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Follower cleanse!

Am Yisrael Chai!

Free Palestine from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Give them democracy.

Woman Life Freedom. Free Iran!

Free Ukraine! Russia is a terrorist state.

Free Kurdistan!

Free Sudan!

Free Tibet!

Romani people are still oppressed.

ICE are murderers, and the US immigration system needs to be dismantled entirely.

Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary people are non-binary.

Intersex people deserve to be respected and given proper medical care. And intersex issues need to be discussed in their own context without connecting them to trans people.

Sex work is real work. We need to protect the people who choose to go into sex work while protecting the victims of trafficking. The only way to protect people who want to leave sex work is to protect people who want to be in sex work.

Vaccines are good and should be mandatory with rare, medical exemptions.

People know themselves best and can define their identities best. Don't tell people how they should call themselves. If someone isn't causing active harm, they're fine. Just let people live and stop worrying about he/him lesbians or whatever. Let people choose their own pronouns.

All human beings are equally valuable. All human beings deserve human rights. Yes, even those people.

The second key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that the country is at war having fighter jets flying above citizen's heads, but citizens themselves are too enamored by screen and music and nice simple things to mind them. They don't know who they are fighting against or why or how many people even are involved and they don't care.

And then the bomb levels down the city too busy doing their version of a tiktok dance, shocked that there are such things as the outside world and consequences of politics.

the third key point (related to the first), is that it fahrenheit 451 is not just a warning and critique of censorship. it is a warning and critique of anti-intellectualism that leads to censorship.

and that censorship did not start from the government down

(i wrote a whole essay abt this a couple weeks if anyone is interested btw)

Nothing quite so humbling as struggling to focus long enough to read an essay about why that's a problem.

But, YES!!!

Fahrenheit 451 is less about the evils of government enforced censorship than it is about the dangers of people selecting censorship for themselves in the name of ease or comfort.

Bradbury saw what was happening that long ago. He followed it to its logical conclusion. Now here we are, living the book in a lot of ways. It wasn't any magical foresight, it was simple observation and an ability to recognize patterns.

I read the book for the first time in the 8th grade because of an episode of The Famous Jett Jackson about book banning. Of course I didn't understand it. I was a kid who loved to read, there was no way people would ever choose to let books disappear.

And yet here we are.

The message of the book is that it isn't too late. It's never too late to fix things. Yes, it gets harder the further society lets it advance, but in the end it's a choice you can make at any stage. A lot of people will let themselves take that easy road because it's comfortable, and that's kind of just the human thing to do. Which is why the people who see it have to be LOUD and fight tooth and claw rather than sitting back and assuming people will see sense on their own. Because it's just as much the fault of the educated but complacent as it is the uneducated people who don't understand. More even.

If you recognize the problem then it is absolutely your circus and your monkeys. It's your business to change things. Because there isn't anyone else besides us.

There should be no censorship or restriction on ANY form of media and nothing should be banned

Censorship, "Age ratings" and book bans all come from a central premise of: "Only what I say is okay is okay and only for the people I say can read/watch it"

And the reasons these exist is because controlling the ideas people engage with controls a people

A person who doesn't know what shoes are can't complain about being made to walk around in bare feet

The entire basis of what we call morality or ethics is based on information that we have.

Imagine the far future of a world where the Nazi's won world war II. The people of that future would view things like slavery, the Holocaust, genocide in general, fascism....as good. Not because they were inherently evil...but because they grew up in a world where every source of information they consumed, from history books and academic texts to television shows, books and film would all portray these things as good and anything that disagreed with the point of view that they were good would have been destroyed

To deny someone access to ideas is to deny them their humanity

I'm not saying that everyone should go out and binge read/watch everything regardless of personal taste or comfort

But everyone, everywhere, should absolutely have the OPTION to do so, if they want to do so

And yes, I absolutely include works I find "offensive" on that

Will I call dogshit dogshit?

Absolutely

Will I encourage hatred for works I consider dogshit?

Absolutely. I believe in free speech. i don't believe in LIKING all forms of speech

Would I say that someone deserves to go to jail for writing a book or making a film that I think is offensive or shitty? or that people should be legally prevented from watching/reading anything that I find offensive, bad or shitty?

no

Because I'm not a fucking nazi

UPDATE! They found the original photo!

secret organizations for studying paranormal phenomena are always calling the creatures they find like "specimen 58008" or some fake latin taxonomy or something vague and ominous like "the red angel" or whatever and thats all well and good but i want a story about a bunch of cryptozoologists going around naming things the way people name like actual birds and lizards and shit.

i want to get lost in the woods and meet the ring-tailed tree creeper and roger's false elk. i want a character who is desperate to prove this monster is actually a distinct species from that very similar looking monster so they can name it after themself. i want two field researchers narrowly escaping an encounter with some ten foot tall thing made of carnivorous vines and one of them is like wow wait til the guys back at the lab hear we got that close to a lesser thorn-backed bone eater 🙂 and the other scientist is like.,...... 😰lesser?

thank you for appreciating my boobs calculator joke but the real overlooked gem of this post is rogers false elk. basically this entire post was just an excuse to come up with a hypothetical monster called rogers false elk. its just so pleasing to me. does nobody care him? does nobody but me care for rogers false elk?

some of you weren’t around for the fan fiction dot net purge of 2002 (when they banned explicit content and mass-deleted thousands of fics) and the livejournal purge of 2007 (when they deleted hundreds of blogs, disproportionately targeting queer & kink content) and it shows

this kind of policing is why ao3 was created

remember, kids, the three laws of fandom are:

- don’t like; don’t read

- your kink is not my kink

- ship and let ship

"the grand canyon is just a big hole in the ground" one, yeah it is and that's awesome, and two you know nothing cease speaking immediately

like I can't get too mad because like this is one of those situations where pictures can literally NEVER do it justice but if you've ever actually been there I feel like there is no world in which you could describe what you're seeing as a "big hole in the ground" it does NOT come across like that at all

it's like what if you were looking at the ocean but it wasn't the ocean it was an echo of a river with the immense power of an ocean that no longer is and all the shadows the waves left were made out of unfathomably huge ancient rocks in a painted rainbow of color and all at once you fully understood how big the world is and how small you are and how painfully, achingly long six million years is and what sailors and storytellers meant when they described the edge of the world...

it's like looking at an elder god but it doesn't drive you insane so much as re-contextualize your place in the universe in a weirdly kind and loving way

idk how people can describe that as "just a big hole in the ground" like bro it's everything

it reaches to the horizon and literally that's the crazy part to me. yeah it's a big hole but it's a bigger hole than my town and it's older than the hill i live on. so.

no but LITERALLY like I think people don't get it you can BARELY see the other side even if you're standing right on the edge, it IS the horizon if you're facing it, it's 100% like looking at a large body of water and it DOES THINGS to your brain

The (European) explorers who first encountered it were horrified by it; one called it "the grave of the world." It feels less like a geological feature than a force of nature.

It has different weather systems on the North Rim as opposed to the South Rim. There are small mountains INSIDE IT. It’s 270 miles long just based on the river (not including offshoots), which is the distance between New York City and Virginia Beach. You can’t take a picture of it that does it anything close to justice. If you attempt to cross it without proper preparation and guidance, and probably a mule, you will die. “Hole in the ground” is just not in your vocabulary when you’re there.

YEAH LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!! Also you can do the Rim To Rim hike without a mule(which was a dream of mine before the Chronic Illness hit) and it's actually so popular the campsites at the bottom are booked like 2 years in advance, but yeah you gotta be prepared. I hiked maybe a third of the way down into it once and I s2g I almost died it was intense as fuck. Don't let your hubris get you, this place is like the ocean in that it's gorgeous but it can and will kill you if you don't treat it with respect.

Also yeah like "hole in the ground" is straight up not even in your brain when you look at it. It looks like someone drained the fucking ocean, your brain legit will struggle to perceive it 'cuz it just wasn't made to deal with things that are THAT big, and you can sit there and feel it flounder. It's amazing, I've been here three times, it's legit my favorite place on the entire planet.

Cause I literally cannot stop thinking about my HTTYD D&D Au 🥰 Orcstrid has my WHOLE HEART 😍

So -- here's my contribution to Jewish memes, Magneto memes, Magneto-as-symbol-of-Jewish-rage memes and a scathing contribution to the discourse.

This is the 'angry Jew on Main' version, and also comes with a shout-out to @king-shit-thembo whose sassy textpost about the universalization of the Holocaust inspired both meme sets.

Yes: I am another left-leaning Jew with a lot of rage at how the Left has abandoned and demonized us since October 7th.

עם ישראל חי

(For a lighter version, see this post.)

Eva is a lesbian who has a crush on Leshawna, a bisexual Bahamian and Kenyan woman!

Leshawna is bi and in a relationship with Harold, a panromantic ace!

This is why I love classic Doctor Who

A lot of modern Who writers will have the Doctor be like "No violence is NEVER THE ANSWER"

Meanwhile in Classic Who you have the Doctor casually start a terrorist uprising, overthrow/murder an entire government and then send the puppet ruler of said government off to get the shit kicked out of him at a Space Boarding School just for being a little shit

All with a whimsical smile on his face :D

stopping here for the night, but I HAD to make an cozy follow up to @probably-sketches Tiny Ragatha X Normal Ann trying to make up for bogarting the small comic. The girls are having such quality, weirdly wholesome, time. Feel loved and cared for and safe, you dork <3

A ctrl+c Smolabelle comic, featuring Ragateeny! She’s finally getting the princess treatment she deserves.

//This really got away from me. I was initially just gonna do some doodles, but it turned into a 5 page comic. If I don’t upload it now, I probably never will. I’m happy with it though! Ragatha getting little comfort tingles just puts a smile on my face.

This is so dang precious oh my God! Ann sabotaging the adventure to get this very important gift for Ragatha, Bro Gangle, Ragatha absolutely definitely not doing that on purpose. AND HER LITTLE CONTENT FACE

I love this so much.

Finished :)

Traditional morning cuddles at the Haddock house ❤️

"Magneto can't be a Holocaust survivor! It's been too long!"

"Magneto can't be young and a Holocaust survivor in the new X-Men movie because the Holocaust was too long ago!"

Secondary mutation, functionally immortal. Brought out when he was experimented on in the camps but did not realize until he got older and didn't die or got older and didn't age.

Fixed it. If Emma Frost can turn to diamond, Magneto can be an immortal Holocaust survivor.

No, no. They're right. It was too long ago.

October 7, however was merely three years ago, so—

But October 7 and the Shoah are fundamentally different.

I don't just mean in scale, although that is a crucial element that can't be avoided. I mean in type. I understand that October 7 feels familiar, even if you've not a survivor or even a descendant of one; images so very like October 7 hover at the margins of the Jewish psyche, phantom memories we carry with us everywhere.

But that's precisely why we should be wary. Yes, October 7 was horrific. Yes, it was reminiscent of pogroms and the Shoah.

But there is still an important difference: On October 7, we had an army. We had a state.

In the Shoah, we didn't. We had to plead with the British to send people from the Mandate to die and maybe take down a few Nazis with them. We had to beg the world to maybe consider taking in a few of us threatened most immediately with death, and we had to be rejected. We had to document in excruciating detail how we were being exterminated, and then we had to take that information and try to convince indifferent world governments to act to stop, because we were so very dependent on indifferent world governments.

And that's not true with October 7. October 7 was catastrophic. Horrific. The response devastating.

But it demonstrates rather neatly a few of the promises of Zionism, even as it broke them into so many pieces.

October 7 shows that the world is still indifferent-at-best to our death. But we are not fighting the fight of the doomed. Not anymore.

October 7 shows that Jews may still be unsafe, even today, for being Jewish. But we do not need to beg and plead to be able to go somewhere slightly safer. Not anymore.

October 7 shows that Jewish blood may still be spilled. But not without consequence. Not anymore.

Fucking this!