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OP: the stall owner I often order spicy 炸串zhachuan(skewers) from whipped out an impromptu Inner Mongolian grassland dance
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“Magneto’s backstory should be changed, it’s unrealistic that he’d still be alive after all this time!” Have you forgotten what franchise he’s from?
You can suspend your disbelief for the man transformed into sentient rocks by space radiation, the interdimensional bird, and the flaming biker skeletons, but one guy being a little old is where you draw the line?
It's the ~antisemitism~
#its also worth noting that marvel *DID* change magneto's backstory#he was originally presented as someone who had survived the shoah as an adult#and marvel retconned it to him surviving it as a child#iirc his original debut backstory involved him losing a wife and two kids??
Well, no, not really. When Magneto was made to be a Holocaust survivor, he was a survivor from childhood, though by the end of the Holocaust he was in his teens. His daughter Anya was killed by an antisemitic mob after the Holocaust, at some point in the 1950s.
It's also an attempt to pretend that the Shoah is ancient history, when it's really not.
"It's unrealistic for a Holocaust survivor to still be alive."
Assholes, there are Holocaust survivors still alive in the real world.
They're really telling on themselves because Wolverine is like 170 years old.
wolverine being a hundred and fucking seventy: normal
magneto being the same age as currently alive holocaust survivors: impossible
While there are definitely living Holocaust survivors today, most of them aren't up to doing half the shit Magneto does, and it seems to be affecting the impact his stories have on audiences. I remember reading Magneto stories as a kid in the 90s, knowing he was a little younger than my grandparents, and getting hit with a truckload of sympathy for the dude. He just wanted to have a normal life like Grandma and Granddad, and then the war happened and oh FUCK. Younger readers now are much less likely to have that personal connection; that's just how human lifespans work. And it's only going to get worse. Magneto does need some future-proofing.
That's not to say I think Magneto's origin should be changed, or that he should be permanently killed off. Far from it. This is comics; all kinds of timeline bullshit happens all the time. As someone pointed out above, Wolverine is most of the way into his second century of life.
What I'd do--and what I'm shocked Marvel writers don't seem to have done yet--is wave the mutant bullshit wand and make Magneto functionally immortal. Secondary mutation, maybe. Something something magnetic fields. The mechanics don't matter any more than "Wolverine is functionally immortal because healing factor" does. What matters is this:
At some point, Magneto will be the last living Holocaust survivor. And he will not let the world forget.
There was a story I read as a kid where Magneto took a handful of soil from the camp where his family died and spread it on the surface of the moon, where he was building a mutant haven of some kind. The image of him on his knees with soil running through his fingers and an agonized look on his face has haunted me ever since. To some part of him, it's always 1945. Never again is quite literally now.
I want to see Magneto as the furious conscience of the Marvel universe. I want him to rip a hole in the UN General Assembly building and stride in with his full regalia on--except for one sleeve, stripped to the forearm to show his tattooed number--and read the UN the riot act in all his nigh-unkillable glory. I want him to storm into summits between warring planets, atomize the ferrous metal in everyone's weapons, and lay down the galactic law that is There Will Be No More Genocides On My Watch, And My Watch Is Eternal. And I want future writers to use his story, and his enduring popularity as a character, to make sure that audiences don't forget either.
Magneto being a Holocaust survivor is only a flaw in the storytelling if you're a goddamn coward.
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I decided to mix it up and do some non-fiction
I realized this 9-year-old post was due for a sequel.
They’re free. They’re running through a meadow.
Happy pride :)
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GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH
If you haven't heard of Julia Donaldson, she's primarily a picture book author, who we can thank for extremely popular Halloween classic Room on the Broom as well as the Gruffalo.
Let this be a testament to the power of picture books.
I'm living for these jokes.
Also I need "GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH" on a T-shirt.
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Its National Coyote Day! I look to them as my guiding animal, a true spirit of resilience, resistance, and growth. Every day I am grateful to embody and honor them.
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Genuine question: Are you okay? Just a general check in because the internet is a brutal place especially for neurodivergent women because we rarely get any peace and are accused of being mean when we're just making normal statements. Also want you to know that I read your Wayward Children series for the first time a few years ago and it's incredible. I wish it had been around when I was a kid instead of Harry Potter. I've never felt more seen as a traumatized neurodivergent queer woman.
I am now. I had an evening of wailing at the people who care about me, trying to calm my nerves, but I'm pretty much back on an even keel at this point.
I sometimes run into a fascinating phenomenon where people go "oh she's a published author, she's Someone, she doesn't get to have feelings or failings anymore." And they attack based on that assumption, or try to wedge things into any perceived gap in my defenses, only to say it doesn't matter, I'm famous so I'm not a person anymore when called on it. That is so far from the truth that it can't see honesty on a cloudy day, but. We are the site that proudly drives even minor public figures away, then smirks about it, because look how uncontrollable we are.
I am very tired.
Thank you so much for reading. As another traumatized neurodivergent queer woman, I'm glad to provide you with a mirror, even if only briefly.
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I always lose a couple of followers when I take a shot at Christianity, but girl? what are you doing at the devil’s sacrament? 🤨 this is an obnoxiously loud monsterfucking blog. go to Bible study or smth damn
To be clear, I am at the devil’s sacrament to fuck the devil.
To be clear, I am
at the devil’s sacrament
to fuck the devil.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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Found that over at mastodon
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dont get me wrong this is #mood but just try eating a piece of bread with salt. please, seriously. ok? at least a tiny bit. salt helps with nausea, bread calms the stomach acid. if you really can’t face eating anything, just lick some salt like a damn elk, then wait and see if you can manage the bread. make some broth if you’re into that kind of thing. no spices, yes salt. if you’re feeling too weak and shaky to do much, just have a cup of tea with sugar (energy) and lemon (again, good against nausea). nibble on the lemon first, it will feel good, but don’t overdo - citric acid on an empty stomach is a majorly bad idea. take care of yourself, you’re the only you we’ve got
“You’re the only you we’ve got”
ok!!! ♥️
Yeah okay ill reblog that!!
This is so damn sweet and also good to know. I regularly have this struggle
fun fact: this painting depicts a duel between a Black man (the Chevalier de Saint-Georges) and a trans woman (the Chevaliere d'Eon)
based.
I was going to make a joke about eating bread and salt so your food knows it’s welcome in your tummy but based, I want to hear about the people in the meme painting
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I want a copy of this song for my Halloween playlist
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so i found my favourite picture of him, to remember him and how profoundly his books (and Discworld generally) have changed my life.
cannot believe it's been 5 bloody years since the Creator bowed out of the mortal realm upon Death's arm.
"no one is truly dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away..." (Reaper Man)
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett 🐢🌟💫 (28th April 1948 - 12th March 2015)
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For the ones that need it today
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imgoingtodeactivatethisblogsoon
Happy International Women’s Day. Give us fucking pockets.
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Dear necromancers, why would you bother summoning human corpses when dinosaurs are an option
ladypalerider
there is an entire movie series dedicated to explaining why we do not reanimate dinosaurs
are you suggesting necromancers were behind jurassic park
Everyone acting like the Dinosaurs were the Problem in Jurassic Park seems to have forgotten that all of their problems traced back to the fact that their entire IT Network was a single-point-of-failure system, a single underpaid SysAdmin who intentionally sabotaged the park for profit.
PAY YOUR EMPLOYEES
The only reason the system had a single point of failure was cost cutting. This was never going to end well because the man running it did not actually care about doing things the right way.
Yea exactly. I guess most folks didn’t read Michael Crichton’s entire bibliography like I did, so the fact that literally every plot of his can be boiled down to “Private Enterprise cannot be trusted to operate in secret without Public Oversight” got glossed over in favor of sexy Jeff Goldblum’s “Life uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Finds A Way”
Given how popular neoliberal deregulation has been since the USSR collapsed, that shouldn’t keep surprising me. And yet.
So it’s fine to resurrect dinosaur skeletons if i pay my crypt acolytes a union wage got it
Finally! Someone capable of listening!
Love the energy here, but I feel like we may also run up against the issue of complete dinosaur skeletons being fairly rare which means a lot of the ones you see in museums actually happen to be casts and not real bones. Still go for it ofc, but I just hope your unionized crypt acolytes are either experts in museum research + theft or just really down to go into battle alongside whatever the fuck this is:
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Shit this got me out here cryin in the club
TERFS do not interact
kawaiipotatuh-deactivated202106
it got an update!!
transgenidoqueen
i’ve been squealing with joy at this for a solid fifteen minutes y'all 😭❤️
I saw the original and I’m so pleased to see the update!
Another small update in the comments! Sorry for light mode lol
[ID: A collection of Reddit posts by u/takeyourmedsbro. They’re under r/MtF, and the first is marked as a discussion titled “To all of you ladies, from a cis man.” It reads:
I hope it isn’t totally out of order for me to post here, as a man I don’t want to take up your spaces so I’ll try and keep this as short as possible. Tw genital mention
I have full permission from my partner to post this and she’s read it all. There is a misconception that the only men a straight trans women can get with, is a chaser. It is very sad that many of you feel that way, and I’m sorry for how men treat you, but that’s not how it has to be. I met my girlfriend when I was 15. She was living as a boy then and was 13. I used to push her around when we played football at school. I thought she was one of the lads. Time goes on, I was never that close to her and we lost touch. Next thing is I meet her again on a fine art course. I didn’t recognise her at all and with her name change and generic surname I never made the connection. I developed quite the crush, we would go on dates and I’d sort of play them off as just hanging out with a friend. I was so giddy around her and I was terrified to tell her I liked her. One day we were going to the movies and I told myself ‘today is the day I ask her to be my girlfriend, and try to kiss her’ We ended up skipping the movie to go on a walk in the local forest. I held her hand and she squeezed mine - my heart was beating so damn fast. We finally kissed and it was like fireworks. I told her I liked her but she cut me off. She told me to stop talking because she needs to tell me something. Now in my mind I’m panicking thinking she’s in a relationship, but she says ‘l used to be a boy. I was at school with you, please don’t be mad I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you ‘and then to my absolute horror she said ‘please don’t hurt me’ She genuinely thought that there was a danger of me attacking her after finding out. This broke my fucking heart. I had my moment of being like wtf - mainly because I’d known this girl for almost 10 years and hadn’t pieced the 2 people together - but then we kissed again, and then again and again and we kissed so much my face hurt by the end. That was 5 years ago and boy this has been a learning curve. I’ve only ever dated cis women before. I am 100% straight and I had to unlearn some internalized shit for maybe a day or so, until I thought what the fuck does it matter who she used to be? Damn I used to be a baby, people change. But I love her the way she is now. I love her smile I love her eyes I love her body her curves her hands her hair and you know what? I love her penis too. I love it because it’s hers. and it gives her pleasure, and there isn’t anything wrong with it. I don’t have a fetish. I just fell in love with a woman and that means I fell in love with the whole package. I’m planning to propose to her on new years eve. I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I want to raise kids with her and I want her to lose all of these insecurities. Just because you can’t carry them, doesn’t mean you won’t be the mother of my children. There is hope, you’re not broken or unlovable or nothing but a kink. You’re a powerful woman.
The second post is titled “Update from the cis guy that proposed.“ It reads:
Hey ladies. I’ve been asked by a few of you to share an update. Here is my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/e95hgx/to_all_of_you_ladies_from_a_cis_man/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
And here is your official soppy post warning - beware…
Soooo on exactly 00:00 new years (ok I was probably out by a couple minutes but I did try to time it) I proposed to my beautiful girlfriend (who also happens to be trans, hence why I’m posting on here) and she said YES
I don’t know if I can fully articulate how happy I am. I wanted to keep it lowkey and between the 2 of us so she didn’t feel any pressure, so I cooked her favourite meal ever (I would have liked to cook something fancy and elegant but honestly she would much rather eat spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread and then a loaded ice cream sundae for dessert ANY day of the week) we ate, played board games and did a competition to see who could make the best vehicle out of old egg cartons and toilet roll tubes. Then we decided to make cupcakes which were fucking vile because we forgot to add the sugar of all things. Not typical romantic evening but I felt all the love and when I dropped down on one knee she just wept. I didn’t even know I had a yes at first because she was crying so much. I actually got really scared I’d freaked her out so I stood up and hugged her and said I’m sorry and she finally told me yes yes yes and explained that she was crying because it was always beyond her wildest dreams as a youngster that she would ever be able to be a wife. This is not something I can relate to, but I think I do understand, as best as i can as a cis man. We literally just held each other for a bit before we both realized she hadn’t seen the ring yet! I’m not a wealthy guy at all so I was afraid she would be disappointed in my grandmothers wedding ring as her engagement ring (I will buy her a new ring for the wedding) but I did want her to have it as my grandmother always told me she wanted my future wife to wear it. Luck was on my side though people because the ring made her cry all over again, happy tears, because she said it made her feel like the fairytale she told herself as a child has finally come true. I think there maybe was something affirming about the fact that this ring was left from my grandma for me to give to the woman I want to spend my life with.
Ok I don’t want to bore you all to death with the ins and outs but I haven’t stopped smiling since she said yes. The fiancee (I love saying that, so exciting) has been obsessively wedding planning which is mighty convenient for me considering I have no clue on how to organize a wedding. It’s like the child in her has come out to play and its very endearing. She missed out on all the typical girly activities as a child so she’s making up for lost time. She ALREADY has a scrapbook for the wedding and she’s already browsing dresses!
I’m sorry for being all cliche and cringey. I know its insufferable to many and I do understand. I just feel drunk in love, and i did want to update and not leave people hanging! Other than my mother, my family does not know she is trans, because frankly it’s none of their business and my fiancee hasn’t wanted to open up to them about that part of her life. She confided in my mother because my mother knows a transgender boy and so it came up in conversation. As far as the rest of my family are concerned, it’s totally irrelevant to them and they will only ever know if she chooses to tell them. So I was wondering if incorporating rainbows anywhere in the theme at all would be too obviously lgbt pride themed? Or can I get away with some rainbow tokens and such just as a discreet acknowledgement of how far she’s come? Obviously I don’t want people to think of this wedding as anything other than what it is, a straight marriage between a man and a woman, so are rainbows risky? I’m just so damn proud of her and want to show that in some way. I was thinking of wearing rainbow cufflinks or something? Anyway sorry for the damn essay but I hope the new year goes well for you lovely ladies and sorry for being a cringe lord. I just can’t believe I’ve found my queen
in MtF by takeurmedsbro
Third is another post, which reads:
Also we have decided that on the big day, I will wear pink cufflinks and she will wear either blue eye makeup or a flower, and then the theme will be that classic white sorta theme. The colours of the trans flag, thanks to your suggestions. Like so subtle that only me and her will know it means anything at all. Hopefully that will work out tastefully but we also like the pink/blue/white elements of the cake idea. I showed her some of these comments and god damn it you lok she is now exploring sooo many more ideas and concepts, I didnt think she would expand past the scrapbook, but we now have a wedding ‘mood board’ of all things… takes up half the wall in our room. I proposed only 3 days ago! I love her enthusiasm but I’m finding it hard to rate all the dresses she shows me, when I cant tell the difference between any of them… a white dress is a white dress, but she says that’s typical male bullshit and she’s probably right there. But she can wear a bin bag to our wedding and still look perfect so I’m not worried about which compliments her body more, but then I do want her to put a dress on and have that feeling of ‘this is my dress’ and I have the feeling that could be a long process… anyway, the kindness means everything x. End ID]
kaijuno
Happy Pride
This post has 10 sets of parentheses and 2 sets of brackets.
This. THIS is why I don’t put Cishet DNI in my bio btw
normally I don’t read super long posts like that but god damn. that was beautiful
He won.
they both did<3
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"Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children."
Absolutely damning statement. Quisling behavior. Vinchy France behavior.
That's what we are to all these organizations (NCMEC, hospitals, The Democratic Party)
An acceptable sacrifice. I'm so tired of it. Trans people are real. We're living, breathing people with hopes and dreams and wants and needs, not a sacrificial lamb to offer up to appease MAGA.
Especially because the MAGA beast won't be satiated after it consumes us
I think that Americans need to show quislings like this that there's a price for collaborating with the regime