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admit it. you’re mad at me for secreting a black sludge that turned all the animals into bigger scarier animals

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"Pride month is over"

WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition

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rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

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there is no excuse for working with or for ICE. these people are evil to the core. masked cowards and abusers elevated to a secret police that can get away with stories like these every single week.

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okay this is dubious canon at best but the idea that all rebel pilots are constantly on stimulants does make sense to me because of well. the history of warfare. it then totally paints esb in a new light because imagine you're luke skywalker, in active withdrawal from your army-mandated uppers, and some fucking frog wizard shows up

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The thing about Bruce and Cass is that when he gets it right (twice in a blue moon.) he gets it.

Half the time the problem is he gets it too well. They're both bad for themselves and it makes them bad for each other too. He sees Cass' suicidal go-it-alone recklessness and it makes him go "she's just like me fr fr. And clearly I turned out just fine so I should be encouraging this." And Cass sees him encouraging it and goes "see, he knows what's up. Unlike Barbara who keeps trying to fix me and just doesn't get why I need to do this."

And to an extent they're all wrong. Cass needs Batgirl and always will. Maybe even moreso than Bruce ever needed Batman. She will never be able to have that white picket fence life Barbara wants for her, Cain took that from her. At the same time though, being Batgirl is killing her. In both the figurative and very literal sense. The way she is at the start of the comic is a fundamentally unsustainable way of living and could only have ended in an early grave.

The actual solution is in Cass finding a balance between the bat and the girl but the first step to that was convincing her she deserved to have more than just being Batgirl forever. She needed to discover for herself that she wanted to live. Barbara and Bruce couldn't have helped her. Only Shiva could. Cass needed (and still needs) all three of them.

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ok but the way her suit shines like it's actually armor, she's getting to be the Dark Knight. love this

Cassandra Cain riding on a horse has hit this fandom like a national tragedy (really more of a treasure, lol), genuinely the funniest shit I've ever seen.

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Pyrrha sat on her knees, accepting her fate. She knew she couldn't win. But maybe she managed to buy time. Time for the others to get out. Nora, Ren...Jaune. At least he knew. She got to let him know she loved him. It was worth it if her friends and Jaune could live. Amd then she heard a thump. Right as the arrow pierced her heart. Her drifted over to see...Ruby. Ruby! No no no! She wasn't supposed to be here! She wasn't-

@tumblingxelian have the worms

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what do you mean i benefit from oppressive power structures. that would make me ontologically evil and that can't be right because i'm ontologically good since i'm a victim to other oppressive power structures. i am going to lie about what you said to a bunch of people now and they will all believe me because of said oppressive power structure

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Speaking as a survivor of child sex abuse: the world would be a lot better if yall spent less time talking about the ways in which pedophiles should be punished and more time supporting survivors and preventing abuse

I get it, punishment can feel cathartic. I’ve certainly spent time imagining all the ways in which my own abuser might be punished. But ultimately, him dying, or being jailed, or publicly shamed, isn’t actually going to help me nor will it stop more kids from getting hurt in the future.

I don’t want more prisoners. I want free therapy with trauma informed counselors. I want better sex education for young children that teaches them about consent and body autonomy. And I want a society in which I can openly discuss my trauma, or at least as openly as yall discuss the evils of pedophiles

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What's the ship name for Kate and Selina anyway? Batcat is taken so would it be Womanwoman? Because that's extremely nonspecific and unhelpful.

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Honestly if I were Ilia and my crush chose patron saint of incels Adam Taurus over me I would have turned out so much worse than she did.

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ICE is a terrorist organization.

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for fuck's sake, can we start being nicer about spiders?

every time I want to talk about cute or cool or badass spiders I get at least one fucking japester who's like "oh I bet it won't be tiresome and irritating if I write trite and unprompted flash fiction about murdering innocent and harmless animals with fire (a particularly torturous form of death) THIS time", and they're wrong every single fucking time.

I would rather have ten people telling me they are horny for spiders every time I mention an arachnid from now until the day I die than have to continue living in a world where one of my favourite animals is most well-known on the internet for being the centre of a quote-unquote "joke" about extreme and pointlessly cruel animal abuse.

jesus christ, guys. spiders are just animals. they're not even, like, pests, or invasive, or anything. the vast overwhelming majority of them can't even hurt humans, and the ones that can don't want to.

like, shit, sorry for the graphic image, but how would you feel if every time you posted a picture of a cute cat you got replies saying "if I saw that in my house I'd put it in a fucking beartrap"? because that's how I'm starting to feel about the "burn the house down when you see a spider" joke.

and before you get on my ass about arachnophobia, I am arachnophobic, being in the immediate IRL presence of spiders gives me an uncontrollable physical fear response, but the existence of arachnophobes does not give you free reign to jack off to the idea of being able to freely torture and murder animals that "give you the ick". you cannot trot out arachnophobia here as an excuse. there are tons of people who are scared of dogs. doesn't mean you gotta be a dick about dogs. same with spiders.

one of the most popular superheroes in the world is spider-themed and you still got fuckers out here thinking they're the funniest man alive for making jokes about killing spiders holy shit

anyway, rant over. picture of a cute spider under the cut ->

just a little guy! hello! if he was a character in a video game he'd have a squeaky little voice and ask you to help him find his buttons!