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🔹When reading or watching fiction, you always have the power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.

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🔹Don't like? Don't read.

THIS!

we DO grow old and happy. btw.

And you find love and it stays with you.

Older women are so, so beautiful, and older trans women are no exception. Celebrate the beauty of our elders! Celebrate trans beauty!

^^^

bat opens up their little bat wallet to find they are all out of moths. A worthless $100 bill flies out for emphasis

From top-of-frame, a month flutters into the wallet. Confused, the bat looks "up" to see an equally-confused human standing "above" her, holding an open wallet containing a single $100 bill.

Camera rotates to reveal bat has been hanging upside down above a human doing the exact same visual gag and each ruined the other's bit.

Laugh track.

Obsessed with the fact that it’s Jon Arbuckle

Atlantis: The Lost Empire concept art x

I need them to interact for personal reasons 💙

List of Palestinian Evacuation And Support Fundraisers

Last Update: 05/09/2024

All fundraisers have been looked into by me or vetted by others. If anyone notices issues in validity with any of the fundraisers listed please let me know. Funding updates daily!

Fadi Al-Sharif and family ($17,031/$62,500 goal)

Hayam Taha and family (€11,568/€30,000 goal)

Deyaa and family (€10,509/€20,000 goal)

Fatima Alshanti (kr16,840 SEK/kr150,000 goal)

Shahed Ghazi and family ($9,395 CAD/$94,838 goal)

Little Yusuf and family (€11,927/€85,000 goal)

Sara & Huda Hajjaj and family ($7,105/$15,000 goal)

Mohammed JH Shamia's family (kr29,373 SEK/kr250,000 goal)

Maram Ahmed and family (€2,590/€30,000 goal)

Hamza Almofty and family ($4,817/$35,000 goal)

Mahmoud Jomaa (€2,256/€10,000 goal)

Dr. Mohammed Shara ($1,761/$20,000 goal)

Abdulrahman Alshanti and family (kr143,135 SEK/kr350,000 goal)

Besan Almabhouh's family (€7,253/€25,000 goal)

Said Tanani and brothers (€33,197/€50,000 goal)

Donia Tanani and family (€71,697/€100,000 goal)

Hussein Shamiya, his pregnant wife, and son ($11,495/$40,000 goal)

Mohammed Shamia and family ($21,346/$35,000 goal)

Amro Bakr & kids Bakir and Tala (€5,070/€15,000 goal)

Almadhoun family ($19,752/$80,000 goal)

Child Mohammed (€15,609/€20,000 goal)

Sana'a and family (£22,700/£50,000 goal)

Noha Ayyad and family ($26,605/$95,160 goal)

Maryam Ayyad and family ($1,000/$15,000 goal) - Maryam is related to Noha listed above, who is managing her fundraiser.

Hamza Sameer and family ($3,993/$55,000 goal)

Hamza is related to Noha, he is her uncle’s son.

Nazmi Mwafi and family ($6,143/65,000 goal)

Ibrahim Almofty and family ($6,000/$40,000 goal)

Hamdi Hejazi and family ($16,644/$25,000 goal)

Mohammed and family ($8,911/$25,000 goal)

Heba and family (€42,552/€60,000 goal)

Mohammed Abuhasanein and family (kr7,149 SEK/kr 350,000 goal!!!)

Rawan and Yemna (kr29,858 SEK/kr319,315 goal)

Laila Auda (€5,505/€35,000 goal)

Ola Madi (€973/€40,000 goal!!!)

Tawfik Satoom and family ($5,375/$45,000 goal)

Laila Abd El Bari, her husband, and unborn baby Sham (€2,355/€25,000 goal)

Abdullah Mohammed and family ($4,206/$47,000 goal)

Ruba Abushaban and family (€7,404/€50,000 goal)

Hala, her husband, and their daughter ($4,958 CAD/$50,000 goal)

Hoda and Abdul Rahman ($1,621/$18,000 goal)

Al Maghari family (£1,913/£74,000 goal)

Arwa Abudawaba and family (kr230,774/kr500,000 goal)

Hani Alhajjar’s family (€10,094/€50,000 goal)

Ouda family ($16,046 CAD/$50,000 goal)

Rawan Ahmed and family ($7,264/$40,000 goal)

Dr. Wael Eldahdouh's family (€3,351/€110,000 goal)

Abdullah Lulu and family ($2,196/$6,000 goal)

Lara, Abdalla, and family (€6,891/€50,000 goal)

Firas Salem and family (€6,592/€20,000 goal)

Amal Abu Shammala's family (€38,036/€47,000 goal)

Dr. Mohammed Alshaer and family (€2,949/€18,000 goal)

Roqaya Al-Hayek and Mohammad Jamal Al-Hayek (€12,653/€25,000 goal)

Haya and family (€3,070/€60,000 goal)

First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this

So one of the cool and interesting ways ‘Steven Universe’ used to try and balance being both a series of 11-minutes episodes that each have their own satisfying emotional resolution and being an overarching story with complicated character arcs that take multiple seasons to resolve is the… I’m going to call it the ‘Not Quite Right Lesson’ episodes. Episodes where a character kinda learns a Very Important Lesson… but a more careful and retrospective look at the situation shows that what they learned is not Quite the Right Thing for them. They internalized something in that adventure which just ended up causing more Emotional Troubles for themselves farther down the line.

‘The Test’ is the most classic example. 

As a standalone thing, it’s just a sweet episode about Steven learning to accept that his caretakers are also flawed and confused and figuring this shit up as they’re going along just like he is, and then doing a nice thing for their sake.

But looking back at this episode, it is quite obviously the nadir of Steven appointing himself as the Family Therapist and repressing all of his problems so he could better help the Gems’ with theirs. Like, there have been some early warning signs for this Complex, but this episode is the one that really cemented that idea in his mind and probably the reason it took him like the Entire Rest of the Show Including a Post-Finale Season to really untangle it.

But… also, I’ve been thinking a lot about the episode right after that, ‘Future Vision’. I think it’s also a very important ‘Not Quite Right Lesson Episode’ for the character of Garnet, and to some extent, the Crystal Gems as a whole. In many ways, it is to the CGs' character arcs' what 'the Test' is to Steven's.

So in this episode, Garnet reveals to Steven the fact that she has Future Vision. She hoped that telling Steven a little bit more about herself and being honest with him will lead to a greater understanding and a greater bond between them… but it backfired. It just led Steven to become a total paranoid, terrified wreck stuck in a total existential crisis.

And it seems like the lesson Garnet learned is that… she should’ve never taken that risk at all. That it would’ve been better for everyone if she just kept Steven ignorant of the truth forever.

Extremely reinforced with the ending of the episode, where Garnet chooses to once again hide an uncomfortable truth (that he just came very close to dying again) from Steven, for the sake of his own ‘peace of mind’.

So, like, the Gems were already hiding uncomfortable truths from Steven since day one. “If you could only know what we really are” and all of that. But I think… With the actual truth of Homeworld encroaching on them more and more at this point of the story arc, this would’ve been a great time for the Gems to reconsider their attitude and actually Explain to Steven What the Hell is Going On. 

But instead, I think Garnet saw the events of ‘Future Vision’ as a reinforcement of the idea that there’s just some things Steven is Better Off Not Knowing. Actually being frank with him about Homeworld and the Diamonds and the War right there and then, that would have just overwhelmed Steven with fears and worries and would’ve ended up doing nothing but hurting him. And Garnet can’t accept that possibility, not again.

And so, Garnet, alongside Amethyst and Pearl, keep all these truths from Steven as long as possible. Only revealing bits of information when they have to. For Amethyst it’s about her emotionally-evasive attitude (also, she legit doesn’t know all of that stuff herself). For Pearl it’s about how she learned to romanticize Rose’s own fucked-up obsession with secrets. For Garnet, with her usually very direct attitude and preference for the most straightforward solutions, I think it’s very much the events of ‘Future Vision’ that were still playing in her head every time she had the choice to actually Explain something to Steven and decided not to. 

But that, indeed, was Not Quite the Right Lesson. While being bluntly and directly told by Garnet all about the Many Ways He Could Die caused Steven to go into an anxiety spiral and an existential crisis for an episode - the way the Gems have been consistently secretive and evasive with Steven ended up causing him so much more emotional grief to him in the long run. As all of these secrets ended up revealed to him in the most surprising, dramatic and traumatizing way possible.

And the secretive attitudes ended up driving a wedge between Steven and the Gems. 

Even after they promised to be more honest with him. Because the sight of Steven crying on the roof that day is one that Garnet can easily move away from. Because Garnet’s Not Quite Right Lesson was almost as difficult for her to unlearn as Steven’s own. 

But after the big confrontation at the start of the Zoo Arc, Garnet ended up being the most upfront about the Crystal Gems’ history. Almost overeager to share what she knows about the past.

I mean also, again, Amethyst just has less to tell and Pearl is hiding secrets for reasons beyond her control - but I think it’s also important to consider from the perspective of Garnet’s arc.

Because the fallout of the Pink Diamond Reveal is very much centered around Garnet (or, well, Ruby and Sapphire). That was the Truth that was hidden from her 'for her own good'. And at the end of the day, despite all the grief that unveiling that truth has caused

It has also brought them, all of them, a lot closer.

There's a reason why 'the Truth' is Garnet's Final Missing Piece in the movie. It is as central to her character arc in the series as Lesbian AngstTM grief over lost love is to Pearl.

And still, some remnants of the Trauma of 'Future Vision' remained...

After all, even the very last episode of 'Future' was centered around the Gems once again trying to hide things from Steven (at that case, their turmoil about him leaving) for his own sake

Even though it once again just caused Steven a whole lot of grief.

It's maybe notable that at the end of this episode, Garnet, once again, tells Steven what's waiting for him in his Future...

Happy trot

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The spirit of Diogenes is alive and well

This is funny, obviously, but even if you don't go to the extreme of the example above, this is a separate seat for one person, with a back and 4 legs:

But it's not a chair. It's a bar stool.

This, however, are all chairs:

Each one is missing at least one component of the chair definition above.

So like... it's almost like strict definitions are exclusionary.

Reblog to hit a transphobe with a separate seat for one person

Reblog to hit a

transphobe with a separate

seat for one person

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

i tried the “ask your mom what she would do if you were a bug” trend

asked my dad too

“Attracted to them books” LMFAOOOO

@carrie-frances​ im screaming 

girl help i’m having creation ideas above my skill level

girl help i'm having creation ideas above my motivation level

girl help I’m having creation ideas above my free time level

Ooooh apparently it starts tonight so here's some important advice for people watching Eurovision this week!!

1.) Don't.

"there are only two sexes, it's literally third grade biology!" and pronouns are taught in kindergarten and you dont seem to understand those either

ok its literally this

this is why, when someone tells me "there are only two sexes, it's basic biology!" my favorite response is to ask "what, you never made it to advanced biology?" like don't load the gun and then hand it to me lmao

you. yes. you get it

Babe, you okay? you reblogged “and we were nice to each other” like 12 times again

i drew this comic more than 10 years ago :) couldnt even tell u who i was thinking of now cuz i hardly remember… cant believe it resonated with so many people!!!