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But anime and video game boob jiggling is like. The most uncanny valley shit I've ever seen nine times out of ten. You would think people this horny about tits would have actually looked at some but I guess not.

It’s um

I hate to be the one to break this to you but Animorphs is in fact a war story. The story does not exist without the war. It is specifically a story abut child soldiers being enlisted to fight bodysnatching brain slugs, meaning that almost every time the kids kill a ‘nasty invading alien’ they are also killing an innocent slave. Concepts of the morality of child soldiers, offense vs. defense, what counts as acceptable losses/acceptable collateral damage and whether it’s acceptable to slaughter enemies while they’re helpless, things like chemical warfare and the rights and protections that should be offered to displaced war refugees, as well as war not having ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ and most actors being victims of their circumstances and societies, are heavily explored. (As well as trauma – these kids have SO MUCH PTSD. The first suicide attempt takes place in book 3 and things don’t really improve, especially after the torture book.)

And you just.

Said no????

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

some pet portraits from june!

IT"S FINALLY DONE!!!!!!!!!!! Check out my animation of the title song from Nerdy Prudes Must Die, a horror musical from @teamstarkid You can watch the FULL stage show on their youtube channel!

Me realizing it's about a beautiful lesbian couple and their gay son:

My heart:

I discovered then that I had been diagnosed with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome (PAIS); my XY body couldn't fully utilize androgens (like T) and so I developed mostly like a typical female person externally.

For me, this meant I had a somewhat "ambiguous" looking body (aka a non-binary body) and the doctors performed 3 unnecessary cosmetic surgeries to make me look more like a "normal girl"

(peanut emoji) gonadectomy (scissors emoji) Clitorectomy (kitchen knife emoji) vaginoplasty

Not to mention, they lied to me about All Of This and then forced me to take Premarin (a low does of estrogen made from extracting the hormone from a pregnant mare's urine (horse face emoji, crying face emoji)

Anyways, I got in touch with a new endocrinologist recently thanks to my therapist at @/ RuchMedical who suggested I see him.

He did something no other doctor had ever done. He asked me if he could see my medical records, all of them, and then took time to read of them.

He even reached out to other experts in his field when he was confused by something.

Wow, We love humility in medicine.

Anyways, he ended up suspecting something is up and that perhaps my PAIS diagnosis is wrong.

He then orders me a genetic (dna emoji) test. Thanks to covid it took almost half a year to get the results, but a month or so ago I got them back.

Turns out, I don't have PAIS. I actually have something else known as NR-5A1. Now this is big news mostly because 1. It supports my thesis that docs who deal with intersex kids don't know shit...

And 2. P/AIS intersex folks are believed to not be able to utilize androgens and wo we're often only given estrogen (never T), forcibly "feminized" with fucked up "cosmetic" surgeries, and forcibly assigned female.

Doing what they did to me was fucked up enough, but now realizing that they didn't even have the diagnosis right—and that I *can* utilize androgens—is fucking infuriated beyond belief.

"I wrote a eulogy for my best friend last week. Then I read it to him. At the pub. On a Tuesday."

He was alive, holding a pint, looking at me like I'd lost my mind. Maybe I have.

I'm Mick. I'm 70. The man across the table was Barry. Seventy-two. Best mate for 46 years. Met on a building site in 1979. He dropped a plank on my foot. I called him something unrepeatable. He bought me a pint after the shift. Haven't gone a week without talking since.

Three months ago we went to a funeral. Bloke we'd worked with. Cancer. The eulogies were beautiful - people saying what he meant to them, things they'd clearly never said to his face. And all I could think was, he can't hear any of this.

Every beautiful sentence. Every "he changed my life." Said to a room of crying people and a box of wood.

I turned to Barry. Whispered, "What a waste."

Drove home. Couldn't sleep. Because I realised, if Barry died tomorrow, I'd stand up and say extraordinary things about this man. Things I've never said in 46 years. And he'd be in the box, missing all of it.

So I wrote them down. Took a week. Harder than expected - not finding the words, but admitting I had them.

Rang him. "Tuesday. The Crown. Need to read you something."

"Have you joined a book club?"

"Just come."

Same corner table. Pint of bitter. Crisps. I pulled out the paper. He saw my hands shake.

"Mick. What's this?"

"Your eulogy. I'm reading it now because I'm not wasting it on a day you can't hear it."

"Have you gone mad?"

"Probably. Shut up and listen."

I read it. In a pub. To a man very much alive and very much uncomfortable.

I told him about the plank and how it was the best injury of my life. About the night he drove forty minutes in rain to help change a tyre. About how he rang every day for three months after my divorce and never once asked "Are you alright?" - just talked about football and weather, because he knew I didn't need a question. I needed a voice.

I told him he was the funniest man I'd ever known and his jokes were terrible and both things were true. That he'd been a better father than he thinks. That his wife's a saint and he knows it. That I'd have been a worse man without him.

He didn't look at me. Stared at his pint. Jaw tight. Doing that thing men do when the feelings arrive and they'd rather swallow glass than show it.

When I finished, long silence. Then he picked up his pint, took a sip, and said,

"You're paying for the next round. And the one after."

That was his answer. Perfect. Because Barry doesn't say "I love you too." He says "you're buying."

But in the car park, he hugged me. Not the quick back-pat. A real one. Thirty seconds. Neither let go first.

And he said quietly into my shoulder, "Don't read that again at the real one. I want new material."

Who would you write a eulogy for - while they're still here?

Don't wait. The flowers can't hear. The box doesn't laugh. Say it now. At the pub. Over a bad cup of tea. You'll feel ridiculous.

They'll look uncomfortable. It'll be the most important thing you've ever done.

Read them the speech while they can still hug you in the car park.”

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🔻- red triangle: used to mark jewish targets and to signify support for violence against israelis and jews. Most often used on the left to signify support for hamas.

🧃- juice/jews

⚡️⚡️- double lighting bolt used to symbolize nazi SS

👃- nose. Stereotype that jews have big noses

🖊- ballpoint pen. Older and not used as often, used to cast aspersions on Anne Frank's diary and its veracity

🧼- soap/showers/gas chambers. Also reference to story that the fat of jews was rendered down to make soap in the death camps.

💰- money/moneybags. Greedy jew stereotype

👺- old stereotype that jews are evil/of the devil/ working with the devil. Note the long nose.

🖌- painter/austrian painter/Hitler y"s

I don’t have a source for the following, it’s just what I’ve heard, and I have no intention of googling neo-Nazi conspiracy theories for my own mental health. Take this with a grain of salt, and if you have/find a source, please do add

From what I’ve heard, no functional gas chambers had wooden doors. Some damaged or destroyed doors were replaced, either by Allies using them as air raid shelters or memorial museums

hi @consipring-limabean! I'm sorry that I'm so late to reply. Let's talk.

Ok, so, here's the thing. I don't think they're the same thing. I think they're really close, and I think that, at a certain point, it's reasonable to say that everyone going to the bar the local Nazis recommend (I'm not kidding on that by the way) is probably someone that I should be wary of, as a Jew.

I am going to tell you something, because I think you are genuinely in good faith. Jews are terrified. We are terrified and disappointed and many of us are making plans to flee. (Typically to Israel, because it's mandated to take us in, which is why it exists, to take in Jews fleeing two thousand years of hate because until non-Jews get their act together the simplest solution to antisemitism is to minimize dependence on non-Jews, but that's not the point.)

And a big part of the reason we're so scared is because of people who claim to be pro-Palestinian. And I know I shouldn't be, logically. I know that I shouldn't speed up slightly when I go past the house with a FREE PALESTINE STOP GENOCIDE sign in the yard, when I go by the place with a dangling Palestinian flag. I know I shouldn't be. I know the woman at one of the groups I participate in with the FREE PALESTINE thing on her backpack is probably not antisemitic. I hope she's not, anyway.

I know that. I know that they're not the same, and I try my very best to remember. But it's really, really, hard to, given the movement. Given the rhetoric. Given what it does.

Here's some data. I don't expect you to read all the surveys. But I expect you to look at a few, and consider it.

A quick note -- I'm going to use "anti-Israel" and "pro-Palestinian" interchangeably here, because the mainstream pro-Palestinian movement seems to view them as such. I'm perfectly aware they're not; a fair number of Jews on Tumblr fall into "pro-Palestinian" but not anti-Israel. But they're not welcome in those spaces.

So.

I'm going to quote me from the past here:

Have multiple (2009) peer-reviewed (2006) studies (see study 2; 2022) shown (2015) that (2007) antisemitism (2012) and (2020) anti-Israelism/antizionism [“In fact, anti-Israel attitudes are the strongest sole determinant of antisemitism when compared with political preferences, religion, place of birth, age, education and violent tendencies.”; 2020] (which are not the same thing) are (2024) closely (2016) associated (2012)? Also yes. Did Daniel Allington and David Hirsh write that “So many experimental and survey-based studies have found a correlation between negative attitudes towards Jews and negative attitudes towards Israel that this may be considered one of the most solidly established facts of political psychology” (The AzAs (Antizionist Antisemitism) Scale: Measuring Antisemitism as Expressed in Relation to Israel and Its Supporters, 2019)? Yes. Did I not cite that in my links above? Yeah.

Unfortunately for this argument, I got bored and found some more, so may I present to you in addition: 2025 Norway (Antizionism), 2026 Sweden [anti-Israel] ("As expected, antisemitism and anti-Israel attitudes were positively correlated (r = .492, p < .001), indicating that the two sets of attitudes are closely related."), Unknown location but probably the US 2026 [anti-Israel] ("Antisemitism and hostility toward Israel reliably co-occur...These studies confirm that the relationship between antisemitism and anti-Israel hostility is reliable, predictive, and substantial"), twelve countries 2024 [seems to have mostly been done/use data before October 7, anti-Israel] ("Controlling for a range of covariates, a one-percentage-point increase in the share of a country’s population with an unfavorable opinion of Israel is associated with a 0.8-percentage-point higher probability of antisemitic victimization"), Romania post October 7 but in reverse from the usual ("The main findings show that people holding antisemitic attitudes are more inclined to develop negative attitudes towards Israel.")

Now, going back to something more personal, because unfortunately, data doesn't change people's minds usually.

About a month ago, someone said roughly the same argument you're making. That antisemitism isn't tolerated in pro-Palestinian spaces. You can read my response here, but the short version is that they followed someone who is an avowed antisemite. And when I say that, I don't mean "they said bad things about Israel" -- although they do -- I mean that "when they say 'Zionists are the Nazis of Palestine' I wonder if they mean it in a complimentary way" (they don't):

That's not ostracization. (I'd do this for you, but you don't make the list of people you follow public. I'm not judging you; I don't either. But I can't.) That's the opposite of ostracization.

I don't think the pro-Palestinian movement is full of Nazis, because that term has meaning.

🔻- red triangle: used to mark jewish targets and to signify support for violence against israelis and jews. Most often used on the left to signify support for hamas.

🧃- juice/jews

⚡️⚡️- double lighting bolt used to symbolize nazi SS

👃- nose. Stereotype that jews have big noses

🖊- ballpoint pen. Older and not used as often, used to cast aspersions on Anne Frank's diary and its veracity

🧼- soap/showers/gas chambers. Also reference to story that the fat of jews was rendered down to make soap in the death camps.

💰- money/moneybags. Greedy jew stereotype

👺- old stereotype that jews are evil/of the devil/ working with the devil. Note the long nose.

🖌- painter/austrian painter/Hitler y"s

I don’t have a source for the following, it’s just what I’ve heard, and I have no intention of googling neo-Nazi conspiracy theories for my own mental health. Take this with a grain of salt, and if you have/find a source, please do add

From what I’ve heard, no functional gas chambers had wooden doors. Some damaged or destroyed doors were replaced, either by Allies using them as air raid shelters or memorial museums

hi @consipring-limabean! I'm sorry that I'm so late to reply. Let's talk.

Ok, so, here's the thing. I don't think they're the same thing. I think they're really close, and I think that, at a certain point, it's reasonable to say that everyone going to the bar the local Nazis recommend (I'm not kidding on that by the way) is probably someone that I should be wary of, as a Jew.

I am going to tell you something, because I think you are genuinely in good faith. Jews are terrified. We are terrified and disappointed and many of us are making plans to flee. (Typically to Israel, because it's mandated to take us in, which is why it exists, to take in Jews fleeing two thousand years of hate because until non-Jews get their act together the simplest solution to antisemitism is to minimize dependence on non-Jews, but that's not the point.)

And a big part of the reason we're so scared is because of people who claim to be pro-Palestinian. And I know I shouldn't be, logically. I know that I shouldn't speed up slightly when I go past the house with a FREE PALESTINE STOP GENOCIDE sign in the yard, when I go by the place with a dangling Palestinian flag. I know I shouldn't be. I know the woman at one of the groups I participate in with the FREE PALESTINE thing on her backpack is probably not antisemitic. I hope she's not, anyway.

I know that. I know that they're not the same, and I try my very best to remember. But it's really, really, hard to, given the movement. Given the rhetoric. Given what it does.

Here's some data. I don't expect you to read all the surveys. But I expect you to look at a few, and consider it.

A quick note -- I'm going to use "anti-Israel" and "pro-Palestinian" interchangeably here, because the mainstream pro-Palestinian movement seems to view them as such. I'm perfectly aware they're not; a fair number of Jews on Tumblr fall into "pro-Palestinian" but not anti-Israel. But they're not welcome in those spaces.

So.

I'm going to quote me from the past here:

Have multiple (2009) peer-reviewed (2006) studies (see study 2; 2022) shown (2015) that (2007) antisemitism (2012) and (2020) anti-Israelism/antizionism [“In fact, anti-Israel attitudes are the strongest sole determinant of antisemitism when compared with political preferences, religion, place of birth, age, education and violent tendencies.”; 2020] (which are not the same thing) are (2024) closely (2016) associated (2012)? Also yes. Did Daniel Allington and David Hirsh write that “So many experimental and survey-based studies have found a correlation between negative attitudes towards Jews and negative attitudes towards Israel that this may be considered one of the most solidly established facts of political psychology” (The AzAs (Antizionist Antisemitism) Scale: Measuring Antisemitism as Expressed in Relation to Israel and Its Supporters, 2019)? Yes. Did I not cite that in my links above? Yeah.

Unfortunately for this argument, I got bored and found some more, so may I present to you in addition: 2025 Norway (Antizionism), 2026 Sweden [anti-Israel] ("As expected, antisemitism and anti-Israel attitudes were positively correlated (r = .492, p < .001), indicating that the two sets of attitudes are closely related."), Unknown location but probably the US 2026 [anti-Israel] ("Antisemitism and hostility toward Israel reliably co-occur...These studies confirm that the relationship between antisemitism and anti-Israel hostility is reliable, predictive, and substantial"), twelve countries 2024 [seems to have mostly been done/use data before October 7, anti-Israel] ("Controlling for a range of covariates, a one-percentage-point increase in the share of a country’s population with an unfavorable opinion of Israel is associated with a 0.8-percentage-point higher probability of antisemitic victimization"), Romania post October 7 but in reverse from the usual ("The main findings show that people holding antisemitic attitudes are more inclined to develop negative attitudes towards Israel.")

Now, going back to something more personal, because unfortunately, data doesn't change people's minds usually.

About a month ago, someone said roughly the same argument you're making. That antisemitism isn't tolerated in pro-Palestinian spaces. You can read my response here, but the short version is that they followed someone who is an avowed antisemite. And when I say that, I don't mean "they said bad things about Israel" -- although they do -- I mean that "when they say 'Zionists are the Nazis of Palestine' I wonder if they mean it in a complimentary way" (they don't):

That's not ostracization. (I'd do this for you, but you don't make the list of people you follow public. I'm not judging you; I don't either. But I can't.) That's the opposite of ostracization.

I don't think the pro-Palestinian movement is full of Nazis, because that term has meaning.