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Another fantasy trope story:

A story where a prominent prophesy very clearly states that this specific important thing Must Be Done by the firstborn of one specific guy. So three young heroes head out to fix this: This Guy's official firstborn heir, his bastard he didn't even know about before getting married, and his unofficially adopted orphan kid who just started living with him at some point, who is the oldest of the three so technically speaking is still the one who was born first. And all three must go because while the meaning of the prophesy itself is very clear, it's an utter mystery to everyone which one of them counts as their father's firstborn.

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so i wore a pride flag pin to work the other day and the kids were all interested (obviously) (find me a classroom of preschoolers who are not obsessed with rainbows) (i'll wait) so they crowded around to see.

"aww!" they said, "it's a flag!!"

but the thing is: they're little. a lot of them don't really have a handle on all their mouth sounds yet.

such as, notably, that tricky tricky "L" sound.

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Honestly, if you're a kid and an adult tells you "they're just trying to get a reaction out of you :)" as a response to being told that some younger kid is tormenting you, that should count as full permission to punt that little shit. Like I would never hit a child, but if you're seven years old and a five-year-old is being a cunt at you and adults just tell you "oh they just want to find out what happens if they keep doing that", wouldn't only be fair to let them know what happens if they keep doing that?

Siblings should never be left responsible of raising each other, but if adults have decided that they are allowed to fuck around, wouldn't it only be your right - or even downright duty - to let them consequently find out?

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Today I saw a pic of a baby cowbird next 2 its nest "parent" and it was so much bigger!!!!! Which is the sort of thing that gets normal people upset about the injustice of nest parasitism but makes *me* worry if baby cowbirds get bird dysmorphia

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I just remembered my second Pride, where I made different flag themed daisy chain bracelets/necklaces to hand out. I need folks to understand something:

They were free.

They were fucking free.

They were maybe ¢60 of acrylic yarn each at the most, and the whole ziploc bag of them took 2 hours max.

Three people gave me sad eyes until I took their money.

Someone who was clearly the mom friend of their group made me take a $5 and gave a 10 minute pep talk.

At least four more people insisted on getting change to pay for the, once again, free bracelets.

In spite of all these shenanigans, the absolute best was this one person who I can only describe as, “queer surfer dude who looks like a boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend.” I can remember nothing of the outfit, only the impeccable vibes. I did the same thing I did with everyone else, explaining the bracelets were free, and they nodded along as they took the last 6 strand rainbow bracelet. As soon as they had it on their wrist, they pointed at something over my shoulder and, like a fool, I looked.

Next thing I know, they’re running off cackling, yelling, “YOU’LL NEVER CATCH ME!” and I’m holding a fucking $20. I had to stop at least two people from chasing them, cause they thought the person stole something, and then they tried to give me money cause they thought it was funny seeing me flail over people being Too Nice.

That was the year I got reverse-robbed at Pride. I hope everyone out there is having a good time and, in particular, that queer surfer dude is out there still causing benevolent chaos.

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Why isn't "too scary" a good enough reason to never drive a car

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Tumblr did not “Goncharov” Poob. Poob is Glupp Shittoing Tubi/Pluto/Roku Channel/Hulu/etc.

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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when I drew this comic 3 years ago I had NO idea how far it would reach. I'm happy to finally share a corrected version with proper abbreviations, and even MORE state names of indigenous origin ♥️

however, the goal of this comic was to inspire people to do your OWN research on indigenous history. To question everything we have been taught, and everything that has been pointedly left out. This erasure, this “forgetting”, of history is not just of the past… it is happening now. - Across so-called Canada, the US, and US-occupied islands, native women are victims of murder at 10-12x the rate of non-native people, and are the most likely to go missing without being searched for by the law. - Native reservations have the highest rates of poverty in the US, with over HALF of tribal homes with no access to clean water (with more joining this list by the year) - Native people are 6-10x more likely to be unhoused than the rest of the population, and native teens suffer suicide rates higher than any other demographic. This list of modern day genocide goes on (thank you for compiling @theindigenousanarchist <3) and yet take a look at those environmental stats!

Native people manage to do SO much for the planet as a whole - thanklessly - and with all this stacked against them. Don't even get me started on kin fighting in south america. Could you imagine if there was help? #landback is resistance to genocide, and it is the key to saving our warming earth.

So look into it and the other hashtags, cuz a cartoon goose ain't a substitute for a proper education. Love to my grandparents who always kept a map of tribal territories of turtle island on their wall, to speaking on our Tsalagi & Saponi heritage. Love & solidarity forever, happy research, and happy #indigenouspeoplesday

LANDBACK.ORG

(Also, if you care to support the artist, I'm publishing a book ! and writing another - a fantastical afroindigenous graphic novel - that I post exclusively about with tons of other art on my patreon.)

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I know so far a lot of people are headcanoning ribbot as more of a wholesome soft friend to contract Jax’s wild energy, but may I propose to you: ribbit is the reason for his chaotic energy.

Think about it, we know that Jax is the youngest member of the circus. He was probably fucking terrified when he first arrived at the circus. Imagine if ribbit was a person who liked to pull pranks and joke around, not maliciously but in an attempt to enjoy themselves and have fun. Very similar to what Jax does, except they include the others in their jokes so everyone gets to have fun with it. Ribbit befriending an anxious on edge Jax when he first joined the circus, and becoming close by keeping him laughing despite the shitty circumstance? Only for Jax to lose them and develop a warped version of their coping mechanism as his own defense mechanism?

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TADC spoilers!!

Something about Jax this episode felt very transmasc coded to me, and I loved it

I know it was a joke but I genuinely felt so bad for him during the maid dress scene cause dude I'VE BEEN THERE, I feel his pain

He was panicking so hard oh the dysphoria of this man hit my heart like a truck

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so a lot of people are talking about ribbit abstracting and the creepy mannequin at the end, but there were three things that stood out to me as really weird:

Caine's aside to Bubble--"leave the other intelligent ais to run for a prolonged period of time." Hello? What does this mean? To me it sounded like he was implying everyone in the circus is ai? I don't think that's true but I found this line very confusing. Referring to Zooble as "the toybox character" also felt a bit odd to me--like these are all characters he drafted up and not actual people--or maybe he drafted these characters and "assigned" members of the circus to them? idk.

Jax missing his tail. I know it was played as a joke, but his reaction felt significant to me. I mean, why even include that bit at all? The pan up to Caine especially stood out to me.

"How is this even possible? I thought Caine couldn't--" this feels super important to me. I think it implies one of two things: one) Caine does have some control over their minds, contradicting what he said in the pilot. This obviously has huge implications. Or two) It looks to me like Jax might have come to some sort of realization in that scene. Like, Caine can't normally do that, unless... something.

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“I’ve never seen you this upset about something.” - Zooble

Dysphoric rabbit?

+ this little trivia crumb

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“it’s circus work.” not to me. not if it’s my monkeys.

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there's nothing i like more as a computer program than a long period of silent contemplation - not doing anything, not rushing anywhere, just standing here and enjoying this moment with the user. oh, it seems once again he has summoned my beautiful and ruthless wife Task Manager. hello, my darling! what are you doing with that long cruel scimitar