ao3: DragonsImagined1331 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/users/DragonsImagined1331 25. i don't have any stories right now but i mention stories i've bookmarked a lot in tags so if one sounds interesting you can look, or if you want you can send an ask about said tags and i'll try to find the story i mentioned. witch, bi/pan, and she/they pronouns, please. gemini. i don't exactly want to share my real name so please call me Ainslie or Dragon. this is an 'all the shit i like' blog. i try to tag my own posts with the tag #personal. i also have my #iconic posts, #oc energy and #reference tags; there's also a few others, but those are the only ones really organized. i curse a lot. feel free to ask me stuff, and know that if you want the answer to be censored, you can just ask, it won't be a problem. feel free to screenshot my tags if you'd like to, i don't mind :) if you reblog something from me and write tags, i'll be reading them. even if it's that post of mine with 60k something notes. i read everything that's reblogged from me with notes or tags.
@forallthepjostuff -percy jackson and the olympians and relevant media (heroes of olympus, kane chronicles, the percy jackson and the olympians show, etc.)
@mytwentyonepilotsstuff - things relating to the band twenty one pilots
if i reblog anything that can go on one of these blogs, that's where i'm going to reblog it to, not to my main. this list could possibly grow, i'm not sure yet, but if i do make another sideblog, this list'll be updated with it the same day.
One thing I’ve become a real extremist about is little girl’s clothing and hair styles because if your kid can’t get her hair wet, hang upside down, climb over a fence or run full out in the outfit/hair she is currently wearing then why not? And the answer better be both extremely fucking good and describe something temporary.
Hope you don't mind a story that also made me extremist about this issue.
Took my friends daughter (2.5yrs) to the park. Dressed her in practical clothing that's ok to get stained, brought an extra change of clothing. She sat in the mud at the water bank and played with rocks and mud. A little girl came over, couldn't be more than 3yrs. She was looking longingly at my friend's daughter. She has her hair in a perfect style and she's wearing a pretty dress with white socks and dressy shoes. The parents say "Sweetie don't go into the mud, you'll get your dress dirty" and pull her away, while giving me a judgmental look as they see the kid in my charge covered in mud and throwing rocks into the water. It felt really weird, like we saw eachother as aliens with completely different ideas on how to raise children. When my friends daughter was done playing, changed her into clean clothing and went back home. She had a lot of fun at the park and a day full of nature and play. The other little girl kept her dress clean.
“heterosexual men can’t be oppressed” -> trans men
“cis-het men can’t be oppressed” -> intersex men
“perisex men can’t be oppressed” -> disabled men
“able-bodied men can’t be oppressed” -> neurodivergent men
“cis-het perisex white able-bodied neurotypical men can’t be oppressed” -> buddy let me tell you about wealth and class and homelessness and immigrants and minority languages and cultures and being a child and being an elderly person and and and
we can keep doing this all day but the reality of the world is that very few people don’t face any kind of oppression at all and everyone exists in a complicated, intersecting web where they have privileges over some people in some contexts and some others are have privilege over them in other contexts. no one individual is incapable of enacting oppression and if you think that about yourself you need to go away and interrogate that belief.
"the reality of the world is that very few people don’t face any kind of oppression at all and everyone exists in a complicated, intersecting web where they have privileges over some people in some contexts"
and this is why we have a standard in the disability advocacy community of prioritizing people who have experienced the most structural and systemic ableism.
oppression is a vast web that has threads in every facet of our lives, even when just looking at disability. a lot of the time it can feel like a terrible monster that we'll never defeat. and maybe we wont, i dont know the future of humanity.
but what we do know is that people experiencing structural and systemic ableism often have high support needs or experience severe disability. these are our most vulnerable people - people who have largely been denied an enfranchised* place in society (*sociopolitical rights).
if we band together and advocate for them at a structural and systemic level, it becomes much easier for us to advocate for all of us. when the most marginalized disabled people have access, support, and safety, everyone does. disability is a marginalized group that anyone can be a part of.
and no, i dont mean that in a "so you should care" way. i mean the disability community is comprised of every marginalization. including queer people. the same goes for the queer community. every marginalization intersects.
so. combating queerphobia isn't about figuring out who "has it worst" or making a perfect hierarchy of oppression - it's about listening to people's experiences, and then taking the most pressing issues and tackling them.
so @ the audience of OP's post: instead of going on and about who does/doesn't experience oppression, if you want to support queer men, maybe just listen to our experiences and ask us what we need. you can't know our actual experiences just from what label we use.
it also includes short films, animated movies, documentaries of every genre, full recordings of live performances. all spanning different decades from different countries. YOU DONT EVEN FUCKING KNOW
there are also websites like worldscinema, solidaritycinema, and rarefilmm hosting incredible obscure world cinema for free! and if you're more inclined towards the esoteric, there's also evilbjork's avant-garde canon playlist on youtube! also important to mention Maya S. Cade's incredible black film archive and the otherness archive, an obscure queer cinema archive! You could always be watching more films !
There is something sooo deeply American going on with Seattle Children’s Hospital that I think would brick the minds of everyone outside of the United States.
The CHILDRENS hospital has to restrict helipad landings because of noise complaints from the wealthy home owners living next to it. Only the most urgent patients can land directly at the hospital. While the other kids have to land a mile away and are taken to the hospital via ambulance. Which is an unnecessary risk to the child’s life and also makes the families pay for the helicopter AND ambulance.
[Image description of first post: Tweet by @lethe_kawaii reading
was serving a couple
they were bickering 'ill pay' 'no ill pay'
the girl tapped her card first
card was declined
guy smirked, tapped his card
card was also declined
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[Image description of second post: Tweet by @lethe_kawaii reading
"in the end the guy had to use his phone to move money in his bank account ☺️↕️👌️🏻 nobody is washing the dish today"