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Mike Driver
@theartofmadeline
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trying on a metaphor
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cherry valley forever
Kiana Khansmith
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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New year, new commissions sheet! This time I'm actually offering everything! Character art, landscape art, music, the whole nine yards!!!
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How I present myself when character limits get in the way.
I want everyone to just universally know more nonbinary attraction terms, I need it so bad dawg.
Trixic, toric, enbian, diamoric, I just want enben love to be recognized, PLEASE!!!
At this point, I just feel like it’s my duty to use these terms as much as I can in my own life, I just need to expose as many people as I can to these terms, more people need to know.
Because, let me tell you, I die inside every time people use exclusively yuri or yaoi to describe relationships with a nonbinary person in it, or when people imply that being specifically attracted to a nonbinary person makes you a chaser, like, oh god no
I am so unbelievably tired of seeing TMA/TME being treated like transfeminist praxis or as anything other than exclusionary and reductive. It’s simply ineffective at everything positive it claims to be made for.
Even IF it wasn’t used to be disparaging towards anyone not a perisex binary trans woman or fem, there are better words (transfeminized, for example) to describe the people targeted by transmisogyny or how people assumed to be transfem are treated, without (pt: without) creating a binary that makes claims on other people’s experiences, makes suffering synonymous with trans identity, forces people to disclose their identity, refusing to acknowledge nuance, implying large groups of people are inherently oppressors, or downplaying other forms of oppression.
I have repeatedly seen people called TME just for disliking the terms, even those who are trans women. It’s transparently a way to describe an in-group/out-group. Any use they have is a facade. The moment there’s an “acceptable” group to wish violence and death upon, people will make excuses to put anyone they dislike into that group.
Put these terms down and leave them in the dust, and accept your fellow trans person. You don’t have to like every person ever, or even anybody, but you HAVE to treat them with basic decency. No one is less important than you.
Re: "I have repeatedly seen people called TME just for disliking the terms, even those who are trans women."
I was called/assumed TME because, and I quote, "only tmes whinge so fucking much about tme/tma...and [TMA people] also don't obsessively whine and cry about it if they don't want to use the term, ofc you're tme"
I would like to note that I haven't, and will never, reveal if I'm transmisogynized/transfeminized on this blog. I don't want to get caught up in the "you can't criticize x if you're x" shit from either side of the discourse. I only have two boundaries on my blog: be kind, and don't assume you know anything about me.
So, yeah. At this point it isn't based on anything (I haven't spoken about any personal experiences with transmisogyny, intentionally, so there's literally no way to know if I'm "affected" or "exempt"). People are just picking and choosing who they want to be "TME" vs "TMA". Also because apparently no transfem ever hates on TME/TMA language.
Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didn’t have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.
And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.
A website of tiny ceramic frogs.
Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.
I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.
“This is your website?” I asked finally.
“Yep!”
“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.
“Yep!”
“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”
“I made those too,” he says, beaming.
And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.
“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”
It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team.
And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.
i had a dream last night that the entire world used a currency (?) called angrypennies which as the name implies are obtained by experiencing anger. the stronger and more intense your anger was, the more angrypennies you'd gain. an all-consuming rage would earn you more than a slight irritation, etc. so people were always searching for ways to fuel their anger and purposefully keeping themselves angry all the time because they wanted to earn angrypennies. unclear if angrypennies could be exchanged for goods and services, or if they were just a collectible.
anyway, as if this wasn't heavy-handed enough, at one point british comedian greg davies appeared and explained that angrypennies couldn't be worth feeling angry all the time. this was a real revelation to dream-me and i was finally able to break free of the angrypenny grind and allow myself to experience emotions other than anger.
it goes without saying that i will be using the word angrypenny as if it was part of the common vernacular instead of a term that my dreaming brain conjured up i.e. "he's all about the angrypennies" (derogatory way to refer to a guy who searches for reasons to be angry and possibly lacks introspection)
happy if you have scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with your sexuality july
You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.
Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?
Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have
If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!
-> Phonics For Adults <-
If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.
surprisingly forward-thinking of jim henson and co. to make a female character in the 70's that's allowed to be loud-mouthed and violent and kind of overwhelmingly romantic and even a huge bitch at times and not have a moment where any character asks her to change
going through all the muppet movies in a row made me realize that like. miss piggy was made in the 70's. and it's so rare even today to have a character like her. she's loud, she's selfish, she's funny, she's extremely vain, she's obsessed with romance, she's violent, she's kind of annoying, and there's not a single moment in any of these films where she's asked to tone down any of these personality traits. i am not joking when i say that miss piggy might be one of the best treated female characters ever written
we need to do something about that big rock outside the castle because enemy knights have figured out that if you charge up it at the right angle you can launch yourself onto the ramparts and start killing our archers
Frankly, I think companies presenting basic health and consumer safety information as "boring," "uncool," and "not worth your care" should carry a hefty fine based on the revenue that company generates
The lameo gay crap we're legally forced to tell you: You may die of diseentary
This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.
"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?
"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?
"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??
I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"
#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories
This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.
"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?
"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?
"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??
I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"
#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories
sir please calm down i didnt "edit" crash bandicoot into your wedding pictures he was an invited guest
I miss smash bros speculation
2018-2021 was a magical time when people would talk about their favorite video game characters and anything was possible, even moreso than the Super Smash Bros. for prerelease-release-DLC hype cycle. people kept watching their made up rules get disproven and by the end of it nobody knew how to predict anything anymore
there's something I find charming about the category of characters that are like. notably popular ideas for smash bros characters completely divorced from their popularity as characters in any other context. like how a lot of people somehow convinced themselves that Geno from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996) is an "obvious" choice for a smash bros character even though he's not even the most popular character from the mario rpgs
First post kinda nervous..
listening to a song you've already heard 100000 times but this time you notice backing vocals you never heard before
