garliconnoisseur

[real-language-facts]

invented a new word today. its 'plagiarism'. im a genius i know

[real-language-facts]

invented a new word today. its 'plagiarism'. im a genius i know

[messyfr3ak]

Everything is becoming everything else... they're instagramming twitter, twittering substack, substacking facebook. The only thing that remains unfaltered amidst all this, as it was meant to, and as it began... Tumblr.

[redstonedust]

i like when a piece of media says that an all-powerful character "sees humans as insects" because that really could mean a lot of things. maybe they view us as insignifigant and will squish us under their boot. maybe theyre actually studying and cataloguing us for their thesis paper. maybe theyre campaigning for human protection because we're an important part of their ecosystem. maybe they see a human and go "ew ew ewwwwww someone get the cup and get that FREAK out of my house." .

[dragon-in-a-fez]

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

[gay-milton-quotes]

it's amazing how often "this trans woman is behaving like a man" is actually, when you examine it, "this trans woman is behaving confidently."

the concept of trans women being "male socialized" is a falsehood for a variety of reasons & also. you look at a woman, decide (from no actual information beyond your looking at her) that she is perhaps more uninhibited, less chained to the feminine role you believe you're forced into, and maybe, coincidentally, you're correct this time, and she is confident, assertive, comfortable with her body, and other traits you ascribe to "masculinity." and your first instinct is to beat her down. that's what you want? that's what you want.

[turing-tested]

[zizibutik]

if a terf even looks at this they will die in seven days just to clarify

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[quasi-normalcy]

We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"

[void-flesh]

[guccifloralsuits]

If THE modern translator of the OG Odyssey text wrote this about my film adaptation I’d kill myself

Emily Wilson you’re goated

[valtsv]

fantasy really did cook with dragons as an allegory for weapons of mass destruction, more specifically as a symbolic manifestation of the insatiable greed that drives men to seek to claim ownership and control over such weapons

[valtsv]

like oh man i sure hope your dismissal and objectification of highly independent and intelligent beings as "savage beasts" and the fiercely possessive pride you take in their subjugation doesn't reflect your broader ideological values haha. can you even imagine.

[messyfr3ak]

"Every hegemonic order establishes not only acceptable political opinions but also an acceptable political language. Civility, respectability and decorum become part of the discipline through which power regulates dissent: protesters are expected to be polite even while protesting injustice. But history suggests that ruptures typically begin by breaking this linguistic convention. The language of revolt is seldom parliamentary. It is emotional rather than measured, mocking rather than deferential, often deliberately transgressive – and what looks like vulgarity to the establishment is frequently the first public expression of accumulated humiliation and anger. "

Anand Teltumbde's In Defence of the Profanity of the Protestera, for The Wire.

In Defence of the Profanity of Protesters - The Wire

The state had a script for slogans, petitions, op-eds – the standard grammar of Indian dissent, which it had learned to out-shout, outspend

[soracities]

If age and disability teach us anything, it is that investing in beauty will never set us free. Beauty has always been hurled as a weapon. It has always taken the form of an exclusive club; and supposed protection against violence, isolation and pain, but this is a myth. It is not true, even for those accepted in to the club.

Mia Mingus, from "Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability"

[pup-purgatory]

[havingapoemwithyou]

No Coward Soul Is Mine By Emily Brontë

[havingapoemwithyou]

to paula in late spring by W.S. Merwin

[troublepunk-ldn]

i am 100% convinced that mobile phone/ social media bans for under 16s are an attempt to remove kids and teens from public life. this is not protecting kids this is locking them in houses with no escape from their abusers. the world is so hostile to teenagers rn

[glorioustragedykid]

There's a weird 3 star movie out there ready to change your life forever