Run, The Goose knows no mercy

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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
sarnakhwritesthings
funkylittlebaldcharapoll

FUNKY LITTLE BALD CHARACTER POLL ROUND 1, GROUP 1

thanks to the will of the people, our first three-way poll is actually a four-way! two of these mechanical masterminds are teaming up against the others, but will it be enough?

SPECIAL ABILITY ACTIVATED! if all teams get a final vote count with a 10% or lower margin of difference, rom will have successfully UNIONIZED them, and they'll ALL team up for the remainder of the poll!

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CID POLLENDINA (FFIV) and LORD CRUMP (Paper Mario: TTYD) vs ROM (Deep Space 9) vs TINKER KNIGHT (Shovel Knight)

Cid and Crump

Rom

Tinker Knight

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ROM SWEEP
sarnakhwritesthings
coffee-in-that-nebula

Who would you share quarters with if you had to? (TNG edition)

Deanna Troi

Beverly (and Wesley) Crusher

Worf

Data

Geordi La Forge

Katherine Pulaski (OK but tell me WHY)

Guinan

Tasha Yar

Someone else (tags)

I'd try to sneak into Riker's quarters

Same with the voy poll. Captain and First Officer are excluded because of their ranks.

Tasha since after not too long I'll be the only person still staying in that room
canofhappy
chinese footballer
sarnakhwritesthings
veritasrose

Lost followers after reblogging that whole thing about JKR being radicalized over the years, and that disturbs me.

Like if you think saying that people can be radicalized and manipulated into hate is somehow justifying it, yikes. And if you think that people are somehow just good or evil and that you are not at risk of buying into propaganda, have I got some very red flag news about that!

Idk if its because I am an older Millennial maybe (most who unfollowed were younger) but I watched a ton of that generation slide from one of the most progressive to the far right before my every eyes. Hell, my dad fought alongside his black friends in the Detroit race riots and now he watches Fox News 24/7 and talks about the border wall. Yet still claims he could never be racist because of how he used to be. He doesn’t even realize what he has become.

JKR isn’t a deluded old woman or innately evil, but in fact THE prime example of how well-meaning ignorance and privilege can be weaponized and encouraged down a pipeline, until it turns into a force of hate, and should be a cautionary tale about why educating and being open about these issues are necessary. Because there are those out there who will use those divisions and ignorance to their own ends. And just digging in our heels and saying “that could never be me!” is the very thing that puts you more at risk. I’ve lost so many loved ones down that pipeline and it is more slippery than most realize.

Stay alert, stay compassionate, stay humble, and make sure you move through life guided by reason rather than reaction. I love y’all and don’t want to see your passion twisted to get used against the world.

screampotato

Thinking "I could never be a bigot" is the first prerequisite for becoming a bigot.

In the UK we've seen a few people ride this crazy train to the end of the line in the last few years. Perhaps because our political landscape is different from that of the US, it's easier to see it happening. There has never been an expectation here that being a conservative means you will hold insane views. It might mean you have some objectionable political ideologies, but you are still expected to be a somewhat normal human being who occupies the same planet as the rest of us.

So when we see somebody make the transition from being just a bit right-wing in their thinking, to being a full-on conspiracy lunatic, it really shows. We've seen it with a lot of our politicians and other public figures.

There's a guy called Neil Oliver who used to present historical TV. His views were always a bit weird and biased (historians and archaeologists did not like him at all), but he wasn't an actual crazy person. But he rode that crazy train to the end of the line and became a fully-fledged antivaxx COVID denier, who is now babbling about one world government and peddling antisemitic conspiracy theories. It happens.

JK Rowling's radicalisation has really disturbed people, because she was famous for books which championed ideas of equality and rights for marginalised groups. In retrospect, those books had some biases and prejudices in them as well, but they were ones that most white Britons carry without realising it. So the seemingly sudden change from that to being someone spreading hatred of trans people and seeming to consciously back antisemitic ideas was a massive whiplash. A real shock. Even more of a shock than the fact she seems to have forgotten how to write a readable book.

Now, I'm a pro-independence Scot who was active on Twitter in the years after 2014. So I already knew she was disingenuous, a bit of a troll, and had some fairly reactionary views. Perhaps her further radicalisation was less of a shock for me. But it still took me aback.

This happens. It happens to people who are too secure in their own self-concept as a Good And Progressive Person. They feel that because they are a Good And Progressive Person, all their thoughts and feelings and biases must also be Good And Progressive, because Good People don't have Bad Thoughts, and of course, Bad People never have Good Thoughts.

By painting JK Rowling as having always been a secretly Bad Person, and Harry Potter as having always been secretly propaganda for Bad Thoughts, we make ourselves vulnerable to the same kind of radicalisation. The truth is that she is just a person, a white cis woman with some unexamined biases, who wrote a series of books that were good-hearted and had good messages, and also reflected some of those biases. And now she has taken a ride on the crazy train, and it's scary to see.

Because it could happen to any of us.

xiranjayzhao
xiranjayzhao

Feminists with no class consciousness are rly like "Poor Marie Antoinette she was a victim of child trafficking, sold as a 14 year old little girl to a 15 year gross old man she had never met, they didn't let her keep anything she brought from one palace while moving to another palace, she was an immigrant struggling in the highest position a woman could take in a foreign country, the rich ladies at court were so mean to her she had no choice but to LARP as a milkmaid in her special cottage in her palace to cope, she was a teenage queen for 20 years when the Revolution broke out, the mean revolutionaries accused her of SA'ing her son, ok it was one guy who I refuse to learn the name of who was immediately booed by everyone else in the court but let's blame it on the revolutionaries as a whole because they were so mean-"

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Louis XVI....mistress? Hated Marie???

WHAT IS GOING ON, WHERE ARE YOU GETTING YOUR HISTORY FROM 😭

He was one of the few people who DIDN'T hate her and was very influenced by her (the flight as far as Varennes wouldn't have happened if not for Marie pushing so hard for it) so actually if she were pro-Revolution it absolutely would've made a difference

friedcupcakepirate

There’s this idea rooted in sexism that women throughout history are blameless.

This is often to excuse them for the bad things that happened regardless of their position of power, as seen in Marie Antoinette.

It can also be seen in the US during slavery where women are often ignored when it comes to their role in slavery. With women tending to own large numbers of enslaved people, with them often being part of their dowry. But they are only portrayed as southern damsels, never fully addressing their role in perpetuating the system.

Women throughout history were rarely objects with no self possession or agency, and while their rights and freedom was much more limited than it is today in many countries, this does not excuse the wrongs they committed or stood by.

It would be like excusing Carolyn Bryant’s role in Emmett Till’s murder as she was only a young woman. Rather than acknowledging she knew what she was doing and never viewed her actions nor their results as wrong.

xiranjayzhao

You're exactly right. The woobification of Marie Antoinette is the epitome of white bourgeois feminism and that's why her stans annoy me so much. They don't realize they're parroting royalist propaganda spread after the Bourbon restoration and would rather project onto this imagined OC of a sad rich girl being tugged along by events she had no control over instead of looking into the REAL Marie, who had more agency and power than any other woman in France and chose to use it against the working class women furious at her for resisting progressive reforms.

Some have misinterpreted this post as "no one should sympathize with Marie Antoinette ever." No, I was calling out how Marie apologists garner sympathy for her at the expense of the truth. They frame facts in deceptive ways to make people think she was some kind of traumatized teenager during the Revolution, with the implication that the revolutionaries were monsters for going after her.

I know that the historical tendency to vilify women more than men creates this urge to rehabilitate women who went down with the worst reputations, but we do actually have to be considerate with our choices and be conscious of power dynamics other than gender. Marie Antoinette didn't bankrupt France, but she wasn't a blameless victim either. Olympe de Gouges had some iconic quotes but...doesn't really deserve that much glorification either when she was a Girondin supporter? Charlotte Corday had NERVE but ultimately her assassination of Marat was an extremely foolish tactical decision and accelerated the purge of the very Girondins she was trying to save.

Of this era, the women whose vilification is ACTUALLY most undeserved are the working class women themselves, like Pauline Leon, Claire Lacombe, and Simone Evrard, who were the real backbone of the Revolution but ended up being branded as mad "harpies," mindless mobs, and dismissed by even the Left intellectuals. We know very little about them as individuals because they weren't the ones who wrote or spawned essays after essays of public discourse, so unfortunately we can't make movies and TV shows about them on par with the volume that Marie Antoinette gets, but we can at least do better than whitewashing their oppressors.

(And I want to say once again that I am NOT putting more blame on Marie than Louis. There just aren't enough people ignorant enough to stan Louis XVI to annoy me into making posts like this about him.)