and y’all really doubted the Kickstarter. smh

Yaoi Has Been Proven Scientifically

fucking. fujoshi ass fish

remembering the time I called american psycho (a satirical film about toxic masculinity) a dark comedy and the overwhelming response was 'oh so u think men killing sex workers is funny? u think THAT'S funny?' like no I find a patrick batemen listening to 'i'm walking on sunshine', killing jared leto while wearing a clear raincoat and giving a dissertation on huey lewis n the news, using 'I need to return some video tapes' to get out of awkward situations, throwing a hissy fit about business cards, dropping a chainsaw down a flight of stairs, thinking an atm is telling him to feed it cats, and crying hysterically under a desk is funny. but thank u for ur wonderful insight

Disney banned an episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur called "The Gatekeeper," because of the current political climate in the US. So the episode is about Lunella's friend Brooklyn being targeted by the coach of a rival volleyball team, Greer, who found out she was trans and tried to stop her from playing. She even goes as far as to trap Brooklyn, Lunella and the others in the locker room, and will only let them out if they follow her "rules."

Brooklyn: "I'm trans, my very existence breaks Greer's rules, which means, as long as I'm a member of this team...we'll never escape..."

And they break out of the room specifically by breaking the rules. There's also an awesome video game-like scene where the team fights a monster-like version of Greer by throwing volleyballs at her, with streaks colored like the trans flag.

Brooklyn: "It doesn't matter how many doors people like you slam in my face. With my fight, plus my crew backing me up, I'm always gonna find my way out."

This episode is EXACTLY what trans kids need right now, but no, Disney was too spineless to air the episode. They can claim for the 69420th time that XYZ is their first gay character, they can sell rainbow Mickey Mouse pins, they can put up pride month collections on Disney+, but it's clear that they only "support" the LGBTQ+ community when it's profitable for them.

evacuation fundraisers that need your help - last updated 11/14

please reblog this post so other people can see these campaigns!! especially for the gaza funds campaigns - most of these people are not on tumblr and not actively fundraising here. as you can see, many of them are stagnating and have not received a single donation in around a week or more. please know that my posts for these campaigns do not get much attention at all. even the ones you may see from me with a decent number of reblogs are mostly me reblogging from myself. do with this information what you will. i do not check to see who reblogs what from me and will not judge you if you don't reblog, but please understand i am struggling to get any attention on these campaigns and would appreciate some help

weekly gaza funds spotlight campaign:

€85,330 / €100,000 - no donations in four days

previous gaza funds spotlight campaigns:

vetted fundraisers:

i try to not use links in vetting info where possible because tumblr limits the number of links in a post. many of these campaigns have provided vetting info in their pinned posts, so check them out! for campaigns reblogged by 90-ghost, you can check the notes and see that people have linked his reblog in the notes for easy access.

unvetted but likely legitimate:

Reblog to meow at prev

I think there's something very frustrating about how so many activist events, like the haka in the New Zealand parliament, are brushed off as spontaneous acts of passion instead of carefully planned and coordinated efforts. I see it a lot of with indigenous activists especially, and it feels like a lot of people lean on that idea because they like the romantic idea of activism being spontaneous passion but it's incredibly infantalizing to ignore the efforts that these activists and protestors and politicians put into making these things happen, making their voices heard and preparing their communities and allies to stand as a united front when it's time.

One of the things that isn't being reported internationally is that there's a hīkoi (protest march) of over 10,000 people currently on its way to the Aotearoa New Zealand parliament and it was set to arrive on the day of the bill's first reading. The government moved the reading sooner to avoid this, which is incredibly cowardly and disrespectful to the Māori people opposing it. One thing that Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke's haka did was communicate that the government can't just dodge Māori opposition like that and expect to get away with it. I would bet she'd been thinking of doing that or something like it from the moment the date got changed; she's an incredibly adept political thinker with excellent mentorship.

Another way that the view of activism being spontaneous is used for racism is to paint it as suspicious that indigenous (or other marginalised) activists support and mentor each other. There's been some media hit-pieces against the leaders of Toitū Te Tiriti for being relatives of Te Pāti Māori MPs or other well-known Māori activists, when if you have two non-racist brain cells to rub together of COURSE people in the same families are going to help and mentor each other? Nobody bats an eye when it's white people doing nepotism, but when Māori do anything that looks planned or coordinated suddenly it's suspicious 🙄

I've also seen complaints about the hīkoi being 'orchestrated' like, duh, you don't get tens of thousands of people protesting at the same time and place without some organisation, which I think is the word you were looking for. Literally all pre-announced big protests like this have a high degree of organisation, that's what makes them successful.

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Thats actually really cool

its kinda weird that humans, a social species, view “attention-seeking” as a negative trait

you can't waste your life btw it's just not something that's possible to do. your mere existence is already a precious and valuable use of your time. the time you spent becoming who you are now was inherently worthwhile

Poorly drawn Luvdisc(s)

They offered me a job as a fucker. Yeah you heard me right, a fucker. Job is to fuck things. Boss points at something and says fuck it, I fuck it. That's my job. And I'm damn good at it. Pays like dirt and wears on the mind. Wears on the mind.