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welcome to my blog!
i am 20ish.
i live in the us. i work and go to a community college.
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my family is from 🇵🇷🇸🇻🇨🇴.
i am very interested in
linguistics
knitting / crochet
abstract art
poetry
the magnus archives
dropout (e.g. d20, game changer)
plants
it (book, miniseries, movies)
gender
music (especially r&b, lo-fi, soul, hip hop)
find me on twitter and ao3.
:)
you cant hope to do ANY good progressive work as a feminist if you think that body shaming is a valid tool at your disposal. yes, even against men. any trait you can insult a man's body for there exists a woman with that trait who knows you arent in her corner. there are women who are fat and women who are hairy, women who are balding. women with penises and testes. women with acne and neckbeards. these traits are not exclusive to the misogynistic creep cishet men who you are trying to insult.
behold the genderfuck radical queer character who is disrupting the fuck out of gender norms. and then the character is just someone with facial and body hair wearing a dress. and the implication here is that the combination of these traits makes it obviously wrong or imperceptive to assume that this character could or would simply be a woman -- it has to be something else, something Radical -- since women couldn't possibly-- !
back in 2019 when i was doing research for my thesis, i read Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People (2000) by Vivian K. Namaste and around page 145 in that book, there's a description of a 1978 study that was done on sexed physical characteristics and how quickly people assume sex from these things, and what the study showed was that even when presented with abundant and obvious female-sexed characteristics (e.g. long hair, soft face, breasts), several of them were required without contest for participants to be confident sexing a subject as female, but if a single male-sexed characteristic (e.g. facial/body hair, square jaw, penis) was present, participants would overwhelmingly sex the subject as male with much more confidence even if there were contradictory female-sexed features. crucially, the presence of a female-sexed feature did not inhibit their confidence in sexing a subject with otherwise exclusively male-sexed features as male to nearly the same degree. the conclusion of the study, in Namaste's words, was that "interpretation of sexed bodies [is] overwhelmingly skewed in favor of masculine referents." surely this documented bias has no implications for the way people perceive or respect trans women, and surely when it comes to character design decisions or vacuum-assumed assertions that "clothing has no gender," ignorance won't be functionally interchangeable with malice. now to just take a big sip of coffee and
“LISTEN UP AMERICAN LIBERALS AND PROGRESSIVES:
I hear our cries to help, our daily outrage, our promises to resist Trump any way we can. But here’s all we need to know right now: Our performative outrage and polite compliance is a deadly combination that’s going to get people killed.
While we’re busy maintaining our cycle of shock and outrage at each new atrocity, the methodical destruction of human rights is happening right fucking now — in our neighborhoods, on our streets, to our neighbors. And we’re too busy crafting the perfect Instagram post to notice.
The mainstream media will breathlessly cover every Trump bathroom tweet, every inflammatory statement, every piece of outrage bait. And we’ll share, and comment, and convince ourselves we’re making a difference by being publicly appalled. And while we’re busy crafting the perfect dunking tweet, ICE agents are already in our communities, using tried-and-true tactics of deception that rely on one thing above all: Our compliance.
We can’t afford to chase every headline anymore. We can’t waste our energy being shocked by each new policy announcement. The fascism is here. It’s been here. And our job isn’t to document every new outrage — it’s to actively resist the system that makes these outrages possible.
That means learning a new language:
“Have you seen your neighbor lately?”
I work long hours.
“We just need to verify some information.”
I don’t keep track of other people’s business.
“This won’t take long, we just need your help.”
I really can’t help you.
“Things might be easier if you cooperate.”
I have nothing to say.
The best answers are short, simple, and final.
No explanations. No justifications. No helpful suggestions about who else they might ask. Just the calm certainty of someone who suddenly knows absolutely nothing about anything.
Practice saying “No” without following it with “I’m sorry”. Learn to sit in uncomfortable silence instead of filling it with nervous chatter. These aren’t just career skills anymore — they’re practice for when it really matters.
But more importantly, protecting our communities and defying fascist tactics means building sustained networks of mutual aid that don’t depend on social media outrage cycles or mainstream media attention.
It means recognizing that every time we get distracted by the latest Trump tweet, we’re not focusing on protecting our neighbors. Every ounce of energy spent crafting the perfect outrage post is energy diverted from building community defense. Every minute spent doomscrolling is time we could use strengthening local support networks.
The system doesn’t need our hot takes on Twitter. It doesn’t need our shocked Facebook posts. It needs our passive compliance. Our polite directions when we should play dumb. Our trust in *proper channels* when we should be building community defense networks.
The next four years will be a constant barrage of *shocking* announcements designed to keep us off balance. Don’t fall for it. Keep your eyes on the real work: Protecting our communities through active non-cooperation, building strong networks of mutual aid, and refusing to be the polite liberals that fascism needs us to be.
The time for following each new outrage is over. The time for sustained, focused resistance is now. And if that means missing some Twitter outrages or being less “informed” about every new policy announcement? Good. Because our communities don’t need us to be well-informed spectators. They need us to be active resistors.
Just like the Palestinian solidarity networks who keep forgetting to report protest gatherings to authorities. Like the Underground Railroad conductors who never saw escaped enslaved people passing through their homes. Like the Danish citizens who couldn’t find Jewish folks when the Nazis came looking.
Our silence in the face of authority — and our refusal to be distracted by the daily outrage machine — these are our most powerful weapons.
USE THEM.”
Source
“A yearslong U.S. Justice Department investigation of a global hacking campaign that targeted prominent American climate activists took a turn in a London court this week amid an allegation that the hacking was ordered by a lobbying firm working for ExxonMobil. Both the lobbying firm and ExxonMobil have denied any awareness of or involvement with alleged hacking.”
The U.S. claims the hacking was commissioned by a lobbying firm working on behalf of one of the world's biggest oil companies.
It pisses me the fuck off that yoga is actually ancient and really good for you. Part of me still feels like it was invented to extract wealth from white socal moms.
I hate New age shit so much I actually get kinda mad when cleaning my room and drinking water actually improves my mood.
Like what do you mean moderate exercise and disciplined self respect actually improve my life. Cut the bullshit and invent cigarettes that are good for me already.
EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt a description
the t4t tag is so wild cause it's the most heartfelt, wholesome, beautiful and inspirational post you've ever seen next to a post saying "imagine if a non binary person nutted in me :3"
Rolls to Alarm Your Players
Want to spice the game up? Why not try alarming your players for no real reason? Make sure to make a show out of counting the dice before you roll.
House M.D. | 4x12 Don't Ever Change
@staff why did my music turn off when i pressed “post”? what do you have against cumbia?
true emotion of venus finally identified
huge fan of the inevitability flavor of mutual pining. we’ve been in love with each other since we can remember, so long we can barely remember what it felt like before the other … when other people ask us why we’re not together (never around the other) we have no words, just pursed lips and a shaking head. the truth of the matter is we’re afraid of what will happen when we finally tumble off that cliff’s edge — will it be everything we’ve been building it up to be? or have we fallen in love with the idea of the other’s love, with the safety we feel in the other’s arms?
Do you think Icarus would be into waxplay or would that be his safeword zone cuz of trauma
You just don’t get quality content like this on other sites
Hey, y'all, this is a reminder for anyone that has student loans that they are defaulted on or in collections for:
Apply for Fresh Start NOW if you haven't already done so. Like right now. Do it right this very second do not put it off any longer.
If you don't know, applying for Fresh Start will move your loan status from "Default" to "Current," you will no longer have to deal with collections calls! You won't have your wages garnished or your tax refunds taken by the Education Department! The default gets removed from your credit and you become eligible for federal mortgage programs! You become eligible for Income Driven Repayment (IDR) programs that can reduce your monthly payment in a huge way (from $400/month to $50/month for me!) and you get IDR credit for the three years you were in default during the pandemic freeze!
It only has upsides!
I mean it, it can make a huge difference! You can even submit both Fresh Start and an IDR application at the same time. It takes literal seconds. I had my name legally changed and I'm still eligible! I clicked like 3 buttons, checked a couple boxes, and boom. I sent off the application August 22nd and I got the letter yesterday (Sept 20th), but that letter was dated Sept 1st and was only to inform me that my loan was no longer in default would be transferred to a new loan servicer by the end of the month. It took a week and a half to process.
I also became eligible and received a refund check for money taken from me during the starting stages of the pandemic.
The best time to do it is now. Period.
Do. It. Right. Now.
im gonna leave my sticks here. nobody touch them ok
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