#its incredibly conservative

[anotherpapercut]

the girlbossification of ruth bader ginsburg has to be one of the most just plain annoying aspects of white liberal feminism. like it's not as actively harmful as a lot of other shit obviously. but it is soooooo annoying. if I never see another notorious rbg tote bag as long as I live it will be too soon

#her opinions and amicus' in many cases were iconic! not denying that certainly. she is absolutely AMONG the better justices in us history #HOWEVER her record on policing/the carceral system is very bad! genuinely bad! #and she just would not hold the conservative justices accountable. her and kagan are way too placating #and then she refused to retire in 2009 when there was a sitting democratic president and a fucking DEMOCRATIC SUPER MAJORITY #saying basically that no one else could do the job as well as her which is insane because sotomayor and KBJ literally are better :/ #its also unbelievably conceited and just incredibly fucking selfish to knowingly doom the country because you think youre hot shit #started ranting abt this at work bc literally any talk even adjacent to the supreme court will set me off abt all of us court history #and my coworker was like 'well i dont think its very fair that she had to have that much riding on her decision to retire' #it literally is fair because that is the fucking job that she signed up for. this has literally always been how it fucking works #its a lifetime appointment. you either die unexpectedly or retire strategically #she accepted a position in which the entire country would depend on her but its not fair for the entire country to depend on her??? #bullshit #im not fucking buying it. she did this knowing roe would likely be struck down as a result #she should absolutely be held accountable for that lmfao. you can know that she had a hand in a lot of great decisions for this country #while also knowing that she did a fucked up and extremely selfish thing

[235uranium]

sign that says "the appropriate response to aroallo people pointing out your sex negativity isn't to then call sex gross again but say it's your opinion"

#aroallo #☢️.txt #like JUST STOP SAYING ITS GROSS. FULL STOP. #you sound like a fucking conservative! #you can say you dislike something without calling it gross. its incredibly easy actually. barely even an issue! #ur not challenging the status quo ur not helping anything ur literally just being hurtful #its like if you saw someone eating a food you disliked and felt compelled to tell them its gross. you dont need to do that #its literally unnecessary #and fucking rude

[selenealwayscries]

I WAS JOKING ABOUT BAD ASS TEMPLE FOR PRIDE MONTH ON DISCORD AND THEN I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS WHAT THE FUCK

BAD ASS TEMPLE SAID LOVE WINS AS A THREAT AND IT WORKED WHAT THE HELL 😭😭😭😭😭

#hypnosis mic #hypmic #bad ass temple #cuz nagoya . yknow #its not even pride month over here in england yet and we already got incredible news like this 😭 what the hell #we finally have a second east asian country thats considering legalizing same sex marriage !!!! thats massive !!!!!!!!! #taiwan has been shouldering the burden of being the only east asian place you can legally get married to someone of the same sex 😭 #god this is such incredible news . BAT said fix homophobia and they listened <3 #im going nuts over this news its not even funny #japan has been really conservative about queer people for the longest time and the nagoya court just drops this BOMB onto our laps <3 #i really hope they really do go through with it !!! itll be an uphill battle against a conservative government but itll be so worth it !!!! #anyways i just needed to make that joke o7 the power of BAT sunset cards made their entire division reconsider their homophobic ways <3 #moondrop.txt

[trans-xianxian]

it's always good to foster empathy for animals and I think that there are so many creatures that are far more similar to humans than we give them credit for (or perhaps more accurately that humans are not as special as we make ourselves out to be) but anthropomorphism can truly be so dangerous... it's important to remember that humans are Also animals, but other animals are, obviously, Not humans and we lack an ability to communicate with them fully. trying to shove human emotions onto them hurts conservation more than it helps it. you can never actually know what an animal is feeling or what potential feelings mean to an animal. we can Guess, but broad and vague descriptors of behavior are always better than assigning human emotions that can have dangerous implications. a shark is not "angry", it is acting aggressively towards something, a lion is not a cold blooded killer, it is hunting for food. once you try to give animals morals or try to moralize their actions you enter very dangerous territory, especially if you're just like. a random person on the internet and not a scientist that studies animal behavior

#sorry saw a stupid video on youtube about orcas and conservation ben jumped out #it was abt two orcas labeled as serial killers because they were hunting sharks and eating their livers #like first of all its well recorded information that orcas will just eat the liver of a shark! #they do this w other animals too #just eating certain parts of them #but one shark liver isn't enough to fill an orca #so of course they have to hunt multiple #orcas are Notoriously incredible social animals #so of course they hunt together #they are also notoriously persistent #stop making animals seem like humans you're doing more harm than good!!!!! we don't know whats going on in their brains!! #also obviously things like this are different than like. anthropomorphizing your pet cat or whatever #you should be careful about How you think about your pets - at the end of the day they are animals who cannot speak to us #and if you humanize your pet too much #your pet lashing out #one of the only ways it can communicate discomfort or set boundaries with people #can quickly become a moral action in your brain rather than just a behavior #but saying your dog is happy to see you #is different from moralizing wild animals #anyway. #ghost posts #text

[ace-and-ranty]

And are the Tumblr people who believed the infinite chocolate hack here in the room with us?

#I just. #I have a REAL difficult time believing anyone actually believed that. #did we all suddenly fucking forget conservation of mass? #of course not #people reblogged it because it was trippy. #the chocolate bar kept its size because the chocolate piece grew eeeeevvvverrr so slightly #as it moved sideways #and it was REALLY hard to see #so people were wondering what was the catch #do you think people also believe the doves materialize out of thin air during a magic show?. #like. yes. this website has believed incredibly stupid things. #but I draw the line at conservation of mass. I REFUSE to believe someone would think it worked in real life.

[sanstropfremir]

Lol Stray Kids announced a new comeback for November called Rock Star (or at least that’s the Anglicized name), and I’m just sitting here mourning how jype is gonna just style it the same as always and waste all the potential. Like, think of what you could do with the theme of rock star! Like David Bowie, twisted sister, kiss, etc inspired fashion could be so fun! Too bad Im sure we’re gonna just get tshirts with a luxury brand name on them again per usual 😅

girl you know not a single person in sk knows who twisted sister is, cmon now

#damn you really picked three musical acts further from literally anything that would fly with the sk gp #y'all must keep forgetting that sk is incredibly conservative #vixx nearly got taken off the air for fuckin coloured contacts only a decade ago #u rly think a company would willing theme a cb after a group that was so anti-establishment they hauled dee snider in front of the SENATE? #and u KNOW that if there was any references to 80s trends/glam/hair etc etc it would only ever be played for comedy. cmon we dont need that #text #answers #i have to laugh. its been literal years of jype doing horrible styling. why do you even bother #esp to mourn the loss of something that was literally never going to exist slkdfjsdlkf

[bigweldindustries]

laughin @ my mum being like "ur brother is sad he wants a relationship like yours" what am i meant to do about that bro

#axel grinds on #its also rly funny bc like #hes younger than me hes only 21. like literally just turned 21 #im p sure hes also gay #and its like #we're from a hella conservative place mother #most gays living in conservative places dont get dating experince til later in life #i am INCREDIBLY young to be in a committed long term queer relationship #hell im pretty young to be in a committed long term relationship full stop #i was 19 at the start and i can say confidently coming up on 4 years in im intending to spend the rest of my life w him #i know literally only one other couple in a similar position and its my two best friends in the whole world #wait #maybe the key to successfully queer dating young is to be t4t #bc IM t4t and my two best friends are also t4t #trans people win again

[magic-can]

Thinking about how a couple years ago I was volunteering at the zoo and one of the other volunteers I was working with was an MCR fan and we were talking and I ended up telling her that I didn’t like the original version of Cancer and preferred the Twenty One Pilots cover and the look of pure disappointment she gave me is still burned into my very soul

#shut up magiccan #twenty one pilots #my chemical romance #also dw I like the original version of Cancer now #I don’t know what was wrong with me before. I still prefer the tøp cover tho (SORRY) #look Tyler’s vocals in the cover are incredibly pretty. rest assured both versions make me lose my mind #also yeah I’m an MCR fan now. I liked a few of their songs beforehand but never like. really got into them #but man I was missing out. they’re a GREAT band #Gerard is definitely becoming one of my favorite vocalists #also I’m actually going to the zoo in like. a half hour LMAO #legit one of my favorite places in the world. if you wanna do *something* to help the environment #even if just a little go support zoos!!! they’re so important for animal conservation and many zoos #have programs to educate people about the environment!!! #they aren’t just places to gawk at animals they are so SO important and good and I can’t stress that enough #sorry for that random PSA at the end its just. animal good. #mcr #tøp #21 piløts #21 pilots #mcr cancer

[colemckenzies]

the more i read abt co-housing the more i love the concept and the more i want to do it but all my friends r always like 'no that's definitely a cult thing and would suck in practice'

#like. what's wrong with intentional communities :+( #i think for me personally. as someone who is aro AND who feels physically sick with anxiety when i have to live w other people #but is still very people- / community-oriented. having a private home w group facilities is like ? ideal ? #my family has always been incredibly community-oriented as well #and my friend and i were looking into opening a community centre before the pandemic so. #i get why its hard for younger people who r used to having Choice Of People thanks to internet #so hanging out w whatever random people happen to be local when you have no control over that IS like. rough. #but also. that is being a human lol #and you can control what your local community is like i intentionally moved away from my small conservative town #and i mean an intentional co-housing community would be built on shared values so ??? #community focused things arent a cult . and i still would have a lot of contacts Outside of that .

[pancakehouse]

ARCHAEOLOGIST DREAM FIC my favorite i cannot wait tell the audience about it pls pls pls

but also, for me, i have to know...what is in "literally shut up"

hiii emmy em love of my life em!!

(someone else asked about the archaeologist dream fic HALLELUJAH so i'll give my obnoxious drawn-out dramatic pitch for it there, but think everyone should know it would not exist as an idea without you!!!! it would simply be buried (ha! archaeology pun!) in my subconscious forever. you gave me purpose.)

okay 'literally shut up' is ... hahahaha. god. goodddd.

it is essentially this:

remus is a poolboy. sirius is a wealthy, stressed-out owner of an incredibly filthy pool. is it destiny or...is it maybe just the ripped-off plot of a cliche 90s porn film? who's to say!!!

i feel as if the title of this wip should be obvious by this point, but if not it is Past Me telling (quite rudely) Current/Future/All-Versions-Of Me to literallyyyyy shutttttt UPPPPP.

think i'm prob still gonna write it though :// how embarrassing for me!

#all the notes i have for it are incredibly wholesome which is cute of me #remus is quite a conservative poolboy he does not go shirtless much to the dismay of the spying stay-at-home mom and dad neighbors #they want a SHOW and hes in his grandpa sweaters and converse just trying to pay his way through school :/ #anyway essentially sirius is obsessed from afar bc obviously and remus is quietly efficient and never accepts offers to hang around UNTIL #sirius comes home early from a work trip to find remus floating on a pool bed and taking a nice lil nap. #thats literally all i have so far! and i think its both highly genius and horrifically STUPID hehehe #also i cant tell if this was inspired by someone else's fic. did someone else write something like this??? i never know if its my own HCs #or if i read it and adopted it without remembering :/ #poolboy remus wip #HA look at that tag. literally SHUT UP @me. #my writing #answered #wip game #emmeline tag

[unheavenlycreatures]

vent in tags

#vent.txt #.txt #anyways i am terrified 4 my life rn el oh el #the anti-queer (and specifically anti trans) legislation here is just getting worse and worse #and now there is talk of like. enforcing the state borders to keep people from seeking political adylum elsewhere #which #uhhhhhh #what #also all of the anti-trans harassment post n//ash//ville has me incredibly nervous #and it feels like there isnt anyone to talk to abt it #i have therapy on monday so i guess i can talk to my therapist abt it then #i have been wanting to stay until it is safe for me to leave #but it is looking less and less likely that it will be even remotely safe for me either way #and i am wondering whether its worth it to just grab whatever i can and book it before it gets any worse #im scared at home and im scared in public #and im scared in conservative spaces (most spaces rn) and im scared in queer spaces #so it feels like nowhere is safe

[wabblebees]

the universe is mean as hell but at least its fucking funny

(cw for christian end-times conversion bullshit under the readmore)

#tonight has been ! bad ! and my brain was not a great place to be for most of it bc iiiiits been getting worse. again. so #i went on a walk to clear my head and Stop thinking of being dead but ! lo and fucking behold ! #its okay ill be fine i promise #but i was laughing the whole fucking way home #i always take down or wreck shit like this when i see it out+about ((also saw a fucking inf//owars sticker that was too cold to peel off so #i had to take my keys to it until it was unrecognizable)) but when i saw the front of this one i was just like ''oh gross'' and tore it off #but i uhh. wasnt rly expecting that top sentence lmfao #started fuvking cackling like a madman in the street #for context if yr reading this and don't know already/cant tell: #im a xtian cult survivor. this is conservative xtian apocalyptic propaganda shit. im furious this exists but holy shit its fuckin hilarious #reading ''hey pal u ready to die?? god lovehates yr guts'' when yr just trying not to think abt how ready to die u are... fucken incredible #i covered up the url on the bottom + im not gonna show the front ((its fucking awful tho omfg. yhe fuckign flag+white house are on there?? #wild lmfao)) bc i dont need their right-wing apocalypse-fearmongering bullshit to get any more web traffic #plus its not like this shit isnt dimeadozen further south/out west. its just been a hot minute since ive seen anyth this edgy-guilt-trippy #in this state. figures. out in the yeehaw-ass back half of mass. #anyway. i hate it here lmao #im more ok now too i promise #walked back home once my phone died + forced myself to eat food+drink water; now im back in bed and texting someone to stay out of my head #i think i might actually go out w better stickers+a knife+some nailpolish remover sometime in the next few days before im headed back home #take down some bullshit and. oooh... think i might put up one of my ''transsexuals have got to get meaner'' sweatermuppet stickers:> #hmmmmm. yeah #cw cult mention #tw christianity #cw bible quotes #cw christianity #tw suicidality #<- just in case. #anyway. i love yall. be careful with yrselves #and if you see bullshit like this please take it down. its trying to funnel people into disgusting right-wing rabbitholes. its dangerous. #bee speaks

[sereniv]

so i was going to make a post about how people need to learn what a comparison actually is, but when i looked up the definition and dug more into what exactly a comparison is, i realise that i actually needed to learn

because what i realise is that most people get it wrong, on both sides

A lot of people, myself included, conflate comparison into meaning "between these two(or more) things, one is worse/better"

Either through accusation or defending. Meaning one party accuses someone of saying A is worse than B through comparison, and the other defending saying that its not a comparison but finding similarities.

Both are actually technically right. Because the definition of comparison is to find similarities and/or differences only. It is not about figuring out which is worse or better

Which this is probably obvious for some ppl but ive seen it in the vegan community in defending and in the anti vegan or non vegan community for accusations

It all depends on intent and how something is said

theres a big difference between saying "There are similarities between A and B" and "A and B are the samr" or "A is just as bad as B"

Especially when it comes to social issues of oppression.

Because all oppression is comparable, but that doesnt mean its all the same or one is worse.

Even when there is a comparison that shows which oppression is more prevalent, its not about it being "worse", which is so vague. Its about understanding history, understanding society and how it works, and many other things

Basically, when someone compares animal agriculture to slavery or the holocaust by saying "its no different" "its the same" "AnAg is worse" etc, that is a hard comparison and is wrong, and those hard or even casual (finding similarities) comparisons should be kept for those who have history with the holocaust and slavery.

But it is NOT the same to draw comparisons, as in highlighting similarities, between oppressions, even if that applies to animals

I understand the kneejerk reaction due to the history of marginalized people being equated or compared to animals.

But you HAVE to use your comprehension skills.

There are vegans, actual vegans who go by the Vegan Society definition, who make hard comparisons and they are wrong and bad.

But when someone is talking about the harmful mindset of viewing someone who is a sentient being as lesser, and how in history and even in fictional stories how that leads to oppression like...its just not the same

No oppression is comparable in every way. Because each oppression is different.

trans oppression is different within the trans community depending on race or gender or looks or weight or abledness or even attractiveness. but there is still a common mindset which connects the trans community. And trans oppression is different from gay oppression but theres still a similar oppressive mindset that makes up the whole Queer community

and you can draw those comparisons, find those similar mindsets in all oppression

and you cant draw a line because someone is different from you, be them human or non human

and that is all these comparisons are. they ARE comparisons, id like to call them soft comparisons to differentiate them from hard comparisons like mentioned before

but there is nothing wrong with having a conversation about the oppressive mindset that affects everyone who is human and non human animals.

Learn to take a breath before replying, and figure out which kind of comparison youre dealing with. and when in doubt? just ask.

#im so sick of this shit #ive seen literally someone take something that was incredibly clear in their words #and just totally purposely misunderstood #its like saying 'i like apples ' and them saying 'so you hate oranges?' #that is a hard comparison i just made. i am saying both are equally comparable #because it really is. vegans have to be so fucking clear just to make sure no one warps what we say and misunderstands #and then somehow do it anyway #but its the same type of mindset that conservatives have. another hard comparison. bc its literally the same shit #the same arguments the same typing the same act #not all ofc a lot ofnthis comes from anti vegans not non vegans but still #just ask questions man. just be curious. and ask yourself why youre so angry about this topic #and whatever you come up with ask us. its that easy

[wammbam]

"Vince was building a world in which labor was entirely subservient not just to an individual boss, but to what American would come to call a "brand.""

fuck okay, just say it then

#this is not in moxies book #so sorry to dissapoint but this man is not taking a progressive take on labor rights in wrestling #moxie would rather talk about tmnt and the ways he lied about his age to start wrestling under les thatcher #HOWEVER this quote is from the book called RingMaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America by Abraham Riesman #its incredably good and outlines the connections between the rise of vince as a promoter for wwe #and the eventual rise of conservative extremist facism in America

[monsterblogging]

"I know JK Rowing is a terrible person but her books are so good-"

You sure about that?

I mean, just for a start, have you taken a good look at her fantasy creatures lately? A whole bunch of them are straight-up based on malicious and dehumanizing stereotypes about actual people.

Remember the werewolves? And being a werewolf was made into a kind of metaphor for having AIDS?

And you know how AIDS was first associated with gay men? And how conservatives back in the day were claiming gay men were preying on children in order to convert them to gayness?

Remember how Fenrir Greyback preyed on children in particular? Yeah, she put that subtext in there. She was an adult in the 90's. She knew damn well what she was doing.

Remember the house elves? Remember how most of them loved to serve and needed to have a home and a master or else they just wouldn't know what to do with themselves?

Did you know that's literally what slavers in the American South said about the Black people they kept enslaved? Go look up the happy slave myth.

Do I even need to get into the goblins and the antisemitic tropes they're based on? No, folkloric goblins were not gold-hoarding bankers waiting for their chance to stab humanity in the back.

"But the characters are so good!"

Are you kidding me?

Most of her characters are pretty one-dimensional, including Harry. Her idea of making a morally complicated character is giving a tragic past to a bully. Numerous characters are little more than stereotypes. (Looking at Fleur right now.) Literally anybody, including you, can easily make dozens of characters just as good, if not better. (It doesn't exactly take a lot of character designing skill to go, "hey, actually, having a sad backstory doesn't make it okay to bully children" or "hey, maybe I should not base a character on the first stereotype that pops into my head.")

"But the rest of the worldbuilding!"

Sorry, but her worldbuilding is just as basic as her characters. Magical castles and secret passages are stock tropes. Magical people who keep their true nature secret from humanity is the premise of pretty much every White Wolf TTRPG. Most of her fantasy creatures are just common European fairy tale and folklore creatures with shitty stereotypes projected onto them.

I'm not saying "basic worldbuilding bad." I'm saying, you could do just as good, if not better, with minimal effort.

Also there's her magical bioessentialism, where only Harry's abusive blood relatives could provide him with supernatural protection from Voldemort. Rowling thus effectively declared that non-biological family isn't quite real family, and that abusive biofamily can give you some essential thing that a loving, supportive family that isn't related to you just can't.

The Hogwarts houses are one of the most insidious elements of her worldbuilding. The idea of being sorted gives you a little dopamine hit because wow now you have a li'l niche where you belong!

But the actual function of the houses and sorting system and the House Cup is teaching children to see each other as rivals, and ensure that the most toxic views of the upper class get passed on to every new batch of kids sorted into Slytherin.

Hogwarts effectively prepares children for a dystopia where magic serves to distract its citizens from how nightmarishly awful it is. Economic inequality is so bad that people like Arthur and Molly Weasley can barely afford to put their kids through school, casual sadism is just an accepted norm in everyday society, and non-humans are second class citizens. Rowling sorta acts like she thinks this is a bad thing with certain lines she gave to Dumbledore, but in the end, her special boy protagonist becomes an auror; IE, a defender of the status quo. So.

If you've never seen it, Lily Simpson's video goes into even more detail on how the worldbuilding of Harry Potter is actually incredibly fucked up, and how it betrays small-minded attitudes on Rowling's part. There's no separating the art from this artist, because Rowling's rotten values pour out of nearly every page.

Yes, there are many things in Harry Potter that evoke feelings and inspire people, but there's absolutely nothing in it that this series has a monopoly on. You can find those same experiences in much, much better media.

#harry potter #jk rowling #Youtube

[intertexts]

my decks came btw!!!!!!!

#the vanta one is GORGEOUS im obsessed with it all the art is incredible. #resisting the urge 2 keep a face card frm it in my phone case bc i'd hate 2 lose it. but theyre lovelyyy.. #& the half size agenda deck is ALSO very cute. less impressed w the cardstock & printing but the box & back designs r awesome and also. its #fucking tiny dude. #txt #dont wanna take pics now bc theyre on my shelf + spoon conservation but ill get around 2 it eventually :33