I haven't seen this version anywhere so I made one!
This flag is pissing off TERFs of course but i am seeing so much colorful JOY from trans lesbians and other lesbians in the notes like I've never seen a set of tags so happy before omg
I love this! ❤️
THIS THIS THIS
When I was 13 I went for a checkup, and the doctor prodded me in my jiggly belly and asked if I ever exercised. It was clear she thought the answer was no. I responded that I ran cross-country on school days and took dance classes 5x a week.
You can exercise a lot and still not have the body that people associate with “health” or “fitness”. Sometimes you’re just built the way you’re built, and that’s okay.
Embrace yourselves. And do not be cruel about the shapes of others.
Embrace yourselves. And
do not be cruel about
the shapes of others.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Conservatives finally say the quiet part out loud:
Family values, right?
People like this are abusers are and the ones who should be investigated and have their children taken away, not LGBTQ parents. This is neglect, this is open contempt for the life of your child.
If you can't handle the idea that your child will be LGBTQ, you will openly abuse them if they are, if you would not accept and love them for who they are no matter what, and you allow them to die through neglect then you should never have children. Period.
Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.
Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.
Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I’m trying to tell you that I’m evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!
Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
this is one of my favorite posts
Republicans are cancer.
A good time to remind people about the concept of Jury Nullification. Other terms you may hear in place of jury nullification are conscientious acquittal, juror veto, or jury pardon. At its essence, it is acquitting someone of a crime because you believe defining what they did as a crime is immoral. They did it but the law itself is wrong. It is based on the belief that the role of the jury is not simply to uphold the law but to turn mere law into justice.
Of course that’s exactly why Florida wants to change the law to 8-4 because they don’t want people’s morals to interfere with their pogrom.
Also a good time to remind people that if it looks like a Nazi, sounds like a Nazi, acts like a Nazi, and is supporting policies that Nazis actually had, no matter what they call themselves or what symbols they use, they’re a Nazi.
I feel like US conservatives went from a 3/4 to 7 on transgender people over the course of a year and a half.
Basically, if this passes, the state Florida will take away your children if you are transgender or one of your children is transgender (as the bill notes it will take away cis children if they have a trans sibling).
Absolutely monstrous.
literally the bill provides a penalty of $250k and a minimum of 20 years for *using a vpn to access a website*. the list of banned websites can be updated at any time be an unelected appointee with no oversight or warning or even public announcement
Look at every city. The nicest buildings are usually the post office and the library.
We need libraries. They are a reflection of our society. Cops do not need more money, especially at the expense of libraries.
Eric Adams will never feel shame. He is drawn to decisions that are horrible for society.
The New York Public Library has saved exponentially more lives than the New York Police Department. Fuck all the way off with your fascist mayor.
Be sure to check the URL before clicking on any site to go to Ao3. I noticed today when I searched via Google Chrome that there is a false Ao3 site that comes up as the first result.
It says archiveofour.net
When you go to it, it looks EXACTLY like Ao3, but it is NOT.
When I curiously tapped the search bar, a pop-up opened to direct me elsewhere. I believe this to be a spoof site for the purpose of either phishing or possibly hijacking PCs for mining bitcoin or some other malicious purpose.
I could be wrong. Perhaps it's a proxy site- but the fact that it redirected me to yet another suspicious-looking URL is alarming.
I let a few friends know, but it doesn't appear on every browser. @plague-of-insomnia mentioned using CC and Safari, and it didn't appear for them.
Ya'll be careful, and remember to always check the URL! At first glance, this spoof site is very convincing. If I had been half asleep, I may not have noticed it was different.
Please reblog to make your friends and other fic writers and readers aware!
‘bodily autonomy for some marginalized groups but not all’ will literally never, ever work. the right to abortion and the right to medical transition and the right to engage in gay sex and the right to take birth control are inextricably linked by the core right of bodily autonomy. shooting one kills them all. support others’ bodily autonomy or yours will be taken too
Learning that certain things that you thought were widely accepted at the time actually had a lot of pushback kind of shakes up your perception of the world a little.
Like for example when a lot of people in the 1400s and 1500s read the Malleus Maleficarum, basically the book that set off the trend of witch trials in Europe, they knew it was bad and even called it unethical. And before 1400 most people in Europe didn’t even believe that witches existed. Because most Christians before the 1400s didn’t even believe that magic existed. Because “magic” was thought to come from pagan gods, and, you will note, most monotheists don’t believe that other gods exist. So witches weren’t even something that people thought about.
And when Christopher Columbus was off committing crimes against humanity a bunch of people were like “Hey, this guy is committing crimes against humanity. Someone stop him.” And eventually they did, even if they did stop him far too late. He was fired from his position as governor. He was arrested and banished from Spain. And there were people, both native South Americans and Spaniards, who actively opposed the colonization efforts while they were happening.
The book How to Plan a Crusade goes into detail about how much propaganda and recruiting efforts were needed for each crusade because people didn’t just abandon their lives and ride off into the desert without incentive or convincing, and even then plenty of people thought it was a waste of manpower or (often rightfully!) considered crusaders to be bandits not to be trusted.
When I was growing up in Virginia it was heavily implied that the abolitionist movement was a fringe thing in some Northern states up until just before the Civil war, but no. Apparently it was so large that when Jefferson bought the Louisiana territories there was a push by abolitionist lawmakers to immediately end slavery and provide all freedmen the means to found their own communities in the new territories as a form of reparations, since one of the southern arguments for the continuation of slavery was basically “Well, we’ve treated them so poorly that if we freed them then the damage we did to race relations is so great that coexistence is impossible.”
there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present
In my opinion, Hocus Pocus 2 is a great movie yet I noticed a few plot holes. At first, I thought it was just me nit picking. After all, I had years to study and pick apart the 1st movie. However, perhaps I was too quick to dismiss my instincts. 1 thing that really bugged me is Billy’s story that he only had 1 kiss with Winifred and was NEVER her lover. Well, I think if you consider only 3 points of the movie, you too will believe what I believe, that Billy, not Winifred, is the liar.
I rest my case: the zombie is a tramp! If I missed something or you think I’m wrong and want to come to Billy’s defense I would love to hear from you.
I enjoyed the movie, but it had a ton of inconsistencies with the original film and this is just one of them.
I don’t think Billy is necessarily lying, if he was the only person Winnifred was ever involved with (even if just a kiss in the graveyard), and she considered him her soulmate, it would probably count. He also never denied he was with Sarah, just that he didn’t consider himself to have ever been Winnifred’s lover. To him, it was one kiss 40+ years before his death and probably only one of many, since I’m assuming he did have a relationship with Sarah, but to her it was more. Based on the original film, I thought he was a 45-50 year old man who had a affair with two much older women (they were clearly at least in their 80s, if not older at the beginning of the first movie), so the whole backstory in the second film didn’t make much sense to me, though it was fun.
The holy ground thing wouldn’t have affected Winnie or her sisters pre-practicing magic. The magic of the first film is clearly a lot different and based on historical depictions of magic being caused by a deal with Satan, which is why they can’t step on holy ground. The sequel only keeps the holy ground part, but bases the magic more in a modern conception of magic, so it doesn’t really make as much sense to me, but I assume it would be specifically practicing dark magic.
