#fair comment

[spiced-wine-fic]

[number1iowan]

If you've ever been on TikTok, you've probably heard at least one of Naethan Apollo's songs. You know "I wanna feel handsome, I wanna feel pretty"? That's him. He's also a regular on d&dorks, where he plays characters such as Mr. Goodbid the half elf bard.

The Cherry Sisters were a notorious vaudeville act in the 19th century. Their act, Something Good, Something Sad, was apparently so bad that the sisters tried to sue the Des Moines Leader over a review they printed of it. The court sided with the newspaper, establishing the legal precedent of fair comment. So technically they were INVOLVED in upholding freedom of the press.

[pankiepoo]

some Regular furries i drew

[arctic-bookclub]

oh also one thing that i realized just now: qbagi’s initial suspicion over what’s happening to qphil being tied to the federation is technically not wrong

you know what drew qphil’s deities’ interest to him and quesadilla island? the birdcage. rose said in her earliest message ”I could sense the bleeding heart of the one I once knew, far, far away”. the deities noticed qphil had disappeared, and maybe they were curious to know what had happened, but the thing that drove them to find him was rose’s want to help him. and if she really was the one that freed him from the cage (and it’s heavily hinted she was), that birdcage undeniably was the thing that launched all of this into action.

how the enderking figured out that qphil had been weakened? we don’t know, maybe he sensed it, maybe he had already been observing him, maybe he noticed rose leaving to look for qphil, it doesn’t really matter. what does matter is that the trauma qphil got from being locked in that cage is what gave the enderking the perfect opportunity to strike. and is what led us to where we are now in the story. so even thought the federation isn’t ultimately the one tormenting qphil right now, it can still all be traced back to them and their continual abuses of power :)

[thehandymen]

ok controversial opinion but. although spy x family and buddy daddies appear to have a lot in common (traumatized hitmen acquire a child etc etc) i really don’t think they should be compared. yor & loid, despite rushing into a marriage of convenience, are both pretty decently equipped to act as parental figures despite their unconventional backgrounds. yor has the experience of practically raising yuri from a very young age, and loid’s jack-of-all-trades spy career and general hyper competent personality means they’re able to handle anya and the whole sudden family situation better than your average single, childless, late-20s(?) adult. of course they still face a lot of bumps in the road/have a lot to learn, but what they do know from their respective lives and occupations definitely helps, and let’s not forget that anya is a whole telepath. 

kazuki and rei, on the other hand, have absolutely ZERO parental qualifications. it’s pretty obvious both of them have lived through their fair share of tragedy, with kazuki and his presumed dead wife and rei and his brutal childhood, but they’re also just. really messy people individually. kazuki is shown to regularly hang around gambling houses/the red light district and rei is a wet sock of a man when not in uniform. miri is your typical 4 year old: wildly energetic, no filter, constantly making a mess, requires attention at all times, and so on. unlike anya, she cannot read the minds of those around her, which means the only way she knows how to “help” her papas is by unhelpfully inserting herself into whatever tasks they’re trying to complete (and if you’ve been around small children, this is super typical behavior). she means well but she often inconveniences rei and kazuki’s already precarious lifestyle. and frankly, that pretty much sums up the early years of parenthood. 

kids are a lot of work. raising a child, even when you’re a “normal,” well-adjusted adult is really tough. but it’s supposed to be fulfilling, and it’s supposed to be something that parents view as “worth it.” we can’t really blame miri’s mom for resenting her so much when she never wanted to be a mom in the first place (and it’s clear she’s not suited to it, either). kazuki’s argument with miri’s mom demonstrates that his concept of parenthood is pretty idealistic, although not incorrect. kazuki may like the idea of protecting a child’s happiness, but he doesn’t realize the difficulty of the logistics involved, which we see in the daycare episode. we also see in the daycare episode that rei has no clue what a traditional childhood looks like. it’s implied he never went to school and doesn’t really understand how children usually act. 

kazuki and rei are arguably much less qualified than yor and loid to be parents, and therefore the buddy daddies family dynamic is going to be way more dysfunctional in a way that viewers may find bordering annoying rather than comically chaotic (i’ve read the crunchyroll comments). the same goes for miri, who is your average run of the mill small child, and not some super kawaii esper. but kazuki and rei are trying their best, in their own ways, and it’s clear that miri is going to brighten up their lives in really touching ways. so buddy daddies is definitely still worth a watch, especially if you already enjoy spy x family, but people should keep in mind that buddy daddies is not the “ripoff” of spy x family i’ve seen people say. 

[turing-tested]

ill be honest about this perspective bc I don't rly see this all too often when people speak about transition;

top surgery was not really 'affirming' to me. i was not transformed into my 'true self'. it is more like I was carrying a heavy backpack, and now I am not.

I never really liked the butterfly metaphor for transness, for me personally. I get the utility of it, but for me, like a butterfly, the thing that comes out of the chrysalis isn't the 'true self' of a caterpillar. the caterpillar is a caterpillar. that's it's true self. eventually it has a different shape and we call it a different thing but it's not somehow a 'false self.' it was, and now it is.

do I like the shape of my chest more now? yeah. do I like that I lost 8 pounds of tissue that has hunched me and pained me for more than a decade? fuck yeah.

I appreciate it a lot. but I don't know if I would call it a 'gender affirmation' surgery because I don't particularly see my body after it and go 'now it's more in line with my gender, my gender has been affirmed.'

instead of being a butterfly transformed from a caterpillar, it's more the kind of transformation that accompanies taking your shoes off when you get home, I guess. it's comfortable.

if you asked me after I take off my shoes 'arent you so happy your gender is affirmed?' it would be as accurate of a question, too.

[scjacka]

This blew up on the clock app so I guess I'll share it here too

[m-kyunie]

mi esposo 💜💜💜 I'll save u from square my beloved ur going back in the lifestream

[designernishiki]

ladies and gentlemen. we got em

[spiced-wine-fic]

[cuchufletapl]

I've just come across a tiktok of a person (who has 90k+ followers and is pretty well-known in lefttok for having well-articulated, intelligent takes, by the way) copying almost word for word that post by weaver-z (with an addition by roach-works) explaining how Divergent destroyed YA dystopian literature, and claiming those to be their own thoughts.

An honestly hysterical thing to happen just two days after HBomberguy dropped his video on plagiarism — in which he theorises that those who steal somebody else's work do it because, aside from their lack of creativity clashing with their desire for money and clout, they think the author so below them that they don't deserve the dignity of being credited and nobody would even catch the plagiarism.

We know this is common but fucking Christ. Finding such a blatant example in the wild during this time is such an experience.

[leveloneandup]

Our CEO really said “I’m going to do something amazing today” 🙌🖤

[weepylucifer]

I think the funniest "disco elysium the apolitical video game" take i've seen so far has to be "the point of disco elysium is that having an ideology (any) is bad for you and gives you mental illnesses, what you need to do instead is have Community with your neighbors, but in a way where no politics are involved"

[ceo-draiochta]

It's really interesting how people who claim to have such an interest in Ireland and decolonisation here but yet when the exact same thing that happened to ireland happens in a different country. Happens in a non white majority country suddenly its clam shut. Like if you can hold in your mind the complexities of the ira for all its goods bads and indifferences, why can you not hold these same ideas when the people are not white? Why was Irish resistance an unfortunate consequence of colonisation but the resistance of black and brown people "sadistic"?

Basing your whole brand on Irish culture, Irish mythology, Irish whatever. But when the time to have Irish solidarity with the oppressed it's handwringing. Uafásach.

There was a post a while back from a user on here who claimed to just *love* Ireland but was posting about how much they loved pro Rhodesian propaganda songs. Can you not see the parallels?

[sparky-scratch]

looking with my autistic eyes

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