the constitutional court of romania just published the motivation behind their ruling in the coman-hamilton case (residency rights for same-sex couples in eu countries that don’t recognize same-sex unions): ‘the court admits that a same-sex couple belongs the sphere of private life and family life, in the same way a heterosexual couple does, which dictates the protection of the fundamental right to private and family life’
there are no additional legal effects besides the ones already produced by the decision on the case itself, but basically the constitutional court just ruled that a same-sex couple is a family a week before the anti-lgbt referendum.
thank you, adrian coman and clai hamilton, for standing your ground in court for five years and making this happen!
The thing that really irritates me about all of this bullshit with J.K. Rowling is that I see broke, stressed out college students writing fics for $0 who are painstakingly seeking out sensitivity readers to beta stories that only a small subset of a fandom will ever read, whereas Rowling, who has all the goddamn money in the world, is basically just looking up world mythology stubs on wikipedia and calling it a fucking day.
She could literally afford have a university’s entire critical diversity studies faculty on retainer just for kicks if she wanted, but won’t make even the slightest effort to do better.
im really losing my shit thinking about vulcan childrens music and television. who could forget such hits as “3 is an appropriate number” and “walking in the street could lead to maiming or death”
the vulcan equivalent of the wiggles is just 3 normally dressed individuals reciting multiplication tables in unison
Speaking as someone with very little knowledge of Star Trek – I’ve seen like three episodes from random versions and I read Spock’s World – I violently disagree with this.
Even before I had such minimal knowledge as I do now, I thought that “vulcan” was a very appropriate word for them. It’s not that they don’t have emotions, if anything they have more than humans, they just run hard and deep, like volcanoes. You don’t want that thing to erupt.
So I imagine vulcan children’s TV is much like Sesame Street. Here is a muppet with anger issues! He spilled his milk and it made him ANGRY!!! Here comes someone dressed in completely normal clothes to say yes, that was indeed unfortunate, but anger is an irrational response to such a thing and not in keeping with the teachings of Surak; let us now explore different forms of meditation as emotional control, one of which includes three normally dressed individuals reciting multiplication tables in unison.
screaming into the void since '89 