Who We Were Then: a The Society fanfiction

persona 5 stage plays my beloved

he definitely fucks but there’s no way he fucks normal

I know you probably meant like BDSM but I'm just imagining cartwheels and circus music

reeve carney’s career is fascinating. he wrote a song for twilight. he played the boyfriend in taylor swift’s i knew you were trouble music video. he starred in infamous broadway flop spider-man: turn off the dark. he starred in broadway hit hadestown. what will the man do next!

If y’all don’t know, Lilly Wachowski is one of the Wachowski sisters, the women who directed and wrote the matrix, the movie that the whole “red pill, blue pill” thing comes from. Both sisters are trans women.

Both sisters are also horribly racist ❤️

Both Wachowski siblings also did NOT write the matrix....they stole the Matrix story from a black woman named Sophia Stewart who actually sued Warner Bros, the Wachowkskis, and Paramount for stealing it. Nobody gives a shit if Lily or her colonizing sister feelings are hurt about shit they didn’t even originate or write in the first place.

Hey, I've seen a bunch of people share this who have no idea it's BS.

Don't get scammed.

Don't spread hoaxes and myths.

This "the Wachowski Sisters stole the Matrix" thing is based on a lawsuit that was dismissed in 2004. The judges explanation of dismissal is nearly 60 pages detailing each claim and Sophia Stewart was never awarded copyright ownership of these franchises and never won any element of the case. It isn't an ongoing lawsuit and the story is often used by folks as a fundraising scam.

The same story was going around when I was in highschool more than 10 years ago, nearly word for word I swear, just change the most recent/upcoming court dates. If I found what was circulating back then it wouldn't surprise me if the reference numbers were the same.

The above image looks like its giving references, but is it? In which court were these actions filed by the plaintiff? How is anybody supposed to check this?

This is simply not true. It takes advantage of the fact that the intellectual property of poc is routinely stolen, it takes advantage of a community that wants justice for that, and it creates a climate of doubt... there is real work being stolen, but this isn't it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sophia-stewart-matrix-lawsuit/

https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/22/inside-the-billion-dollar-matrix-lawsuit-one-of-the-internets-most-pervasive-hoaxes/

https://blackexcellence.com/sophia-stewart/

https://everything-pr.com/urban-legends-busted-sophia-stewart/

Seriously... this scam is spreading so fast. I've seen 4 people I follow reblog it today! I don't don't know how many since I wrote the above response.

Fact check!! Maybe spread this instead.

It really doesn't take long to fact check. But here are some links to make that easy.

This Sophia Stewart scam seems to be picking up traction again so I'll share this again.

I am going to preface this by saying that it is, in theory, possible for Sophia Stewart to be mentally ill and still have had her work stolen. It's also possible for her to be mentally ill and capable of intentionally lying! Regardless, it is pretty clear from her court filings and interviews that she is extremely mentally ill, a liar, or both.

Some claims that Sophia Stewart has made:

(I am taking this mostly from the October 2, 2018 Knowledge Fight episode "Matrix Schemes and Billions in Liens," but I also looked up her original court case and found the archived version of the Black Excellence article on her, if you want to check my work.)

It's so easy to make some of you believe trans people are scheming liars huh

just curious as they're always things i've never questioned just doing but people in my life are often surprised that i don't mind doing them alone

🔁 pls reblog for sample size

does anyone have that one painting with the ghosts standing in the water?

like theyre in the water and they’re staring off to the side and there’s something so very wrong about it and they’re bending over and trailing along like deer in the headlights but you can’t see what they’re staring at which might make it even scarier

like this

I FUCKING FOUND IT.

beach day beach day

by the way, the artist is olivia steen (website linked above) and apparently, her other works are just as breathtakingly eerie

look at this!!! it’s cool as hell!!

I thought the last one was very familiar to me and turns out it’s painted over a photo of john lennon !

and after looking at the first one again it is also, a beatle photo

Not going to lie the first picture like the ghost on the water It kinda is referenced on the one picture where the Beatles are in Miami for the Help! shooting I dont have the picture but it really looks like! Especially the bending ghost resembles Ringo and The other Picture where the ghost is sitting down I also remember so much remember that that picture is Brian Epstein sitting I also don’t have the picture cause I cant fine IT aaaaa HAHAH

Now THIS is some fucking forbidden fandom lore lmao

ETA THIS IS THE ONE!!!!

the fundamental tension between wanting to dissociate modes of dress from gender and people wanting to use modes of dress to signify their gender so they don't have to play the Pronoun Game

There was a trans girl I used to follow on tumblr, who I think is no longer here but might have just changed her name and I lost track

who commented on how it was easier to pass in Utah than it was in San Francisco. In Utah people were like "wearing a dress, has earrings, must be a girl, check!" Whereas in SF people would pass her on the street and say "hey man, nice dress!"

Are you people seriously implying Utah is better than California for trans women

reading comprehension website

I wonder how well an "It's just an empty box" episode of Game Changer would go. Just a series of challenges that look fucking suspicious as hell but with absolutely nothing more than face value about them. Then you just have Sam act suspicious the entire episode and see where things go from there. Ideas I have are:

This has been my pitch for "Give Brennan an ulcer 2024."

I think it's unfair that dressing boys in maid outfits is more popular than dressing girls in butler outfits. There should be solidarity and equality.

this is the one meme that manages to age like a fine wine

asserting to the women at this party that i am in touch with my feminine side by eating from the crudités platter

asserting to the women at this party that i am an intellectual by referring to it as a "crudités platter," and not a "vegetable platter"

asserting to the women at this party that i am humble and honest by publicly and openly googling the word "crudités" and playing a How-To-Pronounce video over my phone's speakers at full volume beforehand

asserting to the women at this party that i am heterosexual by avoiding the baby carrots that look too much like a penis

asserting to everyone at this party that i am open to new experiences by eating the baby carrots that look somewhat like a penis

Making a weighted velvet baikal seal plushie :3

Head and tail end are stuffed w ultra plush fiber fill and the bulk of the body is packed full of weighted pellets that have a nice crunchy sound when you squeeze it. Not weighed yet, but it feels between 1.5 - 2lbs?

She doesn't even have her mouth and flippers yet!!!! She's fucking embarrassassed...

Smelling you

Finished! My mom named her Beans this morning lol.. She's around 1.2lbs and soppingly pitiful

everybody loves beans

@junequeer

my fave greek history story to tell is that of agnodice. like she noticed that women were dying a lot during childbirth so she went to egypt to study medicine in alexandria and was really fucking good but b/c it was illegal for women to be doctors in athens she had to pretend to be a man. and then the other doctors noticed that she was 10x better than them and accused her of seducing and sleeping with the women patients. like they brought her to court for this. and she just looked at them and these charges and stripped in front of everyone like “yeah. im not fucking your wives” and then they got so mad that a woman was better at their jobs then them that they tried to execute her but all her patients came to court and were like “are you fucking serious? she is the reason you have living children and a wife.” so they were shamed into changing the law and that is how women were given the right to practice medicine in athens

Yeah, this isn’t some Greek myth story about a hero or demigod or something, Agnodice was a real person who actually did this.

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

Note: this is made significantly worse by the way search engines have now been sabotaged by their creators to both prioritise revenue and popularity over accuracy, and to replace your search terms with what “most other people” have been searching