Arra-Tech

Lean, mean, trickster machine.

[arra-tech]

Btw, I'm going by Cassandra now

[melodies-stereo]

im a huge fan of trans women

[melodies-stereo]

i think trans women should be pandered to in all aspects of life

[melodies-stereo]

i love you trans women

[headspace-hotel]

Here's an idea about why kids are so anxious and depressed all the time...the environments kids are in most of the time are very stressful and don't fulfill their needs for play, rest, proper variety of foods, positive social opportunities, and freedom from fear pain punishment etc

[headspace-hotel]

Like everyone with any basic understanding of animal welfare knows that if you put an animal in an enclosure that is too crowded, without hiding spots, with no freedom to move around, no ability to avoid harsh and stressful stimuli, and scare it by shouting at it and punishing it, the animal will become stressed and start chewing its own fur off or hurting itself or become sick or unable to eat...

But we expect human children to grow up in these conditions and literally blame them when they develop the exact type of problems that any creature under those conditions would

[escuerzoresucitado]

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

[mynnthia]

seeing news about the fallout remaster announcement feels like cruel irony to me

microsoft games are a bds boycott target, and because both bethesda + obsidian are owned by microsoft, this includes the games published by them.

microsoft is gonna further profit from a new virtual playground of ~post-apocalyptic bombed out towns in the desert~ while contributing to creating bombed out apocalyptic conditions in gazan towns, by collaborating with israel on so many fronts that bds calls microsoft the most complicit company in palestinian genocide.

and nostalgia-baited fans will still buy it bc playing pretend in a virtual world thats a knockoff of what real life people are currently facing – a virtual world funded by that very suffering of those real life people – is more important to them than simply playing a different game

[mynnthia]

anyway, to make this rant productive – if you have the means to send donations to palestine, heres some community initiatives:

Mona’s community aid initiative – verified by el-shab-hussein

The Sameer Project – has a british partner org, so UK folks can donate with gift aid here with no transfer fees

Revive Gaza Farmlands – has a canadian partner org, so canadians can donate via direct bank transfers with no transfer fee

Crips for eSims for Gaza – canda-based, so canadian e-transfers saves on transaction fees

[arainydancer]

pareidolie: the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern

[sailatina3]

Brown is a beautiful color FUCK all the propaganda trying to convince us its ugly.

[galis-gock]

It's true! Brown is awesome! <3

[storyweavingspider]

The important question here: which slurs can Pohatu reclaim

[arra-tech]

If i remember right, the Lego team used the brown bionic people to represent Mexican and certain Native American groups such as the Hopi, the Navajo, and the Puebloans.

[arra-tech]

Girl... it smells like someone spilled grape soda pre-mix all over the west side of town...

I'm not a fan and it probably has health impacts...

[arra-tech]

Had the misfortune of viewing some terf blogs this morning...

Amazing how it was so difficult to tell them apart from transandrobros...

Using the same "phrases" in the same ways...

Sharing the same kinds of stories...

[b0tster]

I'm surprised I was able to get this far into the 2020's without needing to ask for mutual aid but here we are 💔

Local dentist saw a shadow on an x-ray for an unrelated visit and found bacteria eating away at my tooth and skull thats been happening for years. It hasn't been spotted until now because I wasn't showing any of the associated symptoms.

I need multiple surgeries to get the remains of the front tooth broken into pieces and removed, the bacteria scrubbed off, a bone graft applied to my skull, an implant installed and of course a new crown manufactured and screwed in.

They urged me to do it as soon as possible or else it will get worse.

If u could please donate / share ill be endlessly grateful ❤️

Donate to Help Lilith with her severe dental infection, organized by Lilith Walther

Hey all, you might know me by my work online :) I'll get straigh… Lilith Walther needs your support for Help Lilith with her sever

[tamamoland-of-destinys-demise]

the fact that large-scale stalking and harassment and doxxing and worse targeting of any random transfem is not only allowed to continue for weeks and months and years but actively enabled, defended, and participated in by the site's staff and moderation is completely fucking deranged

[ndnbutch]

like, I myself have also never lived on the rez so I can really only speak to the experiences I’ve had shared with me by friends and family—and frankly, there are some things my loved ones just straight up won’t even talk about because it was just that fucking bad. but with the way some folks on this site (in particular, as I’ve mentioned before, white Europeans who seem to have convinced themselves that just because they’re not American means they’re absolved of all the evils of white supremacy and imperialism) talk about Native people living in the imperial core it feels really clear to me that a lot of these people have never even, like, attempted to so much as imagine just how fucking bad the conditions on most reservations are. they’re certainly not doing any research into it. just, like, speaking loudly and confidently about how privileged we are to live in the US without a shred of consideration for the fact that these places were intentionally constructed to have the worst living conditions possible. and like that’s not to say that you can’t have any semblance of a good life there, I’ve also heard so many stories of joy and love and community on the rez and I don’t want to take away from that. but those things are hard fought for through the fucking incredible power and resilience of what it is to be a native person surviving genocide, they happen IN SPITE of all the odds stacked against us. I promise that you as a white person in fucking France or whatever are not worse off than generations of people forced into reservations, with extremely limited access to food and clean water and healthcare. for real.

[ndnbutch]

and of course the justification is always “oh well that’s such a small percentage of the US population though” as if that’s not literally the same logic used by the government to allow these people to continue to suffer, and as though population percentage is supposed to make me just stop caring about my relatives. like that just doesn’t make you look better. and if you’re from a colonizing European country it was your fucking ancestors that created the conditions that led to people suffering today. shut the fuck up!

[arra-tech]

I got cousins who are starving in food deserts

I got cousins who have to make the choice between death by dehydration or drinking toxic waters

I got cousins who have radiation in their backyards

And we all got family who should still be here with us...

How the fuck are we privileged by living here?

[storyweavingspider]

Transmisogynists will see trans women talking about how TMEs of all genders will attempt to coercively rape us by forcing us to comptop no matter how much we protest until we break and just do it for them, and assume that WE are the rapists because that’s all they’re capable of viewing us as.

We aren’t women to any of them, we aren’t people, and we sure as hell could never be the *actual* victims. All any of these freaks can see us as are predators and rapists and abusers in waiting.

They don’t care about actual survivors or victims, they care about harming trans women and getting off on our suffering.

[useless-stray]

gotta hate being affected by a unique intersection of transphobia and misogyny which is not allowed to be called transmisogyny but also isn’t allowed to be given any other name or else i’m evil

[arra-tech]

"Trans man/ trans masc"

Yeah, that's not intersectional oppression.

You're a moron and have actively refused to learn what words mean.

[puppetprincessed]

hi everyone, puppet again, 4th time terminated in 4 days

as always, it and its partner are homeless and disabled trans women living purely off donations from tumblr as they keep terminating us both every single day, and we still badly need support as we're going to be fully on the streets again in less than a month. please keep reblogging this aid post, and its paypal is here. anything would be greatly appreciated.

also please come interact with it if you'd like! ever since it decided to stay things have become quite tenuous here <_< remember: puppet loves you !!

[shadeslayer]

every now n then i think about how native americans as human beings just dont exist in like 99% of mainstream media. in movies or tv shows or books or video games or you know even in porn like we just arent people. when theres a native character theyre like a wild west indian. like truly to ppl we all died back in the 1900s.