#so again YMMV

[falconwhitaker]

Related to my last reblog, I do wonder if a lot of people my age (early 30s) ended up with our opinions of feminism kinda warped by the way it was treated online.

I'm conjecturing a lot here, but I feel like a lot of people using the word "feminist" pejoratively – I'm looking at you here, atheist YouTube – used it less as a reference to a specific ideology and more as a way of indicating "left-wing person who believes others deserve rights".

Think about how "feminist" or "feminazi" became "SJW". Like if you're a feminist, you're a social justice warrior, so you're left wing, you believe in equality, you're progressive, right?

Except that feminism covers a huge spectrum of ideologies clustered under the umbrella of "Promoting women's social, political and economic rights", and not all of those ideologies are going to be intersectional. Being a feminist is not the same thing as being anti-racist, or trans-inclusive, or pro-queer, or disability positive, or opposed to fat hatred, or supportive of Jewish people, or any other progressive stance.

Feminism is about the rights and equality of women. That means even the shitty forms – white feminism, trans excluding radical feminism, sex worker excluding radical feminism, any other shitty form of feminism you can think of – is still feminism.

It's shitty feminism. But it's still feminism. And we can't just shove them under the carpet by saying "They're not real feminists" because they are. We have to acknowledge them. Accept that, whether we want them or not, they are a part of our movement. And then we work together as hard as fucking possible to prove oh my god your version of feminism is really really shit for people who aren't just like you let's do it the way that doesn't make the world worse.

[pancake-breakfast]

Been watching through Link Click with my brother for Sibling Anime Night and, as this is my second watch, there are all these little details that are just driving me crazy. I have to remember not to say a darn thing because he doesn't know yet, but geez. They put some thought into this. They knew what they were doing.

Here are a few:

Qiao Ling telling Cheng Xiaoshi that Lu Guang is way more mature than him despite being the younger of the two.

Near the end of the first episode (in the sub), Lu Guang very insistently tells Cheng Xiaoshi to never ask about the future.

In the Noodle Lesbians episode, Cheng Xiaoshi telling Lu Guang, "Just because you don't see a glimmer of hope doesn't mean it's not hiding somewhere," and Lu Guang's expression fading into this soft smile as he chuckles, as if he's thinking, "It's just like you to say something like that."

In the basketball episode, how jealous Lu Guang sounds when Cheng Xiaoshi high-fives someone else.

When Cheng Xiaoshi runs out to start warning people about the earthquake, Lu Guang gritting his teeth and shouting, "You can't save them. They are already dead!" And then hurriedly lecturing Cheng Xiaoshi on how much of a fixed point death is no matter how much you might want to change it. "No matter how hard this is, you can't alter their fates!"

Lu Guang: "The future that we now know could completely disappear." (dub) "It could even cause the disappearance of the life we have now." (sub)

In the Aunt May arc, the three superheroes that our main three dress up as being the Star of Justice, Bringing Hope (Cheng Xiaoshi), Star of Courage, Conquering Fear (Lu Guang), and Star of Wisdom, Lighting the Way (sub)/Serving Knowledge (dub) (Qiao Ling). Gods, I could write an essay just on that.

I just... I just wanna grab some of these characters and shake them. Maybe slap them a few times. Why they gotta be like this?

[coriander-candlesticks]

Note to self: word prayers better when doing divinatory sessions

I think I've mentioned this before, but I do yes/no stone pulls on Sundays to ask for guidance about maintaining my health re: my commute because it's 2-2.5 hours each way via public transit if everything runs on time. It's rough on me in multiple ways and can lead to even more migraines than usual or being too fatigued to work at all, and it can be difficult to tell whether I'll have the spoons to go in person.

This past Sunday I was exhausted & stressed because of, you know, the horrors, and said my initial prayer a little differently than I usually do. I still invoked Apollo and Hermes as always, as both of them cover divination by lots, Apollo's domain covers health & disease, and he's the one I turn to for divination by default.

Now, the vast majority of the guidance and lessons Apollo has given have had to do with recognizing my physical & mental limits, especially around this issue. The answers I was getting this time around were...odd but not quite in the way they have been with just dud pulls, so I started asking clarifying questions to figure out what was going on. After a few - establishing that there was a reason for the answers but it wasn't a test or punishment or Apollo messing with me (which would have been. odd) - I realized that while I'd invoked Hermes as a god of divination by lots alongside Apollo, I had not explicitly asked him to act as a messenger and aid in communication this time around, nor had I asked Apollo to guide the divination session with the wording I usually use.

I think you can see where I'm going with this.

I re-said the prayer (correctly this time) and confirmed that it was, in fact, Hermes at first while re-doing the initial set of questions (which were much more consistent in the usual way), as well as confirming that the issue was the prayer wording. Lesson learned lol

[girldraki]

White Apple Family does also make the thing with equestria girls big mac into "how do you whitewash a white guy", so there's that

we had blacked out eqg big mac until receiving this ask. god. im not sure we ever totally internalized that that guy was big mac like, emotionally

[synechd0che]

Sometimes I worry that I’m self centered or that I need to read more theory. Then I see a trans blogger say (unfortunately not exaggerating the verbiage) “trans men shouldn’t complain about being refused a bed in domestic violence shelters, at least they have the option to access them if they detransition.” And you know what? I think I’m doing fine actually.

[witchofwolfwood]

Correspondence but not in the long lists from books way but in the studying folklore and scientific properties and healing uses, meditating on the plant and playing word association with what you find until one day you're planning a spell and inspiration blesses you with her sweet smile and you're like "Oh, I know a guy thatd be perfect for this" and its just something chilling in your garden

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

forever thinking about Helen Vaughan fron The Great God Pan. it's not a good novella and it's weird and misogynist about her but goddamn she was so alone. she was always so alone. the father who created her in a twisted and violative experiment sent her away when she was twelve. she found herself to be 'of a different type' than the people around her wherever she went. she had friendships of a 'peculiarly intimate character' with village girls who always left screaming and in tears. she married and she travelled but she 'corrupted [people] body and soul' wherever she went.

do you think she knew? what sort of being she was? do you think she had an awareness of being alien wherever she went? we see her refracted a thousand times through the men who create her and discard her and marry her and kill her, but we never see her. we never hear her speak.

she must have been so lonely.

[scribblingface]

I went into bg3 fully ready to have a good time and have done so despite many ways in which the game is not good and have not worried too much over various dramas about patch changes but my chill streak has finally ended and I am wailing gnashing my teeth etc. about patch 7 (the supposedly final one with story/content changes) not adding companion reactivity for any of the durge content in act 2

[the-uncanny-dag]

OC creation will have you googling shit like "can you experience Stephen King The Jaunt time dilation in a coma"

[tinknevertalks]

Well, that was unsurprising.

[braddourifscareertrajectory]

omg just read your romance post… would you recommend not romancing lucanis then? 😭😭 i’m sooooo sad, he’s def my favorite rn..

behind a cut because idk just in case although i don't mention anything specific

I mean...I don't want to say don't romance him because to be fair this kind of stuff is always very subjective. And I'll put the disclaimer here that I haven't finished it - maybe it gets really great at the end and that saves the whole thing for me and I'll be embarrassed I ever said it was bad! Lol. I've definitely seen people who really liked his romance. And I can see what they're trying to do with the writing. But I would just say go in expecting it to be a bit of a tonal shift from the initial coffee meetup with Illario, and likely less romance-y romance content than is generally expected (and tbf this seems to be a thing with several romances, not just his.). But if you really like him I think it's probably still worth experiencing, since the end IS apparently really good. I've just been perplexed by the journey lol.

[deus-ex-mona]

duelxduel

[alteredphoenix]

The absolute irony of watching an episode (and a half) of Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir out of curiosity the other night while waiting out a PC update to be done only to get hit with the news it just ended its first arc after eight years.

[flatstarcarcosa]

actually now that i think about it so many of the one liners in the first predator movie that rewired my brain are also on the cusp of some of the most blatantly sexist/homophobic shit you've ever heard.

i often forget 'A GODDAMN SEXUAL TYRANNOSAURUS, LIKE ME' is on the heels of that same character calling everyone else a bunch of faggots lmao

[hyenaswine]

it's like white privilege. you don't opt out of it. it's a way of discussing systems of power, it's not a personal attack. does cultural christianity also make you stupid or something?

[uozlulu]

Sometimes I forget how some romantic tropes just kind of weird me out and then I read something like “I just want to look at your face,” and I’m all, in the quietest voice with the greatest possible conviction, “No.”