Don’t Forget to Love Each Other

If you have to call me something you can call me Jay. Mid-thirties queer.

[happygirl2oo2]

Slowly collecting my favorite descriptions of Leverage x

[ @alphacrone @sharpbutsoft @respectissexy @artsybi @reinanova @astralpenguin]

[lostxanadu]

the thing about being bullied for being weird as a kid is that even if you've always embraced being weird your brain is still always looking for the line where it's too much. you can be as proudly and intentionally weird as you want and you can love being weird but your mind is still convinced there's a point where you get too weird and people start treating you like a weird looking bug again. also it feels like you reach that point 500 times a day even if everyone you've spoken to today found you pleasant and likable and even if you're completely alone in your house with nobody looking at you at all.

[unbound-shade]

Some very eloquent notes on violence as a necessity for resistance.

[elfwreck]

There is no paradox of tolerance, because tolerance is not a matter of ethics. It's a peace treaty - an agreement that only covers the people who abide by its rules.

Tolerance is not a moral precept

The title of this essay should disturb you. We have been brought up to believe that tolerating other people is one of the things you do if…

And for cis white guys who are always trying to figure out how to be an ally without talking over marginalized people, without reshaping the issue to be all about you - this guy shows how.

His tactics don't work for marginalized people. They can't get away with that.

[nihilisme]

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[embervoices]

Tolerance is the value of Hospitality. Hospitality only applies to those who adhere to it. An enemy invading is not subject to hospitality. A person who is making the space inhospitable to others is breaching hospitality, and shall no longer benefit from it themself.

There is no such thing as "Hospitable hate". There is no such thing as a "Safe Fascist" or "Equitable Bigot". So there is no hospitality to offer Nazis.

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#as a brown woman who'll always be seen as the angry brown woman #I won't stop being aggressive if a fucking Nazi ever shows up #but it is more effective when a white man or somebody who has a less marginalized identity uses these tactics #because that's what these brain dead nazis respond to #we as people of color as someone 'lesser' than them #unfortunately are just proving them right when we show our aggression #but once again it doesn't mean I would personally stop being violent towards nazis #it just means more white people need to do the same

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[thelawfulchaotic]

Yo BE CAREFUL with things like this because Nazis can easily weaponize the court system against you.

This is not legal advice and this is me, just talking about some jurisdiction-specific things I happen to know, as a defense attorney who's done so many A+B cases...

Assault and battery are different things. Battery is actually making contact with a person (i.e., the root of the word "battered.")

Assault can be done one of a two ways in common law.

Attempt battery and miss (throw a punch and whiff it)

Make someone think you're about to do battery even if you don't intend to

That second one can be tricky!! Generally, words are not enough for an assault. There must be some type of accompanying behavior, such as violent gestures (balling up fist, advancing, raising an item threateningly). Whether or not your words are a threat is also relevant; we have some great case law in this state that a threat involves a direct threat, not a conditional statement.

(That means you're on safer ground if you say "I will beat the shit out of you if you continue to display your heinous Nazi sign" than if you say "I will beat the shit out of you in five seconds.")

I see in this video that this guy balled up his fist and pointed in some gestures to "get the fuck out of here." I would likely not recommend that anyone do that. I would also not recommend "The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi" because, while true, it could be construed as a threat and therefore part of the relevant behavior to reach an assault charge. (Probably ok in this instance because this guy's sign said "the nazis were right" not "I'm a nazi." This seems trivial but could be an important distinction.)

Mind that my analysis is particular to my jurisdiction and there are many variants of this law. It is actually extremely difficult as a layperson to get a good picture of this in my jurisdiction specifically because the law forbids "assault & battery" without defining it, and the definition can only be found in the common law.

Be safe and don't give anyone reason to call the cops <3

[johnnycrass]

faeries are not real but i wish thwy were so i could spray one with raid

[helloitsbees]

harry houdini to his wife after a long exhausting dinner with arthur conan doyle

[olicrosse]

[cephalopodvictorious]

fixed it

[star-thief]

[call-me-cd]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[whichcouldmeanothing]

"Scrooge learns the true meaning of Bisexual Awareness Week" Make Some Noise Season 3 Episode 11

[glowwren]

I love when the sun hits grackles and you can see their iridescence

[saintfelina]

[hexenmond]

Image description: a tweet by divinelydaria.

saw an inspiring video that said you need to have 4 hobbies.

create, consume, cavort, commune

create: bring something to life consume: appreciate the art of another cavort: move your body daily commune: have a community to socialize with

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[lierdumoa]

I think you need hobbies that do all four things but the number of hobbies needed to cover all these needs may vary. Some hobbies pull double/triple duty. Some hobbies can cause repetitive stress injuries so it's good to have a few different ones that fulfill the same need so you can rotate to get the fulfillment without the carpal tunnel.

[leebrontide]

Tumblr really is aging.

This is true tho.

[inthefallofasparrow]

Misread this as 'you need to have 4 hobbits'

[tanoraqui]

also true! there’s a really famous three-volume self-help guide about that!

unless all you’re doing is liberating a single mountain from a dragon, in which case you can probably get by with just one, so long as you also have a lot of dwarves.

[brothermouse-skeleton]

The exchange rate is three dwarves to one hobbit, if anyone was wondering

[hyde-the-toad-bard]

And I get 4 dwarves and a wizard left over let's fucking go!

[madgastronomer]

The Seven Hobbits of Highly Effective People

[liminalbeauty]

This went in directions unforetold.

[thecrowsteeth]

They’re so good together help

[razielim]

;_;

thinking about...

murder-"careful don't let any emotion bleed through to the feed"-bot patting itself on the back for a good job sounding professional as it makes contact and establishes rapport with the stupid pet bot

meanwhile, miki, very familiar with emotions and effortlessly plucking them out of the feed: what the fuck this is the single most traumatized wet cat i have ever met; gods alive, gotta be extra nice and friendly to this one; who DID this to it it's LITERALLY crying in a closet rn i am NOT equipped to handle this; ill just be EVEN MORE nice for now and make a note to download an emotional support and trauma recovery module once we're off milu

murderbot: ugh it's so dumb and nice and annoying and infantilized

miki: fucked up a perfectly good bot is what they did LOOK AT IT it's got ANXIETY

[imposterogers]

after steve retired from captain america (still did missions when necessary but mostly does community work) and moved into an apartment with bucky, it became the default hangout spot. and a few things became clear to nat and sam almost immediately that in hindsight should have been obvious

1. watching him smile and laugh, the canvas and paint strewn across every surface, they realize never met the real steve rogers. pieces of him, sure, but only what was left of the man who died with bucky.

2. when steve said he wanted someone with shared life experience, he meant the SAME. the whole time natasha had been trying to set him up he’d mean mourning his common law husband

3. steve rogers is an asshole (affectionate) like seriously what is his problem “you should see him before his first cup of coffee”

[rylandsgrace]

#Happy Labor Day to Shrek I guess

[realmarysue]

[aroacesafeplaceforall]

Now everyone, I wanna see something, name 10 aspec characters. Doesn’t matter where they are on the spectrum just name 10 and here’s the kicked WITHOUT GOOGLING IT. I’m waiting both for admittance and for character recs

[styrofauxm]

Nita from Not Even Bones (webcomic)/Market of Monsters (book series) -> aspec, no specific label -> in text

Kovit from Not Even Bones (webcomic)/Market of Monsters (book series) -> aspec, no specific label -> in text

Gwenpool from Marvel Comics (comics) -> aroace -> in text

Mira from Seven Days in Silverglen (webcomic) -> arospec -> implied in text, confirmed via word of god

Rae from Always Human (webcomic) -> aspec, no specific label afaik -> in text

Artemesia from Vespertine (book) -> aspec, don't remember specific label -> word of god

Peridot from Steven Universe (show) -> aroace -> somewhat implied in text, confirmed via word of god (and previously word of St. Paul)

Yelena Belova from Marvel Comics (comics)/MCU (movie series) -> aroace -> in text in the comics, not addressed in the MCU

Resilient from AstralSounds (webcomic) -> aromantic -> confirmed via special episode

Yunni from AstralSounds (webcomic) -> asexual -> confirmed via special episode

Bonus:

11. Lilith Clawthorne from The Owl House (show) -> aroace -> confirmed via canon stream

12. Nancy from Every Heart a Doorway (book) -> asexual -> in text

13. Silvia Severin from Muted (webcomic) -> aroace -> in text

14. Keladry of Mindelan from Protector of the Small (book series) -> aroace -> word of god

[softness-and-shattering]

Yikes oh boy.

Im remembering a book cover but thats not helpful. It was a semi throuple and one was ace. Semi victorian-bridgerton-coming-out-in-society and then theyre at a family castle by a lakeside?

Keladry of mindelan, protector of the small books.

Caduecus clay, critical role campaign 2.

Violet lius partner....arkady. dont remember her? Their? Surname. Podcast, something about the spaceship starship iris? Its been a while.

Thats all I can think of atm. Im sure theres others ive headcanoned ace but not coming to mind rn.

[think-before-you-screenshot]

Okay heres what I’ve got, it’s not ten but they’re all characters I love. Some are repeats.

1. Murderbot - The Murderbot Diaries

2. Riz Gukgak - Fantasy High

3. Jonathan Sims - The Magnus Archives

4. Keladry - Protector of the Small (baby’s first aroacespec character!)

5. Caduceus Clay - Critical Role

6. Jeje - Inda (four book series - tertiary character in a cast of characters with a wide variety of sexualities and romantic orientations)

7. The Fool - Assassin’s Apprentice (I honestly can’t recall whether this is fully canon, but the fact that Fitz and The Fool have a deeply intimate and loving relationship that is specifically NOT sexual is a key aspect of the series)

8. Connor Hawke - DC Comics

[tsukikoizumisawa]

FINALLY. joey wilson welcome back from being stuck in the pride month trenches

[ahotknife]

where’s that article by james frankie thomas where he says like “prior to my transition there was only one kind of sex i wanted to have. and i thought i could never have it” because i am about to blow these people’s minds

[ahotknife]

i found it 😌 the article was published on Slate and here’s JF’s commentary on it

[ahotknife]

i have gotten some very odd anons about this post that i’m choosing to ignore. but i am going to double down on this. no i don’t care if girls watch gay porn or imagine themselves as a gay person or wonder what it would be like to have gay sex. so many people imprison themselves by thinking they could never be gay and/or trans. well i’m telling them they better watch out. being gay and/or trans is real. and it could happen to YOU. as a matter of fact i sincerely hope it does

[projectxa3]

from Anarchopuppy

#tbh i think the intense stigma against “straight” ppl “fetishizing” queerness keeps a lot of ppl in the closet

#theres no harm in exploring those feelings in private. indulge in the fantasy and see where it takes u

#dont be a creep to other ppl obv but that goes w/o saying #if id had the courage to confront the ache id feel when i thought abt lesbian sex and how id “never be able to have it” earlier

#it wouldve saved me a lot of time