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at some point we gotta acknowledge that getting the majority of your news and takes and general opinions from tumblr is not meaningfully different than getting it from tiktok even though on here it's in textual form. understanding the world through the lens of viral videos vs understanding it through breathless unsourced text posts written by dykeastarion69

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By popular demand: Avery Brooks (Extended Edition)

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hating and seeking the public repression of trans women while also treating us as objects of commercialized and exploitative sexual desire in private is not “hypocrisy” lol. I know liberals only have one way for understanding conservative will-to-power but come on. hating women and trying to drive them out of public life while also wanting to fuck them is like, just normal conservative misogyny

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the xbox is a Machine. the playstation is a Device. the switch is a Toy. the personal computer is also a Machine. what the world needs, is a way to play video games on a Contraption

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Deep Space Nine 4x3, “The Visitor”

I adore how Benjamin Sisko encourages and nurtures his son’s fledgling writing career, while also ensuring that Jake doesn’t let life pass him by. That’s a tough balance to strike, but you can tell that Benjamin does it and does it well by Jake’s response at the close of this conversation: Ben promises to read and discuss what Jake’s written so far if Jake will just come watch the wormhole with him; Jake says “Deal.” Jake lets Ben read his drafts, and values his father’s insight! Let me tell you, when I was Jake’s age I was secretive af about my writing; I didn’t like my parents to know it existed and I certainly never let them read a word of it. Jake trusts his father, respects his father, because Benjamin does the work to ensure that Jake knows how loved and respected he is.

This exchange is even more poignant when you know which episode of DS9 this is – it’s the one where, just minutes after this conversation, Benjamin is zapped by the warpcore and eventually discovered to be not dead, but lost in subspace. Jake is devastated by the loss of his father, his greatest supporter; and for all the long decades of his life, he is unable to gain closure for his grief because Ben is not dead, but truly, simply, “lost.” Not unlike his father, Jake drifts through the years – unable to make marriage work, scarcely able to write, because the need to help his father who had so often helped him eats at him so intensely.

“It’s life, Jake! You can miss it if you don’t open your eyes” – or if you are too overcome by grief without closure to pursue your own joy. But, spoiler alert for the episode, the love between father and son wins out – at the close of his long life adrift, Jake saves his father and gives them both a second chance to live life together.

Executive producer Ira Steven Behr wrote: “A love stronger than death. Usually that’s romantic love, but for this show, this series, we chose the love between a father and son” (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 270.

In her article on DS9′s revolutionary depiction of Black fatherhood, Angelica Jade Bastién writes:

“No series before or since has a portrayed a black father with such complexity, crafting him as a widow, a powerful authority figure, a religious icon, a man whose morals are formed in shades of gray and whose love of his son remained his guiding principle.

…‘The Visitor’ brings to the fore what separates Deep Space Nine from the more widely praised representations of black fatherhood: its continued dedication to revealing the emotional vulnerability of the black family at its center. Throughout ‘The Visitor,’ Sisko and Jake laugh, weep, and reveal just how deep their love goes for one another. Seeing black men cry, grapple with the historical importance of their existence, and remain beautifully, dynamically human is something no other science-fiction series on television has done with such panache.”

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if you see a fat tgirl you must do absolutely everything you can

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bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

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The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

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Back in 2017 I signed up for one of the Cards Against Humanity sillies and did their Cards Against Humanity Saves America. Basically they were like fuck Tr*mp and his border wall and used the funds from the campaign to buy land and to make all 150,000 contributors part owners of said land across the US/Mexico border.

It was fun and silly and I got a little certificate.

Today I got an email that Elon Musk illegally annexed that land for SpaceX and that CAH are suing him over it. So possibly I’ll get like $100 if they manage to win a lawsuit and stick it to Musk. It’s like even more bang for my original buck.

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"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

vs

"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

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i think the thing that fucks me up about anti-fatness is that it's a pure disgust response but people don't even realize it cause they've wrapped it up in so much moralizing and bad science. Like they can't even look at the part where they're just taught to view people as disgusting anymore and understand that that's all it is. And when they see fat people trying to be or do anything that isn't being sorry for existing they have to push it back into that mold. I have to be a walking talking anti-fat psa.

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Canada, or the United States Canadian Special Administrative Region, is a mining corporation located in the northernmost areas of the American continent. It is most well-known for its genocides, as well as for its popular dish of potato fries with gravy, named after Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin.

In popular media, characters will often wear shirts emblazoned with 'CANADA', such that a jacket or backpack will corrupt the text to read 'ANAL', signalling their future sexual intercourse.

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My biggest passion is to hate the U.S

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craving the intimacy of violence all by yourself queen?

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2-for-1! lead in your cinnamon! come get some lead in your cinnamon! brand new report! newer than the older lead-in-your-cinnamon reports!

published september 12th 2024.

got to say, I did NOT expect costco's cinnamon to have 40 times more lead than fucking amazon. yikes.