Magneto Was Right

PLEASE BUY MY BOOK | Gail/Daniel, late 20s, they/he | Jewish | really into a lot of shit | "a Jason Todd and Deadpool lovebot blog" - @thefortysecond | almost everything is queued, but nothing is tagged as such | JustGail on ao3 | sideblogs: queerastronauts, jewishswiftie, hebrish

[evilwickedme]

Ahhhhh I can't wait anymore!

Look at this gorgeous cover @not-the-blue drew for my book!!! And yes, it is already available for preorder right here (currently it's just for the kindle edition but the paperback should be available within the next couple of days)

This project has been a labor of love with much needed support from people both on and off Tumblr (special mention to, of course, Asya, who not only drew the cover but was there to help me process many of the emotions I turned into a book, and also @justafictionlover, for often reading the poems before anyone else)

I wrote these poems out of a place of grief, loss, and sadness, but I've come out the other end a better person, and also with a book. Of poetry. That I wrote. Holy shit.

The book will become available on the fifteenth of march 2022, a week from today. I'm so excited for all of you to read it. 💜💜💜

[evilwickedme]

My book is out!!!! You can buy it in Kindle format or paperback here!!!!!!!! ✨✨✨

[solitairians]

sunnydale dashboard simulator

☀️carriebradshawunderstander Follow hey I think I just saw a giant lizard thing take a bite out of a guy's head. what's up with that

🏹theslayer Follow don't worry about it kitten

☀️carriebradshawunderstander Follow okay ❤️ yay ❤️

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🫶breakingdawn not to be insensitive but some of the people who come to my sister (the slayer) for help are so funny. "you need to stop her I saw her at the demon cult ritual!!!" girl... what were YOU doing at the demon cult ritual 👀

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🌌blinking182times I moved to sunnydale for college and tbh I still really don't get why everyone is soooo into LARPing here... no matter where you go you constantly hear people talking about vampires n shit and if you refuse to go along with it they look at you like YOURE the crazy one 😭

🐈‍⬛annericeroutine Follow op i hate to break it to you but we're not larping the vampires and demons are very much real

🌌blinking182times sure whatever man

#this is what I'm talking about like??? 💀💀💀

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🏆most-fuckable-demon-tournament

ROUND 7 - Lei-ach vs Ethros

Lei-ach

Ethros

Voting ended onOct 2, 2025

🍄mschanandlerbong Follow Please delete this blog. This entire tournament is so offensive, many of us have lost loved ones to demon attacks, including my sister who died at the hands of a Lei-ach. I know you're just joking around but please don't try to "fuck" a demon. You can't. THEY WILL KILL YOU.

🏆most-fuckable-demon-tournament okay well rip to your sister but i'm different

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🦇armandapologist Follow human blood tastes so good when you don't have a slayer in your ear bitching about how drinking it is evil

🏹theslayer Follow 🙄

🦇armandapologist Follow

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💸imanya-andimnotademon2001 woahhh me and giles just got jumped by a bunch of vampires. I got away but they're beating his ass rn :(

#anya talks #his legs are old and because of that he can't run very fast #sad!! :(

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🪽angelinvestigationsofficial

No one's. I'm celibate. Who told you this

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💫pulpfanfiction Follow the british guy showing me some magic book: it's funny, I was a teenager when this book was published... but looking at it you'd think it's ancient! haha...

me: I think I hauve been cursed

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🔮willow Follow hi sunnydale citizens, i'm really glad everyone is showing their pride but please remove any banners saying "everyone is welcome" from your house, vampires WILL be able to come in!

☠️xxx-spike-xxx Follow sounds to me like you're just homophobic... keep them up everyone.

🔮willow Follow i'm literally gay?

☠️xxx-spike-xxx Follow notice how she's not denying it. SHAME ON YOU

[targetedknowledge]

[notaplaceofhonour]

If someone personally doesn’t identify as queer or want to be called queer, I can fully respect that, but a talking point I keep seeing from anti-queer LGBT people is that only a small sliver of identities or members of the community even fall under the label of queer, so using it as an umbrella term is just calling the majority of gay & trans people (the “normal” “respectable” ones) a homophobic slur to kowtow to a fringe minority.

This is false.

The grain of truth being misrepresented here is that, when asked if they identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, or something else, roughly 6% of LGBTQ+ folks identified as “something else”, including identities such as asexual, pansexual, or queer. The crucial word here, of course, is “or”.

Nearly half of people who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bi, or trans (and the majority of them under 50) still say they consider themselves queer. It just isn’t instead of identifying as a lesbian, gay, bi, or trans.

The fact that we also have a more specific label doesn’t invalidate our use of “queer” as a general or umbrella term.

4. LGBTQ identities

More than half of LGBTQ adults identify as bisexual, 40% are gay or lesbian, and 9% are transgender.

LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Rises to 9.3%

LGBTQ+ identification among U.S. adults has increased to 9.3%.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Anecdotally, the general tone of the LGB(T) Minus Q rhetoric this argument is coming from carries the idea of this just being a fad among young people (the loony libs, the far left, the blue-hair student activists, what-have-you) that’s leaving older gay men and lesbians behind.

And certainly, there is a correlation between age and self-identification as queer. But some other interesting and important details from this data reveal a bit more.

The first is that there is a co-correlation in younger populations, of both being more likely to identify as LGBTQ+ to begin with, and being more likely to identify as queer. The former is generally attributed to more accepting attitudes around LGBTQ+ identity removing the stigma of questioning gender / sexuality & identifying as anything other than straight & cisgender; given that, I don’t think it’s a stretch to argue it also explains the latter. Because “queer” has lost a lot of the bite and stigma it once had (in no small part to the work of out-and-loud queer elders paving the way by reclaiming the term), people are now more likely to identify as it.

The second, which I personally find even more interesting, is that there’s actually a much much stronger correlation between identifying as both queer and trans (82% of trans people identify as queer, Pew) than there is between identifying as “queer” and being young (59% of LGBTQ adults ages 18-29 identify as queer).

So, in addition to carrying a lot of the same tone and argumentation style as trans-exclusionary rhetoric, the group actually being pushed aside by this actually includes roughly 80% of trans people.

LGBT Minus Q is just a Trojan horse for LGB (Minus T).

[notaplaceofhonour]

exactly lol

I got in an argument with someone who said that using “queer” without specifically naming lesbian and gay people was erasing gay elders who lived through the AIDS crisis because “only a fraction of identities are covered by queer” (only if you use queer as a narrow catchall for any separate identity other than LGBT, but it’s usually used as a catch-all for LGBTQ+ as a whole, so false) and older gays are less likely to self-describe as queer (technically true but still a third of them do), then rejected the above numbers out of hand because “self-ID” made them unreliable (???)

and this slogan (the historical one “We’re Here We’re Queer (Get Used to It/We’re Not Going Away)” ) is what I brought up in response to that. like come on dude. it’s possibly one of the most well-known LGBTQ+ rights protest slogans, alongside Love Is Love, Love Wins, and Born This Way.

and what are we even talking about. everyone self-IDed back then. it’s not like we ever had an LGBeit Din officially validating LGBT identities. the third party verification we had of gay people was homosexuality being in the DSM. Do we really want to go back to that?? No thank you! what the fuck are we talking about!

[asamatterofcourse]

i wish tumblr had community notes. id add one that said "this user is a turk pretending to be an antizionist jew."

[kosher-toasty]

[nonbinaryjudean]

(Jewish) pride month day 8: Efrat Tilma

Efrat Tilma is an Israeli trans activist, policewoman, and writer. She has helped to bring attention to and correct the mistreatment of transgender people by the police. A play based on her autobiography, "Made He a Woman", has been performed at the national theater of Israel. A documentary was recently made about her life, titled "The First Lady", was part of the 2026 New York Jewish Film Festival. In 2022, she was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women of the year.

suggested by @theres-a-hole-in-my-wall

[baddywronglegs]

Do you think Michael Crichton had a deep-seated hatred of theme parks because he was too tall for all the rides?

[wanderer-chronicles]

Yes.

[tumblr] is a flat circle.

[baddywronglegs]

Damn, it sure is huh

[zetabrarian]

We should do this more on this website.

Person 1: -posts-

Person 2: -pulls out the historical documents-

[baddywronglegs]

I have been brought before the scriptures and my heresies found canonical.

I accept the judgement "unoriginal" and "should have looked it up first" but, in my inadequate defence, Tumblr's search function does fucking suck.

[zeemczed]

Defense found perfectly cromulent. Let Baddywronglegs free, and let no mark be against said blog.

[fozmeadows]

"I have been brought before the scriptures and my heresies found canonical" is an all-time banger line.

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[nonbinaryjudean]

Sometimes I want to talk about the racism and discrimination I as a Jew of Jewish ancestry experience based on my physical appearance and my heritage without being told “but there’s no way to look Jewish!!!! But every Jew is an ethnic Jew!!!!!” That’s great doesn’t change the fact i am considered to have been born Wrong

[nonbinaryjudean]

a large part of the feelings I'm trying to express have to do with generational trauma and familial histories. and i really don't know how to put it better than "there are things that have happened in the past to my ancestors that are ingrained in who i am in every way possible". and wanting to be able to speak for my ancestors. it can feel really demeaning to have your voice taken away from you because you aren't an "interesting" enough Jew. because you are "just" Ashkenazi. because you are a bland "European" Jew who must experience so much white privilege. because you know so much less about Judaism than someone else. to be excluded from discussions of racism because I am not a "Jew of color". i am not diverse enough, i am not marginalized enough. my ancestors' food and language are one big, massive joke not only to the goyische world but to other Jews. we are considered genetically fucked up. they say were inbred. they say our genetic health problems are indicators that we should have gone extinct (rather than examining the impacts of prolonged stress not only on an individual but through generations.) they say we aren't real jews. we're khazars, white colonizers, were all converts, we don't belong. the true Jews are all people of color. so, i must not be a Jew. The fact that I am a Jew is an inherent part of my body in the same way I have eyes or legs or lungs. my Jewishness is such a central part of who I am as a person and how I am alive as a person.

i have no interesting story to tell to land myself on your DEI board. i have no universalizing statement of kindness. i have nothing to say about how a Jew is a Jew is a Jew. i have no explanation of the lessons i should have learned by the genocide my great grandparents avoided, only because they had to survive a different one. it's all been said before.

i can tell you the story of how my great grandfather escaped the pogroms by hiding in a wagon. how he made it to America with nothing. I can tell you about the lack of documentation i have of my family's history. I can tell you about the crouton recipe passed down through my family through visual learning. i can tell you we found eight generations of my family history, all through the maternal line (you always know who the mother is). i can tell you they lived in Riga and had yiddish names. I can tell you I have a very American name. I know what my paternal great grandfather's surname was, but I cannot spell it. he changed it after immigration. his first name too. i can tell you my mother was asked if she had horns growing up. i can tell you people misspell her name, make fun of it (it is Hebrew.) I can tell you kids stared at me in middle school when the holocaust was mentioned. I can tell you about the times i experienced what is legally a hate crime in the places my family had to leave. I can tell you why I knock on wood, why I was named for my mother's late grandmother, why I haven't been to a funeral, why my grandma hates tattoos. I can tell you about my experience as a third generation American. I can tell you about my family about Jewish geography about summer camps and community centers and Jewish day school. I can tell you about the first time I was told I was going to hell. I can tell you how sad other kids were when I said I dont celebrate christmas, how they assumed it must be because my parents dont love me. I can tell you how adults act the same way now when given this information. I can tell you how I felt the day 1200 Jews were murdered in ways I knew in my bones. I can tell you that it felt like i was reliving a memory passed to me through the womb.

but look at me. I am just a Jew. I am just an Ashkenazi Jew. my voice is overrepresented already. i am too loud, too much. i take up too much space. and i am mean. i am a very mean jew.

[jewish-sideblog]

local sociologist deeply fucking tired of people on the internet using basic soc terminology incorrectly and harmfully

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I don't actually think the president should be able to veto bills passed by both the Senate and the House that are designed specifically to limit the president's power. The fact that that is an actual thing that Trump, or ANY president, is able to do is insane to me.

[adz]

reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now

[dietspam16]

[todayis-snowy]

wow i love zagreus i wish bisexual people were real

[machine-saint]

in an astounding coincidence, the right level of technology happens to be the exact one I was surrounded with growing up

[storm-of-feathers]

if your "queer safe space" bans the star of david then it is not a safe space.

[naphthalen]

in fanfiction one must sometimes ask ourselves not if he would do that but under what conditions would he would do that

[morkaischosen]

#he would only do that under duress and oh boy I'm about to pile it on (@ravnervn)

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications.

It has been suggested elsewhere that if you are a Wiki Foundation donor, it would be a good idea to email and explain that this kind of behaviour will lead to you withholding future donations.