ARCANE LAIN

Exploring a labyrinth of thought. Drawings, poetry, and goodies as my heart goes bang bang. The witch of roses, cast your repose. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

[trellyworld]

[kimreesesdaughter]

I’m reblogging this every time I see it.

[morninggggstar]

AND COUNTING.

[lainial]

fuck patriotism

[odinsblog]

Nestlé, a multi-national company valued at $247 billion dollars, gets it’s bottled water from Lake Michigan FOR FREE. That’s 400 gallons of water per minute, for the low low price of completely free. Even worse, Nestlé receives a $13 million dollar tax break from the state of Michigan. Worse still, Nestlé recently took legal action against Flint residents for making “disparaging comments” about the company.

Meanwhile, the disproportionately Black residents of Flint are still being charged for POISONED drinking water…that they can’t drink, cook or bathe with. Not only that, but the residents of Flint are paying among the highest water bills in the country. (source)

So again, exactly when will Rick Snyder and his Emergency City Manager be arrested for crimes against humanity?

(please see related post »here)

[alien-beans]

weren’t they the ones also fucking up Californians when the drought was at its worst?

[odinsblog]

YES !!! (source)

This is a really good time to note that this all began because of the Snyder administration’s long term goal to privatize Michigan’s water system, so that private, for-profit businesses like Nestlé could further profitize clean water, a basic necessity for human life. 

Chris Christie has already signed a bill authorizing the privatization of New Jersey’s municipal water system (source), and it doesn’t take much imagination to envision other Republican governors (or neoliberal ConservaDems) will do the same. All while simultaneously trying to defund or completely eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency and other laws mandating clean drinking water. (source) 

Also, it’s a good time to remember that Republicans are trying to repeal the Clean Water Drinking Act, and thanks to Dick Cheney, that same law does not apply to drinking water sources contaminated by fracking. (source)

Finally, I know it might seem a little far fetched, but before I continue with my last point (beneath the cut), please understand that when David Koch was running for vice president in the 1980s, his Libertarian Platform was roundly dismissed as too conservative or ridiculous, even by Republicans. But fast foward to 2016, and today the Republican platform is nearly indistinguishable from the Koch’s 1980 platform….so long range, strategic political planning is an actual thing…..

Keep reading

[lainial]

cw no c: nudity

I’m trans. I’m never posting a naked pic on here. Ever.

I’m happy for anyone with the body confidence of posting their naked bodies in whatever context they feel is best for themselves. I love my body, I am confident in it. Nudity is something I do not share with other people except for my current lover. Having my body be analyzed and looked at gives me anxiety and encourages body dysphoria. I minimize that by all possible means by being clothed around people I do not know.

Being clothed and wearing plain outfits is the simplest way of saying “This is mine, you may not look. I have nothing for you.”

[lainial]

“he’s an enlightened man”

Anytime another woman is like “Omg this man knows that rape is wrong! He’s so enlightened!” I can’t help but think how low her standards are for men as a class in the context she lives in. Rape is wrong so when anyone knows that they shouldn’t be congratulated. Especially not men. They are following basic morality. I don’t give men extra credit and compliments for when they are not being shitty. Men get complimented for being less than average in a variety of fields. Stop. Again to bring up an old post it’s the equivalent to saying (I quote Andy Milonakis here) “Thanks for not stabbing me.” I don’t like calling men enlightened when it comes to social awareness, gender awareness, etc because once you get to a level of awareness about the abuse people face from systematic oppression you realize there isn’t a lot you can do and being smug and expecting applause from everyone for being a decent person isn’t going to help any one.

Predatory and manipulative men (or people in general) will use that facade of progressiveness in social awareness to cut through any barriers or to infiltrate any safe spaces. I’m not telling anyone to live their lives in constant mistrust and paranoia (lol did that for too long.) My point is we, those of us who can be subject to abuse from systematic oppression cannot congratulate those of the class that benefit from abusing others for not being abusive pos. 

[lainial]

me being a hater

i don’t wanna look at ur fucking totoro fan art. i’ve already seen the same redrawn pose 5.4q534r90 times. this is not contributing to a critical dialogue about the influence and strengths of that movie. it’s just u trying to look cute but doing a bad job because there are so many other tumblrbumblrs out there doing the same thing over and over and over again to get more notes and i am so tired of it.

[lainial]

If I was a tarot card, i would be the queen of cups because I use way too fucking many.

[lainial]

Whoomp here it is.

I want to be more active on here again. When I first started this in 2011 i wasn’t in good mental health and honestly it didn’t get much better until two years later. I feel like I’ve grown a lot as a person and every time i get on here i keep thinking of the internet friendships I made and the good memories. This is such a stupid post but whatever. I’m in a better headspace and I can recognize when jobs and situations are toxic or helpful for me and that’s something I’ve come to realize and cherish.

[lainial]

I haven’t been on this damn thing for more than six months. I honestly forgot my tumblr name but I remembered my password?! It’s hard for me to delete this because I have so much sentimental value to it.

[lainial]

nuttin' happened I'm just feeling loopy. thinking about 3d stuff and feeling oddly weightless.

oh, I thought it was like something extreme, probably your new living situation is affecting you? I wanna visit you soon!

[lainial]

depression/salvation

I think I’ve been in denial about having depression these past eight months. It comes and goes. Today I feel great, happy, fine, and ready for a new adventure. I have a better understanding of how my gender dysphoria articulates itself. It clogs my emotional flow. I have a lot of anger for the injustices my fellow sisters face, as well as racism, ableism, the bullshit of capitalism, etc. 

I’ve been thinking about how unnecessary it is for me to talk about my problems on here or any other social media bullshit sight. I want to stay in touch with youth culture, with social uprisings, etc. But right now I’m not in the best psychological place. I’m trying to figure out how to balance my life, how to take responsibility for that. I’m not a 19 year old tumblr girl in a tumblr world. That’s not productive and I’m not interested in spending 4+ hours every day on here reading articles that justify or fuel my anger or reblogging inspirational art that I didn’t make, etc etc. I want to figure out how to concentrate all my energy to better myself and those willing to listen. I want to spend my energy on projects that are meaningful. Not self-perpetuating narcissism for the sake of a cyber-ego that I can’t even make a nickel from (sorry to sound like a capitalist there but if I’m going to sit here and do nothing it’d be better if I could get paid for it like so many of my other jobs.)

I have been processing many social constructs in the past year. Understanding how their nuances articulate themselves in my daily psyche has helped me contextualize my problems and anxieties. 

I’m tired of internet personas. I’d rather be able to fight the person who vexes me in real life. I want to go on adventures. I don’t want a life of reblogs and bitchings.

[moisemorancy-deactivated2022061]

[of-royalty]

LET THIS SHIT GO VIRAL!

[briadior]

GO OFFFFFFFFF THIS IS WORTH WATCHING!!!!!!

[imanigold-deactivated20170927]

OKAY.

[pardonmewhileipanic]

this is fantastic

[dookiediamonds-deactivated20200]

Reblog 1

[dookiediamonds-deactivated20200]

Reblog 2

[dookiediamonds-deactivated20200]

REBLOG 3 FUCKING TIMES BECAUSE THIS SHIT WAS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[lionsnwolves]

@pimptasticnesss nigga …….

[moisemorancy-deactivated2022061]

Black Tumblr fam….I truly love you. Let’s get this beyond the internet! 

[lividlovers]

Damn…. 😵😵😵😵

[thisisevak]

YOOOOO! SON!!!

[hazeleyed1]

🔥🔥🔥

[mochamecrazii]

Haaaaaaaannnnn

[sybello]

Melanin Monroe

[njborn95]

Straight fucking fire. This is a must watch.

[lainial]

I think i want to get rid of this tumblr. I’m just over tumblr. I’m over time wasters. meh, i have an art tumblr if you want to follow. I only follow back people i’ve met irl.

[lainial]

Anyone wondering:

I’ve been alright. Enjoying my job, in a new relationship. Contemplating life shit, focusing on future goals. Last year I was homeless, jobless, angry. I’m grateful I’m doing so much better.

[lainial]

I’m a rose bitch, what the fuck are you.

[demonhunting-timelord-in-221b-d]

When one of my family members asks why I don’t have a boyfriend

[lainial]

except they would never ask that buuuuuuuut~

[socialistexan]

I’ve really about had enough.

First I’m watching Bob’s Burgers, good Tina episode, but I just couldn’t keep watching when I figured out the story revolved around Bob being a pimp for trans woman to make money. So I said fuck it, let’s try a different show, HIMYM is pretty benign, how about that. Nope, first joke was Ted making sure a woman that was hitting on him didn’t have a penis. Okay, slightly annoyed, I pick a random episode of American Dad, because why not it’s a serviceable show at worst, but nope. This was the newspaper gag.

I just… Three in a fucking row. And people keep trying to insist that “I’m just looking for these things they can’t be everywhere!” It is! Community, Futurama, actually pretty much everything on Comedy Central, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, 30 Rock, it’s fucking everywhere. It’s inescapable unless you’re watching directly queer-targeted media, and even then we’re usually still a punch line or a reason for a skinny white gay man to snap and say “hay gurl”.

You, the people out there that talk all this shit about “oh ~twanz people complain so much it can’t be that bad”, just don’t notice it because that’s the only way trans women have been presented to you: we’re either fat, ugly, hairy, man-ish yet somehow genderless blobs in a dress “haha point and laugh”-types, or we’re sex workers. Usually both. (also avert your eyes and make a startled noise, poor you having to lay eyes on such an undesirable.)

[transwomanifesto]

Transmisogyny/phobia…it’s errwhere…  Basically every mainstream show.

[ophidahlia]

FACTS.

[tinasus-deactivated20230602]

In bobs burgers theyre like the best people bob could have ever met and are reoccuring friends in the show.

[untilwelearntofly-deactivated20]

Bob’s Burgers was pretty cool about it. He wasn’t their pimp just drove them around and when he found out about them was just like “oh ok cool where to?”

And It’s Always Sunny was a recurring storyline talking specifically about how it’s perfectly acceptable and people who try and say its “against god” or sinful or whatever are in actual fact idiots.

Yes some of these things you point out are negative but did you actually watch any of these full episodes(or several episodes as in the case of 30Rock) or just assume that they were going to be insulting rather than trying to educate people through accessible media? Just wondering.

[ophidahlia]

Bob’s Burger’s taxi cab episode was literally the most horrid, dehumanizing, and degrading bit of television I’ve had the misfortune to stumble upon in a long time. Every single trans woman I’ve ever heard talk about BB expresses extreme disdain for that episode but apparently you know better than all of us. Don’t ask me for the breakdown, I’m certainly not going to subject myself to that garbage again. Did you actually listen to trans women who are explaining why these representations are so hurtful or just assume that you should try to educate trans women on what our own experience is all about?  I also trust that other trans women know what they’re talking about when they’re telling me those other shows are harmful. Which is what you should be doing.

[lainial]

also, as a transgender animator, the animation in bobs blurgers and amnricn dad sucks so fucking much, no form, no composition, basic shit color palette, shitty writing, shitty stories, no articulation of mass and volume weaving through space (like you can see in a classic Disney film, Fantasia.) They don't even need to make a tranny joke to deter me. fuck all that noise. 

[lainial]

Let me tell you a secret:

I'm not trans. 

Because there's nothing to transition. I was always a woman.

I'm transitioning society to understand me as a woman. 

I'm not the one who needs fixing, society does.