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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

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i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

#right and her “friend” linda tripp spied on her and released all their private conversations about what happened #it’s horrible #monica lewinsky #she deserved better #feminism #harassment #american politics

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had to bring this above the cut because it’s so horrifying:

#free palestine #end israel's genocide #end israeli occupation #end israeli oppression #save palestine #help palestine #israel is a genocidal state #israel is a racist state #israel is committing war crimes

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my student ID photo feels like a valuable addition to this post:

#I LOOK LIKE A DEMON 😭 #i was already so overstimulated #but then the photographer told me i needed to take my hat off #and i just saw red #autistic community #autism #autistic things #actually autistic #autistic experiences #being autistic #autistic adult

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Jennifer’s Body (2009) || Hannibal (2013-2015)

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Learn what genocide actually means or delete your blog, you antisemitic turd.

to be fair, i am definitely a turd. i’ll give you that one.

#not an antisemitic turd but a turd nonetheless #i’ve seen too many children that have been killed by israeli soldiers to be intimidated by this shit #and the fact that you submitted this anonymously speaks volumes #fellas is it antisemitic to hate genocide? #free palestine #save palestine #help palestine #save palestinians #help palestinians #end israel's genocide #end israeli occupation #stop israel #end israeli siege #end israeli terror #anti zionisim #anti genocide #stop genocide

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absolutely not. i read about her the day she died and her last words will haunt me until the day i die. this is disgusting.

so how did she die then?? and the two medics who were shot down trying to save her life, what about them?

#what the fuck #free palestine #palestinian children #children of palestine #end israeli siege #end israel’s genocide

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While we're at it: using language that downplays genocide is a form of genocide denial.

Joe Biden isn't doing a bad job, Joe Biden is providing material support for genocide.

Israel isn't handling the situation badly, Israel is committing genocide.

Employing euphemisms minimizes the reality of this genocide. It's disrespectful and dangerous.

If you are more uncomfortable with the word genocide than you are with the reality of genocide, then you are not prepared to be part of any serious discussion. Work on that on your own time.

#agreed #free palestine #end israel’s genocide

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some of my favorite replies to this tweet. happy lesbian visibility week!

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interesting how it's always "iranian regime" and never "israeli regime" and definetly never "iran, where the us and uk overthrew a democratically elected leader because the iranian parliment voted to nationalise iranian oil to stop foreign countries profiting off of their resources, with the western powers' actions ultimatly leading to the islamic republic of iran that they so fear"

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Highplains whitetails feeding after dark (x)

#biblically accurate santa claus

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i think…. i’m actually trying to write one?? kinda?? i have to wait until finals are over to really get into it though. it’s a little intimidating because i’ve written fanfics before but never shown anyone. i’ve only ever shown people my short stories that aren’t fandom related but seeing the need for platonic relationships with the clones has got me like:

it is so funny being one of the few clone fans who’s not attracted to men because most of y’all are constantly freaking out over how hot they are and i just wanna be their friend

#i had to create my oc’s species and culture from scratch but that’s been a lot of fun #she’s really awesome and she only views the clones in a sisterly way #she’s actually pansexual but she has zero attraction to them #she’s in love with a jedi knight but i really want to focus on her and the clones #she was created for roleplay but she’s so well developed i can write fanfics with her

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It is deeply, deeply beneficial to TERFs if the only characteristic of TERF ideology you will recognize as wrong, harmful, or problematic is “they hate trans women”.

TERF ideology is an expansive network of extremely toxic ideas, and the more of them we accept and normalize, the easier it becomes for them to fly under the radar and recruit new TERFs. The closer they get to turning the tide against all trans people, trans women included.

Case in point: In 2014-2015, I fell headlong into radical feminism. I did not know it was called radical feminism at the time, but I also didn’t know what was wrong with radical feminism in the first place. I didn’t see a problem with it.

I was a year deep into this shit when people I had been following, listening to, and looking up to finally said they didn’t think trans women were women. It was only then that I unfollowed those people, specifically; but I continued to follow other TERFs-who-didn’t-say-they-were-TERFs. I continued ingesting and spreading their ideas- for years after.

If TERFs “only target trans women” and “only want trans women gone”, if that’s the one and only problem with their ideology and if that’s the only way we’ll define them, we will inevitably miss a vast majority of the quiet beliefs that support their much louder hatred of trans women.

As another example: the trans community stood relatively united when TERFs and conservatives targeted our right to use the correct restroom, citing the “dangers” of trans women sharing space with cis women. But when they began targeting Lost Little Girls and Confused Lesbians and trotting detransitioners out to raise a panic about trans men, virtually the only people speaking up about it were other transmascs. Now we see a rash of anti-trans healthcare bills being passed in the US, and they’re hurting every single one of us.

When you refuse to call a TERF a TERF just because they didn’t specifically say they hate trans women, when you refuse to think critically about a TERF belief just because it’s not directly related to trans women, you are actively helping TERFs spread their influence and build credibility.