#being a women is terrifying

[the-chelseahotel]

Don’t wear both your earphones when you go out on a walk/run, don’t go out when it’s dark but if you do stick to main roads don’t use alleyways, lock your car as soon as you get in it, if anything is on the windshield don’t pull it off drive away and sort it out later, if you feel like someone’s following you pretend you’re on your phone or find a women around and go up to them, have you keys ready to unlock your front door and lock it straight behind you, if you go clubbing stay with your friends, don’t ever leave your drink unattended and don’t accept a drink from anyone unless it comes straight from the bartender, don’t get a taxi by yourself, if you go on a first date with a stranger go somewhere public and make sure you share your location with your friends these are genuine thing I have been told by my parents we have had these conversations and I have had these warnings numerous times but if you went and asked either of my brothers if they’d been told the same thing they’d say no

[michaelgovehateblog]

The fact that jk Rowling has become this figure head for (anti) trans issues to the point she's having meetings and sway with politicians is terrifying. It can be easy to forget sometimes in our online echo chambers how much influence over peoples opinions someone like that can have, and while she has a lot of people who hate her, there's a shocking number of people who still listen to her and respect her opinions

[whiskeysorrows]

What in the utter mother loving FUCK

AND THERE'S MORE FROM NIC WILLIAMS THE TERF (and director of fair play for women)

This isn't about women's rights, they're only using that to justify their transphobia. The article's excuse is that these women-only jobs are at domestic violence shelters and rape survivors refuges. I CAN'T THINK OF WHAT GROUP OF PEOPLE THOSE ISSUES OVERWHELMINGLY AFFECT AND ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST RIGHT NOW

[xbuster]

He never learned about gay people 😭

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

[moeblob]

10/10 is Lon'qu Day so here we go, a 10 out of 10 family.

[in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene]

I think Slay the Princess is so popular partially because the *gets stabbed* "I'm in love" reaction is both intentional on the part of the developers and then they completely follow through on it.

[thepromisedbride]

i don’t talk about bridgerton on here but just to clarify. i will not be having ANY eloise hate on this account. i will bite.

[witches-come]

I don't like genital preference discourse because 99 percent of the time it's a cis person who made up a hypothetical pro trans argument and got mad at it.

[anonymous-dentist]

Breaking Dawn Character Fun Fact #11:

Spreen hasn’t really talked with Roier since the. Incident. And he’s really bummed about that because Roier’s literally his best friend. Like, what?? Roier come on, be reasonable

But Spreen has talked with Melissa. And she terrifies him. There’s something in her eyes, man…

[to-be-a-dreamer]

And if I make a full post talking about how Abby, Shannon, and Taylor were actually really interesting and compelling characters that were just wildly mishandled by the writers and weren't allowed to fully explore their own motivations or personalities outside of being a love interest then what?

This is a threat.

[stellerssong]

ok sorry the OTHER thing about lucienne is like. as previously stated she is dream's handpicked emissary from the waking world to the dreaming she's the diplomat in chief she's the translator she's the bridge. because the dreaming is, in a very real way, dream's own psyche, this is tantamount to giving lucienne a tremendous degree of access to his interiority and by transitive property also tantamount to entering into a deeply emotionally intimate relationship with her (unimportant for the purposes of this post whether that relationship is platonic or romantic).

now, in general, looking at the pattern of dream's close emotional relationships—dream doesn't share himself with people as a rule (beyond the access that all things that live have to the dreaming; but i'm talking about his self here, the one he doesn't like to acknowledge he even has), but when he does share with people, it's with people who have some shadow on the soul, so to speak. just looking at attested relationships in show canon, his deepest emotional connection seems to be with death, who embodies the duality of light and dark even better than he does himself. calliope is the muse of epic poetry—heroism and tragedy—and also bears the sort of divine pride that led her to cut dream off for hundreds or thousands of years when he wronged her. the less said about that other guy, the better, but he's no sunshine-rainbows-unicorns type—he's a soldier of fortune, a bandit and a killer, a man who profits from the sale of human life. even best bird matthew, in comix canon, had a sordid past that will maybe be partially retconned for the show but has still been gestured at.

dream likes the complicated ones. he's drawn to them. they speak to something in him that he won't acknowledge in himself (he has to be Whole, fully integrated, without reservation, because he is the king and he is the dreaming and if the dreaming ain't whole then the universe is in trouble—but he feels that ache nonetheless).

all that is to say: when people try to portray lucienne as dream's Designated Well-Adjusted Neurotypical Friend, i begin to harm and maim.

[cruelsister-moved2]

i feel with lesbians, and im allowed to say this because im a lesbian, but honestly the punishment of individual lesbians is almost incidental compared to the fact its literally about making an example out of us. its like theres a potential lesbian in every woman and thats really who is being punished. straight women’s fear of acquiring that status VASTLY outweighs my actual lived discomfort as a lesbian. so much of the homophobia i experience stems from the perceived impossibility of my existence and the need to present me as repulsive, not directly to punish ME but to make other women afraid of being like me. so arguing like who would specifically be perceived as a lesbian in what situation feels so shallow when literally every woman is on some level perceived as like. a threat of hypothetical lesbian possibility

[immortalarizona]

for pride month I am haviiiiing. an itty bitty gender crisis

[arthurandmerlin]

Eddie: So, my Tía’s set me up on a date and I really don’t want to go

Buck, immediately: Ghost her

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Nearly started an argument with another HOTD fan over how much explicit brutality against women and children exists on the show and how relieved I was with the way Blood and Cheese panned out.

But then I realised he was a 34 year old man who reblogs A LOT of straight porn (think “delicate female” type shit) so I got scared and just blocked him.

Anyway, it checks out that he would want more blood and gore I guess.