humphrey bone appreciation account

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[sackboys-moved]

Every character eever is trandsgender

[angeltiddies]

just another man tits monday

[mystrangeforeignblog]

Baron Magazine

ph. Harley Weir

[sleevesareforlosers]

[Image ID. A photo of a trans man’s torso and hips stretching and twisting. They are wearing white shorts or pants, and their chest is bare. Their scars from top surgery are vivid and clearly visible. End ID.]

[seveneyesoup]

fuck having a straightforward relationship w your favorite characters none of my mutuals have a straightforward relationship with our favorite characters

[doccywhomst]

he's my son. he's a war criminal. he's a saint. he's a complete moron. he's a genius. he's my dad. i'd kill him in a heartbeat. i'd take a bullet for him. he's the enemy. he's the oldest being in the universe. he was born yesterday. he's a monster. he's innocent. none of these statements are mutually exclusive.

[100493503004422]

hyperbole is my favorite literary device i use it like 600 times a day

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Hot take but the nonsensical portrayal of the third world being entirely made of absolute destitution is an important propaganda element that keeps workers in the first world (Particularly the USA) complacent with a lifestyle that will literally kill them. 

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

This rice farmer survives on $2 a year! Think about how much they must be suffering! Now get back to your third job stocking shelves so you can pay the $1,500 rent for your studio apartment and eat your 25¢ ramen packet like a good little wage-slave. 

[hug-your-face]

The question that we should be working to inject into such conversations is not “my god how can those people survive on so little” but rather “why does our own survival require so MUCH?”

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

This is an excellent framing - and there is an answer. 

When average people have their needs met - they are no longer desperate for basic survival. Comfortable workers have the most energy to challenge the hegemony and organize their community, thus material security and comfort is a direct antagonist to capitalism. 

In a society that has an abundance of resources, desperation must be artificially created through material barriers (needing a smartphone for work, etc) and increasing sources of debt obligation. (Rent, student loans, etc.) 

In other words - we do not require so much, rather new requirements are perpetually created to keep the proverbial carrot just out of reach and the stick chasing our tail. 

This is also why public activities are discouraged in favour of individual distraction. The loss of parks where people may meet without payment. The lack of folk schools which might foster skills in the community. The lack of workshops where people might engage in non-industrial manufacturing. 

And for clarity I do not condemn entertainment as frivolous when I say distraction. That we do not have public (as in “a free community space”) theatres and arcades, is another way to deprive a community of social bonding opportunities. 

[caecilius-est-pater]

We shouldn’t understate the importance of the racial and eurocentric aspect to this either. Part of the reason why the propaganda works in the first place is the implicit (and sometimes explicit) cultural belief that white western society is inherently superior and “more advanced” so anything different is automatically worse.

You’re conditioned not to look at the rice farmer and go “their life is very different to mine, but it looks like a good life and I wish mine was good too”, you’re conditioned to go “their life is very different to mine, so therefore they must be suffering and wish their life was more like mine”

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

This is another wonderful addition to my post. As someone who is mixed race I would not have thought about that aspect. (In the sense that I’ve grown up with a great deal of multicultural exposure.) 

[monsieurenjlolras]

Sam Gamgee deserves more credit for refusing to serve unseasoned food in the woods in the middle of the most dangerous quest of all time

[onlyfangz]

the queer stereotype cycle often goes "queer group starts making inside jokes > these jokes are overheard by cishets > cishets now start using these inside jokes against queer people > these inside jokes fall out of favour > because queer people aren't a hivemind some queer people keep making these inside jokes > these queer people are then attacked by other queer people for perpetuating stereotypes > nobody criticises the cishets who made it into a bad thing in the first place" and youse just keep letting that go round and round.

[im-the-punk-who]

Being aromantic in fandom is just constantly seeing people slam headfirst into amatonormative tropes of goodness equaling being in a relationship and calling themselves progressive for doing it

[blind-seeing-deactivated2024042]

I explained to some absolute idiot on discord that as a blind person I hate when people make their blog titles or their usernames a bunch of letters compiled from different languages. If you use the letter that looks like an A but in Greek is actually an s, the screen reader is going to read it with an s sound. So a blind person cannot tell what you have typed because it reads as garbled nonsense.

And they thought it was just the funniest joke to intentionally type like that to poke fun. Please reblog and spread awareness that typing like this is inaccessible

[theimaginatrix27]

With my screen reader it can do one of several things.

Aforementioned garbled nonsense that sort-of sounds like parts of words but isn’t.

Words spelled out letter by letter (particularly with Greek).

Spelled out, and with each letter preceded by the language it’s from (particularly with Hebrew and Arabic).

In the case of Japanese or Chinese, it just says “Japanese-letter” or “Chinese-letter”. Thanks for not being informative at all.

Then there are the fun ones where it’s language+the word “letter”+a string of numbers. Sometimes without the language indicator.

In short, yes, please stop doing shit like this if you have blind friends. We will not be able to tell what you’re saying.

[accessibleaesthetics]

To add on to this, Kaomoji, Japanese emoticons, can be particularly confusing, even for screen readers that can read Japanese characters. For example, the emoticon that looks like a smiling bear is  ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ, which reads as “pharyngeal voiced fricative bullet Latin letter end bullet glottal stop” on my screen reader, VoiceOver. This is because the first and last symbols making up that emoticon are actually IPA symbols, and therefore represent specific phonetic sounds. 

Emojis like 🐻however, are accessible. For example, the emoji I used in the last sentence reads as “bear face” on VoiceOver. So stick to the picture-type emojis when you can!

[crawfordapologist]

I love when baby gays are clearly still unlearning a lot of biases and like every couple of months try to find a progressive reason to explain why men wearing dresses makes them uncomfortable. Like obviously transmisogynistic caricatures are Bad but if it's just a guy irl who wants to do drag or something that's literally fine. This has been a thing longer than you've been alive

[crawfordapologist]

Also like I need you all to understand that historically the line between gnc & trans people has always been way less distinctly defined than you want it to be. And for a lot of people that's kind of the point. Drag in particular is about radical self expression it's about taking gender performance and turning it into a literal show and it rules

[crawfordapologist]

To the people in my notes talking about "it's okay if gnc men make you uncomfortable as long as you don't police anyone <3" no it's not actually. You need to think about why that is and deconstruct it. Lol

[titkoks]

i don’t know why i love this so much but i do

[drallimylime]

вопросик?!

[meltyneon]

[cometchameleon]

Ok wait I'm an animator but the idea of referring to a real life human's gait as a walk cycle is sending me

[princessnijireiki]

For anybody wondering, the original video is here & the track is SQWOZ BAB - ПЁСИК

[antimasculist]

I hope everyone choosing to fast tonight & tomorrow has a meaningful one!!

[postarcadian]

You ever try so hard to be progressive and edgy that you accidentally reinvent ancient Greco-Roman sexual norms regarding the penetrator/penetrated dichotomy, wherein sex is only empowering if you’re the penetrating partner and being penetrated is automatically shameful and degrading

[postarcadian]

It’s almost like jokes where the punchline is ‘receiving anal sex is shameful and degrading, especially for men’ have a long history and aren’t the woke political statement people think they are

[emailgf]

I wish everyone would admit that classic literature is inherently difficult to read, and that you shouldn’t feel stupid if you don’t “get it”. Especially the dark academia/ classic lit fandoms and stuff. Like unless you have the vocabulary and pop culture knowledge of an 18th century nobleman, it’s going to be a tough read. It’ll take you longer to read; you’re not stupid if you’ve spent several months on a single book! And you don’t have to enjoy everything. It’s okay if you got bored after one chapter of Wuthering Heights, and couldn’t be bothered to read the rest. It’s okay if you want to read your favourite kids book for the 10th time instead. You’re not stupid. No piece of literature is inherently better, more “important”, more “meaningful”, or more “intellectual” than another. First and foremost, read what brings you joy.

[maramahan]

Yep. The ‘trick’ to classic lit is that it presupposes a certain amount of Prior Knowledge

You know how we joke that our memes must be completely incomprehensible to outsiders? That’s what’s happening here

But instead of referencing, say, the bone stealing witch or the wonderbread guy or Skyrim or loss.jpeg, classic literature assumes you’re gonna know all the stuff a Back-Then Reader would have known

No kidding, like. when you read Classic Literature™ in context of academia? We’d always get at least a week-long crash-course on the relevant historical context, social tensions, religious understandings, pop-science misconceptions, common literary tropes — And we’d get handed a selection of short stories and poems from other contemporary authors for a sense of the General Cultural Vibe — THEN we would finally read the book.

I mean, imagine trying to understand Stranger Things except you have to guess what all the Star Wars and D&D talk is about based on a single preserved reylo fic and a historical summary of the Satanic Panic. That would be really weird and confusing, right?

So if you’re reading classic lit on your own, without a passionate expert scribbling on the whiteboard to explain ancient memes and break down ye olde Discourse for you? Of course it’s gonna be hard to understand!

It’s natural to struggle, and it’s okay if that’s not your idea of fun.

Today’s classics were often yesterday’s pop culture — and it’s perfectly fine if you’d rather use your precious free time and limited energy to engage with pop culture that’s Relevant To You instead

[rainbowgazes-archive]

we the evil people in order to form an even worse union, establish crime, insure domestic chaos, attack with common offense. and promote the general ill-being

[genderqueerwizard]

forgot how much carrying a book made me feel less stressed