#recklessprudence

Oh, I will do that right now for free!

JUNE 2023: Great month for justice, bad month for assholes!

Pat Robertson, notorious conservative Christian activist and long-time hate preacher: dies on June 8

Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, conducted a decades-long campaign of mail bombings and domestic terrorism in the name of protesting technology: dies on June 10

Silvio Berlusconi, notorious far-right ex-Italian PM and general fantastically corrupt shitheel: dies on June 12

Stockton Rush, billionaire libertarian businessman who actively ignored 1000 safety warnings about his crappy product and fired a whistleblower for saying so, notably got himself and 4 other people killed on June 18 and joins the hallowed Wikipedia list of inventors killed by their own invention

Honorable-not-quite-June-but-close mention: James G. Watt, Ronald Reagan's secretary of the interior and a rabid anti-environmentalist, died on May 27

John Eastman: conservative lawyer who actively advised and encouraged Trump to stage a coup: facing disbarment hearings in California

Oh yeah, that guy Trump: on June 8, was charged with 31 federal criminal counts under the Espionage Act, relating to his crimes with classified documents; 37 charges overall, which takes his felony haul to 71 (and counting);

Vladimir Putin: is not gonna have a fun time over the next few days over the fallout from the Wagner mercenary rebellion;

Andrew Tate, flagrant misogynist asshole: officially charged with rape and human trafficking in Romania;

Ron DeSantis: lost literally THREE different lawsuits over his terrible anti-LGBTQ laws; collapsed in the polls and his campaign is allegedly "close to being over" because he's so bad at it;

State of Arkansas: likewise had its attempted ban on gender-affirming care for minors permanently struck down

Marjorie Taylor Greene: the crazy House Freedom Caucus doesn't like her anymore, apparently, and wants to "purge" its members, including her (lolololol)

Man, that's all well and good, but it's really a shame that Pride Month 2023: This Time It's Personal didn't put a cherry on top by offing Henry Kissinger, or like, Clarence Thomas or Samuel Alito (or both, both, both is good)

Come on, Pride Month 2023.

JEREMY NO

Edit: LMAO

This got... very long so im gonna put it under a cut but yeah great points to follow:

PROTECTION, UTILITY, AND KEEPING _FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLDS FROM BEING SEXUALISED_ LONG BEFORE YOU WANT FUCKING MARKETABILITY! Aoyama gets a support item right from word go so he doesn't shoot his internal organs out through his laser, but Kaminari doesn't get a support item so he idk... doesn't give himself brain damage?! I know I've already said about Momo's costume, but... someone in UA's costume design section for FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLDS signed off on that. Had details of her quirk and everything (tbc)

Elliot: I've never been this confused before.

Ellen: Oh, sure you have. What about after you touched the diamond?

Ellen: Really. The spontaneous creation of a female twin with all of your memories. That was simple.

Elliot: "She's family. Help her." Not that complicated.

Yeah, I think Luke and Biggs did keep vigil for Owen and Beru together after the Battle of Yavin.

I’m not sure if I’ll ever write that scene specifically, but it is definitely part of the background in my head for this ‘verse.

Apparently the term for people in a queerplatonic relationship (building their lives around each other but in a platonic way) is ‘zucchini’. As in, instead of being your ’[gender]friend’ or 'partner’ or whatever, they’re your zucchini. It’s deliberately absurd, but a common shortening if you don’t want to explain it is they’re your 'zucc’ (said with the long 'u’ in zucchini). Try googling 'queerplatonic zucchini’ and seeing what you get

I’m well aware of some of the terms people use, I’ve been active in the online aro community since like 2013 and saw some of these terms emerge. I know what a queerplatonic relationship is and I know that some people use that as an affectionate term for their queerplatonic partner

However -- I don’t like it, and it doesn’t solve any of the problems I need addressed. Just because a tiny corner of the internet has decided on something in theory doesn’t mean there’s actually a societal framework for doing it, and that I won’t be hounded with questions if I try to construct it that way, or that it’s in any way a one-size-fits-all solution for people trying to build futures that involve platonic partners. 

The term “zucchini” feels childish and infantilizing to me and not something that expresses genuine commitment, so it fulfills none of what I want from relationship vocabulary. It just further emphasizes my engrained belief that no relationships I have will be serious and involve real commitment. And it’s even less likely to be taken seriously by people who haven’t been involved in a tiny corner of the internet that doesn’t even agree on the term in the first place. 

I don’t want to be an aromantic person with a relationship/partner/etc that I can only talk about in certain small, online aro circles -- I want to be able to talk to other adults, offline, no matter how they identify, about the people in my life who are important to me and have it understood and taken seriously. I want to have a word I can use when the doctor I’m seeing asks me the relationship to me of the person who came along to my appointment. I want to have a word I can use that won’t prompt further questions when that person is involved in another serious relationship as well. I want a word that gets across that I have other friends who are similarly important to me and if given the chance I would construct my life around them too in a heartbeat -- not instead of, but alongside. But “partner” is the only thing we have that will be remotely taken seriously by healthcare professionals, and real estate agents, and other people I will have to interact with to construct my adult life, and it has such strong connotations of exclusivity that it still doesn’t seem like it fulfills what I need.