Mundane America. Broken pole with rope and an American Flag. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Wait. Wait.
Wait.
I know that telephone pole.
I know that telephone pole intimately because I’m the one who broke it.
Thats the pole next to Sycamore Jr. High, in between the jr high school and Pipkins, where I had my second car accident. A woman t-boned my car and drove me into that pole in 2008 and it took them years to actually take it down.
That black metal pole you see just beyond the broken phone pole is a “Now Leaving/Welcome To Blue Ash, Ohio” sign, visible at 5520 Cooper Road on google maps.
(the flag is there, btw, because its the starting point for the Blue Ash/Montgomery July 4th parade.)
The internet is so staggeringly immense that I can’t help but be disproportionately delighted when things like this happen.
A tiktok by @elizamclamb. She is lying on her bed replying to a comment that says “bestie its pretty homophobic to suggest gay men r preying on women :/”
Transcript:
Bestie, when I said “MLMs prey on women and spiral them into debt…” MLM means multi-level marketing, like LulaRoe. I’m not saying gay men, like, snatch women off the street… [laughing] put them in debt… [more laughter]
sometimes i go on reddit to check out what the guy who has my tumblr username as his reddit username is up to . the other notahorseindisguise is very vocal about not dating people with personality disorders! unfortunate that im associated with him
poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the “reblog things forever” website
yea that’d be a shame
by the way, just so everyone knows what not to do, shift+r reblogs a post instantly
just make sure you don’t reblog anything about oceangate because that would completely undermine their entire plan 😇😇😇
You also shouldn’t queue a post, that would make people keep remembering this post for a longer time, which is the opposite of forgetting
Regular reminder that mocking, demonizing, insulting characters based on their physical appearances and facial differences has incredibly harmful and tangible effects on people in real life.
Fictional characters won’t see your posts, but real people with facial and other visible differences will see it.
that pistachio completely sealed in its shell is scared and alone, like a miner trapped by rubble. you need to free it by any means necessary. get the gun from your dad’s cabinet
i hate when you google a word and some fucking company comes up instead. Do you think you are more important than the english dictionary you piece of shit corporation
“corporations don’t have a soul” “machines don’t have a soul” neither do humans. I won’t convert to your religion. Think up a new argument.
Unrelated to the op but the backlash to this post has gotten me thinking about how there’s such an anti-atheism slant in society. Mention you don’t think “souls” should be used when discussing actual policy affecting people across the nation/world and people want to regulate you to being gross fat slob from reddit and itching to misgender you or steal a man’s personal selfie that’s been used time and time again to ridicule him and others for the crime of being fat and existing. Say that you don’t want people’s politics to solely be religious concepts and you get compared to the “Amazing Atheist” (is he even still around?) and harassed and mocked endlessly like. How does this not prove that you’re all uber religious? You make jokes about how cringe Catholics are and how funny it is the pope’s form chicago but yall are just protestants ready to snap on a tranny the moment she says she doesn’t believe in souls.
come on
humans want to believe in souls so bad it makes them stupid
Ok, sorry, so what’s the word then?
The entire concept of soul/spirit/etc is to explain why the heck some living beings have a personality/morality but also why we’re alive not just to go around to survive so we can procreate before dying, but also to experience things, discover them etc etc.
Like what is the word then, to explain why we’re not mindlessly alive???
I’m at a complete lost here, and with your logic spirit isn’t the answer since it’s also religious (if not way more).
Because our brains are complex organs that developed through millions of years of evolution. Other animals have personalities, we are not alone in that. We are animals that developed our traits through continued evolution, “we’re not alive to just procreate” we are alive because our ancestors didprocreate. Everything we are now is because of passing on certain genes that survive in the environment best, and having brains that operate like this is part of that.
“Why we’re alive” there isn’t a why. It just happened. That is how the world works. If you want to be religious and believe in something putting us here, that’s a-ok, but there is science behind why we are the way we are. Not everything has clean cut perfect answers, but that is the way of the world.
The soul is a religious concept that has no basis in reality. There is no way to physically measure it, there is no evidence it exists. If you choose to believe in souls then that’s cool for you, but “souls” is not an adequate way to base your politics around - especially when “souls” is a huge thing for right wing bigots.
“corporations don’t have a soul” “machines don’t have a soul” neither do humans. I won’t convert to your religion. Think up a new argument.
Unrelated to the op but the backlash to this post has gotten me thinking about how there’s such an anti-atheism slant in society. Mention you don’t think “souls” should be used when discussing actual policy affecting people across the nation/world and people want to regulate you to being gross fat slob from reddit and itching to misgender you or steal a man’s personal selfie that’s been used time and time again to ridicule him and others for the crime of being fat and existing. Say that you don’t want people’s politics to solely be religious concepts and you get compared to the “Amazing Atheist” (is he even still around?) and harassed and mocked endlessly like. How does this not prove that you’re all uber religious? You make jokes about how cringe Catholics are and how funny it is the pope’s form chicago but yall are just protestants ready to snap on a tranny the moment she says she doesn’t believe in souls.
come on
humans want to believe in souls so bad it makes them stupid
Ok, sorry, so what’s the word then?
The entire concept of soul/spirit/etc is to explain why the heck some living beings have a personality/morality but also why we’re alive not just to go around to survive so we can procreate before dying, but also to experience things, discover them etc etc.
Like what is the word then, to explain why we’re not mindlessly alive???
I’m at a complete lost here, and with your logic spirit isn’t the answer since it’s also religious (if not way more).
Because our brains are complex organs that developed through millions of years of evolution. Other animals have personalities, we are not alone in that. We are animals that developed our traits through continued evolution, “we’re not alive to just procreate” we are alive because our ancestors didprocreate. Everything we are now is because of passing on certain genes that survive in the environment best, and having brains that operate like this is part of that.
“Why we’re alive” there isn’t a why. It just happened. That is how the world works. If you want to be religious and believe in something putting us here, that’s a-ok, but there is science behind why we are the way we are. Not everything has clean cut perfect answers, but that is the way of the world.
The soul is a religious concept that has no basis in reality. There is no way to physically measure it, there is no evidence it exists. If you choose to believe in souls then that’s cool for you, but “souls” is not an adequate way to base your politics around - especially when “souls” is a huge thing for right wing bigots.
“here’s the immensely time consuming 100K word novel-length passion project I’m working on between my real life job and family! It eats up hundreds of hours of my one and only life, causes me emotional harm, and I gain basically nothing from it! Also I put it on the internet for free so anyone can read if they want. Hope you love it!” :)
Everyone playing the “what kind of queer is MOST oppressed?” game is wasting their time on pointless bullshit, and, quite frankly, they’re doing the feds’ work for them.
Stand together or die together. They want to put us all in the same pit.
this is reductive and dishonest - it is not pointless to acknowledge which demographics will be affected the most by harmful policies. The point is to accurately judge who is at the most risk of being first affected by these policies and to respond by putting the requisite amount of effort into protecting those most vulnerable targets. this is at the core of meaningfully protecting people by standing together. if you cannot prioritize protecting the most vulnerable then you should not be surprised when they can no longer be around to protect you when it’s your turn on the chopping block.
My transfemme wife, transmasc husband, nonbinary roommate, and I, an intersex person, manage to have frequent and robust conversations about the different ways we are impacted by different things, and we are perfectly capable of doing it without coming up with some bullshit hierarchy of who has it worse and is the “most oppressed.” It is completely possible to discuss different impacts of different things without playing the “who is the Most Oppressed” game. Trying to rank oppression and decide which individual person in the room has it “objectively worse” is not productive, nor does it foster healthy community and organizing. Putting one group on a pedestal as “the most oppressed” and shutting down everyone else as “not as oppressed” does nothing but feed into infighting and petty sniping. It doesn’t actually help anyone.
Tacking on a tag about how I like Steven Universe is just about the most childish thing you could do. In what way is my taste in television remotely important to this discussion? You’re reaching for a cheap way to perpetuate pointless drama. Get a hobby.
This is also a pointless debate to be had because it implies that your cultural experiences are the same as everyone else. I grew up in Southeast Asia, where countries like Thailand (at least, at the time) and Singapore had more trans rights than they had gay rights. However, in North America and Europe, countries tend to have more gay rights than trans rights. In some countries, intersex people have rights, where other countries do not allow this.
As you can see, draculas-tits’s argument is null. It is irrelevant and quite frankly close-minded. It does not consider the rest of the world, only your own experiences.
“This group is more oppressed!” Maybe where you live, it just might be. But not necessarily everywhere else. This cannot be a universal claim and is therefore reductive and dishonest.
“corporations don’t have a soul” “machines don’t have a soul” neither do humans. I won’t convert to your religion. Think up a new argument.
Unrelated to the op but the backlash to this post has gotten me thinking about how there’s such an anti-atheism slant in society. Mention you don’t think “souls” should be used when discussing actual policy affecting people across the nation/world and people want to regulate you to being gross fat slob from reddit and itching to misgender you or steal a man’s personal selfie that’s been used time and time again to ridicule him and others for the crime of being fat and existing. Say that you don’t want people’s politics to solely be religious concepts and you get compared to the “Amazing Atheist” (is he even still around?) and harassed and mocked endlessly like. How does this not prove that you’re all uber religious? You make jokes about how cringe Catholics are and how funny it is the pope’s form chicago but yall are just protestants ready to snap on a tranny the moment she says she doesn’t believe in souls.
come on
humans want to believe in souls so bad it makes them stupid
Ok, sorry, so what’s the word then?
The entire concept of soul/spirit/etc is to explain why the heck some living beings have a personality/morality but also why we’re alive not just to go around to survive so we can procreate before dying, but also to experience things, discover them etc etc.
Like what is the word then, to explain why we’re not mindlessly alive???
I’m at a complete lost here, and with your logic spirit isn’t the answer since it’s also religious (if not way more).
Because our brains are complex organs that developed through millions of years of evolution. Other animals have personalities, we are not alone in that. We are animals that developed our traits through continued evolution, “we’re not alive to just procreate” we are alive because our ancestors didprocreate. Everything we are now is because of passing on certain genes that survive in the environment best, and having brains that operate like this is part of that.
“Why we’re alive” there isn’t a why. It just happened. That is how the world works. If you want to be religious and believe in something putting us here, that’s a-ok, but there is science behind why we are the way we are. Not everything has clean cut perfect answers, but that is the way of the world.
The soul is a religious concept that has no basis in reality. There is no way to physically measure it, there is no evidence it exists. If you choose to believe in souls then that’s cool for you, but “souls” is not an adequate way to base your politics around - especially when “souls” is a huge thing for right wing bigots.
Just a heads up, there are bots going around on AO3 accusing people of using AI. Considering the timing, this is likely AI bros’ retaliation for AO3 users calling them out for scraping their work. Examples of what you might be sent:
If you get a comment like this, just report for spam and delete.
This happened to me on Monday! Just to note, they seem to be using the usernames of real AO3/Tumblr users, which is creepy and upsetting, and also a weird way to sow discord in our communities.
As a fanfic writer, this makes me sick.
Letting me readers know about this nonsense. Don’t bother with engaging if you get something like this, do as the OP says and continue to write.
ALT
