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I like to tell myself that my WIPs are on the back burner, but if I’m being honest I change which WIP I’m actively trying to work on literally by the month so instead I’m just going to summarize All the Things I have in mind right now:

The Portal Fantasy that’s actually a coming-of-age story about the childhood traumas of loneliness and growing up, and how we carry those wounds into adulthood; working title is Cuspwood.

A romantic poetry chapbook about loving my trans partner; working title is Mattress Work.

Sweet Corn Seller, a gothic horror novella about religious trauma and insular Midwest communities. I’ve done two complete drafts, but I’m still figuring some things out 🙃

A post-apocalypse epistolary novel focused on queerness, neurodivergence, and mutual aid in rebuilding after a societal collapse, currently untitled.

A zine about trans love--specifically about loving trans people, whether that’s trans people loving trans partners, parents loving trans children, cis people loving trans partners, friendships between trans people, and so on. I just really want to put a zine out there about loving trans people. Anyway I don’t know the first thing about creating a zine so if anyone has any ideas hmu actually.

A five-part graphic novel/comic series about a paranormal road trip with extremely nostalgic americana vibes and a core story about finding your place in a massive and uncaring universe, in partnership with a graphic artist friend of mine--both of us are too busy to work on it rn though :(

So anyway people are always welcome to ask me about any and all of these projects.

#amwriting #fiction #i'm quickly discovering that i want to be writing literary fiction with genre seasoning #which is hard because I. am not trained in literary fictionwriting #but on the flipside: writing about loving trans people!!#writing about queer love in general!#ownvoices #<<referring to the queer part not the trans part bc i am not trans myself #anyway if you know shit about making a zine hmu especially if ur trans bc i'd love to partner with someone who knows what they're doing

kaylmao

work like a red onion

play like a white onion

fuck like a green onion

#sorry but i disagree on the order. white onion is the hardest worker. multitalented and gets the job done without fuss #green onion plays. she's garnishing she's making little diamond shapes cut on the bias she makes a lil gradient when chopped up #and red onion fucks. she's zingy. she wakes you up. and some people don't know how to handle her

genderkoolaid

The award-winning model says his banishment was the worst day of his life.

A gay Canadian adult film star claims that he was detained for over eight hours by U.S. Customs before receiving a 10-year ban from the country. Milo Miles said he was traveling to Las Vegas from Toronto's Pearson Airport in January when a routine U.S. customs screening turned into a nightmare. "It was the worst and most painful day of my life," Miles told LGBTQ Nation. "I was subjected to derogatory comments, with an unsettling focus on my sexual orientation and my sex life." Miles said his phone and luggage were searched, and he was asked intrusive questions about his sexuality and line of work. “All of this happened on two hours of sleep. I was starving, dehydrated, and in a state of complete exhaustion. I was treated like a criminal despite having done nothing wrong. I felt coerced, manipulated, and powerless. I am devastated.” U.S. Customs has the right to deny entry to people they believe are sex workers, even if they’ve never been convicted, and will use coercive tactics to try and elicit a confession, according to Maggies, a Canadian sex worker justice organization. [...] According to Miles, who was planning on visiting his boyfriend in Florida after the award show, U.S. Customs accused him of "escorting with no evidence" and were fixated on the "gay clothes," fiber pills, and PrEP he had packed, despite finding nothing illegal in his possessions. Miles ended up missing his flight due to the lengthy interrogation. When he came back the next day to catch another flight, he was interrogated again, and this time they found evidence of his career in the porn industry. "This officer decided to be a lot more thorough with his search and interrogation," he said. "After about two hours of intense interrogation, he found evidence that I do porn on my personal phone. Then, over the next two hours found evidence of escorting on my other phone." Miles said that they never found any evidence of prostitution, but noticed text conversations he had with past escorting clients — who he mostly provides with a boyfriend experience — and current text messages where he was trying to make plans with a client in Las Vegas. "Escorting is an exchange of money for time spent with an individual," he clarified. "For example, most of my clients are looking for 'the boyfriend' experience. Or someone to go to dinner with. Prostitution is an exchange of money for sexual services. There was never any evidence of prostitution on my phone, only escorting." Getting banned from the U.S. isn’t just bad for his career — he shoots a significant portion of his adult film project in the country — but has also damaged his personal life. "I was planning on building a life in the United States with my [future] husband, with my partner, who's American," Miles said. When asked by LGBTQ Nation what advice he would give other queer travelers, he said, "Avoid the United States at all costs. It’s not worth it. It’s not worth it to put your life at risk."

Even if he were a prostitute, the government should have no right to do this to any sex worker.

There is no queer liberation without liberation for sex workers.

jewish-microwave-laser

btw this is having a measurable effect on the queer community. i've been seeing prominent figures in the international leather community announcing that they are withdrawing from competitions/pageants for their own safety. it's so fucking disheartening and scary that this has to happen for our own safety

girderednerve

bury me in a shallow grave out behind the warehouse rave

wastrelwoods

sabertoothwalrus

maybe this is not my place to say because I am monolingual, and I'm sure it's part of a larger, more nuanced discussion about visibility and accessibility on the internet, but I think it'd be cool if people posted in their native languages more instead of in english. I see people do it way more on other platforms than on tumblr which is almost exclusively in english

minothtime

El problema es, como bien has dicho, la accesibilidad y la visibilidad.

Tumblr en concreto es muy anglocentrista y un gran número de los usuarios no habla más que inglés. Si quieres que tus cosas lleguen a gente con gustos u opiniones similares, escribirlo en inglés asegura que la gente por lo menos lo pueda leer. Suma a esto el hecho de que bastantes series y tal son originalmente de habla inglesa (y a veces ni se traducen a tu lengua madre), lo que crea un fandom principalmente angloparlante.

Más allá de eso, también hay que tener en cuenta las diferencias culturales que surgen entre fandoms de distintos idiomas. Por ejemplo, durante mucho tiempo el fandom de Vocaloid angloparlante y el hispanohablante han chocado con respecto a temas como la piratería. En ocasiones es complicado manejar estas expectativas, y si sabes varios idiomas, peor incluso.

A mí me gustaría subir cositas en español y encontrar a gente que comparta mis gustos, pero en Tumblr en concreto es casi imposible. Tumblr ya es de por sí mucho más «nicho» en espacios hispanohablantes que otras RRSS como TikTok o Instagram, y si tus intereses no son muy populares, despídete.

La lingüística de los espacios de fans también está hipercentrada en el inglés. No es una pareja, es un ship; no es un universo alternativo, es un AU; no es destripar, es hacer spoiler, etc. Incluso las siglas: en español es LGTB, pero lo que sueles ver es LGBT. Parece una tontería, pero esta disonancia cognitiva hace que resulte muchísimo más complicado hablar en tu propio idioma en un fandom. Por no hablar de las innumerables referencias a posts o a memes... en inglés todo, por supuesto. Como te atrevas a hacer cualquier referencia cultural no inglesa, no te entiende nadie. Pierde la gracia.

Casi todo esto se puede achacar al imperialismo cultural estadounidense. El inglés es útil para comunicarse con gente de todo el mundo, pero su omnipresencia sirve de barrera para todos los demás idiomas. Quizás habría que reflexionar un poco sobre por qué coño el resto del mundo tiene que tragarse años de clases de inglés para hablar del juego que le gusta en una red social mientras muchos angloparlantes no se dignan ni a meter un texto en un traductor automático y prefieren pasar de largo.

#¡que buen dicho! hay problemas de que el anglohablante piensa nada.#antes no entendió que la disonancia cognitiva de la lingüistica de fandom es tan difícil.#no soy hispanohablante pero la estudié unos años #hace siete años que he hablado mucho pero pienso que entiendo la mayoría. lo siento para mi español #(y necesito aprender las palabras nuevas)

peachfromcmbyn

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

#literally chamomile tea right now #in celebration of It Finally Fucking Cooled Off

lilyblisslys

I bet it feels soooooo good to be a construction worker on a completely closed off chunk of road

lilyblisslys

This makes me literally so happy

nihilisticlinguistics

not a construction worker but one time they shut down my street to repave it and i just laid down on the asphalt for a while (they hadn't gotten close to us yet) and it felt like leaving the path in a deep deep woods

hyenaswine

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

nyantara

oh i've always wanted to ask people who aren't mostly indians/chinese where sex selective abortions are criminalised this question.

does banning sex selective abortions (by making it illegal for doctors to reveal the sex of fetuses before birth) infringe on reproductive autonomy?

yes

Voting ended onJun 14

nyantara

the additional position some indian feminists take against the criminalisation of sex selective abortions is that its better for an unwanted female child to be aborted than to experience neglect (on average, female infants in india are more likely to die before the age of 5, experience malnutrition, stunting and complete fewer years of schooling compared to male siblings.) it may also be better for their mothers to not be punished for not birthing a male child.

#i don't have to like your reasons to support your abortion. that's all that needs saying!#sexism is a huge problem #the generalized hatred of women femininity and female sex characteristics is the core issue.#you cant meaningfully reduce misogyny in the world if your values can be compromised (in this case right to reproductive liberty)#bc a woman exercised that right in a way you dont approve. you cannot bar a woman from employment bc she want a job with lockheed martin #you have to destroy lockheed martin.

i was hoping once i signed the paperwork for the sewer replacement my blood pressure would go down

#even tho it's way less expensive and less invasive than the initial quote from a different company i am Scared #i have spent the last 6 years building a massive barricade against financial anxiety and now #i mean. my reserves are fine we've literally been saving for this since july. but nevertheless i live in fear :(

busket

both trans men and trans women are punished for our proximity to both feminity and masculinity. people decide when we are men or women based on what is the WORST option at the moment. we both get treated like women only when someone needs to infantalize us or call us bossy, bitchy, stupid, vapid. we both get treated like men when someone wants to demonize and paint us as violent, predatory, abusive, perverted. NONE of us are benefiting from any gendered privilege, because we are always treated like the worst of either gender depending on the scenario. this is something all trans people experience, regardless of agab, both trans men and trans women. so why do we assume that the other side has the opposite experience as us?? why do you think that because your life as a trans man or a trans woman is painful, that a trans person of a different gender must have the opposite experience?? like i just dont get the preschool level understanding of gender like "well boys and girls are opposites so of course our experiences are opposites too" we are living the same transphobia and if you cant see it you need to listen to other people more

#They Can Do It Twice #transphobia #misogyny #which. idk if tumblr is ready to talk abt how basically all transphobia and cissexism boils down to misogyny and sexism but the kernel is ⬆

if you actually believe all men are evil you are a reactionary and a misogynist and its time to revisit that stance.

#its bioessentialism babe. let that shit go b4 its too late #too often someone seems trans inclusive and feminist and antiracist only for them to say shit like “kill all men.” in the fucking agora.#like go girl drive off any potential allies and reinforce the gender binary! slayyy or whatever. :/

apolladay

Pet owners, what kind of name does your pet have???

A food-item (Waffles, Peanut)

A color (Pinky, Hazel)

A real-life person (Marilyn, Paris)

A fictional character (Eevee, Simba)

A type of flora (Rosie, Willow)

Animal-like (Kitty, Gator)

A trait (Lucky, Buddy)

Something else

If you have more than one pet, choose the most applicable listed (ex: you have three pets named Cookie, Cream & Rocky, so you choose the “Food” option). Also, would be interested if you reblogged your pet’s name(s) in the tags and the reason why you chose it ^^

Pet owners, what kind of name does your pet have???

A food-item (Waffles, Peanut)

A color (Pinky, Hazel)

A real-life person (Marilyn, Paris)

A fictional character (Eevee, Simba)

A type of flora (Rosie, Willow)

Animal-like (Kitty, Gator)

A trait (Lucky, Buddy)

Something else

No pet

Voting ended onJun 11

#both animal-like and a food item technically but we name our cats after fish!#they are Anchovy and Mackerel

strangestcase

Good news! This story exists, it’s called The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

lliveonthesunn

i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands

#the solution is to have a set of potential legal relationships that =/= romantic partnership and are not mutually exclusive #my POA and my estate beneficiary and my coparent and my financial partner and who i own property with etc are not required to be the same #but our legal system assumes it MUST be to the point that you have to carve out exceptions on purpose if u get married

thesituation

i’m tired of babying grown women who let beauty standards control their entire life. stand up, grow up & get over yourself. enough. you aren’t perpetual victims. exercise the autonomy you refuse to acknowledge you have. you can choose to stop this circus anytime. grown ass fucking women acting like helpless victims to the patriarchy and then in the next breath going “COME WITH ME TO MY BOTOX APPOINTMENT😃” you are traitors and we will never make it out of the patriarchy if personal responsibility can’t be taken

thesituation

like god fucking damn women for centuries fought to have financial and social independence, and we largely achieved that in most countries, just for modern women who have no idea what patriarchy used to do to us to turn around and go “i’m not the problem, blame men for saying i look prettier after a nose job” you have everything your foremothers hoped and dreamed for, all that autonomy won through blood and sweat, and you waste it offering your body up to the patriarchy because “social pressure” get the fuck over yourself and stop acting like you have no choice. absolutely pathetic

thesituation

and whenever people criticize women who get cosmetic procedures done and who enslave themselves to beauty standards it’s always met with “it’s not their fault, it’s the patriarchy” and i find that to be such a circular, never ending blame game. yes fucking obviously it’s the true fault of the patriarchy but you can’t hold a system of social hierarchy accountable because the decisions individuals make constitute said system. and turning it into a chicken or the egg debate does nothing besides shift blame to something that cannot be reckoned with or addressed. stop blaming the patriarchy at large for the individual decisions of fully autonomous women

#it is also WILDLY disrespectful to those of us who DON'T play the patriarchy's game!!#like “ooh its not their fault for participating” and then turn around and say “well you would too if you weren't fat/ugly/queer/disabled”#like it lends itself so well to the logic of “you're only resisting it because you aren't able to access its privileges”#Where Are Your Principles. or do you only have them when it's self-serving?

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