first half is like oh my god the world is dying and there's alien bacteria eating the sun and there's some guy alone on a ship and he's having a breakdown and the flashbacks are getting darker and this is a tragedy the likes of which i have never seen. then BAM andy weir says fuck you actually. here's this pokemon guy he's here to save the day with the power of friendship. and it's the best thing you've ever seen in your life

[scarlct-vvitch]

guys. guys this is at like 7k notes and it's been one day. are you okay

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[transfaguette]

when you’re a little girl boys will say “so if boys and girls are equal that means I get to hit you right?”

and then you grow up to be a trans man and people will say to you “oh i thought you wanted to be a man, that means you have to put up with [abusive behavior]”

and they will tell you these 2 things do not stem from the same desires of gendered punishment and control

[anotherevilenby]

I do think it's an interesting case of how transandrophobia and exorsexism operate along similar lines that trans men are not allowed to have complicated relationships to lesbianism "because they're men/because they're not women" but non-binary people in relationships with women are regularly labeled as sapphic without their input (or in the case of fictional characters, without regard for other possible interpretations). Both of these instances are fundamentally the erasure of trans people's right to self-identify, both of them are done to police sapphic spaces for the benefit of others. The difference lies in the method, the trans man lesbian is forced out of their community, while the non-binary person is forced to have their identities be made more palatable for the benefit of a community they may not even feel they belong to.

[cock-holliday]

I'd add that another portion of nonbinary population in relationships with women are considered straight without their input and barred from lesbian labels and spaces on a different but also overlapping situation with trans men.

A post ranting about "bearded girlboys" "taking over" went on a long tangent that clearly demonstrated they were talking about transmascs and assumed anyone who used this label or could be dumped into the label was transmasc nonbinary, as if the rest of us didn't exist or didn't operate under those same metrics.

There is definitely a substantial portion of nonbinary people assumed to have proximity to womanhood whether they do or not, but then those of us who are assumed to overlap with men are forgotten about entirely--while being treated like the trans men who are "too close" to maleness.

We are unfortunately seeing a lot of transphobic behavior meant to hit trans men that hits a wide spectrum of nonbinary people, and while it would be disturbing enough to warrant support for trans men, it should also be seen as a WILDLY large overlap in our shared experiences.

[bidoof]

Change.org - Petition To Hire 1,000,000 People To Put Their Fingers In The Shoot Hole Of Peoples’ Guns So They Can’t Shoot Them

[mycatisnamedfrank]

It’s still gonna shoot… And they’re gonna lose a finger

[bidoof]

No. The finger blocks the bullet. We can do this

[domozillla-deactivated20181216]

This is a gun we’re talking about. The projectile is fired using an explosion, not by compressed air of a toy gun or the elastic forces of a sling shot. People would be lucky if they only lost their finger.

[bidoof]

The finger blocks it

[dildomuncher3000]

The finger won’t block it - the shaft is only there for keeping the bullet straight, all the propulsion happens behind the bullet. The bullet would rip through the finger, not that many would actually fit without the victim being a child, and beyond.

[bidoof]

The bullet would go forward a little and then hit the finger and stop it’s not that hard to understand

[fifty-percent-possessed-deactiv]

People are going to lose their hands. Go watch Mythbusters. They did an episode on this, the hand fucking exploded.

[hungwy]

No, the bullet would start to go but stop at the finger. Thats basic physics. Also hands dont explode normally they did something wrong.

[blipblerp]

Why the dingleknockers would you even consider sticking your finger in the barrel of a loaded gun?? the amount of force propelling the bullet at that close of range would shatter the finger at the very least; this is a petition for 1,000,000 people to loose the use of their hands. If a bullet explodes the back of a persons skull when they shoot it in their mouth it sure as hell will explode a finger.

[gorps]

No the finger would stop it

[joryboi]

I’m loving the idiocy of this post.

Ppl with brains: ummm finger go boom…

Others: no bullet stop. U no kno fisics >:V

[foulserpent]

no the finger would stop it

[indianworiorprincess-blog]

You guy who think the bullet would stop at the finger have never shot a gun and can volunteer to it their fingers in the barrel of my 9 mil and I’ll I’ll the trigger and see if it will stop the bullet. Dumdasses

[foulserpent]

the finger would stop it

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 28th of december, 2015.

[petalsbleedingbeak]

These fuckwits are back again? How’s it going, Nine Finger Nasty? About to turn into an Eight Finger Egghead?

@meatswitch @raptorific this is a US based site. US Americans are known for two things- obsession with guns and incredible stupidity. Had this been anyone else, I’d say they’re trying to fuck with us. But with US Americans, about 70% of them are dead serious about mangling their hands trying to stop a bullet.

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

I’ve had four years to think about it and now I think the finger would stop it

[gorps]

I just tested it with my buddy. It stops the bullet

[several-large-churros]

….Mythbusters WELDED A METAL SPIKE into the barrel of a gun to obstruct it, something heaps stronger than a human finger (and sealed the barrel better with the filler metal used to fuse the metal spike into place and prevent the explosive gases from escaping) but even that didn’t stop the bullet from doing damage.

[gorps]

It’s because they didn’t use a finger like I did