#america do better

[pid-widgin]

i have learned more about safe, consensual sex from fan fiction than i ever did in sex education in school, and that's really concerning.

[heyninja]

Ah, 'Murica my beloved. Where I am beginning to be sick, but I cannot stay home because I do not have enough sick time to pay my bills if I jump the gun.

How am I supposed to be able to think of protecting others when I can't even comfortably make the decision to protect myself from a short paycheck that won't cover my bills?

This is why people go to work sick here all the time. We don't want to hurt anybody, but we want to be able to eat and not end up homeless and on top of that most systems punish us for taking the actual amount of days it would require to not longer transmit illness.

-- To be clear this isn't about my CURRENT job. It's fine (other than yeah I'm juggling my PTO because 2022 kicked me in the nuts a lot). I love my job, they're understanding and chill. But it got my thinking about my last few jobs before that and uh.

I did indeed have thoughts about my prior few jobs indeed.

[tippenfunkaport]

You know, it would be amazing if Hollywood learned the right lesson from the success of Nimona. Something like "Hey, maybe don't throw out a nearly done movie as a tax write off" or "people want queer stories" or even "don't be afraid to take some storytelling risks and be original" but you just know they're going to come away with some absolutely batshit takeaway like, "next time delete all the evidence and burn it to the ground so the gays can't make us look bad!"

[bruciemilf]

One of my biggest pet peeves is the justice league being labelled as " The Avengers of DC" and its like. No? The avengers are law enforcement. The Justice League are volunteers

[lemonerix]

red and blue yaoi is real??!?!! 🤯

[dayurno]

this is somewhat of a vent post & something i said i would not do again but has been plaguing me enough that i think getting it out might feel better. so. has anydoggy else been. Baffled and upset by nora sakavic’s refusal to speak on how terribly aftg has treated its characters of color? with the author of the series coming back with a new book and starting up on her online activity again, and questions of what she’d change about aftg bubbling up, it’s particularly glaring to me that we are all playing this very long game of pretend where we ignore how badly the non-white cast has been treated & her lack of thoughts on it

and i understand not wanting to bring up nicky and thea because people pick on her for it. i’m not trying to discredit nora sakavic’s terrible history of getting harrassed online by aftg fans. but i think it is very cynical, and it is very juvenile, and most of all very cruel, that she gets to ignore the very real ways the books have set up these characters to be hated. i think it’s obvious why the characters who get the most hate are the only canonical characters of color, and i think we do not get to treat this like a deliberate decision on the fandom’s part when the books have put these same characters in degrading and embarrassing and terrible positions in the first place. aftg is not a story about nice characters with clean pasts, but there is a very specific nastiness to the only characters of color being a brown man who sexually harasses and later assaults the main character, a black woman whose only scene is her lashing out at her love interest after being ignored for the first two books, and the japanese villain who gets maybe two lines of complexity before he goes back to being a terrible person. the white cast, in comparison, while not at all free from flaws, are never shown to commit mindless evil; all of their actions are ultimately justified. the book goes out of its way to give them concession after concession. we know exactly who to side with, because aftg tells us who these people are. does nicky’s assault ever get addressed in the books? does riko’s reasoning to be the way that he is ever gets more than briefly aluded to? is thea reserved even a shred of humanity or grace in her one scene?

anyway. it’s been years of talking about this and the fandom has been constantly hostile to criticism in this regard, and more recently any criticism at all, and it’s Grating to be on the other side of this discussion. it’s exhausting to know that in ten years we do not get even an acknowledgment besides the author saying she will not answer questions about nicky and thea anymore. it’s upsetting and it’s ugly and i wish no one had to talk about this again, but we do because what i thought was common sense has been washed away by a sudden influx of no-nuance adoration for the trilogy. basically i hope we all explode

[poisonivydo1l]

[corpusmoth]

little doodle comic about superstitions

[corvidcaeneus]

surprising no one, Ukrainian Liberal tries to promote American Interventionism and cites fucking Venezuela as being in the same category as Palestine

[uncanny-tranny]

Big reminder that your country is not immune to bigotry. I've seen so many people, for example, pretend like antisemitism doesn't exist in the USA because we were part of the allied forces in WWII (of course, they conveniently don't remember that we rejected jewish refugees when WWII broke out and we only really joined because Pearl Harbor was bombed, but I digress).

If you think your country is immune from antisemitism, racism (including anti-Indigenous racism), class issues, ableism, whatever else it may be, look deeper because you will find it.

[ivysos2001]

You still can’t convince me that the whole ‘Steve abandons everyone in the present to go back to Peggy’ thing was a well thought out/well developed ending for his character that made any sense for his post-catfa character arc (let alone all the time travel stuff) bc wdym none of the people who made the movie can figure out the logistics of it??

[cogito-ergo-amo]

Donald Trump found out exactly what happens within hours of posting shit like this online

[innerslumber]

Captain America - Corgi Edition!

[pinkpunkdotpng]

HOW DO YOU TRY TO SHOOT SOMEONE WHO IS BRIGHT ORANGE AND MISS

[the-muse-of-not-writing]

[dancingdorito]

i don't know if i'll ever get over the clones in star wars.

the fact that they were bred and born to fight and they weren't given options or free will. they were programmed to believe they were fighting for the right cause and they were never given a choice of how they wanted to fight or if they even wanted to. palpatine saw them as less than human, and treated them like pawns, because their lives ended up basically meaningless. they were given numbers and orders and told to follow what they were told. and yet they still ended up being so innately good and human. despite the numbers they were given they became each others family, they gave each other endearing nicknames and treated each other as individuals. palpatine treated them as a collective whereas the jedi almost always treated them as individuals, calling them by their names and valuing their lives over their own. clones were so compassionate and loving, they can always convince themselves to fight for the right thing, even if they didn't know they didn't have a choice. they always believed they would find a way and they never gave up. they never prioritized their lives over anyone else.

AND EVEN THOUGH they were created to fight for a specific cause, as soon as they were given the order to kill the jedi, they completely lost their free will. they killed the very few people who treated them like human beings, being manipulated into thinking that they were evil. and after following order 66, they weren't cared for, they were abandoned. they were left homeless and ignored by the government that they were created to fight for, having no other purpose to them. so they were left alone, and they aged rapidly and died as fast as they were born, the empire forgot about them and washed their hands of them. the galaxy only remembered their existence because of the war, and that's it. their home planet was destroyed, they were torn away from duties they swore their life to, to be replaced by people who actually got to volunteer and choose their fight.

sigh