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Sarah McBride 2019

Sarah McBride 2024

I can't figure out if Nancy Pelosi had a metaphorical gun to her head while she wrote this, or if they just replace your spine with gelatin as part of the Democrat national representative health package.

Either way the first trans person in US federal congress, before she even got sworn in, released a formal statement saying that the official designation of trans women as a sexually violent threat to cis women and subsequent ejection from public spaces is not a "real issue", and complimented the Republicans who did it.

Democrats: First they came for trans people and damn, did we roll over like puppies begging for belly rubs. Do you think maybe if we simper hard enough they'll treat minorities like people?

State Democratic legislatures continue to be the best protection trans people have right now in this country, but wow, this party shift to kicking trans people under the bus is making that sound more like a bad thing every day.

It says alot about America that the first trans woman we have ever elected to Congress is a white lady career politician from Delaware, the Tax Haven State, a supporter of the zionist genocide, who used to be the HRC's national press secretary, who interned for Obama and worked on Beau Biden's AG campaigns when she was younger, who had the foreword to her memoir written by none other that the great Satan himself, Joe Biden

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sooooooo, TIL the hard way that your goddamn eye can apparently get a migraine all by itself.

it doesn't even have to consult the rest of your system on the matter! it can just throw a little rave in there, briefly decide to invent new and incredible ways for you to no longer be able to see properly on one side, and then get better by itself only after you're at the optometrist as an emergency because they have to make sure you're not having a fucking stroke or retinal detachment.

and apparently this both looks and feels fully different from visual disturbances you get with regular migraines, since it's the eye itself having the headache and not a symptom of a proper headache like any self-respecting visual fuckery ought to be. it doesn't even really hurt, other than feeling a bit sore-tired back in there once it's done!

yeah i'll bet it's fucking tired. cannot even believe they can do it like that. bodies are WHACK.

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does the dresden files series like women?

The Dresden Files (Novel Series, 2000)

Explain your reasoning in the tags!

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This should frankly be the boring moderate position

it was also supposed to be temporary 

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Folks sometimes get confused when classicists talk about the difference between cultus and mythology, and I think the best way to illustrate it is to think about the relationship between Christianity and Hollywood.

Like, imagine trying to reconstruct the the day-to-day practices of American-style Protestant Christianity if all you had to go on was the Prophecy series, Kevin Smith’s Dogma, and the Nicholas Cage Ghost Rider movie.

If you can picture that, you’ll have a pretty clear idea of how well you’re likely to do if you try to develop a picture of what Ancient Greek religion actually looked like based on Hesiod and Virgil.

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movie called technically blonde where she goes to trade school instead

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-companies-knew-about-climate-change

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bitches youre my trusted adults please tell me how itll be ok im scared

We take our position as your trusted adults very seriously. Which is why we can't tell you it'll all be ok.

It's not going to be ok for everyone. Some people are going to die or be hurt. What happens under this new presidential administration is going to have negative consequences that last for a long time.

This is why it's more important than ever to be caring, compassionate, and helpful, both to your community, your loved ones, and YOURSELF. We're currently working on a big list of all the things you can do to protect yourself financially and prepare for the coming administration to mitigate the damage. But as with all our work, we're making sure we get it right before we release it to you. So stay tuned, puggle.

I'm sorry I don't have more comfort to offer you. But we're still fighting, and we know you're strong enough to keep fighting too.

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Well ... are they? Because when you said you voted for thy candidate who wouldn't make it harder for you to exist as a trans person, they knew who you were talking about. They might have tried to mitigate it or ignore it. But the way you describe it they were defensive, not confused.

Shoutout to the two coworkers today who casually announced that they were voting for Trump, then asked me who I was voting for. I told them "I did early voting, and I voted for the candidate who isn't going to make it harder for me to exist as a trans person" and both of these women had to awkwardly try and assure me that it wasn't personal, and it's not like they hated Harris or anything, they actually do like some things about her, and they definitely don't hate me, of course not, it's just that, you know, well, it's like, well, you know, it's just, like, and no matter how many times they tried to pass the shovel off to me, I just let them hold onto it

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I saw this on facebook and honestly yeah

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*grabs your hands and speaks to you in a tone that is so gentle* they/them pronouns stop being universal once you learn a person's pronouns. Sometimes that person's pronouns will include they/them and in that specific case you are allowed to keep using those pronouns for that person. In any case where you learn a persons pronouns and that person doesn't use they/them, you should no longer use those pronouns for that person. If you continue to use they/them pronouns knowing that person doesn't use them, you are now misgendering that person. Kindly stop doing that please. Thank you, I love you.

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You know, Adora fanon is that she's an idiot but here's the thing. She isn't. She's more naive, sheltered, and not real people smart. In other words, she's like every kid I've met, including myself, who grew up heavily involved in the church who gets confronted with the world. They don't know how to relate to people who aren't from their insular group and it's confusing.

Because of this, you end up looking, well, like an idiot because you don't know how things work. You have a different frame of reference for how you approach everything. Things that were off limits are no longer so and things that didn't used to be are suddenly off limits. This may be a simple cause for laughter or it might be a huge problem. That's Adora's character as I see it. She's a church kid who is having to deal with the world and is so confused by the whole thing. Knowing what I know about ND Stevenson and what he put into the show, this can't be entirely coincidental in my opinion.

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765874 Unification - Short Film from The Roddenberry Archive, OTOY, William Shatner and the Nimoy estate, in commemoration of 30th anniversary of Generation being released.

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To the people in the OTW Tumblr Inbox asking about how the OTW is responding to the American Election.

This is a separate post (and not a response to a specific message) because we all need to see it.

Folks have been asking Support (through the form) as well as the other social media mods, and we have now been given the following to tell you.

We are continuing to closely monitor political developments that may affect AO3 and the OTW as a whole. First, we want to assure you that there are several factors that tend to protect AO3 and its users from legal risks and challenges. These include that we are a non-profit, do not host images, do not use algorithms to promote or advertise content to users, are not aimed at children, and collect very little user data. The results of the 2024 U.S. election are deeply concerning, but the OTW remains committed to providing an inclusive space for fannish expression and will continue to fight for fans' free expression, both in court and through legislative efforts, in the U.S. and worldwide. We have seen that fans are a powerful force for promoting free expression, and we will continue to inform people about opportunities for their voices to be heard. If a bill is likely to be passed in the future that could impact our ability to provide services, our legal team will be prepared to offer updates, guidance, and legal support to our users. Fans are not alone in this fight. Both the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/the-aclu-is-fighting-back-against-trump ) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/2024-us-election-over-eff-ready-whats-next ) made preparations for this outcome and have developed strategies to combat anticipated efforts to curtail online freedoms. We urge our users to support these organizations and others as they fight for your rights and ours.

<3 Mod Remi

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You won't get media with messier, more nuanced, more realistic queer characters if you keep flying off the handle the second a fictional character has sex, does drugs, swears too much, or acts vaguely like an asshole.

You won't get more diverse queer media with wider stories if you can't handle it when queer artists make art that is raunchy, crude, edgy, and gross.

You won't get more diverse queer media if you shut everything down the second it does something you, personally, get squicked out by.

You will never get more diverse queer media if you contribute to the way queer media is picked apart, raked over the coals, and held to unreasonably high standards.

You will never get what you want if you keep tearing queer artists down for their weird experimental art instead of learning how to say, "this isn't for me, that's fine, and I'll be over here in my own space."

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I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we’d never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn’t know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn’t know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don’t know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they’d been all around us the whole time.