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All About Me

Hello!

This is about me. I don't like TERFs, Facists, Neo-Nazis, or people who try to make others miserable for the fandoms they enjoy.

I'm Moonie! I'm 30ish years old, I'm a sex-repulsed, ace, weird romantic, gender-fuckery that I've decided to stop investigating because 'Queer' works for me, thank you very much.

And you can peel that title from me when I am cold and dead and I plan to never be dead twice over, as it is said. I'm going Egyptian Afterlife remembrance on this shit.

My side links on my blog are basically out of date.

All my fics, unless posted on here, are locked down on A03, but you can find shit on my fanfiction dot net account.

I do fanart, I do fanfiction, I sing, I am a shitty dancer. I am hoping to get back into horses, will probably start up driving (have to find someone), and there's that.

I now live where I wasn't born, so that's interesting, and much better for my health.

I have severe PTSD, and no forks left to give.

Fandoms and OCs under the Read More/Keep Reading

Maxwell was an Enchanter of the Ostwick Mountain Circle, and specifically, in charge of the Tranquil there. He has pale brown skin, gray eyes, and brown hair that he used to wear in a low ponytail, but now keeps short. When at the Exalted Council, due to the agony in his left hand, it was shaved exceptionally close, because he couldn't take care of his hair. He has since let it grow out as he adjusted to life with one arm. While he spent the first 11 years with his parents, who put off sending him to the Circle, he was lucky in that his parents viewed having a Mage child to mean they were not doing enough for the people and he was a reminder. The only reason they hid his magic was because they wanted him in Ostwick, and he couldn't be until his uncle was no longer a Templar within. Once his uncle retired, he had a "dramatically late" awakening where no one got hurt (how surprising!) and he was sent there. With his mother the niece of an Antivian Merchant-Prince with a Crow House on retainer and his father a Bann, and one well-regarded, he had a great deal of freedoms. Ones he sacrificed the day he realized how the Tranquil were being used and harmed by the Templars in horrific ways....and no one cared. So Maxwell sacrificed himself, in every way, to protect the Tranquil and those that had no protections outside of the Circle. He would sometimes get a reprieve, with his parents calling for his services, but he never left long, citing his duties back at the Tower for not being able to stay longer than a week. During this time, he did have a lover, who was illegally made Tranquil upon discovering they were together, breaking Maxwell's heart and terrifying him from reaching out romantically for many years. The Ostwick Circle was not neutral; they were just moving quietly, right up until the Templars decided to kill them all. And they started with the children. Those that managed to escape did so with Tranquil staying behind to die for them to escape. Maxwell was literally shoved into a boat to force him to go. Maxwell spent his time trying to keep the escaped Mages, Apprentices, and Tranquil safe, with the help of his younger sister, Fortunata, who was named for the great-aunt who died, and she was literally born right at the end of the mourning period. When the Conclave was mentioned, Maxwell took Fortunata's place and the atheist Enchanter went to the Conclave, mostly out of needing to hear what was said. He got involved because he could do no less. Maxwell could never run away from those in danger, he had to always run toward it. And continued to be helpful, to everyone he came across. He worked to free slaves, rescue those trapped, and was merciless when he had to be. Which was not in the Throne Room, where he focused more on using people to make the Inquisition greater, though he killed a few people. He romanced Dorian, which was novel for them both, considering the slavery discussions they had, multiple times. They got married in the time between the Breach being closed and the Exalted Council. (It was Dorian the proposed.) After the removal of Maxwell's arm, he stayed in Kirkwall, where Merrill was more than happy to help Maxwell build a secret path of Eluvians. Despite the betrayal of Solas, Maxwell still considers him a friend.

#moonie being moonie #moonrose91

bespangeled

In the 1960′s Legally a woman couldn’t

Open a bank account or get a credit card without signed permission from her father or hr husband.

Serve on a jury - because it might inconvenience the family not to have the woman at home being her husband’s helpmate.

Obtain any form of birth control without her husband’s permission. You had to be married, and your hub and had to agree to postpone having children.

Get an Ivy League education. Ivy League schools were men’s colleges ntil the 70′s and 80′s. When they opened their doors to women it was agree that women went there for their MRS. Degee.

Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions.

Keep her job if she was pregnant.Until the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978, women were regularly fired from their workplace for being pregnant.

Refuse to have sex with her husband.The mid 70s saw most states recognize marital rape and in 1993 it became criminalized in all 50 states. Nevertheless, marital rape is still often treated differently to other forms of rape in some states even today.

Get a divorce with some degree of ease.Before the No Fault Divorce law in 1969, spouses had to show the faults of the other party, such as adultery, and could easily be overturned by recrimination.

Have a legal abortion in most states.The Roe v. Wade case in 1973 protected a woman’s right to abortion until viability.

Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment. According to The Week, the first time a court recognized office sexual harassment as grounds for legal action was in 1977.

Play college sports Title IX of the Education Amendments of protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance It was nt until this statute that colleges had teams for women’s sports

Apply for men’s Jobs The EEOC rules that sex-segregated help wanted ads in newspapers are illegal. This ruling is upheld in 1973 by the Supreme Court, opening the way for women to apply for higher-paying jobs hitherto open only to men.

This is why we needed feminism - this is why we know that feminism works

galacticdrift

I just want to reiterate this stuff, because I legit get the feeling there are a lot of younger women for whom it hasn’t really sunk in what it is today’s GOP is actively trying to return to.

Did you go to a good college? Shame on you, you took a college placement that could have gone to a man who deserves and needs it to support or prepare for his wife & children. But if you really must attend college, well, some men like that, you can still get married if you focus on finding the right man.

Got a job? Why? A man could be doing that job. You should be at home caring for a family. You shouldn’t be taking that job away from a man who needs it (see college, above). You definitely don’t have a career – you’ll be pregnant and raising children soon, so no need to worry about promoting you.

This shit was within living memory. I’M A MILLENIAL and my mother was in the second class that allowed women at an Ivy League school. Men who are alive today either personally remember shit like this or have parents/family who have raised them into thinking this was the way America functioned back in the blissful Good Old Days. There are literally dudes in the GOP old enough to remember when it was like this and yearn for those days to return.

When people talk about resisting conservativism and the GOP, we’re not just talking about whether the wage gap is a myth or not. We’re talking about whether women even have the fundamental right to exist as individuals, to run their own households and compete for jobs and be considered on an equal footing with men in any arena at all in the first place.

gehayi

I was a child in the 1960s, a teenager in the 1970s, a young adult in the 1980s. This is what it was like: When I was growing up, it was considered unfortunate if a girl was good at sports. Girls were not allowed in Little League. Girls’ teams didn’t exist in high school, except at all-girls’ high schools. Boys played sports, and girls were the cheerleaders. People used to ask me as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said I wanted to be a brain surgeon or the first woman justice on the Supreme Court. Everyone told me it was impossible–those just weren’t realistic goals for a girl–the latter, especially, because you couldn’t trust women to judge fairly and rationally, after all. In the 1960s and 1970s, all women were identified by their marital status, even in arrest reports and obituaries. In elementary school, my science teacher referred to Pierre Curie as DOCTOR Curie and Marie Curie as MRS. Curie…because, as he put it, “she was just his wife.” (Both had doctorates and both were Nobel prize winners, so you would think that both would be accorded respect.) Companies could and did require women to wear dresses and skirts. Failure to do could and did get women fired. And it was legal. It was also legal to fire women for getting married or getting pregnant. The rationale was that a woman who was married or who had a child had no business working; that was what her husband was for. Aetna Insurance, the biggest insurance company in America, fired women for all of the above. A man could rape his wife. Legally. I can remember being twelve years old and reading about legal experts actually debating whether or not a man could actually be said to coerce his wife into having sex. This was a serious debate in 1974. The debate about marital rape came up in my law school, too, in 1984. Could a woman be raped by her husband? The guys all said no–a woman got married, so she was consenting to sex at all times. So I turned it around. I asked them if, since a man had gotten married, that meant that his wife could shove a dildo or a stick or something up his ass any time she wanted to for HER sexual pleasure. (Hey, I thought it was reasonable. If one gender was legally entitled to force sex on the other, then obviously the reverse should also be true.) The male law students didn’t like the idea. Interestingly, they commented that being treated like that would make them feel like a woman. My reaction was, “Thank you for proving my point…” The concept of date rape, when first proposed, was considered laughable. If a woman went out on a date, the argument of legal experts ran, sexual consent was implied. Even more sickening was the fact that in some states–even in the early 1980s–a man could rape his daughter…and it was no worse than a misdemeanor. Women taking self-defense classes in the 1970s and 1980s were frequently described in books and on TV as “cute.” The implication was that it was absurd for a woman to attempt to defend herself, but wasn’t it just adorable for her to try? I was expressly forbidden to take computer classes in junior and senior years of high school–1978-79 and 1979-80–because, as the principal told me, “Only boys have to know that kind of thing. You girls are going to get married, and you won’t use it.” When I was in college–from 1980 to 1984–there were no womens’ studies. The idea hadn’t occurred in many places because the presumption was that there was nothing TO study. My history professor–a man who had a doctorate in history–informed me quite seriously that women had never produced a noted painter, sculptor, composer, architect or scientist because…wait for it…womens’ brains were too small. (He was very surprised when I came up with a list of fifty women gifted in the arts and science, most of whom he had never heard of before.) When Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro as a running mate in 1984, the press hailed it as a disaster. What would happen, they asked fearfully, if Mondale died and Ferraro became president? What if an international crisis arose and she was menstruating? She could push the nuclear button in a fit of PMS! It would be the end of the WORLD!! …No, they WEREN’T kidding. On the surface, things are very different now than they were when I was a child, a teen and a young adult. But I’m afraid that people now do not realize what it was like then. I’ve read a lot of posts from young women who say that they are not feminists. If the only exposure to feminism they have is the work of extremists, I cannot blame them overmuch. I wish that I could tell them what feminism was like when it was new–when the dream of legal equality was just a dream, and hadn’t even begun to come true. When “woman’s work” was a sneer–and an overt putdown. When people tut-tutted over bright and athletic girls with the words, “Really, it’s a shame she’s not a boy.” That lack of feminism wasn’t all men opening doors and picking up checks. A lot of it was an attitude of patronizing contempt that hasn’t entirely died out, but which has become less publicly acceptable. I wish I could make them feel what it was like…when grown men were called “men” and grown women were “girls.”

drst

Know your history.

hedwig-dordt

So this, too, is what they mean saying “make America great again” and/or the good old days.

shatterpath

REBLOG FOREVER.

toooldforthissh--stuff

I am 70. I remember all those things. I was a student nurse from 64 to 67 and we were not permitted to “finish” a bed bath on a male or insert a catheter in a male. Seeing male genitals might cause us “harm” or upset our delicate sensibilities. Imagine when we graduated and were “thrown” to the wolves. Imagine if you were a male patient who had to be the first to be “practiced” on by a graduate nurse. (Ha!) At the school I attended no student nurse could be married. Only one school in my city (Atlanta) would even admit married women and Male Nurses weren’t even thought of. What man would want to be a nurse when he could be a Doctor. In all my training I only remember 3 or 4 Women who were Doctor’s and a very few, (less than 5 or 6) female interns or residents (and this was a teaching hospital) and most of those were OB/Gyns and one was a pediatrician.

When I graduated and was going to get married I wanted to go on birth control pills. You needed to be on them for a least one cycle before they were effective. I won’t go into what hoops I had to jump through to get a prescription from my Dr. (a man, natch) but when i went to the drug store to get the prescription filled I ended up having to get my future husband to “accompany” me so the pharmacist “interview” him and see if it was okay with him for me to be on the pill.

Even when we went to get a marriage license I had to get my Father’s signature and we had to go before a Judge because I was not yet 21 (I was 20 and 9 months).

I could go on and on, getting a credit card in MY name, etc., but I will tell you that WE MUST RESIST.

casper-the-friendly-being-blog

The number of people I know who romanticize gender inequality is frankly terrifying. A world never existed in which the lives of women were simplified by benevolent men who saw to her every want and need. That was not a thing. A world never existed in which women were all ladies, men were all gentlemen, & everything was some great big cishet fairytale. Feminists aren’t a bunch of upstarts who want to destroy a perfectly wholesome and non-harmful system. Just…look at history. Look at the posts above. We. Must. Resist..

rivergst-deactivated20191102

About 8: The State of New York only added No-Fault Divorce as an option in 2010 (!!!)

systlin

I want to repeat here.

This is what they mean, when they say “Old-fashioned values”

When conservatives start waxing lyrical about the ‘good old days’, this is what they mean. They are fully aware how much things blew for women, and they would like to return to that.

josephbrassey

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

queer-as-city-folk

Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

queer-as-city-folk

We have won nothing without fighting and we have everything to lose, there is no gay liberation without trans liberation, none of us are free till all of us are free, we have won so much and come so far but the road ahead is still long, we must continue to fight for both our liberation and the liberation of all people

queer-as-city-folk

The gay liberation movement is young, everything we have fought for and won happened over the course of less than a human lifetime, and there are forces at play that wish to claw back at these hard fought for rights, we must be prepared to defend what we have fought for and we must continue to fight for improvement

queer-as-city-folk

We have to celebrate how far things have come, because we never would have made it this far without joy and hope, and while we can and must fight, we also must remain hopeful

queer-as-city-folk

This year is:

11 years since nationwide gay marriage in the US

23 years since sodomy was legalized

57 years since Stonewall

#pride #us politics

avatarmerida

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

song-of-sea-and-sky

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

"You can now sort your likes from oldest to newest on web and iOS. Do you remember what your first liked post was?"

oh dear

monsterpotion

oh its bad back there.

moonrose91

Oh, thank fuck. I've been looking to clear out my likes.

I'm working on my original story that follows a woman and her apprentice/squire in siege warfare (aka, she's planning that he will take over for her when she moves to a different fort/castle).

The story takes place almost entirely at the Border Fort, and has a lot of fun stories woven in, explaining the secrets of it, and also the history of the Kingdom they serve.

Exceptions are; when the war happens, the time they go to the capital after said war, and when apprentice/squire visits home (right now just one time SEEN, but mentioned other times), so that is...

Three Times They Leave the Border Fort (in the books)

There's a line that is used twice that is to be an ironic echo.

But tempted to use it a third time in the middle.

But I am writing it and it really amuses me how I am noticing how there is a constant swap and echo of three things. Once to establish, once to reinforce, once to to break.

#moonie being moonie #moonie's writing

polycythemiav

DID YOU KNOW? A group of Pride demons is called a Parade!

watsername

shout out to all the bitches NOT having gay sex this pride month

mornington-the-crescent

June 1st

breelandwalker

Listen, marketing-as-exploitation discussions aside, Rainbow Capitalism is, has been, and continues to be the canary in the coal mine of social acceptance for the queer community.

If you’ll all pardon my Americentrism for a moment, the amount, visibility, and flamboyance of Pride merch available in clothing, home goods, and comestibles stores is a DIRECT reflection of how safe it is to be queer in public in the United States.

How? Simple. Out groups aren’t profitable. If you’re not “acceptable” in the current social climate, big franchise businesses will not market to you. (Prime example - Look how quickly Target dropped all their Pride merch after having been wall-to-wall rainbows every June for almost a decade prior.)

Sure, capitalism sucks and being viewed as an exploitable marketing demographic isn’t a fun concept.

HOWEVER.

The grim truth is that being normalized enough to be considered profitable by corporations IS A GOOD THING in terms of the barometer of social acceptance.

Same thing goes for smaller businesses that throw kitschy Pride events or even just put a token rainbow flag in the window or somewhere inside the shop. That’s a level of acceptance that DID NOT EXIST thirty years ago, and I can tell you because I was there.

The fact that we can scoff and bitch about being an exploitable marketing demographic nowadays means we have made GIGANTIC strides since the 1990s. It also speaks to the fact that the drive and the conversation surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and acceptance are continuing. And getting louder.

You can be cynical about it if you want. But I will take a store that puts out lip-service rainbow merch over a world that pretends we don’t exist any day of the week. Because that will always mean something.

Sincerely, An Elder Queer

captaindibbzy

In the UK so many pride events are going bust because corporate sponsorship has stopped after Trump took office in America. And with the rise of things like Reform it’s getting much harder to be ort and open in public. JKRowling is actively paying people to be anti-Trans and lobbying government and corporation’s alike.

I don’t expect to see anything in my local supermarket this summer. My council will not be flying the pride flag this year. Neither will my library, which a few years ago had six different pride flags outside its building including trans, ace, and intersex.

Thankfully for my own safety I’m not clockable. Not everyone is so lucky.

I’d rather have the stupid Pride Vodka Bottles.

politijohn

Source

Happy Pride Month!

theprofessional-amateur

Every day I get a little closer to saying fuck it and becoming an apprentice in some at risk heritage craft or profession.

theprofessional-amateur

"let's have AI-"

I'm gonna go learn the art of hand engraving or thatched roofing. Maybe hand make clogs.

trickstertime

As a professional hand engraver, when it comes to old crafts like these, its way more accessible to get started with the basics than you'd expect. Back in the day good steel was expensive so trying something like hand engraving was expensive and difficult to justify. But now you can can just buy a good quality handpush graver online for less than a fancy coffee. Just think, for under a hundred quid you could get all the kit you need to get started with fucking up coins and stabbing yourself repeatedly!!!

Don't threaten to do it, go research it, and actually give it a go!!! Most of the books for old crafts are out of copyright. Even if you don't get a job at whatever you try, or hell, even of you don't become in any way good at it, just learning and trying something new is good for you, and it gives you a greater understanding and appreciation for things.

Fuck AI? Good. I agree. Now fucking do something about it. Return to doing human hand crafted things as an act of rebellion! Start knitting, start wood carving, start engraving, whatever the fuck. But most importantly, remember you don't need to be making money doing it to make it worth doing.

just-another-cat-blog

pride month!!!

lemonsharks

Is that a miette?

jeanjauthor

Pride for you! Pride for a thousand years!!

lost-and-cursed

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

should-be-sleeping

Everyone please behold this baby tree:

It's so much smaller than the support posts, they had to secure it with caution tape.

should-be-sleeping

Caution: baby!

should-be-sleeping

One day (but not this day)!

should-be-sleeping

Update:

Thriving!

should-be-sleeping

Now taller than a human person!

In case you were wondering!

should-be-sleeping

Update:

Filling out, and up!

should-be-sleeping

We threw it a birthday party once spring arrived. 🎂

should-be-sleeping

🎉

lee-alder

Today was a pretty shit day. This is a nice post to see. Birthday hat tree.

should-be-sleeping

I hope tomorrow is kinder. 🌱

should-be-sleeping

Live music at the Tree Party!

pangur-and-grim

can I make a confession that might get me in trouble

pangur-and-grim

I save scummed through every variation of this guy’s dialogue tree because I really, really wanted him to perform unethical surgery on me. like I’m still so angry about this. WHY have the gross knife hand doctor if he can’t pull out your appendix and laugh about it??? what is the POINT

pangur-and-grim

wait hang on I’ll post a pangur photo. don’t unfollow

pangur-and-grim

seraphtrevs

STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.