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It is deeply, deeply beneficial to TERFs if the only characteristic of TERF ideology you will recognize as wrong, harmful, or problematic is "they hate trans women".

TERF ideology is an expansive network of extremely toxic ideas, and the more of them we accept and normalize, the easier it becomes for them to fly under the radar and recruit new TERFs. The closer they get to turning the tide against all trans people, trans women included.

Case in point: In 2014-2015, I fell headlong into radical feminism. I did not know it was called radical feminism at the time, but I also didn't know what was wrong with radical feminism in the first place. I didn't see a problem with it.

I was a year deep into this shit when people I had been following, listening to, and looking up to finally said they didn't think trans women were women. It was only then that I unfollowed those people, specifically; but I continued to follow other TERFs-who-didn't-say-they-were-TERFs. I continued ingesting and spreading their ideas- for years after.

If TERFs "only target trans women" and "only want trans women gone", if that's the one and only problem with their ideology and if that's the only way we'll define them, we will inevitably miss a vast majority of the quiet beliefs that support their much louder hatred of trans women.

As another example: the trans community stood relatively united when TERFs and conservatives targeted our right to use the correct restroom, citing the "dangers" of trans women sharing space with cis women. But when they began targeting Lost Little Girls and Confused Lesbians and trotting detransitioners out to raise a panic about trans men, virtually the only people speaking up about it were other transmascs. Now we see a rash of anti-trans healthcare bills being passed in the US, and they're hurting every single one of us.

When you refuse to call a TERF a TERF just because they didn't specifically say they hate trans women, when you refuse to think critically about a TERF belief just because it's not directly related to trans women, you are actively helping TERFs spread their influence and build credibility.

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Before Bruce, now absolutely exhausted, can string together a coherent sentence, Alfred returns to the living room with a note.

A note from the Joker.

About recreating the Wayne Family Tragedy.

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Several more exhausted hours later, Batman drops a cried-out Duke Thomas to the police station, talks with the doctor assigned as caseworker, and heads home to collapse into bed.

His new kids are waiting up with Alfred, and Damian has gotten colicky.

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A week later, Batman gets a call from Gordon...'s teenage daughter. Barbara proceeds to explain that Joker has used a group of mind controlled Joker Venom victims to kidnap her father, and insists that she can help.

Unknown to Bruce, his new gaggle of children have also decided that they can help.

Soon, a very sleep-deprived Batman fails to notice a group of brightly colored shadows sneaking into the back of the Batmobile.

Or the arrival of one light-controlling runaway.

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Later, after Gordon has been rescued, the Joker has disappeared after critically injured one incredibly stubborn teen and an equally stubborn former streetrat, several long and panicked lectures have been given by every adult in a five mile radius, and the Joker's body has mysteriously disappeared, Alfred finds a sleeping Bruce on the visitor's couch in the ICU.

Surrounded by sleeping children, with his head resting on Gordon's bandaged shoulder, Bruce sleeps with a frown. At least, until Alfred tucks a scowling baby between the two men, tucks favorite blankets around slumbering forms, including a brand new bright yellow for Duke, upon which, the little frown lines disappear and Bruce grumbles sleepily.

Stepping into their shared room, Alfred slips a favored ninja turtle plush under Jason's arm, and a small communicator into Barbara's hand, before retiring to the refreshment station to wrangle an acceptable batch of cocoa from the meager offerings available.

All is as well as can be, as the rising sun's rays hit Gotham's smog just so, and create a dingy, but beautiful morning light show.

Batkids early adoption au except it all happens in the same night (also Bruce Wayne is an idiot)

Picture this:

Bruce goes to the circus. A tragedy occurs. He starts walking back to his car with a freshly orphaned Dick Grayson clinging to his neck. He gets there only to find...

The tires are gone. All but one, which is in the process of being removed by a scrawny street kid named Jason Todd. The boy runs.

Bruce panics. He obviously can't let this poor, obviously homeless kid run off to get crimed in Crime Alley. Bruce does the only thing he can think of: he throws Dick like a pokeball. It works, sort of. Dick catches the kid, the kid catches a concussion.

Bruce panics harder.

He bundles the kids into the back of his car and hops in the drivers seat. "Hospital," he says to himself, "I can do this. I'm Batman."

"What?" Dick says.

"What?" Jason says.

"What?" Bruce says.

THUMP. They're interrupted by the sound of someone landing bodily on the roof.

Bruce stumbles out of the car to find Tim Drake doing the family guy death pose on top of his $400,000 Mercedes. Above them, a broken fire escape squeaks a threat of more violence. Bruce is distracted by it for only a second, but when he looks back down, Tim is already upright and setting off a camera in his face.

"Hi, Batman!" Tim grins. "I knew it was you."

Bruce blinks away the stars with a sigh and opens the back door again. Tim scrambles off the roof and wanders in.

Bruce now has three childr- wait when did that one get here? Cassandra Cain is wedged into the middle seat between Dick and Jason. She smiles at him sweetly.

"Who-" Bruce begins.

Someone wings a brick at them out of nowhere. Tim narrowly avoids further head trauma only because Bruce's dad reflexes activate in time to bat (ha!) it away. Bruce turns to see a little blonde girl sprinting off. He moves to catch her, but steps on Jason's discarded tire iron; it flips up and nails him in the balls. Stephanie Brown gets away.

Bruce realises, while he's writhing pitifully on the ground, that the car still has no tires.

He calls Alfred for help.

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Four hours, a hospital visit, a whole lot of paperwork and one long phone call to CPS later, Bruce arrives home with four emergency foster kids in tow.

Talia Al Ghul is sitting in his living room with a baby carrier.

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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"I think this Category of human being is disposable" okay that not only sucks and is fascist but also makes getting you to deem someone to be disposable a simple matter of convincing you they're in The Category regardless of the truth. Also The Category is often misapplied to a vulnerable minority because it makes people like you agree they're disposable.

"Anyone who disagrees with me about The Category of people being disposable is a Category apologist or probably also in The Category themselves" Oh so you're just totally unconcerned with truth or justice or ethics or human rights and just are feeding your bloodlust for the sake of revenge fantasies. got it 👍

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A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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okay so I finished Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs, and here are my takeaways, because it was AMAZING and I can't believe all US students aren't required to read it in school:

shows how slavery actually worked in nuanced ways i'd never thought much about

example: Jacobs's grandmother would work making goods like crackers and preserves after she was done with her work day (so imagine boiling jars at like 3 a.m.) so that she could sell them in the local market

through this her grandmother actually earned enough money, over many years, to buy herself and earn her freedom

BUT her "mistress" needed to borrow money from her. :)))) Yeah. Seriously. And never paid her back, and there was obviously no legal recourse for your "owner" stealing your life's savings, so all those years of laboring to buy her freedom were just ****ing wasted. like.

But also! Her grandmother met a lot of white women by selling them her homemade goods, and she cultivated so much good will in the community that she was able to essentially peer pressure the family that "owned" her into freeing her when she was elderly (because otherwise her so-called owners' white neighbors would have judged them for being total assholes, which they were)

She was free and lived in her own home, but she had to watch her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren all continue to be enslaved. She tried to buy her family but their "owners" wouldn't allow it.

Enslaved people celebrated Christmas. they feasted, and men went around caroling as a way to ask white people in the community for money.

But Christmas made enslaved people incredibly anxious because New Years was a common time for them to be sold, so mothers giving their children homemade dolls on Christmas might, in just a few days' time, be separated from their children forever

over and over again, families were deliberately ripped apart in just the one community that Harriet Jacobs lived in. so many parents kept from their children. just insane to think of that happening everywhere across the slave states for almost 200 years

Harriet Jacobs was kept from marrying a free Black man she loved because her "owner" wouldn't let her

Jacobs also shows numerous ways slavery made white people powerless

for example: a white politician had some kind of relationship with her outside of marriage, obviously very questionably consensual (she didn't hate him but couldn't have safely said no), and she had 2 children by him--but he wasn't her "master," so her "master" was allowed to legally "own" his children, even though he was an influential and wealthy man and tried for years to buy his children's freedom

she also gives examples of white men raping Black women and, when the Black women gave birth to children who resembled their "masters," the wives of those "masters" would be devastated--like, their husbands were (from their POV) cheating on them, committing violent sexual acts in their own house, and the wives couldn't do anything about it (except take out their anger on the enslaved women who were already rape victims)

just to emphasize: rape was LEGALLY INCENTIVIZED BY US LAW LESS THAN 200 YEARS AGO. It was a legal decision that made children slaves like their mothers were, meaning that a slaveowner who was a serial rapist would "own" more "property" and be better off financially than a man who would not commit rape.

also so many examples of white people promising to free the enslaved but then dying too soon, or marrying a spouse who wouldn't allow it, or going bankrupt and deciding to sell the enslaved person as a last resort instead

A lot of white people who seemed to feel that they would make morally better decisions if not for the fact that they were suffering financially and needed the enslaved to give them some kind of net worth; reminds me of people who buy Shein and other slave-made products because they just "can"t" afford fairly traded stuff

but also there were white people who helped Harriet Jacobs, including a ship captain whose brother was a slavetrader, but he himself felt slavery was wrong, so he agreed to sail Harriet to a free state; later, her white employer did everything she could to help Harriet when Harriet was being hunted by her "owner"

^so clearly the excuse that "people were just racist back then" doesn't hold any water; there were plenty of folks who found it just as insane and wrongminded as we do now

Harriet Jacobs making it to the "free" north and being surprised that she wasn't legally entitled to sit first-class on the train. Again: segregation wasn't this natural thing that seemed normal to people in the 1800s. it was weird and fucked up and it felt weird and fucked up!

Also how valued literacy skills were for the enslaved! Just one example: Harriet Jacobs at one point needed to trick the "slaveowner" who was hunting her into thinking she was in New York, and she used an NYC newspaper to research the names of streets and avenues so that she could send him a letter from a fake New York address

I don't wanna give away the book, because even though it's an autobiography, it has a strangely thrilling plot. But these were some of the points that made a big impression on me.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl also inspired the first novel written by a Black American woman, Frances Harper, who penned Iola Leroy. And Iola Leroy, in turn, helped inspire books by writers like Nella Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston. Harriet Jacob is also credited in Colson Whitehead's acknowledgments page for informing the plot of The Underground Railroad. so this book is a pivotal work in the US literary canon and, again, it's weird that we don't all read it as a matter of course.

(also P.S. it's free on project gutenberg and i personally read it [also free] on the app Serial Reader)

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Shen Jiu likes hanging out with the ladies of the various brothels not only because they feel "safe", after all.

They're all the sort of people who'd say "Unfortunately, I like men."

Lets say Shen Jiu is mentally well enough to come to terms with the fact hes gay and actually come out as a gay man.

Which peak lords are most shocked by it

Tbh considering PIDW is a world without homophobia there wouldn’t really be a reason for people to come out. Honestly even if there was I still don’t think Shen Jiu would. Volunteering personal information about himself? Preposterous. Weak. Disgusting.

Additionally I don’t think any of the peak lords would be surprised he only likes men. IMO the biggest ‘shock’ would be Qi Qingqi reframing her misgivings. I doubt she would stop believing SJ is a predator, but she would probably be more focused on savings Ming Fan and Binghe.

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Walter Molino

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Maybe this therapy shit is working

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Luo Binghe is doused in boiling tea and spends a single night in the woodshed— resigned to the fact that the world will simply be horrible and cruel to him, he only expects a horrendous punishment for crying instead of sleeping in the cold night on the mountain in the woodshed full of holes where the wind filters through and leaks where it would flood when it rains

What Luo Binghe receives is, surprisingly and yet, a warm blanket, a rich and nutritious egg soup, and medicinal ginger tea for his throat, which was beginning to hurt... and his Shizun being scolded.

AND BEING SCOLDED VERY MUCH!

The man scolding Shen Qingqiu is clearly older than him, perhaps an immortal who achieved immortality at a slightly older age, like forty something? Because there are little signs of age around his mouth and under his eyes. However, other than that, there is no difference between Shen Qingqiu and the stranger called Shen Yuan who, Luo Binghe later learns, apparently is the father of his Shizun???

A father shocked and horrified by his son's terrible behavior, all he does is treat Luo Binghe just as his mother has treated him, with care, gentle hands, warm meals, and Luo Binghe can do nothing but adore him with his whole heart.

And obviously the older man cultivator leaves! But he leaves instructions to everyone to treat Binghe nicely and not be influenced by his Shizun's hateful behavior.

Luo Binghe gradually learns about his Shizun and his history with his father (mostly gossip, but so repetitive that Luo Binghe supposes there must be some truth to it) — apparently he was stolen at birth! Shen Yuan was the son of a wealthy family who eloped with his beloved. His beloved died in childbirth, and the newborn baby was stolen for ransom, never to be returned even after Shen Yuan's coffers were emptied. So Shen Yuan had to perfect himself as a cultivator late in life, wishing he could find his son.

And his efforts paid off! Many years later, he apparently found his son again. The story wasn't entirely clear, but apparently, it was just right! He saved him from a fire in the house where he lived! Since then the father devoted himself to his son until his son managed to enter Cang Qiong.

And it was very usual that Shizun's father, Elder Shen, he would drop by the mountain uninvited, patting the disciples on the head, making his son mad and showering the little disciples with candy and red envelopes. Everyone looked forward to his visits!! Even, sometimes, the sect leader, or his Mu-shishu, even Liu-shishu—

And now Luo Binghe too!! He rarely sees Elder Shen in his first year. Elder Shen scolds the children A LOT who are still cruel to Binghe. Then he arrives and fills him with gifts, candy, milk sweets, and envelopes with more paper-money than Luo Binghe has ever seen. He cares so much for Binghe that Binghe cries and receives more pats and hugs. Elder Shen is extremely sweet!! And cool and cuddly. He cares about everyone, even his grumpy and irritable son, the horrible and evil Shizun

Luo Binghe grows up. He grows up surrounded by children who don't hate him, although they sometimes tease him to gain Shizun's favor, some shixiong with whom he gets along well, and visits from Elder Shen. Elder Shen doesn't always come to visit Qing Jing when he visits the sect—sometimes he goes straight to An Ding and settles there for weeks! He seems to have a very good friendship with Shang-shishu! Luo Binghe is devastated to be so close yet so far away and manages to "accidentally" meet him at least once during his visits to his shishu

Then, things happen. Elder Shen is invited to stay in the sect after saving Liu-shishu's life! And when the mountain is attacked by demons, Elder Shen is there! At this point, Luo Binghe has already accepted that he may have a small crush on the man. Scandalous and terrible! But he doesn't care! He adores him and wants and hopes to be a strong and powerful cultivator so he can court him when he grows up! They will be immortal, what's the difference between a few years!?

And although his evil Shizun forces Binghe to fight a demon, Luo Binghe uses this to show Elder Shen how much he has improved and learned! What a great cultivator he has become!

What Luo Binghe doesn't expect is that Elder Shen gets in the way of a rear attack and gets poisoned— Now, Elder Shen absolutely has to stay! Without-a-Cure is a horrendous poison that LITERALLY has no cure! And Luo Binghe has a dream demon talking to him in his head. And he might be half demon. Well, damn, Elder Shen has said positive things about demons, their cultures and certain customs in the past, it's not like any of that is going to change Luo Binghe's plans!!

He will court Elder Shen! He will prove to him that he is the best, the strongest, and worthy of him!

(Shen Yuan didn't sign up to adopt the damn scum villain when he saved him from the Qiu house fire. Given how IDENTICAL they were, Shen Yuan had to improvise! He assumed that telling him he was the son he'd been searching for for years would ease some of the grumpy teenager's trauma.

And knowing that he wasn't a deliberately abandoned child helped Shen Jiu a little! Ah, but not even a kind and tender father could soften a character like his. And Shen Yuan tried!

Anyway. He was lucky to arrive in time to prevent Luo Binghe from being tortured! And even though he scolded and argued with his son, Luo Binghe is safe! And he's growing up strong and untraumatized! Perhaps his Abyss and Blackening arc will never have to happen!

What does it matter to him that Airplane keeps telling him that his System insists that the Abyss arc is necessary— well, if it is that necessary, Shen Yuan will make sure that Luo Binghe is so strong that he can speedrun it in a few months! No more dark-hearted, traumatized protagonists! He's making sure he grows up safe and sound! Ha!

Shen Yuan thinks he's doing a good job. That sweet little lamb gets so excited when he visits!!)

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Yesss! I can reblog my favorite Doctor once again!

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Disciple Shen Yuan (during disciple Shen Jiu era) who accidentally became the Divination Peak's head disciple bc he worked so hard and used all his meta knowledge, just so he could make a video-based divination system that shows the future. The Peak Lords were all appropriately impressed and this seals Shen Yuan as the next Divination Peak Peak Lord. A lot of pre-canon problems get solved. It becomes a world-changing invention.

Shen Yuan made it just to watch the endings of all his favorite animes.

Just. The hilarity of Peak Lord Shen Yuan becoming this mysterious genius Seer, sought after by the entire cultivational world. And then he just locks himself inside, pretending to be "prophesizing" or something. He's a full blown NEET at this point. He completely misses Shen Jiu's entry to the sect bc he was too busy "dvining" the next episode of Frieren Beyond the Journey's End. The next time he comes out, its with some vague words of valuing time spent with your peers.

The Qing Generation Peak Lords immediately listens to him and are now doing constant meet ups as the equivalent of team bulding exercises. The Shen Qingqiu rumors get solved. Shen Jiu is appropriately wary of this seemingly all knowing Peak Lord whom everyone listens to. And yet he also considers. Someone who can see the future? Someone who can SPEAK of the future they see and CHANGE it? Oh? Someone who can see all possible threats? What do you mean he can also divine your past? Past as in blackmail material?

Shen Jiu, in a fit of genius proving his right to be called the sect strategist, decides he'll have to test tf outta Shen Yuan to see if he can trust him (and sj is also low key terrified and hateful bc here is someone who can ruin everything he's ever done and he will NOT just let it be tyvm) and so Shen Jiu just. Does some minor (extensive) background search. And tries ro get Shen Yuan to snap. Yeah, that's right. Just annoy the scary all-seeing dude.

Shen Yuan eventually gets super annoyed, his inner internet troll has been desperately struggling to get free for YEARS, and now here's a convenient target who totally deserves it. Shen-Shixiong you total prick, why do you keep digging up everything about Shen Yuan!

So. In a fit of similar genius spiked with way too much pettiness, Shen Yuan goes "You little prick, lets see how you like it when YOUR privacy gets invaded!" and promptly plays a random scene from Shen Jiu's future ala projector style while they were in a Peak Lord meeting.

Shen Yuan made sure its nothing distressing or embarassing, he's petty not cruel! Except he did this by just doing a routine surface level scan of the emotions involved, and it was on "happy." Shen Yuan, a fuerdai who never really knew about Shen Jiu's past, just assumed it'd be a basic scene of maybe having a good meal or talking to a friend or something. He did NOT realize how fucking rare "Happy" is for Shen Jiu.

The scene that plays is a marriage.

Two figures decked in regal red marriage robes are in a bow in front of each other. The unmistakeable Grand Hall of Cang Qiong swathed in tastefully luxurious decorations surrounds them. There are also a lot of other damning details.

Qing Jing Peak's logo is embroidered onto the billowing ribbons. Paired with Divination Peak's own logo.

The two figures stand.

Its Shen Jiu and Shen Yuan.

When future-Shen Jiu actually smiled at future-Shen Yuan (who looks disgustingly in love wtf) and started leaning in for a kiss, present-Shen Yuan violently slams the divining tool off.

The loud slam is followed with a damning silent moment. That, unfortunately, lasted only for an actual moment.

Someone clears their throat.

Its Qi Qingqi.

She has a shit eating grin on her face. Besides her, Wei Qingwei's expression is slowly starting to match. Around, the other peak lords are either too invested, or carefully avoiding looking at him and Shen Jiu.

Shen Yuan very, very carefully does not look Shen Jiu's way.

"So..." Qi Qingqi begins. "Interesting divination there, Shen-Da-Shixiong, Shen-Er-Shixiong." Her words practically drip with insinuation.

Oh God. Oh Fuck. Fuck no.

Side Notes:

Shen Yuan's eyes glow a beight system blue whenever he "divines the future"

Shen Yuan wears a fortune teller outfit, meaning he's typically covered head to toe, complete with a veil.

Shen Yuan CAN actually see the future and show it to other people, either ala projector style 2d view of his choosing. or a complete 3d (like a pensieve in hp)

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beautiful names for a baby girl:

- Jelita (like a fancy form of Julia)

- Melina (means raspberry in polish 😍)

- Morenka (so cute you could call her Rennie)

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Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin

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Added: Why she got a full beat?

Tv show: look at all our pretty historical costumes! 💫✨️( we are set way before Queen Victoria)

Me: why is this wedding dress white

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