Worry feels like doing something, as if the more you experience distress, the more you’ve done. But feeling changes nothing. A frenzy of sudden activity and quick, quitting exhaustion also feels like accomplishment. “I did everything I could!” But things are very bad, and we need more than that. You’re going to have to pick […]

This sort of comparison goes back at least as far as 2016 (“Imagine if Frodo was all ‘Sauron’s bad, but Gandalf’s done some morally gray stuff, too, so I’ll stay home.’ Don’t get eaten by orcs. Vote.”), and to liberals who like to situate themselves as being the ultimate good and voting as the ultimate […]

The charity of evangelical Christians is, like everything else, based on their worship of power. This is why these same Christians who will reach into their own pocket to provide a destitute person with food, drink — even provide them cash without condition — will still refuse and actively fight efforts to ensure that such […]

“A person can drown in six inches of water, it doesn’t matter if someone else is drowning in ten feet! you’re both still fucking drowning!” You can be assured that someone out there has it worse. You can also be assured that what you have had is bad enough. Please take care of yourself the […]

@fandomsandfeminism:Only about 2% of high school athletes are awarded ANY sports scholarship to college. This idea that sports, especially lucrative and dangerous high school football, are some wonderful godsend that will propel underprivileged kids to a better life is by and far not true. I’m not saying we ban tackle football, but 1. It’s a […]

Tumblr Anonymous asked:I identify as butch but have lots of soft plushies in my bed… do you think I ought to remove them before I invite someone over for hookups? never see any butches with plushies tbh so a bit selfconscious @queermasculinedon’t be self-conscious dude. hoarding plushies is a masculine trait. your ancient shepherd instinct. […]

Do support your disabled friends and community, but for example, if an artist is doing a commission for you, listen to them very specifically about how the payments are going to work. The USA’s policy toward disabled people, like many people, is best described as “eugenics… but make it a little less obvious”, so the […]

Tumblr @avramchajabeing a jew studying preholocaust european jewish history is just mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns- @meirmakesstuffWWII alternate history stories always go “What if the Nazis won.” WHAT IF THE JEWS LIVED? @kanguinThat’s actually such […]

Tumblr @corporealphantomReminder that fat disabled people exist and have a sexuality. Reminder that fat disabled people can be queer. They can be bi, pan, lesbian, gay, ace. They can be trans. They can be loud and provocative, or gentle and soft. Fat disabled people can be desired and can also desire. They can be saucy, […]

Please stop doing this. Queen Mab may be bound by clever wordplay, but conservatives are not the fey. The devil may be forced to keep his promises, but Christian Nationalists are not restrained by the same integrity as Old Scratch. “Oh-ho! They didn’t think through their own rules, hmm? What fools! Don’t they even know […]