eleonorebirk
Eleonore Birk
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Please reblog if you think that âthey/them/theirsâ is a valid set of pronouns.
this post must be reblogged by everyone
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What the fuck is this??????????
Folks: you CANNOT censor trigger tags. When you block a tag, it doesn't block other "spellings" of it. Writing it as "r@pe" or "r4p3" means that someone who has "tw rape" as a blocked tag will still see that post because you didn't wanna say the word rape. You are hurting people. Do not censor words, because people do not have those filtered out.
And honestly if you can't even write the word rape to protect other people then you probably aren't old/mature enough to be on this website.
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i think we as a culture leaned too hard on the sentiment of âif itâs not hurting anyone then itâs fineâ so now people feel like if they want to complain about something they dislike they have to find or fabricate some reason why itâs actually hurting someone. the truth is youâre allowed to just dislike things and youâre allowed to say so as long as youâre not being a jerk about it
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the problem with âyou donât owe anyone else anythingâ is that what I think people first meant when they said it was âdonât apologize for existing, you do not owe others for tolerating you being alive especially if they are cruel to youâ but what everyone online took it as âif someone in your life ever asks you for anything ever you should kill themâ
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yes all my favorite characters are desperate to be loved. no i donât think that says anything about me
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what a shame doctors donât prescribe vacation to secluded seaside towns like they used to
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does anyone else kind of.. enjoy spoilers ?? like theyâre sort of a relief because then I know whether or not something is worth investing in watching or reading or not
Iâm not gonna be disappointed if it doesnât turn out how I want plus Iâm not going to fast forward and skip through large parts of it to find out what happens, which Iâm embarrassed that I do I just donât have the patience
Is that just a me thing or do other people do that too? Is that an adhd thing?
I just do way better watching things if I already know the entire synopsis and can predict kinda when things will happen like landmarks in a movie that help me through
Please tell me this is an actual thing and not just me
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God, grant me the confidence of a white, straight cis man writing unhinged sex scenes so I can stop agonizing over this one paragraph and get it done.
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To all restaurants: you need an online presence OTHER THAN Facebook. Like, something people can access without any account or login at all.
Also, that online presence should just show your menu. Not a PDF download, simply your menu, directly, no need to start an online ordering process.
I remain amazed how many ways, in 2022, places can fuck this up.
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A friend and I were out with our kids when another familyâs two-year-old came up. She began hugging my friendâs 18-month-old, following her around and smiling at her. My friendâs little girl looked like she wasnât so sure she liked this, and at that moment the other little girlâs mom came up and got down on her little girlâs level to talk to her.
âHoney, can you listen to me for a moment? Iâm glad youâve found a new friend, but you need to make sure to look at her face to see if she likes it when you hug her. And if she doesnât like it, you need to give her space. Okay?â
Two years old, and already her mother was teaching her about consent.
My daughter Sally likes to color on herself with markers. I tell her itâs her body, so itâs her choice. Sometimes she writes her name, sometimes she draws flowers or patterns. The other day I heard her talking to her brother, a marker in her hand.
âBobby, do you mind if I color on your leg?â
Bobby smiled and moved himself closer to his sister. She began drawing a pattern on his leg with a marker while he watched, fascinated. Later, she began coloring on the sole of his foot. After each stoke, he pulled his foot back, laughing. I looked over to see what was causing the commotion, and Sally turned to me.
âHe doesnât mind if I do this,â she explained, âhe is only moving his foot because it tickles. He thinks its funny.â And she was right. Already Bobby had extended his foot to her again, smiling as he did so.
What I find really fascinating about these two anecdotes is that they both deal with the consent of children not yet old enough to communicate verbally. In both stories, the older child must read the consent of the younger child through nonverbal cues. And even then, consent is not this ambiguous thing that is difficult to understand.
Teaching consent is ongoing, but it starts when children are very young. It involves both teaching children to pay attention to and respect othersâ consent (or lack thereof) and teaching children that they should expect their own bodies and their own space to be respectedâeven by their parents and other relatives.
And if children of two or four can be expected to read the nonverbal cues and expressions of children not yet old enough to talk in order to assess whether there is consent, what excuse do full grown adults have?
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Iâm thinking today about Savita Halappanavar, an Indian dentist living in Ireland, who in 2012 suffered a partial miscarriage of her first pregnancy. Doctors refused to perform an abortion to expel the foetus as it still had a detectable heartbeat. She developed sepsis and died. She was 31.
About Agnieszka T, a Polish woman who was pregnant with twins. She miscarried one foetus but was refused an abortive procedure. 6 days later her second foetus died. She had to wait 2 further days to be given a termination. She died 3 weeks later of septic shock. She had a husband and 3 other children. She was 37.
About Izabela, a Polish woman whose foetus was found to have several abnormalities, but who was determined to carry to term. When her waters broke in the 22nd week of pregnancy she was told she had to wait until her foetus had no heartbeat before they could induce her or perform a c-section. She died leaving behind a husband and nine year old daughter. She was 30.
About Andrea Prudente, an American woman on a âbabymoonâ in Malta where she suffered an incomplete miscarriage. Due to Maltaâs complete ban on abortion, she was denied an abortion that would save her life. She asked her husband to punch her in the stomach as hard as he could to either induce labour or stop the foetal heartbeat. She was medically evacuated to Spain where they safely performed the procedure needed to end her pregnancy and save her life. This happened on Thursday.
Restrictive abortion bans harm anybody who can get pregnant. They harm planned pregnancies, as much as unplanned ones. They harm residents and non residents. If youâre reading whatâs happening in America and thinking âWell at least itâs not my countryâ, sorry to say thereâs every chance you could still end up affected one day. Abortion is basic healthcare, and basic healthcare is a basic human right. All these women were denied theirs, and these are just the tip of the iceberg. The last 3 all happened within the last year. Rather than these women being a sign of the past, instead theyâre now very much a sign of whatâs to come in America and thatâs terrifying.
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Gargoyles 20th Aniversary
Today has been the 20th Anniversary of the Disney TV show, Gargoyles.
Anyone who knows me, knows that Gargoyles is my all time favorite show, now and forever. Â
And there are many reasons for this. It has amazing storytelling, with rich characters with wonderful dimensions! Hell, the main villain gets married and has a kid! How often do you see that!
The show also has amazing literature (tons of Shakespeare), mythology, legends, and folklore references from all over the world. There is the Gargoyles themselves, and there are robots, secret societies, Faeries (some of whom are shown to be the âgodsâ from different pantheons), Genetic Mutants, âMonstersâ, Cyborgs, Aliens, Gangster Mob Bosses, Tricksters, ghosts, and everything in between.
It also promotes reading, and got me into Shakespeare.
The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflecting all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected in the dark sea of time.
-Jeffrey Robbins, Gargoyles
And has a kickass Female heroine, who is half African American, half Native American, a Lady Cop (Detective), and all badass. Elisa Maza!
However, the main reason I love this show, was because it gave me hope when I was all alone. When I was a little 11year old girl in 6th grade, the youngest in my year, I was bullied and tormented relentlessly. I had only two friends in the whole world, and at that point in time, they were just as likely to either bully me, or allow others to do so, or just to leave me all alone to go and play with the ones to bullied me. I was a little girl with ADHD, and mild as of then still undiagnosed Aspergerâs. I danced and skipped down the hallways, and believed in fairies. I walked through the crowded halls full of kids trying to trip me, or slam into me, and learned to dodge. I was different from the other kids, in many, many ways, and they knew it. Iâm still afraid of being near people playing Basket Ball, because of all the times they were aimed at my head.
Ironically, the faculty of my elementary school all loved me. I had wonderful teachers, and they did try their best to protect me. But it wasnâtâ enough. The principal of my elementary school even took a whole week, to sit down and talk with every child in my grade individually (106 kids), to get to the bottom of the horrible bullying. I appreciated their efforts, but nothing really changed. I was so, utterly alone then. Alone in ways Iâve never quite experienced since, thought I have come close. I had depression, and my stomach hurt, and my hands shook, and my head ached. I was able to get the nurse to send me home many times, (like I said the faculty all loved me). I was a pariah and outcast. And I was a little girl, who was 11 years old, who wanted to die. I never tried anything, but I wondered if any of the kids would care, or be sorry.
But Gargoyles, a show where the protagonists are good people who are shunned, ostracized, and feared for looking and being different, gave me hope. I knew how the Gargoyles felt, I knew what it was to be alone, like Demona,
and to search for kindred spirits like Lexington.
âWe canât hide from the whole world up here. There are kindred spirits out there for us, but weâve got to look for them and got to give them chance. Or else we will always be alone!â - Lexington
And I saw Goliath, who lost so much, and was treated so poorly by the humans he had protected, and he forgave, and kept going, and he, HE had Hope. And, he gave me hope in turn.
âWe canât hide from the world, we must live in it. We must search for allies, kindred spirits. And sometimes we must take chances like we did tonight. To do otherwise, is to remain forever alone.â - Goliath
Gargoyles Protect. that Is what they do.
A Gargoyle can no more stop protecting the castle than breathing the air.
And they saved me.
My Dad saw this, and he took me to The Gathering of the Gargoyles, the fan convention. 10 years ago, on the 10th Anniversary of the Show. I met Greg Weisman, the creator of the show, and he was so kind. I was more comfortable in my skin at the Gathering than Iâd been in a long time. Everyone there was so nice, and welcoming to this silly little girl. I met some of  the amazing actors, like Keith David who voiced Goliath, and Thom Adcox who voiced Lexington. And I met these other amazing fans. And Greg and CrazyDemona cast me as Elisa in the Radio Play. I felt like I was worth something again.
Gargoyles is why Iâm majoring in film. Because someday, I want to be like Greg Weisman, and create a story that can help and inspired others, the way that Gargoyles helped me.
So Thank you Gargoyles. Thankyou Greg Weisman.
Thankyou to everyone who made this show possible.
And I also want to thank all of those wonderful fellow Gargoyle fans that I met at the Gatherings, who made a depressed little girl feel so welcome.
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it's so bitter to watch how many people are only now realising that the censorship of "morally bad" things will never stop at just the things they personally find repulsive. the problem with morals is that they're not a fixed norm that everyone agrees on and that they're a very easy argument to be used by bigots against marginalised groups. that's why it's dangerous to call for censorship on moral grounds - whose morals exactly?
all you people campaigning for a boycott of ao3, wanting them to censor "bad" content, i am begging you to wake the fuck up and understand that for many people "bad" things include queer people's existence, any form of sexual content, minority-representation and criticism of the government.
don't open the door for them.
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Fanfiction isnât written for you, itâs shared with you.
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You ever think about how unified humanity is by just everyday experiences? Tudor peasants had hangnails, nobles in the Qin dynasty had favorite foods, workers in the 1700s liked seeing flowers growing in pavement cracks, a cook in medieval Iran teared up cutting onions, a mom in 1300 told her son not to get grass stains on his clothes, some girl in the past loved staying up late to see the sun rise.
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Because I just read a few AO3 censorship related posts in a rowâŚ
Iâm not sure antis and people who want to remove certain things from AO3, like any content with anyone under 18, understand WHY those of us who are Of A Certain Age, aka the people who created AO3, fight so hard on this stuff.
Like I donât think they understand that we have LITERALLY SEEN THIS BEFORE. People spoke up before about âchild pornâ aka anything involving any character under 18, or even stuff with aged up characters like an adult Harry Potter, but people assume Harry Potter is always 12 or whatever.Â
And when those complaints were made ALL adult content was wiped. FFN suddenly wouldnât host ANY explicit fics. No matter how healthy, how fluffy, how consensual and adult and whatever. Just Nope. Things were wiped from existence. LJ randomly wiped entire blogs for being reported, banned users based on the say of Conservative Christians who shouted pedophile at the gays.
What happens when people try to remove objectionable material is that it ends with having no home for ANY explicit material. Itâs happened again on social media under SESTA and FOSTA in the name of preventing sex trafficking. In the name of keeping smut out of the Apple store.Â
Archive of Our Own was founded to be a home for content that wouldnât be hosted elsewhere. Where you could put something and not fear its deletion the first time someone happened upon it and reported you for whatever reason. Where no one is going to judge whether your fic meets some subjective standard of purity, so long as itâs tagged appropriately and is legal content in the US (which all written fiction is.)
We watched so many communities destroyed, websites erased, content lost and then a new generation comes along and is like âhey letâs do this againâ and weâre like NO WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU INSANE?
Theyâre never going to accept your gay porn about other peopleâs fictional characters just because you got rid of that âickyâ stuff you donât like. Youâll still be a freak for it. You cannot respectability politics your way out of your shame and embarrassment at being associated with something others see as dirty. Youâre going to have to grow up and just accept it.
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