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It was flagged as "Eksplicit", shadowbanned, and every reblog turned invisible. The flagging is also unappealable (unless that is an error, thanks tumblr)

Happy Trans Day of Invisibility from your tumblr mods!

Only found out because I tried to reblog with an update from your local trans unicorn siblings!

I cannot even LINK to my old comic without every new post getting deleted.

The original post was pardoned, but the shadowban still persisted and every reblog was hidden from the dash and flagged explicit. I'm not sure if it recovered by now, or if it's always going to be at risk of banning.

So whatever staff reviewed my complaint agreed that it wasn't explicit. So thank you for that, moderator. This highlights that the problem starts with bad actors reporting anything they don't like, and that it's a tossup if your appeal is seen by a bot, a normal human, or a bigot.

I'm grateful I can still touch people and spread positivity. Many of my queer siblings, brothers, and sisters - especially trans sisters - can't say the same.

But no matter what happens, we will always have each other. Every letter in our alphabet is a pillar holding up a beautiful world that only stands if we're all in it together. The world may call you a monster, but it calls me one too. Maybe you won't hear it from the rest of them, but listen and you will hear it from me.

I love you.

Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)

they were POPULAR

the Victorians LIKED reading about women who won out over shitty men in their lives, even when that plotline reaffirmed a woman’s power and agency or put an active sexist in his place (ie Irene Adler besting Holmes)

do not taste plants if you don't know what they are

do not identify a fruit as edible just because it tastes sweet

hope you didn't eat any fucking seeds, bro

I saw the photo in my feed and went ohh, dude, no, we do not handle yellow rocks with our bare hands until we know for sure what they are. And I know that orange...

In comments, they continue:

and that's where I started cussing at the computer monitor. But someone else had got there first:

In writing groups I'm in it's grammar and spell check is for newbies and those wanting a crutch or a cheat code.

I'm going to be frank with you, anon. Those writing groups sound toxic as fuck and I'd recommend finding a better place to spend your time.

Grammar check and spell check are embedded in most word processing software and have been since the 1990s. People don't have to use them if they don't want to, of course, but there's nothing wrong with using them.

English spelling is famously a bastardization of French multiplied by German divided by Latin with fifty other languages thrown in for fun. And don't even get me started on the Great Vowel Shift.

All that to say, being bad at spelling is not a moral failing nor is it a sign of weak character. It's a fact of life for an overwhelming majority of people writing in English.

There's a confused lady claiming that Terry Pratchett's likely to be forgotten because he's "unfilmable."

Who should've shown up if not the cops?

If your answer is "county mental health," I mean, I get you, but... with the guy that broke my window repeatedly, county mental health came every day and begged him to either come out to talk or let them in. He never did, and then one day he pulled a knife on someone. Then came who?

The cops.

Again, don't want to say too much about either event because I don't need a whole socmed site that thinks there's One True Politics to divine my address but. Like.

I feel like you’re new here, kyn.

The problem I have with “we can never punish anyone, no matter what they did,” is that it means we can’t punish Stephen Miller. Tom Homan. Kash Patel. Pam Bondi.

I’d like to think that if we just care enough about how they’re stressed and unhealthy, we can convince a Miller to rethink.

But I’ve known a few Millers, and most people never get them to.

Think about the difference between Brazil and the US. Brazil sent Bolsonaro to prison for inciting an insurrection. The US did not send Trump to prison for the same thing.

Trump was not grateful. He didn’t turn his life around because we showed mercy, or something like that. He doubled down. He took the lesson, “they didn’t punish me, so they don’t really care. They might grumble, but I’ll get away with it.”

The thing I can’t get past about prison abolition is to say that everyone is “stressed, broken, unhealthy,” we have to say that people who misuse power in absolutely horrific ways are.., just stressed.

But when you study the actual psychology of abusers and predators, they SAY they’re stressed, but it’s an excuse. They don’t treat everyone with the same cruelty. They choose targets.

“Abolish the police and open all the prison doors” only works if you temporarily forget the powerful exist.

The issue is I don’t think it’s going to happen.

Not because I think, idk, that original sin makes him irredeemable in some fundamental way. I think everyone is redeemable in principle!

Yeah, like... that's a super weird comparison.

If we abolish ICE tomorrow and replace it with absolutely nothing, not even a stopgap... a whole lot of not much at all will happen, except for the targeted groups feeling less afraid.

I mean even if some conservative fearmongering isn't completely off base (and to be clear I absolutely think it is, please don't misread this!) that would maybe be, what, a couple more gang members, maybe, someplace? We already HAVE those! And gangs recruit! They don't have to import!

Where if we abolish the police and replace them with absolutely nothing, what does that antifascist organizer do? Just cope and keep herself safe as best she can, because at least then she's "no longer being punitive?"

Is it *really* a moral sin to be punitive to a Nazi anyway?

I mean, of course ideally we're also trying to deprogram him. I'm not one of those people who is like, "yeah, if you chose to be a Nazi you chose to get punched." These young men are recruited.

But the idea that any kind of punishment as any kind of consequence to any kind of bad behavior gets moral evil on you just... it sounds like the leftist iteration of that right wing thing where if you allow your kid to be in the same room as a gay guy he'll catch queer.

It doesn't make any sense.

(Also, I bring it up every time and I'm kind of tired of typing it, but I do social service work. If we abolish the police and we rely on community groups to reform violent people, we're asking people like me to fix rapists and the like. I've already talked on this blog about how providing peer support to a rapist very much convinced me doing that was above my pay grade. Then AND now. We can't just assume by magic that community groups will be equipped to take that on.

Most people occasionally punish, or at the very least have a few circumstances in which they would punish if they had the power.

The idea that most people don’t requires creative redefinition of the concept.

Which strikes me as that thing culty groups do with words when they’re trying to get everyone to agree with them.

Humans are social creatures who prefer order and security. If we humans can't get that by default, we will make it happen by force. That's just the way humans are.

So there's a choice--formal law, with law enforcement, and a court system... or custom, enforced by murder and mob rule.

Namely, the fact that we get them at all, and the fact that the general Midwestern response is to wander outside to see if we can see it.

We have bad weather forcasted the next few days and I had to talk him through the site tornado plan and storm shelter locations (we have six on site, my office is actually inside one) to head off the poor guy's anxiety and also I had to admit that yes, I also share the general Tornado Alley brain damage and go outside to try and see it when the sirens go off.

I have lived in many places--I have experienced one massive earthquake and its many aftershocks, such that the typical California tremor was mildly worth commenting on in chat when it happened, but that was about it. I rode out Hurricane Katrina at my parents house--the eye went right over us. (I admit I'm still twitchy about cat 3+ hurricanes). I grew up in the northern Midwest, so blizzards and hard freezes are ho-hum. I have lived in various parts of Tornado Alley over the years--I admit that tornadoes still freak me out. I live in the sub-tropics so 100F summer days are known, and unpleasant, but not shocking. (Arizona in July was a bit shocking, though). I survived the monsoon rains on a small island in the Indian Ocean back in the 1980s--had to wade to work every morning during that season.

* air fryer

* blender

* coffee maker

* grill

* juicer

* mixer

* pressure cooker/instapot

* rice cooker

* toaster/toaster oven

* vacuum sealer

* something else

* see results

“Non essential” here meaning items that aren’t heavily used for standard day to day cooking (like stoves, microwaves, refrigerators, etc.)

I know I’m the one who cast the curse but it can still only be broken with true love. I’m begging you, somebody, please come and fall in love with these girls and make them leave, I can’t take it anymore, it sucks so bad. I can’t keep getting viciously bullied by one of the largest living species of waterfowl anymore. I’ve tried running away but they can fly so they just find me. I’m getting nothing done.

This is a Mute Swan. Note the size compared with the completely normal-sized seagulls next to it. They have been known to break (human) bones with the force of their wing buffets.

Like what do you mean every single year the Harkers, the suitor squad and Van Helsing are forced to relive the worst year of their life

Sure they win in the end but over and over they are forced to loose the people they love, be striped of their personhood and fight what must have seemed like an impossible battle.

And nobody is even aware of this time loop except us and we just feed into this narrative. “Oh my friend Jonathan has just sent me another letter let’s hope this goes better than last year ;)”

And from a literary analysis standpoint this whole change is inane because it frames the book in an entirely new light. There is a meta layer of horror being applied to the book that was never possible before.