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RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.
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Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.
There is always a fandom discourse about how fandom is too much about shipping and romantic love, but my beef is actually with people being too fond of the idea of a family as the purest form of love and the strongest unit.
Starting from pople tending to turn every story about siblings who are not besties into this huge tragedy instead of awknowledging that maybe, sometimes, people are not close with their siblings. Or that people are so weird about mothers.
But what irks me even more is the tendency to decide that two people who are close in canon have a "sibling coded relationship" which suddenly also means that shipping them together is wrong. Or if a character has an older person in their life whom they look up to - well that is their parent now!!!! They can't fuck their parent!!!!
There is this underlying idea that elevating characters into a familial bond is above such concepts as romantic love or sex. Which sucks because that is not what the concept found family means - it was meant to describe the queer experience of finding your people and community from outside of your blood relatives, and it was never meant to say that there can't also be romantic relationships within that community.
And it is not even always about the fact that I want to ship my blorbo with everyone who comes near him (although I absolutely do), but I think that sometimes there can be meaningful dynamics that are not about family. I want my blorbo to have friends, lovers, partners, mentors, neighbours, a trusted older person who they can call to but is not their parent.
Maybe some of this rises from the fact that family for me is something complicated and sore and not as important as my friends and community. But also the idea of a nuclear family as the pillar of society is such a conservative talking point and it is weird that people keep throwing a fit about romance and dating as societal standard but don't seem to notice this one.
It deeply saddens me that "pdf file" has become slang for pedo. Don't you dare disrespect my wife the beautiful portable document format ever again
and to the children in the notes saying we need this fucking baby talk to get around censorship online; there's been no credible evidence that any site other that YouTube (which will only demonetize your video, ftr) will actually censor or hide content that include words like rape, pedophile, gun, terrorist, etc. etc. and even if we take as a given they were (which, again, they are not), do not fucking comply in advance, you absolute fucking coward. and ESPECIALLY do not comply by altering your real life fucking vocabulary. don't let the technocrats dictate what words you say holy fucking shit dude!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A few weeks ago, a small but higher-than-normal number of accounts were mistakenly suspended. The suspensions were quickly reversed, but our response wasn't good enough, and we want to say more.
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this is meaningless corporate boilerplate. this issue has existed for years and in that time it has been plain to see for everyone that @staff both condones and actively facilitates the hostile & discriminatory atmosphere toward transfem users on this site. you have openly terminated users who've brought attention to this in the past. you have lied about this before. you are lying now.
@humans you are publishing this statement now because the ban wave to which your post refers was finally so blatant that it was noticed by the press, and because posts have been circulating calling for legal action and for official complaints of discrimination. nobody is fooled that you are addressing this for any other reason, and nobody is satisfied with your mealy-mouthed consultant-approved non-apology drivel. this post is a load of horse shit and everybody knows it. fuck you all.
The New York City Commission on Human Rights accepts complaints at this website:
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Painted a little something for International Asexuality Day and waving big hellos to all my fellow aces out there!
listen to me. two good friends who are mean to each other as a joke aren't necessarily sibling coded.
I am just so sick of "sibling coded."
"sibling coded" comes from "queer coded." Queercoding was a (often intentional) way for writers to craft a queer character under censorship. It was also often something that came about from unconscious biases (ie the insane amount of queercoded villains) Either way, queer coding refers to the act of writing a queer character when you cannot OPENLY write a queer character.
The fuck does sibling coding mean. In what universe do you need to subtly imply that two characters are siblings because you are beholden to censorship. Where are siblings oppressed for being siblings. Where are you not allowed to show siblings on TV.
The only situation I can think of is if you want to lovers to secretly be incestual, but given how many of the "lol sibling coded!!1!1!1!!!!" Bitches use that defense to shit on people who ship those characters I somehow don't think that's it.
"Sibling coded" dumbass fucking term. Words mean things. If they were supposed to be siblings the writers would have made them siblings.
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Not who you replied to… but yeah they said that before when analyzing AA2’s text and characters? You are allowed to look deeper into a story than what is given and find new opinions and conclusions. What Wendy is saying above does not conflict with what you posted.
Edit: also why dig this up even? Why do you have that on hand
listen to me. two good friends who are mean to each other as a joke aren't necessarily sibling coded.
I am just so sick of "sibling coded."
"sibling coded" comes from "queer coded." Queercoding was a (often intentional) way for writers to craft a queer character under censorship. It was also often something that came about from unconscious biases (ie the insane amount of queercoded villains) Either way, queer coding refers to the act of writing a queer character when you cannot OPENLY write a queer character.
The fuck does sibling coding mean. In what universe do you need to subtly imply that two characters are siblings because you are beholden to censorship. Where are siblings oppressed for being siblings. Where are you not allowed to show siblings on TV.
The only situation I can think of is if you want to lovers to secretly be incestual, but given how many of the "lol sibling coded!!1!1!1!!!!" Bitches use that defense to shit on people who ship those characters I somehow don't think that's it.
"Sibling coded" dumbass fucking term. Words mean things. If they were supposed to be siblings the writers would have made them siblings.
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hello this is a reply to @actuallymartymcfly ‘s post about the japanese light novels! i sat down and translated everything and "localized" (i wanted to keep the og japanese phrasing/wording prevalent) it the best i could!
part 1 doesn’t really have anything new it’s a very basic synopsis though i will say idk why lorraine had to catch a stray like that
part 2 however what i think is cool is that marty’s the one explaining the story for a bit! its only the last part where it goes back to third person. the rest is written with masculine personal pronouns; the same ones marty uses in jp dubs! i thought that was cute
i also think it’s sweet they redefine george by his accomplishments of his dreams
day barely even started and I already had to hear "thank you for being our wives, sisters, aunts" and "keep being women and giving birth and being delicate unlike us men" as compliments for international women's day
here's to women being transgender childless dykes forever and ever and ever
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even if your nervous system is shot to hell and you're a reactive dog on a chain all the time you can spend several years retraining your nervous system (with the help of friends to practice Disagreeing With) and one day you can reach a point where getting Disagreed With doesn't cause your whole entire bodybrain situation to implode messily. it's super great. I recommend it
Like with real dog training, rewards >>>> punishments, and you learn best when you are well cared for
this is why I think it is so crucial to be able to Practice Disagreeing about relatively trivial subjects with safe and trusted friends and loved ones where you both know that's what you're doing and you are both actively and continually affirming that you love each other the whole time it's like training wheels. I truly cannot recommend finding friends to Practice Disagreeing with enough.
link to the analysis: https://x.com/Tharizdun03/status/1870085870839074975
I don't think it's a conincidence that Hideki Anno is a feminist who writes stories about toxic masculinity when he was mentored by Hayao Miyazaki.
We often see people's true views through their art.
Anno is jaded and has been since his early 20s criticizing how young men in his generation viewed and treated women through some of the most intensely thematic storytelling. And he didn't even really know he was doing it according to him.
Miyazaki, despite being outwardly jaded and angry constantly, consistently makes films full of hopeful messages.
It's often said that if you like Evangelion, Anno hates you.
I love Evangelion because it's a visual example of literary fiction.
more periwinkle! my friends told me this would make a great keychain/acrylic stand, so now I'm wondering...
"If I was orpheus I wouldn't turn around " then you're not orpheus. NEXT
doing perspective box exercises but then some cat loafed in them
