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BLACK SAILS - S01E03 // S04E09.

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– Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

BLACK SAILS APPRECIATION WEEK day five: quotes/poetry

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it really is all of us or bust btw. we cannot accept conditional acceptance of queer people, we cannot accept the exclusion of some in exchange for inclusion of others, it's all of us or nothing and we have to be so fucking clear about that. don't let conservatives or terfs or twitter discourse convince you that there's any other option. don't let them get away with it. we're all going to fucking make it and we're not leaving anybody behind

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(via $4.6 billion and 40,000 jobs lost—thanks to the artistry of our politicians. : r/clevercomebacks)

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also the vane/flint/eleanor dynamics are so funny because flint is like what. 10-13 years older than charles who is like 5 years older than eleanor who has a bit of a daddy issues crush on flint whom sees her solely as a much younger protegee whose ambition he admires and in whom he sees a bird of a feather. completely out of his romantic or sexual radar (sidebar which is SOO embarrassing when eleanor goes to miranda trying to be like idk what you hag have on him but i'm the younger bouncier cool girl in his life. and miranda is like (: ) anyway flint is fighting gay demons the 18th century millenials have never even heard of while there's this punk metaphorically driving by in his loud ass motorcycle going you think you can steal my girl huh ???? and flint is like get off my lawn i'm having war flashbacks from the old country

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The problem with having a child with an attorney that has spoken to the child like an adult since birth is that she's 4 years old and she's negotiating the order in which we're going to complete tasks as a family to best suit her idea of an ideal day.

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I love your Red Letter Bible edition of Good Omens! Your work is beautiful! If I may ask, what program did you use to format the text and layout?

I used InDesign, though I know Affinity works similarly

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I am sick to death of begging people to care about Ukraine.

Russia killed dozens of Ukrainian civilians in less than 48 hours on Monday and Tuesday, according to Ukrainian officials, two of the deadliest days in many months. A five-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl were among the victims of the Russian attacks, launched just as Ukraine’s allies began gathering for a key NATO meeting in the Netherlands. Ukrainian officials said 15 people were killed in Dnipro on Tuesday after a Russian ballistic missile hit the city, the largest in the country’s south-east, while 9 people were killed in a strike on a Kyiv apartment building on Monday. At least two dozen others were killed in strikes across the country, including in Sumy, Kherson, Donetsk and Odesa regions.

Russia is out here leveling apartment buildings and bombing hospitals and no one seems to give a shit. They have invaded a sovereign nation and seized 20% of Ukrainian territory, and they have no interest in signing any kind of peace deal that does not involve continued colonization and occupation.

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what super expensive indulgence would u get for urself if u suddenly came into a bunch of money?? assume all bills/mortgages paid, all friends helped: what treat are u buying just for u?? for me it would be a quilted lambskin chanel bag in iridescent pink

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HEY HI so I do very much apologize for my tags (I am assuming they came off some type of negative since you screenshotted them for your response, but could definitely be misreading that as well, so I'll preemptively apologize for that misread too 😅); I'm dealing with a bit of a rude-anon-explosion in the past month or so (hence my mentioning that), but I have also been informed that I can tend to come off as a right prick over text.

I do apologize if I came off overly aggressive or rude; it's likely for the same reason that I didn't initially understand your post, which is "I am really bad at words distinctions" 😅 I'm working on figuring it out, but it's a work-in-progress at the moment unfortunately...

Thank you again for taking the time to type out to me an explanation of what the words distinction means! It was very much helpful, and it's quite cool to actually be able to piece together what you were saying!

I was just including them for context of what I was responding to; you asked a question and actually wanted an answer, so all's good

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Ok since it keeps coming up

Actually, out of curiosity

Edit to clarify: teeth still in your head, I don't mean in a jar or something.

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man, The Character really strikes me as someone who would struggle with Same Problems I Have, for no apparent reason

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The problem with playing smash or pass is that there's a lot of characters which I'm not sexually attracted to but I would fuck in a heartbeat out of sheer curiosity and ego, like I don't find Mickey Mouse attractive at all but if he approached me at a bar and went "Hey sexy, want me to show you my mouseketool?" I would say yes because then I get to tell my friends I fucked Mickey Mouse

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identifying political ideologies by vague statements 2024 edition

• "both sides have gotten a bit extreme lately": conservative

• "i'm not really into politics": conservative

• "it's good to accept different opinions": conservative

• "i'm a conservative": 100% hitler

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I think more historical fantasies and alt histories that have gay marriage be allowed should mess around with the societal implications of this. If your aristocracy allows gay marriage, why? As a release valve for inheritance problems, like monasticism was in parts of medieval Europe? As a way of removing your failchild from the line of succession by legally binding them to the failchild of your political ally, ensuring any offspring they both have will be illegitimate? How about a society where the lower classes are allowed to be gay but the nobility aren’t? Idk there’s just a lot of options that are more interesting than “homophobia just doesn’t real”

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Human Pet Guy is actually just a natural extreme in the evolution of a fetish porn author b/c it's a very well know fact that if you write a lot of fetish porn, you will inevitably end up writing a story that is basically "Fetish World: the World where everyone does my Fetish" and that's all fun and games but if you're a huge nerd (likely) you'll probably end up asking yourself how Fetish World could even be possible when obviously it would be impossible in the current sociopolitical order so now you're walking through all the political and economic changes that would be possible to enable Fetish World and before you know it you've spent way more time on worldbuilding than you have on writing the actual porn. Cybersmith simply takes this one step further. He thought through all the steps needed to make Fetish World possible and then decided those steps made enough sense that he would go out of his way to advocate for the creation of Fetish World in real life which is, and I really cannot emphasize this enough, completely fucking insane. It's such a funny concept honestly like imagine if someone read a bunch of Omegaverse fanfic and then went on Shark Tank to pitch them on bioengineering men who can get ass pregnant

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Ok I'm not sending you a rude anon but the difference is this:

"Making me uncomfortable" suggests that this is an action someone is taking. If someone on the bus starts yelling at you, that's something they're actively doing that directly involves you. They are making you uncomfortable. Sometimes the best thing to do is still ignore them, but it depends on what they're actually saying, and that's a case in which involving the bus driver isn't necessarily a dick move.

"I am uncomfortable with" frames it as a discomfort that you are experiencing, that comes FROM you. If someone on the bus is talking to themselves, you might be uncomfortable with it, but in this case it doesn't actually have anything to do with you. You are uncomfortable with the guy on the bus. They aren't threatening you. Making a stink about it would be a dick move.

More generally, American society (and others, I'm sure but I can't speak to those,) specifically white Americans and especially (though not exclusively) white women, are constantly hearing and repeating the idea that if you're uncomfortable with someone, that discomfort is harm, therefore that person is harming you, and so you're actively unsafe and should respond accordingly. This framework doesn't leave much room for separation between a person actively screaming threats in your face and a person whose vibes you don't like minding their own business. You see this with how trans women and men of color are treated all the time and it's been used to justify everything from bathroom bills to loitering laws to lynchings.

The post is encouraging people to, before they treat someone as a threat, consider whether they're actually being threatened or if their brains are sounding the alarm based on biases that don't have anything to do with the person in question.

Or in other words: is this person's behavior any of your fucking business?

Haven't figured out a politic way to word this but before saying someone/thing "makes you uncomfortable" please ask yourself this important question: is it any of your fucking business