slutshame? no no, slutsupport. slutpride.

https://mronline.org/2018/09/03/un-scientific-paper-suggests-capitalism-has-to-die-in-order-for-the-planet-to-be-saved/ 

Use this hyperlink, it’s the same story from the same source but the old link is down

The gang finds the One Piece ✨

true story

this was his response 5 seconds later

does anybody see my vision or do i have to do everything myself

Минутка занятного английского

Прочитав слово вне контекста, мою фантазию было не остановить. Типичный набросок в 6 утра. Простите (нет)

Happy Mother's Day!

I love that Ash told Jessie happy mothers day, and that it moved her to tears, but I think my favourite part...

(and this may just be because you forgot, but that's fine)

Is the idea that Jessie and Ash did not give Delia the flowers Meowth and James brought. I imagine they wouldn't want to take credit for it, but they also wouldn't want to risk Delia catching on that two people that don't even live with her remembered but they didn't—

Dionysus on Theseus and Ariadne 

In most versions of the Theseus myth, he dumps her literally/figuratively on the island of Naxos, Dionysus’s sacred island and sails back to Athens without her. The next day Dionysus is like “Hey beautiful castaway, I notice you’re living in a lean-to in my backyard, want to get married just a fuck you to Theseus?” and is faithful to her for the rest of her life. 

When Athenians told the story, because they wanted to make their hometown boy look good, they say Dionysus actually demanded her as tribute for safe passage back to Athens…but I prefer to believe Dionysus is the patron of the fake/revenge dating that becomes real romance trope

Honestly, the first time I read the story of Theseus and the Minotaur was as a kid in a brief graphic novel and it definitely leaned more into the “Theseus was a dick” narrative.

Granted, it had Dionysus helping Ariadne out of the goodness of his godly heart and making the sailors forget to fly the flag that says Theseus is alive as opposed to

“Oh, kid said he’d marry you and stranded you here? Wanna marry a God instead? Just to stick it to ‘im? Promise I’ll be a good husband!”

But the latter feels so much more like a God of Dionysus’ domains. And I love that for everyone. Especially Theseus. Screw Theseus. In Hades and in his actual legend. :D

the suffering never ends

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BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

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this could help somebody !

FUCKING THANK YOU

today reddit bumped off third party apps, Elon decided you can only read 600 twitter posts a day(!?), and YouTube is banning adblockers

tumblr, held together by hope and spit, presumed dead by many, really is one of the last decent media sites left standing

“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

"you are functionally a conservative" is such a good and clarifying insult

Literally right after I saw this post, I saw another post in a discord chat for BOOK EDITORS in which an outspokenly liberal editor talked about how Nabokov should have never been published because he wrote about p*dophiles and described women's bodies in ways that made her uncomfortable. She described his writing as "objectively terrible" and said she wanted to burn his books. And other editors were bringing up classics they didn't like and talking about how they wanted to throw them in the trash. This wasn't like a light "unpopular opinion!" conversation. This was actual book editors talking about how books should be destroyed and censored.

There is something so scary and toxic in global culture right now. The revival of fascism is influencing everyone's mindset and approach to art, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.

I see far more books being censored today than when I was a kid. Librarians handed me The Catcher in the Rye, The Sexual Politics of Meat, and Animal Farm when I was literally 8-11. My mom would never have taken a book away from me. I read everything from the Tao Te Ching to the Qur'an to atheist texts under my desk at school. Teachers thought nothing of it or encouraged it. Books seemed universally acknowledged as sacrosanct to me.

Now I can't find any adults who don't hesitate or want to make exceptions when it comes to censorship. Even the most liberal social activist librarians I know go, "well except for book X..."

Functionally conservative. It's so important to have the language to express that.

Thank you for this addition!

And, following up on the previous post …

“This makes me uncomfortable” is NOT a valid reason for censorship

These fucking book editors should remove themselves from the profession ASAP 😡

The only reason a book should be removed, the ONLY reason, is “we are keeping it in the restricted section for research because its only intended function is to cause harm.”

And to be clear, when I say this, I’m talking about shit like To Train Up A Child and The Protocols of Zion. One is a text responsible for the deaths of multiple children because it’s an abuse how-to, and the other is entirely fabricated “protocols” from a group that never actually existed but is claimed to represent all Jews, and it’s basically one long antisemitic screed.

And even these should be available. Just. Not where they’re gonna be used to start a white supremacist cult.

...there's legit so many books and other media about why the complete restriction of information and over-censoring what we read, write, play, and see is bad.

Just...

SO many.

We've had centuries.

Centuries to learn and solidify this lesson.

The only thing I remember from the 1998 #Trigun is Vash saying Love and Peace. I recently watched the new #TrigunStampede and rewatched the old anime, and let me tell you, the Love and Peace is a LIE. There is only pain and despair.

Customer Service Nai is the only origin story I accept for his hatred of humanity.

Trigun panel redraw. Love the composition of that manga page.

They're idiots, your honor

and nobody point out the state of Wolfwood by the time Vash has black hair

He took 2 vials💀

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