Graceheart's Den

Brony. Furry. History major. Classical libertarian. Tibetan Buddhist. Bisexual enby. Profile icon by Punk-Pega (They/Them)

[storyweavingspider]

Every time I read a book on abolition i sit here like “damn what people do to transfemmes really is just a direct reproduction of the carceral state as a subset of white supremacy and the liberation of transfemmes is directly tied to abolitionism”

“In the late 1600s, officials there legally mandated that every white man between sixteen and sixty join the militia, and legally empowered every white person to arrest, punish, and return runaways. White civilians were not only encouraged to monitor and control Black people, but were *required* to do so—sometimes under the threat of being fined. The government criminalized people for *not* policing.”

—Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists

Directly compare this to the current culture in predominantly US American spaces of constant surveillance of transfemmes to punish us the moment we slip up, once we prove we aren’t “one of the good ones”. It’s a direct evolution of this same colonial expectation to the point it’s done “naturally” even when not directly expected after generations of it being part of the US’s social contract.

Trans women ain’t gettin free as long as we live in a carcerally focused society, and the liberation of trans women ain’t happening without accompanied racial—especially Black—liberation and abolishment of slavery, including prisons and other carceral locales.

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

Many alleged suicides of Black trans women are in fact modern-day lynchings, report finds

Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community call

This is grim and unsurprising but I’m heartened that there are people devoting themselves to bringing this horrific pattern to light. Lynchings never ended, and reports of suicides among Black transfems in particular should be cause for suspicion

[fredhot23]

…Ya Allah.

[imnotwriting]

26 Lettered Earths, an alternate (and partial) D&D cosmography

A Brief Summary of an Explored Portion of the Orrery of Worlds (Earth edition, Keyed to the Dominant Late-Period Anglic Script, Translation Courtesy 3rd Gearth Expedition Force), or, 26 Lettered Earths:

Aerth - fantasy alt-historical Earth: the fun parts. pre-gunpowder (doesn't work, never will) but other than that all your favorite historical eras squished up against one another. Earth-Xena, Warrior Princess, if you will.

Bearth - Earth but populated by evolved bears and other ursines

Cearth - Celtic catgirl/catboy earth. the sidhe and unsidhe clowders alternate being "ruled over" by Tom Tildrum or Tim Toldrum. see also, the Taìn.

Dearth - not a lot here, kinda miserable and gloomy, scarcity reigns except for gunpowder, gasoline, and greed

Earth - our Earth. most portals or other means of transit are laden with "enter at own risk"-type signifiers

Fearth - horror Earth. gloomy and foreboding. all the little horror subgenres of the past two-odd centuries get their little Ravenloft-style demesnes but honestly i was thinking, like, 1970s-80s horror paperbacks

Gearth - clockwork, #steampunk, alt-Victorians, extremely tiresome except for the modrons! i love those little guys. and gnomes, of course.

Hearth - halflings came from here, it's pretty cozy

Iearth - crystals, psionics, high magicks, home of the IOUN stones

Jearth - something about the light casts everything in shades of blue

Kearth - possibly Korean Earth, a never-divided Korean Empire as a major world power and cultural force.

Learth - high Shakespearean drama! low Shakespearean comedy! Elizabethan swashbuckling! Enochian occultism!

Mearth - Wodehouse's world. quite droll for some folks, deeply off-putting to others.

Nearth - *almost* our Earth, but slightly off-brand. like the Canada of Earths.

Oerth - home of the Flanaess, the Circle of Eight, Vecna, the City of Greyhawk, etc. sports a deceptively stuffy and tedious surface over an amoral and murderous core. Oerth wasn't placed at the center of creation as its denizens claim, but they *are* awfully close to it.

Pearth - an odd, bottom-heavy planet, sparse population concentrated largely in the southern hemisphere, a strongly independent people who speak a deeply drifted dialect. everything also has a real juicy donk for some reason.

Quearth - gay, gay, gay

Rearth - Re-Earth. we started the whole thing over to observe it from the beginning, it's a thousand years behind and everything's gone totally off the rails, no supernatural shit but alternate history breakpoints ahoy

Searth - Sea Earth. more Momoa than Costner

Tearth - soap opera earth, everyone's always angry or overjoyed or crying for some other damn reason

Uearth - reverse map Earth. the lands are oceans, and all the sea is dry, dry land

Vearth - Vampire Earth? some iteration of the World of Darkness, maybe Monte Cook's WoD, that doesn't get enough love

Wearth - it's like the opposite of Yearth. the New Wave of science fiction, it's eternally 1979, the aftermath of the 1970s Logan's Run plastic disco cocaine utopia, everything's run down and they can't keep the lights on. the calendar year resets on January 1st,everybody knows, nobody cares

Xearth - fuck it, it's Gamma World, a superhero civil war blew everything up and now it's Gamma World

Yearth - it's the golden age of science fiction, all the major problems are solved and it's always 1965, the calendar year resets on January 1st and nobody seems to notice

Zearth - muppets. muppets on a on inexplicably donut-shaped torus planet of nerf and lego. whimsy level: virulent

[professorlizzard]

Had a dream where I have walked past a popup store that I haven't seen before. It was called "Podcast with a werewolf!". For a small price, you could be a guest on a podcast with a friendly werewolf. You could also watch the show through the shop's window.

[gracehearts-den]

@sahonithereadwolf you have a podcast?

[tobiasdrake]

Psst.

You. Hey, you.

Meritocracy is a lie pushed by the wealthy to pacify the labor force.

Pass it on. And also unionize.

[gracehearts-den]

Varangian Adventurers

A team of adventuring seiðmeðr Varangian guards bullying a senior initiate of the Hermetic mysteries in a fantasy version of the Byzantine Empire. From right to left: Thrud the Swedish eagle, Hesychios the Macedonian Slavic satyr/goat (yes, I like calling anthro goats satyrs; bite me), Veleslava the Rusian viper, and Wolfrune the Anglo Saxon, well, wolf. As I'm in the process of redesigning these OCs, expect differences in appearance or even species.

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[yourspecialeyes]

Reddit user has cracked the code on how to read fanfic and study at the same time

(image via twitter)

[televisionenjoyer]

original reddit post

[avianscribe]

seriously, this is an example of how the integration of arts into learning helps with comprehension. It recontextualizes the material in a way that helps the brain remember AND makes it more understandable.

it’s why for generations teachers used mnemonic songs to help kids memorize all the U.S. states.

[gracehearts-den]

Coulehueyou (2025/6)

Coulehueyou (whose name means "sunstone" in Kalinago; also known historically as Carib) is a native Caribbean boyez (shaman) and adventurer as well as Crevan's occasional ally. I also want to make clear that while she is very much the Krystal to (the gay or heavily bi) Crevan's Fox McCloud, she is not part of his crew, does not see or meet with him regularly; much being in a romantic relationship. Please consult my ref folder for more info on her design.

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[loveridden1999]

i need people to start caring about trans rights all around the world, not just american. the lok sabha (parliament of india) just passed the transgender amendment bill of 2026 according to which they're removing a person's right to self determination of gender unless they're examined & approved by a medical board. it's hard enough for people here to get a gender defining surgery because of poverty and being shunned by society as is, & now they're taking away their right to exist. the medical boards are bigoted as fuck. despite protests all around the country they passed it. it is so fucking bleak out here.

[loveridden1999]

An Analysis Of The Transgender Persons Act And The 2026 Amendment Bill

Legislative changes and constitutional protections are crucial in the context of the Transgender Persons Act and the 2026 Amendment Bill. Th

read it

[zeelatunes]

hrt and transgender surgeries being positioned as dangerous and experimental despite being around for much longer than ozempic, which many people are pushing as a miracle weight loss drug while ignoring its real medical indications and any possible negative side effects

it seems like hypocrisy but it's really the same idea: your body is not yours to control. you are not allowed to be fat, you are not allowed to be trans, we will say whatever it takes to keep you in line

[prismatic-bell]

Oh by the way

If you're wondering just how experimental Ozempic is, I WAS ASKED TO BE IN A CLINICAL TRIAL FOR IT IN DECEMBER OF 2025 BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT SURE IF ORAL CONSUMPTION IS SAFE.

(I was actually willing to do it for the $25k they were offering, because that would have paid off like 60% of all my debts including student loans, but like, hell. It's already on the market and it's still in trials? Didn't we have to fight tooth and nail to get Covid vaxes on the market after "only" a year's trials, on the basis that millions of people are dying? This is a fucking weight loss drug.)

[rhythm-of-lesbianism]

banning trans women from the olympics is bad because they’re banning trans women from the olympics. full stop. really nothing else needs to be added to this sentence. it’s discriminatory and wrong to ban trans women from the olympics, and it would be regardless of how this might effect some cis women. why is every post about this focused on the cis women, instead of how alarmingly transmisogynistic this is?

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[the-haiku-bot]

post so nice had to

reblog it twice and force it

down everyone’s throats

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[mawofthemagnetar]

Cold take but all languages are beautiful actually. Every single one. Every single human language on earth is a collection of stories interwoven into the very fabric of the words that are spoken.

“Oh but this language sounds scary-“ have you heard a child speak it while pointing at a butterfly?

“Oh but this language sounds silly-“ have you heard someone’s grandma recite a recipe with such practiced ease it comes off as poetry?

“Oh but this language is really weird-“ and yours isn’t? Everyone’s language is weird, dumbass, it came free with your fucking humanity.

Every tongue that is spoken is a work of art. Every language a unique window into the world.

Isn’t it wonderful?

[fucktoyfelix]

Lines of thought that seem Normal but are actually rooted in extreme puritanism:

-Seeing the nude human body is inherently traumatic -Sex scenes in art are pointless -Wearing kink-related clothing in public is the similar to performing a sex scene in front of unwilling participants -Depicting female characters expressing sexuality is always degrading -People's sexual fantasies are always an endorsement of the behavior they want to see in real life -Sex work is more traumatic and coercive than other types of work The goal is to treat sex as just another thing people do. That is a much healthier attitude than hiding it! It's not uniquely traumatic, it's not weird to talk about it or include it in society.

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

[ymutate]

Major Felten (1904-1975, American visual artist and illustrator)

Black Panthers 1932

[sahonithereadwolf]

I love my fursona. Sahoni is an expression of a lot of personal things. It's tied to my culture, who I was, who I am, and who I want to be.

It's hard to explain who he is fully to most folks without a quiet discussion of Tsalagi cosmology, a cultural saga, a couple of stories, and a language joke. So I tend to say he's a type of being from my nation's folklore or a red wolf (canis rufus) to keep it simple. I'm Aniwaya (wolf clan), and that's the local wolf so it's just a bit of serendipity

But he's important to me. He is me. He gets to be loved and soft and with sharp teeth and a growl. He has tattoos that tell stories from my home.

He just makes me happy.