The constant fight seems to be "Bruce Wayne would help the city more by fighting poverty than punching people" which is true, vs "Bruce Wayne does do that in the comics" which is also true. I think the real issue is that to enjoy a Batman story, you have to accept that it is reasonable to spend any amount of money at all on dressing like a bat and punching clowns. If that's just too silly for you (and it is in fact really silly!) then no amount of Bruce Wayne giving to in-universe charity is going to change that.

I tend to forget on some continents, of earth, the road traffic tends to be much more…. Crowded.

I was on the phone with xfinity mobile trying to transfer partners phone over, and the woman who helped me at the call center was really nice and helpful. She did her best to get this whole thing situated, our old phone carrier is being a piece of crap, and she did get the issue fixed!

I was put on hold a couple of time, which was fine, I have worked retail and worked in a call center, that shit can take forever and its not the person on the other ends fault. People forget that and I hate that there are people who call in and just treat the workers in the call centers, who are just trying to help you, like shit.

Twice I heard the woman who was helping me turn to one of her coworkers and say "This lady is so nice! She's so nice!" and all I can think of is how often she has to deal with people with shitty attitudes. Yeah you can be having a really shitty day but don't take it out on the service people who are trying to help you.

TL; DR

Don't be a dick to people who work in call centers, retail, the service industry or anyone for that matter.

DON'T BE A DICK

"Stop Defending EA! They need to defend their own stuff!"

I see some people accuse me or others on the anti-paywall side of things of this, and I want to talk a bit about this argument and why I think it's a bit of a misunderstanding. So I'm 25, (about to be 26 later this week, woo!) and even though I'm a grown woman, when I leave after visiting my parents my Dad still reminds me to drive safe and wear my seatbelt and not speed and stuff. Now, when that happens, my mom never chimes in and says "Now honey, you need to not do that. That's the police's job to make sure our daughter knows to be safe on the road." That's absurd, right? Because while it is the police's job to remind drivers to be safe, at the end of the day, my dad's just reminding me to be safe because he doesn't want me to be hurt, or end up suffering the consequences of my bad choices. When he reminds me, he's not defending or really attacking the police and their effectiveness at their jobs. He just wants to keep his daughter safe. Here's the deal. I don't really give much thought to EA as a company. They honestly could do a lot better on a lot of things, such as communication with their community, accurate representation for simmers of color, etc. But when I am here reminding people that Sims is an EA owned property and that folks need to not trample on that company's intellectual property rights, it's not because I care about the company. It's because I care about the person who could get HURT by that company deciding to defend its property. Because IF you are lucky, and EA decides to defend it's IP, you'll get a cease and desist letter. But if it's super obvious you've made BANK off of their I.P...well, we know how money-hungry EA is. What are the chances they'll try some legal action to get a cut or hell, a majority of what you've made? And they'd have a legal precident to. There's already been court cases that have allowed companies to sue modders and proven that courts consider EULA's to be LEGAL CONTRACTS that players enter into. So breaking the EULA means you are breaking the law. I don't think saying something along the lines of "Hey, you realize you're basically poking the sleeping bear that is this big company that has a TON of money by breaking their EULA. Perhaps you should NOT do that and instead make money in the legally allowed way they have given you instead that also doesn't screw over the community? Because it'd suck to see you get stuck in some legal consequences you aren't prepared for." Another reason I bring up this point a lot is because it's important to realize that breaking a EULA is a small beginning step in what can be a nasty pattern of behavior. “Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” - Lao Tzu What this quote means is that your actions become habits, and your habits become the character of who you are. Those small choices, those little things you let slide, can ultimately lead to you making more and more choices that are worse until it becomes the core of who you are. We've had a lot of examples recently of custom content creators who started out doing things the RIGHT way and then ended up making small choices that ended up with them paywalling their content and giving the community a big middle finger. Sixam CC has been one that has often come up. He started off as an early access creator, and did things right for a long while, and has since started to paywall his creations. Since then, his attitude when questioned about it and towards his patrons has gotten worse and worse. Including this wonderful exchange:

SimsCommunity even called him on his B.S on twitter only to get no response. I wanna share some tweets [I think I've shared these before] from Ghastly Simmer A on Twitter, which really drives home my point. I'll share the screenshots, but you can find the thread HERE. Just as a trigger warning, there are some su*cide attenmpt mentions in these:

I love the part where she says "they were literally stealing from the entire community" because that really is the crux of the issue. Because it starts with "stealing" from EA but it's not really just stealing from them. It's also stealing from us. The community. The people who actually make this game amazing. Then they'll expand further into stealing textures, models, and other things they didn't make. Some may start stealing other people's creations to throw into builds. Then it can go further with tracking and sharing of information between patreon creators. And then it can get so bad that it devolves into doxxing, bullying, harrassment, fake allegations, and job contacting. And the truth is, I'm not spreading the word as much for the people who have already gone off the deep end as I'm hoping to reach the people who are just starting on this path. To you, the person who has just started paywalling. The person who maybe has only just begun doing little "exclusive gifts" for your patrons. Maybe you're young, just 16 and you think it's okay because everyone does it and you just want some spending money. Maybe you're older and you're in a really rough financial situation and you're tempted by the idea you could make just a little bit more by paywalling. Maybe you're a 20-something who is needing direction in your life and you think you could make a living at this but you feel you can't call yourself a "brand" if you don't make ~*exclusives*~ like other brand creators do.... You have a choice. The path you have started on is one that looks good at first, but it gets progressively darker. Is the money worth the potential pain? The potential legal consequences? The potential pain you'll cause to the community by stealing from them? The potential people you hurt if you end up getting in with the wrong group and start harrassing people because you get it in your head you are protecting "your creations"? Only you can decide what choice you are going to make. But I will tell you, the money's not worth it. Because actions have consequences, and although Karma may take a long time coming, she's nasty when she arrives. You reap what you sow.

You have a way to make money and still be part of this community that is viable. There's lots of well known creators who do very well with early access. There's lots of people (myself included) who would love to help plug your early access creations and support you if we have the margin. You have a way off of this path if you wish for it. Because at the end of the day, I don't want to see you and the community hurt. I'm here to help if you'll let me.

I just want to be bred, loved, abused, make memories, travel, build a life and given all the attention what I never got by the same person…am I have such high expectations?

Me getting a follower that's a s*x bot and blocking them be like:

Me getting more followers that are s*x bots for the past few days and keep blocking them be like:

Yolo it's the anon who sent the what if Feanor had a daughter 👋! So you know the saying, "the first born daughter is always the female version of her father" if she were the eldest but she has this motherly like aura and has the patience of a saint thanks to her mom. Like the soft but scary when angered type, and another thought is she might take a liking to cooking, like she always cooks for her younger brothers.

She and Maedhros are the parents out of all his kids XD

Hi anon🖐.

Without an absolute doubt, she and Maedhros are going to be two peas in a pod when it comes to dealing with their siblings. She's mummy Nerdanel 2.0. Everyone needs to thank Nerdanel for pouring all her patience into her daughter because if she had Feanor's temper as the eldest....kudos to everyone.

Imagine her role in the oath or during it with her being the eldest tho. Would she end up like Maedhros, since they are similar?🧐

Oh anon, this is a really nice headcanon to write, you should have requested this when requests were opened. I would love to write about her.

Armin Arlert would be that one kid from high school that was always so sweet but so, so nerdy and would absolutely collapse in on himself whenever he tried to talk to a girl, blushing like crazy and staring at the floor and stuttering whenever you tried to talk to him and pretending like he wasn’t just staring at your chest a few seconds earlier

He would totally be that nerdy, dorky kid that comes back from summer vacation looking cut and chiseled and grown up all of a sudden, and for the first time in his life he’d have girls falling all over him, but he’d never forget you and the way you wanted him even before, but especially now

There's multiple stories where the Joker kills Lois Lane in order to turn either Superman or other heroes evil. I think there should be a story where Lois kills the Joker. She never took any non-killing oaths!

Fuck feeling bad about eating that onion ring you dropped on the floor. Fuck the shame that comes from wearing your clothes to bed so you're never (or always) in your pajamas. Fuck the people who make you feel bad for the odd behavior and questionable decisions that make you who you are. Those things are perfectly acceptable.

god i love my friends. shout out to people who love their friends. this is a post for friend lovers

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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