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i think ace and aro people should be allowed to talk about their feelings about sex and romance, and how the fact that they’re so pervasive in our society has affected them, without having to baby everything down and wrap every statement in reassurances for allos

nemesis-is-my-middle-name

oh i also think we should be allowed to make fun jokes about our orientation without getting harassed for it

crowseph-crowe

Amen

dovv

castledock

Honestly as a blind person I’m so tired of seeing fictional blind characters who don’t use white canes or other guides. “They have special powers so they know what’s around them” or “they’re confident enough to not need a guide” are common tropes, and I’m tired.

Are people scared that using a white cane will make their blind character seem weak? They can’t use a cane because they’re so special that they already know what’s around them, and other blind people who use guides are inferior because they’re not special?

I’m tired. Give your blind characters white canes and other guides. Let them hold onto their friends, let them have guide dogs. Don’t make white cane users feel ostracized for not being “strong enough” to go without.

Another thing that pisses me off is when a sighted character comes up with the fantasy equivalent of braille and teaches it to the blind character. Braille was invented by Louis Braille, a blind man, in 1824. The blind character should be the one coming up with it.

Tldr I’m blind and tired of sighted people lol

🔪 Sighted People MUST Reblog This 🔪

respectfully

i really can't stand this anymore oh my god

so i have made a few posts talking about this, but my mom is Making Ultimatiums that are going to fuck me over financially just for the hell of it. i am currently unemployed, receiving no more benefits, and i have absolutely no savings. at this point i have a negative balance on my bank account and i have nothing much i can do about it. i am a trans man with adhd, ptsd, and severe depression so it has become inhospitable in my current living environment, and i need to move, except i currently live in one of the most expensive places in the US and i don't know how to drive. basically, i need to buy a bike, get a plane ticket, and find a job. so this is a mutual aid request but also like. if any of you know of any trans people who know of any trans safe living areas that are not wildly expensive, please message me!

anyway i have talked for too long, here is my info

cash.app: $luvlandfrog

paypal.me: /ezrabanksy

respectfully

1/23 update: my bank balance is still at -$300 and the notes on this post have slowed completely

please reblog if you can't donate and what not

neiljostensucks

gay ppl be like yea these are my comfort characters *literal ray of sunshine*, *murderer*, *war criminal*, *six feet under*

antique-scarecrow

need for joy & comfort

revenge/self-protection fantasy

exploration of personal trauma

grief processing

spaceeballs

jewellltones

Okay. I have an observation, which I am going to try to explain as best I can and hope desperately that it doesn’t set off anything terrible.

Most of the time, when I see ace people worried about misrepresentations of asexuality in media, as long as the character isn’t doing something obviously problematic like vilifying asexuality or trying to fix it, the criticism usually falls into one of two categories:

Alloromantic aces upset with ace characters that are aromantic or assumed to be aromantic, because it reinforces the misconception that asexuals can’t be in a relationship or fall in love

Aromantic aces upset with ace characters that are alloromantic or assumed to be alloromantic, because it reinforces the idea that romantic attraction is still required to be “acceptable” or “normal”

But the interesting thing is, I see both of these comments with pretty much equal frequency. And despite being predicated on basically opposite premises, they are both real problems and valid arguments. I see it come up especially when an asexual character’s romantic orientation is not confirmed - alloromantic aces remind people that the character should not be assumed to be aro, and aromantic aces remind people that the character doesn’t have to be allo. Both perfectly reasonable arguments, in almost perfectly equal numbers.

So the obvious question is, if these are both legitimate concerns, than how can any asexual character possibly be good representation?

I’ll posit an answer: the issue really doesn’t have to do with the asexual characters’ romantic identities at all - the problem is the lack of asexual characters in the first place. If your sample size is small, any addition to that sample size is going to have a much larger effect on the relative proportions. This explains why the reveal of an asexual character can garner such conflicting reactions - people want to feel seen, and unfortunately there are so few ace characters right now that their specific romantic orientation makes far more of a difference to whether people feel seen than it would if there was already a large, diverse body of ace characters in existence.

So coming back around to the question, barring ace characters that are clearly problematic, all ace characters are good representation, because the most important thing right now is to have more of them. More ace characters, more diversity in romantic orientation, personality, background, age, feelings about sex, characters in more genres, more mediums.

And this means that rather than policing every ace character’s romantic identity, we should all be celebrating every asexual character we have, regardless of their romantic orientation.

normal-horoscopes

KNOWING JK ROWLINGS SPECIFIC BRAND OF BIGOTRY CASTS MUCH OF HER WORK IN NEW AND UNFLATTERING LIGHT IT TURNS OTHERWISE BENIGN PLOT POINTS INTO A DEEPLY UNPLEASANT RACIAL SUPREMACIST NARRATIVE

KNOWING HP LOVECRAFTS SPECIFIC BRAND OF BIGOTRY MAKES MUCH OF HIS WORK REALLY FUNNY IT TURNS HORRIFIC ELDRITCH MONSTERS INTO POTENTIAL BOYFRIENDS

normal-horoscopes

LOVECRAFTS WORK ISNT ANYTHING SPECIAL AND HIS LASTING INFLUENCE IN FICTION CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE AUTHORS THAT TOOK HIS THEMES AND RAN IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION WITH THEM A LA OCTAVIA BUTLER AND GUILLERMO DEL TORO WE HAVE A DUTY AS CREATORS TO SUBBERT THE LANGUAGE OF OPPRESSION

IN SHORT:

THE AUTHOR ISNT DEAD BUT ITS OUR JOB TO KILL THEM

brunhiddensmusings

always remember- one of the key steps in ‘lovecraftian fiction’ was the waves of fans of his that took his inspirations, brushed the racism off of it, and made SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER VERSIONS WITHOUT THE SAME PROBLEMS go fourth and produce magical fiction that is better then anything rowling wrote to the point its a middle finger to her capabilities

asthrapolaris

This, but also there are already lots of better magical fiction, ones even prior to Rowling. Search it up and enjoy!

barbienefertiti

I’ll represent you in court :)

niggaweaintfriends

Isn’t it consensual when she gave him the photos when they were together 🔚

wheresmywig

From a lawyer: “The photos were consensual. But she did not consent to distribution “

ifuckwiththerainbows

He really thought he did something with that comment and his lil stank emoji at the end lol

brownbitchacho

Reblog to save a LIFE dat shit is not ok

diazeddies

for the ladies, and even gentlemen, who follow me and find themselves in this situation.

apollo-and-the-moon

Same goes for you Men. If your ex leaks photos of your dick or any videos you sent her, you can sue too. Yea, giving the photos with consent is Aight, but spreading them around and “exposing” Ain’t it chief

uchidachi

leftist antisemites are really everywhere on this hellsite making & reblogging their posts like “the Jews have too much power and privilege and actually their very recent genocide was not that bad compared to what my group experiences and antisemitism doesn’t even exist in my country and especially not in liberal spaces”

uchidachi

Goyim should reblog posts like this one instead of always only acknowledging antisemitism when it is about jk rowling’s goblins or easy shit like that.

Challenge the antisemitism that is coming from inside the house. Be a little brave. Because you will lose followers for reblogging a post like this, because there are antisemites following you that think this way, and assume you do too.

glompcat

This question and its answer from The New York Times work advice column is W I L D.

everythingstarstuff

l0vesp333ll

crows!!!! holding flowers!!!!! walking!!!!!! holding round things!!!

japotecture

caveisgettingdeleted-deactivate

Thank you clam man

anautisticaquarius

Reblog the encouraging clam man to boost someone’s motivation. You know you wanna.

chrxs-art

encouraging clam man is always there for me in my time of need. may he be there in yours as well.

segel-sudeikis

meanderingmolly

Mr. The Frog we all agreed that a celebrity is not a people

mommacomms

The Muppets have one (1) collective brain cell between them and 90% of the time, Kermit has it.

ethicalmemes

Let’s do this #EthicalMemes

one-time-i-dreamt

Hello everyone, my name is Shibasaki. Welcome to my watercolor channel! With my videos I hope I will be able to teach you professional trans

This is his channel!

This is his most recent video! Please leave positive comments after watching the video and press the Like button.

I’ve seen his watercolor tutorials and they made me want to paint again. It’s wholesome content and he is a kind soul.

one-time-i-dreamt

I love my third grandpa 🥺

completelyungood

the video is 14 minutes long so to summarise: he’s not looking for support in the form of compliments, he’s looking for feedback (specifically if his videos are engaging and helpful, bc he wants to work on evening out the high subscriber/low view count ratio). he would like to be getting around 10% of his subscribers’ viewership which is around 40k views per video as he is only getting around 20k

he is an ailing old man who just wants to figure out the best way to ensure that his videos (across four channels damn!!!) are helping people, it’s essentially his legacy. so if you’re trying to get into watercolor painting or like to have relaxing painting videos on while you’re working on things, check out his channel and give him some views!!!

marrow-bone

43-want-to-die

Even you don’t paint, just play the guy’s videos. He’s so relaxing to listen to or to watch. YouTube’s algorithm freaking blows; let’s get this good good grandpa to trending.

blackwoolncrown

Oh wow this is important and relevant to me

simonalkenmayer

What do you think, gentle readers?

Can we help this grandfather?

pollytipsy

redmachasacorns-deactivated2018

Not a single lie in sight……

shanlad

Hello, college grad that actually wrote an award winning paper on this topic! Here’s some knowledge I’d like to share: There’s actually been studies as to why it’s usually white kids, a large conclusion amongst the criminology community is that those that often have more privileged lives (white kids in our society’s case) are less adept to dealing with stress and denial. Whereas minorities and others are more likely to cope and function normally despite stressors because of the constant stressors that come from systematic racism and/or other platforms of more limited priviledge.

TL;DR: It’s usually a white kid because their privilege incacipated their ability to learn how to handle stress/ denial/ whatever without acting out. The less privileged are done used to the bs and thus typically dont turn to extreme measures as coping mechanisms.

EDIT: I had reblogged this and added a link to the paper (which I should’ve done to begin with,) but it’s probably best I just edit my original reblog and add the link (which I also should’ve just done already.)

Anyway, it can be found fully sourced here.