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charlie || 24 || agender, they / them

[cos-mic-gob-lin]

Tumblr users are often so arrogant and it shows. They can draw a full cast of POC characters but when POC say "Hey we want more than just our skin tone" they're suddenly deaf as shit.

Representation on Tumblr has become a way for white people to win brownie points just because they took a Hershey's bar and slapped it onto a person's skin tone.

The most disgusting thing is that they insist on making JUST African-Americans. They insist on making JUST one facial type, one nose type, one lip type, one hair type, one slang type, one skin tone.

And when they make a person Asian, it's Japanese. And when they make a person Hispanic, it's Mexican. And when they make a person indigenous, they never specify on which tribe/nation they came from, but you'll bet they're Native AMERICAN.

But my favorite part is when other POC demand representation and those same fucking white people are like "But but but look at all my black characters!!!!"

POC isn't just confined to America.

POC isn't just black.

POC isn't just Japanese.

POC isn't just Mexican.

POC isn't just Native American.

It's from the Miskitu in Nicaragua, from the highlands of Ethiopia, from the deserts of Saudi Arabia, from the mountains of Indonesia. It's from the arroz con gandules, from the folk music, from the festivals. It's many cultures blending, it's speaking more than just English, it's dealing with racism unique to our countries of origin.

It's more than just one universal experience, and white Tumblr isn't willing to show that.

[seafoam-aliens]

Basically for the people who refuse to fucking read

Can you guys do some actual fucking research on anywhere other than whats at the borders of America before you slap a random ethnicity or race onto a character?

[cos-mic-gob-lin]

Btw: White people PLEASE reblog but do not clown on the post.

[glumshoe]

Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data

Hospitals have been ordered to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information to a central database

Cutting out the CDC from hospital COVID-19 reporting also means the data will not be publicly available. It’s not just to CONTROL the data, it’s to BLIND medical researchers.

“But the Health and Human Services database that will receive new information is not open to the public, which could affect the work of scores of researchers, modelers and health officials who rely on C.D.C. data to make projections and crucial decisions.

“Historically, C.D.C. has been the place where public health data has been sent, and this raises questions about not just access for researchers but access for reporters, access for the public to try to better understand what is happening with the outbreak," said Jen Kates, the director of global health and H.I.V. policy with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.”

[lagtim3]

the fuck

[utopians]

that uniquely american cultural drive to preserve the corpse after death…. utterly horrid I tell you

[utopians]

embalming as standard practice… ‘protective caskets’… waterproof burial vaults… folks there is no fucking point

[utopians]

not to go all Anti Capitalist here but like. making people feel like they’ve ‘failed’ their dead loved ones if they don’t put their chemically preserved corpses in a multi-thousand dollar hermetically sealed vault is absolutely fucking ghoulish the whole industry is built around taking advantage of grieving families. like it’s such a morbid topic but for real normalize decay… normalize the idea that a corpse, while an incredibly important thing, is temporary and isn’t meant to exist forever… normalize the transience of the body… also fuck every person who’s ever tried to wring money out of a grieving person by convincing them to by a fucking. waterproof burial vault. man

[lagtim3]

like what the fuck are we preserving and protecting their dead body for? are we supposed to dig them up later for a visit??? jesus christ

[mysharona1987]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[friskafriskito]

Anyone who thinks children won’t purposefully lick their hands and chase each other yelling “CORONA!!!” has never met children

[arcticarthropod]

[socialistexan]

Word of advice: if possible find therapists who are trans themselves.

My therapist is a trans man and not only was he willing to give me the referral I needed after just one visit, he'll do it for people who just ask.

[kamuysaurus]

Also, if available in your state: Plume is a trans run healthcare service that arranges HRT and keeps track of when you need bloodwork etc. All it took was a few intake forms, a video call with a doctor, and then I was prescribed hormones. Very simple. There is a 99 membership fee, but it takes care of all of your stuff in one place that was usually be multiple doctors. I recommend it.

[arcticarthropod]

This is big news!

[fromthemindofatwentyorotherlycan]

Also if you need HRT look for an informed consent clinic, all it took was me signing a few forms saying I know what I'm asking for and some labs to check for things that would need to be monitored on HRT

[lordfreemanofficial]

[scribbleboxfox]

Every now and then I think about that post I made in high school, back when I was coping with a mom who was lowkey an alcoholic. It went something like “if you need alcohol to have fun you should see a therapist” and everyone and their mother were all “um sweaty actually i use alcohol to cope so shut the fuck up and die.” Like. 

I was never wrong. Ya’ll shouldn’t need to get completely blasted to have a good time. Idc if it helps you “unwind” or whatever. It’s not a coping mechanism. Like yeah have a few beers with the boys or whatever, but if you’re getting drunk just so you can take it easy, you need a therapist. 

Anyways alcohol culture is toxic. Go to therapy.

[mto-art]

Alcohol be more damaging than cocaine and is considered a hard drug by experts but here we are pretending it’s ‘fun with the boys’ instead of a drug you should take responsibly. Source: Research done by RIVM (comparative to CDC) in 2009 in the netherlands See (Ranking van drugs 2009)

[lagtim3]

Hope y’all don’t mind if I leave this here.

(tw: surreal body horror, excessive alcohol abuse)

[lakesdeadblog-deactivated202009]

romance isn’t dead it’s just very sleepy

[anguam]

I thought I recognized this art so i looked at op’s blog

idk if y'all remember this homophobic mess of a comic. Granted people can change but op’s more recent stuff reflects the same views.

[scorpiialpha-deactivated2022100]

hi! wow, you have a good memory, this was almost a year ago!

I think you might have misinterpreted the comic. the joke was how she, an ace person, could forget something as obvious and familiar to other people as sexual attraction! I thought her reaction was so funny I suggested making a daily comic about it.

Lyd is my girlfriend! We’re in love! Passionate lesbian love. For four years now! Since that comic we moved in together and we’ve started building savings for our life together! We talk online (Twitter, we don’t really use tumblr) about struggles we face, homophobia, lesbian history and representation, and the intersection of being gay with being ace, not ace, gender conforming, and gender non-conforming. That comic you’re saying is homophobic might look like it to someone without the context of our life, and maybe it did cause a sapphic woman to feel alienated due to her sexual attraction. I understand that because I’ve felt that way many times from the words of both lgbt and non-lgbt people alike. But it was an accident, and while that can’t take away the damage, I promise that Lyd’s comics showing our happy life together, our posts online, even our youtube channel all do infinitely more good for fellow sapphic women and other lgbt people than this comic did bad. Lyd apologized for the misunderstandings and lack of clarity.

Please stop holding other lgbt people to an impossibly high standard. We have so many enemies in this world, the last thing we need is to be attacking each other for the smallest infractions.

- Meg, a lesbian

(we went on vacation together last week! :) )

[transenbyhollis]

how tf is “allosexuals experience sexual attraction” homophobic

[danieandflars]

ace lesbian: *makes a comic about being an ace lesbian*

exclusionist: the HOMOPHOBIA Y’ALL

[pennie-dreadful]

Jesus I got to that first reblog and it was so jarring I got whiplash. And the artist felt the need to apologize?!?! Can aphobes just…not.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

What the fuck

[hidingoutbackstage]

important! the artist now identifies as nonbinary, and their name is lake. try to spread this version around if you’re going to reblog

[retrogamingblog]

what it feels like to play pokemon ruby and sapphire on max volume

[floatinglonewanderer]

I will never not reblog this

[jenny-jinya]

Short comic, while I work on something bigger on the side. It is nevertheless a very important topic. A lot of seabirds die because they eat plastic. They feed their chicks with the waste. It’s really tragic.

[duetly]

This is so fucking important you guys.

When I was in Hawai’i we got to dissect an albatross bolus and what it’s supposed to be full of is this:

Those are squid beaks, the albatross’ natural prey. The bolus is supposed to be full of them. Ours had a small amount but…

But this is what ours mostly contained:

That big black thing in the left picture? That’s a fucking pocket knife handle.

Tell me, in what world, in what universe is this ok??? This is so fucking tragic.

It’s only getting worse every year.

Please, please, please, please be mindful of where you put your trash. Pick up any trash you see. Avoid using single-use plastics as much as possible. Do your part.

(Obligatory tags: @drearncatcher37 @loveistherootofhappiness @runmild)

[jenny-jinya]

This is insane, a pocket knife handle ?!

[mandaloriandy]

A Massachusetts City Decides to Recognize Polyamorous Relationships

The city of Somerville has broadened the definition of domestic partnership to include relationships between three or more adults, expanding access to health care.

Oh my g-d??!!!!!!

[libelula202]

@thebibliosphere

[thebibliosphere]

Oh wow! That’s awesome!

[arovaricious]

It also recognizes domestic partnerships that aren’t romantic!!!

[erudipitous]

@aroacepagans

[enbees-and-aros]

Recognizing and extending rights to people with multiple partners is wonderful news, and its not too long of an article so I definitely reccomend the read!

But if you’re curious, the end of the article is where it talks about recognizing non-romantic partnerships:

“Under the ordinance, domestic partners, whether in groupings of two or more, would not necessarily be romantic partners.

Miles Bratton, 47, said she would consider forming a domestic partnership with Anne-Marie Taylor, 43, whom she called her “platonic lifemate.”

The status would allow them to buy a house together and share benefits, like health insurance, but also to have outside romantic partners, or add a third “nesting partner” if they wished. Ms. Taylor said they had long held back from registering as domestic partners because the language her workplace used seemed to require that they be romantic partners.

“That has not felt right, so we haven’t done it,” she said. “Somerville is coming out and saying, ‘Hey, family can be a lot of other things, other than just two people.’”

[violetemerald]

This seems like huge news!

( @nextstepcake ;) )

[autie-j]

Just a little something I’ve noticed. Both autistic and trans headcanon posts always get people in the notes screaming about how wrong you are.

Image description: the handshake solidarity meme. Over the left arm it says “trans people” and over the right arm it says “autistic people”. In the middle, over the clasped hands it says “people just not letting us headcanon characters in peace”.

[loverrrbearrr-deactivated202204]

if i may,

[ID: three hands curled around each other. on the right arm it says “trans people”, on the middle arm it says “poc”, and on the left arm it says “autistic people”. over their hands is the text “people not letting us headcanon in peace”.]

[cromchychipdip]

[ID: four hands in a circle formation, being labeled ‘Trans People,’ ‘Ace/Aro People,’ ‘Autistic People,’ and ‘POC.’ In the middle of the hand circle is text saying ‘Not being able to headcanon in peace.’ End ID]

[afeelgoodblog]

Why hasn’t this been done before?

[antifainternational]

We’re OK with letting them have this BAR though:

[kineticpenguin]

[captain-price-official]

fuckin lol

[sir-caramel-blog-deactivated202]

Another day, another politician that thinks Trump doing something they do means Trump should get all the criticism instead of realizing they’re both wrong

[lobothebuilder]

The difference here is that Trump spends tax payer money for his golfing and AOC spent her own paycheck on a video game to unwind. They literally aren’t the same thing at all

[sir-caramel-blog-deactivated202]

Right, where do you think that paycheck comes from?

[kineticpenguin]

Were you born this stupid or did you have to work at it?

[sir-caramel-blog-deactivated202]

Ok, just to be clear, do politicians get payed with tax money or not?

[kineticpenguin]

If you honestly think a government employee spending their own salary is functionally identical to charging leisure trips to your own golf courses to an expense account and billing the Secret Service for being there, just because they’re both paid for with taxpayer money, I can’t help you.

[sir-caramel-blog-deactivated202]

But what’s the difference in the end? They both paid for something with taxpayer money.

[kineticpenguin]

Okay. It’s very simple: When the government disburses money to its employees in the form of a salary, the transaction where the taxpayer is concerned is concluded. The taxpayer has paid the employee for services rendered. What that employee does with that salary after that isn’t the taxpayer’s business, since the taxpayer already got what they paid for.

To put it another way, you wouldn’t argue that Doris from the DMV is “spending taxpayer money” when she spends some of her salary on a pedicure and claim it’s the equivalent of a presidential golfing trip, or that a soldier buying a case of beer with his salary is a waste of tax money. Because you are paying them for the job they did.

In other words, it’s not fucking taxpayer money anymore.

It is, however, still taxpayer money when it is part of an account set aside for expenses incurred in the execution of one’s duties, and the President uses it to pay himself for taking vacations, and to pay himself again for the taxpayer-provided security detail.

And even if I were to play your stupid false equivalence game: At $300 per console and a game price of $59.99, AOC would have to buy 369,455 Nintendo Switches with a copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for each to reach the $133 million racked up by Trump’s golf trips. So even if you were to blubber about how it’s all a tragic loss of taxpayer money either way, there’s your fucking difference you goddamn moron.

We’re done here.

[parkchanwoohoo]

me seeing the mailman buying twizzlers at the grocery store: wtf that’s my taxpayer money

[a-tla]

the aang/sokka friendship is criminally underrated tbh

[a-tla]

some good aang and sokka moments!!!!

sokka barely even liked aang or trusted him but he was still about to go sail out and attack a fire nation ship to rescue him

aang was all :(( when they visited the southern air temple so sokka played that airball game with him to cheer him up and then got his ass kicked bc sokka cant airbend!!! and aang took complete advantage of that lmao

that one scene in book 3 where katara and toph are fighting and refusing to speak to each other and sokkas like I HAVE A GREAT IDEA and writes that fake apology letter and aangs like !!!! OMG UR SO SMART AND CLEVER anD INCREDIBLE!!! but it turns out that theyre both fools bc toph cant write

aang goes to sokka whenever he wants advice on How To Hit On Girls bc for whatever reason aang apparently thinks sokka is good with that (he is not) & sokka actually is weirdly supportive and hikes up a mountain just so that aang can pick some flowers

not exactly aang/sokka but sokka made/bought an armour for appa so that he’d be protected during the day of the black sun

“You’re the idea-guy.”

actually their entire interaction during The Drill episode in book 2 where they both came up with the plan to take it down theyre both actually so clever 

sokka dressed up as aangs dad once and u know he was really Feeling that role

in the ep with bato when katara and sokka were leaving but then sokka was like…. no we cant leave… i miss dad but we Need to be with aang…. i cried a Little bit ngl

this Scene

im sure im forgetting some good and important scenes so feel free to add!!

[gayfandomblog]

“katara and I aren’t going to let anything happen to you” from the southern air temple

“how about ‘the boomeraang squad’? see, it’s good because it’s got ‘aang’ in it. boomeraang”

aang comforting sokka after the invasion speech

also this was cute. they’re good boys

[ilseoceansoul]

Also in book 3 when Sokka first names Combustion Man ‘Sparky-sparky-boom-man’ and Aang takes that very serious so he takes the time to scream “IT’S SPARKY-SPARKY-BOOM-MAN!!!” while almost being blown to pieces

[returnofahsoka]

towards the end of book 2 when sokka and aang are leaving ba sing se and sokka’s like “who’s ready to go on a trip without the girls?” while having aang in a mock-chokehold like that’s such a sibling thing to do i can’t even

once again in the southern air temple, when aang finds the room with gyatso and sokka just tells him they should leave and his voice is kinda small and soft and oh god

when aang has nightmares before the invasion and tells sokka to practice climbing and sokka actually does, he just groans and bitches all the time

in the painted lady, when sokka says the spirit could blow up the factory with its magic and demonstrates how he thinks it’d be like and aang joins in

[itsjaxmatsuo]

fucking finally a post that recognizes the beautiful growth of the sokkaang friendship

[strawberry-lemonade]

well damn