if you're not antifascist, what's wrong with you? @alexseanchai - Tumblr Blog

if your bio says proshippers DNI, why in the fuck are you following me

like I really don't think "if you don't want me to interact with you, then don't interact with me" is a terribly difficult or objectionable ask

alexseanchai

*heaves sigh*

I recognize that the presence of Follow buttons on every single reblog addition on every single post means a lot of people are following other people based on a single reblog comment, without even loading the tumblr in question, never mind skimming the bio or pinned post

but seriously? I am making no attempt to be subtle about this. rather the opposite!

alexseanchai

I don't know whether I think this should also apply when the sum of the interaction is them reblogging an image description from me and me going to see which one it was and noticing their bio before the post loads

alexseanchai

seriously y'all, if this is you, please skip to the part where one of us blocks the other

alexseanchai

this also goes for if you're doing a callout post on me, for whatever reason

my new favorite is I'm a Zionist, which is either absurd on the face of it—how can I be either zionist or antizionist? I'm not Jewish!—or additional proof that everyone (while they themselves are neither Jewish nor Israeli in any sense) who says antizionism is not antisemitism? is in fact a lying liar

or possibly someone who sincerely thinks my being a queer trans disabled progressive isn't enough justification to hate me, but because they really want to hate me anyway, they'll make sure to lump me in with Jewish people for saying using scammer strategies is scamming regardless of what sob story is involved, and/or for saying, hating the group of people that's been pissing everyone else off longest by refusing to die? might make you popular, but will never make you right

alexseanchai

The question you just asked Claude or ChatGPT or any other genAI? Pretend for a moment you got that exact answer from Charlotte G. P. Thomas or Claudia A. I. Jensen. That image you just prompted Midjourney or DALL-E for? Pretend for a moment you got that exact image from Dolley Nguyen or Margarita "Midge" Enríquez. Contractors, in all cases, who come highly recommended and who are billing you—possibly too much—for their time and expertise.

What would you do to make sure Ms. Thomas, Ms. Jensen, Ms. Nguyen, and Ms. Enríquez are doing good enough work for what you're paying them?

Apply that standard to the work genAI does for you.

alexseanchai

if you would have higher standards for G. R. O'Keefe or Jimmy Nye, then you should apply those standards instead

meltesh28

they Lift and support. ..each other!!!!!!!

#heaven official's blessing

reborn-from-taxes

Smth smth soft white punk xie lian I don't know fashion o7

#heaven official's blessing

jarenka

Me, looking at all these full bust adjustments instructions in English-speaking sewing community: Oh, very considerate, but why everyone need it?

Me, looking at US sewing pattern sizes: Wow, you really hate titties. 🥲

jarenka

Do you think I am joking?

What kind of femboy sizing is this?..

Like, I understand there are woman with very small titties, but 5 cm between high bust and full bust is absolutely unrealistic for majority of women. I feel like it was made for really thin runaway model and then sized up.

(they also have d-cup sizes but they only 10 cm between high bust and full bust and only available for bigger sizes).

elljayvee

Well, also, in the US in particular, we like to lie to women about their bra sizes. Do you KNOW how many people are out there in a 38B (designed for about 4-5 cm difference) that kinda-sorta-almost has enough fabric to cover their breasts except for maybe some that is under the band and the bit in the armpit and also a lil bit of quad-boob when what size actually fits them is a 34G? Because the answer is: a lot. A LOT A LOT.

I wear a 34K or KK (UK sizes; in US this is like a 34M or N I think) and the usual pattern I make for my shirts is so adjusted it might as well not be the same thing anymore. One of the only sane patternmakers I've run across in terms of bust sizing is Cashmerette but I'm sure there are more.

Have considered the theory that the US is being terrible at bra sizing and clothing in an effort to keep women down. Unable to prove at this time but no countermanding evidence is available either.

markovchaingang

we must protect the sanctity of divorce

vinceaddams

"Stained glass" faille jacket by Freda Blackwood, 1970's or early 80's, via Kerry Taylor Auctions.

vinceaddams

There's more of them!!

#fashion #fiber art

artisimpossible

I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

healerqueen

I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples. If you like something, tell people.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.

tlirsgender

Getting too into gender theory and feminism and such feels like cosmic horror. Like I know too much and now I'm going insane babbling to people who have no idea what I'm talking about. I saw through the Gender and it broke something in me psychologically. Everything is misogyny and nothing is real except the material consequences of misogyny. I gotta get out of here (gender) but my personal choices don't really matter because other people will continue Gendering me

tlirsgender

As far as I can tell women are real but the signifiers of Femininity are culturally constructed. Men only exist in opposition to women. I'm not opposed to women so I'm excluded from Men. I'm only a woman when men are talking to me. You can tell gender isn't a choice though because I never could have Not been nonbinary

tlirsgender

Decolonizing my conception of my own gender like ripping a leech off my brain but I forgot I'm whitepassing and every single white person looks at my long hair and immediately goes Woman ☝️ based on that one (1) physical characteristic because they think I'm one of them

gettinontopic

"Transphobia already covere that, we don't need Transandrophobia as a seperate term"

"Transphobia already covers that, we don't need Transmisogyny as a separate term"

"Bi already covere that we don't need Pan as a seperate term"

"Trans already covers that we don't need Nonbinary as a separate term"

"Gay already covers that we don't need Lesbian as a seperate term"

Again And Again And Again And Again And Again-

capricorn-0mnikorn

"Mammal" already covers that. We don't need 'cow,' 'dog,' 'mouse,' and all the rest.

tiktoks-i-enjoyed

lakecountylibrary

[ID: Screenshot of, presumably, a TikTok showing a person looking off into the distance at some trees with a text overlay that reads 'Reconnecting with nature after I returned a book 2 months overdue and they straight up laughed in my face once they saw it was 'taking charge of adult adhd''. Beneath the image is a comment from username sophia? reading 'as an adher my high school library said i won the school record for latest return book ever. it was mental health books too crying emoji she said shes just surprised i actually returned them.' The comment has 187 likes. /ID]

mariacallous

Founders of Makom Lekulanu aim to build on their work as leaders of the coexistence group Standing Together, who’ve been harassed by the pol

damnfandomproblems

Fandom Problem #15,174:

"This is a bad ship, because it's clearly based on lust instead of respect."

"Ughhh why do people ship these two? They respect each other, it ruins it if it's a ship!"

I think it's very concerning that people think respect and attraction cannot simultaneously exist.

miseria-fortes-viros

dont tag bible stuff as mythology God isnt mythology

hi hello how are you. most if not all story-based religions are in fact considered mythology by definition including the abrahamic religions. god is in fact abrahamic mythos whether you think he’s real or not. im sorry if that upsets you but im assuming this is regarding the post i just reblogged and i have to say im surprised the part you’re upset about is me tagging biblicalia as mythology and not the entire discussion on who tops in jesus/judas ship discourse

taken-for-pomegranted

In the level 100 mythology course I took in college, we started with the Book of Genesis which the teacher explained was to weed out Christians who didn't want to acknowledge their beliefs were as much mythology as anyone else lol

sound-the-horn

I cannot recommend bringing your heritage and culture into how you view media enough.

It is important to consider the culture of the person who created the piece, absolutely; but the different perspectives offered by the viewers is fascinating in and of itself and does not always detract from the message.

As an example, when I was younger, I watched Schindler's List. This movie is famously shot in black and white except for one section, concerning a little girl in a red coat. The camera follows her until her eventual death.

I am Turtle Island Indigenous and I was always taught that the only color spirits could see was red, because it is the color of life and blood.

So the second the girl in the red jacket came on screen, something inside me chilled with fear.

The only color in the movie was that red. At some point, I, the viewer, had died.

I remember sobbing at the sight of the burning human piles that were shown, convinced I was buried in there somewhere. The reason I had only seen red on the girl was that my death was recent. I was the ash in the air mistaken for snow. I had died before her and had followed her, helplessly, until she followed me.

The message I got for that was maybe not what the creator had intended: that there was no "being clever enough" or "good enough" or "kind enough" that would shield or protect you from such a massive tidal wave of evil.

You are not exempt from tragedy, that red jacket whispered. You are not special.

When I told some of my white friends about my experience with viewing Schindler's List, some were shocked and the rest just out-and-out mocked me for my "media illiteracy".

"it was just a filming trick to make you feel something," I remember one saying, which terrified me. How had he not felt anything even before she showed up?

However, when I repeated my viewing to a college class, they were fascinated. The implications of what I had seen and felt made the film all the more terrifying and solemn. It encouraged a lot of people to try to ask themselves what media meant from a cultural perspective, where they hadn't done that before.

prismatic-bell

Holy shit I need to say something to teenage and young adult Ariana Grande fans on this site because what I just saw is absolutely horrifying.

So for reasons unknown (why does the YouTube algorithm do anything?), my YouTube shorts have given me a pair of videos of fans concerned about her health. And I am begging you:

If she is giving health or diet advice to fans, please do not follow it.

I don't know the whole story here. According to these two fans, she started appearing unwell during the Wicked press tour. The photos and videos I just saw of her current tour demonstrate a serious deterioration since then.

When my mom was in her teens, there was a singer named Karen Carpenter. She developed anorexia, and at her lowest weight reached 83 pounds. She was actually in recovery and had gotten back up to 108 pounds when her heart simply couldn't stand the strain anymore, and she suffered a fatal heart attack. She was 32 years old.

Karen and Ariana have very similar builds. I've seen photos of Karen at her lowest weight.

Ariana looks worse.

Let's be clear: I am saying she looks sicker and in an even more advanced state of anorexia than a woman who weighed the same as a ten-year-old child. This is not normal weight loss. This isn't even "slightly too much" weight loss. This is the point where I very gently tell you all that you may need to prepare yourselves for her to die if nobody steps in to help her. When I saw these images I first wondered if she was trying to perform through late-stage cancer.

She is extremely ill, and it's not her fault. Nobody wakes up one day and says "I think I want to hate my body so much that I'll let it eat me from the inside out for lack of calories." If anyone is to blame here, it's the people around her who may have pressured her to this point and certainly aren't stepping in to help her. She deserves compassion and care.

But something both of these fans mentioned is that when they expressed concern, other fans accused them of body-shaming and asking how dare they speak about other women's bodies. And that is dangerous. Because there's an ocean of difference between "ugh, eat a cheeseburger" and "someone please help her, she's a human being, not a freakshow, and this isn't right," and that difference matters because she is a role model to so many young women. You need to be able to say "she doesn't deserve judgement, but she is unwell."

Ariana Grande is extremely sick, and that sickness is in her brain but is affecting her in a viscerally physical way, and if you look to her as an inspiration I am asking you to please, please understand you can love her music and the version of herself that she puts forward to you without emulating it. Do not assume she's giving good nutritional or exercise advice right now. She is not in a good headspace to be doing so.

I hope for her sake that she has a moment of clarity and enters recovery. I hope it's not too late for her, the way it was for Karen Carpenter. I don't say any of this to wish ill on her or her fans. But I do say it because I know how many of her fans are teenagers. And I don't want to see anyone take her illness as a good thing.

Talk about it. Don't shame. But do be aware. If you see troubling signs in yourself or your friends--obsessive calorie-counting, talking about "deserving" food or "punishing" yourself for eating--please seek help. I've never had full-on anorexia, but I did have an eating disorder as a teen, and it can sneak up on you and have lifelong effects.

Please be careful.

alexseanchai

So I haven't seen this documentary yet, or the 1989 biopic in probably twenty years, but y'all who first heard of Karen Carpenter in this post can get enough context from this trailer, and yes that specifically includes photos from near the end of her life: