That’s Our World Too

You know I wish fatphobia was less pervasive. Even among people who consider themself as progressive, it's rampant. So quick reminder. No it's actually not easy to stop being fat, and it sucks that we are treated differently for something we really can't control. Shaming a fat person for being fat, and shaming them for not having the "willpower" to become skinny- is bigotry. And if all you talk to fat people about is weight loss and dieting- congratulations! You're being a dick! Stop.

tumblr still blows for a lot of reasons don't get too full of yourselves just bc twitter's having another crisis

got my first ever “delete this tweet or face suspension” from twitter the other day and it’s a nearly 3 year old tweet about slaughtering elon musk. does he have people whose job is to solely find aggressive tweets about him and then send threats like mob goons? who can say. all i can say is i think we should rip elon musk’s head off and place it on a pike

"superman knows everyone's secret identity because he can see through masks and eavesdrop anywhere, batman knows everyone's secret identity because he's the world's greatest detective, and wonder woman knows everyone's secret identity because she has a magic lasso" is fine and all but i think it's funnier if clark makes an active effort not to look through masks because he thinks it's rude, bruce knows despite making no effort because they're all actually terrible at keeping secrets, and whenever diana wants to know someone's identity she just asks bruce and it never occurs to him not to tell her

writing sci-fi sucks ‘cause on one hand it seems like this character would say “son of a bitch” but then you have to pause and think, do they have dogs in space? Does this character know about dog breeding? Is it insulting to be compared to a dog in space? Is there misogyny in space? Do space people use misogynistic slurs? Does this character say bitch because they’ve absorbed a low level misogyny and it’s just part of the cultural lexicon of their world?

and then you shrug and give them all lasers because life is short and death is imminent

I keep making stories with cultures who are primarily areligious and have little history or cultural awareness of religion, and you would not believe how many swears this cuts out of your available vocabulary

on the plus side you do come up with some really fun alternatives

My Guy Who Grew Up On A Genetically Engineered Floating Forest has SO MANY plant-ecology-based curse words

I am so relieved Han Solo said "Then I guess I'll see you in Hell" in The Empire Strikes Back, because it really opened a lot of doors for me.

Not enough doors that I could use the word "canape". But still a lot of doors.

When I was in the 4th Grade, I came up with a wild life theory that all the people in the world were actually a Hive mind, and they told each other stuff telepathically, and I wasn’t a part of the Hive mind, so I couldn’t tell what others were thinking, conveying, or feeling, and when I tried, it ended up in me being hurt in the end. I always thought the reason people treated me like I was wrong or defective was because they could tell I wasn’t a part of their Hive mind. Then I got to 7th Grade and was told that I was Autistic.

So basically you were correct

SOUND ON. TRUST ME ON THIS ONE

YES I'M GAY:

faGgot

dykAe (the a is silent)

trannY

i may be stupid

you shut your whore mouth

i won’t hesitate bitch

media depictions of hacking are so funny because it's all like dudes in hoodies with Anonymous masks in pitch darkness, and when you actually meet these ppl you realize 90% of hacking happens in one of these two rooms:

this is true

obsessed with this tag tbh

Writing fanfic as a non-US citizen like

actually as a non US citizen it is your duty to not give a shit about this and use it incorrectly on purpose

actually as a US citizen I don’t think most americans know the difference either

what's funny about people who pretend to support syrians to spite ukrainians and those that support ukraine is that they don't know just how out of touch this sentiment is with the very same syrians that they claim to support

recently, I’ve been thinking too much about this photo.

Do...do people think Syrians are pro-Russia?? The guys that carpet bombed Aleppo??? They know Putin is propping up Assad's dictatorship right??? The guy responsible for the Syrian war?? The one whose family pretty much destroyed Syrian democracy?? Whose forces are responsible for the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths??

They don't actually care what Syrians believe in. They are using them as a weird 'gotcha' West cares about Ukraine, but they don't care about Syria! Why nobody is talking about Syria! Also Assad is anti-imperialist uwu

Just so y'all know, these are the people Putin's tight with.

Block JavaScript on the site settings of your browser to get past the paywall. Yeah NYT is a shill, but that just means they gloss over the US's war crimes, not that they're inventing the Syrian government's. But media literacy is wasted on tinhats who think Wikipedia has an anti-communist bias because it records actual genocides.

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

god remember when there were no ads AND you could post dick on here. take me back i'll be grateful this time