Fav. RWBY gathering at AUSA 2016. Featuring @somaruyoo as Yang who is having none of Adam's bullshit.

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@queen-valkyrie
Fav. RWBY gathering at AUSA 2016. Featuring @somaruyoo as Yang who is having none of Adam's bullshit.
These tired kids waiting for the late night RWBY gathering. @j-jocosplay as Ren, @queen-valkyrie as Nora. Photo snagged from @somaruyoo
Since joining Tumblr, I’ve met a lot of young queer people. Look, I’m a bisexual man in a gay relationship, and I’m approaching 30. I was still a kid when Matthew Shepard’s story was being covered on the news. I remember thinking, “I better keep my mouth shut about these feelings I’m having.”
And then I met Dominic when I was 12, and people could see how in love we were. And we got the shit beat out of us. The year I met him, some kids in the grade above me held me down against the bleachers in our gym and stomped on my hand until my fingers broke. Instead of sending me to the nurse, the teacher sent me to the assistant principal to explain the situation. She asked why the kids had beat me up. I said, “They were calling me gay.”
Her response was, “Well, are you?”
My, “I don’t know,” earned a call to my parents, and I was outed. Efforts were made to keep me from seeing Dom. Throughout high school, Dom’s stepmother intensified these efforts. He slept in the basement of the house. Although he was an incredibly talented student, he was prohibited from participating in any extracurriculars. He suffered a lot of physical abuse during those years.
The day he turned 18, he packed up everything he had and walked to my house, and we’ve lived together ever since. Things are better, but they’re not perfect. I’ve had trucks pull up next to me at stoplights and, seeing the pride sticker on my car, through old drinks and garbage into my window. I no longer speak to my dad’s side of the family. I haven’t been to see them for Christmas or Thanksgiving in years. One of my uncles had cornered me at Thanksgiving when I was 17 and said, “I’m not going to judge you, but I’d be happy to break your neck so God can do the judging a little sooner.”
I joined a support group for trans and intersex people. When I joined, 40 people attended regularly. Within the year, the group was half the size it had been. Some couldn’t make it anymore, because they were staying at the shelter, where their stay hinged on them agreeing to instead to attend homophobic sermons. Some were put in correctional therapy. Five of them died. Three of those, I didn’t know, but I knew Alex, the 19 year old who was fag-dragged in Kentucky and died a day later in the hospital, and I knew Stephanie, who went home to Alabama to care for her mom in hospice and was beaten to death with a baseball bat by her mom’s boyfriend.
Tumblr is not reality. The dynamic here does not reflect the dynamic out there. Here’s the part where I finally make a point, and it might be extremely unpopular - but guys, value your allies. Value each other. We are met with enough hate in our daily lives to enter an online safe-space and meet more hate from our own, over petty things. Don’t go after one another over every little thing you find problematic.
Learn to see nuance. Maybe the word “queer” bothers you, and you see a gay man using it as an umbrella term. Maybe someone called a trans man a trans woman because they’re confused about terminology, but the post where they did it was voicing support for the trans community. Maybe someone is just asking a question, wanting to learn more. Stop. Attacking. These. People.
Allies are being driven away. Members of our own community are being ostracized. Others are feeling nervous and estranged, and it’s largely because of places like Tumblr, where the social justice movement is quickly becoming violent and radical. I am begging you, stop nitpicking “problematic” things and start directing your efforts to create real change. When it comes to comes to your allies, forget the “social justice warrior” mentality and put down your torch. Educate calmly. Be respectful. Be understanding. Be forgiving. And I’m certainly not saying that your anger doesn’t have a good place - when you are met with bigots on the street, congress members who want to pass hateful laws, violent protesters, abusive parents, prejudiced teachers, that is when you need to be a warrior. That’s when it counts. In the real world. When you have the opportunity to protect people from real harm. Attacking your would-be allies via anonymous asks is just going to lose us ground in the long run. And we don’t have time for that, not when trans women of color are being murdered every day, not when states are still fighting against marriage equality, not when there are politicians in office who believe that trans people are possessed by demons, not when we’ve just lost 50 brothers and sisters to one gunman, not when the media won’t even admit that the attack was homophobic.
Please step back. Look at the big picture. Look at where we are, globally. Don’t just log on to your safe space and attack your allies over small missteps. That’s like washing the dishes in a house that’s on fire, kids. Let’s fight on the battlefield, and when we come home to each other, let’s just focus on bandaging up our wounds so we can go out and win the war.
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I lost it at Shang “paid”
spark: we are never marathoning marvel movies again
candela: i recognise you have made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, i’ve elected to ignore it
spark: oh my god stop
blanche: *looks into the camera like in the office*
clean ver / fire brushes
“Shoutout to @queen-valkyrie for being strong, even in the toughest situatons”
Thanks..
Here’s what’s up. You’ve probably noticed my huge lack of activity lately. I’ve pretty much been entirely absent from this blog for MONTHS. Truth is, there are a lot of reasons why. Mainly, my quickly worsening depression and anxiety. Crazy, right? It’s only been made worse by several factors, some regarding my lack of job still, as well as fighting with the post office. Mostly, because for the past year, I’ve been spending a lot of time helping take care of my grandpa who was struggling with stage 4 esophageal cancer. He lost that battle less than a week ago... He was a lot of my strength, honestly, and I don’t really know what’s going to happen from her on out. So... I’ll try to be here. But man, it’s still going to be kind of sparse.
Last day of RTx 2016!
“How do I bring a flower?
“No, silly! Not a flower - flour! As in baking!”
Lie Ren - @j-jocosplay Nora Valkyrie - @queen-valkyrie Photographer - @thepompouspickle
But not like this, it won’t be by your hand.
Lie Ren - @j-jocosplay Nora - queen-valkyrie Photo - @thepompouspickle
I fucking hate the amount of tumblr call out culture. People see something they don't like, or something dumb someone said, and REBLOG it so blindly with such hateful words, spurring others to an OPs blog, urging them to kill themselves. Telling CHILDREN to put a bullet in their skull because of a mistake they posted - a mistake in which they have since then admitted was wrong, listened with open ears to people's explanations and accepted the fact that they were wrong. The tumblr community is not the accepting and open place they claim to be - it is the most toxic place on social media I have ever seen. In the wake of everything happening in today's society, the fact that so many are so ready to jump and spread even more hate... It's frightening.
When we stand with friends, and we won’t retreat.
Lie Ren - @j-jocosplay Nora - @queen-valkyrie Photographer - @thepompouspickle
Life hack: drink all the alcohol in your house to forget that you’re useless and unloveable.
BROWNIE’S SUPER AMAZING ANEXT BADGE SALE
Haha, so I’m gonna be at AnimeNEXT next weekend and it’d be super cool to get some extra money before then. So, ALL BADGES ARE $10. What’s that? Just give it to you at AnimeNEXT? Okay then, let’s make it $7 WITH ANIMENEXT DELIVERY.
You don’t have to be a furry to cash in on this deal! I’ll do it for anime characters too! The sale only lasts until Sunday 6/5, unless I say otherwise! Send me a message if you’re interested! <3
I’m extending the sale to Wednesday!! Get the badges while they’re hot!!
queen of the castle for day 3!
I've been super stressed, and it keeps building. There is a lot of situational things that aren't helping either.