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they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically
watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/
QUITE the statement to be nuking transfems at the current accelerated pace right at the start of pride month like this, isn't it
To Öcalan, there are two rivers flowing throughout all of human history. One is the river of Capitalist Modernity, and the other the river of Democratic Modernity. No matter how long or how much Capitalist Modernity remains dominant, the river of Democratic Modernity flows through every act of personal and community resistance.
Unlike other models of socialism, Öcalan does not believe society needs to "evolve" to a certain point to reach Democratic Modernity. It is always waiting within us, and it can rise up at any time.
Recommended further reading (all free):
In Defence of Öcalan’s Vision of ‘Democratic Society’ (article)
The Theory of Democratic Modernity as a Guide for Building a New Internationalism (PDF, 32 pages)
The Main Principles of Democratic Confederalism (article)
World War III Has Begun – There Is Another Way (PDF, 18 pages)
The understanding of fascism in Öcalan’s concept of democratic modernity (article)
Reflections on the Palestinian and Kurdish Resistance (PDF, 36 pages)
The Bond Between People’s Power and Democratic Confederalism (article)
World Women's Democratic Confederalism (PDF, 50 pages)
The roots of the conflict and the Sudanese vision of democracy (article)
More links here
harrow is aware she is only attracted to women but is also a nun married to The Virgin Mary so she regards the idea of being in a relationship with a real human woman with almost as much fear and trepidation as she does the idea of being in a relationship with a real human man. gideon is firmly under the impression that no one has ever been attracted to men ever, not even once, not even to the nice ones, not even by accident. nona is fairly unfazed by the idea of men being sexually interested in her but personally she's mostly into women and/or flowers. ianthe is definitely into women but she might be willing to have a go with a guy as long as a) it was politically advantageous to her and b) he didn't enjoy it that much. camilla is ace in that "has replaced her desire for sexual intimacy with something Worse" kind of way. corona is bi but that on its own would simply be too easy for her so additionally she's unrequitedsexual. palamedes likes women so much that it loops back around into most people initially thinking he's gay. not all of the lyctoral squad were bi to start with but they sure were by the myriadic year of our lord. ortus is a unicorn.
Marta Dyes fucks bitches. But only if they're not 2nd house.
"Republicans don't have consistent morals"
Yes they do. It's just that their morals are rooted in "protect the people and things closest to me at all costs". Their values are extreme tribalism. They also believe those outside the group are constantly threatening the safety and prosperity of the in-group.
This is why so much of what they do seems contradictory and hypocritical. Yes, they want prosperity for those they consider "like them", but they are also willing to do things that harm themselves if it harms the "enemy" more. And, they blame the enemy for that harm, not themselves.
It's literally "this is why we can't have nice things". It's your fault.
A conservative may think, "welfare might be nice, and it's true all my neighbors depend on it, but those welfare queens are stealing it, so we can't have it. Public pools might be nice, and they provide a safe place for my children to play, but people I consider unclean might use them, so we can't have them."
This is how a conservative woman can justify an abortion for herself, but not for others, even though anti-abortion laws make it harder for her to get that abortion in the first place.
What needs to be done will morph and change, external influences will change what they think are important values for the inside group to have to some degree, but at the core it's always about protecting their own.
When I was in highschool, I had a conversation that truly made me understand how conservatives think on a fundamental level. I was discussing with a conservative family friend an essay I was writing that was arguing for the decriminalization of sex work and I spent a while laying out my various arguments and why this issue was important and at the end she said to me "okay, but I don't want my daughter to think that is an acceptable thing to do".
I (being a teenager) was confused by this because this issue is so much larger than just her daughter. So I tried again to explain how many people are harmed by sex work criminalization and how decriminalization would decrease sex trafficking and she repeated again, with a smile on her face: "I don't want my daughter to do that and decriminalization would signal that that is an acceptable thing for her to do".
I was struck with a moment of realization that the way I see the world is the exact opposite of this woman. She fundamentally saw the world as centered on her and her loved ones as individuals, and was completely unconcerned with how it would affect society on a larger level. To her, the material harm that was caused to thousands of people is completely inconsequential when compared to the imagined possibility of it signaling something to her family that she personally disagrees with. That is, at it's core the conservative mindset.
yeah the bad news is that trying to argue through this mindset the normal way is a recipe for a stress-induced coronary and a satisfied conservative opponent.
the good news is you don't have to argue through it the normal way.
conservatives are vulnerable to the kind of emotion-driven arguments that most people are taught to avoid as inappropriate. they're vulnerable to cheap manipulation tactics, trolling, and fearmongering. use these to your advantage. don't waste your breath laying out rational, empathetic arguments; hit them with their own medicine and a "well i think it's my god-given american right to earn a living by running a small business on onlyfans, and if you think the government should stop me you're a dirty commie!" confuses the hell out of em every time, and if it ends up bringing one or two of them around to the right position via the wrong route, all the better!
Not to sound like an evil chessmaster or anything, but yeah. Studying rhetoric means learning to make a good argument… and it also means learning when a good argument isn’t what the situation calls for. Sometimes all you need is a good ol’ appeal to pathos. Sheer manipulation, baby.
You’ll notice that this is how they talk to each other, too. They’ll say “facts don’t care about your feelings,” but they’ll disregard science when it comes to climate change or vaccines or LGBTQ+ identities. The basic conservative rhetoric strategy is blindingly simple, and because we have to live in the same world as them, it’s useful to know how to speak their language.
Conservative Arguments go as follows:
Identify the In Group, as relevant to the topic. It can be as broad as “all of humanity” or as narrow as “white suburban moms in the Midwest.”
Identify perceived threat to the In Group. Notably, you can convince them of almost anything if you frame it as competitive (“if X wins, we lose!”) or dangerous (“your children will get hurt!”).
Make that perceived threat PERSONAL. They don’t care about people in the abstract, so bring in their family. Don’t say “what if,” frame it as a matter of When. (ex. If we’re talking healthcare, age inherently comes with disability. Disability is a scary Out Group word to them, but age is not. The frame would be “when you’re eighty and your knees need to be replaced, that shouldn’t have to be as expensive as buying a new car!”— inevitable, personal, and based on a comparison they understand). In a carrot and stick sense, this is the stick.
After laying out the worst case scenario, provide an optimistic alternative. This is something conservatives are very good at and leftists are presently very bad at. Conservatives use nostalgic language and imagery to paint a picture of an idyllic world where the In Group is safe and the Out Group is nowhere to be seen. This is the “make America great again” and 1950s visuals that erase anyone who doesn’t fit their whitewashed worldview. A leftist alternative might be an optimistic future where billionaires— our Out Group— are no longer fiscally possible and their wealth is with the people, where people can afford homes, and where a shift to sustainability has revitalized industry. It doesn’t need to be realistic. The 1950s tradwife wet dream certainly isn’t. It just needs to meet their desire for safety from the Perceived Threat mentioned earlier. This gives them something to fight for: the carrot.
Prescribe a course of action. Conservatives are good at mobilizing, it’s why they’re in power. Specifically, prescribe action other than just voting— ways to incorporate goals into a lifestyle. For the conservatives, this has looked like participation in evangelicalism, putting their kids in private or home schools, or refusing vaccines. Leftist alternatives might be asking people to engage in mutual aid and/or gift economies (by another name, this one is too lefty for most of them— try “helping your neighbors” or “paying it forward”), joining firefighters or medics instead of the military or police (“bad apples spoil the bunch and good apples don’t make it better!”), recording law enforcement officers (“to make sure everyone’s rights are protected from Them”) etc.
As they leave their echo chambers and participate in face to face community with other people, their In Group may be widened against their will (think of college students who go from right to left wing after meeting people from other backgrounds) and their mindset may open to more intellectually honest arguments.
Of course, it doesn’t work on everyone. Many people are too far down the conspiracy hole to engage with people they see as belonging to the Out Group in any peaceable way. This is part of why it’s the responsibility of people who they might perceive as members of their personal In Group (ie other white people, other cishets, other men, etc) to try to change their mind. Even a little.
At this point, it’s less like changing someone’s perspective with reasoned debate and more like redirecting a loaded gun. But that means it matters more than ever. If your discussion can be the difference between a parent encouraging their son to join ice or telling him to reconsider, if you can convince someone to record law enforcement when they see them harassing someone, if you can get some guy to think about becoming a firefighter instead of a cop, if you can get someone to donate directly to a food bank instead of to a church group, if you can redirect their anger and paranoia towards billionaires instead of immigrants— even one change can have a ripple effect.
So yes. Manipulate the conservatives. It’s one of our last rhetorical tools against them.
The year is 21XX. Miraculously, Tumblr still exists as a somewhat popular brainchip application used largely by neofujoshis and fandomites. One day, a dumb low-effort shitpost by a member of one of the few remaining tgirl posting cells blows up, spreading across the neuronetwork like a wildfire. The therian tgirl who posted it, a hacktivist who augments cybernetics as a hobby, finding itself frustrated by the tags being completely filled with male characters despite the post clearly being about girls, and decides to edit the post. As per Chipblr policy, the edit is immediately applied to every instance of the post across the neuronetwork, but due to a century’s worth of tech debt from the poorly programmed website, the text of the edited post bypasses a vulnerability in the programming of the most popular brainchip models, immediately executing the new text as code. All the brainchips of every user who viewed the post immediately prompt their users to list one (1) female character they genuinely care about, stating that the chip will continue to increase in temperature unless genuine positive emotion is detected by the chip. What was intended as a harmless prank by a tgirl hacktivist turns into one of the deadliest cyberattacks in history, as thousands of fandomites and neofujos across the remains of what was once the United States are killed due to their inability to care even slightly about a single fictional woman. Decades after this unpreventable tragedy, F/F to M/M fanfic ratios across the English speaking internet have come closer to parity than ever in recorded history with an astonishing ratio of 30% F/F to 70% M/M
Genies can only grant wishes that are things that an ordinary person could do, just better and faster. The jinn are the creations of a divine being, and so they are part of the divine plan and cannot defy the natural order of things; a wish granted by a jinni can’t turn the day into night or the sea into yogurt, but if you wish for a temple to be built, a jinni will build it by hand, the way men do, and have it done in a day.
If you need a wish granted that defies the natural order you gotta catch a leprechaun, because no god was involved in their creation whatsoever. They just kinda showed up one day in the nineteenth century. The Aos Sí have no idea what their deal is
You’re not hiding this in the tags buddy
i don't hide things in tags i simply allow the proletariat to determine whether it is praxis to make my statements heard.
the other reason the leprechaun shoots the king of england in the head is that, unnatural abomination against God and Fey alike or not, it's still Irish
“So this fic has been abandoned but you should read it anyways because…” hold up. Have you not been reading all promising fics regardless of completion this entire time
Today I learned that an alarming number of yall are filtering fic by “completed works only” which is WILD to me because some of the best shit I ever read was incomplete. Just like how some of the best friendships fade, the best experiences end, the best partners pass away before you’re ready. Nobody wants good things to end but they do and that doesn’t make them less meaningful. And sometimes a tree must be nurtured before it can grow
this is WILD to me too, coz one of the funn-est, most unique parts of fanfic (imho) is following along with a fic that is in progress, yakking away in the comments section with other readers, thanking the author and encouraging them. Not just consuming silently, but being a fan! supporting! sharing! being wildly enthusiastic! The closer relationship with the author that is different from traditional publishing. Sharing fics and subscribing to them like ye olden times when folks would get their latest chapter of Dickens or whoever in the paper. I feel FANCY My email pings:
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"ah yes, here is my latest chapter of blah blah fanfiction. Marvellous. Jeeves, fetch me my reading monocle"
Love it when a fic has a great ending! But so what if the author never finishes it? There is still great word arrangements to be enjoyed.
[Gets off soapbox and goes back to A03 browsing.]
People who engage with incomplete fics are a keystone species in the fanfic ecosystem.
"oh but they're here illegally" don't care. "oh but your family came over legally" when my family came over the only law was don't be chinese
And it's not like 1800s US was any better, even when there were fewer laws. Anti-immigrant groups where inflicting violence as far back as the 1840s against German and Irish Catholics fleeing political oppression in Europe.
OK I'M DONE. LET'S FIGHT
I'm here for secretly masc Rumi.
the full chapter when gideon gets lonely and just starts doing whatever various pretty girls tell her to do... she's so cute she is SO cute. I need to chew on her
The implication that she was bored and sad so she immediately went out and found women to obey and then got in a fight. those were her two first instincts...I need to climb into her brain
She was recreating the experience of having harrow around by finding a girl to tell her what to do and then a different girl to physically fight her
Gideon Nav, woman of all time.
why go to the grocery store or to a restaurant when you can just get food delivered why go to the mall when you can get same day shipping on amazon why go to the library when you have kindle why make art when there’s ai why go to the cinema when you can stay at home and watch netflix. we are in a loneliness epidemic btw
the loneliness epidemic was invented by BIG SHIT to sell you more SHIT
it is my personal opinion that you simply don't survive reading the locked tomb books unless you are relatively media literate and also somewhat crazy insane. this is why discourse in this fandom has fuckall to do with ship wars or who deserves redemption or not and instead can be mostly boiled down to "does the chussy have teeth"
@nonasbirthday you don't just get to make me speedrun these war flashbacks cherished memories and keep it in the tags !
I really don’t know what crowd I expected to be in the theatre for carol at 1:20 in the afternoon on a friday but it was probably 85% old people, old het couples and halfway through the movie this old lady in front of me turned to the old dude next to her and just said “harold they’re lesbians”
Honoring 10 years of “harold they’re lesbians.” Many happy returns to all who celebrate.
We are all lesbians on this blessed day.
Also they're all gay
did your parents *"pre-screen" the media you interacted with when you were a kid/before legal adult age where you are?
yes, always AND they did parental guidance talks about it
yes, always but there was no parental guidance involved
sometimes, with parental guidance talks
sometimes, no parental guidance talks
not usually, but occasionally (WITH parental guidance)
not usually, but occasionally (WITHOUT parental guidance)
they never pre-screened but there were other rules (elaborate?)
my parents fully didn't give a shit about what media i engaged with
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*by "pre-screening", i typically mean any sort of behavior that exists on a spectrum of "actually watching/playing/reading the thing before you played it" to "doing any sort of research on it before letting you watch it".
feel free to share your experiences in the tags or replies or whatever!
admittedly, i am a little obsessed with like 65% of the tags on this post so far basically saying "my parents didn't pre-screen things but they [describes behavior that DEFINITELY qualifies as pre-screening]". i kinda hope maybe this post and others like it wake some people up to the fact that yes, even YOUR parents were controlling what perspectives and ideas you were and were not being allowed to access.
They sat me down and watched Life of Brian with me at age 12. But also they requested I go elsewhere to consume media they found annoying, which included the Simpsons and any music that was too high pitched or shouty.
The annoying polyamorous bisexuals being highlighted as a weak point in every review has made me so defensive. Insofar as they're a weak point it's because Gurathin and Mensah are excellent and endearing weirdos who immediately grab you. Annoying polyamorous bisexuals are an obvious load bearing relationship configuration in any space utopia and if Star Trek wasn't written by cowards they would acknowledge this.
