SHINeePikachu

SHAwol. Pikachu Fan. 

[theeksfiles]

[homunculus-argument]

I will not elaborate.

[weedsandwishes]

@sergle is correct

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[aeiou-aeiou-aeiou]

[strangestcase]

being non-binary is sooooo exhausting... everyone wants a piece of you, you’re hot, you’re funny, you’re cooler than ice cold, you dress impeccably... smash that reblog button if you too think non-binary people deserve to be given 1000000 dollars in cash.

[bundibird]

I dont really care if you use the term bisexual or pansexual, but what i DO care about is that you understand that bisexuality at NO stage in history was EVER trans-exclusionary. Bisexuality has always included trans folks, and non-binary folks, and the entire spectrum of gender between male and female, as well as Definitively Gender and agender. It has ALWAYS meant "attraction to more than one gender." It has NEVER meant "attraction to cis men and women only."

So, pan, bi, use whichever label you will. But do NOT buy into the recent-years innacurate concept that bisexuality is attraction to cis men and women only, because thats literally never been the case.

[vbartilucci]

[amygdalae]

i know ppls opinions on reclaiming "queer" vary a lot (and thats fine--personally i dont really have a problem w people reclaiming but only as long as they respect a lotta people dont wanna be called that) but i really think its gross as fuck when big companies and corporations try to use that word for like. marketing and merchandising shit. like uh hey fuck you brand who said u could do that. gettin a bit too buddy-buddy with the rainbow capitalism there

[slashrawr]

I am old enough and spent enough time in RL queer spaces that the first time I heard some radfem gold-star lesbian try the "queer is a slur" thing in a gay bar the guy picking up his drink next to her responded "Well they don't call it 'fag studies' do they?" and laughed. And I remember him every time this shit crosses my dash.

Queer has been reclaimed since the goddamn '60s. Queer has also been the academic term for "anything to do with LGBTQIA+" for decades. My college in the '00s offered both a "Queer Film Theory" course and a "Queering the Literature" course, for Film and English majors respectively.

Businesses aren't calling you queer because they just learned they can, they're calling you queer because their marketing playbooks (and senior marketing staff) are TOO OLD for the TERF-led re-slurifying of queer to have hit them yet.

We tried a non-slur umbrella term in MOGAI and the TERFs turned it into a goddamn joke in two seconds flat. They've been working on queer for years and at some point you have to realize that it's not the term that's the problem, it's that some people don't want an umbrella. They want neat, tidy terms they can rigidly define, and an excuse to leave some people out in the rain.

Rainbow capitalism is a PITA and all, but please learn your history, kids.

[feotakahari]

“it's that some people don't want an umbrella. They want neat, tidy terms they can rigidly define, and an excuse to leave some people out in the rain.”

Yeah, TERFs aren’t exactly hiding the whole “solidarity is bad and you’re bad for attempting solidarity” thing. They don’t even like bisexuals!

[fandomsandfeminism]

They hate the term Queer for the same reason that Queer is important- Queer has been the favored term for the segments of the movement dedicated to protecting queer culture, including and centering diverse queer lives, and rejecting assimilationist and conservative "respectibility politics." Queer Nation and all the other groups and activists who embraced the label did so in the spirit of revolution- to set themselves apart from the members of our community who have always been far too quick to throw the "weird ones" under the bus and claim that THEY are only asking for reasonable, palatable, "normal" rights (marriage, adoption, ability to serve in the military, etc)

Queer is intentionally inclusive, intentionally startling, and intentionally challenging.

Is it weird to see a coffee cup in Target with "Queer AF" on it? Yes, absolutely. Do I think its inherently a bad thing? No. Its pissing off the right people.

[critgemhero]

You know what Good Omens does NOT get enough credit for? How it never, not once, makes gender presentation the butt of a joke.

Crowley presenting as female to be Warlock’s Nanny? The way this was filmed, acted, and written wasn’t made to be funny whatsoever. She was stunning, I loved the hat!

Pollution using they/them pronouns while the postman used the gender neutral honorific of sir for them? What’s there to make fun of? They’re royalty.

Archangel Michael, who has a traditionally male name, played by a female actress? Never questioned.

Lord Beelzebub’s androgyny? Only respect for the Lord of Hell.

Aziraphale sharing Madame Tracy’s body? Crowley recognized his angel and accepted it no problem. He was right about the dress too, it did suit him!

Crowley’s pure, unfiltered non-binary/gender-fluid energy in general? Fucking fabulous. Who could seriously make fun of this demon’s style? As someone once pointed out to me, you could swap him with Tilda Swinton and I’d see no difference. What an icon.

Good Omens is the first big show I’ve seen to basically avoid transphobia all together when the opportunity presented itself, and even say fuck you to the gender binary as a bonus. If the biggest binary in all the universe, Heaven and Hell, don’t give a damn about it then why should you? 

[neil-gaiman]

Thank you! That was definitely what we were going for. I’m not certain we always achieved it – or at least, people didn’t always seem to see that was what we were doing. (It made me sad when a few people on Twitter reacted to Crowley-as-nanny as if it was meant to be a transphobic man-in-a-dress joke.)

For our angels and demons, it was intensely liberating having male and female actors auditioning for the same roles, and just picking the ones who we felt nailed the characters best.

Also, can I just hear a wahoo for the wonderful Archangel Uriel, Gloria Obianyo?

[notachair]

I forget we’ve got Neil Gaiman here to actually interact with these fandom posts

[izhunny]

WAHOO!

[myenterpriseisparked]

Okay so I know we roast Chakotay for all of his “ancient legends,” but I’m actually kind of obsessed with the idea of Chakotay just…. bullshitting fake legends to try to get people to listen to him a la the confession scene in Resolutions????? Like?????

—–

Tuvok: I’m going to mind meld with this murderer we discovered on board.

Chakotay: You shouldn’t do that.

Tuvok: I’m going to do it anyway.

Chakotay: There’s an ancient legend among my people about a man who once tried to mind meld with a bear, thinking he could tame the bear into doing his will. Instead, the bear’s consciousness took over his own and the man became wild and murderous, tearing apart the rest of his tribe.

Tuvok:….. your people cannot mind meld.

—–

Chakotay: Hey Kathryn, maybe you shouldn’t try to sacrifice yourself for the crew again.

Kathryn: But I have to because of guilt reasons.

Chakotay: There’s an ancient legend among my people about a warrior woman who fought off a bear to save her war party from getting eaten. She killed the bear, but her injuries were so grave that she died shortly after the bear did. She left behind a lover who missed her so much that he cried for 40 days and their ship - I mean, camp, flooded and the rest of the war party never made it home.

Kathryn: ….. you’re full of shit, Chakotay, but it’s working. Find me a new plan.

—–

B’Elanna: *hits the computer because it’s not working*

Chakotay: There’s an ancient legend among my people about a warrior who once hit a computer core and-

B’Elanna: *hits Chakotay*

[deltacaptainandrea-deactivated2]

That last one!! 😂😂😂

[bizships]

😂😂

[ithelpstodream]

[queerdo-mcjewface]

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Leonard Pollard

My mom was having trouble using they/them prnouns with some friends for a while. One day she said “I think the problem is that I haven’t changed the way I view their gender outside of their pronouncs which adds several extra steps in converting binary pronouns to they/them then conjugating it. So I need to shift how I see them as a gendered person entirely to make using their pronouns easier.” And since then she hardly ever messes up.

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[swordshapedleaves]

A lot of the cis people in my life need this

[ygmtwr-atrus]

This is literally why people mess up pronouns and why it’s a problem.

Like the reason you’re not calling me “they” is because you still think of me as gendered the way you initially assumed. It’s not just the pronouns I want you to change, they only serve as an acknowledgement of the gender I want you to adjust your perspective to. If you did that, you wouldn’t struggle with it.

[godyoupeopleareannoying-deactiv]

bi women are women who like men in a gay way. wont elaborate

[godyoupeopleareannoying-deactiv]

and bi men are men who like women in a gay way. dont ask questions

[godyoupeopleareannoying-deactiv]

no youre right. youre absolutely right

[glumshoe]

man I bet using sin to turn children into donkeys is a pretty economical business strategy but I’ve got to wonder how you would even discover this get rich quick scheme

[glumshoe]

Yeah tbh you’d think people would start to wonder why he never bought donkey feed or dewormers or livestock supplies and instead kept ordering shit like beer and playing cards and tobacco for his donkey farm.

The other farmers look at him suspiciously like, “You know, I don’t think that man knows the first thing about breeding donkeys....”

[theevenprime]

5th generation donkey-farmer, arguing with friends: I'm just saying, of course it's a money-laundering front. But where is he getting all these fucking donkeys from?

[glumshoe]

Pinocchio is in the public domain. I could, like, totally write a mystery novel sequel about a cadre of suspicious donkey farmers—desperate to save their livelihoods—teaming up to investigate the mysterious business practices of their greatest competitor and infiltrate Pleasure Island...

[qtiest-bear]

Do it and you're cool

[bluelakeandsky]

You guys do know the children turning into donkeys is supposed to represent child prostitution.

[glumshoe]

I mean, it definitely isn’t, but ok.

The Disney version absolutely makes Pinocchio a sweet and sympathetic kids, but the original story is very much meant as a moral lesson aimed at bastardous and disrespectful children who don’t do their schoolwork.

The actual point of the Land of Toys/Pleasure Island isn’t “stranger danger” so much as direct allegory for “if you don’t work hard and study and do well in school, you will grow up to find that you wasted your youth are now an ignorant jackass with no career prospects except hard labor”. Pinocchio’s whole bizarre character arc is that he has to learn discipline and stop committing violent crimes if he wants to be part of society.

[sportsbianism-deactivated202306]

pulling stunts that strengthen the public's perception of gay people as satanic perverts is a shitty thing to do. the end

[goldenaltar]

counterpoint: it’s really funny.

[genderificationbeam]

lil nas x: i was demonized from a young age because of the unique intersection of my blackness and queerness within the church and now im reclaiming that for myself and showing young queer people that they always have a place where they’ll be accepted, even if they have to carve it out of the hell they were promised

random shitforbrains tumblr users: actually portraying queer people, including yourself, as sexually empowered or subversive in any way makes the homophobes mad :/// maybe just act normal??? idk pulling that “”stunt”” is kinda homophobic

[jwjdhdjsksks]

Like imagine if one day someone just came up with a new word that meant “lesbian but will date trans women” or “lesbian but like women for their personalities instead of looks” and randomly decided that the old term lesbian meant you only like cis women, and just for their looks or body parts. And now everyone is either forced to adopt the new term, or keep the original term but have to deal with misconceptions and constantly have to clarify that you aren’t what they randomly changed the definition of lesbian to mean. And when you point out “actually lesbian never excluded trans women or implied I don’t care about personality” and people respond by saying “oh well I still like the new term anyways its a personal choice and it’s not hurting anyone” even though the literal existence of the new word implies things that aren’t true about the old term. That’s exactly what pansexual did to bisexuals

[bauliya]

you know what's going on with lil nas x is persecution, right. it's not "just" internet trolling—he's only 21 and being targeted by SITTING SENATORS for his art. this is textbook persecution, complete with the coalescing of religion and political power, and the fact that he can fire off meme-y one liners doesn't change that! fucking hell! it horrifies me how this is being played off for laughs, even by leftists and "we are the daughters of witches you couldn't burn" crowd. it's terrifying and the actual, bodily threat to him is VERY REAL regardless of how funny his responses are.

[bauliya]

I'm not Black so I didn't think it was appropriate of me to talk about his Blackness but dear GOD the disparity between lil nas x's vulnerability and openness about his sexuality in his art and public appearance, and the amount of backlash and discrimination he's suffered for it vs the amount of public recognition and institutional support he's gotten as compared to harry styles who put on a fucking skirt and got hailed as the King Of The Gays™ is so blatantly racist.

[inkskinned]

Thinking about lil nas x. Thinking about how literally less than a month ago, I was seeing thinkpieces about potato heads having gender and how my generation is soooo sensitive. Thinking about how often I've been told "don't like it don't look" bc "whhaaaat the sandwiches are good" or "they were just JOKING" or "people have a right to serve whomever they want, go find another cake shop if it bothers you, oh my god."

Thinking about how many times I've heard the words "music used to be ABOUT something." Thinking about all those pick-me gotcha jokes where the set up is "if that was my son, why i would" and the punchline is that they'd love him, right, because it's funny we are at risk of being traumatized. Thinking about this quote I read today about disrespect - that there's plenty of people who think respect means "accepting as the absolute authority". Thinking about religious trauma and the "battle for the soul of the nation".

Thinking about how fighting them off shouldn't be his job. Thinking about how preformative this pearl clutching is; how it's just asinine rhetoric to cover blatant bigotry. Thinking about how I am scared to hold her hand sometimes. Thinking about bravery. Thinking about how the first pride was a riot. Thinking - holy shit. He just saved so many lives, and i hope he knows it.

[ivanaskye]

to anyone who needs to hear this,

you look EXACTLY like a leaf

your eye spots ARE absolutely terrifying

when you raise your front legs you DO look bigger than anything, even a tree