welcome to my humble blog!
(Seriously please read this before we interact)
about:
♡ yaz - she/he/they
♡ i am very much an adult, despite being 5'3 in socks, rip
♡ bisexual and gender indifferent (cis-ish? idk) you can see my gender ramblings here
♡ british turk, bilingual in english and turkish. I grew up speaking both but english is my main language since I grew up here in the UK. my turkish is roughly B1/B2. I can think, dream, speak, read and write in turkish independently, but my vocabulary is smaller than it should be, because I mostly have everyday conversations with family. benimle türkçe konuşmak istersen, lütfen edebiyat öğrenci gibi yazma, haha
♡ sunni/sufi muslim
♡ disabled (panic disorder/agoraphobia/avoidant personality disorder, adhd, fibromyalgia, cptsd, and so much other bullshit. I have genuinely lost count of my diagnoses, so honestly just talk to me if you want to know more ig. Getting diagnosed by the nhs while invisibly disabled is inherently a minefield of differing terms and overlapping diagnoses and differential diagnoses etc.)
♡ have a ba in english lit, and a pgce in primary education. i would love to do a masters one day, but I'm torn between education (which i already have 60 credits for) or library science
♡ loves weezer, cats, dragon age, and other assorted nerd shit
Because I'm a huge nerd, i have various ocs for various games, i only really hone in on my canon ones, so I'll list them here:
Dragon Age Origins: Tador Tabris
Dragon Age 2: Devin Hawke
Dragon Age Inquisition: Fini Lavellan
Dragon Age Veilguard: Kara Ingelvarr
Saints Row 1-4: Nicky Gün
Fallout 3: Dylan Shaw
Fallout New Vegas: Ezra Kalkan
Fallout 4: Nazik Murphy
I sorta have canon protagonists for fallout 1+2, but tbh, i hate the ui so much, that i dont constantly replay and refine my ocs for those games like i do for the rest of the games listed. I also don't currently have a 'canon' mass effect oc, bc my absolute dream is femshep x tali, and that is only possible with mods. When the next mass effect comes out, i will hopefully settle on a 'canon'.
I do make art of my ocs, but these are predominantly in my sketchpad and notes app, and i am hideously lazy about uploading my work. I am in some oc-centric fan communities though, so hopefully i can get better at this. Fair warning, i prefer to draw my ocs rather than write about them (weird for an english major, i know), but i am also not a very good artist. When i do write i prefer to write entirely original fiction. I do write some fanfiction, but i really struggle getting the voices of characters right, hence my preference for entirely original fiction. If i ever get comfortable enough to show off my fanfic, I'll link it here, but in the meantime, there is zero point asking.
blog policies:
○ my one and only dni/request is that pro ana/eating disorder blogs do not follow or interact with me in any capacity on tumblr. I have an eating disorder, and while I am no longer triggered by such content into harming myself, I still find it upsetting and stressful to see
○ I love and respect all my fellow fruits. Trans women are women, trans men are men, we are all oppressed and should not be shitting on each other, because the world shits on us already. Queer unity is based as hell <3.
○ Terfs and other right wingers are allowed to be here provided they engage respectfully, because i do not want to further isolate vulnerable people. I have no beef with people who don't agree with me on everything. We can just agree to disagree like adults.
○ if you are an asshole to me (esp about my race, religioun, disability, and sexuality) or to anyone on my blog, you are getting blocked. I don't like bullying. If we are mutuals i am totally happy for you to make jokes about me being bri'ish, i hate terf island too. I don't want any joking about turkey or islam from non turkish and non muslim mutuals. I used to allow this in the past, but tbh, from non turks and non muslims, the in joke humour and cultural sensitivity just isnt there.
○ because of the nature of my disabilities, I have good days and bad days. I will not always understand you properly. I generally act in good faith and speak earnestly (fr i genuinely hate sarcasm), so please don't jump down my throat if I say the wrong thing. You don't owe me your labour, but I don't deserve to be battered for having problems articulating myself.
○ I am a British turk. I live in England and spend pretty much every holiday i get with my family in turkey. I haven't stepped foot in America in over 20 years. I have some extended family there, and thats it. Please be mindful that I genuinely do not know what life in America is like. Here in england, we do have things like socialised healthcare, we do use the word cunt freely, and we do let our cats roam outside. We live in our own society. I will happily tell you what life in the uk is like though, if you're interested.
○ I tend to tell people constantly that I'm a British turk, because I am acutely aware of how America centric the Internet is. If you don't tell me where you're from, and have nothing about your country that a quick glance at your blog would tell me, i am going to assume you are american. I am only capable of reading english and turkish, so i probably will not pick up on your blog name being in a foreign language beyond turkish.
○ turks are not white. We are also not European. Point blank. I am half white because I have a white English dad, and i am white passing. My mum is a brown anatolian woman. Unless you are turkish yourself i am going to tell you to fuck off if you tell me turks are white. Even then, I am acutely aware that being white in turkey, and being white in the uk are two totally different things. I do experience racism in the uk. I don't in turkey. Same situation for my mum (who despite being brown, is white in turkey).
○ yes the Armenian genocide happened, no i do not want to talk about it. I accept it happened because I grew up in the uk and have access to a fairly free Internet. Turks who grew up in turkey are explicitly taught that the Armenian genocide did not happen. Turkey does have much more Internet censorship than the western world. I am not cool or ok with any genocide denial, but I am also not cool or ok with bullying turks for something that happened over 100 years ago, that wasn't committed by our present day republic. If anything, the present day republic was actually formed partly as a reaction to the horrors that were committed by and during the fall of the ottoman empire. While I'm on this note, turks and Greeks both deserve to live in Cyprus freely. We both belong there, and neither of us are colonisers. I am extremely pro Cypriot reunification and pro proportional representation for Greeks and turks alike (basically i am so mad that the annan plan never happened).
○ I am happy to tag anything, but you need to ask and if possible link to the post/s you would like tagged
○ I am very wary of scams on tumblr, as I have been on this website for about a decade or so and have seen a shitton of fraud, misrepresentation, and misinformation occur here. I am also quite low income, and largely survive on government disability benefits. I only reblog mutual aid/donation posts I feel confident are not scams, but if I've reblogged a scam please tell me. I'm also unlikely to publish asks requesting aid, unless from mutuals or friends
○ my personal tag is for my general thoughts and ramblings. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, you are totally welcome to reblog anything I post here
○ if i overstep boundaries or reblog from problematic sources, pls say so. I will be happy to apologise and fix it.
○ if you make it clear you want an ask to be private, i will respect your wishes and keep it private, but otherwise it will be answered publicly. If you need to dm me (which is something i only allow people i follow to do) you are welcome to ask, and i almost certainly will follow you so you can.
○ my asks are generally open to all, call me beep me if you wanna reach me or w/e
while you're here pls look at the resources compiled on the ongoing uyghur genocide:
the uighurs are a muslim minority group in china. millions of uighurs have been placed in 're education camps' to remove 'extremist ideologi
