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EJ // 36 // he/they // https://linktr.ee/ejotter //#my-artwork

[ej-otter]

Hear me out: Cuauhtemoc from Age of Empires 3

[ej-otter]

I STAND BY THIS POST

[ej-otter]

Hello I have come to share my favorite chili recipe

Vegan 3 Bean Chili

(from Meals on Wheels - serves 6-8 people in 1.5 cup portions)

Ingredients

1/3 cup dry lentils

1/2 cup frozen pre-diced onion

3 tbsp diced carrot

3 tbsp frozen pre-diced celery

3 tbsp frozen pre-diced green pepper

1.5 tbsp olive oil

1/2 tsp cocoa powder

1/2 tsp cumin

1.5 tbsp chili powder

1 tsp smoked paprika

1/3 tsp kosher salt

⅓ tsp black pepper

2.5 cups low sodium vegetable broth or stock

1 oz vegetable bouillon

1/2 tsp molasses

2.5 cups (20 oz) crushed tomatoes

1 15 oz can kidney beans, drained and rinsed

1 15 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed

Instructions

Soak lentils in cold water overnight. Drain before cooking.

Heat olive oil in large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat.

Saute onion, carrots, green pepper and celery until tender.

Add remaining ingredients and simmer until lentils are cooked based on package directions.

[ej-otter]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hello Tumblr, I haven't been here in a while but I needed you to know that I have the Deadpool/Wolverine brainrot and have posted 3 fics already. You're welcome

[ej-otter]

Some Jeeves whump for funsies

[ej-otter]

Here have some spicy Bertie Wooster art inspired by that pic of the guy with the baseball bats

[ej-otter]

Oh hey Tumblr, I forgot to tell you that I started T last week!! Second dose is tomorrow!!

[ej-otter]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[uselesspasserby]

[damnesdelamer]

[opencommunion]

Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (eds.), Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Elizabeth Hinton, America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Mariame Kaba, We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice

Colin Kaepernick (ed.), Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons

Robin DG Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Victoria Law, "Prisons Make Us Safer" and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

[johaerys-writes]

Finding out that ALL of my works, including those that are on-going and some that were deleted, have been uploaded to some random "Archive" without my information or consent is definitely not how I wanted my day to go

[elveny]

I’m boosting this.

Memento Archive, an archive for the recovery of deleted fanfiction.

Apparently they scrape (scraped?) AO3. Many of my fics are there and apart from Jo’s and mine, I’ve found those by @kunstpause @curiousthimble @pikapeppa @thebibliosphere and @captainderyn as well - others definitely also will be there.

This has been done without consent or notification.

I sent them a takedown demand, don’t know if they’ll honour it. But WTF. There’s a reason my fic is on AO3 and AO3 ONLY.

And the banger? “An archive for the recovery of deleted fics” - none of them are deleted. And if so? FOR A FUCKING REASON !

[thebibliosphere]

Ugh. Thanks for the tag. Time to lock Ao3 again.

[genderkoolaid]

Because I was now a man, I could not speak about what it was like to be a woman. Because I had been a woman, I could never really speak about what it was like to be a man. Do the math: I could not speak. It was a double erasure, a double bind, in which every experience I had was false, and so nothing I said was credible. I could no longer derive authority from my experiences before transition, and shouldn’t even cite them — I had never “really” been a woman, so those things hadn’t happened — but those experiences could always be weaponized against me to prove I wasn’t “really” the man I claimed to be. They call it erasure, when this happens. I wasn’t prepared for how literal the term was. Every day, I could feel myself disappear.

— Eraserhead: On writer's block and being a gender traitor by Jude Doyle

[unhinged-transmasc-man]

There are many good paragraphs but this stuck out the most:

"If “man” and “woman” are opposed and mutually exclusive categories, if men can only ever be predators and women can only ever be prey, then trans men can’t exist. We are logically impossible under the terms of the current system. You either “treat us like men” by voiding out half our lives, or you write us back into womanhood by denying our male identities. I knew all that, at least in theory, but when I came out, I actually saw my life story disappearing into other people’s blind spots. I watched myself become unthinkable in real time."

Also these:

"This wasn’t about accountability. This was people tactically forgetting my entire life,including incidents from my life they had personally witnessed or been involved in, so that they could shame me for transitioning. It was bad for me to be a man; if I was a man, I was a bad man, I was all the worst things men are. I was hulking, I was threatening, I was predatory, I was violent."

"I was treated as both genders, but only the most monstrous stereotype of each one."

Because that is exactly it. Anti-transmasculinity is being both erased and vilified, and then gaslit out of speaking about those experiences by the people who are erasing and vilifying you.

[aropride]

Did you get covid during the first year of the pandemic?

yes

no

unsure

Voting ended onJul 12, 2024

[aropride]

Did you get covid during the second year of the pandemic?

yes

no

unsure

Voting ended onJul 12, 2024

(with "second year" meaning from ~mid march 2021 to mid march 2022)

[aropride]

Did you get covid during the third year of the pandemic?

yes

no

unsure

Voting ended onJul 12, 2024

(mid march 2022 to mid march 2023)

[aropride]

Did you get covid during the fourth year of the pandemic?

yes

no

unsure

Voting ended onJul 12, 2024

(march 2023-march 2024)

[aropride]

Have you gotten covid during the fifth year of the pandemic?

yes

not yet

unsure

Voting ended onJul 12, 2024

(march 2024 to now!)

note: this isn't accounting for asymptomatic infections that might not have been known about, which make up ~40% of covid cases

[egberts]

[gidguard]

[mxjackparker]

Congrats to Captain James T. Kirk on his top surgery!

[mapsontheweb]

The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

[tinsnip]

…OH.

[mazarinedrake]

I googled it once and the only reason why the Great Lakes aren’t called inland seas is because they are entirely freshwater, not salt.

By any other metric they’d be seas. Superior especially (the big one in the upper left) behaves like a small ocean, and has claimed at least 250 ships and over 1000 people. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a frankly chilling song about her that I’ll include here:

[salamencerobot]

Lake Michigan has never fully frozen. Leading to some absolutely terrifying images

Layers of ice created, shattered, and built up like this.

[tigirl-and-co]

Hey, here’s a picture of that lighthouse in 2015, when we had a polar vortex

[dappercyborg]

I love the Great Lakes, you know how all boats look like shit, like just rusty hulks, you don’t get that on the Great Lakes because it’s fresh water, like the shipwrecks are incredibly well preserved

[chaeronaea]

[official-michigan-posts]

OFFICIAL Michigan Post

[over-sleep]

秀逸な造型センス　　(∩´∀｀)∩ ﾜｯﾊｰ! Satisfying cones

（Reddit： r/oddlysatisfying　u/---Merciless---）

[crowarmy]

[ej-otter]

Just ordered a pink lockbox to keep my testosterone in hehehe