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“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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"oh you have an allergy? sorry I harassed you for being a picky eater, I didn't realize you had a valid reason. it's good to know you're not actually a picky eater, I still get to harass those people"

"oh you have chronic pain? sorry I harassed you for being lazy, I didn't realize you had a valid reason. it's good to know you're not actually a lazy person, I still get to harass those people"

"oh you're autistic? sorry I harassed you for being weird, I didn't realize you had a valid reason. it's good to know you're not actually a weird person, I still get to harass those people"

"oh you're deaf? sorry I harassed you for ignoring me, I didn't realize you had a valid reason. you're just not actually a rude person, I still get to harass those people"

"man why does everything have to be a disorder now? I miss the old days when people would TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for being failures and it was socially exceptable for me to harass them, now I look like a jerk when I bully people for annoying me."

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What is the Sexy Lamp Test?

It's a test in a similar vein to the Bechdel Test, designed to see at a glance how well written a character is. Coined by Kelly Sue DeConnick, iirc. Usually applied specifically to female characters, but it works for any characters who are in the token/companion role.

The test is:

If you replaced the character with a sexy lamp, would there be a difference? Would it affect the story in any way? There's still something sexy for us to look at, still an object to obtain, but does the plot have to change at all? Do we lose any important information or actions?

If not, your character has failed the Sexy Lamp Test

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being obsessed w a piece of media is so scary. what if my mutuals see how insane i go about it and think oh i gotta check out what this is about and then think it sucks and kill me with rocks. what if they hate my favorite characters

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writers and artists will go "this isn't good enough." my brother in christ, you're creating something new out of nothing and expressing yourself creatively. your productivity and unrealistic standards of perfection do not define you or the worth of your art. you're doing great.

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Yes geologists! Doing the important work 💖

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Someone in an autism facebook group I'm in just asked "How am I supposed to earn enough to make a living without burning out?"

Someone replied: "You're not. Even neurotypicals can't right now in the system designed for them. We're the canaries in the coalmine. When we start failing, they know something is wrong."

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my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all

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"Following a travel warning issued for LGBTQ+ tourists in Greece, these are the European countries that are most welcoming to queer people.

An update, published on the UK government’s foreign travel advice page, has warned that same-sex couples could experience discrimination in certain parts of Greece.

The warning comes after a mob attack against two transgender people in Thessaloniki last month, during which the victims were verbally assaulted and bottles were thrown at them."

Read the full piece here: https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/04/17/travel-warning-issued-for-lgbtq-tourists-in-greece-where-in-europe-is-safest-for-queer-peo

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a dramatical "schwiiierig" is literally the worst response you can get from a German

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another cool thing is when you devour a book over the course of a handful of hours and it fucks you up and you just have to lie on the couch feeling like your brain went swimming for too long & only just came up from under the water. art is so good

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sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour