rogue. 25. she/her

we got money but we don't got cash

[land-of-brains-and-chocolate]

don’t ask me why i looked at marvel parody books today because i do not know but i did also get this incredible reaction image out of it

[marveladdicts]

[ndscottsummers]

Mythos: X-Men

[pidgeydraws]

morning routine commissioned by @xtumble-weedx

[girlsclothes-deactivated2023030]

i don’t know anything about culture i am just at my house

[xx-aliengrrl-xx]

Some fun facts and numbers:

Aka a donations post

Note: this post was made February 8, 2020

My name is Venus. I am part of a multiple system called the moonrise collective.

We have DID. We share this body and life.

This post is not about that, but. This is a last shred of hope kinda post.

My big brother in the system, luke @god--baby , has already made posts about this.

But let me break it down.

On Thursday, February 6, we got pulled over because our registration was out. (We have never had the money to get our car inspected/registered/the title moved from our grandmother's name to ours.)

Less than an hour later, we were in jail.

(Why? Because we had outstanding warrants because of getting pulled over for that same thing. Warrants we couldn't pay off because we're just barely making it as it is.)

We had a panic attack as they handcuffed us. We had 5 more over the next 23 hours. When we were in jail.

We got out yesterday, February 7, with $100 (less than half) taken off each of our warrants. They call that "jail credit" around here, if nowhere else.

They impounded our car. Yesterday, it would have costed $262 to get it out. It will only cost more as more time goes on.

We're also overdue to buy our three antidepressants and one anti anxiety med. That will cost like idk $40.

We just paid rent. That was $800 with all the late fee bells and whistles, and now?

We have $26 to our name. THAT'S BEFORE ANYTHING. THAT'S OUR STARTING POINT.

We have to begin payment on our warrants soon, register our car, buy pills, and food for two bodies because our disabled partner system lives with us.

Please help we are disabled and very, very poor.

We have PayPal: [email protected]

Cashapp: $benniexmonroe

Venmo: @/xBennieMonroex

Luke @god--baby can write fic for your donation (character x character Bowers gang only)!

Lily @yellowwhitegreensunset can draw something little for your donation, she's not very experienced, but she can try!

Wit @holywit can write poetry for your donation, just send a request and ze can see what ze can do!

I can't do much. But I have the most followers out of all of us. Which is why this post is going on my blog.

@lintherubbishbin pls signal boost? If u can?

Anyway. Thank you so much if you donate, and if you can't, thank you for reading and hopefully reblogging. 🤞

Xoxo

Venus aka Aliengrrl 🏳️‍🌈👽

[birdsofpsd]

Rogue <3

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[humanphobicpunk]

Hot take: the Xavier academy's obsession with and emphasis on finding combat applications of every mutation is absolutely genophobic

[humanphobicpunk]

It reinforces the idea that mutations are only good if they have practical applications, and the combat focus shows just how militarized Xavier's vision of a "good mutant" is

[retrofittedfishmachine]

genosha does the same shit, but thats because the fucking flats keep trying to kill us. we aren't going to live in peace until the flats either chill out their genocidal ways or all assimilate and genesplice themselves into "mutanthood"

[just-a-pink-mutant]

I study at the mansion and... Yep, you need to teach kids how to fight if you want them to survive.

[humanphobicpunk]

Except Xavier's whole combat training thing isn't about protecting ourselves and our community from flatscans- it's actually literally about "protecting a world that hates and fears us"- and he only focuses on combat so that he can indoctrinate people into his child army

also none of that changes the fact that it still reinforces the idea that mutations have to be "useful" and plays into the whole superhero stereotype

[dankmemeuniversity]

[kinggoblin]

being bisexual isn’t being “half straight, half gay”. You gotta leave room for the depression

[sunshine-and-hatred]

I took this picture of a sting ray at the aquarium while I was in San Francisco. I didn’t check the picture until later, but somehow the lighting there made it look like the sting ray is… I dunno. floating in space? ascending to heaven? it’s weird.

and I love it.

[vodka-and-fedoras]

It looks like something that should be airbrushed on the side of a hippy van next to some kind of star wizard on a mountain and like 9 wolves

[lesbianhylia-deactivated2018021]

to be honest, all you humans reblogging posts about all the “evil” shit el sabbah nur and magneto are doing but have never reblogged any kind of mutant positvity or signal boosted a mutant teen in need of help? 👀 ? fuck outta here with your fake allyship

[x-menunited]

[marxisforbros]

“There’s a cure?!” asked the girl that kills everything she touches.  “Hey shut up we’re perf” replied the girl that makes clouds. 

[theboylondon]

For real though. Storm has stopped an entire tsunami before. “Makes clouds my ass” she can conjure lightning and tornadoes and is revered as a god in her tribe. She literally changes atmospheric pressure and that’s how she flies. So fuck you. Storm is flawless.

[sun-spiral-deactivated20210109]

I think you missed the part where the GIRL WHO KILLS EVERYTHING SHE TOUCHES wants to NOT KILL EVERYTHING SHE TOUCHES and everyone dismisses her incredible misfortune just because the lady who is the AVATAR OF THE STORM won the fucking SUPERPOWER LOTTERY

[mangonetics]

“Finally, a cure for my chainsaw hands!” decreed Chainsaw-Hands Joe.

“There is no cure,” said Johnny Five-Dicks. “There’s nothing wrong with us.”

[holyromanhomo]

The last comment literally always cracks me up

[veronicaawakens]

The X-Men are an extremely good metaphor for oppressed minorities until they are suddenly an extremely terrible metaphor for oppressed minorities.

[davidmann95]

The scale on which the first reply misses the point literally never ceases to awe me.

[lyricwritesprose]

I gotta say, though, this is a place where the X-men are being a good metaphor for oppressed minorities.  Specifically, in this case, the disabled community.

“Yay, there’s a cure!” says the girl with depression.  “Cure for what, motherfucker, I’m not sick,” says the person with autism.

“Yay, there’s a cure!” I say, with my fibromyalgia and random bad pain days.  “Yes, because it’s easier to talk about eliminating us than talk about teaching sign language in school,” says the Deaf person.  “‘Cure’ is violent rhetoric.”

The problem is, of course, that a vast number of things have been aggregated under the label of “disability,” and many of them don’t even resemble each other.  Depression sucks in an objective fashion, whereas autism is just a way of being (which, like many ways of being, may suck at some times, and generally sucks worse when not accommodated).  Similar deal with chronic pain versus the Deaf community.  These things really should not be grouped together, but they are.  And since they are grouped so haphazardly, they will often be at cross-purposes.

It is ridiculous, in the X-men universe, to classify all “mutants” as one group.  You have ridiculously powerful people with little downside, you have powerful people with a major downside, you have people with very limited powers but few drawbacks, you have people with limited powers and massive drawbacks, and that’s not even getting into other divisions, like whether you look like a baseline human all the time, part of the time, or none of the time.  “Realistically,” if you can apply that word to a fantasy universe, Storm and Rogue belong to completely different minorities which should require completely different approaches.  But society has grouped them under one umbrella, or forced them to group themselves for self-protection, and thus you have conversations like the one above.

So it’s actually not a bad take.  Mind you, the X-men have had bad takes, and will do so again, and I’m skeptical about whether “powers” of any kind even work for a metaphor about minority representation—but this particular vignette has something useful to say.

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

In The Road to El Dorado there is only really one inexplicable thing within the plot. Miguel and Tulio plausibly bluff their way through or slip out of most situations. However, I’d never figured out why the volcano actually stops erupting when Tulio commands it. 

The conclusion I finally came up with is that the actual gods were watching their big entrance go down, and thought “oh, this’ll be hilarious”

[sweetvantass]

theres a lot of evidence throughout the movie to say that the armadillo (whose name is bibo) is a god.

they first find him in the jungle, where an armadillo has no business being

they find the entrance to the city, while being followed by him

he is present when the volcano starts to erupt (previous concept art also showed him in the background actually stopping the eruption)

miguel and tulio sucked ass at the ball game, so they used Bibo as a ball. He ricocheted himself all over the place and defied physics to get into the hoop every time

they come up with the flood plan to stop cortez when bibo pushed a glass over in front of them

[famouslysleepy]

YOUR TELLING ME THEY USED GOD AS A BASKETBALL?

[valtsv]

bro this gay shit is so good you gotta try it

[telnaga]

red hot silly peppers :)

[pizzaback-deactivated20201011]

the myth of the HIV patient 0 is one of the more interesting and infuriating stories abt the mythology surrounding the AIDS crisis, like this guy was post-humously declared a malicious transmittor of an illness we didn’t even know definitely existed while he was transmitting it, and it’s an an attempt to pin a deadly public health crisis and a complete failure of healthcare systems on a singular man who was apparently used precognitive powers to be Maliciously Bisexual for the laughs.

[pizzaback-deactivated20201011]

here is A Fact for yall. HIV was present in the United States at least two decades before the AIDS crisis. HIV mutated rapidly when it came into a densely-populated area full of people who were already susceptible to disease due to poverty and systemic oppression and the spread only accelerated when public health officials failed to treat HIV in a timely manner. HIV did not spring, fully-formed, in the stomach of a wayward Canadian for the purposes of a kink. please.