Non-exhaustive list of miscellaneous cool shit I found while on hiatus
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For the last time, the Diamond Authority in Steven Universe isn't a stand-in for actual fascism, it's a vehicle for the queer power fantasy of getting your transphobic grandma to understand.
Bestie they have an exterminationist philosophy with a body count in the millions
Villain: Slaughters planets by the tenfold.
New Age Potterheads: "This is a metaphor for being deadnamed."
first of all can i just say:
HOLY SHIT LILY ORCHARD BEING WRONG ABOUT STEVEN UNIVERSE ON MY OWN POST??? THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE HONOR THIS RULES LMAO
second of all:
the show is not subtle about this!
whether you think it was handled *well* or not, and or whether you think it was the *right move* or not, that's what the show does!!! that is how the show handles it and that is how the show frames it!
like it literally has an episode where stevonnie hallucinates her memories of yellow diamond as connie's overbearing helicopter mom, it is screaming the parallels in your face lmao
it is not at all subtle in what it is trying to do, and just because you wanted it to be something else doesn't mean it was trying to be what you wanted and failing.
GFGHFDGHDFJKGHJKDFHJKGHJFLGHJKSFHJ thank you tumblr user interclouds
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this is the most hysterical game i've ever played istg
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an observation on how tumblr talks about shows
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btw: if you reblog this poll, feel free to explain your answer in the tags or the reblog!
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No roo roo? :(
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Donna Lee Parsons isn’t particularly well-known in hardcore/punk circles, but she should be. She played a pivotal role in rock history. Before she transitioned, she founded Rat Cage Records, a record label that released the Beastie Boys’ first two EPs; she signed them at their very first show. Twenty years later, after Parsons came out as trans and the band’s meteoric rise to fame, the artists quietly paid for Parson’s gender affirmation surgery. According to member Adam Horovitz, since the men knew she wouldn’t accept the money if she saw it as a charitable act, they claimed they owed her royalties from their EP Polly Wog Stew.
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So if you’ve ever worn a ‘lightning bolt’ t-shirt or listened to Victim in Pain or found yourself fondly recalling a Beastie Boys show you went to, you have a transgender woman to thank for that. And we should know her story. If you call yourself a hardcore kid, Donna Lee Parsons touched your life.
Source: LGBTQ Nation | True Trans Soul Rebel by Norman Brannon | April 2024
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Yes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it
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the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.
This is how I learn that the famous chimp my dad got my nickname from tried to kill Reagan. Fuck yeah.
RIP Bonzo we know you did your best to murder Ronald Regan for us.
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JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.
Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.
However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.
But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.
It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.
We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something
The Streisand Effect strikes
This will swiftly become one of the primary things JK Rowling is remembered for. Trying to erase crimes of the Holocaust against trans people and then silencing Jewish journalists for calling her out.
With your help we can make sure JK Rowling is known as a Holocaust denier first, author of mediocre children's books second
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reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now
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wdym an average platonic bond cant be deep and meaningful do none of you remember the power of friendship
i have trust in the people.
Evie says henlo