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I know I donât owe anyone androgyny just because Iâm nonbinary but god I would kill to be super androgynous I want people to look at me and not even have a guess as to what my gender could be. I want to be a genderless void floating through space a mystery to all.
there arenât that many episodes of the podcast left and I canât wait to finally learn who that unnamed character is who never speaks but just plays a sick viola solo and then slams some doors at the start of every episode
good job tma fandom for being so toxic to the performers and staff that it prompted alex to make an announcement about it lmao
having read frankâs addition to this, it seems like whats going on is more certain actors are being harassed by specific people and not like, an entire toxic fandom. both would be a terrible thing to deal with, but i think itâs an important distinction to make

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TWO MONTHS LEFT OF THE 2010S HOW ARE WE FEELING
two m;onths left of 2020 how th. how the f uck are we f,eelin g.. ... .
I canât get over the âdonât touch me!!â moment. It feels so oddly cathartic to see Jon exhibit a tangible effect of all the trauma heâs been throughâheâs been manhandled and injured and thrown around by violent hands so much over the series. Even just his MONTH LONG captivity with Nikola alone would be enough to make being touched by strangers a trauma trigger.
He was trying so hard to be sympathetic to Helenâs victim, and he wanted to help, but all that shut down as soon as he was grabbed yet again. He sounded afraid.
And then!! Helen living up to her purpose by trying to use that against Jon! To make him doubt his own humanity because he had a response as human as shouting at someone who suddenly grabbed him! Itâs so so insidious, but plays along with how people have treated Jon the whole show: framing his response to all the suffering heâs gone through as just more evidence heâs a monster.
(And then the episode ends with more fabric rustles, showing that when thereâs someone who Jon trusts whoâs gentle with him, it doesnât trigger that same reaction.)
can you talk about being intersex and cis? how do you know if you're cis or trans when you're intersex? i promise this isn't meant to be rude i'm just a little confused as to how gender works when you're intersex. thank you so much. <3
Iâm cis because Iâm afab and still identify as a woman. If I was afab and identified any other way, Iâd be trans. Iâm intersex because my body itself has a mixed bag of secondary sex characteristics and hormones.
The label âintersexâ itself isnât a gender identity as much as itâs a way for people with mixed or ambiguous sex characteristics to define that experience. There are cis men and women who are intersex, trans people of every kind as well. Iâm sure there are intersex people who just identify as intersex entirely but most intersex people Iâve met still identify as male, female, or nonbinary. Because your body doesnât determine your gender identity.
Also, the opposite of intersex is perisex. You can be cis or trans, while being intersex or perisex. If youâre not intersex, you are perisex.
Yâall can reblog this actually
Nobody knows anything about intersex ppl so like. Learn things and educate others so people like me can feel less isolated and alienated by other queer ppl lol
my jewish fandom ass wants to write an essay about how Stan Pines is the perfect deconstruction of antisemitic caricature charactersâinitially we think heâs this tricky, stingy, money-obsessed character, and thatâs played for laughs, but then later itâs revealed that he was forced into that lifestyle and mindset out of a desperate need to save his family. (Echoing the experience of a lot of Jewish people who were historically forced into professions like moneylending as the only way they could make a living, provide for their families, and escape destitute poverty. Which then was weaponized against them in the creation of viscous antisemitic stereotypes and tropes.)
I want to write that essay, but I feel like a lot of people on this website would willfully misunderstand me
Okay so, this is likely not going to be the most formal piece I write, but, I have some thoughts that I want to get down:
Initially we are led to see Stan as this stingy, tricky character obsessed with money. This is played for laughs, and it actually becomes one of his key character quirks early on. To the point that this is how we see him in the intro sequence:
We see this over and over again from the first episodes of the show.Â
But, as the series progresses, and more of Stanâs backstory is revealed, we learn that that he was forced into that lifestyle and mindset out of a desperate need to save his family, and his brother in particular. In A Tale of Two Stans, he explains:
I couldnât leave my brotherâs house until I figured out how to save him, but I needed to pay his mortgage somehow. For once in my life, people were actually buying what I was sellingâŚBy day, I was Stanford Pines: Mr. Mystery. But by night I was down in the basement, trying to bring the real Stanford back.
(Besides which, we learn that those skills originated because he was literally expelled from his home, and was subsequently on the brink of poverty. Sound familiar?)
Crucially, after we learn this about Stan, these behaviors donât go away. Even though Ford is back, and he no longer needs to âsave himâ:
But these behaviors are all cast in an entirely different light now. Sometimes theyâre still funnyâŚbut theyâre not only funny.Â
And, money is not Stanâs top priority (as we now know it never was). This becomes explicit in the last episode. When Stan and Ford tricks Bill into entering Stanâs head so that Ford can erase him, this conversation occurs:
Stan:Â Youâre a real wise guy, but you made one fatal mistakeâyou messed with my family!
Bill: Youâre making a mistake! Iâll give you anything: money, fame, riches, infinite power!
Bill offers, in short, all the things that we might have expected the person we thought Stan was in s1e1 to desire above all else, (all the things that antisemitic stereotypes and tropes say that Jewish people desire above all else.) The only cost for Stanley would be to let Bill go and thereby betray his family.
This is how Stan responds to that offer:
Something that is worth noting is that Stanâs character does not change in this regard throughout the series. He doesnât lose his stingy tendencies. He doesnât come to understand that his family is worth more than âmoney, fame, riches, infinite power.â Heâs always known that. Itâs our perspective and understanding of those traits in him that change. Thatâs why this is effective as a deconstruction. More context shows us that our initial perspective on his characterâand therefore that type of character--was incomplete. We see sympathy where we might not have before.
And what do I mean by that type of character? The most frequent place we see this type of character is in the antisemitic trope character of âthe Stingy Jew.âÂ
Historically, this trope came out the reality that in medieval Europe, Jews frequently worked as moneylenders (the precursor to modern day bankers), because antisemitic laws prohibited them from working in other other careers. The options were poverty and likely starvation for themselves and their family, or this career path which frequently earned them scorn among their by-and-large Christian neighbors. Ultimately, this reality was weaponized against them; the âJewish moneylenderâ became vilified in ways that often led to violence and murder, and âthe stingy Jewâ became a stock villain in media of the time, and laterâsometimes to this day (though in contemporary instances, sometimes the Jewishness is implied.)
Perhaps the most famous English language example of this is the explicitly Jewish moneylender Shylock from Shakespeareâs play The Merchant of Venice, pictured here in an artistic rendering by John Hamilton Mortimer:
In this play, Shylock is about as villainous at they come, (even though Shakespeare fleshes him out a bit more than many of his contemporaries.)Â
I wonât give a whole plot summary about him or what he does in the play, but I would like to draw attention to one line of his in particular. At one point in the play, Shylockâs daughter Jessica, the only family he has, runs away and steals a great deal of money and jewels from her father when she does. When Shylock finds out, he reacts like this:
I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! Would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats [money] in her coffin! (Merchant of Venice III.i)
Thereâs obviously a lot to unpack there, and none of it is good. But what I want to focus on for our purposes is the fact that Shylock here is literally saying that he would trade his daughterâs life in this moment for wealth. For âmoneyâ and âriches.â I bring this up, because to me it seems apparent that, intentionally or not, Stanâs conversation with Bill in Weirdmaggedon is in dialogue with this moment.Â
Shylock is obsessed with money as an ends to itself, over everything, including his daughter. He makes it clear that he would choose money over his only family memberâs life.
Stan is obsessed with saving his family and sees money as means to that end. Bill offers to trade money for his familyâs lives, and Stan responds by punching him in the face.Â
The obvious reality is that the vast majority of Jews, including and perhaps especially the historical Jewish moneylenders, are, like all people, much more like Stan than like Shylock. Stanâs character helps us see that, and helps us deconstruct those very harmful tropes that still unfortunately continue to exist. One more thing Iâd like to touch on. If Stan Pines is going to function as an effective deconstruction of harmful tropes, itâs important that he doesnât fall into those same tropes himself. And this is why I actually think itâs important that his own explicit Jewishness isnât mentioned in first level canon, by which I mean the show itself.  (I know, Alex Hirsch, the show creator who is himself Jewish, has noted that Stan is Jewish, and Journal 3 mentions that Stan had a Bar Mitzvah, but this is all at the very least second-level canon and word-of-God type stuff, and the average viewer of the show is not necessarily familiar with Alex Hirschâs twitter account, nor have they necessarily read tie-in material.) To understand the reason why I think this is a good thing, we have to remember that Gravity Falls originally aired in 2012, well before streaming was a thing. Whole seasons werenât released at once, and in fact gaps between episodes were so large that each new episode premier was treated as an event. A Tale of Two Stans, the episode in which we learn about Stanâs backstory, was the 32nd episode of the show, and didnât air until July 13, 2015âover three years since the show began.
Before that, before we have all the context from that episode, we donât know that Stanâs supposed stinginess comes from any other source than an obsession with money for 30+ episodesâŚwhich was 3+ years in real time. If Stan had been explicitly acknowledged as Jewish in that time, what evidence would we have had that he wasnât just another example of a âgreedy Jewâ archetype? He wouldnât have been a deconstruction; he would have been part of the problem.
I donât think itâs incidental, then, that the only hint we get in the show itself that Stan is Jewish comes in the same episode when we get his backstory, all that crucial context, in the moment in which heâs being expelled from his home:
A mezuzah on the doorframe.
Thanks for reading!
(people who asked to read this essay: @allenbyseyes, @deltaoftheufe, @sopranoentravesti, @come-unhinged)
Anyone writing a Magnus archives fic and need someone British to beta it? I'm happy to help :)

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The number of times I have been delighted by witty banter only to find out later that I was âFlirtingâ is both unfortunate and disappointing.
âhaha so what about that guy, huh?â
Me: what about him
âWell you seemed super into himâ
Me: what why
ââŚdude you were flirting all nightâ
Me:
Me: Whoms'tâ˘â˘
I found out several of my female coworkers were planning on trying to get our male coworker to ask me out because âYou guys kept flirtingâ but I was like âWe were literally just goofing around. Like we literally just told jokes to each other. Literally just stuff that friends do, the same stuff you and I do.â I was definitely 100% NOT flirting but everyone thought I was
âYou were laughing at everything TJ did!â
âHe paper clipped a banana to the ceiling, Isabelle. Thatâs fucking bonkersâ
Good time to remind everyone that if you donât know that youâre âflirtingâ youâre not flirting. Flirting is an action that has to be done with conscious intent, since the point of it is intent, henceforth you canât do it without realising.
Itâs the â¨heteronormativityâ¨
ive never been to dairy queen. ive never been to baskin robbins. ive never been to wendys. ive never been to arbys. ive never been to red lobster. ive never been to olive garden. ive never been to taco bell. ive never been to wall mart. ive never been to bass pro fishing shopÂ
Iâm at the combination dairy queen baskin robbins wendys arbys red lobster olive garden taco bell wal mart bass pro fishing shop
wow rub it in why dont you,
Local tax collectors hate him!!
Man takes tax evasion to a whole new level: house wonât stop fucking moving

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This is one for the OGs
but if i donât hyperfixate iâll get depressed and die
*runs out of hyperfixations* oh god oh fuck *lies in bed feeling empty and useless for 48 hours*
*desperately digs through old hyperfixations* there must be SOMETHING