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CNN is the only moderately-left-leaning American news source I can find reporting on the latest antisemitic violence in Europe in a way that doesn’t sound purposefully reductionist. NYT, AP, NBC all still talking about Israeli soccer fans. Reuter’s appears not to have talked about it since Friday at all. Nothing from NPR (although they’ve apparently had time to talk about things like Yoav Gallant and Qatar pulling mediation?) Even some of the center-right publications are putting equivocations like “apparently” in front of “antisemitic.” I will do anything not to have to send someone a WSJ or, god forbid, Telegraph article like fucking WORK with me here journalists

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The author's poorly disguised fetish

The author's proudly displayed fetish

The author's fetish you're pretty sure they don't realise they have

The author's fetish which they're firmly convinced everyone has and is just pretending otherwise

The author's non-sexual special interest which just sounds like a fetish because of their habitually unfortunate phrasing

The fetish the author is making a well-meaning effort to cater to in spite of clearly not understanding it themselves

The author's fetish that never quite makes it into the text because they keep getting sidetracked by the requisite worldbuilding

The author's utterly pedestrian sexual preference which the text treats like a bizarre fetish because they've got shit to work through

The author's seemingly innocuous recurring trope they're going to have a personal revelation about ten years down the road

The author's fetish you missed on a first reading because it's so far out of pocket, it never occurred to you that you could sexualise that

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i love when an author truly understands a character so well that they can just put said character in any situation and still have them act correctly. like yeah okay hes a cat cafe owner. hes a middle school teacher. hes a dog. and hes acting exactly how he would act if he was a dog.

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How I'm feeling right now.

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Matt will be like “babe you and I aren’t killers!!! you’re better than this!!!” and the woman he’s saying it to will openly be a literal assassin. Love him but he owes all of his exes money in damages I’m not joking

Daredevil comics are so funny… guy who literally won’t stop projecting his catholic guilt onto everyone else… and most of the time it’s a woman he’s in love with but also sometimes its Wolverine

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Daredevil comics are so funny… guy who literally won’t stop projecting his catholic guilt onto everyone else… and most of the time it’s a woman he’s in love with but also sometimes its Wolverine

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on this veteran's day I would like to encourage every active duty us soldier to become a veteran immediately

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“You’re romanticizing it!”

No, actually, I’m sexualizing it. Thanks.

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Biggest takeaway from this interview: Johnny and Daniel are ROOMMATES in Barcelona!

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Just had a friend show me a conversation in a fan discord about Suvi as a Black American woman in the context of the fallout from the election. And honestly? Yeah. The blueprint is simple: Black women are expected to put their own priorities and emotions on hold to show up for everyone else's battles and hold endless space for everyone's feelings while simultaneously weathering attacks on our character (oh she's so angry/aggressive/violent/rude) and authority (she's a woke hire/affirmative action quota/nepobaby) without complaint. We're expected to save the day under nigh-impossible circumstance, and with fewer resources and support that is AT BEST, conditional.

So yeah, relistening to Suvi's speech in The Witness hurts now. Because that's exactly the feeling I'm wrestling with, and what I see mirrored in the Black women around me. We are exhausted and angry and sad. Those voter percentages are a betrayal of "we" that was promised by other marginalized groups when speaking of the interconnectedness of our liberation. And the unexamined expectation that we immediately rise from the depths of our despair to prepare for the next fight is a cruelty. Suvi isn't real, but if this helps lend empathy toward actual Black women in the world, then I'm glad.

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joining the war on “pretentiousness” on the side of the pretentious

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ARMANDANIEL + the purple shirt

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my absolute favourite devil's minion dynamic, ft: my last night's text conversation with my husband

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i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.