#recklessprudence

[qqueenofhades]

Dare you to, on the second-last day of Pride Month, write a big effortpost about all the people that Pride Month either moved to the Find Out stage or proceedings or flat-out assassinated. A necessary part of this post would be bemoaning that Pride Month missed Kissinger or some other monster. The reason would be to dare the universe to render your effortpost out of date by sniping someone just before the end of the month, after you post. Please, I beg of you, goad the universe into taking out one or two more than it intended!

Oh, I will do that right now for free!

JUNE 2023: Great month for justice, bad month for assholes!

Pat Robertson, notorious conservative Christian activist and long-time hate preacher: dies on June 8

Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, conducted a decades-long campaign of mail bombings and domestic terrorism in the name of protesting technology: dies on June 10

Silvio Berlusconi, notorious far-right ex-Italian PM and general fantastically corrupt shitheel: dies on June 12

Stockton Rush, billionaire libertarian businessman who actively ignored 1000 safety warnings about his crappy product and fired a whistleblower for saying so, notably got himself and 4 other people killed on June 18 and joins the hallowed Wikipedia list of inventors killed by their own invention

Honorable-not-quite-June-but-close mention: James G. Watt, Ronald Reagan's secretary of the interior and a rabid anti-environmentalist, died on May 27

John Eastman: conservative lawyer who actively advised and encouraged Trump to stage a coup: facing disbarment hearings in California

Oh yeah, that guy Trump: on June 8, was charged with 31 federal criminal counts under the Espionage Act, relating to his crimes with classified documents; 37 charges overall, which takes his felony haul to 71 (and counting);

Vladimir Putin: is not gonna have a fun time over the next few days over the fallout from the Wagner mercenary rebellion;

Andrew Tate, flagrant misogynist asshole: officially charged with rape and human trafficking in Romania;

Ron DeSantis: lost literally THREE different lawsuits over his terrible anti-LGBTQ laws; collapsed in the polls and his campaign is allegedly "close to being over" because he's so bad at it;

State of Arkansas: likewise had its attempted ban on gender-affirming care for minors permanently struck down

Marjorie Taylor Greene: the crazy House Freedom Caucus doesn't like her anymore, apparently, and wants to "purge" its members, including her (lolololol)

Man, that's all well and good, but it's really a shame that Pride Month 2023: This Time It's Personal didn't put a cherry on top by offing Henry Kissinger, or like, Clarence Thomas or Samuel Alito (or both, both, both is good)

Come on, Pride Month 2023.

What are you, a PUSSY?

[aimeelouart]

Hey, I don't know how often you dip a toe into the other-ffs section of your Discord, and I haven't been online much at all in a few months (hectic), but have you, perchance, spied the 'Jeremy is a multiversal singularity' theory, where every FF has a Jeremy, and they're all catgirl-obsessed EXCEPT for FFX's Jeremy, who actually has buff catgirls in his world, who is tentacle-monster-obsessed and an Unsent because he tried something with a Marlboro (FFX's Marlboros being some of the scariest)?

JEREMY NO

Edit: LMAO

[pocketramblr]

Hell School UA: The kids' costumes, can we talk about the kids' costumes? Like, even IF we ignore Hagakure's whole situation, just about every single one of the girls is wearing something with SO little coverage - look at Momo's! IT DOESN'T EVEN WORK WITH HER QUIRK DAMMIT, LOOK UP WHERE FAT DEPOSITS ON WOMEN ARE! Ururaka even SAYS her costume isn't what she asked for iirc, who MAKES these decisions and why weren't they consulting with the kids AND various other specialists? You want (tbc)

This got... very long so im gonna put it under a cut but yeah great points to follow:

PROTECTION, UTILITY, AND KEEPING _FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLDS FROM BEING SEXUALISED_ LONG BEFORE YOU WANT FUCKING MARKETABILITY! Aoyama gets a support item right from word go so he doesn't shoot his internal organs out through his laser, but Kaminari doesn't get a support item so he idk... doesn't give himself brain damage?! I know I've already said about Momo's costume, but... someone in UA's costume design section for FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLDS signed off on that. Had details of her quirk and everything (tbc)

No ruggedised ereaders built into a gauntlet, fucking TOME OF CHEMISTRY. If she was dropped in the USJ lake that book would've been USELESS. She isn't given like, high-calorie snacks in her utility belt to keep her going, she isn't given any protection WHATSOEVER that she could open parts of to Create, she isn't given open spots where a woman's body stores fat, she instead is given a leotard that barely covers her and places with virtually NO fat left uncovered 'for her quirk'! And like, (tbc)

teenagers have ENOUGH body image issues, and teenagers going into a highly public industry I can only IMAGINE, but seriously, if ANYONE in UA should be advised to be going on a high-calorie diet, it's Momo 'literally uses fat for her quirk, also apparently eats so little she was headhunted for modelling for her internship' Yaoyorozu. And she's just ONE example from UA of how the costumes are neither functional nor protective nor appropriate for fifteen-year-olds in the public eye! (tbc)

Like I said, just about all the girls are wearing something with too little coverage for either combat or cameras - if they want to dress like Midnight later, when they've got more experience with what the hero paparazzi and tabloids will do with that, more power to 'em, but these are FIRST-YEAR-STUDENTS - for that matter, did MIDNIGHT get a real choice in this? Or did she get FORCED into the role of '18+ hero' as a kid who WASN'T EVEN 18 YET and had to live with the costume section's bs (tbc)

ever since? The only one of the 1A girls who's decently covered is Ururaka, and they gave the girl who will be landing from heights all damn day HIGH HEELS! And have we seen those big boots and wrist things have ANY function? Compressed air or other thrusters so she can move while zero-geeing herself, shock absorbers for landing from heights, hell, full of anti-emetics? ANYTHING?! Or did the costume department's thoughts go '0g = vague astronaut theming, girl = pink + high heels, job done!'? tbc

Even when deployed to a frickin' WAR ZONE, virtually none of them get support items to either cover for weaknesses or build on strengths. Nothing to protect them if they take a hit, nothing to let them escape if they're in a situation their quirk isn't useful, nothing to boost their mobility if their quirk doesn't do that, or let them hit harder if their quirk isn't suitable, NOTHING. So you've got over-sexualised minors going into combat situations with inappropriate clothing and NO USEFUL GEAR

It just drives my little anxiety-driven plan-for-everything mind insane. I've had LEVEL ONE ROLEPLAYING CHARACTERS that were better prepared than UA and the HPSC seems to think their heroes and heroes-in-training need to be!

yeah there’s a reason i had Nemuri’s homeroom teacher say unequivocally why her costume was a bad idea in the age swap au. it certainly is protrayed as her own choice but that doesn’t mean anything when a *fifteen year old* is trying to market herself as an *18+ fantasy icon* what the heck...  my thoughts can mostly be summed up in this:

“If you are on a job and get stabbed, you weren't safe. If you put on the domanatrix stunt for a kid- say that one in the alleyway wasn’t going to stab you- they are not capable of giving consent nor should you be asking. And if I let you go into a dangerous field wearing precarious stilettoes and nothing else to keep your from dying of attacks or explosions or bullets or fire or exposure or whatever God-awful tan lines this thing would give you, I wouldn’t be sane!”

but its not just her costume, its... all of them. Momo’s is bad, and she mentioned that the design she submitted showed more skin- i’m confident the one she gave was more like her protoype one, where her sides and back weren’t as constricted with fabric, instead of just relying on that horrid cleavege dip. Ochako literally tells us she didn’t want her costume as tight as is it, but she never gets to go in to fix it! She eventually decides to get grappling hooks *after* izuku inspires her with bw, why didn’t the SF inspire her to get some sort of jet pack??? Why didn’t Kaminari at least have chargers to recover from going braindead faster in his costume?????

thats it the shields are the only ones allowed to design costumes, ever.

[redrobin-detective]

Hey. Heyheyheyhey. I've got a quote from a webcomic I've been following since the early '00s, that fits Danny and Danielle almost perfectly:

Elliot: I've never been this confused before.

Ellen: Oh, sure you have. What about after you touched the diamond?

Ellen: Really. The spontaneous creation of a female twin with all of your memories. That was simple.

Elliot: "She's family. Help her." Not that complicated.

Aw thats exactly what happened only minus Vlad being a complete psychopath

[captainkirkk]

Not actually a rarepair, but a rare PLOT. There was a movie I watched a few years ago that I thought fandom would go NUTS over, and assumed that one of the most popular 'two cakes!' plots in the fandom would be exploring the implications of a certain thing. Went to ao3 - less than fifty fics TOTAL, and only ONE of them, seemingly abandoned, that does anything with that potential plot hook.

Don’t be shy, drop the title

[rayshippouuchiha]

I read part of your Naruto Don't Gender Good stuff on another blog, and even though I don't even GO here, never watched an ep of Naruto before, I HAD to come and read the whole tag! And as someone who is very fuzzy about their own gender, the idea that I could just put a hood up and be they/them, then put it down and be he/him is AMAZING. It really got me good, and I love it SO MUCH. Also Naruto the accidental savage is GOLD, even though I only know the verse through osmosis!

AW! This makes me so happy! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the AU! Seriously makes me so so so happy.

[fialleril]

Hey uh, so Biggs and Luke are such good friends that they ABSOLUTELY spent time at each other's places growing up. In canon there was no time for Biggs to really PROCESS that Luke's aunt and uncle were killed before he was shot down. In DAV he only had a near-miss like Wedge did, so - did Luke get a chance to say farewell to the people who raised him to be the person he is, all the family he ever knew before leaving Tatooine, with someone from his culture and who knew them standing beside him?

Yeah, I think Luke and Biggs did keep vigil for Owen and Beru together after the Battle of Yavin.

I’m not sure if I’ll ever write that scene specifically, but it is definitely part of the background in my head for this ‘verse.

I also think that Luke and Biggs talked a fair bit about that weird old wizard Ben Kenobi who turned out to be a Jedi, and Biggs may be one of the few people in the ESB era Rebellion who knows that Luke is a potential Jedi himself.

[astriiformes]

recklessprudence replied to your post:In other news, the fact that there is essentially...

Apparently the term for people in a queerplatonic relationship (building their lives around each other but in a platonic way) is ‘zucchini’. As in, instead of being your ’[gender]friend’ or 'partner’ or whatever, they’re your zucchini. It’s deliberately absurd, but a common shortening if you don’t want to explain it is they’re your 'zucc’ (said with the long 'u’ in zucchini). Try googling 'queerplatonic zucchini’ and seeing what you get

I’m well aware of some of the terms people use, I’ve been active in the online aro community since like 2013 and saw some of these terms emerge. I know what a queerplatonic relationship is and I know that some people use that as an affectionate term for their queerplatonic partner

However -- I don’t like it, and it doesn’t solve any of the problems I need addressed. Just because a tiny corner of the internet has decided on something in theory doesn’t mean there’s actually a societal framework for doing it, and that I won’t be hounded with questions if I try to construct it that way, or that it’s in any way a one-size-fits-all solution for people trying to build futures that involve platonic partners. 

The term “zucchini” feels childish and infantilizing to me and not something that expresses genuine commitment, so it fulfills none of what I want from relationship vocabulary. It just further emphasizes my engrained belief that no relationships I have will be serious and involve real commitment. And it’s even less likely to be taken seriously by people who haven’t been involved in a tiny corner of the internet that doesn’t even agree on the term in the first place. 

I don’t want to be an aromantic person with a relationship/partner/etc that I can only talk about in certain small, online aro circles -- I want to be able to talk to other adults, offline, no matter how they identify, about the people in my life who are important to me and have it understood and taken seriously. I want to have a word I can use when the doctor I’m seeing asks me the relationship to me of the person who came along to my appointment. I want to have a word I can use that won’t prompt further questions when that person is involved in another serious relationship as well. I want a word that gets across that I have other friends who are similarly important to me and if given the chance I would construct my life around them too in a heartbeat -- not instead of, but alongside. But “partner” is the only thing we have that will be remotely taken seriously by healthcare professionals, and real estate agents, and other people I will have to interact with to construct my adult life, and it has such strong connotations of exclusivity that it still doesn’t seem like it fulfills what I need.

There is no existing terminology for what many aromantic people (or alloromantic, but very committed to their platonic partners, because people like that exist too! If romance and platonic affection are placed on the same level, the way they should be, it’s not out of the question for an alloromantic person to have or prefer a platonic partner too. And it shouldn’t be) want or need, and very little precedent or framework for making what we want out of our lives work. That’s why I called it almost akin to violence -- society is structured in such a way that people can struggle to construct lives around fulfilling relationships that could be integral to them having happy, healthy lives. No word made up on an isolated corner of the internet is going to erase the fact that we have to work outside of a rigid framework that punishes deviance from the norm. Especially not one that feels that frivolous. And even if we had a better word, I guarantee it still wouldn’t work for everyone -- people and relationships are immensely complicated, and we need a lot of vocabulary if we want to describe everyone’s experiences that we just don’t have, along with a complete restructuring of societal expectations for what “partnerships” look like.