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glompcat · 27 minutes
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maybe masculinity is ok. even trans/queer masculinity. have you considered that? have you yet considered that trans men and mascs arent gender traitors and we are just another gender? have you considered that telling pre t trans dudes that if they had facial hair theyd look like a sexual predator is really fucked up, especially with the traits of sexual assault on trans people? have you considered that maybe you shouldnt be telling real trans people that the body hair and facial hair and bottom growth they got on t that theyre celebrating about because they finally feel like themselves is actually gross and u dont want it and ud feel bad if u got it and its ugly? whatever happened to inside thoughts
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glompcat · 4 hours
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I saw a post a few days ago which of course I’ll never find again.  It was a politics-related tweet that was basically saying that as more women under 40 go into politics, it is inevitable that people will weaponize nude photos/sexts/things they did online when they were 20 against them (not to say this hasn’t already happened, just that it will happen more and more).  And we collectively need to get a lot firmer and better at saying “This is irrelevant, a huge number of women have done this, and it shouldn’t matter to her reputation or career” or else the general effect will be to deter women who have ever done anything sexual on the internet (sending a racy photo to a partner, or writing spicy fanfic) from entering politics at all.  
And it’s not just about politics.  More and more published authors, for instance, have also written fanfic, but a combination of factors (including AO3’s existence) means it’s easier to track those things down now and weaponize them.  If we want to have aspiring politicians and authors not just say “ugh well I guess I’ll never publish anything/never hold public office because I don’t want to deal with the harassment”, we need to get louder and clearer about saying that having done or written about sexual things is normal and common and doesn’t impact a person’s worth or reputation or skill in a totally different field.    
Think really hard about the general climate that’s being created when women, LGBT+ people, and POC, are made to feel ashamed and afraid if they decide to speak up that someone is going to dredge up something they said online, or a photo they took, and use it to try and discredit them.  Who exactly benefits from that?  Does the world feel safer if a person who wrote a darkfic a decade or two ago doesn’t get their next novel published? Or if a woman who sent nude pics to her boyfriend is forced to resign from office because he leaked them to the public? Do you think that this type of extremely broad net is only going to catch the “bad” people and leave the “good” ones unscathed? Are publishers going to start saying “hm the last time we published a book by someone who was a fanfic author, it turned into a giant publicity disaster, but we’ll definitely take a chance on the next one who comes along!” Which voices are at risk of being drowned out by this environment of fear?
Because if the only answer that comes out of this is “women, LGBT+ people, and POC will inevitably get trashed for anything even remotely sexual they do in public (and some things they did in private),” the world is a poorer place for it.  
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glompcat · 6 hours
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glompcat · 8 hours
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DW books: the CIA (celestial intervention agency) is a faceless organization that knows everything about everyone. One wrong move and it will be as if you never existed to begin with.
DW audios: this is Narvin he’s the head of the CIA we know his full name, chapter, and House. We also know he’s bad at 1. Sneaking around and 2. Lying. He needs prior authorization to do anything and if Romana or Leela get mad at him he will cry.
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glompcat · 10 hours
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glompcat · 12 hours
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the most frustrating thing about dr who's extended universe is that it's so full of cool ideas and wonderful stories that no one outside a very specific subset of dedicated maniacs will ever experience
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glompcat · 12 hours
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Two other gems in that photo album, photographed badly with my phone because I am kinda scared of damaging them if I remove them from the album
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Also bonus - my dad in the esteemed 90s computer room
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Was looking through an old photo album, and as always happens when I do that I had to laugh at my literal baby dyke self
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glompcat · 12 hours
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Was looking through an old photo album, and as always happens when I do that I had to laugh at my literal baby dyke self
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glompcat · 15 hours
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If EVERYBODY in your life hates your significant other then they are the problem. If it is one or two people like a family member you have a turbulent relationship with and one friend who’s always been kind of jealous, maybe they just hate your success. But most of the time that is not the case and the people who are closest to you and love you and have had your back for years probably know when your new relationship is toxic and/or doomed.
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glompcat · 17 hours
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the leftism leaving people's bodies when you tell them making fun of someone's appearance is always objectively scummy even if the person they're making fun of is bad
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glompcat · 19 hours
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Anyone else getting really fucking sick of this support:condemn dichotomy where folks online act like the only two possible responses to anything ever are to wholeheartedly support it or wholeheartedly condemn it?
"Oh you said that you dont think that random stranger should be sent full on death threats and doxxed for their iffy artwork? Why do you support racism" how about we all go outside and interact with real people and see how they react when you say things like that!
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glompcat · 21 hours
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glompcat · 23 hours
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Another story from the aquarium is that a seal had just given birth and I was talking to one of the seal keepers and asked if seals mate for life and she said no, the mom has now moved on and is trying to mate with another female seal. The male apparently couldn’t care less about either her or the pup, and apparently the other female seal is now playing with the baby seal and helping to teach him how to seal. Bisexual top mom and her girlfriend, who is not the step seal but the seal who stepped up. Anyway imagine if you had an absentee father but he lives in the same house as you, sure it’s a big house but you see each other all the time he just never talks to you.
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glompcat · 1 day
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I think a good analogy for stranger danger mass panic is that it’s like if all fire-prevention stuff for buildings was premised on the assumption that buildings only ever catch fire from arsonist attacks
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glompcat · 1 day
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glompcat · 1 day
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the exaggerated threat of “not like other girls” circling back to just vilifying women who don’t conform to femininity. but this time it’s #feminist to ridicule them bc they’re the real misogynists for not liking makeup and pink
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glompcat · 1 day
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