Jay is Alive!

They/Them | 20s Formerly a bizarre child, currently a strange young adult. Way too enthusiastic about everything.

[jayisnotdeadyet]

Updating my pinned post to be a little more accurate/concise!

My name is Jay, and I’m a butch from the American Deep South. In my 20s. They/them preferred but I answer to anything.

Things I love:

📎 Architecture (my major at university)

📎 Crows, corvids, and other birds

📎 Hiking & the outdoors

📎 Photography (film & digital)

📎 Museums, especially art museums

📎 Dungeons and Dragons

📎 Collecting physical media

📎 My girlfriend @actualamadeus (hi honey 🧡)

Favorites:

🎧 Wilco, Jesse Welles, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Decemberists, Adrianne Lenker, Nickel Creek, Indigo Girls, CAKE, Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel

📺 Downton Abbey, Twin Peaks, The X Files, The Royal Tenenbaums (+ most Wes Anderson films), Dead Poets Society, Star Wars (new fave, watching in progress)

📖 Stone Butch Blues, Giovanni’s Room, The Lord of the Rings (reading currently), This is How You Lose the Time War, Fun Home, Dykes to Watch Out For

Join me here for:

▫️ My personal hot takes

▫️ Thoughts on politics & culture

▫️ Photography

▫️ Art and architecture I think is sick

▫️ Daily “song of the day” posts

▫️ A touch of mildly pretentious academic shit

▫️ Butch community

▫️ Other random bullshit

Happy you’re here :) no DNI, I’ll just block if I need to.

[roostercrowned]

DON’T become even a casual nerd about historical fashion because you’ll start looking at pseudo-medieval fantasy and going “that jacket and those breeches are 200 years apart and reflect extremely different social movements” and “oh no they were NOT making shirts like that prior to industrialization” and “a fly front? in MY ~1500s???”

[stellaluna33]

I can't believe we live in a world where there's an AI company unironically called "Palantir," and it isn't a parody. It's a real thing. I remember seeing a picture of an advertisement on here and thinking, "This HAS to be a joke. This is too on-the-nose to be real. They wouldn't honestly name an AI company Palantir, after the Seeing Stones from Lord of the Rings that are supposed to offer knowledge, but famously also might be feeding you misinformation from evil sources because 'we do not know who else may be watching.'" But then here I am listening to the BBC News discussing why the CEO of Palantir just published a Manifesto that sounds like it was written by a supervillain.

[rideafutch]

lesbian buttons png pt. 2 | pt. 1 ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚.

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[crushedlittlestarx]

cette chanson est si bonne qu'elle me remonte le moral

[jayisnotdeadyet]

Iced chai on the porch! Bright side of living in nowhereville for the summer is I save money…there simply isn’t anywhere to go for coffee or drinks. So I make my own at home!

[song-for-an-unborn-sun]

[jayisnotdeadyet]

A little wine drunk and eating a grilled cheese and it is PERFECT

[maudit]

[profeminist]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

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[missbliss12]

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

irritating as fuck when people get mad at Black people existing in premodern historical fiction/fantasy media. like first of all, you're racist. and second of all, you are acting as though Black people didn't exist in premodern Europe which is simply false. especially when we're talking about the Mediterranean, like what the fuck do you people think is along the southern half of the Mediterranean Ocean?? everyone's on boats, there are GOING to be interactions with Black people in Northern Africa, and there are GOING to be Black people in Mediterranean Europe. stop being stupid. your imagined homogeneous white European past is not historical reality, get over it you massive losers

[jayisnotdeadyet]

This is my game motherfucker, motherfucker!

[urie]

the thing is that sometimes it really does feel like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my skull. it does feel like that you know. no other way to describe that feeling i think

[song-for-an-unborn-sun]

[pinkblanc]

[jayisnotdeadyet]

Song of the Day

[jayisnotdeadyet]

Goats and morning sunlight