#supporting jr

[dreamofstarlight]

Kathleen, Courtney, Kerry, Chris, and Rory Kennedy release a statement after RFK Jr’s endorsement of Trump

[mysterioussinkhole]

Hey just a general PSA from someone officially diagnosed and documented:

Now is not the time to seek out an autism diagnosis.

RFK's plans have been made very clear and any diagnosis you do get will get you put on this "national disease registry" they're proposing.

Trust me when I say I completely understand the need for accommodations and a better understanding of yourself, but if you have gone this long without being diagnosed, you will be better off waiting.

Furthermore, listen to and advocate for folks who are diagnosed, especially folks with higher support needs. They'll be the first ones targeted for whatever bullshit "experimental treatments" the government tries to push.

Stay safe and look out for your neighbor.

[stardella]

We all up making fankids huh

[mugiwara-lucy]

Kamala will make the FUNNIEST president in all of American history 😂

[prongss78]

[nerdyrevelries]

"autistic people don't pay taxes" factoid actualy just statistical error. average autistic person pays their taxes every year. Elon Musk, who uses autism to justify Nazi salutes & loopholes his way out of millions in taxes, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[alexturntable]

Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc do the BEST ever SkyPad ❤️

[meep-meep-richie]

it´s them

[v88sy]

Oh.

[norry-yippee]

STOP ENGAGING AND PARTICIPATING IN ALL THE AI TRENDS, DONT ASK AI TO MAKE TWO CHARACTERS TAKE A SELFIE COMMISSION AN ARTIST IN THE FANDOM OR DO IT YOURSELF!!!!!

[notyourmusebby]

Paul at any time in this challenge: idc idc carlos is right, carlos is pretty and his eyes are huge so he is absolutely right

[guestp]

The fact that Tommy suited up going to a mummy's grave because his boyfriend truly believe he's cursed. Evan Buckley you've found your other half.

[count-twinkula]

hey, btw autistic ppl aren't worthless if they can't use the restroom on their own, pay taxes, write poetry, hold a job, or play baseball. they can still have lovely fulfilling lives and are still people deserving of at LEAST basic human decency and respect

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Now I have to ask- WHY do you hate Pacific Rim?

Okay, fair warning, this is about as bitter and salty and small-minded as day-old caviar. But. My bitter, salty (probably fishy) opinion:

Pacific Rim is only a good movie because it's a well-written story about robots punching monsters.

That's it. That's all there is to the movie.

I started out merely disappointed by Pacific Rim. We went gaga for the preview materials that promised these unique well-rounded character pairs and trios with these idiosyncratic robots from all these different Pacific nations... And then the movie itself is about some bland white American guy who pilots a robot named a racial slur, the second most fleshed-out team is bland white Australian guys, and the Chinese team is there, kind of, in the background, but don't worry they're going to die first. The "character-driven story" turned out to be "various characters take turns punching aliens" but, sure, whatever, I love the MCU so why not.

The day I went from "Pacific Rim is overrated" to "Pacific Rim is the worst thing that has ever happened to human civilization, I'm extremely normal about this" was the day I saw a Tumblr post suggesting we replace the Bechdel test with the Mako Mori test. Because Mako Mori has her own plot and doesn't kiss North Carolina at the end, making her a whole new type of feminist icon.

To which I was like:

We are talking about the same movie here, right? The Pacific Rim that can't even pass the Bechdel test? The Pacific Rim that's all about might-makes-right, the Pacific Rim that has ONE speaking role for ONE female character in its (from IMDB) 50-person cast? The Pacific Rim that repeatedly puts its only female character in danger and has her rescued by first Idris Elba then North Carolina? THAT Pacific Rim?

Is there a different Mako Mori I haven't met? Because the one I've seen a) has a character arc driven by deciding whether to obey her father or follow her heart, which is as inoffensive and stale as an unblessed communion wafer, b) does nothing that Ellen Ripley didn't do 30 years earlier, but with about 5% of the character depth Ripley got, and c) stands there in silence looking sad as two men punch each other over the question of her virtue.

Any post assuming this movie invented the idea of "small Asian woman kicks monster ass" needs to learn its damn history. Especially the ones acting like her being physically small is somehow a feminist bonus. There's something embarrassingly ahistorical about the whole thing.

And look. I get how we got here. I know how easily Tumblr backs you into a rhetorical corner of "calling a story Good can never mean merely 'enjoyable'; calling a story Good must mean 'virtuous'". Until next thing you know you're arguing that actually, shipping Obi-Wan/Darth Vader is a net good for all of society, because gay divorced middle-aged tyrants who use supplemental oxygen and murdered their exes in a custody dispute over the one kid (out of two) they actually care about deserve to see themselves in sci fi too! You only end up in that corner because half the time you're arguing against someone who says that shipping Obi-Wan/Darth Vader is literally the same thing as supporting father-son incest, so your real reasons for shipping them (1. foe yay, 2. old man yaoi) seem wildly insufficient.

Much of what I see about Pacific Rim seems neck-deep in the "it's not allowed to be a Good Movie unless it single-handedly dismantles the patriarchy" fallacy. There's nothing progressive about shipping two dudes best known for chopping off each other's body parts with laser swords. And there's nothing progressive about a movie having its only female character hug the male protagonist at the end instead of kissing him. You're allowed to like a thing just because it's well-made, without acting like a bog-standard normatively-broey action flick somehow invented a new form of feminism. Anyway, "Pacific Rim is a perfectly fine movie" is the hill I will die upon, heretical though it may be.

[morsmortish]

rosekiller always hits the most when evan is a skeletal, wraithlike wisp of a victorian child with terrifying blue bug-eyes and absolutely no movement of any of his facial muscles; no one has ever seen eat or drink or even speak; he’s never been seen within five feet of anyone who’s not his equally-as-off-putting twin sister; he always smells sightly metallic (like blood) but also sterile (like whatever he used to clean aforementioned blood); the most emotion anyone has ever seen this creature display is when his eyes light up slightly at the mention of rubber gloves or a dead body. and then there’s barty, this charismatic-and-absurdly-hot loser who can’t shut up to save his life, following him around like a panting dog, meekly carrying his lover’s pile of disturbing ‘medical’ journals whilst towering over his fragile blond spectre.

[hauntedleech]