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Lin Manuel Miranda releasing the Nightcore version of Hamilton songs in 2025 is unironically my favorite thing that’s happened this year so far. I’m CRY laughing listening to this, my GOD

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every piece of ""autistic representation"" in hollywood sucks not just because of the infantalization and inspiration porn but because movie executives always fail to realize the real universal autistic experience: spending your childhood slowly and unfalteringly realizing all of your friends not so secretly hated and/or merely tolerated you at best and you've missed every social signal about it ever

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actually, you know what, as a fan of transgressive art, tabletop rpgs as an artistic medium, and transgressive tabletop rpgs, I'm gonna say this up front: DrivethruRPG's willingness to host basically anything legal - no matter how graphic, tasteless or bizarre - is a good thing, and should be celebrated.

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Switching between these every day

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hey kid. i know this lab is scary, but the punishment isn’t for you. i’ve got a guy coming in who likes ben shapiro. i know, right? anyway, all i need you to do is explain your gender identity to him in detail. don’t worry, he’ll be bound and gagged. you can leave once you’re done i just needed some help.

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The fact these are the tags on reblogs RIGHT after one another further drives this point home

Don’t harass anyone I just thought this was funny

at a queer co-op bar and i think this is such a good visual example of leftist infighting

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i have a new theory called alive internet theory where i propose that the internet is full of real people and you can befriend some of them even and maybe actually kiss them and more

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posting this for no particular reason

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before it gets bad I'm just gonna tell y'all certain rich people have literally only recently noticed Open Source software availability compromises the bottom line of their proprietary investments so if you see little chickadees on this website talking about the dangers of Open Source software all of a sudden it's cuz they accidentally sipped some koolaid mixed up by the far right yacht people to fuck with peoples software sovereignty and right to repair, modify, and redistribute robust codebases that become a problem when 30% of your portfolio is in, oh, say, adobe or openai.

This is your unfriendly neighborhood computer fucker telling you not to fall for it and to demand your right to digital sovereignty rather than trusting companies to make correct choices about what to do with the parts of your life they would very much like to have in the cloud to continue improving their products.

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Reblog to give prev a fucking break holy shit y’all

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"red-pill" "snowflake" everything about v for vendetta...fascists really do love to steal and bastardize culture from the queer people they are trying to destroy

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Transandrophobia's burden of proof

I have said in posts before that I do not believe in "transandrophobia." To someone merely taking this word as a neolatin construct, it might seem incredibly cruel. How could you say that trans men are not hated? I assure you I do not believe that trans men are not hated. I believe quite firmly in transphobia and the ways it affects trans men. This transphobia has defined my entire life. I would go as far as to say that, by virtue of establishing transmisogyny, binarism, and intersexism as fields of study, academia has naturally established trans men as the group whose experiences most define "transphobia." However, when I say that transphobia is a great word with which to describe our experiences, I tend to get asked,"What's wrong with trans men making our own word?" Well, this my attempt to answer that question.

What often gets lost in our day to day use of social justice terms is that these words are not originally or primarily intended to validate individual experiences. We often use these words hand in hand with words borrowed from therapeutic practice, words meant to assist individuals in healing from common experiences. Transandrophobia seems to take a therapeutic approach to its neolatin construct. i.e the goal of the word transandrophobia is to put words to and validate the autobiographical narrative of trans men. In my EMDR sessions, it does not matter if what I remember is completely accurate to history or data. What matters is that, through forming a narrative thread from my memories, I am able to make peace with my life. The concept of transandrophobia equates the healing intent of therapy with the analytical intent of social sciences. But transphobia, transmisogyny, and other widely accepted constructs of systemic bigotry, are not intended to heal our personal narratives. They are theoretical frameworks.

What is a theoretrical framework? This seems to be the biggest miscommunication occurring online. A theoretical framework, also called a conceptual frameworks, is a system of concepts intended to support and frame research and data. Emphasis on the research and data. Feminism, critical race theory, queer theory, all of these are intended to be ways to make sense of massive amounts of data. A way to turn clumps of numbers into statistics, and to turn those statistics into theories, and eventually to turn those theories into things you and I could use to explain our personal traumas. They are proveable, they are trackable, and they do not exclusively validate the experiences of the individual. If you present an anecdote to person forming critical theory in these fields, their job is to turn that anecdote into a single data point and see where it fits in a broader sociological context. In short, they do not bend to your personal narrative, your personal narratives should bend to them. 

This is difficult to deal with emotionally. As people, we generally want to preserve our own sense of inner goodness. If a feminist presents the fact that 92% of sexual assaults are committed by men, that might make me feel demeaned as a man who was assaulted by a woman, or feel disgust at myself for being part of this demographic. I have to change my personal narrative to account for this proveable fact if I don't want to reject it. I have to think about how I want to cope, how my own subconcious beliefs might be impacted by these proveable realities. The same can be said when a transfeminist informs me that 83% of all trans murder victims are of trans women. For as much as these frameworks comfort me, they also challenge me. Being a good ally involves constantly pausing to consider that you might be the perpetrator of something that goes completely against your sense of good and evil.

I've seen some trans men take the approach of rejecting these statistics. They conclude that nothing is reliable, all the statistics on trans murder are simply so inaccurate as to warrant throwing them out completely. This road can only lead to conspiracism and science denialism. I encourage any trans man who wants to defend transandrophobia to do so in the way that accepted theoretical frameworks have had to. Without conspiracies and denialism, without P-hacking, without treating "a need for our own word" as superceding the need for systemic analysis.

Now that I have established that misogyny, racism, transphobia, ableism are statistically proveable facts of life taken from longstanding theoretical frameworks, I'd like to ask the transandrophobia believers to prove the need for their SPECIFIC framework. Not with anecdotes, not with hypothesis that are formulated with your ego in mind, but with the level of effort put forth by your opponents. Specifically, I request that you remove all feminist theory and transgender theory from your premise. These are already supported, after all. They have offered their hypothesis on your oppression. You do not have the burden to prove either transphobia or misogyny. You do have to prove the unique variable you've introduced: androphobia.

So that's my challenge. Remove all variables from proven structural oppression and prove that pure androphobia exists. Prove that cishet rich white men are expressly disadvantaged by their male status. Then, prove who is the beneficiary of this systemic structure. At that point, we can begin to believe that there is a systemic intersection between "transphobia" and "androphobia." (No, proving the intersection of "transphobia" and "misogyny" is not the same. It does not prove the premise of your own neolatin construct either literally or figuratively, and trans women have already invented a field of study that proves that this intersection can not be described as unique to trans men)

If you happen to find papers purporting to prove the oppression of cishet rich white men indepedent of all other variables, read them over! Then, check out the author of the paper. See whose company you're keeping and conclude for yourself still want to be in this movement.

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BROTHERS

BROTHERS WE KEPT THE FAITH

ITS FINALLY TIME

SILKSONG THIS YEAR

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I am once again very gently asking fellow Epic fans to not ascribe their characterization in the musical to their Odyssey counterparts. And maybe don’t call the people who remind you that “pathetic and uneducated” despite them giving you multiple paragraphs of explanation and historical context

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This person clearly doesn’t belong here. From Ask Historians on Reddit.

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So webfishing is going wonderfully, featuring my lovely fiancé :) @londor

This is my son Boots. It has every disease :)