There these seemingly contradictory societal double binds that are used to enforce conformity.
Example: A Lesbian is told that “everyone is actually bi” while a bisexual woman is told to “pick a side”. Seems contradictory but really they just want us to be straight lmao.
Another one: A woman who does not perform womanhood to society’s standard is not a real woman vs. You can never change the gender you were born with. One is butchphobic/anti gnc women, the other is transphobic. Clearly both enforce transmisogyny.
The insidious thing is that these double binds also foster inter community division. Its easy to hear one side of these, for example: “everyone is a little bi” and assume that means bisexuality is more accepted. But on the other side bisexual people are getting the same shit.
None of these are contradictory when you realize that bigots simply don’t want lgbtq+ to exist at all.
I think if you’re not prepared for the answer, “I’m not working because I’m disabled,” you shouldn’t be asking people what they do for work. Sorry not sorry. It’s not fair to ask the question and then get all flustered and weird when you get the answer.
i’m seeing a lot of new ppl join tumblr who aren’t making any spontaneous semi pathetic, oversharing personal textposts whatsoever and i just want to say you’re doing it all wrong… this is not like instagram like meant to be some shiny highlight reel used to make u look good its supposed to be an incriminatingly revealing dark intimate look into your life & inner psyche while simultaneously no one knows who u are or gives a fuck… anyway hope this helps some of u get on the right track
Remember to keep your chin up fellow pawns!! One day we will all be queens!
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ah shit looks like i have to sacrifice this pawn
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you can’t do this to me
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DNI if you support black side/white side shipping!! We’re supposed to be enemies and this is incredibly problematic!
👑black-qween
I will continue kissing that white lesbian no matter what you say
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rate the fit
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🤴black-king
MY WIFE HAS BEEN CHEATING ON ME WITH THE WHITE QUEEN??
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AND EVERYONE HAS KNOWN????? WHAT
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y’all ever wonder why we’re even fighting? like we’ve been fighting for years now and do we even know why?
🤴white-king
castle me, boy
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yeah ok
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Remember to praise the King every day 🙏🙏🙏 God bless
🏇nighty-knight
your blog name is misspelled
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hey wait a god damn minute
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across board heritage post
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“average pawn gets promoted 360,000 times in their sleep” wrong. average pawn gets promoted 0 times in their sleep. promotion georg is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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wow guys i now have two posts with over a thousand notes
The left never radicalized, the center has just been dragged further and further right until we became radical by not moving.
When I was 10 I asked my dad to explain politics to me and when he was done with his shockingly nuanced description of the American bipartisan system he asked me how I would structure the government if it was up to me. I described a world where everyone was paid what they needed, had a house, and enough food. He said, “Void-juice that’s great, but you should know most people call that communism”.
I’ve told this story on here before but @void–juice’s story made me think of it again…
My dad worked for NASA and he did a lot of work on the telescopes that went up in the late 90s/early 2000s. I was a curious kid and I knew his work really mattered to my dad so I was always asking about when things were getting launched. Often the answer was “we’re waiting on Congress for funding” or similar. And one time… I was probably about 10 years old, I said “well… I guess that makes sense. I’m sure going to space is one of the most expensive things we do.”
And my dad looks at me… I’ll never forget the look on his face. He goes “What do you think the most expensive thing we do as a country is?”
And I hemmed and I hawed because I was sure it wasn’t the space program even though I was sure that had to be in the top three. My first guess was education. Everyone had to go to school. Nope. Roads? Bridges? Cars were everywhere. Nope. What about… things like electricity? Phone lines? Cable? Nope.
“The military. By a factor of ten at least.”
I was gobsmacked. It was peacetime (at least by most reckoning… this was post-Gulf War and well before 9/11). What the hell was the military doing being so expensive if we weren’t doing anything with it?
So that was the moment I became a “radical.” Because that was absolutely stupid and continues to be.
KID WROTE “MPREG VORTEX” ON THEIR DOODLE PAD AT LUNCH CLUB
I ASKED THEM TO PUT IT AWAY
ANOTHER KID MUST HAVE SMELLED MY HORROR
ASKED “MS DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS”
SAMANTHA YOU ARE THIRTEEN WHY DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS
@too-many-muses I went full on startled prey mode 😭 I froze, shook my head way too quickly and then started aggressively cleaning the whiteboard lmaooo
don’t you fucking DARE I cannot go down in history as the omegaverse teacher
I know for a fact that they think tumblr is dead as they have told me I look like used to have tumblr before it disappeared lmao
steven is a really funny character actually. he never went to school. one of his powers is astral projection for no real reason. hes a musical prodigy. he was so traumatized by the end of the show they had to make an entire epilogue series about it. he spent seven years looking like a 3rd grader. he was even bisexual
he went to the center of the earth. he saved the world in flip flops. he broke his bones every day and didnt even notice. he killed someone
he didn’t have a bellybutton. he actively chose to eat super crispy bits of potato that got left in the deep fryer. he lived in a house but his dad lived in a car within walking distance of his house. he could revive people from the dead. all of his clothes were concert merchandise. he had an outdoor washing machine. he was put on trial for murder. he broke both federal and state child labor laws
The murder he was on trial for was different than the murder he committed
The murder he went on trial for was a murder his mom committed. The victim of the murder was also his mom.
The truth is most people think being disabled is a death sentence but instead of advocating for disabled people they r convinced that they’ll never become disabled as if being disabled is some biblical punishment. Guess what? Accidents happen. You will get old and your body will stop working like it used to. Imagine if we live in a world where disability is seen as normal. Where we actually take care of each other.
Also I don’t think we have as many abled body people in the world as we think. I think many people are so terrified of being disabled that they r willing overwork themselves to prove they can do it. Many people deal with chronic pain and physical health issues in silence. Because they don’t want to be burden. I think we should be burden to each other and i think labor should be shared.
thinking about how 4chan users overuse of the slur ‘fag’ to refer to each other eventually mutated into the word functioning more like a suffix used to denote a callsign, ’[identifying detail]-fag’, in lieu of people identifying each other by names, and how because of this gay guys would refer to themselves themselves as 'gayfags’ when they needed to clarify that they were indeed actually gay when referring to themselves as faggots
Neglected children will sometimes go ‘okay time to dangerously deteriorate to see if anyone cares about me’ and then if nobody does, they don’t know how to stop deteriorating on their own, they’ll need help to pick themselves back up.
And if that help doesn’t arrive, they’ll conclude ‘I was right to destroy myself in a world where nobody cares for me anyway, why should I live at all’ and it sets them on a miserable life path where all they see is chances for self destruction and proof of nobody caring, and from the very start it’s not their fault at all.
Because someone should notice when a kid starts losing themselves and step up and help. Children are not meant to know how to take care of themselves in an environment where they’re neglected, ignored and uncared for. Putting them in such an environment then blaming them for deteriorating is absolutely ridiculous. It takes paying attention and realizing when something is wrong and pulling a kid out of the black hole they’re falling into, before they can no longer crawl their way out on their own.
It’s not acceptable to let children deal with abandonment and neglect all on their own, and expect them to not grow up miserable, resentful, struggling, and doing harm to themselves. It’s the same harm we never stopped them from doing when they were kids, when they needed to know that someone would care if they’re hurt. If we want functional and healthy adults in the society, we have to notice what is going on with the kids and make sure they’re helped in time.
yknow it’s a real shame that romans didn’t have access to australia specifically for augury reasons. i really wish i could have seen a roman augur have to deal with australian birds. like imagine trying to properly interpret an omen from a fuckin. cassowary
loving that the general consensus here is that “the omen when you see a cassowary is that you are about to die of cassowary”
The cassowary evaluates your innards, not the other way around
Thank you to everyone who has helped me fundraise for my friend! ALL PROCEEDS from my shop go to help my Palestinian best friend support his loved ones. I don’t anticipate any of my new designs getting approved until after the weekend, so in the meantime I’ll start the weekend by sharing what has sold so far this week:
Stickers:
Notebooks:
Shirts:
Magnets:
Pins:
Greeting Cards:
You can find all my designs here. Redbubble will display them with a random product, click on it to see all product options (shirts, stickers, bags, hats, etc).
the ability to say “i dont have a tiktok” in social situations makes me feel so powerful. like the general reaction is “shock, confusion, then this weird ‘thats probably a good thing’ response” its so fun
the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman
but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything
What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.
I cannot stress enough that this is literally the plot of an actual episode
I would like to point out, that I only found out yesterday the Goat girl is the animator of this video and the rat is her husband. In case you wanted some context.
anytime im playing on a TF2 server and i want to throw it into chaos I ask “which merc do you think would make the best husband?” it doesn’t matter if the server is filled with straight men. everyone has a very strong opinion on this.
Your Honor, OP tossed a live grenade in on purpose.
man why do white people have to appropriate our guys its not like y'all dont have your own guys
[shaking a little bucket full of european folklore] you want some tatzelwurm??? i think i have some tarand in here too… maybe if youre lucky theres a vampire or a werewolf left!
[seeing some European dipass eyeing up the bucket behind me labeled “Indigenous folklore” greedily] My folklore is too strong for you, colonizer. My folklore would kill you, colonizer. You cannot handle my folklore.
hi your tags are absolutely 100% correct! if you want to read about this there is a really cool book called “playing indian” by phil deloria that talks about this exact phenomenon!
By capitalism and “progress” yes, but I would argue the biggest reason is white supremacy. Cause the thing about it is that to be white is to not really be anything else. Because to identify as anything other than a White American was to invite losing the white privilege.
Over and over, people in my family history had an identity, but that identity marked them as an immigrant. And all the opportunities and privilege of whiteness was right there. All they had to do was not let people know they were immigrants.
And so I don’t speak German. Nor does my family have Soda Bread. The folklore and food and values and Culture are gone and all I inherited was whiteness. And yeah, world’s tiniest violin, but sometimes I mourn it. And I wonder what it must be like, to inherit something other than cruelty.
okay, there are many legitimate reasons to dislike disney, but can we please stop using “disney tells stories based on folktales!!11!!!” as one of them? pretty please, with cherries?
Why is this not a legitimate reason? Isn’t it sad, to see all the most iconic and familiar-to-most-children forms of folk tales be under copyright?
…The problem isn’t that Disney makes stories based on folktales, though. Honestly, I don’t think the problem is even the copyright. (Though that sure doesn’t help.) The problem is that Disney has the brand recognition and the deep pockets to freeze out anyone else who tries.
I know, it’s a subtle distinction. I’m going to use dolls as an example, because Special Interest Hell. Bear with me for a second.
A while back, Mattel made a doll line called Ever After High. Ever After High had a gimmick- it was a doll line based on fairy tales, but instead of being based directly on the fairy tale characters themselves, it was based on their children. This meant that they could create iconic and memorable designs for the characters without being accused of ripping off Disney’s designs.
This is an original “basic” Ever After High doll:
The dolls are almost fully articulated- they have 360 degree head rotation, articulated shoulders, elbows, wrists, and knees. Their costume designs are complicated, often featuring multiple layers of fabric and lots of accessories. Each doll came with a stand, a hairbrush, and a bookmark that told their “story”. They retailed for $16.99.
The dolls came in two factions: “Royals” (the children of heroes) and “Rebels” (the children of villains). Each one had a backstory and a motivation, and they had an accompanying webseries that told those stories.
(I swear there’s a reason I’m going into Excruciating Detail.)
Even though I didn’t like the sculpts… Ever After High was a pretty good doll line, and it was moderately successful. It brought in 53 million dollars- not nearly as much as Barbie, but still a decent profit.
The first was that they took the license for the Disney Princesses away from Mattel and gave it to Hasbro. Since that’s, obviously, a big money-making license, that was a pretty nasty punishment.
But the other thing Disney did, the thing that I think was what properly killed Ever After High… they massively expanded the merchandising for Disney Descendants.
…Now, it looks like Disney Descendants was already in the works when Ever After High started coming out. I don’t think Disney got so OMGSCARED of Ever After High that they made a product directly to compete with it. And I can’t say anything bad about the movies because a) I haven’t seen them and b) I think @bpd-dylan-hall will kill me.
But the two franchises share some notable similarities- they’re about the teenage children of fairy tale characters, who are split into two factions: “hero” and “villain”. They’re very ‘modern’, with colorful hair and flashy, iconic designs.
This is a basic Disney Descendants doll:
I own both Ever After High and Descendants dolls, and I gotta say: the Descendants are way lower quality. They’ve got almost no articulation- just wrists, hips, and knees. They don’t come with a stand or many accessories. Their costumes are much simpler, and most of the designs are screen-printed on. They’re not crap dolls, don’t get me wrong, and I like their sculpts more than EAH- but by comparison, they’re not very good.
But that made one important difference: The Disney Descendants basic doll retailed at $12.99.
Now, riddle me this: if you’re the parent of an eight-year-old girl who loves dolls, which are you more likely to get: the high-quality expensive doll with a lot of small parts she’s likely to lose, or the cheaper one with a brand name on it that you recognize?
Disney was able to massively undercut the competition. Mattel couldn’t keep up. They made cheaper versions of the Ever After High dolls -they went for $9.99 or so, they’re absolute garbage, and collectors and kids both hated them.
Mattel hasn’t officially canceled Ever After High. But the show’s not coming out anymore, the dolls aren’t on shelves anymore, and we haven’t heard anything about either since 2017. Disney won, and they won hard.
If Disney didn’t have the kind of money they do, if Disney didn’t have the kind of clout they do, this wouldn’t have happened. I mean, sure, all doll lines end eventually, that’s the way of the world, but Disney deliberately undercut the competition. Depending on how much dolls cost to make and ship, they might even have been making them at a loss.
But Disney could afford to do it because they’re Disney.
The only time anyone’s ever really been able to successfully make a fairy tale franchise without getting shot down by Disney was Shrek, and that’s because Disney didn’t want to touch the aeShrektic with a ten-foot pole. They were scared they’d ruin their image.
Any other time anyone does anything with fairy tales (or princesses, or talking cars, or talking fish, or pirates, or…) Disney can make their own version and sell it at a loss, driving their competitors out of business. They have more money than God. They can afford to lose money on one theme park, let alone one toyline or one movie.
The problem with Disney is that it’s a monopoly. and like any other monopoly, Disney can freeze out anyone who tries to compete with them. I think if you trustbusted Disney- left them with their animation studio and maybe their theme park division, but took away Pixar and Marvel and ESPN and all their television outlets and all the other crap they own- they’d have a harder time undercutting everyone else. you’d see more stuff based on folklore and fairy tales, and it’d have more than a snowball’s chance in hell of being successful.
if you’re struggling lately, i hope this reaches you.
we will be okay. you will be okay. you will grow and evolve and heal. you will enjoy life again even if it’s not the same as it was the last time you were happy. you will live your life not feeling stuck. you will do more than survive. you will thrive.
