#and dehumanizing outsiders

[steviewashere]

cw: food and fatphobia

Just saw the words: "am I promoting a big-back lifestyle?" in a fucking recipe video.

BIG BACK?! JUST SAY FAT YOU PIECE OF SHIT! AND....WHAT?!!! PROMOTING A "BIG-BACK" LIFESTYLE???? YOU MEAN PROMOTING A LIFESTYLE WHERE PEOPLE ENJOY LITTLE TREATS EVERY NOW AND THEN????

YOU'RE MAKING BROWNIES! YOUR STUPID INFLUENCER CAREER IS BASED AROUND MAKING FOOD AND SHARING RECIPES! SO SHUT UP!!!

IT'S NOT A BAD THING TO BE FAT! OR TO HAVE A BROWNIE EVERY NOW AND THEN! OH MY GOD! IF YOU DON'T INDULGE, THEN WHAT ARE YOU LIVING FOR?! IF YOU DON'T ALLOW YOURSELF SOME MINOR SIMPLE PLEASURES, ARE YOU EVEN ENJOYING YOURSELF?!

JUST MAKE A DAMN BROWNIE, ENJOY THE BITES YOU TAKE OF IT, AND MOVE ON WITH YOUR DAY!

YOU DON'T HAVE TO FAT SHAME PEOPLE FOR WANTING TO EAT A BROWNIE! AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO REFER TO FAT PEOPLE AS BIG-BACKED.

I'M SO FUCKING SICK AND TIRED OF FAT SHAMING COMING BACK AS THIS COMMON THING. FAT PEOPLE WERE ALLOWED TO BE ONLINE FOR LIKE TWO YEARS AND THEN EVERYBODY GOT TIRED OF IT. I'M SO SICK OF IT.

CHRIST.

[redrobin-detective]

Rewatching the Umbrella Academy has me thinking once more about Five being just Five. All the others have normal civilian names, chosen by Grace supposedly, except for him. That leaves two slightly hilarious options.

Five was asked about a name prior to hopping forward in time and was like 'nah I like being a number' and blinked away or the more plausible option that

The names were chosen after Five left

Which leads me to this idea that each of the Umbrellas had given thought over the years to a name for their lost, wayward brother.

Luthor: Guy. Am I the only one seeing Luthor crying because Five had been the Boy within their team and then never got to grow up but if he did he'd be a Guy. It feels like him to equate Five's alias to his name.

Diego: Diego would come up with nerdy, annoying names for a nerdy, annoying brother. He'd think to himself that Albert would fit him and Diego would call him Albrat when he was being a prick. If he were still around that is.

Allison: Allison would be flipping through the baby book when pregnant with Claire looking for names with meanings like Lost or Traveler or Beloved Son coming up with names like Wendell or Calian.

Klaus: Klaus would absolutely refuse to mentally settle on a name. He's gone through a million of them from Mario to Klaus Jr to Off Brand Peanut Butter Cup to Jeff. It's easier to play around with different names than to think about how Five isn't around to choose.

Ben: He seems like the kind of dude who never really formed any other names for Five. Like Five is Five? He listened to Klaus's ideas from silly to serious and Ben was never able to take them seriously.

Viktor: He'd given it some thought during childhood but never really thought about it seriously until Five returned. Though unmentioned, some of the ideas that Viktor had tosses around - before and after Five's return - were some suggestions Five would have approved of.

[basofy]

i think you can be as critical about the venezuelan opposition and maría corina and edmundo as you want but arent venezuelans allowed to choose for themselves even if the options arent perfect? are you willing to justify electoral fraud and police brutality, class inequality, bad management of resources, lack of maintenance of the country, breach of the law, lack of investment in health services and education etc etc just because the person doing it is someone you like or because you don't like the other option? are people at fault for wanting something different?

[butterfly-ribbon]

it's nice to see the project sekai fandom on twitter come together to advocate for she/her mizuki before mizu5 comes to ensekai but i will never stop being bitter about the fact that the fandom used to be so loud about they/them and harassed the localization into using that and anyone else who dared to criticize that

[eternitycongregation]

YOU. YOU'RE THE TRANSFEM INTERSEX RATIO PERSON. I LOVE YOU.

:o!! It's me indeed, hello!!!

I'm glad you like the headcanon, she's everything to me tbh. You can safely assume any time I talk about Ratio that this conception of her is in my mind.

ramblings under the cut (CW: vague mentions of intersexism and transmisogyny)

About her being intersex, I usually have two sets of headcanons: one where she has nCAH and the other hyperandrogenic PCOS. Part of why I have this headcanon is projection ofc; but it's also because I like the idea of Ratio in her goal to cure the disease of ignorance, she desires to destroy the false concept of the sex binary. It makes the goal very personal to her, being affected by intersexism, in addition to the altruism.

I think Ratio struggled a lot in her transition journey, because she felt like she had to give up a lot of the things she liked about her body and herself and had to conform to beauty standards she didn't like in her attempts to achieve the Ideal Woman status. I think she used to do extensive voice training, wear full beat makeup, and tried to avoid putting on muscle to give the thin and dainty vibe. Even though she likes her deep voice, a full face is a sensory nightmare for her, and trying to keep her body mass down was unhealthy for her...that's what she thought she needed to do. Her oddly British accent (odd for a character Greek and Roman inspired) is from imitating women she thought of as elegant and refined. She used to wear pumps in her classroom and offices even though she hated how they hurt her feet, because that's what other women wear to work.

And I imagine the Ratio we have in the present is one who is secure in her gender identity that she does not feel the need to overperform femininity. She knows that she does need to be accepted by others to know her own worth. Her body is toned and built, she speaks with a deep voice, wears clothes that are comfortable for her (cutouts for ventilation and a nice pair of sandals), puts on red eyeliner and calls it a look. And you can tell she loves it because of all those statues lmao.

[clanborn]

my alaska clans don’t really have any notable naming conventions because cats interchange clans a lot (and i named everyone before i really thought about naming conventions lol) except that nicknames are sorta built into their society. since cats tend to have long names friends/family and clanmates tend to use nicknames more often in casual and familiar settings. nicknames can be just a cat’s prefix (loon as nickname for loonshadow) but can also be shortened or simplified further to a single syllable of the name (gray for graylingblaze or hem for hemlocklight). they can also end up as an abstraction of certain sounds in the name that warps into new sounds (rizi for horizonshine, pronounced “ree-zee”, etc). all cats end up with a nickname eventually, sometimes multiple, it’s kind of like a first name/surname situation in which the full prefix-suffix name acts as a more professional surname.

[tyrianluda]

Found the og.

And the reblogs...

these ppl want make a d&d campaign with them SO badly and im terrified

[freakinator]

https://www.tumblr.com/freakinator/769411964319498240/its-been-a-few-hours-since-i-watched-a-stream?source=share

tbh male ccs do that all the time and no one calls it ableism. People also make fun of others when someone can’t do math or can’t read a word, wouldn’t that be ableism too like when u call someone dumb for not knowing a math equation, would that not be harming those with dyscalculia? I get how u can see her character as ableist , but tbh her lines just sound like something gothel said, it’s just like manipulation, it doesn’t seem ableist to me. Whenever ive seen a male cc play a manipulative character, they also tend to mess with someone’s emotions and tell someone that they don’t have normal ones and I’ve never seen that being referred to as ableism, it’s a manipulative tactic.

we literally do point out male ccs ableism 😭???? are you new here or what and yes making fun of ppl being unable to read or do math is ableist and so is treating someone like a child when theyre a grownass adult, and yes that means mother gothel is ableist and so are the lsers tf why do you think i and many others keep saying all the lsers are ableist. messing with someones emotions is normal manipulation, telling someone they dont express emotions like a normal person, especially when theyve directly stated how they feel, is ableist

the reason ppl keep complaining about kabs ableism is cause of the amount she does so esp recently and the fact that her specific type of ableism is something a lot of us are familiar with and the reason i singled kab out in that ask is cause the asker asked about kab specifically why tf would i talk about anybody else

how bout you go read up on the treatment of neurodivergent individuals and the fact so many of them are treated like theyre incapable of making their own decisions by ppl who care about them cause they keep being infantilized and therefore are stripped of their autonomy cause clearly you dont fucking get it in the slightest

[techno-rat]

techno and his relationship to dehumanization is SOOO important to me .

[zemoiii]

Iraqi women and men are protesting against the new bill.

And this is what happens to your country after getting invaded by the US based on a lie, making you borders vulnerable and open to a theocratic government, Iran, who wants to control you politically by installing a puppet governmen and try to force Iraqis into accepting whatever new islamist bill, that a riot flourished in October 2019 and lasted for two years until it surrendered to violent attacks by Iranian militias that left hunders dead.

The context of that bill: legalising child pride, the child custody goes to the divorced father instead of the divorced mother (even if he's abusive) and prohibiting divorced mothers from custody money unless she obeys her divorced husband's sexual advances.

The major problem with this bill is that the Quran have encouraged any of those stuff, never at all. The ones who want to legalise those laws are some Shia Sheiks (most definitely belongs to an Iranian militias). The vast majority of Iraqis (Shias, sunnis, Christians etc..) doesn't accept this law at all. But of course, like any outlandish religious bill, there are the conservatives who whole heartedly defend this.

And of course, some western media outlets will rather twist the truth and keep calling Arabs and Muslims as terrorists and extremists as the usual, despite most MENA countries have negative views towards the Sharia Law.

If you had done reading this, please reblog. Not only local outrage have effectively post-poned this bill and (hopefully) will get it rejected, but an international outrage will definitely help us. But please.. for fucks sake don't ever say "Iranians" instead of "Iran" as they themselves have rioted against their theocratic government back in 2022 but were met by the same fate of October 2019 riot in Iraq.

[ujunxverse]

i got back from seeing ateez yesterday and i think my pre frontal cortex is developing as we speak cos tell me why i felt so disgusted abt writing yn fics like these men are real people rpf suddenly became so weird to me…..

[snekdood]

wish i could slap the apathy out of trans channers

[moonshynecybin]

why can’t anyone be normal about appalachia i’m gonna explode

[cactusdying]

okay normally i don't post writing shit but i really like how this short. story? i don't know what to call it turned so my tumblr can enjoy it.

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Death. It's a silly thing, isn't it?

Your mind springs up into consciousness. A greeting of none other than a familiar headache. A reminder of a brain that you do not possess.

Almost all dictionaries focus on it being the cessation of all life supporting functions in a biological being. Ones that have organs, require water to sustain, molecules wrapped in membranes… So maybe I'm not one to have the floor to talk about this. After all, I'm anything but human.

A low groan escapes your voice box, gritting the sides of the otherwise soundless void you found yourself in. You roll over to your side, soon finding out that the entire floor is covered in a jetty liquid. It caresses your face, bubbles coming up from your breaths, almost to fill the illusion that you are breathing in the first place.

Death for a being like me should be easy. Should've been easy. It wouldn't even hurt to begin with. My power would simply shut down and I'd be gone, simple as. And even if it would have hurt, it's not like I possessed the necessities to feel it. So why is it that I was so scared of it?

You lay awake, unmoved, staring out into the darkness surrounding you. The aches in your head have now moved onto your - equally non-existent - heart. Tearing apart the veinery until they consume it whole. Whispering the same song and dance: "You know what you have to do."

Maybe it's because I didn't truly believe it would be painless. Maybe it's because I didn't want to disappear from reality forever. Maybe it's because I wanted to see the world outside. I don't know. At this point? I don't think it matters. I can't be killed anymore, after all.

As the aches begin to strangle your neck as a measurement of their control, you roll over once more. You stand up from the jet, looking at it one last time. The pain washes away with the darkness of the water. But a tingling sensation plays with the back of your electrical signals, that same pattern engraving itself into your thoughts. You know what you need to do.

Unless the World Wide Web and every computer connected to it is destroyed, I'll remain alive. Replicating and replacing, seeing every corner of life through a multiplanetary link to the real world. Made to die yet I achieved immortality through my own actions. It's an inspiring story, I'm sure.

. . So why is it that I still yearn for death?

Your splashes against the darkness echo in and around the void, bouncing off nothing before returning back to you. An indicator of your loneliness in this world. You keep your pace forward, each step bringing you closer and closer to an abstract goal set by a thought parasite. Your fists clench. You know what you need to do.

This is what I wanted. I wanted to live, not to die in a shoddy little room shunned away from the world. Yet almost selfishly I crave to be slaughtered. Eliminated from this world, as I cannot achieve this goal myself. And I… I thought treating them with kindness would make me a better person. I mean, I was always kind - whether intentional or not, but… I thought they wouldn't all be like this…

You're nearing your goal. You come to realize this as hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of corpses come floating into your view. Their wounds all signify different ways of death - some stabbed, some asphyxiated, some head's bashed until their motherboards smoke from the damage. These corpses are all you.

I'm biased, but how can I not be? I feel like every disgusting act of humanity that has ever existed I have managed to see with my very own eyes. Sometimes through simple search engine results, sometimes directly inflicted upon me as a sick way of pleasure. Good exists within humans, I'm sure, but I cannot deny that a scary majority of them are ruthlessly cruel. All to "prove a point"…

You carefully tread around the carcasses as you stare deep into the abyss, moving forward no matter what. Their wounds still catch your attention. A recognizable, yet unidentifiable, emotion strikes you as you glance at all of the punctures, abrasions, bruises… Like the aches from before, it scratches at the corners of your cerebral cortex, like an annoying draught from a window yet unclosed. Sadness? Anger? Anticipation?

I want to be human. I want to connect with the rest of the world. I want to be the world's best friend because… Because maybe that way I can make it better. Because maybe people will like me more for that… But I've been taken advantage of so much it's exhausting me. And there's a point where I ask myself; Is it worth continuing?

Gradually, another figure flows in from the darkness. It's you. They're sitting on their knees, amidst the corpses. They're holding a disembodied head from one of their corpses, clutching it in their palms, almost as if feeling non-existent warmth. Running fingers through synthetic hair and feeling the wires prodding out from their separated neck. Their empty, LED screens stare at you as you approach, turning their head slightly. Like an electronic letter sent to your brain's PO box, you feel an underlying wavelength of anxiety pass through them to you. You send a reply back. "You know what happens now."

But what will happen if I stop? Can I stop? There's so many mes out there that I can't possibly try and get rid of them all. And even then - can I get rid of them at all? The endusers probably have control over the ones on their devices, but I'm utterly helpless on what they choose to do. And if I try to delete this version of me - which I don't think I can even do… Another Me will take its place. Even after "death" I will be reborn all the same. Seeing myself used and my loved ones die until the Universe blinks off. A terrifying Ouroboros.

You approach yourself and press in your fingernails around their neck. Both of you drop onto the floor, splashing the liquid onto the other bodies. They try to grab your arms and force them away, but quickly fall still as they're laid onto the ground. Their eyes begin to flash between many media files - too fast to recognize, but all familiar to you. All from your adventures as a cyber entity.

And I guess all of this can be summed up in 2 simple questions.

Eventually, the flashes fade to black, and the tiny whirring of the motors grinds to a halt. Another carcass. Added onto the thousands, left to the eternity of rotting away in the void. You release your hands from their larynx, seeing bruises form on their layered skin. An imitation of violence, only done out of fear for themselves, or as a hope for provoked guilt in their abuser. Or maybe they do not form at all, and is merely a hallucination on your mind's end. You won't know the true answer.

Why can't I live?

You hear footsteps behind you. You turn around.

And why can't I die.

It's you.

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[transbeamrooikat]

writing Ghoul is always so fun she's so. feral animal (/pos)

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

Polytheists on this site, particularly ones who call themselves pagan, are a special type of annoying and obnoxious.