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Check out this playlist on @8tracks: Redundant Soldiers by janiceofcourse.

Redundant Soldiers full track listing:

Battles–My Machines (ft. Gary Numan) / The Living End–Save the Day / Yeah Yeah Yeahs–Warrior / Choking Victim–Suicide (A Better Way) / Crystal Castles–Dolls / Modest Mouse–Secret Agent X-9 / Lightning Bolt–Assassins / Land of Ill Earthquakes–I’ve Been A Villain / Maxo–MechaStation / The Living End–Trapped / Crystal Castles–Magic Spells / Radiohead–You And Whose Army? / Beastie Boys–Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun / Battles–Non-Violence / Ladytron–International Dateline / Smashing Pumpkins–Tales of a Scorched Earth / Aqueduct–Five Star Day / Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet–Our Weapons Are Useless / Coughs–Give Peace A Chance / Matt Elliott–What the Fuck Am I Doing on this Battlefield / Threebrain–Robot Hero / Need New Body–Make Gay Love Not War

It’s been fifteen years since I’ve been active in Gundam Wing fandom–the first fandom I ever fully immersed myself in online. In the early aughts, I wrote (horrible) GW fanfiction (which is still up on fanfic.net but I won’t show a soul), spent hours looking up official art and doujinshi (many saved in the now-dead .ART file format), and even had a fucking geocities site dedicated to GW (I think it was called Atarashii no Pilots), all on a shitty dial-up connection and free Netzero trials. After all these years, I’m glad to see the GW fandom–like the Animorphs fandom–is still alive (although definitely a lot smaller).

For some reason, I used to listen to two albums exclusively while reading GW fanfics from 2000 to 2001: The Living End’s self-titled debut and a ska compilation album with the (purposefully ironic) title Ska Sucks. Even now, when I hear the first few bars of “He Wants Me Back” by Dance Hall Crashers (the first track on the latter album), all I can think about is Gundam Wing and the heydey of the early 2000s fandom. Good times, my friends. Good times.

This playlist is a little gift from me to this old, rough-around-the-edges fandom. Mission accomplished, assholes. (◡‿◡✿)

#gundam wing #8tracks playlist #to download #my sweet baby boys #one queue to rule them all

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Louise et Henriette - Mystère à la Tour Eiffel

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#to watch #so gay I love it

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thefacelesswanderer · 4 years

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I’m a Catholic who is morally opposed to abortion.

But I’m against most legislation against abortion.

Because here’s the thing: Abortion is never going to just go away. It’s never going to stop. Passing harsh restrictions limiting access, banning it all together, it’s never going to magically make women stop having abortions. It’s never going to lead to abortion no longer being a thing that happens.

Abortion has been happening since long before this modern age. The practice dates back to at least 1550 BCE Egypt. Hippocrates, the greek physician upon whose practices the Hippocratic Oath is based, provided abortions. Women got abortions in ancient times when the methods were risky at best and life threatening at worst. They got abortions in Colonial America when the practice was shamed and had to be done in secret. They got abortions before Roe vs. Wade was passed, and they’ll continue to get abortions no matter how many restrictions and bans are put in place.

This is not an issue that can be simplified by putting it in religious and moral terms. It’s not an issue that can be simplified by saying it’s “about life”.

And if your goal is to stop all abortion forever, well… for one thing, you’re looking at the issue all wrong and you’re going to be pushing a boulder the size of the universe up a very steep hill for the rest of time. You’re also ignoring history and statistics if you think that outlawing abortion will make any kind of movement toward that goal.

Illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade were not some kind of rare thing. They were common. Estimates put the number of illegal and self-induced abortions that took place in the 1950s and 1960s between the hundreds of thousands and around one million. And thousands of women died from illegal and self-induced abortions. In 1930 abortion was listed as the cause of death for at least 2700 women. These numbers decreased with the introduction of antibiotics that could fight infections that came from these procedures, but by 1965 illegal abortions still made up 17% of all pregnancy and childbirth related deaths. And those number are almost certainly quite a bit higher in reality as many women who died or became sick as the result of an illegal abortion were not reported as such.

I don’t think a lot people really consider what illegal abortion means. Many just assume that it’s just the same thing that happens in the legal clinics, but it just happens without being protected by law. This is most often not the case. Without legal protections for abortions, doctors who perform the procedure can’t easily get the materials needed to make abortion as safe as possible. And without any kind of oversight to ensure safety that the practice would get were it legal and regulated, the people performing it, whether it’s a well meaning doctor or a person looking to prey on women in desperate situations, are accountable to nobody. There’s nobody making sure they’re safe.

This is already happening. Abortion providers are being shut down at huge rates, leaving some entire states with only one provider, if that. Many women who want an abortion but can’t get one because they’re unable to travel to another state to acquire one (whether it’s because they can’t afford it, they have no transportation, their family situation makes it impossible) aren’t just going to “oh well, I guess I’m going to just have to have it.” Despite popular opinion among anti-abortion advocates, abortion is not an easy choice for most women. It’s not just some easy method of birth control. The rates of abortion throughout history show that, as do many testimonials. If a women wants, or needs an abortion, she’s going to do whatever she can to get it. And if she can’t get one by safe and legal means, there’s a decent chance she’ll get one by any means necessary. Which means either looking to illegal, unregulate, and unsafe providers, or incredibly dangerous self-induced methods.

This is happening now. Further restrictions, more clinics being shutdown, will not somehow magically make it stop.

Before Roe v. Wade, hundreds, and sometimes thousands of women died every year from abortions because they were illegal and therefor unregulated and unsafe. Today, yearly deaths from abortion rank in the 10s. Not the 10s of thousands. The 10s. And yes, some of that has to do with improved technology and methods. But even in 1976, just a few years after Roe v. Wade, death as a result of abortion had fallen to 1 in 100,000. (These are all numbers from just the US. Worldwide numbers tend to follow similar trends.)

Banning abortion does not stop abortion. Safe, legal abortion saves lives.

If you care about life, that is not something that should be ignored. And I continue to stress, nor should the fact that banning abortion will not stop abortion. It never has and it never will. Many countries where abortion is illegal actually show slightly higher abortion rates than those where abortion is legal.

That last sentence is the really important part. Not just because it further shows that banning and restricting abortion does not stop or even reduce abortion, but because it demonstrates a far better alternative if you want to reduce abortion.

No, countries where abortion is legal don’t have lower abortion rates because of some weird logic of “if you can have it you don’t want it”. It because usually, legal and accessible abortion goes hand in hand with accessible and affordable contraception and sexual education.

Abortion isn’t going to magically go away. If you’re opposed to abortion and you’re putting all your efforts toward ending it, you’re fighting a losing battle and ignoring areas that can help abortion rate be reduced. That’s what people who say they they’re for protecting life should be focusing on. Ways to reduce abortion.

Banning abortion isn’t going to do that. Minimizing the number of women who get pregnant who don’t want to be is. That doesn’t happen by telling women not to have sex. It happens by making sure contraception, all forms of contraception are inexpensive and readily available to all women and men. It happens by making sure men and women get comprehensive sexual education before they start having sex. It happens by making sure men and women know how to effectively use contraception before they start having sex. So yes, that means comprehensive sexual education in middle school and high school (at the very least). It’s important for men and women to be educated in the ways both the male and the female body work, how sex and reproduction work for both genders, and exactly how different forms of birth control prevent pregnancy.

It also happens by more support and funding for programs that provide healthcare for women during and after their pregnancies for women who can’t afford it. It happens by support and funding for programs that help and support financially struggling women and parents who choose to keep their baby. It happens by support and funding for programs that provide healthcare for children in low-income families. It can’t be ignored that one of the motivations for a woman to seek an abortion is often not being able to support it. And unfortunately it’s not uncommon for states with the stricter abortion laws to also have the fewest policies in place for these kinds of programs and this type of support.

Abortion is not the beginning of the equation. It’s the result of complex series of events and circumstances, and often those circumstances are things completely beyond the control of the woman seeking and abortion. The problem isn’t solved by outlawing the result of that equation. You have to change the circumstances that lead to it.

The pro-life movement needs to realize that abortion is not something that can be simplified to a one sentence tagline about caring about or protecting life. Not when criminalized abortion leads to hundreds to thousands more losses of life. Not when criminalized abortion does nothing to stop that loss of life. They need to realize that you don’t solve a problem by trying to stop it at the finale step, that you have to go to the root of the problem and start there. And the root of the problem is not that abortion exists. It’s that our country has startlingly poor sexual education for a developed country. It’s that because of that, people don’t know how to use birth control effectively, they don’t know how reproduction and the reproductive system of the opposite gender, and sometimes their own gender, works. It’s because many types of contraception are not as inexpensive and accessible as they should be thinks to things like the Hobby Lobby ruling.

Look outside of your bubble. Do research. Don’t get all of your information for Christian and “pro-life” sources. Be curious. Be skeptical, but also open minded. Look into your sources and make sure the sites/journals/etc. aren’t exclusively a pro-life OR a pro-choice site/publication/etc. I’m not sure there’s any such thing as a completely unbiased source when it comes to things like this, but make sure you’re looking a the most unbiased choices you can find. Think about what being pro-life actually means beyond the usual taglines.

Banning abortion is not “pro-life”. All of the statistics show that to be a fact. If you’re going to call yourself pro-life, you need to look at options that are actually effective and that don’t lead to even more death.

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/abortion/a/ancientabortion.htm https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/banning-abortion-doesnt-actually-reduce-abortion-rates-at-all

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/women-in-countries-where-abortion-is-illegal-just-as-likely-to-have-one-as-countries-where-it-is-a7025671.html

https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2004/01/public-health-impact-legal-abortion-30-years-later

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-a-grimes/the-bad-old-days-abortion_b_6324610.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/back-alley-abortions_n_5065301.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-burkhart/access-to-contraception-a_b_7595654.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/abortion-womens-health_n_5912648.html

http://www.nationalpartnership.org/issues/repro/reports/a-double-bind.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

#history #abortion #one queue to rule them all

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Ten times Yuuri ended up wearing Victors clothes (and one time Victor wore Yuuris)?

10) Once he and Viktor were post-sex cuddling and thedoorbell rang so Yuuri just grabbed the first things he could find lying on thefloor to put on, one of those things being Viktor’s shirt. When he answered thedoor and Yurio saw him plus the state he was in he just turned around andwalked away like ‘I don’t want to know and I don’t want you to tell me’

9) The first time he came to visit Viktor in St Petersburg,the first morning together, Viktor woke up to Yuuri humming happily making coffeein nothing but one of Viktor’s oversized sweaters and had to take a few secondsto recover before he could speak

8) At a competition Yuuri was getting cold and so Viktordraped his coat around his shoulders which made the entire stadium go ‘aw’simultaneously

7) He is the worst hoodie thief ever and since Viktor usuallydoesn’t wear hoodies he didn’t really notice until he went to look for one inhis wardrobe, couldn’t find any. When he skyped Yuuri that evening Yuuri wassitting wearing it because he had forgotten it was Viktor’s when he put it onduring his last visit to Russia and worn it back to Detroit and then startedwearing it all the time because he missed Viktor

6) At the Russian rink at one point Yuuri woke up late,pulled on the first things he could find and went to see Viktor. He didn’trealise why everyone was staring at him until he realised that he was wearingthe ‘Do you want to win gold? Because I’ll make you come first tonight’ shirtthat Chris had bought Viktor as a joke and they had both forgotten about. Henever lived it down.

5) Viktor had a tendency to keep gifts from his fans even ifthey are a bit weird and one day Yuuri found the ‘I ❤Viktor’ shirt that someone had sent him, got kinda jealous and then wore it thewhole day just to make sure everyone knew that he was the no.1 Viktor fan

4) Yuuri wore the Eros costume several times, once for theRostelecom Cup, a handful of times for photoshoots and during the times when hewas skating his ‘Fucked My Way Up To The Top’ pure pettiness ice show routinethat was mentioned in a previous top ten

3) He wore several of Viktor’s past costumes when theydecided to jokingly play dress up with all of their old stuff. So Yuuri endedup trying on some of his old costumes from iconic skates like the Olympic onesas well as some of Viktor’s old costumes from his junior days and Viktor triedon some of the costumes from routines that Yuuri liked (hello red shirt andwaistcoat) as well as trying on some of Yuuri’s old stuff although Yuuri bannedhim from doing it after a while because if Yuuri can fit into sixteen year oldViktor’s costumes there’s no way twenty-eight year old Viktor can fit properlyinto anything of Yuuri’s without seriously risking ripping it

2) Yuuri tried to return the shirt he stole from Viktor allthose years ago but Viktor told him to keep it. At one point Yuuri ended upwearing it out on one of their dates and Viktor was very distracted that wholeevening

1) The morning after the end of chapter 14, Yuuri put onViktor’s skating jacket while he was wandering around the room waiting fortheir breakfast room service to show up and Viktor was halfway stuck betweenwanting to rip it off him (along with everything else that he was wearing) andasking him to keep wearing it forever.

+1) One day they were at a competition and due to do an early morning pressconference they were really late because they slept in and just when everyonethought it had been cancelled they both half-ran into the room trying to lookreally cool and composed except they both had bed hair and Viktor was wearingone of Yuuri’s shirts. It was just small enough on him that everyone got areally good view and all the reporters thought it was better not to mention itin case he decided to change

#GAY BOYFRIENDS ON ICE #Victuri #one queue to rule them all

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