baking-accident:snowpiercer slaps but there’s a

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baking-accident:

snowpiercer slaps but there’s a part where chris evans, who has lived half his life on the Dystopian Hell Train and personally eaten babies before, is horrified to find out that the protein blocks they eat are made of bugs. like bugs are the BEST case scenario for when you live on the bottom rung of a future dystopia and eat things called “protein blocks”. rich college kids in 2019 eat bug protein bars to save the environment. get on their level chris

That completely destroyed my suspension of disbelief in the movie. Dude. You ate people. I’m pretty sure you ate bugs at some point. Like, I could see him being outraged if he’d first seen how the front cars lived with all the nice food they had, and then realised his people were being fed bugs, but him being grossed out? Bitch who wrote this scene?

wetwareproblem: aerospace-agenda: i just… like.

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aerospace-agenda:

i just… like.

i get that, if it’s taken someone a lot of time and effort to realise, or grow comfortable, or whatever, with how they identify, that seeing someone else look at it and go “oh, neat, i’m gonna go with that!” can sting.

but… like, ultimately, is that not part of the end goal? is not the preferable scenario one in which you don’t have to struggle and fight in order to figure out what you are?

the goal should be to build an environment in which people feel comfortable experimenting, without strings attached, with their identity. without the pressure of stereotypes, or blame for getting it wrong, or pressure over having to keep an identity forever once chosen or decided or whatever.

telling people theyre basically “doing an identity wrong” because they haven’t “thought about it enough” is just… good grief. this is… like, the insistence on non-normative identities as things you need to think hard and deep on, like… i do not agree with that, at all.

This articulates a discomfort I didn’t have words for. Thank you.

Like. I went through a lot of pain and a lot of struggle and a lot of soul searching to get where I am. And basically every time I’ve made progress, it’s because I’ve encountered or thought of something and felt a Click deep in the back of my head.

I didn’t start HRT until my 30s. And I’m one of the lucky ones. I’d be surprised if any queer my age didn’t have a list of casualties kept close to their heart.

And the generation before mine? Has a list of survivors.

So when I see some 15 year old kid on Tumblr reading about my experiences and going “hey, that sounds like me,” do you know how I feel?

Fucking proud. Joyous. Invincible. Because this is what victory looks like - the next generation developing in an environment where they can skip decades of trauma.

So when I see people in the community resenting and actively shitting on that? I see a collaborator. I see someone whose problem is that the kids are all right, that they’re not traumatized enough, not dying enough.

Anyone who takes that stance terrifies and infuriates me.

I think Terry Pratchett had a great analogy for this:

The thing about insurmountable mountains is that they are until they aren’t. And then a generation after that old ladies will stroll up to its peak as an afternoon stroll.

jenroses: evilwriter37: peakyarthurs: faliceplease: This is officially the best response and a...

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evilwriter37:

peakyarthurs:

faliceplease:

This is officially the best response and a big ass mood right there

At all the people in the notes saying: “Unless it’s this” and “Certain types of shippers need to die” this is fucking targeted at you.

To be fair, Catholics vs Protestants historically was a fandom faction war.

I believe Jews vs Christians was the original flame war over whether a new addition should be considered canon.