ashton

happy disability pride month! queer aroace pfp: orange palm-dart taken by me

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[lesbianpombon]

begging fellow nonblack people to take antiblackness seriously. this includes digital blackface. why are all your memes and reaction images depicting Black people showing any sort of emotion. why do you find it acceptable to use AAVE as a "joke". remove your head from your ass and ponder that for a moment.

[flannelettefish]

young teens online who are new to exploring their identities, hello i see you and i appreciate you being here, but guys the sooner you learn that identity is non-linear and that it is up to YOU is the sooner things get way less stressful.

i've seen people asking if its okay to use certain labels together, if their labels are valid based on how they feel, if theyre able to use certain tools because they suspect it could help them, etc.

guys

you do not need strangers permission to live your life. if there is a tool that you think would help you, use it. if there are labels that you want to use, use them.

you do not need to ask permission from everyone for everything, especially when that everything is your own identity. anyone who cares in a way beyond giving you simple respect is not worth your time.

stop off-loading the validity of your identity or use of tools to strangers who have no idea about you or your lived experiences!!!

[shotdeadpine]

my scary noelles guard this message with honor

[vampiricbisexuality]

i feel like every time someone tries to say “ofc this woman is a bad person shes ugly!” they shld die

[intermascfem]

Perisex people trying to be “affirming” to intersex people: Society may see you as some freak third thing but you are simply an AMAB/AFAB with a birth defect ❤️ get back in the binary we need to define you ❤️ see doesnt that feel better to be forced into a binary so you dont get seen as some freak ❤️ what are your genitals like btw

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[bish0ps]

Remember when you could look things up online. Do you remember how we used to search

[depsidase]

[snickersnmonte]

Some silly Monte gifs for your Friday 💕

[real-language-facts]

invented a new word today. its 'plagiarism'. im a genius i know

[vintagewildlife]

Elephants visiting the skeleton of another elephant By: Iain & Oria Douglas-Hamilton From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Elephants and Other Land Giants 1976

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

MY STUPID FUCKING CAT WONT STOP TRYING TO TOUCH THE BEEHIVE

[dogpuppy]

[hometownrockstar]

Hi! 👋😁 I'm nonbinary character from show 😏 I show up for 3 episodes in the entire season! everyone loves me for my confident attitude that has no depth behind it, and I get called they for 5 entire lines, and that's the extent of my identity being shown in the whole show! Isn't it cool how normalized being nonbinary is in this world, so much so that no characters ever have to be shown getting misgendered or questioning their gender, meaning everyone else gets to be assumed to be cis, except me, The Nonbinary One.

[lastoneout]

"I am not a vessel for your good intent" goes hard as a line from a disabled perspective. Abled people care so much more about being their idea of a good ally than they do actually being a good ally. They shove their good intent right down your throat and then act surprised when you tell them they're suffocating you.

[cock-holliday]

We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.

"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.

It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.

As lovelyshananigans says, "intersectionality, babes"