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just found this picture from an assignment i did last year

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take everything I say with a hint of garlic, ginger, spring onions and a dash of soy sauce

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in the same way, what ends up being called "a disability" is not politically neutral. you can't really talk about what is or isn't a disability without acknowledging the ableist history that created the disability category. something being considered a disability is only meaningful in relation to what a society expects a person to be able to do, and there is a complex web of social and political pressures that reinforce this

governments will always have stricter definitions of what counts as disabling because governments are responsible for allocating resources to vulnerable populations. the greatest pressure on them is to tighten and tighten the category until disability is defined out of existence. this is also true of institutions such as universities, if they are legally required to provide services to their disabled students

normalising social pressures, however, kind of work in the opposite direction. their goal is to restrict the definition of 'normality', and to punish those who do not conform to this. because 'normal' is an aspirational identity rather than anything that is actually functionally achievable, these pressures only work if 'normal' is incredibly restrictive

this doesn't mean that there is some magical social pressure out there that tells everyone to identify as 'disabled'. there is actually a lot at play to prevent people from giving up on the strive to be normal. what it does mean is that there is a large category of people who would likely identify as 'not abled' in some capacity without actually defining themselves as 'disabled'. because. again. there are ableist histories that mark out 'disability' as a dirty word and as an identity that is best avoided

anyway what I mean to say is. disability isn't an objective category and it never will be. it's all a series of complicated and interrelated political pressures, just like with any other human category under the sun

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early days

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I’m so happy when I’m on T. I feel so good physically when I’m on T. but when you tell that to people who are “just worried about your health and well-being”, somehow the conversation slips sideways into some other angle they think they can attack from. “but we don’t know what these hormones will do to you”, yes we do, it’s been exhaustively studied. “but people won’t accept you,” yes they will, it’s only you doesn’t accept me. “but x, but y, but z, but, but, but….”

it’s so boring and transparent. and I’m done with entertaining it.

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god dammit, just battled an ancient evil too powerful to defeat alongside my heroic allies and now they're all talking about "locking it away" and "binding it in a vessel" we are soooooo fucked

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when you download a pdf and it's called like 1328723486basdf12.pdf but then you gently rename it to what it's supposed to be. that's forming a bond with a hurt and wild mythological creature and reminding it who it is.

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cherry blossom

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I appreciate the sentiment behind posts like "if you can learn how to pronounce [european surname] you can learn how to pronounce [non-european surname]" but it does unfortunately rely on the base assumption that your average english speaker actually does make an effort to pronounce european surnames correctly

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i know the whole Thing about faulkner is he’s a tragic character and a terrible person but if he were to get some semblance of a “happy” ending in another universe what would that look like? is there any version of him that could overcome his need to Be Someone enough to actually allow himself to be happy or would he inevitably always fall back into the same cycles? i’m just constantly thinking about how close he came to Getting it every season before throwing himself head first back into destruction

Eh, I mean, who are we to judge him?

In terms of whether a happy ending is possible for him, I think we all possess infinite potential to eventually, finally, agonisingly get over our own bullshit and stumble onwards into a better version of ourselves, and Faulkner in my mind is not exempt from that.

I do think that because our narrative is preoccupied with the addictive pull of stories and self-mythologisation and our inability to break free of them, that isn't something we'd have been able to convey on our show's timescale with the choices available to him, and Faulkner's path to a happy ending would have been an extremely long road to recovery with multiple relapses (and he'd have needed someone with infinite patience to stay beside him and pick him back up with every fall while also remaining unmurdered).

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sometimes it feels like some of you just see trans women as "women with dicks" and tend to forget that bottom surgery is a thing and that trans womens pussies are also very beautiful and cool.

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I think that one of the most common and most harmful tendencies which a lot of people fall into when thinking about politics is outgroup homogeneity, the idea that there's a much wider diversity of opinions among those close to our beliefs than there is among those far from our beliefs.

This is most commonly exemplified by the foolishness of "horseshoe theory," which places Centrist Liberal Democracy in the middle of all political thought and then argues that the various ideas diverging from this viewpoint are all basically the same. But virtually every ideological tendency has their own versions of this. Large portions of the right think that there's practically no difference between Hillary Clinton and Karl Marx. Meanwhile, on the left, there's often very little effort made to distinguish center-right liberal democrats, conservatives, libertarians, and reactionaries from one another.

But fascism is not communism, social liberalism is not Marxism, and conservatism is not white nationalism. These are all different ideas with different ways of viewing the world, offering different solutions for different problems. Being able to distinguish between them is very important for understanding the world! The conflicts, tensions, and overlaps between seemingly-allied ideological factions have huge implications!

I've always found a lot of value in the idea of an ideological Turing test: can you describe a given political ideology's viewpoint on an issue in such a way that a neutral observer would have trouble telling the difference between your description and one offered by an actual believer in that ideology? If not, you might not understand that ideology as well as you think

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Zelkov for @for3stsage for @feshippingpolls secret santa!!

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Alcryst, Celine, and Fogado for the Fire Emblem @/EngageArcana zine! They were the ten of pentacles!

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Velvet! 🖤❤️‍ Undeniably the coolest Tales protag