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someone explain pls.... how is himbo affectionate when bimbo is derogatory???

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sir are you mewing

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let's recap what we've learned about the United States in the last few days.

things that are terrorism:

allegedly shooting a healthcare CEO whose company generated more pure profit (not revenue, profit) in a year than the GDP of 94 countries, exclusively by denying coverage to people who pay for it

a 42-year-old mother of 2 using the wrong combination of 7 words during a heated conversation with a call center employee at a health insurance company who was in the process of denying her health coverage.

things that are not terrorism:

mass shooting in a Black church to incite a race war

going to a BLM protest specifically to kill protestors

a neo-nazi running over a crowd of people, killing a woman

targeting and killing 23 latinos in an el paso, texas walmart

killing 12 people in a theatre, shooting 58 others, rigging your apartment with explosives

a QAnon groyper killing 7 and shooting ~50 at a 4th of July parade

killing 3 people and shooting several others at a Planned Parenthood in defense of the unborn

stalking someone relentlessly and then killing them and their child despite months of the victim making police reports

any one of the 1,200 murders committed by US police yearly, the vast majority being minorities

tightening your border while ~100 immigrants (including children) drown every year in the Rio Grande

United Healthcare killing an unnknowable number of elderly people by using faulty AI to deny medically necessary coverage

Aetna killing a woman by refusing to cover her cancer care

Blue Cross killing a 6-year-old by denying her appendicitis surgery

Cigna killing a 17-year-old child by denying her liver transplant

the pharmaceutical industry killing half a million people with opioids in the name of producing revenues in 2023 that rivaled the GDPs of countries like Spain, Mexico, and Australia.

the United States killing 45,000 people a year because they can't access health coverage

make sure you keep this guide handy the next time you find yourself interacting with your insurance company or any other millionaire, billionaire, or an individual who is part of a protected class such as a CEO or president of a corporation.

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Not femme not butch but a secret third thing

(the secret third thing is that I’m still wearing the clothes my mom bought me in high school and I’m too socially anxious to have someone else cut my hair)

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not sure if it's just aroace thoughts

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I've seen so much back and forth about Gazan GoFundMe campaigns.

"You should donate a little to each one/share each one, just in case!"

"They're all scams! Your money won't even go to Gazans!"

So I wrote a whole article about how to vet GoFundMe campaigns for yourself:

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i worked at an escape room for about 6 months last year and the room i ran was a pretty easy one. after you already get through most of the "harder" puzzles in the room, there's this game groups have to play where they run around the room matching up colored lights to what is shown on a screen. there's 3 rounds, and the first 2 don't even have a time limit.

this is the section of the room where groups fall apart. yelling, fighting, berating each other, accusing the room itself of being broken (never was when i checked later). this game wasn't a puzzle. there's almost no thought involved (and i helped out groups where people were colorblind).

all of that is to say, ritsu and teru would be very good in an escape room solving logic puzzles together, but as soon as they got to a part of the room that is match-up-the-colors (or anything else that's easy so long as you can rely on the other person getting their part correct at the same time you do) it would be all out war.

i am overcome by the need to put teru and ritsu in an escape room together. they have great teamwork in life threatening situations but i think that in this case they would make each other worse in really funny ways

ive always had the headcanon that in the vast majority of situations those two get along like normal friends but putting them in any sort of competitive game setting brings out the worst in them and i think youve put forward the most extreme possible version of this. somehow i think the first half they would be doing okay but the pressure of the timer and needing to rely on another person eventually just turns them into

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Fountain of youth is deeper than previously thought

Ok

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ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

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When i saw medieval illumination comic, i immediately bought and read medieval illumination comic. Definite recommend! The art is fantastic, especially the border art and the letter art!! The story is short and impactful!

There’s physical copies available, as mentioned, but you can also do what i did and get the digital pdf!

Preview of Basilisk, my personal favorite of my risograph comics, and the project all my other recent medieval-inspired art descends from.

Styled after medieval illuminated manuscripts and printed using a custom color palette requiring 5 risograph inks (including metallic gold), Basilisk asks the question: what would drive a teenage girl to create a monster?

Physical copies available here. To brag for a moment--this is my masterwork of riso printing and is even more impressive in person.

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Inktober 2024 But It's All Infinity Train - Day 1 to 30, all in the same post (I hit the new image limit, oops). Day 31 is a bit different, though, so it's kind of fitting, in a way

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Attempting to deal with some of my feelings regarding Infinity Train Book 3. And probably failing

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Infinity train is very aroace spec friendly and i recommend it to all my aro and/or ace spec friends (and all my other friends too to be fair).

What infinity train does that is, in my opinion, so aroace friendly, is that it doesn’t put its characters into inherently romantic relationships or setups, but it also doesn’t fall into the trap of giving some convoluted reason as to why they’re not (because for some reason, characters can never just be aromantic, they’ve always gotta be traumatized or hyperfocused on something else or not believing in love at all).

Reading Jesse and Lake as romantic is canon-supported, reading them as platonic is canon-supported, reading them as queer platonic or something else is canon-supported, so long as they care for eachother. Same with Ryan and min-gi.

Because, and this is likely due to infinity train’s short runtime but still, there is nothing for or against it. Romance is never important nor explicitly unimportant. The show is, somehow, miraculously, romance indifferent.

Being someone on the aromantic spectrum who does really like watching romance makes Nandor and Guillermo especially frustrating, because it appeals to neither my desire for good aromantic rep (neither of these characters are canonically aromantic or even aro-coded, at all) nor my desire to watch a romance

(Alternatively it makes infinity train way more fun, because every single character could be aromantic but also there’s two relationships that are very fun to ship romantically)

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just to continue harping on this, we got queerbaited by a show with canonically queer characters because while queerness has always been a joke, this showrunner and these writers figured out that it’s now a socially acceptable joke for their main characters to have.

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Being someone on the aromantic spectrum who does really like watching romance makes Nandor and Guillermo especially frustrating, because it appeals to neither my desire for good aromantic rep (neither of these characters are canonically aromantic or even aro-coded, at all) nor my desire to watch a romance

(Alternatively it makes infinity train way more fun, because every single character could be aromantic but also there’s two relationships that are very fun to ship romantically)

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Also about wwdits! It is noticeable that Guillermo’s gayness is treated seriously. He does have a legit boyfriend in season 4 for a while. It is specifically the bi/pan characters this show doesn’t take as seriously. It’s the bi/pan characters who always have serious romantic m/f relationships while every hint of same sex attraction is always sexual and played for a joke. And don’t get me into how every vampire is bi/pan while every human character is either straight or gay. (Almost like they’re implying everyone would be bi/pan if they thought about it long enough.)

Its. Specifically. The bi/pan characters. Don’t forget that!