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28//t1d//queer af

[redstonedust]

you'll spend so long in deep discussions of gender online and then go talk to someone in your real life family and find out they still havent gotten past "women can be good at things" and its like oh okay jesus christ i forgot some people are still on the baby steps huh

[thatweirdguyinthebushes]

"if i was orpheus i simply wouldn't have turned around" if you didn't love her enough to turn around, you didn't love her enough to crawl through the underworld to save her. if you could prevent yourself from looking back, you wouldn't be trying to bring her back to life. if you were able to look forward, you would be grieving.

"if I was orpheus I simply wouldn't have turned around" if you don't love her enough to turn around, you aren't orpheus.

[yellowraincoat]

I think this recent conversation is interesting actually, because it reveals two schools of thought.

The request not to look back at a loved one you’re worried about goes against human nature. When you’re walking with someone you love and they’re out of your sight, the urge to find them and check on them is so strong. So I think whether or not Orpheus turning around is a failing or proof or his love depends a lot on what love means to you.

Are you doing everything you can to save her, even defying your own nature, your good sense, your worry, putting your own feelings and humanity aside in the hopes that at the end she’ll live?

The people who say that they wouldn’t have turned around are saying that her life is worth their discomfort, their stress, and fear on that long walk. But that they could distance themselves from it, even if it meant forcing their own face forward, for the sake of her life.

Or is love best exemplified by human nature itself? That you’re doing everything you can to save her, head straight forward. but then in a moment, on an instinct, you turn to look, because you love her, and you’re worried, and you can’t not.

The people who say turning around is the point say that love is not separate from human instinct, that it can’t be overcome. When we spin around in a second to find our friends and family in the crowd when we realize that they’re no longer at our side? That’s a pure show of love too.

Basically the debate is, ‘is love a thoughtful sacrifice or what we show in the moments where we don’t think at all.’ And think the answer is a combination of both. It’s why Orpheus finds his way to the underworld in the first place. And it’s why, even if you don’t turn around, the instinct is there, and you’re fighting it all the way.

[toddsolondz]

i’m like a clown that no one hired or pays

[captainjonnitkessler]

So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"

Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.

[captainjonnitkessler]

"Modern movements are too fractured, too aimless, with too much infighting and corruption among the leadership. What we need is a revolution, which famously never have any issues with those things" okay then. Good luck I guess

This whole line of thinking comes down to "the current systems and leadership are bad. What we need is a fresh start with only people who are good, and then all the systems will be good". Which is simply not how anything has ever worked!

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

there's literally nothing more radical in 2026 than believing that humanity can become good news for each other and the only world we'll ever share.

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

#No revolutionary has a message as counterculture or system-threatening as “Humans are good actually.” #because if people are good #then we must value their lives #and offer them equal opportunities to live healthfully #and offer them meaningful educational opportunities #and provide them with housing and other basic necessities #if humans are good and the human endeavor is worth it #then we must build systems that acknowledge and enact the immense value of each human life

[sistertaxon]

actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things

[bumblebeebats]

The crazy thing is, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, if you asked me on any given day "Would like to see a picture of some genitals?" my answer would be "😰 No, that's... No, thank you. I'm okay, actually." I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who do engage with the penis side of the internet, but personally, I've spent the better part of two decades doing all I can NOT to have pictures of dick and balls or sexy bikini babe buttcheeks blasted onto my retinas constantly. And yet... to be denied the penis? To have a jumped up pile of javascript tell me, a grown adult with an air fryer and an outstanding council tax bill, that I cannot be trusted to withstand the sight of a bare nipple unless I let it scan my drivers' license? I will move heaven and earth to see that fucking nipple, friend. I will walk a thousand miles barefoot on hot coals before I give you big brother bitches my passport number. A thousand miles through the desert with five VPNs just to press my face up against the glass and see the last uncensored picture of two My Little Pony Characters sixty-nining each other, and I don't even want! to look at it! But I will! I must! for the sake of our fucking democracy!

[teaboot]

“Why are you scared of dating” I’m not scared of dating, I just haven’t found anyone’s company to be more enjoyable than my own. And also I don’t care

[justlightmeonfire]

I just don't want anyone to steal my very cursed amulet

[teaboot]

Also the amulet

[nekoning]

the use of AI lately has made me feel so hopeless, i translated pages of an unfinished fanzine of mine so i can remember why i love art...i hope it can resonate with anyone feeling the same way

[localpubliclibrary]

Man no one even remembers laptop in bed. It was laptop in bed for years. Now it's just phone in bed. Maybe tablet. But usually phone. So much has changed

[shittierpost]

Idk there's something really sweet to me about fix-it writers. Like, me and you- maybe we couldnt make it this time, but in another universe, a million people saw the pain of our story and are writing us a happy ending, giving us the chance we never had

[sobcat]

[angelbabymikaa]

“tattoos are going out of style” they’ve been around for a thousand years im sorry you’re conservative now get well soon ig

[dailyflicks]

GLEE (2009 - 2013) 3X14 - On My Way

[livedinthecastle]

my love language is being the little devil on your shoulder telling u to indulge. if you're someone with more self control and discipline than me and you need a little push to buy those concert tickets, dye ur hair pink or go to that party on a week night fucking hit me up i love telling ppl to say fuck it. i don't even need to go with u i just love knowing u did it. nothing too bad nothing that'll damage ur life but if u got a tiny pleasure you're denying yourself i would love to change ur mind and then watch like sicko from the window

[tamamita]

They are putting prince andrew in some kind of hazardous puzzle chamber filling up with gravel or lava or something while a dragon is sneaking up from behind

[marcelshorjian]

anatomy of a humiliation