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idk i dont mean this with as much derision as might bleed out but it is exceedingly clear that some of you were never considered retard-faggots as a child and therefore never subject to the subsequent torments Pure Children would subject Retard-Faggot Children to.

[* the use of these slurs is not reclamatory but is also not pejorative. the use of these slurs is academic, technical, and descriptive.]

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“i don’t even live in nyc but im happy” you should be!!!!!!!!!! outside of all the local ramifications this is a win that can serve as an example to guard against defeatist loser democrat establishments in other cities and states who count on you believing that we can never Go Further Left because that is the realm of thought experiments and not electoral power… look around you! hope is one of our most powerful weapons and this is a sign that change is not only something to feel wistful about as the unknown future but a real tangible possibility when you let young people organize and mobilize and put forth a clear message. it’s coalition building!!! this is good for EVERYONE!!!! he was endorsed and supported by the dsa for fuck’s sake. also this is not diminished by whatever happens in the general and whatever his tenure ends up looking like. tbh. we can continue to run campaigns like this and win like this.

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I love how Suzanne makes Katniss tending to Peeta's wounds gross and disgusting and overwhelming for her instead of some gateway into rippling abs with a minor flesh wound she wraps up to explore a surface-level physical attraction to him. Peeta has lost weight, is covered in mud, has swollen flesh around stingers, has a fever, and is oozing pus. It was never going to be sexy because the Games are not sexy. The progress in their relationship comes from their teamwork and compatibility first and the physical attraction is a slow build in response to the emotional connection.

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And it’s not even a slow burn in the traditional sense. It’s a slow burn in the sense of “we hit the right milestones in the wrong order.”

The show’s made it clear from the second episode that they’re endgame. There’s no love triangle. There’s no “will they, won’t they.” Theres no “queer eye for the straight guy.”

Just two men hopelessly in love with each other and stumbling over their own problems on the way. Which is so human. I’m glad we’re destigmatizing mental health, but you know that the vast majority of people still can’t afford regular therapy or have the time and energy to read about trauma-informed care, right? Most of us are just trying to get through these next few hours, the next few days, maybe to next week if we’re lucky.

And I don’t want my characters to be self-actualized and understanding therapy speak and have 2.5 friends and be totally independent before they deserve love. They deserve love now, damn it! When they’re messy, when they’re needy, when they push away, when they pull back, when they’ve lost everything, when they’ve gained everything.

I still can’t believe how many people think helluva boss is bad. It has one of the most compelling slow burns between two men I’ve ever seen, and it’s not subtext, or something we need to write a 2000 word tumblr post to prove. It’s canon. Proof is on the paper.

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“A pop can tab opener? Who needs that?”

It’s not for you.

“Why would anyone get a hairdryer holder, just use your hands to hold it.”

It’s not for you.

“Portable collapsible stools are proof of how lazy this generation is getting.”

It’s not for you.

“A chord assist for a guitar? Why don’t people just user their fingers like everyone else?”

IT’S NOT FOR YOU.

Fun fact! Not everything is about or for you!

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People talk abt the erasure of high support needs autistic people among autism communities on here and that's extremely important but also it honestly feels like people have straight up forgotten that autistic people have Needs. Like needs of literally any kind. I have literally watched people pooh-pooh the idea that autism is a disability (calling it a "metaphorical disability" as opposed to physical disabilities which are "real"), have seen countless memes where the punchline is "autistic person has a common symptom or trait of autism", and you just see a bunch of people talk about how they're super autistic but conveniently are never seen as weird or unlikable and never have meltdowns or lash out and have zero trouble understanding sarcasm or jokes or social cues and hit all their life milestones at appropriate times and aren't lame loser virgins like the rest of you shut-ins. Like it is just extremely common to mock and harass autistic people for displaying very typical autistic traits. There's a point where "dismantling stereotypes" becomes "not actually recognizing the things that make autism autism" and we've really reached it it feels like. As always just a stunning lack of compassion for people who are disabled in ways that disable them and not disabled in ways that are cool to you

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Genuinely hope E6 is nothing but her crashing out for 30 minutes.

I hope Ragatha gets to crash out even more, it’s so crazy seeing people villainise the shit out of her for yelling at Jax ONCE when the dude threw her in a DEEP FRYER

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just because elphaba is gay doesn't mean she's a friend of dorothy. in fact,

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every year I post this meme and every year people get more mad at me than they did the previous year

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Leftists stop using "schizophrenic" and "psychotic" as jokes mocking the right wing challenge 2025

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Some 4 komas

Bad bird

Bait successful

Just friends sharing ice cream~

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‘We need more loud, unashamed queers’ yes but some of you can’t even seem to handle a bisexual woman liking men.

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So, the Circus episode.

Where little clown-impling Blitzo was bought up to the Palace for young Prince Stolas's birthday, to play and make friends, and also rob the Royal Palace of any and all valuables be could lay his hands on.

King Paimon is a fairly absent figure; he doesn't even seem to live in the same lavish building that Stolas resides in. I can believe that he would take a while to notice anything missing.

The servents, though?

The imps who work, and possibly live in the palace? The ones who make a living, polishing the silver, dusting the valuable knick-knacks, and keeping those marble floors and chandeliers clean, and even doing some child-care (*which was NOT part of the Job Description, by the way*) on top of that?

Yeah. They noticed.

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I think that after little Blitzo went home for the day, when the Butler got back from his lunch-break to find that none of the maids had taken over the child-supervising duties, and while surprisingly little was *broken* or *wrecked* after the circus-brat and birthday-boy were left to their own devices, quite a lot was MISSING. Which is WORSE.

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So, the Butler asked the young Prince what he'd gotten up to with his new friend. Stolas smiles, and starts to talk about the marvelous fun "imp games" the brat had taught him, most especially "Treasure Hunt," in which they pretend to be pirates--

The Butler cuts him off, before Prince Stolas can say anything that could incriminate either of them, and offers to find him a book about Pirates.

The Book on Pirates deals with how real-life pirates may be punished by the Law. Execution, by hanging, guillotine, or more creative means. Maiming the culprit-- cutting off the hand of a thief, for example, or chopping of the foot, or leg, of someone who tries to run-- that's in the book, too. Some convicts are sentenced to hard labor, for their crimes.

There are descriptions of the living conditions for galley-slaves, chained to the oars for entire voyages, or longer, and not even allowed up for bathroom-breaks. (You do NOT want to be a galley-slave on a lower-level bench, with others above you!)

And later, AFTER little Prince Stolas has had time to read these fascinating facts about pirates, and all the ways such wicked criminals, both on sea AND on land, might be punished-- THEN the Butler asks him to tell him more about the Pirate Game he played with his little impling friend?

"You said you played 'Treasure Hunt,' did you not? Did the two of you decide to bury your pirate-treasure on some secret island somewhere? Or perhaps hide it in a treasure-chest in some secret compartment in the palace?"

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Stolas tells the Butler that if he TOLD him where they'd hidden the Treasure during their Pirate Game, then it wouldn't be a SECRET TREASURE anymore, now would it?

And on a completely unrelated note, which DEFINITELY has nothing to do with buried treasure, there might be a specific patch of the gardens that Prince Stolas would like to tend *personally* to grow his *own plants* now that he's older...

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So, the the servents in the palace that still belongs to King Paimon, though the seals may transfer to young Prince Stolas when he comes of age, all have their story straight.

The miscellaneous valuables that haven't been seen since a certain Circus Brat of an impling was accidentally left to roam unsupervised are all still SOMEWHERE on the palace grounds-- the Prince has just hidden them, as part of a Pirate Game.

No, they don't know exactly where he put them. Do you think they're the kind of *low-class, sticky-fingered hired help* who ask nosy questions about where the Royals keep their most portable valuables?! No, they are NOT!

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And so, the Circus vanishes into the night, possibly with some random items that fell off the back of a truck in tow, and the servents at the Palace all agree on what to say if anyone asks about the missing items, which they cannot be blamed for, because ACTUALLY nothing is missing... And Prince Stolas gets control over a patch of garden, all his own.

So everything is fine, and everyone is happy.

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crazy that gravity falls was like, hey what if we made twin brothers, and one of them is the worse one. he gets bad grades, he likes to punch his problems, everyone thinks of him as “the other one.” he’s engulfed in a shadow that’s shaped like him. he doesn’t even have his own name—it’s derived of his brother’s name, the only one his parents planned on having and using. everything about him is derivative—imitative of another person (his twin brother) (the one everyone likes and wants) and is disapproved of for that reason (he isn’t just “bad at this thing,” he’s “not as good as his brother”). and then he ruins his brother’s science fair project (the one next to his own—no one noticed it because it’s not good, it’s almost stupid next to a “perpetual motion machine” made by a high schooler) (he tried to fix it) (he doesn’t know how; he’s not as smart as the guy who made it) and he gets kicked out. the potential of the money his twin could’ve made is enough to throw him onto the street, and he can’t go home until he makes that money back (the money that was never gained and therefore was never lost. he never had a chance of making enough). he took every job he could (his brother went to school). he got banned from multiple states (his brother bought a house). he traveled internationally and went to prison and had people try to hunt him down and kill him because he couldn’t make enough money (his brother’s house has three basements. he made them himself, as secure as can be). and when his twin finally summons him for help, things go wrong (he messed up this machine like the last one) (he doesn’t know how to fix it. he isn’t as smart as the guy who made it) (he tries to fix it) (he was never any good at reading and these blueprints are impossible, coded and fragmented and in a science that he didn’t know existed) (he tries to fix it). the townspeople ask who he is, and he doesn’t even say his own name (it was hardly his to begin with). and he invites them to a house that isn’t his to show off experiments that aren’t his because he needs to make money that can’t be his. everything he does for the next 30 years is in his twin’s name, for his twin’s sake. he had two funerals for himself and it isn’t even his body in the casket; he had to wear his brother’s name to both of them. if he had died before he fixed the portal, that funeral wouldn’t have been for him. we meet him as a funny and unique character, but in-universe, he’s only ever been defined by someone else.

and then they went, this is entirely in the background btw. most of that is going to be revealed in one episode and won’t be addressed again. he’s a primary comic relief, even. I’m ill about this.

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if any minors are following me

always make sure to start forging parents' signatures on the first day of class. that way, your teachers won't know that you've been forging signatures for the rest of the year

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