MissMyth

26 | Dutch | Writer

[softsnot]

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Life Note

[dailycelebs]

[pyretic-perfect-storm]

I’m loving this man more and more! 😍

[labrat-to-gymrat]

Sigh…😍

[plussizeadventure]

@grandenoirceur you’ve got another big man who loves his bubble baths! 

[nevaehtyler]

“Her fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone, the first of a trilogy about a young girl’s battle with a prince over bringing magic back to West Africa,  is going to be released some time next year. But it’s already got a seven-figure publishing deal with Macmillan, and a massive deal with Fox Studios too, with the latter acquiring the movie rights pretty early on in the day for a book that hasn’t even been published yet.”

Source (x)

[jonesywrites-deactivated2025050]

OH MY GOD MY SOUL JUST LEFT MY BODY. GOOD FOR HER! AND I CANNTO WAIT TO READ THESE!

And you know what, all this does is inspire me. If she can do it, I can do it. We can do it. 

[pixelated-peony]

I don’t know if it’s because I have Prime BUT the Kindle version was free for me just now (Jan. 9, 2018). GO CHECK IT OUT!!

[dkafterdark]

The first six chapters are available for free as a sneak peek from Amazon

[megiddojones]

It’s good. I actually did a review of it. 

[kelseyeng]

Had so much fun designing this series of mermaid paintings based off of Indian saris! More art here: www.instagram.com/kelseyeng32

Also I am looking for illustration work - editiorial, YA, etc if anyone knows of anything :) 

Keep reading

[theambassadorposts]

People need to have this conversation more often

[lordandgodoftheobvious]

“The world is overpopulated.”

Nope.

“Well, that’s just carbon emissions. What about places for all those people to live?”

If the world’s population all lived in one city that was as densely populated as Manhattan, that city would be the size of Ecuador. The space taken up by ourselves and our toys is actually rather insignificant next to that taken up by our farmland.

“Ah-hah! Farmland! We’re not producing enough food for all those people!”

The problem here is we are insanely wasteful with our food.

Firstly, half of all food grown in the US goes straight into the dumpster.

Secondly, we grow it very inefficiently. We could very easily increase the food yield of a given area of land by building a greenhouse on it (which also reduces water loss) and using poly-cultures instead of mono-cultures; the reason our preferred method is open-air mono-culture farms, which are susceptible to erosion and blight and requires a god-awful amount of water to stay hydrated, is that labor is expensive and land is cheap.

In fact, if we took it even further–growing our food in carbon dioxide-rich environments lit with artificial lighting 24 hours a day (or at least at night)–you only need 1-2000 square feet of farmland per person. Admittedly, you pretty much have to have fusion power for this to be an environmentally and economically viable option, but still; the point is, we could easily condense our environmental footprint by a shit-ton (and even more options will be available in the future) without decreasing our population one iota.

“There is still a maximum carrying capacity the planet has.”

Indeed there is. And do you know what that carrying capacity is? It’s ten trillion. And the cut off isn’t space or resources–it’s waste heat. The things we’d have to do to get there aren’t exactly the sort of things we could do overnight–hell, we don’t actually know how to fusion yet–but they’re all well within the realm of the physically possible.

[frogixi-moved]

[navyasarchive-deactivated201905]

every lgbt person of color can relate to feeling alienated from mainstream lgbt narratives because we don’t get to participate in so many of the things that white lgbt kids sometimes get to do. joining GSA, going to prom with a gay date, going to pride with friends….. i never reached those “gay milestones” the way my white lgbt peers did. 

[baptizm-deactivated20200524]

the feeling of only going to one GSA meeting because I was the only black kid and it was just… awkward and I couldn’t relate to a single person there.

[iunia-kallistrate]

There’s also the idea of having a legible identity. An identity that is understood by the people seeing a person.

I.E. a white woman with a fade is read as a lesbian, but a black woman with a fade is read as a thug (and in queer spaces a thug first and possibly queer second).

In (predominantly white) queer spaces POC, particularly black PoC are seen as racialized bodies, before their queerness is legible to the white gaze. Which creates several problems the most obvious two being one) the hyper and hypo sexualization of bodies of color and two) the idea that some white gay people have of PoC being more homophobic (as shown by the Wachowski Sisters) can lead to an erasure of QPoC having less legibility (and thus less social legitimacy) in those spaces.

But I there is a third piece to this that isn’t talked about as much, which is that for many QPoC how queerness is visibly displayed is also unique to their culture. (I.E. black people read my frohawk as queer, white people do not) and when displaying/living queerness isn’t just something that intersects with racial/ethnic identity, but identity is something that grows fully in the intersection of those things, not only is the queerness of the person in question less likely to be legible, and given social legitimacy, but there is a work of translation that needs to be done for communication to happen (the onus of which is almost always put on the person of color). There is also the challenge of when identity expresses itself in this thoroughly joined way, white people tend to label the person of color as radical. This allows them to put social and emotional distance, between the person and (their communications, their thoughts and feelings as a QPoC can suddenly be taken less seriously, delegitimized even more so than before).

A personal example, there is a feminist bookstore I frequent. I went in the other day just to browse, I wanted a book didn’t know what exactly (eventually I settled on one of Danez Smith’s chapbooks). But while I was browsing an employee one I hadn’t met before approached me, asked me if I needed help, I said I didn’t, told me if I changed my mind I should ask her, I said will do. Pretty standard exchange and I continued to browse. But of course it wasn’t a standard exchange. Because moments later this employee was telling the owner about the suspicious person in the sci-fi section (it’s a two room tiny independent bookstore, I couldn’t have not heard her if I tried). Now luckily, I know the owner, so nothing came of this interaction. But here I was a queer person, in a queer space, but my frohawk and low slung linen drawstring capris were not read as queer, they were read as black and dangerous, despite being in a queer space, and wearing heavily queer coded clothing. My legibility as queer, was superseded by legibility as black, in a way where if I did not know the owner could have been dangerous. How are young lbtqa folks suppose to be comfortable in predominantly white queer spaces when they can’t be sure of being respected, heard, or even of being safe.

[genderqueerpositivity]

I coined the term “genderqueer” back in the 1990s in an effort to glue together two nouns that seemed to me described an excluded and overlooked middle: those of us who were not only queer but were so because we were the kind of gender trash society couldn’t digest.

A prominent gay columnist immediately attacked me in print for “ruining a perfectly good word like ‘queer.’” (Harrumph!)

Joan Nestle, Claire Howell, and I then used the word for the title of our anthology of emerging young writers. But I don’t think anyone expected the term or the concept to really catch on.

Then one year I was attending the Creating Change conference and using the (wonderfully gender-neutral) bathrooms, and saw someone had posted a sticker on the wall that read, “A Genderqueer Was Here!” I thought, Hmm … that’s really interesting. Someone is using that not as a descriptor, but as the basis for their identity. So it begins.

Fast-forward about 20 years and I was just reading Matt Bernstein’s anthology Nobody Passes, and in it writer Rocko Bulldagger bemoans the term’s very existence, declaring, “I am sick to death of hearing it “

Such is the arc of a new idea.

But if you opened your eyes at all, you could see all this coming a long way off.

At Camp Trans, outside the now-defunct Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, I’d meet one young person after another simply known as “boychik,” “demigirl,” “transmasculine,” “tryke,” and any number of exuberant genders few of us had contemplated.

Camp Trans itself was always overrun by one set of teens and 20-somethings explaining patiently, if exasperatedly, to their lesbian mothers — who’d brought them in tow to experience the beauty of womanhood — that they needed to move beyond their transphobia and accept trans people as women and not men. And a totally different set of teens and 20-somethings were joyously destroying by example the categories of men, women, lesbian, and  transgender.

We’ve spent almost 40 years fighting for a bunch of identity categories that are based entirely on the implicit acceptance that there are two and only two basic sexes, with the associated possible gender identities and sexual orientations that come from them.

And now young people are about to blow all that up.

I was reminded of this while watching Showtime’s hit TV show Billions, which introduced a new character, Taylor, whose gender I was having fun trying to puzzle out.

Taylor is an intense, brilliant intern, who wears a shirt, tie, and buzzed crew cut, but otherwise has no identifiable landmarks by which the viewer might navigate the gender terrain.

Finally, they are introduced to Bobby Axelrod, the head of multibillion-dollar hedge fund Axe Capital.

As played by Asia Kate Dillon, they reply: “Hello, sir, my name is Taylor. My pronouns are ‘they, theirs, and them.’”

Cutting-edge stuff. And a signpost for where the gender dialogue is going. Just like when student Maria Munir, 20, came out to a nonplussed President Obama as “nonbinary.”

In a recent article at Refinery29, Dillon explained that they didn’t just read for the part. As they read the part, “I did some research into non-binary, and I just thought, Oh my gosh, that’s me… When I read the script for episode two and I saw the ‘they, theirs and them,’ that’s when the tears started to well up in my eyes. Then when I read Axe’s response, which is, ‘Okay,’ and then the scene just continues, that’s what ultimately moved me to full-fledged tears.”

This is powerful stuff. And it’s only the start. The trans movement is going to have to accommodate and open the boundaries perhaps more than it would like.

But if it’s the job of young people to expose and explode their elders’ paradigm, these young people are off to a wonderful start.

“Hello. My name is Riki. My pronouns are ‘they, theirs, and them.’“

Riki Wilchins, “Get to Know the New Pronouns: They, Theirs, and Them

[frauleinpflaume-deactivated2020]

For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.

It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.

Examples (all done by me):

Here’s an example for how you can use it

[ladytygrycomics]

Great find, thanks!

[keiko86chanart]

OMG HEAVEN!!

Bless you!!!!

[art-res]

Very nice resource for those looking to improve their perspective, composition, and background rendering skills!

[more-legit-gr8er-writing-tips]

Can probably be used for writing too.

[profeminist]

[bipolarblueberries]

“I’m not really mentally ill, I’m just faking this.” - A mentally ill proverb

[sapphic-space-syren]

i said this to my therapist and she just looked at me and said “so do you think i went to clown school”

[profeminist]

Source

[strikelikeahawk]

[bipolar-bubbeleh]

that was beautiful

[localbadgirl-deactivated2017121]

A few things:

01. Gypsy is a slur & there is no “positive” or “acceptable” way of using it if you aren’t Romani. Some Romani might not find it offensive but still it should not be part of your vocabulary – the same goes for the term “gypped”. If you want to talk about the slur censor it or simply call it “the g slur.”

02. Anti Romani racism exists everywhere and there is a slur for the us in every language. Gypsy is the slur used in the English language but there is also Zigan, Tigan, Cigan, Gitano, Zigeuner, etc. - a lot of them stem from the Greek word for “slave” and are considered even worse than the Gypsy slur. However all of them are still slurs.

03. Gypsy has never been anything other than a derogatory slur against Romani that has been screamed at us while we have been branded, enslaved, hunted down, murdered, put through a genocide and a holocaust, segregated and discriminated against. It never meant “free-spirited” or anything along those lines.

04. Romani is the proper name of the people that are being targeted by the G slur. Some people write it as Rromani which is also correct. (But there are a few groups that are part of the Romani Diaspora that don’t identify as Romani.) The term Roma/Rroma can be used too, however not all Romani are Roma.

05. Domari and Lomari have been targeted by the G slur as well (but not as much as Romani). We are all different Diasporas from South Asia who share some cultural similarities. (Of course Domari and Lomari can reclaim the G slur as well.)

06. Romani and Romanian do not mean the same thing. Romani are brown people originally from India. Romanians are people from the European country Romania.

07. The official term for racism directed towards Romani is called “Antiziganism”, that term however is offensive since it includes the word “Zigan” which is a horrible slur against Romani. Please do not use that term and instead use “Anti-Romani racism”, “Anti-Romanism”, etc.

08. Anti-Romani racism is very extreme in Europe (segregation in housing, education and health care, forced sterilizations, evictions and demolition of settlements, police brutality, etc), which is why we even received the title of “Europe’s Most Hated”, but it’s not an exclusively European thing. Anti-Romani racism exists in America and Canada as well. (Canada even has an immigration ban on Romani.)

09. “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” does not display actual Romani people as far as I have heard so it does not represent Romani people/culture at all.

10. Your believes that Romani “don’t want to work”, “don’t want to send their children to school”, “steal children”, “are dirty”, “genetically prone to crime”, “are lazy”, etc. are nothing but racist stereotypes and left over Nazi propaganda. All of them are untrue as well. (Also: Romani would love to work and go to school but the extreme discrimination against us in the field of education makes that very hard. And the widely spread traditional anti-Romani attitudes and prejudices don’t make it any easier either.)

11. Stereotypes such as that all Romani women are “sexual temptresses” and promiscuous disregarding of age are obviously incorrect too. Virginity is actually considered important in Romani culture. Believing in those stereotypes is very harmful and dangerous as well because despite Romani being only a minority in most European countries we make up the highest % when it comes to sex trafficking victims.

12. Romani culture doesn’t have anything to do with witchcraft, wicca, paganism, etc. We didn’t create tarot, palm reading or crystal balls either. You can stop calling yourself a “Gypsy Witch” and faking Romani heritage now. The only reason why assumptions like that came to exist is because of racist believes and lies spread by the church. Our skills with medical herbs and palm reading were seen as “evidence of heresy” and from the 16th century onward we were outlawed, expelled and persecuted, culminating in the organized killing of our people. 

13. Fortune teller costumes are usually racist. Romani women have always been stereotyped as fortune tellers which is why the stereotypical image of a fortune teller is always linked with Romani women - dark skin, messy black hair, a big nose, a “weird” accent, a headscarf, big hoop earrings, gold coins added to clothes and an “untrustworthy/deceiving” nature, etc. Personally, I’ve never seen a fortune teller costume that wasn’t racist. (A lot of people even use the term “fortune teller” like a synonym for the G slur nowadays.) A person’s race/ethnicity is not a costume, so if you ever consider dressing up as a fortune teller chose something different. 

Of course I don’t speak for all Romani. This is more of a “faq” actually since these are the types of questions and incorrect assumptions I have noticed the most. If you are Romani too please correct me if I made any mistakes and please feel free to add anything onto this list if you like!

[hopefulsapphic]

the usual message of how you don’t need to label yourself is a great concept that i’m sure lots of people need to hear, but honestly it doesn’t work for everyone…

so here’s to the people like me, the ones who need a label. here’s to those who get anxiety if they’re unsure for too long. here’s to everyone who craves the stability and community of a label, and might feel lonely or anxious or invalid if they don’t have that. you might feel irrational because of all these people telling you not to worry about it, but please don’t ever feel stupid or crazy for needing to accurately define yourself. i hope you find certainty and stability in your identity soon.

[jasperstudies]

dear white followers

poc isn’t an adjective - i’m not a “people of colour blogger”, i’m a blogger of colour

don’t say poc if you mean a specific group of people. black lives matter isn’t about all poc. it’s about black people

you don’t need to tell us about every instance of racism you see. if someone’s said something racist about us & we weren’t there, sure, we probably do want to know. but if it’s along the lines of “can you believe this person was racist”? yeah. we can. we don’t need you to remind us

if you have a friend of colour, please don’t expect them to give you the rundown on every racialised issue you see. i’m black. that doesn’t mean i’m automatically an expert on how the modern beauty industry is influenced by india’s colonial history. i don’t speak for all poc - ask someone who’s affected by it

remember that talking about race is tiring. wanting to be more aware of it is great, but discussing exactly how white supremacy affects our lives is frankly depressing. please respect that we don’t always want to do that

if you ever say you’ve “got an [ethnicity] friend” so you can’t be racist to try and sidestep being genuinely called out for racism, i’m stealing your friend. you’re tokenising & they deserve better

poc aren’t a monolith & individual ethnicities can trivialise the racism they don’t face. just because you’ve heard a brown person say the n word or a black person be anti-asian doesn’t mean it’s suddenly okay

talking about our relationship with whiteness ≠ “making everything about race” & anyone who says that from now on owes me £150

this is okay to reblog even (especially) if you’re white

[jasperstudies]

the point of this post is not to be a performative ally and act as if you as a white person have to endorse it for it to be worth reblogging. i do not need your commentary about how you, someone who will never be affected by racism, think this is important. i know damn well it is! adding things like this:

is incredibly patronising - and this is just a small example of the nonsense i’ve had in tags, responses, and my inbox. if you don’t think a black person telling you something about racialisation is believable or important without your saying so, you are part of the problem, and you need to self-reflect before you start trying to contribute to the conversation. 

reblog this version instead.