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Irish archaeologist, also into some fandom stuff

Current fandom: Tolkien Legendarium/Silmarillion

Sideblogs:

@ordon-shield (Legend of Zelda)

@sun-and-moon-mushroom (SVSSS)

@suddenly-danganronpa (Danganronpa, largely inactive)

@dyinginlava (MCYT, largely inactive)

Main AO3:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/probablyaceok

tony-stark-ing

It’s Time Traveler Tony! You can only reblog him once a year!

transmasc-theory

The thing that has me scratching my head in confusion about the recent wave of "trans men are invading women's spaces" rhetoric from TRFs is that I thought we were in agreement that the very concept of "men's spaces" and "women's spaces" was a load of crap. I thought we were in agreement that bathrooms should be marked "bathroom with a urinal" and "bathroom without a urinal" instead of "men's" and "women's." I thought we agreed that healthcare should never be gender segregated regardless. I thought we were in agreement that everything called a "woman's space" was just blatantly being exaggerated as a tool of exclusion.

Further, why are you using these arguments that were invented by TERFS when you know these will inevitably be weaponized against you too? Do you really think you can rehabilitate concepts made to hurt YOU and turn them into a weapon against just the people you hate? Like even if you can't be a decent enough human being to care about transmascs, you could at least have an ounce of self-preservation and realize this is helping TERFs to hurt YOU, not just the trans men you want dead!

synjectivism

I think part of the ''why'' is that people think conservatism is a character flaw. People think ''people become conservative because they are bad and cruel and I'M not like that! I would never be like that!"

Why are trans people turning so TERFy when we seemingly agreed that this was all bad? Well, everything is getting more conservative, on account of the climate/environmental crisis and the related decay of capitalism and the rise of fascism as a response. People are scared animals and it is so easy to adjust to this environment by internalizing it, in hopes of surviving it.

With trans people getting turned into a scapegoat and neo-radfems getting massive political platforms, it was inevitable that people would react by internalizing radical feminism and trying to cut out the parts of themselves and their community that are least able to adjust to that. I think its a semi-conscious process of trying to blend in, trying to survive, trying to make sense of what is happening to you and why. Each person has a lot of different preexisting beliefs they are working with to make sense of the world, and we aren't consciously self-aware of most of them. What seems obvious to one person (you cannot rehabilitate radical feminism for trans people, because it is fundamentally structured through cissexism) will not be obvious to another if they are navigating the same issue with a different "map" so to speak.

Survival instincts are not necessarily moral instincts. Resisting conservative, fascism, etc. are not things that always feel conducive to surviving this present moment, especially for people whose worldviews did not have a developed and strong understanding of what resistance and revolution would mean in practice, how the circumstances would feel, and the kinds of material and ideological forces at play.

I think a lot of people are getting more conservative because they are falling back on survival instincts and trying to adapt to an increasingly conservative environment. But, at the same time, they don't think of themselves as conservative, nor do they want to be, and they want their survival instincts to be moral instincts (as I think we would all like!) and that the things they are doing to keep themself safe are also things that are morally correct and effective responses to injustice.

And again, people want conservatism to simply be the product of a character flaw they are better than, not something that anyone can fall into ideologically as a result of both personal choices and belief-environment. We want it to be that becoming a conservative is a conscious process we would certainly be fully aware of if it happened to us. If we could become conservative, either conservatism must be objectively right, or it means that "conservative" is not a unique class of people entirely different than oneself and the left as a whole.

And people are very bad at doing worldview work under stress when feeling unsafe and also trying not to become homeless or starve to death. So we end up in these kinds of

chromaticrainarts

I think this ship (spaceship) is really funny

biglawbear

I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"

christaaah

this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file

biglawbear

I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit

firstbornsons-deactivated202605

@thesummoningdark hello?????

thesummoningdark

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

the-haiku-bot

yeah no this is a

real thing an actual human

being said to me

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

#paper excel sheets are actually a thing in archaeology lol #the dust dirt mud dampness does not mix well with computers #so it’s best to do it on paper and transfer it onto a computer back in the office

maidthings

i dunno i honestly think "being transgender" is at least half a dozen distinct phenomena that only happen to resemble eachother because of broader societal constructs about sex and gender.

systlin

In 38 years of life I have learned 1 thing;

If anyone is ever training you to replace them in a position and tells you 'its an easy job I don't do much' what this means is that you are about to spend six months to a year catching up on all the stuff they didn't do and sorting out the stuff they did poorly.

In related news I finally managed to finish un fucking my predecessor's lack of a filing system.

hungrymilliek

And if they start a sentence with "You're not supposed to do it this way but...", you're about to learn some shit to make OSHA go:

systlin

My job is literally in safety and emergency management and that phrase makes me break out in hives. Which is to say that you are entirely one million percent correct.

bisquid

Alternatively by 'an easy job where they don't do much' what they mean is that they've got so much unwritten knowledge and experience stored up in their heads that they *genuinely believe* it's an easy low effort job and then leave you with a learning curve like a rocket launch and frantically spawning spreadsheets of all the shit they know off by heart

transandrogyny--turtlebug

I'm sorry but when did we move away from "Access to hrt and surgery is a privilege" because we should probably move back to that one

i-like-having-opinions

It's because the term 'privilege' has many different definitions in different people's heads, so this statement is only sometimes true

"Privilege means something you are not owed, you must earn, and can be taken away at any time" - this statement is false

"Privilege means something you have gained from the oppression of others" - this statement is (most of the time) false

"Privilege means something you have, in contrast to those who don't have it and are therefore marginalized" - this statement is true

and because of how different people define it this tends to just make more drama and it can also lead to people saying that if it's a privilege, you should be able to take it away from trans people for whatever reason. So either we need to define 'privilege' a lot more in that phrase or just say that not having access to hrt and surgery is oppression

#^^^#as someone from a country where we have exactly one (1) gender clinic #and the waiting list for an *initial assessment* is 15-18 years #it is *absolutely* a privilege to have access #my best option for transition is to move to another country and get it through their system instead #where it will only take a toddler lifespan to get it instead of a fully grown adults

velteris

yeah i drive the truck that isekais all those lonely 20yo NEETs and bored salarymen. it’s a really hard job. they keep sending me to workplace counselling after each hit. “it’s normal to feel guilt at ending someone’s life,” they say. how do i tell them that’s not what makes me feel guilty? “but it’s okay. he’ll live a better life in another world.” yeah, with 100 girls who could have lived normal lives but got drafted into being in these boring dudes’ harems. how many women’s lives have i ruined. and they don’t even know. they don’t even know

mcgravin

Sounds like you need "His Soul is Marching On to Another World; or, the John Brown Isekai" by CabbagePreacher, an actual fic on AO3 about famed abolitionist martyr John Brown getting isekaied to such a world and going on a rampage abolishing harems.

140 CHAPTERS?

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

justatiredlittlesnail

willisiam-woodiam

'oh damn! i wonder why i suddenly have 50+ activity!"

the suspiciously 50+ activity shaped mutual:

angiepants

This is a man loving blog btw. I know this is the man hating site and increasingly the trans man hating site but that shit stops at my borders

abolish-the-draft

unofficial-estonia

The original flag of Estonia survived Soviet occupation thanks to two members of Estonian Students Society, who hid it behind their farmhouse’s chimney wall for 50 years.

Nowadays, the original flag of Estonia is on proud display at the Estonian National Museum in Tartu.

unofficial-estonia

The original flag, now held at the Estonian National Museum

manuciruja

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

manuciruja

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

smadsel

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

smadsel

that’s not the whole flag, now is it