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I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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just watched the bear

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Now if they can only do a good writing story then yay

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okay but the American education system literally didn't tell us how to defend against horse archers

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An idyllic boat ride 🌾

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annie appreciation post✨

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Image description: A Twitter thread by @z_00pIz dated June 13, 2025 that reads the following:

As the was escalates, casualties will occur on both sides, but on the Israeli side, most will be Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, aka "Arab Israelis". Israel will exploit our deaths for propaganda, despite being responsible for starting the war and denying us shelters.

Israel has refused to fund our towns or build proper bomb shelters, if you're lucky and live near a school, you might squeeze into a rundown shelter meant for 200 people, which is just a room with no external walls, and for Bedouins in the south, this is their best option: [Video of people of different ages laying down by a pile of dirt. In the background there are camels.]

In Jewish towns, every house and neighborhood comes with public and private shelters that can be accessed at any time and within a few minutes. In Arab towns, no such shelters exist. Here;s a map comparing the number of public shelters: [Maps showing different Arab and Jewish towns with blue dots indicating the shelters.]

Nazareth is the clearest example of this discrimination. It's the largest Palestinian city in Israel, yet it has 0 public shelters. Just next to it is Nof HaGalil, a town established as a Jewish settlement to "Judaize" the area and it has shelters on nearly every street. [Map showing a Jewish town with many blue dots indicating the shelters there. The Jewish town is surrounded by several Arab towns with no blue dots.]

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you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time

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I think every lesbian who says she wouldn't date a bi woman is functionally on the same wavelength as men who say they would only marry a virgin

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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Continuing my recent trend of throwing household objects at fruit…

I think you’ll really Dig my patreon page

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When talking about why stories are written certain ways, I think two fairly separate ideas are often conflated: 1) the author's reasons (conscious or unconscious) for writing a specific story a specific way and 2) the systemic reasons for stories like the one you are looking at being written the way they are.

To separate out from any of the trickier subjects for a second, let's look at romantasy over the last five or so years.

If you look at a book like A Game of Love and Betrayal by Elayna R. Gallea (chosen only because I've read it and also have Thoughts on it), I can reasonably assume that the author likes or is interested in writing about vampires and magic/fae, and probably enjoys dating competition shows.

But the book also follows some very clear and direct trends in recent romantasy.

The popularity of fae in its current iteration can likely be tracked primarily to A Court of Thorns and Roses--while some earlier fantasy romance series like the Tairen Soul series by C.L. Wilson had "Fey" as an immortal, ethereally beautiful species with elemental powers, fae tended on average more towards being directly inspired by the Tuatha Dé Danann and aes sídhe of Celtic mythology that we've seen in everything from Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely series to Karen Marie Moning's Fever series. Using fae in the manner used in the book not only draws from those ACOTAR framings but also capitalizes on its popularity.

Much of the plot mirrors Kiera Cass's The Selection, reflecting the trend of modern romantasy to throw back to or draw direct inspiration from young adult books that were popular from the mid-2000s to mid-2010s (e.g., Twilight, The Hunger Games). This is because a decent chunk of romantasy readers (especially those who are popular on Booktok and Bookstagram) are women who were teenagers during that time and read those books, then got back into reading with ACOTAR and Fourth Wing. Many popular romantasy books are a direct play on that nostalgia and familiarity.

The book is very focused on nobility and royalty. While this is not unique to romantasy, romantasy plays much more heavily on that than other fantasy genres.

We can see here that both personal preferences (assumed, in this case, because I've never spoken to the author) and systemic forces can be true at the same time. Chances are that some of those personal preferences are driven by those systemic forces, and at the same time, the popular nature of those personal preferences is what drives those systemic forces.

And someone analyzing or criticizing systemic forces doesn't necessarily mean that they're being critical of a specific person's personal preferences or motivations.

It can be true that a person is writing about a white character being attacked by a Black character because they themselves are a white person who was once attacked by a Black person, and it is still possible to analyze and be critical of the way that story reflects and exacerbates broader systemic views on Black people being a physical threat to white people.

It can be true that a person finds dubious consent or sexual coercion or controlling relationships hot in fiction but would never do it in real life, and it is still possible to analyze and be critical of the way that story reflects and exacerbates broader systemic views on sex and sexual pressures and expectations in relationships, gender roles, and sexual violence.

And sometimes it is also possible and even important to analyze and be critical of a specific person's personal preferences and motivations for writing things a certain way. When JKR, a woman writing under a male name because I guess she's the only one allowed to go by a name associated with a different gender than she was assigned at birth, writes about someone being killed for having transphobic beliefs, it is important to be critical of it not only in the context of broader transphobia but also JKR's specific history of being transphobic.

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not to get off topic, but it is weird to me when anime women have gigantic breasts, but no ass or thighs? like when they're built like this

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NO KINGS! Be safe tomorrow 🇺🇸