#i think it's evil to force people into the closet and it's entitled to force people put of it y'know?

[uncanny-tranny]

It's kind of comforting to have part of your queerness kept inside by choice. Being closeted by force isn't comforting, but I think there can be a sense of peace when you choose not to talk about part of your queerness. It feels like I am able to honour myself on my own, and I'm able to be happy with myself and not include anybody else in that.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #this is the one of the ONLY places i have been openly aroace and that's only thanks to the semi-anonymity of tumblr #but irl it's so comforting to be privately aro. it feels like freedom when i can refuse to divulge that #i think closeting yourself should solely be a decision only you can make #and i don't support forcing people in OR out of the closet #i think it's evil to force people into the closet and it's entitled to force people put of it y'know?

[aimmyarrowshigh]

What do you think about the argument that Harry Styles is queerbaiting?

I think that since he's never talked openly about his sexuality, it's ridiculous to claim knowledge of his sexuality, and that argument assumes he's heterosexual (and malicious). I think Harry is entitled to keep his sexuality to himself and the people with whom he chooses to share it, and he's entitled NOT to make that "everyone."

You can't have it both ways -- you can't want straight men to take an active stance against toxic masculinity and the patriarchal expectations of gender roles and then get angry when they do because you want all straight people to adhere to those standards and have all gnc people be queer. Either heterosexual people have to be allowed to express themselves free of gendered expectations, too, OR only queer people can do that and straight people will push back against it -- negatively and violently.

Harry's play with gender roles and outfits and stuff and the positive reactions of the mainstream media to him doing that, whether straight or queer, is a good thing because it gives leeway to other men to do the same things. Men embracing femininity and softness and kindness shouldn't be something that only queer men get to do.

Additionally, real people don't queerbait, that's something that fiction does -- even if a real person appeals intentionally to queer audiences despite not being queer, that's not the same thing as queerbaiting. Is Kelly Rowland queerbaiting for being a queen of gay club anthems? Is Cher? Madonna? Queer people liking an artist doesn't mean that artist has to be queer themselves. That's an argument that forces people out of the closet against their will, and that's always bad.

Just because Harry's icon status applies more to lesbians than gay cis men doesn't make him somehow more evil than any other diva. 🙄

#why am i getting asked this today and/or in general i am suspicious #harry styles

[riajade01]

Light Side vs. Dark Side

I guess George Lucas gave an interview recently where he opined about the nature of the Dark and Light sides of the Force and... well, unsurprisingly I have a ton of opinions.

Lucas: "Fear is the enemy; fear is the dark side. If you’re afraid, you’re going to the dark side. The light side is compassion. As long as you love other people, and treat them kindly, you won’t be afraid. So, the secret is just love everybody.... [Y]ou have to be stop being afraid and be kind to people."

This assumes that fear and compassion are mutually exclusive, and it doesn't take into account the driving factors behind why someone might be afraid (just like, when the dark side is equated with anger or even selfishness, there's no interrogation of what underlies those emotions and whether they truly are 'bad'). Do I agree that "greedy people", as Lucas calls them, live their lives in abject terror? Oh, absolutely. But so does a closeted LGBTQ person living in a community that will kill them for their orientation, or any person of color living in a society that gives cops carte blanche to murder members of their community. That fear is IN NO WAY similar to the fear experienced by someone like Donald Tr*mp and people like him.

One is borne out of living in a society that wants to eradicate you; the other is borne of a sense of entitlement and ego that says you DESERVE all the things you're afraid you won't get, or afraid to lose.

This also contradicted quite frequently in the films and shows, where Jedi either fail miserably to act in a compassionate manner, or Jedi proseletyzing is treated as "compassionate".

Lucas again: “You have to understand that the reality of nature, of God and life, is that things come, and things go. They do not stay in your life. And you have to learn to accept the fact, that there is a continuum, that you’re just a part of and the things will be there, then they won’t be there."

Oohhhkay. What "things", pray tell, is he referring to here? Rights? Dignity? Even if we're looking only at so-called "material" things, like homes, possessions... there's a world of difference between being fearful of losing the shelter and possessions that let you function in society and being fearful that the evil Tax Man is going to take away your ability to purchase a third house.

This is also especially insane to me because if you think about it in context with the films - the "things" that came and went from Anakin Skywalker's life were PEOPLE. His mother. His wife and child(ren). It frames his guilt over losing his mother, and his terror at losing his wife and family, as... a bad thing? Something for which he deserved to be punished. And it doesn't interrogate why Anakin felt like he had so few options there a the end of Revenge of the Sith. Okay, he couldn't let his mother go, but that's because he knew she was LIVING AS A SLAVE. He was afraid for her life, and yes, he was a nine-year-old boy who missed his parent. Perhaps if the "compassionate" Jedi Order had sent someone back to Tatooine with something Watto would consider valuable enough to trade for a slave, it would have been easier for Anakin to let go of not seeing his mother for long stretches? Similarly, if Anakin had been able to confide his fears for Padme in people who would react with genuine compassion for his feelings, perhaps he would not have been driven into Palpatine's arms.

This whole false binary of compassion vs. fear also has the neat effect of placing marginalized communities in a context of being predisposed to "darkness", while privileged communities that have fewer things to fear, can congratulate themselves on their serenity.

All of this is to say, the longer I think about the Dark Side and the Light Side of the Force, the more I feel like it's simply impossible to sort Force users into categories of "good" and "bad" based on which side of the Force fuels them. Because classifying emotions as "good" or "bad" is simply too reductive - even something like selfishness, which fuels a lot of shitty actions, is something that, in the right context, also ensures that someone takes care of themselves so they, in turn, can care for others. Compassion taken too far can become condescension and paternalism.

I've found it more useful to instead think of the Light Side and Dark Side as different paths to the same power - some individuals use their anger and fear at injustice to do good things. Some people use it to hurt others. Some people function better when they've calmed their emotions and considered how to act; others justify shitty actions as supremely logical. Basically, it's always super complicated.

But I think this construction can explain a few things about the Force. For example, Dark Side use can affect the body using the same mechanism we see in our own biology, where psychology (emotional reactions) alters the physical body (sometimes in positive ways, sometimes in negative ways). Like, the cortisol or oxytocin effects, but magnified to coincide with Force use. It explains why beings that evolve on planets steeped in the Force (e.g., Korriban, Tython, Myrkr) often evolve traits that make use of the Force, whether its conscious (most indigenous Red Sith are Force sensitive, and predisposed to using the Dark Side), or unconscious (vornskyrs hunt using the Force, and ysalimir create Force-empty bubbles to elude them).

Anyway. These are my... ten scents, I suppose. 

#star wars #swtor #the force #meta #ria has opinions about stuff

[crimsonhcadache]

      - ̗̀ NOW INTRODUCING:  IVES ❝ IVY ❞ SERRANO !

( DANNA PAOLA, CISFEMALE, SHE/HER, SCORPIO, 24 ) I just spotted IVES “IVY” SERRANO at the beach today. Don’t you know them? They live down by the TOWERS and usually hang out with the RICH KIDS & MUSICIANS cliques. From what I’ve heard, they can be DECEITFUL, but they’re also ADAPTIVE. I always think of them when i hear LAST LAUGH - FLETCHER and tend to associate them with STRAWBERRY CHAMPAGNE, A FRESH SET OF STILETTO NAILS, AND RED LINGERIE. ( tay, she/her, 22, est )

full name: natalie rose serrano ives serrano nicknames: ivy, poison ivy faceclaim: danna paola voiceclaim: lana del rey birthday: november 1st, 1996  zodiac: scorpio sun, aries moon, gemini rising sexuality: bisexual occupation: influencer, instagram model, musician, scammer / thief positive traits: effervescent, bold, creative, charismatic, coquettish, intuitive, ambitious, alluring, adventurous, perceptive  negative traits: cantankerous, deceitful, envious, manipulative, dramatic, stubborn, narcissistic, materialistic, reckless, quick-tempered character inspos: maddy perez euphoria, jackie burkhart that 70’s show, blair waldorf gossip girl, margo hanson the magicians, every lana del rey song ever, lucrecia montesinos and cayetana pando elite, rosa diaz brooklyn nine nine, the entire rose family schitts creek, jen harding dead to me

- ̗̀♡ — › background !

the main thing u need to know about ivy is that she is lying ! always !! her real name isn’t even actually ivy smh

she was born NATALIE ROSE SERRANO, to two working class parents in new york city. she knew from a young age that she was just supposed to be rich and famous, and that something had gotten mixed up somewhere and she was put in the wrong life.

in high school she got a scholarship to a fancy private catholic school, and that’s where she started to hone her craft of manipulating rich people. she would befriend all of the richest bitches at school and take advantage of everything that came along with it: vacations to far away places, stays in the family’s cabins and lake houses, even designer clothes that her friends no longer wanted and would gift to her, thinking it was their idea all along

as she grew up and got better at getting what she wanted out of people, her entitled attitude only got worse, driving a wedge between her and her parents, who kept waiting for her to develop a work ethic and kept being disappointed. a few months after she graduated high school, on her 18th birthday, her parents kicked her out of the house and cut her off, hoping that it would force her to grow up and take on any responsibility

but that plan backfired for them, her parents underestimating how truly stubborn natalie was. the day after her 18th, she wandered into a local strip club and got a job, figuring it’d be the easiest and quickest way to get some cash, and she took to it naturally and actually really enjoyed stripping

she started to embody an entirely new persona that she had created for herself, dancing under the name POISON IVY and telling everyone she was a trust fund baby that had been cut off from her rich parents, needing to dance to supplement her income, and her lies just continued to spiral out of control until she almost started to believe it herself. she had never told anyone at the club her real name, not even the other strippers, just going by “ivy” for a while.

she had learned to weaponize the power she had over people by being pretty and charming, using her looks for absolute evil and doing whatever it took to get money—from straight up pickpocketing, to making men buy her expensive gifts, to blackmailing, to sugar babying, to getting patrons wasted and manipulating them into tipping her absurd amounts… she did it all, very quickly earning enough to live the life she had always dreamed of, that she felt she deserved for whatever twisted reason.

she started posting on instagram with the name poison ivy generally just flaunting her carefree, extravagant life, often exaggerating or down right lying just to really dazzle her quickly growing audience

as she started to go down the influencer route, she realized she needed to do something to hide the skeletons in her closet ( the fact that she didn’t actually come from money and was making far more than was normal for even the best of dancers, a couple of small possession / shoplifting charges, and just generally anything that could lead people to her real identity ) so she started to tell people her name was ives, fully taking on the new identity. she even went so far as to make some of the people that had been closest to her sign NDAs about her real identity, making sure that no one could sell info about her should her plan of being famous work out

she also moved out to california to run away from everyone in the city that was starting to catch on to what she was doing, basically doing all the same shit but now in a New Place.. this was about 3-4 years ago, so she’s been in sunhollow for a while now doing the whole influencer thing !!

and it did work out !! at first she was definitely buying followers/likes to boost her likelihood of brand sponsorships, but eventually she faked it until she made it and actually attained influencer status. she then used her newfound internet fame ( and some classic blackmailing ) to get herself a record deal 

she also started sleeping around with pretty much any famous person she could, having very public relationships and breakups and scandals to keep her name in the press, which ultimately lead to more exposure/people following her, if only to see what she did next, which lead to even more sponsorships

eventually she stopped dancing and just focused on her influencing and more recently ( like... less than 6 months ago recently ) her music career. but she never stopped sugar babying and scamming rich stupid men, still very much using that as a means to keep up her lifestyle. she’s also done a few modeling things, but it’s mostly just like catalog work or being the face of a trendy campaign bc she’s way too short for the runway

she also recently made an only fans account bc she was bored one night and was mostly planning on posting once as a joke but then she made a bunch of money / got a bunch of subscribers and was like oh word ? i can do that ! so she will post on there from time to time but she’s not like… super serious about it ya know ? also her music label is big mad at her for it bc they’re like bUt yOuR rEpUtAtIoN and she’s like yeah.. but my bank account ? also it’s no secret she used to be a stripper so she rly just.. doesn’t give a fuck ! 

so basically she’s jus here making money being pretty and pulling a long ass scam on… everyone

- ̗̀♡ — › personality / headcannons !

she’s a real two faced bitch… she has perfected the art of becoming whoever she thinks other people want her to be, quickly adapting her personality to get whatever she wants

she’s usually pretty friendly actually, really charming and outgoing and just trying to have a good time

she has a pretty short temper tho and holds grudges like you wouldn’t believe, so once you’re on her bad side… good luck lol she is so ruthless

she’s like… deeply, deeply selfish and will always put herself first, but she’s so manipulative that she can make people do things that they think are their idea, but it’s really just something she planted in their head so it’s not always obvious

also very spoiled and will throw a mf fit if she doesn’t get her way or u say no to her

always going out !! always doing the most !! she’s the type to show up randomly at ur door at 8pm on a tuesday with a bottle of tequila and make u party with her whether u like it or not

she’s a lot smarter than she lets on sometimes, like she knows people expect her to be stupid and ditzy and shallow and she’ll let them underestimate her when it’s beneficial

always looks perfectly put together— her nails are always meticulously manicured, usually w stiletto shaped acrylics, and you’ll literally never see her outside her house without makeup and a perfectly composed outfit. it’s also a rare occasion that she’s not wearing at least six inch heels, trying to make up for bein so mf short ( she’s 5’3 )

she talks A Lot but is really good at saying a lot of words without actually saying anything, like you can be best friends with her for months and then just be like “i don’t actually know a single thing about her”

always up to no good and sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong !! she’s always got some sort of scheme going or getting in to some kind of drama

v much a hoe and v much proud of it, will sleep w just about anyone especially if she can get something out of it

also a serial dater !! she’s always hoping in and out of relationships and being rumored to be with a dozen people at once

most definitely calls paparazzi on herself, especially when she’s around other famous ppl but will never admit it

compulsive liar, she will literally lie about the dumbest things like she doesn’t even need a reason to lie she jus.. does

she has a luxury two bedroom apartment that she lives alone in ( one room is kinda a guest room but also mostly just a giant closet ) in the towers and the gag is she doesn’t even know how much her rent is bc one of her random sugar daddies pays her rent.. her power tbh 

- ̗̀♡ — › wanted connections !

hookups / flings / one night stands / fwbs all that shit !!

exes on bad terms … gimme drama pls

enemies / ppl she’s stolen from maybe… she would definitely deny it and say they’re jus jealous of her or smth stupid but that could make the feud worse

party pals !! like i said she goes out a lot and always somehow manages to make new friends and drag them into her shenanigans

on again / off again exes… i want the Angst so bad..

shallow friendships / influencer friends like they play it up a lot for insta bc they both have a pretty big following but they dont really... like each other that much ?? like they definitely seem to be a lot closer than they really are

pr relationships this could be past or present !! in the same vein as the last one except they pretend to date ( or maybe just act like they’re gonna date but never actually do ?? like to fuel rumors ) 

unlikely friends !! like ppl who are nice and sweet and Pure, she could use a lil good energy in her life

situationship / flirtationship like they’re super flirty and maybe hook up a couple times but everyone assumes they’re dating or like gonna date but they’re jus vibing. bonus points if one or both of them actually has feelings but can’t tell if they’re just friends / casually hooking up or if it could turn into something more.. im a slut for some mutual pining !!

neighbors … mb they hate her for always being loud n throwing mini parties OR maybe they join in

mean girl rivalries !!

someone she’s taking advantage of / stealing from without them knowing .. oof

partner in crime !!!

one sided crushes or like someone she’s stringing along smh

sugar daddies mb 😇

someone to put her in her mf place JDKDKD like they call her out on her bs and are like “i see what ur doing bitch stay away from my friends” type thing

idk anything really !! gimme all the messy plots ok :~)

#hqclique.intro #this is so long i jus have so much to say abt my favorite evil demon <3 #now to do mickeys .. which requires sm more rewriting .... pray for me #♡ — 𝐢𝐯𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐨 › 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 .

[ivyisms]

       - ̗̀ NOW INTRODUCING:  IVES ❝ IVY ❞ SERRANO !

( DANNA PAOLA, 24, CISFEMALE ) I just bumped into IVES "IVY" SERRANO the other day while walking down NORTH Kingsboro, where SHE lives. I hear they can be SEDUCTIVE and MANIPULATIVE, but when I think of them I immediately think about ROSE PETAL BLUNTS, STRAWBERRY CHAMPAGNE, AND SIX INCH STILETTOS.

hi hello it’s tay back again w another one of my demon spawn muses !! apparently chaotic bisexuals w fcs from elite is just my brand™️ but anyway ivy is probably my favorite oc i’ve ever made so i have A Lot to say abt this messy bitch !! if u go H E R E i have a very long stats/bio page with pretty much everything i could think of BUT i will try to summarize the main points semi-concisely

- ̗̀♡ — › background !

the main thing u need to know about ivy is that she is lying ! always !! her real name isn’t even actually ivy smh

she was born natalie rose serrano, to two working class parents in new york city. she knew from a young age that she was just supposed to be rich and famous, and that something had gotten mixed up somewhere and she was put in the wrong life.

in high school she got a scholarship to a fancy private catholic school, and that’s where she started to hone her craft of manipulating rich people. she would befriend all of the richest bitches at school and take advantage of everything that came along with it: vacations to far away places, stays in the family’s cabins and lake houses, even designer clothes that her friends no longer wanted and would gift to her, thinking it was their idea all along

as she grew up and got better at getting what she wanted out of people, her entitled attitude only got worse, driving a wedge between her and her parents, who kept waiting for her to develop a work ethic and kept being disappointed. a few months after she graduated high school, on her 18th birthday, her parents kicked her out of the house and cut her off, hoping that it would force her to grow up and take on any responsibility

but that plan backfired for them, her parents underestimating how truly stubborn natalie was. the day after her 18th, she wandered into a local strip club and got a job, figuring it’d be the easiest and quickest way to get some cash, and she took to it naturally and actually really enjoyed stripping

she started to embody an entirely new persona that she had created for herself, dancing under the name poison ivy and telling everyone she was a trust fund baby that had been cut off from her rich parents, needing to dance to supplement her income, and her lies just continued to spiral out of control until she almost started to believe it herself. she had never told anyone at the club her real name, not even the other strippers, just going by “ivy” for a while.

she had learned to weaponize the power she had over people by being pretty and charming, using her looks for absolute evil and doing whatever it took to get money—from straight up pickpocketing, to making men buy her expensive gifts, to blackmailing, to sugar babying, to getting patrons wasted and manipulating them into tipping her absurd amounts... she did it all, very quickly earning enough to live the life she had always dreamed of, that she felt she deserved for whatever twisted reason.

she started posting on instagram with the name poison ivy generally just flaunting her carefree, extravagant life, often exaggerating or down right lying just to really dazzle her quickly growing audience

as she started to go down the influencer route, she realized she needed to do something to hide the skeletons in her closet ( the fact that she didn’t actually come from money and was making far more than was normal for even the best of dancers, a couple of small possession / shoplifting charges, and just generally anything that could lead people to her real identity ) so she started to tell people her name was ives, fully taking on the new identity. she even went so far as to make some of the people that had been closest to her sign NDAs about her real identity, making sure that no one could sell info about her should her plan of being famous work out

and it did work out !! at first she was definitely buying followers/likes to boost her likelihood of brand sponsorships, but eventually she faked it until she made it and actually attained influencer status

she also started sleeping around with pretty much any famous person she could, having very public relationships and breakups and scandals to keep her name in the press, which ultimately lead to more exposure/people following her, if only to see what she did next, which lead to even more sponsorships

she’s probably been in kingsboro for a few years, living in a super fancy one bedroom apartment that she definitley doesn’t pay for ( she doesn’t even know how much her rent is tbh )

eventually she stopped dancing and just focused on her influencing or whatever, but she never stopped sugar babying and scamming rich stupid men, still very much using that as a means to keep up her lifestyle. she’s also done a few modeling things, but it’s mostly just like catalog work or being the face of a trendy campaign bc she’s way too short for the runway

she also recently made an only fans account bc she was bored one night and was mostly planning on posting once as a joke but then she made a bunch of money / got a bunch of subscribers and was like oh word ? i can do that ! so she will post on there from time to time but she’s not like... super serious about it ya know ?

so basically she’s jus here making money being pretty and pulling a long ass scam on... everyone

- ̗̀♡ — › personality !

she’s a real two faced bitch... she has perfected the art of becoming whoever she thinks other people want her to be, quickly adapting her personality to get whatever she wants

she’s usually pretty friendly actually, really charming and outgoing and just trying to have a good time

she has a pretty short temper tho and holds grudges like you wouldn’t believe, so once you’re on her bad side... good luck lol she is so ruthless

she’s like... deeply, deeply selfish and will always put herself first, but she’s so manipulative that she can make people do things that they think are their idea, but it’s really just something she planted in their head so it’s not always obvious

also very spoiled and will throw a mf fit if she doesn’t get her way or u say no to her

always going out !! always doing the most !! she’s the type to show up randomly at ur door at 8pm on a tuesday with a bottle of tequila and make u party with her whether u like it or not

she’s a lot smarter than she lets on sometimes, like she knows people expect her to be stupid and ditzy and shallow and she’ll let them underestimate her when it’s beneficial 

always looks perfectly put together— her nails are always meticulously manicured, usually w stiletto shaped acrylics, and you’ll literally never see her outside her house without makeup and a perfectly composed outfit. it’s also a rare occasion that she’s not wearing at least six inch heels, trying to make up for bein so mf short ( she’s 5’3 )

she talks A Lot but is really good at saying a lot of words without actually saying anything, like you can be best friends with her for months and then just be like “i don’t actually know a single thing about her”

always up to no good and sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong !! she’s always got some sort of scheme going or getting in to some kind of drama

v much a hoe and v much proud of it, will sleep w just about anyone especially if she can get something out of it

also a serial dater !! she’s always hoping in and out of relationships and being rumored to be with a dozen people at once

most definitely calls paparazzi on herself, especially when she’s around other famous ppl but will never admit it

compulsive liar, she will literally lie about the dumbest things like she doesn’t even need a reason to lie she jus.. does

- ̗̀♡ — › wanted connections !

hookups / flings / one night stands / fwbs all that shit !!

exes on bad terms ... gimme drama pls

enemies / ppl she’s stolen from maybe... she would definitely deny it and say they’re jus jealous of her or smth stupid but that could make the feud worse

party pals !! like i said she goes out a lot and always somehow manages to make new friends and drag them into her shenanigans

on again / off again exes... i want the Angst so bad..

unlikely friends !! like ppl who are nice and sweet and Pure, she could use a lil good energy in her life

neighbors ... mb they hate her for always being loud n throwing mini parties OR maybe they join in

mean girl rivalries !!

someone she’s taking advantage of / stealing from without them knowing .. oof

partner in crime !!!

one sided crushes or like someone she’s stringing along smh

sugar daddies mb 😇

someone to put her in her mf place JDKDKD like they call her out on her bs and are like “i see what ur doing bitch stay away from my friends” type thing

idk anything really !! gimme all the messy plots ok :~)

#kingsboro.intro

[ambthecreative]

DESTIEL RANT! Unpopular Opinion Time - The Scene was NOT Homophobic

Wow. It’s BEEN YEARS! And yet here I am again! I have returned to my Tumblr roots, rambling about Supernatural again! I have come full circle! Summoned by three words spoken by the Angel of the Lord we all knew and loved. But lets get down to business.  Everyone’s going crazy. They either loved it, hated it, loved/hated it, hated/loved it, etc.  Even people who never watched an episode felt the need to add their two cents without any context or with extreme bias.  So here’s the observations from a former Supernatural Fan and intense DESTIEL SHIPPER, but also one who has stopped watching it cause omfg it sucks so bad now. My bias comes from both angles and thus neutralizes each other out xD Obviously, spoilers for Episode 18 of Season 15 of Supernatural lay ahead.  ~~~

(TL;DR: The scene wasn’t bad because it was forced or homophobic. It was neither.  The scene was bad because of long term poor plotting, repetitive character arcs and horrendous timing and execution. That said, my shipping heart is just happy that it happened at all. <3 ) ONWARDS! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Lets just get to the point. At first glance, that scene looks extremely homophobic and when it was first described to me (I haven’t watched the show since Season 9), it appears that is indeed the case.  And you can make a STRONG case for it to, if you watched that scene and knew of all the fucking queer bait we had to live through before getting here.  But I watched the entire episode. And I think this is key.  Cause while it’s easy to say its all homophobic, that’s not actually what was happening.  The truth is, the episode is a set up for the ending.  Sure it seems to be framed that Castiel is sent to the Empty for being gay, but that’s the bias talking.  Contextually, Castiel is sent to the Empty for being Truly Happy.  Also EVERYONE dies.  Funny how no one is up in arms that Charlie’s GF got poofed at the very start of the episode.  Not gay enough for it to count? Like she literally made her girlfriend breakfast and they were flirting, and boom she was gone FOREVER, not sent to a place where people have come back from before, but with NO EVIDENCE of them being alive at all.  Dead. Gone.  But no one says a damn thing.  And then EVERYONE died.  THEN Cas died.  And yet everyone got like temporary amnesia and its like, “CASTIEL WAS KILLED FOR BEING GAY!!!” That’s...not what happened tho.  What’s really sad is the moment with Castiel was actually a GREAT plot point/twist, if only they had done it better.  NO ONE would be saying SHIT if Castiel had been a woman. NO ONE.  Or at least, they would mostly see it as tragic than anything else.  But because Castiel is making a homosexual love confession, it must BE because he’s GAY! It’s really ironic.  Judging that scene as homophobic is ACTUALLY homophobic* (not really, but i can’t think of a better word).  Or at least you’re judging the scene by their sexuality and not by what is actually going on.  Now I remembered something after thinking about this scene for a while.  THIS PLOT POINT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE IN ANOTHER EVEN MORE ICONIC SHOW!!! Now bear with me cause I never watched the whole thing, only the bits and pieces my roommate shared with me.  But the whole “I am cursed to suffer a terrible fate if I ever experience true happiness” has been done before.  And where was that?

Spoilers for Buffy by the way.  SO! To all those who are still trying to spin this as platonic, you need to watch more shitty afterschool 90s supernatural TV shows.  In season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Buffy’s good vampire boyfriend, wakes up evil because he had a moment of true happiness.  And this dooms the couple.  NOW. Do you call this...heterophobia???? Oh I hear you! “But Angel didn’t die and he and Buffy got to be romantic and actually have sex before that shit went down! Not the same thing!” TRUE. I didn’t really bring this up to make an argument that the scene/show isn’t homophobic (or at least they are very uncomfortable with it), but rather I wanted to make a point that the PLOT POINT is not at all homophobic and is actually really awesome.  The issue with the scene is the execution.  That moment between Cas and Dean should have happened SEASONS ago or at the VERY LEAST earlier in this FINAL season, and not right at the very end. The other reason why it worked so well with Buffy is that they had plenty of episodes afterwards to go into it, have Buffy react to it, and deal with it and such.  Meanwhile SPN, still BLATANTLY uncomfortable with handling this sort of thing, decided to put Castiel away in a dark closet and then put forth an end the world plotline by killing EVERYONE so Dean is too busy to actually think and talk about it for any real length of time XD.  I wouldn’t use the word homophobic for it, because it wasn’t used as a joke, it wasn’t used to demean gay people, it wasn’t meant to say “if you are homosexual, you go to hell.”

That’s not it at all. The only reason people think that is because they’ve been hurt in the past so many times, by religion and government and truly homophobic media,  and this scene triggers that hurt.  HOWEVER, if you look at that scene without that lens, it’s more cowardly and insecure, than homophobic.  Cause at the end of the day, that’s the whole problem with Supernatural.  They never commit.  Their writing is lazy and weak because they don’t have the writing chops to actually GO FOR IT. 

They are constantly at war with the writing, the ratings/money, and the general public views.  They constantly add poc and homosexual characters, but are too afraid to actually do anything with them in fear of doing it poorly and upsetting people (and honestly, it’s a valid fear XD).  I stopped watching Supernatural cause the writing is HORRIBLE.  It has nothing to do with homophobia and everything to do with the fact its all over the place, there’s no stakes, the power escalation is shot to hell, they keep saying SIKE when they do kill people, no changes last forever, and it should have ended SEASONS ago.  Its BAD. But in regards to homosexuality, the fact that they used a plot point that the legendary Buffy the Vampire Slayer used but used it on two characters of the same sex is actually AMAZING.  YES it was CRINGY. The handprint was cringy! They were trying WAY too hard to make it different than the other 1000000 times Castiel died for Dean. But it was their poor plotting, their overuse of killing and bringing back people, the fact Dean and Cas never actually even toyed with the idea of romance openly in the entire show, that caused this scene to not shine as brightly as it could have. 

THAT SAID.

HOLY SHIT CASTIEL LOVES DEAN! THATS AMAZING!!!! Ahem. Another reason why people get this scene so wrong is because they think writers are actual Gods.  We are not.  They are flawed and they are many and this show had WAY too many showrunners.  AND IT SHOWS.  But you know whos constant? The actors.  Dean has never really changed. Jensen played him exactly as he’s  always played him. ALWAYS.  Any person who got mad that Dean didn’t sob or kiss Castiel needs to take off their gay fucking glasses and respect the fact that THAT ISN’T DEAN.  HE’S NEVER BEEN THAT WAY.  EVEN IF CASTIEL WAS A WOMAN HE WOULDNT HAVE ACTED THAT WAY. 

Also Dean has been so BLATANTLY straight this WHOLE time.  Now I’m not saying that the romantic feelings were not reciprocal.  I’m saying we don’t fucking know XD Hell DEAN might not know, and honestly that would be the most realistic and best way to handle that.  Do you know how FUCKED UP it would have been if Dean broke character and suddenly came out as Gay and totally fine with that and just acted like he’s been gay this WHOLE time even when it’s so obvious that he was not?!! Its like - Respect Homosexuality, but Disrespect all other sexualities.  You can’t just force Dean to be Gay and Comfortable With That Fact (tm). 

You can’t.  And to expect and force Jensen Ackles to play his character, that he’s played for years that way, to tell him to fuck off how he’s BEEN playing him cause it’s not good enough anymore even though everyone ATE IT UP before Castiel came on screen,  is an INSULT to him.  I do think he can realize it. I think he can lean into it. I really do think it’s possible to do it in a way that’s realistic and still in character with how Jensen has played him all these years.  But now, you’re all fucking entitled little nutcases if you think that Dean should bend to your fanfic fantasy as being head over heels in love with a man without any issue at all when there’s absolutely nothing in his backstory, childhood, or ANYTHING that would explain why he would be that way.  I’m old as fuck, but you know how Dean SHOULD play it? Like Heath Ledger’s character in Brokeback Mountain.  He didn’t exactly showed his emotions regarding the love of his fucking life immediately, now did he?  BUT THAT SAID THIS ISNT BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN YOU HORNY FUCKS XDD Ahem. That’s also a reminder for myself XD ANYWAYS!!!

TL;DR: The scene wasn’t bad because it was forced or homophobic.

It was neither. 

The scene was bad because of long term poor plotting, repetitive character arcs and horrendous timing and execution. 

That said, my shipping heart is just happy that it happened at all. <3   The End.  That is all

#supernatural #destiel #castiel #dean winchester #season 15 episode 18 #s15e18 #despair #spn #spoilers

[lauralot89]

True Facts About Asexuals

As Gleaned from the Infallible Knowledge of the Real True LGBT Community ™ of Tumblr.com

Asexuals are really just Oppression Tourist straight kids who want Internet Cred for being LGBT+, they don’t belong in the community

But also asexuals are self-loathing gay kids who forced themselves into the closet and have stayed there because the ace community encourages internalized homophobia

But also the A in LGBTQIA+ stands for Allies so closeted people can still count, it’s not for aces, they have no place here

But also organizations like GLAAD only include the A because aces threw screaming tantrums until those groups pretended to accept them

No one is saying aces can’t have their own community, we have no problem if you form your own, just stay out of ours

But also we hate the aro/ace community and will screenshot your cringey posts to mock you and won’t leave you alone even if you ask us to, even if you’re just minding your own business

But also they don’t really have a community, if you think they do then you’re just mistaken uwu

No one cares about the sex that aces aren’t having!

But also if an asexual isn’t sexually active with a partner then they’re an abusive monster

Asexuals are valid, they just aren’t LGBT+!

But also if you think you might be ace you need a doctor sweaty, cause you’re probably just hormonally imbalanced or mentally ill

No one ever gets abused or harassed or kicked out of their home for being asexual.  Aces don’t need the LGBT+ community’s resources.

But also the Trevor Project and other organizations accepting aces proves that asexual are stealing our resources that they don’t need!  for the lulz or something I guess

We’re allowed to criticize the ace community, just block us if you don’t like us!

But also the Aphobe Blocklist is so cringey and stupid, let’s make a meme about how stupid it is and how pathetic asexual snowflakes are

Straight people don’t have a problem with aces because aces are straight

But also everything bad that straights do to asexuals is actually misplaced homophobia or misogyny, we know the causes of your nonexistent oppression better than you do

Asexuals have never been a part of the community, learn your history before you try to invade our spaces mkay?

But also the lived experiences of activists who have said aces were always there and publications that say the same are actually Ahistorical Because of Reasons

Calling people who experience sexual attraction “sexuals” is objectifying and awful and asexuals are disgusting for doing it

But also every other word they come up with that means “experiences sexual attraction” is equally horrible because they don’t deserve to have language that describes their experiences

Aces never face religious discrimination because churches love celibacy

But also when they do potentially face religious discrimination, no1 curr

Asexuals are puritanical self-appointed moral guardians who want to paint all Real LGBT+ People™ as filthy sex fiends who have no place in civilized society

But also asexuals are filthy fucks who want to abuse children by giving them comprehensive sex ed

Asexuals are transphobic, homophobic, horrible people for comparing exclusionists to TERFs!

But somehow it’s fine that our anti-ace arguments are literally indistinguishable from TERF rhetoric

The split attraction model is evil and homophobic and aces are awful for applying it to people without their consent, trying to tell them what their sexuality is!

But also an ace’s romantic attraction is their Real True Orientation regardless of if that’s how they identify, Real LGBT+ People™ get to apply the split attraction model on aces without their consent because we know best

Aces steal words from the Real LGBT+ Community™ like “gatekeeper” and “corrective rape”!

What do you mean cishet is a trans term that cis people aren’t supposed to use, shut up

Aces are so entitled that they think the LGBT+ community should do outreach and education for them, do it yourself, you lazy parasites!

What do you mean the asexual awareness event that’s been happening at the same time annually for six years now is happening while Trump is once again being awful about trans people, how dare the asexuals randomly decide to have a holiday to steal all the attention away from the real issues, we all know it’s impossible for people to care about more than one thing at a time, curse you asexuals!

When we talk about how awful asexuals are, we aren’t talking about you, hun, just the Evil Cishets

Of course, the definition of a cishet is anyone who disagrees with us

And anyway, asexuals should all die, or get raped and then die, or have their tags flooded with toxic shit, or commit suicide (especially ace children!), or slit their own throats.

Nothing bad ever happens to asexuals, and we won’t acknowledge any of the evidence that points otherwise.

There’s literally nothing asexuals can do that will satisfy us, because we want them all to suffer and their very existence is an affront to our Tumblr Social Capital us

#aphobia #acephobia #ace hate #actuallyasexual #rape / #suicide / #death /

[wernerherzogs]

1/4 I generally agree that I don't like many of the ways this fandom talks abt the beards (going after their looks and choices they're perfectly entitled to making etc.) but I would def not go as far as absolving them of moral responsibility. Yes it's their jobs and other people are in charge of the execution of the bearding but no one forced her to take that job. How does the fact that you’re doing something professionally and for money all of a sudden make it ok? I don’t care that there’s a

“2/4 larger system behind these decisions to forcibly closet gay people, it doesn’t make it ok for individuals to say ‘yeah let me make my own money off of this homophobic, coercive system’ (a true case of ‘banality of evil’). Forced closeting, homophobia – they’re forms of social and psychological violence. They affect gay people deeply and for a long long time, if not for the rest of their lives. There are artists who were never closeted in their professional lives who still admit

3/4 that they struggle with internalised homophobia (see Troye Sivan). And you can’t look at Louis’ journey and not be absolutely furious at what has been done to him. It’s a sick, sick, revolting system that we become to easily accustomed to in our attempts to be realistic and understand its internal logics. And I really do mean this, we're all susceptible to this, this isn't against you personally at all. But you’ve got to remember exactly what we’re talking about, and that no part of it is

4/4 acceptable. It’s violent at its core, it’s oppressive. And it is so to the individuals directly involved but also to society at large and to every LGBTQ+ person who internalises through countless channels that their existence is other, inconvenient, inferior, odd, shameful. Beards like E directly participate in that without a care for the implications of their complicity. Also, it's not a favour to a friend who WANTS to be closeted. Congrats you’ve got a job and attention, though.

I just sent you a 4-part ask about bearding/closeting and looking at the negativity you're getting atm, I'm sorry for the timing and want to emphasise that I love your blog and send you lots and lots of love

i’m sorry, but “I don’t care that there’s a larger system behind these decisions to forcibly closet gay people” -- you absolutely should, though? you did mention bearding for a friend, so i’m assuming you’d beard in a heartbeat for your own friend in real life, as would i (for free, of course). but you can’t always ask a friend for that (for some reason or another), especially for free, so why the fact that a stranger -- who often has to sacrifice their own private life (romantic or even friendships), other career opportunities and etc., who often has to lie /themselves/ to people close to them -- takes money for doing this particular job is automatically bad? a job is a job, and this isn’t always an easy one. if you’re bearding for a celeb you’re under incredible scrutiny yourself, you have to be able to handle those people’s families, their friends, the gossip, the celeb world. and it’s a lot to handle, and you can’t slip up ever.

i get where you’re coming from, i’m sure there have been some bearding girls and boys who just look at this position in an opportunistic way only, and see that as an easy route for self-promotion with little care for the feelings of the individual they beard for. but they still aren’t responsible for the fact that said job position exists in the first place, and no one should be forgetting that? i also firmly oppose to the belief that a closeted person doesn’t ever have any agency in their closet. i heavily disagree, in both of louis’ and harry’s current situations. i’m sure it looked different in their 1d years, but let’s not pretend that we live in a world where everyone can just be out and flourish professionally now, and that coming out would always be safe for them and for the people they love, or that it would be convenient at this specific moment in time. sometimes staying in the closet just makes it easier, especially if you’re doing this with a person who knows your family perfectly well, and who can sell a relationship doing a bare minimum. like eleanor 2.0 is pretty much nothing, but y’all act like you’d prefer a new girl to take her place, adding more pressure on louis, who’d have to just stress about helping her navigate his difficult family situation (in the midst of an approaching album release, no less), with loads of young people who don’t always make the best decisions on their public social media involved. who would have to put more effort into selling this romance, because a new girl just hanging out with his dog or sisters probably wouldn’t cut it for many people now. so he’d have to dedicate his time to more pointless pap walks and things like that instead of focusing on, idk, song production or promo strategies for singles.

but yeah basically i don’t think we can have this conversation at all if you believe that harry and louis just sit back like victims instead of working around their closets the best way they can, and hate everyone who pretends to be romantically involved with them. (they /are/ victims of a specific systematic oppression, of course. doesn’t mean they’re passive victims, and this fandom usually associates victimhood with passiveness, inability to take action, and not being able to make one’s own decisions.) a help can be a help even if someone takes money for it. i’d make a comparison point about how even your therapists are paid to take care of you and care for you, and won’t do that /at all/ if you don’t pay them, since they gotta make their living somehow, and it’s a job that can take a massive psychological toll on them, too, but hmmm, i’m sure this fandom would skin me alive for providing such an hyperbolic example.

“Beards like E directly participate in that without a care for the implications of their complicity.” -- you literally don’t know what any of those girls think though, it’s just easier for /you/ to choose to believe in that. they have no voice. no platform to express their reasoning. you can’t assume that collecting a paycheck means they don’t comprehend their own actions. it’s not all black and white. it’s not either “they’re completely evil” or “they’re angels who just want to help out”. there’s a lot of grey area in between, but y’all don’t ever want to stop to think about that. for you, they’re the easiest targets to put the entire blame of a specific systematic oppression on, and you refuse to see past that mindset. like, is it possible that louis dislikes eleanor, or she him? sure. doesn’t mean she’s not helping him in a lot of ways right now.

#long post #long contoversial post i'm sure #anonymous #a response

[thesilverwitch]

WICCA: COMING OUT

At some point, you may have decided that you're comfortable enough in your spiritual path that you're ready to "come out of the broom closet." Chances are it's not a decision you've made lightly, because it's a pretty big step. After all, once you've "come out", you don't get to take it back if people don't like it. Certainly, we all want to be accepted by those we love and care about, but realistically we know there's a chance they might be upset, angry, or concerned once they find out we're Wiccan or Pagan.

First, you'll need to decide what you hope to gain by coming out. Do you just want to shock the neighbors and grandparents into thinking you're Spooky and Mysterious? On the other hand, maybe you feel like you're being less than honest with people in your life by not revealing your true beliefs. Or perhaps you're just tired of tiptoeing around and hiding who you are, and you're ready to be open about your path. Regardless, make sure that the benefits outweigh the possible repercussions.

COMING OUT TO FAMILY

You're the one who knows your family best, so you may be able to gauge how they're going to react. Is there a chance you could cause a lot of family discord by coming out? Will your spouse threaten to divorce you? Could you get kicked out of the house? Will each family dinner become an opportunity for siblings to throw Chick Tracts at you and scream that you're a sinner? Is it possible your kids might get picked on at school if word gets out that you're Pagan?

These are possible results of coming out of the broom closet. Consider them carefully, and weigh it against your reasons for coming out in the first place.

If you've decided that coming out is the right choice for you, the obvious place to start is at home, where there are people who love you and care about you.

The reason for this is twofold -- one, families tend to be more accepting than strangers, and two, how would you like it if mom and dad or your wife found out from someone other than you that you're Wiccan?

First, let them know there's something really important you need to discuss with them. Try to plan a time when there are no distractions -- and do plan ahead, so no one feels like you're trying to corner them or surprise them. Don't bring up the subject when you have half a dozen Wiccan friends sitting on your porch -- your family members will feel ambushed, and that's not a good way to start the conversation.

Before you actually have the big conversation, think about what you're going to say. As silly as this sounds, know what you believe. After all, if your family members ask you questions, you better be able to answer them if you want to be taken seriously. Make sure you've done your homework beforehand. They may want to know what you believe about God, reincarnation, spell work, or even if you hate Christianity now that you're Wiccan. Have an honest answer ready for any possible questions or accusations they may have.

When you do sit down to finally have the talk, focus on remaining calm. Depending on how conservative or religious your family members are, there's a possibility they might fly off the handle. They're entitled to - after all, you've just told them something they, perhaps, weren't expecting, and so the natural reaction to such a situation can be shock and anger for some people. No matter how much they yell, keep yourself from responding in kind. Keep your voice down -- this will do two things. First, it will show them that you are mature, and secondly, it will force them to stop yelling in order to hear what you have to say.

Make sure you focus on what your belief system is, rather than what it isn't. If you start the conversation with, "Now, it's not devil worship…" then all anyone will hear is the "devil" part, and they'll start worrying. But you’re going to want to have solid information at the ready if they ask or assume Wicca is related to evil. You may even want to recommend a book for your parents to read so they can understand Wicca and Paganism a little better. One book, for example, aimed specifically for Christian parents of teens is When Someone You Love is Wiccan.

It does include a few sweeping generalizations, but on the whole it provides a useful, positive Q&A format for people who are concerned about your new spiritual path. You might even want to print out this article and have it handy for them: For Concerned Parents.

The bottom line is that your family needs to see you're still the same happy and well-adjusted person you were yesterday. Show by the way you behave and conduct yourself that you're still a good person, despite the fact that you may have a different spiritual path than everyone else in the house.

COMING OUT TO FRIENDS

This can almost be trickier than coming out to the family, because a family member can't just drop you like a hot potato if they disagree with your choices. A friend can, although one could argue that someone who does so wasn’t really that good of a friend in the first place. However, if your friends have very different religious viewpoints from you, understand that it could happen.

Once you've come out to your family, you can come out to your friends gradually. You might want to start by wearing a piece of religious jewelry and seeing who notices it. When they ask what it is, you can explain, "This is a symbol of my faith, and it means [whatever]." For teens in particular, this is a much easier method than standing up on the lunchroom table and yelling, "Hey, everyone, listen up, I'm Wiccan now!!" I'd also recommend not taking big books on Paganism and magic to school with you -- there's a time and a place for reading about Wicca, but school isn't it.

You may find that some of your friends are confused by this choice you've made. They may feel hurt that you haven't talked to them about it before, or even a little betrayed that you couldn’t confide in them. The best thing you can do is reassure them that you're telling them now, because you do value their friendship.

If you have a friend who is particularly religious -- or one you've met in a religious context, such as a church youth group -- this could be even more awkward. Be sure you answer any questions they have (much like you might have done with your parents), and make sure they understand that just because you're no longer part of their religion doesn’t mean you no longer want to be friends.If you're really lucky, eventually they'll come around and be happy that you're happy.

The great thing about really good friends is that they've probably already figured it out, and were just waiting for you to speak up. If they know you well enough, chances are good that you're not really coming out to them, but simply confirming what they already suspected.

COMING OUT AT WORK

While you are certainly protected against religious discrimination at work thanks to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the fact is that some people may experience some retaliation if they come out at work. It's going to depend on where you work, what sort of people you work with, and whether or not there's anyone who'd like to see you fired.

That having been said, the workplace is not really an appropriate place for discussions on religion. Your spirituality is private and personal, and while there's nothing wrong with wearing a crystal on a chain around your neck, I'd probably draw the line at having a giant pentacle hanging over your desk. There's very little benefit to actually coming out at work.

Understand that if you've come out to friends and family, there's a possibility that someone at work will find out anyway. If that happens, and you are pressured into discussing your spirituality at work or if you are harassed in any way, talk to a supervisor. You may also want to look into retaining an attorney.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Bear in mind that there may be people in your life who are not going to be happy with your choice. You can't change their minds; only they can do that. The best you can do is ask for tolerance, or at the very least, a lack of a hostile environment. Don't waste your energy protesting against someone who's convinced you've made a wrong decision. Instead, show them by your actions and deeds that your choice is the right one for you.

Some people may come up to you and say, "Hey, I hear you're a Wiccan. What the heck is that, anyway?" If this happens, you should have an answer. Tell them what you believe, something like, "A Wiccan is someone who honors the [Divine], who reveres and honors the sacredness of nature, who accepts personal responsibilities for their own actions, and who tries to live a life of balance and harmony." If you can give them a clear, concise answer (notice that there's nothing in there about what Wicca isn't) that's usually good enough for most people. At the very least, it will give them something to think about.

Ultimately you're the only one who can decide how to come out. You can wear a big shirt that says "Yes, I'm a Witch, Deal With It!" or you can gradually leave hints for people who are astute enough to spot them. You might leave books or statuary lying around where your parents can see them, or you may choose to wear Pagan jewelry where everyone can see it.

Remember that for some people, you may be the only Pagan or Wiccan they've ever met. If they have questions, answer them honestly and truthfully. Be the best person you can be, and perhaps you will be able to pave a path for the next Pagan in their life who is considering coming out of the broom closet.

#coming out #coming out of the broom closet #pagan #broom closet #wicca #wiccan #witchcraft #witches of Tumblr #witch #magick #spell #easy spell #the craft #paganism #amethyst #moon #full moon #eclipse #nature #neo wiccan #neo pagan

[manifestoonmoralmanlove]

Gormless Ch. 12 – Nothing quite pumps the breaks like lesbian sexual assault

A well-meaning friend gave me a book series that is hilariously bad. The first book was Souless and my riffs were entitled brainless. This second book is entitled Changless and these riff are then gormless.

I mean to say I have entitled them gormless! Not that my riffs are dumb, and the effort I spend on them stupid since I’m the only one who enjoys them. HAHA!

The story is SUPPOSED TO be about how a badass lady wearing a rad-looking carriage dress hits baddies with her umbrella and bangs her hot werewolf husband.  In reality it’s mostly poor attempts at being witty, flirty, and superior.

For the last book check out the brainless tag.

If you want the TL;DR version but want to read these new riffs anyway?

This story is set in supernatural Victorian steampunk England.  Alexia is our NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS protag.  She is a soulless, which means she’s able to negate the abilities of vampires and werewolves by touching them. She’s recently married a big oaf, named Lord Connel Maccon.  He’s the manchild in charge of the supernatural police with a zillion dollars and he’s totes super hot too ok.  Their relationship is mostly arguments about how Maccon can’t tell her fucking anything.  Alexia has also recently become head of ~Soulless affairs~ in Queen Victoria’s government.  She has a dumb friend named Ivy, a gay vampire friend named Akeldama, a family who’s evil because they do the same shit as her but while being blonde, and most importantly Alexia is better than everyone cause…cause.

Last time on Gormless:

There’s some mysterious force that’s turning the Vampires and werewolves into humans. Alexia is in charge of figuring out that deal, and she is doing a bad job at it.  They are at her husband’s old pack castle about it.  Are they hiding something?????  There’s an active shooter in the castle no one cares about and LeFoux is unconscious because of it.

If the title didn’t give it away TW: sexual assault.

Chapter 12 – Nothing quite pumps the breaks like lesbian sexual assault

Okay so we start with a lot of needless explanation of who’s there for the mummy unwrapping party.  Alexia’s real sad LeFoux can’t be there, cause she’s been shot and is just I PRESUME bleeding out in a high-back velvet chair right now. 

Alexia describes the ceremony as being unnerving to her.  The mummy’s wrappings have the broken Ankh symbol so the body is obviously the source of the humanization thing. Can we just get to that point?

We take a random detour for Alexia to explain that, despite the church employing Soulless people to fight Supernatural people, the church says that there’s no way for a Soulless to get to heaven.  ….Are you fucking kidding me?  Are we talking about the same church that used to sell get-out-of-hell free cards?  They’re not going to throw some bullshit out there like, “Soulless can’t go to heaven….unlessssssssssss they fill out a Supernatrual murder card! It can be redeemed for a free salvation or small ice cream!”  Have religious groups exploited groups they look down upon? Of course! But why didn’t they go the other way? Why are they not TOUCHED BY GOD hence why they can naturally purge the big evil Supernaturals?  Cause persecution complex is why! WHY IS THIS EVEN HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS RACISM PARTY? IT’S NOT GOING TO BE RELEVANT IN THIS STORY AT ALL IS IT?

FUCK!

So Ivy and Felicity faint while watching this.  Alexia talks more about how unnerved she is by the mummy and when she leaves the room Ivy is awake and she playing some downright epic tonsil hockey with Tunstell in front of everybody.  This comes totally out of left field by the way, there’s no explanation for it like lol cpr or “I WAS SCARED SEEING YOU FAINTED! OH GOLLY I SURE DO LOVE THE HECKUMS OUT OF YOU.” But hell I guess we gotta wrap up this shitty plot point.  Alexia, whomst, never has had an impure thought is about to chastise her for this when she hears her husband’s grunty grunts.  But he’s taking a break from angry or horny grunts to grunt in pain so Alexia goes down to help.  He’s been hit with a poison dart and is out cold.

Thank god his inane sexism shouting is put on hold.

When this is explained to the other werewolves one of them comments about how poison is a WOMANLY thing. Which makes no sense cause that’s how they tried to kill the queen. BTW bro, it seems by not having a high enough constitution roll, that makes your old alpha a fucking bitch then DON’T IT? Here’s a hot writing tip: Since this writing is smug and for women, can ONE OF THE TIMES we bring up a dude bro being sexist you can like OWN him? Instead of just rolling your eyes?

So Alexia does what anybody would do with her husband out of commission.  Get a woman naked.

She first blames LeFoux for everything, threatens to kill her, and takes off all of an unconscious woman’s clothes in order to find ~useful gadgets~ and ~clues.~

LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THIS CLUE HAS REVEALED TO US READERS!ALEXIA IS SO FUCKING DEEP IN THE CLOSET THAT ANYTHING GOING WRONG IS DUE TO THE PERSON GIVING HER GAY FEELS. SHE TAKES OUT THESE FEELINGS BY SEXUALLY ASSAULTING UNCONSCIOUS WOMEN! HOLY FUCK!

But it gets worse friends cause we gotta get commentary about how great LeFoux’s UNCONSCIOUS tits are but NOT AS GOOD AS ALEXIA’S! I’M NOT EVEN JOKING!

“It was odd to think, but she had never before seen another woman’s naked body until now.  She must admit Madame Lefoux did have a rather nice one.  Not so well endowed as Alexia’s own, of course, but trim and tidy with neat small breasts.”

THIS IS SURE THE QUEER REPRESENTATION I WANTED TO SEE!

So this made Alexia mad horny (even though she denies it), but worst of all its victim-blamed away when Alexia makes a note that LeFoux’s PULSE may have QUICKENED when she was stripping her. SO LIKE THAT’S CONSENT RIGHT?

And all this goes down for what?  So Alexia makes a note that somebody MAY HAVE used LeFoux’s dart device to take out her shit husband? REALLY GLAD WE HAD THIS SCENE!

Oh yeah and Tunstell was in the room the entire time cause WE MIGHT AS FUCKING WELL AT THIS POINT!

So

So

Sooooooooooo

After my favorite scene in this series so far…Since it’s a man who’s been knocked unconscious we now have to take the loose attempted murderer seriously. Alexia grabs Maccon’s stashed away gun, and goes to get some nonsense out of the bag she put in Ivy’s room. Ivy wakes up (not knowing that Maccon has been attacked and the castle is in chaos-mode.) So she cries about how she really loves Tunstell and she’s still not sure what to do.  Alexia blows her off and even calls her love struggles ~folderol.~

Which on one hand, sure she has other things on her mind, but she doesn’t tell Ivy, “Hey listen, that blows but my husband was attacked, the attacker is loose, and I just discovered I’m a sexual predator…but like the gay kind so that sucks.”  So Ivy gets upset with her flippant attitude, in my opinion, reasonably, and Alexia waltz outta there. She remembers her papers where actually in her umbrella not her bag.  Also the papers were like her ~official~ I’m a  government snoop, let me do whatever I want papers.  She flashes them to the werewolves and they’re like, “…Okay?” and nothing changes.

So the point of the last scene? And then it gets proper muddled here and I’m surprised an editor didn’t pick up on this nonsense.

She gives Tunstell the gun, and tells him to send an aethogram.  He asks to whom and Alexia just screams at him to do it.

OKAY THEN!

She tells the werewolf pack to not go into the room where Maccon and LeFoux are and says that Tunstell will totally kill you if you try.  Uhh okay?  Not sure what that’s accomplishing? Also isn’t he supposed to be sending that gram?  Cause that machine is explicitly not in that room.  She tells the werewolves to gather all their Egyptian artifacts into one room while she’s gone.  She then goes up to send that gram and forgets she told Tunstell to do it I suppose?

She finds all the crystalline what-itz smashed up with an unconscious servant there. WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD IF YOU CHECKED BEFORE BUT I GUESS THAT’S FINE! But she hid away Akeldama’s frequency so she’s able to send a message to Akeldama about doing the research she SHOULD HAVE DONE IN THE 2ND CHAPTER.  Akeldama says that Soulless need to be cremated and basically sends her the symbol of the broken ankh.  She asked him if he knew anything several chapters ago and he didn’t but within a half hour he pinpointed the exact information she needed.  Okay cool, cool, makes a load of sense.

So after Alexia talks the death out of it with Sidheag, she realizes that the mummy was a dead soulless.  And, if dead and persevered, will emit a humanization aura. The broken Ankh is a symbol of a soulless, cause an Ankh symbolizes eternal life and it being broken means a soulless can break eternal life blah blah blah.  And like boy howdy, I’m so glad that the drama of this story is predicated on the fact that NOBODY even centuries old vampires and the members of the minority in question knows jackshit about the basics of the world around them.  Every supernatural knows the identity of every soulless, but nobody knows that you gotta burn their dead bodies?  SEEMS LEGIT!

So somebody tells them that LeFoux has woken up and Alexia tells Sidheag to tell no one about the soulless body.  I mean…maybe she should have told her to burn the corpse so they can all have their powers back but that would mean that her husband would wake up.  And her husband must not wake up to find her sexually assaulting another woman. The scandellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll.

Ugh!

Say something nice Faps:

I got fucking nothing for you.

#gormless #changless #soulless

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this just in: biological sex is not the only aspect of gender, oh my gosh how surprising. y'all act like what someone has in their pants automatically indicates exactly how they'll act and think, which is not feminist at all. y'all literally said you dont think transmen/women aren't actually men/women. good job on being "welcoming" and "positive" - while simultaneously treating trans ppl like shit. so yeah, thanks for that. (pt. 1)

And secondly, denying biological sex doesn’t deny someone’s gender. Insisting that they must actually be men/women depending on their sex does - which is what y’all are doing. Trans ppl may have some particular type of junk in their pants, may have been raised a certain way but that doesn’t make them men/women - it makes them fucking trans. (pt. 2)

Trans people experience the world much differently than cis ppl do, and our brains function and are chemically different to someone who’s fine with their assigned gender. The science behind this is there, and there are several studies which suggest that the brain structure of trans ppl is entirely unique to them, just like it is for men and women. (pt. 3)

Actively denying trans ppl’s gender - by saying stuff like, “well, they’re actually just a man/woman” does actually hurt them. It does actually get us killed. Bc you know who else says that? The guy that murdered a trans woman who fucked him and now thinks he’s gay. The parents of trans teens who deny their child’s gender, resulting in depression and oftentimes suicide. (pt. 4)

I’m not saying you shouldn’t talk about biological sex - of course that is important. I’m just saying there are ways to do that without calling transmen “females”, and transwomen “males”. Surprise surprise you can talk about biological sex and how it affects people without automatically assuming that everyone with that junk is a woman/man - and triggering dysphoria and possibly trauma. (pt. 5

Examples of treating people like more than just their junk include - talking about specific body parts without calling their owners any pronouns, ex. “People with vulvas” “people with prostates” etc. actually talking to trans women, and men to see how they feel about this. As a trans person, it makes me feel like shit to hear you say I’m not a man - but it’s not surprising either. (pt. 6)

A majority of the population thinks I’m not actually a man, so you’re not particularly special. Most people don’t give 2 shits about people like me, or they just dislike us/want us killed and gone. You know how many times I’ve been called a “fucking tranny”, and a dyke? The answer is a hell of a lot. And you don’t get to just come in here and tell me that that’s ok because I’m actually just a woman. (pt. 7)

Reducing people to their biological sex is transphobic. You can acknowledge that someone has certain bits, but you don’t know how trans people think or feel or how being seen as just a dick/vulva feels. We aren’t just sex, we’re actual people with feelings - who wanted to be treated like actual people. (pt. 8)

I just want to say that if you being gender critical plays into a societal norm of treating trans people like they don’t exist, what makes you any different than the homophobic and misogynist politicians who want to see us dead? Maybe if being gender critical makes people lapse into depression and dysphoria, you should think about why you think it’s a good idea. (pt. 9)

Because the fact of the matter is is that this kills people. It kills young people, maybe not actively, but it still kills people. Trans teens have such a high rate of suicide because of people like you who think it doesn’t hurt to be reduced to your sex, who think it’s ok to not listen to trans people and treat them in ways that hurt - even when they've told you very specifically what is transphobic. You don't get to decide what is and isn't transphobia. (pt. 10)

So, first off: we’re using totally different definitions of the terms “male/female” the way we use it, doesn’t mean “man/woman” (as in the gender and gender roles assigned to someone) but refer to a biological reality, what sex someone is, and what sexual characteristics they have. To us, using “female” is the same as you using “afab” or “people with vaginas” It’s merely a biological descriptor, it doesn’t come with any “you should be like Y, and act like Y, and follow these gender roles” It’s just stating what “junk” (and reproductive system and secondary sexual characteristics) someone has. No more, no less.

I’m sorry that this causes trans people dysphoria and distress, I get why being reminded of their bodies, and their “supossed role in society as a man/woman” like that would (but I don’t see why “people with vaginas” is considered more acceptable? Since it also reminds you of your anatomy?) And I would recommend that if any discourse that uses these words is too triggering for you, that you disengage from it for your own well-being.

Now, cis women also suffer from not aligning with what their supposed role in society is. That’s what gender roles are, and they’re a tool of women’s oppression, which we as feminists want to combat. To be able to do that, we need to look at the roots of it, why is patriarchy the way it is? And the answer, harsh as it may be, is that it’s related to bodies and the sex of them. 

Being born a certain sex means you’re treated a certain way from birth. Little girls are raised to play with dolls (to learn to be “motherly”) and wear dresses, told that they’re less intelligent and inferior to boys, and that their only worth is how attractive they’re to men. Little boys are taught to be assertive, to be strong and to be leaders. This creates a divide, a hierarchy, and what each person is taught is completely dependant on the sex of their body.

This carries on to adulthood too, and yeah, there may be nuances, a non-passing trans man will be a lot more catcalled on the street than a trans man who passes as male. The same way, a non-passing or closeted trans woman (that’d be read as a cis man) may not experience misogyny BUT a passing trans woman will. And this is all because of the way misogynistic men assume what sex you are based on how you look. This is all because they see you as “female/afab” and that makes you a target for misogyny.

Now, I’m not gonna say that if the hypothetical passing trans woman I talked about revealed she was trans (so of the “male/amab/people with penises” sex) that was going to make people treat her like a man. Because society is transphobic and misogynistic and they’d see her as a “man deviating from their assigned gender role” which they hate.

And it’s this, this misogyny tied to what gender roles you’re supposed to follow because of your body, what causes violence against trans people, violence that is very often dished out by cis men. Cis men who in no way listen to anything radical feminists have to say because if they did, they’d be against gender roles.

Now yes, this also leads to trans women internalizing some “men” behaviours, because of being socialized as boys, including sexual entitlement (as we’ve seen with the cotton ceiling discourse, that lesbians are evil if they don’t open their legs for any trans woman) and we have to analyze that, but this doesn’t diminish the violence trans people face at all, and I want to reiterate that we don’t support that.

I’m sorry that this makes young trans kid want to kill themselves, but people shouldn’t stop speaking about important things just because it hurts you (and I’m saying this as someone who has struggled with depression and with wanting to commit suicide). We don’t want any trans kids to feel suicidal at all, but we can’t just not speak about sex when it’s relevant to us and our experiences, so again, I say that if this hurts someone that much, it’s better that they disengage from the conversation.

I support trans & dysphoric people treating their dysphoria however they see fit, I support them having legal protections and rights so that they don’t get discriminated against in any aspect of life, I support them in living free from male violence, and that they enjoy the same freedoms and obligations everyone else should. Calling them “male” or “female” when talking about feminist discourse (or about sexual orientation) where someone’s birth sex and the sex they’re read as is relevant to the conversation, doesn’t suddenly contradict the above. 

We merely said we’d welcome any trans men that feel they could relate to our experiences in our positivity blog, because there is and has been historically a lot of overlap between the trans men and lesbian community (many trans men used to identify as lesbians and viceversa, many lesbians have dated trans men, etc) so yeah we share common experiences because of our shared sex, and if they’re female-attracted, even more so. So we just said they’d be welcome on our blog, if any of them wanted to. It doesn’t mean we want to force anyone to take on any label they don’t want to (re: straight trans men and the label “lesbian”) it just means that if any of them felt they could relate to what we post, that that would be perfectly fine by us. But we’re not going to make anything aimed specifically at trans men.

As for trans women, I personally don’t mind if any of them follow us if they’re able to relate to what we post. I don’t like obsessively policing who follows me or who other people follow (mod m speaking here) But, again, since our blog was made to be a space for female/afab lesbians, it’s the perspective we’ll be speaking from. So we’re not going to make anything specifically aimed at trans women either, because we feel there was a lack of spaces that focused on female lesbian sexuality and talked honestly about exclusive same-sex attraction, and what that entails (because with discourse like the “lesbian are bigots if they don’t like dick” we’re becoming less and less able to talk about our sexual orientation and desires and what that entails, because other people thinks us talking about our lives is inherently evil, when it’s not meant to hurt anyone, it’s just us speaking our truth)

This doesn’t mean we hate trans people at all or wish them any ill. All we want is a positive space for us and people like us to talk about our experiences. 

Mod M :D

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7 WTF Trump Businesses You Never Knew About

Recently, it was revealed that the entire Trump Organization had lost 90 percentage of the importance it had in 2010. 90 percent . If you lose 90 percent of anything, you shouldn’t be allowed to say you still have it — which, in Trump’s case, is “worth.” But this roller coaster of resources is nothing brand-new. If there’s anything the Trump brand has been consistently known for, it’s omission. You perhaps know about Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Casinos, and Trump the President, but there are so many other business-shaped skeletons in his closet that he has to stack them on top of the bankruptcy newspapers he too obscures in there. For illustration, did you been talking about …

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Trump Takeover , aka “Toon Trump”

Donald Trump has always had a cartoonish tone about him, like a Daddy Warbucks who won’t accept that he’s bald-headed and accuses objectively innocent black adolescents of crime. So it’s strange that Trump doesn’t have a small-screen representation of himself running around and stimulating misbehaviour. But that isn’t for lack of trying.

The Trump Organization The tie-in action figure had “real pussy-grip action! “

Trump Takeover would have been an animated sequence focused on Trump fighting for truth, right, and social stimulates — a social right warrior, if you will. With help from his Apprentice cronies, Trump would take over an ailing part of society in crisis and prepare whatever is harassing it. For illustration, “Strike 3 … You’re Fired” takes places in an America, where MLB is on a “downward slide to oblivion” and Donny has to make sure the players are up and ready.

The Trump Organization “Is that fucking person kneeling ?! ” * shits himself in rage *

Another episode, “Taking Stock Of The Market, ” views Trump and friends take over the world economy in order to halt the evil machinations of a “nefarious world fiscal conspiracy, ” with a dialogue which no doubt got a lot of triple parentheses around particular characters’ names.

The Trump Organization

Eventually, in the depressingly prescient “Politically Corrected” episode, Trump would have had to take over the United States( in a “state of virtual breakdown, ” no less) and fix all of its problems, probably by retweeting abhor communication and representing war widows cry.

The Trump Organization Pictured: more parties than at his actual inauguration.

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The closest this sequence ever has now come to airing was when some studio exec probably hurled the storyboards across the chamber in indignation. Artwork was drawn and occurrences were drafted( including a outlandish romp implying aliens attacking NYC ), but the project folded due to an overwhelming shortage in the best interests. Periods have changed, nonetheless, and with Stephen Colbert threatening to create a Trump cartoon, one of the bigwigs behind Trump Takeover recently said that they wouldn’t mind two seconds cranny at the entitlement. But it’s hard to see how the man itself could find the time to be involved , now that he wastes all of his time getting publicly owned by the shadow authority.

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Trump Shuttle, aka “Falling With Style! ”

In October 1988, Donald Jagerbomb Trump, sick of hovering private like a prole, decided to treat himself and buy an airline. He acquired Eastern Air Shuttle, a fighting New York company which provided daily flights for high-powered entrepreneurs — and Trump. Missing to own everything that screamed “New York” and “failing, ” he bought the airline, renamed it “Trump Shuttle, ” and immediately broke the two cardinal patterns of the airline industry: He maintained telling parties other airlines were hazardous, then did his own airliners more dangerous.

During the Trump Shuttle launch party in 1989, Trump, like any loving emcee, started out by badmouthing the rivalry. In a jumbled tirade, he told reporters that Pan Am( his closest contestant) was a danger to life, limb, and luggage, saying, “I wouldn’t pilot them; they’re losing money and their aircrafts are old.” Regrettably for Trump, a humanity who couldn’t even strong-arm a newborn for their sugar, the airline business guides a little like the Mob. You don’t start saying that other airlines are dangerous, or else you’ll wake up with a propeller in your berth. Sure enough, 3 months later, a Trump Shuttle winging into Boston encountered mechanical problems and roughly disintegrated into the blowout, saved by the skills of the pilot.

The Boston Globe “It was the most beautiful landing you’ve ever seen” — Donald Trump, who never learned how to respond appropriately to disasters

Not that Pan Am got nothing to do with that. Trump was more than capable of sabotaging himself. The effect of the gate-crash was a problem with the landing gear, but we’d like to think the plane was contending for the purposes of the weight of all of Trump’s modifications. After taking over, he redesigned the interior of his airliners according to his, for lack of a better message, savor, installing everything from thick carpeting and leather tushes to faux marble sinks and veneer panel. The in-flight busines was also expanded to include a three-drink service and a gourmet breakfast/ lunch, which was incredibly difficult for the stewardesses to serve in the average time of each flight( nearly 45 times ). Oh, and because it wouldn’t has become a Trump thing if it wasn’t creepy to wives, he also redesigned the stewardesses’ outfits to show more cleavage. Overstuffed and sexist — now you’re operating with Trump!

Apparently, Trump required his airline to have “the look of old money, ” and to his ascribe, that was the only fund the airline ever assured. With the cost of his amendments, the competitiveness of the service, and the reputation damage caused by the disintegrate, Trump Shuttle forgot $128 million within 18 months. It took two and a half years before Trump was forced to give up the airline because holy shit he sucked , after which “its been” bought out by U.S. Airways, who cleaned their brand-new aircrafts so exhaustively of any and all proof pertaining to Trump that you’d think they’d been the incident of a lumber chipper massacre.

Pam Berry/ The Boston Globe Which is, incidentally, how economists refer to Trump.

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Trump Mortgage, aka “So Long, Suckers! ”

As you’re now well aware, Donald Jesus Trump is one of the kindliest, caringliest, yugest humanitarians to ever mercy countries around the world. So magnificent. The better. So when he launched Trump Mortgage LLC in 2006 , no one had any disbelief that Trump would move a close-fisted, clean carry that could be used to millions of American homeowners with their mortgages, dedicating them the white picket fence future they deserved. MAGA.

Just in case anyone from r/ TheDonald was thinking we’d genuinely changed our attentions, Trump is a grasping, slimy mattress filled with pocket change stolen from donation wishing reservoirs, and it’s little astound that the business ethos of Trump Mortgage showed this in every single lane. Instead of doling out money to mortgage-needers, Trump Mortgage was in fact a brokerage firm that did nothing, owned good-for-nothing, required to go zero threats, and merely existed as a road to con coin from fighting families and business owners. Business was so good that Trump and Trump Mortgage CEO E.J. Ridings threw lavish defendants, plastered their faces everywhere, and even boasted to the press about how “the real estate sell is going to be very strong for a long time to come.”

They did this in 2006.

Even as Trump was gushing off about his mega-bigly knowledge of the mortgage marketplaces, experts were warning him of the upcoming disturbances and admonishing him to steer clear, or to at the very least stop spending all of their coin on agency states parties and hookers. Did he listen? Please. He wouldn’t hear one word of complaint, citing his society education at Wharton Academy ( Go, Pushing Warts !) as proof that he, and only he, could exist any financial typhoon.

Within 18 months of opening its doorways, Trump Mortgage was forced to close, leaving a fortune of unpaid bills, rafters of people chiselled out of their homes, and zero chance that this lack would thrust some introspection on Trump’s part. In subsequent interviews, Trump laid the held accountable for the collapse at the paws of everyone but himself — his executives, financing of the climate, those damn homeowners having more foresight than him. He even extended thus far as to suggest that he was forced into this strategy, saying that the mortgage business wasn’t one that he “particularly liked or wanted to be part of in a very big way.” We’re sure the inclination was mutual.

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FundAnything, aka “Beg, Peasants, Beg! ”

If you needed an indication of how Il Douche was going to behave as president, you wouldn’t “re going to have to” experience roam for a preview. Simply cast your attention back to 2013, when Trump launched FundAnything, his attempt at growing the dominant crowdfunding platform on the internet. The signals were all there. He promised to take back crowdfunding from the elites, reinvigorate the world employing his mad deal-making skills, and to donate a shitload of experience and coin earn acts better for everyone.

The Trump Organization Spoiler: He didn’t

FundAnything was a collaboration between Trump and Bill Zanker, who ghostwrote the seminal masterpiece Think Big And Kick Ass In Business And Life . FundAnything wasn’t a revolutionary idea, of course. Areas like Kickstarter and Indiegogo were already reigning the field. So how did they try to stand out? Well, as they gave it, “[ crowdfunding] get traction with artistics and tech, but you go anywhere but the coasts and they don’t get onto hitherto, ” which is either announcing the Midwest stupid or claiming that they don’t have the internet hitherto in Iowa. And how did FundAnything seek to wrest crowdfunding away from the rich coastal societies? By charging the highest costs of any crowdfunding website. Vive la opposition !

The other depict, of course, was Donald Julius Trump himself. When the site launched, Trump promised to regularly promote expeditions on his Twitter and to regularly donate, like a modern-day Medici. And he did! Trump donated $92,000 to many safaruss — of which an important cut went back to Trump himself. He tweeted about FundAnything a whopping 27 epoches in eight months — 21 of which were about safaruss by Penn Jillette and Adam Carolla, who were also conveniently appearing on Celebrity Apprentice . Were they members of the downtrodden underclass who can’t sign on for Indiegogo?

Penn Jillette We know that the Jill-Jet is really weird, but he’s probably went saner ideas.

The launch of FundAnything also dedicated Trump the chance to hold another of his famously modest propel episodes. He brought many beings in varying countries of financial suffering and caused them to beg for his cash with people saying, and this is verbatim, “Do you need money? What’s your problem? ” He then picked the “best” ten and withdrew to a nearby balcony as the assembled slews scooped money out of a tank while he watched/ yanked off.

Barely a year later, Trump shut down FundAnything, saying that it “took too much of my time and too much time to raise the money.” We merely hope some people who did get some saved their money. It’ll be useful when their healthcare disappears.

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Tour de Trump, aka “Make American Cycling Great Again! ”

Maybe Trump’s right. Maybe America isn’t that great after all. We’re failing at everything, from the interesting thing like education and healthcare to big stuff like not making good Transformers movies anymore. And when was the last occasion America hosted a good cycling tournament? Man, aiming discrimination truly ruined everything.

In the 1980 s, nonetheless, one bald utopian had a plan to get America into cycling again. The Tour de Trump was going to be a ten-stage cycling tournament unfolding the whole way from Albany to Atlantic City. The winner would be given $75,000 — a fair cost for having to go to Atlantic City. When columnists questioned Trump about why he’d mentioned the rival after himself and not countries of the region, his response was “We could, if we wanted to have a little successful race.” That’s right, Donald Jompers Trump — the person who ponders exercise is a liberal story to embezzle his precious bodily fluids — thought he was the central glean for the fitness crowd.

Despite the horrific epithet, the hasten supported pretty popular in the cycling community. Between the convenient schedule( wedged between the Giro and the Tour de France) and the eye-catching mountain of currency up for grabs, many high-ranking cycling teams signed up to race on the roads of lesser New York. There was no way that even Trump could fuck this up … except for having a massive mountain of debt. Unable to both pay the prize money and convince the IRS he had any money left to give them, Trump descended the tour after only two years.

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Trump Magazine , aka “Look At Me! ”

Once upon a experience, Trump Magazine was a glinting jewel in the crown of the magazine industry. The amazing, albeit-short lived highbrow slapstick ‘zine peculiarity contributions from famed jesters de rigeur , including Harvey Kurtzman, Mel Brooks, and Jack Davis. And although it is folded exclusively after one year, it is still widely regarded as a benchmark for form, element, and wit.

Of course, Donald Trump had nothing to do with Trump . If it had, it would’ve been a accumulation of shit, like all the rest of his schlubby, sickening publications.

The Trump Organization Although we know one person who found this sexy.

Between 1997 and 2009, Trump prepared four assaults at breaking into the world of reproduce: Trump Style , Trump World , Trump World II: Red, White, And Blonde , and Trump Magazine . Like a shitty in-flight periodical, Trump Style was shared around his condos and hotels from 1997 to 2002. Inside, there were innumerable photographs of Trump and his then-wife Marla Marples, horoscopes, word about his burgeoning casino empire, and plugs for the place you were already richly dumb enough for remain in. In other words, they were advertisements for neighbourhoods that already had Trump’s name on the building and his smug candle wax is now facing every lobby. Extremely stylish, indeed.

The content of Trump World ( which folded after two editions) and Trump Magazine wasn’t much different: one-third scintillating interrogations with Trump and the trio of haunted ventriloquist dolls he announces children, and two-thirds glossy advertisings for personal canoes, luxury pocket squares, and diamond-studded gaming consoles to pay for it.

In the end, this mighty producing empire was raised down by the same problem that destroys every business owned by a self-proclaimed billionaire: cash flow troubles. Trump World had lost$ 3 million and almost bankrupted the publisher. When it regenerated into Trump Magazine , it lost a further$ 7 million, a stupor to those people who’d discovered Trump literally weeks beforehand say that they were “taking it to the next rank, ” not knowing that he was talking about the bankruptcies.

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Trump World Studios, aka “The Hollywood Of Florida! ”

Have you ever “ve noticed that” Donald Jennifer Trump has a really weird relationship with Hollywood? He spends half of his time riling up his basi up about their eliteness, then expends the other half jump-start up and down trying to get their attention. And there’s best available signal of his toadying than the decades he spent cameo-ing in every movie he maybe could, to the extent that imparting him a cameo was contractually obliged if you wanted to shoot in any of his properties.

So how do you become movie-famous while detesting the bowels of the movie industry? You oblige your own studio, with blackjack and Russian hookers. In 2012, Trump started plans to create Trump World Studios, Florida. TWS would have an 800 -acre lot, comprised of 15 backlots and studio opening totaling thousands and thousands of square feet, alongside a casing complex for employees and his beloved personalities, eateries, stores, and a public plaza. If it had been improved, Trump World Studios would have been the most significant film studio in the two countries, and Trump could’ve slipped into his new character as the Tangerine Walt Disney.

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The Trump Organization And if he had actually paid his artists, you would be able to see those in the design plans.

When someone looked into the 800 acres that Trump wanted, they found that he’d earmarked cavities for everything from homeless assistance and public institutions to parks and environmental conservation zones, all the way to the military — who have a thing about beings transgressing on their grounds. The final fingernail in the coffin, nonetheless, was the finding that Trump, real estate genius that he is, had earmarked ground next to an breath modesty base — a move equivalent to Marvel Studios deciding to shoot Infinity War inside a air turbine. Before he could get the chance to ask if the planes could, like, be quiet when doing their liftoffs and arrivals, the whole concept was quietly declined like a red-hot turd — albeit a turd that logged billions of dollars in architectural fees.

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“Climate change is a hoax by the Chinese.” 

That, unfortunately, is not an opinion.  It is a fact.  It is a FALSE FACT.

Facts are statements that can be proven or disproven.  There are studies by government agencies and university science departments all over the world that provide evidence to back up the theory that the climate is drastically changing in ways that threaten our existence.  The studies are repeatable, peer reviewed, and thoroughly “vetted”, to use the new word that Republicans embrace so deeply and lovingly for immigration issues.  On the other side of the question, you have scoffing congressmen who bring snowballs into the capitol and say, “See?  The science is not proven.”   That is not a fact.   Where is the evidence which is not anecdotal and based on a misunderstanding of the difference between “climate change” and “weather change”?  That is by definition an opinion.  And it is not even an informed opinion.  Opinions are not equal to facts.  Comparing the two is like comparing apples to onions.  No, that is not even correct.  You can eat both of those things.  It is more like comparing apples to planetary moons.

After a long and heated Facebook debate about immigration between me, a Texas teacher, and an Iowa Republican Trump supporter I went to high school with who doesn’t even know if he ever met an illegal immigrant, I have pretty well proven to myself that a big share of the divide between liberals and conservatives stems from the unwillingness of one side to avoid equating facts and opinions.  Apples and moons.

So give me a moment to do what teachers do.

Here is a non-political lesson in Fact versus Opinion.

Who do you prefer?  Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny?  The answer doesn’t matter to me.

I can give you a quick and dirty lesson on fact and opinion using these two cartoon characters.  And it doesn’t even matter who you like more.

Here are some obvious facts about the two of them.

They are both cartoon characters.  They are both anthropomorphic animals.  They both wear gloves most of the time.  They both have a thumb and three fingers on each hand.

These things are observably true.  You can prove them by looking at the illustrations I have already provided.

Other things may not be as readily apparent, but no less provable.

Both of them are heterosexual and both of them have one main love interest.  Neither of them have ever been married, but neither of them really are playboys and even though there are no legitimate bits of evidence that either one has ever had sex with their respective girlfriends, Bugs has kissed Lola on more than one occasion and Mickey has kept company with Minnie for longer than most old married couples.

These things are provable by watching the cartoons and observing a preponderance of evidence.  There is no contradictory evidence.  But the possibility of contradictory evidence doesn’t change these things into opinions.  A disproven fact is still a fact.  It is merely a false fact.  Over time the relationship between Bugs and Daffy Duck may become clearer and the fact that Bugs is gay may pop out of the cartoon closet.  It does however, require proof, so it is a fact, not an opinion.

Here’s another fact you know the evidence supports.  Bugs Bunny is a nudist.  He almost always appears in cartoons naked.  Mickey, however, believes in wearing clothes.  Even when he gets out of the bath tub, he clutches the nearest towel, and you never get a look at whether he has cartoon genitals or not.  Mickey does hang out a lot with a duck who wears no pants, but that’s an irrelevant fact.

The notion that Mickey and Bugs are very different personalities because they had very different creators, is an opinion.  It is a opinion offered by people who have studied the characters and their creators, and therefore can give you an informed opinion.  But it still can’t be proven.

Walt Disney made Mickey into more or less of an every-man sort of character whom audiences can identify with.  Things happen to Mickey Mouse, and the comedy comes from him trying to deal with those external forces, be they wind storms during music concerts, Donald Duck’s raging temper, or the evil plots of Black Pete.  Walt never said this was so to prove it, but it is not unreasonable to think it.

Bugs Bunny, on the other hand, was created by several great animators like Robert McKimson, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, and Bob Clampett.  And Bugs tends to make things happen to other characters.  Think of how he plays Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and even his pal Daffy for laughs.  He is more of a Groucho Marx type character than an every-man.  We don’t identify with him.  We only laugh at his victims (because they always deserve what he gives them).  That too is an opinion.  And even if one of his creators were to say that this was the intent, it still is not proven until all of them agree.  And they all had very different ways of doing things.

But these are only informed opinions.  You cannot be proven wrong whether you agree or disagree with them.  You are entitled to your own interpretations and opinions because they are not provable facts.  There is no one way to view any opinion.

Opinions, even un-informed opinions and religious beliefs are never either wrong or right.  You don’t make a mistake when you have an opinion.  It only becomes a mistake when you try to use it as a fact, or mistakenly believe it is a fact.

So, there is my lesson for those Facebook arguers who never seem to know the difference.  It’s all color-coded and everything.  So try using this new knowledge when arguing with me, rather than calling me stupid, or making your point IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS!

    Fact or Opinion (It’s a Teacher Thing) "Climate change is a hoax by the Chinese."  That, unfortunately, is not an opinion.  It is a fact.