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Even if you don’t pick up on the child abuse, he’s still a kid grieving the death of his brother! Imagine if you knew a 16yo in real life whose little brother died. If adults kept complaining that this 16yo was “whiny” bc he was sad about his brother, you’d think they were sociopaths.

This is why I roll my eyes when people try to gotcha SF/F authors with stuff like “Why does Gideon say ‘That’s bananas’ when there are no bananas in the Ninth House?”

I feel the same but about the word CLITIC

My hometown had a teen suicide epidemic. We didn’t need to be warned about it, we lived it before we were old enough to vote. If someone had said, “Hey, the rest of your life will be like this,” I might have felt like I didn’t want to be around to experience it.

People love to say that being single gives you so much freedom, and I’m sure in some ways that’s true, but it also creates logistical difficulties around everything from accessing health care to what kind of clothes you can wear.

Tangent: this is also how I feel about consent education. Like, it’s good and we should do it, but also, in many cases, it’s not that rapists don’t *understand* that you didn’t consent, it’s that they don’t *care* that you didn’t consent. In some cases they even *enjoy* that you didn’t consent.

I saw someone ask for recommendations of books about queer characters getting divorced, and someone replied, “It’s not about queer characters and it’s not about divorce, but I recommend XYZ.” The respondent had clearly read & understood the request, they just chose to ignore the parameters.

I wonder to what extent it’s actually people not *understanding* the post and to what extent it’s people simply choosing to ignore what the post actually said in favor of going off about their personal hobbyhorse

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (2000)

When I was 14 and starting to realize that I wasn’t straight, I read a middle-aged lesbian’s MySpace post about how she was happy to be gay, and it made me feel like I could be okay.

To me, “eldest daughter” implies that the daughter is the first-born child, whereas “oldest daughter” implies that she is the oldest of the daughters but may have an older brother.

Then why does Norway have a lower fertility rate than the U.S.?

Even artificial wombs wouldn’t be a silver bullet for birth rates though—you still need to get the gametes from somewhere, and egg retrieval is an invasive procedure, and someone still has to raise the kids.

Lady Bird Johnson died in July 2007 which means she could have used an iPhone in the last two weeks of her life

linguistics is word rotation send skeet

We Have Always Lived in The Castle And That’s Why I Am Writing to Oppose to Proposed Housing Development That Will Fundamentally Change the Character of Our Picturesque, Gothic Community

This is my ex-lover’s lover’s Mormon mother.

We have reached a verdict, Your Honor. This man’s heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.

Spouse A: “I love you, __________.”

Spouse B: “I repeat. Who cares?”

LOUIS: Rabbi, what does the Holy Writ say about someone who abandons someone he loves at a time of great need? RABBI ISIDOR CHEMELWITZ: Why would a person do such a thing? LOUIS: Because he has to. Maybe because this person’s sense of the world, that it will change for the better with struggle, maybe a person who has this neo-Hegelian positivist sense of constant historical progress towards happiness or perfection or something, who feels very powerful because he feels connected to these forces, moving uphill all the time… maybe that person can’t, um, incorporate sickness into his sense of how things are supposed to go. Maybe vomit… and sores and disease… really frighten him, maybe… he isn’t so good with death.

Instead of “In sickness and in health”:

The stiffening of your penis is of no consequence.

Now I’m thinking about what would be the most inappropriate quotes from Angels in America to read at a wedding

Many people in wealthy societies claim that people would have more kids if society were better, but the evidence suggests the opposite!

Kind of like how a man who gets mad and shoots his lawnmower is not someone I trust, but not because I’m concerned about the feelings of the lawnmower

I mean…I’ll take it

just met someone who said he voted for Harris in 2024 because Trump wasn’t anti-abortion enough lmao

Young woman with closed eyes, in an “I can’t believe this is happening” expression, captioned “I’m being accused of not understanding the omega verse”

new reaction image just dropped

I get the sense that it’s affective rather than a literal physical description, maybe by analogy with “fat ass.” “Fat” in this context might just express approval. Kind of like how “big dick energy” doesn’t necessarily refer to a physically large penis.

I don’t think that’s regressive at all, I think the entire point of being pro-choice is that whether *you* would get an abortion is completely irrelevant to whether *other* people should be allowed to get an abortion.

ergativity!