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do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be

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I've been meaning to draw this for a while now but kept forgetting to, glad to finally have done it. (If this had been done before I apologize.)

Happy pride month!

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Update on my one piece ship series!!

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had to go to the DMV today *AND* its over 100 degrees out? fuck my baka life, ect

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He stabbed himself

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some strawhats posting

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I love shipping Luffy, Zoro and Sanji because only Sanji is having a bad time (because his brain is stupid)

Luffy? He gets to date his best friend AND his cook! More food and more cuddles!!!!

Zoro? He gets to date his best friend AND someone’s who’s gonna challenge him just like Kuina. Someone to follow and someone to fight back to back.

Sanji? Does Luffy just love me because I make him food? Why would someone so perfect like Luffy want anything to do with me? How does the Marimo factor into all of this? Is he just here because Luffy is? What am I thinking of course he is…in what world could someone as honorable and steadfast fall for anyone as pathetic and worthless…well I don’t wanna confront them if they’re just in it for the food…maybe I can make something super special to make dating me worth it! Does Luffy want to be doted on? Do they want me to stop doting on the girls? They did kiss me but maybe that’s more transactional, like a bit of love for doing a job well done! Well in that case I gotta do a pretty good job more often because I’m actually really touch-starved and they look at me like I’m doing something right but that’s just because I’m tricking them and…

He calls them stupid but seriously he’s the dumbest one by far

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I think something so interesting about Hera's character is that she very obviously has trouble processing her emotions and choosing between love and duty. I always see fics and art where she's this over affectionate doting mother to the ghost crew and jacen and yes while that's adorable I feel it's just so??? Ooc? Hear me out.

I'm not saying she's not caring. Or doesn't love her crew. Bc god she does. But I think looking at cannon it's a much more interesting interpretation that Hera is the emotionally constipated "has trouble giving out affection especially physical" kind of woman and having *Kanan* be the one who is shoveling out love left and right. Not only would it be a subversion of the "doting mother and stoick dad" archetype but it would grow to explain why Hera waited so long to confess to Kanan. She's duty bound. She's a one track woman with too much to lose. She adores her crew and would die for them but keeps them at a "professional" distance in fear of losing them vs Kanan who is much more in tuned with his emotions and can healthily love his crew without fear of disaster. Hera is a general. Kanan is a lover. And I think that describes them much better than a lot of fannon out them

Tldr; there's nothing wrong with making Hera overly affectionate in ur art or fanfic I just personally have a different view on her.

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I love the gif because there’s an incredible number of mistakes crammed into just a couple of seconds. 

1. how the hole starts in the wall but it keeps moving forward

2. then magically heals itself

3. the triceratops walks right through the wall

4. the table blinking before the dinosaurs appear

5. both tables disappear

6. so suddenly appear again as they are toppling over

7. two people clipping into running without any transition 

8. the table outline hides a man’s legs but there is no table

9. the triceratops horns aren’t white in the second clip

10. tables changing both color and material in the second clip

11. a carnivorous dinosaur’s first instinct is to go and eat a whole plate with salad

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If we wanted to engage in nuance (lol, lmao) on the "are audiobooks reading" debate, we really do need to bring literacy, and especially blind literacy, into the conversation.

Because, yes, listening to a story and reading a story use mostly the same parts of the brain. Yes, listening to the audiobook counts as "having read" a book. Yes, oral storytelling has a long, glorious tradition and many cultures maintained their histories through oral history or oral + art history, having never developed a true written language, and their oral stories and histories are just as valid and rich as written literature.

We still can't call listening in the absence of reading "literacy."

The term literacy needs to stay restricted to the written word, to the ability to access and engage with written texts, because we need to be able to talk about illiteracy. We need to be able to identify when a society is failing to teach children to read, and if we start saying that listening to stories is literacy, we lose the ability to describe those systemic failures.

Blind folks have been knee-deep in this debate for a long time. Schools struggle to provide resources to teach students Braille and enforcing the teaching of Braille to low-vision and blind children is a constant uphill battle. A school tried to argue that one girl didn't need to learn Braille because she could read 96-point font. Go check what that is. The new prevalence of audiobooks and TTS is a huge threat to Braille literacy because it provides institutions with another excuse to not provide Braille education or Braille texts.

That matters. Braille-literate blind and low-vision people have a 90% employment rate. For those who don't know Braille, it's 30%. Braille literacy is linked to higher academic success in all fields.

Moving outside the world of Braille, literacy of any kind matters. Being able to read text has a massive impact on a person's ability to access information, education, and employment. Being able to talk about the inability to read text matters, because that's how we're able to hold systems accountable.

So, yes, audiobooks should count as reading. But, no, they should not count as literacy.

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The dream alliance that took forever to finish 😭😭😭

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on minks and chonk (🐯🐻‍❄️ )

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internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing

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I CANNOT get over @asexualzoro​‘s headcanon that Brook doesn’t know who or what the Pirate King is and so I just.

brook ride or die ready to commit regicide for his captain

Edit: it’s canon

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As it should be😤