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Three kittens—one orange, two back-and-white—sleep on a bed in front of a window overlooking a street-facing porch. From here.

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CHAT CONTROL TO BE VOTED ON THIS THURSDAY

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I know americans are busy with fighting KOSA but I urge you to please help us by spreading the word about this, I can't say this enough, if chat control passes, citizen's private messages will be scanned via artifical intelligence,and they must comply,otherwise theyre not allwoed to send pictures,videos,or links anymore. We have a discord server made to organize against it,with emails scripts you can use when contacting your meps : https://discord.com/invite/e7FYdYnMkS

Find your meps and tell them to vote no on this :

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Every now and then some discourse pops up around a queer ship consisting of a pair of fictional characters who are not blood related, but refer to themselves as "brothers" or "sisters," or are in some way, according to the fandom, "sibling-coded."

Every time I see that discourse, all I can think about are the very real queer men I once knew, who, before their deaths, lived their lives posing as "stepbrothers." The only way to avoid suspicion for being two older unmarried men living together in a rural conservative area was to pretend they were from the same family, even though the truth was that they were lovers.

They were never out in life. Their relationship was a strict secret to nearly everyone. They never knew that I knew, and sometimes it fucks me up inside that they never got to come out to me. It fucks me up that they had to hide behind a fake "brotherly" relationship for their own safety. It fucks me up to look at a gravestone that reads "beloved brother" and know what it really means, and what it could have said if they'd lived under different circumstances.

In another world, they could have been husbands, but they never had the opportunity. The world will remember them as brothers, because, even in death, that is what was safest.

The freedom to declare queer love openly is something that not everyone has. And I think more people could stand to remember that.

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Just thought to myself "can't women have a bad time in fiction without rape being involved" which really shows you how much you're in the fucking trenches if you are both a horror fan and women fan

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It feels odd that while Lovecraft's racism is often the first thing the mind jumps to when discussing him, the same isn't really true for other prominent pulp authors. Especially considering Edgar Rice Burroughs whole oeuvre is a celebration of white supremacy and eugenics. Tarzan boasts that he's a "killer of beasts and many black men." Utopias that have bred out crime through execution or sterilization of criminals' families are a repeated staple of his fiction. It wasn't just his fiction either; the man wrote a newspaper column calling for the killing of "moral imbeciles" and their families [source].

Its not like they were writing in wildly different times; the first Tarzan book came out only seven years before Lovecraft's Dagon. And they both were incredibly influential and celebrated figures in specific genre niches that still command wide attention. But while his racism isn't unknown, it doesn't seem to be attached to Burrough's public character in the same way it is for Lovecraft. Why doesn't he have multiple generations of pulp fans coming to terms with how the author they idolize is awful? Are there just not enough people reading A Princess of Mars these days?

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I think it's stupid that people won't believe the "out group" will help them.

Perisex people can be allies to intersex people

Cis people can be allies to trans people

Non queer people can be allies to the queer community

Transmasc and transfems and transneutrals all help each other

Men can be allies to women

White people can be allies to black, brown, hispanic, asian, and native people

Abled bodied people can be allies to physically disabled people

Neurotypicals can be allies to neurodivergent people, whether that's toward intellectual disability, mental health, learning disability, cognitive disability or other stuff

We're all in this fight together: don't forget it. Be an ally to the groups you're not a part of. Help people you see needing help.

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"There was a case where a certain man set his eyes on a certain woman and his heart became [so] consumed with burning desire [that his life was endangered]. When doctors were consulted, they said, "His only cure is that she submit to him." The sages responded, "Let him die rather than have her yield." "Then let her stand naked before him," [the doctors said]. "Let him die rather than that she stand naked before him." "Then let her at least talk to him from behind a fence." "Let him die rather than that she talk to him from behind a fence."

- Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 75a

"This passage, one of the most misunderstood in the Talmud, has led more than a few people to conclude that the sages were so puritanical that they deemed it preferable that an unmarried man die rather than converse with an unmarried woman.

However, this narrative has little to do with illicit sexual behavior; it really concerns emotional blackmail. Imagine the societal damage that would ensure if whenever one person's will was thwarted by another, the rejected party said he [or she] would die if the other party did not grant whatever he or she wished. Ultimately, the fact that this man is obsessed with this woman is his problem, and his alone (the Talmud provides no indication that the woman had led him on); thus, he is not entitled to make demands of her. As Hyam Maccoby insightfully notes: "What the story is really telling us is that no woman is required to sacrifice her status or dignity for the sake of a madman."

What makes this case so unusual is the doctors' claim that the man's life is at stake. Normally, when such a diagnosis is made, Jewish law permits a whole range of otherwise forbidden activities. For example, if the doctors had said the man must eat unkosher food lest he die, the Rabbis would have permitted it. But Jewish law never permits imposing unreasonable demands on others, even when a life is at stake. Thus, if the same man should insist that his cure is conditional on other people's eating unkosher food, this would not be permitted. Standards of behavior in Jewish life cannot be determined by the insane or the intransigent."

-Jewish Wisdom, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, pages 133-134

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We honestly just need to stop trying to make criteria for what being nonbinary is point blank. I really don't give a shit if people think this would obscure the term into uselessness because right now the concept of a nonbinary person is a skinny person who transitions into elfish androgyny, typically thought to also be white and afab by default. Which excludes, like, the vast majority of people who are nonbinary to serve some imagined ideal of a third gender

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She has not been release! She’s out on bail and awaiting trial but she’s still very much being charged.

the level of censorship around this man is ridiculous, what happened to free speech? It’s just his name.

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poolverine, spideypool, and scogan are ships that can and should be able to coexist peacefully

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Well of course Charles said the worst thing he could possibly say. Look at all his interactions with Raven, the person whose head he swore he’d never read. He pretty much constantly says the worst possible thing he could say to her because he’s actually talking to the version of her back when he could read her mind, and he doesn’t have the benefit of all that history with Erik. With the helmet on, Charles has no idea what Erik’s thinking either. He also just A) felt and watched his boyfriend/best friend shove a coin through his skull through Shaw and B) felt a man die while he was in his head. It’s safe to say he wasn’t thinking his best. Not to mention that Erik’s personal demon had thrown him into multiple walls hard enough to shatter glass and tried to crush him with…I wanna say a pipe? He’s probably concussed with multiple broken ribs making it even hard to breathe, let alone think. (Also Charles, is fucking stupid. Just a total himbo when it comes to anything but academia. He joined the CIA because a woman approached him at a bar and mentioned his thesis. He dove into water at night without a second’s hesitation and has to be prodded multiple times not to stand next to Havok’s target even when his control is shit.) When he tries to get Erik’s helmet off, he tackles him and never actually strikes Erik at any point (as far as I could tell from repeat viewings). This is a man who not only refuses to hurt others but won’t move himself put of a situation that might hurt. And yet, when Erik takes off the helmet, Charles does not hesitate to freeze Shaw in place. Charles is guilty of foot-in-mouth disorder, and neither he nor Erik were at their mental best on the beach.

Wow this meta got wildly out of hand. OP did you want me to delete this and make a separate post?

I think we give Erik too much flack for going ahead and killing Shaw in Cuba, even while Charles was holding his mind. What was the alternative? Because I never heard anyone actually offer another plan. Maybe before they got there Charles may have thought he could hold Shaw for a while while they work out containment, but once they are there Charles says himself that he can't hold Shaw very long. So a nuclear powered Shaw is ready to blow, killing everyone on the beach, everyone on the ships, and quite probably kicking off WWIII. What was Charles'plan? I think Erik's actions are the only way any of them got out of there alive. Because Charles is very good at telling Erik what not to do, but rarely if ever actually gives any viable alternative.

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I’ll fully admit I’m only familiar with the movies and know pretty much nothing about the comics characterization, but I’ve seen enough comics panels to know that Erik Lehnsherr’s middle name is “Charles Xavier-Lehnsherr Did Nothing Wrong, Just Misguidedly.”

"Is it a safe space to say i hate-" NOT IN THE MAINTAGS IT ISNT

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From Westminster With Love by thehoyden

NATO intelligence says there’s an omega-class telepath who sleeps under Westminster. Major Erik Lehnsherr is about to find out the truth for himself.