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The Vietnam War was wrong and cruel

The Iraq War was wrong and creul

And this war shall be shown by history to have been wrong and cruel as well

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Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

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Honestly, even if someone managed to prove that non-monogamous relationships are statistically more likely to end or last less time on average than monogamous ones, I don't think that would prove monogamy is better. I actually wouldn't be surprised if this is the case. What this would probably mean is that non-mono people are more willing and able to leave a situation that is no longer mutually healthy and fulfilling, due to, on average, being more self aware and communicative of their wants and needs and having better support networks. I think the fixation on this point by anti-poly people just shows that they're terrified of change in their relationships and projecting that on everyone else.

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I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

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I think "slop" is a strong contender for world of the year 2025, as it seems to be universally recognizable as a description for the majority of output produced in the name of Return on Investment.

Sure it means algorithmically generative slop now, but look at housing construction, durable appliances, food, automobiles, you name it and tell me it's not just more slop. If enshittification is the process, slop is the result.

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Happy 10th birthday to the best tweet of all time.

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everybody is drooling for the blond guy from dungeon meshi. that guy is 100% real and I know like six of him, what you are looking for is a marine biologist

1. spends a long amount of time doing something weird far away from society

2. will not stop talking about their animal

3. has definitely eaten their animal and has strong opinions on how to cook it best

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arguing against ai is always like. im not sure how to explain to you. that you need to think for yourself with your own thoughts. . maybe this would be easier to understand if idk, you were practiced in thinking for yourself

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more people with the same first name should date. i want to study the linguistical influence

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i love the -with mama trend but sometimes i get sad because that is clearly papa and he aint getting any credit raising those darn kids...

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I'm gonna say it here too. Allow me to be crystal fucking clear.

It is not cowardly to stay in the closet. Full stop. You do not owe anyone any part of yourself you aren't ready to share

If you unable to come out because you fear for your safety or well-being or because you know it will cause you substantial discomfort, that is not a defect in you. It's a failure of the society in which you live and the community surrounding you.

If you just don't want to share that part of yourself, that is valid and I support you

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i love sinners and the discussions being had around it but i haven't seen anyone dig a little deeper into the "i know how you like to be licked" line. it makes remmick feel that much more sinister and cruel when you really think about it.

first off, let's start with the line itself. this is a stranger coming up to grace and talking about committing a sexual act on her, insinuating that she should join him because he already knows her through her husband's knowledge of her. but it's more than this as well, it's beyond violating, he knows her intimately and without her consent. this isn't even someone who's watched her through the window, remmick can "remember" having sex with her that he never had, parts she never wanted him to see. he doesn't just know what she likes, he already knows what she tastes like. it's also a threat, it shows his plans for her once she's turned. this is him telling her that he will eat her out and she will like it, regardless of how she may feel about it in that moment.

secondly, the fact that he said it in her native tongue so no one but her could understand. this way of saying it shows her that he means it. ive seen a lot of people mention that when remmick and his vamps dance, only irish culture gets represented, it's the only culture he truly cares about celebrating. but the use of her native language shows his true intentions, he wants to use them, steal the parts of them that benefit him and discard the rest. it makes it clear to grace that he never meant a word he said to them, he was only there to use them. just as he threatens to use her, sexually.

lastly, i think it's a great portrayal of the sexualisation and dehumanisation of asian women. remmick could have said anything to her to prove that he knows her through her husband, he could have actually tried to get her to join him. this was a moment between just the two of them, the use of her native language in a low whisper ensured that. but he used this, instead, to sexualise her. he immediately violates and threatens her, notice how we never see her tell any of them what he said, she only mentions that he said it perfectly. she is being humiliated and sexualised by this white man who just killed her husband. she is nothing but a sexual object to him and her sexuality is being directly associated with her chinese heritage.

i just think it's a perfect encapsulation of remmick as a character and another example of how he's no different than the colonisers of ireland that he despises so much. a lot of people are focusing on the forced assimilation aspect, and that part is important, don't get me wrong! but this line represents the abuse of women that comes along with colonisation as well and an aspect of it i havent seen anyone mention when talking about sinners. i know it's one line, but it's an important one, it's the catalyst to grace breaking and inviting the vampires in. i don't think the amount of terror packed into it is getting the recognition it deserves and id really like to know what other people think

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[comes out of my mutuals blog breathless and blood stained] didnt even fidn the . fucking post

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress