Tenri

I'm Tenri they/their/them I am an agender aro-ace adhd autistic adult. I think its amusing how many labels I've found myself to be, which begin with the letter 'A' I'm also kind of an artist.

[enbytenri]

Close to 6 months ago I got to fulfill a childhood goal: Make an AMV.

Spoilers for all of Madoka Magica and Rebellion

[teenagerposts]

Am I the only one whose internet addiction started with my parents not letting me fucking go anywhere

[aegis-of-the-sufferer]

This but I also had no friends so I wouldn’t have anywhere to go if I was allowed

[bitterlush]

this is a thing! danah boyd is a researcher who has been studying social media for over a decade and in her 2014 book it’s complicated she argues that teenage social media “addiction” (which she also contends is like…..not actually a thing) is a result of the fact that “today’s teenagers have less freedom to wander than any previous generation” because “parents argue that these restrictions are necessary in an increasingly dangerous society, even though the data suggest that contemporary youth face fewer dangers than they did twenty years ago.”

as a result, teenagers are reclaiming these lost social spaces (which their parents and grandparents had in the form of mall hangouts, drive-in theaters, after school parking lots, etc) by using social media, where they can continue to “engage in crucial aspects of maturation: self-presentation, managing social relationships, and developing an understanding of the world around them,” aka stuff that teens are Supposed to be doing

[willothy]

i hope you all had a good time voting today!! If you haven’t yet, and there’s still time— come get your cool stickers and help make our country a better place!

[willothy]

i love my new son ralsei !!!

[willothy]

Sketch for my pal @enbytenri of their cool owl/rabbit/cat sona!

This artwork was part of a Patreon reward!

[autisticadvocacy]

Curb Cuts - 99% Invisible

If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it’s easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the sidewalk and the street. Today, these curb cuts are everywhere, but fifty years ago — when an activist named Ed Roberts was young — most urban corners featured a sharp

“Fifty years ago — when an activist named Ed Roberts was young — most urban corners featured a sharp drop-off, making it difficult for him and other wheelchair users to get between blocks without assistance.”

[enbytenri]

This is one of my favorite podcasts, and this episode in particular is super good. It's well worth the listen.

[willothy]

Woah, hey! I have a Patreon now!!

✩ https://www.patreon.com/limeSmoothie ✩

Hey all, I’m here to kick off my Patreon! From now on I’ll be offering a number of cool things on there over time.

Some cool things include:

✩ Exclusive posts and sketches

✩ Polls to direct project priority + art

✩ Trello board including all my planned projects

✩ Commission discounts

✩ Process videos/gifs for animations

✩ Streams and other group activities (movies?? games???)

Also, as a first goal…!!!

Thank you so much to everyone. If you can support, I deeply appreciate it. If not, thank you so much for being here and following my social media!! You’re all so wonderful. It’s really unfortunate that money is a necessity for me to be able to do the cool projects I want to do, but that’s just how things are. Artists gotta eat + pay rent!

Will

[willothy]

happy pride, nerds!!!!!

[ithelpstodream]

Blake didn’t realize they were transgender for a long time because of inadequate access to information as a Deaf person. Now they’re sharing their own story online so other Deaf trans people know they’re not alone.

Blake’s Instagram: @vlogsbyblake

[willothy]

Sorry for my noobness in the gender areas, but I figured you'd be the best person to ask about this. What's the difference between nonbinary and agender? The definitions are so similar and I cannot for the life of me find someone who actually knows. Thanks in advance! -some noob who wants to make sure they aren't accidentally being disrespectful

Hey there! That’s a totally fair question.

So, nonbinary is a similar umbrella term to genderqueer - it basically means identifying as anything other than male or female. Genders like demigirl, demiboy, agender, and etc fall into the nonbinary/genderqueer umbrella. Agender is a “gender” within that umbrella, meaning that the person does not identify with gender at all! So, a person who is nonbinary (simply meaning “not binary” - “not strictly male or female”) may align themselves in some form with gender, whereas an agender person typically does not.

For example, I am nonbinary. I view myself and present with a mix of gendered ways, or sometimes not gendered at all. I don’t have a more specific label for myself other than this “not male or female” umbrella term because I don’t care enough about gender to pin it down more than that. Lots of other people find that suitable enough as well.

One of my good friends is agender, and prefers not to be aligned in any way with gendered pronouns or perceptions if they can help it.

I hope that helps!

[feministfront]

i was reading about “a quiet place” and they were talking about how john krasinski made a point to cast a deaf actress (her name is millicent simmonds) in the role of a deaf character because he didn’t want a non-deaf person pretending to be deaf and also because he thought it was essential to have that perspective to help inform the character and story.

and i think that’s just really cool, and really refreshing in a hollywood where representation is still a major problem and where, even when the stories of marginalized people are told, those people often aren’t given the chance to tell them. and it’s such a bare minimum thing, casting a disabled person in a disabled role, but it’s still almost revolutionary in our media. i’m just really glad to see a major hollywood person openly talk about how important it is and actually make a point to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.

[enbytenri]

I liked a lot about the movie, but have some issues with other aspects of it. For one, how the parents seemed so okay with producing an infant in such a setting. More importantly though, the dad signed HAVE as in to possess, but he was using it as though he was trying to construct an english sentence with it, using it to make it past tense, even though that sign doesn't do that. It was awkward for that to be true in the middle of what was meant to be a high emotion scene.

[beepbeepboopbeepboopbeepbeepbee]

when someone asks about your special interest

[qesurvey-archived]

How do different identities accept and reject the label “queer?”

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2018 Survey

Results

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Overall, queer was approved of by 72.9% of respondents, with 37.2% of respondents specifying queer was their preferred umbrella term.

Queer is the most widely preferred umbrella term, and the 3rd most approved of umbrella term, behind LGBT+ and LGBTQ+.

Groups that do not prefer the use of queer as an umbrella are: straight respondents, exclusionst-identifying respondents, transmedicalists, truscum, sex-negative respondents, and sex work critical respondents.

Queer as an umbrella was preferred above other umbrella terms by all gender identities, and by all orientation groups other than straight.

Keep reading

[infiniteglitterfall]

I’m fascinated to see that exclusionists are BY FAR the most opposed to the term “queer.” And that the only group that comes close to their 17% approval of the term is truscum, at 27%.

Not that I’m surprised they don’t like it. I’m surprised at the immense gap between what they insist, and scream, over and over – that very few people have reclaimed queer, that we should all avoid using it, that older people hate it because it was used against us but younger people hate it because only older people briefly reclaimed it –

and the reality of it being overwhelmingly accepted, preferred, and used, outside of all but a few very insulated groups.

[oodlenoodleroodle]

What tickles me the most about it is that the one group where the majority does agree with exclusionists’ view of “gueer” is THE STRAIGHTS! 

Like this makes me think so much of the whole “terfs and conservatives agree on a lot of stuff” -thing. (There’s a whole game somewhere, with quotes from terfs and conservatives where you have to guess which one said it, and it is a real fucking hard game…)

Like maybe you aren’t really all that much on the side you think you are, if you actually have a lot in common with the side that wants to hurt the group you claim to support. 

[13faeinapenguinsuit]

This so funny in so many ways and at this point, I’m just going to block anyone who says queer is a slur for being an exclusionist. I mean, because reasons.

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

[returntothesingularity]

Don’t belive the Crystal Gem propaganda. Rose Quartz is not from Earth.

[faelapis]

yes! - but it’s less propaganda and more that the crystal gems, with the exception of pearl (as seen in rose’s scabbard, pearl and rose both refer to the same planet as “home”, and it’s not earth. it’s somewhere they can’t return), genuinely believe rose was just an ordinary soldier. made “right here in the dirt”, as bismuth said. she has no reason to lie about that. 

that being said, it’s flat-out wrong. rose is not an earthling, and i’d wager there’s a pretty good reason she invented such a sweet, simple story for herself. 

[jaspurr]

reblogging this again because I just realized: pearl called amethyst “the one good thing” to come out of prime, do you really think she would have said that if either of them thought rose was from prime? so it looks like:

was told that rose was from earth: bismuth, garnet

knows the truth: pearl

doesn’t know shit about anything ever because nobody tells her anything, apparently: amethyst

[doolallymagpie]

so i will finally say this: the shape of water kind of takes for granted that the viewer will think the creature is on the same level as humans, mentally speaking.

like, it doesn’t try to “prove it” outside of a few scenes, and as a result we’ve got all these clowns insisting it’s a “degenerate filth bestiality movie”, who would probably say that anyway, but they’ve got ammo for it because guillermo del toro kind of just assumed nobody’d question the creature’s sentience and didn’t actually give a lot of textual evidence.

maybe there should’ve been a quick scene where he gathers up some art supplies, and then it cuts to the drawing of him and elisa, and it’s got some water stains on it or something (maybe not. maybe fish god is careful), and it’s pretty clear what happened. i don’t know. something like that.

[butterflyinthewell]

I think fish man’s competence is obvious from the start, but he really proves it with his very human interactions with Giles and Elisa. She presumed his competence. The same thing can be said for disabled people whose competence isn’t immediately visible, such as nonverbal autistic people, people with cerebral palsy and people with late stage ALS like Stephen Hawking. The biggest inhumanity I saw in the movie was Strickland. So the people you call clowns are probably the same people who wouldn’t presume competence if they came upon a disabled person who didn’t present it in a typical way.

[13faeinapenguinsuit]

This a brilliant and insightful reply @butterflyinthewell and I love it to pieces

[enbytenri]

I think forgot to say anywhere but twitter or my sideblog, but a month and a half ago I got top surgery. It went as expected, and now I don’t have any garbage on my chest anymore. It’s very good/cool.