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RINKU SINGH APPRECIATION BLOG

[taliabhattwrites]

Tumblr users will say "queer history" and mean "midcentury archival records from a specific US-American city that I have extrapolated into a universal mythos" and not even blink

[taliabhattwrites]

"learn your queer history" I am from fucking INDIA

[taliabhattwrites]

Maybe your queer elders fictional or otherwise were also influenced by the biases and contradictions of their own circumstances, time and place, and I am no more beholden to their ideas and ways of doing things than I am to any other form of tradition trying to constrain me.

Perhaps history is a conversation and not an edict.

[taliabhattwrites]

I fucking snortled

[gossipgurlingursht]

Maybe, when you see this sort of thing, you can post your own queer history? That way we all learn?

[taliabhattwrites]

Do you think the correct response to a reminder that US culture and history is not the universal default is to ask for history lessons

[taliabhattwrites]

I do actually talk about queerness through the Indian context a fair bit, is the thing. But I'm not trying to promote my work right now, I'm trying to emphasize the importance of seeking out perspectives that aren't your own and putting in the effort to engage with others whose experiences are different from yours without presuming a place of authority for knowing what the Cafe Riots were.

[fishing-princess]

I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory

[leftcosine]

I Executed The Demon Lord With One Flawless Strike And After A Brief Power Struggle The New Demon Government Is Substantially More Committed To The War Because Of Some Reason I Don't Know

[humanfist]

I Successfully Overthrew The Demon Lord And Instituted Demon Democracy But They Voted For A Commie So The CIA Not Some Fantasy Equivalent The Actual CIA Who Have Known About Magic And Alternate Realms The Whole Damn Time But Won't Just Unisekai Me Launched A Counter Coup And That's When Things Really Went To Shit

[fervent-bookwomb]

i think that soy sauce fish and honey bear must be the very very best of friends

[fervent-bookwomb]

look at them. look at them!!! i bet they have tea parties together when the spice cabinet is closed.

[emtearzz]

buddies!!

[ekdsc]

asuka is a little confused about the purpose of pride month

[hussyknee]

How long have you been on Tumblr?

Over 16 years (before 2010) (toddlers in the dawn of the ant colony)

16 to 14 years (2010-2012) (livejournal and Myspace refugees)

13 to 11 years (2013-2015) (you used to follow thebootydiaries)

10 to 8 years (2016-2018) (era of Russian bot conspiracy)

7 to 3.5 years (2019-2022) (post sex ban to Goncharov)

3.5 years or less (2023–2026) (Twitter refugee)

Voting ended onJul 15

Rebagel for science pls.

[sparklenaut]

I cannot believe it worked

[obseletrix]

@asterisksks

[pissvortex]

Unemployed friend: Dude we should open a Steely Dan themed bar. The drinks will all be named after different songs. We can call it "Black Cow"

Me (dreamed of this exact scenario playing out leading to the bar burning down with him in it leaving me with the insurance money): Sure

[corvicals]

what is common perception of hatohara and r. amatori’s relationship? is the consensus that they knew each other for a while, or that they only just met when they left for the neighborhood?

[obseletrix]

they met on mikado craigslist obvs

[corvicals]

some more songs while i work on requests

[corvicals]

found another one for rinji amatori

[forbiddenzoneexchange]

interest check

I haven't been running this because the time period in which I used to do it got insane with school, but if I were to revive it, would anyone be interested?

i have to put a header on this poll

yes

no

if other people did it

bald/results

Voting ended onJul 2

[segamascott]

[obseletrix]

cyborg that has to find a specific cable adaptor every single time they want to connect to anything because all of their mods were done in the early 2000s and aren't wifi-enabled and the world has since changed standard cable ports

[16bitstars]

⚠️ vague Room 303 spoilers

So hilarious of Ashihara to insert his murderhouse horror oneshot OCs (Katagiri Squad) into WT and then sprinkle in references to their roles in that murderhouse horror plot.

Amakura is the only known agent in a role where the whole shtick is disappearing? Katagiri and Momozono play baseball? What's next? Katagiri's Squad room has a Whack-a-Mole setup with Yukimaru acting as the mole? LMAO

[dailycatsblog]

[zim-kinnie]

Whenever Americans use Cryillic like. That. I just. Instantly shrivel up an cry

[strangehorse]

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

Like. There is a significant gap between 'a lot of studies do not take into account variations caused by things like female hormone cycles, which can limit how generalisable they are' and 'medical science does not apply to women', and the latter just seems to create a situation rife for bad faith actors and snake oil salesmen to reassure you that actually, THEY have the answers, because THEY listen to women, and if you simply pay them for their online subscription service-

[bioluminescently-unfolding]

And that's how grifters de-politicise what is a highly political problem (and not an isolated one: medical misogyny relates to medical racism relates to medical ableism relates to medical transphobia). By not acknowledging medicine's status quo as political and capable of being changed through sustained, collective action, they make being (or more truly, looking) healthy seem like just another aestheticised consumer choice. That's why so much wellness bullshit looks aspirational in advertising terms, with visible ageing and disability as sticks, and Eurocentric beauty standards and the easeful performance of apparent health as carrots. At the core of "wellness" as an industry is the idea that we can buy our way out of the health inequalities imposed on us by inequitable systems of medical research, education and practice. Wellness gurus don't want us sitting down and thinking about how our historic exclusion from studies has skewed the data, but we can get better data by pushing for more representative studies - as is already happening, e.g. the growth of scholarship (increasingly led or coproduced by people directly affected) on subjects like perimenopause, autistic health inequalities (and their often gendered nature), and Black maternal health inequalities.

Instead, they profit from naturalising the idea that medical science isn't for us, instead of challenging exclusionary systems. And it's scary to think how much of the groundwork for this "no political lens, only marketing" approach was laid down during the early part of the "wellness" boom. A generation has grown up hearing that kind of messaging normalised from all directions online.

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

compilation of Taeho unironically being the funniest bitch in Hand Jumper

[asterisksks]

@obseletrix