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I feel like we don’t talk enough about how Princess Peach is supposed to canonically be a powerful sorceress

something has gone deeply wrong when "focusing pragmatically on issues you can influence and working to make life better for yourself and your community" is considered an unserious distraction while "endlessly exposing yourself to media about distressing situations you can't control" is considered political engagement

Was posessed by an artistic vision of Homestar and Strong Bad as Pokémon Trainers. I just know that SB picks litten as a starter knowing full well it's gonna become an incineroar.

Wunk is NOT trapped

I like to think there's at least one person in the Gravity Falls universe that's obsessed with lost media and old telephone product commercials. Imagine someone updating the lost media wiki on StanCo products and commercials. Trying to link all the different identities of Stan Pines. Only to find out he died in a mysterious car crash that left no body? Imagine the drama, the niche YouTube videos. The concerns for this person who's oddly obsessed over a decade old scam company.

The radfems hate me for my inclusive swag <3

Men are always welcome in my feminism. Along with everyone of every gender. Whether they be trans, cis, perisex, intersex, anything.

They claim it would make feminism weaker, and I couldn’t disagree more. We’re stronger together. This doesn’t mean ignoring when folks experience relative gendered privilege or excusing misogyny. This just means acknowledging that sexism harms people of all genders in different ways, and that we are all better off without it. Women and people afab shouldn’t be forced to be feminine, men and people amab shouldn’t be forced to be masculine. Intersex and non-binary experiences must be recognized. My feminism looks like fighting for women’s rights, but equally looks like fighting for trans men’s rights.

You’ll always have a place at by my hearth. I am and always will be an anti-sexist above all. Let’s fight the systems in place together.

Not only this but it's so bizarre to me like.

Yes, teach the girls and the women that there is more to life than being a baby machine. That they can do anything, be anyone, achieve whatever they want. That they are just as smart, just as strong, just as capable, as anyone else, and that they are not lesser for their birth assignment or their gender identity.

But you also have to teach this to the boys. If we don't teach the boys this feminism, they will grow up instead with the messages of the patriarchy which is actively counter-productive to what we're trying to accomplish by raising women up out of the pit. The boys *also* should be reading the girl power books, watching the shows, writing reports on the essays, because if they aren't, then what messages are they internalizing?

And part of that *is* by saying boys can like "girl things" and be feminine and be sensitive and wear pink, because even though those things are associated with women and femininity, they're not *bed* for being so. Because right now the patriarchal messaging is anything woman equals bad and lesser.

So it feels like I'm in the twilight zone when you or I or whoever say this and get called MRAs or that we're abandoning feminism, because truly I do not understand how folks who lobby these accusations think we can get anything done without including A: half the fucking population and B: the people who by-and-large have been in power as major lawmakers and politicians for centuries and those who will grow into those people's shoes.

And it's even more bizarre when these folks argue that somehow trans men specifically don't get a voice in this. I'm sorry but I don't think transgender people as a whole will get far in our fight for our rights without feminism, I think feminism is a significant reason we've gotten what scraps we have today, and I think feminism is the basis for a huge portion of trans theory. No matter which way you're [general] transitioning or what your gender identity is, feminism is what made it possible for you to have the ability to even think of yourself this way and pursue a life where you can just be you.

Like??? Am I missing something here???

The "if you voted for Trump unfollow me" posts are returning, but given then general makeup of your average tumblr user I think there's a different message I'd like to give.

If you didn't vote because "both parties are the same" or "it won't make a difference" or because Kamala wasn't the pure and perfect leader that you wanted or you "didn't want blood on your hands", honestly whether or not you follow me doesn't make a damned bit of difference. But I want you to look. Take a good look at the despair around you right now. And every godforsaken thing that follows I want you to fucking look. Look and know that you could have helped prevent it. We still haven't recovered from his last four years, the world hasn't fucking recovered, and now we're staring down the barrel of god knows how many more years and a river of fucking blood to come along with it.

But your pride and your principles were more important to you than the actual real fucking world we live in.

I hope, if nothing else, that you can take this in. I hope you learn. I hope you grow. I hope you find it in you to realize that in this country they soak our hands in blood the second we take our first breath and the only thing that matters then is what you fucking do with them. What you fight for. Who you fight for. Who you defend.

I hope you wake up. And you step up. And you fucking fight.

But until then. Don't you fucking dare look away.

This is so powerful, and so true; If you abstained from voting because you didn't want blood on your hands? Congrats you've successfully bathed yourself in it for the next decade or more.

i like strong sad

there's a lot to be said about how the average person indulges in delusions far more than anyone is really comfortable grappling with. every now and again, a poll comes out that reveals some sort of number of people who believe they have magical powers, usually pretty high, and everyone takes turns making fun of it and affirming their own Sanity

this is more observational than scientific, but it really does seem like writing off delusional thinking as the realm of the "insane" creates this valley where the "normal" person's thinking (especially a person who considers themself normal, but that's a whole other kettle of fish) must be more empirical, because, categorically, they are not insane

I betray a bit of a tendency towards criticising pop-psychiatry here, but I really don't think it's entirely fair to treat "hallucinations" and "delusions" as these incomprehensible eldritch states of the Other when the most stable person you know is a few nights of bad sleep and one day of unreturned phonecalls away from saying something that would qualify them for a pretty severe diagnosis

most people won't admit to having any kind of hallucination at all for fear of being locked up and yet the occasional weird fucking nighttime ones that you know aren't real are, to my knowledge, one of the most common and universal human experiences

there's an interesting thing I've noticed pretty often when someone first makes friends with schizophrenic people, which is that they undergo this period where they get anxious about whether or not they're a little schizophrenic (I'm guilty of doing this too) before either shutting down entirely or becoming more open to engaging with their own internal concept of sanity

it's so universal that it really brings into sharp focus just how much effort social norms encourage in rejecting everything that could make you seem even a little bit similar to groups that have been written off as morally defective, which makes them seem even more alien and incomprehensible in turn

you're only really allowed to acknowledge these experiences if you're making jokes about them, which I think is a big reason why shadow people and sleep paralysis demons are such an enduring topic of memes. you're only allowed to acknowledge you experience distressing sensory phenomena when it's part of a socially affirming in-joke

The vast majority of mental illness symptoms are completely typical functions and behaviours, but occurring frequently or severely enough to become a problem. They're not some Unique Thing Only Those Insane People Have.

yes I am always saying that.

mental illnesses are almost always "you do something that everyone does, but REALLY BAD or REALLY OFTEN"

like, ADHD: Basically every ADHD symptom is something that everyone does. fidgeting? having trouble focusing? getting distracted? hyperfocusing? time blindness?

Everyone does those from time to time and for one reason or another. We call it ADHD when you do it so much that it causes you problems, and it can't easily be fixed by things like "drink less coffee" or "get rid of distractions".

And the same goes for delusions and hallucinations. Everybody can get them, it's not a fundamentally different thing that only People With Delusion/Hallucination Disease get.

Someone just left a comment that says "it's not that deep" on one of my media analysis posts. Not responding directly because I don't feel like it becoming a whole thing, but I am irritated enough to make a separate post to say this:

If YOU don't think something is deep, that's your prerogative, but I can and will make any piece of media as deep as I want. Literally ANYTHING can be "that deep" if someone's willing to sift through the dirt and examine it.

Everything has meaning. Everything has influences. Everything is infused with its creators' worldviews and biases. Everything has cultural and historical context in some way. Everything can be analyzed and mused upon. It's boring and limiting to pretend "it's not that deep," no matter what "it" is.

Get a little more curious, and get a little more willing to play in this space with me. If you won't do that, you can see yourself out instead of telling me "it's not that deep."

Someone needs to do an analysis on the way the Kung Fu Panda movies use old-fashioned vs. modern language ("Panda we meet at last"/"Hey how's it going") and old-fashioned vs. modern settings (forbidden-city-esque palaces/modern-ish Chinese restaurant) to indicate class differences in their characters, and how those class differences create underlying tensions and misunderstandings.

I will also add that, in the second and third films, both Tigress and Shifu start echoing Po's modern expressions ("That... was pretty hardcore" and "No. I'm saying, if you teach, I'll be able to do cool stuff like that"), symbolizing how they both have evolved and loosened up since the first film and how their view of Po has changed.

A very useful thread on Bluesky:

(There is a lot more. Rather than give you all the images, I've copied the full text below.)

whatever *tezuka-styles your deltarune cast*