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There was this guy in the 1800s - I can't remember his name, but his name is recorded somewhere - who honestly argued that if given the choice between a beautiful woman and a heron, deep down in their most earnest true heart, every man would rather fuck the heron. And he got mad when people denied this, continuing to deny this what he had decided must be an universal truth, instead of praising him for being the only one who was brave enough to finally say it out loud. Like he really thought that every single person telling him "Jesse what the hell are you talking about" was not only denying him, but denying themselves their true desires and perpetuating the apparently massive cultural lie that herons aren't fuckable.

Anyway what I'm saying here is that every once in a while whenever you find yourself in a situation where nobody else is willing to agree with something that you consider the most obvious truth, take a moment to meditate on the possibility that perhaps they do mean what they say, and perhaps they are right. Maybe nobody else but you wants to fuck the heron.

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MAY YOUR DAY BE YAOIFUL ON THIS YAOI DAY EVERYONE 🥳🎉👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨💞

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the reason you, a white american, believe that white americans don't have culture is the same reason fish don't believe in water

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Damn

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(person who doesn't know how to receive love unless they ensure the other person is totally regulated, and have been of service)

Are you sure? We can have a day about you if you need one. You're important and I want to make sure you are ok and you get what you need.

(first person, growing increasingly uncomfortable as the center of attention and distrustful of praise)

No really! I want to do your thing.

(second person sensing the first person's increasing discomfort and trying to figure out how to make them comfortable when comforting them makes them uncomfortable)

uh um ok um well

(both types of broken)

(person who learned from childhood to make themself as small and unimportant as possible to avoid being a burden) yeah its okay we dont have to do my thing if you dont want i dont mind

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So this is the groundwork for putting the homeless and those considered dangerous in labor camps or just, you know, losing them.

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

This is precisely Trump's plan

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We can't have Unproblematic Monarchy.

Monarchy is oppressive. Monarchy is a problem. Feudalism is not better for the workers than capitalism in some very important ways, right? You are still fantasizing about being the person whose unearned wealth and power comes at the expense of many many many oppressed people who don't have a say

I am not saying don't have your fantasy romance, but I think trying to solve the adoption problem is maybe secondary? To the Monarchy problem.

Or are we crafting monarchies with no peasants or?

So there’s been this mini-discourse on my dash about queernorm aristocracy/monarchy in fiction, and how trying to find an “unproblematic” version of it just leads to creating scenarios that have DIFFERENT problems than the obvious ones. (The big example right now is adoption as continuance of royal bloodline—where exactly do the babies come from? Isn’t that in itself a problem?) And I think this discourse is interesting because it illustrates something a very smart friend of mine has been talking about for a while.

The idea of a queernorm monarchic system is one that has the hallmarks of from what the author St John Starling refers to as “pulp”—“fiction that prioritizes the pleasure and enjoyment of the reader above all else.” It’s a pleasurable fantasy—people want to marinate for a while in an imaginary world where queer people are at the highest echelons of society and have big dramatic fairytale romances that take place in ancient castles.

Pulp is an old and venerable genre but, as St. John points out, people have some anxieties about it now and are trying to write work that is both pulp and not-pulp at the same time. This is the source of fretting about creating a queernorm monarchy that’s “unproblematic”—people feel like they have to solve every possible point of queasiness in the worldbuilding before they’re able to indulge in the fantasy. The solution to this, of course, is not even to try. The pulp queer monarchy will contain latent problems, but those aren’t the focus of the story, and a reader in it for the fantasy—as any pulp reader is—will just ignore them.

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Found this in the comments of Shaun's latest video on Andrew Tate, in which he talks pretty extensively about how important it is for men to find ways to be confident in their genders without trying to adhere to, or enforce, anyone else's ideas of manhood on anyone.

Highly recommend checking it out.

Anyway. I rarely see folks talk about the positive impact transmascs have on manhood as a whole, and I think it's important to acknowledge and celebrate that.

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THIS RIGHT HERE

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Realizing I support Tumblr user DennyDrreadful but not United States Secratary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr,

and reflexively trying to unpack the distinction

i had a strangely touching dream where my mind was parasitized by this frankly scary/gross looking weird immobile alien worm thing, but it meant me no harm and only wanted to get to experience life through me

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i had a strangely touching dream where my mind was parasitized by this frankly scary/gross looking weird immobile alien worm thing, but it meant me no harm and only wanted to get to experience life through me

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As cool as being corrupted would be, my spirit is lowkey indomitable and I have an automatic aversion to doing what people tell me to do

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anyway in case you don’t know it yet

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They're angry over one of the most basic components of his character?

I was kind of joking about that post about how you couldn't make Blazing Saddles nowadays, but I guess it's just true. You can't even make Superman these days without them complaining he's woke.