"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."
"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."
One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.
I think this is something young people in particular are confused about. My dad has always had a slightly off color sense of humor, he always feels the need to privately ask me “boy turned girl or girl turned boy?” if I mention a friend and stress said friend’s pronouns, and yet when we had repair work done in the house and the worker was listening to a podcast discussing the evils of transgender people and how to cleanse society, he went out of his way to contact the owner of the business to discuss his disappointment with that worker’s conduct and stress the negative effect that could have had if there had been trans kids in our home.
Our allies will never be perfect. They will never use the perfect language or have the perfect politics. But we have to appreciate those allies and meet them where they are, especially if they are willing to learn.
i love how it totally challenges and refutes the usual epistemological premises of the ‘detective genre’. like–in something like phoenix wright or the frogware sherlock holmes games¹ or [sigh] danganronpa, there’s a correct answer, which is also the right answer, both endorsed by the game’s mechanics & narrative. what i mean by this is that the game only progresses if you’re correct: you must find the truth, there is no way by which the game can progress otherwise, and that the truth is right: there’s a moral imperative to solve the mystery, doing so saves someone’s life or brings about justice.
in paradise killer, you show up, and are immediately told “hey, this is the crime, here’s all the evidence we have against this member of an oppressed group we found nearby, you can just go ahead and prosecute and kill him”. and you can! you can walk into the trial room, present the evidence you’re given when you arrive, have that man executed, and end the game there. that’s not a 'bad end’, it’s not a joke ending like the ones in far cry. that’s just something you can do.
or, you can explore the island and find dozens of clues and interrogate witnesses and follow leads and maybe find out the truth. but one recurring theme of the game is, as lady love dies loves to say, “there’s a difference between facts and the truth.” when you walk into the game’s final trial, you are armed with facts–whether the argument you’re making is right or not, the only thing that matters to the judge and the verdict is if you’re presenting facts that match up with it. you can withhold key evidence if it’s inconvenient for your argument, or argue that one piece of evidence means one of two directly contradictory things. you can say things that you know aren’t true but the judge doesn’t. by putting the facts together and making your argument and accusing someone, you create the truth.
and that’s because in the game, you’re a detective! you’re an officer of the law, you’re an agent of violent and extractive power, you have the force of the system behind you, and what you say is the truth. it’s a powerful commentary – in my own playthrough, i solved the case and then twisted the facts at trial to exonerate someone who i knew was guilty because i didn’t want them to be executed! and the fact that you can do this, because the game acknowledges that in the act of prosecuting you are creating and enforcing a 'truth’ is i think a really powerful statement i’ve never seen made anywhere else in the genre!
plus, the soundtrack is banging, the aesthetic is incredible, and you play as a divorced bisexual milf. incredible game
there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~
I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first
url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order
url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes
url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc
url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant)
the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog!
caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks.
if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else
if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims)
One caveat, at least in my experience, is that even the desktop search bar gets weird about indexing words that appear in reblogs of a post but not in either your tags or the original post. So for example if I’m searching for this post:
OP: What’s your favorite thing to put on hot dogs? 1st reblog: I like them with ketchup tagged: #mustard
The desktop search bar is pretty much guaranteed to find it if I search for “hot dog” or “mustard” but there’s a good chance it will NOT find it if I search for “ketchup”.
If you’re not finding what you’re looking for, you may have better luck doing a google search with as much of the post as you can remember (exact phrasing, key words, author, anything you’ve got) followed by “source:tumblr”
This poor pikmin is freezing to death! White pikmin only hit the griddy under extreme stress. He NEEDS to be whistled at loudly until he stops shivering and mans up
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