#The Conservancy presents

[bonebabbles]

RiverClan Refugees

Gorseclaw and Lizardtail want to join ThunderClan because they watched Harelight, their only other family, get publicly executed in front of them

They are trying their hardest to be useful and polite while being refugees in ThunderClan, and get mistreated for the effort-- having their food preferences mocked, getting told they're taking up space, hearing a steady stream of slurs, etc

After one more mass shaming session where Squirrelstar asserts they won't be accepting new cats, Sunbeam and Fernstripe join in on condescending them, and we get this;

"It would have felt bad turning them away, but if they chose to go home (AFTER BEING BULLIED FOR SEVERAL CHAPTERS) then there was no need to feel guilty"

This does not come across as these two earnestly missing home and choosing to go back; it comes across like they're accepting the fact that they are unwanted and getting out of dodge before it gets worse.

Honestly, I'm at the point where I can't call this a lack of self awareness. The difference between ThunderClan's treatment of Gorse and Lizard vs RiverClan's treatment of Wasp is obvious to me. The narrative is straightforwardly pro-xenophobic as long as it isn't overtly violent.

Social bigotry is fine. Good, even, to separate the "desirable" immigrants from the "undesirable" ones. What defines those categories? A good one will assimilate fully and leave their culture behind; a bad one only wants safety and a better life for their family.

Terrifying, imo, considering how the irl overton window has shifted on migration at the time of writing this in 2025. Does the spectre of the times loom over these words as I speak them? I hope not.

[horrorshow]

i love when people point out the 'family is hell' theme in spn and then go like 'do not romanticise this!!! this post is not for you' as if spn itself didn’t end up with the family is hell brothers being soulmates happily meeting up in heaven after 15 seasons of dark romance tropes thrown upon them.

no one romanticizes 'family is hell' more than supernatural itself.

[lilac-set]

Reminder: even if trump wins, we’ll be ok. The presidency isnt the only political position that matters, he wont be a dictator, the president doesnt have the power to remove every other part of government that keeps the president’s power in check. Also politics isnt the only thing that matters. Even if we lose some rights (which he cant singlehandedly do) we still have community, we still have activism, we’ll always be ok. We survived one trump presidency, we can survive another. We survived before gay marriage or transitioning were legal, if we have to survive that again we will. Please, no matter what happens, promise to stay alive. Youre valuable, youre important, and youre going to be ok. Its better to be overprepared than underprepared. Im not asking you to lose hope (im doing the opposite of that), im asking you to practice coping ahead, get all your coping skills ready, determine now to stay alive, because i dont want any of you to make any rash decisions later in case we get bad news and emotions are high. Make a safety plan if you need to. Make sure you’re gonna be ok

[alistair-blackwood]

kabru's relationship with his eyes makes for suuuuuch a fantastic trans allegory (an aspect of your body alienating you from your community, being compelled to understand the perspective of someone who also has a complicated relationship with their body in the hopes that you'll better understand your own, people straight up misunderstanding biology) it makes me kind of insane because now I feel like I can't dig into any complicated feelings he might have about his body in relation to his gender without feeling like im just ... double dipping?? like fifjpejgh ryoko kui straight up already told that story in a way that exquisitely fucks??

[sherlockholmeshound]

whenever ppl try to come up with some version of 'romance and love isn't forbidden by the jedi, on this one novel-'

i'm just...

[ask-thearchivists]

Coordinator, how did you feel about having to raise your siblings?

The Coordinator: Your question is uncomfortably direct...

The Conservator: Ah, right, that was father's proposed condition for you all not to be separated. If it makes you feel better, you are not alone in this experience. Though for me it was different.

The Coordinator: What do you mean?

The Conservator: This is the thing I had avoided speaking of earlier...I suppose it is time to tell you. I was raised amongst our extended family in our grandparent's Archive. They allowed for the gaps that exist in father's parenting style to be smoothed over. Now that we all live in our own galaxy, the Cataloger and Cartologist have no one there to fill in the holes. Father is...busy. His only job is our Coordinator and Caretaker, but this still leaves him with very little time on his hands for additional care.

The Conservator: I have taken it upon myself to care for my younger siblings in the ways that father does n- cannot. It...is difficult. I always knew I would eventually have more younger siblings, and I did look forward to it, but this is not what I had in mind. I was happy that the Copyist decided to also help with these tasks after the Cartologist was born, because I had been overwhelmed by the thought of needing to help both of my younger siblings.

The Coordinator: Yes, I understand how you feel. Though your father's inattention...I do not think you should make excuses for him. It was very difficult, and I was so very often overwhelmed. I feel sometimes, like I did not do good enough, and that I was unable to do everything they needed me to do.

The other three Archivists all look surprised, the twins share a look that appears almost afraid.

[nachosforfree]

I hate it here

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

6.8: Fighting the Far Right's Attack on Public Education with Dr Sam Myovitch

Across the USA, the far right candidates have been getting themselves elected to local and county school boards. Their goals include financially choking public schools by diverting government funds toward charter schools, often religious in orientation. Tune in to hear what Dr Sam Myovich, retired history teacher turned school board candidate campaign field coordinator, has to say about what’s at stake, the far right’s deployment of fascist tactics in their fight to destroy public education, and what we ordinary citizens can do to fight back against them, save our schools, and protect our very democracy itself.

[lil-gingerbread-queen]

I don't know which one is funnier: the French bigots or the USAmerican Christians crying about the opening ceremony of the Olympic.

The French bigots, it's nice, we love seeing them suffer. Yeah, this is France, the country of revolutions, what do you want us to not fight against oppression for the human rights? Boohoo, queer people, boohoo, disabled folks, boohoo, overseas departments people, boohoo, a black singer singing french slang, boohoo, female revolutionaries, boohoo... In this hot season, we drink the tears of the bigots.

But the USAmerican Christians... It's gold. I always wanted to make these prudes interact with the French culture to see their brain implodes, and it happened. "This is not family friendly, there's gay people and a trouple" Nope, that's totally seen as family friendly in France, lol. Also, the "they insulted christianity!", when we have the right to blaspheme in France, and we have a history with catholicism and christianity. If we want to criticize or insult christianity, you will not stop us. In the name of catholicism, the Seine had been filed with bodies in the past. So, shut the fuck up.

The director is a French leftist, so he represented his France, the one he wants, not the one the gov wants, btw. This is not France today, but it could be France tomorrow, and we will fight for this. Fuck the French government. Good job for that guy, he used art to give a message, as intended.

[gammaraydeath]

not even joking i should get an extension on this upcoming project for bereavement :( due on monday afternoon and i haven't even started

[lorelune]

i’ve come across two of my peers from high school at the bars over the last month and the convos have made me :’’’’^)

[lafcadiosadventures]

Two more things from La vida es sueño that blew my mind:

Rosaura offering her love to Segismundo both as a woman and as a man at the end of the play, in the form of a long monologue where she explains the different ways she will be able to love him in as a man and as a woman

The fact that this dual gendered nature doesn’t need to be corrected/explained/rectified, there’s no final unmasking, no final return to exclusive female presentation for her: her final presentation (at least up to what we can see in the play) is bi-gendered

[shrews-studies]

I might be getting a job!!! :D

[masochismustango]

Is that “former KGB spy” in the same room as you are? 🤡

[songmingisthighs]

ateez : work

ateez's outfits : hobo

[gumy-shark]

just realized my situation in college is so funny rn. heres why in a greentext format

>be gumy's parents >you are Good Christian Parents who want your daughter to Walk In The Ways Of The Lord >when she wanted to go to a secular college you were Very Worried that your Impressionable Daughter would get Radicalized By The Godless Atheist College People (this one is actually somewhat justified- i AM very impressionable and got radicalized in junior high in a way that was very very hard on my mental health and my relationships with my family) > be relieved when she chooses to go to a Good Christian College instead (it was my own free choice and i had my reasons). > surely, with her environmental science classes being taught from a God-Fearing Perspective, and with no Godless Atheist College People there, she won't get radicalized! > she gets radicalized anyways