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latter day saints? oh you mean like carlo acutis?

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I'm tired of all the hate and fandom wank and policing what is good or bad within this fandom. What you can or can't write, or read, or draw, or enjoy. Have you ever listened to Thomas' homily or is this the moment you always get up to get a snack or go to the loo without pausing the movie ?

Be subject to one another. To work together, to grow together, we must be tolerant. No one person or faction seeking to dominate another.

Our strength lies in the bonds we forge within this community. Let's nurture each others' creativity and hyperfixation with prompts and fics and comments and artworks and kind words and gifts. And above all the gift of acceptance (except for minors in NSFW spaces...).

Acceptance doesn't mean reading and encouraging things that you don't like or that triggers you. It means restraining yourself from hate speech and calling names and harrassing people and just using the block/mute feature. And carrying on!

Trust me, love and acceptance for this part of the fandom that wasn't made for you, will just come from someone else.

Let's cajole our favourite angsty creator into accepting that their art is welcome and loved. I pray for them to deem their works worthy of being shared because I crave the diversity of this fandom, and I love all of you. I pray for them to accept us as worthy of receiving their gifts.

This fandom will live and die, and I only want to keep happy memories of it. I want to keep silly trinkets and goodies in a little box under my bed that I will cherish for the rest of my life. I want to read and reread my favourites fics because I can't find any decent love stories with characters above the age of 39 anywhere...

Hell is empty, and no one will go there just because they enjoy creating or consuming fanworks tagged with explicit or non-con or dead-dove or even underage (though you might want to prepare yourself for an awkward conversation with St Peter before the gates).

Honnestly, at this point I consider that all the hate posts here have been created by only one troll using AI. Let this troll bear the burden of your mistakes, and carry on <3

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we're having this discussion AGAIN? it's not OUR job to make the internet kid-friendly, it's the responsibility of the parents, the companies and (partially) the kid themselves to cultivate their internet experience. not everything needs the cocomelon treatment, things dont need to be perfectly safe for kids because that's a slippery slope that leads to censorship and (esp with the world rn) banning or restricting transsexual identity, intersex people, queer and gay people, activists, sex workers, etc.

And even if it wasn't!!! a 16 year old is accountable for themselves!! Not as much as an adult but still old enough to make choices, decide for themselves to get involved in and be responsible enough to not run an 18+ event.

(this is brushing aside how arbitrary 18 vs 16 is, but that's a whole other can of worms which I won't open because it lets in some awful people)

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hey so how would youtube's ai be able to flag channels based on "appearing to be a child" in the first place. how would youtube get that data to train their ai on. how would they get that data without. collecting data on kids. which is something they explicitly. are not allowed to do.

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Sits on your dash

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IF I SEE ONE MORE PERSON COMPARE TR*MP TO JAVERT I AM GOING TO SCREAM

GUYS. PLEASE. TURN ON YOUR MEDIA LITERACY BRAINS FOR A SECOND AND STOP CLAIMING THAT A CHARACTER WHO'S WHOLE THING IS THE LAW AND JUSTICE HAS ANYTHING IN COMMON WITH A CONVICTED FELON.

I feel like with the whole stupid Tr*mp Les Mis situation everyone's immediate first reaction is to compare him to the perceived villain of the show and they don't stop to think about the comparison that they are actually making and the reality of Javert and his character.

Now, is Javert the main antagonist of the musical and the book? Yes, of course. Can he be unnecessarily cruel, prejudiced and does his actions in the narrative leave lasting, negative consequences on the other character's lives? Undoubtably!

But to compare him to the orange man????

GUYS!!!

Please, can't we just think about this for a moment? Everything that Javert does is born out of a skewed sense of justice and a flawed commitment to a system that hates him. Born into poverty, he spends his days desperately climbing the ladder of law enforcement, trying to be seen as better than the class he came from. This is likely the source of his hatred for JVJ, because he sees himself in him and is constantly trying to prove that not only is he better than JVJ, but he is better than everyone he represents - the common man, the ones society let slip through the cracks.

And yes, I do know that in the book, Javert is a metaphor for the brutality of the law at the time. But let's not forget that the police, however cruel they are, are ultimately just a tool to be used by whoever is in power, a weapon to wield against citizens living under oppression.

Do we associate Javert with this oppression? Yes, and that's intentional. But Victor Hugo also makes it abundantly clear that Javert is being oppressed as well. It is the very system that he serves that destroys him in the end, he recognises he has caused great injustice himself and it eats him alive. He physically cannot continue to live with his newfound guilt, he throws himself into the Seine because he cannot stand the thought of being not better than the forgotten members of society, but actively worse.

This brings us to Tr*mp (I'll make this quick I swear):

This man is NOTHING like Javert. He has no sense of justice, no loyalty to a flawed system that he genuinely believes is good and worth fighting for. Tr*mp works instead to further destroy the already broken system we have and actively makes everything worse for the common man. He is fully aware of what he is doing, there is no moral code to his actions at all. Tr*mp isn't serving a higher power because he believes that he is the highest power there is.

(He also is NOT a christian, do not listen to his lies the man hasn't read a page of the bible in his life! He uses that as a way to brainwash his cult into thinking he's their new messiah smh)

Trumps obvious awareness of his lack of morals puts him closer to Thenardier than Javert. Thenardier is a wicked and cruel character who is actually aware that he is in the wrong, that his actions are evil. But even this new comparison is inhernetly flawed because Thenardier was born in poverty, just like Javert. That fact alone should make them both incomparable to the overgrown nepo baby some of you have the misfortune of calling your president.

So yes, sorry for the rant BUT PLEASE STOP THESE COMPARISONS I AM BEGGING!!! Read the book or re-listen to the soundtrack instead, simply reminding ourselves of why the barricade boys fought for the revolution in the first place is a greater form of protest than snide jokes on X about how Trump's favourite character would be Javert.

If Trump did feel any connection to Javert, it would not be because he can relate to him at all or because they have anything whatsoever in common - but because Trump loves those who believe in the system. He loves the idealistic followers like Javert who truly believe that the government has their best interests in mind, because those people are the easiest to manipulate and eventually blame when things fall apart.

TLDR - Leave my boy alone or I am personally breaking into your house to whack you over the head with the brick.

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sorry i haven't read your fic yet it's been in my open tabs for 8 months

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yes

i just wanna say sometimes i daydream of being magically put in a room with all my mutuals and we are under an observation glass as we interact and watch movies and do karaoke together

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so apparently you can like comments on tumblr now…

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I LOVE THEM 🤧

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Happy Birthday Sylvester McCoy (20 August 1943)

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happy birthday to these two ICONS ❤️❤️

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also there birthday!!!!

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ratpat how I love thee

mr ratburn really did say gay rights

he did that for all of us 

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concept: cosette, valjean, javert and marius playing their first game of monopoly as a family

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Inspector and his one and only 24601 karat gold labewbew