#past hate crime

[balkanradfem]

Okay, I'm about to step on some toes, but hear me out; I need to do it. Okay? Good.

There's a lot of funny 'Girl what were you doing at devil's sacrament' jokes and memes, and isolated from context, it's very funny, I know it's funny, it's 'telling on yourself haha' because you had to be participating in a 'bad activity' in order to catch someone else who was also there.

However I know the original context, and it's less funny if you do. Why would a woman say she saw another woman at the Devil's Sacrament, incriminating both herself and another woman, who would both then get burned alive? I know why.

I'm going to take you back to my childhood, where I was reading every book I could get my little hands on, and one of these books was called 'Grička Vještica', or 'Grič's Witch'. These were fictional books set in the age of witch burnings, and the main character gets accused of being a witch. Even if the characters are fictional, the historical places, events and laws were real. The main characters ends up locked in a tower with the other accused 'witches', and there she finds women who were horrifically, unspeakably tortured. I won't go into what happened to them, but their limbs were ripped, their bodies shutting down from pain, they were begging for death. What happened to their bodies was described in detail, and to the child me, it was traumatic to hear about it, it created a heavy fear in my heart, that something like that could even happen, to any human being.

The books gave some insight of what was happening during the torture, and the torturers were leading these women to not only confess to their own 'witchraft' under torture, but to incriminate other women. And if they wouldn't, the torture would get worse and worse. And human beings break after a certain point of torture. They'll do and say anything. They had already confessed to being witches under torture, and now they were facing more torture + death by burning, or just to die in fire without further mutilation, if they talk.

Torturers usually already had their minds set on a certain woman they wanted to incriminate; women with medical skills, money, estate, land, women who wronged them, rejected them, who had rejected or angered their friends, whose houses or land they wanted to claim, widows, unmarried women, anyone they wanted to eject from society, whose assets they wanted to harvest. All they needed to do was brutally torture (and often, sexually torture) the women in front of them, until they were willing to say 'Yes, okay, I saw her at the devil's sacrament' and they could have whatever they wanted.

It was done under the worst agony the human being could experience.

So whenever I read one of the memes, that's what I remember, because I know how it happened. For it to be used in feminist jokes... we could find another funny instance to use? What were you doing at the furry convention? Or something like that, that doesn't reference women being tortured. We could reference something silly and non-consequential. I mean, I hope we would want to.

I'm sorry to ruin your jokes! I feel like the women from the past wouldn't love us using that either, and they're not around, so I have to speak up for them.

[breezemachine]

I have returned!!!

Just heard screams of the damned, that’s how I feel about Wilson

[palaceoftears]

Ooh, I try, I try, I try Try to rationalize People are people But it's like you're made of angel dust

- Lacy, Olivia Rodrigo

[oddlittlestories]

So I love House because it's one of the only shows I've ever seen that acknowledges how hard life can be while also having fun with it all the way down. He makes Wilson a fun video in the c word, like seriously.

And the inherent complex morality of how screwed up the characters are. Like how they deliberately hurt others, or accidentally do, and how all of those motives are not always but often the same motives that drive them to do their kindest acts. How hard it is to show up and how fear and pain make us act out. How showing up and connecting is the key

Something something bad and good are not opposites something something reasons to live & fun in the darkness something something fear of death, fear of being alone & fear of being in pain vs. the euphoria of knowing & loving & experiencing

it's just so human

[maulfucker]

So fucked up that obimaul is a rarepair. What do you mean not everyone is obsessed with enemies to lovers with a Force connection, where one side is completely obsessed with the other who barely acknowledges him (but is just as affected)

[whos-hotter-jjba]

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[baconpncakes]

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[clarabowmp3]

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[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

[jellyfishcandyy]

sth sth 'my sister is gone' sth

[vladdyissues]

I'm so mad that Puffy's account got terminated. I always looked forward to seeing her work as much as I look forward to seeing yours. Is there anything we can do to help? Like, can we make an appeal to Tumblr on her behalf or something?

There's no process to appeal on another user's behalf. Tumblr is pretty much only concerned about the parties involved—i.e., you must be experiencing the action directly, unless it's a case of self-harm.

I was contacted last night via an anonymous ask by someone professing to be the one responsible for getting Puffy terminated. They indiscriminately mass reported Puffy's posts and engaged in malicious defamation (libel)—otherwise known as making serious, false, real-world allegations against someone for the explicit purpose of damaging their character and getting them terminated. A targeted harassment campaign, essentially. I used that exact terminology when I reported the ask to Tumblr. The anon's account information has been logged, Tumblr knows who they are, and I'm hoping there will be some form of justice served. But given Tumblr's track record, I'm not holding my breath.

I don't expect Puffy's account will be reinstated, but she's not exactly worried about it. It's much easier for her to simply start over with a fresh account instead of trying to get her old one back.

As Carl Sagan famously said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." If someone makes serious accusations that are proven to be unequivocally and undeniably false, then the accuser should face consequences commensurate with the severity of the allegations. That's my view, anyway.

[doomdoomofdoom]

Every now and again I wonder if maybe all trans people face roughly the same amount of bigotry and one just gets more attention, but then i have to read terf posts and.

wow.

obviously every group of trans identities faces their own struggles and unique oppression but there's this incredibly vitriolic kind of hatred reserved for transfems and its sickening.

[zambehnation]

How I imagine House convinces Wilson to do the chemo:

"I need you."

"I don't owe you anything. I don't owe you my life. But i can't go through this without you. So just tell me my life was worth it. Tell me you love me."

"No. Not unless you fight."

"Why? Because you need me? I cant suffer through this just because-"

House leans over to kiss him. 

"Because you want to hear me say it. Come on Wilson don't you want to get to the good part?"

[spark-circuit]

me at my bookstore job to the 27th young adult straight edgy fantasy romance to come in this month

[eugeniedanglars]

if you ever feel like you’re bad at your job just remember that joe jonas’ own pr team managed to turn the internet’s view of him from completely neutral to public enemy number one in the span of 48 hours

[sapphanimates]

i really like the idw comics you guys