Starved Bard

any pronouns | coyote | I periodically produce pieces of art, most often poetry, but sometimes prose or photography and perhaps pixel art | internet safety has taught us nothing so you aren’t getting my age; i promise I’m not a kid

[firmamentality]

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[prokopetz]

Today's aesthetic: fic that spends several thousand words establishing Kink World, the world structured entirely around the author's excruciatingly specific kink, does one sex scene in like chapter two, then spends the next thirty chapters interrogating the sociopolitical implications of Kink World.

[shsl-heck]

The way that "we're all faggots in the eyes of the state" is used to shut up trans women is I think particularly upsetting/offensive to me because, at least ime, that was not the context the phrase was originally used in. The warning expressed by "we're all faggots" was not and should not be some generic message about in-fighting and call to ignore intracommunity oppression. The way I first saw it used (and used it personally) was as a response to assimilationist queers, a reminder that no matter how much they try to distance themselves from the bad gays, to conform to society's expectations and desires, or how many of their queer siblings they throw under the bus, it will never be enough. The right wing will never be satisfied, because at the end of the day they don't care how respectable you are, they only care that you're a faggot. That's all you will ever be to them. Their mission is to barr us from public life, to eliminate us through state violence and legal disappearing tricks. Eventually you will run out of people to use as shields, and only then, when it is too late, will you have realized the awful truth. We are never going to be able to politely convince bigots not to hate us. The only option we have is to organize to protect the most vulnerable queer people and refuse to compromise on that.

[90sfantasyanimestuff]

Dragon Rider by TAKE. Source. Commenter found artist's website.

[firmamentality]

i think i would also be hesitant to support a system that combines extremely frequent targeted and weaponized false positives at both a micro and macro level with the suggestion that every location that ever displays a positive readout should be nuked from orbit with no deliberation

but i could be wrong, i guess

[firmamentality]

i also think that nukes in general are a bit overkill

but some people like watching the fireworks because it's always been about the grandeur of it all and they dont like to think about the fallout

[firmamentality]

oh yeah also nuke the anti-nuke protestors they're up to no good

[firmamentality]

something something i know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards

[firmamentality]

i think i would also be hesitant to support a system that combines extremely frequent targeted and weaponized false positives at both a micro and macro level with the suggestion that every location that ever displays a positive readout should be nuked from orbit with no deliberation

but i could be wrong, i guess

[firmamentality]

i also think that nukes in general are a bit overkill

but some people like watching the fireworks because it's always been about the grandeur of it all and they dont like to think about the fallout

[firmamentality]

oh yeah also nuke the anti-nuke protestors they're up to no good

[firmamentality]

i think i would also be hesitant to support a system that combines extremely frequent targeted and weaponized false positives at both a micro and macro level with the suggestion that every location that ever displays a positive readout should be nuked from orbit with no deliberation

but i could be wrong, i guess

[firmamentality]

i also think that nukes in general are a bit overkill

but some people like watching the fireworks because it's always been about the grandeur of it all and they dont like to think about the fallout

[firmamentality]

i think i would also be hesitant to support a system that combines extremely frequent targeted and weaponized false positives at both a micro and macro level with the suggestion that every location that ever displays a positive readout should be nuked from orbit with no deliberation

but i could be wrong, i guess

[tadporridge]

"i have an incredible feeling about this"

[transhuman-priestess]

discord i do not believe you are acting in good faith here

[transhuman-priestess]

like, i know that i'm a high school graduate who knows shit about fuck when it comes to privacy and data protections but i'm pretty sure "tracking the number of messages" and "frequently used emojis" does not need me to enable "use data to personalize my discord experience"

[transhuman-priestess]

Like, one of the things really is your most-used emojis for the year. You’re telling me there’s absolutely no way to count that without me giving over the keys to my kingdom? If you can’t do that, then how come I can search my message history?

My point is, this is clearly a ploy to get more people to opt-in to data collection, because that makes discord money. There’s no actual reason they can’t do this without that box ticked. They just want you to think that.

[sapphling]

hidden danger of making friends and loved ones that treat you with a great deal of respect and care and make you value your own boundaries more is that it will make you look at other/past situations you've been in and go FUCK!!! AAAAA!! AAAAAA!!! FUCK!! GOD DAMNIT!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!

[firmamentality]

The Rain II

Rainshower in autumn

births shiver and frisson

through fog-caressed driver-side windows

Piercing thin insulation

crept chilled rumination

obscured by the gloam condensation

The crepuscule beckonamps

through retroreflection

of signs with less somber intention

[i-adagio-i]

A letter to the coyote.

(Text)

Dear Coyote,

I do not blame you for what you do,

I do not blame you for what you are,

You do as you need.

You are as needed.

People want you dead for it.

You know this.

When I am among people,

I think I understand you.

But, when I see you,

Wearing your target as a crown

Playing and loping

Surviving.

I feel the brunt of my humanity

[firmamentality]

a gentle search for troubled waters

soft footsteps on wet sand

leaving imprints of desire washed out

spring tides mask summer heat

please don’t erase the feeling 

it’s not time to grow up so soon

follow the trail of laughter and dry sand

caked to wet sand caked to legs 

it feels irritating now

where has the time gone

[firmamentality]

Quixotry II

How perfectly quixotic to presume that life is just

Based only on the friends nearby and all my misplaced trust

I leave to tilt another day, the spires full of smoke

I need to let my head get clear before i start to choke

It’s perfectly romantic to see worlds that couldn’t be

Encased in the facade of hopeful dreams and fantasy

Perhaps I’m mad, I might agree, and so i turn away

The sanity they preach to me has long since overstayed

If smoke pursues the leeward fool as I am known to play

Then petals choose to follow too, far from the windward way

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[totallyawesome123]

@ominous-signs @hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

[firmamentality]

what’s the flag on your banner?/gencur

It’s a space-themed flag i made a few years ago. It doesn’t really mean anything but I think it’s pretty and I haven’t bothered to update my profile because I just started using tumblr again.