abort, retry, fail?

Playing space cowboy in some back room

[queer-as-city-folk]

The National Parks Service have purged trans people from the website on the Stonewall National Monument

[queer-as-city-folk]

Trans people threw the first bricks at Stonewall, this is explicitly genocidal and revisionist, they are removing trans people from our history, they don't want us to exist

[queer-as-city-folk]

The fact they can't even acknowledge us in platitudes is fucking terrifying, they can't even say T in LGBT on the website for Stonewall Inn. Stonewall was the start of our liberation and we can't and could never have liberation without trans people and specifically trans women like Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera

[queer-as-city-folk]

During the raid on the Stonewall Inn in 1969, the police forced all women in the bar to undergo genital inspections in the restroom so they could arrest trans women and drag queens. That was what started the riots, people refused to comply with the police attempting to target trans women. It is explicitly revisionist to separate trans people from the stonewall uprising

[buy-some-motherfuckin-apples-iv]

We should do a riot at stonewall over the attacks on trans people

[alorian]

Hey, the NPS Stonewall website has a little box at the bottom saying IS THIS HELPFUL and if you click no, it gives you a comment box! I'm sure you can all think of something to say in there before they deactivate the link.

Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June

[explicitlyrics]

swifties always going on the "you just hate women" defense like first of all Taylor Swift is not a woman she's an unskippable ad

[pinnings]

UNOFFICIAL, HANDMADE TERU WOLFWOOD* PLUSH G1VEAWAY

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Rules / How to enter:

🔫 follow me @pinnings

😎 like & reblog this post

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G1veaway will end on OCTOBER 28th, 2023 at 6PM EST. Random w1nner will be chosen as soon as possible and will only be messaged (DM or ask) from the @pinnings account on IG or tumblr. If w1nner does not respond in 24 hours then the next person will be selected. Plush is not exactly as pictured but should be consistent in look: he will be made and shipped in the month of November.

Thanks for participating and for your love on teru WW so far!

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[cryptotheism]

Imo, The mindset of the modern American reactionary is that of the estranged parent. It's a person who cannot allow themself to understand that yeah, they were a shit parent, and their kids aren't talking to them because they were a shit parent. It's the two-time wanna-be small business failure who cannot allow themselves to believe that they failed, and that there may have been consequences to their choices.

I think it has something to do with why transphobia is the popular cudgel now. This idea of the "trans cult" that took their kids away gives shape and form to the storm of negative emotions in their life. Its something to focus all their emotions on. Comparing trans people to pedophiles gives them the justification they need for righteous anger. By framing their anger as "you were keeping them safe" it allows them to feel like they were right all along.

[jaubaius]

Absolutely unique

Source

[heejinsleftnut]

[talesfromthecrypts]

The Company of Wolves (1984) dir. Neil Jordan

Costume Design by Elizabeth Waller

[bekkathyst]

BEKKATHYST CUSTOM NECKLACE GIVEAWAY

~This giveaway is in no way affiliated with Tumblr.~

Please read thoroughly before entering!

Hello lovely Tumblr folk! It’s that time again- I have a giveaway for you all. This time I’m giving away a custom handmade necklace. 

We have an online store that could use your support!

About us: My name is Rebekka and I handmake jewelry and sell crystals. My business is a small, family run establishment that I started here on tumblr in 2013. I’ve been lucky enough to grow to the point where this supports me, my partner, and our daughter. In the US we also had a brick-and-mortar shop in which I employed my mom and a few of my siblings. However, we closed it to be able to move to Austria, my home country! 💜 I strive to put compassion and ethics first in my business, and I hope that shines through. We have a website but also run many fun sales directly here on Tumblr.

What the winner receives:

A custom electroformed necklace handmade by me! The winner will choose between a couple different options and designs and I will make a necklace for them. The necklace can have a value of $200.

Rules:

You must be 16 or older. (If under 18 you MUST have parent’s permission)

You can be from anywhere in the world! I am shipping from Austria.

Shipping is entirely free, I will cover it. But if you live in a country that that charges import tax, you are responsible for it. If it gets sent back to me, you will need to pay shipping to have it sent again.

You must be following me, so you can get updates if anything about the giveaway changes.

Please check out our online shop!

DO NOT tag this post as giveaway. That will risk the notes getting messed up, and this will be ruined for everyone.

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Please don’t spam people with reblogs- limit 2 reblogs per blog per day.  

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The giveaway ends Monday, January 16th 2023.

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Please respect me and my rules, and have fun!

[alorian]

Hiya! This account is my main tumb, which was retired from active service some time ago in about 2015ish. Likes & follows on this account will not get you much! However, if you see a comment from this account on a post of yours, you are probably following me under my tenshinokorin blog, which is my fandom main/personal. I also run the blogs for bishink, childofglass, fuckyeahxenogears, and some others, including my pro writing account (unlisted but fairly easy to suss out if you are that invested). I’m around, just persnickety and old and slow to reply to comments. 

[mizworldofrandom]

[shittyelfwriter]

The best fucking thing I’ve ever seen

[nyokoko]

Gordon Ramsey has settled the candy corn debate once and for all.

[alorian]

Goodnight everybody!

[samuraireflections]

Oh my gosh, this is hilarious. Nice, long staff you got there, Cye. *snort*

Makes me wish my figures’ hip joints weren’t all busted up. so I could pose them. This pic, however, will make me happy for a LONG time.

[samuraireflections]

I had to.

[alorian]

I can't believe my ancient-ass action figure post got a fanart. *_* I'm so delighted. I should post the pictures of Ryo with the cookies, now.

Thank You! ^_^

[alorian]

Side blog for my own content and for bishink.org. Caution: unfinished fic, bad fanart, open manhole...

I'm not here anymore. Go over here. --->

[alorian]

It's the most basic concept in the world, and it's the one most overlooked and forgotten.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=4849318#4849318

[alorian]

Fandom Is Broken

Controversies and entitlement shine a light on a deeply troubling side of fandom.

"It's all about demanding what you want out of the story, believing that the story should be tailored to your individual needs, not the expression of the creators. These fans are treating stories like ordering at a restaurant - hold the pickles, please, and can I substitute kale for the lettuce? But that isn't how art works, and that shouldn't be how art lovers react to art."

Everything is here. Everything about why I left social, public fandom, why I remain gone, and why after three years I still haven't published the sequel to my first novel.

[tenshinokorin]

I’m sure this is totally a coincidence, but since I wrote this fic in 2002, I guess that means I need the shirt now.

[alorian]

FIVE FANTASTIC BATTLE-ARMORED KITCHEN MIXERS... HAVE BEEN GIVEN SUPER-POWERED FIGHTING SKILLS AND WEAPONS TO WIELD AGAINST THIS TYRRANY

[alorian]

non tumblr contacts

I’m easy to find, if you know where to look. On instagram I’m leahsbaird. Valnon.org is my pro writing site and the valnon tumblr content will eventually be moved over to the website for safe archiving. Book news and announcements and promos will still be posted on the valnon tumblr, though it might just become a mirror of a more stable website-based blog. (Likewise for my fan writing/tumblrs, though to a lesser degree.)

My fan website is, has been, and ever shall be: www.bishink.org. We make up in content what we lack in fancy code, and there’s a fully armed and operational Advent Calendar in the works for December.

Our BJDs? Childofglass.org. Our Character shrines, recipes, cosplay, old advent calendars? Odessacastle.org. I also have a dusty old insanejournal, alorian.insanejournal.com.

(We are our own oroborus webring)

But, if you’re website-adverse, my Ao3 handle is Tenshinokorin (http://archiveofourown.org/users/tenshinokorin) and contains a sample of my pretty capacious body of works. I’ve been writing fic online since 1998. There’s a lot. I hope there will continue to be more.

(And the great irony is that my mic drop post gets more notes than anything I’ve posted in the last six months. I think we’re all getting pretty fed up with the whole social media platform deal by now.)

[alorian]

this is my out

I think I’m done with tumblr. Between the ads and the randomass recommended blogs invading even my phone browser (where there is no xkit to save me) and tumblr bullshit ruining a carefully-curated feed, I’ve had about enough. I’ll still use my side blogs (valnon and the bishink/tnk blogs) for announcements or news, but I’m done on a personal front, and I’m giving up the dash.

I’ve never liked operating on any platform where I don’t have the last word in what’s on my feed–or worse, where my (deliberately obscurely-tagged) blog can be plastered on other peoples’ feeds without my permission or knowledge. I started out here for Tron fandom, but it never felt homey or nice or really text friendly, not like lj in the old old old days, fifteen years ago. It was too big, too loud, too young, too judgey, too easy for totalass strangers to descend from nowhere en masse to start sealioning with you. I was constantly balancing the damage–real and potential–from this site, and always coming up short. At this point, tumblr might as well be facebook, and I’m tired of being sold. And frankly, the nearer my 40th birthday looms, the less I'm willing to put up with shit that doesn't work for me. Life is too goddamn short, I know how to get what I need out of fandom by now, and I already have my own webpage.

As for blogging, IJ is full of tumbleweed, and nobody I know has posted there in approximately five billion weeks, but I own my account, I have plenty of icons, and at least I know and control exactly what’s in my feed. The peace and quiet will do me good.

Five years is a pretty good run.