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[luka-button]

sometimes a found family can be a high school science teacher, the woman who sent him on a suicide mission against his will, his best friend who is an alien, the alien's mate that has been waiting for him for half a century, two other alien organisms (one of which eats the sun and other which eats almost everything else) and the entire populations of two planets 16 light years away from each other.

[notlayingroses]

in my opinion, the question isn't "Is RPF ethical?" but rather "Are you engaging with RPF ethically?" and even more importantly, "Are you being stupid about it?"

I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.

Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.

The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.

I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.

But just have some basic decency and do not involve the real people. Don't cross the line without caring how it affects them. This is basic fandom 101 and lately we have been flying too close to the damn sun! Everyone get more normal about RPF so major news outlets and magazines stop posting articles about "Is RPF ethical?" and blowing up our spot!

[h-l-w]

For @dinlukeweek Matchmaker Grogu

[rimonoroni2]

dinluke is fun to me because they’re both characters reckoning with the inheritance of an entire genocided people and dealing with deeply political intricacies while trying to figure out what their culture means to them + they are canonically in a situation where they could end up coparenting. which just sets up a potentially fascinating dynamic. also i think din would be really into getting snapped in half by that twink which is really neither here nor there

[h-l-w]

[animesickos]

We're on a new platform with a totally different audience...we have to prove ourselves all over again...convince a totally new group of people to think we're funny and worth your attention....so allow me to drop some of my "A" material....the funniest thing I got.......here goes....... jeef berky

[punkrorschach]

[nerdgasrnz]

[uberguber89]

[walmart-the-official]

jeef berky

[miellez]

How I expected until the last second the sacrifice of Aziraphale and Crowley to go. You czechs are the best. This is 1000x better

Bonus : they're in love you're honor

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Wahoo for Anděl Páně 2! :) ❤

[shimada-koshiro]

Ikura and Koshiro performing at Bloom on Ice 2026 [x]

[couldbeglorious]

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOD

The quilt!!! The Good Luck quilt !!!! just there on instagram with 60 likes on it!!!!!!!!! oh man i was looking SO HARD. i've started to do a guide to all the good luck symbols that were on it but my quest is basically over!! The edges of it aren't clear, but this is basically everything we DON'T see in the film! oh man, I feel lightheaded.

My initial, pre-this-post thoughts

Now - their meanings as far as i can tell, a collage from different pictures and a small restoration of some missing pieces

[kazuoishiguro]

✦ PROJECT HAIL MARY by andy weir —in the style of a 70s sci-fi novel.

[the-rat12]

youre not nothingburger in fact you are everything bagel

[dagenssvenska]

du är inte en ingentingburgare du är faktiskt en allting beigel

[the-rat12]

i love you

[dagenssvenska]

jag älskar dig

[equusandfandoms]

bara sex finns på svt igen och jag är i himlen

[svenskjavel]

För ett ögonblick trodde jag att du menade att SVT hade blivit en porrsajt

[udunie]

Okay guys, so on the eve of getting rid of our fucking authoritarian leader, I will tell you how we did it, despite the governments overwhelming media presence and fucking undercover operations against the opposition.

It was actually said best by a Hungarian comic, I'm paraphrasing a bit: If your house is on fire, you can't be like 'well that's not the fireman I imagined'.

I know it's been said a thousand times before, I know everybody is raging against having to vote for a less than ideal candidate, but today has proven that it fucking works. It's the only thing that works. And if the new guy is just a step closer to what you want? That's a fucking win. That's a fucking step in the right direction.

Is Péter Magyar going to usher in gay marriage and UBI? No. But he's not going to ban pride, like Orbán tried. Is he going to cut all ties with Russia? Probably not, but is he going to make sure that we stay in the EU? Fuck yeah. And over Orbán, that's a fucking improvement, and I will take it gladly.

[udunie]

Actually, I have to say a bit more about the Hungarian elections. Even tho I know the hype is mostly died down now. Many people posted about it, about how it's just about going out and voting and it's all just kumbaya from there (also including my post from the night of the election) but that is not actually true.

There were many factors that played into this landslide victory, that would probably be hard to replicate in other countries, but I will still lay it out, in case this is useful to anyone in countries in similar situations.

Péter Magyar was an insider

He was a Fidesz (Orbán's party) insider, he is actually the ex-husband of a former minister, though he didn't hold any prominent positions before. This is important, because it made it a lot harder for the government to get an angle on him. They couldn't really say that he's a buffoon or corrupt or any other shit they smeared the 'traditional' opposition with, because that would all come back to them.

And this means that you can't let someone's background cloud your vision. You have to listen, even if you don't like where they came from.

2. He was extremely tight lipped about important issues during the campaign

Hungary is a relatively conservative country. That doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of people with leftist values, but - especially after 16 years of constant conservative propaganda poisoning society against progressive values - you just can't get wide support if you get caught up in hot-button issues. Let's take Pride for example. Orbán tried to ban Budapest Pride after a long anti-LGBT campaign, and Magyar got a lot of criticism from opposition media for not taking a stand on the issue, even after the Pride was held despite the ban - and was the largest Pride in my country's history.

LGBT issues are important to me, and they are important to a lot of left leaning people, but the reality is that it's not important to (or are even negatively viewed by) a large part of the population.

In most countries - ESPECIALLY when people in power turned LGBT rights into a poisoned pill - you can't win an election if you get 'branded' with being a SJW. And yeah, it made my hackles rise that he didn't give a clear answer about it, only that under his leadership everyone in the country would have the right to protest and right to assembly.

Was that enough? No. Was that more than what we got from Orbán? Yes.

It was only an incrementally better stance than Orbán's, but it WAS better.

3. Magyar put huge emphasis on rural voters and on getting national symbols back from the far right

The opposition of most authoritarians is concentrated in urban areas. It's much easier to develop more progressive leaning values if you are constantly exposed to people of different cultures and lifestyles than your own, but that is not the case in rural areas, especially if the government has huge media presence that feeds more isolated people fear and propaganda.

Péter Magyar went on a giant campaign, holding civic meetings in sometimes bigger, sometimes tiny towns. He wasn't afraid to get close to people. Much of his first such campaigns was largely spent with him talking to people from the back of a pickup (hastily spraypainted our national colors) and answering their questions directly.

Like, literally.

He met hundreds of thousands of voters face-to-face.

By the end of his campaign, he held up to four or five such meetings a day all over the country. He'd been in bigger cities multiple times, he'd been in every voting district. His last tour had more than 500 stops. And this is a tiny country.

What I want to say with this is that, you can't do this without a) putting in the fucking work, and b) leaving the population centers, where your supporters already are.

He and his team also had a very good sense for marketing shit. In pretty much every country I know of, the far right is always fucking appropriating national/folk symbolism, and they'd been great about claiming them back, and giving people a common ground. Like his party's theme song is a very popular Hungarian folk song. That sort of shit.

4. Top notch investigative journalism

Péter Magyar's whole bid for power started with a scandal that came from investigative journalists. The details are not important now, but one of the 'pawns' that Orbán decided to sacrifice to calm the public was Magyar's ex-wife. That was what started this whole thing, what made him turn against his former community. And during the last years - and especially during the last weeks before the election - the remaining independent media kept coming out with more and more major scandals. You have to keep supporting independent media, or the opportunity may never come to change your government.

I could go on for a lot longer, but tumblr is telling me that this post is getting too long lol. Anyway.

My general point still stands. If your house is on fire, you can’t be like ‘well that’s not the fireman I imagined’. Even if it's a bit more complex than that.

[undying-princess]

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey

[tommonikercomics]

I told you guys-

[noodles-and-tea]

See you in space, cowboy