exiting a uquiz halfway through when it becomes clear the creator’s narrow and immature world view and cultural knowledge leaves them totally unequipped to tell me which peanuts character i am with any degree of accuracy or insight
The thing about the moon is maybe you don’t need to write a poem about the moon. The moon’s been done, we’ve discussed it. It’s a coin a mirror an eye a lantern in the darkness. It’s a rock in space. It’s the dang moon we’ve all seen it! Is there something you can notice that’s is more surprising than the moon???
“gender is a social construct”: fairly easy for leftists to understand
“race is a social construct”: a bit harder to swallow for some but still reasonable
“mental illness is a social construct”: this one gets you hate mail in your inbox
Gotta add previous tags on here, because this is gonna live rent free in my head from now on. The stars are real, constellations are not. Damn. Tags by @smoreofbabylon (if you don’t want me to put you on blast like this I’ll delete lol!)
Extremely excellent, very very very autistic quote from Brennan Lee Mulligan:
“Curiosity is love for the world, and when you love something, you want to get to know it more. So when you share facts about crows or pterodactyls or whatever, what you are expressing is gratitude for the ability to exist in and come to understand the beauty of the world around you.”
“When you tell someone that you don’t like all the crow facts, you’re…
"You’re actually saying that you hate me. I am my crow facts.”
“But now, looking back on it, one of the reasons we think it was successful was, as you said, the relationship between Yuri and Victor. But to go further than that, the show managed to break down many, many barriers; whether that’s international borders or linguistic barriers or even barriers regarding gender and sexuality. This was really something that the director and her co-creator focused on: Not to be caught up in these barriers of language, race, gender and sexuality. Instead, to just draw human emotion and human relations. That perhaps more than anything, including the portrayal of those values in Victor and Yuri’s relationship, is what fans have been responding to. Another thing that’s interesting is how most of the characters are in their twenties, either early twenties or mid twenties. For example, Yuri is 24 years old and Victor is 27 years old. Usually, when you have characters who are in their twenties in animation, they are already in position of a “master at their craft.” The idea that somebody in their twenties, like Yuri, could face a lot of setbacks but still work very hard to build up their career again and come back out on top is a theme that isn’t explored too much in current day animation. On top of that, as talked about before, there are so many different characters from so many different countries and so many different backgrounds that it’s probably one of the biggest reasons why it gained so much popularity in an international community. In that same vein, as you know, many characters in animation tend to look older or younger than they really are. For Yuri!!! On Ice, we placed a lot of emphasis on being realistic in terms of portraying the character’s actual age. If the character was 24 years old then he should look 24 years old, and same goes if they were in their 50s, 60s, or 70s. We think that this idea of having a kind of spectrum of all these different ages and age groups was also very appealing.-”
AAAA IM SCARED THATS MY TIKTOK I DID NOT EXPECT TO SEE IT ON TUMBLR
(Thank you tho I’m glad you liked it)
The discussion in the comments was a breath of fresh air! I really enjoyed it
This is not a new concept in feminism. It’s called “benevolent sexism” and discourse around it has been happening since the late 1990’s and perhaps even earlier with different terminology.
There is quite a lot of research on it and the research shows that while men who harbor benevolent sexist beliefs are less likely to sexually assault women, among other things, these men are also more likely to engage in victim blaming, and more likely to negatively judge women for having sex before marriage, relative to men who do not believe in benevolent sexism. Also, benevolent sexism has been shown to harm women in the workplace. And it has been shown to discourage women from seeking help in academic environments.
So while it looks like women are “benefitting” from these attitudes, and they do in some direct, more superficial ways, they are also harmed in some deeper ways.
Furthermore, research has shown that a lot of women find men showing benevolent sexism more attractive as partners, which is dangerous because these men are still likely to hurt women, they are just more likely to do it in ways that are indirect and less likely to be recognized as such, especially in socially-conservative subcultures.
“Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I’m sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:
ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.) I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later.
But the community is fighting back.
Protests are happening every day.
Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed.
THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.”
Sorry but asks are temporarily off and messaging temporarily restricted to those I follow. I will turn it back on eventually though!! Sonic Spocket Wrench. Ari. Early 30s. I like to think, often about fictional characters. I tag for freaking everything. Lots of funny/pretty/informative things interrupted by fits of fandom (...or vice versa.) Also, there's puns. Puns and the ocean. Feel free to talk to me. Cursor by almaasi.
