#not necessarily america

[floridacracker]

[theoptia]

Clementine von Radics, from “Letter from Anaïs Nin to Clementine von Radics”

Text ID: For women who are tied to the moon, love alone is not enough.

[qqueenofhades]

I'll leave you with this thought for the night, gallows-humor though it is: even the lowest-informed, misguided, confused, and sometimes let-us-say-it flatly moronic people in America like to vote and take it for granted that they can meaningfully do so on a regular and expected basis. So if the evil orange and company actually try to make good on this whole no more democracy and/or actual elections thing, I really don't see it working out well for them.

[aquareegia]

"tIkToK iS tRaSh AnYwAyS!" I need you to shut up and look at the bigger picture here. This "ban" was a blatant demonstration of power and political propaganda. As a European, I know we make fun of Americans because they're so blissfully unaware about the real state of their so-called "land of the free" but this is scary shit. Tiktok is just an example for "Look what we can take from you!" We all know what the cheeto criminal is planning. The thing is, this isn't just a US issue. Fascism is on the rise everywhere, and they are trying to do the same shit here, with the US as a blueprint.

[skyeee]

gift for a friend

[schnuffel-danny]

see you soon, laika

[mystybird]

al and his first giiiiiiirlyyyyyyy friend (she’s a human and this will end tragically)

[bangchansnaturalcurlyhair]

day 2 of the conclave and before I begin I want to take a moment to appreciate just how much lomeli hates tremblay, like in the movie I think he first comes across as a little suspicious but mostly just this generic (possibly american?) cardinal, but in the book he's the most insufferable guy around, he's a 70 something year old with a how do you do fellow kids attitude and an inability to slow down who carried his belongings to the casa santa marta in a nike dufflebag, as far as lomeli's concerned his one saving grace is he is not actually american

[seventh-district]

“Why’s he call you Darlin’?”

on my knees begging my brain to stop trying to associate this song with Sam

[age-of-moonknight]

“The Moon Warrior,” Marvel 85th Anniversary Special (Vol. 1/2024), #1.

Writer and artist: Yuji Kaku; Special thanks to Ken Kunito

[gremlins-hotel]

asteroid city hasn't left my mind since i saw it

[mabaris]

another thing that i just noticed is that the dwarves have now had done to them by the elves what we’d thought the elves had done to them by humans, at least before inquisition. cut down in their peak and permanently ruined, left to scrabble for the broken pieces of their history

not to say it’s an inherently bad choice because oppression isn’t that straightforward, but it sure was an interesting choice to shift the “they destroyed our way of life and fractured our society and we ARE allowing ourselves to feel angry about it and reclaim our history and maybe use that to rebuild what we once had” narrative from the elves to the dwarves. like if that’s the story you really wanted to tell, you could have also given it to like. bellara

[macbethz]

People really love to pretend doctor who as a television show exists in a vacuum and not a culture that has shifted over the last 60 years. The standards for television are very different now than they were even 10 years ago & I think it’s important to consider in ANY analysis of doctor who what the surrounding tv landscape was like

[sneakyneighboururchin]

Everytime someone calls Anders blowing up the Chantry an act of terrorism I lose a year off my life. Please learn what words mean, I BEG of you.

[wheucto]

with that new revelation in ii2 e16, i feel like there's... a lot less to know about the world of ii. at least, not to know for sure.

because, before then, you could extract some information from passing comments. remember the french or whatever pizza delivery guy who tried to pass as italian, but spoke spanish instead? from that, you could determine that 1. france, spain, and italy are places that exist and 2. if those countries exist, why not all the countries in the world?

but. but, according to what cobs said at least, mephone4 seems to have made everything. he made the weird looking grass. if he made that, then why not anything else? did that guy exist before he came onto the show? probably not! and if he was made that day, was the concept of "france," "spain," and "italy" made that day too?

there's no way for us to know what the normal world of ii looks like. do they have parallel countries to us? well, we know their continents aren't parallel. it follows that their countries wouldn't be, either. who knows what their history is like? how the normal objects are like? will we know?

[raptorific]

Something wild to see in the Slur Reclaiming discourse is a trend by well-meaning idiots to concoct a fantasy world where the slur was invented by the affected community as a neutral or even positive descriptive word, and then it was later stolen for use as a slur by the bigots, who are now attempting to retroactively rewrite history so that everybody thinks it was always a slur, and that everyone who insists it's a slur and isn't onboard with the reclamation effort is secretly doing the bigots' work in rewriting history, even though

This has basically never happened, they basically all started out as pejoratives and were then used as self-identifiers by those targeted by them. Yes, including that one that you saw a tumblr post explaining "the history" about. Yes, and that one too. And that one.

If this narrative were true, the act of reclaiming a slur would be the most defanged, pointless, milquetoast gesture imaginable. There's only any weight in using slurs as self-identifiers if they are, at their core, slurs.

I understand it's tempting to absolve yourself of responsibility and tell yourself that people who hate hearing those words, regardless of context, are simply misinformed at best or being unreasonable at worst, but if you can't handle the fact that those people are right about those words being offensive slurs that do harm to them, make the decision that using them anyway is the right thing to do in spite of that, and take responsibility for the impact your choice might make, then you aren't even mature enough to be using cuss words, let alone reclaiming slurs.