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22 he/they | Blade and DHIL main | mtvarettsadili. west asian pagan. moon water protector ~ https://watersuli.straw.page/

[gveleshapi]

the ACTUAL Colchis

I'm convinced that people don't actually care about Medea or Colchis. we're just "Greek mythological people" who never faced any Greek colonization and cultural theft. do Medea "lovers" even know that Colchis are real and their favorite "Greek mythical character" was our deity who wasn't evil until Greeks decided to steal gold from Colchis (which was important to us), and they had to turn Medea into evil "character". Argonauts mythology is there to hide the fact that Greeks colonized us and stole gold from us, they tell a story in a nice way where Colchis are the ones who are evil (sounds familiar? yeah it's European colonization for you). I cannot believe so many people do not know about this. we learned it in schools and there is an awful historical fact behind the argonauts myth everyone chooses to ignore willingly because Greeks "civilized savage Colchis" or smth.

also, I hate how Medea is constantly whitewashed and Greekified. she's portrayed as some evil "character" and people are forgetting that her people actually existed, had their own ethnic features and ethnic clothes. even my people are convinced that it's just a mythology that connects us to Greece. they get happy when Medea is seen as a Greekified woman in Greek attire (bcz it's somehow "civilized"), the cultural erasure and colonization is THIS bad. none of you people actually care about Medea or Colchis. we're just some fairytale people to you who you can turn into aesthetics. it's almost like you've never learned history and/or cultures.

[cannedmilk07]

don't you know I love you?

[hermaphro-dyke]

It is completely reasonable for a trans/intersex person to feel unsafe around you if you demand to know someone’s ASAB or anatomy especially when the internet has become a safe place for us. You should feel bad for demanding that.

[cherrybreathin]

my brother's kids support mpreg but at what cost 😭 they told my cousin's partner that he's going to get "FAT LIKE AUNTIE". NOUUUUUU AHAHAH 😭 but I love educated kids. yes go support that gay silly. he needs it

[gveleshapi]

I think it will help them learn about body types and that anything that's not too skinny isn't automatically "fat." and that even if I get fat there's nothing wrong with it. საგანმანათლებლო გაკვეთილი იქნება

[cheseely]

had the chance to work with Honkai Star Rail again on another commission for their newest character Himeko Nova <3

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

I still think pregnancy and childbirth should be degendered. we stopped talking about that and I need us to pick it back up pls

[bleachallergen]

no in all seriousness as a trans guy I think this is really silly to ask for in general. if youre pregnant and not a woman and dont want to personally be feminized then thats fair, but we are a tiny tiny minority anyway, and this applies to even less of us. Things that typically only afab people can do are always going to be associated with femininity by the majority, and there's nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with men being feminine and doing feminine things. I dont even personally view it as feminine at all, I'm not someone who naturally sees things as being gendered, but this is something so broad that it's silly to be offended by. You know it isn't targetted at you.

also "chest feeding" in the comments IS silly. you have breasts. surely if you have carried and birthed a child and are now breastfeeding you're not dysphoric enough not to be able to cope with the term "breast feeding" YOU ARE A MAMMAL MY DUDE.

[snugisnobug]

"It's silly to be offended by" proceeds to make fun of people who prefer the term chestfeeding

You're being a jerk for going onto someone else's post about requesting to not be gendered and literally making fun of people who want to experience pregnancy while being respected as the gender they are

Not only that but it's not just a matter of being offended. People who are pregnant and aren't women are more likely to have hate crimes committed against them.

Also just because someone's a minority..why should they be discriminated against for that? Which yes, refusing to include someone in medical documentation (and other areas) just because they're a minority is discrimination

[bleachallergen]

But referring to pregnancy in general as feminine isn't discrimination, it just refers to the majority (as language always does and always will, as it is built around the experiences and understanding of the people using it). I fully respect individuals wishing to be gendered correctly, I said that quite explicitly, but the language used to refer to the concept as a whole will always be feminine, because it refers to what is experienced in 99.999999% of situations. We have to accept that we are the minority. The world will never cater to your every want when that want is not only atypical, but directly contradicts the majority (because spoiler alert, there are plenty of people who want their pregnancy to be gendered.) OP is not requesting not to be gendered as you imply. They don't say "can people stop gendering me," they say "can people stop gendering pregnancy and childbirth." It's unrealistic and doesn't reflect the reality of what most people experience. If you're a trans person deciding to get pregnant, you are already accepting that this will be seen as effeminate.

As for hate crimes, get off your moral high horse for a minute and think. Nobody is going to stop hate criming trans people just because we stopped gendering pregnancy. You are arguing with a point I never made.

What I'm tryna say is, we can't change how things are seen, especially something as inherent to afab people as childbirth,* especially when it is still so stigmatised for women anyway. I've debated putting this in here because idk if I can word it as carefully as I need to, but a big part of being trans is navigating what is seen as traditionally masculine or feminine. That's what dysphoria and euphoria kinda are?- being seen as masculine or feminine or both or neither as we wish. That requires us to acknowledge what is masculine and feminine. And when so many horrific things are happening to us blaming hate crimes on the fact pregnancy and childbirth r feminine just to try and guilt trip a kid on tumblr is insane.

*I know intersex people exist but we're talking about public perception, and again the majority, here.

[gveleshapi]

since you're a minor I'll try to be as nice as possible.

just because pregnant women are the majority doesn't mean pregnancy needs to be called feminine and needs to be gendered. pregnancy shouldn't be gendered because the "0.1%" (actually 1% if not more) you're talking about is still MILLIONS of people worldwide, we're talking about over 100 MILLION people which is enough to create 10 independent countries with 10M populations (or it can be one HUGE country). you shouldn't think about percentages, think about numbers. not gendering pregnancy is important. regardless who's majority, there are pregnant people who are MALE and INTERSEX, which makes "pregnancy is female thing" incorrect and wrong (also male and female are technically constructed and there's not a single right definition of it. not every "female" is built the same, not every "male" is built the same, and there are literally intersex people coming in over 60 variations), and it actively erases minority and harms us in many ways possible. arguments that ungendered pregnancy "directly contradicts the majority" and "spoiler alert there are people who want their pregnancy gendered" don't work because there were times when white people were the majority in the US and they didn't want their bathrooms to be for all races, they had whites only spaces because they were the majority.

people who get offended by neutral language and call pregnancy "female" are simply TERFS. MILLIONS of people worldwide are not obligated to censor our language and erase our existence simply because the majority doesn't want us to exist or doesn't want to include us in their language. again, you're a minor so I understand why you do not understand the topic. I hope you'll learn as you grow up. what you're saying is very intersexist and transphobic, however, I understand it's coming from your lack of education and the fact that you're a minor with not much experience. many things used to be unrealistic but humanity can change. words change. languages change. and erasing a group of people from language simply because they're "a minority" is wrong no matter what. it helps no one. it only feeds oppressors egos. I suggest you calculate 0.1% (known cases, there are way more people who aren't outed in transphobic and intersexist countries) of the world's global population. trust me. we're way more than you'd imagine. it's not just 100 and 1000 people. it's MILLIONS. over 100 million. also there are cultures where pregnancy wasn't really gendered until colonization, so keep it in mind.

[bleachallergen]

did you just compare pregnancy being perceived as feminine to fucking segregation and try to act like im the crazy one here. What breed of performative is this.

Did you just call me uneducated because I don't think society will change language to cater to trans people when we are literally being killed. Nobody is offended by neutral language. "Pregnancy" and "Childbirth" are already neutral language. That is not what I said. What i said was that you will never be able to transform societal perception of the concept of pregnancy. I know male and intersex people get pregnant, that's... the whole premise of the conversation? That's what I'm talking about? Not changing a language to cater to a minority is not erasure, and while languages change, they do so naturally. But that's not what's happening. Also, for something to be erased it had to exist. Again, most of the language surrounding pregnancy is already gender neutral. That's not what I'm talking about. The idea that everyone should alter how they personally perceive something so conceptual because of a minority is UNREALISTIC. I've yet to see anyone telling me I'm wrong deny that, yet its the core if my argument. I'm not stupid because I'm like 6 years younger than you. Stop being so condescending and talk to me like a person. I know how numbers work I take A level maths. You also put "pregnancy is a female thing" in speech marks as though I said that, which is dishonest.

Genuinely how do you quantify making pregnancy gender neutral? You physically fucking can't. You don't know what people sre thinking. What's perceived as masc/fem is just pattern recognition. There is literally no point in trying to do this. It's just making yourself feel like a good person because you were woke on the internet.

[gveleshapi]

there's absolutely no need to be aggressive. you clearly lack education on this topic and you refuse to listen to intersex people and minorities. I literally live in a country that kills trans people, intersex people and bans homosexuality. I live in West Asia and you don't need to teach me anything. since you don't believe that you're erasing a minority and you're so aggressive towards intersex people trying to correct you and give you more info on this topic I'm blocking you. "for something to be erased it has to exist" is extremely weird sentence considering you're saying that you're not transphobic or intersexist. you want me to ignore that you're a minor and speak to you like a normal person? ok. then shut the hell up and keep your intersexism to yourself. + learn what woke means because trust me, it's not what you think it is. I didn't call myself woke or a good person. I was trying to educate you on this topic as a pregnant INTERSEX person who's not female. but sure, keep being aggressive and keep erasing us from language and tell us that it's unrealistic to expect the majority to "cater to us." just say YOU associate pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, ovaries and uterus with female health. just say you're intersexist and transphobic. you're getting blocked.

[gveleshapi]

Georgia is weird because why do I see Once Upon a Time ad on TV? the country is homophobic. Once Upon a Time has lesbian and bi characters. Mulan is lesbian, Dorothy is lesbian and Ruby (red) is bi. are they not going to their episodes where they kiss or ?

[jelliemiaart]

💖Draculaura - fairy of love

💛Cleo - fairy of time

💜Clawdeen - fairy of moonlight

💙Lagoona - fairy of water

⚡️Frankie- fairy of electricity

❄️Abbey - fairy of ice and snow

[gveleshapi]

yesterday it was 39 Celsius. today it's 25 Celsius. average Samargalo weather. yesterday Tbilisi was the coldest, today Tbilisi is the one burning. BPD moment

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

I still think pregnancy and childbirth should be degendered. we stopped talking about that and I need us to pick it back up pls

[bleachallergen]

no in all seriousness as a trans guy I think this is really silly to ask for in general. if youre pregnant and not a woman and dont want to personally be feminized then thats fair, but we are a tiny tiny minority anyway, and this applies to even less of us. Things that typically only afab people can do are always going to be associated with femininity by the majority, and there's nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with men being feminine and doing feminine things. I dont even personally view it as feminine at all, I'm not someone who naturally sees things as being gendered, but this is something so broad that it's silly to be offended by. You know it isn't targetted at you.

also "chest feeding" in the comments IS silly. you have breasts. surely if you have carried and birthed a child and are now breastfeeding you're not dysphoric enough not to be able to cope with the term "breast feeding" YOU ARE A MAMMAL MY DUDE.

[snugisnobug]

"It's silly to be offended by" proceeds to make fun of people who prefer the term chestfeeding

You're being a jerk for going onto someone else's post about requesting to not be gendered and literally making fun of people who want to experience pregnancy while being respected as the gender they are

Not only that but it's not just a matter of being offended. People who are pregnant and aren't women are more likely to have hate crimes committed against them.

Also just because someone's a minority..why should they be discriminated against for that? Which yes, refusing to include someone in medical documentation (and other areas) just because they're a minority is discrimination

[bleachallergen]

But referring to pregnancy in general as feminine isn't discrimination, it just refers to the majority (as language always does and always will, as it is built around the experiences and understanding of the people using it). I fully respect individuals wishing to be gendered correctly, I said that quite explicitly, but the language used to refer to the concept as a whole will always be feminine, because it refers to what is experienced in 99.999999% of situations. We have to accept that we are the minority. The world will never cater to your every want when that want is not only atypical, but directly contradicts the majority (because spoiler alert, there are plenty of people who want their pregnancy to be gendered.) OP is not requesting not to be gendered as you imply. They don't say "can people stop gendering me," they say "can people stop gendering pregnancy and childbirth." It's unrealistic and doesn't reflect the reality of what most people experience. If you're a trans person deciding to get pregnant, you are already accepting that this will be seen as effeminate.

As for hate crimes, get off your moral high horse for a minute and think. Nobody is going to stop hate criming trans people just because we stopped gendering pregnancy. You are arguing with a point I never made.

What I'm tryna say is, we can't change how things are seen, especially something as inherent to afab people as childbirth,* especially when it is still so stigmatised for women anyway. I've debated putting this in here because idk if I can word it as carefully as I need to, but a big part of being trans is navigating what is seen as traditionally masculine or feminine. That's what dysphoria and euphoria kinda are?- being seen as masculine or feminine or both or neither as we wish. That requires us to acknowledge what is masculine and feminine. And when so many horrific things are happening to us blaming hate crimes on the fact pregnancy and childbirth r feminine just to try and guilt trip a kid on tumblr is insane.

*I know intersex people exist but we're talking about public perception, and again the majority, here.

[gveleshapi]

since you're a minor I'll try to be as nice as possible.

just because pregnant women are the majority doesn't mean pregnancy needs to be called feminine and needs to be gendered. pregnancy shouldn't be gendered because the "0.1%" (actually 1% if not more) you're talking about is still MILLIONS of people worldwide, we're talking about over 100 MILLION people which is enough to create 10 independent countries with 10M populations (or it can be one HUGE country). you shouldn't think about percentages, think about numbers. not gendering pregnancy is important. regardless who's majority, there are pregnant people who are MALE and INTERSEX, which makes "pregnancy is female thing" incorrect and wrong (also male and female are technically constructed and there's not a single right definition of it. not every "female" is built the same, not every "male" is built the same, and there are literally intersex people coming in over 60 variations), and it actively erases minority and harms us in many ways possible. arguments that ungendered pregnancy "directly contradicts the majority" and "spoiler alert there are people who want their pregnancy gendered" don't work because there were times when white people were the majority in the US and they didn't want their bathrooms to be for all races, they had whites only spaces because they were the majority.

people who get offended by neutral language and call pregnancy "female" are simply TERFS. MILLIONS of people worldwide are not obligated to censor our language and erase our existence simply because the majority doesn't want us to exist or doesn't want to include us in their language. again, you're a minor so I understand why you do not understand the topic. I hope you'll learn as you grow up. what you're saying is very intersexist and transphobic, however, I understand it's coming from your lack of education and the fact that you're a minor with not much experience. many things used to be unrealistic but humanity can change. words change. languages change. and erasing a group of people from language simply because they're "a minority" is wrong no matter what. it helps no one. it only feeds oppressors egos. I suggest you calculate 0.1% (known cases, there are way more people who aren't outed in transphobic and intersexist countries) of the world's global population. trust me. we're way more than you'd imagine. it's not just 100 and 1000 people. it's MILLIONS. over 100 million. also there are cultures where pregnancy wasn't really gendered until colonization, so keep it in mind.

[bideogaymes]

that Natasha doll shit that’s big in Asia rn (China, Indonesia, Korea, etc.) is emblematic of why we say antiblackness is global. abusing a Black baby doll to relieve stress, in violent and pedophilic ways, & then going out of their way to take pictures of irl Black, African, and half-Black Asian children to brag that they found the “IRL Natasha doll”? and comments under posts on Xiaohongshu saying they want to “punch” it (an irl Black child) up?

and in Spanish speaking circles online they sharing gore pictures of dead African babies in online chats so much it has a label named “BND”? Another Black teen was murdered recently by an Asian American store owner convinced he was stealing despite putting items back. He shot him in the back.

yall dont deserve nothing from Black people in any part of the diaspora, irdc. this shit makes me so angry but the demands for an expectation of actionable organizing and dismantling of the white supremacist project that is the US is laid at our collective feet and no one else’s is so crazy to me. how are Black ppl supposed to generate trust for nonblack ppl that hasn’t been demonstrated in a sustained, recent, manner, without us having to force the rest of the world to see us?

Idpol is divisive until it’s time to self adopt the moniker of the Global South and that often doesn’t include & backseats Black African exploitation/extraction. it’s hella transparent how nonblack leftists only mention Sudan, Congo, Somalia, etc. as afterthoughts to their awareness and solidarity posts focusing on Palestine but feel entitled to call Black leftists “zog slaves” for not making dedicated media to the issue they feel the most important, regardless if to these Black leftists making Black issues their focus and niche.

fucking crazy so many of yall got the nerve to posture moral superiority.

[khmali]

ok here's my Georgian/Colchi mzettsadili (lesbian) oc named Kesane. they use she/they pronouns (they're naturally brunette. but they dyed their hair purple)

it's my first time drawing a character. I don't know how to draw or color btw. the mzettsadili flag I used for her is created by @brtterfly

[theghost-ofthedecadence]

okay, we NEED to talk about the roma people everyone. they are treated so horribly in many european countries it is insane to me that it’s not more talked about. many european white people feel like they can just get a pass saying the most vile racist things towards romani people because “it’s just true” (it’s NOT).

Right now I’m tutoring these two girls in math, and they are roma, they’re lovely people really, but sometimes they tell me about how they’ve been treated by others and I am livid. some teachers refuse to assist them, one of them was sent home after wearing leggings because “it’s too sexual” (it’s fucking leggings), they’re paid very small salaries, even government bodies keep lying to them whenever they can to rip them off and never help. there was this one case my mom worked with of a newborn baby being denied a *birth certificate* for some bullshit. it’s TERRIBLE and we need to talk about it more

[gveleshapi]

Castorice is adorable. look at her eyes

[gveleshapi]

I'm happy I got Gilgamesh but why am I feeling exhausted after playing the Fate collab event for 5 mins. I need to take breaks before I continue playing the Fate event

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

[gveleshapi]

the ACTUAL Colchis

I'm convinced that people don't actually care about Medea or Colchis. we're just "Greek mythological people" who never faced any Greek colonization and cultural theft. do Medea "lovers" even know that Colchis are real and their favorite "Greek mythical character" was our deity who wasn't evil until Greeks decided to steal gold from Colchis (which was important to us), and they had to turn Medea into evil "character". Argonauts mythology is there to hide the fact that Greeks colonized us and stole gold from us, they tell a story in a nice way where Colchis are the ones who are evil (sounds familiar? yeah it's European colonization for you). I cannot believe so many people do not know about this. we learned it in schools and there is an awful historical fact behind the argonauts myth everyone chooses to ignore willingly because Greeks "civilized savage Colchis" or smth.

also, I hate how Medea is constantly whitewashed and Greekified. she's portrayed as some evil "character" and people are forgetting that her people actually existed, had their own ethnic features and ethnic clothes. even my people are convinced that it's just a mythology that connects us to Greece. they get happy when Medea is seen as a Greekified woman in Greek attire (bcz it's somehow "civilized"), the cultural erasure and colonization is THIS bad. none of you people actually care about Medea or Colchis. we're just some fairytale people to you who you can turn into aesthetics. it's almost like you've never learned history and/or cultures.

[baghre]

if you dare to correct their language they'll get defensive and they'll tell you that Greeks popularized your deities and culture so it's ok to call them Greek mythology.

I'm Colchi from Samegrelo (Mingrelia-Margali), I speak the Margaluri language, not the "Colchian" language. I have dark brown curly hair, light brown "olive" skin, and many of my online friends told me that I'm a typical West Asian person instead of some Greek looking mythical one. I'm proud of my culture and I hate how it constantly gets Greekified from everyone including my people. colonization is AWFUL and if these people have never learned history they need to say so. if you can't respect Medea and Colchis origins then keep us out of your mouth. why is our ONLY rep some villainized Colchi deity. I'll never forgive any of you for treating us like uncultured savage fantasy people. LEARN HISTORY but not from a European perspective cuz they LOOOVE making themselves look good. golden fleece is Colchis gold jewelry, gold treasures, gold culture. it doesn't belong to everyone. it belongs to us, Colchis, Georgians. I'll never forgive Percy Jackson for treating us like sh*t. our culture isn't your "Greek mythical" aesthetic.

[yamnomezo]

Hmmmmm, might I even add how they’re also claiming that Amiran is of Greek origin ? Sure, Prometheus is Greek, but Amiran is speculated to be an even older myth, one that is unique to Georgia and Georgia only.

[gveleshapi]

exactly! my mom's family aren't Christians. they follow ancient Georgian religion (paganism), and so many deities and "Greek characters" including Amiran are meant to be Georgian, not Greek. this includes Dionysus. things start to make sense when you dig deep into paganism and you realize that all the "legendary Greek characters" are just West Asian and North Africans with Greekified names and stories. Amiran is one of the most popular "Greek characters" who is Georgian and is meant to represent Georgians (considering we don't get anything except Medea who's usually portrayed as the evil princess of Colchis..). it's crazy how people love to erase their origins just cuz their names and stories got Greekified, retold and "popularized" by Greeks. it's almost like people are willingly ignorant and they defend colonialism (or they don't know history which is important when we're talking about "Greek mythology"). Amiran is literally related to Dali and Darejan who are Georgian deities. I hate how Georgian paganism is erased from history and how it's treated by everyone