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Ireland invaded from the North by the Icelandic Vikings

Let's do an alternate history, how should we start

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Every damn week

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I like the balloons. They're a nice touch

Thoughts on GOTY Clair Obscur: Expedition 33??

time to put on my favorite shirt

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really not sure when it happened or why but personally I'm pissed that the queer community at large seems to have given up ground on the "people with penises/vulvas/testes/ovaries" language to sex & gender essentialists in exchange for the much less precise, much more demeaning "AGAB" language.

is it because you're scared of the word vulva? of acknowledging out loud that some people have penises? of recognising that many many people, including but certainly not limited to trans people, have mixed sex characteristics that cannot be accurately summarised by "afab/amab" as shorthand for "female/male"?

"in [GENITAL RELATED] situation AFABs will need to do X and AMABs will need to do Y" there are "afabs" with penises and "amabs" with vulvas. Saying this shit makes you look so unserious & honestly transphobic (given the ongoing erasure of post-op trans people within broader community). Intersex people and GRS have both existed for long enough (fucking forever and, decades, respectively) that we should well past making this basic fucking mistake.

quit referring to people by a vague & often violent event that happened at their birth as though it defines ANYTHING about how they & their body currently operate, and start using precise language so you at least look like you know what you're fucking talking about.

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As they always: "fuck the police"

always acknowledge that there are characters who are outright evil without any tragic backstory, characters who just like inflicting pain on others for sport, and there are some other characters whose terrible actions are the results of their own tragic past and pain, characters who believe the violence and the blood on their hands are justified for the greater good. always acknowledge that both types of characters are awesome and you can be a fan of characters who are outright evil just because you like how sick and twisted they are, because your enjoyment of fictional characters does not reflect your moral compass, and anybody who tries to tell you otherwise just shows they can’t separate fiction from reality and that is not your problem.

also also acknowledge that there are going to be people who sees this character you think is outright evil — for the sake of being a psychopath without any tragic backstory whatsoever — and says there is trauma behind their actions, and even if you don’t agree with them, they are allowed to see and interpret the character however they want. because the beautiful thing about enjoying fictional characters is that anybody is free to see and interpret them however they want. you’re allowed to see this character however you want and other people are also allowed to do the same.

fandom police don’t exist for the sake of “keeping fandom safe”. fandom police exist for the sake of establishing rules for something that is supposed to be fun, they exist for the sake of shaming and telling people how they can and can’t enjoy art, and that’s why it’s always a great idea to ignore, mute and block these self proclaimed police whenever you come across one. don’t let them take away your freedom to enjoy your blorbo however you want.

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a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

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maybe this is just me idk

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Pregnant man hot

nobody wants to say it but the obsession with male pregnancy on this site is often incredibly misogynistic and transphobic. why do you think it's funny/cute/quirky for a man to be pregnant and why are you associating feminine qualities to a man who can become pregnant. also why are you treating pregnancy as somehow inherently degrading. answer all of this quickly without getting bioessentialist or misogynistic

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watching 4chan die as a tumblr user is like. its like watching another titanic hit another iceberg and sink faster right in front of the already sinking titanic that youre on

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this is how we will remember this moment

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So many times I'll read a devastating fic and be like "I was not prepared for this", meanwhile the tags are just 'Angst, Hurt but No Comfort, okay a little bit of comfort, like a tiny bit, but mostly just Hurt'

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god I love r/hobbydrama. Theres something so cathartic about reading stories about people arguing about things that have little/no consequence as a break from reading about people arguing about things that will devastate the lives of millions.

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New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

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Please stop trigger tagging with #epilepsy tw/cw/warning/etc.

I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

THIS POST IS 100% OKAY TO REBLOG, I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITHOUT EPILEPSY TO ESPECIALLY DO SO!

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me at this point of the year, reacting to any bad news