To Become Something More

Take my hand, display your worth, step in time, follow forth.

[hollymccrea]

I can't sleep. I am afraid without her.

It is a night Where I'm afraid to sleep When the want to die Imbues me. When I miss the touch And the warmth from them And the lack of that's Confusing

[hollymccrea]

Missing Melancholy

A wet eclipse Takes me full And I am feeling numb I want to cry To feel the dread But nothing breaks inside

[hellpugart]

[sashayed]

I haven’t quite thought this out enough to have my thoughts totally clear, but I usually clarify my thoughts by writing them down, so I’m gonna try it anyway. For context I am writing as an ethnically Jewish white person.

I have seen some Discourse where person A says something like “We can’t dehumanize the people we’re fighting,” and then Person B goes “Yeah, this was why we shouldn’t have punched that Nazi!” and then Person C goes “Uh, we have to punch Nazis,” and then Person D says “Nazis aren’t people!” and then the whole Discourse Cycle starts up again. 

The problem, I think, is that we are taking “don’t dehumanize” as code for “be nice to?” And that’s not what it is. “Don’t dehumanize” means understanding there is not a profound difference between yourself and a person who believes something repugnant. Otherwise, it becomes too tempting to think that a repugnant belief is some kind of monstrous mental defect that we get to just magically Not Have, because we – after all – are people, and Nazis are Not People. 

If we believe that we are immune to repugnant beliefs, we become incredibly vulnerable to them. Sorry if I’m being redundant here, but I really want to spell this out: If we think that Nazis aren’t people, we open a door that is going to kill our ability to be useful, effective, intersectional activists. We will absolutely become complacent. Beliefs will creep up slowly in our brains, because that’s what brains do, they gather information and make just whatever crap soup out of it, and we – if we sense the development of these ideas at all – will go “Well, this must NOT be a repugnant belief, because only Not-People have repugnant beliefs, and I am a Person!” 

And again, that’s not synonymous with saying that “If you want to punch Nazis in the face YOU’RE JUST AS BAD AS THEM!!!!” That’s crazy and garbage. It’s also not synonymous with “We have to tolerate Nazi beliefs!” I am trying to make a pretty straightforward statement that Nazis are people. They are people, and we have to look that fact dead on, and then we have to punch those people in the face, hard and often.

[stele3]

THIS. Nazis are absolutely human beings who, by their beliefs and actions, absolutely deserve to be punched in the face as frequently as possible.

[hollymccrea]

The candycorn won

He is the worst candy.

[underblackmoon]

[hollymccrea]

Photos of me and some friends at a con. I love my Alucard Cosplay. <3

[hollymccrea]

Morning broadcast of Valiance One

Good morning to all. This week a has seen a couple new births of crewfolk. Terra and Marry Jones, after seven hours of labor, brought an 8 pound baby boy in to the world. We welcome Barry Jones in to our family. Kira Nakamura and Steven Carlsburg became the proud parents of tiny little Aubergine. Though premature, she's expected to be toddling around the ship in no time. In other news, shock on New Astora. Several collaborators from a previous wild cat colony on the planet have been caught trying to sabotage the colony's water supply, several citizens have died as a result. Their trial is set for August 16nth. The search for their co-conspirators is ongoing. Enjoy your day, Crewfolk.

[underblackmoon]

[underblackmoon]

[underblackmoon]

[hollymccrea]

She travels across the broken land Of strangled loss and fear soaked sand

The goal above is close at hand No work of love is her demand

The wires draped in human flesh And children scraped in to their creche

It’s made of mud and bullets fresh And stained in blood, the red enmesh

Her eyes behold the crooked sky The tower’s cold and grown so high

She carries guns along her thigh Her eyes are dun, her humor dry

Sleep does behest what babies craved She will not rest till love is saved

End of first Canto

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

just so you know

the US minimum wage that we all agree is too low to live on ($15,080/yr) is far more than many legally disabled people receive in benefits

the maximum SSI for a single person is $8,796/yr if a disabled person marries another, each drops to a max of $6,600/yr

while you’re fighting for 15 maybe look at that too

[fogblogger]

Not to mention we aren’t allowed to have more than $2,000 saved at a time. EVER. Like EVER or we lose all benefits completely. In the bank, in cash, it doesn’t matter. The government literally keeps us poor, while also making us pay immense amounts of money for health care that we require to even survive or function (let alone work enough to be able to get off of benefits, not to mention that there are a ton of people who will never be able to do that anyways). It’s a very, very broken system and not one that was ever meant to actually help anyone. 

Plus, “marriage equality” is still a huge problem for disabled people (as you can see), which is something almost everyone is ignorant to/doesn’t care about. 

DO NOT LEAVE DISABLED PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR ACTIVISM. 

[cheerfullygoth]

DO NOT LEAVE DISABLED PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR ACTIVISM.

[wheeloffortune-design]

I’d like to thank my friend Avistew Teague for translating this!

[musinvenusian]

I LOVE THIS

[terraflarensfw-deactivated20181]

Such a good explanation of actual feminism, rather than what most people think it is!

[underblackmoon]

Prepare for the afternoon broadcast of Valliance One

Good afternoon, crewfolk, families, and future colonists.

Debris from a passing comet have damaged a few of the aft decks, no major damage but we did have a few casualties. Captain Keys has issued a statement, recording as follows.

“Today, we lost some good people. Their sacrifice will be remembered in our great march towards the dominance of human kind in the universe. They did their duty well.

To the families and their friends in the 21st repair crew division; stay strong. We are greater together than we could ever be alone.”

In other news, there’s been word of potential instigators within our numbers. These rebels have been seen stealing rations from the hard working crew, and their families, from all around the ship. If you or someone you know of any suspicious activity, alert your nearest officer immediately.

That’s all for now. Remember, we are greater together than we could ever be alone.

[homojabi]

It’s 2016, can we please stop pretending like disabilities are harder on the non-disabled people who are close to the disabled person than they are on the actual disabled person themselves?

[sian-art]

Simple backgrounds +$5:  example 1 | example 2

Will do character sheets, 2 Waist Ups and 1 Fullbody for $50 on request!

Re: Gore - Some blood and mild injuries are OK

Re: NSFW - this includes fetish art Re: Furry/Anthro - Mostly human characters with wings/horns/ect are OK Undertale characters are fine as well! Feel free to ask if you’re unsure. I’ll let you know if I can do it!

Email me at: [email protected] with your name/username & “commission” in the subject line + your paypal email (so I can send an invoice), references/details & a few sentences about the personality/relationships of the character(s)

I’ll send you an invoice via paypal, and you’ll be added to the queue as soon as I receive payment!

Commissions Queue is Here, so that you can see what’s being worked on. They’ll be completed in order of payment received!

I’ll send a sketch with flats where you can let me know of any major changes you’d like me to make

All commissions will be posted on my art blog/twitter/dA after you’ve received them so let me know what blog, if any, you would like me to link to for when I post it!

Hi everyone, I’m sorry to ask but I need your help!

I’ve created a fundraiser HERE and more detail about the situation can be found there, but to summarise:

I am a disabled trans person in an incredibly violent and abusive situation which has had repercussions for both my mental and physical health. The situation is rapidly deteriorating; my mother and I desperately need a safe place to live. We are both disabled and unable to work, and my abuser has total control over our current income, this is the only way I can get the money together so that we can leave.

If I felt I could do this all on commissions I would, but the situation is now life threatening and we need to leave as soon as possible.

Thank you SO MUCH to anyone that commissions me or donates!!!

If you can’t afford to help financially, reblogging would also help so much! I’ll try to follow everyone that reblogs this (via my main @spokenofthesoul) since that’s all I can offer besides my art for your help.

[sian-art]

I’m SO, SO GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE SUPPORT SO FAR there might be a lot to go but I just, I’m so grateful to everyone being so supportive and reblogging this and to the people that have donated, you’re all amazing ♥♥

[spokenofthesoul-deactivated2020]

We’re half way there (as of July 18th)!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH to the people that have shared this and donated already, and left kind words and messages!!

Please, please keep sharing if you can! I can’t thank everyone enough for all the support you’ve shown, I really can’t.