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public transport should be free for everyone forever and I am not kidding. it’s not my fault that I’m disabled and poor and need to get places

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Perks of being without sin:

Free to cast stones just whenever

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This is fair enough and I’ve definitely seen people find the unreality tag helpful, but I’ve also seen people on the psychotic disorder tags asking for a more sensible tag like ‘joke post’ or ‘misinformation’ that doesn’t make a silly joke seem like something scary and potentially  triggering and assuming they can’t understand a very obvious joke.

Just coz a bunch of people tell you unreality is the best tag for this doesn’t mean YOU have to accept it, you’re not required to take condescension in exchange for safety, you can think it over and ask for more sensible tags that don’t treat you like a bomb waiting to go off. If that tag IS unreality, then fair enough, but in this particular case, it may not be. (If it seems like I'm making a big deal out of this, I’m related to several schizophrenics, and even mild exclusion like this from the rest of the family caused long term problems that took time to fix, that's why I think it has to be discussed.)

The idea that eugenics is only murder/sterilisation IS what keeps eugenics thinking alive in society, eugenics is built into our lives at the very core and needs to be dismantled. The posts I see going around saying people with psychotic disorders will be instantly confused and triggered without an unreality tag, despite the fact that people scroll past shit they don’t get every day on this site with no issue and the origin post was circulating widely, is exactly the type of rhetoric that gets used to discriminate and deny opportunities  to people with this issue.

This site is very, very good at using social justice language to make people participate in their own marginalisation. People being considerate to you is great, but you have to examine if they’re doing it with accessibility in mind or whether they’re assuming you’re weak and helpless and too stupid to function (we all know that even well intentioned people have unexamined prejudices). If you don't learn to recognise the difference, they will convince you that they're being super, super nice by helping you while not taking time to think about whether there are better ways to do things. Working out actual accessibility by trial and error is messy and difficult and involves arguments like we're having now on this post, and reading this is probably stressing you out as much as writing it does to me, since I'm also neurodivergent. We still have to do it though, because that's how things get better.

To the people urging every fictional goncharov post be tagged unreality, y’all realize many people with psychotic disorders  have the unreality tag BLOCKED, right? So they’ll just see the posts calling goncharov fake while the actual joke will be blocked from their dash. Y’all are just excluding people from the joke based on ableist assumptions. Infantilizing people with mental disorders is just eugenics with extra steps.

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Father of 16 year old Kumar, a protestor who was killed by the forces of Islamic Republic.

“I named him Kumar(Republic) and I’m fortunate that he became a martyr for his land and for his freedom. It’s a pain you don’t understand. You don’t understand. My heart is torn to shreds….But let his sacrifice be for this land. For freedom. They will kill all of you. He was innocent I swear to god. He had no health problems they killed him. They have no mercy. Don’t help them. Don’t sell your soul. Don’t sell your people.”

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To the people urging every fictional goncharov post be tagged unreality, y’all realize many people with psychotic disorders  have the unreality tag BLOCKED, right? So they’ll just see the posts calling goncharov fake while the actual joke will be blocked from their dash. Y’all are just excluding people from the joke based on ableist assumptions. Infantilizing people with mental disorders is just eugenics with extra steps.

#goncharov #ableism #eugenics

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Catch up Wisptober Day 8: Cuckoo

 " The king of the Changelings and his loyal birds were always a rare sight at the fairy court. It seems that strange Mornach loved much more to walk the human realm.“ Slowly catching up! I really needed a bit of time off after October but I am slowly getting back to those last 3 days I missed! :)

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Flirting in the Photo Booth by Ratrusty

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Goncharov (1973)

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I want everybody to know it was LGBT people at the club who stopped the piece of shit who did this. Not the fucking cops. Two LGBTQ people stopped him. They shouldn't have had to obviously because this shouldn't have happened but never ever fucking forget we are absolutely capable of fighting back and defending ourselves and WE protect each other.

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As of this writing, Goncharov has been added and removed from the Martin Scorsese filmography Wikipedia page 7 times.

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@galaxygolfergirl shared a great intro bio to Matteo JWHJ 0715 but I just wanted to share more historical context, since everything I’ve been seeing is always about Scorcese?

“To understand Matteo JWHJ 0715 (born Matteo Scioccihezze), one must to understand that, as a young queer man growing up isolated in Catholic post-war Italy, he mentally retreated from the legacy of Mussolini’s Italy and into that of Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) and his anarcho-utopian pirate commune-state of Fiume.

At the end of WWI, the town of Fiume (now Rijeka in Croatia) was annexed by Gabriele D’Annunzio: a superstar poet, daredevil pilot, war hero, and libertine—and the self-appointed champion of Italian irredentism.

The town became a haven for ‘artists, bohemians, adventurers, anarchists (D’Annunzio corresponded with Malatesta), fugitives and Stateless refugees, homosexuals, military dandies (the uniform was black with pirate skull and crossbones later stolen by the SS), and crank reformers of every stripe (including Buddhists, Theosophists and Vedantists).’

Matteo’s earliest works, the short films collectively titled ‘Tales of the Dog’, feature narrated lines recited directly from D’Annunzio’s poetry. These mark the end point of a period in the young artist’s life where he looked to Fiume as a lost paradise of tolerance, much as some queer artists of the Romantic Era idealised Ancient Greece. But Fiume was more complicated than Matteo initially understood at the time, and his family’s personal history would later magnify a changed relationship to what turned out to be an ahistorical, imagined utopia.

Matteo was only five years old when his older brother Macarero died during the Four Days of Naples, when antifascist partisans and local resistance fighters liberated Naples from the occupying Nazi forces. Matteo’s memories of a half-forgotten, heroic older brother contrasted sharply with his living father, whose rejection of his queer son yielded the iconic surname change from ‘Scioccihezze’ to that of Matteo’s license plate, ‘JWHJ 0715.’

Many in the fascist movement looked to Fiume as foundational. Even the aesthetics of modern fascism have Fiume at their roots: black shirts and balcony speeches were products of D’Annunzio’s artistic flair. Fascism had killed his brother and dominated his country. For Matteo, a Marxist, the recollection of his early seduction by the myth of Fiume forever deepened his understanding of human nature. His greatest work is haunted by the admixture of poetry, romantic anarchism, proto-fascism, and violence that distinguished D’Annunzio’s disastrous utopia.

This Fiume connection is necessary to understand the undercurrent of nauseated fascination that typifies the director’s engagement with the fascist national mythology of ‘belonging.’ It gives scenes like the gunfight in Pompeii or the kitchen stabbing their lurid, nightmarish treatment. When Matteo combines violence and historical or intimate settings—symbolising the fascistic appeal to tribalism as security —they are presented with the alluring yet repugnant sensuality of an overripe fruit in a still-life.

Goncharov’s yearning for acceptance is portrayed as fundamentally repulsive because it is pursued by violent domination. The character’s happy ending would be acceptance in his Italian context and achieving a bisexual polyamorous relationship with Katya and Andrey. Yet Goncharov consistently rejects all opportunities to pursue this through any means but brutality. To Goncharov, the possibility of escaping the cycle of violence is more frightening than either violence or his current alienation: the only safety he believes in comes from the violent subjugation of others.

Other gangster movies deal with the instability of love or power bought with violence. The average viewer usually feels safely distanced from that moral message. Goncharov looks like any other mob movie, but its unflinching portrayal of human yearning for acceptance as a motivation for violence is unique.”

—Morgan Russo, The Body Fascistic: Eroticism, Leather, & Desire in the Postwar Imagination (2011, Tlön Press)

#Tlön Press! #wondered when we were gonna get there

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always a delight to find out that a goofy person is actually also very sincere

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“no matter what form you take, homura-chan is homura-chan. falling in love with someone is wonderful, so don’t call yourself the devil. i love you” Aoi Yuki, Madoka’s voice, when asked to say something to homura in-character.

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Le Figaro have a newly published photograph from inside Notre Dame shortly before the roof collapsed, as molten lead fell into the nave. (+)

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Lol, I just saw a post that was like, “If you have this belief, your favourite character would hate you.” Have we done it? Have we actually gone full circle? Our faves think *we* are problematic?

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absolutely losing it