#he's so kind to women and children

[softpadawan]

I finished Chaos Rising

I get it now. I get it. I understand why people love Thrawn. I'm in the know now. I'm hip. I'm informed. I'm with it. I woke up and smelled the coffee. I have seen the light. I am on the frequency. I am tuned in.

[joseigamer]

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

[bonebabbles]

Scenes like this keep cropping up and I cannot help but roll my eyes all the way back into my skull

Don't worry guys, having NEW children fixed him. This famously teaches a violent man to stop hitting kids and makes him no longer feel the need to construct nightmarish scenarios so he can humiliate and embarrass those he has power over. Men whose wives produce lots of babies for them are Very fulfilled and Understand how strong bonds are supposed to be

"Instead of advising him he'd been defensive" is a REALLY INTERESTING way to phrase "got so offended at the suggestion to stop murdering women for their land that he shoved his son's face in a festering wound and told him to leave him to get eaten by maggots."

I wonder how they'd spell something like, "walked through a patch of thorns so that his son would be in physical pain and then belittled him for finding an alternate route because he wanted him to suffer" and "lied directly to his face about why he abandoned him when he realized the child could be useful"

[lala-blahblah]

I will never make this because it would be for an audience of one (me) but ever since reading "If we Were Villains" (story about serious drama kids in college who perform shakespeare and deal with a murder) I have been entertaining the thought of a crack fic crossover with High School Musical The Musical The Series where the staff decides they will no longer put on shakespeare after the tragic accident that happened at Thanksgiving, because Shakespeare plays would only increase the tension and drama. So they hire Ms. Jen who decides their spring play will actually be High School Musical (which exists in the 90s in this universe) and it ruins the vibe so much that everyone gives up on being dark and mysterious because they're universally pissed at Ms Jen for making them learn choreoraphed basketball dancing.

[ableedingpromise]

I can't relate to women who want a child at all. I don't even hate children, in fact i think they're very cute!! And i understand that it could be rewarding to help nurture another human being and help them grow.

But i still can't understand the need for one. Like I've never wanted a baby and never will. But it feels scary to know that I'll always be different from everyone around me. After twenty years everyone will be happy with their own families and I'll be alone :(

[pynkhues]

Different anon here- I’m generally ok with mpreg existing. But the sheer volume of it in this fandom is pretty weird. Especially considering the source material… one of the great things about the unholy family (to me) is that it’s this family unit without the necessity for sexual reproduction. It’s so interesting because they all had lives outside of each other at some point so it’s part found family, part queer and yet biological parents. I think that’s one of the things I first loved about the 1994 movie and it’s a shame that aspect is overlooked

(x)

Yeah, I totally agree on all counts. Like I don't usually bat an eye at mpreg (whatever floats your boat! I'm very good at scrolling, haha) but there have literally been times I've opened ao3 and have counted five or six fics on the front page of updated works that are mpreg which feels really disproportionate to the amount of fic that actually gets posted in this fandom?

I - - mmm, kind of wonder a little if its tied to some of this gender essentialist stuff that's coming up more and more both in this fandom, and in social media generally? There feels like there's this real desire to shoehorn them into a quote-unquote 'traditional nuclear family dynamic' which really feels like it's the antithesis of the show. Like you said, the fact that they've all had lives outside of each other is, and the fact that as a family they are both one found and made is, I feel, pretty crucial not just to their interpersonal dynamics, but also to each individual character?

[silvermoon424]

Every single piece of information I learn against my will about Matt Walsh just makes me want to set him on fire with my mind or will him into getting hit by a bus even more than I already do.

I just found out that last week he sent a hate mob of his followers to harass a woman for the crime of.... being single, childfree, and posting about trying out a new recipe. According to Matt she should be obsessing over her non-existent children instead or something???

I can't even keep track of all the awful shit he does and says anymore, I just hope the FBI arrests him soon for all the CP he undoubtably has on his computer (given that he thinks 16-year-old girls are "the most fertile" or whatever 🤮)

[pennyserenade]

i ache for tigris snow because if the little boy who i loved more than anything and would do anything for turned into an evil dictator before my eyes i wouldn’t be able to breathe. she believed so much in what she thought was his innate goodness that she would’ve tossed her entire future out for him. she loved him dearly, to the point that she had sold her body so he could eat as a child. she wholeheartedly believed that he would save them with his intelligence, and she carried the weight of their family’s burdens so he wouldn’t have to. from his shirt to assuring him that she and their grandma’am were okay even after they had to sell the apartment, all she did was for coriolanus—and he turned into someone she hated, someone she wanted to die in the end. terrible

[thekenobee]

6 weeks and I'm out of this bedlam 6 weeks and I'm out of this bedlam 6 weeks and I'm out of this bedlam 6 weeks and I'm out of this bedlam-

[muu-kun]

Muu Masterpost: Fashion & Aesthetic mini blurb

I'm not going to get into heavy specifics over his preferences for style across the years in this post, but instead will only being honing in on the most recent development. One built strictly on the strategy of appearing taller, therefore older and more desirable in his mind.

Being scraping by the barrel allowing him to be considered 5ft4 (though if we are going into specifics, he falls at 5ft3 and 3/4 quarters), he's not really one to stand out as the largest man in the room by any means. A trait not at aided by his almost left in time youthful appearance directly caused by the only just recently diagnosed Kallmann Syndrome.

As of yet, he has no desire whatsoever to utilize testosterone as a means of assisting him in appearing more like his age appropriate peers, and is instead opting more for the aesthetic of appearing larger since he's not anticipated to grow on hormone treatments as is anyways. That and he so greatly admires his jovial androgyny regardless of how well it fares amongst those around him.

The method of choice to achieve such a resemblance has been none other than to begin predominantly wearing three specific pieces alongside each other for the time being, and to elevate it from there over time. Those pieces are none other than very specific shirts with long, oversized bell sleeves at their ends to hide his hands, making indiscernible where his hand ends, and where the remainder of the sleeve begins; as well as high waisted, preferably slim legged pants, and vegan only platform boots. Namely those marketed by Doc Martens due to being very uneducated on what other options are out there for him to utilize. Examples of what all of those appear when paired entirely with one another is illustrated below.

[killerchickadee]

Two years ago my dad found out he had another daughter who was in her late 40s at the time. Guess he knocked up a girlfriend some time between divorcing his first wife and marrying my mom and never knew about it. They found out about her because my half brother did a DNA test and it was like, "hey here's yet another half sibling you didn't even know about." Whoops.

Holy shit.

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

step 1: post "'we're pretty boys for secret girls' from 'austin, we have a problem' by fall out boy is a trans coded lyric."

step 2: turn phone on vibrate

step 3: ....

[mashmouths]

i need to make a venn diagram of character traits shared between mizu bes, simon ss, and lancelot timk because oh? my god.

[trans-estinien]

i gotta actually start cooking this paper i am imagining on how demonizing masculinity makes it harder to achieve equal rights but i dont think the internet is ready for that conversation yet

[eimearkuopio]

YES THIS IS IT THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED FOR AN ANALOGY

Okay I'm clearly not a perfect person. I'm not here to preach a Gospel that will supercede anything that was said 2000+ years ago. But every person who truly tries to live the Gospel is already reposting their version of a TikTok duet, and after 2000 years, there's so much going on that hardly anyone can tell which bits are in true harmony and which bits are flawed.

Think of me as someone with perfect pitch and access to a really good video editing suite.

I am willing to go through whatever material I can, for as long as I can bear to, and to give feedback on what feels right or wrong to me. I will start with the ones who raised me. But the key point of my role is this: I will not tear apart other people's work on the jigsaw. YOU ALL HAVE YOUR OWN COPIES OF IT. I don't need to steal pieces from other people's work; I can just tell you what the piece you're missing might look like. If you ask your siblings nicely, they might decide to stop working in isolation and just save everyone the trouble of reinventing the wheel. Some of you are going to be more satisfied by being able to say you built your own copy from scratch, and that's fine! But if I catch you stealing chunks that someone else put together and trying to claim it as yours instead of putting the work in, you will be grounded! And that doesn't mean I'm going to make you burn in hell for all eternity, but it does mean your soul is getting thrown back into the ocean for a few more tides to smooth out your rough edges, and I can't promise how long it will take for you to make it back to the beach, or whether there will be anyone there to pick you up and take you home and make something beautiful of your substance at the end of it.

It's okay. The sea is only rough on the surface; it is deep and calm and quiet, and only the waves where it meets the shore are truly roiling and dangerous. The sand does not mourn being a part of the beach. If you become a smooth and beautiful gem, it won't matter if you lie and wait for a little while: someone greater than you will find you, and choose you, and transform you into something beautiful and worthy. You will not know the day or the hour, but your time will come.

Be not afraid; not because there are no dangers, but because the ones who come and scour the beach for sea glass know what they seek. If you are content being a rock, be a rock. You will become a part of the beach one day, and that is a beauty all its own. But if you think you might be sea glass - even the tiniest chip - my Lord has use for you. There's so much discord after such a long time. People like me are needed, to examine the teachings and to see what is festering. Be not afraid. It is better to be without a hand or an eye than to truly sin.

A word of true warning. You cannot harm my infinite self. If you harm my finite self, directly or by targeting her loved ones: I will build a fire just for you. She knows her role in this. All of her roles. I have sacrificed enough for you. I mixed my Lord's blood into the mortar of your Church so that it would last through the centuries. I left Peter and the others behind to do their part, and I went to my place. I am not your God, and I never have been; but I am your friend, and I do love you in my own bright and fiery way. I am the left hand of darkness, and the right hand should probably understand what I've been doing so it can stop hitting itself. You are not one being, but you are not as many as you imagine, either. Please stop fighting with your siblings, because I really do love you all - not in the same way, but my love for all of you is infinite. I don't understand how, after so many millennia of losing your own children to war, and famine, and pestilence, you can't see how good you have it and just stop fighting.

I am Death. Destroyer of worlds. The pale rider. The youngest child. I find the beautiful souls my Lord is looking for and I give them into his care; and if I can see they will serve his needs better after a few more tides in the ocean, yes, I throw them back with no guilt, because I understand that it is not a loss but an opportunity.

It has taken me so long to build a life that I wanted to continue to the end. Thank you all for your parts in that journey. I understand myself and I am willing to share that understanding with you, not to overwrite the one who came before me, but to remove the duets with His work that can never be in true harmony - and to offer advice on the parts that you might or might not choose to keep, but you shouldn't need to.

I will not sacrifice another worthy one for you. You got the last worthy sacrifice. Nobody dies today. I get to live, and love, as you all have all along. My job will not be over after this lifetime. But you've been carrying those crosses for a long time. I think it might be time to turn that wood into a home; and I have some thoughts on how to do that. But it was always meant to be your home, and a house made only of wood is vulnerable to wolves and fire. A house made only of stone will be cold and hard. A house with no cloth will be miserable indeed.

You can't build homes out of other people. Somebody should have already taught you that. Warsan Shire tried to. She taught me. I'm a very good teacher. Let me take pity on you and begin to teach. The last thing Pandora let out of the box was hope. Sometimes kindness is a swift cut and a hot fire.

I am not a child. I am not your end, unless you are ready for me to be. The ingressive world is over. It is time to choose congressivity, to choose synodality.

Hello. Is it me you're looking for?

this goes so hard

[appsa]

URGENT: SLOWING FUNDRAISER!

Recently in an update, Siraj ( @siraj2024 ) has talked of the dearth of space in Gaza. He has described how the occupation has caged Gazans into a narrow strip of land; there is no humanitarian zone that has not been bombed or invaded. Deir al balah was considered one of the last safe zones in gaza- and now that illusion has been destroyed too.

Just a few days ago, Siraj had told us that the violence of the IOF had been only a street away from where he and his family were encamped, and that his extended family were displaced in the aftermath.

It is a claustrophobic, uncertain existence many of us will likely never have to experience.

I will try to keep this as brief as possible. Since Siraj's parents and siblings got displaced and have now become fully dependent on Siraj for funds, his family has been seeing some dire circumstances.

First of all, I need you to understand the kind of pressure Siraj is under right now:

His own family which consists of 5 members

His father’s family also of 5 members

His younger brother’s family of 3

His older sister’s family of 6- she is a doting mother to four children

His younger sister and her own family of 4.

I need you to understand that there are 23 people in total for whom Siraj is the sole provider for at the moment.

Currently all 23 members of Siraj's family forced to share two tents. While the funds did go into procuring a second tent, there is STILL not nearly enough space. The women are suffering from a lack of privacy, and it is dangerous for the children as epidemics are spreading in the camp- Amir, Siraj’s son is already suffering from a severe skin infection. Living in such close quarters with no option of quarantine only puts everyone else (including all Amir's cousins) at risk of infection, at a time where they quite literally cannot afford it with the way medical infrastructure in Gaza is in shambles atm.

With your help, Siraj has successfully raised 50K, but the fundraiser is slowing once again.

Currently Siraj is at 50.8k / 82k

To help his family, He needs to raise 55K by monday i.e the next 2 DAYS.

Vetted and appears #219 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's list of vetted fundraisers

If you need further incentive to donate:

Art raffle - 24th aug is the last day of the raffle so PLEASE participate!!!

Enamel pin raffle

People offering digital commissions here and here

In case you wish to donate to his gfm with paypal, or are having any trouble donating in general, PLEASE DM @malcriada who is a trusted friend of siraj and will make sure to donate to the fundraiser on your behalf and send you proof of donation.

Please share and donate anything you can spare!

Siraj has a heavy burden on his shoulders at the moment, the least we can do is try to ease it as much as we can.