Copper-Colored Batwings

Call me M. Demi-Panromantic Ace. Genderfluid. They/Them Pronouns. Born 1987. I love Television, Acting, Writing, and Road Trips. Also Fireworks, Bats, Kpop/drama, Harry Potter.

[genderqueerpositivity]

(Image description: 10 images with a white background and floral borders in the colors of the asexual pride flag along the top and bottom, every image has a paragraph of text in the center and the words "Ace Week" below.

1) "October 25th - 31st, 2020 is the 10th annual Asexual Awareness Week, also called Ace Week"

2) "Asexuality is a sexual orientation where a person experiences little or no sexual attraction. An asexual person may experience no sexual attraction, rarely experience sexual attraction, or only experience sexual attraction under certain circumstances."

3) "Asexuality is a spectrum and every asexual spectrum person is different. Some asexual spectrum people may identify as gray asexual or graysexual. A gray asexual person is someone who identifies with asexuality but may also experience sexual attraction very rarely."

4) "Demisexuality is another sexual orientation and asexual spectrum identity. A demisexual person is someone who will only experience sexual attraction to a person after a close emotional bond has been formed."

5) "Some asexual spectrum people also identify as aceflux. An aceflux person is someone whose asexual identity feels more fluid over time. Some aceflux people "flux" between asexual spectrum identities, while others feel asexual at certain points during their lives and and allosexual at other times."

6) "Acevague is an asexual spectrum identity where a neurodivergent person experiences their asexuality as influenced by their neurology. An acevague person may have difficulty determining whether or not they experience sexual attraction due to their neurodivergence."

7) "Many other terms have been created within the asexual community to describe asexual experiences. There are as many ways to be asexual as there are asexual people. Respect asexual people, our lived experiences, and our right to define our own identities."

8) "While some asexual people are also aromantic, many asexual people do experience forms of attraction other than sexual attraction--for example, romantic, platonic, or alterous attraction. Asexual people can also identify with other labels, such as panromantic, bi, or lesbian."

9) "Asexuality is not a choice and asexuality is not celibacy. Asexual people can have relationships, be polyamorous, get married, have sex, and be parents. And some asexual people don't want relationships, are sex-replused, are childfree, and never want to marry. All asexual people are valid."

10) "Support asexual people and respect the asexual community. Amplify the voices of marginalized people within the asexual community. Listen to asexual people of color, disabled asexual people, and transgender asexual people. Asexual communities matter. Asexual visibility matters.")

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[dancinbutterfly]

Like to charge, fucking reblog to cast

[wdwmanda]

Please, please, PLEASE!!!

[luvervinyl]

Okay guys I’m just gonna say this, if you get mentioned in any of these Ray Ban charity event posts. DO NOT CLICK ON IT. It is a phishing website. DO not click on it unless you have the correct add blockers and safety precautions. I’ve gotten mentioned in at least 20 of these at this point, and a lot of them are from people I follow. That is because they have been hacked. They clicked on this link and their account was hacked. Please don’t click on this. I’m just bringing some more awareness to this.

[hopinglimelight]

This NEEDS more reblogs than likes (at the moment it does)

REBLOGING THIS WILL SPREAD IT FASTER THAN IF YOU JUST LIKE IT, WHICH MEANS MORE PEOPLES BECOME AWARE.

Thank you and have a good day, DON’T CLICK THE LINKS!!

~Hope

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[woundability]

this tweet really threw me, somehow

[adamsmasher]

i expected this to be a conspiracy theory at worst and a misunderstanding at best, but NOPE THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN BALTIMORE IN 2018

[charmedatlaw]

IF YOU ARE UNMARRIED, DON'T HAVE KIDS, AND HATE YOUR PARENTS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HAVE A FUCKING WILL

this has been a public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood probate lawyer

[charmedatlaw]

Again:

1. The law doesn't care how long your parents and family have been out of your life

2. The law doesn't care about your long term friends or "found family"

If you don't have legal documents that say otherwise, your biological family calls all the shots.

This goes especially for LGBTQ+. Please do not get deadnamed in your obituary.

[the-final-sif]

How to make a will.

How to make a living will (Advance Healthcare Directive) so you don’t get fucked over by biological family if you end up in a situation where you cannot make your own healthcare choices.

[pyroinfusedtiger]

If youre trans, this video is a good ref to start with and she provides links and organizations that can help

[dykeogenes]

haven’t really seen anyone mentioning this on my dash but mi'kmaw fishermen in nova scotia are being intimidated and attacked for exercising their right to fish. mi'kmaw chiefs have declared a state of emergency & the RCMP are on site. a lot of the news coverage has been pretty skewed or outright absent. there’s been requests for provincial and federal government support for the fishers, who are exercising rights that are historically and legally theirs.

particularly to my Canadian followers, please make sure you stay informed from reliable sources & call your MPs to express your support. if anyone has any links to more information, fundraisers, or petitions please add them below!

[tepkunset]

Here’s a doc with ways to support Sipekne’katik First Nation, and resources to educate yourself and share with others.

Also not included in the doc, here is the official statement from the Maw-lukutijik Saqmaq (Chiefs Working Together).

[silkirose]

:/

[silkirose]

:0

[silkirose]

:)

[silkirose]

A little update <3

I still read all of your lovely replies! I have not given up on art my friends! I have even started my own webcomic on webtoon! It’s called Seth In Space and it would mean a lot to me if you would support me there! Love you all and happy halloween!!

[silkirose]

I’m so happy to tell you all that I’ve made great progress with my mental health!! To genuinely be able to say that I feel happy is so liberating and free! I know a lot of you are still in that dark place. I’m here to say that it does get better. Much better! I still have some tough days but progress is progress! Be kind and gentle to yourselves. I love you all and thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the years!

Here’s links to my commissions and projects! Commissions Animal Crossing Commissions Animal Crossing Tarot Cards Tarot Readings Seth In Space

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

[elidyce]

I look forward to this post every year, I’m so glad OP is in a better place emotionally, and like Jack said, even though we don’t know each other, I’m always rooting for her.

[thanos-the-dad-titan]

💀🖤🧡🎃🧡🖤💀

[fairytale-villain]

A good thread on whether “queer” is a slur and if it should be used or not.

[quarterinthequeerjar]

“If I am unashamed of being queer, you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur.”

[dani-kin]

you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur

[brinconvenient]

EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT BEFORE YOU HAS TAKEN THE ROCKS AND BOTTLES AND MADE THEM INTO SHIELDS AND WINDCHIMES

Holy motherfucking shit. Don’t fucking come at me about Queer is a slur. I FUCKING KNOW IT IS. It was hurled at me like a fucking spear all through my youth. I know it’s a god damn slur. And it’s mine. You don’t get to take it away from me because you can’t take also away the scars it gave me while I was standing in front of my younger queer siblings in this community. 

[jenroses]

always, always reblog this one.

[kyraneko]

If my enemy swings a sword at me and I take that sword away from them, it’s my sword now. And the person telling me I can’t use it because it belongs to my enemy and I have to give it back to them sounds quite a bit like an enemy themselves.

[excalibelle]

^^ god that analogy

[serakosumosu]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

Yesssssssssss.

[dkgwrites]

This came around again, but it’s worth sharing and remembering.  You have the right to only accept certain words be used to describe you, but so does everyone else.

[aqueerkettleofish]

I have this bookmarked to through at people who DM me about using the word Queer.

[nostalgicgifs]

[thefrozennhorizon-deactivated20]

Icon ❤️

[an-american-whore]

Wanna remind y'all that Bea Arthur actually opened a homeless shelter for LGBT+ youth in NYC

[fffinnagain]

Wow this moment.

When my father came out to me as gay, I was eight, but I understood, roughly, because I had seen THIS ONE EPISODE of The Golden Girls. 

I think I actually said “Oh, like on the Golden Girls.”  Which was not what he was expecting. But this show made it super simple for me to understand that:

Being gay was intrinsic

People were discriminated against for being gay

People shouldn’t be discriminated against for being gay

And that, under the circumstances, was all that I really needed to understand that his coming out was a big deal, important and scary for him, but also something to respect and support, even if it meant changing our family.

So yay for sharing this iconic moment during pride. 

[glumshoe]

The other thing about the word “queer” is that almost everyone I’ve seen opposed to it have been cis, binary gays and lesbians. Not wanting it applied to yourself is fine, but I think people underestimate the appeal of vague, inclusive terminology when they already have language to easily and non-invasively describe themselves.

Saying “I’m gay/lesbian/bi” is pretty simple. Just about everyone knows what you mean, and you quickly establish yourself as a member of a community. Saying “I’m a trans nonbinary bi woman who’s celibate due to dysphoria and possibly on the ace spectrum”… not so much. You’re lucky to find anyone who understands even half of that, and explaining it requires revealing a ton of personal information. The appeal of “queer” is being able to identify yourself without profiling yourself. It’s welcoming and functional terminology to those who do not have the luxury of simplified language and occupy complicated identities. *That’s* why people use it - there are currently not alternatives to express the same sentiment.

It’s not people “oppressing themselves” or naively and irresponsibly using a word with loaded history. It’s easy to dismiss it as bad or unnecessary if you already have the luxury of language to comfortably describe yourself.

[skeletrender]

There’s another dimension that always, always gets overlooked in contemporary discussions about the word “queer:” class. The last paragraph here reminds me of a old quote: “rich lesbians are ‘sapphic,’ poor lesbians are ‘dykes’.” 

The reclaiming of the slur “queer” was an intensely political process, and people who came up during the 90s, or who came up mostly around people who did so, were divided on class and political lines on questions of assimilation into straight capitalist society. 

Bourgeois gays and lesbians already had “the luxury of language” to describe themselves - normalized through struggle, thanks to groups like the Gay Liberation Front.

Everyone else, from poor gays and lesbians to bi and trans people and so on, had no such language. These people were the ones for whom social/economic assimilation was not an option.

The only language left, the only word which united this particular underclass, was “queer.” “Queer” came to mean an opposition to assimilation - to straight culture, capitalism, patriarchy, and to upper class gays and lesbians who wanted to throw the rest of us under the bus for a seat at that table - and a solidarity among those marginalized for their sexuality/gender id/presentation. 

(Groups which reclaimed “queer,” like Queer Patrol (armed against homophobic violence), (Queers) Bash Back! (action and theory against fascism, homophobia, and transphobia), and Queerbomb (in response to corporate/state co-optation of mainstream Gay Pride), were “ultraleft,” working-class, anti-capitalist, and functioned around solidarity and direct action.)

The contemporary discourse around “queer” as a reclaimed-or-not slur both ignores and reproduces this history. The most marginalized among us, as OP notes, need this language. The ones who have problems with it are, generally, among those who have language - or “community,” or social/economic/political support - of their own.

[vaspider]

Oh hey look it’s the story of my growing up.

All of this is true.

[postcardsfromspace]

Yes.

[yall-frickin-inconsiderate]

also, “qpoc” is a thing, like how about we not take away a term that a lot of people of color id with? thanks :))))

[rathe]

[ghostiness-deactivated20160110]

OK, but I partially disagree with this headcanon, and here’s why:

1) Bruce is totally playing Gamora. You don’t think Bruce Banner has played Dungeons & Dragons before? Bruce Banner has absolutely played Dungeons & Dragons before. He played all through high school and college and when Bucky announces the campaign Bruce jumps at the opportunity because he just misses it so much (mostly rose-tinted nostalgia goggles but). So he sits Bucky down and asks him for every bit of info he can on the setting and spends a whole night with a pot of tea drafting up the five-page backstory for his space assassin and her family tree and her struggle with her relationship with the villain and comes to Bucky with a fully-ready character sheet and a list of things Bucky will need to OK before Gamora hops in.

Bucky quietly resolves to integrate as much as he can into the story, mainly because Bruce came up with some better ideas than he’d had.

2) Tony is definitely playing Quill, because Tony has never played D&D before. You don’t get to be where Tony Stark is in life and have much free time. He does what a lot of newbies do and bases a character on himself, or at least the parts he likes: clever, snarky, pre-’90s musical taste, beds space babes, heroic sometimes probably. He wants to be cool but has no idea how to be cool within this context (“My character’s name is Starlord.” “What? Tony, no.”). He hogs the spotlight all the time (all the time) but clearly has no idea what he’s doing and when someone who seems like they know what they’re talking about gives him advice he always takes (“I’m going to need that guy’s leg.” “Seriously? Alright” *Rolls to grapple*).

Quill’s backstory is primarily Bruce’s doing. Tony just handed it in with a “yeah whatever’s on there.”

3) Thor is playing Drax but didn’t join until a few sessions in when he tagged along and decided it looked like fun (“THIS PLEASES ME! ALLOW ME TO JOIN YOUR TALES OF ADVENTURE!”). He definitely needed help constructing his character sheet, but he had no problem coming up with a character. Bucky asked him what he wanted to play and got that glint in his eye and responded “I WILL FORGE A HERO WORTHY OF THE ANCIENT TALES OF ASGARD.” And he put a lot of thought into Drax, both in personal history and personality. He’s mostly modeled on Thor’s favorite Asgardian folk heroes, with some personal flaws and quirks thrown in that Thor thinks are interesting.

Of course Thor doesn’t really understand the game part of it, he’s in it for the story (“Thor what the hell man there’s no way we can take on Ronan at this level!” “AH BUT THINK OF THE THRILLING DRAMA OF THE MOMENT DRAX AND RONAN MEET AGAIN!” “We are all going to die.” “AND IT WILL BE A THRILLING TRAGEDY!”)

4) Steve is absolutely playing Rocket but what started as a complete joke ballooned into a fully fleshed-out character with a tragic backstory. Steve’s an artist, he’s a creative guy and little too creative for his own good sometimes and bouncing his ideas off of Natasha turned a simple joke into a more elaborate character dynamic than even Bruce’s. He trolls Bucky a lot and it’s even better for Steve when he really gets into Rocket’s character and plays up the drama, partly because Bucky can’t tell if he’s joking or not.

5) Somewhere in the brainstorming session, Steve and Natasha decided that Rocket has a partner who is a talking tree. Natasha pitches this idea completely straight-faced to Bucky and after the fiasco of Steve’s character idea Bucky’s just too tired to say no to the tree-man. Natasha gives him a bit of a backstory and how Rocket and Groot got together and it sounds pretty solid, so whatever, tree-man can stay.

Then when all the characters get introduced Natasha just hovers over Tony and puffs out her chest and says in her deepest voice: “I am Groot.”

And Steve snickers and nobody has any idea why.

A session later Natasha is responding to everything Tony says with that same deep “I am Groot.” and Steve goes blue in the face trying to hold in his laughter and Tony cracks and the game has to pause for 10 minutes while Nat and Steve recompose themselves.

Nat also has a better grasp of the rules than Bucky realized and completely tweaked her character into being able to do basically anything she can justify. And it’s all right there in the book, Bucky can’t even argue from a rules standpoint. They’re only level 5 Groot shouldn’t be essentially bulletproof but through some loophole in the rules, yep, there it is.

Natasha Romanoff is trained to exploit weaknesses. Of course she’s a total munchkin.

[scrawls]

IT GOT SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER

[flawedamythyst]

So Clint, who isn’t always around, is a character who turns up for some stuff and then leaves again: Yondu. The whistling arrow thing is something he had a dream about once when he was in his late teens, and has never forgotten about because <i>how cool would it be???</i> Bucky just sighs and lets it happen.

[everyones-cuppa]

Beginner Level ASL Resource List

Above is a link to a resource list we have created with different websites, apps, YouTube channels/videos, and books on American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture. There is a perceived barrier of a lack of resources for people who want to learn ASL but don’t know where to start, so we have created this tool to help start beginning signers, and those curious about the Deaf community, with confidence on their journey to greater communication and allyship with the Deaf community.

**Please Share!!!**

Hello, friends of the internet! My name is Rose, and I’m a sophomore American Sign Language Interpreting student. I, along with my project partner Bre @quintin-thefinn , have been working on a Social Justice Action Plan for our ASL 2010: Deaf Culture class, and now it is time to put our plan into action!

To help us with our project and expand the knowledge of ASL and Deaf culture, please share this list so we can reach as many people as possible! Thank you so much for your time and we hope this list benefits you and many others!

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[whatsnew-lgbtq]

8 Things You Need to Know About Pervis Payne Who Is Facing Execution

Pervis Payne has spent 32 years on death row in Tennessee and has always maintained his innocence. Newly discovered DNA testing could prove

Here’s his White House petition. As of August 17, 2020 it has 81,578 signatures out of 100,000. It closes on the 24th.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/justice-pervis-payne

Justice for Pervis Payne! | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

[someoneidontknow]

Jorge Gonzalez, suffered a broken neck, and a compressed spine at the hands of 3 sheriff deputies in Texas. He couldn’t even hold his head up for this mugshot…so they had to hold it up for him. They actually thought the mugshot was more important than a hospital visit.

After a deputy tripped him he hit his face hard and went unconscious. They tased him couple of times “to wake him up”.

He was left paralyzed neck down, went through a series of surgeries, and was in ICU on the ventilator for over a month after the arrest.

According to the hospital he went over 26 hours in Hidalgo County jail without necessary medical attention that could have saved his life.

[boywizard-moved]

Here is a petition to fire the officers who killed Jorge Gonzalez

[thetearsofunfathomablesadness]

Here is his family’s gofundme for medical bills, rent, legal fees, and other such financial needs

[isappho-deactivated20240418]

black sapphics are beautiful (or handsome, if that’s what the black sapphic reading this prefers!). black sapphics are brilliant. black sapphics are stunning. black sapphics are superb. black sapphics are absolutely marvellous

[shalomamme]

Tianna Arata is a black woman who is about to face 15 years. She currently has eight charged against her including multiple felonies, all because she organized a peaceful protest. A FUCKING PROTEST. She’s an active activist using her 1st amendment to speak on systematic racism and other important issues. Please reblog and check out the linktree below with links for the petition, go fund me for legal matters, etc https://linktr.ee/freetiana