Megan's Blog

[respectissexy]

There are two basic arguments for shutting the fuck up about cishets at Pride.

First: What if a trans kid asks their parents to show their support by attending Pride with them? What if a lesbian can only attend pride if she gets a ride from someone and the only person willing and able to drive her is her straight brother? What if a bi disabled person can't attend a large outdoor event without hands-on assistance from their straight partner? What if someone just wants to bring their fucking friends? What if, contrary to popular tumblr discourse, most queers don't inhabit perfectly pure social bubbles populated only by other queers? What if it's none of your business?

Second and perhaps more important: If you think you can tell that someone is CIS, let alone HET, by LOOKING at them, you are a cop and an idiot.

[unabashedthingsublime]

Honestly, I don’t love the idea that people need to have a “reason” to go pride beyond wanting to show support and have a good time.

[respectissexy]

There are two basic arguments for shutting the fuck up about cishets at Pride.

First: What if a trans kid asks their parents to show their support by attending Pride with them? What if a lesbian can only attend pride if she gets a ride from someone and the only person willing and able to drive her is her straight brother? What if a bi disabled person can't attend a large outdoor event without hands-on assistance from their straight partner? What if someone just wants to bring their fucking friends? What if, contrary to popular tumblr discourse, most queers don't inhabit perfectly pure social bubbles populated only by other queers? What if it's none of your business?

Second and perhaps more important: If you think you can tell that someone is CIS, let alone HET, by LOOKING at them, you are a cop and an idiot.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it's immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like "yeah so this is going to happen to the internet" and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don't even get paid for it

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

Affirmations and Manifestations for when we all go see "Wicked: For Good" in theatres

We are emotionally prepared for what is to come

The first time "Wicked Witch of the East" will be released on audio is not going to cause the apocalypse

It's okay if the slippers don't turn red because of copyright

It's okay if the animal CGI is subpar because they use practical effects for almost everything else

The new songs are not going to kill us

"As Long As You're Mine" will not be an explicit sex scene we all have to uncomfortably sit through because Universal knows how many children will be in the theatre

Said children will not scream and cry and get traumatized when they see everything else that happens this act

Cynthia Erivo's "No Good Deed" is going to change the world

It's okay if we see Dorothy's face

American Girl will restock their Elphaba dolls for a decent price this time

If Willemijn Verkaik doesn't get a cameo we are legally allowed to burn down the theatre

[liberalsarecool]

mRNA vaccines are attacked by people with no medical background or science training.

MAGA is giving the YouTube comments power over our health policies.

[dathen]

Still obsessed with Arthur Conan Doyle’s letter to Bram Stoker gushing about how wonderful a book Dracula is, but particularly how it makes such a good template for leaving fic comments, so I’m gonna to a BREAKDOWN:

Just say you loved reading it - “I am sure that you will not think it an impertinence if I write to tell you how very much I have enjoyed reading Dracula.”

Comment on a detail of the craft or structure that impressed you - “It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax.“

Comment on how it emotionally affected you - “It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid.”

SHARE YOUR BLORBO FEELINGS - “The old Professor is most excellent and so are the two girls.”

Show appreciation for them as an author - “I congratulate you with all my heart for having written so fine a book.”

Next time you don’t know what to say on a fic you enjoyed, just use the ACD method~

[gallifreyanhotfive]

The summaries provided for the new short trips boxset announced (Short Trips 13: Tales from the Vortex)

1. 👀👀👀👀

2. 8 and Charley and Time Lords trying to eradicate a place from existence? Yum

3. Ace and a childhood friend? 👀

4. Fivey is incapacitated??? WONDERFUL!!!! TORMENT THAT TIME LORD!!!!!

[forgottenbones]

The Best (and worst) dialogue in Doctor Who history

[actuallyarealtemmie]

In case you are having a bad day,

Have a compilation of Cookie Monster doing the :D

[anovertureinyellow]

Anyway, speaking of the Doctor Who TTRPG, I am once again reminded how pathetic the Eighth Doctor sourcebook is

[unabashedthingsublime]

There’s actually a whole bunch of fan made EU focused sourcebooks for all the classic Doctors, including Eight!

[zombiedeers]

Something I really love about Dr Teeth's character is really just, how much he boosts morale for others around him, motivating them and pushing them to be and do their best, and wanting them to be happy, encouraging hope and positivity in them

A couple of my favourite examples is You Can't Take No For An Answer, because even if MTM is them playing characters and acting, as a large amount of Muppet media often is, they're all playing characters that are very much just themselves put into a situation. So I think it's pretty safe to say You Can't Take No For An Answer pretty solidly is how Teeth actually thinks regarding pushing for what you want and believe in (at least when he's not having a crisis 'cause of his parents)

There's also his attitude during Exile On Main Street in Muppets Mayhem, where he is so insistent that everything will be fine and Animal will come back, even making a couple jokes here and there (which by the way, his insistence shows just how much he's struggling with the issue himself), and it keeps the whole band at least somewhat able to believe it, and then the moment he breaks, the WHOLE BAND emotionally falls apart because he was the one holding onto and encouraging the hope

His positivity and general attitude really helps others around him to keep their own morales up through tough times !!!

[fanonical]

donna as the first doctor's companion: like barbara but willing to say fuck. will push back against this old man's bullshit, but will also join him on the most ridiculous shenanigans

donna with two: watch out universe the clown squad's coming at you and they're sillier than ever

donna with three: shouting matches every five minutes. if he even tries to boss her around he gets an earful and a half. the brigadier is in love

donna with four: they hate each other so much. they would die for each other.

donna with five: she bullies this pathetic man so so much, and probably ends up having a one-night stand with tegan

donna with six: they kill each other, there is no other outcome

donna with seven: spends her whole time trying to get him to stop being mysterious for like five fucking seconds

donna with eight: the most tragic and horrific bullshit you have ever seen

donna with nine: ride or die. nine needs an unhinged bossy lady who is willing to match him on his level.

donna with eleven: that is not a time lord, that is a baby, and donna will walk all over him

donna with twelve: once again, they hate each other so so much, but will not let anyone else insult the other

donna with thirteen: unstoppable force meets other unstoppable force. they fall in love

[iwantasnorlax]

Got bored, thanks for the inspo OP

[therosielord]

It’s so funny to imagine Wicked from the perspective of one of the normal students at Shiz. There’s this girl and she’s weird and an overachieving nerd and no one likes her, but then the popular girl becomes best friends with her overnight so you guess she’s chill now. They might be sleeping together but no one’s really sure. They’re also low key dating the same guy but you’re not clear on if it’s a polycule situation or a love triangle. Whatever. You’re just trying to study for finals. Your history teacher gets arrested and no explains why. You just hope this won’t effect your grade in the class. The weird nerdy girl gets a letter from the president inviting her to come see him. Wow, that’s exciting. She and her maybe-girlfriend go off to the capitol and you go back to homework and dorm room parties. One day later one of your professors is on the national radio saying that the weird nerdy girl, who used to be her favorite student, is now a terrorist, has stolen the nuclear codes, and is on the run from the government. You are still expected to show up to class tomorrow.

[thebreakfastgenie]

"how are the democrats so good at losing?" why don't you ask how the republicans are so good at winning?? stop acting like democrats are the only political party with agency. republicans do things on purpose.

[choppywaterswiftboats]

^^ It seems to me that I haven’t seen many people acknowledging that republicans are good at winning because they lie and because they have a multimillion dollar industry committing to getting them elected and backing up their lies.

I’ve seen statistics correlating misinformed views to voting choice, a study about how respondents preferred Kamala’s policies over Trump’s when they weren’t told who had which set of policies, people discussing ‘vibes-based politics’—but in my opinion all this analysis is incomplete without confronting how republicans have a veritable propaganda machine working for them. It’s pretty hard for democrats to fight that. We have to rely on average donations from normal people when corporations/rich individuals can invest millions into networks who will try to get people elected who will give them tax breaks.

[thebreakfastgenie]

#seriously I want more people to talk about the sheer amount of damage rupert murdoch has done to this country#fox news is the most viewed cable news network in the country.#i remember a few months back harris’ campaign had success bringing project 2025 to the public’s attention#but democrats still don’t have anything comparable @choppywaterswiftboats

Fun fact that I will tell literally everyone all the time!!! A former Nixon staffer said they would have survived Watergate if they had their own news network. And that staffer's name was Roger Ailes!

[harpyharpyharpy]

Books to read:

Dark Money: An examination of the Koch Empire, and its patronage and entanglement in Right wing media, politics, and lobbying.

Messengers of the Right: A history of the conservative media landscape, beginning with talk radio (Clarence Manion, before the era of Rush Limbaugh), through periodicals like the National Review, and notable books, like God and Man at Yale. I'm sorry, but you don't know half as much as you think you do about American political history if you don't know who William F Buckley is. All of this walked, so Fox News could run.

Let Them Eat Tweets: A political synthesis of history, economics, and communication scholarship that posits wedge-issue-identity-politics as the method by which contemporary conservative parties drive their white working class bases away from class-based solidarity toward a party that serves only economic elites. That, Hacker and Pierson argue, is how you explain the escalation of billionaire oligopoly, rising economic inequality, and fanatic racism/other bigotries.

If you can understand these patterns and these histories, you'll begin to see why the GOP has nosedived into overtly fascist rhetoric, while STILL successfully courting voters who vote against their material economic interests.

There are no surprises here.

[sainamoonshine]

You can even see the ripples of that abroad. My parents watch the Canadian equivalent to the conservative channel and this summer were telling me about how “both parties are the same and Biden is sooooooo old”. They are people who would usually consider themselves aligned a bit left of the center (CANADIAN center). And yet they knew nothing of what Trump actually said or did at any point in this campaign or during his last term.

Two weeks ago, a firmly leftist friend, a queer person of colour, told me “but the democrats are financed by all the big evil corporations”. And then he named checked all the corporations that Biden and the DOJ have been raking over the coals because of their monopolies. And I was just like “you think AMAZON wants the dems to win??? You think FACEBOOK wants them to win??? GOOGLE??”

The propaganda is real and it’s everywhere.

[10matoto]

[hoploops]

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[cingulata]

Shhh they're sleeping