#and we may get there

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[stemmmm]

more people gotta try this shit where bill has not improved and will not change but he's just chilling so its fine probably. its great

[lotus-pear]

learning to love

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Vanessa was out of pocket for this one..

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

...Turns out gay sex actually was the solution.

(This is basically a redraw, come read the real deal over at Tiger Tiger)

[hinamie]

thank u canon plant nerd megumi for my life

bonus:

[phewgitoid]

smile 4 the camera !

[voiider]

Okay alright I'm tired of giving more children to Bruce Wayne I think we need to start taking some away 

Tim getting kidnapped (but in a way they don't announce Tim Drake-Wayne as missing??) and is given Something that induces amnesia but he escapes or maybe just literally wanders away but like he's in the middle of Ohio and he's walking down the road unsure of his own name or where he is and a weird looking camper pills over and a large man leans out the window and says “you doing alright there, sonny?” 

And he doesn't really know so he sorta shrugs so they pick him up and the man introduces himself as Jack and this is his wife Maddie and their two kids Danny and Jazz and they're just heading back from a camping trip and they can take him into town (Amity?) and take him down to the station and help him get things figured out 

The police take his picture and upload it to a “found” database or smth but there's no active or recent cases in Ohio for missing persons (or teenagers) matching his description 

(But also, Amity is pretty disconnected from the rest of the world digitally. They mind their business. Sure they run this boy's face in the newspaper and let the neighboring precincts about him but there's not much more they can do until this kid gets some memories back)

So he goes to stay with Jack and Maddie (idk how i don’t care about LAWS) while they wait to see if they get any hits or until he gets some memories back and they register him under Alvin (“hmm maybe... Tom? No, definitely not. Caroline? Alvin? That sounds the best I guess”) Fenton at the local high school so he can keep getting an education (and Alvin isn’t sure why, but this sort of feels like a waste of time, he already knows all this math stuff and why would he want to read Of Mice and Men he’s pretty sure someone told him John Steinbeck was a hack. Or maybe not. He can’t remember) but it’s simple enough and he likes the Fentons even if they keep trying to convince him ghosts are real 

And maybe they are. Actually. Real that is. He saw one the other day and had to double check if knowing ghosts were real is a common knowledge thing that he forgot of if he never knew in the first place. Jazz tells him that ghosts are pretty much an Amity specific thing but that they appear other places and then Jack and Maddie set him down and give him the entire history of ghosts that night and then show him their lab which is pretty cool

And maybe he accidentally suplexed someone who startled him in the halls on his first day and also fell asleep in science,but give him a break! he’s going through a lot right now

But his new brother roommate friend? Is helping him adjust at school by telling him who to avoid and what not to eat from the cafeteria and Jazz is in most of his classes but also he’s not sure why they’re trying to act all sneaky about this Inviso-Bill/vigilante situation because like. That’s clearly just Danny with white hair? He looks the exact same? Also he literally saw Danny walk through the bathroom door last week if it wasn’t obvious enough.

So Tim really isn’t expecting Danny to be surprised that he picked up a thermos that Phantom dropped when he and his friends ran off to fight another ghost

[contagious-watermelon]

Why do I keep seeing transmascs and trans men insisting or implying that all trans men are "female socialized," or "understand the female experience," or "navigated the world as a woman." Because yeah, sure, that can be true for some people. especially if you weren't gnc at all as a kid and didn't crack your egg until well into adulthood, it makes sense.

But they don't stop at saying they had that experience. It always comes with an addendum that trans men, as a group, all can relate to this experience. I don't know about the entirety of my demographic, but I never got even a little bit of what some of them talk about. I didn't even believe that women were scared of going out at night until I kept consistently seeing them say it, online or wherever, for years. I never realized catcalling was a thing until I saw some women complaining about it on reddit.

But they posit it as some sort of, you're safer than cis men, right? You know what it's like? Which, on top of being patently, demonstrably false in the case of myself and many other trans men, holds some unpleasant and often outright hostile implications about trans women. And they always deny it, but if you can't even conceptualize someone like me who grew up gnc, and never got the bulk (or any?) of whatever we consider to be 'female socialization,' what does that say about what you think trans girls went through, growing up? I don't want to speak for them, as I've never experienced that firsthand, but I can guarantee that (if you're even a little bit obviously trans) people don't treat you like a cis kid of the opposite gender. By and large, they don't get treated like cis boys.

It just makes me mad that we're taking this inaccurate framework that (ever so conveniently) puts trans people into the box of our assumed birth gender, and trying to fancy it up and use it with a faux-progressive veneer; never mind the way that transphobes use it to bar trans women from being athletes, or using the bathroom, or having access to any gendered resources they need. It would be bad enough to try and dust it off and use it even if it were largely accurate, due to the aforementioned connections to outright transphobia, but it literally is patently false. Not in all cases, obviously, but why are we trying to revamp this untrue, inaccurate generalization and pretend that we can make it 'trans-inclusive?'

[gherkinlizard]

oh how indeed ezra... how indeed

[hailsatanacab]

A Persuasive Argument - dpxdc

"Great!" Danny says, clapping his hands together to get everyone's attention. The dinner table falls silent as everyone looks towards him. It's a full house today and, honestly, Danny's a little nervous. "I'm sure you're all wondering why I gathered you here today."

"It's dinnertime. In our house." Duke mutters, while doing a very bad job of concealing his yawn. He holds his fork poised over the braised beef, but, just like everyone else, still looks towards Danny before tucking in. It's intriguing enough to wait.

"Yeah, no one misses Alfie's dinner." Dick says, with a brilliant smile that Danny can't help but return.

"Precisely! What better time to talk to you all than when you're all actually here!"

"Wait, I thought you came round to work on our English essays?" Tim asks, blinking owlishly.

"I'm afraid I've lured you here under false pretences, Tim."

"This is where I live."

"I would still really appreciate help on that essay though, I mean, what the hell is Hamlet even about? I just don't get that old time-y language, like 'Hark! A ghost hath killed me!' - absolute rubbish, what does that even mean?"

"The ghost never kills anyone in Hamlet, he's there to tell Hamlet that he was murdered. Have you actually read it?"

"No, but it sounds like you have. Tim, I want this guy to help me with my essay instead. I know for a fact that you haven't read Hamlet, either."

"So? We don't need Jason, I've read the Sparknotes."

"Hi Jason, I'm Danny, pleasure to meet you, summarise Hamlet in three sentences or less."

"Am I auditioning to help you write your essays? I can't believe you’ve gone through your whole school life without reading it, it’s good!"

"Hamlet, along with a number of other classics, was banned in our house because it portrayed ghosts as intelligent and sympathetic beings rather than evil, animalistic beasts. I didn’t even get to see The Muppet's Christmas Carol until last year with Tim! It was surprisingly good, and I hate Christmas because everyone always argued and it sucked. But we're getting off topic. I—"

"No, no, please go back to that, because what the fu—"

"Boys, please." Bruce interrupts, looking to the world as if he wants to hang his head in his hands. "Danny, you were about to say something?"

"Oh, yeah, Mr. Wayne! Thanks!"

"Please, call me Bruce."

"Well, that very succinctly brings me to my point, because I'd actually really like to call you dad."

Nobody says a word. Nobody even blinks, all as shocked as the other, watching open-mouthed as Danny pulls his laptop out from beside his chair. Bruce can definitely feel a headache coming on.

"Before you say anything, I've prepared a 69 slide PowerPoint presentation on why you, Bruce Wayne, should adopt me, Danny Last-Name-Pending. Please save your questions, comments, and verdict until the end, thank you."

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

Hey hey hey may 31th anon! How's 2024 going? ☆ヾ(*´▽｀)ﾉ This year I have for you a leaked Sherlock season 5 image. Thinking of you!! And everyone!!

[cctinsleybaxter]

The left is on board with 'the general public isn't willing to go up against millionaires and billionaires because they hope deep down that they themselves might one day be wealthy, ' but within leftist circles I'm constantly seeing and knowing people who're unwilling to go up against copyright law or making media completely free, and I swear to god it's because they hope they themselves might one day be full-time big-name artists who would be "robbed" by such a system

[chloesimaginationthings]

I can't be the only one.

I’ll be honest and say I literally did base William’s face off this image…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Ghouls night out

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So, I think it may be time for me to explain the situation regarding the poll

It's a bit of a weird one, bear with me... I have a friend who is Polish. She was in New Zealand recently, dating a very sweet boy, and had a major cold shower moment when he served her some 'Lenin who??'

As you can imagine, Lenin is a bit of a critical figure for the world, but especially Poles. Now I'm French, so we're also deeply embroiled into the whole birth of communism, red scare, WWII and all that jazz. I definitely learned about him at school, and then later on again, in my own time.

We were discussing this, and how the then-boyfriend excused himself by saying the NZ school system isn't great and simply never taught him. Of course we were discussing whether there wasn't also a lack of curiosity, as any half decent video on the events of WWII or communism will at least touch base with Lenin, but hey, maybe he's just not that famous outside Europe.

Still, I was doubting this argument and thinking this may be this guy's case more than a kiwi thing. And well, I live in a hostel, so at any given time I have about 50 flatmates/fellow staff from all around the world, not counting the guests who come and go. As we were having this conversation there was a kiwi staff with me in the room, so I took the time to ask!

It went like this:

- Hey, Cody! Do you know who Lenin is? - Lenin? - Yeah, Lenin. - You don't mean John Lennon? - No I mean Vladimir Lenin. - Nah, I don't know. - Okay, erm, Marx? - Nope. - Karl Marx?? Marxism? Das Kapital? - What is that? - (with considerable distress) You know about communism, right?

And yeah, he did, but I was shook. Our sample of kiwis not knowing about Lenin (and worse) was a stark 2/2, so we needed to broaden things.

I roamed the hostel, asking people if they knew about Lenin. And the results were NOT GREAT, but we saw a pattern emerge in which countries didn't know him: Kiwis and Aussies were doing the worst, by far. Meanwhile, Europeans who I truly assumed had 3 neurons rattling in their hollow craniums—this targeted mostly at a pack of young, loud, and billiard obsessed Spanish boys—all immediately were like 'Lenin, yeah, of course I know him.'

THEN I was watching The Last Of Us with another friend who is aware of the debacle, and he broached the topic of... fucking the infected.... and whether rule 34 had covered that, and also, because this is a very ace conversation, whether I thought you could get a yeast infection from that.

He then clarified his question by mansplaining yeast infections to me, a vagina haver.

So I snapped back that yes, thank you, I'm aware yeast is fungal, and we started arguing on whether or not people even know what YEAST is (tbf in French the words for bread yeast, yeast infection, and yeast in the wild are all different)

My friend suggested we poll the hostel crowd, and I retorted we were a dire sample of uneducated weirdos and would totally skew the results, using the 'who is Lenin' event as an example.

So we decided to make a poll for each question. You can see the yeast one here. My friend expected at least 50% of respondent to the yeast poll to think yeast is a bacteria (shockingly close)

Meanwhile I thought, and I quote, "I'd disrespect someone not knowing that cuz yeast be universal, so is bread"

And I was hit back by:

So yes, we decided to ran BOTH polls, to see how bad things were, and how we can rate our local group of weirdos at the hostel against the wider (and arguably biased and left leaning) strangers of tumblr.

I didn't expect this to blow up at all! But I'm deeply reassured you all know your history.

Shame on the kiwi education system!

So something happened and I need to know... Please indulge me!

If you could reblog for sample it'd be appreciated.