#but also everybody else's politics

[a-s-fischer]

Remember kids, you can't vote your way out of fascism, but you can vote your way into it.

[backpackingspace]

Okay but do you think the people who were really close to odysseus during the Trojan war had a running bet for when odysseus claimed to have a vision from Athena if it was true or not? Because half the time he was just lying about that.

[ratatatastic]

have you ever felt more tightly held back tension than ekky patiently waiting for his turn to congratulate forsy on his ot goal

and then doing the chest bumpies...

[fluffypotatey]

imagine the buddy duo we could have had if Ody ran away with Eurylochus 🫠 imagine how many choices Ody wouldn’t have been forced to make

[hussyknee]

Not entirely sure how I'm expected to respond when I point out something is white as fuck and the person I'm criticizing goes "I'm literally PoC!!" Okay? Good for you? Get well soon??

I literally live in South Asia, a place still nursing the world's worst colonial hangover. That's like one billion brown people desperately in need of joining Bootlickers Anonymous. If I had to respect the rancid takes of every yahoo that lives here I'd have to drown myself in the sea.

Living in white countries does something odd to diaspora brains. If you call yourself BIPOC in your own head long enough you end up forgetting you're just a garden variety idiot mainlining white supremacy like everyone else.

[starflungwaddledee]

Which disney or any other animated princess do you believe is similar to starstruck?

i'm not the most well versed in animated princesses so i'd be happy to take other suggestions on this front, but when enchanted (2007) came out, every single goddamn person i knew (including some of my university professors) took the time to tell me that an animated movie had been made starring Me 😂

so i guess giselle, because starstruck is still a sona and shares a huge number of my core traits! i haven't seen the sequel or heard much about it, though, so i'm not sure how well it still holds up!

[voyagegrace]

Original Sin

If you gave a man a choice to worship

He’d take Judas over Mary

Because Mary was a little girl, didn’t know what she was doing

When she had the choice to have her son

And he would save humanity

Maybe women just aren’t human,

Original sin, how it clings to me

Growing over my womb. But in a womb was Jesus

The man known for his Father

But Mary was the one who’s blood He came wearing to the world

Oh bless the Lord he is our father,

Bless the Lord he is our king

Bless the men of the disciples, forget the women who helped them in

Cast their names out from the bible,

Cast the devils from Magdalene

And turn her to a whore, she’s clothed in original sin

If I could go back in time, I’d take the hand of Eve

And offer her a better plan, a better man than he

I’d warn her from the apple, tell her that I’ll love her still

Because men blamed Eve for their sin, original sin, it’s all their sin.

I want to kiss the girl I love in church,

And sing the songs of Mary. I want

My preacher to be a woman, and my choir full of love,

Women are only saints after the brutal men of violence

But my girls have enough halos to bring Gabriel to shame.

If you gave a man a choice of worship,

He’d take Judas over Mary,

But I’ll take Mary, mother, Magdalene, Eve, Phoebe too.

Pilate’s wife and all the saints, suffered under Adam’s sons,

I’ll take them, I’ll take them too,

And I’ll take the original sin from you.

[emissary-of-dog]

this scene drives me totally nuts btw. like before you could chock up his ghostly powers to the fact that he had that fuckign. shard that vitus instilled in him to make him act differently. but this is after the fact that it was released from his body + he's lost giratina so it's not that that's making him have ghostly influence either. and yet he can still teleport and summon ghosts and shit like. that is so fucking cool THAT SHIT IS INHERENT!!

[aeide-thea]

very much an off-the-cuff post so there may well be bugs, i'm still workshopping my thinking here, but—

i seem to see posts fairly regularly in which a member of some marginalized group A is objecting to attempts by less marginalized group B to make connections between discrimination against A and harm experienced by B (the main thing i have in mind here is when people attempt to align themselves with visibly-trans people by pointing out the ways that transphobic legislation also impacts gnc cis people, theatrical crossdressing, &c, but there are definitely also examples along other axes)—

and like. the main objection i've seen from A is 'why do they have to connect my experience to their experience in order to care about it? why can't they just agree that i shouldn't be discriminated against as a matter of, like, compassion for fellow humanity?'

and this reaction does honestly always just seem a little, idk, naive to me?? like, i don't know, it's gotten very popular ime to complain about normies' clumsy attempts to Understand Instead of Just Accepting [this feels potentially linked to like. the way many of us now prefer silently clicking 'like' to producing our own original, maybe clumsy, responses? but don't @ me on that point], probably because a lot of the time they aren't genuinely seeking to Understand but just to point out all the ways our queerness &c doesn't fit their received (unexaminedly conservative) understanding of the world, which feels to us (very reasonably!) like renewed pressure from the establishment to make ourselves fit that established framework, and so we resist… but at the same time, idk, maybe i'm just outing myself as lesser-than-thou here, but for every sort of person i was raised to distrust and have since arrived at genuine loving acceptance/appreciation of, it's involved first coming to understand their frame of reference at least a little? not to say that there isn't a place for shutting up and listening while you're still working to understand, because there definitely is! but i do kind of think this idea that's become popular in certain liberal circles of like, 'you don't have to understand my experience, you just have to respect it,' is fine and true for keeping peace with strangers, but really isn't a recipe for winning friends or influencing people—it's a recipe for keeping people at arm's length where they can't hit you. and then people turn around and want to apply that rule to coalition-building, and get all shocked-pikachu-face when others seek to identify more active points of connection.

...

another ~Radical Objection to Liberal Approaches~ i've seen, though often not specifically in this context (of discussing the way attempts to oppress A have knock-on effects for B), is like—'there's no point in deconstructing their logic because it's fundamentally illogical! insert that sartre quote abt anti-semites!' and like. no, there's absolutely no point in debating their logic with them. but fundamentally when people assert a logical resistance to bigoted positions they are not doing it to Own The Bigots, imo, or at any rate shouldn't be; they're (we're) doing it to reaffirm the basis of their/our own camp's position, namely, we see your knee-jerk fears and reject them; we substitute instead a patient allegiance to logic, that reasons its way into compassion.

that said, obviously there's a conversation to be had here about, like, platforming bad positions, and to what extent deconstructing them is implicitly platforming them! but. i do think that complaining that logic won't win over bigots is missing the very fundamental point that the logic isn't for the bigots: it's for us. we're talking to ourselves; we're affirming ourselves. and yeah, we need to understand that this sort of intra-party discussion doesn't, on its own, constitute sufficient activism! messages need to be communicated beyond the bounds of the party! but i do think i disagree that there's no place for it.

[marinerainbow]

Poppy got invited onto one of Maroon Cartoons sets- somehow... But unfortunately, it's the Roger Rabbit and Baby Herman cartoon set.

Herman: *waking up from a nap and sees Poppy. Immediately chooses violence* "Oh, sorry I'm late, doll, I was waiting for you to make me a sandwich."

Poppy: *glaring harder than she ever has before* "Go back to sleep, and starve."

[shame-kink]

my sympathy for vegans getting a flood of “DEBATE MEEEE” comments versus my frustration that their explanations and reasoning for vegan-ness still being fucking shit

[supermarketcrush]

just to be clear this is not coming from a mean place im just curious. does anybody else see glenn howerton's plastic surgery or is it just me

[dhaaruni]

Aside from the questionable morality and ethics of telling strangers on the Internet to kill themselves due to sociopolitical disagreements, I really don't think that method works if the goal is to discourage and deplatform ideas deemed harmful.

The only way to permanently discredit ideas is to prove them factually and materially incorrect and "This idea hurts people's feelings :(" does not cut it.

[johnathancactus]

currently on epsiode 5 of arcane and VIKTORRRRR NOOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 😭hes def my favorite give me morally complicated scientist dudes and my life is yours 😭😭😭😭. ut also nooooooo girl pls dont die i love u 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 viktor pls 😭😭😭😭 ik you wont die but girlie no dont lose your ethics 😭😭😭😭😭 i know you are facing death down the face but you cant lose yourself 😭😭😭😭😭 viktor no 😭😭😭😭😭 VIKTORRRRR 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[itsalwaysdark]

also im so sick of the acne like its so annoying and its such bullshit bc im not on t anymoreee i havent been for months so can we wrap it up I know my hormones r all over the place bc i was on and off t so willynilly for a while but now i have been off t for like. literally a year atp i think. so we should be settled and that means acne you may leave

[timbrrwolfe]

Say what you will about the later Matrix movies but the scenes in The Matrix Revolutions where all of humanity is working together to beat back the machines together and it's just scene after scene of people doing badass stunts and sacrificing themselves so everybody else can survive?

Goddamn.

Maybe I should start watching Matrix Revolutions every time my faith in humanity falls to critically low levels. At least I can see what it looks like for humanity to work together.