#long validity plans

[cherrywhite]

I know Faulkner's ever increasing body count is a running joke as if it's something he's purposefully racking up but Rane's murder is such a stark contrast compared to every other one that's come before. And that difference marks such a monumental shift in Faulkner's character.

Like, he runs from the hotelier immediately after sainting him (I know his whole I'm going to make you a saint mirrors what he tells Rane this episode, but he still ultimately runs), he can't bring himself to use the Withermark at Marcel's Crossing, and Mason and Thurrocks' deaths were done in a fit of rage, the horror evident by the time he comes to his senses. Even Daggler's was caused by the Angel Faulkner summoned, not something Faulkner committed to up close. And I imagine however Charlie drowned, well. There's a lot of ambiguity in how it could have gone down, something we'll never really know the scope of, purely because Faulkner is such an unreliable narrator.

Then there's this.

I would argue that Rane's death is much more violent than the ones that came before purely for the fact that Faulkner seems to revel in their suffering as he does it. He needlessly pulls them back up to get a breath of air before plunging them back in the water. He strikes them with his staff so hard that it breaks. And he does this all while laughing and mocking at them. He's needlessly cruel to the point of terrifying. This part was so well done and it really shows just how far Faulkner has gone.

I'm so hesitant to say there's no way back from this simply because of how TSV writes its characters but my knee-jerk reaction as I was listening to this the first time is that there isn't. This was him, fully aware, crossing over the threshold.

[kagooleo]

first dates aren't always perfect 💐🌺🌸

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Genuine question for those of you who say that you want the dissolution of all states. What do you envision in place of states in terms of:

Logistics (i.e. making sure every area has the basic resources it needs in order to function and people not die for lack of water, food, fuel, medical supplies, etc.) Like not assigning these things necessarily but literally just getting them to various far-flung places.

Security (how do you prevent people from outside the area coming in and taking everything including resources, land, people, etc.) How do you prevent authoritarian groups coming in and occupying your formerly peaceful, non-hierarchical society?

Supporting people outside of affinity networks or within rigid social systems (a lot of disabled people, queer people, and other people on the social, familial, and religious outs are gonna die without some kind of appropriate systems in place to meet these needs.)

Addressing major environmental challenges that require cooperation over vast areas of land, if not global cooperation.

Rule of law, especially when it comes to human rights, freedom of movement, freedom of religion/culture, dispute resolution between governing bodies of whatever variety that doesn't involve war, etc. but also just like, basic laws governing interpersonal relationships (preventing rape, murder, theft, etc. and addressing the aftermath of those things in a humane, just way.)

Peaceful transition from states to whatever it is you imagine taking their place, without hemorrhaging lives from the most vulnerable populations.

And like, there's more that I'm sure I'd have questions about too, but these concerns are so basic that I just cannot continue the conversation without knowing what the plan is for these essential tenets of an organized society.

Don't get me wrong: I don't love states and wish we had a better system too. I am also painfully aware that states are failing many if not most of these all the time. However, what I would need to know is how what you are proposing is better than trying to improve what currently exists and isn't going to come at the cost of catastrophic loss of human life, human cultures, animal life, and land destruction. And not in a pie-in-the-sky way, a realpolitik way.

[kineticallyanywhere]

Monkey’s Paw pages 133-136 ( START HERE || ao3 || previous || next ) AU after episode 62. The Omega Dads try a more desperate gambit, but   careful what you wish for. Our dads find alternate versions of themselves in a strange dreamscape. Ifyou die in the dream, doyou die in real life?

...heeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyy

[infernal-house-demon]

Trans men and trans masc people who can’t medically transition for whatever reason or who just don’t want to— you are so incredibly valid. Don’t ever let anyone make you feel like you have to transition to be accepted as who you are. You deserve to have your gender affirmed no matter what you look like. A high voice, breasts, curves, etc, none of it makes you any less of a man. I see you. I love you. I’m with you. I’m giving you the biggest hug ever 💕

[magentagalaxies]

JUST FOUND OUT I GET TO HANG AROUND WITH THE KIDS IN THE HALL BACKSTAGE THE FULL DAY OF THEIR TORONTO SHOW WOO!!!!!!!

[comfortlesshurt]

OKAY, IT'S FINALLY HITTING

(will you guys hate me if I post this longfic a month later than planned?)

[bunnihearted]

im sorryyyyy i dont wanna be a mean bitch but genuinely i feel like im the one of only ppl who are actually alone bc i keep seeing all of these ppl complain abt how alone they are then they post a bunch of pics with their friend groups and they go on trips and celebrate their birthdays with friends and im like 😦?????????? im ngl i lowkey feel betrayed bc like yes sure we can relate on "feeling lonely" but ig at the end of they day im so sorry im not saying this to gatekeep loneliness or whatever but like u just cannot relate to what it feels like to not only feel lonely but also be alone and not even have people who want to spend moments with u. and feel and be like on your birthday you're alone. on your insta you're alone. irl u dont have ppl who even want to make plans with u. i know i know that everyone's loneliness is valid and you can still have partners and friends and feel lonely and that is valid i really do think so. idk i just feel so fkn alienated from everyone, including people who say theyre lonely - bc they still have ppl to talk to and ppl to be with and ppl who wants to be with them and consider them their friend lol.... i dont have anyone to take pics with or have groupchats with or go to concerts with or go for walks with and i dont have anyone to message abt stupid things or blah lahblahblah it doesnt even matter atp

[faaun]

ok let's catch up quickly

[iftitah]

everyone prioritizes their family and that means even extended chacha ke chacha fufa ke tau etc and i can't even prioritize my sagi one i hate myself

[pochapal]

went to the hospital again and the doctors said they basically have no clue what's wrong with me. my health is an unsolvable mystery now and forever.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

no but i hyperfixated on the actual authors the bsd characters are based on SO HARD this past summer that i made two unit plans: one was an author project with a partner where they chose one author and the other was a unit entirely about miyazawa kenji. it included a quick dive into the irl kenji and who he was as a person/writer (i did a TON of research), then we'd read "undefeated by the rain", then we'd listen to kenji's character song "the way of honest people", then the whole class text would be "night on the galactic railroad", and if there's time, we'd watch the movie

anyways i made an entire unit like discussion questions, presentations, work sheets, lesson plans, i connected everything to standards, the poem, song, story, movie, and research on miyazawa himself were all interconnected as well... i just read through it again today and ngl guys that was a DOPE unit i really hope i can teach it some day

[soft-puppy-boyfriend]

At the anger stage of realising I have childhood trauma

[phiatheox]

okay so I understand that "if wishes were horses" could be a difficult episode for #bashirnation because if you take fake! Jadzia at face value then he becomes insufferable. but as someone who is unable to take off my queer-tinted glasses at any time I would like to put forward the interpretation that it serves as a strong case study for Julian suffering from comphet.

now, it's been a while since I've watched the episode so I cannot provide an extremely detailed analysis, but I remember that in the scene where fake! Jadzia is first introduced Julian's initial reaction was to reject her (yes this can be seen as just responding to context clues and being polite but we're having a gay time here), and it's only after she asks him why he's fighting this that he thinks *you're right, society says I SHOULD want this*, and starts kissing her back.

afterwards, when he learns that she's just a manifestation of his thoughts, he responds to her propositions with embarrassment at best and outright repulsion at worst, as if the idea of a version of Jadzia that reciprocates his feelings fills Julian with discomfort. at one point, the alien even says something along the lines of "why would mine create a woman to reject her?" and that's the thing, because to me this episode confirms that Julian doesn't actually like Jadzia: he's just chosen her as the one to safely project his desire to fit into cishetero patriarchal norms onto because she's never actually going to like him back, which is why when faced with a version of her that does, he completely loses interest.

[justthatspiffy]

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[sirijanu-redux]

I've been having some pretty strong disability feelings lately.

I get why the push to discretize EDS was made and I honestly agree with it, especially in outlining the different genetic links as a part of the diagnostic criteria. It really had/has become a "problems disorder to stick people in when they have these general problems I guess", which medically makes it more difficult to treat than necessary. By laying out the boundaries for the thirteen types in 2017 each one becomes easier to treat (not to be confused with easy to treat!), and more consistent to describe. I agree with those choices.

I, personally, just wish I could've gone through the process just a little bit earlier. My diagnostic ~journey~ started in like 2012 when I couldn't push past my knees being stupid any longer, but I didn't get properly diagnosed and treated until I turned 18 and spent the next three years aggressively chasing specialists and advocating for myself. I got genetic testing in 2019, and don't have any of the known genetic markers. Everyone I've spoken to who knows about these things has done a double take at that, and asked if I'm *sure* I don't have classical or vascular. The geneticist herself looked at me and said if it were a couple of years earlier she'd just diagnose me with classical on the spot and send me back to cardio to test for vascular.

So whatever, I'm not in the genetic club that's being tracked at the moment, boo hoo just cope with everyone else in the HSD/hEDS bucket.

the reason I'm so frustrated is because this clearly runs in my family, my specific symptomology and presentation. aortic dissection has killed two of the last seven people to die in my blood family! that is ten times the average incidence! we don't age/have that eds baby face forever! the only reason I haven't had any of my freaky under-skin lumps analyzed is because both my mother and my grandmother have had theirs biopsied to hell and back and just get a shrug emoji! my little brother has the same joint problems I started presenting with and I can't help but hope both that his don't progress and that they do so I won't be the only moderate case we know of antemortem! I may be the only one of us living who has presented this severely but I've also been under enough stress to activate every epigenetic problem I've got! fuck!

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