Lady @Lady@cat.family

the opinion of many Americans, whether they are fascists, climate activists, leftists, or antiracists, is that the US Government does not currently have the capacity to enact that alternate future

responses to this vary, but of course the fascists respond with fascism

it is unsurprising that people who work in media would place an outsized importance on the role of rhetoric, but our current crisis is not the result of savvy Republicans using strong language to get votes, but the fact that many Americans do not see a future for themselves in this country, and some segment of them believe that through fascism that state of affairs can be changed

you have to do the work of building for them an alternate future if you want them to take a different stance. simply negating their current position is not enough

political violence is a symptom of a failing democracy, not its cause

« If institutions and individuals do more to make it unacceptable in American public life, organized violence in the service of political objectives can still be pushed to the fringes. » New York Times Editorial Board, it doesn’t matter how “unacceptable” political violence is in American political life if it is the only thing which works

lol https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/politics/biden-tweet-social-security.html

cc @aescling

there is no analogue to this for straight people

my season arrives at last

there are finally (a few) leaves on the ground

god just imagine being a lesbian playing the home-recorded cassette tape of another lesbian telling you about her life over and over as you go about your day

lesbians invented podcasts

« From the start, this bicoastal collective work proved to be less than easy. Not only was long-distance communication challenging, but the women of "Iris West" (Reid, Stevens, and Zheutlin in LA) and "Iris East" (Biren and Farmer in DC) also barely knew one another and had to quickly develop methods of rectifying as much. Long-distance phone calls were expensive and letters were limiting, so the group soon began to supplement these more traditional forms of communication wich audiotapes that they mailed back and forch with their letters. These tapes allowed them to communicate more thoroughly and provided a more personal way to get to know one another. »

we all know trans women like puns but cis women clearly also like puns

diversity win! author literally could not care less what gender her characters are

literally i just wrote a normal dude and gave them they/them pronouns because it was narratively convenient; get over your idea that this matters

i perpetually think this is hilarious because my Link isn't even interestingly gendered

most probably will not read it on account of me using they/them pronouns for Link

ZeLink fanfic authors really have very little imagination so hopefully this arouses something in them, idk

i did it

i found a smut sitting in my notes app from a longass time ago and i can't remember if i ever incorporated it into a larger work or not

if i didn't i might publish it, not because i think it has value, but because it will give AO3 a chance to wrangle a few tags before i use them in a work that i actually care about

go listen to Blood Bitch