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I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.
beautiful compilation from @orc-sign-language
"Joined the great majority" is a good one that I practically never hear.
Heard another good one in an old radio drama the other day - "He slipped out of my arms and stopped paying taxes."
Hamburger time
If you're a TERF you're a gender fascist. No other way to spin it. You claim your ideology is about protecting women and children but what it actually necessitates is an overfixation on people's genitals and the persecution of a minority group that does not actually hold institutional power. You insist on fitting humanity into two strict boxes that do not reflect the true diversity present among 8 billion of us. The moment you start talking about "large gametes"--what the fuck are you doing?
All fascists cloak their actions in protective language. But unless you're going after the white male billionaire class that actually holds the most power and does the most harm to both humanity and the planet, you're not protecting anyone and your "resistance" is not worth anything.
Thinking about the time the entire batfamily accidentally came across the same body
Just them sharing one brain cell <3
You will save the lost child you were, and they will save you back - Anthony Oliveira
Young Avengers: Paradise Lost
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Art: Jethro Morales
Letters: Ariana Maher
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A new mode of production arises out of the newly networked masses.
Fanartists:
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Productivity has always been there
Because shockingly when people enjoy what they do (you make it enjoyable instead of just hammering on them) people WANT to do things!
Fanfiction authors!!
Where is the button to shout this from the rooftop?
Kamen Rider Fourze Episode 29: Junior Silence
this “bon appetit” meme has turned into some sort of bizarre telephone game where each incarnation sounds more and more different than the original. in what way does “bon appetit” sound like “osteoporosis”
i don’t know but it’s cracking me up every time i even think about it
bon appetit -> bone apple teeth -> bone ??? ??? -> osteoporosis
this has layers, man
give him two sands
like sandses and handses
maybe this will finally exorcise that flipping song
Happy Holidays from the Holiday Boar
Christmas/Holiday Boars have always been a thing but it still blows my mind that people choose my Holiday Boar to celebrate. Thank you for all the love, Stay safe and Happy Holidays!
I think DC needs to understand that while sure, broody dark shows are cool and all, all the fandom really wants a What We Do in the Shadows type show with the batfamily. Just go borrow Taika Waititi from marvel, i’m sure he’d love to do a show about a dysfunctional family of 100 emotionally stunted vigilantes.
so Ive been thinking for a while: what if the vampires had specific bat forms that relate to their country of origin and also their personality/appearance? here are my hot takes lol
nadja: she would definitely be the alpine long eared bat !! theyre found in greece and I just feel like the big ears fit both her persona and also her hair horns that she has sometimes
laszlo: he would probably be the whiskered bat from england becaus.. yeah. It’s just him!! tell me it’s not because it totally is
nandor: egyptian fruit bat from Iran. i mean look at its face it’s literally nandor
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this korean butch lady is so cool she legally changed her name to lesvos, a variation of lesbos the birthplace of sappho. which is also the name of her lesbian bar, the first one ever established in south korea in 1996.
link to article here
FUCK EM UP
I can't stress enough how much the John Green debacle was an early example of how cancel culture and purity culture combine to make people feel righteously justified to engage in harassment.
John Green, during his time on tumblr, committed the heinous sins of...being neurodivergent and talking openly about it, earnestly interacting with fans in a very direct and unfiltered way, and writing about teenagers navigating first love and sexuality while he himself was an adult. The worst things he ever did were be a little cringe or misspeak, for which he was always prompt to apologize (often whether he really needed to or not).
Yet despite the former two being things tumblr claimed to love and the last one being true of 99.99% of YA authors, in this case a large segment of tumblr users steeped in the early 2010s resurgence of purity culture decided that these things were suspicious and predatory, and used that as an excuse to justify some truly awful behavior.
Which is really all that cancel culture is: the normalization and even celebration of the process of misapplying morality or ethics to dehumanize someone for the express purpose of justifying whatever pain and suffering you want to inflict upon them. Basically, deciding "this person is bad, so I am exempt from affording them basic respect and human dignity, and am allowed to cross any and all otherwise uncrossable lines in order to punish them without damaging my own moral or ethical standing."
Contrary to popular tumblr lore, the infamous "cock monologue" was not the sum total of the harassment, or even the worst of it. Callout blogs issued long lists of "receipts" about how terrible John Green was, most if not all of which were either taken out of context or completely refutable. His works were torn to shreds by people who'd never read them, as evidenced by much of the criticism being obviously and blatantly counter to the actual contents of the books.
Not that it mattered. Once the John Green hate party reached a certain level of critical mass, it became less about who he actually was or what he'd done, and more about proving you were a good person by hating him. That's the natural conclusion of cancel culture, after all: virtue signalling by identifying yourself in opposition to the cancelled parties. They're bad, and I'm good, so I hate them! Or, more often: They're bad, and I hate them, so I'm good!
Before it was over with, John Green had been accused, with no evidence, of being everything from a Nazi to a pedophile and subjected to hate mail and death threats. He eventually left the site for the sake of his own mental health, and because he no longer felt comfortable engaging directly with fans in the same way he once had.
Yet even now, with the benefit of hindsight, and even among those who ostensibly reject purity culture and condem bullying and harassment, very few on tumblr take what was done to John Green as seriously as it should be taken or condemn it as thoroughly as it should be condemned. Which I think is something we need to at least consider doing, given the increasing rise of purity and cancel culture online, and given the recent influx of professional creators eager to interact with fans on a more direct level than they have on other social media.
And my concern is not purely, or even primarily, for the Mike Flanagans and Lynda Carters of the world. I'm far more concerned, actually, for the small, independent or self-published creators in this space, and how much even a very small level of visibility gives too many people a feeling of carte blanche to engage in harassment.
I myself have less than 3k followers on here, a handful of popular posts, and zero notoriety or consequence outside of tumblr whatsoever, and I've been repeatedly told to kill myself for saying such innocuous things as "I don't think censorship is the cure for the world's evils" and "maybe learning the history of communities you want to participate in would be a good idea."
Thankfully, all it took for me to stop the harassment that came my way was to block those few individuals. But there have been many instances over the years of small creators or just random tumblr users that got a bit popular being stalked, doxxed, swatted, and harassed to the point of leaving the site and dealing with serious mental health issues as a result. It has never been just John Green. John Green isn't even the worst example. And tumblr has never learned its lesson.
@kvetchcore I hope you don't mind me adding your tags, but I feel like they're essential information:
The cock post was literally homophobic sexual harassment. A lot of people gloss over that.
[#I will never ever stop pointing out that the cock taste meme is homophobic. #what is the joke. what is the funny haha lul there. that a grown man is attracted to penises? projecting homosexuality onto him ENTIRELY #to degrade and mock him in a sexual manner. it's homophobic sexual harassment. #and NO ONE CARES because they're bullies desperate for an easy target #john green was the victim of a queerphobic and ableist harassment campaign and no one wants to admit it #because that would require admitting that knowing the buzzwords doesn't stop you from enabling systemic violence. #and they don't want to admit that a cishet white man was a victim of homophobic bullying. but he was. because there is just NO WAY to #justify the cock taste meme that doesn't involve ignoring that the entire purpose of the joke is #''this man that we keep calling a pedophile is attracted to cocks and says gross things about them'' #darlings. beloved tumblrinas. that's middle school noughties homophobia at its peak. you're all unfunny trash for this.]
Literally THIS WEEK had one of these people write an essay in my inbox about how
He harassed his teenage fans by being 'creepy' at them
Nothing bad happened to him at all except 'some teens edited his posts to include a penis joke'
The anonymous essay writer was going to 'hurt (themself)' if John Green comes back to Tumblr because of 'suckup' bloggers like me 'rehabbing his image'
So you know, these people are still about, still haven't learned anything, and are still entirely fucking unhinged
