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file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

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Men on the left wringing their hands about how we need to be nicer to the poor left-behind Trump voting men and stop telling them they're the bad guys, meanwhile my friend who teaches high school had to give detention to a bunch of boys chanting "her body, our choice!" during lunch and their parents have already complained to her boss.

We are fucking cooked, y'all

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The Silt Verses, and names.

(In order, screenshots from TSV1, TSV2, TSV5, TSV15, "Batonebo" by Odetta Hartman, TSV14, TSV6, TSV24, "Lover Lover Lover" by Leonard Cohen, TSV24, TSV8, TSV32, TSV37, The S1 Q&A, TSV38, The S1 Q&A, TSV38, TSV24, TSV31, TSV23, TSV23, TSV23, TSV32, TSV1, TSV28, TSV32, TSV32, "Give Her A Name" by Trevor Menear, TSV32)

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oranges & cranberries

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oh okay. a lot of yall dont think trans women are women fr. a lot of yall think the phrase "trans women are women" is a kindness & an ideal and not a bog standard truth about their reality. a lot of yall fr think trans women are just mentally ill cis men until they transition! a lot of yall see no difference between hatred trans women and hatred of cis men!! a lot of yall fr think transmisogyny is a misandry spinoff!!! oh okay!!! a lot of yall dont think trans women are women fr!!!

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if i’m going to be honest i’ve seen a bunch of people praise tazmuir’s worldbuilding at it’s like, really? lol. i just don’t see it.

the magic system is nice and dandy but, like how you’ve discussed, gender, race, and even imperialism are all topics that she clearly intends to explore but never reallllyyyy does properly. i mean you think about gender or race in tlt for more than 3 seconds and it all just kind of falls apart, which, frankly, i think is unintentional and the result of tazmuir s unconscious bias about these things… not much to be done about that

plus, with the imperialism, why are we never given details?? when i reread gtn and saw her mention chocolate on the first page i immediately thought “where is cacao grown? on planet colonies? who farms and processes it? where are the factories?” and i think at this point that tazmuir simply did not think about it that hard, which doesn’t bode well considering it’s on the literal first page of the series. maybe i missed something and i’m completely wrong if so i have embarrassed myself but my thoughts on race and gender still stand

at the end of the day she’s a white woman lol. not saying that her identity makes her incapable of handling these topics but she’s proven to not be very good at it unfortunately. she obviously WANTS to say something good but she never quite gets there…

i am of the opinion that her strict adherence to the framing device of incredibly limited povs from characters who have a fundamental lack of interest in the world around them creates a genuinely unique and compelling camera for how information is seen and processed by the audience, but it is fundamentally dependant on you never questioning what she does not deem important in the slightest. there is always The Implication but this implication cannot have actual consequences, or even a real answer. "what does it mean to be maori in a society where racial divides have, on paper, been eradicated, the only language spoken is english, and all indications of a wider cultural identity are firmly rooted in western imperialism, no history to draw upon because the ruling party has gone through every possible length to ensure no one else can acess it within his domain" well. the books dont know. gideon and harrow are just Brown and occasionally use kiwi slang

i an also of the opinion that while, by definition, the locked tomb meets the requirements for a science fiction story, it is FAR more invested in functioning as a fantasy, or even a straight up fairy tale, re the magic system, the culture, and how everything functions logistically. wood and paper are these priceless commodities but where are they Getting them, where is it being processed, especially in a system wherein most planets under johns immediate control are systematically killed within two generations. john where do you have trees. are their ancient paper crafters is it like an artisean skill. john. i probably will never have an answer so it goes in the Magic category: they just do. howd they master FTL travel. Magic. how are they dealing with the adverse conditions of living in space. Magic. how is the second withstanding the direct heat of the fucking sun right next to them. Magic. whats the average day to day for a House citizen who isnt a necromantic scholar, a cavalier, a nun or a soldier. where do they live. hows wealth distributed, we understand how and why the ninth is so poor but does the fifth have like. blue collar workers. who's making johns biscuits

the answer is nobody cares bc it isnt relevant to whats going on in the greater discussion about what love does to people. this isnt 1984 its narnia

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true queer pain

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LINKTOBER 2024: MIRROR biro & white gel on brown paper

WELL finally getting a chance to post !!

i loved this years' prompts and was all set to do them, but life stuff happened so i only managed to get this one finished LOL i'll finish the ones i started sketching sometime i hope

1) there were a loooot of parallels in the story of this game 2) Rauru and Sonia are adorable i want more of them and their interactions with Zelda were so sweet 3) ANY time i can adventure with my cool smart gf is a great time 💙 so give me more of that Nintendo i'll sell a kidney 💙💙💙

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hate when an f/f ship does nothing for me. feels like treachery on my part

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normal is when the girl with a penis is in your porn. woke is when the girl with a penis is in your coffee shop.

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"save me, substance abuse!" i cry. before you can moralize to me about the dangers of addiction, a noble and powerful steed gallops into the room - my horse whom i have named "substance abuse". you learn an important lesson about making assumptions. i snort a line off its back

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y’know for me it straight up doesn’t even occur to me to unfollow someone when they stop posting whatever it is i followed them for. unless the thing they’re posting about now is somehow actually actively upsetting to me i just accept it as a part of my life now. i’ll just scroll past it like i’m driving a car and dodging an obstacle on the road. and that part of the road is my daily commute and the thing stays on the road forever and i swerve around it every day for months instead of ever taking the initiative to get it removed. it just adds flavor i guess

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Nintendo wants to be Disney so bad

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“I am undone without you”

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