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Hi, this is just my place to post about silly fandom things. sometimes I reblog/discuss more serious topics relating to personal lived experiences with sexual trauma, interpersonal violence, cultural stigma against survivors/victims, and representations of the above in media.
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Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air
Fun fact! this is likely due to racism. Not the drivers, to be clear, but this is a not-entirely-unsurprising result of systemic racism in the greater Seattle area and the influence it has on infrastructure spending.
I'm a huge proponent of public transit, rail in specific, and I'm very glad that the greater Seattle area is finally starting to see some solid light rail infrastructure sprouting up in the form of the 1 and 2 lines, but that in no way stops me from critiquing the decisions made in planning and implementation.
Light Rail, in it's colloquial form here in the US, is basically always a compromise solution. It's cheaper than subways, can make good use of existing right-of-way around freeways, and can function as a kind of low-capacity commuter rail in the subways while behaving more like a tram or streetcar in downtown areas. It is crucially, however, not a streetcar, nor is it a commuter rail. Streetcars make frequent stops and are optimized for dense areas with lots of traffic. Commuter rails are larger and stop lest frequently, optimized for bringing suburban residents into city centers. Commuter rail should, however, be independent of street traffic so it can travel at higher speeds. For this reason, most of the Link light rail system in seattle is actually not at-grade (street level), but on either elevated or sub-grade track. Downtown, the lightrail actually functions as a low-capacity low-frequency subway system in what used to be the bus tunnel (we don't have time, but yes it was stupid). Everywhere else, it's up on elevated tracks that largely follow the freeway system.
There are three stations, all immediately south of that Mount Baker elevated station, where the Link actually runs at-grade. These stations run through the historic low income immigrant neighborhoods of southeast seattle. Here, the trains are forced to stop at red lights, interact with crossing and left-turning traffic, and even cross through terrifyingly narrow pedestrian islands. They could have built elevated track here, as they did everywhere else, but they didn't. they didn't want to spend the money. I have personally watched light rail cars carrying hundreds of people have to wait two full minutes for cars turning left in front of them, delaying trains so like, 5 people could drive there. Once it reaches the end of this low income immigrant-dominant neighborhood, however, the Link returns to it's above-grade status, with Mount Baker being the first elevated stop. You want to know how this woman, who claims she was misdirected by her GPS, probably ended up here? I would bet anything she tried to make a turn at the intersection just before the stop and got confused. The intersection, for reference, looks like this:
I'm not saying it's an easy mistake to make, but given the number of people who drive through here every day, it's honestly not that surprising that someone, especially someone who is from out of town, or someone who is used to shared streetcar lanes, would eventually make this mistake. When you're dealing with a city of hundreds of thousands of people, it's only a matter of time before a mistake like this happens. but it is only possible for it to happen because of the decisions made in the planning process, and one of those decisions was "we can save money if we make everything worse in that part of town where all the foreign poors live", and so they built the thing at-grade, instead of keeping it elevated like everywhere else.
and yes, those tracks are in the middle of a four lane road, and no, there is no way to get to any of the at-grade stations without crossing at least two lanes of traffic on a very busy avenue. and those tiny little pedestrian islands are not only terrifying to walk on, but a man in a wheelchair was clipped by a passing train car a while back because his chair didn't really fit through the tight turns well and one of his feet was sticking slightly out when the train passed by. This is not a problem at like, any other stops in the Link system. Just here. Just in this neighborhood. And it's a fucking disgrace.
not only was the section of the 1 line built at grade for the purpose of cutting costs, it was directly appealed by a citizens initiative. The Save Our Valley movement (SOV), after not being taken seriously by Sound Transit, sued for race based discrimination and an unfair distribution of public works funding resulting in discriminatory safety hazards, which were argued to be at odds with protections provided by the Civil Rights Act. And guess what. the claims were dismissed anyways. the court dismissed them on grounds that congress could ONLY regulate "intentional discrimination" per the civil rights act and was not authorized to regulate "discriminatory effects", that while the at-grade construction of the light rail line would likely have a disproportionate effect on the minority-dominant area of Rainier Valley, there wasn't any grounds that it was done with racial intent. which, given that the ONLY reason the claims were dismissed was that the discrimination argued couldnt be proven to be intentional, is, ironically, pretty clear evidence of intentional race based discrimination when Sound Transit went ahead with the at grade construction of the Rainier Valley section of Line 1 anyways
Sylvia Riveras powerful speech against the exclusion of transgender people at the Gay Pride Rally NYC, 1973.
Transcript:
Y'all better quiet down! I've been trying to get up here all day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help! And you all don't do a goddamn thing for them! And they write STAR, not the woman's group! They do not write women, they do not write men, they write to STAR! Because we're trying to do something for them! But you all tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs! I will not put up with this shit! I have been beaten, I have had my nose broken, I have been thrown in jail, I have lost my job, I have lost my apartment for gay liberation, and you all treat me this way?! What the fuck's wrong with you all?! Think about that! I believe in the gay power, I believe in us getting our rights, or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights, that's all I wanted to say to you people. Come and see people at STAR House on Twelfth Street, the people that are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that belong to our white middle class club! And that's what you all belong to! Revolution now! Gay power! Know the gay power!
This is actually a heavily edited version of her speech, cutting out all of her focus on the sexual violence that she and other queer folks, especially trans and GNC folks experienced at the time. She was angry that all of the white middle class queers that were managing and primarily attending the March were ignoring the massive amounts of state supported violence being directed towards lower class queers and especially queer POC. Cutting out her repeated mentions of rape to make the video more palatable is continuing to erase that violence. Watch/read the full version instead and acknowledge that this violence has barely slowed down today for trans folks. That our president issued an order to imprison trans women in men's prisons, directly ordering our justice system to ignore the Prison Rape Elimination Act as part of ensuring that those sexual violence against trans folks was perpetuated. Don't you fucking dare cut her words in the topic.
Here's the full transcript and an unedited video or her speech. Also, don't forget in your transcript that she spoke through boo's and jeers and that's why she had to tell them to quiet down to start. Those boo's died down as her speech continued and the crowd felt shame.
Sylvia: "Y’all better quiet down. I’ve been trying to get up here all day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help and you all don’t do a goddamn thing for them.
Have you ever been beaten up and raped and jailed? Now think about it. They’ve been beaten up and raped after they’ve had to spend much of their money in jail to get their [inaudible], and try to get their sex changes. The women have tried to fight for their sex changes or to become women. On the women’s liberation and they write ‘STAR,’ not to the women’s groups, they do not write women, they do not write men, they write ‘STAR’ because we’re trying to do something for them.
I have been to jail. I have been raped. And beaten. Many times! By men, heterosexual men that do not belong in the homosexual shelter. But, do you do anything for me? No. You tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs. I will not put up with this shit. I have been beaten. I have had my nose broken. I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation and you all treat me this way? What the fuck’s wrong with you all? Think about that!
I do not believe in a revolution, but you all do. I believe in the gay power. I believe in us getting our rights, or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights. That’s all I wanted to say to you people. If you all want to know about the people in jail and do not forget Bambi L’amour, and Dora Mark, Kenny Metzner, and other gay people in jail, come and see the people at Star House on Twelfth Street on 640 East Twelfth Street between B and C apartment 14.
The people are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that belong to a white middle class white club. And that’s what you all belong to! "
REVOLUTION NOW! Gimme a ‘G’! Gimme an ‘A’! Gimme a ‘Y’! Gimme a ‘P’! Gimme an ‘O’! Gimme a ‘W’! Gimme an ‘E! Gim me an ‘R’! [crying] Gay power! Louder! GAY POWER!
For those of you who are unaware, the "STAR" she is referring to is the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. A short-lived group she founded with Marsha P. Johnson, which sought to organize lumpen-proletarian trans women along a similar model to that pioneered by national liberation groups like the Black Panther Party. Rivera, as a representative of STAR, even attended the BPP's People's Revolutionary Constitution, where she advocated for the inclusion of trans women in the wider revolutionary movement
Sherilyn Fenn and Kyle MacLachlan - Twin Peaks (1990)
I love how varied and universally weird the circumstances for making lifelong friendships are. Here's this guy I accidentally messaged once and I could not imagine my life without them now. Here's this girl I was so scared of when I met her, I would kill for her and remind her to rest on the regular. Here's this other guy we have so much in common we used to joke we were the same person in different timelines. It took us years to meet in person and I attended his wedding. There are also people who entered my life in absolutely unremarkable ways but changed it forever for the better. It's wonderful how easy it is to find people to love.
"butch breakfast" by @humator
please observe the tremendous beauty that is theo's art of Andy enjoying her meal on Juria's bosom ♡♡♡
My summer project for myself is to make a collection of 16 of these embroidered thimble rings (called kaga yubinuki), these are my first 2 ^^
using this as an opportunity to add this link to this post too:
Thank you for coming back to my blog after so long a leave (again). I plan to update my blog at least once a month but as you see it has be
really clear, written instructions that explain the why as well as the how. there's a lot of beautiful, simple designs on her blog as well!
From Eastman’s pre-performance notes at the premiere, January 1980:
“Now the reason I use Gay Guerrilla — G U E R R I L L A, that one — is because these names — let me put a little subsystem here — these names: either I glorify them or they glorify me. And in the case of guerrilla: that glorifies gay — that is to say, there aren’t many gay guerrillas. I don’t feel that ‘gaydom’ has — does have — that strength, so therefore, I use that word in the hopes that they will. You see, I feel that — at this point, I don’t feel that gay guerrillas can really match with ‘Afghani’ guerrillas or ‘PLO’ guerrillas, but let us hope in the future that they might, you see. That’s why I use that word guerrilla: it means a guerrilla is someone who is, in any case, sacrificing his life for a point of view. And, you know, if there is a cause — and if it is a great cause — those who belong to that cause will sacrifice their blood, because, without blood, there is no cause. So, therefore, that is the reason that I use gay guerrilla, in hopes that I might be one, if called upon to be one.”
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a friend joined me last night in my yearly tradition of watching this really touching documentary about the June 1, 1981, assassinations of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes- who were Seattle local Filipino-American labor reformers and anti-dictatorship activists. It wasn't until a decade after their deaths that Ferdinand Marcos was found guilty of orchestrating their assassinations, alongside Tony Baruso, the at-the-time president of their union (Local 37 ILWU)
this isn't local history I ever learned in any grade of school or even any of my college classes, but I think it's some of the most important local history I have learned and I keep wanting to share it with people
the documentary is very good
And more:
Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes remembered for reform efforts and international solidarity
Gene Viernes, a half-Filipino in America, was one of the first members of the Seattle-based movement against martial law in the Philippines.
Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes led a presentation in ILWU in Hawaii that gave details of Marcos’ repressive rule, including anti-labor decre
cuckoo by gretchen felker-martin spoilers, it's just thoughts i'm working through while i get close to finishing it
I'm nearing the end of this. I am like, maybe a chapter or two before the time-skip to the future post-camp (can you ever really leave Camp Resolution...)
I'm still unsure how I feel about the reveal that It Was All Aliens. the alien is cool to be fair! I can see all of the metaphorical horror it presents, of being robbed of your identity, of your bodily and internal autonomy, of being objectified so completely- your life stolen from you and reshaped to better serve a white supremacist cishetero-patriarchal capitalist system, your body perfectly defined and controlled to best produce labor (profit-producing labor, reproductive labor) without challenging the system in any way.
but also, then, the Cuckoo children are ultimately tearing apart the system themselves because they are an extension of a being who needs feed endlessly in order to survive and evolve. which, is like white supremacy and patriarchy and capitalism. they all need to devour endlessly to exist.
but idk... the horror feels different when the end point isn't "and you're dead now, and your life is wholly subsumed by this perfect construct of everything you tried so, so, so hard to escape being trapped within." it's not "you've been replaced by the child your parents violently tried to beat and rape you into being, and all of the love you ever wish they showed you is heaped onto this Thing." the end point is "and then your abusive family gets eviscerated and eaten by this thing wearing your face while you're dead". it almost feels more like the system of surveillance and control leads to its own destruction. which i guess could also be a thing to explore but doesn't feel like it fits everything else this novel has been doing.
also the evil and cruelty of the counselors and Pastor Eddie feels different when it's made clear they're not even human. I know there's moments that imply some of the counselors are still human themselves- they are human, and they are still working to keep the system of the Camp and the grinder feeding children into this alien alive, and that is horrifying. But they don't exactly have the focus. And then everything with Mrs. Glover doing all of this to save resurrect her dead daughter. hmmmm idk I have thoughts.
clowngirl getting an orchiectomy and the surgeon just keeps removing ball after ball after ball after ball after
clown nurse standing by solemnly adding each successive ball to the ones she's already juggling
i wrote this fic a long time ago but i couldn't get into any of the other graphics work i have to do so i just made this as a low-stakes warm up, for a fic about a guy jerking off about his brother while his father's corpse is in the room <3
anyone on here have any ways you like cooking rutabaga that isn't too involved... i've had some from the food bank in my fridge for way too long and i need to do something about them. maybe just put them in a curry in the slow cooker...?
the new york times has such a great series of elevated butter noodles, if you ever want a super fast easy dinner that still feels grown up and you can emulsify pasta water + butter together basically the sky is your limit
ya got
gochujang butter noodles
peanut butter noodles
chili crisp fettuccine alfredo
miso butter noodles
any one of these + a bag of salad or whatever vegetable side you find easiest/cheapest, and you've got yourself a full meal that tastes far above the effort you put in.
Carousel Dogs by Tim Racer
commission for a friend
