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The creator of these images is Matt Bernstein, one of my favorite educators online -- he makes incredibly clear, forceful collections of information like this one. He's queer, has fantastic nails, and has done a lot of education recently from his perspective as a Jewish person on why supporting Palestine is so important. Here's a link to this post, which he created for World AIDS Day on 12/1/23.
Sokka's girlfriend looked great today.
dude the abyss is totally gazing back at you. she obviously wants you. go over there and talk to her! get her number
i’m so much more than just a hater. i’m also a lesbian.
soup de jour: soup of the day
soup de jure: soup the government wants you to eat
soup de facto: the soup everyone actually eats
soup de resistance: a very impressive and popular soup emerges...
soup d'etat: ousting the previous soup of the day and installing your own
soup de grace: execution of the deposed soup of the day
soup descartes: who give a shit
@docholligay vibes
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ALSO i drew my best piece to date but absolutely cant share it with anyone ever because its super self indulgent and explicit
I just wanted to say, I’m really proud of my progress over the last month. The last couple of years have been challenging for a few different reasons, but as of right now I’m tracking my calories, on track for going to the gym 4 times this week, starting a new ttrpg game, and killin’ it at work and in my relationship and with my friends.
Sometimes its easy to get discouraged that you’re not where you want to be, but you cant forget to celebrate the huge changes as they’re coming along the way too!
am i the only one who feels like this
Magical girls be like "I'm gonna save the world" then only save the lesbian they like and leave the rest of the world to burn
As they should
Okay so there's been something I've been chewing on for the past couple of days. The sentiment of "tumblr lacks critical thinking/reading comprehension" is not exactly an uncommon one, but I want to give context to one example of what that means and why it's to people's detriment to approach life in this way.
Let's take the age old "I, tumblr user, don't consume media that is impure and also by extension judge people who do" sentiment that runs rampant here.
What is actually the basis of this idea? Where does this come from? I think it originates from the notion that consuming "good" media is an action condoned and encouraged by society, mostly. We all want to be consumers of "good" things. Similarly, we want the things we like to be celebrated and liked by other people because it's a form of social acceptance.
But here's the rub - "Good" and "Bad" are words and abstractions that carry with it MULTIPLE meanings of varying nuance.
I often see people who cannot distinguish between the three (or alternatively, deliberate obfuscate the meanings with the intention of winning public opinion) and paint their subjects with one overall "Good" brush. It's an over-simplication, where to be good means all three: "I like it = It is of high quality = It is Morally Good".
That's just not inherently true - it CAN be true, something can be "good" in all the ways described above, but just because something meets the definition of "good" in one of those definitions, it does not mean that it is universally "good".
Something can be good meaning I like it and also be Bad as in it is of low quality.
Something can be Bad as in I dislike it or it's morally suspect, but be Good in terms of being high quality and relevant (an aside, watch Tar if you haven't, it's a great movie about artistry and the notion of "can terrible people do great things"). And we have to be okay with that.
These truths are not contradictory and often exist in parallel with each other. Sometimes, the worst person you know will be right. Sometimes, someone you think is overall good will will produce something shitty. You have to be okay with that, because denying this reality will absolutely inhibit your ability to not only understand society, affect your self esteem and self identification, but it will ACTIVELY contribute to you dehumanizing your enemies.
Where have we seen "I dislike a thing" lead to "It's Bad (as in evil)"? Insert any example of censorship you can think of, up to and including the entire state of Texas trying it's hardest to ban drag on the grounds of "it's morally evil because [insert moral evil acting as a fearmongering device here]".
Lacking the ability and the desire to distinguish between the three will lead to terrible arguments and disingenuous bad faith assertions, but mostly, it limits your ability to understand and experience life and see the whole picture.
"can i be mean for a second?" you can be mean for 10,000 years and i'll hang onto your every word, my queen. my goddess
Me and @sailorsunspot chatting while our women are busy being good people.
Girl are you the Hays Code the way you consider media irredeemable if it depicts anything that strays away from the norm you're comfortable with or depicts anything morally questionable without definitively condemning it and anyone associated with it, therefore creating worse stories and content and making it difficult for people to engage with complicated issues from a nuanced and controlled perspective?
t*ylor sw*ft is calling her new album “poems of a tortured artist” and i’m like oh are you? while there’s a genocide going on? while hospitals are being bombed and people are being killed? are you tortured writing those songs on either of your private jets or one of your eight houses with one of the biggest fanbases in the world who defend you tooth and nail no matter what? are you tortured??????
this is so disingenuous, lol. i know we're on the taylor oversaturation/hate train but c'mon.
Make fun of her because she's cringy as fuck for the stupid album title, up her own ass about her shit, or you dislike her music or her vibes, whatever.
what is going on in gaza is a global tragedy. why are you trying to equate her using a common creative trope that has been around for eons (the 'tortured artist') in her silly pop music as a indictment of her moral character. do you not see how stupid that is? the slippery slope it becomes?
and like literally why xena warrior princess was so good is because they COULDNT acknowledge the relationship openly so they would have bonkers yonkers moments like xena & gabrielle getting crucified side by side and you FELT it. you KNEW they were in love. but nobody goes to these absurd lengths anymore they just have their gays kiss on the lips and expect us to applaud and its so cheap and weaksauce
I think the problem is that I want to write GOOD things instead of writing anything at all, and I think that's kind of a mistake or at least i think it's not helping me. In any case, I've decided I'm going to write BAD things. Do y'all remember the choose your own adventure novels from the 70s and 80s? No, because so many of your are in class with my daughter fingerpainting, but trust me they were always bad. They were always bad! So I'm writing something like that, and it's going to be bad, or maybe accidentally good, but I don't fucking care which. I'm going to add onto it every month, and you can play along if you like. After every segment it'll basically ask the audience what we do next via a poll. Enjoy. Or hate. I gotta do something and this is something. The perfect is the enemy of the good and the good is the enemy of the accomplished. It's a haunted house story. OKay.
Some houses are histories in themselves. The story is told, complete, before all witnesses, in the lean of a building, a rough and torn roof, or a well-kept garden with an elm grown old, a bench curved around it. You imagine lives for these houses, even moreso than for the people in them. They are the old men in the pub, they are the spurned spinster, they are the young mother. These bricks and stones and lines of wood contain our tragedies and triumphs and turn them to their own. They are the books of our lives that we cannot write for fear of the honesty.
It was, to the observer, such a house.
femme butch date night
