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Xuebing Du
oozey mess
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Love Begins
KIROKAZE
dirt enthusiast
RMH
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
Product Placement
Not today Justin
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Kaledo Art
Game of Thrones Daily
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
Misplaced Lens Cap
if i look back, i am lost
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i don’t really care about pride month until everyone is more transfeminist
gameoverse seems fun enough. but the cynical feminist in me can't help herself. all the male characters are like, cartoon blobs, which is contrasted strongly by the two major female characters in this pilot, both of whom are hour-glass shaped humanoid women who spend most of their screentime in swimsuits. and like that's not an outright dealbreaker but i *am* staring into the camera with my eyebrows raised.
idk i'm getting really tired of this "connecticut clark and malfina" type shit where male characters get to be Silly Abstract Little Guys but women have to be women shaped. it's this male-as-default thing that i hate where you don't need to add anything to a character design to imply male-ness but the woman better have wide hips and booba or else yknow like idk it's not outright Offensive but it is tiring
how it feels seeing a woman depicted in any media
heres the thing. i enjoy well done heavy subject matter, you can look at my track record of interests as evidence for that, but i do think writers who wont shut up about how complicated and controversial they are for including ~dark themes~ in their writing need to a christmas carol style be forced to sit down and watch all 4 seasons of 13 reasons why to see what happens if you try to incorporate a bunch of heavy stuff in your work with 0 research or regard for people affected
slight clarification: people in the tags are saying "yea there needs to be levity between heavy moments for a story to be effective", which is also very true! but not what this post is about. this post is about how if you write about abuse and murder and oppression but you dont actually know what youre talking about or have a purpose for including it beside shock value and proving how mature you are your work will read like it was written by a twelve year old
btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here
Peace and love
girl dinner. fattest fucking plate of pasta you've ever seen in your life
but whatever i don't feel strongly about amatonormativity at all .
i think it's bad that people of any age feel pressure to find a romantic partner. i think giggly "who's your crush" questions at age 9 are weird. i think young people getting into bad relationships because "it's what everyone does" is shit. i think that marriage should not be emphasised as the pinnacle of a relationship and frankly i think that marriage should not be expected at all from romantic relationships. i think that there needs to be more embracing of qprs and friendships and simply not getting a romantic partner. i think it's weird that half the time when you do something nice for someone people wonder if you're flirting. i think that people can and do care deeply about each other without needing to subscribe to the mainstream ideas of love. i think that there should be less of an emphasis on "love" in general. i think the idea of what is "romantic" versus "platonic" is different for everyone and therefore doesn't really have a use except to evoke vague ideas about social customs
ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE
when you’re disabled the little things you manage to do feel like really big things. and if no one sees it and tells you this, then i will: i am proud of the things you have accomplished, no matter how small they might seem to other people, and you should be proud of yourself too
This is how you all sound to me when you call it Yumeshipping instead of Selfshipping
my reading addon is waiting approval for firefox and chrome im so nervous. please approve my addon i think it could help at least one other person as much as it's helped me...
day 2 of no addon approval. come on all it does is style <p> elements... the humble styler...
ITS APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it's an accessibility tool i made for myself because i needed it, which basically lets you focus on one sentence at a time as you read large blocks of texts (books, articles, etc.). it offers different highlight styles, some of which use gradients to help guide your eyes from the start of the sentence until the end. you can move forward and back pressing the buttons or using ALT + left and right arrow keys if you use it and you find it helpful please tell me about it so i can have the motivation to keep improving it. i love knowing people use my tools
https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/sentence-stepper/
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sentence-stepper/cfiappnihemjkaaepefjfofagcobikek
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The first gif shows the tool cycling down the paragraphs, from sentence to sentence, in a thick yellow highlight.
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I’m a college student struggling with brain fog due to medical issues, I’m definitely going to try this out next time I’m working on one of my reading heavy courses :) a lot of my books are accessible via some website cloud thing on a browser because owning things isn’t real anymore. this looks like something that will really really help me.
"hi im Professional Game Designer and here's the new enemy for our game. it attacks you and then becomes invincible and runs away from you. it'll be a real challenge to chase down this enemy which players will surely enjoy"
What is your opinion on throbbing gristle?
I am a trans industrial musician, I would not exist without them. Hamburger Lady freaked me out as a kid, and I wanted to make something as fucked-up as that, or something has heavy as Discipline. I own a lot of their records on vinyl. Without them I'd have no blueprint to do what I do.
My reaction to the inevitable comments. Genesis treated cosey (another idol of mine as a former SWer) like shit. I find cults weird and gross. Genesis was human. Humans can do shitty things, and still be absolutely trailblazers and inspirational in other ways. You can hold both opinions at once.
I think with transfemmes, it is even more important. I don't think Genesis being nasty to Cosey is enough to eradicate their contribution to music, especially to transfemmes. It is a known aspect of transmisogyny that trans women (and NB femmes like genesis) are punished far more severely for wrongdoing than cis men and women (and yes, transmascs) for identical behaviour. If we were to persona non gratae Genesis after their death for, say, dropping bricks on Cosey or the weird cult stuff - then we should be absolutely consistent. This likely mean we'd have very little art, philosophy, music and historical figures left as 'unproblematic'.
Finally, one of the worst parts of having an audience as a trans woman is the demand that I be perfect. I must pass. I must be attractive. I must be morally perfect. I must never have a meltdown. I must never have a crash out that might hurt somebody. Obviously these pressures to be perfect in front of the transmisogynistic panopticon stack up. It is why trans women who don't come from money, who mostly are highly traumatised and neurodivegent crash out, quit and un-quit and re-quit their bands, get into pointless fights, say problematic shit and take it back seconds later... the entire impossible expectation of perfection in front of an audience that WILL read you in the most paranoid fashion possible is frankly traumatic. The 70s-00s when Genesis was active would of been even worse. Of course, I am expected to clarify "this does not excuse awful behaviour". Y'know what, sometimes it does. Yes, transmisogyny can make you so fucking insane, paranoid and dysregulated it can lead to violent acting out. I think while this behaviour is wrong, it can be sometimes excused. I'd say the same for disabled people and especially black folk too. Minority stress can be equivalent to psychosis. Does this apply to Genesis? i don't know. Only they did. Its an ambiguity autistic and black-and-white minds like mine don't tolerate well. What is sad is before Genesis died, she didn't admit or do any accountability for how she treated Cosey. This sucks. But, if she did, would it of improved her life while battling cancer? Likely not, instead the negative press would of been used as ammo for the then-nascent anti-trans culture war in the UK. There is very little incentive for us to improve, we're going to be called groomer demons anyway.
We need to make spaces for transfemmes to be given second chances. We're going to act out. We can't pretend that sheer willpower and ethical consistency will be enough. We're going to crash out, hurt people and believe stupid shit. We should not tolerate or ignore the behaviour, but create safe spaces where somebody can go "yeah, I was an abusive piece of shit" without threat of social murder and community help actually improving behaviour. Obviously, some will exploit this. But the demand for perfection - or even to act as sane as a cis person - is far more exploitative. Those who can fake being perfect can get away with all kinds of terrible abuse. So yeah, Genesis P-Orridge was a hero of mine, so is Cosey - who survived some unambiguously abusive behaviour from Genesis (I believe Cosey's account). I wish there was a world where Genesis had felt safe enough going "Yeah, I was awful, I'll do better" without threat of social murder. I understand why she didn't. I also understand Cosey's anger, vulnerability and disappointment. Because I have done shit too, and been the victim of shit happening to me. I've crashed out at friends and partners and said awful shit, kicked holes in walls, made awful threats. I've been at the receiving end of all this and far worse. Please don't expect perfection from me. Nor any other doll. I lack the sanity to be a role model. Even if my heart is in the right place, my actions may follow my amygdala, my trauma rather than my genuine ethical beliefs. The same applies to you. Expect humanity, and give compassion. Demand accountability, but don't expect accountability without a safe space and culture to do it. Believe survivors, but also believe in the capacity for the cycle of abuse to end. Above all, believe the terrible systems behind individual acts of awful can be changed. Obviously some people are irredeemably awful and hide behind the above rhetoric to avoid accountability. I know some who have a LOT of accountability to do to ever be welcomed back in their local queer communities (not talking about cishets, different story - especially cis men). But notedly among queers, this is often rare. Usually it's just an endless of loop of hurt people hurting people. -- Imperfection is the condition for the possibility of existence.
If you demand that somebody be perfect, you risk killing them.
We rly need to bring back the term “acquaintance” like into regular and frequent use. So many high drama community squabbles and feelings of betrayal could be avoided if people just admitted there’s a step between “stranger” and a full on friend whose friendship you have a commitment to continuing and fostering. Like sometimes you’re just aquatinted with someone and you might decide you don’t like them after getting to know them a bit better…that’s very normal
There’s a spider in your computer. Her name is Astrid. She heard the World Wide Web needed a World Wide Spider, but she needs some help getting to each place. Can you reblog her to help her get everywhere?
