#sorry to get like vaguely political

[ciderjacks]

as much as i am a communist I really think you white american tumblr commies need to learn that the soviet union was like. bad. It is alarming how many times i have seen Ukrainians living in Ukraine get bodied and accused of “promoting the red scare” for talking negatively about russia and the soviet union on here.

[loveguts]

i’m not a transandrophobia truther in the slightest don’t get me wrong, but i think some people on here really need to realize and comprehend the fact that cis women, way WAY more often than not, hold extremely significant social and political power over trans men the vast majority of the time in our day to day lives

[willbyersabyss]

some people in this fandom are so pretentious and rude

[numberoneanika]

Honestly the roleplay blogs are stronger than I am because if I saw a post where people were saying my blog was annoying and calling me corny I would jump in a large pit and rot away

[here-there-were-dragons]

i have to wonder what super hardcore militant vegans think should be done about obligate carnivore animals, because in all my painfully-rapidly-approaching-30-years i've literally never actually seen anyone give a clear consistent much less halfway feasible answer on that

[bitegore]

someone who is not me has definitely said this before but im coming to think that the existence of power is bad. Like. in a super fundamental way. Power requires someone to be subjugated to someone else's . well, power, lol, authority or control or whatever, because the construction of power is that someone can force or coerce or threaten someone else into doing something they otherwise wouldn't do by application of some consequence or another. even the soft power of 'this person is wise and knows a lot' is a construction where ignoring that person or not listening to them leads to some potential negative consequence, so we obey this wiser and older person for their ability to steer us clear of some imagined dark future mired in suffering; things only get harder from there really. But by like dint of existing in the same space as another person tehress nothing that necessarily subjugates someone else until we start playing power games and using power as a method of organizing the social group.

and like we live in a very power-centric world (obviously) so it's hard to concieve of the world without structures of power in the same kind of way it's hard to concieve of a world without, like, language or the cultural idea of the color blue or whatever, where it's this ingrained logic that just straight up Is part of how the world is run (to us, right now) but we live in a world where we have had problems that existed for millenia that we are killing, one piece at a time, like we are gods who can just turn our backs on cholera and infant mortality and widespread poor crop yield that produces famine and so on (if we choose to, which broadly we have made exclusively available on an exchange-for-money basis because this world is still running entirely on power) so i have to choose to believe that one day we will be able to turn our back on the idea of Forcing someone to do something as the only way to make any headway in society or to allow civilization to function and we will be living in a world miles better for it

[shame-kink]

one of the most important aspects to be learnt of being a political thinker online, a passive or active viewer of sociopolitical discourses and marginalization, is that just because you find someone to be “wrong” on a subject, have a bad take on a words definition or have shitty political/strategic takes, or just be fucking annoying to you personally, doesn’t make them stop being from the same marginalized group or group-of-groups as yourself. tragically sometimes a comrade-in-arms also just fucking sucks without it being a cishetero bourgeois psyop or a more-particularly-advantaged-yet-still-marginalized-group punching down. like there can be “self-hating” people from demographics actively trying to oppress said demographics but 9 times out of 10 Kaleb from My Discourses isn’t a Dennis Prager rubbing elbows with literal nazis he’s just that dipshit who thinks Judaism as a social category necessitates matrilineal affiliation (even though the people that actively hate Judaism as a social category don’t conceive of it as such). For example I mean.

this should really go without saying but good fucking god my own time in the ‘strangers with a word or two in common trying to kill each other online’ trenches neeeeded

[thursdaysbagman]

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[pondscummy]

real burn that bridge when we come to it hours tonight

[moe-broey]

Like idk if I articulated it well in the tags but I feel SO strongly about this m!Alear isn't even allowed to be a soft guy. He's just. A Guy. Who has emotions sometimes and a bit of whimsy and is sincere. Like he's SO normal.

[eileennatural]

you know in a real and technical sense i like men but the older i get and the more i experience the world the more i dont want to be with one. like i do not mean this in a biological essentialism way i don't think cis men are intrinsically misogynistic or violent but the way that men are socialized to behave and what they expect from women just gets more and more repulsive to me even in men that you expect to be "better" bc they're your friend or because they're progressive or because they say all the right things. it's actually so much worse when it's those men. like i don't even want to be wanted by men at this point i want to be repulsive to them in return but I can't afford to do that because women's social capital, their income, their job it's all in some way impacted by how we look and how we appease men. i don't know how much longer i can like. do this

[freedcmscall]

just curious. does any of this make sense to you? ( from emre! also helloo c: )

@fadedpath

Anders huffed out what was close enough to a sigh to count, tucked a hair that had come loose from its tie behind his ear. Well, he tried to, but the blasted strand apparently had a mind of its own and flopped right back in front of his eyes. A suitable visual for how he felt at the moment, at least.

After a quick scowl directed at the inanimate piece of himself, the mage offered half of a smile to Hawke. "Is it supposed to?" A bit of laughter, ever so slightly more than a chuckle, accompanied the question. Anders wasn't sure if it was meant to be rhetorical or not — neither the initial question posed to him nor his own response. It was something, at the very least.

"It's hardly a comment on your ability to explain things. More a... comment on Kirkwall, if anything. Does anything ever make sense here? Really, if I were up against a wall, asked that question, facing freedom or a guaranteed one-way trip to The Gallows if I couldn't answer... I'm still not sure I could answer successfully." A shrug accompanied his words, a shrug which he chose to use as punctuation instead of going any further because really, if he were honest with himself, occasionally he did talk a bit more than strictly was necessary.

"Maybe we try running through it again? Brute force our way into making it make sense."

[willowistic22]

Newsies au where mike and ike hate each other. And not in a brotherly manner but in a gut wrenching enemies sort of hate.

Imagine a dystopian world where there’s a war raging on and the newsies are in the middle of it. What once was a striving united land is now devided into several factions who are on a civil war with each other. There’s even a rebel faction that wants to put the war to an end instead of having one faction win and letting their leaders’ authority reign, bcs in all honesty each faction acts like a shitty political party that desires nothing but control over the whole land.

Mike and Ike started out with the same political alignment—actually aiding the war by becoming agents, spies, or assasins, idk i haven’t figured that part out yet— but something along the lines happened and Mike defected because he no longer believed in the cause of the political party he’s been supporting for so long. It really tore Ike’s heart apart to see his brother leaving. He felt abandoned by his own brother and grew to hate his guts. They’d be sent to the field and sometimes come across each other and Ike never hesitated to try and kill him first though deep down he never want to hurt his own brother.

But get this: the cause that Ike once believed in turned out to be just a guise. The faction is just another greedy political party. And Ike is left confused. He’s been brainwashed by propaganda and doesn’t know what to believe in anymore. Where else would he turn to if not his own brother who’s been waiting for him since the day he left to join the rebellion.

[nyxi-pixie]

'wah wah everywhere is falling to the right wing the whole world is doomed' literally like 6 months ago we were talking about how there was a trend in countries getting rid of their right wing governments. poland at the end of last year, france voted in a unified centre left/left alliance, even the UK finally got rid of the tories after 15 years (right wing splitting be damned, it still happened). outside of europe, bangladesh removed a dictator in like 2 seconds, india may have reelected their Evil Guy but on a DISTINCTLY reduced majority, theres been queer rights successes in thailand, with gay marriage set to be legal by 2025, and thereve been positive court cases on it in japan. and this is just stuff i vaguely remember hearing about. im sure theres more if you care to look for anything aside from more reasons to make yourself miserable

the US has a distinct effect on everyone, so this won't be fun for anyone (least of all its population. sorry guys), and there ARE a lot of people sliding into right wing extremism, but presenting this like its an unchallenged worldwide phenomenon is inaccurate, its damagingly bleak, and all it does is encourage despair and apathy. you DO have political power, and you shouldnt forget that just because of bad election results and the media's desperation to make you lose hope

[dreamteamemojis]

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[iamnottoph]

like look its one thing if you still wear the ravenclaw scarf you got for christmas when you were 16 and just dont follow the news much or whatever but like. if youre an active *fan* of the series im not sure how you'd possibly miss it. and yeah consumption is not (necessarily) activism but this isnt like some isolated online poisoned discourse, she is an active and vocal contributor to political groups and campaigns that have, among other things, recently resulted in puberty blockers for trans kids being banned in the UK. her bigotry has real-life consequences.

"no you're wrong everyone here knows that jkr is a terf but they hate us / don't care" my gay psychiatrist who specializes in lgbt patients needed me to explain to him what a "terf" was. another counselor i saw whose brother is gay and works in the transfem community had a harry potter mug on her desk. the political beliefs of a british fantasy book author are not high on american news priorities. please be real. your knowledge is specific and not world-shattering in the scheme of things. venture outside your bubble for 5 minutes and talk to someone who isn't a white queer in their 20s.