Another Side of the Mirror

public defenders get behind me. i’ll defend you this time

“so you like criminals?” I LIKE THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL.

One of worst things copaganda ever perpetuated is the rhetoric that if you aren't guilty of breaking the law, you shouldn't value your personal privacy against the state's surveillance and interrogation. That only guilty people hire lawyers when talking to police.

why does it take SO much energy to keep your house only sort of clean

australian sour patch kids have gluten in them i am truly at my fucking limit im crashing out im waging war against wheat idgaf anymore

oh is that one of those things where ableist companies put in traces of common allergens so they can just avoid the cost of making it safe

WHAT

I wonder if that’s part of the reason behind my seeing an upswing in products adding corn starch or corn flour to things that didn’t have those before? <- rhetorical question, because I’m certain that’s what’s going on.

Apparently I do look in such a way as to prompt people I haven't seen in 10 years to ask if I've changed my name and pronouns. They're right but fuck, man.

The fuckor of it.

Sorry, my what? My pronouns? Oh, yeah I'm between genders at the moment. No, it's cool, I quit my last gender a little while ago because it really wasn't working out. I don't know if I even have a dream gender anymore.

Oh yeah, it did come with benefits, but they weren't really worth it. The culture was really toxic. To be honest I think I'd prefer a part-time gender so I can just be self-described in my spare time.

I mean, in a perfect world we wouldn't need gender, you know? We could just voluntarily be perceived as much as we're able, as much as makes us feel fulfilled. Having a full-time gender shouldn't be a prerequisite for food, shelter, and healthcare.

If you make a woman in bulky armor in your video game and then pull an uno reverse and are like “oh she was skinny underneath her armor!” you are a coward and also my enemy

There is something poetic and compelling about Teor dying during what is ultimately a period of massive success for our protagonists. They rescue Mara, plant Wick in the inner circle of the Sundered Houses, and pull the play off without a hitch! The Convergence was, objectively, a huge win for the new budding revolution. When he was introduced in the Overture, no character, even among the other veterans, held the weight of the failure of the Falconer's Rebellion to the degree that Teor did. Some quotes from or about him in the first two episodes include: "Work with Loza concluding in a series of skirmishes that are merely pale echoes of earlier, greater causes," "We take up contracts here and there, help where we can, but it's been hard finding one place to be," and "I don't know [the torn banner]'ll ever fly again. But I know of everyone who would know if the time ever came." His thoughts on Thjazi are also an echo of this grief over failure "This man deserved more. More fanfare, more people next to him, just more[...] How did this man that has done so much for so many far beyond himself, how did he meet an end like this?" Obviously, we don't fully know yet how the other characters will treat his memory and how that might change what he represents. But in the immediate aftermath, it's easy to see Teor as someone who carried the full weight of the failure of the Falconer's Rebellion until it was truly time for a new rebellion to begin. That he did, in fact, fulfill Loza's prediction for him. That he is the one who knew when the time came. That he, in his heart, held the banner until it was time for it to fly again, at which point he let it go

the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole