SomeSpicyCheese

A being of unknowable composition. 25, She/Her! Profile pic by @sadcoldcoffee

[sadcoldcoffee]

Commission I did for @somespicycheese

Loved working on ur character!!

[somespicycheese]

YESSSSSS SHE LOOKS SO GOOOOOOD!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!

[fat-von-d]

just because Sade told me not to, i won’t

[queeranarchism]

#my wife is on the SOR for being gay #no joke #she hit on a girl in a straight bar once #in 1997 #and while the girl was into it #the off duty cop sitting nearby was not #and so he arrested her for ‘soliciting homosexual activity’ #which in our state was still a felony #in 1997 (and would remain so until Lawrence v Texas in 2003) #and since ‘soliciting homosexual activity’ was a felony and a sex crime #she got put on The List #she is still on there to this day #because it costs MONEY to ask a judge to take you off #and she has tried four times#since 2003 #to get taken off the SOR #but every time the judge has said something like ‘no you pled guilty to the crime i can’t possibly take you off the sex offender registry’ #with no acknowledgement of what the actual crime was #(the crime of being a butch lesbian hitting on a cute girl who was into it) #(in 1997)

Reposting these tags with consent from the person that wrote them. The post about the Sex Offenders Registry is locked, but these tags are too important to go unnoticed.

Younger queer people need to realize that the SOR being used against queer people simply for being queer isn’t some ancient history thing. It still impacts queer people today. And it can quite easily be used that way again.

[ashelyskies-deactivated20241121]

Listen!

When you hear people throwing around the talking point of “well there’s a high rate of sex offenders in the trans/queer community”, this has to do with why.

Being on the sex offender registry isn’t inherently equivalent to whatever horrific sex crime you’re meant to think of when it’s mentioned. It evokes imagery of pedophilia and rape, but there is a lot that can get you put on it and not a lot you can do to be taken off of it.

Public crossdressing used to be able to get you put on the sex offender registry (and by used to I mean as recently as 2011).

Public urination (you know, the literal only option for someone who’s homeless and doesn’t have access to public bathrooms, a venn diagram where trans people are more likely to rest in the meeting zone) can get you put on the sex offender registry.

Sex work is pretty much an automatic way to end up on the sex offender registry if you’re caught. (This is especially weaponized against black trans women who do sex work)

“Deviant Sexual Intercourse” (aka literally any sexual activity aside from penis-in-vagina penetration) could get you on the sex offender registry as recently as the early 2000s. That effectively impacts the entire queer community in one way or another.

The sex offender registry is, first and foremost, useless. It tells you nothing about what someone did. It’s mentioned to quickly associate a person or a group of people with the worst possible crimes imaginable.

It has been used against us time after time and it will continue to be used for that.

[cluegrrl]

And this is where the push of purity discourse in fandom shows its fetid, fascist underbelly.

[gwydionmisha]

This is why they are making being trans in public a felony in some states.

[harperhug]

When you decide that people who commit a certain crime or category of crime should legally lose their humanity, you create incentive for more people to be charged with that crime.

[awakefor48hours]

Every once in a while, I wish the friendship meter from the Sims was real so that way when people tell me "I used Chat-GPT" they can visually see just how much respect I just lost for them in that moment.

[berkelbites]

One time an acquaintance told me she entered Snape's star chart into chatgpt and I could physically feel that meter dropping three separate times over the course of her sentence

[socialistexan]

[vitabreva]

[themummersfolly]

How dare you leave this in the tags.

[charlesoberonn]

[demilypyro]

hmm, this is a Roxie sort of mood...

[demilypyro]

hey!!!!!!!!!

[demilypyro]

woah yep yep there I am hello hi hello everybody

[demilypyro]

you talk about being a system in the same way that shencomix talks about being transfem

it's called plausible deniability and I'm GREAT at it

[demilypyro]

i mean, I have no idea what you're talking about

[greenbloods]

when you join a new fandom in desperate search of a person with good takes

[demilypyro]

sometimes it falls on us to create our own good takes...... because no one else will

[swagophile]

important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are

[most-sane-classicist]

reblog if you're also lame and weird.

[wittynameme]

this also means that someone out there thinks your cool the same way you think of your favorite artist or something.

[swagophile]

what a terrifying prospect

[raisondetriment]

I was looking for an entirely different clip and happened to pause on the most amazing frame, so I had to share

[soup-mother]

This article is kinda the pinnacle of Wikipedia articles that need a "this primarily deals with the united states" disclaimer.

[soup-mother]

A Wikipedia article on like.... Sewing will have 500 pages worth of text about the united states and then be like "Other countries: Sewing also exists in Sweden [54]"

[soup-mother]

Burger Reich:

Rest of the world, and in fact the entire rest of the article:

[girlballs]

Tights were made for trans women. Nobody else is allowed

[hotvampireadjacent]

@god please let Mexico beat the white devils at the World Cup tonight

@god please let Mexico beat the white devils at the World Cup tonight

@god please let Mexico beat the white devils at the World Cup tonight

@god please let Mexico beat the white devils at the World Cup tonight

[transarsonist]

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

we can do this. we can live in a world where, if we must have ai, at least you can ask it "who wields the elf stones" and it will tell you "ringo starr does"

[pepperoninice]

This is old (over two years geez), but I still think about this often.

[the-haiku-bot]

This is old (over

two years geez), but I still think

about this often.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[charlesoberonn]

A mcguffin isn't just any artifact the characters are after in a story. A mcguffin needs to be interchangeable to qualify as a mcguffin. The mcguffin serves no purpose to the story outside of the fact that the characters are after it.

The Infinity Stones in Avengers: Infinity War give Thanos powers and allow him to carry out his plan in the end. They're not mcguffins.

The Ark of the Covenant in Indiana Jones is almost a mcguffin. For most of the movie it doesn't do anything except being a vague supernatural power the characters are after. But in the end it activates and resolves the plot by destroying the Nazis, disqualifying it.

The Arquillian Galaxy in Men in Black is a mcguffin. It doesn't do anything in the movie except be sought after by the characters. The bug is after it, but it doesn't do anything with it. The Arquillians threaten to destroy the Earth if they don't get it back, but they don't use it (except in the very end when they play marbles with it) In story terms, it's entirely interchangeable.

[sew-birb]

Unobtanium in the Avatar movie is so much of a McGuffin I bet most of us forgot it existed

[charlesoberonn]

It's got the most mcguffiny name short of just calling it Mcguffinite.

[maybeasunflower]

The Maltese falcon in The Maltese Falcon is also a great example.

[charlesoberonn]

My favorite example is the Uranium sand from Notorious. It's a mcguffin so interchangeable that it was literally changed during the scripting process.

It was stolen diamonds in earlier drafts of the script and was changed to Uranium because it was 1946 and everything nuclear-related was very topical.

[dorothylarouge]

[berryplusbears]

this already exists. it's called Deltron 3030, a supergroup between rapper Del the Funkee Homosapien (who most of y'all only know from the Gorillaz song "Clint Eastwood" but has a much larger and greater catalog), producer Dan the Automator, and DJ Kid Koala.

In 2000, they released a self-titled concept album set in the year 3030, about a former mech soldier and hacking master named Deltron Zero, who plans to use his skills to create a virus to shut down the corporate overlords suppressing hip-hop culture and human rights, all while he takes part in rap battles to become Galactic Rhyme Federation Champion.

Whole album is dope, and it's down below. A masterpiece in the scene of underground hip-hop.

[weerd1]

Along these lines, please check out CLIPPING, "Splendor and Misery," about a slave on a starship in the far future who escapes with the help of the ship's computer that has fallen in love with him.