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[anpiels]

[notbecauseofvictories]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/magazine/scotus-transgender-care-tennessee-skrmetti.html

because of this will the supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges? and if you responded and bring up that old post from 2016 I'm aware about that but that was more about Trump and presidents being the ones overturning the decision and even with that point you brought up that even if he appointed a judge who lean towards anti-lgbt, that's still wouldn't happen even though I feel recently the supreme Court majority seems to be behind Trump fully on certain things.

If you've read that far back in my blog---which, wow, that is some real commitment there, pal---then you know that for a case to be brought before any court, it must be justiciable. There must be a legal injury to the plaintiff, one within the authority of the court to resolve. Additionally, the case has to make it through the lower courts, then be appealed to the Supreme Court, and the Court must make the decision to hear it in full rather than denying certiorari. Therefore, the Supreme Court can't simply issue a statement to the effect of: "whoopsie! actually, we made a mistake with Obergefell, never mind that whole gay marriage thing." There is a process to follow, and it can take years, even decades, to undo Supreme Court rulings.

That said.....could it happen? Yes.

If you've read that 2016 post linked above, you know that I reference Roe v. Wade with a truly laughable amount of confidence, given that it was overturned in 2022 with Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The Alliance Defending Freedom is active and vile, one of the major actors behind the Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling as well as Dobbs. I would be entirely unsurprised if they have a gameplan for Obergefell; if there isn't a working group within the ADF right now discussing how to weaken, restrict, or overturn it, I will eat my hat. (I checked the wikipedia page for US v. Skrmetti, just to see if they were listed---they weren't, but that doesn't mean they weren't present, invested, helping draft the original anti-trans legislation or fund the litigation.)

We do know what the Supreme Court is set to hear before the session adjourns. (This tracker from the nytimes is helpful, if you want a quick summary.) It includes some staggering issues---birthright citizenship, racial gerrymandering, whether religious students can 'opt out' of class discussion with LGBTQ+ themes; plus the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare is back on the docket again. We won't know until the next session whether the court wants to reconsider Obergefell, if they'll have adequate, justiciable grounds to do so at that point.

Maybe if you're lucky, they'll focus on mifepristone and prohibiting inter-state travel for the purposes of abortion. Or hey, they can always stick with birthright citizenship, give themselves even more teeth---build on the Bush-era rulings about torturing non-citizens in extrajudicial prisons. Chevron is already dead so they're free to fuck up the administrative agencies, but I hear the limited powers of the presidency are just a bummer, maybe think about expanding those....

Look, when I made those posts nine years ago, it took me a little less than a week to recant---I described myself as "singing ‘cockeyed optimist’ wearing rose-colored glasses" when that wasn't what the moment demanded. That kind of Pollyanna energy is still not helpful. Nevertheless, I can't avoid a certain pang of sadness in reading Elie Mystal's article on the ruling, realizing that he's shifted register. He talks about the case as joining the anti-canon of Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson with full awareness that he may not see its reversal. Mr. Scott did not live to see the Civil War, let alone the 14th amendment granting him and his Black contemporaries the citizenship they sought. It took 60 years to get to Brown v. Board of Education and the acknowledgement that separate can never be equal. It took 20+ years for the government to apologize for Korematsu and the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII---the Supreme Court itself only recognized its error in 2018. And these are the headliner cases; never mind that court rulings often function as death by a thousand papercuts, giving the justices plausible deniability should they ever be confronted with the misery they rubber-stamped.

So could it happen with same-sex marriage? Well.

[moeblob]

A lil guy !

[nightmarereverie]

Yumemizuki Mizuki... But transparent and PNG-ified

[tofufei]

[lesbiancosmicowl]

you're in your mum's gf's flat all cautious excitement tinged with anxiety waiting for her to come home from the hospital. you've been visiting getting her get well soon cards acting like everything's fine. because it's going to be, right? it has to be. she's here she's alive and she's coming home. you helped your mum decorate put up banners fetch the cake from roy's. you watch her get the call don't even have to ask. it's routine. not the comfortable kind. the 'please stay please don't go into a job that can kill you please listen to me please stay' kind. the 'they need me i have to go there's been a murder/robbery/assult i'll be home late they need me' kind. the kind that is constant, unchanging despite her best (?) efforts. later, carla comes home. she's happy to see you hugs you back calls you darling. it reminds you too much- no. she's not here anymore. carla is. you know what she's gonna ask before she opens her mouth. "there was murder." "she was going to be here." "she put up the decorations." you're well versed in explaining to yourself why she is the way she is. in making excuses for her. in defending her to yourself. she's not here. she wanted to be. she's not here. she wanted to be. she's not here. she wanted to be. a well worn mantra repeated on forgotten dinners late nights missed parent-teacher meetings tardy pickups from work. the difference is now you have to explain it to other people as well. person. carla. you hope she has more patience than you more grace more understanding. you hope she stays. she's not here. she wanted to be. carla is here. she wants to be.

[crystallizsch]

WHITE RABBIT FEST RAHHHHHHH

MAMA SPADE MAMA SPADE MAMA SPAD I’VE FINALLY MET YOU GOOD MA’AM

AND THEIR RABBIT OUTFITS THEY'RE ALL SO CUTE

ALSO DEUCE 😭😭😭 pspspspsps come out come out 🫴

he’s so embarrassed about it hfggffhgff

and his dialogue if you call him either “cool” or “cute” 🥹

DEUCE my beloved 😭💕

[rare-prism-s]

i miss abby....

[melon-colli]

Yo. Why is this kinda hard.

[binah-beloved]

200 insidious pulls later.

[miss-allsundays]

i was kind of expecting it (because of the danny motta pandemic), but the amount of people that just. write off octavia as some sort of ungrateful brat is really pissing me off.

we, as the viewers, have a much broader understanding of stolas, his life, and his relationship with stella. we are also made to look at it in a positive light for stolas, because we are shown instances of stella and her brother being the terrible antagonists they were written to be.

and most importantly, we do not have an attachment to stolas and stella’s relationship.

octavia instead, has had her life recently upended, has seen her father do a 180 change and (in her eyes) ruin his whole relationship.

her parents are divorcing, and they’re going about it in the worst way possible. they keep badmouthing each other, and they are, quite frankly, very dismissive of octavia— stolas as well, even if he doesn’t mean it.

and then, her father risks his life for the guy he destroyed his family for. and she is left with her mother and uncle, who clearly don’t have her best interests in mind.

of course stolas deserves to be happy, and of course he can love both blitzø and octavia at the same time, but what a lot of people don’t get is that she is a hurt child, who is very lonely at the moment, and who has not had the time to process everything.

instead she has to watch her dad fawn over his affair partner, talk shit about her mother even after the divorce, and then he suddenly leaves and oh! he will be banned from their house for a hundred years.

of course she holds resentment over her father!! he hurt her, just as much as her mother hurt her!!

because yes, stolas’ hatred towards his ex-wife is justified, but he has subconsciously let that feeling cloud over his love for octavia.

for a child, seeing your parents go through a divorce is really fucking tough. even if their relationship wasn’t the best, even if the love wasn’t there anymore, your parents splitting up still feels like a point of no return. as someone who went through that, i cannot tell you how many nights i spent as a teen wishing my family would go back to normal, even if the rational part of me knew that their separation was a much better outcome, and that the normal i hoped for hadn’t been that in years.

their divorce is only a couple of months old, it isn’t nearly enough time to begin getting over it, especially if you don’t have a good outlet for your emotions— which octavia doesn’t have.

and as i’ve mentioned earlier, the fact that her parents hate each other so openly is also another big fucking problem!! it does nothing but make the child in between feel bad, because they feel guilty for still caring about both of them, like their love for their parents is wrong and tainted.

(again, stella is terrible, and we can all agree on that— but octavia doesn’t know the full extent of it!! sue just wants her family back!!)

i feel for stolas, and it’s so, so obvious that he loves his daughter more than anything in this world, but i also understand why octavia wants some distance from him.

even though he didn’t mean to, he failed to think of how his daughter was holding up, until it was too late.

(and to everyone that says octavia hates her dad, go fuck yourself and pick up a pair of glasses. there is a difference between being hurt by someone’s actions and hating them. she went to IMP to give him his meds. she saved stolitz + IMP from andrealphus. learn some media literacy before you speak thanksssssssss<3 )

[monbons]

WIP Wednesday

Thanks for the tags @rimeswithpurple (your sketches will forever live in my inbox and my heart), @thewholelemon, and @bookishbroadwayandblind. I wasn't going to update today, but after tumblr ate Arianna's beautiful art, I decided why not tempt the gods with more NSFW EGF-ness? All below the cut.

I am proud to announce that naked Baz was a success! After all my failed attempts to create a good-looking naked doll last week, I went back to the drawing board and created a whole new pattern for Baz (and for his accompanying Simon), but dare I say the results were worth it? Baz, his gorgeous harness, and his sexy dragon lover can be viewed from EVERY angle!

However, in the interest of preserving a little mystery, today you only get one cropped sneak peak.

I am so excited for these dolls and their accompanying fic, Beautiful Things. Honestly, you should be real excited too.

Till next time. Hellos and high fives from the smutty doll factory.

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[hers-underwraps]

It’s no longer summer *sobs* which means I probably need to update my pfp and banner to match the seasonal aesthetic *louder sobbing*

[yeyayeya]

I’m so done I barely got orbs

IntSys I hate you for dropping this when I got nothing

[cookingmama-23]

It's finally time I buckle down and tell y'all about this damn au!!!!

The gamma infused crew consists of Jennifer Walters (she-hulk) Blonsky (Abomination) Skaar and Bruce Banner(Hulk).

They are going on a road trip so (at first) Bruce can get closer and bond with his son

Jen convinces him this is what he needs (because all the depression and grief is really starting to take a toll on him) and it'll help clear his mind and help him get closer with Skaar

Wong leaves Blonsky in their care to take a much needed break (supposedly)

Bruce wasn't too happy about this but he tolerates it

Jen comes along because her work friends say she overworks herself and her family needs her (originally she wasn't gonna but she figured it was just going to be awkward and someone was gonna die if she didn't)

I'm thinking of a cross country trip (like Ben 10) because hulks fighting in different iconic places across America is a fun concept (agents of s.m.a.s.h. but not them saving the world 24/7 and it more about comedy and exploration of depression and grief and learning to open up with your loved ones)

Bruce and Hulk unfuse in this (makes it more fun)

Like imagine Bruce arguing with his angsty ass son and it gets so heated he starts to hulk out so he's got to send him to his side of the Hamper the Hulk size and ready camper named by Blonsky (maybe a place to air dirty laundry 🤫🤫🤫)

I think they'd run into random strong enemies and it would lead up to a bigger plan but I'm not sure what yet?

They'd also go up against fodder villains so Bruce can teach Skaar some restraint

I can imagine seasons of this it's so funny the amount of comedy action and angst I can get from this au

The au will be called Radiation Road trip

(ask me questions it'll probably help with the lore building!)

(there will be more but this is what I could type down in the car)

[blobwithapencil]

At your lie's end, I'll sing you to sleep, just like when you were young.