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ahaha you sly dog! you bastard! [getting a little too comfortable] you wretched fucking animal

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"history will absolve me" as the e-mail signature
me getting silly in the pussy if im being honest ?
could you lie
but i stay silly! *āsaid in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*
ābut I stay silly!ā
Reblog you stay silly
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i think everyone needs to go out of their way to be nice to gem geminitay ok?
and the thing is this needs to be done even if nothing has "Happened", because misogyny is actually always happening, so we can't be only supporting women when there's an Event, it needs to be a constant thing
ābits to use in everyday conversationsā
I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
The science pet, always come in handy.
Hey. Wanna see one of my favourite photos ever?
Pigeon uses Remembrance day poppies to build a nest on top of Anti-bird spikes in 2019. The absolute amount of symbolism going on here is off the charts.
A pigeon. Both in that it's a dove which means peace, but more importantly that pigeons were essential as messengers during WWI. Most famously Cher Ami.
The spikes resembling violence and hostility.
Using Poppy pins made specifically for Remembrance day and all the symbolism of Poppies and WWI itself.
The fact that it stole the poppies from a tomb of an unknown soldier.
The fact it took them to make a nest to lay eggs and raise its babies in.
The fact that it's on the ledge of a church.
The fact that the window it chose to make the nest against is of a wounded soldier.
You couldn't have STAGED a better photo if you tried.
specifically the way itās nesting on anti-pigeon architecture and pigeons are no longer remembered or valued for their service to society and instead seen as vermin just as a disproportionate number of homeless people are veterans who are no longer remembered or valued as people but instead seen as vermin and must build their lives around anti-homeless architecture and policies.

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āGhosts are realā I can see how you could believe that
āGhosts arenāt realā itās very fair and rational that you believe that
āGhosts arenāt real anymoreā Iām about to hear a poem or very sad story
āGhosts arenāt real yetā the fuck are you going to do
i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic
rolling up to Wendy's to get an erotic chicken sandwich
look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons
whatever. go my scallops
last night I had the experience of "referencing a tumblr post that you think is widely known but turns out to not be as widely known as you thought it was" last night and it was this post. whatever. go my scallops
I feel like the fandom really mischaracterizes Cardan sometimes, and itās honestly frustrating. People love to paint him as weak, dumb, or completely reliant on Jude, and itās just⦠not true.
First of all, Cardan isnāt weak. The man survived an absolutely hellish upbringingāabuse from his family, neglect, and being treated like he was nothingāand still came out on top. He may not be a sword-swinging warrior like Jude, but heās got his own kind of strength. Heās clever, manipulative when he needs to be, and knows how to play the long game. Jude might be the strategist, but Cardan is the one who can pull people to his side with words alone.
And letās talk about this ridiculous idea that āCardan probably wouldnāt be able to pick up Jude.ā I saw someone saying that under a fanart of Cardan carrying Jude. Like, have you read the books? Heās described as tall, lean, and fit. Just because heās not a muscle-bound tank doesnāt mean heās not strong. The man is Faerie, which means his physical abilities are likely leagues above a mortal anyway. Not to mention, weāve seen him hold his own in fights when it comes down to it (he killed half an army)
Here are some paragraphs where he does in fact pick up Jude.
What bothers me the most is how some people ignore the layers to his character. Heās not dumb or helplessāheās strategic and emotionally intelligent in ways that complement Judeās tactical mind. He might not plan ambushes or train for battle, but he reads people better than almost anyone.
Honestly, the whole āCardan is weak and sillyā take feels like such a disservice to his character. Heās a survivor and a very complex character, a king who learned to wield his power in his own way, and yes, I fully believe he could (and would) sweep Jude off her feetāliterally and metaphorically.
Jude and Cardan
// @hollyblack

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#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there werenāt any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature itās pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.
āWhat I assume my teachers were trying to teach meā
Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because heās black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period thereās very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isnāt like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that weāre all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.
Iām really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of theĀ āand we do condemn! wholeheartedly!ā discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged betweenĀ āmorals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongsā toĀ āmorals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by todayās standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveableā so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance
please try this on for size:
there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present
My mind just boggles at the āThereās Racism In That Bookā argument.Ā Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM.Ā The message is that it is BAD.Ā
My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.
Huckleberry Finn can actually be seen as a powerful case study in trying to do social justice when you have absolutely no tools for it, right down to vocabulary.Ā And in that respect, itās a heroic tale, because Huckāwith absolutely no good examples besides Jim, who he has been taught to see as subhuman, with no guidance, with everyone telling him that doing the right thing will literally damn him, with a vocabulary thatās full of hate speechāhe turns around and says, āIām not going to do it.Ā Iām not going to participate in this system.Ā If that means I go to Hell, so be it.Ā Going to Hell now.ā
(I used to read a blogger who insisted that āAll right, Iāll go to Hell,ā from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature.Ā Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a āGet thee behind me,ā and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too.Ā Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because āthey can change their name, Iām not changing mine.āĀ Interesting guy.Ā Sorry for the long parenthetical.)
Anyway, the point of Huck Finn, as far as I can tell, is that you can still choose to do good in utter darkness, with no guidance and no help and none of the right words.
And when you put it like that, itās no wonder that a lot of people on Tumblrāpeople who prioritize words over every other form of social justiceāfind it threatening and hard to comprehend.
I somehow donāt remember ever reading Huckleberry Finn in school as a kid, so I read it more recently (although still a couple years ago) after already having seen a lot of the racism discourse around it.
The surprising thing, to me, was that no one was talking about the child abuse and neglect that was affecting Huck himself, and all of the commentary was about slavery and racism. The commentary I saw on Huckleberry Finn seemed to insinuate ā if not directly state ā that it was the story of a privileged white boy who generously condescended to empathize with Jim, the poor slave who wasnāt born with the innumerable advantages Huckās white skin blessed him with.
Then I read the book, and I was reading a story about a boy with a physically abusive, neglectful, alcoholic father who reappears in his sonās life only to attempt to seize his windfall wealth in a brazen act of parental theft that would have shamed James Spears, and an auntĀ a guardian whose self-righteous controlling behavior and spiritual abuse make Huck wonder whether he isnāt better off with the aforementioned dad.
So I think the adverse circumstances that both Jim and Huck face ā although in many ways different from each other ā have parallels that allow them to empathize with each other in a manner thatās closer to parity thanĀ āHuck gazes down at the pathetic Jim from the peaks of Mt. Privilege and feels pity.ā
(There are times when Huck acts kind of patronizing toward Jim, but correspondingly there are times when Jim does the same thing toward Huck. In both cases, they tend to be confidently wrong, with Huck citing half-learned, misremembered, garbled lessons from school, and Jim citing various superstitions.)
Crucially, it isĀ personal empathy, and notĀ any kind of principled abolitionist morality that is at play here. Huck and Jim are thieves and vagabonds. Rejection of slavery comes in the context of a broader rejection of social norms and morality ā and not some kind of consistent high-minded anarchism, either, but stuff likeĀ āweāve gotta steal to survive, but persimmons arenāt that great this time of year, so we wonāt steal those, and weāll count the fact that we donāt steal persimmons as points in our favor morally.ā
A cynical part of me wonders whether thatās the really offensive part of Huckleberry Finn ā the suggestion that maybe the ability to transcend and see past societyās arbitrariness and injustices isnāt the exclusive preserve of the respectable classes using all of the right Diversity Equity & Inclusion-workshop approved language, or the YA authors obsessed with imparting the Correct Moral Lessons to the Youth (hmmm⦠which Huckleberry FinnĀ character do theyĀ remind me of?), but might lay with outcasts and runaways who use some offensive language and do desperate things to survive, but who experience society from an outsiderās perspective and form bonds of necessity ā and, ultimately, empathy ā with members of other widely despised segments of society.
Update: Crossed outĀ āaunt,ā because I misremembered and Miss Watson is not Huck Finnās aunt.