Fluent Freshman - Part 42

There are things that change a person.

Moments where after they happen they simply cannot un-happen. Things that a person hears that they cannot un-hear. Promises that a person makes that they can’t, and perhaps even wouldn’t, un-make.

Jeremy’s moment came over winter break the previous year. Jeremy heard things that he could never un-hear in the middle of the night. Jeremy made a promise that he would never break while in the guest room of his parent’s house holding one Jean Moreau tight as he talked about the Nest.

crumplelush

I’m obsessed with the concept that FF - a man who plays collegiate level exy - does not recognised tetsuji moriyama at all

the man who not only is the coach of the most famous/infamous team in said collegiate level exy but also the man WHO INVENTED THE DAMN SPORT IN THE FIRST PLACE

king of staying in his lane and not paying any attention to celebrity status

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A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks

Published in coloration with Transfighters/Traction Project, A Self-Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinar

Silver Sprocket

wakewithgiggli

The threead continues:

All people have a tendency to be unconsciously biased toward seeing trans women as untrustworthy, unsafe, lacking vulnerability, the problem to be solved rather than a person to be taken care of. And this is not less true in trans and queer and feminist communities. It’s just more unconscious, and more propped up with social justice, feminism, queer lib, leftist, and anti-oppression beliefs. This book is talking about this in context to a physical public situation of harassment, but this is true of social conflicts too, including on social media, in friend groups, in all kinds of situations. The unconscious bias also gets taken advantage of by people who know what they’re doing and hide behind that bias to make their mistreatment of transfems seem reasonable—again, often supported with social justice and anti-oppression rhetoric. TERFs aren’t the only people who do this! It felt so incredible to see this spelled out in print, plain as day, an actual book calling out a real thing I’ve experience more times than I can count, that all transfems I know go through, and that I still feel crazy for seeing because there’s so much gaslighting about it. You know how when you KNOW something is real, but you feel defensive about that knowledge, like you have to be ready to hold onto it, and then you see something confirming that knowledge for you in no uncertain terms and it feels like “wow maybe I wasn’t crazy all this time!” That’s how I felt seeing this.

The book linked is free to read and download. See the link above.

butchmartyr

if you’re a transfem you should read this, and if you’re not you should reblog it for your transfem friends & followers, the advice in here is extremely good and the grips breaks are not hard to practice!!

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lordascapelion

We should piss on the poor

comicsansstein

How dare you say that reading comprehension on this site is piss poor

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hollowboobtheory

really? another album? didn't she just make one??

hollowboobtheory

taylor swift is the MCU of music

hollowboobtheory

do you realize what you're wishing on me

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doubleca5t

My ideal aesthetic is what I'm calling "sexy tomboy". That is to say, I am 100% femme through and through, but I want to look like what a straight man's idea of a "masculine woman" is. I wanna be masc in the way that LaCroix is fruit flavored, just a little extra something to make things a little more interesting

boygirl-klavier

This you?

doubleca5t

I don't think I'll ever recover from this one

nova-remnants

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flogisto

gansey fighting with adam and talking about how ronan hadn't stolen his car while ronan is not only quite literally stealing his car at that exact moment but crashing it too will never not be funny

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coredesignixandnekonee

rev-another-bondi-blonde

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flogisto

gansey fighting with adam and talking about how ronan hadn't stolen his car while ronan is not only quite literally stealing his car at that exact moment but crashing it too will never not be funny

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foervraengd

Tried to recreate one of my old digital paintings in oils

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cryptidfuckery

quasi-normalcy

Horniness is not intrinsically less pure than any other human motivation

quasi-normalcy

"He only made this art because he was horny!" ...Yeah, and? You only made a sandwich because you were hungry.

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imlizy

great pyrenees are so fucking awesome theyre just big. if i didnt think that owning one was a supremely bad idea for me in particular id get one. i just think itd become my boss or something. im too lazy for a working breed truly

imlizy

go white boy

imlizy

sarcastic dog. dog that has contempt for you

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dcvina-claires

oh yeah don’t mind me i’m just thinking about how blue and gansey are technically the main characters of this story but it’s still not entirely about them and how ronan isn’t the hero of this story but he is the hero of a story that branches off from it and how adam would’ve been the villain in a worse version of the story but he had too much loyalty to the narrative to let his friends go and how the story could never be about noah but it also could never be about anyone except for noah

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aconitemare

justsomeguycore

just a few posts i’ve tagged gideon and harrow

#this is so andreil too

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themiddleofmichigan

As a math major, I am simply enchanted by the idea of Neil Josten, Math Major. Please enjoy this collection of headcanons I came up with to cope with studying mathematics.

Neil is a pure math guy. There are two big camps of mathematics: pure and applied. Applied math is about applying math to other fields (physics, engineering, finance, etc.), while pure math is like math for the sake of doing math (read: a lot less employable). Neil picking the math major because he's good at math and kind of likes it is a very Pure Math thing to do.
Neil has a whiteboard, possibly multiple whiteboards. Whiteboards are the ultimate tool of mathematics. Sometimes Neil gets stuck on a problem for hours; hunched over his mini whiteboard, working through it over and over again. His fingers get covered in the expo marker residue and it leaves a black mark when he scratches his nose. Andrew huffs that he looks like a chimney sweep and rubs it off with his sleeve (he absolutely does NOT find it adorable, shut up, Nicky). Also, around exams Neil will drag Andrew to the library so he can do his practice problems on the Big Whiteboards. The other people in the library stare at them because this little ginger is filling multiple whiteboards with weird symbols and greek letters; Neil doesn't notice because he's oblivious, Andrew notices and it makes him a smug bf.
One time one of the Foxes asks him for help with their statistics homework and he gives it a shot, because how different could it be? They both quickly find out that he knows absolutely nothing about statistics. "What IS that?" "That's a matrix, it has the variances in it." "Well then why does it have an apostrophe by it?" "That means you flip it around." "That's TRANSPOSING and you notate it with a T" "Aren't you supposed to be some kind of math genius? Shouldn't you know how to do this?" "This isn't math, this is blasphemy."
Aaron has to take calculus for the MCAT and puts it off for as long as possible because he hates math. His TA for the course sucks and he struggles through it for weeks before Katelyn manages to convince him to ask Neil for help. Neil pretends to be annoyed, but he's secretly kind of looking forward to it because calculus is fun and it's nice to do math you already know for a change. When you're an upperclassman in a math degree, though, your brain gets warped by all the theoretical math, and it's hard to get into the mindset to teach something like Calc I. This leads to semiregular hostile tutoring sessions in the dorm, we're talking real Dad Trying to Help You With Your Math Homework at the Kitchen Table type energy. "BUT HOW DID YOU KNOW TO DO THAT?!" "It's a vector space, Aaron, I don't see what you're not understanding here." "A vector WHAT" Andrew chain smokes through these. He has to start leaving the dorm because he's pretty sure the calculus is going to drive him to lung cancer.
The statistics incident gives Neil a totally reasonable grudge against statistics. He eventually gives it up, but only so he can take an elective about sports statistics, because he has exy brain worms.

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scholliski

I’m betting some dude sarcastically bet for the foxes to win while drunk of his ass and still gloats about it every day to his buddies

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sergeant-angels-trashcan

One of my favorite Young Avengers headcanons is that, individually and even more as a collective, they do not take orders from white men particularly well.

This is particularly hilarious when taken with the fact that Rhodey and Fury outrank every single member of the Avengers because this means that not only are they more likely to take orders from Rhodey and Fury, they are absolutely willing to stir up shit using this information in order to get out of doing something they don't want to do or think is stupid.

Like Tony is laying out a plan or something and Billy raises his hand "Uh yeah sorry what does Colonel Rhodes think about this? (Is it lieutenant Colonel sir I'm sorry I don't know the difference)" because the entire YA thinks Tony's plan is dumb and noticed Rhodey getting more and more Frozen Military Posture

And somebody has ASKED so now everyone HAS to listen to Rhodey who informs them of all the tactical holes in this plan in front of the entire team.

Or Cap asks them to do something and they don't want to so Kate and Eli casually go up to him all "Rhodey what if we went to do this thing? That would be a good idea right?" "Absolutely the fuck not."

They go back to Cap saying sorry we can't do that D': Rhodey told us we weren't allowed :'(

Every time Rhodey tries to rip them a new one about it, they get all teary eyed and they just respect you so much sir you have so much more experience and you outrank them anyway and he KNOWS he is being played but the results are good so like????

And they are really effective and intelligent so if they say "well the second in command of the ENTIRE US AIR FORCE told us we could do it" while using theee loosest definition of Rhodey "telling them something" in order to get out of trouble once or twice, well, is it really worse than anything he had to help Tony cover for? And Tony didn't ever get him on the holiday card list of the Original First Captain America so he'll let Eli's team slide JUST THIS ONCE

Fury thinks this is the funniest thing ever. Enjoy your gaggle of gremlin ducklings, Rhodes. Godspeed and all that. Fury in no way directed their attention to the fact that Rhodes is so high ranking.

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cryptidfuckery

collapsedsquid

argumate

it’s kind of established that there is no “get out of a beatdown” role you can take other than being a cop yourself, right? media, medics, lawyers, all fair game.

quasi-normalcy

Turns out that cops are just dudes who really like beating the shit out of defenceless people. There’s really no other qualification.

For those who hate lawyers I do want to point out that legal observers are sent by the National Lawyer’s Guild, which is the primary organization providing pro-bono legal defense to protesters and black community leaders who have been jailed to try to derail the movement. So, these are not the lawyers you hate.

lesbiansandpuns

Just to reiterate: the entire point of NLG legal observers is to deter unlawful or improper behavior on the part of the police / law enforcement personnel–and to document such behavior, if they aren’t successful in deterring it. In the U.S., they have to be trained and certified. Their job is to help you protest to the full extent of your constitutional rights and with minimal interaction with the criminal justice system. I cannot stress the extent to which they are on your side.

bemusedlybespectacled

The National Lawyer’s Guild’s motto is “human rights over property interests” and was created as a direct fuck you to conservative and exclusionary bar associations. Their dues are way cheaper than other bar associations and you can join even as a jailhouse lawyer (a prisoner who teaches themselves the law to advocate for others).

And just because this is literally my job: your negative perception of lawyers is literally propaganda. The portrayal of defense attorneys as evil for defending criminals, the idea that suing people is something only rich or very greedy people do, the complete erasure of legal aid as a thing that exists, are all designed to make you afraid to advocate for your legal rights.