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[boyingray]

o captain, my captain!

about

hi, i'm gray. i've had a few different urls over the years but this is the one i've had for most of them. i'm transmasc, i use he/they/xe pronouns, i got top surgery in 2023, and i'm a massive fucking nerd!! i like learning about pretty much anything because there's a lot of interesting shit out there.

i post a lot of politics. i generally say i'm a socialist or communist, to explain that my beliefs are generally fairly out there with regard to human rights and my hatred of capitalism, though i don't subscribe to any particular school of thought. respect to ppl who do though.

i'm interested in computers (no programming knowledge, i mostly just like hardware and linux stuff), video games (old school survival horror, rpgs, whatever!), fantasy books, kpop, and metal music (specifically a lot of japanese metal and hard rock). i was also what one could call a giant fucking weeb (or an otaku before weeb was a positive term in anime circles) for several years. now i mostly flip flop between certain shows (so much sao) because i tend to cling to the familiar, but i'll watch new stuff every now and then.

this blog has a little bit of everything i like. it is a hodge podge of various things bc i can't really keep up with multiple blogs. you'll occasionally see me reblog sims cc under the cc finds tag, and reblog kpop posts with group and member names. there's also a lot of shitposts and the occasional vent post.

i'm completely normal about naoto shirogane. just so you know you're getting into here.

i have a lovely boyfriend named jack that i've known for more than half my life, and been in a relationship with for almost as long. he's someone i care about very deeply, who's formed a lot of who i am right now.

i have a tags page so you can see more of what i post and an about page that is now three years out of date jesus christ i need to update that.

[kuvaton]

[acepalindrome]

I checked to make sure it wasn’t AI, and I’m happy to say it’s a real bench in Zaporizhia, Ukraine!

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: photo of a park bench shaped like a book. The top is the spine of the book and it curves like the cover and several pages are bent. / end ID]

[sicheslavchyk]

And they are right in front of the central library

Man i love Zaporizhzhia

[ukraine-mentioned]

[kuvaton]

[acepalindrome]

I checked to make sure it wasn’t AI, and I’m happy to say it’s a real bench in Zaporizhia, Ukraine!

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: photo of a park bench shaped like a book. The top is the spine of the book and it curves like the cover and several pages are bent. / end ID]

[sicheslavchyk]

And they are right in front of the central library

Man i love Zaporizhzhia

[ukraine-mentioned]

[wizardshark]

hey can you guys keep an eye on my red explosive barrels while i go take a nap

do NOT smoke weed beside them

[blappature-executive]

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[ieatratsyummy]

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

[vnapologeticapathy]

it sickens me that there are so many men that simply never engage with anything made by women and they don't question it and they aren't questioned about it. they don't listen to music by women or read books written by women or watch movies written and directed by women or stop to look at paintings by women at museums and they're just allowed to go thru life never considering women as artists with no challenge or criticism whatsoever. meanwhile as a woman it's impossible to escape the male artistic point of view

[petzah394again]

Oh my fucking god r/deltarune literally banned referring to ralsei with she/her because of "drama"

Fucking transphobic shitheads

[petzah394again]

The craziest part is people accusing galsei believers of "forcing the theory on people" when the subreddit mods are literally forcing a cisgender interpretation of the character on the entire subreddit. This is fucking beyond parody, literally just going "only we can do this"

Yet another fandom proves itself to not actually be safe for trans people

[thanatos-girl]

Yes I absolutely would actually?

[thanatos-girl]

The entire debacle with Imane Khelif is like the perfect illustration of how someone exempts themselves from misdirected transmisogyny by invoking and conforming to bioessentialist standards of womanhood; something a trans woman would not be able to do, as evidenced by the fact that no trans woman was allowed to compete in the event at all

[lady-viccy]

how many people came to defend imane on the basis of "she's not a tranny"?

how many people would come to defend a trans womans right to keep her gold medal?

get the fuck out of here

[gremlingirlsmell]

sorry to put you on blast, but

it is only technically true, that trans women were allowed to compete. they changed the rules specifically for the 2024 olympics in such a way to effectively ban 99.9% of trans women specifically from participating:

(effectively as in: transitioning is so gatekept that there's almost no country on earth where you are even allowed to transition this early, it is extremely gatekept even in the most "trans positive" legislations around the world, and also many just realize later in life, so this effectively bans most if not almost all trans women)

[airmetsierra]

The previous addition was correct at the time, but is already outdated. Trans women are now just completely banned from women's sports in the Olympics.

International Olympic Committee announces new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced a new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport and

[ismenes]

you know those studies showing that cursing helps with pain tolerance or whatever. that’s how i feel about making my weird little noises to get through my basic daily activities. sometimes you just have to go hggblaaaah for a minute so you can find the strength within yourself to get up or wash the dishes or send an email. mmmnneh. urgh. the torments are unending but you can always make some little sounds about it.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydx34kzlvo

[runcibility]

"Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence last September, her lawyer Michael Hill told the court."

three. liters.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

i support women's wrongs

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

[spltlvlhous]

[houndmother]

if you are a tme queer person holding an event, especially a dyke/sapphic one, you need to go out of your way to make sure that the trans women in your community know they are welcome. most of the girls i know assume we’re not.

[jingerpi]

and we're not crazy for assuming that!!! most places aren't accepting of us, so even if you are, we wont know that until you prove it.

and if you wanna be an ally you've gotta extend this to every marginalization. make sure disabled people feel welcomed. make sure Black people feel welcomed, and so on and so on !!

[radgepaquet]

obsessed with this interaction where someone has apparently been living with the sincere belief that misha collins threw the shoe at bush

[tlirsgender]

My most diagnosable take is that honestly. As much as people in social justicey spaces talk about exercising your empathy ... there's also value in being able to turn it off so you're not extremely susceptible to emotional manipulation. Sometimes you have to be able to recognize "oh, this is bullshit propaganda trying to tug at my heartstrings" and stop giving a fuck about like. Colonizer feelings or whatever. Vibes can't override your principles

[tlirsgender]

Like idk being niceys is a good start but your politics can't begin and end with 🌈 kindness 🌈 or you're gonna get taken advantage of. The worst people on earth will be like "but what if........ I have a sob story about it 🥺" & you Need to be able to tell them to Fuck Completely Off

[tlirsgender]

There's a certain strain of ... Everyone Is Valid 🌸 style pseudo leftism that ime invariably caters to whoever throws the biggest tantrum. And this is a Problem interpersonally & it's especially bad if you let these people dictate your opinions. Not everyone is valid some of you are racist

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[helenvaughans]

from what i've observed, i do think there is some pressure for women in not explicitly feminist leftist circles to affect a kind of "cool girl" posture for the benefit of the men in the movement

[helenvaughans]

same as it ever was!!!

[helenvaughans]

someone mentioned neil gaiman in one of the replies to this and i think this is a good opportunity to remind people that there are certain kinds of predatory men (like neil gaiman) who insinuate themselves into progressive spaces by learning the “appropriate” language and social codes primarily in order to put themselves in proximity to women and other vulnerable people who view them as “safe.” i think misogyny/sexism/rape apologia in leftist spaces is much larger of an issue than just this (as there are men in those spaces who are not actively malicious but who have unexamined patriarchal outlooks that bleed into their beliefs and behavior) but i do think it’s important to point this out and to remind people to be on their guard.

[penig]

Long ago, in the 80s, when everyone not watching The Cosby Show on Thursday nights was recording it and watching Magnum, P.I., they aired an episode in which the oldest girl was seeing two guys, one ordinary guy and one who went out of his way to express feminist sentiments. She was favoring the ordinary guy and Cliff was pulling for the guy with the feminist sentiments, as he was very ambitious for his oldest daughter, until Clair pulled him aside to tell him to back off and stop meddling in his daughter's life: "Did you ever stop to think that he might be a bushwhacker?" She defined a bushwhacker as someone who said all the proper feminist things until he nailed you down and then pulled the rug out from under you and started demanding his dinner and ten children.

The point was that a guy who screwed up but had honest conversations and was willing to work with you on making things work for both of you was likely to be more trustworthy than someone who talked too good a game because he'd studied up in order to manipulate; and that they needed to trust their daughter's judgement and let her live her own life, standing ready to help her if she did make a mistake in choosing a relationship.

When Cosby's crimes came to light, I couldn't help wondering whether someone in the writer's room was trying to slip a warning past the network and all the forces in the industry conniving to cover things up.

[txttletale]

every time i watch some piece of media about how abused children need to put in the work to understand their poor put upon parents i think about the scene in the asoue netflix show where klaus is told his shitty boss had a terrible childhood and says "i'm having a very terrible childhood right now". like damn gottem pack it up we can stop doing this narrative in film and literature now