Apparently boomer Democrats are having meltdowns over a gen-z progressive who is primarying an 80 year old Democrat because she "went on trans podcasts" and wore a Charizard kigurumi
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Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.
It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.
Without Stonewall, without the efforts of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, the LGBTQ Community wouldn’t be where it is today. Don’t forget the roots, don’t forget the catalyst.
and then TERFs wanna be like, “hmm well the LGBT community existed before Stonewall!”
but like…Becky, of course LGBTQ+ people existed before Stonewall. We’ve all existed since the beginning of time. But the movement got a shock to its senses, a jump-start, a rocket-into-space when that glass shattered via Marsha P. Johnson, and when Sylvia Rivera was up on-stage protesting guess who was on the sidelines heckling her?
The same fuckers who won’t ever reblog or acknowledge this
My apologies to the original poster as I photo captured this post to add to the thread-I reposted this last year for pride and expect to repost it every year I have left-it’s our history people.
Marsha P. Johnson allegedly died of suicide in 1992, and her death was never investigated. Even I, a mere prole, could catch the “she was murdered” vibes from the circumstances surrounding the discovery of her body.
Without a trans black woman, LGBT+ rights would not exist. Never forget. Never “pay it no mind”.
Holy fucking shit, I've just been introduced (via this Tumblr post I didn't want to derail) to the song that is possibly The Most Murderbot Song I've ever heard. I genuinely checked the album release year to see if it could be inspired by Murderbot but it came out in 2010. Also I must acknowledge my tendency to be out of the loop, so I have no idea how well known this song is generally or if it's come up before in Murderbot circles where I haven't seen it. I guess I could try to research it but I just wanna post about it right now because holy Fucking shit!!! So, here it is:
"Oh No!" by Marina and the Diamonds (aka MARINA)
(lyrics below the cut via Genius.com)
[Verse 1]
Don't do love, don't do friends
I'm only after success
Don't need a relationship
I'll never soften my grip
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't want cash, don't want card
Want it fast, want it hard
Don't need money, don't need fame
I just want to make a change
I just wanna change, I just wanna change
I just wanna change, I just wanna change
I just wanna change
[Chorus]
I know exactly what I want and who I want to be
I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine
I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy
Oh! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no, oh!
[Verse 2]
One track mind, one track heart
If I fail, I'll fall apart
Maybe it is all a test
'Cause I feel like I'm the worst
So I always act like I'm the best
[Pre-Chorus]
If you are not very careful
Your possessions will possess you
TV taught me how to feel
Now real life has no appeal
It has no appeal, it has no appeal
It has no appeal, it has no appeal
It has no appeal
[Chorus]
I know exactly what I want and who I want to be
I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine
I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy
Oh! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no, oh!
I know exactly (Da-da-da, da-da-da)
What I want and who I want to be (Da-da-da-da-da-da-da)
I know exactly (Da-da-da, da-da-da)
Why I walk and talk like a machine (Da-da-da-da-da-da-da)
I'm now becoming (Da-da-da, da-da-da)
My own self-fulfilled prophecy (Da-da-da-da-da-da-da)
Oh! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no, oh!
[Bridge]
I'm gonna live, I'm gonna fly
I'm gonna fail, I'm gonna die
I'm gonna live, I'm gonna fly
I'm gonna fail, gonna die, die, die, die
[Chorus]
I know exactly what I want and who I want to be
I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine
I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy
Oh! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no, oh!
I know exactly (Da-da-da, da-da-da)
What I want and who I want to be (Da-da-da-da-da-da-da)
I know exactly (Da-da-da, da-da-da)
Why I walk and talk like a machine (Da-da-da-da-da-da-da)
I'm now becoming (Da-da-da, da-da-da)
My own self-fulfilled prophecy (Da-da-da-da-da-da-da)
Okay so what I've gotten from comments here and on Murderserver is that this song is well-known because it was popular in 2010s Tumblr fandom culture, but nobody's really talked about its Murderbot parallels yet, but y'all are agreeing it has Murderbot parallels. I'm good with this 😁
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I draw everything on my phone so it's probably a reason why I feel somewhat inferior to my art peers but I will become better with what I have at my own pace. this art piece is ok there's more I could do, but overall it's decent and I hope to become a better artist soon.
i ran into the headcanon somewhere that men in the nara clan all wear their hair up in the same way because it’s a modesty taboo of sorts and i can’t stop thinking about it…
i’m imagining ino-shika-cho doing some sort of interclan celebration and in the middle of it chouza take his hair down at the dinner table for whatever reason and baby shikamaru is so scandalized that he whisper-yells something to his dad about the akimichi being “men of LOOSE MORALS” and ofc everyone hears it because little kids are terrible at volume control and inoichi laughs so hard that it takes like ten minutes for him to finish the commencment speech
The full quote is fascinating though, and adds an interesting context as it's Angua (a werewolf) and Carrot (human, but raised by dwarves) discussing a dwarf colleague, Cheery.
"Female? He told you he was female?"
"She," Angua corrected. "This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We've got extra pronouns here."
She could smell his bewilderment...
"Well, I would have though she'd have the decency to keep it to herself," Carrot said finally. "I don't think it's very clever, you know, to go around drawing attention to the fact."
"Carrot, I think you might have something wrong with your head," said Angua.
"What?"
"I think you might have it stuck up your bum."
Sir Terry Pratchett - "Feet of Clay"
This is CARROT being the asshole. Carrot who has, throughout all the prior books, been depicted as basically the best of all possible people. He is noble, brave, considerate, kind. He is the good guy in the entire City...
... and yet, he grew up dwarf, and has picked up their more conservative views on gender identity.
Discworld dwarves start out in the books as basically a people without visible gender differences (thanks to the woman growing beards just like the men) and using "he/him" pronouns as their default. Anything else is seen as breaking the most basic of social conventions. (Dwarf dating is described early on as being two dwarves who like each other spending an inordinately long time trying to find out, as tactfully as possible, what gender the other dwarf is)
Carrot does immediately adopt the "she" pronoun for Cheery, which is but wishes she didn't make such a fuss about it. He's prepared to tolerate her choices, but he doesn't APPROVE of them, and thinks that that is enough.
Carrot, because he IS Carrot, does learn to open his mind on this subject, perhaps his final frontier of bias, but I do love that it's addressed as something he has to work on, and succeed.
And to Terry Pratchett's credit what started out as a throwaway joke about dwarf sex, gradually becomes a multi-volume subplot which is a fascinating exploration of gender and social identity as more dwarves start to "come out" as being female, and not just identifying as female, but changing their form of dress to something which matches who they are (they keep their beards though, because to a dwarf, that has nothing to do with gender, and everything to do with being a dwarf) and how their society has to adjust, with differing levels of comfort, to this new reality.
Carrot was also prejudiced against the undead early on as well. And the fact that he unlearns these views is a good example of a common theme in Pratchett's work
The overwhelming theme of Pratchett's work is change. Not good vs evil but progress vs stasis/going backwards. The protagonists of Pratchett's stories are people who can take on board new ideas and change and grow and adapt. Some of them start out as very stupid people with very stupid views in fact until they learn and grow and improve. The villains on the other hand are people who desperately want things to either stay the same or regress back to some imagined "Good old days" that they prefer.
While we're talking about Terry Pratchett gender, there's also golems, who are basically lumps of clay that have been brought to life but don't actually have any gender or secondary sexual characteristics so everyone defaults to male and he/him. As the books story goes on some of them decide to try being women just because.
Feet of Clay came out in 1996. I cannot overstate how pronoun discourse wasn't anywhere on the radar then. I'm fairly terminally online, active in fandom, and the first I can remember is some timid discussion of neopronouns in the mid-2000s, where "how could you tell other people to use them for you" was a major puzzle. (I still love neopronouns - zie/hir appeals to me in a way they distinctly doesn't, genderfluid though I am.)
1) I don't have the book to hand, but when Cheery comes out she changes her name to Cheri, because "sometimes, when you shout who you are to the whole world, you need to do it quietly." It's such a beautiful expression of coming out being a process, and one that needn't be undertaken all at once.
2) Pterry had the best goyische take I've ever seen on golems, and I will die on that hill. It's not perfect, but it is really well-done, and it was done with respect, and to me that might be even more important than perfection.
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I have one of these and I keep it in my IT toolkit because that teeny little screwdriver is the right side for laptop casings, but because it lives inside a large object it’s harder to misplace than a standard tiny screwdriver. Also because the look on a client’s face when you bring out a brass hammer to fix their laptop is absolutely wild.
I like to think spidey started to flip it and teased it like “oh! Oh! You better stop me! No? *tips more* oh your coffee spilled oh nooo!!” And then set it down upside down right as the cop ran up. The car isn’t destroyed, but like… this is clearly a problem. And all of this would have been avoided if the cop wasn’t being a prick.
Sad for Muderbot calling itself Murderbot just because of all those murders. Could’ve called itself Defensebot but no. It gets all hung up on the murders.
#hold up i just realized something #from the pov of the corporation rim #mb probably didnt MURDER anybody #cr probably writes off these deaths as ‘killed in action/killed in the field #‘the word murder has such an intense and personal connotation #to the cr these constructs are police/soldiers doing a duty #and from a corporate pov police and soldiers dont /murder/ they kill #so already mb sets itself LIGHTYEARS apart from the company just with this one small change #it kind of suggests that it sees those deaths as its own personal responsibility #it treated humans LIKE HUMANS instead of like cattle or nameless employees #even though it never received that consideration in return #anyway thanks for unlocking this thought op (tags via lazarus-mission)
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