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The Nice Guys (2016) | Jackson Healy & Holland March | 5,598 words | T

Healy rolls his eyes magnificently. He releases one of March’s ankles to massage his forehead like he’s staving off a migraine. “Jesus, what do you think this is, some kind of shitty porno? I’m trying to have a professional conversation, and you’re over here presenting to me! In heat!” “What the fuck are you talking about, man,” March squawks. “I’m not in heat. This is self-defense! I’m defending myself!”

August, 2026 - This is how a group of Palestinian artists in Gaza are showing their solidarity with Arianna, a Burger King employee in Breinigsville, USA, who was fired for saying “Free Palestine” to a customer after he told her he was from Israel. [video]/[article]

I agree on both these points. It goes to show that some Americans truly only have compassion for other Americans. They will donate tens of thousands of dollars to an American woman who lost her job for standing up for what's right, but apparently they don't actually register that what Arianna stood up for is the right of Palestinians to live their lives free from Zionist occupation, starvation, and genocide!

They don't register that their donations would be much more effective and useful in supporting Arianna's cause if they donated to Palestinian orgs or Palestinians directly. Of course, Arianna is a smart person with a conscience, so she has already pledged to share the donated money with Palestinian families.

If you were moved by Arianna's principled stance of solidarity or the way these incredibly talented Palestinian artists showed their gratitude to her, please consider donating to a grassroots aid org in Gaza, like the Sameer Project, Ele Elna Elak, or the Gaza Municipality.

"actually," i tell my mother, who has responded to my coming-out with linguistically impossible norms of gender, "farsi is a gender-neutral language, so you should not even be able to hold the idea of transphobia in your head, for you lack the symbolic concepts that constitute its precondition". unfazed, she reaches past me for a english-persian dictionary i've failed to conceal. i try to swat it from her hands in a panic: "no! the dictionary is epistemic folly! words are untranslatable! there's nothing for you there!" but she dodges my hands and flips deftly through the pages, stopping on "B", "G", and "T". i claw at her to no avail, watching her eyes widen with her conceptual horizons as she discovers gendered language. she turns her now-baleful gaze to my tearful face and takes a breath. "so does this mean you're gay?"

I do consider Wolverine's interactions with Jean and Scott in the first X-Men movie to be sort of an inverse unicorn hunter scenario. sometimes the unicorn hunts you. aggressively.

the thing is. Logan finally makes one (1) pass at Scott that's so straightforward even Scott can't write it off as homoerotic bickering over Jean, and it sends him into a tailspin. he doesn't even answer he just leaves the room. gracelessly. listen it's 2001 and like, okay, obviously Professor X is gay, Scott knows that, he's fine with it but like. jesus christ. he has enough problems with the whole mutant thing; Scott Summers has not been exploring the lush garden of latent bisexuality. plus he's like SO coupled up with Jean so it doesn't even matter, right? it doesn't even matter and he never had to think about this again, except he does and he's dating a telepath (FUCK) and she Knows something is up and he can't brush it off forever so he tries (fails) to casually bring it up. haha hey Jean you know I always thought Logan had a bit of a crush on you, but I think he tried coming onto me the other day, can you believe it? ("I think he tried coming onto me" here means "he offered to suck my dick with all the subtlety you'd expect from a man who's very popular in truck stop bathrooms," btw.) and Jean Grey, the Dark Phujoshi herself, cannot hide that this is huge for her. this solves so many of her problems. she's salivating and Scott can see it and she's realizing too late oh no Scott was Not into it like that, abort mission hard. except he saw how excited she was for a split second before she got a lid on it, so he knows, and she knows he knows, and he know she knows he knows. and now Scott can't Stop thinking about it, and the more he tries to not think about it the more he does, vicious cycle, and he keeps having these dreams about. well. what if. what if I did let him suck me off a little. which Jean knows about, obviously, because she's a telepath (FUCK). so she knows. and he knows she knows. and she must know that he knows she knows. but neither of them are saying anything about it, just sweating it out while Logan continues to slut around the school in a white tank top pretending he's not playing six dimensional mind game chess to land the plane on this threesome.