Like at the end of the day it just feels very “do you want to be effective at building a coalition of peace supporters or do you want to win a semantic argument by denying the people who created a word the ability to self-define it”?

I don’t ID as a Zionist simply because while I strongly believe the former my feelings on the latter are 🤷🏻‍♀️, if a binational Israel-Palestine becomes the easiest path to peace and safety for everyone then *great*.

Pro shipper: developed in response to "[ship] antis" for ppl pushing back against harassment of shippers deemed to ship something problematic. Most "pro ship" folk would identify their philosophy as "ship and let ship", "don't like don't read", or "your kink is not my kink and that's okay"

Anti: "anti shipper", a broadly applied philosophy that to enjoy certain ships (variably adult/minor, underage, incestuous, or otherwise problematic) indicates rl sexual desire or support of those relationships. It used to often be stylized as "[ship] anti" to indicate disapproval of a specific ship

One reason I mainly listen to audio dramas and deep dive history podcasts by passionate weirdos. I'd rather hear some dudes do a book club reading all the Icelandic sagas than spend MORE time thinking about politics

Grazie! They didn't show up in my searches for some reason

As an Asian American who went to therapy for the first time during the 2021 wave of anti-Asian violence, I know how it feels to be targeted. Please stand up for whoever's being scapegoated today - trans people, Haitians, immigrants, EVERYONE. We are all in this together.

I have a dreamwidth but I never use it, but yeah I really miss being able to join public fandom communities that are silo'd

The microbeefs on social media can get vicious because of it

Welp, I had an ARC of one of her collections that I'm just gonna get rid of. I have too little time and too big a tbr list to waste my attention on bigots.