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i occasionally talk about my writing, but really i’m just here to lurk and scream about podcasts

[sojutrait]

ppl who complain when dlc go on sale irk me so bad “i payed over a thousand dollars!” literally no one told you to do that

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[vaspider]

"Meet people where they are" is Activism 101, and people seem to be allergic to seeing that this is exactly that.

"Bean Soup Rhetoric" is a very good concept.

[notgreatbob]

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

[callmezeemonic]

You did the best you could with all you had and knew. That was then. Here is now

[castaras]

prev tags correct

[lifeinpoetry]

I am, in most parts, made / entirely of longing.

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from Book Three, Bakandamiya

[itserimi]

i call an uber and i hope it costs too much money and takes too long to get here and cancels too many times and you offer me your couch for the night. i say i should probably go too when the last of our friends say it and i get ready to walk down and i hope that you ask me to stay and i hope that you ask me if im sure and i hope that you ask me if my uber is too expensive.

i have the money and i can pay it but god tonight i hope my uber is too expensive.

i hope i have an excuse to sleep on your couch and maybe wear your clothes and definitely exist in your orbit for a little longer. i almost definitely won’t do anything about it but i’ll think about it to myself and i’ll feel guilty and i’ll curl up on your couch under your blanket in your clothes with your pillow and think of you in your bedroom and think maybe one day i’ll be brave enough that i can sleep in your bed with you. 

[samirasystole]

i’m gonna be direct and say that a lot of y’all are unable to accept that you can be a healthcare professional and be disabled or have (mental) health issues. there are lines, there are limits, of course there are. but disability isn't and shouldn't make you question whether a doctor or healthcare worker is 'allowed to be there'

the show and the fandom are making al hashimi's 10 second absence seizures into a huge thing and are questioning whether she is able to work there. which, in my disabled opinion, is ableist. she has had this disorder since she was 5, she's worked with médicins sans frontières, she has worked through warzones, she has had children. all while having this disorder. not to mention she has a physician and asks for help when she feels it is necessary.

i'm disabled, i work in healthcare. i am perfectly fine. i am sick of the idea that disabled people have no place in medicine and that we somehow add a crazy amount of risk to patients. i am sick of the rhetoric that al hashimi is endangering patients for spacing out for 10 seconds. can being disabled at work give risks? yes. but if your colleagues know, and you know what could happen, you're safe.

the idea that healthcare professionals need to be healthy or perfect is not realistic nor is it disability friendly. we are able to practice medicine safely, even if there is a chance of something happening. if she spaces out in a trauma room there will always be other people there if the matter at hand really can't wait 10 seconds. i am a heart patient who can't do cpr for longer than 30 seconds. i need to sit down after i sprint up stairs to help someone. there are limits in my care, but these limits don't limit my quality of care. especially not since medicine is a teamsport and you're never alone in it.

healthcare workers are not and will never be the picture of health, and it's harmful to expect that. we're people, not gods. and we have struggles. practicing medicine is harder for us disabled folks, there are limits to our capability. but in people like al hashimi, people like me, people like caleb jefferson, people like jack abbot? we deserve to be there. and so does robby once he crosses the threshold of working safely again.

if doing our jobs safely means getting a little support here and there, then we deserve to get that fucking support and our accessibility needs met. abbot's capability isn't questioned even though he most likely has barriers at work. neither is caleb, when there are also several things he isn't able to do. but the show decides to make a point of her seizures and makes us doubt her ability, and i urge you not to adopt that same attitude.

disabled people are allowed to take up space in medicine. and lastly: if we only hired physically and mentally well people we wouldn’t have a medical system in the first place. signed, a soon to be disabled nurse.

[cheglok-art]

Bird sketches using fountain pens! Some of these were drawn from my own photos

[Part 2]

[spicymochi]

they are sitting and pondering

[itserimi]

guys i love getting a little ficlet idea and then sitting down to just do some writing for it (genuinely this was meant to be like. 1000 words max) and suddenly it's a fleshed out 5+1 fic and the outline is longer than what the original fic was meant to be. anyway exciting things coming (for me) i will finally be posting again on ao3 😼😼

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[assiraphales]

you guys made luigi mangione trend for days and I need to see the same energy for brianna boston. she is a 43 year old mother of three who ended a phone call with blue cross blue shield (after being denied a claim) “delay deny depose, you people are next” and is now being held under a 100,000$ bond and could face FIFTEEN years of prison if charged. she has no weapons, her record is clean, and yet she is being held behind bars. they are afraid of the public and are trying to subdue. do not let them!!!! be outraged that our freedom of speech is being threatened!!!!! deny defend depose! free brianna boston!

[pussiesaregod]

once i beat the depression and the burnout and the anxiety and the loneliness and the exhaustion and the guilt and the awkwardness and the apathy and the low income and the chronic illness and the impatience and the vulnerability and the creative block and the capitalism and the cruelty THEN you'll see

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands

[natalieironside]

If u want to write a story about a character that’s just you but hotter with a dark twisted backstory and magical powers and a pet falcon or something, I think u should just go ahead and do that. Who’s gonna stop you? The government?? Fuck the police.

[charlon-lumi]

What if someone barges in, points at said character and scream, “Mary Sue!”

[natalieironside]

Tell them to come back with a warrant

[charlon-lumi]

This post came across my dash again and now I am having an absolute blast with self insert hotter me that gets the girls and guys everywhere.

[natalieironside]

This is the Way

[natalieironside]

#everyday i remember i can write whateveer i want#and then get too embarrassed to do it😕#one day.. 

[jld-az]

[v8roadworrier]

need a permission slip? have a permission slip

[sanitymakesposts]

Guy whose wife comes out to him as a lesbian and he just sighs and starts googling ‘estrogen near me’

[sandinmybed]

i may seem relaxed and chill on the outside but on the inside ive never gotten over "and obviously we were more than friends" and i never will

[laskulls-deactivated20250318]

so many snow animals are just white puff with dot eyes. amazing design

[laskulls-deactivated20250318]

I just love this genre

[ladydei]

oh this was delightful

[ladyantiheroine]

Don’t forget owls!

[moniquill]

Sphere = the ideal shape for maximizing internal volume with minimum surface area, thus best shape for not lose heat. Sphere stay warm! Sticky outy bits get cold!!