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Yeah I said something similar yesterday but we can NOT let what happened to Renee Good cloud what happened to everyone else at the hands of these SS Demons!!!
Because we can’t disregard one person if we’re for human rights!
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renee Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y'all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims. (Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com)
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Renee Nicole Good wasn’t the first killed by ICE...
In 2025, ICE murdered: Silverio Villegas Gonzalez Carlos Roberto Montoya Valdez Genry Ruiz Guillén Serawit Gezahagn Dejane Maksym Chernyak Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez Brayan Garzón-Rayo Nhon Ngoc Nguyen Marie Ange Blaise Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado Jesus Molina-Veya Johnny Noviello Isidro Pérez Tien Xuan Phan Chaofeng Ge Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas Oscar Rascon Duarte Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Miguel Ángel García Medina Johnny Noviello Santos Banegas Reyes Ismael Ayala-Uribe Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Miguel Ángel García Medina Huabing Xie Leo Cruz-Silva Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh Josué Castro Rivera Gabriel Garcia Aviles Kai Yin Wong Francisco Gaspar-Andrés Pete Sumalo Montejo Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani Jean Wilson Brutus Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir Delvin Francisco Rodriguez Nenko Stanev Gantchev
In 2026, ICE has murdered 2 people:
Keith Porter [New years eve 2025] Renee Nicole Good
-From the ICE_Raids Community on Reddit
And to all of our lovely WWC Followers, particularly those in the United States:
Take care. Take care of each other, your community, yourselves.
Travel in groups and make sure your loved ones know where you are. And absolutely know your rights.
And even in troubled times, try to find a spark of hope, creativity and comfort and hold onto it. For even joy is resistance.
I feel so insane about ai. I’ve had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say “I guess I’ve used a lot of water.” and I’ve been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I’m THE ONLY PERSON who doesn’t use chatgpt. it’s turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don’t you people see??? why don’t you understand??????? this bullshit didn’t exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything
The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.
I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.
Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!
But let me tell you a story:
I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.
One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.
At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.
I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.
Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.
The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.
And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.
So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.
So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.
By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.
Here’s what I don’t understand about Gamer Bro mentality.
So they’re transphobic, right? And they’re misogynistic, right? So Ghost of Yotei comes out and they’re already having a fit about it because it’s about a woman this time even though the first game is a male protagonist.
Then Erika Ishii is announced to be the voice actor for the female protagonist. And then they have a tantrum because Ishii is nonbinary and uses all pronouns. And they claim it’s too woke.
Ok. But. According to their own logic, Ishii is a woman. And she’s playing a woman. Who- presumably- is cis, but I haven’t played the game yet to actually verify that. So. Why are they having a fit? By their own logic this is a woman playing a woman. What exactly is too woke about that?
Is it just the fact that the studio hired a nonbinary person *at all*?
Is it the fact that they chose to focus on a woman’s perspective this time?
Like she just looks like a Japanese woman to me. Is she not fuckable enough to them? We got plenty of scenes of Jin’s naked backside during hot spring side quests, and one of the things these guys would mention is that it’s only fair to get a shot of Atsu’s as well… and apparently the game followed through and she sure does show back and crack when stepping into the water just like Jin.
It’s just strange to me. Like. Why are you mad that the person you’re calling a woman is playing a woman. Shouldn’t you be happy about that since you refuse to acknowledge the depth of Ishii’s nonbinary and genderqueer experience? You still get your fanservice nudity and it’s a new game from a studio that really knocked it out of the park the first time around. What’s the problem here?
The problem is that the denial of queer identities is only ever a weapon to hurt queer people, not an actual opinion. If transphobes were truly convinced that queer identities aren’t real, they would not make as much of a fuss as they do. In reality there is no clear opinion on the nature of queer identities, other than that queer people are framed as whatever is convenient to hurt them.
Ishii is a woman to them in so far that they consider her a lesser person, a valid target for misogyny, but she is also definitely not a woman to them, if only because she isn’t a willing target for misogyny (by openly identifying as genderqueer, but also otherwise). And both of these on their own are enough for these kinds of people to scream themselves into a rage.
Also, a cis women playing a cis women in a video is already too woke for these people. Usually the voice actor discussion doesn’t actually happen, because the idea that a cis womam character would be voiced by a cis woman voice actor is presumed to be “the natural state of things”. But people are very much already mad about female characters not being “female enough” in other ways (see people freaking out about HZD’s Aloy having peach fuzz on her cheeks, or about how the female protagonist for GTA6 doesn’t fullfill white, western, cishetero beauty stadards).
Women in most games are only tolerated as perfect sex objects to white, straight cis men specifically. Everything that moves a female character further from that ideal (agency, inner lives, body hair, being part of a racialized minority or anything that detracts from their ability to be sexualized under a cishetero male gaze) makes them unacceptable.
There is no voice actor pick that would have made that character more acceptable, only ones that would have given less or different ammunition to the people determined to hate everything that isn’t made specifically for them to consume as a sexual object.
Or aging, as is the case with Ciri from the new Witcher game.
According to these Gamer Bros, this is a mannish, ugly, ancient woman. Because Ciri is no longer 19 like she was in Witcher 3, and is now approximately 30ish.
She just looks like a pretty white woman appximately my age to me. But it’s not actually about her looks. It’s about moving from centering Geralt, a male character, to centering Ciri, a female character. Which has baffled both the studio and also fans who are not Gamer Bros, as the series has always always ALWAYS been about Ciri and centering Ciri from the time of the books. Ciri is the main character by the end of the novels and Geralt is incredibly secondary to the plot. Honestly she’s the main character approximately 3.5 books in, with less and less focus on Geralt as the story goes on, until the last book where he’s in maybe 3 chapters.
But the games have been about Geralt! And since the games are about Geralt, the Gamer Bros are infuriated that they do not get their emotionally constipated stoic and badass representation of their Man Pain. Even though book Geralt is also… nothing like games Geralt.
Let’s not forget that book!Geralt is a disabled man. Something that CDPR already removed because it would have been too much of a headache to mocap him limping, I guess. But let’s face it, the Gamerbros would hate the books either way if they had actually read them, given they are very much feminist in their messaging, and queer inclusive, and a couple of other things that the gamer bros hate.
Like, most of the gamer bros in the end are just tourists who run around looking for games to get angry about. I mean, just look at how they went onto it about Dragon Age Veilguard. Dragon Age, the series that was invented by a queer man, that included queerness from the start. A series where the game that released in 2014 already had a prominent trans male character among the cast. But 2014 was before Gamer Gate. It was before the right wingers realized that they could make grifter money from being angry about anything that was not a white cishet male main character.
notably as someone who has played the witcher 3 a very small amount (I’ve watched my sister play more than I’ve played myself, though I do enjoy it) it’s pretty obvious that Geralt is disabled from a narrative standpoint. Didn’t know specifically that he had a limp in the books, but it is made very clear through the story that there are continuous physical consequences to being a witcher akin to chronic illness. also i personally kinda assumed he had reduced vision due to the bigass scar over his eye, that doesn’t look like something an eyeball comes out unscathed from
So, in the books it is like this: In one of the short stories that happen fairly early in the timeline, he gets almost killed, and while he gets cured with time and magic, he has chronic pain from this and a slight limb, which gets worse during the winter time usually (something that I can say as someone physically disabled is quite true to reality). He has trouble riding sometimes. Usually he obviously still does and has to, but it is very painful to him.
Obviously, this is additionally to him being infertile, due to being a witcher, and generally being considered marginalized within the world. Ironically the thing that still bugs me the most about the games is the way they depict the sexuality. Like, yeah, sure, Geralt, like most allosexual men, likes sex. But he relates very differently to sexuality in the books, as he gets objectified a lot by women, because he is a witcher. It is a very sexist world, obviously, so women get abused. But witchers, due to being marginalized, generally stand beneath human women in the way society views them. And due to him being infertile, he is a very safe target in that regard.
Like, there are several times in the books where he is kinda put into the same situation that the games put women in. Which is so weird. Because in the games (especially the first one) sex exist to titulate a male player - and… it is literally kinda the opposite of how sex functions in the books.
It’s not during a short story but rather one of the main conflicts early on and pretty much the pivotal moment the books stop being about Geralt and start being about Ciri. He’s beaten badly with an iron staff, within an inch of his life, and has a broken femur as well as a broken arm and several broken ribs. It then plagues him for the entirety of the rest of the story, various moments where his leg gives out under him as he tries to fight or carry someone or even ride his horse. Multiple doctors and healers pretty much tell him there’s nothing they can do to help, and when he’s hurting he’s usually in a pretty shitty mood and is snapping at everyone over little things. Which, having chronic knee pain myself that doctors have just kind of gone 🤷♂️ about, I feel that.
Considering he is [redacted] by the end of the books and the games magically undo all of that, my assumption was always that they magically all-better’d his leg as well. A couple NPCs mention it in the first two games. It’s very missable in Wild Hunt, however, but he does complain about his leg if you take fall damage and survive. Maybe that’s why you die when falling more than 3 feet in the game. God knows I want to die if I hit the ground too hard with my leg in the shape it’s in, and it was never broken.
He doesn’t have any vision problems despite the scar, though. While Witchers do as a demographic have tons of scars due to the violent nature of their profession, they heal really rapidly and so his eye is fine. Ironically this rapid healing may have a hand in why his leg hurts so much, as it’s implied there’s only so much magic could do and that it’s healed “wrong” to the point where even re-breaking to correct the set will only make it worse. Regis says something about it being mostly nerve pain and the nerves misfiring to make him feel the pain in his knee even though the bone broke in the center. Narcotics will dull the pain but they’re also addictive and Geralt needs to be sharp, so they’re not an option either.
Ciri also has a pretty gnarly scar on her face by this time, worse than what they have in the games as the books say she is “disfigured” and “nearly unrecognizable” with it. She took a pretty nasty blow to the face that then wasn’t allowed to be stitched or heal properly for weeks, and also nearly died from infection due to it, but they prettied her up for the games. It covers most of that side of her face and multiple people reel back in shock when they see it. It’s just a little line on her cheek in the games but it’s way more than that in the books.
A lot of book fans have complained about the way the game series treats sex and I won’t rehash outside of to say that the very first Witcher game opens with Triss raping Geralt by deception and treats it like it’s a good thing, while the rest of the games really fumble how that affects everything else. This is not particularly out of character for Triss (who in the books rapes Geralt by drugging him repeatedly) or for Geralt (whose attraction to Triss existed prior to being drugged and has very uncomfortable and complicated feelings about the whole thing), but is treated by other characters as though it’s his fault for trusting her and sleeping with her while he was vulnerable rather than rebuke her for her part (which does happen in the books- Yennefer very clearly is aware and angry towards Triss about it even though she’s not much better tbh, whereas in the games Yen is furious with Geralt for… the same situation?).
He’s also seen trading sexual favors for information or assistance in his plotline with women who lust after him. He’s not particularly unhappy about the arrangement, but it’s interesting to see a man put in the position where he offers sexual services to a woman he needs help from, something that most of the fantasy genre put exclusively in a female character’s skillset. In Season of Storms, he also needs to beat up a man he’s jailed with for trying to rape him, but is then seen as friendly and accepting to other gay and bi men later in the book.
But the books also have a lot of “girls are just as good as boys at doing things” and “a woman’s reproductive choices are hers and hers alone to make” and “if you rape someone you’re a monster and deserve to be hunted down and killed” and “some people are gay Harold” that these Gamer Bros would consider too woke, despite being written before white people knew the damn word, so I always have a hard time believing any of them have actually read the source material. Considering I got a lot of guff for mentioning that despite being canonically bi according to Sapkowski, within the text Ciri’s vocally fairly uninterested in men outside of some childish curiosity when she’s like 12. I wonder how the studio will handle this since she is now an adult woman. I do hope they at least have the option for Ciri to romance a woman, instead of only men.
I admittedly get really 🥹🥹🥹 whenever I see mama animals and baby animals (due to my issues and problems) but there’s something so charming and awesome about mama animals that are just kind of bad at handling baby animals. Like what the hell girl.
*And to be clear I specifically mean that To Me as a clueless human with little animal knowledge, mama animal appears to have just shown up on the job today and is figuring out baby animal as she goes. Maybe she’s doing a good job and I just can’t tell.
…let’s get dangled by our tail by mama… this post was an excuse to upload this photo, I’m just so enamored.
The ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, is “what the fuck is 6 7”
The computer, sadly, misinterpreted the space as multiplication.
Truly the best possible outcome this post could’ve had
I’ve been confusing the kids who shout it, by saying ‘at last! The question!’
To start with they were sniggering at me, but after three weeks of persistence and a couple of other adults playing along, they are genuinely getting worried I know something they don’t.
Update: Sauron is not afraid of hobbits. He was unaware that hobbits existed up until very recently. he literally did not have time to be afraid of them, they went from a 0 to 100 threat level in twenty seconds. There he was, minding his own business worrying about the usual Elves and Men when suddenly these kids are on his lawn and now he’s dead, like just;
What did— who–
did I just get one-shotted by an infant how is this occurring
Honestly I have to love this whole thought process that the Fellowship must have cultivated in Sauron, like…
“These children have found the Ring! But they’re taking it to the elves, of course. I will simply have to catch them on the way.”
“Well, the elves are still not to be trifled with, it seems. It looks as though they have a group of intrepid heroes, how cute! Wait, who’s leading them? Aw, hell.”
“OKAY! Olorin’s out of the way, and now I can finally kill them all and reclaim the- OH DAMMIT, IT’S IN LOTHLORIEN.”
“Well, okay. They’ve taken it onward. Curunir says one of the halflings is still carrying the ring, so he’s going to capture them and we’ll see how this develops. Thankfully Olorin’s still out of the picture and their little group just shattered into pieces, so that’s one less thing to worry about.”
“Aaaaaand Curunir shat the bed. Excellent. Trees, who would have thought? Okay, so we’re back to plan A: conquer Gondor, because if the Ring’s going to be anywhere, it’ll be there.”
“Wait, who’s on the– Isildur’s WHAT? Ohhhh. Ohohoho. Oh now everything makes sense. Isildur’s Heir is back, and he’s here being all prideful again. That’s fine. Really. I’ll just crush him and his kingdom, and then nobody can stop me!”
“WHAT? FUCKING WHAT? THEY SENT HIM BACK? Ugh, alright, alright, I’m cool, I’m fine. He’s still got that stupid wizard costume on, and I’m still stronger than he ever was. It’s not like he can come toe to toe with me, even if he does have an army behind him. This’ll be fine.”
“They’re… actually marching on the Black Gate? Sweet lord, I didn’t think they’d actually do it! This is perfect, everyone’s right here! Olorin, the human princeling, most of the remaining fighting forces of Men, all I have to do is kill them now and– Wait. Someone just put on the Ring. Someone just– That’s a halfling. They’re inside the mouNTAIN OH GOD NAZGUL GO GO G–”
…aaaaaand curtain.
you can laugh but that is literally what happened
This is the single best brief summary I have ever seen of the entire point of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I feel like Wake Up Dead Man is the first time I’ve seen Blanc squash down a part of himself. Its a little moment, its so small, but when Jud gets in the car, and the musical song starts playing, he immediately turns it off. We get from this movie the implication that he grew up in a religious household, we know he’s queer, he explicity has problem with the misogynistic and homophobic nature of religion. So when a priest gets in his car and a musical theatre song starts playing, it potentially gives something away to a man who could see wrong in Blanc for something he loves. And maybe I’m reading too much into it, but even though Jud has shown nothing but kindness and gentleness, we (and Blanc) had not seen his reaction to queer people. It is perfectly reasonable to worry about the reaction of a priest to something that could get you labelled as queer.
Haven’t seen anyone talking about it here, but vocal transfeminist and writer Tara Knight has been sent a threat from the fbi insisting that she stop speaking about “radical gender ideology” and get rid of the past 3 years of her work.
A black trans woman is getting personally threatened by the fbi for being a transfeminist. What the fuck. Hopefully this gets more reach than my usual posts so that people who are able to can support her.
“The ultimate goal of this specific act of repression is not just to subjugate trans people, but to erase the very fact of trans existence from public life and legal recognition. They’re not afraid of people like this building an army, they’re terrified of them building an audience. I am here to suggest that maybe they should be afraid of us building an army.”
