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does anyone else have a drink that u just go crazy when u have it ? like i pour myself apple juice and it’s gone in 3 seconds because i can’t control myself around it
rb & tag what drink u can’t have around u for more than 5 seconds
more things i have read recently!
The Body in Room 348 by mark bowden
***Listening to Estrogen by lisa miller
Why We Must Believe Women: My Family’s Legacy of Violence and Murder by chealsea beaker (many trigger warnings, read with caution)
***Who’s Considered Thin Enough for Eating Disorder Treatment? by virgina sole-smith
Ching Shih, the Cantonese Sex Worker Who Became China’s Most Feared Pirate by ebony adams and anita sarkeesian
Why a Thriving Civilization in Malta Collapsed 4,000 Years Ago by aisling irwin
***K-pop’s Girl Group Oh My Girl Heads For Stereo Live. Behold the Phenomenon. by jonathan m. s. davis (more of a thoughtful, well informed think piece on kpop)
Improbable Cause: This is how authorities failed the Harrisons. by amy dempsey
How Hieroglyphics Were Originally Translated by emily upton
***I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People by kayla chadwick
Extreme fasting: how Silicon Valley is rebranding eating disorders by arwa mahdawi
It Is Expensive to Be Poor by barbara ehrenreich
***Putting Kids on Diets Won’t Solve Anything by amanda mull
***Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence by susanna hope and alex roslin
Snapshots From a Land of Endless Night (no one author)
My Family’s Slave by alex tizan
Every single scene with Ziyal and Garak would have worked better if he was a father figure and not a romantic interest.
Her father abandoned her. She is welcomed by neither Cardassia or Bajor. Neither is he. Doesn’t it seem a lot more likely that she would view him as a mentor? A surrogate father? Someone that can teach her about Cardassia without the rose-tinted glasses and understand her longing for a place that doesn’t want her.
Family is central to Cardassia life and Garak has never even been allowed to call his father his father. So imagine that Ziyal becomes like his daughter. Imagine how deep and meaningful the connection can be between a girl abandoned by her father that already lost her mother - and a man for the first time getting to have a family.
Garak would have been reluctant at first of course, but Ziyal decides to adopt him and that’s that.
That would really have been an interesting relationship to explore. The romance? Not so much.
The Immortal Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg (zie/hir) (1949-2014) was an absolute giant, a foundational figure in queer liberation, workers’ rights, antiwar, and proletarian literature movements in the United States and around the world. Perhaps best known for hir work as an author and as a Jewish nonbinary lesbian activist, zie was also an early member of the Workers’ World Party, longtime editor WW’s newspaper, and a close confidant of Sam Marcy, and was on the front line of a lot of struggles from the 1960s up until hir death in 2014.
Leslie’s most famous work is probably Stone Butch Blues, a simi-autobiography about growing up as a working-class nonbinary lesbian in 1950s/60s New York and the intersection between queer liberation and the labor movement. Follow the link for a free PDF! It is a must-read! (MASSIVE trigger warnings for sexual assault and misogynistic and queerphobic violence throughout – shit gets pretty real)
Other must-reads include Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left, a collection of Leslie’s columns from the Workers’ World newspaper, most famously dwelling on the necessity of an international and working-class character for queer liberation.
And zie also gave us Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come and Transgender Warriors: Making History From Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, works on queer theory and trans liberation from a materialist, working-class perspective.
Leslie was also one of the founders of Camp Trans, an ongoing protest against the janky-ass TERFs running the MichFest women’s music festival:
Amid the punk ethics of 1990’s identity politics, trans activists Leslie Feinberg and Riki Anne Wilchins spearhead a movement to protest the trans-exclusionary policy of a women’s music festival in CAMP TRANS.
And here’s Leslie giving hir amazing lecture, Beyond Pink Or Blue: The Transgender Movement Yesterday, Today, and in the Future:
Though Leslie tragically passed away from Lyme disease in 2014, hir legacy will live on forever.
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bashir being established early on as a huge geek for old spy movies & loves larping james bond and also his best friend/boyfriend is literally a retired spy and then at the end of the series he gets blackmailed into becoming a spy....the irony. the foreshadowing. etc
garak scolding him for being so cavalier about spies and being so exasperated at how romanticized and heroic julians idea of spies was when garaks actually LIVED it. and being like sometimes you gotta make hard choices and make sacrifices to save yourself and bashir was like fuck you i can do this and not lose anything! and then 3 seasons later he finally understood why garak thought he was so naive. The Flavor...
Geordi: *dressed as Watson* “Uh Data, are you really going to do that?”
Data: *dressed as Sherlock Holmes* “Yes Geordi, as it is accurate to the source material.”
Data: *snorts a line of cocaine*
The internet is a great way for young people interested in political activism to burn themselves out and become disillusionned with the left without ever actually contributing to anything that really exists. The woke online zone has all the downsides of real activism (constantly dealing with obnoxious pedants, the endless stream of people who have no actual investment in achieving left wing goals but stick around for the social aspect/access to young women, never-ending ideological disputes) with none of the benefits (actually helping anyone in any way whatsoever)
never gonna get tired of fun songs about loving being gay, loving having gay sex, not being sorry, and not giving a fuck about anyone’s opinion
i’m begging people to know they can have interests and hobbies that aren’t related to the Walt Disney Company’s stable of highly profitable intellectual properties
I remember reading somewhere that Whoopi Goldberg headcanoned Guinan and Q as having had a relationship with Q and that’s why they’re so antagonistic of each other which makes the first scene in which we see them interact so much funnier like imagine you and your ex see each other and immediately do this at each other
Look, I've read and enjoyed a lot of books by men, I just get... tired. This list includes a range of genres (classics, literary
So I lost my temper with all of the “books you must read before you die” “books to read to be considered well-read” lists that were like, at least 75% male, and made a different list. Obviously it’s skewed by what I’m familiar with, but I’ve tried to get it to be a broad range. Give it a go!
therapist: so how are you?
me: the entire foundation of mai and zuko’s relationship was built on how miserable they were together, and how they would just sit there and hate the world together— letting their misery fester as they enabled each other’s depression— and I think that’s really unfortunate because they would work so well as friends if they weren’t trying to make their dumpster fire of a relationship work. similarly, what makes zuko and katara’s dynamic so compelling is that they share the same flaws, only as opposed to mai’s apathy and misery, it’s katara’s rage and guilt that zuko identifies with. they both share trauma over having lost their mothers, and both in a similar way (sacrificing themselves for them) and they both cope with their grief through rage, often misplaced. in the southern raiders, they both act deeply insensitively towards sokka by acting as if his grief over his mother’s death is somehow less valid simply because he is a lot quieter in his coping mechanisms and doesn’t project his rage & guilt onto everyone else. katara and zuko have a deep & profound friendship, but if they were to be in a relationship, they would only bring out the absolute worst in each other thru enabling each other’s rage and emotion-driven decision making. conversely, when they go to the boiling rock, it is shown that sokka and zuko make an excellent team, as they balance each other perfectly. sokka thinks big picture, and plans ahead, but zuko will charge into situations, and account for the details of the plan, such as when he breaks the lever for the gondola. in that same scene, we see zuko jump off the platform and sokka catch him without any communication that either was going to do so. zuko later catches sokka from slipping off the side of the gondola. when they’re fighting azula, again they fall into wordless trust with zuko on the defense blocking azula’s fire, while sokka takes the defense, using the opening zuko creates by protecting him to charge at azula with his sword. throughout the entire episode, zuko supports all of sokka’s decisions without question, telling him that it’s his call to make when he wonders whether they should stay another night, which is the kind of trust sokka always needed to receive as the leader. when sokka is about to give up because he’s afraid of failing again, zuko inspires him and even encourages failure, a lesson that sokka still needs to learn, especially after the shame he feels after losing the invasion. throughout the episode as well you can see the steady building of their friendship, and they’re shown to trust each other unconditionally. the next episode, zuko asks sokka to recount to him one of his most traumatic memories in excruciating detail, and even though sokka could easily say fuck no, he tells zuko about the death of his mother because it is important to him that zuko and katara get along. zuko also genuinely smiles a hell of a lot more than he does pretty much any other episode, even though the situation is incredibly tense, because he enjoys sokka’s company, even when he’s in prison. zuko and sokka have a lot in common, a lot of the same experiences struggling with limitations of masculinity and feeling worthless compared to their prodigious younger sisters. and that’s not to mention that they have a lot of interests in common, such as swords, and the arts (sokka likes to paint & draw, zuko is a theatre kid etc), not to mention they share a similar dry, sarcastic, offbeat sense of humor. as opposed to zuko and mai, who are two miserable people who make each other miserable, zuko and sokka are two miserable people who make each other HAPPY
therapist: okay……..but how are you?
I never thought I would read a Zuko/Sokka manifesto in the year of our lord 2019 but I am so glad I did
good post OP
