Intro
In case I would ever return to active blogging, I wanted my blog to have a pinned post that would introduce me and my positions. Nothing extra, nothing fancy, nothing very helpful.
I am Azer. I'm 18+ and that might reflect on the subject matter of my blog sometimes, buyer beware. I mostly reblog, but it might happen that an original post appears from time to time. I usually keep my distance from engaging with Tumblr because I have OCD and this website is basically a minefield of triggers, but sometimes my curiosity and the want to self-express just overpowers my self-preservation instincts.
My pronouns are it/its and he/him exclusively.
My positions:
Queer identity discourse of any type is inherently harmful and only benefits those, who would see us all eradicated. It is just bullying in progressive coating done by those who have adopted progressive terminology without the mindset. That being said, no amount of me bitching about it will erase the discourse or its impact, so I feel the need to disclose my positions on the discourse topics I've encountered for the sake of clarity:
Lacking heteronormative sexual/romantic atraction is a queer experience. There is no such thing as stolen valor. Ace discourse did irreparable damage to our community. People's experience with their sexuality and gender is often complex and that creates space for "contradictory" labels. Not understanding something is not a reason for condemning it. Transandrophobia is a useful word for talking about bigotry against queer expression of masculinity. It doesn't mean that trans women aren't opressed or are less opressed, or that transmisogyny is acceptable. The terms are meant to be complimentary, not in competition to one another.
Every trans person's existence is an affront to cispatriarchy, and thus all are affected by a mix of transmisogyny, transandrophobia and exorsexism to varying degrees depending on their unique individual situation.
Transitioning is morally neutral and doesn't say anything about the validity of one's trans identity. Both transitioning and non-transitioning (be it by choice or necessity) people deserve to be represented in conversations about transness and respected. Intersex people are inherently queer and are one of the most vulnerable of queer demographics on the basis of having been systematically erased by the medical community and beyond. The prominence of AGAB-language in our day-to-day queer communication is a proof of how successful their erasure has been. Ever since it has been explained to me by intersex activists, I try my hardest to avoid AGAB-language (especially when discussing trans matters a perisex viewpoint), and it is my honest opinion that you should as well. I use "people with [anatomical organ]", "wolffian/müllerian" and such instead.
Fiction impacts reality, but not on 1 to 1 basis. There is no moral weight to media consumption. Proshipper.
Online harrassement is not activism. Mockery is not activism.
Being a marginalized identity doesn't protect you from having biases and holding phobic positions.
Sex work is work and pornography is morally neutral.
Kinks and fetishes are morally neutral.
There is no such thing as thought crime.
Informed self-diagnosis is not harmful to professionally diagnosed people and is often the only way for someone to stop demonizing their symptoms, access community and develop more effective coping strategies.
People with personality disorders aren't "scary" or inherently abusive.
Feeling empathy is a neutral trait.
Body shaming is always harmful, regardless of the deeds or political opinions of the victim.
Abortion is morally neutral regardless of reason.
Children are a marginalized group.
It is necessary for everyone to oppose racism and xenophobia.
AI (on the current level, while non-sentient) should do hard work and humans should create art, not vice-versa. That being said, criticising and making fun of AI "slop" should never ever veer into ableism. No, people aren't too incompetent, childish or lazy, when they use AI. Stop it.
And while I am firmly anti Ai art, I maintain that using it for making one's daily tasks easier (ie. making it do their shopping lists) is morally neutral.
ACAB
Cats always belong indoors.
Capitalism kills.
The only privileged minority are the rich.
Aside from politics and social justice, I like reblogging/posting about my interests, especially cats, fantasy media and DnD.
I have a running series of posts about gnomes of the Forgotten Realms setting (known for example from the Baldur's Gate games or the Drizzt novels) that I haven't touched for years, but might pick it up any day now:
The Forgotten Folk: All Things Gnome
For original posts, I use the tag #azer_posts.
Side blogs:
Recently I have made myself a heavily NSFT kink side-blog for a little bit of sexuality exploration, and, well, out of sheer curiosity. If you're 18+ and interested in that sort of shit, feel free to have a look. If you run a NSFT blog of your own, I followed you and you want to check me out for a potential mutual, that's probably what you're looking for.
If you have a The Sims themed blog, I followed you and you have no idea why would a random shitpost/discourse dipshit do that, that's because my simblr is a side-blog and I cannot follow you from there. Here it is!





















