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Small joys on Tumblr:

When your notes make a perfect cat

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ZENDAYA — for On

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damn, y'all are big mad that rape simulator 3000 isn't available anymore

i know that it must be really easy for you to sit behind anon and feel morally superior saying this, because the nature of the media that institutions are trying to ban is NSFW and kinky, thus making it "embarrassing" and difficult to defend. But the fact that it's easy to cast opposition in a light that presents them all as "degenerate" perverts and therefore incentivises people to take warning voices less seriously is something worth examining. Sex workers have always been canaries in the coal mine for encroaching fascism and puritanism because "protecting the kids" is a slogan that is, on paper, impossible to oppose, but always ALWAYS is the start of a slippery slope of censorship that grows to include sexual liberation, queer existence, queer joy, and transparency in queer medical help.

Banning content purely because it's obscene has always been a dangerous sentiment because noone has the same parameters of what's appropriate. Trans people just existing is obscene to some. That doesn't make them more morally correct when they bang their drums for trans representation to be eradicated. You bring up "rape simulator 3000" as evidence that we need limitations on NSFW media. Okay. So what did you say when Mouthwashing was banned, a game that explicitly depicted sexual assault in the context of male accountability, and moved thousands of people online? Is all art depicting anything unsavoury, no matter the intention, destined to be stripped from the internet? Are the SA victims who deal with their trauma and reclaim their bodies through SA roleplay worthy of shame and derision for not doing it in a sanitised way you approve of?

Are you truly prepared to let your government, wherever you live, decide what is suitable for you to come across online? How far would you be willing to take that? Are governments allowed to disrupt BDSM forums? Are websites educating people about appropriate knifeplay or CNC set to be wiped off the face of the earth? Or have you, in a desire to cater your own online experience, become someone who arrogantly orders for the table without asking what everyone wants to eat?

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This might be a weird question, but do you ever get anxious about just... how many people read your works? I recently went through my anonymously posted stuff and realised i have literally hundreds of thousands of hits on my work, which is insane to think about, and it feels... very odd. I orphaned them all because the comments got me so anxious I just couldn't deal but also didn't want to turn them off lol

honestly on the one hand this is a new one to me (and that's kind of fun), but on the other hand I actually think I know what you mean. I think "anxious" isn't the right word, exactly (I get less anxious about people reading my fic than I do people following me on Tumblr, the more people follow me here the more I'm sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop), but it is...kinda weird.

people talk about how writing can feel very solitary and one of the joys of fic writing specifically is that it's a very immediate way to feel less alone (usually in the context of talking about the importance of comments). I do think for people who (like me) get up in our heads about "does anyone even care, nobody's commenting" it's valuable sometimes, though, to take a step back and really think about what the hits and kudos numbers mean in themselves. those are people. people who read the thing. it looks like just a number but that number is people.

and on the other hand I understand that being anxiety provoking, because, like. those are people, and there certainly is something very weird about feeling visible. sharing writing can be a very vulnerable thing, and being aware of just how, for lack of a better word, exposed you are for doing so, and the degree to which you're exposed, can be...yeah. weird.

honestly I kind of try to not think about it much, though for me it's more a matter of not wanting to give myself a big head (a thing which I am mortally afraid of). I don't have a solution for making you less anxious because I don't know what your anxiety is, specifically, about. I guess this is all just to say: yeah, it's weird, and I think it makes sense that you'd feel odd about it.

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Redraw of my first drawing in exchange for a donation to Gaza

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Come through with the questions that need answers, Shine!

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Welcome to the far side of the moon.

SHINE | EP 1

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Welcome to the far side of the moon.

—SHINE · Official Trailer · 2 August 2025

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Historical context for Shine the series

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In 1969, Thailand was under a military government led by Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, who was Prime Minister from 1963–1973. He is the successor of another dictator (Marshal Sarit). His regime was authoritarian, with no democratic elections, heavy censorship, royalist, conservative, and suppression of dissent.

His government has a strong alignment with the US, especially in the context of the Cold War+ the Vietnam War. Thailand allowed the US army to use Thai bases, making it a key anti-communist ally in Southeast Asia.

The political background at that time in my opinion, it's quite intense as the country was ruled by Military for decades (Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram 1938-1957, Sarit Thanarat 1959-1963, Thanom 1963-1973) and there's come a worldwide trend and a new waive in country - the scholars, university students and other left wing who're not happy about it. This's led to the big protest in Thai history led by university students called 14 October 1973 Uprising and 6 October 1976 Massacre to exile Marshal Thanom.

Thailand's art and music scenes were at a cultural crossroads — blending tradition with increasing Western influence due to political alliances and the Thai oversea students (like Dr. Trin) who came back home with the western education background.

Nowadays, we still pay homage to the historic events of the 14 October 1973 Uprising and the 6 October 1976 Massacre — especially at Thammasat University, where both took place. (Mile is an alumnus of the university.)* Thammasat served as the cradle of democracy during the 1973 uprising and became the site of brutal repression in 1976 — two defining moments in Thailand’s modern political history.

(*Kyuu separate note: you are an alum of an institution even if you don't graduate. Only Mile graduated but both he and Apo attended where they first met. Apo later transfered to another university where he graduated from.)

The founder of Thammasat University, Dr. Pridi Banomyong, was a professor, activist, politician, and senior statesman. He was one of the key leaders of the 1932 Siamese Revolution, which transformed Thailand from an absolute to a constitutional monarchy. A recipient of a government scholarship, he studied in France, earning a master’s degree from the University of Caen and later a doctorate in law from the University of Paris in 1927.

Another imp historic figure is Dr. Puey Ungphakorn (1916–1999), a highly respected economist and technocrat who played a significant role in supporting democracy and the student movement in modern Thai history. He earned his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Thammasat University (1964 - 1972), later becoming its Rector (1975-1976). Dr. Puey firmly opposed the use of violence against student protesters leading up to the 6 October 1976 Massacre. Following the tragic event, he resigned, was falsely accused of communist sympathies, and spent the rest of his life in exile in the UK. In 2015, UNESCO recognized him for his unwavering ethical leadership and moral integrity.

((I think these two, esp. Dr. Puay might be an inspiration of Dr. Trin character))

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Shine's whole trailer looks amazing, but I'm already so excited by/interested in this one shot of Apo's character, Trin.

The book that he's reading is the 1965 work Toward an Understanding of Homosexuality by Dr. Daniel Cappon.

Dr. Cappon was a professor of psychiatry who worked at the University of Toronto. Here's what the preface of his book says:

There are no homosexuals -- only people with homosexual problems. The idea of a third sex is as antiquated as the last century. No person with a homosexual problem, however extensive or deep, is merely an aberrant creature, a totally pathological specimen. Such a person remains, first and foremost, a person.

However, according to the a site covering the history of Lesbian and Gay liberation in Toronto (LGLC), many of Dr. Cappon's works also include the argument that homosexuality can be cured. For instance,

In 1968, during an address to the Ontario College of Family Physicians he stated that eighty percent of homosexuals who seek professional treatment are helped, and half of these are cured. In 1973, Cappon participated in a debate on homosexuality on CBC radio, where he warned that homosexuals were dangerous because they attracted others to homosexuality. In October 1973, Cappon wrote an article entitled 'The Homosexual Hoax: this aberration is not a right' and generated a great deal of negative response.

I've been reading Sanchai Chotirosseranee and Atit Pongpanit's amazing chapter on the "Thai Film Archive and Early Thai Queer Cinema" in The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas recently, which talks a lot about how the 60s were important time period in terms of queer history in Thailand.

In the 1950s, the Thai press began reporting extensively on cross-dressing kathoeys. Because of these new normalized forms of gender difference between masculine and feminine, there has been a notable rise in the creation of gender and sexual identity categories in the mid-1960s. These new categories...emerged in public discourse and become the basis of new homosexual and transgender identities and cultures’ formations in various Thai cities, particularly Bangkok. Jackson (2003) further points out that in the 1960s, Thai physicians and psychologists began to draw upon Western biomedical discourses to negatively address the issues of cross-dressing and homosexuality as “abnormal” and “deviant” (pg. 530)

In the trailer, Trin is asked by a student why foreign-educated intellectuals rely on Western theories to explain everyday life. Later, he's then shown reading a book that features Western ideas/medical discourses surrounding sexuality- the one by Dr. Cappon.

It's possible that these sections are disconnected, but I'm really excited by the idea that the series is going to grapple with topics related to sexuality, Western influence(s), and politics- perhaps separately, but perhaps maybe all together.

I'm so excited for the show just from the brief shots that have been shown in the trailer- I'm really looking forward to seeing the different ways that they touch on so many different topics!

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If aid does not enter to Gaza Strip within the next 48 hours — especially baby formula and flour — then prepare yourselves for the largest mass death crime in history.

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i just KNOW dan goodman battled against the urge to search obituaries after diana left because he had no way of knowing if she was okay or not and his mind would go to the worst outcome, even with dr madden’s reassurances

he sits not knowing which would be worse. finding her name listed or being left in the dark, again

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🔔 ENGAGED WESPER 🔔

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Spicy Fencing Shenanigans pt2

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