in the grip of the riptide

@ephersy at twt; @ephersy at tumblr for mdzs blog

[cushfuddled]

Happy asexual awareness day from your local autochorrisexual

[cushfuddled]

I cannot begin to tell you how much of a joy it’s been to watch people read this comic and go “oh”

[nelc]

Objects as spaceships, by Eric Geusz

[cloudfreed]

My favorite is the fidget spinner space station. It almost feels like someone designed it first and then fidget spinners came out and now everyone laughs at it… instead of the other way around.

[nny11writes]

It’s Eric! He was one of my best friends in highschool!

He also does series of space cats, and one of the ones floating upside down and looking at you is based on my cat Ginger :D

The kitty herself, Ginger!

He’s a super cool dude and seeing his art on tumblr is nuts!

Check out his website, which includes an area to buy prints

You can see more of his work in general on Instagram

And buy T-Shirts too! 

God yeah I will hype him every chance I get lol!

[lacetulle]

Alexander McQueen | Resort 2023

[soursoppi]

big sect leader, small sect leader

[soursoppi]

what do you call a flock of Uncles… a headache!

[lourdes-archieve]

@Fanfic writers:

My friend send me this link, is a series on a profile on Ao3 (tumblr) that has different tutorials to insert things to fanfics via html code, I thought I would share bc it’s really cool

Lists of tutorials:

How to make images fit in mobile browsers

This is a tutorial/live example on how to make large images fit on mobile browsers but remain normal size on desktop browsers.

How to mimic letters, fliers, and stationery without using images

This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic the look of letters, fliers, and stationery (as well as other forms of written media) without using images. For all your epistolary fic needs.

How to make a “choose your own adventure” Fic

This is a tutorial/live example on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" fic. While this has been explained before (see here), this particular tutorial shows you how to use a work skin to hide the next parts from the reader until they click through to get to them.

How to make linked footnotes on Ao3

This is a live example of how an author can create linked footnotes in their work with only a little bit of HTML and no workskins required. This is best viewed by clicking "Entire Work". While I've included the actual coding in bold and italic once you click "Hide Creator's Style", there's a more detailed explanation here.

How to change text on Ao3 when the cursor is hovering over it (or clicked on mobile)

This a tutorial/live example on how to have text change or appear once a cursor is hovering over it. Helpful for pop-up spoilers, language translations, quick author's notes, etc.

How to mimic author’s notes and Kudos/Comment buttons

Anonymous on tumblr: do you have a skin that would mimic the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons section from the end of a fic? the desired effect being that the fic could go on after the “end” of the fic, so after the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons

Here's a tutorial/live example to do just that, with some of the buttons actually functioning. I'll explain more inside!

How to wrap text around images

This is a tutorial/live example on how to align images to the left or right of the screen and have text wrap around them.

How to mimic email windows

This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic email windows on AO3 without the need to use images.

How to make ios text messages on Ao3

This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.

How to make Customized page deviders

Bored with the default page dividers? This is a tutorial/live example on how customize your page dividers with no images needed (though I do show you how you could use images if you wanted to do such a thing).

How to make invisible text (That can be highlighted)

This is a live example how to make invisible text that can only be seen by highlighting the text. Tutorial is included in text, and you can always leave comments about questions you may have.

MOBILE USERS: Sadly, this probably won't work for you, since highlighting in a mobile browser is different than web. I've tried correcting this, but have yet to find a solution.

How to make a rounded playlist

Original coding and design is from layouttest. I make no claims for it, just tweaked it so it will work on AO3.

How to create notebook lined paper on Ao3

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of lined notebook paper in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

Sticky notes on Ao3 without using images

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of sticky notes (aka Post-Its) in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

How to make deadpool’s thinking thinking boxes on Ao3

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of Deadpool's thinking boxes in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

How to make newspaper articles on Ao3

This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of a newspaper article in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.

[zazablah]

See, this is why the Tsun Side Character Support Group should exist.

(x)

[zazablah]

Jiujiu and A-Ling; A-Ling and Jiujiu.

[calellon]

i'm sorry we've fallen out touch it's just that i've been in a very bad spot mentally (2011-present)

[vanishingage]

Adding a bunch of people from twitter over here and I suddenly have the feeling like I've decided to hold a party but forgotten to clean my apartment.

[vanishingage]

then again a bunch of my Twitter folk also know me from my old tumblr days so, hey, welcome back to this mess

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I love that tumblr’s recent profitability strategy has just been “okay so ads aren’t working well, subscriptions aren’t enough, what if we convinced our users to occasionally pay a small fee as part of dumb jokes?” and it’s working

[thecoeur]

It’s PRIDE MONTH and wanting to start with this little remembrance from queer people in the past.

[welpnotagain]

From the book: Baby, You Are My Religion by Marie Cartier

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

lantern festival （元宵节）by 烟波里的棠

[wanyinchen]

XichengStorm DAY 2: De-aging (and Misunderstanding on Lan Huan’s part) “Hua Penjie, send word to Grandmaster Lan about the situation!” 

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Lan Xichen was out with the YMJ juniors in a nighthunt. One of the accompanying seniors was joking around, running around and hitting distant leaves with pebbles. He then mistakenly hit a huge rotting tree and angered the slumbering yao into a fit of rage. The Yao was very powerful and though they managed to subdue it, LXC was hit with a vicious curse. His powerful core immediately worked overdrive to minimize the effects and thus, we got little Huan-didi. (Thank gods that his clothes also shrank!!) Everyone was panicking. Jiang-zongzhu was coming because they had sent a signal flare to ask for reinforcements in the fight but—!!! Oh gods. They are so dead.  Originally LXC had de-aged to be 8 years old. But one of the seniors quickly noticed that the more they tell xiao-Lan-zongzhu of his supposed future, the further he de-ages. He is now 4 years old. (Oh gods, they were SO dead) Thus they stopped telling LXC and starts calling him ‘’Xiao-Lan-gongzi’’. And they all did this while being overridden with terrible anxiety. They intimately KNOW how much Jiang-zongzhu can overreact when it comes to his beloved ones. Oh gods, they can already feel the imminent 50 laps around the whole Lotus Pier. When JC arrived in a flash of purple lightning, they immediately told him of the situation. To their surprise, JC only gave them the stink-eye and picked up his de-aged fiancé. JC took in charge of the situation, directing disciples in securing the area and suppressing the yao more securely. 

They immediately went back to Lotus Pier and rushed LXC to the healers. To everyone’s relief, the healer said that the curse is not permanent and will be neutralized in a week or so.  JC: Don’t think you lot are off the fucking hook. YMJ Disciples: It was Gui-shixiong’s fault!!!😠😭 Gui-shixiong: 😭😭😭😭😭 I’m so sorry, zongzhu!! I will never be careless ever again!😭😭😭 JC: I should prescribe a more rigorous training program and more difficult classes for all of you😤😤 YMJ Disciples, sobbing: Ok, zongzhu!! We’re sorry, zongzhu!!! Please forgive us! We’ll train and study more!😢😭😭😭😭 LXC: UWU 🥰🥰😍😍

And little Huan-didi fell in love at first sight! Cue the Huan’er shenanigans.

[perfectlysanexd]

Someone asked me if there was a master post of all my doujinshi, and well, there wasn't. So now there is. I'll try to remember to keep it up to date. Hope you guys find this helpful.

Latest Update: 7/8/22: Added Fortis by Harpy Killer.

0811 By Kiki

Ambivalenz by Kiki

Baptize by ERY'S & Plough

Beneath the Ruins of the Rotten Pizza by Nikudaifuku

Blue Memory by Harpy Killer

Blur by Kiki

Cage by ERY'S & Plough

Chocolate by ERY'S & Plough

Cloudy Cloudy by N&N's

Cocytus by Nightflight

Code-C by Kiki

Colorless by N&N's

Core by Nikudaifuku

Crosswise by ERY'S & Plough

Curse by ERY'S & Plough

Daredevil by Harpy Killer

Darlin' From Hell by Nikudaifuku

Devil n' Angel by ERY'S & Plough

Egoist! by Harpy Killer

Egoist by Sketchbook Show

Electric Lala Land by Nikudaifuku

Fairy Syndrome HONEY by Nightflight

Fairy Syndrome Perfumed by Nightflight

Fleeting Dream by Nightflight

Fortis by Harpy Killer

Indulgence by Nightflight

In My World by ERY'S & Plough

Zilch by Kiki

[the-sunshine-cult-deactivated20]

Different person, but, I've seen some people who are older in the community claiming that kink and polyamory have historically been considered part of the community. I don't know enough about the history there, do you know anything on that? I've been on the "no" side with those two, but I mean, I don't really know anything that would go against those historical claims, so do you know if are they true?

I don’t know any history surrounding that but kinks and poly are not LGBT+. They deviate from social norms, certainly, but they’re adjectives, not subjects.

okay idk if that made sense im not an english major guys

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Okay so I’ve made about a dozen of these posts in the last month or two, so I’m not going to get as exhaustive as I sometimes do, but here’s the history that my mother and aunties taught me about kink and polyamory as queer.

When I was growing up, I was told that the kink community was the physical space in which the queer community existed and that non-monogamy/polyamory as the concepts that exist today were born directly out of queer culture and the environments that shaped it.

Basically, back in the early years when most of queer culture was an arrestable offense and people mostly only got to meet their partners in the backrooms of old speakeasies and nightclubs, kink spaces were doing the same thing and were one of the only non-mob owned options for gatherings. Kink communities themselves were almost entirely made up of queer folks already anyways because surprise surprise a community made mostly of abuse survivors is gonna have pretty high rates of queer folks in it. And because of the semi-public nature of the spaces and the limited safe dating options polyamory and related non-monogamous practices became common place.

They became so common place in fact that queerness and queer culture completely and foundationally shaped the discussions around consent, relationship needs, emotional connections, and ethical behavior that became central to kink and polyamory as practices. They became so common place in part because it made sense, in part because the cultures all needed each other, and in part because, as my mother always said, “if society had already damned you just for being queer, what did you have to lose by trying all the other things society was going to damn you for as well?” This, incidentally, is also why there have historically been such high numbers of queer folk in illegal occupations like sex work and why my mom and aunties also used to consider sex work as a culture pretty fucking queer too.

But the years went by and your average, “respectable” white gay and lesbian folks with their picket fence day dreams started making progress. They started kicking people to the curb in an effort to make queerness look less “challenging” and different. Bye bye, bisexuals, bye bye drag and trans culture, bye bye non-monogamy what do you mean you actually think the “slippery slope” to gay marriage also leading to polygamy might be a good thing? Bye bye all you sex freaks, sexuality is something your born with and you can’t help who you love, it’s not like all that disgusting talking-about-sex-and-building-the-entire-network-of-sex-ed-information-we-used-to-desperately-try-and-survive-the-AIDS-crisis-ew-you-perverts-our-sex-is-beautiful-and-pure-like-marriage! And so on and so forth.

See, when it was all about survival, the distinction that Straight people drew between gay, kinky, polyamorous, trans, ace, etc was irrelevant. They’d kill us all the same so we might as well band together and make a world in which the next generation might not just live but thrive. But once it became about gaining access to state acceptance and making room within the legal framework that already existed, those of us who were too scary to Straight society, who still needed the hierarchy destroyed, not just expanded, became dead weight. Our labor, our physical space, our intellectual efforts all became irrelevant and all that mattered was when the Straights looked at White Cis Gays they saw Us instead. So the White Cis Gays fixed that by making it clear they thought we were just as disgusting as the Straights thought we were. They abandoned us and took our history and our language and our fucking lives with them and said we weren’t ~allowed~ to have it. And because those of us who were marginalized in many ways or who were doubly or triply damned were more likely to have suffered massive losses during the AIDS crisis and to still be living in poverty, in crime, and in general destitution of social capital, we’ve been fighting an uphill battle not to be erased ever since.

So now you have a whole generation or two or three who grew up being told a sanitized history where a “drag queen” threw the first brick at Stonewall, Pride wasn’t started by one of the bisexual Queens of Kink, and non-monogamy hasn’t been the natural progression of so many of our communities for generations. And they tell us we never existed, we’re just secret straighties thinking our gross sex lives make us queer, we could just choose to be respectable and “normal” like everyone else and then we wouldn’t be “bullied” (because god forbid our actual oppression be recognized) and they completely miss the irony.

And as much as I hate that I have to list my credentials in order for there to be a chance in burning hell for this response to be considered legitimate, I am the nonbinary, bisexual, polyamorous, kinky, intersex child of a bisexual, kinky, polyamorous woman who spent all of my life and most of hers in the heart of Queer culture and politics to the point that she put me on the stand in front of the entire school board and a third of the state at age 10 to fight for our right to participate in the Day of Silence without fear of suspension, expulsion, abuse, or injury/death. I was on my mother’s hip at the state capitol protests with police in riot gear ready to do whatever it took to prevent us from entering the building. I am Queer in so many ways, including ones no one can dare fucking argue and so was my mother before me and my aunties before her, and this is THEIR history I am telling and will keep telling until I’m dead because I will rot before I let people erase their memories, blood, and joy from our history by claiming that kink and polyamory don’t belong.

I apologize for that all sounding angry and upset. It is not aimed at anyone in particular. I am just very very tired and it’s almost Passover which means that my auntie’s are a lot more on my brain than usual and I am just so exhausted by the way I have been mocked and belittled for months now over things that were simply Truth when I was growing up. Please understand how much history is denied and how many ancestors are dishonored by this rhetoric of “who REALLY belongs in the community?”

We were not supposed to be an exclusive club with a guard at the gate. We were supposed to be a role model by which society learned to better itself and treat us ALL with dignity and humanity. And I am tired of seeing people pretend otherwise.

[whovianuncle]

We were not supposed to be an exclusive club with a guard at the gate. We were supposed to be a role model by which society learned to better itself and treat us ALL with dignity and humanity. And I am tired of seeing people pretend otherwise.

[jenroses]

When I met my “First queer person ™” back in 1990, one of the things she said to me that I spent about 27 years unpacking was this:

“monogamous heterosexual relationships are patriarchal bullshit.”

I took offense at the time. But when you don’t let people use words like “queer” to describe “everyone who isn’t in this Normative Bubble of heterosexual serial monogamy”, you have to get pretty specific about the fact that STRAIGHT refers to this concept of being “normal” which in this culture has meant for many years “Straight, cis, monogamous (or doing your best to fake all of the above)” 

Quit fucking gatekeeping.

The people who hate us hate all of us. Joining them in their hatred doesn’t solve the problem. 

The way they win is if they get us to fight each other. 

[grace-and-ace]

I don’t reblog sensitive topics on this blog, but this is exactly what I had a long conversation about recently. I’m not young, and I remember shit like this as it was happening. polyamory is queer as fuck and learn to respect that

[penrosesun]

Relatedly, also – the legal fights for legal polyamory and kink are fundamentally tied to the legal fights for gay and trans rights.

Here’s something that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough: even today, most states have anti-kink laws on the books, and will sometimes prosecute consenting kink participants for assault and battery. And in places where this happens, it is pretty much exclusively used to target queer clubs and spaces, in almost exactly the same way that anti-sodomy laws once were.

When I was in undergrad, a queer nightclub near where I went to school got busted because someone was reportedly “hitting a patron with a wooden spoon”. The people arrested were charged with assault with a dangerous weapon – the alleged ‘weapon’ being the spoon – a felony punishable by up to 5 years in state prison and $1,000 fine. Turns out, there wasn’t any play happening in the club at that hour, and there were no wooden spoons found anywhere in the building… but you better believe that the proud queers the cops arrested for it had to find lawyers and make bail and go to court dates anyway. And even if the cops had found a fucking spoon in the club, would that have justified any of it? Make no mistake – this club, like so many other queer kinky clubs across the country, was targeted because it was queer. And separating out the queer from the kinky would do jack shit to help anyone arrested that night.

Anti-kink (and anti-poly) are weaponized in order to target queer people, specifically, and in significant numbers. And as far as I’m concerned, that’s enough to make them inherently anti-queer as political tactics, even laying aside all of the history above. Don’t do our enemy’s dirty work for them.

[moki-dokie]

god fucking thank you for thoroughly explaining this. i’m so exhausted by this argument and so exhausted explaining these points to people.

i am once again begging the baby gays to LEARN YOUR QUEER HISTORY

[roach-works]

we need to bring back the concept of being a fucking square. like, a complacent prude who mindlessly regurgitates social norms because they think everyone should be either normal or punished until they conform? fucking square. a heterosexual man involved in his local kink scene is more queer than half the proto-radfem baby lesbians i see on tumblr, freaking out because someone said the word transexual.  

straight used to be the counterpart of bent. it was the opposite of broken, crooked, twisted, queer. forget ‘queer is a slur’, ‘straight’ used to be like that, too. a derisive term for the kind of people who were square, who were rigid, who lived in boxes and did as they were told and who hurt you if you wouldn’t admire them for it. straight  as in straight and narrow. as in straight as a ruler. as in stay in line. 

ive seen an awful lot of self-professed LGBT kids who would qualify as really, really straight.

[rainbowsky]

(1/2) This might be off-topic or offensive (feel free not to answer), but could you explain what being proud of your sexuality is to you? In the sense of being personally proud? I get how queer people want to make others understand they exist and they love and function just like anybody else etc.I'm on the demisexual scale (attracted to both males but females but had limited relationship experience due to rarely being really interested in others) and I can't say I'm proud.

(2/2)Because it’s just the way I am, nothing to be ashamed of, but nothing to be proud of either. I know I want to let the whole world know I’m in love when I am but I don’t feel “proud” reagrdless of gender. Just want to know what it can mean.

This is in reference to a previous post.

Maybe you’re fairly young, or else maybe not from a western nation? Most queer people who grew up embroiled in the fight for queer rights have a pretty strong relationship with the concept of Pride.

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[potteresque-ire]

Anon, raising my hand here and confessing that I, too, am a queer who feels “it’s the way I am”. Of a non-Western background but have been in the West for years now, I used to wonder too, wonder if I wasn’t … proud enough, if some deep-seated queerphobia within me disqualified me from being a worthy participant of Pride events.

Over time, I’ve come up with some thoughts—thoughts that stay with me when I attend Pride now, where I still watch, still often with a little wonder, at other participants dancing, flaunting who they are (sometimes with quite a bit of flesh, as you mentioned in your other ask! 😊)—being Out and Proud, as Rainbowsky said.

Thoughts that, I believe, explain why I go to Pride and justify my being a worthy Pride participant, even if emotionally, I may not feel Pride the way many queers around me do. I thought, since it’s the winter holidays, maybe I’ll share these thoughts … in case someone may have had the same feelings. In case someone may have had the same doubts as I did.

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