whenever a liberal blames disney homophobia on china I blow up another AO3 datacentre
damm my stepdad is really homophobic. must be catering to the nefarious Chinese
it’s an absurd conspiracy. i use douban (like chinese letterboxd) to follow film reviews and there’s absolutely no lack of gayness in what’s released in china. like, moonlight was released in chinese theatres? and you can go on douban and find chinese gay people talking about all sorts of lgbt films? they’re not being censored. it’s all right there online.
people also like to point out some disney films doing poorly in china as a mark against them. but most westerners probably haven’t even heard of ne zha at all despite it being china’s most successful animated film, and they definitely haven’t heard about 30,000 miles from chang'an despite it being one of the best animated films i’ve ever seen.
it’s actually not that strange that disney isn’t always a huge hit in china. like, chinese films rarely get western attention, so why are you expecting western films to get so much chinese attention? especially when we all know disney’s been spamming out a crazy amount of pointless remakes lately?
but yeah anyway my top chinese film recommendation is angels wear white by vivian qu and everyone should watch it.
whenever a liberal blames disney homophobia on china I blow up another AO3 datacentre
damm my stepdad is really homophobic. must be catering to the nefarious Chinese
it’s an absurd conspiracy. i use douban (like chinese letterboxd) to follow film reviews and there’s absolutely no lack of gayness in what’s released in china. like, moonlight was released in chinese theatres? and you can go on douban and find chinese gay people talking about all sorts of lgbt films? they’re not being censored. it’s all right there online.
people also like to point out some disney films doing poorly in china as a mark against them. but most westerners probably haven’t even heard of ne zha at all despite it being china’s most successful animated film, and they definitely haven’t heard about 30,000 miles from chang'an despite it being one of the best animated films i’ve ever seen.
it’s actually not that strange that disney isn’t always a huge hit in china. like, chinese films rarely get western attention, so why are you expecting western films to get so much chinese attention? especially when we all know disney’s been spamming out a crazy amount of pointless remakes lately?
but yeah anyway my top chinese film recommendation is angels wear white by vivian qu and everyone should watch it.
woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.
Ebeneezer in 1742 wakes with a start as for some reason he has put out his guttering candle by slapping atop it ith the palm of his hand. His hand is burned and his nightgown and cap are spattered with hot wax.
i meant to empty my contact lens case of cleaner and instead launched my allergy pills down the drain. wasn’t even holding the lens case
once confidently pointed my car keys at the door out of my house and pressed the unlock button
I once punched my deodorant so hard it exploded thinking it was my alarm clock. It took an hour to clean. I don’t have an alarm clock
How is bnha anime of the decade…… they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second
The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em
1969………
Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.
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They have gotten so far and are nearing their goal. Please help them to reach the finish line!!! Remember that these funds are necessary for daily living as the family awaits evacuation.
🕊 Currently at €64,657 / €75,000 - a donation can also get you entered into a raffle for a free commission from me! More info here !
🎨 Art NOT by me - all art credit goes to an artist (who wanted to remain anonymous for now) who gave Ahmed permission to post, and then Ahmed gave me permission to post on his behalf.
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How is bnha anime of the decade…… they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second
The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em
1969………
Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.
I knew I was nonbinary growing up when I realized that I literally didn’t understand how gender worked. I thought it was like being goth, or a furry. I thought I just wasn’t allowed to shop at the other clothing section because it was expensive.
Even now I have trouble with the idea that people have a visceral sense of gender, even with other trans people. I have never even for a moment considered myself to be male or female, and I’ve never experienced a desire to be either.
I see a lot of how I experience gender (or my lack thereof) in how asexual people describe their understanding of sexuality. There’s this common refrain of realizing “wait this is actually something you experience? Like for real? Like it’s not just in cartoons? You’re fucking with me.”
It is kinda funny how when people read “nonbinary” they hear “cis woman with blue hair” only to get jumpscared by my ghoulish 6'2’’ ass.
I believe the Mormon church has more sway on US law and politics than any other religious organization
Like they’re the flag bearer and strategy think tank for the strongest examples of religious interference in the law even if you see evangelicals and catholics making moves they’re using the LDS playbook
The LDS church is directly responsible for organizing a decent chunk of “religious freedom” coalitions over the years. The primary reason why they don’t get more flak for it is that they’re primarily seen as a regional power both by outsiders and those living within the mormon corridor. Pretty much everyone who looks at Utah for even a couple of seconds understands that it’s Like That because the mormons have to sign off on any proposed legislation, but then they’ll just assume that this phenomenon is limited to Utah and that the church doesn’t have any meaningful impact on anything outside of that bubble.
Ensign Peak alone is a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, and the church regularly pours massive sums of cash into PACs throughout the nation in support of conservative political campaigns. The most tangible impact the LDS church has is on the wider political landscape of the US via its spearheading of attempts to replace public education with charters or home schooling, and yet the biggest criticism most people have about it is that those poor bastards in Utah will never get to experience the joys of recreational THC. Like, girl, one of the wealthiest, least financially transparent nonprofit organizations on the continent is constantly pouring money into the Heritage Foundation.
YES EXACTLY
I cannot emphasize enough that the Church quite literally has overthrown election results in Utah. Like you all know this, right? Utah voted for some of the best, healthiest marijuana laws in the country that would have made chronic pain for millions disappear overnight and it passed by a LARGE margin. People were ecstatic. The election results came out and people were beyond excited. And the state refused to honor the fact that it passed because the Church simply told them not to. My friend was in the Capitol building and watched the legislator she worked for see before his very eyes that the law did not apply to these men and watched the election be overturned quietly. Politely. The law shifted and adjusted just enough that people wouldn’t riot, but not in any way what was actually passed. Utah is the testing ground for controlling the narrative. The goddamn NSA has one of its biggest offices there.
You all know this, right? You know that when you mock people in Western states like Utah you’re talking about people who live under theocratic laws that they didn’t vote for and can’t vote out of and gerrymandering so severe that despite the majority of voters in Utah being registered Democrats, it’s blood red because they built it that way… right? You know this? Please tell me you know this.
And then once you tell me you know this, promise me that you will actually internalize that the red states are not your enemy, they are being held hostage.
Louder for the folks in the back please:
…the red states are not your enemy; they are being held hostage.
“kung pow penis,” a phrase commonly used in reblogs to indicate utter disdain for OP, has twelve letters, each of which (traditionally) must be supplied by a different user. the unanimity of disdain indicated by these twelve unrelated users has strong parallels to the requirement of unanimity for a jury—also traditionally of twelve—to arrive at a verdict. in this essay i will
All of my cotltober pieces together!! yippee!! I had so much fun planning them out and making the Themes TM and I’m super happy with all of them ﾉ≧∇≦)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
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ill probably stop posting for a hot minute and focus on comms because there is a DISCOUNT ON THE TICKETS AND IT ONLY LASTS UNTIL NOVEMBER 5 I NEED TO MOVE QUICK
Please cosponsor S.J.Res. 114-115 to disapprove the military sale of weapons to Israel.
My name is [your name] and I am your constituent from [your address]. I am asking the Senator to COSPONSOR S.J.RES.114-115 to disapprove of the proposed foreign military sale of certain defense articles and services to Israel. The resolution was introduced by Senator Sanders.
The US has funded over 70% of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and < offered a nonstop flow of weapons even though there’s indisputable proof of Israel blocking aid for over 1 year, and nearly 500 reports of U.S. weapons being used to kill and injure Palestinians. Over 60,000 people have died from indirect deaths due to aid blocking.
so ur at the party right and there’s this girl in the corner with another girl on a leash with the puppy ears on standard stuff and u start talking to her and she introduces the girl on the leash and says “this is my little puppy, Emily. say hi Emily” and the leash girl does a little bark at u and u say “oh that’s nice” and ur looking for a way to avoid the awkward silence during a 4 second period that feels like a half hour so u ask “does she know any tricks?” so the girl says “come on girl, show ‘em” and the puppy girl gets up pulls out a skateboard and starts doing the sickest kick flips u ever saw
I wish I had a recording or something of the way I laughed when I saw this. The closest equivalent I can think of is like if you were to shake a kookaburra in a bag
honestly elves SHOULD be over represented in adventurer groups. like, what, you’re gonna live 700 hundred years and NOT do an adventure? not even once? not even on accident?
Elven adventurer who joins a new party every 50 years, starting a new class from level one. Their goal is to get to level 20 in every class before they die.
Elven adventurers who believe that true “immersion” requires not using any of the powers you achieved in a previous class vs elven adventurers who “skip the boring bits” of battles they don’t feel like fighting by suddenly revealing, like, lvl 20 paladin powers on their lvl 5 rogue
“kung pow penis,” a phrase commonly used in reblogs to indicate utter disdain for OP, has twelve letters, each of which (traditionally) must be supplied by a different user. the unanimity of disdain indicated by these twelve unrelated users has strong parallels to the requirement of unanimity for a jury—also traditionally of twelve—to arrive at a verdict. in this essay i will
Seeing a lot of trans faux-progressives talking about breaking the law (in relation to diy hrt) like it will instantly end your life and you will never get away with it, and its very irritating to me because if you have read some queer history you know people have lived long, fulfilling lives outside the bounds of the law in our community since we started banding together. It was at one point just outright illegal to even be gay or trans in public and yet we held rallies and shows and events and we still went to the bars and we demanded our dignity. Do not let the law strip you of what you consider important, especially if it’s transition
Ur all so right, I should’ve said transition being illegal makes it impossible forever and we should all just detransition because there’s no hope instead of saying that you shouldn’t let legality stop you from living as yourself because i didn’t consider that u aren’t “morally obligated” to do things that make you happy
I saw someone reblog this dismissing it as AI despite the fact they’re 1 click away from a search engine.
“Rosetta Nebula” is all you’d have to type.
Perhaps the biggest travesty with ai images is going to be robbing people of their wonder for what’s actually possible in the universe and continuing to shrink their bubble of understanding based on whether they believe it at a glance.
The image has been colorized differently above but the Rosetta Nebula is real and actually looks like that.
it looks less like a human skull than it does Homo heidelbergensis:
Look, it formed a long time ago, it had to work with the reference it had
Oh AI hasn’t created that, people used to glance at things and declare them photoshopped.
We never do. He wasn’t speaking theoretically, the politics of the 1970s heavily influenced and inspired his writing. Trump is Bush Jr. is Reagan is Nixon. People asked at the time if the eponymous Clone Wars that Palpatine deliberately stokes and worsens to justify his own power grabs was inspired by the War on Terror; George Lucas responded that it was actually inspired by Vietnam.
To quote Lucas himself, it’s like poetry, it rhymes.
