The cover of the next Stern, a German news magazine.
The title Sein Kampf (transl. his struggle) is a play on the title of Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf (transl. my struggle).
The full translation of the cover would be
HIS STRUGGLE
Neonazis, Ku-Klux-Klan, Racism:
How Donald Trump is stirring up hatred in America
When Germans call you a Nazi….
I see so much commentary in the tags about how Trump can’t be a Nazi because he’s pro-Israel, and I’m sitting here like, guys. Children. Nazi doesn’t mean “kills Jews.” That was the horrible outcome. The ideology itself was putting one’s own nation above all else (ring a bell?) while undermining democratic values (RING A BELL?) and being blatantly racist (RING A… you know what, forget it, you’re not listening to me anyway).
Instead of anti-communism you now have fierce pro-capitalism and instead of Jewish people being called animals you now have immigrants facing the same hatred. You already have the denunciations and people walking from door to door trying to root out “illegals.”
Current US politics may not involve any gas chambers, but Hitler didn’t burst on the political scene with “Let’s kill all the Jews!” either. If you honestly think US policies won’t escalate further, especially if Trump gets a second term, you’re standing chin-deep in denial.
I know it’s from a superhero movie, but the line I keep running in my head is, “Everyone forgets that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.”
thor’s so big because all his muscles are filled with love. he’s the comic of the guy furiously doing weights and thinking “i’m going to be so good at hugging”
story concept of the day: a “medical mystery of the week” serial set in a world with monsters and superpowers and mutants and aliens
It would be like. One part comedy, one part drama, two parts world-building. The hospital has an aquatic wing for mermaids and sea monsters. How do you treat someone who has telepathic influenza? We’ll figure it out, I guess!
Some storyline concepts:
—a woman from a telepathic race based on anglerfish shows up in the ER in a panic because her mate, who is tiny and permanently attached to her body, has stopped communicating through their telepathic link
—the air-breathing doctors have to take over the aquatic ward after a mysterious illness spreads through the water-breathing staff
—an ambulance brings in an unconscious alien from a species totally outside of medical literature, the staff scramble to save their life while flying blind
—the first outbreak of lycanthropy in 50 years occurs following protests against the vaccine, the hospital is quarantined while the on-staff pharmacists try to control the situation
If I write this, I’d want it to be like. Scrubs meets WTNV.
Character concept: a demon who works in the ER because their ability to “steal” souls means they can bring back patients who are medically dead but still repairable if you can just get them breathing again.
He has some insanely generic sounding name like Doctor Fred and has that “snake tongue, fangs, ram horns, red skin, yellow eyes, long tail, black bat wings” thing going on
He’s like 35 and the object of unrepentant longing from most of the interns and junior staff. He’s kind and patient and great with kids and has the cutest hiccupy laugh and is absolutely the guy you want overseeing your training because he never yells. Everyone wants to marry Doctor Fred.
It’s a running joke that he’s probably a literal Incubus but there’s no aura or magic at play, he’s just got a perfect personality.
I think I’m naming this story “doctors and demons” for now
Another character is just. Nessie. The Loch Ness monster is here. She works at the front desk for the aquatic ward and pokes her head out of the water to pass notes and files to the other doctors.
One of the aquatic doctors is Doctor Lagoon, who is the creature from the black lagoon. He’s very intimidating but can be immediately be calmed down by bringing up his human wife or their daughter. There’s a picture of him holding his wife bridal style on his desk.
The actual protagonist is a human woman who considers herself totally normal but actually has SOME sort of powerful telekinesis that she constantly explains away as coincidence.
There’s a character named Cadaver or Caddie who is a living corpse that constantly regenerates. She’s vital to the hospital for organ transplants but an absolute nightmare for the staff because she does things like host speed dating for zombies in the morgue and eat everyone lunch out of the staff room fridge.
Also I think the protagonist’s name is Jane Doe or Doctor Doe, as a joke on her being average but… not at all.
I think the trio of main characters are Doctor Fred (emergency), Doctor Doe (in-patient) and an alien surgeon named Doctor Hive, who is close to an insectoid Cthulhu. A running joke is her ability to keep track of her hundreds of children but not the names of any of their fathers or her coworkers except her very favorites.
There is nothing “sexually explicit” about people wearing clothes unless those clothes actually reveal genitals.
Even “kink clothes.”
In other words, there’s not really a line between fashion items (especially punk, goth, and other “edgier” styles of fashion) and “kink clothes.”
Exactly.
Oh yeah, punk and goth fashion has very deep roots in kink and queer scenes. My girlfriend was telling me this last weekend. It comes from the idea of sexual liberation and saying “fuck you” to respectability (aka conservative puritanism).
They copied us and called it “fashion” (which is perfectly fine with me)
But then they said “don’t look too much like yourselves in public, AFTER we’ve recontextualized your signals”
(Which is 30000% not fine with me)
Like… I don’t love a lot of tumblr’s Discourse about cultural appropriation
But “we are allowed to dress like you because we don’t mean it, but YOU need to dress like us at pride, because you do mean it” seems like it should count
i need someone to explain to me why “
The silver torque necklace with claddagh“ is a kink item, please?
Unlike the other necklaces shown here, it is actually a collar, with a lock in the back that prevents the wearer from removing it without the key. The key is usually held by one of the wearer’s partners.
If, as your tags suggested, you’re interested in this style of necklace without the powerplay aspect, they’re called “torques” and are either permanently open in the back (similar to many wide bracelets), or latch in the back. Some modern toques move the permanent opening to the front, and do fun decorative things with it, like the second torque seen in this set of images.
When I see the “no kink stuff at pride” I usually picture ball gags, those leather ski-masks, and people walking on all fours while someone else holds the leash and they bark at people, not kink-ambiguous fashion items
Okay, that’s fair, (though it is emphatically not an opinion shared by many, many sex-negative types) allow me to ask this:
What actually differentiates wearing a bandana around your face from wearing a ballgag around your face. What makes one harmless and the other “sexually explicit” given that both are just covering a part of your face?
What makes wearing a pup-hood sexually explicit, when it does not expose your sex organs in any way, and how does it meaningfully differ from someone wearing cosplay that involves masks, such as superheroes?
What about walking on all fours constitutes a sex act, and if I do so while wearing a tuxedo or a sundress rather than a pair of shorts and a crop top, does it stop being sexual?
What differentiates someone holding a leash from someone holding another person’s hands, or hugging them in public, especially given that handholding and hugs involve much more physical contact?
The assumption that wearing clothing is a sex act is. Well, it’s absurd.
Specifically on ballgags, they’re exclusively used for sex or violence.
If anyone can tell me otherwise, I’ll change my mind. I can’t think of anything else of the cuff, and from that initial judgement I really can’t see how they specifically are appropriate
I’ve got a migraine slowly encroaching on my brain, so I apologize if I sound short tempered.
An alternative use for ball gags is marching.
If a ball gag is being worn to march in a parade, then at that moment it’s not being worn during sex or during an act of violence. If neither sex not violence are occurring, the ball gag doesn’t spontaneously disappear.
It’s not exposing genitals, it’s not being used to achieve sexual gratification, and it’s not being used to cause harm to others.
In that moment it is not a tool of sex or violence.
It’s simply an accessory.
If you can set aside your preconceptions, you’ll find quite quickly that there is no inherent sexual value in a ball gag, any more so than there is in a necktie. It’s certainly a common enough fetish, yes, but so are hands, and hair, and necks. So are leather jackets and short shorts and toplessness.
Yet, these things are considered acceptable to wear or expose, even if you yourself have a fetish for them. People with a fetish for high heels are not obligated to exclusively wear flats simply because sometimes heels appear in their sex lives.
There is no exposed sex organ or active sex act involved in someone wearing a gag near you.
I’ve definitely seen gags being used during marches and protests as a “we will not be silenced” kind of thing, so there’s that too.
Would you say that no-one should wear hankies in their pockets? Because
the hanky code IS a sexual code, after all. It’s specifically telling
others what your kinks are, if you’re a top or bottom, if you’re a sub
or dom etc.
Also, those leather hoods? I’ve heard kids say stuff like the person must be a superhero because they’re dressed up like Batman or Black Panther. Hell, Catwoman wears a leather catsuit and cat-eared leather hood in canon, so if some guy wears a leather puppy-hood during a pride parade that wouldn’t be inherently sexual.
Will adults be aware that it’s a thing that can be used during sex? Yes, but it’s not being used in sex at that moment. Just like a kid coming across some fuzzy handcuffs isn’t going to be scarred for life, just because mom and dad use it to spice up their bedroom antics.
There’s also a huge difference between dressing up for pride (where this kind of clothing is considered appropriate!) versus exhibitionism / indecent exposure in areas which have stricter rules regarding what clothing is appropriate. (no shirt, no shoes, no service, anyone?)
Kids, barring sexual abuse including exposure to porn, are pretty innocent and won’t assume something is sexual because they don’t know what that means.
As actual mom @allsortsoflicorice said in response to that one post about a dude walking his girlfriend on a leash ‘what would parents tell their kids’:
“I’d tell them they’re playing a game and she’s pretending to be a puppy.”
And kids will accept that because that’s the sort of thing that makes sense to a kid.
Clothing isn’t inherently sexual.
In contrast I had a babysitter once who had burn scars and when I asked what happened she told me her boyfriend had poured hot wax from a candle on her and when I asked why she told me because it felt good or maybe flat out told me it was a sex thing (I don’t really remember that much, I was 12 and this was during a time of my life where I’ve forgotten a lot of things).
This is not appropriate.
Appropriate would be to say, we were playing with candles and I got hurt. Don’t play with candles, the wax is very hot and if it splashed on your skin it can really hurt.
I think the general answer to how would you explain this to kids is in a way that makes sense to a kid I.e. they’re playing.
Additionally, probably teach your kids age appropriate sex Ed about kinks. Ie enough to tell if a predator is tricking them into doing something kinky.
[ image is screenshot of facebook post by Mia Frances Yamamoto that says, “If you get arrested trying to free innocent children from unjust separation and imprisonment, i will represent you for free.” ]
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