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I've been thinking a lot about that scene near the end of Nimona, where she's at her lowest point and is moving towards the town, embodying the monster everyone there believes her to be.

Almost all of the damage that was done was a consequence of Nimona being attacked, rather than something she intentionally does herself.

Example 1: More damage was done to the city than to Nimona, all for the sake of hurting her.

Example 2: People at risk of harm, glass shattered, people running scared because of something their supposed "protectors" are doing.

Example 3: She has done nothing but walk peacefully forwards for a while. Violence from the authorities causes her to fall, injured. It also causes fear, screaming, running away, and destroys another part of their city.

There's something really powerful here about the damage communities do to themselves when they violently reject those they perceive as different. Because they are not just attacking a monster, but a part of their own community as well.

This film is not subtle about the trans allegory. Nimona is rejected by people she initially wanted to befriend: Because she changes her shape, her body, to better reflect who she is and how she feels. Because of the way she expresses who she is. In this moment she's accepted their characterisation of her, as a monster, something that needs to die at the end of a sword. This scene is a suicide attempt, one that's only stopped by the acceptance of a parental figure (one who has also harmed her by rejecting her and is trying to make that right).

As the city, representing the community she wanted to find but was rejected by, attacks her they end up harming her repeatedly. She takes the brunt of the harm. But they also harm themselves too in their attempts to attack her. I think of those people whose gender expression is policed as being too masculine or too feminine, out of a fear of perceived transness. I think about how that policing ends up affecting far more cis people than it does trans people. I think of parents rejecting their children, carving a hole, an open wound into their family that will never truly heal.

I do want to clarify something here: the trans people in these situations suffer from these actions worst of all. In no way am I saying the suffering of folk who reject them is worse than that experienced by trans people suffering due to hatred. To bring it back to Nimona, she is clearly in a lot of pain during this scene.

Attacking what we've been told are "monsters" ends up doing way more harm in collateral than any "monster" could. Worst of all, those who are branded as monstrous are often in truth the most vulnerable of us, those most in need of our love, care and support.

Nimona gets right to the heart of that and isn't afraid to show it. And I love it for that.

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Honey they’re inventing unions at DoorDash

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rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

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straight men have beauty standards for men that are completely different than the beauty standards women and gay men have for men and then they get mad when they conform to the beauty standards other podcast bros set for them and women still don’t find them attractive

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I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

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the day rowling croaks is an official trans holiday and we all need to be there to celebrate together. do not let that dickhead outlive you

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Mad about politics again

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here are some photos of me noticing a wasp nest

1st pic : lookin good

2nd pic: being artsy and looking away (looking at wasp nest)

3rd pic: fully understanding that there is indeed a wasp nest

4th pic: me being outtie 

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It won’t let me reblog EVERYONE LOOK

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being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

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I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks

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This is how the golden age of piracy ended.

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“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

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Take a break, this cute tardigrade needs time to cross your dash:

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I don't think I've seen anyone talk about how transfems are pretty much entirely barred from working in childcare.