Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) Dir. David Lynch

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text: my ballot is a brick and brother I'm doing my civic duty

Sci fi should bring back the sweaty tanky top muscle woman fighting for her life but give some fucking underarm hair

the trolley problem vs. systemic oppression: a comic.

A Reminder

Palestine is not over. Palestine is not dead. Gaza, the West Bank, the entire region between the river and the sea, and the various countries across the world where refugees have fled to, house a surviving people and surviving culture. Palestine is not dead, and WILL NOT die.

I'm seeing a lot of very valid despair online, but if you're someone like me, living a privileged life in a Western country NOT under active bombardment, and which is actually COMPLICIT to some degree in that bombardment: we don't get to give up. Not now, not ever.

You can still get involved in protests or direct actions (e.g. blocking supply), you can still donate eSims or fund UNRWA on your government's behalf, you can still hassle the crap out of your local MP. No, it won't roll back the harm that's already been committed, but all of those things are STILL WORTH DOING. PEOPLE ARE STILL ALIVE OVER THERE. PALESTINE IS STILL WORTH SAVING.

If you've bothered to read this far, you're probably already aware of what's going on over there right now. If not, check out Al Jazeera's fantastic coverage. But also remember that Palestine, and Palestinian culture, is more than just death and despair. Examples below:

Long live Palestine, from the river to the sea.

the self care industry will sell you face masks and teas and whatnot so i'm here to remind you not to forget the most important self care activity which is masturbation

Lofoten

Oh? You like the batfam? So, are you queer, neurodivergent, mentally ill, or all three?

Ok but fr, the amount of batfam fans I know that are at least one of the above, and often all, just goes to show how much this messed up family resonates with people like us.

Queer people adore the concept of found family because we are so often rejected by our blood family. The concept of superheroes is inherently queer, and especially trans. Having a secret name only a few trusted people know? Having an entire community of people just like you that you can't tell the people in your every day life about? Leading two entirely separate lives with only a handful of people who know both sides of you? Queer.

The batfam especially is found family, because only a few members are related by blood (Bruce and Damian). The far majority of them is either adopted (the Wayne kids) or very very close to the rest of them to the point they're considered family (Alfred, Steph, Barbara, etc). Most DC families are blood families, so it makes sense that queer people gravitate towards the batfam. (Queer people love adopting each other. Looking at all my friend-sibs.)

Multiple batfam members are neurodivergent coded (Bruce especially), although unintentionally so, and they're all severely mentally ill/traumatized. We look at these characters and think, yes, you are like me, I understand you.

A lot of traumatized people project on the batkids, because, well, it's kind of a wish fulfilment to have an adult come save you when you're at your lowest, huh?

(Also why I suspect so many people project onto Tim specifically, because his trauma is the easiest to relate to. Most people don't grow up as assasins, or have their parents murdered.)

(And also why I think there is so much batfam fan content. We saw these characters who are so much like us being mistreated in their source material and decided to take them in as our own and give them better lives, the same way we long to do with ourselves.)

Besides, a big part of fandom in general is made up of nd ppl. We tend to hyperfixate on stuff and produce a fuckton of content cause this is the only thing we can think about. It's only logical that there are so many of us in the batfam fandom/larger DC fandom.

There wasn't really any point to this, just... we looked at this broken, messed up family, saw ourselves, and called it our own. I don't know, I just think that's pretty meaningful.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ASEXUALITY DAY!!

-April 6th