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AND ITS NOT DONE!!! for 2 euro u get the nice sesbian lex that follows righe HERE eheheheheh (and if u want to pay with paypal it's here!) hope yall like it!!!! (part 1) (part 2)

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happy pride!! longass pride sticker coming to the sticker club this month :)

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Nunca vi rastro de cobra nem couro de lobisomem-

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happy pride!! longass pride sticker coming to the sticker club this month :)

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HEXCORENIGHTS - art by Ayşe Aktaş

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More Vi with trans tape ❤️

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just FYI!

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happy pride!! longass pride sticker coming to the sticker club this month :)

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opened an inprnt shop!!

other ways to support my work: patreon / kofi

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opened an inprnt shop!!

other ways to support my work: patreon / kofi

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i do not need secondary world stories to adhere to my own politics about cops and law enforcement, but i do need it to cohere to its own political thesis of what role an armed force plays as a tool of the state.

discworld is obviously very pro-policing-as-an-institution, but it starts out as establishing the entire city watch as corrupt, inept, uncaring, out of touch, and unsympathetic to the civilians it's supposed to protect, and over the course of several books and several decades painstakingly sells us on the idea of reform and accountability, all lead by One Good Man who's able to do so. it's pure fantasy, and not just because it's discworld. the structure of reality within discworld itself makes it a believable arc, because the reality of discworld is dependent on the shapes of stories and that's a folk myth that's believable. if it you can read the books and meet it on it's terms, if you can buy the idea of a benevolent dictator, you can buy the idea of police reform that actually works.

andor is on the opposite scale, the law enforcement were shown as human and understandably normal; not uniquely evil for the sake of evil, but it's also very explicit that there are No Good Cops. no good enforcers, no good soldiers, no good intelligence officers, no good mall cops or prison wardens or prosecuting judges under fascism and empire; enforcing unjust law and withholding due process makes you complicit. the only ones who are sympathetic are the defectors and the moles within the ranks of power. everyone else is either apathetic face of the banality of evil, or ends up swallowed by the fascist death machine they maintain. and andor showed no exceptions.

arcane's biggest inconsistency is doesn't know what it wants to do. we open the series with the scene of a brutal state massacre. two kids are left orphans because cops killed their parents during a failed uprising against the ruling class. they come from a poor and disenfranchised neighbourhood, vi ends up wrongfully imprisoned at fifteen, and into the foreseeable future.

and then she's rescued from the jail and...falls for a cop? said cop goes full dictator, calls marshall law on the poorest district in the city, and then spends months using carcinogenic gas on vi's own community. vi ends up drafting into a war to fight for a state and a city that hates her, then essentially betraying her own people to stay with cait. happy ending, the end?

the show has no coherent politics because it literally moves its politics around cait/vi, to make them more tragic, or dramatic, or doomed, or whatever. and it would be fine if this didn't set up the actual human cost of police brutality in its very opening scene, but because its writers room were untalented hacks, it literally ended up being fascist copaganda apologia.

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Does your birthday fall on the anniversary of a major historical event?

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some muscley warmups

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some muscley warmups

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Hey folks! I've been talking with Ibrahim a lot lately. He's a teenager being put through the worst things you can possibly imagine under the Israeli occupation. He's only a kid, and he's had to be extremely brave and selfless at a time in his life when he should be allowed to goof off with friends and just enjoy living. The guy's been through a lot, and it would mean a lot to me if you could help his family get a little safety by helping out with his GoFundMe.

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A Wolf Among the Roses

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Domestic by Catherine Opie - lesbian couples in their home environment across the United States