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Today's gender has no meaning in this place

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Everyone’s going on about having a ‘traditional, old-fashioned Christmas’, but when I burst into the house covered in green paint and demand a champion strike my head from my shoulders with my own axe so that I may return the blow next year, I’m ‘scaring Grandma’.

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quite literally the only day you can rb this the last one was 2005

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this will be the year I finally convince everyone to abandon New Year's resolutions in favour of Yule Boasting, the clearly superior tradition

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>"person of interest" captured in Altoona PA

>POI was stopped at a McDonald's getting food

>carrying multiple fake IDs and a passport

>also carrying manifesto and potential murder weapon + silencer

>identified based on hostel mugshot that doesn't appear to be the same person in other photos

>fake ID matches the one used by POI at Hostel, where they already knew this person was

>picture of the shooter that they claim to have tracked back to the Starbucks has noticeably thinner and wider eyebrows than POI, as well as completely different clothing

>suspect was purportedly tracked from crime scene on cameras and disappeared at a bus station

>greyhound NYC to Altoona PA is less than a day, as is a Greyhound from NYC to Toronto

>shooter has been roaming free for five days

>NYPD, the most vain police department in the world, has been pursuing even the most fuckstupid leads they have (veterinary pistol lol) and spreading photos that are obviously not all the same person

>NYPD has a long history of fabricating evidence against arrested suspects and then dropping cases in court, having done this with a murder case as recently as this past January

>New York City is the financial capital of the nation and needs to appear safe for the capitalist class or it will surely hemorrhage funding

>Eric Adams, Mayor of New York, is currently embroiled in a humiliating corruption investigation and doesn't have much remaining face he can afford to lose

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stɑːt ˈjuːzɪŋ fəʊˈnɛtɪk ˈlæŋɡwɪʤ naʊ

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goncharov

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how the fuck do you make a bed

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when when the first day of Hanukkah is on Christmas ough ough ough

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Bastille was right. How am I gonna be an optimist about this. Also right about eh eho eho.

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Could you draw a Junol surprise birthday party?

Not pictured is Nureyev scolding everyone for throwing a party against Juno’s wishes.

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Imagine meeting the most handsome goofiest genderweird butch you've ever seen and she has a dedicated probably monogamous boyfriend who to be fair is actually a pretty cool dude and you're devastated that you can't shoot your shot. Then you find out that up until last year boyfriend was certain he was gay and then he met this handsome goofy genderweird butch and was like oh I like women. Or at least women who are also men sometimes. So I'm bisexual. Also to make things more confusing they're both veterans who are actually pretty staunchly anti-military and hate every admiral they've ever encountered and the butch only went into the military because she desperately needed healthcare coverage for her father and the boyfriend was like. A legacy military brat who realized this is all pretty fucked actually. Congratulations you have encountered modern day Mulan and Li Shang

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Ok can everyone talking about how badly female characters in malevolent are treated shut up and think about the rest of the side characters for a second?

I get it, the female characters don’t get a lot of screen time, and they hardly ever speak, and most of them are evil, and they’re only ever viewed through the lens of how they effect Arthur. I get that thats not good for representation. I get it, alright? But think about this for a second.

Bella didn’t get seen other than when it was her effect on a man. That’s bad. We don’t like that. But what we don’t talk about is that Parker gets the exact same treatment in podcast, it’s just that he gets talked about more in the fandom because Arthur talks about him more than Bella because, comparatively, he was simply closer to Arthur than Bella was.

Marie and the Wraith from episode 4 and the Witch all deserve better. Yes they do. They deserve happy lives and their motivations were justified. Oscar did too. So did Daniel. So did the Butcher and Noel and Kellin and literally every character other than Arthur and John who only got an episode of screen time and then died. I get that those female characters deserved better, but if I’m being honest, they get treated with exactly as much dignity as the male characters do if not more.

And yes, there are very little girl characters in the podcast; yes this is bad for representation. It’s also a SOLO PROJECT BY A MAN. WHO CANNOT VOICE WOMEN VERY WELL. BECAUSE HES A MAN. And he should have the right to keep it a solo project and put whatever characters he wants in there because ITS HIS.

Yes, the men do get more screen time. Yes, the women are overlooked a lot. But there was a guy who was on for a total of like 12 minutes and no one remembers him. His name was Eddie, and he was Arthur’s second kill. He was the reason John got control of the hand. And no one cares. Because he didn’t make an emotional impact on Arthur. Because the podcast is about Arthur. And most women don’t make an emotional impact on Arthur because he’s never felt the need for an explicitly female companion.

And I need people to just think for a minute about how yes, the women do get overlooked, but guess what? The men do to. And it’s pretty much equal.