Misplaced Lens Cap
Love Begins
One Nice Bug Per Day
styofa doing anything
AnasAbdin
NASA
$LAYYYTER
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Three Goblin Art
PR's Tumblrdome
RMH
Janaina Medeiros
Origami Around
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Sade Olutola
cherry valley forever
#extradirty
we're not kids anymore.
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@pleasentlyremembering
[ID: The Marie Kondo meme. The first panel shows “practicing someone’s pronouns on your own”, and she remarks “This one sparks joy.” The second panel shows “incrementally getting better at someone’s pronouns by making them correct you every time”, and she remarks “This one does not spark joy”. End ID]
so i went to the zoo yesterday and saw the cutest family of otters ever
and then i checked their names
they’re all NAmED aftER fOOD
EXCEPT kEVIN
WHY
WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS
time to resurrect my favorite anecdote about CATS
figured out my thought process
if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?
They ship of theseus’d my girl
Can’t have shit in Detroit
shoutouts to my mutuals who i’ve rarely ever talked to and have only absorbed vague information about me through my posts, i have no idea what you know about me and it haunts my every waking moment. hope y'all are doing well.
Happy International Pronouns Day!
Gendered Intelligence writes:
Signing off on #InternationalPronounsDay by celebrating Janelle Monáe, who’s “pushed boundaries of gender since the beginning of [their] career”. Here’s to gender liberation & all the beautiful things possible in a world with no hate.
Janelle Monáe (one of my favorite artists, for sure) is a pansexual and gender exploring supporter of nonbinary and transgender people. As she put it: “I’m not a woman, I’m not a man, I’m an experience.”
International Pronouns Day is celebrated on the third Wednesday of October. It seeks to make “respecting, sharing and educating about personal pronouns commonplace,” and encourage inclusive language for those who may identify as transgender, gender nonconforming, non-binary, gender neutral and more.
Weird this article still used “she” to refer to their exploration of gender nonconformity lol like it says right there, they go by they. Someday this will be second nature for people, someday, until then it will take careful proofreading
Janelle Monáe hasn’t actually asked people to use they/them pronouns for her, so the article is correct!
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“Recently, she tweeted #IAmNonBinary, and, as you might expect, people wondered what she meant.
Many publications immediately began using they/them pronouns for the star, while some carefully wrote pieces about Monae coming out that omitted using pronouns for the singer altogether.
And at least one publication used the moment to write a guide to using they/them pronouns.
As any non-binary person could tell you, all of these stories share one problematic assumption: that all non-binary people use they/them pronouns.
Monáe was eventually asked about her pronouns, with the interviewer pointing out that her Wikipedia page was amended to incorporate they/them pronouns following her “non-binary” tweet.
“That [Wikipedia edit] was not me,” she said. “I think people can call me whatever it is they want to call me. I know who I am. I know my journey. And I don’t have to declare anything.
When I retweeted I’m nonbinary, it was “I’m not binary day,” and so I did a hashtag to show support to the community.
I retweeted the Steven Universe meme ‘Are you a boy or a girl? I’m an experience’ because it resonated with me, especially as someone who has pushed boundaries of gender since the beginning of my career.
You know, in the same way when Prince said, “I’m not a woman/ I’m not a man/ I’m something that you’ll never understand” in “I Would Die 4 U” — that resonated with me. I feel my feminine energy, my masculine energy, and energy I can’t even explain.”
I’m exploring, you know? I’m so open to what the universe is teaching me, and teaching all of us about gender. I definitely don’t live my life in a binary way.
I’ve always pushed, as you can see from the way that I dress to the things that I’ve said since the beginning of my career. I have fought against gender norms, and what it means to be a woman and what it means to be a man. I’m a fucking android.
But I will say this: I’m so happy that people are learning more about what it means to be gender non-conforming, and what it means to be non-binary.”
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There are non-binary people who don’t use they/them pronouns, so someone coming out as non-binary doesn’t necessarily mean that the person has decided to change his or her pronouns to they/them.
But it also isn’t clear, in this case, that Janelle actually personally identifies as non-binary, despite the tweet; it seems more like she identifies as gender non-conforming and is supporting the non-binary community but she is not ready to and/or interested in claiming the non-binary gender identity label herself for the time being.
this halloween season, please remember that nosferatu (1922) is an allegory for the ‘invasion’ of jewish immigrants. count orlok is an antisemitic caricature, and his image in the movie is quite literally responsible for anti-jewish nazi propaganda. the movie itself is about jews perversing and defiling western culture, assaulting gentile women, etc. etc. please, please don’t ignore the potent antisemitism in the movie.
just to emphasize: nosferatu directly impacted nazi propaganda. the editor of an antisemitic nazi newspaper watched nosferatu and was so struck by the image of count orlok that he based his anti-jewish cartoons off of him. nosferatu is LITERALLY responsible for a good portion of anti-jewish caricatures.
you should probably reblog this, esp if you aren’t jewish
twitter is incredible
oh man:
she didn’t lose her internship because “her friends” used a hashtag, she lost it because a bunch of 4chan fuckers found out she’s trans and decided to doxx her and harass her employer about the ~image~ she was sending. like this wasn’t her public face account, she wasn’t spouting racist garbage, she mistook someone in her mentions for one of the randos she gets regularly harassed by (because, yknow, if someone tweets “language” at you on twitter, 99.9% of the time they’re not actually concerned for you) and transphobes used the opportunity to fuck up her life. it’s great that hickam is behind her on this but a lot of people are sharing this and laughing at how hilarious it is that “a furry got fired for swearing”, which is the smokescreen being used to cover how this was doxxing a trans woman to ruin her potential career
Oh No! tattoos!
lol like this is actually cute. backfire
they’re boyfriends
he’s worried his punk ass bf forgot to apply sunscreen again
he even picked out swim trunks to match his boyfriend’s tattoos. adorable
Ckeckmate, boomers. We made it gay
3 Birds Say “Black Lives Matter” @DeidreDykes
Not sure who needs to hear this, but your choice to give up your normal life for the last 7 months may have saved someone’s life and I don’t want you to think - for one second - that it wasn’t worth it.
Happy Birthday Carrie Fisher! [B. October 21st, 1956-∞]
“When I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.” - Carrie Fisher
I love this.
[ID: A series of tweets by Jennifer Lynn Barnes @jenlynnbarnes:
One time, I was at a Q&A with Nora Roberts, and someone asked her how to balance writing and kids, and she said that the key to juggling is to know that some of the balls you have in the air are made of plastic & some are made of glass.
And if you drop a plastic ball, it bounces, no harm done. If you drop a glass ball, it shatters, so you have to know which balls are glass and which are plastic and prioritize catching the glass ones.
Nora was not talking about juggling five balls. She was talking about juggling FIFTY-FIVE balls. The balls don’t represent “family” or “work.” There are separate balls for everything that goes into each one of those categories. “Deadline on Project Y” or “crazy sock day at school”
And her point, addressing a room full of women, was not “proritize kids over work.” It was “some kid stuff is glass and some is plastic, and sometimes, to catch a glass work ball, you have to drop a plastic family one, and that is okay.”
I think about this ALL THE TIME. I dropped more than one ball today. It is hard to drop any ball, and I hate it! But they were plastic, and tomorrow, it will be okay.]
I think this is a great strategy. While looking for an id i also ran across this in the comments
@murmurder: … while that ball may look plastic to you it might be glass to your kid; sometimes a kid will remember that you thought what they cared about was trivial and resent you for it or develop negative connotations.
and i think that’s also something important to keep in mind. An important glass ball, often overlooked, is “communicating with your children.” Always touch base with your kids whenever you can. This extends to other people in your life but children are particularly vulnerable
they’re not wrong tho 👀
In other, more important news:
Pay attention to Nigeria💚🤍💚
If you need some information, here are some articles:
Nigerians Demand End to Police Squad Known for Brutalizing the Young
Eyewitnesses Say Nigerian Forces Opened Fire on Protesters in Lagos
Black Lives Matter Everywhere. That’s Why We Should Support the #EndSARS Movement
People who have come out in support of SARS
A protester’s first-hand experience as to why they’re protesting
Shooting in Lekki tonight (warning for gunshots and some incredibly disturbing images in the replies)
Gathering at the Nigerian Ambassador’s House in Maryland Tonight
Please pay attention to what’s happening. The fact that the public is hurting and being brutalized at the hands of the elites should horrify anyone, anywhere. If you have any more resources, don’t hesitate to add them.
Please be careful on twitter in any of the #ENDSARS tags. There are a lot of graphic videos and images from wounded and murdered protesters going around. They’re not for the faint of heart.
