Habitual Reader

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[strangehorse]

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

Like. There is a significant gap between 'a lot of studies do not take into account variations caused by things like female hormone cycles, which can limit how generalisable they are' and 'medical science does not apply to women', and the latter just seems to create a situation rife for bad faith actors and snake oil salesmen to reassure you that actually, THEY have the answers, because THEY listen to women, and if you simply pay them for their online subscription service-

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[ilynpilled]

at the end of the day i think that if u want certain ppl to no longer idolize and fan over characters u deliberately write to dismantle and criticize certain things the only thing that actually works is very unpalatable aura loss. that is the one thing that makes them repulsive to them bc that is legitimately how they operate. that is how u can tear down their ubermensch in their minds not with anything else really lol

[readorsigh]

This exact thing is playing out as we speak in The Boys fandom (or what's left of it)

Fascist fans of Homelander were left crying foul and complaining about bad writing cause the villain of the story goes out like a bitch, crying and moaning, begging for his life and offering to suck the cock of the man about to kill him

Loss of aura really was the only thing that actually, effectively made the fascists stop admiring the fascist villain

[captain-price-returns]

Man, Xi Jinping knows more American culture and history than most Americans.

[louisegluckpdf]

basically what were gonna do is blog

[turtle-paced]

I got the feeling again that an ask I submitted two months ago didn't go through, but seeing you talking about Arys reminded me of it. I was re-reading AFFC a while back and got to thinking about Arys and Arianne's relationship. Specifically, I'm wondering if there was ever actually anything between them or was it just lust on the one hand and manipulation on the other. What was the point of their affair since it ended in Arys' death? Or was it specifically just to pile on misery for Arianne?

The answer to what was between them lies in the point of the affair. And that point was that Arianne’s plan was bad (part of AFFC’s critique of seduction as a political tool). Some of her bad planning isn’t her fault, but some of it undeniably is.

Now, I’m not saying she’s stupid, and I’m not saying she was wrong or unjustified in pursuing her objectives, I’m saying her plan was a bad one. With Arys, Arianne falls into the same trap as her father does, treating essential people in her schemes neither fully as pawns nor fully as partners. She’s not ruthless enough to wring every last drop of use out of Arys and move on (as people such as Cersei and Littlefinger do), nor willing to take the risk of trusting him completely. As we see following Arys’ death, Arianne got too invested (though she wasn’t in love with him), and their affair compromised her emotionally without at any point giving her the benefit, emotionally or intellectually, of a full partner in her plans. The halfway stance was one of the worst Arianne could have adopted. It’s quite deliberately a parallel to her father’s own flaws as a planner.

The matter of Arys, on the other hand, is pretty simple. He was seduced and manipulated. Arys has been a tool for someone else to use whenever he appeared (his abdication of his own agency largely being the point of him as a character), and that didn’t change when he got a PoV.

[readorsigh]

Thinking about how Arys racks up as a Kingsguard who ruins the stability of the feudal system as someone who gets played into handing over a princess to be mutilated in addition to trying to set up a counter monarch and stoke fresh civil war.

@ilynpilled, what do you think?

[cpericardium]

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

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[boobieteriat]

We will hang all NYT staff one day inshallah

[courtesyname]

“A comprehensive New York War Crimes study (“Words Like Slaughter”) comparing the Times coverage of the genocidal war on Gaza to its coverage of the invasion of Ukraine, found that the paper legitimized and glorified the Ukrainian military and underground resistance groups “unequivocally,” all the while condemning Palestinian resisters, “who are generally cast as terrorists and rarely have their motivations, perspective or strategies explained.” The New York War Crimes is a free newspaper distributed by Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG). Since its first issue on November 9, 2023—which listed the names of 2,608 martyrs killed by the IOF—the paper has published twelve themed issues, including “Media Manufactures Consent for Genocide” and “Revolution and Resistance until Liberation and Return.” “Weaponizing the widespread visual recognition of the Times as a voice of authority,” the paper is influenced by ACT UP’s paper the New York Crimes, which began circulation in 1988, near the beginning of the US AIDS epidemic. Isack, “Stealing the Voice of Authority.”

— Mohammed el-Kurd, Perfect Victims

[maswartz]

AI toys for young children need tighter rules, researchers warn

In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.

[my-dailydreams]

[readorsigh]

Conducting a class online while constipated

Surely says something about society but I'm too backed up with shit to think on what it could be

[wedandbedmystoat-deactivated202]

Sometimes I like to imagine somebody getting into ASOIAF for the first time based exclusively on liking what they saw on Tumblr, sitting down to read A Game of Thrones and finding:

• Bran and Tyrion are two of the most important characters

• Brienne MIA

• Jaime villain

• dragons all dead

• Rhaegar, Lyanna and Elia mentioned like twice each

• Hightowers not dominant power of the South, something called Tyrell has usurped them

• some sort of Ice Zombie threat?????

• Important Targaryen is a woman who doesn’t do incest

• fucking MAGIC?!?!?!? Eastern magicks?!?!

• damn, there’s only ONE incest and it’s bad???

• I thought there was gonna be way more incest

• (googling “when Does Games Of Throne books do the teenage twink incest?” )

[werewolfclaws]

i feel like this is a dying art called 'being a good human being' anybody else agree. anybody

[cpericardium]

parried three bait posts in a row

[zmpl]

has anyone noticed that after the porn ban of 2018 tumblr was essentially killed from the mainstream and everyone flocked to other social media sites like twitter and meta. then those sites got enshittified to where twitter became Nazi Central and meta sites had an entire meme around getting “zucced” aka mark zuckerberg himself would ban you for saying a no-no word like fuck. and then the mainstream shifted to tiktok where infamous toddlerspeak sentences like “he got unalived by a pew pew” were born because if you once again say a no-no word like kill or gun or any other word that isn’t corporate i mean kid friendly then the algorithm will bury your post into the ground. and somehow we’ve come full circle and tumblr is now the most bearable social media site because although we can’t have female presenting nipples we can at least talk to each other like adults. has anyone noticed that at all or is it just me and the flaming skull

[greater-than-the-sword]

When you're a kid you just take trees for granted. Then when you get to be an adult you realize that a fully mature tree cannot be created in an amount of time that fits in a convenient landscaping timeframe for love nor money nor all the powers of science. Then you realize that people are very very very cavalier about chopping them down

[sarazanmai]