Unusual Business as Usual

INTRO TO ARTHURIANA MASTERPOST

I'm so frustrated by the lack of response to the mass psychogenic illness of law enforcement officials claiming to suffer contact fentanyl poisoning. There were a few studies done that quietly concluded that it's not real, none of the cases were credible, and the symptoms most closely resemble a panic attack or somatic episode.

BTW, for anyone thinking this is an old story, the reason I'm bringing it up now is that it is actively being used to justify denying books, mail, and other documents to people in prison. The entire state of Wisconsin just banned donated books.

Americans are obsessed with punishment to an insane degree. people DESERVE to die if they support on hezbollah or hamas, regardless of whether their actions bring harm to anyone. if you're a nurse or a courier or a fucking security guard in a place where the only political entity in the region has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States your life is forfeited. if your child or wife or siblings happened to be mutilated it's your fault for existing. collective punishment and collective responsibility only exists for third world nations.

Children's oppression and lack of humanization is one topic that makes my insides feel like they're rotting and I'll die on the hill of defending them and pointing out how fucking gross it is every single time people act like it's cool actually to hate a group of people who are the least able to defend themselves in any terrible situation

Editing this post since the blogs of Ezra's that went down were so kindly reinstated. Staff is siding with a pedophile zoophile who hosts a platform where fellow pedophiles can openly interact and discuss their fantasies with children. Warning people about pedophiles in their community isn't harassment, it's a basic fucking precaution. Unless grooming kids is suddenly cool.

the fact that paul was supposed to be a girl from the beginning and betrothed to feyd-rautha and their child was supposed to be the “true” kwisatz haderach (paul was born a generation early) is just too insane

also on the subject of gender in dune, i love how paul’s gender is this thing in part two, where they say more than once that a man would never be able to handle the worm’s poison (the water of life) and would certainly perish and yet paul does handle it and survive. not because he is the kwisatz haderach but because he was almost born a girl, supposed to be born a girl. paul is more stereotypically feminine than chani, paul is delicate and soft spoken, paul knows how to use the Voice, his outer appearance is pretty