If the US military wants so bad to liberate a desert region from a repressive religious organization, Utah is right there.

That’s the drone operator’s job.

it's sad trans women can't exist without eternal harassment. tmes say stuff you don't like every day, but you never seem to care. regardless if a trans woman is right or wrong, you're so motivated to ruin her life. they say it's about pedophilia, they say it's about who friends are, but this harassment has been happening for months before the post everyone seems to hate. you hate me because I'm a trans woman. your community has been endlessly transmisogynistic, racist and ableist to everyone around me. stop pretending your somehow on a moral high ground, you are the bigots acting out bigotry. you are reblogging and interacting with terfs. you are terfs.

i hope one day trans women will know what it's like to exist without having to watch every action, without having to triple think every word, i hope one day trans women can be cringe, offensive and wrong, i hope one day trans women can be revolutionary, stand up for themselves, and be right.

this account was banned 3 hours after this was posted

hi staff was nicies and I'm back :)

GHOST*whispering*facers.

my guess is that american catholicism will break communion with the latin church by 2030 at the absolute latest. Theyll have their own pope and everything. Cant wait to see where the build the new holy city, my guess is somewhere with really really good tax breaks. or possibly inside the bass pro shop pyramid

kirks death was honestly one of the funniest things that happened this year seconded only by the absolute capitalism hell reaction erika had to it

you can't even write parodies anymore they're doing the job themselves

With the 47 kids that died in the arena plus adding Lou Lou, Woodbine, and Leanore Dove all extra casualties of that year's games and who are old enough to participate it makes up exactly 50 kids who died that year for the 50th hunger games

- 1984 by George Orwell

*gripping the sides of my TV so hard the picture gets weird at the edges* polyamory can save this show. Just let them be fucking poly please fuck

the way people seem to genuinely conflate brain damage with fascism drives me up the wall. maybe it's the lead in paint/gas/vapes. maybe it's ai. maybe their brains just don't work right. maybe something they didn't have control over made them dumb to us and thus ontologically evil. what are you on

the grinch is fucked up right. he was created specifically as a critique of the commercialization of christmas, but now all his edge has been sanded off. now he's a generic mascot for "hates christmas," which is great to have because the commercialization of christmas has become so overbearing that that's a demographic you can market to! and now he's just part of the Christmas Fold. he's santa's edgier joker counterpart. he has become the very thing he sought to destroy. back in november i checked out a customer with a $1100 order and most of it was grinch merchandise

the reason most anti bullying psa's completely fail is because they fail to identify why people bully others, and fail to identify that kids actually do internalize oppressive structures REALLY early on. white kids understand that racialized kids are easy targets, and white teachers either fail to catch racism or are racist themselves. non-disabled kids understand that disabilities are easy to pick on, kids recognize the sissy archetype very early on, boys internalize that girls are lesser than them, kids notice they can take advantage of autistic behavior, and it flies under the radar cause teachers offer little to no support to marginalized kids or outright victim blame them. "ignoring bullies" is a model that assumes bullies just want attention. we should instead assume bullies are taking advantage of others.

curious as to whether ao3 had an uptick in traffic yesterday...

delighted to learn there is an increase in ao3 traffic corresponding annually to christmas, thanksgiving etc. truly the "meaning of the holidays" is about reading porn to cope with being stuck indoors with relatives

It’s all fun and games laughing about Haymitch over sharing and Katniss under sharing in comparison until you realize Haymitch is trying to remember all the fine details of everyone he will never see again and Katniss is trying to protect her remaining autonomy by keeping those details private

The difference in their trauma responses being shown from the very start of their narratives guts me

a thing that i particularly love about the hunger games prequels is how it shows that people have been fighting against the games since their inception

when i was younger and read the original trilogy for the first time i was so bothered how it was 74 years of games, i remember thinking how could it have gone on so long without anyone doing anything

these prequels highlight that people have been fighting from the get-go: lucy gray's defiance, reaper ripping down panem's flags to cover the fallen tributes, haymitch's games and how many others shared his ideologies - the capitol just drowns them out, they rewrite their stories so their efforts are forgotten

liberation takes time and it's built upon the actions of those in the past