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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · 2d

I would be so god damned embarrassed if I missed the politics of One Piece or thought it was apolitical.

It's pretty in your face.

Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · 6d

Huh someone responded to this, and I guess blocked me? There's one response and I can't see it.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · 6d

Honestly as someone who's arm was broken by racists as a kid for the crime of being brown, really glad I clocked this whole "Clanker" shit early.

It's not even a clever dog whistle.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · 8d

Just started watching "A Wild Last Boss Appears" and the main character just said this:

""Watching a cute girl is more motivating than some guy!" was the stupid reason I spent several hours agonizing over character creation!"

.... bruh... that's egg talk 101. lol.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Sep 11

If he wasn't he finally got his shot

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Sep 9

TO BE HONEST I often forget that straight people exist!

Like at all.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Sep 9

I know this is bad of me but I honestly forget that straight trans women exist.

I see gals in trans groups and TikTok talking about how hard it is to date men. And I'm always just like

a girl with pink hair is holding a piece of paper in front of a chinese writing board

ALT: a girl with pink hair is holding a piece of paper in front of a chinese writing board

media.tenor.com

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Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social · Aug 28

Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Sep 3

Is it my imagination or is Kim a lil beefier than normal? I approve.

Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Okay but to get past it, why didn't you just let him do it?"

Okay cause the grossest part is that the whole campaign was done via text, and he wanted a whole roleplay scene.

Double barf.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Sep 1

And I was like "Yeah, dude, she's not interested in that."

And he fucking wouldn't budge.

"BUT THAT'S WHAT HE WANTS!"

I was going to make each character a 5 level prestige class with cool abilities representative of their deity. But he fucked all that up.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Sep 1

Shout out to that time I stopped running a D&D game because I had this whole idea about the players each becoming the champion of the deity they served.

And when offered a boon by his goddess, some dude said "All I need my lady, is a night in your bedchamber"

Barf.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 31

"But she married a man!"

Miss me with that shit.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 15

Back at Joyce's childhood home, Carol is being a real cunt about EVERYTHING.

You'll notice her concerns have nothing to do with the fact that Joyce was shot at. Nope it's them damn unbelievers and Lesbians.

Joyce decides to do something Un-Joyce-like.

Dumbing of Age 6 panel strip dated March 1st 2016

Illegible word bubbles: squiggly lines that look like words
Joyce: Yawwn
Carol: I don't like Becky here under our roof l, Hank. I don't.
Hank: Carol, Joyce is stronger than that. We raised her stronger. She's not going to--
Carol: Not going to what, Hank? Rebel against her elders? Be seduced by unbelievers and Lesbians? That's why we took our kids out of school to begin with.
Hank: John went to public school, and he's fine.
Carol: That was 20 years ago. But the time josh was born--
Hank: All I'm saying is we squeeze too hard and we create another Jordan situation.
Carol: We created that by NOt squeezing hard enough. I want her away from that campus Hank.

Dumbing of Age 5 panel strip dated March 2nd 2016

Becky: Z.. oh hey... You okay?
Joyce: Yeah... Yeah. I'm fine. Don't worry. Get dressed and... And let's borrow the car.
Becky: You didn't preface that with "Let's ask mom an' dad if I can first."
Joyce: No
Becky: we're here in La Porte Indiana where we've replaced Becky's Joyce with some sorta Anti-Joyce, let's see if she notices.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 15

Meanwhile back at school, Billie moves out of Ruth's place, Mary can't boss around Ruth, and Ruth is kind of a jerk towards Billie about the whole situation.

Probably because she's hoping to push Billie away and protect her.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 15

Yeah I just got a take breaks here and there.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 15

Also what a way to frame things.

Yeah Carol, I'm sure that it's Becky being a lesbian that landed Toedad in jail... And not ya know, pulling a gun on campus, and discharging it around shooters. Or the car chase. Or the kidnapping.

Yep it was the lesbianism for sure.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 15

If you were wondering who agreed with Toedad, yeah it's Carol.

Remember I said one of Joyce's parents would get better and one of them wouldn't. Now you know.

And what you need to know is, she will get worse.

Dumbing of Age 5 panel strip dated February 13th 2016

Joyce: Mom!
Becky: Hey, Mrs. Brown
Carol: Rain check on the hug! I don't want the food to char.
Joyce: You finish up, I will set the table.
Carol: Can you really be sure you're. Lesbian at your age, and is it worth your father being in prison?
Becky: Well, there's a danged icebreaker.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 15

Also Joyce calls Toedad an Asshole and Hank doesn't scold her for cursing he just agrees with her.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 15

I mention that because it's important to me to point out that Hank doesn't see Toedad's actions as righteous.

Someone else Joyce knows thinks fairly differently.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hank admits he's never cared for Toedad very much, and if it weren't for Becky and Joyce being friends their families probably wouldn't have spent much time together.

He says "We got along. We were both, I thought, men of God."

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 15

Another touching father daughter moment for Hank and Joyce. It's interesting that he's letting Joyce see the little cracks in his "morality".

I think it's always moral to punch homophobes in the face, but I imagine Hank wanted to punch him for other reasons.

Dumbing of Age 5 panel strip dated February 6th 2016

Hank: You okay driving still? Are you tired? Becky's out like a light
Becky: Z
Joyce: I'm good. She's always been able to sleep anywhere.
Hank: is that a wrist brace?
Joyce: Yeah. I think they said it's sprained a little from.. from punching Mr. MacIntyre in the face.
Hank: Oh. They say you're not supposed to live vicariously through your children but.. it's okay just this one time, right?
Becky: Z

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 15

Yeah Ruth has decided that she can't let Mary be about that fuck shit, and so she needs Billie to move out, and also stop dating. Because Mary is using their relationship as an excuse to be transphobic.

Billie seems cool with it, so everything should be fine right? Eeeeeeeh...

Dumbing of Age 6 panel strip dated February 5th 2016

Ruth: Look, I'm-- I'm not trying to get rid of you. I don't want you to go. I NEED you. I do. But I can't let Mary win this. I can't.
Billie: so this is actually really about spite, huh? It's always about spite. Well I'm into that. Let's yank the carpet from under her. Was... Was that a smile for me?
Ruth: no, I just... I just really like spite.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 15

Sorry about that folks, sometimes my brain needs a break to do other stuff. But we're back at it again.

So where we left off in the thread Joyce and Becky are leaving for the weekend to go home and visit... And a LOT of shit is about to go down. Prepare for some cliff notes.

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Lily is a Wrestling Shark 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @datfireprincess.bsky.social · Aug 10

Of course the real problem people have is that Connie is in control of her own life and sexual choices.

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