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25-30, he/they, australian Currently watching: Star Trek DS9 Currently into Arcane esp Zaundads, COD Ghostsoap, The Old Guard esp Joe/Nicky, and Sleep Token. Other things seen here: Black Sails, Hannibal, IWTV (TV), and far more cats than you would expect full list of fandoms in my [TAG DIRECTORY] I tag everything to the best of my ability, for blacklisting and archive purposes \\ QUEUE 6-8PM AEST // [ASK]

[heatedrivalrysource]

via Aaron Idelson

@connorstorrieofficial and @hudsonwilliamsofficial for @tryquinn 🩵

[perseruna]

happy may 1st 🪻💓 happy belleteyn 💐💘 happy birthday to yennefer and ciri ✨🌙🌾

[salvadorbonaparte]

I wish I could go to a doctor and just list every single symptom I ever experienced no matter how small and unconnected they seem and the doctor is nice and patient and knows everything and they nod and smile and explain that every symptom I ever experienced is connected to like one rare and often overlooked issue that's sooooo easy to fix with like. a pill. and then I never have to worry about anything ever again.

[do-you-have-a-flag]

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[anti-parent]

So you advocate for family abolition and are anti-parent but youve mentioned that you have kids…if you are against parents and family why did you yourself become a parent? (I am genuinely curious and I’m sorry if this sounds rude) also is there anything that you’ve learned from your antiparent/family abolition research that you incorporate when raising your kids?

i've been taking care of kids for most of my life. i love spending time with them. i love watching them grow and learn. after i graduated high school & moved, i had a good few years where i was barely taking care of kids at all, and it felt like my soul was shriveling up. kids are so energetic & straightforward & thoughtful & creative & curious & deeply kind (when they want to be). they're just the best.

i didn't start getting into family abolition stuff until after my first child was born, but i don't think family abolition & child caregiving are mutually exclusive at all. i'm against the structure of the family & the power parents hold over kids. but under this system, parenting is the main type of child caregiving that is readily accessible to me. i felt like i was in a decent position to take on the responsibility & it's been going pretty well so far.

there's SO much i've learned from family abolition readings that i try to incorporate into my caregiving.

choosing where to live based on public transit/amenity access within walking distance

teaching the kids how to navigate the public transit system increasingly independently starting from 1 year old

encouraging them to create & maintain their own connections to their community

explaining the structural context & decision making process of parenting. and the difference between respect and obedience

taking their bodily autonomy very seriously from the moment they were born

making the house as accessible for them as possible

teaching them self care tasks (cooking, laundry, etc) starting as early as possible

treating them gender neutrally

advocating for them w other adults when they aren't being treated with respect

teaching them about how power dynamics affect the world around them. about the power i hold over them and how they can hold me accountable. and about their own capacity for harm & how to manage it

not treating them like they're my possessions. or like they owe me anything because i'm their parent. or like the process of learning & growing is one-directional

they're still very young & i'm sure that list will evolve a lot over time. i'm curious to see how they'll feel about all of this as they grow up.

[anti-parent]

a few people have mentioned that they or their parents implemented a lot of this stuff without necessarily believing in family abolition. which, yeah. family abolition is a structural critique of the family form. there's very little i can do to abolish it in my individual sphere lol

another thing that i have been working on a lot is this collective childcare framework that shares labor between parents and alloparents (nonparents) while also holding adults accountable for the power they have over kids. i haven't talked about it on here in much detail because it's still in the very early stages & i want to put it into practice and iron out issues before recommending it to other people. the idea is to create a blueprint for a childcare program that other activist orgs can adopt. that way it not only frees up parents' time/energy for activism, but also provides a strong social safety net for kids & creates a space for them within the movement

it's difficult, though! creating accountability processes that work with vastly different abilities to communicate about preferences & harm... and trying to put all of this into practice consistently when basically everyone i know is burnt out already... none of it is easy. it's taking a lot of time.

[subjectverb]

if i were a dead wife i would want my husband to fag out kinda. i would be fujoing out from hell

[subjectverb]

im am SO obsessed with this beautiful beautiful scene you conjure youre getting peer reviewd holy shot

[spiribia]

I like when the bus stops directly in front of you out of the line of waiting people and opens its doors. Chosen by the dragon

[icarusdiesatdawn]

I hate this post. Ever since I read it I can't help but think "chosen by the dragon" whenever the bus stops in front of me or "denied by the dragon" when it doesn't. Every. single. time. That's a minimum of ten times a week. Do you know how annoying that is

[valiants]

And a lovely request from Shainira... thank you always 💖💋

[xenosaurus]

it’s a shame more vampire media doesn’t pull from vampire bat behavior because they’re such sweeties. they can only survive their incredibly specialized diet because bats will share blood with colony members that didn’t find a meal! there’s evidence that suggests the donors sometimes initiate this behavior themselves by approaching hungry bats! the colonies are mostly harems of females with a few males but they’ve been observed letting unrelated males in when it gets cold so they can all stay warm! cute little social critters!

[xenosaurus]

@yupekosi your tags have created such a beautiful world

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

398.45 and 599.45

vampires and vampire bats

[tgirl-thucydides]

[oysters-aint-for-me]

[thecottageinthedark]

[petermorwood]

You have to listen to the basic melody a while before you start to improvise.

[crabussy]

really fond of humans just from an appearance standpoint. the long legs. the manes of hair that can come in practically any colour and texture. those crazy high-contrast eyes with the white scleras and colourful irises. the fingers being so much longer than the toes. there's a lot to love. solid 10/10 animal species

[crabussy]

BAFFLINGLY SPOT ON COMPARISON.

[mitrielle]

I was asked if I could create this picture in a format suitable for a mobile phone wallpaper. As it is (still) my favourite piece I’ve ever made, I was of course more than happy to oblige.

Feel free to use it (and to get emotional together with me)!

[chloebangbang]

because some folks were curious, here's what my phone's keyboard looks like and how I type on it.

[libraford]

Listen, I'm having fun playing with the ultra patriotic voice, but after a couple years in blue-collar landscaping jobs, you really do need to phrase things like that.

"I'm pretty sure that fella ain't here legally."

"Well, that ain't your business Chip, it's his."

They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like 'gender wage gap' they'll tell you you're brainwashed by the far left media.

"He's one of them transgenders."

"He got freedoms too, Jimmy."

[weshallbekind]

Also, please understand that SO often the real issue these people have is that they just want to say something inappropriate. They don't like being told they can't say "fag", so they'd say it for a reaction, just like a teenager would.

Shut down the conversation without reacting.

"His dick, not mine" will get you much further to shutting that guy down than "well it's really inappropriate to call someone a slur while on the job site".

And that's the point. To shut them up. To make them quit saying shit like that. The first one makes him seem kinda weird for caring about what that guy does with his dick. The second one gives him something to fight against and make a big deal about.

[shyravenns]

Baelor didn't [REDACTED] he simply went to Dorne to have a hot girl summer

[doloneia]

ok ive seen nolans odyssey and what the fuck was that actually

[doloneia]

Parts that made me tweak in a dim-lit movie theater:

1. Every time we meet a woman or enslaved individual that, y’know, had some semblance of agency in the text, Nolan has just… removed that? Circe’s commanding presence & how she genuinely overpowers Odysseus? Gone. Helen actually stealing the show in Book 4 where she walks down into the room and controls the conversation re: Odysseus & Troy? Gone. Utterly Gone. Lupita Nyong’o gets 0 chance to speak on her own terms and its actually so depressing. Also I’m genuinely unsure here but it seemed like Circe & Calypso’s divine status was… nonexistent?? They’re both goddesses but apparently not to Christopher Nolan 🫤

And this treatment extends to Odysseus’ slaves, specifically Eumaeus & Eurycleia (eurynome & philoetius not appearing in this goddamn film ifg). Almost every action taken by Eurycleia in the Odyssey is attributed to someone else in Nolan’s adaptation, she gets 0.2 seconds of screentime, its actually absurd. I think she has two lines in the whole movie. Eurycleia. Odysseus and Telemachus’ nurse. The woman who canonically organizes the doors to be locked during the suitor’s slaughter? Who canonically helps secure Telemachus’ provisions for Pylos? fuckin. Not There. And Eumaeus (who literally perfectly models xenia to a disguised Odysseys while living in extreme poverty) notably Does Not Get To Do That in Nolan’s odyssey, instead he’s like. injured I guess? I’m so fuckin confused as to why that happened, it just made the plot more convoluted. Medon is also just not there at all. Medon who is actually the fuckin best?? My underestimated king??? Where Is He.

2. oh my god everything abt the scene with Polyphemus makes me want to claw my eyes out (except maybe his eye? that looked kinda cool idfk). yknow how polyphemus appears, speaks to the crew, and they let their guard down? how the polyphemus episode represents the world outside of greek customs like xenia? how he fucking talks to them? he talks to them and his neighbors? yeah. in Nolan’s odyssey, there are no neighbors. there is no existential mirror/cyclopean foil to ithacan society. there are no other cyclopes. He doesnt even fucking talk 😭😭 <- i mean he gets one line but the audios so distorted that without captions i had no idea what he said

3. Anticleia reunion scene? Nonexistent. Laertes? Nonexistent. Allegedly still around. Sir Not-Appearing In-This-Film. Book 15 reunion between Telemachus and Odysseus? Nonexistent. Reunion between Odysseus, Eumaeus, and Philoetius? Not there. The fucking marriage bed scene? The goddamn marriage bed? NOT THERE. screams into a bag

4. ODYSSEUS “DIDNT WANT TO RETURN HOME” 😭 they keep fucking saying this over and over again too and. No he very much did. No home means no guaranteed kleos guys. his sons life is in jeopardy but Ok christopher shitlan do whatever the fuck you want, i guess

5. every time i heard them say “our civilization is collapsing” or “they say the peoples from the sea are attacking” or “our age of bronze is ending” not only did i feel my soul die a little more inside but i also kept thinking “man, this sounds a lot like the white supremacist belief in ‘western civilization’ just superimposed onto a falsified image of the late bronze age” and thats because It Is.

strange decisions:

1. boar scar apparently occurred when odysseus was an adult???

2. elliot page’s sinon gets one helluva backstory which i guess was kinda cool if you ignore elliot page getting brutally slaughtered in the first 30 seconds of the movie? not sure how to feel about that

3. travis scott kept showing up randomly which was like. fine i guess? genuinely im not sure what the difference between him & phemius was supposed to be. i didnt even see phemius. tbf i was taking notes this whole time so maybe i missed him? but travis scott shouldve just been phemius idfk why he wasnt

4. The Phaecians are just not there guys and i have no idea why. odysseus’ wanderings are being narrated to calypso?

5. the crew mutinies at scylla instead? odysseus tries to sail towards charybdis??? this was a bizarre sequence

6. no nestor or peisistratus. somehow telemachus sails to the 100% inland palace of menelaus. who needs a chariot when you’ve got a Boat i guess

7. half of my notes just say “what happened to show, don’t tell” because the amount of exposition made me want to slam my head into the wall

highlights:

1. anne hathaway and tom holland had a very good dynamic, i feel like they really captured some of the tension between penelope & telemachus, ie penelope running the house for 20 years and still assuming some of that authority vs. telemachus trying to grow up/assume control of the household/establish his own kleos. loved that dynamic tbh. one of the better parts of the telemachy sections

2. lupita nyong’o was great in the uh. 30 seconds she had on screen. im so serious helen was fucking robbed in this movie

3. himesh patel fucking carried every scene he was in on his Back

4. rare cicones appearance

maybe the real sea peoples was the troy we sacked along the way

[my0clonic-jerk]

[cardassiangoodreads]

Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all. (The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)

[tjalexandernyc]

Laws like this indeed do a lot to stop fascist book censorship. They can also help legally protect librarians from getting fired or harassed for keeping books on the shelves! Some states like Rhode Island have already passed these laws. If you're in a blue state, look up whether you have laws like this on the books. MAYBE your state is trying to get one passed right now, like New York's Freedom to Read bill. call your state elected officials to voice support for it.