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Scarlett | she/her | co-writing with @reylotrashcompactor @mayimorr and @elizaviento | queer disabled pillar of salt | multi-fandom disaster: Reylo, SasuSaku, Zutara, Stucky, and too many others | am I writing rn? 🎱 signs point to yes

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Do you ever think about how absolutely wild Katara's behavior is in the crystal cavern scene?

Seriously, let's examine how batshit insane this scenario is.

Up to this point, Zuko has done pretty much nothing kind to Katara and a whole lot of shitty things to her.

And yet she's like "I will use this incredibly valuable, potentially life-saving spirit water on my enemy's non-life-threatening injury that's unlikely to be healed! Because he showed regret and emotional vulnerability in the last three minutes!"

Yes, Zuko is being very genuine, and yes, Katara's default state is high empathy, but even taking that into account what the fuck was she thinking????

This is arguably the most whackadoo decision anyone makes in the entirety of ATLA lmao

The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that she offered to do something unwise and radically kind for a person she should hate because she felt such a profound connection with Zuko at that moment.

No wonder these two ended up married with three children. That's how I remember it anyway 💅

[rimonoroni2]

every once in a while i'll come across an essay claiming to interpret the holocaust in some sort of anti-colonialist way and it'll boil down to something like "the reason the holocaust is considered a big deal is because it was the first time european genocidal tactics were applied to White People instead of its usual victims #antiracism" and like, even putting aside the truly horrific implication that Jewish holocaust victims were just Normal European White People getting a taste of their own medicine, it is also simply not a true assessment about the historical significance of the holocaust! i cannot believe it is possible for people to be this ignorant and disrespectful about a subject with so much accessible, premium scholarship about it freely available and also i am going to start throwing things maybe

[penrosesun]

An Gorta Mór ran from 1845-1852 and caused over a million deaths and a 20-25% drop in population in Ireland, and this teaches us a few very important things:

There is at least one example of white Europeans being targeted by white European genocidal tactics at least a century before the Holocaust,

The fact that the Irish are generally understood to be at least as “white” as Jews if not more so has done absolutely nothing to ensure that everyone takes the explicitly genocidal policies enacted against them seriously as genocide, which, to be clear, they were, and

Perhaps “whiteness” vs. “non-whiteness” is actually a very poor metric for all forms of racialized hatred literally anywhere other than USAmerica (and even there tbh!)

Like obviously this take on the Holocaust is antisemitic and terrible, but more than that, it’s weird the degree to which it fundamentally relies on playing apologist not just for the Holocaust, but also for a tremendous number of other genocides as well. Why do you hate the Irish so much? Why do you hate Ukrainians? What did the Cherkess ever do to you? How about Serbs? Bosniaks and Croats? Is your contention that the Cathers weren’t white, or that their elimination in France wasn’t genocide? How many genocides will you die on the hill of defending just to make this ridiculous ahistorical Holocaust take sound even halfway reasonable???

The answer is always “they haven’t thought that far” but my genuine question is why. Because it seems like it would take a whole lot of not just unchecked privilege but actual willful ignorance to even entertain the idea that the Holocaust was a uniquely white-on-white genocide. Why did you feel the need to make this unforced error? What is it about the Holocaust specifically that had you spouting off at the mouth before you even stopped to think about whether or not you were actively engaged in unrelated genocide denial?

[iamnmbr3]

Also the Holocaust was not the first mass murder of Jews in Europe. Jews were being slaughtered and genocided in Europe and in the Middle East for literal millennia. And no one cared. Even today in Germany, there are places where the largest mass slaughter of Jews in that location happened long before the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust was certainly the largest genocide of Jews and an especially horrific crime in the annals of human history, people caring about it had more to do with the fact that the main perpetrators of the Holocaust just happened to be people that everyone was mad at so that’s why they were more motivated to actually care about the slaughter of Jews this time. And even then most countries did not ever admit their complicity.

[thestuckylibrary]

#i am on my knees begging y'all to stop applying the american perception of racism to the rest of the world#'white' europeans were and are racist towards other 'white' europeans because europe is not one country and one people#same with africa and asia - there are plenty of asians being racist towards other asians and african being racist towards other africans#all are from different countries and different ethnicities and cultures#and deciding that black/brown equals opressed and white equals opressor is just once again american believing the whole world is america#trying to simplify the very real racism and very real genocides and the complexity of so many nations to fit american standards is insulting#if you can't put in the time to research and learn about these topics then shut up about them please and thank you#and also#jews👏🏻are👏🏻not👏🏻white👏🏻#we ALL are middle eastern#we ALL are from the lavant#no matter what color you perceive us to be#we are and always will be jews and jews comes from ONE place#you do not get to ignore history and everything my people suffered and still do suffer just to fit a narrative via @tamyourue

All of this is so important. and it’s really important also to remember that white supremacist groups in the United States also targeted Jews. They didn’t welcome them as members. They lynched them. And this extended to less extreme examples too; like white country clubs, did not allow Jews to be members.

[lullabyes22-blog]

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The city is divided between five rival Straits and a vast subterranean underworld known as the Pit. Smugglers, industrialists, witches, diplomats, gangsters, prophets, and revolutionaries compete to shape its future while old ghosts refuse to stay buried.

Expect:

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[southsidestory]

PRE-ORDERED HELL YEAH!!!

[southsidestory]

Look, all I’m asking out of NATLA is a MaiLee kiss. That’s it. There are many other things I would love to see! But this is all I’m requesting from the spirits.

MaiLee kiss!!!! 🩷🖤

[quixoticanarchy]

they've gotta come up with a version of the "instead of hating your body, try to appreciate it for all it does for you" advice that doesn't collapse in the context of disability/chronic illness. three of my organs flat out do not work so forgive if i'm maybe not all that appreciative

[southsidestory]

Ty for saying this!!

Like Body Positivity™️ this framework also fails because it is trying to replace hate with love and appreciation. It’s a lot harder to replace hate with those things than with neutrality.

I don’t need to love my body to stop hating it. As a disabled person, I also don’t need to appreciate its functionality because it often isn’t functional!

But a way I can stop hating my body is accepting it for what it truly is without judging myself. My body is chronically ill. My body is short and pear-shaped. My body being in pain is shitty, but the taste of ice cream is pretty fucking great.

Bodies can look and function in so many different ways, and none of that determines whose body is better or more valuable. All bodies are valuable. My body is worth being here, living and taking up space—not because of what it looks like or what it can do, but simply because it is mine.

[wuggen]

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

[southsidestory]

Hii, I wanted to say that I love your stories and In This Fragile Hour holds a special place in my heart. I've being rereading it, and got inspired to create Jinx's Chapter 6 look as best as I could in Sims lol. Hope you like it <3 No pressure at all to share or post it anywhere, I just wanted to show you because your story inspired me.

Oh my god??? I love her, she’s perfect!!

Thank you SO much! This is one of the coolest things a reader has ever done for me 🥹

(I’m going to take a look at Fragile, because it’s been a while since I worked on it…)

[status-quo-hater]

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

[status-quo-hater]

Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM

[07yakudza07]

I finally finished it!＼(≧▽≦)／

[battlefem-deactivated20170404]

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

[itsoldjohn]

that last one is literally a LOOK

[cassiocantdrink]

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree. 

[petermorwood]

Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)

This is Leo Tolstoy, author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.

Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara…

…and his Minister of the Interior.

A Type B-15 steam locomotive…

Another of those peasant girls with guest-gifts of berries…

The Church of St John the Baptist at Staraya Ladoga…

…and a Sergei Prokudin-Gorskiy self-portrait.

Unlike some current selfies ;-> he’s not dominating the image, so here’s a closer shot.

Nice hat…

[lifeattomsdiner]

First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this

[theconcealedweapon]

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@justanautisticpotato How you got “Gaza should be bulldozed for vacation property on top of mass graves” from “antisemitism on the left has exploded since October 7th” I’m not sure.

Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians. And antisemitism against Jews *everywhere* has been on a serious rise since October 7th. Not the first bombs dropping in Palestine; OCTOBER SEVENTH.

Both of these things can be true at once.

I don’t support the genocide in Palestine. I support Jews everywhere in the world who are being harmed by antisemitism. And the left (which I am a part of!!) is largely willing to let the antisemitism slide as part of an often performative support of Palestinians.

I see people talking about the genocide in Gaza all the time—which is important and necessary! But I rarely see anyone standing up for completely innocent Jews who are suffering from antisemitic harassment and attacks since October 7th.

I’m not responding on the original post you replied to because I don’t want it to attract harassment for the OP.

[atlantidea]

BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (1999)

[makingqueerhistory]

Keri Hulme & The Bone People — Making Queer History

The Bone People , published in February 1984, winning The Booker Prize the following year, depicts an asexual, aromantic main character, and

The Bone People, published in February 1984, winning The Booker Prize the following year, depicts an asexual, aromantic main character, and has sold over 1.2 million copies. Written by Keri Hulme, it is in part based on her experiences as someone who self-identified as asexual and aromantic. The Bone People explores multiple layers of identity like queerness, mixed Maori heritage, autism, trauma, and a wide range of disability. The novel is remembered as a classic of New Zealand literature and deserves more recognition as a queer classic. 

[southsidestory]

I’m reading my Gallavich fic If You Have a Problem in preparation for finishing edits. I didn’t spent half of 2023 writing that 200k first draft to never revise and post the damn thing!!! This is my year of WIP redemption, starting with IYHAP 💯