#firefly flickers

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“THE MUPPET JOKER HAS FUCKING DIED!”

while the livestream definitely had some connection issues, it was an enthralling duel to watch nonetheless

@strange-aeons @the-muppet-joker

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“you being anti-israel is just internalized antisemitism!”-actually I find it more antisemitic that you’re conflating my ethnic identity with a genocidal government

(non-Jews can reblog, just don’t derail)

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y’all. you must understand that misogyny and misandry both exist. wait no, keep reading! do not jump to conclusions based on this sentence. you must understand that misogyny exists at a systemic level that misandry does not, but that this doesn’t erase the personal hatred or distrust of men/masc people that some people have! whether or not you see this as a problem, by definition, it is misandry.

transmisogyny and tranmisandry are taking these root words, very basically meaning hatred of or negative bias towards women/men, and adding the trans- prefix in order to create specific words to describe hatred of or negative bias towards trans women and trans men.

so much discourse on this is just completely nonsensical to me, because there isn’t shared understanding of what these words actually mean. transmisogyny and transandrophobia both exist, and are both specifiers under transphobia. yes they carry connotations based on the environments they exist in, and yes it is possible for their systemic bases to be different (not taking a stance on that here), but they both exist and are both important words to describe experiences of discrimination.

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you can support palestine and palestinian people without denying jewish and israeli heritage btw. we’ve also been documented being in israel for thousands of years, but that doesn’t give israel the right to bomb and force people out of their homes. denying our history doesn’t help anyone. stop demonizing jews in the process of advocating for palestinians, please and thank you

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shout out to the systems who don’t have a concrete label for their trauma

to the systems whose trauma was so many different things stacked up until it just overflowed and you couldn’t cope

to the systems who can remember or talk about various trauma memories, but none of them seem to add up to anything cohesive or connected

to the systems who just could not cope, even if other people think your trauma should have been manageable

i see you

(for our own comfort, endos please dni)

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i can’t believe that “trans men are cis for recognizing and taking care of their anatomy” is an actual take i saw on this godforsaken webbed site

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here, have some elijah volkov fanart we did :D

-ash n val

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i’m so tired of the “psych ward patient” stereotypes. i’m so tired of the bloody costumes, the straightjackets, the unkempt hair that’s supposed to signify they’re “crazy”. i was in a (pediatric) psych ward. we were all just children. hurt and traumatized children. yes, sometimes we were unkempt and neglected ourselves. yes, sometimes we were violent towards ourselves or others. we were children. i’m so fucking over demonizing mentally ill people. i don’t care what your justification is, this shit hurts kids like me and the others in the hospital with me

-ash