Welcome To The New Age

A prodigal's tales of coming home

[socialistexan]

[possumgirlbulge]

i always thought of transphobia as a short hand for bigotry and not an actual phobia phobia, but this guy legit ran away from a child

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Republicans when they're making up bullshit and trying to encourage people to support literal fascism: We have to PROTECT CHILDREN

Parents of Transgender Children: Children like ours

Republicans: NO NOT THOSE CHILDREN, WE DON'T WANT THOSE CHILDREN TO BE SAFE

[dappercat123]

It’s less that he was afraid of her and more that he was worried about the bad PR he would recover if he just spat on her and called her a freak like he definitely wanted to do,

But even hateful bigots have some sense of decorum apparently,

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

"You're attacking me"

-Cardin Summers, fleeing to find the nearest Wambulance, probably

[xiranjayzhao]

Here's the video version of my discussion of the leaked emails that prove the Hugo Awards removed finalists (me, RF Kuang, Paul Weimer, Neil Gaiman & Ep 6 of Sandman) for political reasons, despite us having the required votes. Because too many of you are making assumptions without bothering to read the full exposé.

There's a lot of nuance in this case that I hope people can acknowledge. No, it is not "sinophobic" to criticize the Chinese government's severe censorship policies when anyone who's spent more than ten minutes on the Chinese internet knows how bad it is, and there IS evidence of pressure in this case. There's nothing to accomplish by pretending like it's not a thing. You're not furthering the world proletarian revolution by speaking over the lived experiences of Chinese comrades and denying factually shitty aspects of your favorite AES.

Yes, the Western and presumably white members of the Hugo admin team DID circle back to racism by trying so hard to appease the Chinese government that they preemptively censored Chinese diaspora ~ to be safe ~ on extremely flimsy reasons without even reading our books. And of course, confusing Nepal for Tibet.

It's really not one or the other.

[neil-gaiman]

Remember, if someone asks you to censor something, you can say no. If they ask you to compile dossiers on problematic individuals, you can say no. You are allowed to not do the censors work for them. You can tell them to go [censored] themselves.

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

another reminder to stop buying/watching/reading anything JK Rowling associated

[shimmersroundyourskull]

I thought this was a BDS post at first, but yeah boycott hp AND HP 😇

[animentality]

[giraffesonparade]

Here’s a Wired article on it.

[depsidase]

[politishaun-deactivated20230409]

Abortion Clinic Employee Shares How Some Pro-Life Women Act When They Come In As Customers

I am not surprised that anti-choice zealots would hypocritically obtain abortions, but I am thoroughly fucking shocked that they wouldn’t even attempt to hide their anti-choice views when doing so. 

[partialbirthabortion]

Read “When the anti-choice choose,” a collection of anecdotes from abortion providers about serving this kind of patient.

[northwestmagpie]

"The only moral abortion is my abortion!" I had friends who volunteered at clinics in their neighborhoods to escort patients through screaming forced-birthers. Occasionally, they'd find themselves escorting some of those screamers inside, heads & faces covered so their fellow screamers wouldn't recognize them. A week later, they'd be back outside, howling, "Baby killer!" and "Whore!" at other women having the same procedure they'd had.

[tomandharrisongifs]

Tatiana Maslany wearing a shirt that says ‘SUPPORT TRANS FUTURES’ on it to promote She-Hulk for Marvel Studios and Disney, and therefore forcing them to have that on their social medias for the world to see, including who knows how many queer kids and their guardians, is fucking awesome and I thank her for that.

[charliejaneanders]

This made my night

[neil-gaiman]

We were on a judging panel together in 2020. She's a good person.

[obsidian-hollow-archives]

"homosexuality is unnatural! there's only two genders! it's a sin-"

I'm sorry, have you seen NATURE???

ALSO THE ARTIST IS HUMON, FIND THEM AT HUMONCOMICS.COM!! was so sure I had included that but apparently I forgot, so sorry!

and there's so many more species than this that exhibit homosexuality, varying genders, etc. SO! MANY!

it's very much a natural thing. it always has been. unfortunately, while homosexuality is found in many species, homophobia is only found in one

EDIT: added a keep reading cause this is a long post lol

EDIT: everyone in the comments needs to shut up or I will turn comments off, stop arguing, jeez

[artificial-father]

Don’t get me started on femboy gartersnake orgies.

[komihn]

Launching my first art blogs with a small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin!

[dabwax-deactivated20250410]

All of my in person sex work clients and the majority of the phone ones were more respectful and less traumatizing than the average Target shopper was when I worked there through six departments in two years

The one TRULY disrespectful and potentially dangerous irl client I've had doing sex work ended up getting his ass beat and getting booted without a refund. At Target, for an entire year, a child employee (16) was forced to hide in the breakroom any time one specific stalker came in looking for her. Management wouldn't ban him.

Just. Thinking about that sex work clients post. Yes, some of them say horrible things. No worse than any retail or call center customer. Ever.

When the pervy guy calls the hotel reservations line jerking off and moaning, my supervisor had a duty to keep him on the line and keep trying to book him even though he just hung up when he came after making her uncomfortable for 20 minutes. Phone sex averages $2/minute and you can hang up on anyone for any reason, they might just get a refund.

Why are sex work customers and clients seen as the inherent slimebags? When they're the ones exercising an understanding of consensual exchange of money and services within specific limitations. Not the multiple people who reached over my register to touch me when I was 18. Or the woman who told me I was everything wrong with the world and I should die bc we were out of soft pretzels when i was also 18. Nobody's ever said soulcrushing shit like that to me as a sex worker lmao, "ugly fat whore" is just facts

[shimmersroundyourskull]

The one time my manager defended me from a verbally abusive customer at my grocery store job, he had to tell me later he wasn’t allowed to do that anymore. This was in the 90s, I’m sure it’s even worse now.

[mikedawwwson]

"Read Banned Books" a new full page cartoon essay published in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section today.

[niki-smith]

A good day to reblog this, I just found out The Deep & Dark Blue is on another new ban list, this time in Colorado. Hooray.

[guerrillatech]

[roadwrkahead]

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

by Ellen Ullman

[bemusedlybespectacled]

a while back I made a post along the lines of "every STEM major should have a required 'history of science' course that's just all about previously wrong and bad scientific theories like sperm all containing homunculi and spontaneous generation" and I got a lot of responses like "but STEM majors already have gen ed requirements!" and would not understand why I was specifically asking for a course that would teach people about why science is not infallible and does not exist in a vacuum and THIS IS EXACTLY WHY ACTUALLY

[shimmersroundyourskull]

Once my husband, in a fit of COVID-era disgust, said something about how maybe idiotic, bigoted people shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. Look up the history of Social Darwinism if you ever get tempted to restrict reproductive rights to those who are “fit” enough.

Same for voting, or anything else having to do with fully participating in life and society. People’s identity, intelligence, biology, education, ability to work, and personal beliefs are not disqualifying traits - no matter how “good for society” it might sound in the abstract.

[mariacallous]

[burntlikethesun]

if you're just joining us, george takei is having to educate jk rowling on holocaust denial

[rhube]

This is of no surprise if you know JKR has been hanging around with literal Nazis for years, while George Takei is a gay man who spent some of his childhood in an American internment camp.

I'm glad to see more of the disguise slip from JKR, but can only hope more people listen to George than to her.

[Edited to expand on this because a lot of people in the notes seem not to realise:] she is not being ignorant. She is not a benighted fool who didn't take her own advice and check the sources. THIS IS DELIBERATE.

This is a Nazi talking point. This is a technique for conversion and indoctrination designed to shame YOU into not checking your sources. After all, a famous person in a position of authority (whether we like that or not) is shaming the very idea that Nazis persecuted trans people, or that trans people have a history that goes back more than a few decades.

If you haven't watched Shaun's JK Rowling's New Friends and think talk of her hanging around with Nazis is hyperbole, this video is for you:

She is in deep. She is literally friends with known Nazis. She will have been told that the people saying Nazis burned books have unreliable sources. That is why she's saying this.

You'll note that George doesn't @ her. Apart from the fact that literally starting beef with her is likely not something he needs, he knows she is a lost cause. She is primed to dismiss the actual sources. He is sharing the true information, with sources, because her statements mean that other people will now be wondering about this and he's offering those people an alternative famous person authority AS WELL AS the facts.

[shimmersroundyourskull]

Following up on my last post, you should check out the unexpectedly heartwarming and edifying story of George Takei’s experience of “internment,” and how that affects his lifelong interest in social justice.

An excerpt for you:

“Single file! Line up here and board the train!”

“Train leaves in ten minutes! MOVE IT!”

We were loaded onto trains headed east, but not before being “tagged” like cattle.

“What is this—!”

“These tags are to be worn at ALL times.”

To my parents, it was yet another de-humanizing act. I just assumed it was my ticket for the train.

There were guards stationed at both ends of each car…

…as if we were criminals.

(coughing and wailing sounds)

“Daddy? Daddy? Where are we going?”

“We are going on a vacation. A very long vacation to a far-away place called Arkansas.”

“What’s it like there?”

“I…I’m not sure.”

I saw people crying and couldn’t understand why. Daddy said we were going on vacation.

I thought EVERYONE took vacations on a train with armed sentries at both ends of each car.

[michaelnordeman]

Hooded crow/gråkråka or simply kråka. Värmland, Sweden (March 21, 2020).

[shimmersroundyourskull]

A symbol of The Morrigan.

[assignedmale]