emily’s bleak midwinter ❄️
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- i got bored and did the thing a bunch of other people did and naturally my wife is stunning even as a cartoon (who is obviously planning crime or espionage of some sort) whereas i myself somehow have the vibes of jason mendoza from the good place. go jags, i guess.
- Reposted by emily’s bleak midwinter ❄️ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
- Reposted by emily’s bleak midwinter ❄️This is the sort of thing that defines fascism more than most other aspects. The installation of secret police to monitor everyone for suspicion not of doing anything wrong, but of being the wrong kind of person.
- Reposted by emily’s bleak midwinter ❄️Never forget when he told me “you shall consume the flesh Emilio Estevez style”
- Reposted by emily’s bleak midwinter ❄️If you see this skeet, take two minutes to contact Intercontinental and DoubleTree customer service to voice support for taking a stance against ICE. They’re going to get complaints from the fascists, we can get the jump on them. Intercontinental 1877.424.2449 DT (owned by Hilton) 1800.222.8733
- Reposted by emily’s bleak midwinter ❄️i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.
- Reposted by emily’s bleak midwinter ❄️What all this self-pitying sludge about ICE agents feeling depressed and scared is forcing into our collective forebrain is the knowledge that our culture has placed a premium not just on creating classes of men who kill and torture at will, but on forcing the rest of us to love them at gunpoint.
- Reposted by emily’s bleak midwinter ❄️sports betting in the pokémon universe must go insane. imagine putting it all on nidorino and then a gengar shows up to your house with a baseball bat and breaks your kneecaps
- so you absolutely should ditch “moron” but something erin & link said 3 years ago made me try an experiment i’ve continued to today of cutting all “your intelligence is subhuman” insults out of my vocabulary. which makes you notice them. and let me tell you, it’s like 25% of american discourse.
- The author disabled quotes.I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one. It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.
- not even suggesting everyone should try the same experiment (though moron, imbecile, idiot, cretin, & all the others tied to eugenics, forced sterilization of black people, & **surprise** past waves of deportations should get chucked with the R word); just saying many folks lean into that shit HARD.
- and like, i’m a descriptivist not a prescriptivist & i’m generally not a language cop (though there are folks who have a “shut the fuck up & learn to talk about other people without dehumanizing them” coming) but it’s wild how badly many people want to step on the “some humans are less human” pedal.
- i wanted to be sure the aurebesh i was doing in the middle of a joke was accurate & someone who’s an editor on wookieepedia needs to let the folks know there are other sites online & many feature pornography & pornographic actors having actual intercourse. you can see the penis go in if you want.
- you better believe i looked up that nova trooper though. oh yeah. so fast. they’re fine. i do prefer sex breasts, though. so at least the searchers of wookieepedia have their priorities right.
