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Merry Christmas, Santa Claus and Jesus Christ are lovers and they fuck nasty

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Klingon doesn't get a vote.

LOWER DECKS

4x09 || 5x10

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The spike in blood pressure is unbelievable because the sheer amount of cognitive dissonance when talking to these people is ABSOLUTELY ABSURD.

"This is all your generation and belows fault." - you created these problems when I was a child and didn't have a say in politics. You made it so that I had no future before I could even vote.

"Nobody should die." - these people made it so that you can barely afford your insulin, bankrupted your family, and killed multiples of your relatives by denying them care. These people don't care about you and have happily let people you love die and ruined your life. Stop sympathizing with the perpetrator.

"Give up, the world won't change." - I'm sorry you're miserable but if you don't believe caring is worth it then you don't have a say at this table, you are actively sabotaging positive change.

"People will just abuse the system therefore it shouldn't exist." - No, your parent was an abusive scum lord, the vast majority of people just need to eat and you're denying the needs of the masses to punish the few.

"Keep it out of my face." - I exist right in front of you, I can't change a fundamental part of my existence.

"I don't believe people should do XYZ with their body, it's better if we make it so they can't." - A person isn't a slave or dog, you have no say in what they do to their body.

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Here's a funny little story about disability accommodation.

So I'm a bit deaf. Like...I have a prescription for a hearing aide but don't own one kind of a bit deaf. And I used to work at this noisy ass addiction treatment clinic. So even in my office I relied a lot on lipreading.

So one day I'm working with this client, and she's getting more and more upset and shut down, no matter how I try to steer us onto a calm, relaxed subject of conversation. And I can't figure out why the conversation has gone so far south.

And then I realize I am sitting at a buckwild angle in my chair, leaning waaaay over to the side. I'm almost falling off this chair. I look like a total goober.

And then I realize I'm doing that because I'm trying to lipread this client, who keeps turning further and further down and away from me. I probably would have noticed sooner but lipreading is actually kind of hard and I was focusing on noticing her upset rather than my body language.

And then it clicks.

She thinks I'm leaning like this because I am being a passive-aggressive asshole who is trying to force/shame her into making eye contact with me. I'd known this client enough to know she hates eye contact- possibly autism, possibly anxiety. Always possible it's both or something else.

I sit up straight and say. "Oh! Hey, I don't give a shit about eye contact, I'm trying to read your lips so I can understand what you're saying to me."

Instant vibe change. She relaxes, and sits upright comfortably in her chair, looking about a foot to the left of my head, so I can see her face clearly but she doesn't have to either fake or evade unwanted eye contact.

From then on things go a lot smoother, and we can get some good work done.

One side benefit from normalizing accommodations and reducing barriers to them is that it allows for low-stress conversations about what everybody needs in order to fully participate in an interaction. If I hadn't named the need I was trying to meet, she wouldn't have realized she could have her need met as well.

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DICK'S CHRISTMAS PHOTOS ARE PHENOMENAL

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I’m very specifically thinking about One Room Thrillers because “girl goes to save boyfriend/fiancé from the fae/supernatural on a long journey” is a piece of well-worn folklore - but very specifically folklore.

Not thrillers.

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Happy honks

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I can’t find it on tumblr and IT CHRISMAS GOD DAMMIT.

MERR CHRISMAS.

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Star Wars was and has always been meant to be hopepunk and good vs evil at its base, not grimdark and 'morally grey' and 'subversive', and this is a hill i will die on

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animation being treated like a genre instead of a medium is something that actually makes me go insane. beauty and the beast is a romance. the emperor's new groove is a buddy comedy. big hero 6 is a superhero movie. moana is an adventure film. the lion king is a drama. treasure planet is sci-fi. if i was talking to someone who hadn't seen these movies before, and they weren't specifically interested in animation as a medium, then i wouldn't necessarily assume they'd enjoy all of these. and that's just disney movies! try telling an anime fan that fruits basket and fullmetal alchemist are the same genre and see how they react!

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...fucking hell.

I've watched The Muppets Christmas Carol a half-dozen times, I only just got the joke behind the new Marley's name.

Jacob is Marley's name in the original, but because the character is played by Statler and Waldorf, they need a second name for the other one, and they went with Robert.

Robert Marley sounds like a perfect ordinary Victorian name.

Shorten it to Bob, however, and it takes on a musical connotation.

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the thing is that whenever someone says "pluto IS a planet" you don't know if they're actually a space fan who is prepared to love and cherish all the other bodies that would become planets if pluto was promoted again or the dumbest motherfucker on earth who thinks science should have stopped when they left 3rd grade

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Me and Mutuals discussing lore with each other

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