FAE's Flights of Fancy

For following my friends, fandoms, feminism, and... you know what, I don't even like the letter F that much, this just sort of happened on its own. Blog still a WIP cuz I dunno wtf I'm doing.

[sioltach]

oh so people have been making their nails look like pretty and polished stones, why am I only finding this out now!!!

[vague-humanoid]

A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks

Published in coloration with Transfighters/Traction Project, A Self-Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinar

[wakewithgiggli]

The threead continues:

All people have a tendency to be unconsciously biased toward seeing trans women as untrustworthy, unsafe, lacking vulnerability, the problem to be solved rather than a person to be taken care of. And this is not less true in trans and queer and feminist communities. It’s just more unconscious, and more propped up with social justice, feminism, queer lib, leftist, and anti-oppression beliefs. This book is talking about this in context to a physical public situation of harassment, but this is true of social conflicts too, including on social media, in friend groups, in all kinds of situations. The unconscious bias also gets taken advantage of by people who know what they’re doing and hide behind that bias to make their mistreatment of transfems seem reasonable—again, often supported with social justice and anti-oppression rhetoric. TERFs aren’t the only people who do this! It felt so incredible to see this spelled out in print, plain as day, an actual book calling out a real thing I’ve experience more times than I can count, that all transfems I know go through, and that I still feel crazy for seeing because there’s so much gaslighting about it. You know how when you KNOW something is real, but you feel defensive about that knowledge, like you have to be ready to hold onto it, and then you see something confirming that knowledge for you in no uncertain terms and it feels like “wow maybe I wasn’t crazy all this time!” That’s how I felt seeing this.

The book linked is free to read and download. See the link above.

[punishedgwyndolin]

if you’re a transfem you should read this, and if you’re not you should reblog it for your transfem friends & followers, the advice in here is extremely good and the grips breaks are not hard to practice!!

[writingwithcolor]

WWC’s A Beginner’s Guide to Academic Research

We are pleased to present  WWC’s A Beginner’s Guide to Academic Research!

This pandemic project has been over 2 years in the making and we hope it will greatly assist any of our readers who are eager to conduct in-depth research but may be at a loss where to start. 

Go to the Guide Here

The guide is split into 6 parts:

Introduction and Table of Contents

Part 1: Getting Started

Part 2: Searching for Sources Online 

Part 3: Evaluating Sources

Part 4: Navigating Academic Sources 

Part 5: Recognizing Your Limits

Each portion of the guide has links to connect to the previous and next sections. While it is possible to view tumblr pages on phones and tablets through the app, we highly recommend viewing this guide via browser on desktop whenever possible. Tumblr page formatting is better suited for browsers and each section is very dense with information, which will make scrolling in the app or on your dashboard difficult. 

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[khazads]

Congratulations Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) dir. Daniels on 11 nominations and winning 7 awards at the 95th Academy Awards!

[florescentlcvesickness]

[soberscientistlife]

Let it out! Talking about it is part of the healing process

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

really love that mary elizabeth frye poem that’s like do not stand at my grave and weep!! I am not there!!! I do not sleep!!! Do not stand at my grave and cry!!!! I am not there!!!! I did not die!!!

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

poems that give one the urge to touch the stove

[saccharinescorpion]

so this is an extremely cool resource

the JSTOR article by Catherine Halley

a list of series at Reveal Digital

[queerplatonicpositivity]

[ ID: A screenshot of a Tweet from JSTOR Daily, which reads: “Thanks to @RevealDigital and their library partners, a whole slew of LGBTQ publications from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s are now open access and available for browsing:” Below that is an image of what appears to be a sepia-toned rooster head and a caption that restates the original Tweet with a link to daily.jstor.og. Beneath this is an image screenshot of more information from the link, which is listed above in saccharinescorpion’s description. END ID ]

[incendavery]

cliche? yes. the most important thing i’ve learned about anything? also yes

[slightlyaggressiveaffirmations]

SOMETIMES YOU’RE A BADASS JUST FOR MAKING A FUCKING DECISION!!!

MAYBE THERE ISN’T A “RIGHT” DECISION!!! MAYBE THERE ARE JUST OPTIONS THAT ALL HAVE THEIR PROS AND CONS, AND THERE’S NO WAY OF KNOWING HOW THE HELL ANYTHING WILL PLAY OUT!!! THAT’S WHEN IT’S THE HARDEST AND NO MATTER WHAT YOU CHOOSE, JUST MAKING A CHOICE IS KICKING SOME ASS!!! (and if you have executive dysfunction, sometimes choosing what to have for breakfast is a fucking miracle, so shout out to my people!)

[thatweirdguyinthebushes]

and the universe said you are stronger than you know

[littlewickedthings]

Ashley Baxter

[featheredadora]

It’s okay to grieve the things you’ve lost, whether that’s a person, your health, or hopes you had for a particular future

There’s no timeline for grief, but one day it won’t feel quite so heavy anymore

[flagellant]

Hello everyone I've been having a lot of health issues I've been trying to keep quiet and also ignore that I don't think are safe to ignore anymore. My light sensitivity has gotten so bad I get migraines nearly every day from inside lighting and my jaw is constantly aching and while I have some insurance and I can probably deal with the copay, it's gonna be a close thing and either way I will be flat broke afterward.

If you like what I do, be it poetry, occultism, gay gods, or saying opinions, or just wanna support a mixed race disabled dude be able to keep surviving in a capitalist hellscape, I'd appreciate a bit of support right now if it's at all something you can spare, and reblogs alone are always deeply appreciated.

My payment info is as follows:

Venmo: @ItsTheInnkeeper

Cash: $ItsTheInnkeeper

Paypal: http://paypal.me/tatteredveil

Thank yall again for the support, I don't often call for donations/community aid because generally speaking I can manage with what I've got, but Healthcare is the devil and so I gotta ask for an exorcism.

[lovveclub-deactivated20250721]

When you spend so long living to please other people you begin to accept one thing after another and eventually you forget you have the right to find things unacceptable after all. So let this be your reminder you can say no. You can be upset over things that hurt your feelings. You can take time for yourself. You don’t have to accept things the way they are.

[katadesmoi]

anyway. i think everything is secretly at least one of the following:

(a) a ritual

(b) a resurrection

© a haunting

(d) an apotheosis

(e) fate

(f) a labyrinth

(g) a funeral

[katadesmoi]

@olreid is CORRECT

[katadesmoi]

alright i made some really fucked up flowchart concepts. Im still workshopping it

[shorteststory]

"The Greenhouse," a story about grief after the end of the world

This was March 2021's story for subscribers who sign up for monthly stories printed on postcards & mailed around the world

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