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its crazy that megan thee stallion is not considered a queer artist by some people. the woman is not shy about the fact that she finds women attractive and likes having sex with them. she references it pretty frequently in her music, she made a whole song about enjoying having threesomes with a woman and a man, she made a Jennifer's Body-themed music video, she had Victoria Monét full riding her thigh on stage at a coachella, and there's literally a video of a lesbian interviewing glorilla at a party & asking who she would date if she was queer and her immediate response is "megan. megan like girls!" and then megan turns around and immediately starts flirting with the interviewer. i don't know what more you want. that woman is Bi Sexual and we should all be thankful every day for that. bi women are still bi when they wanna fuck men too you know. the fucking of men is also done bisexually.

brightlotusmoon

Noah Hathaway landed the iconic role of Atreyu in 1984's The NeverEnding Story, but then he disappeared from Hollywood, leaving us with neve

I just got recommended the 2024 film Life After Atreyu. It starts with Noah Hathaway smoking a joint and discussing how he and Tami Stronach were like dark and light during interview panels. Noah is extremely aware of his entire generation needing therapy after the movie.

makingqueerhistory

Hi!

I'm in my last year of school, and one of our final exams is this big spoken thing where we present for 10 minutes and then our examinators ask us questions for 10 minutes. I would like to write my presentation about whether the systematic oppression and eradication of queer people throughout history can be qualified as a genocide. Do you have any ressources you can point me to? Thank you!

I don't know that I have a perfect recommendation for this, but I have a couple of books I could suggest that might help! But hopefully my audience can help you find additional sources!

A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Branded by the Pink Triangle

The Pink Line

Hope this helps!

Affiliate links above

alphacrone

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

prokopetz

The real problem with D&D's contemporary culture of play is that it's basically a worse version of what Paranoia was doing forty years ago. It's a faux pas for players to display knowledge of the mechanics and the GM is expected to maintain an elaborate kayfabe where they merely pretend to be moderating a game with rules while actually doing something completely different, and they're not even allowed to kill players with orbital laser strikes for talking back.

prokopetz

Like, I'm not keen on any framing of play where the GM is expected to do literally 100% of the work of making the game happen, but it seems to me that if you're going to do that anyway, the GM being both allowed and encouraged to kill you with lasers whenever they want is only fair compensation.

prokopetz

@danwhat replied:

The number of people willing to accept players who won't read the rules even though they come back week after week is bizarre - you wouldn't accept it for any other game, and RPGs are just a kind of game! If the rules of one game are 'too complex' just switch to a different game! If they claim they 'don't have time' - cancel one session. That 3 hour block is now dedicated game-learning time, and 3 hours is plenty. Easy.

See, "RPGs are [...] a kind of game" is where the disconnect lies. There's a large chunk of the present D&D fandom who don't think of tabletop RPGs as games; they think of them as performances being put on by the GM for the audience of the players, who – like any audience – are obliged only to be physically present. In this understanding, the "game-ness" of the activity is part of the performance – i.e., the GM is merely pretending to moderate a game with rules as an act of kayfabe; there's no point learning the rules because there aren't "really" rules to learn.

(Partly this is a product of folks coming to the hobby whose sole prior experience is with high-production-value podcasts, where the GM actually is an entertainer putting on a show for an audience, and often a professional actor to boot; partly it's a product of Hasbro attempting to market D&D as a zero-entry-barrier hobby by framing the GM not as a fellow player with special responsibilities, but as a volunteer service provider whose job is to facilitate other people playing D&D.)

The observation I'm gesturing toward here is that Paranoia is a game that actually, textually works this way – i.e., the GM is a performer putting on a show for the players, and the rules are fake and don't matter – but it does so within a narrative frame where the GM is both allowed and encouraged to demand that the players dance for their amusement, so at least the fuckery flows both ways. Contemporary D&D's culture of play doesn't even offer that (indeed, in many circles a GM who expresses any preferences at all regarding what kind of game they want to run would be regarded as an odious gatekeeper!), then has temerity to wonder why rapid GM burnout is such a massive problem.

victusinveritas

brightlotusmoon

2016 TMNT Mikey, and probably all Mikeys at this point

“He has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD-1), which explains his tendency to lack concentrated focus, to be distracted and not listen, to be hyperactive and fidgety, to be impulsive or forgetful, to not follow directions and to talk excessively or out of turn.” - This was said by the film producers, who consulted Kevin Eastman, who started the franchise in the 1980s, which means that Michelangelo The Ninja Turtle was, like me, ADHD before ADHD was so well known, before my autistic mentor coined the term neurodivergent.

I fucking love when my headcanons turn out to be canon. He’s my best neurodivergent Turtle child, and I still headcanon him autistic to boot because by gods both he and Don have my same traits.

brightlotusmoon

It’s now 2020 and I don’t wanna hear any more blatant ableism from the TMNT fandom regarding Mikey. He’s profoundly intelligent on several emotional levels, he vocally stims to stay upbeat, he reads all sorts of books just as much as anyone, and his intuition, empathic sensitivity, and therapeutic insight would make the greatest ninja masters envious. His pure heart and innocent artistry are weapons. Let him be who he really is, not how he’s poorly portrayed.

uberguber89

Michelangelo - adhd

Donnatello - autistic

Raphael - anxiety

Leonardo - insomnia and probably some mix of the other 3

uberguber89

Ok! I’m thinking about this even more, and realizing how deep it goes, cause SPLINTER CHOSE THEIR WEAPONS FOR THEM!

He chose the bo-staff for donnatello, a weapon that is only useful when applied with full force, vex because while Donny applies himself mentally, he was probably hesitant to apply himself physically.

He chose the sai (or tonfas) for Raphael, because they’re defensive weapons that are less effective of you take the initiative, and this would force him to control his aggression and short temper (caused by his anxiety).

Leonardo… I’ve never been able to get a clear understanding of Leo, so I’ll leave him out of this rant.

And most importantly, Splinter did not give Michelangelo nunchaku because he is dumb! He chose them because they require constant focus and attention to wield properly, and that’s what Mikey needed to learn to thrive!

brightlotusmoon

So since my original post has gotten popular again, I wanted to address this and fist bump you, @uberguber89 - also, I’m assuming you’re talking about 2012, who for me personally are each autistic with the comorbidities you listed, so hooray, shared headcanons.

I do wish 2012 had actually had Splinter say something like “because nunchaku are unpredictable, flashy, acrobatic, and require deep focus, like you” instead of “uuhhhhh… they are perfect for you!?” even though Kevin himself wrote it and I know Kevin was making a joke - it fell flat, because for the entire show, Mikey was the comedic butt of the joke, treated like a punching bag, used as a mascot in the wrong ways, and by Season 5 it was kind of too late to push his character development forward when Ciro had kept sliding it back every other plotline. See, that’s why I love playing in the 2012 universe, why all my fics are fix it AU, because we deserved actual growth beyond what we got. Kevin’s lighthearted presentation of “well, we all know why Mikey got the ‘chucks, of course, wink wink to the older fans” kind of reminded us that for four seasons 2012 Mikey was more of a class clown with Badass Epic Superpower Tendencies and not the other way around.

Wait, I went off on a tangent. What were we talking about?

Hang on… oh, Leo got the swords for his discipline, dedication, tactical mind, strategic prowess, and physical athleticism reflected in the style of the double sword wielding.

I need another nap, the painkillers haven’t killed this migraine yet. My point is, um, our neurodivergent turtle children live on in fanfiction as its own Canon Divergent Universe which is officially part of the franchise Multiverse which is also the only fictional Multiverse capable of crossing over with other intellectual properties without being out of place. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* now has more Multiverse potential than The X-Men, I said what I said. It was a spoof off of Marvel and DC in the beginning anyway.

(*at this point, they’re not even teenagers anymore in half of the Multiverse, they’ve proven to live at least a century in some cases. Kevin and Peter literally tacked on the teenage part as a funny afterthought, and most of the Old Fans who are still around find it funnier that the joke keeps going.)

brightlotusmoon

2026: …not much has changed, I guess.

sanguinifex

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

ashintheairlikesnow

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

swimmingblue

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

stickthisbig

Hey man, ahead of this heatwave I'm gonna go ahead and rip the veil off of something for you:

The reason American Southerners have the luxury of saying that 90 ain't that bad and it's not unbearable until it's 100 is 1) prolonged exposure to high temperatures over multiple decades 2) our mindset for these living conditions.

You don't have number 1, and you can't just acquire it, so I need you to adopt number 2 immediately. How do you live like a Southerner in the heat?

Don't be a hero.

Stay inside. Buy a box fan, put it next to a bucket of ice, and wrap your arms around it like a lover. Do not leave the shade under any circumstances. If a dude makes fun of you for getting out of the sun, don't get mad, just think of a funnier insult to call him while you flip him off and go stand under a tree.

Southerners love nothing more than to exaggerate and lie to each other. Like I think we got off on the wrong foot when you walked in on us saying things like "It was only 110, I didn't even take my damn jacket off" when really, last week it was 95 at 10 PM and we were on the bed buck nekkid in front of the fan moaning incoherently and praying to die. So yeah, we can take extreme heat. We also want you to think we can take ludicrous heat. You must learn to talk shit and then be a hypocrite and a coward in your actions, because this will serve you best.

It sounds like I am joking but I cannot express to you how much I am not. Do not fuck with Mother Nature, because that bitch will kill you. Take every opportunity to lower your body temperature and drink water, because that is what all of us in hot climates are doing all the time, and that is why we are not dead, even when it seems like we should be.

(And yeah, we do go through like two and a half ugly weeks in April every year where everyone wants to absolutely just goddamn drop dead because none of us have our heat tolerance back, but we must go to work anyway, which must be a crime. And yes, when it gets below 70 we really all do short circuit and cover ourselves in seven jackets, except for Shorts Guy.)

anais-ninja-bitch

gatorade was invented at the university of florida for a reason, y'all.

fagcrisis

im about to maul someone.

fagcrisis

"stories dont need conflict" girl anything can be a conflict if ur story is about chickens going on adventures the conflict is the fucking fence they gotta hop over. if ur story is about making a lovely cup of tea the conflict can be turning on the stove. like u literally cannot write a story without conflict

fagcrisis

ALSO i hate mfers who say this shit and then go "thats why i like ghibli movies cuz theyve got no conflict" OH YOU MEAN HOWLS MOVING CASTLE, NAUSICAA, PRINCESS MONONOKEY CASTLE IN THE SKY ETC THAT ARE ALL ABOUT THE HORRORS OF WAR

fagcrisis

even the ones that arent about the horrors of war. in kiki's delivery service kiki growing up and learning to trust people and accept help is the central conflict of the story!! my neighbour totoro's central conflict is how the girls are dealing with their mom being sick and the responsibility they feel this puts on them!! i could go on!!

eeby-deeby-dark-and-creepy

octobaba

tags by @toastedpopsicle

furryprovocateur

9/11

furryprovocateur

not even joking this is one of the worst possible changes that i could've reasonably conceived of to happen to video games.

furryprovocateur

having thought about it this is a generationally anti-consumer announcement that will have a profoundly detrimental impact on consumers and retail markets. this will price out new consumers even more than a $600 PS5 and $80 games will. this will make games less accessible and more nickel-and-dimed. this will make games impossible to share irl without giving your console up, and will stop institutions like libraries from being able to loan copies of modern games. and most importantly, it will be for a minimal profit, as most of the sales in video games are already digital.

this is such a staggeringly catastrophic piece of news that i'm shocked it wasn't said by nintendo. congrats to sony for one-upping them in anti-consumer practices.

Do you not think it interesting the ways in which we make ourselves smaller? Bite the tongue here, forget knowledge there, smile when you wish to frown. Does leaving my fighting spirit behind make me more palatable?

Will you love me more if I don’t stand up for myself, my beliefs, and the hard won knowledge I’ve learned?

#personal #my post #prose #lemur writes

a-historical-lemur

Call it female hysteria and send me to the country side to visit my estranged cousins who are really quite lovely people and let me spend time not feeling like a limp noodle being shook by a dog

And in failing to believe-

I label myself first,

So it hurts less

You see.

Hear me say “I am

a liar

Crazy

Imagining things

Have no sense

sorry

sorry “

I Concede and bow and scrap to the floor on bended knee if only to please

Loyal dog.

Kicked dog.

Bitting dog.

Bitch.

I am she.

Would it be better to offer you my soft belly and the flash of my weak throat?

Here, in fact let me crack open my chest and offer my heart too.

Here also are my wrists to grab and my shoulders to shake.

Submission is virtue, virtue, virtue.

But I cycle between dog and wolf and falcon and crane and butterfly pinned on the board.

Tame and wild.

Sharp hunter and elegant patience.

Or short lived beauty

pinned to save like immortalizing ways.

Am I to be a candle? Oh or maybe a hearth!! No, no safety here. Am I a bonfire or eternal flame?

Can I not be the wind?

No… okay.

What can I be?

Who am I?

Who?

Who

who

#my post #personal

olderthannetfic

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

zz9pzza

Warming up a new database server….

elfwreck

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.

crowns-of-violets-and-roses

I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers

Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.

lierdumoa

AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.

alex51324

Exactly. When I was growing up, pre-internet, they used to say, “Freedom of the press is for those that own one.”

The early internet was like everyone owned a press. Those days are gone; owning the servers is the new owning the press.

olderthannetfic

TBH, I kind of want to get a printing press.

deadsetagainst

australian sour patch kids have gluten in them i am truly at my fucking limit im crashing out im waging war against wheat idgaf anymore

amvs

oh is that one of those things where ableist companies put in traces of common allergens so they can just avoid the cost of making it safe

deadsetagainst

WHAT

amvs

A trend we predicted in 2016 continues.

US based but it’s similar reasons in other countries. and of course many companies have international locations. idk if that’s why it’s happening with sour patch kids but this is a thing

rosetintmyworld84

I cannot even explain how ANGRY I am at this.

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

At the time, Kellogg’s notified Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) about the impending change and left it to them to warn the allergic community. In this case, Pearson’s didn’t even bother as near as we can tell."

lizardsfromspace

Hello, welcome to 2050, our gallery - oh, no, that art is not done with AI, the industry collapsed decades ago, but human artists have rediscovered the aesthetic and are using it ironically. Yeah they call it Neo-Modern AI Chic, they've been trying to recover surviving slop and put it in the archives. Oh, we're very into 2020s aesthetics now. You remember, Hyperlink Unburbia? Rustic Pseudo-Cryptid? Self-Care Shadowscape? You don't...know any of those? That's weird. They really define your time, is all, uh, and we're into it

earlgraytay

That china dog that ornaments the bedroom of my furnished lodgings. ...I do not admire it myself. Considered as a work of art, I may say it irritates me. Thoughtless friends jeer at it, and even my landlady herself has no admiration for it, and excuses its presence by the circumstance that her aunt gave it to her.

But in 200 years’ time it is more than probable that that dog will be dug up from somewhere or other, minus its legs, and with its tail broken, and will be sold for old china, and put in a glass cabinet. And people will pass it round, and admire it. They will be struck by the wonderful depth of the colour on the nose, and speculate as to how beautiful the bit of the tail that is lost no doubt was.

We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and the stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog. In 2288 people will gush over it. The making of such dogs will have become a lost art. Our descendants will wonder how we did it, and say how clever we were. We shall be referred to lovingly as “those grand old artists that flourished in the nineteenth century, and produced those china dogs.”

-- Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, 1889

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