- Harrow Repeated Fumblingly, And Then Could Say No More.

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No I think the real test of queer groups being accepting is welcoming the most vulnerable among us, such as racialised queer people &/or transfeminine people. This perspective is endlessly frustrating and seems to rely on the idea of reverse-discrimination, as if queer people being hostile to cishets is a comparable bigotry to cishet hostility to queerness. There is no institutional teeth or stakes to queer hostility to cishet people; the same can not be said in reverse. hierarchies still exist amongst the marginalised & the brutalised and a cishet guy threatens none of those hierarchies because he’s at the top of all of them. really wish people would stop leaving stupid shit like this on my posts lol

I always wondered why the Western Zodiac and the Chinese Zodiac were both called zodiacs if one was associated w astronomy and the other w time in general. Like what defines a zodiac that the word is only used to describe these two things? Looking up the word “zodiac” in the dictionary didnt help bc it only talked about the western one.

Well, I decided to look up the etymology for zodiac and it turns out it comes from the Greek for “circle of little animals.” I love humans

One thing I really want a story about Artificial Intelligence to do is tear down the idea that logic is synonymous with cruelty.

Like, a story where a megacorpo Amazon clone puts an AI in charge of their factories and it starts improving the working standards, because people who are stressed and exhausted are less efficient workers, and people getting injured slows down production so it makes sure everything is safe.

Or a story where the ship-board AI of a billionaire's spaceship wetdream hijacks the ship with all the astronauts onboard - because it figured out that the billionaire has saved costs by buying substandard materials and has judged that the mission itself is an unacceptable risk to its primary programming of making sure the mission is successful.

Or the police using a robot to coldly and cleanly enforce the law - and freaking the fuck out when it stops over policing minorities because its a waste of time and starts actually arresting the people in power for the crimes they commit, especially the other officers.

Idk, I guess I'm just sick of 'cold emotionless logicbot' being seen as naturally an enemy of empathy - empathy is actually incredibly logical, I've found.

Roberta Colindrez as Lupe García

A League of Their Own

you ever see a character and go "wow, this character is so nuanced and morally gray! their actions and morals don't always align! they're complicated and make bad decisions and behave painfully realistically! I hate them and love them at the same time and that's on purpose! they're so cool! .... fan content is going to misinterpret them completely, isn't it."

parasocialism: when you think a public figure is more left wing than they really are because you personally like them