The more the bear identity is mainstreamed, the more it gets sanitised. The more you get people insisting it doesn't mean what it means, that it's just for "buff and mayyybe a little chubby" "dad bod" "strongman build" whatever euphemism they can to deny fat men a place in their own community.
Fat hairy gay men built this place for themselves and now you're barging in and pretending they never belonged there.
Idea: a young man realizes his "imaginary friend" he had through all his childhood was just his future self, appearing to him intangibly as a guide to help him. He didn't realize they were themselves, because she looks quite different in the future.
It’s unhinged to assume that someone’s taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.
That is a bonkers assumption to make.
I’m tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.
I’m tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold– that they should be afraid of fiction’s dire influence on a reader’s moral decay or that it’s a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.
IMPORTANT: VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION TO AGE VERIFICATION LAW IF YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA-STOP AB3080
The California age bill verification will be voted in monday, please call your reps and tell them to oppose the bill AB3080 as it threathens online privacy, as your ID will be linked to your browser history when you want to access a website.
They deem LGBT content harmful to minors, as well as weapons and tobacco, putting them on the same level as nsfw content.
Since a lot of tech companies resides in California (Youtube,Reddit,Discord,twitter) who know how they will implement this if it passes.
Please take actions here (a script is included to help you)
https://www.defendonlineprivacy.com/ca/action.php
Find your rep here
https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
You can also send faxes using this https://faxzero.com/
If you don't live in California,please spread the word and urge others to take actions, make posts and wteets using the hashtags AB3080 and NoOnAB3080
Remind your reps that companies pull out a of a state when they are required to do age verification. California cannot afford to lose that kind of money. Also specifically speak to Reps who are potentially losing votes or are more easily persuaded by telling them how popular this could be for their careers.
Okay but seriously it says a lot that we are totally willing to play in the space of using CRISPR to purposefully drive mosquitoes to extinction but seemingly not willing to use it for like. I dunno. Eradication of rabies. Which I'm not saying is a simple prospect by any means but it's surely not any more or less radical than intentional eradication of keystone populations. Like if we're gonna play god maybe we should take it a bit slower.
Hey guys, I have a very worrying update from @haneenatya. Her mother's condition has considerably worsened, and she needs immediate medical care now. She had a stroke and she is bleeding from her eye, the same eye she had a stroke in and had surgery on a while back. She needs another emergency surgery in Egypt but right now she's still stuck in Ghazzah where they can't possibly operate on her due to the overcapacity of the hospitals nearby.
I'm not sure how much time we have left before the damage is permanent. Please spread this fundraiser around, and get people to donate: