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#fandom stuff #miss congeniality

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#podfics #polls #I do not think my voice is suited to it lmao

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mustard for the ask meme. Clearly this is the best answer

The Meme

Mustard: "You have correct takes on literally everything"

This is emphatically not true but thank you anyway

#Anonymous #phoenix answers memes #I have frequently had very wrong takes in fact #but that's life baby! You grow! You learn!

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Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

#current events #protesting #columbia #columbia university #gaza #palestine

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Please keep posting about this Taylor Swift situation. it's so entertaining and hilarious to me. It's not the drama it's the absurdity and ridiculousness of it all that has me hooked.

god theres sooooo many shenanigans that have happened over the years but if we’re talking right now, then uh, here is a story in pictures involving a (justified) bad review for her album

the extremely normal fandom is trying to doxx and harass literally every member of staff they can find at this publication. they were also tweeting gifs of exploding buildings at them and saying “this will be ur hq” and yeah, its likely jokes, but they’re flying pretty close to an investigation there lmao

#current events #journalism #taylor swift #doxxing

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for the hucow-wan au, how does Obi-wan process having the twins once he's started recovering mentally? Who is the primary parent once Obi-wan is recovered?

Context: This insanity

Oh, I think it depends very heavily on how long it takes him to recover.

Obviously, it's gonna take at least a couple months to get to the point of finishing the pregnancy and giving birth and all that, and then at least a couple months after that to get back into fighting-fit form so to speak, and given the issues that the induced, and ongoing, lactation caused… it's going to take a while to get back in shape and not have the lactation be an issue. It wouldn’t normally be an issue, but for how intensely it impacted the rest of him, and how intensely it's tied to his mental health at that time.

I do think that he is sent out to the war as soon as he's fighting fit, though. Which means that he is probably back in the field and in battle before the twins reach a year old. In that respect, it only really makes sense for Anakin to be the primary caregiver if they don't go to the crèche, and well… I do think that Obi-Wan would want them in the crèche, in part because it is better protected than most of the temple, and definitely better protected than the suite he got with Anakin, but also because he thinks that they need friends. It makes sense to me that Anakin would go with them and make it part of his duties in the temple, as their ‘guest.’ If nothing else, to help out with the crèchemaster since their numbers are also depleted, and every helping hand is one that's greatly appreciated. I think that once he's away from the Temple, Obi-Wan does start to sort of… dissociate himself from the idea of being the birthing parent of the twins, I guess?

And that is just a very, very complicated situation all around, because he feels so distanced from his children when he does return for a visit, or for Ahsoka to take a test or something, and it throws him, to see how close Anakin is with these children that Obi-Wan has trouble relating to, now that he is no longer feeding them every day. Like, part of him does really, truly love them, and he obviously can’t blame them for anything, but he is also viscerally reminded of what he went through every time he sees them.

Which isn't their fault, obviously? And there are a lot of things that do remind him of that time, not the least the which is his own body, but it does make things kind of awkward.

He does try to push through it, because he thinks that the children deserve better than for him to avoid them at any turn.

Also there’s at least one instant of Obi-Wan encountering Palpatine while he’s with Anakin and the twins, and Palpatine shows just a shade too much interest in the twins and Anakin is rabidly protective, enough so that Obi-Wan has to make excuses for him because Holy Shit, My Dude, You Can’t Just Say Things Like That To The Chancellor.

#self reblog

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#current events #columbia protests #columbia university #nyc #nypd

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tell me

#ask memes #to be deleted

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#fandom stuff #antm #A WARLOCK

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My cartoon for this weekend’s @guardian books

#comics #writing jokes

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This machine kills AI

#art #artificial intelligence #ai art

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Being autistic is weird because I think I'd be entirely entirely immune to the maddening effects of witnessing an Elder God but learning that barnacles are arthropods rather than molluscs nearly gave me an existential crisis

#animals #barnacles #molluscs #arthropods #squid

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We're crazy with my friend on fem shuggy

(Mini warning, I might have fuck up in the word ";9)

#fandom stuff #one piece #gender bending #shuggy #I love it when people draw fem!buggy as absolutely STACKED

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Arc Troopers Fives and Echo

#fandom stuff #star wars #the clone wars

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Jesus christ, I wish to just one day be this pinnacle of wit, horniness, and sacrilege.

#sex mention #religion #heresy #tower of babel

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Suggested Listening: Columbia Protests (as of 4/25/24)

Alright, folks, I've seen a couple different approaches to this situation, and I think there's something to be learned from each of the below. I know some of them have a contested reputation, but all media sources have a bias and I will be including some context on those biases.

The podcasts I'm sharing are:

The Daily (New York Times)

The Take (Al Jazeera)

Democracy Now! (independent radio broadcast)

Global News Podcast (BBC Radio)

It's come up a few times on NPR as well, but not in enough detail for me to include. I will be linking Spotify, but these are all available elsewhere, though official transcripts can take several days.

The Daily - April 25th, 2024: This podcast is a production of The New York Times. The paper is left-leaning, but has a noted bias towards Israel, and has run into trouble on trans issues in the recent past. The podcast is further left, though still more cautiously moderate than something like Democracy Now; the podcast has previously been responsible for fact checks against the more biased NYT opinion pieces.*

Why you should listen to it: This episode provides the most comprehensive timeline to what has happened, in what order, and why certain actions have been taken. It is notably more sympathetic to Columbia University President Shafik than other coverage, though that may just be the natural result of explaining the current political pressures. It is still more sympathetic to the protesters than to her, but I do think this is helpful for establishing a timeline of events. It is not the only one, and I will share another below.

* That infamous article about the alleged systemic sexual violence that Hamas committed on Oct. 7th was put through a fact checker by the podcast team when it came time to do an episode about it, and the inability to substantiate it led to not only the episode being cancelled, but the article itself being (quietly) edited to note that it was not substantiated. The NYT did not handle it well, but I want to make it clear that the podcast team is independent in many respects, and while I've taken issue with some of their episodes, they often have more comprehensive coverage of certain matters.

The Take - April 25th, 2024: This is a podcast from the English-speaking branch of Al Jazeera, a Qatari news organization that, while independent, does receive a certain amount of funding from the Qatari government. By that measure, I do hesitate to place it on a left-right scale due to existing outside the Western political spectrum. As a Middle Eastern, Arab news org, Al Jazeera provides a perspective much closer to the action than others, and one that is generally much more sympathetic to Muslim and Arab voices. It is also, like the others on this list, an award-winning journal. At this time, Al Jazeera is considered one of the most reliable news sources for information on what is happening in Gaza, through their Palestinian correspondents; they have also been banned in Israel as antisemitic propaganda.

I need to make it very clear that I am not in any way denigrating it for having Qatari government funding; the BBC shares many of those factors, just British.

Why you should listen to it: Al Jazeera got a reporter into the student protest encampment in Columbia, and got more direct interviews with some of the students on the ground. This is part two of their coverage of the protests; Part One (April 24th, 2024)provides another perspective of the timeline, which focuses on different factors, generally closer to the events in Columbia than the national factors.

Democracy Now! - April 23rd, 2024: This is a far left/progressive radio broadcast (repackaged for podcast streaming) that has been running since 1996. They often have interviews with people that I haven't necessarily seen other podcasts bring in, and while I would not consider them extreme, I do sometimes find that certain details get left out in pursuit of a more black-and-white narrative.

Why you should listen to it: Cohost Juan González has been in the field of progressive journalism for a very long time, but it's more relevant than ever for this episode: González was one of the original organizers for the 1968 Columbia protests that resulted in one of the largest mass arrests in NYPD history. The 1968 protests were massive, and deeply impactful on a national scale. González's perspective on how this current protest compares to the one he helped organize nearly sixty years ago is a fascinating way to think about the current events.

Global News Podcast - April 25th, 2024: BBC is a very centrist source for journalism, funded primarily by the UK government and advertising. As such, their coverage tends to lean in favor of the current party, though they do not 'toe the party line' as such. They do regularly platform right-wing activists, but they also have correspondents in the Middle East with a more progressive perspective. I would compare them to CNN in the US; ineffective in terms of opinion, and comparatively milquetoast on that front, but capable of getting access to high-level events that smaller networks aren't.

Why you should listen to it: ...honestly, this is just a 'round it out' kind of suggestion, to get an idea of what the international community is thinking of the events at Columbia. I don't think they necessarily contribute much in terms of factual discovery, but it helps with getting the lay of the land.

#phoenix politics #current events #gaza #palestine #pro palestine #united states #new york #nyc #new york city #new york times #nyt #the daily #the take #al jazeera #democracy now #juan gonzalez #bbc #bbc global news #podcasts #columbia #university of columbia #Minouche Shafik

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this is a niche one but instead of "they would not fuckin say that" it's "they would not fucking use American sign language".

ASL is not the only sign language. two british characters in your fanfiction would not be using ASL. England in fact has its own kind of sign language, BSL, that forms a sign family with many other sign languages around the world.

ASL isn't even the original member of its sign family, it comes from french sign language. do you know sign languages aren't related to spoken languages? that's an important one! it's not a direct 1:1 with people speaking English around the world. people in other countries don't learn ASL just in case they run into an usamerican or Canadian (who do often use it)

i know the entire world is the USA or whatever and sign languages do sometimes borrow from ASL for signs they don't have, but please be aware that there are other sign languages and families in the world that are not in fact ASL.

#sign language