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i walk a fine line between “i’m asexual and i hate how much the world revolves around sex” and “sex is way too stigmatized and people should be able to be more open about it if they want to”

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

MSNBC covered this story yesterday. Unfuckingbelievable

hello Tolkien fandom I have spent a normal and reasonable amount of time creating this uquiz. It's more of a dissertation than a personality quiz at this point uhhh

As @haedre requested, I have compiled all the answer results! In chronological order for your enjoyment

:) I am normal

THIS IS AMAZING💎

someone could probably say something pretty about fossils, constellations, and stars in the sky

poem inspired by this rock and also by @two-bees-poetry

aang’s first sweet tats

#if you’ve never gotten a tattoo before just know that this would hurt like a motherfucker#esp on like the thighs and backs of his arms baby boy you were like fucking eleven years old this leaves me SHOOK#like i have a VERY high pain tolerance and my tattoo was nothing but like it WAS in a very sensitive place and trust me the amount of TIME#he would have to sit there for HOURS AND HOURS#like they dont even have electric needles they’re basically doing FILLED stick n poke wtf wtf wtf#i mean its incredible but i just dont think we talk enough about how fucking cool and badass and also PAINFUL this would have been for aang#no wonder he’s so proud of them tbh like-#my son#best boy  (via @sokkaseboyhair)

I never thought about the fact that Aang having tattoos meant he was a small child who got poked with needles thousands of times but damn

And, they are major tattoos that don’t distort as he grows, which is also cool.

So I'm halfway through Gideon the Ninth and how come nobody has told me about Dulcinea?? She's so good, you'd think people would go bonkers over her

Ah.

Ngl ive had Gideon the ninth in my to read pile on my kindle app for months and this post is what inspired me to finally open it now

Ah, I see.

......well now I'm curious.

My friend send me this and i couldn't help but think of this post

we sharing the pain we've put people through?

Harrowhark Nonagesimus had always so badly wanted to live. She had cost too much to die.

"male loneliness epidemic" is misleading because it implies that men are suffering because they can't get girls when I feel like the actual problem is that pretty much any online content that's aimed specifically at men conceptualizes the masculine ideal as what I call the Buff Scammer. there are only two things in this world that matter, says the Buff Scammer: being jacked and making money. how you get to either of those things doesn't matter, you just need to be as rich and as buff as possible or you have failed as a man. Get into drop shipping. Eat nothing but raw meat. Rugpull a memecoin. Remove seasonings from your diet. Sell an online course. Go to the gym daily. Starve yourself so your body will achieve ketosis and start burning fat. Attend a seminar on real estate investing. Work 80 hours a week. Take steroids but don't let anyone know about that part. Flip a YouTube channel after 10xing the subs. Sell AI art on Etsy and AI audiobooks on Amazon. What's that? You're trying to do this to get girls? Why would you care about women? Women are all stupid whores who don't help you get richer or buffer. The only people you should be paying attention to are other rich, buff men. If you do hang out with women you should be pimping them out on Chaturbate so you can at least get an ROI off your time spent not thinking about men. Male friends? You don't have time for friends. You should be hustling and grinding 24/7 365. And if you absolutely do need to spend time around other men you should only be spending time with other buff scammers so you can collaborate on entrepreneurial ventures. Like Jesus Christ even writing this is exhausting I feel like trying to be this dude would be fucking miserable like not only did you turn yourself into a friendless, materialist, misogynistic asshole who can only conceptualize the world in terms of value extracted but you're NOT EVEN HAVING FUN DOING IT!!!!!!

At some point in my transition, the "hate yourself, get an eating disorder, buy product" messaging I get switched from woman flavor to man flavor, and omfg. What the hell is this shit!

The "woman" version would often disguise itself as self care. There's this facade of softness and gentleness. ("indulge yourself: buy skincare! do what's right for YOU: starve yourself and smile emptily at zucchini noodles! this is empowering. your body is a temple, divine feminine chakra mother!!!") In the man version, no such thing. Self compassion is not allowed. You've got to brutally grind yourself into the shape of a Real Man or die trying, but you don't get to *enjoy* being the Real Man because comfort is for girrrrrrlllssss.

My dangerous trans gender ideology is that being a man should be enjoyable. If there's nothing fun about it, change your approach or stop being a man.

The art of Mary Syring

Artist's website with prints

I heart prey animal rage I love when characters are fucking insane with terror

When they're not dangerous like a hunter but dangerous like a spooked horse kicking your skull in

Let's hear it for prey animal rage let's hear it for killing everyone else in the world before you'll let them catch you

by cjacobphotos

you know that phenomenon where vaccines are so effective that people forget how scary the original disease was? I think Americans are like this about government

they are also like this about vaccines

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Some closeups of the best graffiti I've ever seen

A friend of mine has been reading The Locked Tomb trilogy aka descended into Lesbian Necromancer Hell . He's having a great time, and been sending me reports from the pits.

Now I know that in the context of the story "DEATH TO VULTURES AND SCAVENGERS FIRST" is very poetic and badass, but taken with the context that this is the motto of the bone-manipulating guys, the motto sounds slightly less badass and more like they've been having an ongoing problem with Lammergeiers.

Thing is,

A Lammergeier is like, the single most badass familiar an osteomancer could have. Fuck off huge raptorial bird that is either black and white or black and blood red so either way it goes with your goth-ass aesthetic and is extremely easy to train to bring you fun and interesting new bones? Why does the ninth house NOT have these?

Oh right. Jod.

Anyway, this combined with a previous idea I had about Truly Awful Bird/Mammal combinations for The Worst Gryphon Ever, and you know what? Some fuckass idiot in that universe WOULD make a Lammergeier/Spotted Hyena Gryphon. Now that's a creature made to fuck over necromancers six ways from Sunday.

Eats flesh AND bones.

Constantly scream-laughing.

Terrifyingly intelligent.

-And then whatever idiot created this abomination made it big enough to ride and drool corrosive venom because everyone in that universe automatically doubles down on any bad idea they have.

Harrow is sobbing at it's mere existence.

Gideon is trying to cradle it in her arms. This is their daughter now.

"Daddy harrowhark put a bone in mommy griddlecakes and she made Princess Bonefucker Ultraviolence 9000 and birthed her with her own womb-" Gideon is saying aloud in the most babytalk voice possible to the gryphon, who is rolled over on its back and entirely agreeable with being smothered with affection, because if the Gryphon has a sole redeeming feature it's that it possesses the zen like chill that comes from the bone-deep knowledge that it is at the absolute apex of the local food chain.

It's also wearing Gideon's sunglasses.

They do not fit.

Gideon may spoil Princesss Bonefucker Ultraviolence 9000 but that animal is OBSESSED with Harrow. It's a real Daddy's Girl kind of creature, and it will attempt to eat the face of anyone that so much as looks at Harrow without her permission. Harrow isn't sure about this thing until it takes an actual shilouette-altering sized CHUNK out of Ortus' ass, and then she becomes very fond of Daddy's Special Little Apex Predator. She deigns to give it one (1) headpat, and is treated to Princess Bonefucker's "Happiness Noise", which sounds like someone threw a handful of gravel into a running garbage disposal.

"Why..?" Harrow asks, feeling the remaining edges of her sanity start to melt.

"Why not?" Asks Gideon, accurately reporting the entire thought process that went into the creation of this horror.

I am drawing Princess Bonefucker as we speak but some notes:

- Gideon and Harrow found her in a heavily sealed container with multiple warnings like "this is not a thing of honor" and "what is inside is repulsive" which naturally meant they HAD to see what was inside.

"THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN SOME LAME-ASS PLUTONIUM!" Reports Gideon.

- I have two reference pages for her:

One is Natural Animals: Lammergeier, Spotted Hyena, Giraffe (another noted bone-eater), Mandril (horrible, knuckle walking solves the talon issue).

The other is what I'm calling "Dr. Assholes Awful Sauce" which is the aesthetic contributions of the fuckass idiot necromancer who made this thing added on for funsies: the gryphon from 'Quest for Camelot', the bear from 'Annihilation', Mandril again, and a bunch of the guys from Centaurland, but esp The Nowhere King. For gulp reasons. :)

- Princess Bonefucker wants to eat Ianthe's arm so so So SO bad. It's shiny. It's bones. She's been expressly forbidden from eating it. She CRAVES it.

- ambiently telepathic, but lacking the human intelligence to understand words or the greater context of what she's hearing. Does possess a terrifying *inhuman* intelligence that lets her use what she hears in other, worse ways.

HERE SHE IS, MISS BEAUTIFUL!!

Headshot (body coming soon) of Miss Princess Bonefucker Ultraviolence 9000, one after a good bath and one after a proper "Bloodbath"/roll around in some iron oxide, the IRL Lammergeier's preferred method of ornamentation.

And now you can see the full shape of Princess Bonefucker! She's about seven feet tall at the shoulder :)