It's less wounds, I promise. stay mortal.

she/they, just trying to survive, queer

[thepromiscuousfinger]

Is it just me or are the new tumblr users convinced there's a penalty of some kind for using this site like it's meant to be used?

[beardedmrbean]

reblogs have always been in short supply for artists, sadly, but it's hitting the shitposts and even the cat pictures lately. Gotta keep getting the word out that reblogs are good and keep people posting new material that will be passed around for the next 12 years

[mornington-the-crescent]

They’re used to other social media sites, where the only equivalent of reblogging is straight-up content theft; so the idea that you can put someone else’s stuff on your page and have it not be a bad thing is a strange experience for them.

They’re likely also used to an algorithm recommending content based on what they hit “like” on, so they probably think that that’s how this works, too.

[anotherdayofdrudgery]

[istandwithpalestine-deactivated]

Support For Hisham's Recovery, organized by Family and Friends Of Hisham

On Saturday, Nov 25th, 2023, Hisham — a 20 yr old junior at Brown Universi… Family and Friends Of Hisham needs your support for Support For

[hungryfictions]

don’t you know it’s not good for your hair to wash it every day. you have to use sulfate and paraben free shampoo. you have to wash your hair with conditioner instead. you should stop washing your hair for a month because actually your scalp has the natural ability to maintain itself. greasy hair can make your acne worse so make sure you wash it every day. you have to use this three step regiment on your face EVERY SINGLE night. buy this $70 serum and use it with the 10 other serums you have but don’t combine them. don’t use anything on your face except a gentle cleanser and moisturizer. do NOT use moisturizer on your face you are DESTROYING your skins natural moisture barrier! acne is just for teenagers you’ll grow out of it :) oh no but adult acne is sooooo common. just take birth control and your acne will go away. cut out all sugar and dairy and your acne will go away. actually those studies are fake, get light therapy treatments instead. take accutane and your acne will go away, only a couple of those kids killed themselves! shave your armpits because it looks better. if you shave your armpits you’re not a feminist. actually shaving your armpits is for HYGIENE. wax your legs. wax your bikini line. but waxing any part of your body can give you ugly ingrown hairs and permanently damage your skin and follicles and besides that’s the patriarchy. (but get laser hair removal instead.) don’t have an eating disorder because that’s too much but definitely do intermittent fasting. don’t eat carbs. don’t eat sugar. don’t eat fat. actually your brain uses carbs as its main energy source. actually fat is necessary but only good fat. you have to DRINK MORE WATER!!! drinking 8 glasses of water per day is a myth. burn fat and get toned by doing these exercises. but cellulite is natural and 99% of women have it so you HAVE to embrace it. take diet pills. ummm don’t you know those are meth?? take NATURAL diet supplements for weight loss. take THESE vitamins to cure your depression and clear your skin and make you better at sex and make your vision better and speed up your metabolism and make your digestion better and make you focus better. i know the ONLY right answer but you have to pay me for it. follow my blog! listen to my podcast! subscribe to my email newsletter! buy my snake oil!!

[driftinginburgerland]

[apollo-cackling]

is there just a lot less literary fiction featuring queer women as opposed to queer men or am I just missing them

[papenathys]

There is a LOT of literary fiction centring queer women:

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder: mother daughter relationships, Jewish faith, relationships with food, body image and eating (bisexual)

Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi: Black womanhood, sisters, ogbanje and Igbo identity, trauma recovery, food and cooking as a love language (lesbian)

Kari by Amruta Patil: grief, loss, big city loneliness, musing on death, gender expression (lesbian)

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett: taxidermy, toxic masculinity, father daughter relationships, very fucked up queer desire, the dry, unromantic business of death (lesbian)

In At The Deep End by Kate Davies: sex, BDSM, kink pride, abusive relationships, gender identity, queer community (lesbian)

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval: rotting fruit, cold days, speculative body horror, queer desire, gross sensory bodies (bisexual)

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers: Black womanhood, queer found family, academic burnout, big city life, radio shows, navigating marriage (lesbian)

Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo: Black identity, gender, racism in 21st century England, intersectional feminism, generational trauma (lesbian, bisexual, various)

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin: mental health, dark comedy, social anxiety, musing on death, Fleabag-esque church groups and religion (lesbian)

Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin: Academia, 1980s Taiwanese identity, working class struggles, mental health, student lives, social alienation, gender (lesbian)

Roses in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman: Muslim American identity, 80s music, coming of age, academia, sapphic awakening (lesbian)

Chlorine by Jade Song: violent girlhood, Asian diasporic identity, mermaids, competitive swimming, 90s music and cinema, body horror, sexual awakening (bisexual)

There is also a whole separate category for the genre that is "literary fiction centred around young queer women in academia falling for older women or for each other"

The Adult by Bronwyn Fischer (lesbian)

We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart (lesbian)

My Education by Susan Choi (bisexual)

Sirens and Muses by Antonia Angress (bisexual)

And this is not even skimming the surface of translated fiction, or the enormous, rich, diverse canon of lesbian, bisexual and generally sapphic historical fiction by Feinberg, Sarah Waters, Eileen Myles etc. There is a lot of it. I recommend following more sapphic authors and bookstagrammers. Because only then will one be exposed to more diverse queer literature.

[newlevant]

Preview of Sam Long’s story, drawn by the amazing Cynthia Yuan Cheng! (@cynthiaycheng, cynthiaycheng.com)

Becoming Who We Are Kickstarter ends Dec 14! Preorder now to help us fund the book!

bit.ly/becomingkickstarter

Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans

Exclusive to Kickstarter - the limited Hardcover edition of the "Becoming Who We Are" anthology.

[invisiblefoxfire]

Hey this looks really awesome but there are 5 days left and it still needs quite a bit of funding to hit the goal. Spread the word, signal boost, I want my books! There are tiers specifically for libraries and retailers as well, so especially share with any librarians or bookshop owners you know!

[neil-gaiman]

Four days left...

[nyancrimew]

we are past swifties calling themselves punks and have arrived at swift calling herself punk

[ruckuscauser]

[gaynaturalistghost]

I made the first page so long ago but hey, I finished.

[gaynaturalistghost]

Part two

also! Prada has blue sweats.

[spiffidy-doo-dah]

blue prada-

vector ass lookin mfer

[gaynaturalistghost]

He gets that vector ass from Pilates

[dc-comics-heritage-posts]

dc comics heritage post

[weavemama]

It’s ironic because they don’t look at US as real people. 

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

remember that members of congress have the blood of innocent people on their hands

[death-to-usa]

Remember that members of Congress are real people and can thus be killed

[beautiful-basque-country]

Thousands of people have gathered today in the Market Square of Gernika (Bizkaia) - the same place that was bombed by nazis in 1937 - to show support to Gazan people and condemn that what Israel is doing to them is what nazis did to Basque people way back then.

Palestina askatu!! Stop the genocide!!

[x, x]

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

violent resistance to violent oppression wouldnt exist if there was no violent oppression in the first place. casualties of violent resistance to violent oppression are ultimately the sole blame of the violent oppressor

[gunlovingpacifist]

Nelson Mandela disagreed with everything you just said. And that's why he was able to unite a whole country

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

i love when you lot invent these holy meekly pacifist images in your head of people you were told youre allowed to Value and Appreciate but only as those holy meekly pacifist images spoonfed to you by your own propaganda machine and you never as a grown adult bother to google if it was all really sunshine and rainbows and care bears philosophy that affected the state of apartheid in south africa

[heritageposts]

Nelson Mandela in Gaza, 1999:

Choose peace rather than confrontation. Except in cases where we cannot get, where we cannot proceed, where we cannot move forward. Then, if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.

[nativenews]

[nativenews]

[silverquillsideas]

translation in bengali

translation in hindi

translation in japapnese

translation in Filipino

translation in greek

translation in korean

translation in tamil

translation in bahasa malaysia

translation in nepali

translation in somali

link to the original tweet.

[papenathys]

Ok, so here is what I think because I'm masc, queer and South Asian and have been on bookblr for 8 years now:

There is a troubling and very normalized cowardice in the portrayal of certain types of identities in the sapphic bookish community and nobody chooses to look at it. You all continue to portray masc lesbian characters, especially POC, as hyper feminine lightskin girls with pixie cuts or even long hair, knowing full well they canonically had brown skin, and were visibly butch (egregious examples being tamar from shadow and bone, and jane from one last stop). You continue to edit, vid and draw specifically and canonically dark skinned sapphic characters as biracial light skin fems with extremely white passing beauty. You continue to hype up the same 5 books by white sapphic authors as the pinnacle of wlw diverse literature- evelyn hugo, priory of the orange tree, one last stop, criers war (this one is present on EVERY diverse bipoc lesbian booklist despite the author EXPLICITLY stating she is white), a lesson in vengeance etc.

You continue to force a certain standard of pale skinned hairless soft cottagecore femininity onto masc bodies, butch bodies, bipoc bodies that resent that type of beauty (last night at the telegraph club, the locked tomb, the unbroken, girls of paper and fire.....hell, even adiba jaigirdar's books). Even a remotely masc or baby butch side character gets feminized or "converted" to fit the aesthetic, and this is deeply disturbing.

You force us into compartments for the sake of your Aryan beauty Pinterest boards and ugly Instagram edits, knowing fully well that not every lesbian or bisexual on this planet adheres to that type of "sapphic" culture. You select the most white passing feminine Asian models so that your edits look palatable and so that our ugly ethnic features don't look bad beside your preferred fancasts for the white love interest. Then you get defensive when we call you out and say "light skinned biracials/ fem4fems are valid!!!" ok and they are LITERALLY the only type of rep that saturates every sapphic media that blows up. get real and stop using their oppression to hide your colorism and butchphobia.

And so I wonder, do you like us when we go against the Euramerican mainstream pop culture image of "sapphic love" or do you resent us and wish we were just a homogenous group of good and pure and sweet Taylor Swift/ girl in red/ strawberry sapphics like you?

[papenathys]

Also here is the goddamn thing. When someone asks for butch lesbian or masc lesbian media/books recs, you don't say "try X book, it is fem4fem but it has POC leads!" That shit is not cute and makes you sound wilfully stupid, because they asked for diversity of lesbian gender presentation and you gave them tokenistic racial diversity instead. one axis of marginality does not cancel out the other. don't be ridiculous. when someone asks for lesbian books, you don't recommend bisexual ones, and when someone asks for poc books, you don't recommend them white gay ones and say "the gayness cancels out the whiteness!" like do you hear yourself???

[stuckinapril]

motaz azaiza just posted a video of israeli officers indiscriminately shooting at civilians (and him) as they tried to run away. he and bisan and all other on-site journalists are living in a nightmare simulator just so they could be the ears and eyes of gaza—and yet we still have people who’re “considering whether this is any of their concern” “uninformed so they refuse to speak” “choosing to stay neutral.” motaz was one of the journalists who basically posted their eulogies earlier this week. this can’t get any more horrifying and dystopian. we need a ceasefire.

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Bisan's recent post. I think it's important for you to read it. Tonight 03.12.23, journalists in gaza share their last messages. There are no words to describe the horrors unfolding in gaza right now.

I no longer have any hope of survival like I had at the beginning of this genocide, and I am certain that I will die in the next few weeks or maybe days. I have been sick with severe viral infection for days and cannot move from the mattress!

I suffer from nightmares that are so closely resemble reality that I no longer differentiate between reality and dream.

I live in a world other than the one I claimed to be building! I am a community activist who lived on the fantasy that the world was free and just, and I sought to bring rights not only to my people, but to many men and women in third world countries!

I was shocked that I was not from the third world! Indeed, we are the most humane and moral! Yes, because the world approves, supports, and finances the genocide we are being subjected to, legislates it, and gives reasons for for 58 days! While we are a people who have been living on occupied land for 75 years and are still searching for our rights and communicating our voice to the world!

My message to the world: You are not innocent of what is happening to us, you as governments or peoples that support Israel’s annihilation of my people. We will not forgive you, we will not forgive you, humanity will not forgive you, we will not forget, even if we die, the history will never forget .

A Message to friends: Thank you and the supporters around the world. You have been compassionate and very strong. We ask you not to lose hope, even if the world seems completely unfair and your efforts have not yet resulted in a ceasefire.

[lezbi0nic]

Support for Palestine should be unconditional by the way. Stop looking for the ways they're just like you (ex: gay, trans, neurodivergent, etc) and support them for the sole reason that theyre literally facing a genocide right now. This is what solidarity is.

[sparklemaia]

yes I'm now on the other side of top surgery and I'm allowed to lift things again 💪 You might have already seen this one on my substack -- did u know you can subscribe to my substack for early access to comics like this?! Sent directly to your email inbox??? FOR FREE????? (there is also an optional paid tier for exclusive bonus content for five bucks a month but like 80% of my posts will be free and publicly available) ty ily♥

[kadywicker]

anyway be loud and obnoxious and fun with your interests. post abt nothing but them. make posts you’re gonna be embarrassed about later. draw fanart. write fanfiction. talk to your friends about aus and shit that makes you laugh. buy shit bc you want to look like a fictional character even if you’re going to be giving it away at some point in the future. let yourself enjoy things in a “cringey” way bc life is short dude and anything that brings you joy like that is worth doing as long as it’s not hurting people.