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the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.
the second best is the one the author used to work through some issues.
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it's funny whenever i post dinluke i always get comments along the lines of "why do people ship these two they only met once" and its like bestie. babygirl. ok first off it's about the Themes™/dynamics/potential, not how many times they've met in "canon" and 2. when i was a teenager the biggest ship in my favourite fandom was two guys who'd never even interacted and you think its weird people ship two guys that acually met?? in real life canon?? they literally made eye contact, that's like the fanon-shipping equivalent of third base
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when todd from mario was originally being drawn, the initial prompt was for julia to “draw a possum” (which was combined with karina misreading “toad from mario” as “todd from mario”). the thing is, i have no idea if todd was meant to be a possum or an opossum. yes, there is a difference, i will provide pictures below. my assumption was that he was an opossum (especially going off his hairless tail), but the way he’s coloured in art and on the plushie makes him look like he’s meant to be a possum. so, tumblr, i turn to you.
as a reminder, here is todd
possum:
opossum:
okay for some reason tumblr didn’t post the possum photo i included so here’s one, initially i used a common brushtail possum but i realised golden brushtails match todd’s colouring. may or may not affect your response.
Reblogged orphetoon
Reblogged cassyapper
Recovery after the promised day
Reblogged glimturner
Free bumper sticker design for any Floridians who want it
This was intended to be a 30 note shitpost for my Florida mutuals but I forgot that actually everyone loathes Ron DeSantis. Genuinely heartwarming 🥹
Reblogged owllover2319
Also ☝️ it's interesting to me how despite fading more into obscurity the further we get from 1947, the ~ vibe ~ of the Old Hollywood Diva was such an iconic flavor of femininity that she still persists as sort of an echo in certain speech patterns and mannerisms, mainly found in gay people, miss piggy, and this horse
[ID: Rarity from my little pony: friendship is magic. /end ID]
I don't think a cisgender heterosexual woman who says Dahling 💅 has been born more recently than 1925 but you know who does? This horse. And gay people. For what it's worth I think the horse is gay too but I digress
There's a stand-up comic/magician who has been showing up in my YouTube shorts who also has this persona, and I just started watching at first to try to figure out if this was some kind of living history thing where she played a 40s Hollywood diva sent forward in time
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I am privileged to have health insurance- compared to someone who does not. I am also disadvantaged in that I must pay part of my paycheck to obtain insurance and after receiving care compared to someone on government-supplied healthcare. Additionally, due to the way healthcare is supplied via income, I am also privileged in other ways compared to someone who is on government healthcare. My income is higher- and thus the thing which disqualifies me from state healthcare also opens other doors to me in regards to food, housing, and especially luxury items.
But none of these things make me an oppressor of those without health insurance, or those with less income. I can be- but oppression is action, not existence. The way I vote, the way I speak and act, the people and causes and organizations I support- those are actions, and those can certainly further oppression. I become an oppressor by voting for politicians who gut healthcare protections and benefits. But the act of using my insurance card when I check in for my annual exam is less an act of oppression than it is a- non-consensual- participation in an oppressive system by which every resident within my country is caged.
A system of oppression affects everyone who lives under it- and as a result it is a shared burden to labor to break free of its chains. It is not enough to recognize one's participation- however coerced- in the system. If we truly want to be rid of it, such a task requires all of us who recognize its harm and our roles within the system to actively choose to enact changes which dismantle said system at its root. Even at the cost of our relative positions of privilege- pushing for a single-payer universal healthcare system means I will no longer be privileged over those without insurance. But it will eliminate both the large portions of my income devoted to medical expenses, as well as those who have gone without to finally be able to access the medicine and doctors they have been unable to afford.
To many, the concept of privilege is one that implies things are better for those who are privileged, and worse for those who are disadvantaged. The idea of losing privilege then becomes one in which things become worse for you if this occurs. But in the example of access to affordable healthcare, losing my privilege is a net gain, not a loss. I am no longer at a position of advantage- at least, not in that way- over those who do not have insurance. But- that is because we all have insurance, and better yet my position has actually improved along with the disadvantaged, as neither us us now faces the looming medical debt a single injury or illness may incur. In losing my privilege, the world has improved for everyone under the system.
But what happens when things are not so clear cut? After all- there are only so many variables to determine someone's insured status, and this is a conversation that has been building for as long as health insurance companies have existed. What happens when there's more nuance- what happens when this privilege is more transient, more changeable, less solidly defined? What happens when the question of privilege does not have a simple answer of "have" or "have not"?
I am mixed race- black, indigenous, and Irish. I've received a multitude of guesses within my everyday life, guesses containing many different ethnicities, races, and origins with varying levels of correctness. The only common thread seems to be "not white". Well, the Irish are considered white in this era, and I'm Irish. But the tone of my skin is clearly "of color", so it's difficult to say that I would experience any white privilege. Being mixed race, I'm usually recognized as black, but I am also lighter skinned than many within the black diaspora, but neither am I white-passing as most of these guesses do not assume that I have a white parent. To add onto that, I am not usually recognized as indigenous in my everyday life, unless I am interacting directly with other indigenous people.
I am, of course, more than willing to say I have light-skinned privilege, though that is distinctly separate from white privilege. But who is privileged in a comparison of two severely oppressed demographics? Does America's Native population have systemic privilege over America's black diaspora? Or is it the other way around? What happens when we recognize that both demographics can- and have- contributed to each other's oppression? Or that both demographics have also lifted each other up out of the mire that is racial discrimination? How do we address the participation- however forced- in the system of white supremacy while also dismantling said system to the betterment of all? And how do we prevent ourselves from acting like starving dogs, fighting over scraps while those who created the system eat like kings?
Similarly- what are we meaning by saying the word "privilege"? In the example of healthcare, the ability to pay for an expensive doctor visit is a clear privilege compared to someone who will quickly become bankrupt in the face of a medical emergency. When we discuss this as a matter of race, we see preferential treatment in medical and employment situations. We see more political and social weight. We see protections in education and finance. We see differences in policing and hate crimes. How do we measure who has it "better" when comparing two populations with centuries of deep racial trauma? How can we say who has it worse when both races are historically- and even into the present day- treated as a subhuman plague only good for slave labor and exotic trophy brides?
I am light-skinned, and- while usually recognizably black- somewhat ambiguously "of color". In this, there are ways in which my life differs from my relatives who are darker skinned, more unambiguously black or Native. I am still oppressed, I still am forced to operate under the system of white supremacy. I may still utilize my position under this system in a way that furthers the oppression of those very same relatives. And, if I want things to get better in a meaningful way, I must be willing to give up my relative privilege and recognize that position I hold in order to bring about change by dismantling the system at its root.
At what point does it stop mattering who has it "better" or "worse"- and matter more instead the recognition of one's place within these systems, and how one may be equipped to bring about a change that improves the lives of many? What matters more- determining who the most oppressed person in the room is? Or recognizing one's own complacency in a system that hurts them, and finding a way to break the pattern? If we can level the playing field- such as with the healthcare example- would that not be better for all of us?
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“I hate school I’m sorry Malala”- Funny yet poignant. Acknowledges both the difficulty of the task and the fact that doing that task is a privilege. Gives credit to the people who fought for that privilege with a tongue in cheek acknowledgement of the irony of the initial statement
“I’m just a girl I should be home baking bread not doing calculus” - at best historically uninformed at worst leaps decades back in time. Refusal to acknowledge the charged history of education and slights the centuries of women’s labor it took to reach this point
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tbh, sometimes the “platonic explanation for this” is the more interesting one
Reblogged habeascorpseus
tbh, sometimes the “platonic explanation for this” is the more interesting one