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I'm sorry I'm going fucking insane over trans people in sports issues the anti trans crowd has lost the fucking plot and then has the audacity to act like its the trannies who are ridiculous
I used to be of the "well the sports issue isn't really important to me its w/e I just don't want it to be a gateway into other transphobia" but oh my fucking god we are so far gone. The fencing shit is sending me over the edge. What the fuck.
I can't even articulate my words so I'm just going to tell a story in screenshots
I am so fucking tired of being gaslit about this
I'm also still so fucking pissed that we have to include "ooo the trans fencer only finished in X place" because its a reminder that trans women will never be allowed to excel at anything in the public eye without being cut down. Fuck OFF
i hope you don’t mind me adding to this post op but i’ve got a sorta personal connection to this story. for ppl who do not know this about me, ive been fencing for like five years and am trans. i also used to fence in the same circles as this woman
this woman—stephanie turner is her name, because i think people should know it so this shit can ruin her life—regularly fences cis men and wins because fencing is fucking co-ed
i know that is in the screenshots already, but what i can add which isn’t in the screenshot is that i personally know and have fenced some of the people listed in that “competition history” screenshot, including some of the cis men which she beat. i know from fencing them myself that these guys are good, smart, capable fencers
that said, even if i didn’t know them, i could tell you a lot of these guys are solid. do you see that column labeled “rating”? being rated means they’ve placed very well or won medals at prestigious or decently sized tournaments—E is the lowest rating (but still difficult to get) and ratings go up to A (and U means unrated). if you look, you can see she beat a few rated fencers in that screenshot, some of them male!
another thing i know about stephanie turner is that she fences at a club my friend’s brother works at. she regularly beats said brother, who is 6’4 and 200lbs. i’ve never met this brother, but if he’s anything like my friend, he’s a damn good fencer with years of experience. stephanie turner is GOOD. per my friend, she probably would have won the bout she took a knee on. she really did not need to pull shit transphobic shit and i guarantee she knows it.
all this shit about fencing cis men really does not matter, to be clear. being a woman beating men doesn’t make stephanie a good fencer—it doesn’t even make her a notable fencer. every afab fencer who is good enough to beat other fencers beats amab fencers. the first fencer i beat as an afab person was a cis man who started the sport at the same time as me just bc we were at the same general level. because again, fencing is co-ed. i just am explaining all this to show how damn stupid dying on this hill is (and the fact she for sure knows how damn pointless and hateful it is)
because fencing is NOT a strength sport! being stronger or taller than your opponent, like how a cis man would stereotypically be vs a cis woman, isn’t necessarily an advantage—strength can absolutely fuck you up if you don’t know how to manage it, and if you know how to use it, being shorter than your opponents can actually be an advantage
if anything, fencing a stamina sport, which something you can very much train no matter your gender if you put in the work. more than anything to do with strength or speed, though, fencing is a strategy sport. there is really no reason to gender segregate it. a lot of tournaments do, but plenty tournaments DON’T, and most clubs you go to for practice and drills and learning fencing will be co-ed and have you constantly fencing against “opposite sex” fencers
(half related—one of the best foils on my fencing team is a trans woman who sometimes fences in the men’s brackets in tournaments and regularly beats cis men)
if stephanie turner is a good fencer—which she definitely is—she knows all of this. that fencing is more about stamina, that strength and height mean nothing, that the only thing that really matters is your strategy.
stephanie turner was literally just doing this to be an asshole. the fact she’s getting money for it is fucking disgusting. i hope she faces some damn consequences for this shit, because it’s such stupid, hateful bullshit, especially for a sport where that “biological advantage” shit really and truly does not matter
i do want to end this addition on a nice note tho, so i want to add: a few days after this story broke—this weekend, actually—i attended a two day tournament as a spectator. while it wasn’t everywhere, i definitely saw a lot of refs and staff wearing trans pride/support pins, as well as a few people in attendance wearing trans supportive shirts and accessories. all of the people ive spoken to in the fencing world about this—which is quite a lot—have thought it both appalling and monumentally stupid, and im hoping that will lead to consequences for stephanie turner and anyone else who tries to follow in her bullshit idiot footsteps
I don't have anything to add, but this is more insight than I could ever have so I'm RBing for visiblity
Any time something like this comes up, I also think about chess being segregated by gender. There's no reason for it, and I think that extends to most sports (including fencing, which thankfully is largely unsegregated).
Why do we need - or even want - two separate leagues for men's sports and women's sports? The gender pay gap, the recognition gap, the trans sports "issue" are all solved by having only one league for these sports (except, of course, for bigotry like we see above).
Men have the advantage - on average - in some sports, sure, that's the argument. But time and time again, stories show that the best female athletes can and often do defeat the best male athletes (in fact, that's why competitive skeet shooting was gender segregated in 1992).
It all seems pointless to me, especially on an activity that is supported to be fun.
Has anybody noticed the lack of cis women competing at high levels in sports that, realistically, cis women should own?
For example, car racing. Danica Patrick being smaller and lighter than the men she races against is such an advantage that the league made a lot of noise about handicapping her by putting extra weights in her car. (To the best of my knowledge this did not happen.) Why is she the only cis female car racer anyone's ever heard of, when being small and light is an advantage in driving fast?
Or horse racing! Practically every teenage girl in the world used to want to own a horse, or loved horses, or wanted to ride horses. Jockeys are small men, typically, because being small and light is an advantage in racing if something is carrying you. And the strength difference between men and women is a. all in the upper body, which is basically not really used in racing a well-trained horse and b. negligible in comparison to the strength of the horse. I don't care how strong a dude is, he's not using his manly strength to guide the horse. The horse is much stronger than him, full stop. It's the horse's training and the trust and respect between horse and jockey and the jockey's strategic mind that wins horse races. All of which are traits cis women have just as much as cis men if not more so in some cases, considering how many cis men are subjected to an upbringing that trains them to think empathy for an animal is a weakness. Why are all the top jockeys not cis women?
Long distance running. Over a distance, speed doesn't matter as much as stamina and endurance, which science has proven cis women have a slight advantage, on average, over cis men in. So... why do cis women not dominate marathons?
Also, why is long distance swimming not a popular sport? Is it just because we don't have mile-long swimming pools? Because we could use natural bodies of water and have boats coming behind the athletes to grab them if they falter and look like they're gonna sink. Could it possibly be because women, with higher endurance and more body fat for better floatation, would be better at it?
Or -- a slightly different angle. Men's professional basketball has become all about "how tall are the athletes you can recruit." Women's professional basketball is still about skill and strategy, not about absurd heights and which team can field more incredibly tall people. I'm not saying short women dominate in women's professional basketball, but I am saying that women exist at the upper extremes of height much more rarely, so women's professional basketball is basically "normal human professional basketball." Why is it so unpopular and unhyped in comparison to men's? Why do the men make so much more money, when they're playing a sport that the vast majority of fit and trained athletes couldn't win in, because those fit and trained athletes aren't in the 99.9% percentile for height? Women's basketball ought to be more interesting than men's... but funny that.
Soccer (aka football everywhere but the US) is a sport where a low center of gravity is valuable. So is hockey. In fact, I, a short and unathletic autistic girl, did incredibly well at floor hockey in high school, in comparison to the taller girls who were better athletes, because I could get under them to get the puck. Therefore why do cis women not dominate those sports? Particularly soccer! Cis men excel at upper body strength but the strength levels of cis men and women's legs are pretty close to equal, and you're not allowed to use your upper body strength in soccer! Women should have an advantage over men there. They do not.
It's because all of the "men are better at sports" bullshit is the patriarchy talking. Men have to be better at sports than women because women have already proven we can compete with men in every other way. Individual female athletes who are excellent cannot be allowed to compete with excellent men because what if they win? What does that say about men and women?
And that's why this "trans women shouldn't compete with cis women" thing was bullshit from the getgo. (Particularly when it's applied to trans girls, who if they are under 13 or they're on puberty blockers don't have significant advantage over their agemate cis girls.) Trans women do not have systemic advantages over cis women in most sports -- not if they've fully transitioned, because you need a continuing supply of testosterone to have the muscular advantage over cis women -- and a fuckton of sports are ones where cis women should own trans women because on average trans women are taller, and sports exist where greater height is a disadvantage.
And then shit like chess. Seriously? The only way a trans woman could be better at chess than a cis woman for a reason to do with her agab (as opposed to, she just happens to be better at chess) is that, growing up as a boy, she was encouraged to play chess more often. Well, you know what, at high level athletic competitions, that's not allowed for a separator. You don't get to say "rich men who grew up with chess tutors are not allowed to play with poor men who only had public school chess club, because they had more opportunity to play chess." Also, it's not provable. My dad practically pushed me into playing chess, and I'm cis female. (I'm not any good at it, not because I am a cis female, but because I don't think multiple steps ahead; my intellectual strengths are in analyzing what has already happened, not in predicting what people will do next. I might be able to beat Elon Musk, though.) If a cis woman is competing in chess at a high level, she is probably very capable of trouncing a cis man. And probably has, many times. So... bullshit.
This is all a FANTASTIC perspective
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im sobbing op
two of the transfems youre friends with have been talking to you about the clinic they got their bottom surgery done at. apparently its dirt cheap, and the surgeon - despite some oddities and, your friends admit, poor hygiene - is incredibly talented. theyre more than happy to give you her phone number when you ask, and while it sounds simultaneously incredibly sketchy and way too good to be true, at this point youre just so broke, desperate, and tired of gatekeepers that you're willing to give it a shot.
you call on a thursday afternoon, and the call is picked up on the fourth ring, when youre just gearing up to hear an answering machine. the voice on the other end sounds like a middle-aged woman with a smoking habit trying to sound like a cheery, bubbly young girl, and mostly succeeding. hiiiii! what can i do for you? she asks. you say er im looking for a surgical clinic is this the right number? she says mhm! thats me. you say okay, i just have a few questions. she says shoot. you say do you take patients who arent referred to you? she says nobody refers patients to me so yes. then she giggles. youve never heard somebody pull off a giggle in real life. you ask okay, so ive been looking for a place to get my metoidoplasty done, can you do that here? she says i dont know what that is give me like five seconds. then the line goes silent. you can hear her typing on a mechanical keyboard and humming to herself as she reads. youre now convinced that this is not in any way a legitimate medical institution.
Life series pearl and her blind loyalty will always make me insane this is VERY rushed but i needed to draw something because pearl defending grian as much as gem despite not knowing anything about the secret has been on my mind
That’s not a healthy mindset to have and it’s going to bite her in the ass
i think a big difference between taylor and sayeon is that where taylor might worm her way around certain problems, finding weird and creative solutions to stuff or maybe even start second guessing herself, needing to be SURE that she's making the right decision, sayeon will double down. we love freaks in glasses but taylor thrives in finding cracks where sayeon likes to jump between plans, always having plan B and C on hand. sayeon considers every option, taylor pulls shit out on the fly.
This makes me want to consider a position(?) swap, like how they would act in each other’s positions. Taylor is not a militant perfectionist and rule follower like sayeon is, but they do both have a drive for efficiency and results above everything. Sayeon probably wouldn’t get involved in the undersiders, but if she did she would dive in head first just like taylor did and might have even less moral objections to the whole thing. Taylor would take her results oriented mindset and probably excel in the corps, much to the detriment of her mental health (as seen in her wards era). She is just as much of a manipulator as sayeon but much more prone to improvisation, and considering she doesnt really give a shit about social position she would be throwing herself into fights out of a desire to “save people” like she did with lung. The worst part is that the corps would encourage her ruthless behavior because it works, and they dont give a shit if some aberrant loses their eyeballs in the process (seriously taylor two is a pattern what is your beef with eyeballs). Ryujin would instantly spot that she was a freak (affectionate) as well.
The worst part about training a group of excellent trackers? ZERO privacy.
Sasuke, immediately after getting the curse-mark: You guys don’t understand. It’s in my head, it’s linked to my emotions, it knows what I want, but it’s not ME, it’s evil and wretched and angry and-
Sakura, trying to be comforting: It’s okay Sasuke-kun. You’ll be okay. Everyone has something like that. It’s really annoying and kind of scary, but it’s YOU, and if it’s YOU then it obviously can’t be too bad. Just don’t feed it after midnight and mentally wack it with a newspaper when it says something you REALLY don’t like. That’s what I do!
Sasuke:
Sasuke: What are you talking about. Do you have a curse seal?
Sakura: What? No, of course not! It’s just- It’s- NARUTO, BACK ME UP
Naruto, scratching his head: Um. I mean I get what you’re saying Sakura-chan and, like, yeah I’ve got one of those too, and it isn’t exactly a CURSE seal, but it’s- special circumstances, dattebayo? I’m not sure I’m a good example.
Sasuke: What. What are YOU talking about??
Sakura: No Naruto, that sounds like a PERFECT example. See, Sasuke? Even dumb NARUTO has a bitch voice in his head. Like- you get those headaches sometimes, right? When it gets so angry it SCREAMS at you for NO good reason and you just have to politely pretend it’s not happening so you don’t cause a scene at dinner?
Naruto:
Sasuke:
Naruto: I mean. That HAS happened to me before with Iruka-sensei, yes. Totally forgot about it though.
Sakura: See Sasuke? It’s super manageable, even if it IS a hassle. And you’ve got me to help you with it! And Naruto, I guess. Maybe Kakashi-sensei, but he seems like the type to get touchy if you ask about it.
Kakashi, appearing when he hears his name: Touchy about what?
Sakura: Um. Oh. Well. Aha nevermind-
Kakashi: Oh, well now I’m interested Sakura-chan!
Sakura: ….promisse not to get mad.
Kakashi, lying: Of course! How could I get mad at my cute little gennin?
Sakura: Ok. So Sasuke’s freaking out about the super-angry-mean version of him in his head now, and I told him that he’d be fine because EVERYONE has voices like that, his just got louder, ya know? But I said that maybe we, um, shouldn’t tell you, because you seem like one of those people who pretends to get all freaked out when we talk about having evil voices in our heads since we’re old enough to know not to talk about stuff like that out loud. Sorry I promise I was just trying to make Sasuke-kun feel better and-
Kakashi:
Sakura: Right! Right. I’m sorry we can pretend I never mentioned it haha. But Sasuke…..like you can talk to Naruto and me.
Naruto, not understanding much but understanding THAT: You BETTER, bastard, or I’ll BEAT it out of you! That’s what teammates are for.
Kakashi:
Sasuke: …hn. Fine. If you both insist.
Sakura: =)
Kakashi, softly as the kids walk away: whatthefuck
Stephanie brown but she have ocd. Hear me out
Read a fic where she inherited it from her father and grew up watching him spend hours making his clues, and then having a hard time when she realizes she has the same problem. It was a glorious one-shot and i think about it constantly
Batgirl Vol 1 #61
I think Cass would love all our Cass puns btw
i have suddenly become obsessed with a theme that HoO established but never proceeded to extrapolate on, which is:
You are Percy Jackson, and you have been swapped with a boy who was allegedly everyone's favorite person, but they have decided to replace him with you. They just met you. You stand next to his best friend and the people he's known his entire life. In his home. In his cloak. In his place. They stopped looking for him.
You are Jason Grace, and you have just found out you have a long lost sister who completely replaced you in her life with this girl you just met. Your lives and personalities are mirrors. She is you, living the life you were robbed of.
You are Annabeth Chase, and you have just become starkly aware that you have been inhabiting the void left behind by your best friend's long lost brother. You and Luke were just replacements for him. Now you have to look him in the eyes when he has nothing and know you took that life from him.
You are Piper McLean, and you have just found out your relationship is fake and built entirely on the memories of Annabeth Chase. You have been given a boyfriend when hers has been taken away. You have no idea how much of it is real or not but regardless you feel like if your relationship isn't exactly in their image that you have failed.
You are Leo Valdez, and you have just learned that you are the echo of your great-grandfather. You are not your own person. You just exist to be a mirror of him. A doppelganger. An actor and stunt double facing all the danger he never had to but wearing his face. To be there for his best friend decades later simply because he couldn't. You are playing a role. A seventh wheel and a pawn for a goddess who carefully sculpted your entire life for her own purposes.
You are Hazel Levesque, and the only reason you are alive is because your brother couldn't save your his sister. You are a consolation prize. An apology. Your existence here is misplaced in every way but you inhabit it anyways.
You are Frank Zhang, and you are a shapeshifter. Inhabiting your own body feels strange and clumsy when you could be literally anything at any time. You are anything and everything and live your life with the simple certainty of knowing exactly how you will die.
Extremely fitting for a series about a bunch of teenagers in the time of their life where they are finding out who they are and discovering how they fit into the world
its always "percy and blackjack" this and "jason and tempest" that SHUT UP
let's talk about how Arion tried to (and did a few times) kill anyone that wasn't Hazel that tried to tame him. Let's talk about how there was a WHOLE PROPHECY foretelling Hazel and Arion being an iconic, powerful duo. LETS TALK ABOUT THEY FOUND EACH OTHER IN BOTH HER LIVES. LETS TALK ABOUT HOW HAZEL AND ARION ARE ABSOLUTELY 100% WITHOUT A DOUBT THE BEST DEMIGOD/EQUESTRIAN DUO
I just love how Arion canonically cusses like a sailor and Percy is the only one who can understand him. It's giving, "this horse is not my Blackjack" like yo, Hazel can have him, please take him, he is all yours, he can't get between them even if he wanted to, and his dad literally made horses.
Even better is that canonically hazel has a mouth like a sailor so percy is the only one who knows that they both have no chill and match each other’s energy lmao
My friends are extremely hyped for Hades 2
Barbara Gordon and Cassandra Cain: Swan Song to a Dream
To all my freinds and the athelets whose careeres changed course due to injury. To everyone who has ever watched their dreams set sail for the promised land without them. And to everyone who put thier own pain aside to make a difference for someone else.
I just want to encourage you not to give up. If you can’t be Batgirl, be Oracle. Your dreams, your passion, and your skills matter. Please, share them with this world because we need YOU. You are irreplacable. So invent. Dance. Teach. Direct. Currate. Produce. Keep going my Luvs. I belive in you.
‘Ravel, Peices for the Left Hand’
https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/pieces/1357/concerto-for-the-left-hand
Steph x Cass Headcannon - Motherhood
Oddly enough, this is something I’ve never thought about until today for Steph and Cass. Not that I think they would be bad mothers or anything. It’s just something that has never crossed my mind, Headcannon wise.
Which is strange because I’m usually a huge fan of lesbian couples becoming parents. Fate and Nanoha adopting Vivio. Catra and Adora with Finn. Amity and Luz with Ayzee. Even Kim and Shego in a little fanfiction I’ve been penning.
Still I think it would be fun to image what Steph and Cass would be like as parents. Would make for some adorable angst as I explore both thier issues with fathers a little more, maybe creating that perfect family dynamic for them without shall we say any male influence. I’ll have to play around with it some more.
This is super interesting because they both have like a ton of angst in regards to mothers and motherhood. Like we see in steph that she fears being unable to protect her child because her mother failed to protect her from her father. She gives up her child because she wants it to grow up better than she did, and i think that would carry over into her adulthood.
Cass meanwhile has no mother figure in her life to speak of until barbara comes in, and her main interactions with her birth mother is Shiva trying to kill her. Her father was super abusive and stuff, but she at least has bruce and barbara to help her (idk how healthy they are as examples cuz they have their own complexes going on)