My name's West, I'm 28. Agender. Pronouns at your discretion, I don’t mind any of them. I post an assortment of things. If I follow you and it makes you uncomfortable that I am older than 18, I will unfollow you if you ask. I check every blog that follows me in case it’s a bot, so if you’ve literally never reblogged anything, I’m gonna report and block you. This isn’t tiktok or Instagram, liking posts does nothing. Interact with the content you enjoy, for the love of god.
Aphobes and terfs fuck off, I’ll kill you with my bare hands :)
I like to think that at least once, the Avatar cycle seemed to skip the Water Tribe—like people knew it was the water tribe’s turn, everyone was looking for them, the tests are done on all the kids, but like 60-80 years go by and no avatar until some Earth Kingdom kid shows up. People wonder if the cycle skipped a generation or what, but nothing serious was going on at that time so they shrug and move on.
It’s only many many years later that someone is researching Swampbender oral history and someone tells the story of “Ol Stinky Jess, she was a funny one, could light the swamp on fire an’ all sorts o’ shenanigans! Best catfishgator catcher in the tribe, she was” and thats literally it, she just lived a totally chill life in the swamp and nobody knew what an avatar was at the time so they just rolled with that funny gal’s odd bending ways.
Researcher, equally eager and afraid to ask: “So…so why was she called Stinky Jess?”
Cheerful Swamp Elder: “Well y’see, them gases what come out of the swamp in the real dank places, they’s as smelly as a skunkcoon’s hind end, and Stinky Jess, so the legend goes, well she were a bit of a prankster, an’ she’d find a real ripe part o’ the swamp, and then she’d whip up her wind magic an’ waft them stinky smells right into yer house and get er’body hollerin’. They say no one annoyed Stinky Jess for fear o’ being visited by her stink in the night! O’ course, Ol’ Stinky Jess also taught us that soma them gasses are flammable, on account o’ the time she sneezed durin’ a stinkup an’ set half the town on fire, an’ that’s the story o’ how our tribe learned ter harness methane and ter fireproof things even when they’s surrounded by water—”
Researcher:(scribbling notes so fast his quill is smoking)
Note: the bulk of this thread was posed on 11/5/2020 and was added to sporadically thru 8/13/2021. This is Part 1 because apparently it’s too long for tumblr? Part 2 Part 3
So you want to know more about antisemitism outside the context of Nazis …
99.99999% of conspiracy theories are either rooted in antisemitism or antisemitism is a key component
(Look, I get the impulse. Ben Shapiro is shitbag. So are Laura Loomer, Stephen Miller, Mort Klein, etc. but No True Scotsman-ing isn’t actually helpful.)
(My main critique of both of these is that they’re pretty Ashkenormative and gloss over the effect Israel’s creation had on Mizrahi Jews living in other MENA countries.)
Short thread/statement from a Palestinian activist that succinctly summarizes his distaste with folks using Palestinians to legitimize their antisemitism:
Thread from a Black Jew about how Jews are often perceived by Gentiles of Color, which is a helpful perspective on how positive stereotypes and proximity to whiteness can put marginalized communities in conflict. These conflicts doubly hurt those who belong to both:
autistic people! spark research, partnered with autism speaks, is trying to find a prenatal link to autism so they can practice eugenics and eradicate autism from the gene pool.
do not give your dna to spark research!
allistics pretty please reblog this!
Oh hey, auteach is one of my mutuals on tiktok who was (wildly and falsely) accused of recruiting young autistic people for the NXIVM sex cult last year by a group of autistic people who go around doxxing and mass reporting anyone they dislike for a multitude of reasons (that sounds exaggerated but it’s really not)
Literally where would be as a society without the soup store video
ive never met anyone under 25 who hasnt seen it.
It’s literally an impossibly good video. The fucking performance and sheer ANGER and building frustration from both party’s, the absurdity, the slow ramping ridiculousness, the way the diologue flows off itself at a breakneck speed, the phrase “I’m at soup” the pure fucking rage off both parties, the sheer almost unbelievable idiocy from the guy who’s ‘at soup,’ the way it ends so ubruptly without losing any momentum. Its insane. I’ve watched it 150 times in like 2 years its never not funny.
here’s the video since op didn’t link it
Fun fact: this was written, edited, and voice acted by one guy.
Fun fact #2: this whole sketch was apparently based on an overheard conversation where someone was trying to buy chicken at The Gap.
Fun fact #3: there is actually a clothing store called Soup.