Aileen Wuornos is a hero for killing her johns. She should still be living as a saint on this earth instead of receiving the death penalty.

Lorena Bobbitt is a hero for cutting her rapist’s penis off. So is every other woman who has done that.

I've seen a lot of posts (and reblogged/queued a few as you might've seen) abt the HP game recently which I'm assuming means it dropped? Anyway I don't want to put this in the tags of posts by jewish people as I don't want to add onto those even in tag form as a gentile and reblogging someone else's post that says to unfollow me if you support the game doesn't feel direct enough, so I'm making my own post for it:

Please unfollow/block me if you plan on playing this game.

Yes, pirating counts. I don't want you here. If you don't care about the safety of jewish people enough to do the bare minimum of not fucking playing this game then I'm begging you to reevaluate. If you still are into HP in the year 2023 then I don't know how to help you.

Hating nazis and terfs is not enough. You have to love transfem and jewish people more than you claim to hate their oppressors and that starts with shit like this. So once again: If you plan on playing this game because you still can't let go of a franchise the support of which directly harms the people you think you care about then never talk to or interact with me again please.

I love it when women hate men. I love it when women are allowed to vent to each other about how horrible and creepy men are. I love it when women form friendships with and prioritize each other over relationships with men(whether they're attracted to them or not). I love it when women put men dni in their bios and on their nude photos and on posts on their blogs. I love it when women refuse to mollycoddle and accommodate entitled male feelings with "but this doesn't mean I hate all men, I know a few men who are great, I love my father/sons/brothers/uncles/male cousins/guy friends" I love it when women complain about men WITHOUT "not all men" being a disclaimer. I love it when women avoid socializing with/refuse to be around/befriend/get close to men because they know men can't be trusted. I love it when women make "kill all men" jokes. I love it when women offer absolutely no concern or care for men's feelings and if their misandry offends men whatsoever because why should we, men are the oppressor class who have raped and killed and abused us and kept us as subjugated as second-class citizens for millennia, they regularly mistreat us and the women in their own marginalized communities still every single day and make this world so much harder and more awful for us to be in, and if we choose to hate them and not spare them any sympathy then so be it, and I don't just mean "men as a class" either, you can be a woman who doesn't want to have anything to do with any man on an individual basis and completely cuts off men from her personal life too and ykw I will love and fucking support you in that because men deserve absolutely NOTHING from us. If they're so tough and strong then they can handle it just like they can handle being lonely. If you are a woman who hates men, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A LESBIAN AND/OR A TRANS WOMAN, then just know that I love you. I love you, I support you, and you are safe here.

"the problem is men, not trans women!"

ok but what is a man? what is it about this group of people that makes them a problem? is it the identity of 'man' that's the problem? and if all men stopped identifying as men would the problem go away?

“Gale Hawthorne is a complex character” I say into the mic

The crowd boos, I slink off the stage in shame

“They’re right” says a voice from the audience

I turn, and there in the stands is Suzanne Collins herself

You know how in some continuities Orion Pax and Megatron really didn't know each other before the war? And usually that's where OP is just minding his business when suddenly Megatron and his revolutionaries just happen to swing by where he is working as a laborer... and he ends up dying/being near-death and brought to Alpha Trion to be reformatted/recieve the Matrix of Leadership?

Yeah... who wants to pair that with the stories where Orion Pax and Megatronus were friends but tragically end up on other sides of the war?

Here's what I propose:

Orion Pax and Megatronus become friends over their shared interest in philosophy and their concerns over the safety and wellbeing of their fellow Cybertronian. They are minor celebrities to those who follow Megatronus' continual rise in the Pits.

The government sees them as dangerous revolutionaries on the verge of igniting a movement that could stand to ruin everything the high-castes greedily covet. But what can be done? Obviously both sides have their staunch supporters, but how to sway the remaining general populace?

Clearly their doctrine and censorship isn't stopping the spread of information. But that shouldn't even matter; in the past, all they had to do was disincentivise the public from even noticing what happened around them. In time, the citizens of Cybertron could be cowed into submission once again, given they take the proper course of action...

The government decides to make an example of these revolutionary leaders.

This is easier plotted than executed, as Megatronus and his closest posse have been expecting assassination attempts for quite some time... it's nothing new to them. Orion longs for a day his friend may relax and go about his day without expecting death around every corner...

There is no point in meeting in secret, as Megatronus and his gladiator companions have tracking devices on them anyway. No, Orion always meets his friend at the transport station, where they walk and chat all the way to the gladiator's quarters.

Only, on this particular day, he doesn't even finish greeting Megatronus from across the walkway before he experiences a great pain. The greatest pain he has ever felt. There is panic in the fields of those around him, and he feels himself fall as everyone else runs away. Why can't he run away??

The last thing Orion sees before he shuts down for reboot is Megatronus' shocked and aggrieved expression as he tries to run towards his prone frame, only to be stopped by policemech.

Then next time he awoke, he was no longer with Megatronus. He was no long Orion Pax. He was... Optimus Prime.

And it turns out, stellar cycles had gone by... and in that time Optimus found he could no longer recognize the mech he once called friend. Megatron was on such a rampage, on a quest for violence, that he had lost sight of what their revolution had been about... lost sight of himself. And so Optimus decided to face him, in the hopes of talking/knocking some sense into him...

there’s something deeply insidious about posturing as an anti-zionist yet refusing to engage with any palestinian like at all

One time about a week ago I was playing Deep Rock Galactic and doing a mission for the new Season 4 part 1 mission set on Haz 4 (after recently unlocking Haz 5 but I ain't skilled enough for Haz 5 yet) and SEVEN FUCKING OPPRESSORS SPAWNED

SEVEN OF THESE BASTARDS WITH 900 HP

Like holy Jesus fuck that's fucking insanely difficult to pull off due to the Haz 4 + 4 players Effective Health Scaling like

EACH ONE OF THE SEVEN MOTHERFUCKING BASTARDS HAS ALMOST 1200 HP

EACH

FUCKING

ONE

HAD

1170 HP

Now fighting one of these bastards during a swarm is usually fine, in fact right before the SEVEN BASTARDS appeared we had just killed one off, but holy fuckign shit, seven at once is insane

Doing a quick calculation with a calculator (1170x7) we get a total combined hp from the seven fucks of:

8190?!??

THESE FUCKS HAD TO HAVE 8190 HP TORN THROUGH TO KILL THEM ALL

AND WHAT DIDNT HELP WITH THAT WAS I GOT DOWNED RIGHT AFTER THE FIRST ONE MEANING THAT ONLY THREE DWARVES WERE ABLE TO FIGHT THE SEVEN BASTARDS

as expected we fucking died lmao

Hi friendly reminder that the word “diaspora”, while it is now widely applied to many groups of people who live outside of their homeland/land of origin, was originally coined SPECIFICALLY to refer to Jews who were exiled from and are now living outside of the land that we know today as Israel.

I’m really fucking tired of seeing goyim complain that Jews are “appropriating” the word diaspora when it was literally made and first used to describe US. We are a people indigenous to the land that was previously known as Judea, now known as Israel, and the word diaspora was made to refer to Jews who were kicked out of their native land and had to live elsewhere.

We can’t fucking appropriate a word that was made to describe us, you fucking antisemitic bastards.

[cws: psychiatric abuse, torture, homophobia, ableism, sanism, racism, pictures of taxidermy. boy this show is a lot sometimes lmfao]

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so something @thecottageinthedark noticed recently that i'm still fucked up about is that pericles' cage in the asylum isn't actually a bird cage.

it's a bell jar.

for those who don't know what a bell jar is, it's a type of taxidermy display for preserving delicate specimens, most often birds. it's easy for their feathers to get dusty or disintegrate over time if they're left out in the open; a bell jar not only keeps off dirt and keeps people from touching them, but it's made to create a vacuum inside to keep everything where it is.

another layer to this reference is that the book The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, is a retelling of her own experiences with mental illness and the attempts made to treat it at the time. notably, one of the major themes of the book is psychiatric abuse.

pericles is also not only a gay man forcefully committed to an asylum in what is most likely intended to be the 70s, but a very obvious and already horribly handled fantasy metaphor for both physically disabled people and POC. (in particular the talking animals' role in the worldbuilding heavily mirrors Black americans irl, which holy shit there is so much to unpack there all by itself. there is So Much)

(fun little bonus on the side: he's kept in a cell with extremely bright blue/white light 24/7, at an angle where it'd be even more difficult to block it out than if it were overhead. this would make it impossible to get any decent fucking sleep, which is widely recognized as one of the worst forms of torture to exist. they did this to him for 20 years straight.)

so, to recap: gay man and analogue for disabled people/POC, who is also portrayed as an ~evil crazy malicious psychopath,~ is kept in not only a display case for scientific specimens, but one specifically made--in-universe and out--to recreate something that is done to his demographic as a metaphorical disabled person/POC.

and not only that, and not only do people talk about him--in front of him, like he's not even there--as a specimen while gawking at him in this position, but he is being displayed like the stuffed and mounted corpse of a disabled person/POC.

he is said to belong on that display for 'the rest of his miserable [disabled/POC] life.' no one disagrees with this. he's painted as smugly bullying the violent abusive guard. in general he's portrayed as Scary and Evil Now for having been in this situation. and when he escapes, it kicks off what end up being the most heavy-duty problems for the protagonists, which result in the Bad Ending for the nibiru timeline; if he had stayed there, continued to be objectified and tortured with homophobic/racist/ableist violence for the rest of his life, the timeline almost certainly wouldn't have been doomed.

and they used a real person's autobiography about their experiences with psychiatric abuse for this. and to position them in the role of someone it should have not only happened to, but been even more horrifically dehumanizing and cruel.

yeah. i..... yeah.

the creators of this show are genuinely really good at putting together layered references like this, some more obscure than others, which are rewarding to discover and add depth when you do, and it is a crying fucking shame that they like to use it for shit like this. god damn lmao

And thusly the lord did speak, and in his eternal wisdom commanded thus: thou shalt not permit nuance in thine fandom, lest thou acknowledge reasoning different to thine own projections exist or that the people who engage with Adam’s character are just, like, regular ass people with lives outside of fandom or whatever.

It is sooooooo great that finding academic text is that hard and paywalled. We wouldn’t want ppl to run the risk of accessing knowledge

Do you have specific fiction authors that you like to read? What aspects of a story make you want to really dig your fingers in it? Is it horror?

I’ve got a couple! Keigo Higashino for sure. anything Naoki Urasawa does: I will be reading it. Priest (Guardian and Mo Du are all time favorites). also KJ Charles and Andrew A Smith!

ngl I don’t really have a concrete list of favorite fiction writers, I spent several days thinking about this one: like, I have favorite books for sure, but I don’t often find myself considering an author to be a favorite just because their book blew my mind. I’ve only read three of Andrew A Smith’s works, but he’s here because he gave an interview years that changed my entire approach to storytelling, and I still revisit it whenever I start editing a story.

honestly the big thing is that I like character!! I like compelling characters (extremely varied definition of compelling, it doesn’t have to be much, but it does have to have something) I like it when something goes full throttle into whatever it wants to be. I’ll watch a slow paced slice of life romance with the same amount of enthusiasm that I had for Devil Judge, and the 1vs10 beat down in Ipman takes up just as much space in my brain as the ‘let’s not see each other from now on,’ breakup in the Heirs (but for extremely different reasons lmao)

however. if I have to pick something more thematically specific: I like seeing people in power get what they have coming to them, I like explorations and confrontations of political and social injustices. kingdom is one of my favorite shows, and the horror is great, but it was the political-class-power aspect of it that solidified it as a memorable watch to me. kamen rider build did something fundamental to the circuitry of my brain. etc.

How are you gonna be a feminist and then say you hate men? You’re supposed to be fighting for equal rights for all genders, not just for women.

(nonbinary trans guy speaking here)

Feminism is for women (female people/people born female). It’s in the name.

There are two sexes, one that has been historically oppressed and continues to be oppressed to this day (the female sex), and one that has done/is doing the oppressing (the male sex). Why should a movement cater to the oppressing sex by being “for everyone”, instead of focusing on the oppressed sex to liberate them? That’s what feminism is. It’s the goal to liberate female people from sex-based oppression.

Imagine if I told you I am in support of LGB rights, and you said to me “um, shouldn’t you be in support of EVERYONE’S rights?”. You can see how that’s ignoring the problem at hand, right? How focusing on LGB rights specifically is important because same sex attracted people have been/are oppressed, while heterosexuals have never been? Now apply the same to feminism.

So yes, feminism is for women. Feminists tend to hate men because we see the state women are in and know who caused it.

If you want an ideology that is about everyone, you’re looking for egalitarianism. Which is a great ideology in theory, until you try it out and realise that to achieve the goals of egalitarianism, you’ll have to work with feminism first to get both sexes on an equal playing field.

trans women don’t oppress trans men

trans men don’t oppress trans women

as a whole, this is horizontal punching each other. anything else is just bioessentialism and gender essentialism.

however, trans men are also capable of transmisogyny, and that needs to be called out when it happens.

and trans women are also capable of transandrophobia, and that needs to be called out when it happens.

allyship goes both ways, you can’t demand everyone listen to you and do what you say and then ignore when people are trying to get you to listen, and hear the other side

Dennis is a complicated character and there's so much to think about with him, but the moment i keep coming back to, that plays in my head repeatedly, is when Corvin is like "fuck the cops is just a thing people say actually killing them is going too far" and Dennis is like "cops aren't people and they deserved it"

Dennis' biggest W