Remember to adjust your Miku’s settings for the summer weather
can’t get over when famous gangster lucky luciano was like “hey lansky seems like quite a hassle getting all those nazis offa your terf you want us to help ya out” and meyer “Left Russia Because of Pogroms and Became A Gangster In The US” lansky was like “no. no getting to beat the shit out of nazis is reward enough for us. sorry lucky this one’s personal don’t worry about it”
here’s a quote from a New York Times article abt it
also bonus quote from that article
“quick question about the punching, judge perlman: how about murder instead”
everybody says that “the government” enlisted these mobsters to beat up nazis, but like. no. no that didn’t happen? judge nathan perlman illegally called up a man who could have him shot dead at a minute to say “hey. i’ve scoured the fucking law books tryna find a way to get these fucking nazis out of here, but my legal means have unfortunately run out. so-” and meyer fucking lansky was like “ah say no more boss lemme call a buncha friends and we’ll get this sorted out real quick don’t even bother paying me.“
can you imagine that phone call. like genuinely. how am i supposed to continue living my normal life knowing this happened. people who loooove talking about punching nazis, taKE FUCKING NOTES
this is my favorite Meyer Lansky story.
my second favorite Meyer Lansky story is about the time, many years later, that he was at a meeting of mafia heads and one of them started bragging about how his son was following him into the family business.
Meyer Lansky said “That’s nice. My son works for NASA.”
Super fucked up! wtf is wrong with these people? #IamWithMili!
What is every little girl supposed to have long hair in a ponytail? So happy to see all of the support going her way.
Everybody remembers that we absolutely knew this would happen, right?
Like, trans people predicted this from the start. Everyone was SO SURE they could identify us on sight, and we said “If you run with that assumption you’re going face-first into a goddamn wall” and here we go.
It’s like people forget women with short hair exist.
In the six years that this has happened, Milli has continued to play soccer, is on track for joining a national team, and still keeps her hair short.
Read this and take it in.
Even if you have your papers.
Even if you are fortunate to have your gender match your sex.
Even if you were assigned feminine at birth.
They can still tell you to your face you’re not a woman if you don’t conform to a patriarchal standard of skinny Anglo with long hair.
They can just deny you for no reason at all.
THIS MAKES ALL THOSE SPORTS BANS LAWS USELESS AT PROTECTING CIS GIRLS! The very thing tbey were supposed to do!
Let’s get one thing right.
Sports bans, bathroom bans, ANY type of ban on trans people in public places were NEVER meant to protect cis girls or women or women’s sports or any of that crap.
They’re about control and forcing ALL people to conform to stereotypical gender norms and eradicating trans people in the process.
It’s (christo)fascism and genocide.
motherhood in homestuck is so compelling to me like... ok 4lph4kidz gave me the courage to post about my kanaya miscarriage thoughts but the idea of giving kanaya, a character who was nurturing and motherlike from the start, a metaphorical miscarriage (eridan killing her through her stomach, destroying the matriorb, kanaya being held back from defending herself bc of the matriorb, etc) and having that haunt her deeply and personally is fuckin INSANE... and she becomes a vampire and a vampire's existence is inherently selfish, and she must consume other beings to survive. a mother's existence is physically selfless, as in, she literally loses part of herself...
but like. the way she gets the matriorb back doesnt require sacrifice either. so many things that are created in homestuck require something to be destoryed (a new empress, a new universe, a new cherub) but roxy, homestuck's not perfect but most earnest mother from human society, literally does not destroy anything to create a new matriorb? kanaya literally says :
and then she assumes that to create such a gift, roxy would need to go through a huge, sacrificial trial, but:
she's surprised that roxy just... used her void powers to make life out of nothing. i think this being one of the few times that creation doesnt require sacrifice in homestuck is so important. to be a mother (specifically in the context of two people who WANT to be mothers) should not require sacrifice. it is an achievement and an honor for both of them and that makes me go CRAZY
