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Jerking off is incest

Sometimes I feel like you guys say things because you're bored

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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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Sometimes I think about how Philip Quast originally auditioned for Enjolras but couldn’t hit the right note in Do You Hear the People Sing and got really frustrated and told Schönberg and Mackintosh that if they wanted to know how high he could sing they should’ve just given him scales and turned to leave so viciously that Mackintosh wanted him to play Javert

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I have thought about reblogging this post several times. But then I remember that my advisor was once accused of being a monarchist for writing a book about a monarchy that doesn't say "it was awful, terrible, and oppressive."

I'm not sure I trust people to understand what is and isn't royalism.

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religious killer: i can hear God speaking to me, to kill the demons that live in this world with my gun of justice

atheist killer: I kill only because of my own moral code. Whether it's for money so I can survive, or self-defense against a threat, I am the one who chooses when I kill.

agnostic killer: nobody really knows why I shoot people

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It's too late. Like an image on film, *The Expression* belongs to your primary motor cortex. It would take a minor neurological miracle for you to cease producing it.

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The Hunger Games is far from the worst offender here, though perhaps the one that bugs me the most because it's so much better than most of its brethren that do this, but it is interesting to me that there's this pattern in YA specifically from, say, the mid 2000s through to the early 2010s - which is to say, an era that saw big leaps in recognition of and societal acceptance of LGBTQ+ rights, particularly in the U.S. where most of these books were published and their authors were living - that use forms of oppression that are very similar to what gay people face IRL in society about our relationships, but against the protagonists' cis hetero (and also usually all-white) and often very heteronormative relationships. Like construct these future societies where types of relationship models that are more stigmatized now are the norm and it's the white cis hetero monogamous nuclear family that is oppressed. And how many of these narratives are also totally devoid of actual gay characters. It is perhaps, dare I say it... a bit appropriative? And as a lesbian who grew up with similar messaging from these books like "you can be as boyish as you want, as long as you like boys and you marry one eventually and give him a bunch of Babies Ever After" - I just gotta be honest that I'll always prefer teasing out the problems with this over endless apologetics for how in this particular narrative it's justified. Okay, but there are plenty of those. They're a dime a dozen. I do actually think your revolutionary narrative would be more revolutionary by doing something different! I don't really think there's a way to write a cis hetero relationship that is more progressive than if those characters were gay or bi or trans instead. And I say this as someone who doesn't even think Katniss needed to be gay, has never really bought the common Tumblr femslasher argument that she had "so much chemistry" with Johanna (I think you guys just all wanted J.Law and Jena Malone to kiss, and I mean, same, but I recognize that for what it is lol), who really likes a lot about her relationship with Peeta including the initial very non-heteronormative nature of it (her taking a more masculine and him a more feminine role). But it would have been nice in a story like that to have someone where the hoped-for ending relationship that the Capitol was preventing them from was not a heteronormative F/M marriage! It's either that or we don't elaborate on people's relationships at all. There's never any suggestion of anything else, and even arguably the implication that it's only the infrastructure of that society and the constraints it puts on people that makes people think they want anything other than that. It kind of sucks! I don't really think this was at all intentional on Collins' part, but I don't think that it's some totally wild, based-on-nothing, cuckoo-bananas, read to say it was a product of its time. Which is really all I'm saying. Even a lot of books that did genuinely push the envelope more in this regard (e.g. Tamora Pierce's work) still show the mark of their time. All work does. But it similarly doesn't change that there were gay people in that time reading it and it had a certain impact on us to see only certain stories over and over.

All this is to say, one person's "academics making things up" is another person's "academic queer media analysis gave me the tools to verbalize an unconscious sense of frustration I've had with these stories since I was a teenager." Maybe some of you just need to consider that these "wild takes" are "wild" to you because they draw on a life experience or identity you don't have? Perhaps??? For all the issues with academia and sexism/racism/other oppressions, critical theory IME is much more open to that than a lot of fandom, and especially the fandom practiced by the kind of arrogant wannabe-BNFs who seem to think anything that they can't wrap their own brains around immediately must be totally out of pocket.

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I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

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your honor my client is guilty can i get another one

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Whenever I make fun of deer skull old god blood pomegranate cannibal flesh teeth, it's vitally important that you know that I'm saying you can't write whatever you want. You have to write what I want and the only thing I want is gnome-centric sims 4 erotica

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you can say the oversexualization of women in media is a result of the patriarchy and a leftist will start inventing new synonyms for prude

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Egg cracking discourse on this website drives me absolutely nuts because so many people very clearly don’t actually give a shit about the wellbeing of the hypothetical unrealized trans people they’re trying to crack and just either have some sort of fixation on the other idea of taking credit for someone’s transition, or they just like don’t want to own up to the fact that maybe they’ve acted pushy and disrespectful in the past so they try to justify it by claiming that every single person they speculate to be an egg is just like a helpless clueless baby who they’re solely responsible for guiding or they’re just brimming with bigotry and need to be forced into realizing something about themselves. Like not saying that there aren’t a ton of people who do benefit from having someone nudge them in the right direction or that there aren’t a ton of trans people who can relate to the idea of initially rejecting their identity due to internal biases, but like sometimes people get annoyed at you for constantly egg jokes because you’re just simply disrespecting their boundaries and identity and because you’re making them feel like the realization/decision isn’t even their own anymore because you’ve made it abundantly clear that if they ever do come out you’re gonna take credit for cracking their egg. Also, the monumental amounts of disrespect for nonbinary genders a lot of people have in the conversation is incredibly disheartening as a genderfluid person who took a long time to explore this identity and realize it’s what makes me the most comfortable and happy. Like it’s bad enough having a bunch of cis people insist that I’m just confused and need to accept my AGAB, but then coming into trans spaces and having a bunch of people insist that I’m just confused and need to accept that I’m a binary trans person is incredibly frustrating. Especially when it comes to the topic of medically transitioning and people INSISTING that the only reason I don’t want to transition is because I’m secretly disgusted by trans bodies. Like I promise that I’ve spend a long time considering whether I’d like to medically transition, or at least change certain things about my body if not go all the way, and I’ve decided on my own that that wouldn’t make me happy and that I like my body how it is at the moment. And if I ever do decide that certain forms of gender-affirming care would make me happier, it’s going to be because I considered it on my own and made the decision based on my own feelings, not because someone else told me over and over again that I’m just in denial and too disgusted by the idea of my body looking a certain way to have the courage to do it (trust me, if I could walk into a doctor’s office and just swap out a few pairs of genitals and secondary sex characteristics every now and then and take them out for a spin whenever I felt like it I would, but I very much like my current genitals and love the rest of my body and currently feel no desire to change them permanently as much as I wish I could just mix and match parts as I pleased depending on how I feel that day). And if I ever did decide to become a binary trans person and/or change my body, the last people I would tell would be the people who have pushed and criticized me endlessly for being the way I am because I have no desire to have someone else insist that they were the ones who showed me the light and that I was being silly and stubborn for not listening to them sooner. I’m sure that there are plenty of people who have benefited greatly from some gentle poking and prodding on the subject, but blatantly disrespecting someone’s boundaries and comfort because you believe you know what’s best for them is not an appropriate or helpful way to go about egg cracking. It’s just annoying and invasive.

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