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you can no longer pet dogs.... Because Of Woke.

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it’s the “date of birth: 1303 BC” for me...

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This is the best one

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Wake up our favorite couple is talking about us!!!!!!

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I don't care if it's overdone I support Dev Patel's establishment of a Righteous Vengeance Cinematic Universe. Look at him

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ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

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Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.

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I think there's a difference between not knowing something, and assuming something because you were not taught otherwise. Like, okay, I am an American, educated by the American Education system. I know very little about the 30 years war, one of the most destructive and significant conflicts in European history. I don't remember if I was ever formally taught that it happened, and if I was I certainly wasn't given an in-depth education into the war. I wouldn't be surprised to meet another American who had never even heard of the 30 years war. But, this hypothetical average American, if I told them about a massive 30-year conflict that raged in central Europe between 1618 and 1648, that probably wouldn't contradict anything they thought they knew, it would just be new information they hadn't been taught yet. However, there's a difference between not being told something, and assuming something simply because you had not been told otherwise. If your assumption is that, say, Mexico has no major metropolitan cities simply because you had not been told that they do, that's more on you than on the education you received.

im american and i knew that like in kindergarten so i think some of you are just stupid sorry

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There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

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My beloved is playing Tears of the Kingdom and has an emotional support piece of ruins rubble that they carefully remove from each weapon before it can break so it can continue serving as their designated mining hammer.

When they unfuse it the thing is truly bonkers enormous and funny. It’s the most cherished piece of rubble there ever was.

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I won't say it's, like, the series' best feature, but on a personally relatable level my favourite thing about The Murderbot Diaries is the repeated implication that most of SecUnit's success as a hacker stems from the fact that it keeps bumping into mission-critical systems where nobody bothered to change the factory default wi-fi password.

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This one’s a bit of a long one but bear with me do you can see my favorite panel in comics history

So we all know Dracula

In an act of mutiny, his son, Xarus

Staked and decapitated him, then sent a suicide bomber vampire

To infect and turn Jubilee

Who eventually follows the call of Xarus

And winds up trapped at his base. Meanwhile, everyone’s favorite vampire hunter, Blade

Shows up and argues with Cyclops

About his plan to resurrect Dracula

To deal with Xarus

Cyclops

Goes forward with his plan anyway, so the king of Atlantis, Namor

Has to retrieve the vampire king’s head while bisexual icon Storm

And bisexual icon Gambit

Have to heist his body back from the vampires. They reconnect and resurrect Dracula

Who, when brought up to speed, asks what they want him to do about it, to which Cyclops

And I cannot emphasize enough that he’s saying this to Dracula

Says

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okay im giving you to the count of -3 to restore the proper flow of time

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster, on account that a bunch of monsters can turn you into a monster by biting you. Vampires, werewolves, zombies. those are the big ones, there are others

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