#gonna be liberal and tag this as

[creatediana]

"Wow, bitch. Who tf are you?" - a free verse poem written 12/22/2023

[geomimetry]

woe be upon ye

[hlkproductions]

theyre like infinity stones to me. useless when apart yet unstoppable when fused to my hand.

[a-queer-seminarian]

Your anger is how theology begins. It starts with anger at a great contradiction that can't be ignored. That's what happened to Athanasius in the fourth century, Luther in the sixteenth, and Barth in the twentieth. It also happened to me. If I had not been angry about white supremacy, I would not have written anything... But anger alone is not enough. You must use it to speak out and to write as creatively as you can about the fire burning in you. Go to the root of your experience and articulate what no one can express except people who hurt like you.

- James Cone in his final book, Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian (2018)

[tr1ppykay]

i feel like a lot of arguments WRT some queer identities having systemic privilege over others are fundamentally assimilationist in nature. it assumes that the default expression of queer people with any connection to otherwise "privileged" identities is to mirror the cultural ideal of those identities when in reality, the cultural ideal is not always attainable, or even desirable!

"trans women have male privilege before they transition" but why do you assume they all had the ability/desire to pass as cishet men?

"trans men have male privilege after they transition and pass" but why do you assume they all have the ability/desire to pass as cishet men?

"binary trans people have privilege because society already understands and accommodates their gender identity" but why do you assume they all have the ability/desire to pass as cishet he/him men or cishet she/her women?

"bisexuals have straight passing privilege because they can choose to date the 'opposite' gender" but why do you assume they all have the ability/desire to pass as straight, YES, even in MLW relationships?

*these are from the top of my head. please feel free to add more if you have personal examples.

[mastersoftheair]

oh damn, it's one thing to speculate, but it's another thing to learn that 60 Million Dollars was spent on covid-19 safety/compliance, which is why the 10th episode was inevitably cut

[5hark-byt3]

OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT THING. IM GONNA BE SICK!!!!!!!

[eldragon-x-moved]

[nero-neptune]

not to be black on main, but i don't think racism and/or right-wing 'leanings' are minor inconsequential things worth ignoring in the name of Working Class Solidarity™. like this isn't so much about luigi and whatever he (allegedly) did as it is about the response from (alleged) leftists. unlike many of you making posts like that, i live in the real world (while black). and in the real world, the politics of SO many americans start and stop with hating non-white (or specifically black) people, wherever they personally fall on the class ladder. this is why millions of poor and working class white americans will happily cut off their nose to spite their face if it means millions of nonwhite americans (of Any social class or income) are kept in 'their place'. this is a Big reason why reconstruction failed and the southern strategy succeeded. so, no, it's not something i can afford to look past for the Greater Good, actually. whole time, y'all are talking around it like it's a mild inconvenience, a teeny-tiny bump on the road towards some utopic class unity or whatever, as if racism isn't Fully Baked into politics isn't Fully Baked into classism in the U S of A. once y'all figure that out, something (like fixing this bullshit healthcare system) might actually get done lol

sorry if this complicates your easy 'this is how working class solidarity can still win' narrative, but life is complicated!

[laraluu2]

Lol seeing a post about how people who like moash are all "moash did nothing wrong". As one of those moash enjoyers I think I can definitively say that anyone who is saying that is just fucking around and very much know his crimes. Counterpoint - Dalinar, Kaladin, Jasnah, Adolin, and Shallan have all done crimes that would warrant jailtime.

I've talked about this before but I really do think here on tumblr people can explore the paths less traveled in terms of character study. Sanderson has literally said he's not too much of a fan of moash but I think it's cool how you have people on here who show him a little more love. You take a character that has gone through the worst and has a literal evil god influencing him but I think he falls under the "would be entirely right if he didn't kill people" liberal leftist antagonist that gets pretty annoying to constantly see. When in the real world violence is a valid form of protest you have these constant depictions of people lashing out against their oppressors as a bad thing it's understandable to be a little annoyed with how moash is depicted.

Not to mention the tragic aspect is kind of cool too??? Not everyone is going to get redemption, some people make bad decisions and fuck up and won't make it out and it's cool to enjoy that aspect. I enjoy a nice tragic character foil - there's some real nice fanart too of him.

[darthlexapro]

you may all picture me leaving the election related tags after this final debate the same way Godzilla walks back into the ocean at the end of every movie he’s in.

[thatssroughbuddy]

do u think zuko and jet ever explored each others bodies

[hussyknee]

In one of the 647968 posts going "What You Like Says Nothing About You" (broadly agree) the first comment in the reply section was, "well I'm never going to apologize for being a Swiftie and a Reylo and Destiel shipper and Snape fan and loving ACOTAR and LOTR and Hamilton and B99" and I'm like, actually being this much of a pathological white liberal makes you the exception to this rule 😭😭

[reigen-small-naturals]

you know these fandom accounts that are all sarcasm and vile and you just look at them and think 'buddy why are you even here if you aren't having fun'

[a-queer-seminarian]

What is theology and why does it matter? Theology is thinking about God who escapes our comprehension. What does it mean to reflect on an ultimate reality that can't be grasped? Why does it matter to think about that? ...Theology is paradoxical language with no easy answers to ultimate questions, and that we need imagination to think about transcendent reality. What we call "God talk" is imaginative language, like poetry — not rational language, even though Western theologians, following Greek philosophy, define theology as "rational thinking about God," or what the eleventh-century philosopher-theologian Anselm called "faith seeking understanding." But seeking to understand the God of Jesus by means of Greek ideas has always been difficult. Jesus was a Jew from Nazareth, born to an impoverished unwed woman, who preached in the tradition of the Hebrew prophets, declaring divine solidarity with the poor and weak. His language was not philosophical or rational like that of Plato and Plotinus, but prophetic and apocalyptic, like the language of Isaiah and John the Baptist.

- James Cone in his final book, Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian (2018)

[agdab]

liberals fuckin suck dude. you people are dogs. no better than the other side you claim to hate