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#Guess who's the only one allowed to stay

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Muscular straight boy at the gym, why are you angry? What troubles you? Has it been too long since you’ve punched drywall?

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when doctors ask if i have any history of cancer in my family and i have to say that yes my grandmother had 2 types of gastrointestinal cancer and they're like oh wow okay so we'll keep an eye out for that but i'm like no it was probably just all the nuclear radiation and they're like ok hm ok what the fuck do you mean and it's very weird seeing the look on american doctors' faces when you have to explain to them that believe it or not atomic bombs were dropped on this earth 2 generations ago and it did have consequences

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Rewatching Stuck and crying over good-dad Eddie Diaz and the difference in their bedrooms when they first move to LA.

Like this is Chris’s room:

It’s absolutely FULL of stuff. He’s got fun rugs, art, shelves, trophies, a terrarium, a LITTLE FIRE FIGHTER OUTFIT, stars and decorations on his dressers, a desk, a little basketball hoop, embroidered pillows. There is nothing Chris doesn’t have in here. Eddie bought this kid everything he needed and made sure his room felt special and fun and homey. And this is during Stuck, so there’s no Carla, no Buck, no Shannon helping him out. This room and everything in it was all Eddie who made sure his son has an awesome fun room with anything he needs in the city they just moved to.

And this is Eddie’s room:

Even for a guy who was in the military, this room is barren. No shelves, no decorations, no photos, a single mirror on the wall, no books, no art, nothing that would have taken any time or extra expense to put up. Now we know Eddie isn’t a guy lacking personality – he likes baseball, and has photos on his fridge and his living room, he has themed holiday pillows for the couch, he has a fucking personality, except he doesn’t here because his sole focus right now is taking care of his son so he hasn’t spent a single second worrying about the room Chris doesn’t go in and I am crying at self-sacrificing Eddie spending the few dollars he has as a probationary firefighter who just moved to LA to take his kid shopping for desks and rugs and shelves and buying nothing for himself but the barest necessities. Frank absolutely had Eddie pegged when he said he manages other people’s pain and never his own and this is just another example of Eddie sacrificing pieces of himself for his son.

Ask me again why I love him.

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Life in an Autism World

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He doesn't know you're an idiot. Once he gets to know you, and know that you're an idiot, he'll love you, like we all do.

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Oliver Stark about the negativity concerning Buck's bisexuality

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#I need to study Buck and his low self-esteem like a bug

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i honestly forget that autism mums say 'autism won today' to mean like their kid had a meltdown and that they are ableist. like nooo autism win means something like i found something cool out about my special interest or i managed to avoid a meltdown or i got to infodump!!!!! autism win is good!!!!!!

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I’m gonna be honest I do not care if a trans boy teen is annoying and has horrible taste in music y’all are just mean.

I’d rather hang around with Karkat who listens to Cavetown than someone who is mean.

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Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity. The checkpoints are designed to allow some women and children to leave Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli offensive, but unarmed, civilian Palestinian men will likely be separated from their families and remain trapped in Rafah during an expected Israeli assault. The previously unreported disclosure of Israel’s construction of a ring of checkpoints around Rafah underscores how Israel is pushing ahead with plans to attack the city where over one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering in tents and makeshift camps. The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war. The rounding up of Palestinian males in Gaza and photographing them stripped to their underwear drew condemnation in December, with the US calling the images “deeply disturbing”. Relatives of many of the men photographed recognised them and said they had nothing to do with Hamas. Israel's military was later accused of staging footage of men surrounding weapons. “Israel considers every male a Hamas fighter until proven otherwise,” Abbas Dahouk, a former senior military advisor at the State Department and military attache in the Middle East told Middle East Eye. “It’s not a sound move. Cordoning Rafah is a daunting task and good luck separating fathers and sons from their families.”

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This will make you cry.

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The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

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i love one man

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autumn

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I like to think the Captain knows things about birds because Havers taught him. This is backed by absolutely no evidence but Havers loves birds in my mind and no one will ever be able to convince me otherwise.

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Never feel embarrassed if your mobility aid makes noise when you move and travel. You need it. You're allowed to make noise and take up space. Everyone else can deal.