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Ok but what if I compared Genesis and Love and Monsters and talked about catharsis after the end of the world

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Do yourself a favor and take mixed signals as a no

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FYI, the 2025 Doxacon call for papers is out and this year's theme is Catharsis

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For me this isn't even about empathy or sympathy (though there's value in those as well), it is just straight-up a human rights thing. Once you have decided that there is *any* category of human that can be treated as less-than-human you've said that humanity is conditional, and so are the rights that come with it. You've already lost, you've granted the fascists their point because *you agree with them* that some people don't deserve to be treated like humans.

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A NEW AVATAR SERIES, YOU SAY

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!!!!

do the tumblr people who are into sea shanties and that show that's about the Northwest Passage know there's a song about whalers being frozen in Frobisher Bay (it's not a sea shanty, incidentally) because there is and the intermediate choir sang it one year when I was in high school (I have the recording on my old computer)

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it's called duckweed. one hit and you'll be lining up behind mom

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My default assumption whenever I see people pitching fits about how characters or ships or the color of the wallpaper or whatever else they don't like must be evil, is that they are a teenager.

They are a teenager who has never used anything other than an algorithmic feed on a social media app to find fannish content, they don't even know where the settings page is, and they're having a real bad time. They have to get up early in the morning, school is awful, all their clique-y peers have been mean to them about their weight, their teachers are impatient, they just got seven hours of homework and their last class was gym. And they are eternally frightened that they're secretly a bad person and their only current recourse against this is to be like, at least I know that pineapple on pizza is a sin.

Approaching things from this angle has never steered me wrong. Even when the person in question is not literally a teenager, they're still pretty much letting their inner kid drive the bus right now.

"A four year age gap is abusive!" okay champ. Screen time's up. Let's get you a protein shake and a nap.

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thought gained: other people can experience empathy too

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Had to ban the phrase “tricky dick” from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they’re just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they’re all medieval peasants. gonna lose it

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ibuprofen...... ubuprofen...... 🤝 webuprofen 💞💞

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this callout couldve been a block button

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stop playing it cool, just be passionate and intense and insane and whoever sticks around is meant for you

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I love ravelry.

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