maridraco

[bathroomcube]

[dateamonster]

revealing your scaring the hoes type interests early on in a relationship is a good way to secure only hoes of bravery and fortitude that will craft horrible dreams and beautiful nightmares with you

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[shutyourmoustache]

This queen did NOT mince words. “It’s the racism, bitch.”

[asneakyfox]

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

[asneakyfox]

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

[bumblebeebats]

“Frances and I were considering attending a Lesbian/Feminist conference this summer, when we were notified that no boys over ten were allowed. This presented logistic as well as philosophical problems for us, and we sent the following letter: Sisters: Ten years as an interracial lesbian couple has taught us both the dangers of an oversimplified approach to the nature and solutions of any oppression, as well as the danger inherent in an incomplete vision. Our thirteen-year-old son represents as much hope for our future world as does our fifteen-year-old daughter, and we are not willing to abandon him to the killing streets of New York City while we journey west to help form a Lesbian-Feminist vision of the future world in which we can all survive and flourish.”

— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: “Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response." (This essay in particular was apparently first published in 19-fucking-79, which is how long this conversation's been going on.)

[fairuzfan]

Many friends, Aya among them, confirmed that Israeli artillery units deliberately play piano music after bombing raids. It’s not random. It’s psychological warfare. A calculated effort to stitch music; something that should mean safety, softness, life; into the memory of genocide. Imagine growing up where that universal language of tenderness, is forever fused with the sound of falling buildings and screaming kin. Where the soft notes of a piano don’t soothe, but haunt; because they came right after the explosion that took your neighbor, your brother, your leg. How do you hear a piano again without flinching? How do you separate melody from murder when both arrived in the same moment, dressed in smoke and debris?

It’s not just about killing bodies; it’s about colonizing memory, too.

[lgbt-tiktoks]

[morgue-xiiv]

this is peak trans culture because this would have been easier with very nearly any other guitar design but she just haaad to use one shaped like the letter e. Not afraid of a challenge. Respect.

[e-von-dahl]

I would like to add that their name is E, literally just the letter E, like they’re in a spy movie. As if that wasn’t cool enough already she went and got a guitar shaped like her name. Fucking icon.

[gyrovagi]

in case people weren't aware, BDS has called for a boycott of microsoft gaming products:

Cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription.

Boycott Candy Crush, Minecraft and Call of Duty – flagship videogame franchises owned by Microsoft.

Boycott all Microsoft Gaming products, including Xbox-branded consoles, headsets, accessories and all games published by Microsoft-owned publishing labels (such as Xbox Game Studios, Activision, Bethesda and Blizzard).

more info on the boycott and microsoft's collaboration with israel from bds' own website. microsoft is directly partnered with the israeli military, providing cloud services and ai technologies that actively contribute to the genocide of palestinians.

bethesda and blizzard are specifically named, but other companies under xbox game studios include mojang and obsidian entertainment - i'm highlighting obsidian here because (afaik) i haven't seen anyone bring them up specifically. i don't mean this in a condemnatory way, i'm an enjoyer of obsidian games myself, i just want to make sure people are aware.

For those who already own the games or the console, the organizers said, the ideal move would be to stop playing, but the primary ask from organizers is to help deprive Microsoft of revenue. Therefore, players can be compliant with the boycott by avoiding future purchases of games or consoles and by avoiding transactions inside the games.

a cultural boycott has not been called for, but there's no avoiding the fact that fandom is effectively free word-of-mouth advertising. i am not here to tell you what to do or act as your moral arbiter, all i can do is give you information and ask you to be conscientious. please refrain from making any new purchases or from encouraging other people to buy games/products that provide revenue to microsoft - consider donating to a gazan mutual aid fund, such as a campaign run by the sameer project instead

[holmesandtheroman]

NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

[a-book-of-creatures]

If it sucks, it is 100% authentic homegrown suck.

[semperintrepida]

This is the worst timeline. (x)

[pftones3482]

If you do this with my fics, or anyone's fics, please know I HATE you. I hate you more than every troll comment, every "your writing sucks kys" comment, every "update soon" comment. I hate you. Other authors hate you. If you want my fic, you either WAIT for it or you pay me for it. And if you won't do one of those things, you don't deserve my fic or anyone else's.

[badassbutterfly1987]

(ID: A post on r/Fanfiction with the title A Reader Has Been Putting All My Writing into ChatGPT… "Got an ask on tumblr about my longfic (~300k words) expressing how much they love it. How they've been following it since the beginning (July 2023) and every chapter inputting it into Chat GPT to WRITE A NEW CHAPTER while they wait. Telling me how my whole fic is stored in its memory, too. It hurt my chest. Honestly flabbergasted that anyone thought this was flattering, and it hurts because I can tell how much they love my story and how excited they are and I adore how long they've been following and invested in my story, but the AI feels so insulting and violating. btw… I've legit updated the fic every two weeks for the past almost 2 years. 5-25k words every two weeks. Yeah." End ID.)

[theweirdwideweb]

[theweirdwideweb]

[himynameisemail]

[tamamita]

I don't trust Israel when it comes to anything, after all, who could forget when the president held up Hamas' secret plans with AL-QAEDA written on it and the DAESH/ISIS flag above it. An absolute all-timer

[tamamita]

And they keep accusing Palestinians of "acting" or "Pallywood" when the amount of Hasbara money can't cover these shitty performances

[the-lexiverse]

Texas’ HB 3399 bill will kill people if it passes. It will make hormone therapy illegal. For all ages. Period. This was never about women’s sports. It was never about bathrooms. It was never about “protecting the children”. They want us dead. If you’re a fellow trans person and you live in Texas, I strongly urge you to be ready to move somewhere safer.

[wyf-of-bathe]

Not just hormone therapy, but also

surgeries that sterilize individuals, administering certain prescription drugs that induce infertility, or removing healthy body parts

This potentially includes

They really, really do want trans people - or anyone who potentially could be trans - dead.

(Tumblr won't let me link the source, but the bill is on Texas Legislature Online .gov)

[wyf-of-bathe]

I forgot to add this: you can use Resistbot to find and write to your state or federal officials, so this is a great tool if you don't know how to go about doing that. If you're a Texas resident, a quick message to your state reps asking them to vote against HB 3399 would be very helpful right now.

Resistbot

Text RESIST to 50409 to contact your federal, state, or local elected officials; create movements; and more. Over 30,000,000 letters deliver

Remember to be polite, even if you don't like your official. I usually leave a nice note thanking their staff, too.

[prof-grace-aspen]

They also clearly want any person who can bear a child, to bear a child. This is staunchly anti-birth-control. It's horrifying.

[dabwax-deactivated20250410]

Texas is still one of the only places in the United States that offers comprehensive care to intersex individuals via Kind clinics. Many intersex people rely on hormone therapy for essential body function. My joints and mental health fall apart when I'm not on the right hormone, and this list would ban me from my hormones even though I'm not trans.

Please always remember us. Please understand that there's definitely loopholes to continue masectomies on teenage boys. There's definitely loopholes to continue trimming the clitorises of infants. There's definitely loopholes to continue mutilating us while denying anyone consensual procedures that aren't mutilation. Please always remember us. Please include us.

[haierld]

???

[segamascott]

finally misogyny for men 😻

[byjove]

criminalize youth sports and college athletics. make them illegal. it is so extremely fucked up for a kid to do permanent damage to their body at the ripe old age of 15 in hopes of getting a college scholarship where they will be an unpaid revenue source for the college and continue to fuck up their bodies. I truly do not understand why trans kids freak everyone out but kids getting permanent brain damage and lifelong injuries playing hockey or whatever is good clean fun. I am serious. I am not joking. especially with the consequences of repeated brain injuries in sports like football being widely known now.

[byjove]

“it’s fucked up for a trans kid to get top surgery and go on hormones blockers but if the kid decided to break their neck, sustain a major head injury and fuck up their leg permanently while playing varsity sports, we’d love to watch and we’d continue to encourage them to do it”

[byjove]

“it’s evil to let trans girls play in youth sports because they might hurt their competitors. which is definitely something only trans children are capable of doing to cis children and not a goddamn fucking inevitability that happens in practically every game.”

[gothcostco]

look at this video of a mouse eating soup and bread and butter

[flanneldragon]

peace and FUCKING love on planet earth