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The Objects That Bind Us

[id: five gifs from “The Untamed”. first, a saturated gif of Wei Wuxian putting the blindfold across Jiang Cheng’s eyes, with his blindfold overlaid with a black and white gif of Jiang Cheng walking to kill Wei Wuxian in Nightless City. second, a black and white gif of Nie Huaisang holding Jin Guangyao’s hat and pulling back his hand to see the blood on it, with a saturated gif of Jin Guangyao smiling at Nie Huaisang. third, a saturated gif of Wei Wuxian holding the lotus pendant Jiang Yanli gave him, overlaid with a black and white gif and Jiang Cheng holding Jiang Yanli as she died. fourth, a black and white gif of Jin Ling holding his sword and crying, overlaid with a saturated image of Jin Zixuan smiling down at a baby Jin Ling. fifth, a saturated gif of Yu Ziyuan giving Jiang Cheng Zidian, overlaid with and black and white gif of Yu Ziyuan crying after Jiang Fengmian has died. /end id]

headbandsandflats

I saw this on twitter and I am...low key obsessed with it.

i feel like i would watch this show/movie

(Tweet: https://twitter.com/oglesbyornottob/status/1367693262123831300?s=21 )

“I was supposed to be writing, instead I did this”

lynati

...Headcanon accepted.

ao3commentoftheday

Yes, AO3 is the gay porn bookstore, but take a moment and think about why that is.

People have been writing non-straight ships for as long as they've been writing fanfic. There are great-grandmothers out there who wrote about Kirk/Spock or the Beatles or the Monkees. There were zines and mailing lists and conventions long before the internet existed.

So why is there such a disparity? Why is AO3 the place that has more non-straight ship fic than other popular fic sites?

The same reason why AO3 has more RPF than those sites. The other sites took it down.

Look at any timeline of fandom purges and you'll see that it was the non-straight fic that was always the first to go. Two men holding hands or kissing in a fic would probably be rated G nowadays, but not that long ago the moment a fic had slash, it was rated M.

Think about that. Gay characters existing in a fic was enough to rate it "adults only." And this isn't long ago.

Part of the reason why there isn't more gay fic is that a lot of people really do write straight ships. But part of it is that gay fic was actively removed from a lot of sites, deleted without the author's knowledge or permission.

Of course AO3 is the gay porn bookstore. It's the site where authors who wrote that kind of fic moved to when all the other sites threw them out.

agapantoblu

Listen, I like Matt Bomer, but why would someone watch White Collar when Leverage is right there?

agapantoblu

Upon further thought, I’m frothing at the mouth for an AU that is just Neal progressively losing it because the bureau is now full of bona fide criminals and nobody would believe him

Neal: I’m telling you, that one’s an international thief - I know you must have heard of The Parker -, that one’s an hacker and that one has killed people!

Peter: First of all, I’ve worked with Nate Ford a bunch of times in the past and there is no way he would ever associate himself with thieves, he’s got strong intergrity and a spine of steel. Second of all, I have several agents who confirmed that they worked with those three in the past so you’re clearly missing something here.

Neal: SHE STOLE A CARTIER DIAMONDS COLLIER FROM RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE! I SAW HER!

Peter: Oh, so that’s what it is. You’re smarting that an undercover FBI agent managed to out-steal you. It’s alright, Neal. We all have days off sometimes.

Neal: WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE

alleyesonthehindenburg

The only one that Neal doesn’t pick up on is Sophie. Oh, he’s heard of Sophie Devereaux – she’s a legend amongst grifters, a phantom image built of rumours – but he’s never seen her.

Once she’s revealed, though? Oh my god, Neal’s straight into fanboy mode. Peter, that’s Sophie Devereaux. That’s THE Sophie Devereux.

guerrillatech

vanquishedvaliant

How wikipedia browsing actually works

twilightmademegay

In the Twilight universe, “vegetarian” vampires have golden eyes from drinking animal blood, a more ethical source than human blood, which would give them red eyes. It has also been established that a diet of human blood makes vampires physically stronger. So, if the Cullens wanted to become stronger without jeopardizing their morals, could they consume mosquitoes instead? How many mosquitoes would they have to eat to survive? Since mosquitoes drink from both humans and animals, what color would their eyes be? Orange? In this essay, I will

gaydenali

on average an adult has about 4.5-5.5 liters of blood circulating in their body. a female mosquito, when completely full, can hold up to 0.001-0.01 milliliters of blood in their abdomen depending on the species. if we take the average of both (5 liters & 0.0055 milliliters), it would take around 909,090 mosquitos to equal the amount of blood in a single human. although there isnt an exact number of the entirety of the mosquito population, we can use fermi estimation. there is about 57 million square miles of total land area on earth, while say 50 million square miles are habitable for mosquitos. with a rough of estimate of 1 mosquito per 50 square feet (overestimate due to area and time of year). after multiplying the numbers and fixing the units, there is a rough estimated 70 quadrillion mosquitos. theoretically, if a vampire lived in a mosquito dense area, such as brazil, indonesia, malaysia, thailand, etc, and could sustainably hunt around a million mosquitos to fill themselves every time they needed to feed, there would be enough mosquitos to survive on due to their large population and fast reproduction.

twilightmademegay

This is honestly everything I have ever wanted thank you for your contribution to the cause

forlovefromfear

Hey guys I think I figured out why vampires can turn into bats

renthony

I remember hanging out at my best friend's house when I was a teenager, and both of us stopping dead in our tracks (and starting to cry, iirc) because a PSA with Wanda Sykes came on the TV, and Wanda Sykes told people to stop saying "gay" as an insult because it was hurting people.

And I went back to school the following Monday to hear "that's so gay" dropped every other sentence by my peers, but it didn't hurt quite as bad as it had the week before, because at least Wanda Sykes was out there telling people not to, y'know?

"Stop using gay as a slur" PSAs. Those were definitely a thing. That people have apparently forgotten.

Anyway stop tagging my posts as "q slur in url" or I'm going to kick your ass.

welcometoyouredoom

A book crystallized in the ocean

blluish

oh mood

raychleadele

NO NO NO.

This was not crystallized by the ocean. People. No. This is why artist credit is SO DAMN IMPORTANT THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE MISINFORMED HERE.

Alexis Arnold is an artist who creates crystallized books. Her work is amazing and beautiful, she’s made dozens of these.

This particular one was not made by her, however, it was actually created by Catherine McEver - who was inspired to try it after seeing a show of Alexis Arnold’s work. It’s literally the first picture on Google image results if you search for “crystallized books” and she posted about it on her blog showing other process shots as she made it.

TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN ARE BEING DEPRIVED OF CREDIT FOR THEIR CREATIVITY BECAUSE THIS FALSE INFORMATION IS BEING SPREAD. FUCK THAT.

hylianshrinemaiden

Considering how many times I’ve seen the uncredited post on my dash I’m finally going to reblog it, with the proper credits.

murielsweddings-deactivated2023

stopppppp im going to pass away just thinking abt this

youngbloodbuzz

#what a way to discover you have a priase kink

champagne-vagabond

When I got my first tattoo I told my rather beautiful tattoo artist that I refused to be a wuss and she said “Oh dont worry, if you squirm I will pin you down.”

And that lives in my head rent free.

exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear

cipheramnesia

“What is it with queer people and tattoos?”

facelessoldgargoyle

Something something intricate rituals

aleisol

anerdyfeminist

Queer people and tattoos? Probably a lot of this going on, too:

zetrystan

Technically true.

zetrystan

He got the job.

zetrystan

He takes his job seriously.

queeranarchism

Trans history: whatever happened to the other T?

I don’t know how universally relevant this is (I guess no part of queer history ever is) but I wonder how many trans people know the history of T&T groups.

Like, in the 90′s and 00′s in the Netherlands almost every trans related groups was a T&T ‘Transsexual and Transvestites’ group and that seemed to also be a quite common thing in other north-west European countries for as far as I can see. Maybe beyond Europe too? I’m not sure.

People who called themselves transsexual and transvestites at the time felt that they had many experiences in common that made organising together valuable and many agreed that there was a large grey area of overlapping identities. With very little information available, a lot of trans women identified as transvestites first, before identifying at trans women (in that period often using the term Male-to-Female transsexual and transwoman without the space between the words).

Then, in about 2007-2012, things changed. Transgender became more popular than transsexual and crossdresser largely replaced transvestite. In those early days, the term transgender was often understood to include crossdressers. The transgender umbrella is from that time:

Back then, the word transgender was seen by many as the umbrella term that would unite all the struggles against gender roles. But that grouping together was far from uncontroversial and a lot of heated debates took place over how broad or narrow the transgender umbrella term should be. Some feared too wide an umbrella would take attention away from transsexuals, others feared it would be confusing, some groups that had previously only had transwomen and transvestites did not appreciate the new presence of transmen and transmasculine people in their transgender community, some felt that it was very important to distinguish binary-identified transsexuals from all sorts of weird non-binary identities.

Those who took part in the debates probably remember the specific standpoints in more detail. For me, I just remember how in 2008-2012 all the T&T groups started changing their names to ‘transgender groups’ and then slowly but surely focussing more on only those transgender people that wanted some kind of transition, physical or social. Eventually, transvestites (or crossdressers, as the common term was by then) disappeared entirely from the transgender groups and a lot of transgender people forgot about the earlier wider meaning of transgender as an umbrella term.

Within that same period, there started to be a LOT of new and fairly positive media attention for transgender issues, specifically transition related atttention. The media was no participant at all in the ‘what does transgender mean’ question but the questions they did ask were ‘are you on hormones yet?’ and ‘did you have the surgery’? Since that was a lot better than ‘so are you mentally ill because you want to be a woman?’ a lot of people who fitted the hormones + surgery narrative eagerly accepted this ‘positive visibility’ and did not question the narrow focus. This further cemented the view that transgender meant transition.

And the transgender activists? Well, let’s just say many of them, knee deep in a struggle against terrible health care and cruel human rights violations, leaped at the opportunity to seize the momentum and finally make some changes and many didn’t really give much thought to the slow disappearance of transvestites from the newly named ‘transgender’ community.

So where are we now, in 2018?

The transgender community seems to have largely forgotten about their T&T history. The terms transvestite and crossdresser both seem to be in decline, as are the communities that meet around those identities. Younger people who don’t fit the gender binary but also do not desire social or physical transition, are now more likely to identify themselves as some kind of genderqueer and nonbinary or just ‘not into labels’ or just to wear whatever they want and rock it. Some of them find their way back under the transgender umbrella after all. Which I guess is some kind of a happy ending.

But then theres the question of recognizing our legacy. I don’t think a lot of these young people realise that, had they been born 20 years earlier, many of them would probably have found a home in the transvestite community. I don’t think a lot of young transgender people recognize older transvestites as their elders, who paved the way for them. I often get the impression that they view the dwindling groups of 50+, 60+, 70+ transvestites with an element of disdain, as people who held on to a regressive binary identity, instead of as like - their badass grandfather-mothers who build parts of trans history.

queeranarchism

Over the last 24 hours, some trans people have responded to this with some truly nasty comments about transvestites and crossdressers, mostly accusing them of stuff like ‘degrading femininity’, ‘fetishizing’, or ‘giving trans people a bad name’. Invariably, the people writing these comments were young. Invariably, their only frame of reference seemed to be stigmatizing media portrayals and they clearly have no idea what they’re talking about.

I am not going to dignify these comments with a response because they’re too disgusting to reblog, I do not think they would listen and frankly reading them fills me with far too much emotion to write coherently.

I just wanna say: this is what happens when we are so quick to forget our very recent history. Despite the many debates and divisions that have existed in the past, few trans people could have had these completely off-the-wall misguided ideas 15 years ago because if they travelled in trans spaces they would have met so many transvestites and crossdressers. They would chat and hang out and probably make friends. They would swap experiences, share hardships and learn to recognize transvestites and crossdressers as siblings in the community of gendernonconforming and marginalized people.

My heart breaks for the young crossdresser out there today who might enter a trans space looking for their community of supporting likeminded people, only to find out that they are not welcome and even despised. I can only hope that if this happens, some older trans people will talk some sense into their younger community members and remind them of the long road transgender people and crossdressers have walked together, the battles we fought together, the crossdressers who fought for trans rights and the trans people who fought for their siblings too because we understood those struggles as interconnected.

When we forget where we come from, we fail to recognize members of our own family, and we are all lonelier and more divided as a result.

queeranarchism

#huh this is fascinating#does anyone have any sources about this stuff beyond that image?#i mean i believe op just fine but it’d be neat to see more about these sorts of groups#google was….extremely unhelpful

Actually, I have more! But first, a little google advice when researching recent post-internet history: type in phrases from the time you want to find, in this case stuff like ‘transsexual’, ‘transgender’, ‘transvestite’, ‘transgenderist’ (no really that was a word people used). Click Tools > time > custom range and set a range you want. Like maybe 200 to 2010? See if that helps.

ok, now my stuff, ill start with some more from the Netherlands

This is a 1975 party ticket to celebrate the 5 year anniversary of the Transvestite and Transsexual workgroup and contact group (meaning they did activism and community meetings).

This is another 1975 document: a brochure of the National Contact Group for Transvestites and Transsexuals, which, according to the content, strives towards self-acceptance, emancipation and education. Their ‘target groups’ are listed as transsexuals, intersexuals, transvestites and men who wear skirts. Believe it or not, for a while man-in-skirt was treated as an identity label for gendernonconforming men, who formed communities with other men-in-skirts.

There’s more recent stuff to be found too.

This 2012 poster has it all. It announces a transgender information day with information for transvestites, transsexuals, crossdressers and part-time women.

Something in English? Alright, here’s an image from 2014 when, for a short time, people tried to make trans* with a * the most inclusive term like the + in lgbt+:

Something older in English too?

This is a 1994 transgender umbrella, from when the concept was still quite new. You’ll notice that the language here is pathologizing. This is the only source on my list not written by a trans person but by a cis therapist.

And here’s a 1990 leaflet showing some terms considered ‘respectful’ by many community members then.

Even older?

Here’s a beautiful 1971 article from the Detroit Gay Liberator, (Volume 1, issue 8, January 1, 1971) titles ‘transvestite and transsexual liberation’.

There is a gap, as you’ll probably notice. A lot of 70′s stuff has already been archives and a lot of 2010+ stuff is easily accessible online, but the early internet stuff is harder to find and not as prominent in archives yet. Still, there is much more like this out there. www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net has a lot of it.

What you’ll find, again and again, is that the exclusion of transvestites from the language of trans community and trans rights is very recent. We walked most of this road and fought most of this fight together.

fandomsandfeminism

If you want to learn more, this book touches on these topics (though isnt exclusively about them)

The history of all our terms and the ways that we explain and conceptualize and subdivide up the vast diversity of queer experiences- ESPECIALLY the experiences surrounding gender nonconformity- is fluid and varied and rich.

Pride month should be about more than just buying merch and rainbows. Use it as a reminder to learn your history! :)

Harbinger

PUPPY HAS RECEIVED SO MANY PETS AND IS ALL WARMED UP NOW

batkids-ftw

veryoldmuchguard

I’m so hungry for more Nile-centric content, both in canon and fan creations.

Gimme the new immortal perspective! I want to see her struggles and her triumphs, I want to see her adjust to hanging out with the most senior seniors on earth. I want to see her react to a weird old habit of one of the other immortals by staring into the camera like she’s on the office.

I wanna see her taking on missions, excited because she knows they’re doing good but scared because she also knows statistically they’re going to get it wrong sometimes. I wanna see her on her first mission gone wrong, maybe with one of the others who this has happened to so many times that getting handcuffed and shoved in a trunk is just ‘one of those things that happens sometimes’. I wanna see her absolutely wreck shop and come to the rescue again because we know she is ride or die (or ride and die several times actually).

I want to think about her unique position of having still living family that are mourning her and she’s mourning them too because she can never see them again but she has already seen what holding onto grief can lead to with Bookers betrayal.

In conclusion

She 🥰

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