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[intellitechdataservices]

[uncanny-tranny]

Once you stop thinking about queer people's labels as strict indications of what's in their pants and who they do/don't bed and instead view queer people's labels as how they interact with the world, you'll find that you'll get along with queer people better and treat them better, I think.

[chiropteracupola]

Things will be different in the new year...

[boowomp]

i think my least favorite current ""feminist"" talking point is that modern misogyny "encourages" women to be masculine or man-like in order to succeed like. be real do you actually think people out there want masculine women. or is your definition of masculine women just wearing a ~womens~ blazer over a blouse and skirt like come on

[you-have-made-a-fatal-error]

Mayan Vases in Secret of the Scarlet Hand - (image sources & etc in alt text)

[statementlou]

i feel like i can talk to you about this because you have rational opinions. so louis bought a starbucks coffee at the airport and the fandom on twitter are eating him alive, calling him evil and wishing he goes to hell. i’m disappointed since starbucks is on the list of brands to boycott but i feel like this reaction is too much? someone even said jay would be disappointed in him, but people said that was taking it too far. i don’t know, i love louis and i’ll keep supporting him and his music but the fact he can be a careless millionaire is disappointing

1. thank you sweetie I would boop if I could 2. oh my god it's a fucking cup of coffee and if people think that's the worst thing Louis, a multi millionaire, has ever done financially they need a reality check! His money will be handled by bankers who are putting it into all kinds of evil fucking shit that he won't even know about, it's actually very hard to know or control that and there is no way trying is even on his radar. That's a passive thing and not on purpose; but the fact that people don't bother to know about that or care really speaks to how performative this kind of online approach to activism is, that they only care about image rather than effect (the effect of his investments would be easily thousands of times more than any number of coffees or even of the promotion Starbucks might get from him holding it.) But furthermore buckle in cause you hit a nerve: Starbucks isn't even an actual organized boycott target as concerns Palestine because THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT financially! The official BDS movement calls for boycott of very specific and pointed targets of which Starbucks IS NOT ONE it's literally just an online trend which is not the same as an actual boycott to materially impact a target! Losing them money is always great, they are a crappy union busting small business killing corporation, but it has zero direct effect to help Palestinians unlike supporting the meaningful boycotts called for by BDS. I don't think Louis has decided to buy starbucks because he has this analysis, but to me it's a pretty important point. Him crossing an actual picket line (playing Israel, playing Eurovision [lmaoooo that thought tho], waving an Israeli flag god forbid) would be a very different situation and something that would trouble me so the distinction matters to me. But I get that to people on twitter, that's what they feel like he has done. To which I would say...

There are so many fewer ways to help Palestine than we would wish, and it's SO hard to deal with feeling so powerless right now in the face of such horror, so I love that people feel so strongly about doing whatever they possibly can. But worrying about consumer spending, even on BDS targets, is perhaps the least effective of the things a person can do. Note that BDS boycotts do not mostly focus on asking people not to buy things; they list the products that are especially complicit, but the main work of the movement is to get large investors (corporations, public institutions, whole governments) to divest from the companies targeted because that actually hurts them enough that it becomes less profitable to continue to collude with Israel than to drop them as clients. Consumer spending is not enough to do this. It's easy and doesn't require doing actual work but it's basically virtue signaling, not organizing. Just NOT doing something (yes including voting) is not enough! I personally choose not to give my money to certain corporations because it feels bad to me and I can't stomach doing it, even if they never notice me doing it. But if I was running out of fuel and the only nearby station was a Chevron, I would spend a few bucks there and not beat myself up about it because it will have zero impact on their overall profit reports but a LOT of impact on my life. And if I was in the airport for the second time in mere days after circumnavigating the globe and playing a massive show and doing press and fan service before even having time to adjust time zones and about to get on another flight to another country I might buy a fucking coffee from whatever coffee shop was in there too! But Louis isn't me and I'm gonna be real honest I would be real surprised if he KNEW there was a boycott or gave a shit- he is not a political activist! It's reasonable to be disappointed if someone behaves not how you want them to, but just in general responding to being disappointed in people by lashing out at them is... not it. Not useful, not rational, and not actually an okay way to act to other people. Louis is an awesome sweet caring person who I believe tries hard not to have a negative impact on anyone directly and who cares very much about others; if that's not enough for someone to be a fan of him, okay then they should not be a fan of him! But warning: they're not going to be able to be a fan of anyone else either. No one is pure and perfect... maybe that energy would be better spent trying to make a meaningful difference in the world, and a great first step in that IMO is to recognize and challenge your inner cop. The better world I want to live in doesn't include policing other people, not on twitter and not anywhere.

[deus-ex-mona]

sometimes, i think about how ☝︎this rando☝︎ from the [redacted] anime inspired me to tl idol sengen out of spite for her butchered characterisation

[firstroseofspring]

b’elanna vs her mother at similar ages, plus some sketches!

[thevioletcaptain]

me tuning in to watch a new cop show because jensen is the lead

[meetthegofer]

believe it or not, we're both coming undone here!

[crimeronan]

in canon, vee took on luz's exact appearance for a reason, but in the empress au, it might actually be beneficial for her to visibly differ from looking like luz, or even have obvious intent to look related to her. thoughts?

yeah!! i've been thinking about this.... camila first meets her in toddler!luz form and then in full basilisk form, but vee needs a human disguise that is NOT a missing toddler. iirc i established at one point that vee hasn't seen luz in the castle before and doesn't know exactly what she looks like now, so even if she Wanted to, she couldn't steal her face. (which saves her from what would inevitably be a Very fraught interaction with her offering to show camila what luz looks like now. oof.)

i'm not sure Exactly what her humansona looks like right now, though. it stands to reason that it would be at least a Little different from her s3 humansona, the way everyone's appearance in this AU is at least a little different. but her s3 humansona is a good baseline i think.

my main thoughts on Differences are that i think she's likely to more consciously resemble camila, here -- maybe darker hair or st. she wants to choose an appearance for herself, but she also wants to feel like she Belongs, and looking more like camila is an easy way of getting external validation.

[chiropteracupola]

every so often I do think about school art classes and. wow yeah that sucked unquestionably. did not produce Anything I would ever really want to share at any point. left high school and within about a year got really good at my favorite thing to draw which is: guy standing there. and/or dragon standing there.

[wewerebornsextuplets]

random kiru lore tidbit for the night. her grandparents put her in ballet classes when she was 12 to keep her out of the house give her something fun to do in her free time :3

[tonyglowheart]

Having a big "apartment 'complex'...really? I find it quite simple" moment with Chap 46. Like. This is it. This is Shen Qiao and Yan Wushi and why Chap 45 had to happen but ALSO flat-out addresses & answers the question of "but how/why does yanshen work?" Like. This is it right here:

[tvok]

God made yuya and yusaku not exist in the same universe because he knew they would be unstoppable as canon best friends

[my-t4t-romance]

almost forgot to post the earring I threw together and wore out to do grocery delivery and go to a cafe yesterday because I was inspired to be more out by I Saw The TV Glow! no one bothered me about it :]