Joan of Mal(ark)ey

Hello My name is Joanie I am active, activist, adult, ally, ambiguous, andro, androgynous, assertive, beautiful, big sister, biogirl, bisensual, bisexual, bouncy, brunette, caring, complex, confidant, counselor, cute, Democrat, daughter, dog lover, dork, dreamer, dudette, female-bodied, feminist, femme-fucking, femme-liking, femme-loving, femmeboy, femmy butch, free, friend, friendly, full of love, GLBTQIA, geek, gender anarchist, gender atypical, gender liberationist, gender variant, gender warrior, genderqueer, genetic woman, hairy, hippie, hippychick, human, intelligent, introvert, LGBTQIA, leftist, liberal, loving, Ms., nerd, Otter, passionate, pro-choice, pro-gay, pro-sex feminist, queer, queer-friendly, quirky, Socialist, sensitive, sex positive, snuggly, socialist, sweet, trans-friendly, understanding, versatile, wolf, XX Who are you?

[whitepeopletwitter]

If you’re not genuinely interested in dinosaurs I don’t think we can be friends.

[nudityandnerdery]

Uh-oh.

[xenosagaepisodeone]

holy shit

[cryptid-sighting]

Can’t believe it’s 2022 and a new all-time top Bushism just dropped

[odinsblog]

Finally, some good news.

👉🏿 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/health/abortion-pills-fda.html

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[ruinedchildhood]

[phantomrose17]

[silly-jellyghoty]

[lenacraft]

March

[ruinedchildhood]

[mynonsenseistingling]

It’s gonna be

[simplyviolinandlife]

ITS MAY

[imperialkatze]

It’s nearly June

[animusrox]

[awkwardexxodus]

[awkwardexxodus]

it seems i,,,, miscalculated

[1five1two]

J. R. R. Tolkien, undisputedly a most fluent speaker of this language, was criticized in his day for indulging his juvenile whim of writing fantasy, which was then considered—as it still is in many quarters— an inferior form of literature and disdained as mere “escapism.” “Of course it is escapist,” he cried. “That is its glory! When a soldier is a prisoner of war it is his duty to escape—and take as many with him as he can.” He went on to explain, “The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as possible."

Stephen R. Lawhead

[barbarian15]

"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"

-J.R.R. Tolkien

"Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of "escape." I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, "What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?" and gave the obvious answer: jailers."

-C.S. Lewis

[utopians]

criminal profiling is just astrology for cops

[utopians]

taking a forensics class and watching the professor explain one by one how criminal profiling, hair microscopy, and bite mark analysis are all pseudoscience responsible for ruining innocent lives, and how on top of that, fingerprint analysis, despite being significantly more reliable, is subjective and prone to contextual bias. and also bullet striation analysis has the same issues. and also bullet lead analysis doesn’t work. and also handwriting analysis has an error rate high enough to render it useless

[pinstripes-of-doom-deactivated2]

people think taking things literally is just like

not getting jokes and sarcasm

when in my experience it's more like

thinking you have to fulfill 100% of the exact requirements for something, when everyone else apparently knows it's actually a bit flexible

answering rhetorical questions and everyone thinking you're stupid

SAYING something with a literal meaning and others interpreting it figuratively

following instructions to a T but not knowing how to modify them if something goes wrong

wait that song was talking about WHAT??

doing EXACTLY what someone asked of you and them getting mad that it wasn't what they meant or actually wanted

being terrified of people's empty threats or hyperbole without realizing they didn't actually mean it

memorizing all the connotations of different words so you can use them as precisely as possible, getting frustrated when others are inexact

still not getting jokes and sarcasm

[prismatic-bell]

THIS

I do actually understand jokes but don’t try to “be straight” with me when you’re lying??? It’s not funny when you try to convince me I’m doing something wrong for a “joke”????

[banana-with-a-bow-tie]

Well twosday was fun. See y’all in eleven years for thirds day

[snorlax-and-co]

[irishshauna]

[marmotini-of-the-world-unite]

Learning this was an intentional genocide changed me.

[fighterkimburgess]

I know most of those following me know this, but just to make it super clear. An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger/the Great Famine) was a deliberate genocide of the Irish people. There was enough food grown in Ireland to make sure everyone was alive and healthy and survived. Instead it was exported, sent to England and elsewhere for profit while men, women, and children starved in the streets. While the English landlords fucked off and evicted starving families who couldn’t afford rent. While babies were too weak to cry and died at the side of the road.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. And we owe so much thanks to the other oppressed peoples, in particular the Choctaw Nation and the Masai, who sent money and grain to us.

Let me repeat that. The Choctaw Nation who had just gone through the Trail of Tears sent us money to try save Irish lives. It’s led to an understanding between Irish people and Native American tribes, most recently when we donated to the Navajo and Hopi fundraisers for COVID-19 relief, because while it may be a different tribe, Irish people will never forget those who helped us and we’ll help back.

The entire population of the island is less than seven million people. We’re still a million less on this island than pre famine. And it’s not that long ago. My grandmother’s grandparents lived through it. We’ve told the stories, it literally changed the DNA of the country. We have a national fear of renting, because so many people were evicted. People joke about Irish people always offering loads of food, but it’s because there’s that cultural memory of not being able to.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. We will not let them take our lives, we will not let them take our language. We lost so much, but we will not lose it all.

[saltedweather]

This is why I get so angry when people say “it was the potato famine, it was because of monoculture/microbes.”

Nope. The potatoes were the only thing Irish people were allowed to fucking eat, because as pointed out, the rest of the crops they were growing were for their landlords to ship to England. So when the one “worthless” crop they were allowed to eat rotted in the field, the English crown, empire, landlords, all shrugged and carried on. People starved to death lying next to productive fields.

[fullpraxisnow]

#MLKalsoSaid via Twitter

[dog-teeth]

badweird feelings

[chronicbrainfag]

not to be a communist on main but these are literally the modes of alienation under capitalism that marx described

[dog-teeth]

PLEASE be a communist on my posts its literally capitalism thats making me feel this way

[aqueerkettleofish]

This is a very powerful life hack.

[sailor-rinn]

[wiiwheel]

ah yeah the fruitch. and vetchtables.

[hofessorx]

[lady-redhaired]

Me in 2022 when the pandemic hasn’t ended yet because people don’t know how to act right and I’ve been holed up in my house for three years acquiring a new flavor of crazy, going to open the door for the guy in the hazmat suit that’s come to deliver my groceries

[dianas-shortgalpal]

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