The Sun Shines On This Page I Write

Certified toxic tranny freak. He/him, transmasc, TME, call me Kor

[baelatargaryen]

if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to palestine at this time:

donate to doctors without borders here

donate to careforgaza here, providing food, medicine and clothing

donate an e-sim to gaza today

donate feminine hygiene kits for women in gaza

donate to the palestinian civilian relief fund

donate to the palestine children's relief fund

donate to the world food programme

donate medical aid for palestinians

donate to the united nations relief for palestine refugees

donate to healpalestine

if you are looking for individual fundraisers to donate to but are struggling to choose, gazafunds gives a spotlight to fundraisers that are not close to their goal.

instead of watching and supporting eurovision tonight, please instead boost this post & donate if you can. keep your eyes on rafah.

[the-composite-doll]

BTW here's a coupon code for eSIMS

[dogpuppy]

[tinymintywolf]

some long overdue phm fanart bc i wanted to make a new print for future cons! 🌎💫

[fadell-aldany]

I don't know what to say. I've run out of words, and the war in G@za hasn't ended. The b0mbing continues every day, and d@ath stalks us every moment.

[fadell-aldany]

I'm writing to you amidst this siege, with pain gnawing at my body. Since our house was bombed, shrapnel has been lodged in my body, tearing me apart and causing unbearable pain. I haven't been able to have surgery to remove it because the entire healthcare system here has been destroyed, and I need to raise the m0ney for travel to have my operation in another country. I need your stand by me.

[fadell-aldany]

On top of this suffering, I'm suffering from severe anemia, which causes me to faint frequently. I urgently need your h@lp now to buy anemia medication and painkillers to alleviate this agony, and to cover the costs of my treatment, I hope you will all stand by my side.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Rebooting my fundraiser to reflect present situation:

We were expecting a check to come in the mail today that would let us afford our rent and life expenses but it hasn’t come in, putting a lot of stress on us. We need emergency support because rent is due tomorrow, July 4th.

My name is Phoenix and I'm a white, Jewish and Panamanian Latina trans woman and union steward and organizer. I'm married to Olivia, the daughter of Salvadoran refugees, a U.S. naturalized citizen, a union steward, anti-imperialist feminist and writer. We're asking for help today.

I’ve been struggling to even find low wage entry level restaurant jobs and I have been out of work since mid-March after I got fired at my unionized job for allegedly leaving notes with "migrants welcome" and Jewish and Muslim religious symbols outside the living space of an open white nationalist. The fact that this person is a white nationalist is not being denied by my employer, who is claiming I created a safety risk and violated their equity principles by doing this. Meanwhile in the real world Nazis have repeatedly stalked me and my parents and spent years harassing our neighborhood with public rallies. I went through a union grievance process with that employer to return to that job and/or receive backpay and it is being considered for arbitration. The union will be conferring with their lawyer and at the next executive board meeting in August it will be decided upon and I have the impression my case has significant support.

Because I've been out of work, there's been additional financial stress on our household. We also were contacted to foster a new family member who was taken into the care of the state. She has been staying with us for the past few weeks and has rapidly grown in a short period of time.

I recently applied to multiple trade apprenticeship programs including for aspiring tradeswomen and to community college to pursue a degree in a trade. Funding for the trade programs will soon distribute and I’ll have a better idea of available opportunities for work and when. An Employment Access Specialist referred me to the Step Program which as a future SNAP recipient would pay for me to receive trade certificates from my local community college.

The baby receives WIC and as soon as I receive confirmation from child services of future support payments (we have yet to actually receive these in a full amount due to recentness of placement), her SNAP should also be approved. But until then we have relied on parent friends and buy nothing groups to keep us afloat on baby supplies.

Please, if you can share this post, a multiracial queer couple and new foster parents dedicated to serving their community through direct service, union + tenant organizing and socialist political struggle will be able to maintain their housing as we transition into a new and exciting phase of our lives during what has been very financially uncertain and scary times.

Rent is due by tomorrow, July 4th, 2026. It is $900. We are awaiting a check that would cover these costs but it hasn’t arrived in the mail in time.

Public Offer: Do you have a band or record audio for podcasts or any other reason? Do you need someone to clean up the audio of unwanted noise or to enhance its clarity and loudness? Can’t afford a professional studio producer to mix and master your songs? I have Ableton and a variety of freeware and professional plugins to add sparkle to your recordings and I’m offering my services at a discount rate.

Contact me at [email protected]

DONATE AT:

Venmo: writeswrongs / @Phoenix-Singer-1

CashApp: $writeswrongs / $PhoenixSinger

PayPal: [email protected]

[closet-keys]

The genocide of Palestinians continues every day in Gaza. Israel traps Gazans in a smaller and smaller area with no escape, and abducts and incarcerates adults and children in prisons rampant with torture and sexual abuse. They launch active military operations on a daily basis, using airstrikes and shelling to destroy lives and essential infrastructure. Israel maintains blockades on food and medicine to slowly break down people's bodies. Do not look away from this.

[closet-keys]

Even though they are living through a genocide and have no means if income, my friends in Gaza must pay for everything you and I pay for at steep prices. They have to pay hundreds of dollars in rent, $60 for a water truck delivery, $50 for a cooking gas cylinder, $30 for mobile internet access. All this before even accounting for the costs of food ($40 for a 25kg bag of flour, let alone anything nutritious). All this before the costs of medicine or healthcare bills.

[closet-keys]

My friend Mahrah (@freepaleatine955) lives in Gaza, taking care of her elderly parents. My wife (@cannilyuncanny) hosts their family's fundraiser (vetted by 90-ghost and shared by fairuzfan) and wires transfers of donations directly to Mahrah. The money that we are able to raise is the entirety of their budget for the bare essentials of survival. Please donate if you can afford to. Keep them in your thoughts.

[daloy-politsey-deactivated20171]

Some facts:

1) Black Americans created jazz. 2) Jewish Americans created comic books. 3) These things are said to be the only original American art forms.

[thelordfool]

4) black Americans invented rock and roll.

[swanboulet]

5) Black AND Jewish Americans created musical theatre. 

[iwonthepageant]

[brawltogethernow]

Look what my friend with no social media posted to the chat with the damning staggered timestamps of 1:11, 1:37, and 1:42 A.M.

[waitingforthecat]

Image description: art showing a person holding a small figure, text above them reads: "Thinking about the character", the words "the character" are the same color as the figure the person holds. In the second image the person still holds the figure now their mouth is wide open. In the last the person is biting down on the figures head, while holding it, stretching its body. end Image description

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

[pitbolshevik]

"people who hate cats are soooo mean but people who hate dogs are normal and correct" please spend like 15 minutes on r/dogfree and then get back to me

[pitbolshevik]

hell you don't even have to do that, just say you have a pit bull on the internet and you'll meet plenty of very well adjusted dog haters that will tell you in graphic detail how badly they want to kill your dog

[princesscolumbia]

As a Locked Tomb enjoyer and someone who understands at least a little about anatomy (...I mean, I've seen a chest x-ray), it always amuses me when I see fan art of Kiriona Gaia where the wound in her chest has actual fucking teeth in it. Like a mouth. Like a literal mouth.

Don't get me wrong, the wound is described pretty much exactly like that in the text. In terms of authorial representation of the author's vision, no notes. This scene is even from Nona's perspective, a narrator so unreliable we can't even be sure if we're understanding the NAMES OF THE OTHER CHARACTERS RIGHT or if Nona is just interpreting them as literal-words-communicating-concepts instead of the actual "names that means exactly jack besides being a collection of sounds" that most people might hear. (This is heavily implied to be the case with Hot Sauce, specifically.)

But if you're going for a "realistic" interpretation of the scene...it's ribs. It's just ribs. Ribs that have been cracked in two and are visible through a puckered wound sure will look a lot like teeth in a mouth. The more outlandish you make the teeth (there's one piece of art that hit my feed where the 'teeth' more resembled that of the eldritch creature from Iron Lung than anything mammalian), the more the art lands in the "purely conceptual" territory.

Which works! Especially for TLT! Being completely clear, there's no complaints from me. I'm well aware that art is meant to make you think and having a fucking gaping maw with nasty, inhuman teeth sprouting from the subject's chest is a damn good way to grab your inner art critic by the fucking throat and spit in his eye.

It's just so on brand for a series that whiplashes from, "This is completely grounded in reality supplemented by my worldbuilding to account for and explain all the incredibly crazy stuff I'm writing about," to "Can you even trust that your eyes are reading words on the page? Have a 10 millennia old Tumblr meme, as a treat."

[animentality]

[sound-the-horn]

I cannot recommend bringing your heritage and culture into how you view media enough.

It is important to consider the culture of the person who created the piece, absolutely; but the different perspectives offered by the viewers is fascinating in and of itself and does not always detract from the message.

As an example, when I was younger, I watched Schindler's List. This movie is famously shot in black and white except for one section, concerning a little girl in a red coat. The camera follows her until her eventual death.

I am Turtle Island Indigenous and I was always taught that the only color spirits could see was red, because it is the color of life and blood.

So the second the girl in the red jacket came on screen, something inside me chilled with fear.

The only color in the movie was that red. At some point, I, the viewer, had died.

I remember sobbing at the sight of the burning human piles that were shown, convinced I was buried in there somewhere. The reason I had only seen red on the girl was that my death was recent. I was the ash in the air mistaken for snow. I had died before her and had followed her, helplessly, until she followed me.

The message I got for that was maybe not what the creator had intended: that there was no "being clever enough" or "good enough" or "kind enough" that would shield or protect you from such a massive tidal wave of evil.

You are not exempt from tragedy, that red jacket whispered. You are not special.

When I told some of my white friends about my experience with viewing Schindler's List, some were shocked and the rest just out-and-out mocked me for my "media illiteracy".

"it was just a filming trick to make you feel something," I remember one saying, which terrified me. How had he not felt anything even before she showed up?

However, when I repeated my viewing to a college class, they were fascinated. The implications of what I had seen and felt made the film all the more terrifying and solemn. It encouraged a lot of people to try to ask themselves what media meant from a cultural perspective, where they hadn't done that before.

[pitbolshevik]

i still think about the fucking quesadilla terf

[pitbolshevik]

iirc it was like this terf who was absolutely fuming because her brother was dating a trans woman and she started claiming that she was clearly male socialized because the terf made quesadillas for dinner and the trans woman was like "wow :) this is really good, what is it?" and if she was a REAL woman she would instinctively KNOW what a quesadilla is

anyway it turns out the reason the poor woman didn't know what it was was because the terf had used hummus instead of cheese for some fucking reason so it wasn't even a quesadilla

[radicalgraff]

"The future they want for you"

Mural seen in Baltimore, USA

[filthburger]

people debate about whether wojaks carry fascism within them inherently or not, and yknow, maybe there's something to be said about how symbols work etc, and then you see a communist make a meme that features the one that's drooling with a dent in his head to represent someone who is incorrect, and you just kind of take a pause and ask yourself what the fuck is wrong with everybody

[tahthetrickster]

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY