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went to check this blog for whatever reason that I already forgot and noticed a bunch of new followers. hi! I don't use this blog anymore, but you can follow me at @norsehobbit if you're interested. if you're lucky I might even post oots fanart sometimes.
I got a new blog!
It's @norsehobbit . It turns out it's much easier to get back into tumblr by starting fresh than by trying to revive my old blog. You're welcome to follow me there if you want ~ (heads up there'll be some nsfw content tho)
I got a new blog!
It's @norsehobbit . It turns out it's much easier to get back into tumblr by starting fresh than by trying to revive my old blog. You're welcome to follow me there if you want ~ (heads up there'll be some nsfw content tho)
WHATS UR FAVORITE ERA OF IAN
the pride flag industrial complex
but seriously: thinking about how ppl in the west are OBSESSED with symbols and visual indicators and little markers and acknowledgement of identity as a manifestation of marketing and brand culture & as a product of this particular ‘late’ manifestation of capitalism, and how this has affected how we approach the marginalisation of LGBT people and liberation politics as a result
EDIT (4/2/22): this post is about rainbow capitalism and is not specifically about microlabels. (this concept also applies also to broader and older labels like queer lesbian bi trans etc. you’re not necessarily exempt from this).
this post is about how focusing on flags and pins and stickers and markers of identity *as activism* has limited political efficacy. it also argues that people seeing symbolism AS a primary form of activism shows a lack of understanding of some of the broader issues that queer & trans people face.
(limited of political efficacy =/= lack of value, especially personal value)
It also is an example of how capitalism commodifies everything, including our political strategising.
it is specific to the west because I am from a western european country and can only speak to that experience. specifically, I do not want to speak for how indigenous ppl in the americas & australia approach gender & sexuality.
it is a behaviour examined more often online because it is often easier to engage with the politics of symbols, words, & signifiers and feel one is contributing to a valuable discourse online, compared to other issues which one can only signpost. (People calling this a ‘terminally online take’ are ??? to me, because I mean, yeah, sort of? You have not contradicted this argument lol, people online are still people engaging in LGBT discourse.)
if you’re going to call me a transphobe/aphobe and want me to take you seriously I expect dated receipts.
t*rfs can fucking die without exception. enjoy being blocked forever.
now can you please STOP being obnoxious and giving me grief on a year old post. it’s shut the fuck up friday everyone :)
actually, this is a good story: I developed generalized anxiety when covid first broke out (final drop in the bucket), finally got around to seeing a therapist specializing in it two years later, he infects me with covid on our very first session.
thanks! I’ve been in bed watching tv and drawing literally from I wake up until I go to sleep so all in all it’s been alright. main downside has been isolating from my wife and also that one day where I sneezed a few times each minute on average.
actually, this is a good story: I developed generalized anxiety when covid first broke out (final drop in the bucket), finally got around to seeing a therapist specializing in it two years later, he infects me with covid on our very first session.
I said I would start using tumblr again and then predictably went quiet. In my defense I was busy working and also getting covid from my therapist lol
Hello! I had to log back into this account for research purposes (long story) and I’m considering starting using tumblr again because it seems to be the only social media where what you see isn’t completely decided by an algorithm optimized to make you angry, upset, and anxious. I wonder if any of my followers are still active here?
biologists in the pokemon universe are fuckin idiots. imagine excluding entire countries’ worth of animals and saying “yeah these are all the species in the world”. and these arent even like. undiscovered continents. each of these countries has enough history to show that it’s been populated for countless generations. fuckin professor oak or whatever professor is just straight up neglecting to include entire continents in his research papers
The first 4 Generations aren’t even different countries, just different regions in the SAME country. And according to the remakes have known about each other for ages. Which makes it worse.
professor oak, travelling 10 km west: what the fuck are all those
From The Washington Post. Damn
Do not let them make you numb.
Jury nullification. Pass it on.
Jury nullification is so fucking important.
This is something that more people should be aware of, if only because (in many states, at least) defense attorneys are actually prohibited from mentioning it to jurors. The law allows a jury to return a “not guilty” verdict contrary to the facts of the case, but not for the defense to inform them of that power or to argue for its application in the current trial.
I didn’t know about this. Wow.
always reblog
This is SUPER IMPORTANT and also a good reason to show up for jury duty. You know all those laws you think are stupid? This is your chance to maybe do something about it.
I…. I thought this was common knowledge… signal boosting this because it obviously isn’t!
Did not know this
Jury nullification in the United States has its origins in colonial British America. Similar to British law, in the United States jury nullification occurs when a jury in a criminal case reaches a verdict contrary to the weight of evidence, sometimes because of a disagreement with the relevant law.
YALL REMEMBER THIS WHEN JURY SUMMONS START GOING OUT IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER FOR THE PEOPLE WHOVE BEEN ARRESTED PROTESTING IN MAY AND JUNE
I remember lots of media when I was younger where someone definitely broke a law but the jury decided to let them go. I bet a lot of you have seen that too. It is not a fiction trope. The jury has a say based on how they *feel* about the defendant’s unique situation.
A Good Thread about The Hobbit and Bilbo from yesterday. Didn’t realize it was the anniversary!
‘Tolkien is profoundly disinterested in war except as a backdrop for men to love each other as fumblingly as they can manage.’
It’s how you can tell that he’s seen actual war.
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
Funny how that works
I am so pleased at how many notes are some version of “I don’t fear the science, I fear the corporations who control it” because that is EXACTLY the attitude you should have. GMOs can save us. Monsanto will kill us.
what people fear about GMO- ‘theyre gonna make frankencarrots that crave human flesh and cause diarrhea ’ what GMO actually is- ‘we made rice crop that is both drought resistant and flood resistant which will prevent about 20% of major famine disasters, also it now makes vitamin A because vitamin A deficiency in poverty stricken areas is a major killer of kids as most vitamin A rich foods dont grow there’ what people SHOULD be upset about- ‘i made all crops sterile so all farmers have to buy the seed from me in perpetuity and i will sue anyone who tries to go back to crops that produce their own seed’
^^^ THIS
cannot stress enough, this is literally what is happening. and if a farmer’s crops aren’t killed off, when their crop *inevitably* cross-pollinates with the modified crop, they get sued into oblivion.
“Gretchen: On the International Space Station, you have astronauts from the US and from other English speaking countries and you have cosmonauts from Russia. And obviously it’s very important to get your communication right if you’re on a tiny metal box circling the Earth or going somewhere. You don’t want to have a miscommunication there because you could end up floating in space in the wrong way. And so one of the things that they do on the ISS – so first of all every astronaut and cosmonaut needs to be bilingual in English and Russian because those are the languages of space. Lauren: Yep. Wait, the language of space are English and Russian? I’m sorry, I just said ‘yep’ and I didn’t really think about it, so that’s a fact is it? Gretchen: I mean, pretty much, yeah, if you go on astronaut training recruitment forums, which I have gone on to research this episode… Lauren: You’re got to have a backup job, Gretchen. Gretchen: I don’t think I’m going to become an astronaut, but I would like to do astronaut linguistics. And one of the things these forums say, is, you need to know stuff about math and engineering and, like, how to fly planes and so on. But they also say, you either have to arrive knowing English and Russian or they put you through an intensive language training course. But then when they’re up in space, one of the things that they do is have the English native speakers speak Russian and the Russian speakers speak English. Because the idea is, if you speak your native language, maybe you’re speaking too fast or maybe you’re not sure if the other person’s really understanding you. Whereas if you both speak the language you’re not as fluent in, then you arrive at a level where where people can be sure that the other person’s understanding. And by now, there’s kind of this hybrid English-Russian language that’s developed. Not a full-fledged language but kind of a- Lauren: Space Creole! Gretchen: Yeah, a Space Pidgin that the astronauts use to speak with each other! I don’t know if anyone’s written a grammar of it, but I really want to see a grammar of Space Pidgin.”
— Excerpt from Episode 1 of Lingthusiasm: Speaking a single language won’t bring about world peace. Listen to the full episode, read the transcript, or check out the show notes. (via lingthusiasm)
This is such an important and genuinely terrifying post. I could completely go off on the rise of anti-science, but for now I’ll just add: it isn’t just boomers that get deceived. This is a warning to all of us.
Pay ATTENTION to what you are being told. If you think you cannot be deceived, you leave yourself open to deception. Question, doubt, research research research. Learn about your personal biases, dig up any subconscious cognitive dissonance. Keep an eye on your mind.
It needs to be stressed that biases, not a lack of intelligence, is very much the issue here. Being aware of the need to fact check yourself is key: Intelligence won’t protect you from bad or unhealthy mental states, or keep you safe from cults of any sort. Intelligence will just make it easier for you to rationalize and attempt to justify the malformed tools you’ve taken/been given to yourself and others. You need to be wise enough to challenge yourself.
As a cult survivor, this is lethally accurate.
Every single person saying "sex is real, it's gender that's not real" to support trans people needs to sit down and think about how that affects intersex people.
Sex is literally made up. Sex characteristics? Real. Genitalia is real, hormone levels are real, chromosomes are real... But dividing those into two boxes isn't real. We arbitrarily threw together the two most common combinations of these traits, called them male and female, and said fuck everyone who doesn't fit into that.
Sex isn't some holy thing that only the most radical people want to destroy, it's a farce used to justify the medical abuse of intersex people. If you want to be an ally to intersex people, please take the time to think about these things. Think about the way we talk about sex and how it might be hurting intersex people.
Using "assigned gender" language, legitimating the idea of a sex binary, calling intersex types "conditions"/"disorders"/etc., comparing intersex people to animals with diverse sex characteristics, and not listening to or acknowledging intersex people are all things people need to stop doing if they want to be allies to intersex people.
I'm trans as well as intersex, I know that supporting trans rights is incredibly important, but it should not be done at the expense of intersex people.
