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transhuman-priestess

Tumblr did not “Goncharov” Poob. Poob is Glupp Shittoing Tubi/Pluto/Roku Channel/Hulu/etc.

gender-luster

none of these words are in the bible. or the dictionary, for that matter.

hugintheraven

#While this is a joke#For the etymologists out there#Tumblr did not “goncharov” poob#translation: Tumblr is not making a fictitious thing called poob that we insist is real#Poob is glup shittoing (streaming services)#Translation: Poob is now a generic name for whatever streaming platform is out there when you don't feel like naming something specifically

gallusrostromegalus

Etymologists are on Tumblr for the same reason Primatologists are out in the jungle: It's where the Monkeys are.

sometiktoksarevalid

upswings

i get annoyed at every iteration of "if bruce was a good parent, he'd make his kids go to school and be normal children" not just because it substitutes cinemasins-style critique of a genre-wide convention for discussion of the specific ways in which bruce, in particular, is a bad parent, and not even because the genre convention is a deeply important one that exists for a reason!! even though it is!! but because, like

within the context of the story i think it is really important that all of bruce's kids took up vigilantism of their own free will, because they felt called upon to help when the world had need of them, and that that heroism is what first draws them into bruce's orbit and, ultimately, binds them together as a community -- and also, that all of this is a good thing

like, reframing the narrative into one in which the kids only go out and fight crime because bruce tricked them into it, or even because they're too young to know any better (and bruce should have stopped them), does a disservice to their characters, and to aspects of their story which exist outside of their relationship to bruce. and i don't think it accomplishes anything in exchange! it's not really even a critique of bruce, because like i said, everyone has kid sidekicks, or at least is doing absolutely nothing about the fact that everyone around them has kid sidekicks.

#the thing with the robins is that a good batman wishes they would go to school and be normal kids.#but the robins have seen a world that does not care about them or people like them #and each of them have decided to do something about it and nothing anyone says will convince them otherwise #batman can either let them get killed doing it #or he can engage in harm reduction #and train them to do this properly #and man does he wish he had a third option #but he is also maybe the only person on the planet who can understand what the decision these kids made actually means

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

it is extremely sobering as a trans woman trying to articulate a materialist analysis of her own position politically socially and historically AS a woman, and to be not only confronted with but confronted by — that is to say, challenged by — a trans man whose explicit out-loud position boils down to "wait now, hold on, i actually want to be thought of as a different kind of man to whom different rules apply and who is only a man in some situations — when you guys [sic] say you're women you're actually serious?" and to be clear i don't think this is true of most trans men or is in any way like, essential to trans men, but it keeps happening. how many of these guys are there??

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

@mokeonn tags were like cold water for my brain

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

fantastically good tags by @viscer-aa

i have sometimes had disillusioned and hurt trans women ask me where to find the transmascs who actually do stand with us in solidarity, well sisters THEYRE IN THE NOTES OF THIS POST BEING BASED AS FUCK

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

@404ravens with yet more excellence in the tags

penny-anna

hot take:

Gloin is the sexiest dwarf by dwarf standards.

Kili is the sexiest dwarf by elf standards.

Thorin is the sexiest dwarf by human standards

& Bombur is the sexiest dwarf by hobbit standards

penny-anna

#ITS TRUE AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT #(ALSO THORIN AND KILI BEING ‘UGLY’ BY DWARF STANDARDS IS AMUSING CONTENT)

further take: Kili is straight-up ugly by dwarf standards. Thorin is like, the dwarf equivalent of Benedict Cumberbatch. Some dwarves think he’s an absolutely dreamboat, others think he is super weird looking, there’s very little middle ground.

kayla-bird-deactivated20190505

omg now i’m like. what does this make frodo by hobbit standards

penny-anna

by hobbit standards, I’m afraid Frodo is probably. not conventionally attractive at all.

femmefaramir

Frodo is the sexiest hobbit by elf standards

stinkylittlegnome

@femmefaramir this is some fucking galaxy brain level tags and im crying out of sheer horror

headspace-hotel

Every day, against my will, the LOTR fandom makes posts.

captainlordauditor

One of those retellings of Batman as a fairy tale things but instead of a fairy tale it’s Talmud

captainlordauditor

Baruch Atalef of Gat went into the city and saw a traveler die. He took the traveler's son as a student. Kal-el said to him, "why do you not bless him [as a father blesses his son]?" Baruch said: I shall not bless him, for it is written, "you shall revere your mother and father".

At night, Baruch Atalef of Gat would go by the houses of the poor and the elders [who had no children] and leave coins at their door. His student Dror ben Yohanon asked him, "why do you not give in the daylight?" Baruch Atalef replied, "does a mitzvah exist to be seen?"

captainlordauditor

Another rabbi tells, Baruch Atalef of Gat went into the city and saw a traveler die. He took the traveler's son as a student. Kal-el said to him, "why do you not bless him [as a father blesses his son]?" Baruch said: I shall not bless him, for it is written, "you were strangers in the land of Egypt".

When Baruch Atalef's second student was slain in battle, he sought vengeance. But Kal-el said: is this the justice for a departed soul? And Baruch stayed his anger. Later, Baruch had a vision of his student returning. His student said, “why do you not avenge me? I have died, yet my killer still lives.” Baruch said: does the Torah not teach us “the bloods of your brother cry out”?

storiesintheashes

At night, Gerashom bat Tel of Gat went forth to do mitzvot under cover of darkness. Baruch Atalef told her to return to the house of Tel, saying, “is it not said that a woman who studies Torah receives a heavenly reward but not as much as the reward of a man, because she is not commanded to study the law.” Gerashom bat Tel rebuked him, saying “is it not written that the Lord is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works?”

tedlyanderson

@apocrypals

themainspoon

There's so many horror games about having to try to weed out and deal with inhuman imposters, but I want one where the script is flipped. You are something inhuman, you are an imposter, and if you want to survive you have to blend into a world that is trying to hunt you down and destroy you. You aren't human, but you must masquerade as one and infiltrate their world, or you will die.

themainspoon

I actually think we need to start inverting more Horror premises/tropes.

Like "You have to venture into the scary insane asylum!" VS "You're a patient who was admitted by force to an asylum, and you are very clearly in real danger, but everyone is pretending that you're just deluded, and are essentially leaving you to die because they don't really see you as a person."

I feel like there's a lot of Horror tropes built off of the fear of the other, when in reality it's actually often the other who is in danger. Maybe we could start recognising that more.

themainspoon

Interesting how the first half of the post has picked up popularity while the second part, which perhaps clarifies the idea of the original post, hasn't.

It's been interesting to see what media people are recommending based on the first post alone. A lot of recommendations for games/franchises like World of Darkness, Carrion, Kill All Humans, Among Us, etc. It's interesting because these are games that put you into the shoes of the violent other that has to infiltrate, without actually challenging the idea that the other is a threat. They actually parrot the ideas of the other as violent.

Funnily enough, the people recommending the comedy game Octodad understand the post much better than most of the people recommending horror media. A few mentions of Am I Nima, which isn't finished yet but does look like it could be what I am describing, so brownie points to the people recommending that.

But everyone saying stuff like "This is just being Trans/Autistic/Etc" really gets it, like really really gets it. Horror always communicates the fears and anxieties of the people who create it, this post was basically: "What if instead of communicating the fear of the other, we communicated the fears of the others, which are actually vastly more legitimate than the dominant groups fear of the other. We should recognise that it is overwhelmingly the others who are the ones who actually suffer and die, all for the perceived "saftey" and "comfort" of the dominant group."

This idea is about transphobia, it is about ableism, about anti-imigrant rhetoric and white supremacy, about queerphobia, it's about all of it. It is horror from the perspective of minority groups. It is the twisting of a trope built upon reactionary fears and narratives in order to critique them, it is a direct allegory for all those experiences you are describing.

Overall, it's just interesting to see who gets it and who doesn't.

copperbadge

What I find fascinating is that in the 1990s, this was a media trope. Maybe not a common one but I can think of at least two shows where a protagonist was committed to an asylum -- or were they? Were they insane or were they being imprisoned for being truthful? And the endgame was always yes...they were seeing the truth and were punished for it.

Riker in TNG and Buffy in BTVS are the ones I can name but there must be more. Perhaps "In The Mouth of Madness"? In any case, someone saw this and reacted, thirty years ago. Wild to feel like Riker in an asylum in 2026.