listen im not gonna get myself involved in animorphs discourse that has been ongoing for 22 years but i AM saying that i dont care what those kids did. “jake manipulates and controls his friends!” “marco tried to murder his mom!” “cassie keeps getting in the way of their plans!” “rachel is addicted to murder!”, “they’re all war criminals” etc. etc. etc. okay like yeah you’re right
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and i’m sorry if you’re boring but actually those are my FAVORITE qualities about them. like actually i loooooove the way that the nature of the war they’re fighting causes their childish flaws and human imperfections to translate into choices that have devastating, wide-reaching effects.
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i think it makes perfect sense that these children would not always know the right way to fulfill the responsibility that has been forced upon them, and would perhaps develop fucked up coping mechanisms & thinking patterns as a result of all the killing & mutilation & torture. also even when we’re talking about the really bad things. has the judge and jury considered that 1. they’re baby and 2. i love them and they were under a lot of stress so i forgive them <3 i rest my case.
my kingdom for the period between nov 5th night to the airing day of 15x19 (and later 15x20). the euphoria, the bargaining stage of grief, the sheer fortitude in the belief “surely they are going to have to address it”
don’t worry bestie, they’ll bring back castiel in 15x20, it will mirror how he and dean first met, the parallels! don’t worry about him ‘dying’ cas always dies and there’s no way they’d leave so many lose ends and hint at his return, hell he’s even in the advertising for 15x20! finally they are addressing it! cas is gay and dean is gonna reciprocate omg! the cw are gonna be so rich, i can feel it
15x19 was to wrap up the plot, 15x20 will be for the character aka cas! onion field! the empty is still loud they have to address that! the title card!
the word “queer” being used by someone who uses that word to describe their own experience of love and their cherished community should not ever sound the same to you as it does coming out of the mouth of a homophobe. acting like these two types of people are the same is unbelievably cruel
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Adding on once again: there is no word for our experiences that has not been used as a slur and isn’t *still* used as a slur.
My mother never said fag but she sure could say “gay” in a way that made it clear that was what she meant 🙃
“Homosexual” in the mouth of a Southern Republican US Senator is more vile than “faggot” in the mouth of a 50-year-old gay man from Seattle, where they made an attempt at one point to reclaim the word. (Unlike queer, it didn’t really work.)
Hell. “Those people” in the mouth of a homophobic mom to a closeted gay teen is probably fouler than either of those.
Just chiming in here from over on the disability side of things, where we can testify that it doesn’t matter what you call yourself, your terminology will get used as a slur by people who don’t want you to exist because you fuck up their ideas of how the world should be. So, call yourself whatever you want, and don’t yield to the people who don’t care what you’re called, because your greatest crime is existing in the first place. They’re never going to have a polite word for you anyway.
Don’t shoot! I’m friendly!: Prove you’re not a bot
AI dismemberment: Disable algorithm settings
Friends?: Gained a mutual
I recognize you: Follow someone you know from r/Tumblr
MY EYES!: Change the site palette
Great Idea: Reblog a post
They love me: Have a post reblogged
Oh boy oh boy you’re gonna get a Rare achievement for this one
Containment Breach
I’ve been inundated with over 120 new followers in the last 5 hours. I haven’t been able to even check if I have any pornbots. I’m tired and need to go to bed. I’ll clean up this mess tomorrow.
This is cool to look at, though. I’m studying some data-science adjacent fields so things like this are fascinating to me.
I’ve been told I should submit this to world-heritage-posts. Just to make it clear what happened to me, here’s a screenshot of my notifications activity in the last 24 hours.
For additional context, I’ve only been here 4 days.
At his point, I’ve been here 5 days and this post has 85k+ notes. My notifications have recovered to the point that sometimes they’re empty so I’d say the breach has been recontained and now I just need to deal with the cleanup process.
I figure it might be interesting to show just what this experience has been like.
This is my notification history over the last week. I joined Tumblr Saturday June 17th, 2023 around 12pm so the actual data starts half way through the chart. My follower count has grown at a roughly equal pace.
Overall, I enjoyed the whole thing once the shock died down. I was just surprised this was the post that would gain any traction at all. I expected the chicken posts would be the first ones to reach triple digits and only several months later. But I’ve enjoyed reading peoples’ reactions and chatting with folks here.
I’ll close out by sharing some other achievements I’ve gotten since:
It’s free to give: Like a post
It’s great to receive: Have a post be liked
This calls for a specialist: Install a third-party app
