#radical friendship

[unwashedace]

Hey friends!

I’m excited to announce the call for submissions for the first issue of my new zine, Ask Philia!

I’m looking for your stories and questions about friendship. Whether it’s a heartfelt tale of a friend break-up, supporting a pal during tough times, long-distance friendships, misunderstandings, or even a platonic love letter—Ask Philia is the perfect place to share it all. 💖

Your submissions will help make this zine something truly lovely, so don’t be shy! 🌈💌

Click here for the submission form!

SUBMISSION FORM CLOSES SEPTEMBER 5TH

[eggy-edits]

Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is a radical feminist!

[egophiliac]

So how’s ride kamens going for you as I just pulled my self together long enough to read the other half of the current main story

I've been working on catching up on the event stories since they announced the upcoming main story update! (I totally bombed the last few events...they're so fast-paced and I just didn't have time...😭)

and then of course they went and dropped THIS on us today

(you don't understand, I LOVE Tajador and I already love the two blurry frames they've given us of non-silhouetted Kelka, I'm ready to absolutely lose my shit come the announcement/reveal(?) stream on Thursday --)

[shonayee]

I feel most of the women often come as 'rigid'', 'uninterested' , 'rude' to men because we're literally SCARED. So so scared. Every woman I know shares her location before going on a date, or meeting someone. She takes this RISK. This is too much pressure to put on women. To be aware all the time. To be careful. To share locations. We literally act "polite" to men we want to rip to shreds because disagreeing with a hateful man gets you killed. It happens everyday.

How under all this pressure are we supposed to be ourselves and act the way we truly are? There is no safe space, hence no personality. This is why women need community. This is why I value female friendships and sisterhood more than any romantic relationship. A romantic partner won't fill your void, true friendships and a safe space will.

This is exactly why men pit woman againts woman. This is why women weren't allowed out of the house since centuries. They knew we'd be too powerful with a community.

I'm the most myself around my female friends because I can hold her hand and kiss her on the cheek and it wouldn't mean I was asking for it. She wouldn't force me or grope me. I would 100000% feel more myself with a masc woman than an actual man. I'd kiss her because I feel safe. I know she won't kill me. I know she doesn't fetishize me. Chances are she knows how to treat me better than a man can.

[magicalworld500]

Yerterday my best friend made a r@pe joke.

He sent me a newspaper article about a 19 year old girl (same age as me) who was killed by a bear in woods and he wrote "she chose the bear". I wrote him back saying that wasn't necessary and he responded with "to laugh".

I haven't talked to him since.

I don't know what to do, he is my best best friend since years. We talk all day and all night long but I fell so betrayed. How can he not understand the situation?

Maybe tomorrow I will break the friendship for real but it's sad, soo sad that he doesn't understand how harmful can be such comments for a girl.

[beautifuiprincessdisorder]

i love girls and women so much. the women in my life bring me so much joy and happiness that i can’t even put into words. i find them so beautiful in every way. the female relationships in my life are what keep me alive, there is so much pure genuine love between women and it gives me so much hope to know that such love still exists. there is nothing more comforting to me than to be held in the arms of a woman whether it be my mother or my sister or my friend or a girlfriend. we can talk for hours without stopping or we can sit in complete silence and i will feel content just from their presence alone. we can talk about anything (no matter how embarrassing) and there is never a feeling of judgement. we are all so different yet the same at the same time and it’s beautiful. i feel bad for the women who hate other women, i don’t understand how any woman could be happy centring men in their lives who don’t care about them at all. i have so much genuine love for every kind of woman or girl that it almost feels like it’s consuming my heart 🤍

[willnotacceptalifeundeserved]

New video:

[jacks-weird-world]

🗽: @empirestatebldg

[rouge-the-bat]

i wish more people realized how dangerous it is to fall into the mindset of "everyone outside of My Group is out to get me/us. everyone of This Group is the enemy."

this is priming you for getting sucked into radicalized hate groups, conspiracy theories, abusive relationships, or cults- more likely multiple of those at once.

diversify who you interact with, including those that dont agree with you on every single topic. its harder to realize how deep you may be falling into bad mindsets/ideas/mistreatment until you get a reality check from outside your group.

[lorynna]

the moment you realize they are constantly posting stuff but never texting you and when you realize that even when big changes occur in your life you don't feel like texting them bc the message you sent them 2 months ago is still "unread" that's when you know the friendship ends

[lilithism1848]

[basilibino]

Season 8 was like 6 years ago(I feel old) and I know ppl have differing opinions on the Mr Echo thing (but it was intended, made it to storyboard and blocked animation and then dropped, soooo) but. I can see his recruitment p easily tbh. Bc the whole reason Dr J was in that lighthouse was because he was resurrected, forced there, and ordered to build Skulkin vehicles by Samukai. But Samukai in the flashback we see has already been deposed as leader of the Skulkin/Underworld. Which means the orders to do so most likely came from Garmadon.

And since Mr. E is one of the head honchos, he's likely an early arrival to the team, so I don't think Harumi has a whole lot figured out at this point, she's just got her Trauma and some Bad Influence Friends and an obsession with Lord Garmadon. So. Like. Plausible deniability road trip that she's just visiting important markers of Ninjago's recent past, all of which involve Lord Garmadon in some meaningful way; its sightseeing, its cathartic, and it gives her time to develop her dream Motorcycle Gang/Resurrection Cult. She's not looking for anyone at the Lighthouse, but she is looking for vehicle blueprints so she can be the Koolest leader on the block. But oops she looks in the basement and there's an Echo.

And she's flipping out bc??? A Ninja???? In the Lighthouse basement??? I mean it makes sense that it would be this one but???

Except this rusty old robot has no idea what she's talking about with this Ninja stuff, he's just waiting for his dad to come back.

And Harumi pauses.

Because how long has he been waiting? He's not sure, he had no proper way to measure time in the basement, and he doesn't have the best view of his clockwork heartpiece. But it was after his father saw a strange ship docking; Echo was worried it was the People who had locked up his father in the first place, but instead his dad sounded happy when he saw whoever was out there. It could have been a front, though, as clearly it was never safe to let Echo back out. Then Dr J popped down briefly, while everyone above was resting, to tell Echo he was desperately needed elsewhere, that it wasn't safe to bring Echo, but that he'd be back in no time.

And the pieces are fitting together for Harumi. And she's like. Your dad's dead, bro.

And he's like. What? Did he die doing what was needed of him?

And she's like. Oh, no. He died a few years later.

And he's like. Why didn't he come back for me????

And she's like. Probably because they kept him away.

And he's like. Who's they?

And she's like. The Ninja I was talking about earlier.

And it surely can't be hard in universe to find pictures of Zane and Dr J post s2-pre s3, so she pulls one up and shows Echo who is freaking out bc why is that one kind of like him and Harumi explains that that was the droid his father created first, that he became a Ninja, and that hes probably the one who took their father away and kept echo waiting for years.

But Echo has doubts, shocked as he is abt a new older brother, he wants to believe the good in the situation so he's unsure. But Harumi mentions that the Ninja's failures to uphold more than their self preservation/interests has led to uncountable losses and devastation in Ninjago time and time again, before delving into her own story. And she seems so kind, and so hurt, and I do think there's a genuine connection btwn these two that forms from this shared emotional torment that they decide came from the Ninja, and now Echo is more receptive.

And then Harumi gets to start her Garmadon pitch because wait! If Echo was made here, then that could only have happened because of Lord Garmadon. And she reiterates that he's the reason she and her city could have even survived The Great Devourer. And maybe Echo's family-by-creation left, maybe they were untrustworthy and lacking, but that's OK bc if you look at it all a certain way, Garmadon is more of a father to Echo than Dr J was. And Echo is a vulnerable, overwhelmed mess who just found out his dad fucked off for years without him and also died, and also he has a brother??? Who their dad clearly seems to have favored??? Did they even know about Echo??? Did they delight in their life free of him???

Basically. Kinda Spinel-core but getting abandoned and left completely alone does that to you. Especially when the first person to find you after being abandoned is a deeply hurt and misguided teen who is probably kinda desperate for someone, anyone else to see the Ninja the way she sees them.

[dadvans]

7x08 spec

i can imagine eddie losing buck’s trust and buck being hurt, but i don’t think it would be a lasting anger. how i imagine it happening is buck finds out because buck asks marisol how their date went the other night and marisol asks buck how their boys night went the other night and then they both realize that eddie lied to them. and i can see buck being more pissed that eddie set him up to be the one to watch marisol’s heart break, and being upset that eddie would lie, and would be disappointed in eddie’s character.

if eddie doubled down on My Ghost Wife Is Real And She Loves Me, i can see buck cooling off on their personal friendship and being a little bitchy at work, but leaving the door open if eddie gets his shit together. obviously i don’t think eddie will see it this way because he’s subconsciously self-sabotaging out of a shame he can’t let go of (that’s his emotional support shame!), and thinks he deserves to lose everyone important to him, so where buck sees an open door, eddie will see a burned bridge. i can see this lasting the first half of next season and then the second half being about them being friends again and 🤞🤞🤞

[roxyandtheroxies]

I’m obsessed with the idea of Rainbow Dash accidentally discovering and reading The Ego and Its Own and becoming a Stirnerite:

Rainbow Dash: "Everypony always tells me I have a big ego... sweet!"

A week later

Rainbow Dash, now wearing Stirner’s glasses, calmly trots through the park until Scootaloo runs into her.

Scootaloo: "Hey, Rainbow Dash! I haven’t seen you in a while. How’ve you been? :D"

Rainbow Dash: stares intently "Are you still trapped under the dogmatic spell of your cutie mark? Don’t you feel like the social conditioning tied to it forces you to follow its commands, instead of listening to your true self?"

Scootaloo: "I-i… Dash… WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! D:"

Rainbow Dash: "Ah, you react with confusion. You don’t see how your short life has been controlled by spooks! Ghosts of the mind! Forces born from the decayed corpse of the Church, tricking you with promises of fulfilling your deepest desires, when instead you should become an idol unto yourself! Every time Celestia delivers a decree, it’s only clearer that her greatest conviction is not the boundless freedom of ourselves, but the belief that nopony can manage their own affairs! That if we did, it would tear apart the 'foundation of civilized society!' This so-called foundation is nothing more than the self-loathing of the working masses—the true producers and most capable organizers of Equestria—"

Scootaloo starts backing away slowly.

Rainbow Dash: "-but instead we’re taught to idolize her rule! It’s obvious, Scootaloo! Her power is a-"

Scootaloo runs for her life

Rainbow Dash: waves "Goodbye, Scoot! I just love that little crusader :)"

cinematic credits roll

Note: i need to take this version of the character further.

[what-have-i-unleashed]

i need a "mtt meets classic" fic so bad. maybe in a scenario where they have to be his bodyguards for... something. it'd be so funny when they look at classic like "i can't believe i was that stupid when i was younger".

[chillwithnea]

the magic begins, when...

you start to say 'no'

you start to put yourself first

you start to treat & see yourself as the queen you are