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She/her. Jewish, Queer, Neurodivergant, Geeknerd. Fantasy, Sci Fi, Comedy, Fiction, Thriller. Also loves nature, art, kids, animals, both wholesomeness and angst, music, and of course- food!

[maraleestuff]

I want a friendship between Shane and Cliff Marleau (sort of like an extrovert adopts an introvert type of thing). Pre-outing, they’re close enough that Shane comes out to him.

“Hey,” Cliff says, suddenly struck with the best idea he’s ever had. “I think I know someone you’d get along great with.”

“Marleau, I’m not really looking—“

“No, no, trust me. He’s a good guy, and one of the best hockey players I’ve ever met—aside from you, of course.”

Shane isn’t sure where Cliff is going with this, but he does know he’s not interested in anyone but Ilya.

“I know you mean well but—“

“Rozanov,” Cliff announces, grin a mile wide, and Shane blinks. Cliff, for his part, is incredibly sure this is a good idea; he knows that Ilya is bisexual, even if he doesn’t talk about it. Even Cliff is aware of the dangers with Russia. Even if the rest of the league hates it, they can fuck off.

Mistaking Shane’s silence for skepticism, Cliff continues, “I know he seems like an asshole, but he’s one of the best men you’ll ever meet. I know you’ve seen it—the whole rivalry thing is bullshit anyways, right? He’s actually a big softie…”

Cliff talks up Ilya, and Shane smiles, glad that Ilya has such a good friend—even though he isn’t sure how to tell Cliff that he and Ilya are already an item.

[cungadero]

i mean this in the nicest way possible you guys but you NEED to take better care of yourselves online. getting severely anxious about mass quantities of horrible things you cant change every single day is normal considering the internet’s ability to educate on worldwide issues, it shows that you have empathy and that you truly do care. but relentless knowledge of constant suffering on this scale is NOT something humans are psychologically equipped to handle. it’s okay to shut off. it’s okay to just take a break and enjoy yourself for a while in your own localized space

[voidscreamingformillenials]

There was a massive shift in how our culture understood morality when, after World War II, the general public realized “just following orders” was not an excuse for crimes against humanity. Now we need another moral shift in which we decide, as a culture, that “for the benefit of the stockholders” is not an excuse for anything.

[speciesofleastconcern]

We kind of need to relearn the “just following orders” part again

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

There was no massive morality shift after WWII. Even the initial shocked coverage of the camps did not mention Jews as the primary target of the Nazis. When deciding which DPs to let into their countries, nations had roughly the same biases as the Nazis–first the Balts, then the Slavs, and NO ONE wanted the Jews. Many camp survivors were frantic to tell their stories, but there was not much interest in them.

The tide started to change in the 1960s, when the trial of Eichmann gave Shoah survivors a chance to testify about their experiences at a public trial–a chance they did NOT receive during the Nuremberg Trials. But popular perception only really began to shift in the 1970s, when assorted films and TV series dramatizing the Shoah were released. The Shoah finally found a place in popular imagination.

But even this shift was flawed. Few of these stories focused on the Allies’ complicity in the Nazis’ genocide–the collaborators in occupied nations, the intense resistance by unoccupied nations to allowing refugees (especially Jewish refugees) in. And it’s telling, isn’t it, that so few of these stories feature the intense Jewish resistance that took place in Eastern Europe–the partisan groups, the ghetto and camp rebellions–but so many feature some kindly Gentile figure rescuing the poor, pitiful Jews from their ghastly fate. The Righteous Among Nations deserve all the applause they get–but why is it so difficult to get stories from Jewish perspectives? Can’t we star in our own genocide?

There was no massive morality shift after WWII. That is a lie fed to you by media intended to comfort you into believing that the Shoah was an abnormal outburst of evil. Germany woke up on the wrong side of the bed one morning and decided to go on a killing spree, whoopsies! Of course YOU would never do that, YOU don’t need to feel guilty, YOU don’t need to expand your perspective to accommodate minorities’ fears and traumas. Lies, lies, lies. In reality, the Shoah was shockingly banal. The Nazis took an endemic hatred to its logical conclusion, and because that hatred was endemic and profited the murderers, plenty of people–even fellow victims like the Poles!–were all too happy to participate in the slaughter.

“We kind of need to relearn the ‘just following orders’ part again”? Buddy, we never learned it in the first place.

Bibliography:

Horn, Dara. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. W. W. Norton & Company, 7 Sept. 2021.

Jacob Geller. “Fantasies of Nuremberg.” YouTube, 25 July 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ay5tzHIBU.

Nasaw, David. The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War. S.L., Penguin Books, 15 Sept. 2020.

[chutefullofholes]

every time there’s a viral post about Magnus Hirschfeld that fails to mention he was jewish and nazi hatred of his work (and queerness as a whole) was a cause and effect of nazis blaming jews for any and all ‘degeneracy’ i want to Scream Yell Scream. you cannot should not separate what happened to him from that what do you mean ‘remember! they didn’t just hate jews they also-‘ HE WAS JEWISHHHH !!!! he was openly jewish and that’s a large part of why he was persecuted so heavily!!!! why are you leaving that out!!! he is not fodder for your ‘ugh those meanie jews are always so greedy and make the holocaust all about them 😠’ inversion

[chutefullofholes]

if you were wondering this was ultimately prompted by someone on reddit saying, verbatim, “it’s not all about the Jews”. when i nicely! casually! responded to their comment reccing his work to add to the conversation that his jewishness was a part of his persecution/broader nazi prosecution of queer people. they seemed chill and i was genuinely just adding to the conversation and the response was. That.

[exhuastedpigeon]

The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?

[wasturbatress]

[raptorific]

If I didn’t remember actually reading this in an actual Calvin and Hobbes book as a child I’d think it was ironically photoshopped like those comics where Mickey Mouse and Goofy talk about how reality is an illusion but this comic strip was actually just……. already………… like that……………

[wasturbatress]

[raptorific]

If I didn’t remember actually reading this in an actual Calvin and Hobbes book as a child I’d think it was ironically photoshopped like those comics where Mickey Mouse and Goofy talk about how reality is an illusion but this comic strip was actually just……. already………… like that……………

[chutefullofholes]

every time there’s a viral post about Magnus Hirschfeld that fails to mention he was jewish and nazi hatred of his work (and queerness as a whole) was a cause and effect of nazis blaming jews for any and all ‘degeneracy’ i want to Scream Yell Scream. you cannot should not separate what happened to him from that what do you mean ‘remember! they didn’t just hate jews they also-‘ HE WAS JEWISHHHH !!!! he was openly jewish and that’s a large part of why he was persecuted so heavily!!!! why are you leaving that out!!! he is not fodder for your ‘ugh those meanie jews are always so greedy and make the holocaust all about them 😠’ inversion

[arkyn-99]

There’s a reason I really like ‘humans are space orcs’ or ‘space far’ ect stories. Across both sci-fi and fantasy humans are often just the default ‘plain’ race. And that feels kind of reductive to both humans and aliens. It makes us feel kind of pointless and it makes aliens just feel like human+. So I really like this genre because it explores humans as something different with their own strengths.

That being said I’m now running into the opposite problem where I’m getting tired of reading stories where humans are just like overpowered gods compared to every other species.

I wanna read stories where we interact with creatures with completely different strengths and weaknesses than us. Stories that acknowledge the evolutionary path humans went on and explore how that makes us different from creatures that evolved from a different path.

Like we evolved from tree dwelling primates, we are likely a lot more comfortable climbing than say a species that evolved from a burrowing animal who would be more comfortable in enclosed spaces than us.

Or the human endurance, we evolved to be persistent pursuit hunters. It’s where our sweat comes from, it’s part of our thermal regulation that allowed our ancestors to run/walk for miles after their prey. We likely have way more endurance than any creature that evolved from an ambush predator but they might be faster or stronger.

Or going back to our hunting methods we also evolved to use projectiles. Like our brains and arms literally evolved to throw with distance, power, and accuracy. Us having athletes that can throw a ball at over 90 mph would be insane to a species without that adaptation. Maybe we even developed projectiles earlier in our civilization than other species. But they likely have their own sport based on something we might not even be able to do.

There are so many cool features that we can have different than other species. And there are so many features other species could potentially have that would be awesome to us. Like imagine the dexterity of something that evolved from a cephalopod. Or the agility from something that evolved from a feline.

Basically, I don’t want one side, human or alien to be overpowered. I want them to look at each other and both be amazed at what the other can do.

[3artho]

About time they got married

[3artho]

About time they got married

[anntova]

🤖🔥

[peachaberri]

Chad bringing Robert to a family gathering, he’s sitting in the living room surrounded kids as they intently watch him complete a level on a game.

Kids tend to hover around Robert, something about him just screams ‘trusted adult’, but Chad will never get used to how the scene makes him feel. The kids cheer as he beats the level and Robert looks like he’s exactly where he wants to be.

They make eye contact and Robert smiles so sweetly at him and waves, all the kids repeat his motion and wave at him too. Robert is promptly dragged to the backyard by a dozen hands.

Chad smiles at the scene, he loves this, loves Robert. Makes him want to burst into flames, but not of anger, maybe happiness, fulfillment? If it were up to Chad he’d keep Robert in a little box in his pocket, carrying him around. He wants more, he wants people to think of them as a unit, that if Robert was somewhere then Chad must be nearby, a zigzag of flaming orange next to a clean line of plasma blue.

In simpler terms, he wants to marry Robert. Wants the whole ceremony and after party, wants to say embarrassingly vulnerable vows and slip a sliver band on his finger, sign the papers and smush their names together.

…

Chad finally snaps out of his love induced stupor, the table has gone quiet, aside from his sister very obviously trying not to laugh. His mom looks like she’s about to cry, and his dad looks both prideful and teary-eyed. What happened..?

“You know, I’m sure he’d say yes, if you asked” his mom’s wobbly voice offers.

Oh. Oh shit- did he say all that out-loud?

[s0rinarl]

been seeing lots of dragon flambae lately 🐉

[bloopiebloops]

I should have done this sooner, but I made a little guide of Robert's scars! I don't think I realized just how many scars he has on his chest, and how few he has on his legs??? He needs more leg scars for sure.

Anyways, this is just a thing I made for myself, but anyone else is welcome to it as well! Re-posting is fine as well, no credit needed.

[kilgarraara]

the cutscene is still playing

[falling-star-cygnus]

feeling a little evil rn

okay, so you know how Robert apparently cried a lot as a kid? [understandably, because he was missing his dad] and now apparently doesn't cry unless... well.. you know

imagine after everything, after Shroud, after finally letting all his injuries heal for once instead of pushing through it, it finally hits him- when the Z-Team brings him some takeout during their lunch break. ↓ Robert had been put on mandatory leave until he could breathe without wincing

so, as he's standing in the center of all the furnishing they've forced upon him, as he's holding the warm meal, he realizes-

Oh.

They do care.

And he starts crying.

It's not loud- he doesn't even realize it at first, and he doesn't sob, or break down, but his shoulders hitch and suddenly there's tears running down his face. -> Z-Team freaks out -> What did they do wrong?? WHy is their dispatcher crying??? Does he just- not like the food? Did they overwhelm him by showing up all at once!? DOES HE NOT LIKE THEM??? -> Golem braves the tension first

"Uh... Robert?" "Shit- sorry- sorry, guys, I don't... I don't know why-"

Robert can't help but let out a watery laugh, and scrub at his eye with his free hand.

Chad grabs his wrist- gentler than he's ever been- and scoffs, "You're going to fuck up your face, Bob-Bob." ↓ his other hand still comes up slowly, carefully, to brush away the rest- and his hands are shaky. Robert can see the way he swallows too thickly

"This is why everyone calls you a bitch- you.. you know? Getting all emotional over a meal- ...stop it.."

It doesn't work of course- Robert cries just that much harder, until the Z-Team is surrounding him and offering their own brands of comfort -> it's clumsy, they don't really know how to do this, but they still try. They still need to try, to repay the man that gave them so much