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From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!
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See what no one tells you about having parents who have been successfully polyamorous and active in the tri-state kink community for 29 years is that as their adult child, there is a high probability that at any event you go to someone will have slept with one or both of your parents. There is no escaping this. They've been doing it for decades. They've lain claim to like half the east coast
at 250 notes there is at least an 80% chance someone who has read this has slept with one or both of my parents. this is just the life i lead. i have learned to be at peace with this knowledge.
@two-wizards-in-a-trench-coat #my future sounds funny as fuck
@kentm4nsley #oh that's so fucking cursed. not in a disparaging way just #if i had this happen to me once i would simply pass away.
@literallybyronic #10 bucks says I met op's parents at a diabolique ball like 20 years ago
@staggered-stones #it's true no one told me about this
@gideonisms #GOD. i can't imagine #no new problem under the sun but this is one i hadn't thought of
@chirpchirrup #condolences i think?
@erudipitous #mood #the greater seattle area polycule T.T #replace 'tri-state' with 'pnw' and this post could be about me #the number of times my polycule has almost wrapped around to MY FATHER despite the fact that I DON'T EVEN DATE is. #well it's happened like 3 times which is saying somethiny #at any given kink or poly event I can generally assume someone there knows my parents
@prairie-grass #Having priests for parents is kind of like this #Lol I know I know #But I bump into people that know my parents ALL THE TIME #If I'm at some sort of religious event I just assume someone there knows at least one of them #Inescapable #Gotta say I prefer that over the idea of fucking someone who also fucked one of them so l'd prefer the cards I got dealt there
@kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd #i have to travel three hours in any cardinal direction to play comfortably it fucking sucks #last time i tried something local the host Messaged My Mother About It. needless to say that group is dead to me.
@callisto42 #I met a couple who had a son who also got into the kink/orgy scene when he grew up #and the parents had to coordinate their party schedules with him to make sure they didn't all go to the same parties
when you see a tumblr poll with this picture attached and you know it's time to lock the fuck in lest you get a bad grade in an impromptu absurdist pop quiz you didn't know you were about to take
From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!
"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade
At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever
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Layering my Short Skirt, Long Jacket (CAKE) over my White Tee (CORPSE) and Blue Jeans (Lana Del Ray) Knee Socks (Arctic Monkeys) and Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis) and then putting on my Raspberry Beret (Prince) before I head out to the Bard Olympics where I am disqualified for performance-enhancing power buffs. On my way home I am cast as a sassy but cute side character in an early 2010's Disney Channel original series. I look fresh as hell
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Why are people scared of defining Superman's ideals/ why he's boring sometimes
I've said before that post-Snyderverse, there's this contrarian tendency people have where they distill Superman down into a list of aesthetic traits (bright colors, smile, save cats from trees, fix property that he damages in action sequences, be nice for free) with no real substance behind them.
And it's led to this new era of "Superman is a nice guy! Is it that hard to believe people can want to do good things?". Shows like MAWS perpetuate this rhetoric and it's so intellectually dishonest. It's a way of getting around basic character motivation. Because that tells me nothing about Clark's character. Batman, Lex Luthor, Harvey Dent, etc are all characters who believe they're good people doing good things.
If I asked you "why does Harvey Dent believe what he does is morally correct? Why does he act based on the whims of a coin flip?" I'd get a thorough response back. Life experience (abusive dad, time as a lawyer, acid face incident, crumbling mental health from pressures of a mayoral campaign and undiagnosed DID) led to Harvey believing in chance as the great equalizer. I'd probably get a similarly detailed response if I asked about Batman's motivations. My writing prof once said "a hero is a character who strongly believes in an ideal and will sacrifice anything, including themselves, for that goal. A villain is the same thing. The protagonist is who the story is about. And that can be a hero or a villain."
But if I ask you "why does Superman do good things?" or "what informs Clark's ideals?", I get a weirdly vicious response back. "It's sociopathic to ask why people are nice without benefit!" "Lex Luthor mindset" "why are you acting like being nice is a plot hole" "being good for the sake of human empathy and decency? Why does that need to be justified?" "Why can't you fathom someone being kind for the sake of it?" "Because it's the right thing to do??" Or I'm told I'm smug for asking.
We're so used to seeing Superman as a popular media icon that saying "Superman is a good man who upholds American values because he was raised by good Kansas parents" is considered a sufficient enough answer for most people despite that being a nothing burger statement. Writers who stick to this mindset struggle to get compelling characterization out of Clark that isn't "Force of Good Who Fixes Things". What does being "good" even mean? That's so broad. A conservative and progressive person's idea of "good" are radically different. Clark got his ideals from his Kansas parents? Okay, what are the Kents' ideals then? "They're a classic American family" that hid an undocumented alien immigrant? And adopted him as their own? Surely that's considered pretty unamerican to conservative people. So no, that's not a sufficient answer.
I want to interrogate why people are so averse to answering this basic question. What are Superman's ideals?
The question of Superman's motives are explored many times in the comics. Better Superman writers take advantage of Clark's lived experience as a means of informing his heroism and ideals. For example, Grant Morrison's All Star Superman went for "A Superman who is tuned in to humanity's vulnerabilities based on his heightened Kryptonian senses- he understands how fragile the world is."
It's a pretty neat answer and certainly goes deeper than most Superman motivations. This is subjective on my part (and a hot take- I'm allowed to have different opinions), but I kinda find this dorky, haha. I get it, but personally I prefer it if Clark's ideals weren't so tied to his Kryptonian + Sun abilities or this implication that if you have "heightened abilities you have more empathy for life". Again, I get what it's going for but it's not my cup of tea!
What interests me is how Superman's lived experience as an immigrant inform his heroism- not so much his super powers. Yeah it would be useful if Clark used his heightened abilities to help people, but it comes with outing himself as an alien and being othered for it. So why does he take that risk? These were all questions I had Lois ask Superman in Private Interview- that's how compelling I think Clark can be as a character. If Clark had an initially flawed reason to go into heroism (to prove himself as the respectable, assimilated immigrant), even better! That's room for character growth. This is why I love Gene Yang's version of Clark. We get to see that growth.
When writers don't dig past "well he's just a nice guy" that's when we get boring Supermen. That's why I don't think it's baseless to say he's boring. I wouldn't blame you if you read one of the many times writers were satisfied with "Superman's just nice I guess." Heck, we've got a whole animated show about that. It's not the full picture, but there's many takes like this.
I believe there's something inherently insidious and conservative behind the push to just make Superman nice with no ideals. This side of the discourse will often argue that "good" is something that's magically inherit and natural in us, it's something we'll just know how to do thanks to the help of Kansas Parents(tm). When you ask these people to elaborate on this, the mask comes off and you get "Clark was raised in a good Christian family with Proper American Values" and that's the root of all this.
It's conservative to believe that Liberal Christian American values are universal and inherit to human nature. That it's something unquestioned and unchallenged. That it's not deeper than just being nice. Gone are any of Superman's political beliefs and personal experiences that inform his character- because if you look at Superman this way, you can project whatever you want on that mascot for vague goodness.
What these people don't want to hear is that empathy and altruism is something you have to work for. We live in a world where our government, education system and media landscape constantly tell us who is worthy of integrity and personhood. It takes work to care about marginalized people. It entails challenging what you're constantly told is unquestioned good. Maybe that means questioning what you're taught in history classes, or recognizing the history of racism and ableism that informs fields like that of science. Maybe it means moving past 5th grade understanding of biology as justification to oppress trans people.
Ages ago, I wrote a critique about the shallow inclusion of Thanksgiving in MAWS. In it, I try to engage with Thanksgiving as a political topic in the context of the show. In the show, it's just a reason for Clark to get together with his friends and family. In reality, it's a holiday that erases the genocide of Native Americans, re-appropriated to be a day of protest and mourning by indigenous communities. Surely the fictional undocumented immigrant survivor of planet-wide extinction, Superman, would have more to say about Thanksgiving than just sitting around and eating a Turkey.
The response I got for that critique was "you're reading too much into it. He's celebrating Thanksgiving because he's a good American Citizen". When your hero's classic motto is "Truth, Justice and the American Way" and you refuse to have a critical interrogation of what it means to be an undocumented immigrant in America, you open the doors for bigoted fans like this to identify with Superman. You left it vague, so there's room for them now. Superman's good, but not good enough to care about indigenous people, because that's Unamerican. That's why so many Superman fans are the most bigoted people I've met in fandom.
All this to say, it's important to be aware of instances when Superman becomes a corporation's vague mascot symbol of Unquestioned Good, without ever saying, doing, or elaborating on what being "good" would entail.
Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.
#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain
Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"
I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.
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