maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them
starting to think these maidens are stumbling in soaked through from the rain just to steal my beautiful gowns and homewear are any of you actually lost
Why are the people you’d expect to own scary pitbulls the only responsible pitbull owners
If you meet a mechanic from Louisiana named Skeeter McGee with a dog named Slayer, you can trust that dog with your life. If you meet a lifestyle influencer from Seattle with a dog named Princess Pibble, you can guarantee that it’s one loud noise away from turning the nearest child into a material the consistency of tubby custard
If you’re gonna come into my inbox calling some random transfem a pedophile with no substantive evidence, I’m just going to assume that you’re a transphobe.
99% of the time I’ll actually look into what y'all are pointing to as evidence of some transfem being a pedophile and it’s either “This person discussed pedophilia in a way that did not condone it, and people are clearly deliberately misinterpreting their words.” Or “something something shipping discourse.” Or “This transfem posted bulge and that makes me scared.”
“X blogger is following Y Problematic Blogger in this screenshot!”
It’s entirely possible to follow people and not be aware of their beliefs. Shitty people don’t exactly have signs saying they’re a shithead.
Are they still following that blogger? No? Who cares then.
Does following someone mean agreeing with and endorsing their views? Not necessarily. I follow human pet guy because I like watching him say insane shit.
Y'all will go to such LENGTHS to convince yourselves that random transfems are pedophiles or nonbinary exclusionists or bad kink enjoyers that y'all will twist reasonable posts or obvious jokes into conspiratorial evidence of their transgender malice and deviance.
The conclusions yall draw can only be reached by actively ignoring the messy humanity of a persons life. If you’re doing this on purpose, you’re a transphobe. If you’re not doing this on purpose, you’re still a transphobe, but you’re also an idiot.
I’m glad to see bigger blogs on here talking about this, tired of half the site being in perfect lockstep with Republican senators and thinking that anyone who points it out is part of the same secret pedophile ring
When they first started dating, my best friend’s boyfriend was like, “I just kinda feel like you two are uncomfortably close sometimes. All of my friends agree that it’s really weird, and I think we need to establish some boundaries.”
And I sat him down and gave him this huge speech, like, “Listen, the ability to maintain intimate, long-lasting friendships is a sign that your partner is well-adjusted! It’s a little worrying that you’re feeling insecure about your partner having a healthy, normal friendship.”
Only for her to walk in two seconds later and say, “This drink is disgusting, you have to try it,” and, instead of offering me a sip, take a huge swig and spit it directly into my mouth from like three feet away.
There’s just so much going on here but I want to focus on the fact that this apparently happens so often that you saw her take a swig and instinctively opened your mouth for her to spit in it.
today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.
but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.
the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.
The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.
His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing
heist movie idea: florence hires thieves to steal his bones and the protagonists have are thieves trying to keep it out of the hands of florence. its a game of cat and mouse all the while dantes ghost is giving commentary only the audience can hear
Still remember when a homo- and transphobic acquaintance tried to bring up JKR’s views on trans people in conversation and I shut it down with «oh yeah she’s been saying a lot of dumb shit on Twitter after she finished writing Harry Potter, like when she claimed Dumbledore was gay, just to be politically correct», which made it absolutely impossible for him to admit that he agreed with anything JKR had ever said. Sometimes you just have to weaponise people’s homophobia against their transphobia.
Other ways to stop family members/acquaintances from going on bigoted rants:
«Isn’t this all a bit silly? I mean, I’m more concerned about the economy/the war in Ukraine/covid/my job» - weaponised whataboutism
«Do you work with a lot of trans people? Because it seems like this is a problem you frequently encounter in everyday life from the way you talk about it» and when they say they don’t, follow up with «well then I don’t see what you’re making such a fuss about»
«Idk, I haven’t been much on social media lately, I think Twitter is a waste of time» - make them feel like they’re the ones who are terminally online
«Idk, I’m not that concernced with other people’s genitals and sex lives» - creep shaming
The point is that I’ve used all of these in various contexts and they’ve saved a good number of dinner table conversations from derailing into pointless debating. You don’t de-radicalise friends and family members by entering into political discussions they initiate just to stir up shit. You de-radicalise them by shifting the focus away from their shitty opinions and onto the things you have in common and the practical everyday stuff that exists outside their internet echo chambers.
