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Hi, I’m Vail / they them / 26

[concentriccookies]

Apples in a 14″ hoop

[marvelthismarvelthat]

my friends, it is not illegal to recognize there are problematic elements to the content you enjoy. it’s called critical thinking. you can enjoy something and not turn a blind eye to the shit wrong with it. 

[corvidprompts]

The fae smiled, sharply: “Give me your name, child.”

“Uhhhhh. Stick.”

“What.”

“Does Leaf work better? I’m just kinda looking around this clearing. Look, I’m trans, I haven’t decided on one yet, I’m throwing some spaghetti at the wall, you know how it is.”

[shadeshadow234]

Fae are born with features sharp and narrow, yet this one seems to soften as Moss looks at it. Its grin— sharp, teeth gleaming, its eyes— cutting, searching, the jut and pull of its jaw enough to scratch glass. It does not blink. Branch does not blink. It softens.

“I said, give me your name, child.”

“I still haven’t picked one,” Grass defends, even now still hoping for a way out of a faeries deal.

“No. But your parents did. Give me your name, child, and it shall no longer be yours. The entity of your name shall no longer exist, and you will be free for whichever name you choose— Leaf, or Stick, or Lichen.”

“…oh.” says Petal, and in the next moment a name falls from their lips. It is not their name. It never has been. The fae is sharp and cutting and witty, that moment of softness an imagined slight.

“Very well, child. Be warned of mushroom circles, should you lose your name again.”

“Okay,” Mushroom smiles, and the Fae pulls itself away from their reality in a swirl of feathers and silk.

When they go home for the first time in two months, their mother frets over them in a way she had not since they were a child, and she calls them by no name at all.

[iwhumpyou]

Goddamn.  This is my favorite version of ‘faeries take your name’, that’s it, we can all go home now.

[lord0fries]

The fae said trans rights

[dogsindisguise]

Yeah sooo if you live in the woods, dont leave your window open in your bathroom at night with the light on.

I counted 40 different moths of varying size and species.

My bathroom belongs to the moths now.

[politijohn]

[renthony]

“But don’t landlords deserve to be compensated for their labor, too?”

WHAT labor? I see my landlord once a month, when I have to fork over rent. My landlord is not a member of our community. My landlord is not involved in the maintenance of the property beyond commanding someone else to repair broken appliances or cut the grass, and usually my landlord doesn’t even do that–one of the office assistants sends out those orders. 

All my landlord does is sit in the office and send minions after impoverished tenants who live in fear of the streets and are about one to two paychecks away from being homeless.

Landlords. Are not. Workers.

[renthony]

The bootlickers found this post so let me once again state for the record that landlords are leeches and scum, and if YOU are a landlord, I hope you get ripped apart limb from limb by the people you exploit.

[renthony]

I really don’t care if your personal landlord is good to you, I care that landlords as a class of people have significant power over people living in abject poverty.

Landlords should not exist in the first place.

Housing should not be controlled by people able and willing to cast vulnerable people out into the streets.

Landlords are not my fellow worker. Landlords are not my comrades. Landlords should not exist in the first goddamn place.

[utopians]

that uniquely american cultural drive to preserve the corpse after death…. utterly horrid I tell you

[utopians]

embalming as standard practice… ‘protective caskets’… waterproof burial vaults… folks there is no fucking point

[utopians]

not to go all Anti Capitalist here but like. making people feel like they’ve ‘failed’ their dead loved ones if they don’t put their chemically preserved corpses in a multi-thousand dollar hermetically sealed vault is absolutely fucking ghoulish the whole industry is built around taking advantage of grieving families. like it’s such a morbid topic but for real normalize decay… normalize the idea that a corpse, while an incredibly important thing, is temporary and isn’t meant to exist forever… normalize the transience of the body… also fuck every person who’s ever tried to wring money out of a grieving person by convincing them to by a fucking. waterproof burial vault. man

[meshkwahkihaki]

idk what shit-eating truscum needs to hear this, but your rhetoric directly harms people with culturally-specific genders. i’m native and two-spirit, that label describes my gender and my attraction. i use they/them pronouns and your “nonbinaries and cringey stargender trenders aren’t valid” bullshit is getting old. our languages were demonized and erased, our gender and attraction labels along with them. my experiences with dysphoria exist because of colonialist ideas of gender. we have been forced into arbitrary ‘male’ and ‘female’ categories by colonizers for centuries and truscum rhetoric perpetuates racist colonialist violence against natives.

your experiences are not universal, you’re not forwarding justice for trans people, and you’re definitely not an ally to natives or other people of color. you’re just a fucking colonizer. 

[meshkwahkihaki]

non-natives, reblog this post

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I’m reblogging this again because the comments are absolutely disgusting and a perfect example of how little transmeds value non-Western cultures, communities, and traditions.

[star-anise]

Someone in the notes says “no one is like this in real life and if they are it’s just a confused phase.”

Bullshit! I know Two Spirit Nêhiyaw and Métis elders in their seventies. 2S activism has been around my city for decades. Do some fucking research. If you don’t come from a place with an indigenous 2S tradition, accept that you’re ignorant, not that it “isn’t a real thing”

[prismatic-bell]

I’m Jewish.

Our book of holy commentary, the Talmud, lists six genders.

The Talmud is older than Jesus.

And I assure you, as old as that might sound, Native communities in the Americas make that number sound minuscule. 2500 years is nothing compared to ten thousand.

(Yes, Native cultures and communities predate the so-called “cradle of civilization.” BY FAR.)

We have always been here. You reading a single high-school textbook and deciding that was all you needed to know is the problem. NOT US.

[goatpolice-deactivated20250128]

I am absolutely losing my mind at this soup subscription service

[zibaldoni-elzapoppin]

[elodieunderglass]

Bother 2 whole birds AND a tree with this one (1) easy tune

[thisaccisdead]

[ID: a captioned screenshot of pam from the office, edited so that the caption reads: “And I feel anti-american in this 4th of july tonight.” end id]

[newguineatribalart]

Yupik mask Native American Art

There is a huge variety of Yup’ik masks but characterized by their inventive surrealism. They are usually made of wood painted with few colors and sometimes decorated with feathers.

Masked varied in size from small three-inch finger masks to ten-kilo masks carried by several people.

Masks were often made in pairs, and after ceremony masks normally discarded or destroyed. Only the most important masks made and worn by the ritual specialist sometimes reused.

[seangetfreaky]

This is disgusting

The majority of the owner-writers of Cards Against Humanity wanted to put the n-word into the game. After their one black staff member, Nicolas Carter, asked Max Temkin, founder of Cards Against Humanity about the reasons behind each person saying ‘yes’ to doing so, and how it happened, Temkin told the head writers to fire him.

CAH head staff escalated things by contacting Carter’s family, threatening ‘disciplinary action’ and to fire Carter, then a staff member helped get Carter wrongly institutionalized, where he faced heavy racism.

FUCK Cards Against Humanity

[dinahdarling]

max temkin is also a r*pist, so there’s that too

[seangetfreaky]

^^^^ this is something else i found out almost immediately after i came across the article

[kr1g]

Demolish the nuclear family norm. Destroy the idea that your only option is to live alone until you move in with a romantic partner with the intention of marrying.

Realize that burdens are easier shared, and humans aren’t solitary creatures. Remember that living with others you can share resources, share skills, share responsibility.

If you are dreading the idea of living alone, realize you don’t have to.

Move in with your friends, create your own little commune. Support eachother and split costs. Complement eachothers shortcomings. Be there for eachother. Coexist.

[icegrillz-deactivated20191028]

[xspiderfanx]

trickster gods having a dance-off

[yt-memes]

That’s alot of chaotic energy in one video

[messages-from-paradox-space]

i looked up the song thats playing in the background only to discover that the guy in the smiley face hoody literally wrote and recorded it this is his song

[roaringstream]

Shit slaps tho like that’s impressive

[paper-mario-wiki]

[cundtcake]

translation: “My sheep! [bah! bah!] You are my life. [bah! bah!] Walk behind me…[bah! bah!] Sing (after me).”

[loveruns]

Team “I can hear the near silent hum of electrical appliances and the bubbles fizzing in the can of soda on the coffee table, but can’t watch tv without subtitles and processes conversation at ¼ speed”