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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
seananmcguire
killyfromblame

Communicating with my cat is so crazy, it’s like, you watch my back for predators when I sleep. You meow only because you know that I vocalize often, but the words I use are nothing to you unless they’re associated with things relevant to your little baby life (food, for example). You slow blink at me because you feel safe with me. You point your ass at my face, indicating that you trust me to watch your back for predators, because you feel safe with me. You sit in my lap and sleep pressed against my side because you need to warm yourself up, and you trust me to warm you. I know this because I have access to information. If I didn’t, these things would be weird to me. I call you Lulu, but you don’t need a name for me; you have your senses to identify me. You smell me to identify me. You nuzzle me with your head to mark me as family with your scent. We ARE family. You are both the baby I feed and the elderly little lady who watches over me. It’s a very special and pure interspecies bond. I have a concept of “love” that is metaphysical, conceptual; you have an instinctual bond to those that you “trust” to help you survive (and that you, in turn, help to survive). You DO aid my survival on an emotional level that you can’t possibly understand, because you try to aid me on the physical level that comes naturally to you. Who said survival of the fittest has no room for love? We share the pure love of deep friendship because you and I must survive. My creature, Lulu, my best friend. My stinky.

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killyfromblame

The comments and tags on this post have been very sweet, I really love hearing about everyone’s cats. Feeling a little self-conscious because this drunken emotional outburst (seriously, I had a few drinks, looked at Lulu, and started crying and writing this) has been tagged as poetry a few times. Now I wish I could go back in time and edit it for flow and word choice, but it’s too late now…

seananmcguire
bogleech

You know, with all the language throughout Star Wars about “giving in” to the Dark Side, how the Dark Side makes you more powerful, how the Dark Side makes you age strangely and destroys you, it sure doesn’t sound like an “opposite side of the coin” so much as the “deeper end of the pool,” like it’s actually the true form of the force and being a Jedi is about keeping it tamed so it doesn’t eat you the way it actually wants.

sinbadism

the force is entropy

asgardreid

Eldritch Jedi pls

daxxglax

This is one of the reasons i love the second Knights of the Old Republic game, wherein one of the major characters (who defines herself neither as Jedi nor Sith) actually views the Force this way, saying  “I hate the Force. I hate that it seems to have a will, that it would control us to achieve some measure of balance, when countless lives are lost.”

It’s also the game that gave us the two most entropic, eldritch characters in the franchise: Darth Nihilus, whose dark-side-borne ability to feed on the Force and consume life itself has twisted him into a half-living “wound in the Force”, more presence than flesh

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and Darth Sion, whose entire body is a ruin, his flesh nothing but ragged scar tissue, every bone and muscle broken and torn, kept animated by will alone as he forces himself, second by agonizing second, to exist

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I wish there were more horrifying perspectives on the force like that

jollysunflora

#the force is a horrorterror

respainey

This is one of the reasons the term “Light Side” never felt right to me, even before it was used in any official media; The Force always struck me more like an ocean than a binary concept: the deeper you go, the darker and more crushing it gets — at a certain point becoming an effectually consistent darkness — and while light filters down and fades for some distance, if there is a truly light “side” it’d be the surface.

Which isn’t to say “the Force is evil unless you flounder about near the top” — just that it’s a natural force, and as such is something you need to respect and be adequately prepared for. (Take electricity, for example: super awesome and pretty dang useful, but OH HOLY SMOKES don’t try and harness it unless you REALLY know what you’re doing!)

In this sense, being tempted by the Dark Side is less a case of “Hey, I wonder what’s on the other side of this coin it looks pretty cool haha oh whoops I’m Space Walter White now,” and more one of “The deeper into this thing you go, the harder you’ll need to fight to resist the ever-increasing pressure, to remain whole, even to just see whatever the heck you’re actually doing.”

(which is why Jedi training is so important: those padawans gotta build themselves a mental Deepsea Challenger!)

jasjuliet

THIS META BLESSED ME

punkpuppydragon

Does anyone really use the Force?  Or does the Force just use you?

iamnotalungfish

The authors of the extended universe have always done a better job at developing this concept than Lucas has.

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seananmcguire
transarsonist

but no yeah lets have the conversation:

"the CEO doesnt want to run that kind of website"
Excuse, shouldnt have bought the 'go nuts show nuts whatever' website if thats the case. APPEAL DENIED

"we have to follow the TOS of the appstores we're hosted on"
Excuse item one, no you dont, item two, you have since those days implimented infrastructure that would allow pornography and sex work on this platform Without violating TOS of any applicable app store. APPEAL DENIED

"we own the site we get to make the rules"
Incorrect, this site has only ever made profit when the users willed it. we collectively own the site as a hive mind and no legal change in ownership will change that. APPEAL DENIED

"we have to keep this website safe for the children who use it"
Argument based on fallacy banning pornography and sex workers does not prevent pornography and sex work from occuring on the site, it only forces aforementioned users to hide and avoid labling their content appropriately, which REDUCES the safety for children and sex workers alike instead of increasing it, this has been shown to the point that making this argument at all is tantamount to admiting fascist intent APPEAL DENIED

transarsonist

Reblog it. I want this to be on Tumblr radar by end of the week, i want my notes to be useless from the discourse, i want every single person on Tumblr to have seen this post at some point

rollingpenny
momusu-saval: “lilithtransrights: “burnt-to-cynders: “lilithtransrights: “harostar: “ alpine-insurrection: “ mormonfries: “ starlight-lilith: “I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or...
starlight-lilith

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

mormonfries

reblog if attacking fascism is really the hill you want to die on

alpine-insurrection

this is literally like one of the most justified and honorable hills you could die on??? lol??

harostar

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Originally posted by folkpunkdreamboat

lilithtransrights

Quick someone reply with the gif™️

burnt-to-cynders

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momusu-saval

Always reblog this if you are cool

seananmcguire
worn-smooth
Tumblr is settling with NYC’s human rights agency over alleged porn ban bias
The ban allegedly affected LGBTQ users disproportionately.
The Verge
bitter69uk

Gee, Tumblr would probably really hate it if you shared and spread this damning article … To the surprise of absolutely none of Tumblr’s LGBTQ users, it turns out the independent NYC human rights agency Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) found that Tumblr’s ham-fisted adult content ban in December 2018 disproportionately targeted LGBTQ users. The CCHR’s investigation revealed Tumbler’s moderation algorithms is demonstrably biased against queer content. As part of the settlement, Tumblr was obligated to review their prejudicial anti-gay moderation policies. Even more mortifyingly, they’ve also had to hire an expert on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) issues and provide unconscious bias training to their moderators. I frankly doubt Tumblr has learned a thing from this humbling experience. Just recently the Tumblr algorithm flagged three ancient posts of mine as violating their terms. All three “offenders” were vintage homoerotic beefcake images (softcore by modern standards) roughly 50 – 65-years-old by Bruce of Los Angeles, Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland. (These are of course pioneering queer artists who routinely faced censorship and imprisonment in the fifties and sixties. Plus ca change!). They've been visible on my page - corrupting viewers -  for years at this point. I appealed all three immediately. Only the Tom of Finland one was approved. The other two are now hidden. So, they haven't learned much. Apparently, Tumblr – who loves to declare how hip, youthful, inclusive and progressive their values are - wants to restore trust with their queer users. I’d recommend we remember their hypocrisy when Pride rolls around and Tumblr splashes rainbow flags everywhere and attempts to pink wash their image.

bitter69uk

In honour of Pride Month, this is worth a reblog! Don’t buy into Tumblr’s hypocritical “pink washing.” 

hyperverbal

Here is the link to the documents themselves, if anyone was curious

rollingpenny

disaster-dog asked:

Neil help me i agreed to write a part 2 to a (1st person narrator) story that wasn't really designed to have a part 2 because said narrator dies at the end of part 1 but if i say I'll do something i commit to the bit so theres no backing out now. can you possibly give me any inspo at all?

context (for what its worth), the main character goes on a skydiving trip and forgets her parachute but the skydiving instructor pushes her out of the plane anyway so she dies in a field

neil-gaiman answered:

Dead narrators are the best kind. They know more about what’s going on than the living sort.

dduane

:)

seananmcguire
taibhsearachd

Okay so, in honor of pride month, I want to talk to you, my fellow queers about 1) if you are not polyamorous, including us in your queer activism, and 2) if you are polyamorous, insisting on being included in queer stuff. Poly people are queer. I don't care if you only date the opposite gender and you're otherwise not queer. The same applies to hetero trans people, hetero aces, hetero aros. And the way polyamorous people can lose their jobs, their children, their reputations if it becomes well-known that they are poly is very queer, and in some ways, still more marginalized than other queer people (just talking about, for instance, a custody case for children... even now, I like to think that no judge who valued their career would, at this point in time, rule that a gay or trans parent is inherently a bad parent because they are queer, whereas MANY judges would happily and freely rule against a parent who was openly polyamorous).

I came out as queer to my parents when I was sixteen. I still haven't told them I'm poly. I'd sooner tell them I'm genderqueer and trans than I would that I have been in a relationship with two people I love very much for over a decade.

...I do recognize that the old poly flag is bad. The color grading, the weird pi symbol, the harshness of the colors... I always hated that thing. I am here to bring you the good news of a new poly flag, that is not JUST the boring stripe patterns of queer flags (which I do have a major beef with, we could do anything and we just choose stripes? we're better than this), but is so much more visually appealing than the previous version. I present to you the new polyamorous pride flag:

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GOOD COLORS! GOOD DESIGN! DISTINCT! IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZABLE! REPLICABLE COLORS IF YOU WANT TO MAKE PRIDE MERCH OUT OF IT! Let's have a round of applause for the polyam flag design team, because they knocked it out of the park.

In conclusion, polyamorous people are queer, please do not leave us out, also our pride flag is cool as fuck and I want a sweater in these colors.

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