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A Pride mural in a Lush shop window has sparked a wave of attention, with its creator highlighting its message of trans pride and visibility
That mural fucks hard and honestly of all animals to give top surgery scars to, a tiger is the best fit.
I hope it stays up.
^ here's the full thing!
“but he did [this horrific thing]” i am neither his keeper nor happy with every single decision he makes. Also he is not real
i would be a kittypet all the way in the warrior cats universe. if i heard a bunch of guys were in the woods killing each other for survival and they think i'm the lame one for getting mediocre banquets i would be like you guys are stupidd and then when the thunderclan medicine cat comes by my fenced lot to pick yarrow i would be like what are doing and shes like medicine so my clanmates don't die and i'm like wow you guys really have it that rough. and she keeps encountering me and one day i'm like why don't you come inside there's plenty of kibble and she averts her eyes shyly and is like ...no that would be against starclan and i'd go To have a little kibble? and she's like You know what i mean. and i do. 5 moons later she is getting adopted by my people and visions of her ancestors still haunt her and she is from time to time like Did I do the right thing...? how could i be so selfish...? and i'm like my toy mouse squeaks
Warrior Cats is one fandom I only know from indirectly from tumblr (though I still enough to enjoy this piece), BUT a tiny interesting side note- - -
I was at the winter MondoCon and noticed a few middle-schooler(ish) children with cat masks and turned out that they are actually Warrior-fans. I got curious and found out that the first three books were republished last year. So it looks like it certainly becoming (or already is) A Thing now in Hungary, too!
I just had to draw the original post because it lives rent free in my head
George Tiller was murdered 13 years ago today (May 31 2022)
People noting this anniversary reminding me again that it is such an insane failure of the pro-choice movement that we do not as a nation think of George Tiller as a civil rights hero and additionally a martyr at the level of MLK Jr. or a Kennedy. So, you know, do your part, etc.
I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with
But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy
Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy
Sometimes you will be a lesbian to your parents and a straight man to your partners parents and a gay man to your partner and a woman to your grandparents and out to your friends and stealth to your classmates and a nice young lady to the cashier at the coffee shop and then people on your computer will ask you to choose which of these identities you ACTUALLY are and which you are Appropriating The Oppression Of because don’t you know they contract each other. You can only be one thing solidly forever
SCHISM??
in this day and age?
okay SO four bishops have been ordained without approval of the pope in the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX)(also sometimes known as Lefebrvistes after SSPX's founder Marcel Lefebvre)
How does the catholic church usually ordain a bishop? You need at least three bishops to do the ordaining AND you need to have approval of the pope.
This Society is conservative and rejects more modern reforms of the church, like holding Mass in other languages than Latin (which was implemented in the 60s and 70s). The Society is originally from Switzerland but now has a large following in the US. The bishops who were ordained consisted of 2 American, 1 Swiss and 1 French bishop.
The pope never approved those bishops to be ordained and warned the Society that ordaining them anyway would be a 'schismic act'
The last time the Society ordained bishops was in 1988, they were immediately excommunicated by the church, but this was rectified two decades later in hopes of repairing the relationships with the Society.
It is expected that these bishops will also be excommunicated, since going against the Pope's wishes is obviously a big deal.
Fun things (FUN I SAY) the Society insists on
Not recognising freedom of religion
Making priests face the altar and not the people like they did in medieval times when they're doing the mass
Mass in Latin only
Married women generally do not work
one of the former bishops (who got expulsed for being a Holocaust denier) said that women wearing trousers was 'an assault on their womanhood and a revolt against the prder willed by God'
Sources: BBC news article Wikipedia of the Society
trans fairy to bless ur dash
I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things
my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say
you are required to be and act anti-racist
thinking and hoping you're not racist isn't enough. i am talking specifically and especially to white trans people whose political ideology and differing axis of oppression makes them feel immune to racially motivated missteps and behaviors
and im suggesting firmly and with pain in my heart that apologies must start and end with "i'm so sorry to have done this. i recognize what was done and will work to do better." and at no point must your apology be accepted in order to continue a working relationship/comradeship/solidarity, at no point does your continued ":( i just feel so bad" matter to me or any other person of color
you have to process your feelings about doing a racism separate from the persons or people you did the racism to. you do not offload the labor to the affronted. you do not assert what your "intent" was repeatedly or ask for help from the hurt
proposing a new genre of fiction called an anti-romance where u r presented w a couple at the start & the story is about their emotional journey towards a catastrophic break up
before we start posting that july is gay wrath month let’s consider that july is disability pride month first and foremost. the “be gay do crimes” memes can wait
before this post breaches containment and people start going “why not both hehehe” i want you to seriously consider the very long history of disabled people’s existence being pushed aside and/or seen as secondary. i promise you it’s not going to hurt to hold onto the memes and give disabled people space for visibility and celebration.
i say this as a disabled trans person whose trans identity is made front-and-center to the (mainly cis) people who know i’m trans but my identity as a disabled person is brushed off by the very same people.
It's the gift that keeps on getting / It's the shrapnel from your wedding, she said / Hey, I love you better when you're wild! Suits you better if I say so...
proposing what I believe to be a wholly new temeraire ship. a marriage alliance with napoleon could give you half the world on a platter, but even that doesn't compare with His Majesty’s Trusty And Well-Beloved Admiral of the Air Jane Goddamn Roland. let's consider.
coughs loudly
project hail mary time travel fic but it's stratt. and she has to do it again.
the thing here is of course that it worked. it worked, so she has to do it again. she has to send him again. she's not even going to save dubois and shapiro, she's not going to save yao and ilyukhina, she's not changing anything, it worked.
except maybe she adds some supplies, to the ship. increases the amount of food, includes some organic compounds. more painkillers. and maybe she spends more time in proximity to grace. not working with him, not talking to him, just doing what she'd be doing anyway, what she's already done, with him in her line of sight
and he notices, because that's his job. was his job. that was the point of him, to know her well enough to notice something has changed. and he doesn't say anything, isn't going to say anything, and in fact maybe nothing gets said. neither of them say anything and the lab explodes and she sends him to die and she waits and waits and waits and the beetles come back and he doesn't. and then she wakes up again on an aircraft carrier off the coast of china
and it WORKED. and she's here AGAIN, because maybe this is just what happens to you when you are the final signature on a mass extinction event. maybe this is her penance. maybe the world continues on without her, warmer and brighter, but she has to stay here in the worst of it and hold it all together.
she did better. she tried. she knew more. once she'd killed him, once he was out her reach, she could change more. maybe less people died. maybe different people died.
she looks at him as long as she's able and she packs him more vitamins and she doesn't say anything and the lab explodes and she waits and the crops fail and she waits and the wars start and she waits and the beetles come back and she wakes up again on an aircraft carrier and she rolls over to press her face into the mattress and she screams
the fifth time, she promotes him. six months from launch, that's when she wakes up, and she gets out of bed and gets presentable and walks to his door and says You're the primary science officer now. and he says What? No. No, it can't be me. and she says It has to be you. and she's not trying to do anything with her face, with her voice, but something must happen anyway because he looks at her and says You're sure? You're really sure? and she says It should have been you from the start. and he says Okay, let me– Gosh, okay, I have been awake five minutes and all I've eaten since yesterday is candy, but sure, yeah, I'll go on the suicide mission. Are you– We're getting breakfast, c'mon.
she packs him vitamins. she looks at him. he gets mildly obsessed with a different c-drama every time, somehow. maybe that's the linchpin, maybe he just has to make it through them all. she fills a harddrive with them. she tells him she's never been more sure of anything than she is of him. she waits and she waits and she waits. the beetles come back. he doesn't. she wakes up on an aircraft carrier.
she stops the lab explosion. she keeps him out of prison by the skin of her teeth. the beetles don't come back.
she lets the lab explode. she lets him hate her for killing him. she's going to be older than his alien, soon. she's on the aircraft carrier, watching him breathe, for six months. and then she's waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for twenty seven years. twenty seven years is too long for any neat little montages of her catching things before they fall. the weather isn't even the same. it depends who wins the war for the sahara. she's sisyphus, she's prometheus, she's atlas. she kills her only warmth and it gets colder and colder and colder until she wakes up again and there he is. maybe it's a gift. six whole months of him breathing
fuckkkk my sacrificial lamb has started hanging out with the scapegoat
I see your bloodymary and i raise you: The Hail Mary Diaries
grace sees SecUnit and is like “omg hiiiii :D its so crazy to see another human here!! how did you even get up here??? how’s earth doing? how’s-“ meanwhile rocky is staring in unadulterated fucking HORROR as he hears this Thing, vaguely shaped like a human, but also so incredibly Wrong in every way, even more Wrong than most humans. it has a semi-carapace?? and it’s made of completely different materials??? and it’s missing most of what grace calls “vital organs” and has replaced them with what looks like lab equipment??
SecUnit speaks and rocky drags grace and himself away with much horror, screaming incoherently about the sheer Wrongness of it all
And then Murderbot sees an alien spider monster creature trying to drag this squishy human scientist away and has a predictably bad reaction to that!
Murderbot and Rocky both screaming WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING while Grace has to pull out every skill from every conflict resolution seminar he's been required to take
