The Turtle Mom

Mom, we’re together. Together as a family, once again.

It would make sense to interpret Namphueng as being confused and skeptical of strangers. But no, look at her eyes. Look at how she jolts, but not recoiling from their hugs.

Hey, are you an artist or writer with WIPs?

Chan: nicotine heals gunshot wounds. That's just science.

Miss Erica: didn't die, merely retreated into the shadows to await the next time she's needed to waste 30 guys at once.

Big: noone had time to check for a pulse before the explosion. Crawled away to safety ready for a huge midseason plot twist. For a bonus twist: he ran away with Tawan (bulletproof hair).

Ken: his indentical twin brother, Barbie, senses something happened. He flies to Thailand with the intention of infiltrating the criminal gang his brother was part of in order to find out what happened to him. He does not expect to be won over to their cause (being gay and doing crimes) nor to fall in love with his brother's frenemy (idk who that would be in this scenario: Big?)

Gun: his ghost follows Vegas around telling him to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle. Established Shakespeare fan Pete warns Vegas that it's probably a bad idea.

Republicans whined that prisoners were being rewarded, while ignoring that many of these men were given companionship and responsibility. According to one man in the study (and I'm paraphrasing), "I can't do anything bad to increase my sentence. I need to keep my nose clean so I can provide my cat with a good home. If I get arrested, they'll take him away and he not end up with a family who loves him." Prisoners were avoiding crimes for their cats, but Republicans considered cats a reward instead.

The cruelty is the point.

I don't want to hate on this person, because I know that you don't know what you aren't taught, but it's just another demonstration of how vital it is for queer history to be shared.

Anti-cross-dressing laws exist to this day, and were actively enforced in the United States within living memory. [source] The Stonewall Riots happened in direct response to a police raid on the Stonewall Inn--and the police were raiding, as they often did, with the specific intent to arrest people wearing clothing that didn't "match their sex." [source]

Many schools and workplaces already police the way people are allowed to dress and present themselves, perfectly legally. There are endless articles discussing the ways Black people have their hair policed, people of color are targeted over their cultural clothing, women and girls have their clothing regulated by sexist dress codes, and the way trans people of all genders get targeted by strict uniform policies. Here's an article from 2020 that also talks about the need for legal protection of Black hairstyles in schools & the workplace. This is an article about a March 2022 dress code controversy over a nonbinary teacher. I could easily find more stories like this by quickly browsing Google.

I don't intend to panic-monger, but the government absolutely could get to the point where it's regulating queer people's clothing choices, because they have done it before. We have come incredibly far in an incredibly short amount of time, and there are government officials still in power who remember, and miss, the times when they could have us arrested for not dressing according to our assigned sex.

for @agendratum 

1. Making a good faith effort to include relevant and informative tags and labels on my creative works.

2. Making a good faith effort to use the “author chose not to warn” rating, a “contains potentially upsetting content” note, cuts or community ratings, or otherwise indicating that there might be untagged, triggering content if I’m not up to or don’t want to tag it.

3. Being a good fandom citizen; not sending death threats or hate, not bullying people, being kind and thoughtful to those I interact with, and leaving alone things that would prompt me to act otherwise.

4. Curating my own experience; not engaging with people or material that I know will be harmful or upsetting to me, disengaging when I realize that something is harmful or upsetting to me, and using tools such as blocklists and tag filters to hide content I don’t want to see.

Hhgggsgsghhhffh, what did I say about the translation industry killing itself by becoming cheap price- and quality-dumping shits, overhyping machine translation and being like “well, if you won’t do it for pennies on the dollar, sweetie, we’ll just put it through DeepL 🥰”? Well, why don’t you put your scripts for your series worth millions of dollars through a machine then?? What could possibly go wrong I wonder 🤔

Sundays are for clever little head-shakers <; I hope you like this Nie Huaisang <;