Magneto Was Right Peace Was Never An Option

Queer & Genderqueer as in fuck you. King in the streets. Pillow Princess in the sheets. They/she. Gen Xtra/45+. Redhead. Cranky nerd. Dandy. Accidental contrarian. Artist. Cosplayer. Marvel addict. Lots of cussing. Anti-DC. Be forewarned: I reserve the right to block anyone I damn well please. Wakanda Forever “I believe true focus lies somewhere between rage and serenity.” Supporter of Charles’ & Mutant Rights. Defender of Erik’s Wrongs. Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto, Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier & Rocket Raccoon are my spirit animals. Sam Wilson is my Captain America. This is a mess of things I love & care about: Marvel. MCU. XMCU. Cherik. SamBucky. Ayo & Aneka. Black Panther. M’Baku. Namor. Quicksilver. Wolverine. NorthStar. Magneto. Professor X. The X-Men. The Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes. Captain America/Sam Wilson. Billy Butcher & “The Boys” tv series. Audrey Hepburn. Keanu Reeves. Idris Elba. Evan Peters. Winston Duke. Daniel Kaluuya. Michael Fassbender. James McAvoy. Tenoch Huerta. Tilda Swinton. Michelle Yeoh. Naveen Andrews. Johnny Knoxville. Breakfast At Tiffany’s. The Matrix, John Wick + Bourne franchises. Doctor Who. Fringe. Get Out. Us. Nope. V for Vendetta. Shaun of the Dead. The World’s End. The Chronicles of Narnia (books). The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). Sherlock. Luther. Broadchurch. Pose. Wire in the Blood. Joker (2019). Brokeback Mountain. Unbreakable. Split. Glass. Sense8. James Bond. Wes Anderson flicks. Midsomer Murders. 60s & 70s disaster/dystopian/post-apocalyptic films. Leftist politics. T1 Diabetes. Physical & mental health. Art. Fashion. Literature, graphic novels, comics, reading. Music. Weed. Queer solidarity, pride, representation, rights. Intersectional feminism. Social justice + political issues. Dogs. Cats. Animals. Nature + other stuff that strikes my fancy.

[magnetosmettle]

Updated: 6/21/23

My Spirit Animals

Magneto/Erik Lehnsherr

Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier

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Pride Flags Flown In This House

Progress Pride

Androsexual

Redhead

Transgender

Queer

Genderqueer

Sapiosexual

BDSM + Kink

Disability

Neurodivergent

Additionally, I fly these special interest fags:

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House Rules

I will not censor my blog’s content for anyone but me.

I suppose I’m a multipotentialite. I have a lot of thoughts about the infinite number of things that interest me, including, but not limited to, art, pop culture, physical and mental health, current events, politics and social justice issues. I blog about what’s on my mind at that particular moment. This blog has zero aesthetic.

I have strong opinions and never hesitate to share them.

My vegan and vegetarian recipes blog (mostly rb’s of other recipes) is @seitanismycopilot.

My nsfw blog is @glasssesaremyweakness.

Please play nice with others. Namely me, since I can’t tell you how to behave. I don’t like to argue but do report and block liberally.

I tag damn near everything. I greatly appreciate those who tag my original posts.

Please pardon my formatting. Currently, I work almost exclusively off of the mobile app. Hopefully I’ll be upgrading to a tablet soon. My laptop is meh.

My posts only permit comments from people I follow. Some aren’t able to be rb’d.

If you’re interested in talking to me, follow me. If I like your blog, I’ll follow you back. Then we can begin communicating. Don’t wait for me to make the first move because it’ll never happen. Too many burns.

Word of warning: I’m awkward, shy, introverted, often unemotional and prefer dogs and fictional characters to 99.999% of real life human beings. My partner, for example, is awesome and I love him so much but he’s a cis Boston himbo who loves American football and I’m an effeminate Southern genderqueer fag who loves REAL football (and football players)/soccer… So my point is occasionally there are amazing exceptions to the rule.

Please don’t bring preconceived notions of how you think others should communicate to my blog.

Just worry about yourself. That’s probably a full time job.

DNI/GTFO

Anyone who thinks BDSM and/or kink doesn’t belong at Pride events or have a place in the lgbtq+ community.

Anti natural redheads, be they redheaded men, women or nonbinary people. Get fucked with your gingerphobia. I will straight up murder anyone who talks shit about natural redheads. Okay, not really but I will happily block you. Obviously bottlejob redheads are toxic, reprehensible and should probably be removed from society.

terfs, tehms (trans-exclusionary homosexual males), swerfs, radfems, jkr apologists, “ex-gays”, transphobes, homophobes

misogyny, misogynoir, misandry, gender essentialism

islamaphobes, racists, white nationalists/supremacists, antisemites, republicans, conservatives, “pro-lifers”

ableists, ageists

non-ironic use of the phrase “q slur”

anti-queer, anti-drag, anti-bdsm, anti-kink, anti-porn, anti-ship, anti-fanfic (doesn’t mean you have to participate, just don’t try to restrict or prohibit the endeavors or expression of others)

anti-vegetarians/anti-vegans (again, you don’t have to be vegan or vegetarian, just not anti)

anti-comics/anti-MCU/anti-superheroes (you don’t have to be a fan but if you’re an anti, don’t follow me)

Minors/Anyone under 18yo (feel free to come back when you’re an adult)

My tags:

#merely my musings #mmm #queer+ #genderqueer+ #erik lehnsherr is my spirit animal #magneto is my spirit animal #the winter soldier is my spirit animal #bucky barnes is my spirit animal #redhead pride #natural redhead #a gen xer speaks

Frequently used tags:

All of the above + #magneto was right #peace was never an option #not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you #queer is beautiful #queer is not a slur #genderqueer is beautiful #genderqueer is not a slur #queer solidarity #genderqueer solidarity #vote blue no matter who #actually type 1 diabetic #actually ptsd #actually bipolar i #actually fibromyalgia #actually neurodivergent #actually adhd

Magneto was right. Peace was never an option.

[inthetags]

Reblog and name an unexpected skill you have, in the tags

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags a movie you plan on rewatching very soon

[uwingdispatch]

So I've added some new Spidey things to the shop and thought we could use a new all things Spidey post! So here are all of my Spider-Verse and Spider-Man-related earrings! Aaaaaand my birthday is tomorrow so celebrate with me and come get up to 20% off the whole shop through the weekend! Shop is here.

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Shop is here. Love y'all!

[inthetags]

Reblog and type out which dog breed you'd be, in the tags

[dogpuppy]

[soaphoe]

this tweet is absolutely taking me out

#UseYourButt

[saywhat-politics]

California governor candidate calls Auschwitz 'solution for homelessness,' sparks critisism

California's candidate Langford said he was proud of his "German ancestry" and called Auschwitz a "great work camp," sparking controversy.

California gov. hopeful makes antisemitic Auschwitz comment | The Jerusalem Post

California's candidate Langford said he was proud of his "German ancestry" and called Auschwitz a "great work camp," sparking controversy.

The Auschwitz Memorial Museum slammed Kyle Langford, Republican candidate for Governor of California, after his antisemitic remarks, calling out his actions as a “profound moral failure.”

[fatliberation]

The reason fat cadavers are not accepted for medical programmes is that you need to cut through every layer of fat carefully. Which takes time, and lab sessions are inherentely limited in that. It's better for med students to spend that time looking at what organs actually look like in bodies. This isn't fatphobia, it's just .. the way dissecting bodies works? In the same way surgeries on fat people take longer because there's just physically more tissue. The alternative would be to force the med students who get fatter cadavers to do more lab sessions at weird times outside of the usual schedules. Or force them to stay over the holidays. Or not let them get enough time to do the lab work they need to. Which imo would be a bit fucked up especially when med school is already so difficult and time-consuming.

It’s fatphobia. Fat bodies absolutely need to be studied. To ignore an entire demographic of oppressed individuals in the medical field for the sake of convenience(?!) is violence. Did you even read the article? They called working on fat cadavers “unpleasant.” It’s fatphobia and it’s unacceptable.

[lorbanery]

lmaaooooooooo

So

The internal organs aren't the end-all be-all of medicine, even for surgeons. It is still incredibly important for med students to learn about the skin and adipose layers. The point of doing these dissection exercises isn't just to give med students a chance to poke around human guts. It is to familiarize themselves with every part of the body. I only got one semester into a nursing career that didn't work out, but in that one semester I took an Anatomy & Physiology course and we did do an animal dissection and the very first thing we spent time on was the skin layer.

Not only is the practice of dissection meant to familiarize med students with every part of the body, it's meant to give them a chance to see real human bodies. Because what you see in anatomical diagrams in text books isn't normal. Bodies aren't mass manufactured, they do not all look the same, and the practice of examining cadavers gives med students real world experience seeing different ways bodies can vary.

Purposefully rejecting a certain body type is actively detrimental to their education. When institutions refuse to teach their students how to work on certain bodies, the industry then treats those people as "difficult to work with" because they don't know how to. You see it all the time in more low-stakes industries as well — fashion institutes not teaching how to dress fat bodies, leading to designers who think creating plus size clothes is too hard; beauty schools not teaching how to work with Black hair, leading to hairdressers who think Black hair is uniquely difficult to work with rather than just a texture that requires a slightly different technique.

How much extra time are we talking here? Because Anon you make it sound like it can take HOURS, if not DAYS. And yet I, a certified Superfat, had surgery on the fattest part of my belly a couple of years ago, and the whole procedure took 90 minutes. And that, of course, included the time it took to put me to sleep and controlling the bleeding, all things that a med student working on a cadaver doesn't have to worry about.

The alternative to med students using fat cadavers is doctors working on living patients who do not have the skills to care properly for their fat patients. Which leads to them either refusing to treat those patients, or to them getting hands-on experience on living patients, instead of on a cadaver, which is the whole point of med students working on cadavers.

So, Anon, what you're arguing here, is that it's far more important and humane to save med students an extra (let's be generous) hour in lab time, than it is for fat patients to have a doctor who's willing to help them and has experience working on bodies like theirs, and therefore is less likely to cause them harm in the process.

[weltenwellen]

Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[drusclues]

One of my favourite things about Sinners is the use of colour to symbolize belonging and home vs assimilation or separation from self and the environment.

When Annie is in her home, connected to her ancestors by practicing Hoodoo and speaking Yoruba to the man she loves , her skin tone blends into the earthy, natural tones of her home. Who she is, is not at odds with her environment . She even wears the same deep blue as Smoke

When Sammie is singing the blues, filled with passion and surrounded by the love and joy of his community, his shirt matches the warm yellow glow of the lights in the Juke Joint. He fits in perfectly and effortlessly

Delta Slim is the embodiment of The Blues, every part of him is harmonious with the dark brown walls of the Juke Joint

In contrast, the church walls and the clothing of the congregation reflect the assimilating influence of whiteness to the land and people, the false binary of black and white. The pop of green of the wild, natural world beyond the stark walls stands out as a symbol of freedom and untamed passion. There is no warmth or vibrancy in this place that demands Sammie give up his music, his voice, his culture.

And this split dividing the twins is interesting to me. Stack shown with the open air behind him, foreshadowing his eventual escape and freedom from the Jim Crow South. His red hat, tie and car reflecting the blood spilled and his vampirism as the only means he has for leaving this world of division.

Then Smoke on the right is shown contained within the Juke Joint, his home and his metaphorical casket as this will be his final resting place with Annie. His blue hat and shirt are symbolic of the sky/spirit world where he will spend eternity, unnaturally separated from his brother

[afterword]

idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

[wahoo-shem]

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

[nonbinary-witch-sam]

scientist when you don't take the medicine they developed to help your pain

[fandomsandfeminism]

As long as you are taking a SAFE dose of it, then it's *good* for you. Pain is bad for the body. The inflammation from prolonged pain can worsen chronic issues and make it harder to heal.

Ibuprofen is best for pain that has inflammation, while acetaminophen doesn't help with inflammation but is more broadly effective on other types of pain. As long as you are taking the recommended dose, you can even take them TOGETHER, since they have different mechanisms of action.

You do need to be aware of how much and how often you are taking any pain medication. Overdoses can be very painful (even lethal.) And if you are in chronic pain often enough that you need more than the safe dose, then you need to look into other medications to manage that pain.

(Also, if you are specifically taking Acetaminophen/Tylenol for your go-to pain management, getting some NAC and taking that with it reduces the risk of overdose AND may strengthen the effect.)

[bemusedlybespectacled]

One other thing: NSAIDS (ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen being the three big ones) can cause digestive issues with chronic use, including stomach ulcers. That doesn't mean "don't take them," it means "if you're at the point where you're on them all the time, every day, constantly, you should talk to a doctor about either reducing that risk or switching to another medication that doesn't have those side effects."

[solarianvoidthearoace]

I don’t have the source for this table anymore but I felt it should be added to this post.

[peskytimepirate]

Also please please please consult your doctor if you are on any other type of medication that put large strains on your liver or kidneys before taking any kind of NSAIDs as they can recommend alternatives.

[stcndupeight]

Yes Chronic Kidney Disease and liver disease prevent the use of NSAIDS entirely. Please remember this. Tylenol is the least harmful to these organs. If migraines are your problem, ask neurologist about the triptan drug family. Downside with these is nausea.

[grison-in-space]

I feel that it is worth bringing up again:

As a scientist, this is the way I feel when people in pain don't take the medication that was developed to help with pain:

Especially because as a scientist, I know that pain sensitization is a thing, and that experiencing pain for long periods of time can even train your whole nervous system to be even more reactive to potential pain. So if at all possible, I want my friends who are experiencing pain to try to control that pain as much as possible.

So if you are in pain, and you do not have any massive kidney and liver strain that prohibits you from taking a NSAID or paracetamol/Tylenol?

Please take the pain medicine. Please. Pleeeaaaaaase. I'm a scientist.

[justletmeremember]

yeah i'm a scientist who specializes in designing new pain meds. suffering is not noble, this is exactly how i look when y'all don't manage your pain:

take the meds! i became a scientist in this field explicitly to help people! i became a scientist because i too experience chronic pain and i failed out of literally all pain meds on the market. those of us in this field, we make these things to be used. be safe, follow doses, and if you have questions, ask your doc and pharmacist!

[rabbitscreams]

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

[rabbitscreams]

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

[rabbitscreams]

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

[gay-milton-quotes]

briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.

In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.

[vforvalensa]

Ronald Wimberly's comic essay, Lighten Up, stays evergreen

[myrandomstuffpage]

[segamascott]

[bogleech]

This has been the most ridiculous performative sideshow I have ever witnessed. How are these the people who coined things like "fuck your feelings" and threw "snowflakes" around. I have never seen emotionally weaker adult children engaging in more embarrassing public spectacle, anywhere, and I'm including things like the rick and morty mcnugget sauce riots.

[oneiric-wanderlust]

This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. Sammie, clutching his guitar after leaving his father and the church behind, to eventually become a blues legend. He defied both Jedediah’s demand to drop his guitar and leave blues music behind, and Smoke to stop playing at Juke Joints, and play church music, trying to convince him to live a life of respectability in Mound Bayou. 

Yet Sammie's heart and soul are with his music. He used it to express love for his father, the blues, his complex relationship with Christianity, while in the Jim Crow American south, which must have tested his faith every day. The blues brought him and the community joy, healing. He continued to play it, even if it put him at risk of attracting supernatural evil. 

[guerrillatech]

[segamascott]

like to charge reblog to cast obviously

[magnetosmettle]

Overthrow that mf’er. NOW.