Oh, balls.

34, non-binary veteran with a lot of feels

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

why did anyone bother with making animated movies after Prince of Egypt? did they think they had any chance of ever comparing?

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

Are you kidding me.

Are you absolutely kidding me.

I don't even know where to start with this one. There are so many mind boggling implications in that first sentence that it would merit a case study. You people are insufferable antisemites and I'm tired of your shit. You can't pretend you're "just 'antizionist', not antisemitic" when YOU'RE the ones bringing up zionism whenever Judaism/Jews are mentioned in any capacity.

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

You just cannot have it both ways.

If you define zionism as a modern colonial and supremacist ideology – which is the definition you’re clearly going off of when you use the word propaganda – then Prince of Egypt has NOTHING to do with that. It’s retelling a 3,500 year old story that long predates any such modern movement, with no reference to the modern geopolitical landscape – a story that’s the very cornerstone of Jewish scripture and identity and is regarded as true and religiously significant by all other Abrahamic religions, most notably Christianity and Islam.

Calling Prince of Egypt ‘zionist propaganda,’ calling that 3,500 year old Jewish story of hope and deliverance ‘zionist propaganda,’ automatically goes against your own claims on what zionism even is. By your logic, zionism then is nothing more than the acknowledgment of the timeless Jewish connection to and yearning for the land of their ancestors.

Unless you’re actually saying that what you object to is Jewish people having millennia old stories about their ancestral ties to the Levant, or stories about Jews enduring oppression, surviving and reaching freedom. If that’s your problem with the movie, congrats! You’re a full-blown antisemite.

Prince of Egypt is a profoundly human, profoundly uplifting story (and a visual and technical masterpiece, hence my og joke post). You have poisoned your mind if you think otherwise, @autistic-ben-tennyson.

[emperorsfoot]

I found this reblog on their blog

"I want you more than any blue sky"

This is a bit off topic but I’m curious, what do you hate about The Prince of Egypt? It’s been a while since Pesach and your post criticizin

It seems like Ben10 is just parroting this person's opinion and has no ability to think for themselves

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

Actually @emperorsfoot I'm very glad this got brought up because I've been looking for an excuse for years to pick apart Lindsay Ellis' tweet. I *know* that what she's saying is not a direct criticism of the movie but of the movie's fans, but something about it has been nagging me for so long you don't even know. There's an element of the story that seems to fly right over people's head and that I never see brought up in any discussion of PoE: Rameses is the one who calls for the tenth plague.

Now, I will not make ANY commentary on the biblical text and its various readings or implications. Scripture is far too important for me to dare pick it apart and give my two cents in this context and on this platform, so what follow is PURELY a commentary on the movie itself:

Rameses is the one who explicitly, textually condemns the firstborns to death in PoE. It's not a matter of interpretation, it's a fact of the movie.

This line here is the Lord's line in the biblical text. Giving it to Rameses very deliberately gives him responsibility over destiny. It's also followed by this (forgive the pisspoor gif quality)

This is as close to a freaking DIAGRAM as you're gonna get.

Rameses is pointing his finger, copying Seti's mural -> Seti's finger points to the innocent children -> the innocent children are put to death -> Rameses' son is right under them, the literal next in line.

Rameses, by imitating his father in ordering the death of innocents, puts a curse on the innocents among his people.

As a reminder, one of Rameses' core problems is that he is convinced being Pharaoh makes him capable of dictating the terms of reality ("you will be what I say you are" "if I say day is night it will be written" "it shall be as I say") - and in this particular case, he gets his wish. He says "there shall be a great cry in all of Egypt" and all of Egypt screams. That's also why the Hebrews' safety has to be bought with the blood of a lamb this time around, when they were safe for the previous plagues without condition: Pharaoh has the power of life and death on his tongue (something Moses directly acknowledges when Aaron is despairing), and a judgment so powerful has been unleashed that it cannot be escaped by anyone unless a death is substituted for a death.

The message of (that part of) the movie is not and has never been "massacring children is okay sometimes," rather it's the cosmic law: "death begets death." If you build on blood or ask for it, you WILL reap blood.

(That's why the first plague is the Nile turning to blood, because it's returning the blood of the Hebrew babies. It's not subtle either, the visual language is very clear.)

And finally, here's how Moses reacts to Rameses' curse and the devastation that follows.

It's tragic, heartwrenching. It's mourned more deeply than anything else in the movie.

And it's entirely Rameses' fault for passing the sentence.

[spot-the-antisemitism]

Autidticben10 has since been banned and when she remade found herself blocklisted by her friendgroup who find her too cynical and insufferable so justice clearly exists

[drew-booker-books]

The Rules of Anti-Transmasculinity

1. Your body is not your own.

1a. Your body is a site for other’s desires.

If they want you to be beautiful, it is cruel of you to deny them that. If they want you to be feminine, it is cruel of you to deny them that. If they think you should reproduce, it is cruel of you to divest yourself of reproductive duties.

1b. Your body is owned by the state.

Reproductive laws that can affect cis women also affect you, but you cannot weigh in on them, because you are not a woman.

Anti-trans laws affect you, but you must not bring this up; you are never the “real” target, even when you are, because you are not “really” trans.

When the legislation talks about “protecting” your fertility, you should feel lucky to be safeguarded from yourself.

- - -

2. Your experiences are not your own.

Your childhood does not exist. You cannot claim girlhood if you are a man, and you cannot claim boyhood if you did not grow up within it, and no other visions of childhood may exist. Your history, however you define it, is fundamentally incompatible with who you are.

Forms of sexism which are aimed at women, by a binary logic, cannot be aimed at men or mascs. If your experiences contradict this, either you are invalidating your identity, or you are appropriating womanhood.

It is your duty to blithely dissociate yourself from any trauma patriarchy may have inflicted on you. Men cannot be affected by these things even if it happens to them personally. A “real” man must be stoic and uncaring.

- - -

3. You are a “default” body.

You are to be assumed affluent, perisex, binary, and passing, with no legal or situational barriers to medical or social transition, and no reproductive concerns to speak of — unless your nonconformity can be used to dismiss you.

You are assumed to be able-bodied, sane of mind, white, and thin — unless your mental health or appearance is good for mockery.

You are to be treated as essentially cismasculine. Being treated as if you are cis is a compliment, even when it is erasing your lived experiences, and even if it is known and true that transfems have their own unique struggles from cis women too.

- - -

4. You are an “aberrant” body.

4a. Your body is a site of fascination. You (are presumed to) have a gestative capacity, and a fun extra hole. These traits are relevant when others assess your attractiveness and their kinks. They are not relevant in the context of your health. You’re a submissive little bottom, right?

(Your body is something to conquer and claim. This may be done to emphasize your femininity, deny your androgyny, or defang your masculinity.)

4b. Your body is a site of disgust. Any steps you may take to masculinize yourself are “ruining” your “female” features, regardless of any joy you personally take from the changes, and regardless of if you engage with medical transition or not.

(You are killing the woman you are supposed to be. Stand trial.)

4c. Your body is too unattractive to be sexually violenced. It doesn’t happen. When it does, you have anatomical privilege, because you are (presumed to be) in possession of a vulva, and victims with those are of course always believed. But it doesn’t happen, because you are essentially a cis man, and of course men don't get raped.

(It is not possible to be targeted for this violence because you are transmasculine. It is always misaimed violence, intended for someone else. Apologize to her for taking up her space.)

4d. Your body is a proxy for other’s ideas about activism. Womanhood is good, and manhood is bad, and things in-between are uncomfortable and hard to classify; therefore, a detransition back to cisfemininity would be a preferable state of being, wouldn’t it?

(Your transition is at odds with good feminism.)

4e. Your body is a joke. Men don’t menstruate. Men don’t gestate. Men don’t lactate. Men can't have breasts. If the suggestion sends people into hysterics, you must take it lying down.

(Remember; comedy is subversion, and you are an “abberant” body.)

4f. Your body is a hypothetical and not a lived reality. If men could menstruate or gestate, that would fix patriarchy. It would not result in men being denied at the door of the gynecology office, surely.

(To entertain your existence is a rhetorical inconvenience.)

4g. Your body is a source of put-down. You are a cunt, a pussy, a fembrained bitchmoid — and it isn’t sexist to refer to you as such, because you are a man. Your disinclination to be reduced to bioessentialist biogotry is simply proof that your masculinity is fragile. It is not proper for you to object to it, even when it is the same rhetoric spewed by patriarchy itself, and even if it would be equally galling to say to a woman, cis or trans.

(Have you not considered that your trans body is privileged under cis patriarchy?)

4h. Passing is universal to all transmasculine bodies and all life situations. Closeted, clocky, queer, or femme trans men and mascs cannot exist, and are not subjected to the same violence as women or other queer men. Legal gender markers don’t matter. Medical access isn’t a concern. People from your past cannot possibly be vindictive enough to out you, because queer or not, you have male privilege.

(Have you considered that you simply aren’t trying hard enough to pass?)

- - -

5. If you are inadequately masculine, pre-transition, nonbinary, or bi-gendered, you cannot “really” be a man.

Remember; you are a lost little girl when you need to be talked down to.

Remember; manhood and womanhood are diametric opposites, exclusive states of being.

Remember; poverty is not an excuse.

- - -

6. If you are inadequately feminine or too masculine, you cannot “really” be queer.

Remember; you are a “default” body.

Remember; you are essentially cis.

- - -

7. If you are too assertive or too unwilling to serve as a punching bag, you cannot “really” be a feminist.

Remember; men cannot be feminists.

Remember; men cannot need feminism.

Remember; your masculinity is most readily acknowledged when it provides a rhetorical threat.

- - -

8. If you really insist on your masculinity, then it must be in service to others. You owe them labor, defense, money, and deference.

You are not owed equality or reciprocity, because men are responsible for patriarchy. You are on the hook for the patriarch’s debt, and you are presumed to share his wallet.

(A man is a protector and a provider. I thought you wanted to be a man?)

- - -

9. Your interest in your own autonomy is indistinguishable from power-grabbing.

Your self-determination and self-advocacy aligns you with patriarchal interests, or is a sign that you are too battered by patriarchy to self-determine in the first place. Someone else must decide these things for you. Someone else must speculate on your motives. You do not get to speak for yourself.

- - -

10. Your inclusion and representation is not important.

10a. When you notice your absence from culture, art, and storytelling, others ask; why do you not simply project your experiences onto cis men? Remember, you are a default body. Surely you are different from other queer people who need direct representation.

(When you try to do that, you are classically fembrained and illiterate for thinking a given character could have transmasculine subtext or themes.)

Projecting onto cis women is akin to killing them.

Why are you not satisfied with mpreg fanfic?

10b. When you make your own art and stories, you are playing with dolls. It is unimportant, juvenile, and easily dismissed much in the way that people discuss teenage girls who act as culture-makers.

(If transmasculinity is not present in the world of art, it must be because it has no artistic merit.)

- - -

11. Your erasure is proof that you have nothing to offer.

The muffling of violence done to you or your brothers is proof that no violence occurs in the first place.

The muffling of you or your brother’s contributions is proof that none of you contributed in the first place.

The removal of your brothers from the historical narrative is proof that they didn’t exist, or that they never stood in solidarity with other feminists and queers.

Silence is proof that you need not speak.

- - -

12. Denying any danger that you may be in is affirmative to your masculinity, because men cannot be harmed.

There are no statistics that say otherwise if we never read them.

There are no patterns of abuse if we never speak of them.

There are no dead if they are recorded as femicides.

There are no victims if we do not speak their names.

- - -

These contradictory impositions are not aimed at transmascs alone, but they are the recurring patterns I notice as a transmasculine feminist. We are not the only ones in danger, but we are queer all the same, and all queerness is targeted under patriarchy.

[egon-ramblez]

[animentality]

[exhuastedpigeon]

The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?

[inbabylontheywept]

i think if i asked peter thiel for 500 million dollars, and told him that my business plan was to spend 499 million of that on oil futures, and the remaining 1 million ordering the entire stock of pizza, burgers, fries, shakes, jamba juices, schitzels, fucking wetzels pretzels, the whole lot, within 50 miles of the pentagon, just to see if i could blow up the pentagon pizza index enough to move global oil markets 0.2% and recoup my losses... i think that if i asked him that, in those exact words, he would give me 1 billion dollars just to see if i could do it twice. and i would try. god forgive me i would try.

[inbabylontheywept]

this is less about being smart and more about having some small pearl of evil lodged in the center of your being. you lack the evil pearl. thats okay. not all of us can be descendants of wicked oyster men.

[inbabylontheywept]

@pikkington things an HP lovecraft protagonist would scream as they got dragged into the depths

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

[swimmingblue]

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

[june-egbert-official]

Someone who says they don't care if dudes wear dresses and makeup is a better ally than someone who says they're a safe space for women and non-binary people. I am not joking.

[redrook]

yeah I went to a gay bar recently with my husband tumblr user beemovieerotica, and a VERY confused capital S Southerner straight man in cargo shorts and a trucker hat showed up

apparently he (who through my drunken memory I remember only as Earl) liked some woman, and she told him that he wasn't cultured enough and needed to attend his first drag show (she also flaked on him)

Now I'm reasonably androgynous and was wearing makeup, a short leather skirt, and black heeled boots, but still when this guy came up to me when I was standing off alone and asked "So. Do you come here often?" with a very earnest expression, I thought. Surely not. This guy doesn't think I'm a straight woman does he????

Anyway I start talking with this guy and he has no idea what the fuck is going on but he is just a very kind and earnest dude and asked a lot of questions (while asking if it was alright if he asked those questions). I track down my husband and friends and I'm like y'all. We need to make sure that Earl has a Good Fucking Time tonight.

Man was completely out of his depth. At one point they put on a puppy auction to raise money for Pride, that started with a 6 ft drag queen in all her glory leading a leather pup out on a leash to the tune of that damned RSPCA "in the arms of the angels" song

We look at Earl. Nervous. He squints, laughs, and then goes "I was wondering why people were dressed like that!" He turned to me and asked "So they're like dogs?" And I said yeah pretty much. And he just chuckled and went "Yeah I thought so with the tails! Never seen this before!"

When the first drag king came out, Earl looked at me wide eyed and went "There's a dude version too?!" And I said yeah they're called drag kings. And he said, low, "Drag kings."

During one of the queens performances, he frowned, shook his head and told me, "Your legs are better than hers." in a tone that implied he thought there was some travesty taking place and I should also be getting paid

When he found out I was there with my husband (and that I am not a woman) he profusely apologized and said "I'm so sorry, it's dark in here and I thought you were a hot chick! I wouldn't have said nothing if I knew you had a husband, I'm so sorry about that."

When beemovie invited me to the dance floor with him later and I still had a drink in my hand, Earl said "Oh don't worry about that I can hold your drink, you get on out there and shake your ass with your husband!" Then before we left, Earl bought me drinks for "Putting up with me all night and answering everything. Y'all helped me have a great time tonight."

like. You gotta recognize there's going to people who have never had interacted outside of their of their own community. This includes you. And just because your community is familiar with all the right vocabulary and how to correctly say something, it doesn't mean they're actually going to support you. If someone like Earl shows up, confused and out of their depth but kind and curious and earnest, you gotta have patience and truck through the small things, so when he goes back to his friends and his coworkers and they snicker asking how the drag show was, he can genuinely talk about how included we tried to make him feel and that he had a great time

The person matters more than the language

[plasticpursesweetpea]

I will fuckin never not reblog this.

[crane-among-celandines]

I think I've reblogged this before, but it bears repeating.

I think some of the worst damage to leftist causes is done by that specific set of people who claim that they care about marginalised groups and the prejudice they face, but whose principle activism consists of using progressive language to pick fights with people from up on their home-made moral high-horse.

[afeelgoodblog]

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

[shrewreadings]

Happy Leland Melvin Day!

[squidificati0n]

Happy Leland Melvin Day!

[communistkirby]

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

[dsudis]

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!!

[tuttle-did-it]

Happy Leland Melvin Day to all who celebrate— and an extra Happy Leland Melvin Day to all dogs out there.

[animentality]

[reinvent-and-believe]

[ratsgrowontrees]

friendly reminder that documenting and observing sooo so so important!!! kind of a long post but I learned a bunch of helpful tips about how I can help my community while also being within my rights and lawful!

first up is risk assessment: make sure you and the others you're with will be as safe as possible when recording. if you don't feel safe recording, watching and being a witness is enough for now!

writing is just as important as filming!!!! any details you can write down, name and contact information of the detainee, where and when the arrest was, how many people were involved, the whole shabang

YOU HAVE RIGHTS!

the agents will most likely try to take your phone or intimidate you into not recording but you absolutely have the right under the first amendment.

"I am exercising my right to document this arrest." - saying this may not get them off your back but you're absolutely are allowed to do this. everything on your phone is protected by privacy rights so if they make a grab for your phone (illegal btw) lock it so they can't get the video. ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE things like face ID and finger print unlocking are NOT protected under the 4th amendment so make sure to turn those features off and have a number passcode to unlock your phone!!

ALWAYS RECORD IN LANDSCAPE VIEW!! this gets more background or landmark details that make it easier to note the location of arrest.

if you can DO NOT focus on the detainee and their family or neighbors. I know it seems a little controversial to getting as many details as possible (especially if it's in a residential area) but having the detainee in the shot makes them, their family and possibly their neighbors more of a target for retaliation. focus as much as possible on the agents/law enforcers, background details, weapons if any, car license plates, etc.

if you feel comfortable pressure them for a warrant and forms of ID. they are required BY LAW to have identification of being law enforcers make sure to get it in video if you are recording. A warrant for arrest must be signed by a judge and will be incredibly detailed. A legit warrant will have the full, legal name and address of the arrestee as well as why they are being arrested and a judge's signature.

more often ICE agents will get administrative warrants. A VERY VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS KIND OF WARRANT IS YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LET THEM IN!!! Administrative warrants do not give the agents/law enforcers the right onto a premises or access to private property unless "invited" in. that is to say, DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR UNLESS THE WARRENT IS A LEGIT JUDICIAL WARRANT!

if you are given orders (ie: step back) record yourself complying (so like point the phone showing you stepping back and complying w the orders). this might seem demeaning but not complying could get you charged with obstruction of arrest :/ (or worse)

speaking of! do not obstruct the arrest, ik I'm repeating myself but doing so opens yourself up to harm and also the potential for arrest or injury (and potentially others if weapons get drawn)

whistles and horn honking have proven to deter unwarranted arrests, HOWEVER if the goal is to observe all the noise makes it hard to hear what is being said.

THIS IS MY OPINION if you are in a group make a scene, safety in numbers logic and chase them away we have seen this working in Minnesota, but if you are by yourself it would be better to take a more passive approach, again in my opinion!!!!!

there is ofc danger involved in any situation as the agents have proven to be extremely trigger happy and violent so tread carefully and be safe fellow observers!!!

everything in here is important but if you take one thing away DONT POST THE VIDEOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA LIKE SERIOUSLY

ik it's SUPER super tempting to post and rage about how unlawful and violent the agents are being and to spread the word but posting them on social media leaves the video open to be edited/tampered with and could discount it as evidence in the future.

if you can, talk to a lawyer and the family members of the arrestee about what to do with the video before posting anywhere. there are also a number of legit organizations that have dedicated spots to turn in videos and written reports for future litigations

if you have the means always make a copy of the video or report and *⁠.⁠✧never stop recording*⁠.⁠✧!!!

especially if you are being pushed around or assaulted that is the most important time to keep the camera rolling!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING AND PLEASE STAY SAFE!

[my-2nd-account]

The difference is that jealous Ilya looks homicidal while jealous Shane looks suicidal

[no-lovelorn-hazard]

@raccoonboywrites coming correct as always

[prescription-cactus]

eleventh plague. emails. 

[whentobuytraintickets]

Pharoah, I hope this email finds you letting my people go

[prescription-cactus]

as per my last plague,

[wyf-of-bathe]

The thing about decolonization is that it in the vast majority of cases, it is historically inseparable from nationalism, particularly ethnic nationalism. As a result, it is remarkably easy for ultranationalists to pass off their ultranationalism as decolonization. Additionally, colonial studies inadvertently splits the world into a static binary of 'good' nations and 'bad' nations, even when completely anachronistic and inaccurate; when passed onto the layperson, this tendency can often become majorly exaggerated and coopted by political extremists.

All of which is to say, 99% of internet decolonization discourse is shit and I don't take anyone on this dumbass site seriously.

[candidenigma]

#yep#also we should talk about the way all the empires that came before#sit under the current one like geological strata#how as soon as decolonization from the current power is floated#the ghosts of those empires come back to haunt the present#as each group in the colonial colonized society competes to become the dominant post colonial group#And what we find time and time again is that in declaring only the most recent empire colonial#and claiming only white people with boats do real colonialism#we privilege the second most recent conquest#and declare those conquerers the indigenous anticolonial masters of a place#And declare their former subjects who might have different opinions about how a postcolonial world should look#to be traitors to decolonialism#especially if they have the temerity to seek independence from this new liberated post colonial state#decolonization almost always splinters into competing nationalisms#made worse by the way almost all colonial powers figure out that a great way to stymie decolonial ambitions and maintain control#is to foster ethnic tensions in their colonial possessions#When you add that outside pressure to the existing layer cake of conquest#and the privileging of the status quo at the time white people showed up by an international audience used to privileging white viewpoints#decolonization almost always becomes messy bloody and unpalatable#in sharp contrast to the utopian visions promised#all too often rather than give up the utopian ideal outsiders will deny the messy reality#or insist this doesn't represent real decolonization

[quasi-normalcy]

I’m not trying to turn your kids trans; that’s stupid. I’m trying to turn them into socialists.

[quasi-normalcy]

#for real tho! their gender is their business but class struggle is everyone’s business

[imawitchywitch]

Just in case!

[stoic-rose]

Here is a link to Pride Plans where you can get this stuff started.

[jellybeanium124]

there's a jewish story about a rich man who goes to his rabbi to ask him about building an orphanage, and the rabbi is like "yeah duh go for it!!" and then later the rich guy comes back and is like "actually I've decided not to... I was just doing it for my own image and not coz I cared about orphans" and the rabbi was like "bitch the orphans don't care why you're building the orphanage!!!" and sometimes I wish I could say that to lefties who haven't unpacked their christian upbringing. sometimes motives don't matter!! who give a fuck why a politician wants to do a good thing? bitch the orphans don't!!