Frodo and Sam’s journey if it took place in the United States

The most common comorbidity is poverty.

pov: you survived 2021

Reblog to give a trans woman a warm cup of soup

it's cold out there, reblog to give a trans man a cup of soump

This week on #Fat Bear Friday, she may not be the chonkiest but Bear 399 has beat all the odds and all 4 of her children are all ready to set out on their own next spring it looks like.

More pics here

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terfs are like it's fucked up when men reduce women to their genitalia but i'm allowed to do that to everyone else

if this 5000 year old tree isn’t too old to realize that its trans neither are you

A hearty ‘get fucked’ to every last person who felt the need to hound Lindsay Ellis out of being a content creator. You accomplished nothing of value except the satisfaction that your fevered little minds scored a victory against perceived oppression. Joe Manchin just essentially sliced the throat of an already utterly inadequate and pathetic centrist bill that nevertheless provided badly needed succour to thousands of suffering people - a tactic that will do nothing but put actual hate-crime enthusiasts back into the White House in two years - but today you got Lindsay Ellis to give up critiquing movies. Wow, what a victory for Progressivism. Really purified that space from the threat of revisionist fifth-column false progressive who say such hate filled screeds like… let me check my notes here… “Also watched Raya and the Last Dragon and I think we need to come up with a name for this genre that is basically Avatar: the Last Airbender reduxes. It’s like half of all YA fantasy published in the last few years anyway.” Wow. Thank god that harpy of right-wing degeneracy can no longer voice such heinous, criminal, thought-crime anti-leftist drivel. What’s that? America still doesn’t have paid maternal leave? It has the highest rate of maternal mortality among first-world countries? Children are gunned down every day because there is zero political or cultural will to in any way confront the nation’s incapacity to safely own fire arms? Yeah that’s bad - but look on the bright side, Lindsay Ellis won’t say that Raya and the Last Dragon and ATLA are kinda similar any more! Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last! I don’t know what goes on in your lives. It would be nice to think that every last one of you is so wounded from trauma that you are non compos mentis when it comes to social media usage - that all of this can be forgiven, that no one is in any way culpable, that this was all just something that happened in which nobody was actually involved. But no. No I don’t really care to do that. Because Ellis isn’t the first for whom this has happened in progressive spaces, nor wil l she be the last - she’s just the latest, and one whom I happen to personally enjoy and thus someone whose loss I feel quite keenly. But all of you, collectively, are fuckers. Hateful fuckers. Every one of you knowing participated in bad faith readings of a pretty anodyne person. There are real monsters in this world, real, actual goddamn monsters, and I don’t know if y’all are too scared to spend your lives confronting them instead of the truly pointless shit you get worked up about, or just too fucking stupid to realize the truly awful decisions you make, but here we are anyway. I am angry. I am so very angry and so very tired of this shit. I’m so angry I want to start getting mean. I want to start saying all the awful shit I keep buried inside me because I still hold to the wild idea that some bare, barrel-scraping minimum of civility and tiniest check on my ego means not smearing shit on a screen and calling it social justice. But god, everyone else gets to be mean about, why can’t I. Well I tried. I wrote a big chunk and I just deleted it because it isn’t worth my time. It’s not because I’m better than you, I think I’m just more tired. I got enough death threats that time I laid out all the stats about America’s daily child gun murders and said maybe it doesn’t fucking matter than you personally like guns and know how to use them safely, your country collective can’t so you shouldn’t have them. God only knows what kind of hounding I’d get saying something really controversial. What if I betrayed the leftist cause and openly said, I don’t know, The Mitchells vs The Machines is a mediocre mess if you sit and think about it for ten seconds. Y’know. That really evil, Goebbels-esque shit. The sad truth is that to a particular contingent of the progressive internet, you can never be ‘good enough.’ There is no passable purity test because purity is in the eyes of each individual in the contingent whose one sole belief appears to be ‘anything that does not perfectly reflect my lived experience is a hostile act against me.’ It is bad faith because it lives on a universal presumption of malice. It cannot be reasoned with because it is irrational. Whatever fuels it - and lets even be charitable and say that in many cases it is trauma and abusive experiences, a lifetime of racism or trans-phobia or homophobia or abelism - ends up ultimately being irrelevant, because your trauma and pain don’t ever justify sending someone death threats because you’re so bugnuts crazy that you read anodyne tweets as macroagressions. And yeah - “bugnuts crazy.” I said it. You go from ‘suffering from mental health problems’ to ‘bugnuts crazy’ when you cross the line of ‘hounding creators off the internet for minor to outright non-existent transgressions that a group with a less aggressively fragile sense of self wouldn’t even notice.’ Sending death threats over an ATLA/Raya comparison is, to me, a line over which I cannot cary sympathy. It’s really hard to have empathy for people who have empathy and understanding for no one but themselves and crow about inflicting pain on others. I have decided that for my own mental health, I don’t have to be respectful of your mental health when you don’t extend that same courtesy to anyone. So get fucked, you genuine bat-shit crazy lunatics. Get absolutely fucked you hate-filled, small-cocked, comically-ugly, permanently-weird-smelling suburban baboons. Conratu-fucking-lations: you resurrected Maoist struggle sessions for maximum purification of Progressive ideology, you utterly ignorant, self-absorbed, ego-onanistic neo-Calvanist shitwaffles. The left is just doing so fucking well with people like you in the mix. The fact that everything in the world sucks all the time, and the fact that every day you wake up anxious, alone, in pain, and filled with fear is because progressive Youtube creators were faking progressivism for clicks, as can be proven by dissecting their Tweets with a fine-edged scalpel. You did it! You solved the mystery! Your death threats and glottal screaming to a stranger on Twitter saved us all! Your sad fantasies proved real: the saviour is you! Your keyboard activism was the solution! Late capitalism is over, Conservatism has vanished, all races, creeds, identities, and self-expressions live in total harmony, and there’s jam for tea. All thanks to you, person who observed how the right treated the left in internet spaces and said ‘I am also going to do the exact same thing to the left, but I’ll do it from a place of caring.’ Such nobility of purpose you have shown, and boy - waves hand at the world of December 2021 - its working so well!

Get. Fucked.

magdalen college, oxford

Sometimes fanfiction is a love letter to the original canon, sometimes it’s just that one telegram that says “Fuck you. Strongly worded letter to follow”.

Some rando: You should think about stopping your prescription

Me: My pills make me not want to die tho

They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal

Me: Yeah that’s why I’m taking my pills

humanity did a lot of things wrong but at least we got libraries, museums, and coffee shops right

A big mistake the Catholic church makes as a whole in our worship of Mary as the Mother of God is removing her from the narrative of a young girl of humble origins, who has fled from violence of the state as a refugee.

We see her in gilded crowns and marvelous robes as full-grown woman, but when do we see her in tattered robes fleeing from Herod as a young girl with Joseph and the babe? 

saw a post saying “dont beg men to love you” and thats absolutely true but i have an addition i dont want to add to the post and Derail. but dont beg ANYONE to love you. im serious. not just romantically. not parents, friends, family, and especially not significant others. if you find yourself having to beg for scraps of love its time to pack it up and move on.