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The moral of season 3 is that its a good idea to let trans people into the correct restrooms

no but hyun-ju's character is so fucking impactful in today's political climate specifically. squid game really said here's a trans woman who is incredibly kind hearted and gentle but capable of great violence when it's needed. she's gotten herself into a bad situation because she has no other way to fund her transition and that's not framed as something stupid and shallow, but as a heartbreaking reality that many people face irl. her past as a military man is one of her greatest strengths. she protects the weak and the elderly. she dies for two women she befriended in a BATHROOM a few days prior.

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It’s probably “Not That Deep”, but I feel like Dashcon 2 was so special because it was a celebratory retrospective on the the oddly specific brand of innocence we had on here as 12-16 year olds. The first Dashcon almost single-handedly killed the hay-day of Tumblr being the unironic Mecca of weird little queer kids who were bullied everywhere else, and for better or worse that energy hasn’t returned since.

After 2 Trump administrations and most other major online spaces being taken over by either AI or borderline fascist ownership, it’s kind of a perfect time to remember what it was like to be young and stupid and radically kind to ourselves.

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I think it’s cause the vague shabbiness (like having the ball pit still be a small kiddie pool) was clearly intentional this time. They knew it had to be an actually well run con but it also couldn’t NOT to be an homage to the iconic disaster that was the original in some way

These photos surfacing from Dashcon 2 look exactly like how I imagine Dashcon 1 was supposed to look. It's straight up like seeing visions from an alternate reality where Dashcon actually happened properly and wasn't a behind-the-scenes disaster, except it's real life and it's happening right now in 2025. The Muppet Joker is dead. The Ballpit is unpeed in. Nature is healing. Long live Dashcon.

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[ID: A person laying down face first in the Dashcon 2 ballpit. A blue wheelchair is comically tipped over outside of the pit, implying the user fell from the chair into the pit. /end ID]

Dashcon 2 artist alley funded my new wheelchair so this is my last hurrah with my old one

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youll be pleased to know no one has peed in the dashcon 2 ball pit. however, far worse has transpired. the croaker (kermit joker) has died in the dashcon 2 ballpit. rest in pieces.

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Had to make this first

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My mom taught me how to literally move all the clutter into random piles around my room and put each thing away going piles to pile when I was overwhelmed. There’s always a way no matter how unachievable it seems

Daily reminder that we do not actually live in a dystopian movie put the apocalypse down and back away slowly. You know when your cleaning a room and you pull everything out of it's draws to sort through it and you're like "what the fuck have I done I'm never going to be able to tidy all of this" I think that's the stage we're at in the world. Thanks to social media we've pulled out all the messed up shit from the cupboards of the world, it was always there but now we can see it and we're going to have to sort it all out we made this mess and we can fix it. Falling to the floor sobbing will not clean a crusty room. A group of people working systematically (preferably with music in the background) will.

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Holy shit- then when he dreams of what it’ll be like to reunite, Ed is “restored”.

This isn’t the man he left, it’s the man he met. This handsome, fun, larger than life figure who emerged from the smoke like a dream and decided for whatever improbable reason to love him, a little weirdo who can’t do anything right.

He’s captured that moment in time with Ed, but Stede’s own appearance is complete conjured. He’s this hyper-masculine version of himself sporting a beard he never had and a sword he still barely has any idea how to use properly.

With killing Izzy, it’s this cognitively dissonant fantasy where he’s heroically vanquished the representation of the stubborn self loathing that kept them apart, but he does it as the “real” man he believes Ed deserves as a rescuer instead of him. He’s preparing to save him like he hasn’t already, all the way at the start with his silly little sea-faring library and his fine fabrics.

Which is a deep rooted conviction hilariously proven incorrect by the fact that when this actually DOES happen, Stede is… you know, a sparkly mermaid lmao

Going off this post. TBH, I think Stede’s shock at Ed shaving his beard is mostly about Stede’s increasing terror that he has ruined Ed, and a bit about how things are becoming more real.

Ever since they met, Stede has been changing Ed (from his perspective). He suggests retirement. He encourages Ed to be open, engaged with others, to be softer. To be more like Stede. Calico Jack harps on Ed having changed and Stede not “really” knowing him. Ed talks about wanting to leave for a new adventure, but Stede “makes” him stay. Stede has made Ed more like himself; Ed has caught Stede Bonnet disease.

And Stede does see himself as a disease. That’s what Chauncey hits on in that moment as every one of Stede’s terrors comes home to him. What if he really did infect Ed and destroy this beautiful man who did something so horrific as giving up the dashing, adventurous, masculine life that Stede himself idolized? He made Ed SHAVE HIS BEARD. He killed Blackbeard.

That none of this is bad, that this is actually what Ed wants, doesn’t really hit Stede’s consciousness because he is convinced, underneath it all, that Stede Bonnet is actually a plague like everyone says. He doesn’t deserve the sacrifice. He doesn’t deserve the kiss. He has done something to Ed, just like Izzy keeps saying. He has destroyed someone beautiful, someone whom he loves, simply by existing. HE, Stede Bonnet, did this. He infected Ed.

I don’t think it’s ever that Stede ceases to or is unable to understand Ed, but that he keeps seeing Ed through the lens of his own lack of worth. And that lens is huge and distorting, it’s something Stede has been running from the entire season and something that keeps on hitting him over and over. When he stops looking too hard, he doesn’t always see it; because he loves Ed, he wants Ed around him. But how selfish was that of him? To stop Blackbeard going on an adventure? To stop Blackbeard from going off with his friend Jack? To make Blackbeard give up being Blackbeard to save Stede’s pathetic life? His lack of perception is about himself, not about Ed.

How could he do something so horrible as to make Blackbeard become more like Stede Bonnet?

(This is why I don’t like folks going off on Stede being selfish—Stede thinks he’s selfish just for wanting happiness.)

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Wake up babes, new Tiktok darling dropped 😂

Last night I also had a dream that like, I was watching a review of Threads 1984 (which if you dont know what it is, it's a VERY brutal anti nuclear bomb movie about the effects of nuclear war) and the reviewer was like "it's a good movie... but why is it a MUSICAL?"

And even in th dream I was like "Oh yeah! Why was it a musical?"

Which like... holy fuck can you imagine.

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Are you an advocate for censorship?

is this because i said not to use the r slur

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To add: if this is happening to you continuously without clear cause, ok first of all try and see a gastrologist. Second, you can't just live off of the brat diet for weeks at a time, you actually need vitamins and shit

I've got a friend with chronic mystery stomach issues and nutrition shakes are a life saver. NOT a protein shake, there's a difference. It's just to get all the basics into your body in the quickest, least disruptive way. Now get out there, and don't get malnourished!

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This special fic was so fun and lovely 🥰 Here is the link to Davids thread and for those not on Bluesky @ferventrabbit also kindly shared a PDF version here 💕

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Jacob Cress, Oops!, cut and hand-carved mahogany, 2002. Smithsonian American Art Museum

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I read every single one of these as “I’m the gay” by accident and was like “fuck yah you are”

1930s “i’m the guy that” pinbacks, part 2

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Also guys come on, remember when we were legit scared for a bit that Ineffable Husbands wasn’t gonna go canon in season 2 despite half of us literally seeing them kiss because Tennant’s poker face was so good? Are we really gonna fall for that again 😂

David talks about Good Omens The Finale 🥹🩷💙

Source: [X] @davidtennantdly on X