#of OUR engagement

[babygirlgiles]

I never understood people freaking out like “my ex is ENGAGED now” like who cares what they do after you’re broken up, they’re welcome to do whatever they want with their life as part of moving on bc I’ve also moved on (and for the better) but. Also. My ex is ENGAGED now. Hey anyway totally unrelated to this does anyone wanna go set shit on fire in the backyard with me?

[freckliedan]

I refuse to believe you were wrong about ring theory actually

thank you. i do also <3

[cat-in-a-mech-suit]

Being forcefully raised as a woman is not any less traumatic and emotionally repressive as being forcefully raised as a man. Femininity is not inherently pure and safe. Coercing someone to perform femininity is not any less toxic than coerced masculinity. Being dysphoric around femininity or having trauma from women doesn’t make you a misogynist.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[uncanny-tranny]

Little things adults and older people can do to help younger people and children feel included, safe, and respected as an equal individual:

Ask before touching the young person - even for hugs. Ask before you take pictures of them, and let them see photographs of them before they are printed or sent to others (even family).

Apologize when you are wrong

Ask for a young persons thoughts on a subject, then engage with them after they have spoken

Demonstrate behaviour you want to see from them (see: apologizing). Say "excuse me," say "thank you," say "please" to them

Validate their feelings, even if they don't know how to express them just yet

Remember that this is the first time they've been alive, and that you've had way longer to "figure it out"

These are some things I wish other adults remembered when engaging with young folks. We so often forget what childhood felt like and how unfair it all was because we were often awarded freedoms as adults that we never had as children. These kids are equal to adults, and they deserve the same courtesy, respect, kindness, and understanding we give to other adults.

[the-cimmerians]

Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the first transgender woman elected to Montana's legislature, attended a Montana House of Representatives session to oppose an anti-transgender bill that would remove references to transgender individuals from more than 40 sections of state code. The bill, which would define sex in a way that excludes trans people, was one of over a dozen heard this year. The previous day, her strong speech against the gender affirming care ban the state had passed led to the Montana Freedom Caucus calling for her censure while intentionally and repeatedly misgendering her. When she punched in, they refused to recognize her to speak, and instead moved forward to pass the bill.

Tensions flared on the House Floor when the entire Democratic Caucus rose to demand that she be permitted to speak. In a strikingly undemocratic move, Republican House Speaker Regier declined to allow it, asserting that he could refuse to allow anyone to speak at his discretion. When Minority Leader Abbott objected, they moved to a packed rules committee meeting, which upheld the ruling. Following that, the Speaker stated it was his intent to no longer allow Representative Zephyr to speak moving forward.

[a-very-tired-jew]

“It’s not antisemitism, it’s anti-Zionism!”

Meanwhile, Kiswani’s Twitter.

And if you don’t know who Nerdeen Kiswani is, she’s the leader and founder of Within Our Lifetime. She and her organization are the ones routinely organizing protests in NYC. Said protests always end up harassing and threatening Jews in some capacity, their last big one to make the news ended up in front of the Nova exhibit and vandalizing an anti-Zionist Jew's home. She has spread antisemitic conspiracies repeatedly, multiple members of WOL have been arrested for hate crimes, and the “If you’re Zionist raise your hand” person is a senior member of WOL as well. Kiswani’s entire brand is violent antisemitism under the guise of “anti-Zionism”.

She is the epitome of the Sartre quote as she knows what she is doing and quickly jumps to an aggressive defense of her actions. Any time she gets called out for her antisemitism and stochastic terrorism she has rhetoric ready to go that makes her the victim and Jews Zionists the villain. Never mind that she engages in every type of antisemitic conspiracy and canard, she's the actual victim here and calling her an antisemite just shows you how much of a victim she is.

She has a follow up tweet to this that essentially victim blames Jews, but calls them Zionists who "twist everything". Disregard the fact that she's "just joking" about getting Black September originals, this is the same type of "just joking" that we see all know is a method for the person to wave away accusations of bigotry. If this was a joke trivializing a tragic event in any other ethnicity's history she would be rightfully called out and vilified.

Read that again. Why are people allowed to do this to Jews and the Left refuses to hold them accountable?

It's people like Kiswani who openly use Zionist to mean Jews and then use the old Soviet playbook of "well we're anti-Zionist, not antisemitic".

Why does the Left not hold people accountable who engage in stochastic terrorism against Jews when they do so for other groups?

Instead, Kiswani is lionized and held to no standard beyond her own.

[da-janela-lateral]

I see plenty Dad Reigen out there but where are my Dimples exhibiting weird uncle behavior

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

jin guangshan and lan qiren yaoi perhaps? since their shapes create a perfect balance?

Two old men perform worlds first successful 96.

[ridleymocki]

Ed tearing up over a love letter while distractedly strangling a guy to death is peak dark comedy to me guys, like this is the show, it was so funny and neither Ed nor I are perfect people in that moment but here we are

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

[samuelroukin]

i’m sorry if you didn’t think izzy was complex/interesting last season but that’s literally a skill issue

[edwardbabygirlteach]

So I saw that new New Zeland ad and…

*squints*

Is-Is that what I think it is….

….that’s Stede’s turquoise ring on Ed’s left ring finger….

EXCUSE ME.

STEDES RING, ON ED’S LEFT! RING! FINGER!

[adickaboutspoons]

Y'all realize that there's more than a day between episodes 5 & 6, right? I get that it's weird that Pete and Lucius apparently hadn't told anyone about their engagement yet, but: 1) Ed's cheeks go from looking like this:

to this:

The bruise around his right orbital has completely disappeared, and the one on his left cheek is almost healed, the scab well on its way to a scar. That kind of healing takes at least a week, but it might be as much as a month. 2)

If this takes place the day after ep 5, they JUST went through the adventure of the Cursed Suit, which involved raiding 2 ships in 1 day. And they're already bored? (and spent the night after all that rearranging furniture?)

and 3)

It would mean that Ed was right about only having to wear the penitence onesie and cat bell for one day, and then the crew was apparently totes ok with not only letting him wander around bell-less, but have gone back to calling him Captain:

Edited to add: Ed's not the only one with dramatically altered scars. Izzy goes from looking like this:

to this:

I'm not saying it's a LOT of time, but it's for sure more than just one day.

[xoxoemynn]

I know it shouldn't surprise me, but it's frustrating af to step outside the fandom and read about OFMD's cancellation on more general entertainment sites and see the majority of reactions be along the lines of "oh well it was probably Taika being over it, he always gave me the ick anyway so, whatever," and then often devolving into comments about his personal life, or conspiracy theories that can be disproven if you use your brains for 30 seconds or maybe step outside and touch grass idk idk.

And this isn't me saying "omg how could you dislike Taika" bc truly unless you're being racist or antisemitic (which, let's be real, many are), I don't give a fuck what you think about him.

But the point remains that if you have a show that is all about celebrating queer joy and finding yourself later in life, that has a diverse cast of characters in terms of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and body type, that was WRITTEN by a diverse group of writers, that is receiving praise from critics and fans alike, that from all reports was one of Max's most successful shows despite them doing next to no promotion the first season, that had two successful seasons and the creator is on the record saying he had a plan to tell the entire story in three, and it gets CANCELED.

I don't give a fuck how you feel about Taika, or how you feel about OFMD. You SHOULD be concerned about that. Because your show is next.

And before you come at me with "it's just a show, have you seen what's happening in the world?" Yeah. I fucking have. And the arts matter. They have always mattered. It's how we've shared stories and fostered communities and passed down what's important to us as a society. And they've brought us joy. And I don't know about you, but I think we could all do with a fuckton more joy in our lives.

This is absolutely a huge loss, and unfortunately it's not going to be the last as streaming services continue to go deeper in crisis. If that doesn't concern you, idk, go enjoy yourself watching season 47 of The Bachelor.

[noirandchocolate]

Guess WHAT!!!!

Your girl KidK just got proposed to by the BEST PERSON EVER, BAST, via a VACATION PICNIC at a SEASIDE PARK that was a SURPRISE and there was a PHOTOGRAPHER and EVERYTHING.

I’m eating a charcuterie board with my FIANCÉE!!