the sunlight dragged me here

call me Lem (he/they). organizer-type human with too many AUs. here's my about page! ao3: yet_intrepid. sidebar art: hamstr.

[lemeute]

pinned heads up:

gonna be posting less politics on here and hiding more tags for a while. it's having a really strong suction on my ability to do the offline activism I'm already committed to. I want to prioritize building power in my local community, which for me is the most effective use of my skills & relationships.

another way I'm hoping to reduce that suction: when I see messaging and tactics that seem ineffective or aim at a problem I haven't observed, I hope to let go of my frustration at other people in the movement by saying to myself

"I'm not always the target audience, and I don't have to fit into (let alone carry) every part of the movement ecosystem. I'm glad I don't have to work on that part, I hope it's being done as effectively as possible, and I am going to focus on my own work."

[mammalianmammals]

Banded Linsang (Prionodon linsang), family Prionodontidae, Thailand

Once thought to be in the Viverridae, with genets and civets, the 2 species of Asian Linsangs were placed in their own family in 2004, based on genetic data.

They are actually more closely related to the family Felidae.

photograph by Ayuwat Nature Photography

[crabussy]

hi trans kiwis and friends. if you haven't seen the news, they're trying to pass a frankly insidious bill in aotearoa to define the terms 'man' and 'woman' based on biological sex. this unsurprisingly reflects a lot of similar cruel efforts happening overseas at the moment. IT HASN'T PASSED YET, but I figured I should speak up about it because this is happening as we speak.

(screenshot from the linked RNZ article)

it seems very fucking bleak!!!! please don't lose hope! it hasn't passed yet and a lot of the shoddy bills suggested by the coalition have been shot down already. it's still worth knowing about. you don't have to share this post if you don't want to. I just know that a lot of my followers are kiwi. if there are any updates as to what we can do to push back against this, I'll make a relevant addition. kia kaha, okay? love you all.

[crabussy]

UPDATE: you can now very quickly and very easily submit a comment on the bill! these will be counted and considered in parliament.

it took me less than three minutes, and that's only because I wrote a whole paragraphs on why this is a stupid idea. all you really need to put is "don't pass this bill" if you want. it'll only take 30 seconds.

if you're able to and you want to, please consider reblogging! the more reach this gets, the better. thank you all so much [:

[lemeute]

comments are being accepted until July 2, 2026.

[kuttithevangu]

Gentle notice that “highbrow” and “lowbrow” are eugenics/race science terms and it may be better to just quietly retire them in casual discussions of art

[kuttithevangu]

Prev tags yes absolutely stop saying “degenerate”!

Just a point of historical clarification though, degeneration theory is much older than nazism: it originated in Enlightenment philosophical theories about society and nature, with some significant points of crystallization in the late 18th century by Immanuel Kant, mid-19th century by Benedict Morel, and by Max Nordau in 1892.

The Nazis were a PRODUCT of the prestige philosophy that believed in racial degeneration, the ideas that led to genocide were current throughout Europe and the Americas and were used to justify colonial genocides throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

I think it’s important to understand how deeply rooted this is in European philosophy and social theory because it helps counter the idea that Nazism was some kind of unique aberration. If we recognize the patterns that gave rise to it we have a better chance of responding effectively to those patterns

Social degeneration - Wikipedia

[omgcoffeecoffeecoffee]

Reading resources to start with!

Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Haunted by Empire edited by Ann Laura Stoler

Imperial Leather by Anne McClintock

How Did Indians Become Straight? by Mark Rifkin

[kuttithevangu]

Thank you, great list!!!

[mousidy]

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw

[some-1one]

Beautiful Rosefinch bird in the snow

[apolladay]

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[marlynnofmany]

Small joys on Tumblr:

When your notes make a perfect cat

[marlynnofmany]

Kitty has an exclamation-point tail because of all the attention

[save-system]

[i-am-the-hero-alfred-jones]

Is this the cat that boops?

[marlynnofmany]

It is now!

[strangehorse]

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

Like. There is a significant gap between 'a lot of studies do not take into account variations caused by things like female hormone cycles, which can limit how generalisable they are' and 'medical science does not apply to women', and the latter just seems to create a situation rife for bad faith actors and snake oil salesmen to reassure you that actually, THEY have the answers, because THEY listen to women, and if you simply pay them for their online subscription service-

[strangehorse]

like. female and male bodies are not different species. the traits you consider inherent and unique to Female or Male can often be changed by hormone therapy and other interventions, and many traits fall on a bimodal distribution, not a binary one. you can apply the findings of 'Invisible Women' without implying that female bodies are like, Startouched Special Moon-Tied Nature Creatures that are immune to all known scientific phenomena

[ndnbutch]

I’ve instantly become enchanted by this photo. this is what it feels like sometimes. does anybody wanna read my poetry? hey guys anybody care me?

[ndnbutch]

I’m doing things to him

[ndnbutch]

these images are like 3 sisters to me sorry

[annabelle--cane]

what I mean: "sexual intercourse" is as much a social construct as "romantic courtship," and you discover this very quickly as a queer person if you try to talk to able bodied straight cis people who literally think the only thing that counts as Actual Sex is penis-in-vagina penetration, like they call oral "foreplay" it's so dire. various people have a lot of vested interest in cleanly defining "sex" vs "not sex" for a whole slew of reasons (ex. censorship dodging and enforcing, conferring the social clout of virginity and prowess, finding and closing loopholes about premarital sex, deciding what relationships "count" as serious partnerships, ligating what is general assault vs sexual assault vs Something That's Definitely Probably Fine And Not Sexual At All, Actually, etc.), and it's really not something you can just fall back on as obvious common sense that people are dumb for questioning.

what I say: sex isn't real and you can't have it

[mapleejay]

does anyone else think about how brave all their friends are and get really emotional about it

[mapleejay]

I'm glad everyone is alive rn

[penny-anna]

Another thing about omegaverse is it's just like. Really wet.

[penny-anna]

I remember when it was new my first impression of it was that it was kinda like the d/s AU but Goopy.

[penny-anna]

Looking for a new kink

Ask the kinksters if their kink is creepy or wet

They don't understand. Pull out an illustrated diagram explaining what is creepy and what is wet

They laugh and say 'its a good kink, ma'am'

Get into the kink

Its wet.

[penny-anna]

@insecuriosity Sorry for the off topic question - but do you know the original text for the 'look inside, it's [blank] '? I am having a hard time finding it on knowyourmeme

ok so i shared the relevant links in the notes but this is actually a pretty convoluted Meme Tree situation so I made a visual aid:

[pollsforadults]

You get transported into the universe of the last media you consumed. How are you doing?

This is better than my real life

I'm doing well

I'm doing fine

I'm not having a good time

I'm absolutely cooked

There is nothing different about this universe and my own

Voting ended onMay 29

[camera-dolly]

I love that one of the restrictions on name changes in the UK is that your name cannot “promote criminal activities” and fucking hell every name I can think of that violates that is just stellar honestly like fucking hello nice to meet you my name is Commit Arson, I’d like you to meet my daughter Dont Pay Taxes and my son Steal From Work

[swarnpert]

this is my son, rob

[toastyglow]

new one

[feminist-space]

Going to merge with these two

[thebreakfastgenie]

Quand il faut expliquer la pâtisserie à un Américain: imaginez un hamburger