the 42nd fish

Hot take: Being called "good girl" by another trans girl has healing properties science refuses to study.

A tumblr sexyman transitioned and suddenly she wasn't anyone's poor little meow meow anymore.

okay. breathe. listen to my voice. can you tell me five things in this room you can fuck?

women keep trying to do evil mindbreak hypnosis on me by being nice to me and telling me i'm doing a good job and offering me treats and saying i'm a really good girl and that i should try to be kinder to myself and maybe just take this moment to enjoy, just the two of us, no pressure, no mask, nothing more to be afraid of or to constrict or constrain, just be present and feel the warmth and comfort that comes from being cared for. theyre doing this because they want to hurt me sexually

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

The creator of the BITE Model considers abusive relationships to be two-person cults.

It’s important to note that almost every sect of evangelical christianity in the US today fails the BITE Model.

Basically all Christianity fits into the BITE model and a lot of our current social politics is progressives just being unwilling to admit that.

okay now that we’ve a had couple lesbian blockbusters and milfs are having a romance moment, we need to bring back the manic pixie dream girl. she was never fuckin suited to fixing all the problems of some boring twenty year old everyman, but you know who could actually benefit from a quirky free-spirited blue haired girl with pronouns (she/they)? a newly divorced forty-something mom who’s trying to learn how to be herself for the first time in her life

Hate that the most popular version of this post rewrites it to be straight so it can be wholesome. This should be a movie with graphic age gap queer sex.

Unironically I think this meme is really good for explaining why maths formalisms and notation are so valuable, even when they seem cumbersome/convoluted. It's an incredibly precise way to describe the interaction of a lot of related-but-meaningfully-distinct concepts, and this is a great showcase of that, thank you Lynn Chordbug you're the best.

Never let weirdos (Americans) on the internet convince you that you need to donate money to the people you pirate shit from. Their weird moral ocd is not your problem. You don't need to "make up" for it. You don't need to pay indulgences. You can just pirate shit and get stuff for free and then do nothing else. End of statement.

If anything this all makes a normal job less appealing; its not like those are more stable.

Yay! I love this city!

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40’s adventure serials#but disney are making a ‘star wars film’ and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)

This makes me feel a lot better about my work being a hodgepodge of everyone else’s work oddly enough! The princess gives you one cheek kiss!

phenomenon that needs to die out immediately is assuming someone is not an assault survivor if they don’t explicitly tell you, a stranger on the internet, for the sake of argument

It should honestly be the default to assume everyone has been through some sort of assault, especially if they're trans and especially if they're a woman.

me and who

public defenders get behind me. i’ll defend you this time

“so you like criminals?” I LIKE THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL.

One of worst things copaganda ever perpetuated is the rhetoric that if you aren't guilty of breaking the law, you shouldn't value your personal privacy against the state's surveillance and interrogation. That only guilty people hire lawyers when talking to police.

Also I like criminals.

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It’s actually a pretty good highlight of how generally people don’t notice they’re being racist, since the diversity in the various characters depicted leads me to believe they thought they were including everyone.

The racial harmony title on the last one is a special sort of irony.

Actually you just gotta prevent Rome then you don't need to do any of the other things. So many problems start with Rome.

it might be slightly less ethical but i think you could just go back 10k years and kill someone random and reroll civilization.

Actually you just gotta prevent Rome then you don't need to do any of the other things. So many problems start with Rome.