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Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

Might I add, free database of mostly European folklore and myths

A Book of Creatures by @a-book-of-creatures doesn't update these days but is another thing along these lines, really huge, fully illustrated all by the author and cites all sources

st-dionysus

Free database of Native American folklore, sorted by tribe.

finnyboychee

can you guys tell im mentally ill and also a homosexual

mournfulroses

Ada Limón, from "Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry," originally published in April 2026

cock-holliday

I think people need to be more comfortable with illegalism and I’m not kidding. Of course the more legal something is, the safer and easier it is to do, but the more people who disregard the law, the harder it is to enforce. There are plenty of laws on the books that people just ignore and are never or rarely policed.

Becoming more comfortable with little illegal activities makes you more comfortable with bigger more important illegal activities. Additionally, it is crucial to build a wall of silence. Nobody talks everybody walks.

People who give out food without a permit, hold a march without a permit, grow a garden without a permit, are more likely to be people you could turn to to work with on preventing an eviction, or keeping people out of cop hands, or helping your friend Jane get crucial healthcare when it’s not legal in your state.

Communities comfortable with these acts won’t call the cops, and then nobody knows that it’s happening.

People have got to shift from both the idea that lawful = good/ illegal = bad, and that the illegality of something means that’s the end of it, and the only fight left is to make it legal again.

friendforthefucking

This ☝️💯💯💯

lilyblisslys

there should be a cool, chill way to say things like “I’m struggling” or “I’m having a hard time” that doesn’t imply you might have needs

clownboybebop

*street shot of zohran mamdani clad in nasty lil suit and hard hat* five months ago i was elected mayor of new york city. in that time, we have managed to COMPLETELY defeat the Staten Island Minotaur at no additional cost to the new york taxpayer

rabbithearteddd

“September” by Jennifer Michael Hecht

detranspositivity

I really dislike the narrative that detrans people were “never really trans”…really? how do you, an internet stranger, get to decide what someone’s identity “really” was? being trans means many different things to many different people, so to say that someone was never “really trans” because they changed their mind at some point kinda implies that you think there is a “right way” to be trans.

well, newsflash, there is no “right way”. If someone believed they were trans, lived as a trans person, experienced the ups and downs of gender dysphoria/euphoria, went thru the trouble of social and medical transition and through that journey, that person said “wait…I don’t think this fits me anymore.” seems pretty trans to me.

and that’s okay, it’s okay to change your mind. you were trans.

or if you want to say “I wasn’t trans I was x thing instead” that’s also okay.

what isn’t okay is to police other people’s language about their journey. to police someone’s identity because it makes you uncomfortable. like it or not, real trans people detransition. whether they decide they are actually cis, trans but in a different way, or another identity that fits them better is up to that individual person and doesn’t invalidate their previous LIVED EXPERIENCE as a trans person.

If your knee jerk reaction to someone saying they were trans for a period of time, then decided to detransition is “well you were never trans at all!” mayhaps examine why that’s the first thing you think to say, instead of something a bit more constructive or positive. Like what happened to “oh I’m glad you were able to find an identity that worked for you” as an example.

For those who are detrans reading this, if you needed someone to tell you this. you were really trans. you weren’t faking it and you weren’t deceiving anyone. you don’t deserve to have your experiences devalued or seen as unimportant. Whatever your situation or circumstances were/are, it was real, because it was real for you. and that’s all that matters.

harder-on-me

I love female fags, male dykes, trans mtftms and ftmtfs. I adore genderqueer genderfreaks who fuck gender and hug eachother. A kiss to every bi lesbian, every asexual lesbian, every mspec gay guy married to his beard who he's in love with. A smile and a nod to all the incomprehensible degenerates who are holding hands when they get pelted with rocks on the street for being visible and a menace to society. I pour one out for all the faggot dykes, femme butches, agender aromatic asexuals, high femmes and stone butches. This one goes out to the freaks of nature who queer queerness and are left to martyrdom by those who should love them, you are loved by me.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism

Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills.

A true role model for today.

dragongirlsweetie

you don't understand the only way to keep children safe is to isolate them from everyone except the people who are statistically most likely to abuse them

shamebats

"Why I take testosterone as somebody who identifies as a woman"

myxinie

I wish there were more binary2nonbinary discussions out there that aren't de/trans. I want to see and talk to people who feel even more trans (like Trans #2) now that they are exploring the genderqueer, genderfluid, and non-binary side of their identity after being binary trans for a long time.

mascwithaflask

The most annoying part abt being queer in a way where your genderqueer identity impacts your sexuality is that you have to simplify it so that the fact you like femmes, mascs and anyone in-between in a queer way unique to their gender presentation comes out as “yeah, I’m a bisexual/pansexual trans masc enby who’s aroace spec,” when really you’re thinking “I’m a trans masc nonbinary person w he/it/nov pronouns who is sapphic and Achillean bisexual who also happens to have critically low ability and interest in defining romantic and platonic relationships so I let people tell me their boundaries instead + I also don’t hate nor do I love sex and I have zero hangups abt having non conventional forms intimacy with friends”

That’s such a mouth full, these ppl would get mad at me for having a unique gender and sexual experience and straight up anarchist views of relationships

Yall get weird when I tell my friends I love them, you can’t handle me saying I like enbies and girls as pathetic as my men, smh

scribeherself

people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.

scribeherself

Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼