Reflection from Mulan was so crazy she literally sang “If I were truly to be myself I would break my family’s heart” and 8 year old proto-gay me was like “I don’t know what you mean but I know what you mean”
This post is ancient and stupid but I still laugh whenever I see it
I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing
John Brosio (American, 1967) - Two Earthlings (2003/2009)
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We don't talk enough about how utterly lonely it is being chronically ill and/or disabled. Most times I'm able to cope with it, but sometimes it's absolutely crushing, all encompassing, to the point where I can feel it in my bones.
Check in on your chronically ill and disabled loved ones. We're very tough and persevering but that doesn't mean what we're going through isn't really hard and isolating.
Sad kon to balance the cuteness
Crying n throwing up rn
I did this to myself
y'all, the OP on the Barbie breakup headlines post going around right now is a TERF. Please, I beg you, go into your preferences and blacklist common TERF tags like 'terfs please interact' and 'radfem safe' so you are less likely to platform TERFs. :/
Since I posted this, I've seen one that was reposted by someone as annoyed by the TERF as I was.
But listen, this is a good time to update your filtered tags! Filtered tags a) work on desktop and mobile b) aren't reliant on an outside service like Shinigami Eyes c) trigger on tags the OP and/or the current reblogger put on.
From mobile:
Your blog > cog icon > Account Settings > Content You See
From desktop:
Hamburger menu on the top left > Settings > Account > Filtered tags
Then add some common tags used by shitty people for their shitty ideas!
This will screen these tags and make it so you have to actively tap/click to look at the post and thus warn you if OP has tagged the post with one of those things.
I have a bunch of dogwhistle stuff tagged, not just TERF stuff, but it's a good way to avoid accidentally platforming people who hate my family. :)
oh so they’re just saying the quiet part out loud? Good to know they’re just out and open now
That’s not the quiet part.
There’s something else, something they might not even be fully aware of themselves. The real quiet part is that if it was *their* child or *their* ectopic pregnancy they’d pull out all the stops to save their life or get their grandchild aborted. Planned Parenthood sees reactionaries and regressives all the time, and they are every bit the nightmare patients you’d imagine them to be. But the one thing all those patients have in common is that *their* abortion is *justified*, and the next week they’ll be outside the clinic again, rejoining the protestors for “killing their baby”.
It’d be one thing to have ghoulish principles, but the far-right have none at all.
When I was younger and had more time to waste on the internet, and spent a lot of time in various online forums getting into arguments -- on purpose -- I made up a game I called Six Degrees of Slut.
The game (which is a variation on the well known Six Degrees of Bacon) was very simple. In any discussion of abortion, see whether you could get the other side to articulate, within six back-and-forth exchanges, some variation of The Filthy Sluts Must Be Punished. Regardless of where their argument started, the goal of the game was to get them to admit that.
I never once lost a game of Six Degrees of Slut. On a few occasions the match was inconclusive - the other person left off arguing before we reached round six - but I never lost; I never once reached six rounds of debate with a prolifer without them expressing some variation on this sentiment. But what was really remarkable to me was, a lot of times, that there was no effort involved at all -- they would blurt it out themselves, with effectively no provocation.
Scratch a prolifer, and you'll find right under the surface the conviction that The Filthy Sluts Must Be Punished. I have never once yet found an exception. Sometimes you don't even have to scratch.
Got pronunciation confusion, pls help:
