[yekkes]

It’s my opinion that like if a white supremacist/Nazi is going to be reformed. They need to do so willingly. The only times I’ve heard of successful rehabilitation of fascists is when they made the conscious decision to no longer be one anymore and seek atonement. People who try to like hug and change fascists that don’t want to change are fucking morons

[haletheprince-deactivated202208]

Correct. I was crypto-facist for a few years, and the people trying to hug me didnt change me because at that point I wouldnt have listened. It was only when I started to see the movement for what it was that I was finally able to listen.

[yekkes]

I’m not derailing your addition but I’m horrified you’re only 18. When did you become a fasc?

[haletheprince-deactivated202208]

Yeah trust me it *is* horrifying. I’m ashamed of who I was and I think my only atonement is to talk about how damn easy it is to become one when you’re young.

This is gonna be a long post.

For a little bit of background, I am a mixed race person, half brown and half white. I was raised in a Muslim family and am still closeted around them.

I started to have issues with Islam at around 12 or so, when I first started to get the idea that I might be gay. Now I never would have admitted that was my reason. If you had asked me I probably would have said “logic” or something. Because of that I went hard into atheism and atheist circles.

Now people hate to admit this but ex-Muslim spaces are predominantly right wing. Ex-Muslims often see the left as “too tolerant” towards a religion that hurt them. This was the only community I had though, and I read through everything. I was 13.

The other thing that people hate to admit is that, especially when you’re young, being mixed race is so damn hard. If I acted “too white”, following my mother’s German/Austrian traditions, I was accused of hiding my true nature. But if I acted “too brown” I was just another camel jockey. So I hid my “Indian” customs from others and tried passing as white. Especially online.

So I’m not saying this is all youtube’s fault or anything. I was raised to believe that the brown half of my family was lesser and stupid. And with my hatred of Islam, I believed it doubly.

Then came Anita Sarkeesian. I was watching pewdiepie and from there my recommendations were all set. If I’m remembering the pipeline it was pewdiepie - Philip Defranco - Chris Ray Gun (sp?) - Thunderfoot - Sargon - etc. But I was pretty much acquainted with all of the right wing youtube of the day.

Funnily enough, I found her through Thunderfoot. That got me into antifeminism, and more specifically, GamerGate.

I was primarily on the subreddits KIA (Kotaku In Action) and TIA (Tumblr In Action). Both made fun of the SJWs. I kid you not, I would gleefully wait for “Sanity Sunday”, where the people would talk about how feminism is disgusting, cultural appropriation is fake, the wage gap isnt real, etc. I would scroll through this tag for hours.

I got most of my youtube recommendations from those subreddits. This led me from GamerGate to more fascist lines of thinking, such as watching videos about why BLM is a terrorist organization, why all muslims were evil rapists, and why I was fundamentally right to reject my Indian heritage and follow my “correct” heritage.

From here I delved into “race realism”, and I believed it all. I had to. This was the only community I had felt safe in. One of the fash guys even offered to shack me up at his house if my parents kicked me out for being atheist. I was 15.

To say that again, I was 15 and believed that white was right, blue lives matter, “we wuz kangs”, etc. I never would have called myself a fascist or a Nazi. How could I? I used my brown skin as a token, so that people could point to me and say: “See, we aren’t misogynistic and racist! We have this brown girl right here.” But I believed in all the things the Nazis did. I’m not going to pretend I didn’t. I will never pretend I didn’t.

But then something happened. I admitted to myself, and to a few others, that I was gay. And suddenly, the homophobia that I had molded myself in, it didn’t fit right. I happened to, by accident, click on the reddit thread of GamerGhazi, the opposition to GamerGate. And after a long bout of introspection I found out that they were accepting of gay people, that the things I had been experiencing were common, that maybe, just maybe, we didn’t need a white ethnostate.

I don’t want to be dramatic but that accidental click saved my life.

From there it was a road of recovery. I deleted all my old accounts, made new ones, and started to read leftist theory. I found better friends, cut out old people. So now, just about two years later, I’m healing.

I think that’s everything. I probably got some times and dates wrong because I’ve been trying to move on from it. But if you need more info or anything like that, please let me know.

[haletheprince-deactivated202208]

Life After Hate

Founded by former violent extremists, mostly from the far-right, we are committed to compassion, education and countering violent extremism.

Reblogging for anyone who’s struggling with being an ex-fascist. Feel free to message me as well, I know how scary it can be.

[robogal328]

Reblogging because, if this shows up often enough, maybe it will be someone else’s accidental click

[rejectedprincesses]

Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922): The Activist Arrested For Wearing Pants

Full entry here. Books here. Patreon here. Art notes and whatnot after the cut.

Keep reading

[rejectedprincesses]

Thought I’d reblog in case anyone missed the first post, and add in some real-life photos of Luisa.

And because people are asking, since Tumblr is accelerating its downhill trend, places you can find me:

The Main Website

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

[argumate]

in bold countermove, PornHub announces new coffeehouse AU fanfiction category

[arkadykoshka]

From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

[beggars-opera]

Everyone reblog this as much as possible over the next two weeks for good luck

[calledforhelp]

Tumblr to DreamWidth: An RPers Guide!

So I’m going to do my best to sell people a little on DWrp, particularly rpers, but note that this really is a site that works very well for writing and fandom communities as well.

What’s DreamWidth?

Dreamwidth is a community based website that derived its original coding from LiveJournal- yes, that LiveJournal that had it’s servers moved to Russia and ran out the majority of the fandom through very bad coding decisions, amongst other…really big issues.

DW is advertiser free and has already shown that the small, US-based team is ready and happy to accommodate communities looking to go elsewhere- see the majority of 2012 when tens of thousands of new accounts were created by LJ’s rping community, including transferring the data and entries from communities several years and tens of thousands of comments old. Whilst you can buy paid accounts, this is not obligatory, and namely the benefit to doing so is having access to more icon space and the capability to create polls. 

For rping, DW is a bit of a dream in comparison to Tumblr, considering that your threads are actually retained on the same page and are easy to navigate:

A single thread between two people, on the same page, staggered, and collapsible? Amazing!

Dreamwidth already does have a relatively stable community of rpers - you can see a masterlist of all the currently active games in that link right there! In addition to this, there’s meme and testing communities that allow people to test out new characters or just enjoy singular scenarios without feeling obligated towards a game.

Is DWRP different to tumblr rp?

From my own experience, absolutely. Tumblr rp is a lot looser and generally sticks to independent blogs interacting with each other- there are games and communities on tumblr as well, but unlike DWRP, indie is (or was, back in 2015 when I rped here) more widely used than in DW. 

Another difference most games have is applications; generally these are sources of information that show how well you know your character and how you play them. They’ve been a staple in comm-based rp since the LJ days, and for some communities, this information serves a further purpose for settings that are AU (you’re changing your character’s history entirely for the universe in game, or play a non-canon version of that character) or have nerfs (certain powers, magic, or abilities are damped or cut entirely as to not break the game’s setting).

Writing in DWRP is generally formatted through HTML, which can feel intimidating when you first start using it. The styles of how you write are usually formatted to action  (with brackets showing actions your character is taking) or prose (generally used for more introspection originally, but now it’s more of a tastes thing). 

One of the biggest benefits to DWRP is that each comment has a subject header, which we usually use to warn if a cw has come up in a response (self-harm, abuse, etc)

There are a million and one guides on how DWRP works in comparison to tumblr rp, so hey! Have a look around, see if dwrp offers something you like, and maybe dive in!

This is one of many dwrp guides out there; I’m not even going to begin linking every single one, but google and you will find them.

[calledforhelp]

An addition to this info!

https://twitter.com/dreamwidth/status/1069714960832491521

[anenglishgentleman]

I am a dreamwidth rper and have been for several years cannot endorse enough

[scrawls]

Dreamwidth is a quality site and though I don’t RP there or use it anymore I remember The Big Switch from LJ back in... fuckin’ forever ago, and it was definitely worth it. IDK how it is for other, non-RP stuff but it’s a great viable alternative

[ursawood]

mr tumblr staff my nipples are male presenting it’s fine

[zetabrarian]

All I know is my dash is 90% more nudity than ever before, now.

[grumpyfaceurn]

we got no jobs, no future, no planet or economy or society that haven’t been fucked up by the generations before us, but you know what we have tons of? 

Spite.

[zetabrarian]

This is beautiful and true.

[cidham]

amir khusrow (1253–1325 CE)

[juniqs-blog]

this changed my life

[gaydine-ross]

this was written before the printing press was invented and it still sounds like a modern day shitpost

[okmeghana]

a form of indian poetry, keh (say) mukarni (denial) is an interesting genre of riddles played between two young women, where one of them describes something in a way that it is mistaken by the other girl as her beloved, and finally turns out to be something completely different

[arbitrary-stag]

@sodomymcscurvylegs

[thewonderfullurkerofoz-deactiva]

what is poetry if not the memes for our foremothers

[oockitty]

This is the earliest known ancestor of “PSYCH!”

[crow--teeth]

normal bird

[crow--teeth]

I was born with the gift of hands and I’m going to make that everyone else’s problem

[cat-ra]

she-ra + textposts

[skeletonize]

i was looking at old photos and i wanted to show you how our story went, a little

bronwyn and i met at age 12 but i dont have any photos from then, really, but this is from grade 9 science class when we were being goofs and i was 13

this is from our first ever sleepover, we couldn’t stop laughing and we were sleeping on a mattress on the floor and we went to boston pizza and got plastic rings that we both still have (bronwyn kept hers on a necklace after that)

i went to bronwyn’s cottage for the first time in the summer after grade 9

we had our first kiss in grade 10 when i was 14 and were in a weird kind of dating limbo period

then i moved to the states and turned 15 and told bronwyn i was in love with her and we visited every chance we could and she sent me flowers and packages

then i went to junior prom with her and bronwyn cut her hair

then we had the most beautiful summer where i spent 5 weeks at her cottage and i cut my hair

then i went back to miami for 12th grade and turned 16 and bronwyn was 17 and we went to senior prom together

then i moved back to canada for university when i was turning 17 and we finally lived in the same place again and we loved each other so much and got breakfast together every day

then after a beautiful summer we started living together when i was 18 and bronwyn was 19  and we went to bahrain together and bronwyn dyed her hair brown and now i get to see her every morning and every night and we adventure in our city and have a coffee shop and love each other more than i could have thought. there were periods of scary intense darkness but we love each other so much and i’ve never been happier. i’ve known bronwyn since i was 12 and now i’m almost 19 and i love her more and more.

[skeletonize]

i’m never on here anymore, but i wanted to share that almost a month ago bronwyn and i got engaged!! under a beautiful tree on a perfect day and for the rest of my life i get to pursue her and care for her and make her laugh. i’ve said this so many times but now more than ever: if this is all i get, it’s so much more than i could have hoped for.

[hopeful-weirdo]

This makes me so happy

[scoutsmoocrew]

Cows are getting a bad rap and it's time to set the record straight: Giving up meat won't save the planet

A UN report claimed that livestock was doing more to harm the climate than all modes of transportation combined, but this isn't the case.

[mad-dyspunktional]

Many people continue to think avoiding meat as infrequently as once a week will make a significant difference to the climate. But according to one recent study, even if Americans eliminated all animal protein from their diets, they would reduce US greenhouse gas emissions by only 2.6%.

According to our research at the University of California, Davis, if the practice of Meatless Monday were to be adopted by all Americans, we’d see a reduction of only 0.5%.

[healthy-purple-sandwich-deactiv]

Shit its almost like the real problem is corporate greed causing mass pollution on an unimaginable scale.

[thetwistedrope]

it’s not just corporate greed. it’s also piss poor land management and agricultural practices.

you could actually use cows to stop climate change.

but capitalism doesn’t want to talk about that. nor does the USDA

[inscrutablereynard]

^^^^^^

Not all land is suited for the same use. You can’t grow veg everywhere, and you really shouldn’t try - California is on FUCKING FIRE because corps have been doing so and have literally sunk the water table. 

Lots of land out west is far better suited for livestock, and that’s just how the environment works. Trying to grow piss-poor citrus in cali is just a waste, switch to goats already.

[thetwistedrope]

What further makes the water table situation worse is that our modern culture doesn’t believe in collecting rain water. We cover the ground with hardscape (read: pavement, concrete, etc.) and so the water can’t soak into the ground. It floods into storm drains and gets wooshed off someone else entirely.

So our water tables can’t recover because we covered the ground in concrete. And instead of using water we collect from the sky, which is generally better for us than ground water, we just keep using the ground water and going “why won’t the water come back??????”

And then as we use ground water to water our plants n shit, we are just depositing all of the ground minerals into the land, and thereby putting salt n shit in the earth, and we go “why doesn’t shit grow like it should?????”

That doesn’t even get into the issues of monoculture vs. polyculture and how our monoculture agricultural practices literally destroy the land.

We are literally shooting ourselves in the foot.

[inscrutablereynard]

Ugh, yeah, closer to my home it’s the monoculture bullshit with fucktons of industrial fertilizer pouring down the Mississippi Delta, and “omg why is there a giant ass dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, WHAT COULD HAVE DONE THIS?”

like those fucking sugar cane motherfuckers in FL, “oops, WHY IS RED TIDE WORSE THAN IT WAS IN THE 70′S I WONDER.” 

I hate monoculture farms. They kill the land and water and a huge amount of the crop gets thrown away and AAAGGGHHHH

[thetwistedrope]

fwiw i feel your pain.

[lordmeowdemort]

Marshmallow tacos

[noctomania]

just watch and you will understand

[ambris]

I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t that

[probablyvampirerpgideas]

Make a Vampire character who’s lived through several waves of the common language’s development and can’t let go if certain gramatical habbits from different time eras.

So like, thou ist a horrid creature, an absolute cur, but go off i guess

[anachronistic-cat]

… can i use that phrase irl?

[probablyvampirerpgideas]

Absolutely you can and I encourage more uses of similar phrases that just completely fuck up the chronology of the english langauge. I wanna hear 15th century english mixed with surfer speak mixed with current age internet lingo like all the time.

[the-argumentative-viper]

Like this? Well my dude, seems like a weasel hath not such a deal of splean as you’re toss’d with. Chill already, you’re not valid.

[nuttersincorporated]

You are an unrighteous, bastardly gullion. Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell. When you die, I will face God and walk backwards into hell just so that I can beat your ass in the afterlife too.

[fromthemindofatwentyorotherlycan]

I love the idea of a vampire who’s language travels back in time as they get pissed.

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

I grieve for thee in these trying times. Alexa play Despacito

[bardbreakfast]

Reading these is like literary whiplash

[bubblewrapjunkie]

“I read several dozen stories a year from miserable, lonely guys who insist that women won’t come near them despite the fact that they are just the nicest guys in the world. I’m asking what do you offer? Are you smart? Funny? Interesting? Talented? Ambitious? Creative? OK, now what do you do to demonstrate those attributes to the world? Don’t say that you’re a nice guy — that’s the bare minimum. “Well, I’m not sexist or racist or greedy or shallow or abusive! Not like those other douchebags!” I’m sorry, I know that this is hard to hear, but if all you can do is list a bunch of faults you don’t have, then back the fuck away. Don’t complain about how girls fall for jerks; they fall for those jerks because those jerks have other things they can offer. “But I’m a great listener!” Are you? Because you’re willing to sit quietly in exchange for the chance to be in the proximity of a pretty girl (and spend every second imagining how soft her skin must be)? Well guess what, there’s another guy in her life who also knows how to do that, and he can play the guitar. Saying that you’re a nice guy is like a restaurant whose only selling point is that the food doesn’t make you sick. You’re like a new movie whose title is This Movie Is in English, and its tagline is “The actors are clearly visible”.”

—

David Wong, 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person

This never gets old. 

(via denasynesthesia)

[thebibliosphere]

“Omg look at this fucking shit, gluten free mascara, ahaha, people need to be fucking stopped.”

Yes, I’m sure the person with a wheat allergy wanting to avoid putting wheat containing things near their eyeballs is truly the reason society is failing.

[thebibliosphere]

Also if anyone does actually need gluten free mascara, Zuzu Luxe is one of the best I’ve been able to find. Hardly clumps and doesn’t flake off like a lot of the others. Their other products can be a little hit or miss texture wise, but the mascara is great.

[ritualistic-raven]

I once saw a person point out that common allergens are in so many things, and it even has to do with “this facility uses it in another product but it’s still the same facility” and I stopped laughing. And then I felt bad. I was ignorant, but I didn’t think about like. My corn tortillas better not have gluten! They’re corn! And then I realized….same facility. Airborne particulates. Someone working on one line, accidentally dropping particulates in another line just by walking past.

Cause there are people who are *that* sensitive. And they deserve to be protected and have safe products.

[thebibliosphere]

I specifically do not take issue with people just not knowing things. Cause why the heck would anyone know things like that unless they ever had to? Why would you know wheat is a common ingredient in things like mascara or shampoo? I sure as shit didn’t till I started to piece together why my body went into meltdown every time I washed my hair.

What does get to me is how inherently shitty some people are about it. Like why is the first go to for things like this mockery? Why? I mean I know the answer is “society is inherently abelist even if people don’t realize they are doing it” but I’m still allowed to be frustrated by it. (It’s the same with infomercials. Those products are not lazy or worthless, they are designed for people with disabilities!)

And I know this seems like such an over reaction to something like someone in Walgreens being shitty over gluten free mascara haha. But it’s so much more than that. So much of my daily life is emotional and mental labor just trying to spoon feed people how not to be unthinkingly mean all the time. And it’s not like I can ever stop because this is my life. I am living in a world not designed or meant to include me, so constant emotional and mental labor is required to justify both myself and the things that make my life easier. And I wish people would just think with a little more kindness sometimes. That’s all.