#and does anyone Ever guess right?

[13eyond13]

Let 👏 Near 👏 fuck

[dreamlogic]

i have no clue what's going on w/ the hiring process for the job offer i got yesterday, but at least it seems like nobody at the post office does either. 🙃

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

One of the many things I’m surprised Anet has never released: a ‘Sylvan’ set of themed mount skins like the Inquest Exosuit, Branded, and Shiverpeaks ones, but plant-themed so they can resemble the sylvari, nightmare court, or mordrem depending on what dyes you use.

[spacespore]

HI TUMBLRR it’s me

[biblicalhorror]

Thinking about one of the loser men I dated directly post-college who, after I showed them Dirty Computer [the emotion picture] by Janelle Monae, said they "prefer rap that has something to say"

[taeyungie]

😺

[unproduciblesmackdown]

another billions analysis thing is like so yeah while it's like "hmm let's think about power" but then doesn't really do that, what's there to offset that is "but let's think about what these people with billions(tm) are doing because of their like personal feelings & lives & whatever" and the personal feelings are the thrilling journey of s1 men following the compass of their ego & the way their personal lives matter at all beyond this is about their Relationships. except the relationships are also actually about the power billions isn't really thinking about because the ones billions focuses on involve this Fealty where one person does whatever and the other is just stuck with it. sure they might air some unhappiness sometimes, but if it's not punished or ignored from the start anyway, it'll still end up so inconsequential that it's as though it never happened. and what's left to offset the way that can't mean anything if you again take it for granted that of course people are just locked into such relationships & best they can do is fix it from the inside or embrace it as is? is "do you think this character is a winner among losers & you want to see them pwn everyone & do whatever they want forever" & if you like all the media the creators do like

[treesbian]

being mad at my parents for events long passed hours

[benevolentbirdgal]

low-key one of the most toxic positivity-esque traits of social justice culture is that I don't see people publicly talking about is that some marginalized people suck as people but still are entitled to rights. Instead, I see a lot of "marginalized person from x community did a wonderful thing, all people from x have been so nice to me, obviously, they deserve rights" and while it's lovely that person was nice to you I'm actually not comfortable with the "was nice = gets rights" equation. There are four big reasons for this:

It shuts down conversations regarding when someone marginalized was shitty or problematic (including to another marginalized person). I've encountered seriously fucked and negatively impactful behavior from other neurodivergent people, but it doesn't feel like it's okay to talk about it in SJ spaces. The same goes for encountering antisemitism and sexism from other minorities. I don't find it healthy for our spaces or good for progress on the whole, nor does it actually help people learn to do better.

I'm not on board with generalizing entire groups of people as Fundamentally Good. People are messy and there's something incredibly off-putting about what is essentially stereotyping groups, even if the intent is good. Do you only care about my rights if I'm a GoodJew™ or a palatable neurodivergent person? What happens if someone deviates from the Good Person standard - how does that impact your (or your audience's) views when someone inevitably deviates?

There are some bad roads when counter-examples are brought to the table. At the very least, "x group is fundamentally Good People Who Are Nice" is a weak argument. What happens when you meet a counterexample, if this is the foundational reason you fight for rights? If the driving force behind your belief in the right to housing and a safety net is transient folks being nice to you, how do you make this argument to someone who lives in a place where unhoused men are aggressive and shout explicit threats to passersby? "Nice to me" is not a standard that can be held consistently enough to actually engage people with philosophical changes.

Even shitty people deserve rights. Even the people you like least. If you spend enough time in any space, SJ ones included, you will encounter people you Just Don't Like or who have actively problematic views or behaviors. Hell, you might even deal with people who actively hurt you, and that doesn't negate their fundamental human rights. The worst person you know, the person who had the most negative impact on your life, the person you personally have no inclination to forgive - they are fundamentally entitled to the same rights you are. But that doesn't really work in a "x group was SO NICE and that's why I should support them" framework.

I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to talk about the nice things that people did for you. I'm saying that linking rights to behaviors is a bad road, and can lead to toxic positivity and the stifling of other conversations.

[bam-monsterhospital]

i'm uh, really apprehensive about xmen 97 adapting the inferno arc.

really REALLY apprehensive.

REALLY FUCKIN APPREHENSIVE GUYS, I'M DREADING IT.

[latinokaeya-moving]

semi related kinda actually. one of those super common fat stereotypes that didn’t really stick/make sense to me until i grew older was the idea of fat equaling weak or pathetic like. that’s a really common association right in both media and the average consciousness of ppl. but it was never something i learned to internalise as a kid bc a Lot of ppl in my family including myself had always been built big and broad and everyone was always just so physically strong??? like looking back not in an unnaturally impressive way or anything but just so many of them had been manual labourers in some way in colombia and then they came here to do cleaning and even though it might not seem it that’s Such a physically taxing job especially if you’re doing it for 12+ hours every day and like. the strength that built Showed in the roughhousing at home so clearly ?

like as little kids me and my brother would gang up on my grandma to play wrestle and she would sooo soundedly defeat us each time like she had such solid grip and weight behind her arms even as an old lady she was short but broad and Sturdy and physically strong!!! and my brother is huge and tall and Fat he was the biggest kid in secondary school i’m so sure and he could pick up and manhandle and throw other kids even older than him with ease. he played rugby with these fit lanky guys i knew in my year who would tell me that they would stay the Fuck away from him when they played bc they knew he was unmovable and Would slam them to the ground without breaking a sweat. hell he could right now pick me up and physically slam me on the ground if he really wanted to and im big! i’m heavy as hell! i weigh almost as much as he does!

so growing up surrounded by my family i just. kinda got used to associating fatness with physical strength as this obvious innate thing so when i sorta expanded my horizons n saw the way it was used in popular media as visual shorthand for like. laziness And Therefore weakness it was just very. unintelligible. it didn’t make sense to me at all. i didn’t get it lol

[maraeffect]

started watching hopecore right before bed and MAN. what a life it is we live on this earth.

[arlathen]

thinking about how unspeakably traumatized rosanna is going to be whenever adam snaps n bites her. night!

[unproduciblesmackdown]

the most recognized as comedic song being the best part of the movie musical because the conventions that serve as a mode of communicating ideas, for example "people just bursting into song" or "choreography" or "'noticeably stylized' cinematography" that accentuates nonliteral nonrealism-invoking choices, are regarded as Silly or Frivolous. and the effort to shove everything else that's more "serious" into what is expected to be read as dramatic cinema that's not stylized in any ways that seem too "Genre" which only makes [but someone's singing?] underwhelming and out of place because no other elements are supporting it

[indigodawns]

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[get-more-bald]

I have realized that i do not want to die or disappear forever. I want to get away from everyone who's here right now.