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you will never catch me complaining about an actress on a tv show having an imperfectly concealed pregnancy or a character going on a sudden trip somewhere while her actress is on maternity leave. so many actresses (and women working in any other field) are fired, punished and pressured into making reproductive decisions for their employers' convenience & if i have to try a bit harder to suspend my disbelief then that's absolutely what i'm going to do if it means people are getting to exercise reproductive & bodily autonomy without punishment

My favorite writing of this was how Star Trek DS9 handled Nana Visitor's pregnancy. It felt out of character for her character (Kira Nerys) to get pregnant and it's the semi-utopian future, so presumably birth control works quite well and abortions are easily available. Solution: another female character gets pregnant, is injured in an emergency situation, and Kira agrees to act as surrogate. They effectively wrote this entire story line well enough, with implications for the dynamics between Kira and the biological parents, that I didn't realize until later that the actress was actually pregnant. I thought it was just an interesting plot line.

also there is no power pose more badass than her sitting in command of the defiant while extremely pregnant.

"I asked chatgpt-" well I asked my 15th century knight and he's got a big fucking lance and he's charging at full speed in your direction fuck you

parents love giving you job hunting advice that's like Have you tried destroying and betraying yourself for nothing

who’s gonna tell tumblr that executive dysfunction is more than Not Doing Things?

Girl, help. None of my executives are functioning

people keep tagging this saying "all professional athletes should be taught this" etc. please don't misunderstand me: i didn't say "all athletes" because i actually want your favorite f1 driver to be broke and closeted forever

there desperately needs to be a separate option to report ads for hijacking your touch screen or automatically launching your browser/app store the moment you scroll past it. "malicious" is not a strong enough word. i need the "go fuck yourself and die in a pit of boiling acid x10000" option

it’s gonna be so anticlimactic when somebody finally succeeds

OP didn’t say his name but he popped in your head, didn't he?