aghast (MINNESOTA ARC)
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he/him 🏳️⚧️ • trans christian ✝️ • horror lit enjoyer 🐦⬛ • left-curious politics 🌹 • transplanted to minnesota ⛄️
With many immune diseases, you have to factor in progression, which makes it more confusing. I remember controlled HIV getting moved around risk categories for a minute.
March 19, 2024 at 4:16 PM
With many immune diseases, you have to factor in progression, which makes it more confusing. I remember controlled HIV getting moved around risk categories for a minute.
It has more to do with how the CDC had to lump all immunocompromised people into one huge group in the early COVID days, when in fact there are many levels of being immunocompromised.
March 19, 2024 at 4:06 PM
It has more to do with how the CDC had to lump all immunocompromised people into one huge group in the early COVID days, when in fact there are many levels of being immunocompromised.
But that's religion and religion is stoopid /s
March 19, 2024 at 1:37 PM
But that's religion and religion is stoopid /s
Man, the WWII generation dying off has been terrible for people's brains
March 19, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Man, the WWII generation dying off has been terrible for people's brains
Not just trans women
March 18, 2024 at 3:59 AM
Not just trans women
"I demand trans people stop getting into the weeds about this or that study, state their principles clearly, and answer all the fundamental questions we have."
"Okay."
"Nooooooo that's not empirical!"
"Okay."
"Nooooooo that's not empirical!"
March 17, 2024 at 9:36 PM
"I demand trans people stop getting into the weeds about this or that study, state their principles clearly, and answer all the fundamental questions we have."
"Okay."
"Nooooooo that's not empirical!"
"Okay."
"Nooooooo that's not empirical!"
Transphobes reading Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virginia Woolf's Orlando with no sense of irony.
March 16, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Transphobes reading Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virginia Woolf's Orlando with no sense of irony.
The Pamela Paul stuff is a window into how TER*Fism, despite being rather uncommon in the US compared to right-wing transphobia, has nonetheless infiltrated a lot of elite literary fiction cliques.
March 16, 2024 at 8:31 PM
The Pamela Paul stuff is a window into how TER*Fism, despite being rather uncommon in the US compared to right-wing transphobia, has nonetheless infiltrated a lot of elite literary fiction cliques.
Yes, I know the literary/genre divide isn't real, but you know what I mean.
March 16, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Yes, I know the literary/genre divide isn't real, but you know what I mean.
Oh no, you don't have to imagine, MAGA rap is a real thing
"Facts" - Tom MacDonald (feat. Ben Shapiro)
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March 14, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Oh no, you don't have to imagine, MAGA rap is a real thing
They think MAGA rap will suffice.
March 14, 2024 at 9:27 PM
They think MAGA rap will suffice.
Glad he is coming around
March 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Glad he is coming around
The most praised aspect of the series -- that it "grew up with its audience" -- is its downfall. The first three books have an appropriate balance of whimsy and stakes. Raising the stakes makes the whimsical elements of the setting look either ridiculous or sinister.
March 13, 2024 at 11:00 PM
The most praised aspect of the series -- that it "grew up with its audience" -- is its downfall. The first three books have an appropriate balance of whimsy and stakes. Raising the stakes makes the whimsical elements of the setting look either ridiculous or sinister.
TAKE TWINSIES
My honest Harry Potter opinion is that the first three books are solid kid lit and there's a gradual drop of quality from there. Half-Blood Prince is BAD. As a kid, I gradually lost interest without being able to explain why.
March 13, 2024 at 10:43 PM
TAKE TWINSIES
We forget how hegemonic Pottermania was in the early-mid 2010s. Hating on HP wasn't just uncouth, it was *right-wing* coded.
March 13, 2024 at 8:42 PM
We forget how hegemonic Pottermania was in the early-mid 2010s. Hating on HP wasn't just uncouth, it was *right-wing* coded.
But I definitely had Potter fatigue by that point. There was so much pressure to like HP well into adulthood, and I had moved on. I didn't have the same sense of betrayal as others.
March 13, 2024 at 8:36 PM
But I definitely had Potter fatigue by that point. There was so much pressure to like HP well into adulthood, and I had moved on. I didn't have the same sense of betrayal as others.
As a white American kid, I didn't have more insight than that until Rowling went TER*F and former fans with literature degrees started tearing the series apart looking for racism, antisemitism, etc.
March 13, 2024 at 8:33 PM
As a white American kid, I didn't have more insight than that until Rowling went TER*F and former fans with literature degrees started tearing the series apart looking for racism, antisemitism, etc.