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Hey all, Crips for Esims for Gaza has been purchasing E-sims for people in Gaza and need help to continue their advocacy!

We link them in our Hi Nay episodes but want to remind people to help out if they can and donate! They're an offshoot of the E-sims for Gaza program created by Mirna El-Helbawi, and allow you to, if you are overwhelmed by the E-sims purchasing process, streamline it.

You donate to Crips for Esims for Gaza, and they do it for you. Help these fantastic disabled activists if you're able!

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Been thinking a lot about the new Captain American movie and how corporations like Disney wield representation and diveristy as a cudgel to get people to support movies and shows they otherwise wouldn't, either because of things like the BDS boycott or because the scripts fucking suck or they mistreated their animators / SFX teams / actors etc etc. And you're left with the choice to either support media you know is crap or look like the racist swine who see a Black Captain America and shit their diapers. I don't know if they think this far ahead / nefariously but it's a great way to split your opposition and turn them against each other.

This HAS to be cap like what

Review of some anti-Tony comments from Ao3. Part 7

Today I’m reviewing only one scene - with Peter and Tony from Spider-Man: Homecoming. I'm laughing so hard at the statement I’m going to review that I can’t write more.

“He then humiliates him by taking away the suit for Tony's own mistake, forcing him to dig through a dumpster for clothing, then walking home alone, disheartened.”

“forcing him to dig through a dumpster for clothing” – excuse me, what?

Peter is wearing perfectly clean white t-shirt “I survived my trip to NYC” (SMH 1:22:05), which is in Tony’s style and it is also oversized, that gives us some clues that it was Tony’s t-shirt, and it certainly wasn't in the dumpster before Peter put it on (we can see this t-shirt later in SMNWH btw). Also, these fancy Hello Kitty PJ pants – 100% Tony’s work.

This is not the only time Peter wears something that belonged to Stark family. At the end of the movie we see him in “I lost an electron” t-shirt (SMH 1:58:50), which we already saw in Iron Man 3 on Pepper (IM3 0:23:10).

The difference is this mysterious "anxious attachment style" thought process generally (from what ive seen idk im not an expert) only applies to like 2 important people

"Do you still like me?" "Are you mad at me?" "Did i do something wrong?" Disorder is unfortunately indiscriminately targeting everyone around me, myself and complete strangers included.

There is no escaping the "Do you still like me?" "Are you mad at me?" "Did i do something wrong?" Disorder

cursed with "do you still like me?" "are you mad at me?" "did i do something wrong?" disorder

My teeth cannot touch tips or else The Thing will happen and I Will Die.

can someone please be proud of me like fuck I’m trying

Being a ranger I spend a lot of time alone in the wilderness for hours in the company of one of four co workers.

One such worker for the purpose of this post we shall refer to as Dave.

Dave is a very quiet man. He confesses that if conversation happens too quickly and for too long he gets tired so we often work in silence. He's very polite and good natured but it's obvious that he would happily live and work alone for the rest of his life given the option.

He's very much in the previous generation of ranger, a practical man in his fourties or fifties happy to be kept physically busy for a day and then be sent home with some pay. I had to show him how to use a work issued smart phone.

Meanwhile the rest of the team is made up of the current generation of rangers; openly nurodivergent queer women in their twenties or thirties who work this job because it's the only setting where we can vaguely look sane.

So Dave sticks out a bit. It's really nice when he opens up though because he's an impulsive individual when left to his own devices and has plenty of stories to tell if the mood takes him. I really like working with Dave.

Anyway, one day we've got a job that takes a three hour hike to get to and early on the topic of deer comes up.

I hadn't realised this was the first time we had discussed deer, but blatantly it was. Dave's entire demeanour changes, there's a bit of passion in his voice, but it's also hushed as if he's talking about something sacred.

"Deer are my favourite animal." He says.

I'm also eager to hear Dave talk about himself, so I encourage him to say more.

"I'd love to be a deer myself."

And more

"If a genie offered me the opportunity to become a deer I'd take it. I wouldn't even stop to ask what the price was."

And more

"Sometimes I feel like I'm a deer having a dream about being a human.*

And there I am, a long time commuter to the therian/otherkin community keeping up the encouraging face of someone being politely interested, knowing that this man is straight up a therian with no frame of reference.

And I decided that I wouldn't push the subject outside of the bounds of what Dave is comfortable with, I wouldn't try to teach him the terms "Therian" or "Otherkin" but absolutely I would talk with this man as if he's a deer.

And it's a bit magical really. He's an impulsive individual so I have to talk him out of some risky choices every so often and "this is why deer like you keep getting stuck in fences" has become this magical phrase that allows him to step down from a mistake with a bit of a smile on his face.

I hate the sound of babies crying, but I can't hate a baby. They've been here for like five minutes and approach this situation with an unhesitant attitude of "my needs are unmet and I am going to make it everybody's problem", and I respect that.

Aspec representation is important because kids are still told in health class that everyone feels attraction

Aspec representation is important because somewhere in the world there’s a 12 year old crying because they feel broken

Aspec representation is important because I still get told “that’s not real” when I come out

Aspec representation is important because people still think the A in LGBTQIA+ stands for ally

Aspec representation is important because everyone deserves to see someone like them on screen

Aspec representation is important because people still think that asexual and aromantic are the same thing

Aspec representation is important