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t*rfs also like to twist the fact that there’s little long-term medical research into transitioning (for both trans women and trans men) in order to abuse and frighten trans men into detransitioning (which, btw, often leads to the suicidal depression that dysphoria causes and transitioning alleviates!)

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This is so relatable, I’m dying.

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Ending is sad: ouch

Ending is happy: nice

Ending is bittersweet: I'm going to think about this every day for the rest of my life

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Caption:

[Man 1: (singing) One last time. Did you just... flick my hand away from your hand? It just like registered like three seconds later. Why did you do that? You didn’t want the Hydrangeas to see? They’re homophobic ya know. That’s why they’re not blooming as well.

They’re spewing hate. So they’re not... blooming. That’s how that works by the way. If you spew hate you don’t bloom, as a human. So you can tell when someone’s unhappy and they’re causing pain to someone else, you’re just a flower who’s not blooming and you’re mad you’re not blooming.

But it’s because you’re mad at the other person. So just stop being mad at the other person and focus on your blooming. Focus. On. Your blooming! (laugh) They’re really not doing so well.

Man 2: And that’s because they’re homophobic?

Man 1: Or the soil.]

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really getting sick of people who aren’t trans women saying “y’all find out JK Rowling is a terf every three months…. we already fucking knew” like. sorry, but it didn’t stop being a big deal that the most well known author in the fucking world literally belongs to a hate group dedicated to eliminating trans women’s rights. that’s a big fucking deal, and people are allowed to talk and post about it when it happens.

“y’all find out JKR is a terf every two months!!!” is just a way to dismiss trans women’s worries about her. yeah we already knew, but she’s STILL doing it and it’s HURTING us. but you wouldn’t know because y’all don’t actually give a shit about trans women.

stop saying shit like this.

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I am very drunk and listening to toto’s Africa

I’m thinking about watching Charlie and the chocolate factory, but the one from the 1970s where gene wilder is giving off heavy ‘fuck them kids’ energy and the lighting makes it look like the Great Depression

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My teacher: you can't use Wikipedia as a source, it's not reliable

Me, who edited the Karl Marx anime article to say he was into vore and had it changed back within 10 minutes:

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actually nobody has to contribute anything incredible to society in order to have the right to exist 

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Jonathan….. Stims

(Please click for quality!)

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theory: the tapes aren’t beholding or the web, they’re jon

per discussion on discord, the Tapes are not a Beholding thing so much as a manifestation of Jon’s own personal powers

the thought process is like this:

It’s assumed that tapes are just a Part of Being the Archivist, but they are mostly emblematic of Jon himself. There have been other Beholding avatars before Jon, and there have been other Archivists, but no sign that anyone else has this affinity for the tapes.

Per Gerry, Gertrude did absolutely read statements for her hunger, but according to him, she didn’t record them. What she did record was relevant information.

Tapes also pop up when Jon wants more agency. They crop up when there is information he specifically will want to know, and often not necessarily Fear-related.

And the way people react to the tapes is parallel to how they think of Jon. For Martin, he’s very fond of them, sees them as little confidants, and they form his connection to Jon through their separation in S4. Tim and Basira both view the tapes as a sign of Jon’s monstrousness. Back when Daisy has her bloodlust on, she sees Jon having one as a sign he’s a “freak”, confirming her need for him to be a monster worth killing. Melanie is neutral to them mostly, but they capture the story of Elias tormenting her, which informs Jon’s kindness to her after he knows about it.

And very interestingly, Elias can’t control them. When he wants to turn one off, it will decide “actually nah” and defy him. Particularly in the case of his mental attack on Martin, that doesn’t even feel like something the Beholding would want as a snack. What Elias does is scary, but the chief emotion Martin is going through isn’t Fear at all (in fact, it’s p much not fear, he planned the whole thing) but grief and sorrow.

Martin, who has the clearest view of who Jon really is, doesn’t distrust the tapes. And Jon takes one with him to Scotland for a sense of protection. In fact, they are closely associated with Jon from the very beginning; he shoves his fucking hand into worms to recover one out of his desire to not become a mystery. They are less an artefact of the Archivist and more an artefact of Jon wanting to be known. Not in a scary way, but an informative way, which is a motive that certainly overlaps with Beholding stuff but is not fear-aligned.

After all, later in the show, as Jon starts to fight with his addiction to statements, most tellingly, when he feeds purely to feed, the most monstrous thing he does, it’s done entirely OFF-TAPE. It feels important that things Jon is ashamed of and doesn’t want known about him happen off recording.

Thus, theory: the tapes don’t serve Beholding, they serve Jon. And Jon has power beyond the scope of Beholding.

ETA: from @dathen

#thank you for putting into words!#the thoughts have been Buzzing but going nowhere#i used to be in the fence about the tapes being jon vs the web#but the web would have wanted to hear jon succumbing to live statements#so now am 100% the Tapes are Jon 

EXACTLY

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Shane Madej really is the funniest possible co-host of a mystery show because he's just like. some things will remain a mystery forever and that's fine. I'm satisfied by not knowing for sure if there was a government conspiracy because that means the CIA is doing their covering-up job well, I'm proud of you guys. does it really matter who Jack the Ripper was? it was a hundred years ago. this murder victim still wasn't identified? maybe they were a spy and that's what they wanted. if I ever disappear in mysterious circumstances just assume I'm dead and move on, don't even look for my body because I want it to be eaten by wild animals.

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“bear in mind”

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Everyone new to Korra who are also accepting that it's a different show from atla... thats VERY sexy of you

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wish i could speak every language in the world so i could fully grasp every book and poem ever written in its original form

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This thread is a few years old but it bears repeating. I’m tired of being treated as if I am invisible. Listen to Jewish voices when we talk about fascism. I am begging you.

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