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So I’m following a bunch of new people that I hope to RP with with my Sherlock side blog, just wanted to point out that side blogs can’t follow back, at least that’s how it used to be, idk if it still works like that.

side blog of BalderRask

ruinedchildhood

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

strangetikigod

ruinedchildhood

THE GRINCH WAS REALLY OUT HERE WITH HIS GRUSSY OUT

werewolfadaine

i keep noticing that conversations around jkr’s transphobia almost always center trans women, and it’s like we collectively forgot that she aimed her first major public attack at trans men and other afab trans people. the essay she circulated was fixated on the idea that trans men transition to “avoid womanhood,” especially autistic trans men, framing us as confused, impressionable, or socially pressured.

and the thing that really gets to me is how quickly people gloss over that part. that erasure is exactly what makes trans men feel like the canaries in the coal mine here: we were the first group she tested that rhetoric on, and the fact that it barely registers in the larger conversation just proves how easy it is to overlook us.

yes, she’s violently transphobic toward trans women, and that absolutely deserves attention. but it’s strange watching everyone act like it started there. it isn’t a competition, but the sequence matters because it shows a pattern.

this is also part of why i usually avoid fandom spaces. there’s a tendency to flatten everything into one neat discourse point and miss the underlying context. i was double-checking a character’s pronouns and ended up in a thread claiming that the d20 campaign i was watching (that was HEAVILY based on harry potter) doesn’t have any trans women “despite jkr’s transphobia mostly targeting trans women,” and it just made something click for me again. trans men are the canaries. the fact that people still forget that is kind of the whole point.

native-orchid

The discussion also ignores how, before she became openly transphobic, she wrote a book in which she mocked intersex people with "a great, hairy hermaphrodite."

Weird how no one wants to talk about intersexophobia is so closely tied to transphobia, nor how the lies about "children being forced into transgender surgeries" is a way to make people angry about transgender folks, all while attempting to make Intersex Genital Mutilation into law.

Wanna stamp out transphobia? Start listening to intersex people. We don’t have the same lived experience, but hell, society has been erasing us medically, legally, and socially for a LOT longer.

Signed, an intersex and transgender man who is sick of having to correct intersexophobia in trans spaces, and of seeing fetishization of our bodies.

c3rvida3

"I hate when the skeletons on decorations aren't anatomically accurate." A Halloween skeleton isn't the same as what's inside you, idiot. It's different. A Halloween skeleton is, like. A guy or something. It's an animal.

c3rvida3

If Halloween skeletons had bones like ours instead of hollow bones like that of a bird, they wouldn't be able to play their ribcages like xylophones. You sound so fucking uneducated right now.

transgender-mp3

gunsandfireandshit

Remember that "three items from the store to make the cashier most uncomfortable" meme? Apparently I accidentally found a winning combo tonight at the corner store, one of the usual clerks shot me a really weird look when I was checking out with these

gunsandfireandshit

killwizard

Jimmy Budgett

thehotgirlproject

Wasted away again in Meageritaville

quixoticanarchy

some people’s new years resolution needs to be to stop going out in public while horribly sick with infectious diseases

quixoticanarchy

i see this post is going around again.. sort of like a bunch of infectious diseases i could name

horreurscopes

cannot emphasize enough how much it is feminist praxis to train yourself out of getting out of the way of men walking towards you on the street if there's no visible reason where it would be polite for you to be the one who has to move (seniors, guys carrying stuff, crutches, etc). most of the time they're just looking down at their phone expecting the world to open up before them like the red fucking sea. extremely satisfying to stare right at them going for a head on collision and watching them move out of the way at the very last moment. plus you get to shouldercheck a bunch of assholes. sorry i just realized this is an extremely new york city post. i'm walkin here

water-weaving

The idea that children love fairy tales because fairy tales treat them seriously and do not shy away from the violence and danger the world has in store strikes me as very correct, but the fact it is generally expressed as "it is dangerous to go alone in the woods because there are wolves there"... gives me pause.

To begin with, this is just one fairy tale narrative (little red riding hood), which is thus elevated to the rank of "quintessential fairy tale" (debatable at best); secondly, this is a (deliberate?) misrepresentation of the tale's *actual* danger, which is the wolf specifically *as it lowers the child's defenses by impersonating her grandma after eating her*. It's not about the child being attacked by a wild wolf in the forest, it's about the horror of using familiar and comforting surroundings within the family sphere as a decoy (the plan is quite an elaborate one, too). And finally, this ties into my main remark, which is that in many fairy tales (a majority? I don't know), the danger children (or more generally fairy tale protagonists) face is less related to a foreign monster than the family itself: snow white, obviously, but also hansel and gretel - abandoned in the forest by their parents, twice!; rumpelstiltskin: the heroine was sold to the king by her lying, greedy father, and risks being executed by her master for most of the tale; donkey skin (self-explanatory); bluebeard (similar forced marriage situation); cinderella (and all the cruel step-mother stories in general...) - also self-explanatory...

Fairy tales tend to admit freely that families and parents can be actively harmful to children, whose perspectives the narrative centers; which is a (well-known) fact that makes everyone uncomfortable Always. So I think it's disingenuous at best and dangerous at worst to act as though the violence comes from the wolves outside and not the family inside.

elf-kid2

Gothel kept Rapunzel isolated from any people, any social contact, other than herself.

In the original version, by the time Gothel finds out that the Prince has been visiting Rapunzel in her tower, Rapunzel is already pregnant with twins.

Fostering isolation and ignorance as a form of control/"protection" is shown as something that 1) is harmful, and 2) won't work.

saveaboudfamily

An airstrike hit the gate of the American Hospital where my mother is — dozens of Palestinians were killed.

saveaboudfamily

Less than an hour ago, I was standing in that exact place. I survived by a miracle. I can’t even describe the scene inside the hospital right now.

saveaboudfamily

I might not be able to go out tomorrow to get my mother’s oxygen tank, and the cost will double.

Please, the situation is catastrophic. Donate and speak about us urgently.

Chuffed – PayPal – Verified

aboodgaza0

30 airstrikes just hit around us. The ground is shaking, the noise is unbearable. This might be the hardest night of the war.

neon-draws-sometimes

please share and donate if you can! His mother needs your help!

saveaboudfamily

I can’t sleep. The bombing hasn’t stopped, and my mother is still inside the hospital. Every sound feels like it could be our last.

tpwrtrmnky

Aboud needs donations to survive! Please help out!

tacticianofylisse

so im trying to decipher this chart on wikipedia that has common vampire weaknesses in it and

a ‘green/yes’ is a weakness, a ‘red/no’ is something that isnt a weakness, and a ‘?’ is something that has never been addressed but fucking riddle me this

in what lore are vampires weak to getting soggy in milk

tacticianofylisse

i scrolled over to check to see what this could possibly be and

places a hand on me cheek

glitter6ug-deactivated20190325

happy halloween month time for my favourite post of all time

wizened-beanie-baby-moved

"everybody hates me" factoid actually just a statistical error. The average person doesn't hate you, especially not your friends. You, a person who sits in your room experiencing self loathing every day, are an outlier adn should not have been counted.

fluffylandshark

coelii

This is sweet but I really thought it was going to end with someone named “Haters Horge” who spends every second in a cave halfway across the world just loathing you for no reason and they were the statistical outlier

vacuously-true

Don't be your own Haters Horge

kooldewd123

pokemon has given us a lot of fun takes on mundane life in the pokemon world over the years but "work-from-home pokemon trainer" has gotta be up there as one of my absolute favorites. sorry can you come in to the office today deborah from finance says she's supposed to battle you. yeah she says it's important.

hikumirin

chasing-caws

I believe this whole heartedly with my full chest

chasing-caws

Thanks for the info prev!! Still a little funny to think about tbh lol

july-19th-club

legally-allowed-to-slime

i was gonna say “wow, they’re really pushing the came back wrong trope because buffy keeps repeating the exact phrase” until i googled and realise the phrase “came back wrong” literally originates from buffy. this show is like the modern shakespeare

aphony-cree

in 2004 a thread started on buffistas.org to discuss tropes used in Buffy and other Whedonverse shows. At the time there were no formal names for most tropes so users assigned them names based on the scenes they were discussing. This thread inspired one of the site members to start the website TVTropes.org

Most of the listings on TVtropes were named after scenes and quotes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer