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Look I like air conditioning as much as anyone else, it's a beautiful, wonderful, life-saving invention. But. I am so, so sick of never getting to put my winter clothes away because every indoor space is FREEZING even in the summer. Every time I go to a restaurant or a store or an office or someone's house I have to choose between sweating through my cable sweater on the way to the door or being fucking miserable the whole time I'm inside because I'm so cold. I already put up with the existence of winter, it should at least be warm enough for short sleeves indoors if it's a million fucking degrees outside!

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“male positivity!” and then it’s just uncritical gender essentialism and internalized misogyny

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I have been a sheep caretaker for like two days and already I'm like. Wow. I get it.

I get why these were some of the earliest mammals to ever be domesticated. They look up to humans with this sort of dumb but all at once innocent and pure and trusting expression. They're happy to see you. They follow you around. They like to be rubbed under their chins. Maybe its just some latent Scottish highland shepherd DNA I still have in me but I look at my sheep charges and suddenly I see why the love of God for humanity is so often described as a shepherd and his sheep. I'd fight a wolf for these guys. I'd go way the Hell out of my way for them. I'd carry their young for miles on my own back.

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I do kind of fucking hate the “i love the way men love” masterpost because while the stories are of course very moving! it pisses me off to no end the way that it’s framed like invention and grand acts of devotion are this inherently masculine phenomenon opposed to the feminine inclination to just say “I love you” and it just gets circulated around and around uncritically for years lmao

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you guys gotta stop deactivating your blogs cause you're making it harder for me to go back in a reblog chain to remove the annoying additions

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"women can wear pants now. they can dress masc and it's fine"

body hair is seen as disgusting and wrong and sick and "too masc" on a woman still. Did we just forget that? not wearing makeup as a woman can prevent you from getting hired. this is absolutely ridiculous

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I am a grown ass adult and I still get nausea when I feel like I'm in trouble. They're gonna send me to the principals office and take away my toys for a week. Can you just fucking kill me instead of making me stew in my fucking anxiety

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This fic by one of my favorite Murderbot authors is pretty much exactly what you're describing!

Just thinking about the Sanctuary Moon fandom. I’d like to believe there’s an author out there crafting like. Canon-compliant, plot-heavy stories that are big on action and light (if not nonexistent) on romance. With good characterization and a real attention to detail for space travel, the fics are largely beloved by fans, many of whom go so far as to describe the fics as “better than the show.”

There’s just. Okay there’s just one little hiccup you’d need to know going into this body of fics. And that is that OP for some reason always includes a random SecUnit OC.

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male entitlement in academic spaces is so boring. can’t tell you how many times i’ve been in a class and a girl gives a short, insightful analysis, and then a dude raises his hand and says “jumping off of that…” then says literally the same thing she said but longer and worse.

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Just not the brightest bulb, is she?

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So like. What was going through Cobra Bubbles' head the first time he encountered Stitch?

He's trying to conduct a home visit. It's not going well. The last visit didn't go well. It's becoming more and more clear that he's probably going to have to separate this little girl from her only living relative, which he doesn't want to do. Nani's not helping her own case, and he's coming down pretty hard on her. And then suddenly this bizarre little blue creature pops up and flings a heavy book directly at his face. The sisters insist it's a dog, but it doesn't look, sound, or behave like any dog.

The thing is, Agent Bubbles knows about aliens. He knows for a fact that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists and that it knows about Earth. And yet he doesn't challenge the idea that Stitch is a dog or try to either immediately remove Lilo or demand that Stitch be sent away. He does specifically tell Lilo that the next time he sees Stitch he expects Stitch to be "a model citizen." Not under control or well trained, a model citizen.

Is he hoping that Stitch is a solution here? That this alien creature that, arguably, attacked him in defense of the Pelekai sisters, might represent a useful element of their support system if better socialized?

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would you ever make a serious attempt on becoming vegetarian/vegan?

(for whatever reason: health, as an act of protest, just cus you wanna, etc etc)

pls add an 'already am' option

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Thinking about murderbot being a rental unit and how that interacts with its trauma

Bc like. The most important bots it meets are all from vastly different situations and backgrounds than it. ART has been valued and loved by humans its whole life - its dad is literally the captain and its sister is one of its crew! And they clearly cherish, love, and value ART. Miki is a less sophisticated bot, but also so clearly loved and cherished. They ordered it to protect itself! And it had the capability to reject that order! That says a lot about the love, trust, and mutual respect they had for one another.

Even Three, another secunit, seems pretty different from murderbot. It was made by the company it’s working for and the vibe I got was that it and the other two secunits were sort of permanently assigned to that ship?

Which, look. Humans imprint on anything and build familiarity. The more time we spend with something the more sentimental we might get about it. If Three was on that ship for a long time, I wouldn’t be shocked if at least some of the humans on board were pretty chill or even affectionate towards it (in a condescending and dehumanizing way probably, but still). And even so, the length of time spent around the same secunits clearly allowed Three to establish bonds with its fellow secunits if nothing else!

But being a rental unit means murderbot went from group to group. The other secunits it worked with were always Temporary Company (will never see them again after this contract likely) and also Active Threats to murderbot bc they’re the most likely to notice murderbot is rogue and be forced to report it. Even the humans were Temporary, so even if there were Nice Humans they’d be swapped out with Bad Humans soon enough.

Like. No wonder it insists it doesn’t have friends. If you don’t have Feelings about people then those feelings can’t be hurt when you’re inevitably torn away and never allowed to see them again (or have your very memories of them torn out of you and erased)

(Feelings about media are okay because the media can go with you, right?)

It’s funny to point at Three when murderbot makes sweeping generalization about secunits bc it’s an unreliable narrator but also. Just having feelings about how specifically being a rental unit effects murderbot and its relationships to others

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Just found out stuff that happened when you were a child affects you in real life. Aw shucks man

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the idea of a clutch purse is nightmarish to me. the whole point of bags was so we could escape the torment of holding things. and now u gotta hold a bag.

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The current state of US copyright laws, like a lot of the rest of US law, has been bungled into a mess that mostly benefits companies, you are correct on that point. However, as I said in my first reply, copyright law actually IS in its current BECAUSE of companies, which, yes, then allows them to continue and become worse. Copyright laws USED to be much more limited both in scope or duration and were primarily to protect the artist, but companies like Disney wanted their intellectual property to never become public domain so they pushed and bribed their way into having the laws changed to allow that. Copyright as a CONCEPT is a good thing. Not being able to protect your intellectual property at all would also be devastating to creative expression in the long term.

GOD DAMN I LOVE PIRATING MEDIA!!!! FUCK ALL COPYRIGHT OWNERS!!!!!! ESPECIALLY THE ONE YOU LIKE!!!!!!!!!

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I understand the sentiment but copyright is actually a really good thing for artists, they deserve to have their works protected for a certain period of time, whether it's visual art, music, or writing. It's megacorps like Disney copyrighting or trademarking everything they see and pushing for copyright laws to last basically forever that's giving it a bad name.

GOD DAMN I LOVE PIRATING MEDIA!!!! FUCK ALL COPYRIGHT OWNERS!!!!!! ESPECIALLY THE ONE YOU LIKE!!!!!!!!!