Nothing's a Breeze

i eat your grandads clothes

Macklemoth

The Lancet link about shift to PMOS. Spread this to everyone who works in health care now. People with uteruses and ovaries are in agony - yes, the whole body suffers a crisis every fkn month - and health care should help

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I love how Zohran Mamdani is wearing a suit everywhere. And if he has anything else he puts it ON TOP of the suit. A basketball jersey. A high-vis vest. All worn over the suit. He’s like the mayor character in a cartoon who’s always dressed as The Mayor. If I didn’t know who he was and he biked past me in NYC I’d be like holy shit was that the mayor

oh my god no wonder Kiriona was so mean/agressive. she's literally a construct, she's been through hell, she wakes up and gets kissed by "Harrow" but it's not Harrow, it's something puppeting her body? and that something is protected by her only friends? who are okay with it controlling Harrow's body? who suddenly are together even though one of them died? Palamedes sacrificed himself and Camilla somehow managed to bring him back but when Gideon did it, Harrow erased her and left her behind? she's been used her entire life and now her only friends want to use her body again.

Yeah sure Tumblr is a hellsite but I know someone who wrote a fanfic in the 1990s that someone else didn’t like, so when she was selling printed copies of the zine with the story in it out of her hotel room at a convention, this other woman STOOD IN FRONT OF HER DOOR TO REFUSE PEOPLE ACCESS. Because the story featured a ship she disliked. And I feel like somehow, 10,000 Tumblrs still can’t compare to that level of Extra.

Your periodic reminder that the technology and the scale of distribution changes, the basic impulse to fandom wank does not

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 most valueable skill a white leftist can ever learn is how to take an L with grace.

You gotta be able to take an L if your moral and ethical belief systems are to be capable of guiding you. Otherwise you just have an idealized self where you get really mad and scared when anyone points out it isn't actually you. How the fuck are you gonna walk the walk if you can't handle being told when you are not, in fact, actually walking it

you cannot just socially transition into being a good person you are going to have to settle for being a messy human being who has to try and fail and keep trying to get better like everyone else. yeah even when it's embarassing and sucks for you a lot.

Ya gotta learn to earnestly and honestly say "Oh shit, my bad."

And to then end the sentence there, not launch into a paragraph of explanation or panicked super-apology.