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@hazellight11

Hazel. She/her, but they/them works fine. gray-ace. Please ask me to tag stuff if you need! ADHD, Doing My Best. aphobes, terfs, nazis, etc, do not interact. Icon made by me!

dude this is random but like. my mom works at a credit union, and a while ago, this totally domestic, collared dog came up to their door and was like.... barking to get in?? it’s a small credit union so they brought the dog inside to keep it safe while they got in contact with the owner

anyway, the owner showed up, looking haggard, and was like “yeah, she keeps managing to get loose. i’m surprised she came here, she usually goes to Wells Fargo.”

and my mom was like.... what?? and the dog owner was like “yeah ever since she started getting loose, she.... always goes to banks. we can’t figure out why.”

anyway the dog is fine and (they’re gonna crate train her or something) but how bananas fucking Wild is it that this dog escaped, multiple times, specifically to go to the bank???? what the fuck

They needed to make a depawsit

every time i see discourse about pedohysteria amidst a trans genocide i think about that news article from 2016 about the mexican immigrant who voted for trump because trump said he’d get rid of all the “bad hombres” from mexico, only to be deported himself because it turns out what trump was really saying was that he wanted to deport all mexicans, not just “the bad ones”

not just him, but there were many other examples too, like white conservatives who have mexican immigrant friends and family or people in the community important to them who were mexican immigrants, and they voted for trump because they thought trump was just getting rid of “criminals”, and then they regret it when their families and communities get torn apart by deportations of their spouses, their friends, their favourite restaurant owners, etc.

anyways, i hope young queers, trans people esp, understand that when conservatives talk about “pedophiles” and “groomers”, they’re not talking about actual child abusers, they’re talking about all queer people. they’re talking about all trans people. it’s why in florida, they’re categorizing “drag” as a child sex crime, and making sex crimes against children punishable by death. they’re trying to execute every single trans person, and that’s just the rhetoric they’re using

so stop buying into the pedohysteria. it’s easy to think “well, i’m not a pedophile, so i’ll be safe” when you don’t realize that in the eyes of conservatives, every single queer person is a pedophile and deserves death, and contributing to their rhetoric by trying to figure out which trans woman is a pedophile is just accelerating your own march to the gallows

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When I was in school, the argument – and in fact the standard belief – was that no gay person, ever, could be a teacher, because all gay people were pedophiles and groomers. It was for the “safety of children.” Lesbians and gay men couldn’t be allowed in locker rooms with “normal” people because we would ogle and assault them. Every gay, every lesbian, every trans person, every bi person (pan didn’t really exist as a term then) had the assumption of being a sex offender just waiting for an opportunity.

Literally everything they say about trans people now, they said about gay people 30 years ago.

There are people right now in government trying to outlaw gay marriage again, saying that Pete Buttigieg – the human equivalent of a Wonder Bread pb&j sandwich, as wholesome in image as they come – shouldn’t be allowed to raise his children because he’s abusing his children by raising them. People on Twitter have started openly calling for rounding up and executing anyone who ever helped a minor access HRT - parents, doctors, nurses, the receptionist who checked us in for my daughter’s appointments - and while those are only random people online, that isn’t a thing you saw happening frequently just a couple of years ago. Louder voices have started calling for mentally ill people – starting with trans and gay people – to lose our rights to vote.

Do I think queer people are being rounded up right now? No. Do I see the rhetoric escalating? Yes. Is it aimed at all of us? Oh yes.

Groomer, pedo, degenerate, freak: they mean all of us. There are no exceptions. If you think there are, you’re fooling yourself.

Join, or Die.

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TIL astronaut Jack Schmidt discovered he was allergic to moon dust, which is a thing millions of other people have probably gone their whole lives never knowing.

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Imagine being one of only twelve guys ever to have the honour of walking on the moon and then when you get there you're allergic to it.

NASA scientist: you’re back early

Jack Schmidt: moon’s an allergen

NASA scientist: ...what?

Jack Schmidt, loading an epipen and climbing back into the shuttle: moon’s an allergen

if one in twelve humans who have been on the moon was allergic to moon dust, that’s either a one-in-a-million chance or a VERY common allergy

The fact that it’s such a statistically useless sample is DEFINITELY driving a handful of very specialized scientists absolutely crazy

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oh this one i know! he's not actually allergic and he's not a statistical outlier. all twelve astronauts reported symptoms after stepping on the moon because lunar soil is fucking nasty to human (and presumably most complex life) biology. moon dust is like inhaling asbestos. it's very fine, chemically reactive, and will hang around in your lungs for months, like a shitty inhaled cloud of glass. which, as it's mostly silicon, it kind of is. glass powder that is ripping up your airways and possibly your dna. see again: like asbestos

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A prequel series that slowly but steadily stops making any sense. At first there are minor continuity errors, but only to the degree that could be put down to imprecise language or misleading statements in the original, then gets worse and worse until by the final episode the main character of the original series has never been born, the antagonist is already dead, and the worldstate is totally different from how it was at the start of the original

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I was watching Clone Wars and thinking how fucking funny it would have been if in one episode Anakin just fucking died

When I think about American attitudes to parenting there's something that always comes to mind, but I don't know whether it's a real thing. All my life in American films and TV I've heard child characters addressing their dads as "sir" or being told off for not doing so.

Is that really a commonplace thing in American families, or is it just a shorthand way of showing that the character is a shitty dad?

There's still time to increase the sample size!

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It really depends on where you're from, and it's more common in some communities than others. I don't think I've ever called my father "sir" non-sarcastically or unless I was in trouble, but all the Black kids I knew growing up called all adults, including their parents, Sir and Ma'am. The only white folx I knew who called their dad sir are from the South.

Doomed By The Narrative - 2

Let's try this again! This list was taken from the original list + a few honorable mentions that didn't make it into the initial bracket

This is not the brackets! This is an alphabetized list of contestants.

The brackets have been fully planned out, but the order of the polls when they post will also be randomized. You won't know who goes up against who until the polls go up!

Under the cut is a full list of contestants. This list will be updated with links to the polls once they go live

Sam Gamgee strikes me as the kind of guy who would post a picture of himself holding a fish

I know hes canonically scared of boats or whatever, but he still has. the aura. of a fish holding guy

You get it you understand my vision

It's because he's actually a guy who takes a picture of himself holding a prize-winning vegetable, which is a species with the same genus as fish-holding guys.

every year some clueless dumbasses get upset like "gays and drag queens at the eurovision??!?" yeah bruh, breaking news, fork found in the kitchen, i genuinely dont understand why you're surprised

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This is the best AITA because on the actual matter at hand I'd say he's kinda right (ish), $4900 for a week of work is really good money and they can always celebrate later. He should have obviously talked it over with her first but still. What makes him an asshole (or just like, a really really weird person) is every other detail that is tangentially mentioned.

HELLO I AM SO COMPELLED TO ASK BUT. WHAT IS SO DOOMED ABOUT PORYGON FROM POKEMON?? LIKE I LOVE THAT MY CHILDHOOD FANDOMS ARE BEING REAWAKENED (shoutout to story thieves they were the shit) BUT ???/ POKEMON??? BEING DOOMED???/? (this is very positive I must clarify porygon was one of my favourite Pokemon but also. this is so insane to me)

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tagging @joyfulness03 as ey will probably be able to articulate it better than me, and is the main reason porygon got in! but bare bones basic explanation is that porygon isnt allowed to show up in anime/merch/etc because of one episode of the anime that had to be pulled for flashing lights causing seizures. it was the only episode porygon showed up in, and was not the reason for the flashing, but got the blame anyways and has not shown up much in mainstream pokemon stuff since then

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HELLO. I ARRIVE AT BECK AND CALL.

SO. BACK IN THE 90S POKEMON AIRED IT'S NOTORIOUSLY FAMOUS BANNED EPISODE ELECTRIC SOLDIER PORYGON. THIS EPISODE HAD MANY FLASHING LIGHTS DUE TO (PIKACHU) USING ELECTRICITY TO BLOW UP MISSILES, WHICH THEN WOULD CAUSE RAPIDLY FLASHING BLUE AND RED LIGHTS ON THE ENTIRE SCREEN. AFTER THIS EPISODE AIRED, PEOPLE BEGAN TO REPORT HAVING SEIZURES. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT WHEN NEWS BEGAN GOING AROUND THAT THE EPISODE WAS CAUSING SEIZURES, SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAD PLACEBO SEIZURES ON TOP OF THAT, RISING THE CASES DRASTICALLY. THE EPISODE WAS PULLED, AND HAS NEVER RE-AIRED.

AFTER THIS, PORYGON, PORYGON2, AND PORYGON-Z HAVE NEVER REPPEARED IN ANY SIGNIFICANT PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL, NEVER GIVEN ANY SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN POKEMON ANIME EPISODES, OR BEEN GIVEN ANY FORM OF GIMMICKS IN THE GAMES. PORYGON WAS USED AS THE SCAPEGOAT FOR THE INFAMY CAUSED BY PIKACHU BECAUSE PIKACHU IS THE MASCOT, AND EVER SINCE IT AND ITS ENTIRE EVOLUTION LINE HAS BEEN SHADOWBANNED FROM REAL LIFE. THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TEDTALK.

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it's good for your mental health to have mutuals who are wildly horny about kinks which do nothing at all for you

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this is both as in. sometimes you will realise that actually these kinks do do something for you and that can be very eye-opening and liberating

and also as in. sometimes you will hear someone decry these kinks as indicative of moral failing, and being friends with people like this makes you immune to that sort of knee-jerk outrage

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I recommened nerdykeppie to one of my discord friends and another person was like "cute dress, but my titties are huge" and fortunately I'd already bought a dress for my sister who could give a glowing big-busted review.

It's just really nice that I can trust y'all to have sizes for non-standard body types.

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That is awesome! Thank you for sharing that. <3

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