Queer joy, neurodiverse love!!

Icon ID: a drawing of a young woman, young man, teenage boy, and middle-aged man sharing a group hug. Header ID: a drawing of the same people in the icon, plus a demon woman and a beagle, sharing a day at the beach. End ID. 27, he/him, white. If you wanna know more feel free to send an ask or just check out my posts (I'm fairly chatty in the tags)

[neurodivergent-loverboy]

No seriously why are self-proclaimed human rights activists so eager to borrow slurs from the fucking Klan. What's up with that huh.

[neurodivergent-loverboy]

Just had to block a new follower over this, so here's an emphatic reminder of my stance on the terms "Zio" and "Zionazi": they are slurs coined and popularized by violent white supremacists and using them is antisemitic regardless of your reasoning. If I see these terms anywhere on your blog that's an instant block 👍

[softmeals]

It’s been awhile but this is the full piece I drew for Queercasts, an LGBT+ podcast fanzine (@podcastzine). I drew Taako and Kravitz from TAZ.

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a digital landscape painting of kravitz and taako from the adventure zone: balance. the horizon line is angled from the bottom left corner to the center-right edge. at the bottom is dark, wavy, glittering water, there’s a pale sky above with two large clouds and a small moon. a canoe floats on the horizon line, close to the foreground. kravitz, a dark-skinned man with long, feathery hair and a dark cape, sits in the canoe. directly in front of him in the boat – beside him in the image – sits taako, who has mid-toned skin, a long-sleeved white shirt, a long blond braid and a black witch’s hat. both men’s hairstyles blow in the wind. the colors are muted to indicate low light.]

[anglaised]

like idk how to explain to you ppl the christian assumption that ppl who dislike or talk bad about christianity r simply uninformed about like what happens in the bible or other bible related facts is just colonialist like . ofcourse ur first assumption is ppl disliking christianity just don’t know enough xyz about it, thats the issue, thats y ppl don’t like yall even the ppl who arent even christian anymore (if they were at all) do this bc a lot of u never unpacked christianity as a base for ur beliefs / the One True religion, i promise u the rest of us know what goes on irl and in that book, we just dgaf

[simplysnaps]

Sapphic Dynamic where the popular queen bee type is hopelessly in love with the weirdo girl that runs Anime Club. She's so down on herself, writing in her diary "Erin is so cool. She can beat Super Mario Brothers in under five minutes, she learned Japanese to read imported manga, and she runs an Anime Club even though nobody shows up. She's committed to that club longer than I've committed to a hair style. I just know about clothes and makeup, she'd be so bored by me. Oh what would I do for her attention?"

Her cheerleader friends are supportive, like "Are you kidding, girl? You played Sonic on your iPhone once! She's not out of your league!" but she still doubts if she'd be enough to keep up with Erin's zest for life.

"I went to Paris over Summer break, like some normie loser. Erin spent the entire Summer decompiling an abandonware point-and-click Nancy Drew game so she could port it to her Android phone. It's hopeless, she'd get bored of me in a week!"

[spiffiesttea]

there is a beast of some sorts in my askbox

[candyskiez]

I love when a character wants to be someone's dog so so bad. Dont mean it in a sexual way (although that can also be a part of it) I mean like. Let me be your loyal companion let me stay by your side give me a purpose in exchange for endless unconditional love let me stop being a person love me like it's my only use. Love me like that's the only thing I was made for. As you can tell. I'm normal.

[fremedon]

I see that and raise you: when the object of that devotion wants None Of That, the very idea of it is morally and viscerally repulsive, they want a friendship of equals or nothing and they are perfectly content with nothing.

[txttletale]

of course, in many cases, copyright actually obstructs and discourages accurate credit, because credit openly given to influences can become evidence in a copyright suit

[technicoloranarchy]

“Aphobia discourse ended” but…

you still think aspec representation is a loss for queer representation.

you still can’t see a character with no romantic or sexual interests and interact with them without shipping them.

you still don’t accept people who are aplatonic, afamial, or any other kind of nonrose anattractional.

you still don’t accept alloaces and alloaros, people who are oriented aroace, people who are cupidosexual or cupioromantic, etc.

you still don’t accept hetero aspecs.

you still associate asexuality and aromanticism with whiteness, thinness, conformity, etc.

you still think of arormanticism as something that only occurs in tandem with asexuality.

you still think of aspec adults as lesser than allo adults, infantilize them, etc.

Maybe the discourse did end. But the bigotry hasn’t gone away.

[ajcrowlor]

big tshirt that says MY INTERPRETATIONS MUST HAVE A STRONG BASIS IN THE SOURCE MATERIAL on the front and THIS IS FUN TO ME on the back

[duskdragonxiii]

Why is pet play always dogs anyway

[duskdragonxiii]

Youre a dirty little goldfish arent you. daddys gonna clean your tank out so good so you have to wait in the sink until im done.

[quasarkisses]

Apparently because you have no idea how to care for anything but a dog

[duskdragonxiii]

Daddy is not known for his animal husbandry

[wizardarchetypes]

i know it's been said on here and said again but people do so desperately need to genuinely do intentional work to build distress tolerance and start figuring out how to recognize the differences between danger, discomfort, and when a situation that is merely uncomfortable is triggering an emotional flashback in your bodies because it resembles a past situation that actually was dangerous which makes it difficult to realize/believe that this moment is merely uncomfortable.

[transfaguette]

what i’ve learned in my life is if someone is treating you poorly and youre asking yourself “what magic words can I use to make this person treat me with basic respect,” those words don’t exist and they never will.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Genuinely disturbing how missionary "work" is still so normal. Like I do not understand how anyone can listen to someone talk about their cutesy little Christian colonizer vacation to a deeply exploited community and not just be horrified and disgusted.

[kerakitty]

Not just normal, but lauded. Missionaries are praised for (supposedly) bringing resources and infrastructure to impoverished people without it ever being acknowledged that 1) that aid is contingent on converting and abandoning local beliefs and traditions and 2) those communities are usually only impoverished in the first place because of Christian colonialist empires.

It boggles my mind that people will talk about somebody's missionary work like it was some act of charity and self-sacrifice when it's really just going up to a bunch of people who are starving to death and telling them you'll give them some rice if they join your cult. It's 50% White Man's Burden and 50% extortion racket.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Not to mention how often that "aid" is useless to the people who are suffering.

Missionary-built houses are often made with incredibly cheap materials by people who are absolutely not qualified for that work AND they aren't designed with the cultural and social needs of the people they're for or the climate and infrastructure of the area in mind. Immediate aid like bottled water produce even more trash and pollutants that many communities are not equipped to handle. Farming methods taught often aren't designed for the area or climate and don't fully provide for the nutritional needs of the community (and then those people are demonized for poaching by Westerners who don't understand that an animal being endangered means very little when your family is starving). Even educational materials are poorly translated, Western-centric, and strictly Christian (along with often being controlled and modified by extremist, militant, and terrorist groups that control the areas).

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Btw there are still regular mission trips to Native reservations. Christian colonization of Native communities and cultures is still on-going and prevalent.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I am going to fucking scream. Do you see how cheerful these people are about this evil and predatory shit? Talking about the high rates of poverty, suicide, addiction, unemployment, and incarceration in Native communities as a talking point to convert us?

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Genuinely disturbing how missionary "work" is still so normal. Like I do not understand how anyone can listen to someone talk about their cutesy little Christian colonizer vacation to a deeply exploited community and not just be horrified and disgusted.

[an-ruraiocht]

sometimes people take attempts at historical nuance regarding terminology to mean "people didn't use these words to describe these identities and behaviours, but these identities and behaviours still existed, because they are fundamental truths of what it means to be human", rather than "we map our current conception of identities and behaviours with these words but they are not labels that can be straightforwardly applied to past experiences of the world because identities, behaviours, and conceptions of how those fit together are culturally and historically specific" and it. frustrates me

i don't think there is a concrete external reality of sexuality that we are merely creating labels to describe. i think the fundamental experience of sexuality is shaped by the labels and ideas available to us. people will always exist who don't conform to the norms of their time and will drive the development of new terms and new ideas but they do that within their own context not because of some like........ ontological pattern

[artisanjelly]

reminder for all hockey fans:

netflix is making a hockey show called "the sticks" that is based on a very real tragedy that occured in canada in 2018.

the show follows a minnesota high school team after their bus crashes and coming back to hockey afterwards.

in 2018, the humboldt broncos' (a junior A team made up of 18-22 year olds) bus was hit by a tractor trailer on a highway intersection. 16 people (10 players, 2 coaches, and 4 team staff members) were killed, along with 13 other players severely injured.

the memory of the humboldt broncos crash is an incredibly sensitive subject carrying a lot of trauma to both the survivors, their families, and deceased's families. the trajectory of hockey in canada was changed significantly after this tragedy.

despite this, netflix has decided to make a show using the death of young hockey players for profit. they did not consult the survivors, nor the deceased's families. they stole a canadian story for a feel-good cash grab.

i understand wanting to watch shows about hockey, but this is not the show to watch. do not give it attention, as the humboldt broncos' memories deserve to be theirs and theirs alone to share.