Set on hope despite all evidence

blog title from A history of Sexual Preference by Robin Becker (great poem, check it out) Saturday/Saturn Permenently obsessed with Riverdale. I have voted before and will again (proof I am at least 18 years old, I participate in american democracy) I am very pro union-- feel free to ask me about why you should be too! Femmepunk, folkpunk, hopepunk Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. Everyone has a right to live comfortably. Everyone deserves to have their sexuality/romantic attraction/gender respected.

[incohorace]

what studying literature feels like

[melodies-stereo]

sanatoriums, psychiatric hospitals, and lunatic asylums still exist btw, theyre just called psychiatric centers now. isnt it such a modern and progressive concept to imprison that schizophrenic/autistic/suicidal/anorexic/bipolar/etc. person in a strange space where theyre treated as subhuman, not allowed control over their own body or activities, disallowed contact with loved ones or the outside world, and not comfortable or safe whatsoever? and for long periods of time? or potentially forever?

[koiagain]

Stop Humidity the air is trying to touch me Inappropriately

[peach-pot]

boom

such a beautiful collage… I am quite fond of yippee (its name, I must assume)

[ceruleanheaven]

(two deers in) why are there deers here

[sirenofthetimes]

no one is coming to Save you but there are probably people coming to Help you and that rocks. embrace it

[raavenb2619]

[This meeting could have been an email voice]: This romcom should have been a horror movie

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

btw boston mutuals i’m in boston every day just fucking around

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

about to get in the green line #charliecard

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

at the dentist

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

went great, as usual

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

btw boston mutuals i’m in boston every day just fucking around

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

at the dentist

[dogpuppy]

[datsderbunnyblog]

Now that people from Wattpad are coming to AO3 to escape the censorship I propose that we send the existing AO3 antis over to Wattpad to maintain parity

[raptorific]

I'm probably gonna get yelled at for saying this but sometimes something isn't a real problem in fandom, you just learned a Japanese word describing a general fandom practice and got scared and decided it meant "The Bad Ones" of that practice

[raptorific]

Whenever you see someone being like "we don't mind when women enjoy or even create m/m content, we just hate fujoshis" you are being racist. If you mean "I hate the way some female fans treat gay men like fetish objects" then say that, and we can have a conversation based on that, but "fujoshi" is, I cannot stress this enough, just a word for any woman who likes M/M content, for better or worse. It may have started out as a reclaimed insult (by the way, the insult was based on "liking gay shit makes you perverted and sinful," not "please respect the humanity of gay men") but it does not make a distinction between The Good Ones and The Bad Ones. You just decided to No True Scotsman it and that the English word for that should describe The Good Ones and the Japanese word for it should describe The Bad Ones

Same goes for the people I saw just the other day whose discord server explicitly disallowed "Yaoi" but said that M/M content was allowed. What they meant was "M/M content is allowed as long as it isn't pornographic and fetishistic." What they actually said was "M/M content is allowed, but M/M content is strictly forbidden," and expected you to understand that the Japan-Adjacent term has porn/fetish connotations while the English-language term for THE SAME THING refers to the "normal, non-perverted" version.

It'd be like if you used the word "cartoons" to refer to all Family-Friendly animation, regardless of style or country of origin, whether it's Japanese or American or French or whatever, and used the term "anime" to refer to all animated pornography regardless of style or country of origin. There's plenty of animated pornography that isn't Japanese! There's plenty of anime that's not pornographic! But this is the sort of thing you do when you say shit like "obviously women can read stories about gay men, but NO FUJOSHIS"

[mortimermcmirestinks]

OP is correct and smart for saying this. this is related to/a subset of how people are about non-fandom foreign words, too, like how people say "Christians worship God (good), Muslims worship Allah (bad and scary)" when gues swh. gu. guess what. gues s w hat Allah mea. guess what the word "Allah" means--!!

[dateamonster]

secret organizations for studying paranormal phenomena are always calling the creatures they find like "specimen 58008" or some fake latin taxonomy or something vague and ominous like "the red angel" or whatever and thats all well and good but i want a story about a bunch of cryptozoologists going around naming things the way people name like actual birds and lizards and shit.

i want to get lost in the woods and meet the ring-tailed tree creeper and roger's false elk. i want a character who is desperate to prove this monster is actually a distinct species from that very similar looking monster so they can name it after themself. i want two field researchers narrowly escaping an encounter with some ten foot tall thing made of carnivorous vines and one of them is like wow wait til the guys back at the lab hear we got that close to a lesser thorn-backed bone eater 🙂 and the other scientist is like.,...... 😰lesser?

[makomoriz]

no i don't. cheers

[hotnvrybothered]

Rosa & Daria, by Jessica Tanzer around 1990.