#anti/thesis

[thekidzcantfathom]

high contrast, ANTI/THESIS: VOL. 1.

[spicyvampire]

4 MINUTES (2024) EP. 1

[catastrophiccerealkiller]

hello just came here to say i hate rhysand and cassian please die thank you for listening to my ted talk.

[trans-axolotl]

Bo Laurent created the Intersex Society of North America in 1993, starting the intersex rights movement in the United States. Describing the founding of ISNA, they wrote:

"Over the course of a year, simply by speaking openly within my own social circles, I learned of six other intersexuals--including two who had been fortunate enough to escape medical attention. I realized that intersexuality, rather than being extremely rare, must be relatively common. I decided to create a support network. In the summer of 993, I produced some pamphlets, obtained a post office box, and began to publicize the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) through small notices in the media. Before long, I was receiving several letters per week from intersexuals throughout the United States and Canada and occasionally some from Europe. While the details varied, the letters gave a remarkably coherent picture of the emotional consequences of medical intervention. Morgan Holmes: "All the things my body might have grown to do, all the possibilities, went down the hall with my amputated clitoris to the pathology department. The rest of me went to the recovery room--I'm still recovering." Angela Moreno: "I am horrified by what has been done to me and by the conspiracy of silence and lies. I am filled with grief and rage, but also relief finally to believe that maybe I am not the only one." Thomas: "I pray that I will have the means to repay, in some measure, the American Urological Association for all that it has done for my benefit. I am having some trouble, though, in connecting the timing mechanism to the fuse."

ISNA's most immediate goal has been to create a community of intersex people who could provide peer support to deal with shame, stigma, grief, and rage, as well as with practical issues such as how to obtain old medical records or locate a sympathetic psychotherapist or endocrinologist. To that end, I cooperated with journalizes whom I judged capable of reporting widely and responsibly on our efforts, listed ISNA with self-help and referral clearinghouses, and established a presence on the internet. ISNA now connects hundreds of intersexuals across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. It has also begun sponsoring an annual intersex retreat, the first of which took place in 1996 and which moved participants every bit as profoundly as the New Woman conference had moved me in 1993.

ISNA's longer-term and more fundamental goal, however, is to change the way intersex infants are treated. We advocated that surgery not be performed on ambiguous genitals unless there is a medical reason (such as blocked or painful urination), and that parents be given the conceptual tools and emotional support to accept their children's physical differences...To provide a counterpoint to the mountains of medical literature that neglect intersex experience and to begin compiling an ethnographic account of that experience, ISNA's Hermaphrodites with Attitude newsletter has developed into a forum for intersexuals to tell their own stories.

...When I established ISNA in 1993, no such politicized groups existed. I was less willing to think of intersexuality as a pathology or disability, more interested in challenging its medicalization entirely, and more interested still in politicizing a pan-intersexual identity across the divisions of particular etiologies in order to destabilize more effectively the heteronormative assumptions underlying the violence directed at our bodies."

-Cheryl Chase, Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism, Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1998, 189-211.

[rodrickheffeley]

Claudia im sorry I wasn’t your mother . I wish I could blow up every man on iwtv with my brain.

[shesnake]

Mark Mylod on the Succession podcast saying that watching kendall and stewy bantering was the last fucking straw for shiv... she really is the most like Logan #homophobiasweep

[shitty-proendo-blackout-posts]

You know yourself better than medical professionals. You do.

[therulerofallpotatos]

If my gaslighting cannibal boyfriend was the only one who wasn't infantilizing me for being autistic, I'd break him out of prison and play psychosexual games w him too. Will Graham did nothing wrong

[deancrowleycas]

how do you call it when someone is neither pro-something nor against it but not neutral, just indecisive? Like one word for it I nead it for a title of a text dfkjsfsdjk

[chucklesbuckles]

Tim drake could be so interesting, something more than “shows up 15 minutes late with a venti espresso & designer eye bags to solve a problem that the entire bat team was stumped on” in fanons case, or “the only Robin who was worth a damn, the only teammate who was ever close to Bruce’s level” in canons case.

He was like, what? 13 when he forced Batman to take him on as robin? 13 or 14 when he belittled and put down a dead kid? 14 ish when he belittled and talked down to Steph? 17 when he fought a 10 year old and put him on a hit list?

Tim was an upper middle class to wealthy white kid. He didn’t know shit about shit. Being exposed to the wider world as Robin, and by being on teams with people from different strata’s of life could have opened his eyes to experiences different from what he grew up with and helped him to realize that he doesn’t know shit and isn’t better than others.

Teenagers are stupid and self centered, and Tim realizing that, that the things he said and did were rude and mean (in Steph’s case) or downright cruel (in Jason and Damian’s case) could be really interesting.

But fanons stuck in a “Poor tim! Little baby Tim! He’s so meek and timid!” Like this mother fucker didn’t tell Jason that he is the better Robin during a brutal beat down. And DC’s stuck in “Tim’s the best of us all! And still Robin! And will one day be Batman!” Like this mother fucker doesn’t turn into an authoritarian dictator with that mantle in the future.

I don’t like to yuck other fans yums, and I get that Tim’s Robin is a self insert Robin, but I really will rip out my eyes if I see anything even approaching ‘Dick wanted to throw Tim in Arkham’. Dick told Tim to consider therapy, for fucks sake. Or, ‘Tim could have withstood getting beaten by the Joker’. Could Tim have withstood the bomb? The bomb that killed Jason? Tim’s got special bomb proof skin and organs and bones? I didn’t even read the Damian one. What would be the point? I don’t like seeing many interpretations of that run of Batman comics on tumblr since most Tim stans just butcher Damian and blame a kid raised in a cult who was being iced out by his father for acting out. Like, Damian was a kid. A kid kid, not a teenager close to being a legal adult.

I am just tired. I want to like Tim, I want to like the canon bisexual Bat! but by god it’s hard when other characters around him are flattened to make him seem more capable, or villainized to better baby him.

Just. Read a comic. Enjoy what you enjoy, but just read a comic.

(Side note: Cass should be Batman. Dick’s the best of them all, save maybe Superman. Every Robin was great, and did an amazing job. And Damian’s still a fucking kid and deserves better.)

[princessmeepa]

I have redrawn and Rewrote this scene from LO

I have made My Thesis into a loving mother to Achilles instead of LO Thesis who doesn’t give a shit of her son, because he is half mortal ewww.

[brookesophelias]

“The Southern Raiders is a perfect example of why Zutara doesn’t work." (OP commentary available).

reddit post here. fire heats up water; water calms fire.

Zuko allows Katara to choose what she wants, & ultimately K elects not to murder Yon Rha. a significant concept in all 3 stories in this series—as a whole—& individual characters is choices. Z keeps K grounded in a manner Aang can’t.

whether they consciously acknowledge that or not, Z’s family is what happens when you let revenge consume. going on this field trip is crucial for both of them in becoming different people. i doubt K saw the advantage of taking anyone else. without K confronting The Southern Raiders, i doubt the message of “being different than your current self is always one action away” is something Z truly believed.

Aang is The Avatar; it is really difficult to separate him from that; he wouldn’t let go of K with Guru Patik. the idea of revenge is so unlikely for A as an Airbender, & Avatar. keep in mind that A “slept” on his duty for centuries; he was a kid, afraid & unprepared for wars. Z & K aren’t. it’s hard not to hear command when A spoke.

now, you could argue that Z would have gotten an education of world with Toph or Sokka but both are unlikely. Toph, an expert fighter, was sheltered otherwise & blind. Sokka is a non-bender.

this essay could continue. let me know if that's something you'd be interested in.

[death-limes]

my sister keeps insisting i need to make a video essay about h*zbin/h*lluva/v*vz*epop but as cathartic as that would be i can’t help but think it would just make things worse…. im not even sure i have enough to add to the conversation to justify making such a thing

it runs into the territory of the “____ is Garbage and Here’s Why” video essays that at worst are just bad-faith CinemaSins ripoffs disguised as essays & at best are just redundant rants that don’t seem to have any real purpose or say anything insightful

[gobliiine]

me when orym is sitting in a tree keeping watch and clocks dariax crawling over to Dorian to sleep beside him

[clowningcrows]

the way that so many people are willing to literally destroy the earth just “talk” to their favorite fictional character. or to not have to write their own damn paper. or their own email

[holydrakes]

Thinking about how Maka is given a backstory so she has basically a romance-based trauma and painting all men as cheaters so her relationship with Soul can immediately sound like it blurs the line between a mere friendship and romance, at least on the surface. The fact that due to this particular trauma she ended up sounding like Soul's jilted girlfriend in the first ep when she called him out for suddenly breaking their partnership and Soul responded in an equally suspicious way 'Cool guys don't cheat on their partners' all this when referring to a mere business partnership switch...I had the right to once feel like I was about to watch a romcom when I first watched Soul Eater not knowing what it was even about at first (also I used to think Soul's only meant to be Maka's sidekick and nothing else, but thanks to that line I ended up thinking 'huh, was he supposed to be her love interest?') And while SE didn't turn out to be a romcom or even have any explicit romance subplot the somewhat romantic framing of their relationship didn't really go away and only increased as time goes on such as the mind dance, the unnecessary close physical contacts, the framing of Soul gaining partnership requests as akin to him being asked out by other people and Maka being super bothered by it, the comparisons to an actual married couple in-universe, the list goes on.

Considering the first chapter wasn't even meant to be expanded yet Ohkubo still gave Maka this kind of backstory so she's justified to sound like Soul's jilted girlfriend in the end (and Soul uttering his famous cheesy line) makes you wonder if Ohkubo deliberately sets them up to be that kinda pair that's meant to be just friends but will always come across as if they are dating.