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[puppiegracie]

saw someone get mad at the Emma storyline because "we already had a patient assaulting a nurse" storyline....

these people CANNOT be real that is THE WHOLE POINT. patients assaulting nurses happens all the time and will CONTINUE to happen oh my god. that's quite fucking literally what the Pitt is trying to show. it's awful and it's uncomfortable to watch because it SHOULD disturb you. this is a very REAL thing that is HAPPENING.

the pitt is a fictional show but it is still trying to bring light to REAL world problems and events, and what REAL medical professionals fucking go through. how. how do you watch this show and miss that. this is not some random medical show. they're doing these things on fucking purpose.

[villanevedenier]

Donna Tartt for the NYT, 1995, photo by Stephan Haskell

[yakityyaku]

very funny (irritating) to me that everyone whined and yelled about stupid rainbow capitalism and how performative wokeness/allyship is a net bad we should all refuse to support and now like.

tumblr is doing nothing for pride and target isn't selling much (if any) of their pride collection offline except at certain stores (in democratic areas, basically) and build a bear has a much tinier collection than normal and all the actual pride stuff is on their "adult" website (not sure if it's in stores, but pride = adult is a hell of a message)

there are genuinely good criticisms for performative allyship in all its applications. it shouldn't be the only thing we expect from people and companies. but if all the shit I see being called performative stopped tomorrow then in terms of the LGBTQ+ community especially we just. wouldn't talk about queerness or queer issues or celebrate pride or do anything.

open your fucking eyes. we are very close politically to having gay marriage rolled back. now companies are basically being let off the hook to even make a miniscule effort (which matters to the people who don't have access to any other kind of support in their communities! which normalizes the community in public spaces!) because the only reaction they have gotten over the last few years are negative ones from BOTH sides.

we are so entrenched in discourse at all times for the sake of our OWN performance of who is the wokest and who is REALLY an ally or a good community member that we have basically handed over all the work of activists of the last several decades to the other side because we'd rather scream at each other over fucking chicken restaurants and shit than the real life backsliding that's happening.

and this goes for other shit too. feminism, poc rights, all of it.

also. trans rights aren't discourse and aren't just culture war arguments. in case any terfs think they can spin this to be antitrans.

[subjectverb]

“we need more evil female characters” you guys cant even handle a traumatized teenage girl making a mistake

[zillychu]

PLEASE go see Hoppers in theaters.

It's delightful. It's hilarious, charming, has great messages, and just feels so much like a Pixar Renaissance era film!

It's also quietly woke as fuck in a way that will deeply resonate with older viewers who feel helpless and angry about... everything currently going on with the world. Like I'm obsessed with how they were able to subtly slip in a message that goes very much against the expected and tired "meet your moral opponents in the middle".

It's so subtle but not at all missable. And it's so on the nose you might want to scream when you realize what literally happens in the figurative message.

[haveihitanerve]

The truth is that Batman- Bruce- is completely, 100%, nonrefundable- human.

The problem is that his children, the delights he keeps picking up off the street- are not

Bruce is human, but for some reason he keeps getting trapped in those eldrich "i will give you my firstborn child as a reward" types of things with beings that aren't

Dick was first offered to him by a tree nymph, as thanks for saving her home. He politely declined, but the little fucker followed him home and now has a permanent nest on Bruce's left shoulder

Jason was promised to him by a literal demon after Hal Jordan accidentally summoned one in the Watchtower(they're still not entirely sure how, he was trying to make chili) and Bruce convinced the other League members to stand down and let the demon leave in peace(he'd been chillin before Hal had fucked up and yanked him into space- he didn't wanna be there either) Bruce didn't even dare to argue, just graciously accepted the small burning inferno child the demon gave him and cradled it to his chest(somehow it didn't burn him)

Tim drifted to him in a bottle, his mother a river elf promising him to whomever found the bottle. Tim imprinted on him immediately and just lives on his right shoulder and sometimes front pocket

Stephanie's mother swam up to him in Gotham harbor, gasping for air because the water was so foul and he helped her give birth. Because she'd been born in the literal fuckin asshole of the earth she wasn't able to return to the normal water of anywhere else, so she was gifted to Bruce as thanks for helping her mother get out of the water

Cassandra is a shadow phantom who basically swore herself to him when she found him. Bruce cannot get out of the contract he somehow (did not) agreed to and just accepts the fact that he has another daughter now

Damian was dropped on his doorstep by Talia, a witch. He's just a witch. Idk what else to say.

Duke was given to him by a selkie mother who'd lost her pelt and he had returned it. She'd given him her son's coat so he could own him, but Bruce had been horrified and promptly given it back to Duke. But the fucker wouldn't leave- he's like that penguin or seal or wtv that was released into the wild and then returned 30 minutes later

Anyway yea just Bruce and his fucking zoo of fantastical children. The Justice League meets him and are like "hell yea yup he is a demon creature born of the shadows" when in reality he's just a Tired Dad

Dick appears and flies around Wonder Woman's head, giggling as he makes flowers bloom in her hair and Bruce just sighs. The justice league is like... okay opposite vibe of what we expected but bet

Then Jason appears, fucking burning with hellfire as hair and now they're really perplexed until Bruce says "adopted" but does that mean he isnt a demon? Or is Dick adopted?? Or???

Tim shows up and they're like- okay two kinda fairy like creatures, yea yea. Batman is a fairy, Jason's adopted okay. Bet.

Then Cass shows up and they're like "nope! We were wrong!"

Stephanie gets carted up in an inflatable swimming pool and they have officially lost the plot. Hal flips the table in outrage.

Duke appears and they just give up.

[egophiliac]

looking at next month's schedule and between the end of 7-12 and the wishing lantern event it's like

February is officially RIDDLE MONTH, brace yourselves to be absolutely blasted into ashes everybody