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norse pagan prideposting

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did you know public libraries are free and beautiful

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This pride month don’t forget your disabled and immunocompromised peers. Wear a mask. Stay home if you’re unwell. Get vaccinated. Take a covid test.

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do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

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from Russell T Davies! the man who brought you racist hits like, isn't it so funny how this white woman's Black boyfriend is like a dog! And this Black woman enduring unprecedented levels of disdain from the Doctor because he misses the white teenage girl he likes!! And other later hits such as what if this Black Doctor shared regeneration with my favourite white guy! And how about the most important character in this season starring two leads of colour is the white woman from the previous season! Comes: what if the first ever Black lead of Doctor Who had a shorter run than almost any Doctor in the show's history AND his final scenes were totally overshadowed by not one not two but THREE white women!!! Congratulations to Russell T Davies for never EVER beating the anti-Black racism allegations because his head is so far up his own ass. Christopher Eccleston was right. Fire that fucker. Ncuti Gatwa, you were dazzling and you deserved so much better.

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stupid use of omega, INSANE underuse of the rani, not enough mel, not a single plot thread tied up properly, random changing of belinda’s past with NO EXPLANATION………………

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I am still seething over this episode and this whole season. Belinda deserved SO much better.

How RTD has treated Belinda Chandra should go down in Whovian history alongside how Martha Jones was treated. By the way. Doctor Who needs to start actually respecting their companions of color and they clearly haven't learned a damn thing. It is so hard to live in a world where Moffat did it best. Moffat? Moffat wrote the best companion of color? How???

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wish world being like "its bad to force women into being nothing but mothers" and then the finale of her own season literally shoves belinda in a closet with a baby during all the action like okayyy

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This is just delightful

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The RFK Junior stuff has me thinking about how much joy high support needs autistic people bring to my life. I don't care if they'll never write poems, play baseball, pay taxes, and whatever else, the world is a better place with HSN autistic people in it. I wish all that research money could go into finding out how to better support these people and how to make sure that support is reaching them.

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Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

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I fucking hate that the general response to RFK Jr's eugenist take on autistic people is "autistic people do pay taxes, autistic people do work, autistic people do date!"

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

Same thing happens with the people who are being deported ("they have a visa!", "they didn't even have a criminal record!" -> even if they didn't have a visa, even if they did have a criminal record, deporting them and detaining them in what's essentially a concentration camp wouldn't be okay, you absolute tools of fascism.)

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Being chronically ill is like having a curse where every 4 hours you get a random status effect, and most of which are debuffs.

Also you only have 1 action per day and long rests heal 2 hp. You're cooked.

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in all seriousness i better not see a single gif of that fuckass harry potter show on this hellsite.

don't make them, don't post them, don't reblog them. just don't give free advertising to a millionaire giddy over stripping trans people of their rights.

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A friend and I were discussing what we're like when we're sick and we decided people usually fall into one of these five 'sick modes': *Everyone is probably multiple of these at different times depending on how sick they are and with what but we think most people have a mode they default to and become more often than the others*

Delicate Consumptive Victorian: you feel tragic and mournful but also beautiful in a sad way, you are in bed, sipping hot tea, others should quietly whisper about how you are too good for this world, too beautiful, too tragic... And bring you more tea

Sick Dog: you are curled up in a ball, you don't want anything, you don't need anything, but it would be nice if others could still ask you if you need anything

Sickly Child Emperor: you are dying and it's everyone else's problem, you need pillows, no! you need soup, no! You need absolute silence or you will not be the first one to die today

Plague Pit: you are curled up probably on the floor, no one touch you, no one look at you, this is between you and God and you already know He has no mercy left for you

Warrior General: you are not sick. You are in perfect health and you don't know why anyone would think otherwise. Illness is an enemy that can be intimidated and you must remain strong for your men! (You are going to pass out at the most inconvenient moment possible)

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sticker design for pride this year! 💞🏳️‍⚧️

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