the fire will not consume us

Hey, I'm Birdie. Things you can expect here include: tabletop and video games, comics and books, history and dead things, animals and folklore, chronic illness and disability.

[hellofmychoice]

Ya know, sometimes I doubt myself about whether I’m on the right side, because I deeply care about women and trans people and feminism. And maybe I’m not doing a good job at acknowledging my male privilege or whatever.

And then I remember that an account (on twitter) that posts “should all afabs be raped?” was explicitly marked green on Shinigami Eyes. And how a trans woman IN MY CITY was harassing a young indigenous tranmasc about being a fake trans™️ because he wasn’t on T despite him saying when he first got on it he started LACTATING, so he decided to stop and get top surgery first. Not that it’s fucking anyone’s business. So actually fuck all of you.

[notaplaceofhonour]

We really gotta start spelling out the full name of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance when discussing the IHRA definition of antisemitism to make it clear who and what is being targeted

[notaplaceofhonour]

We cannot stress enough that the organization whose definition of antisemitism people are choosing to demonize and politicize and try to push Jews out of public life over is the Holocaust education organization, alongside Yad Vashem.

The definition itself is incredibly milquetoast and reasonable; anyone pretending otherwise is flat out lying.

There is no pretending this is not an attack on Jews and the memory of the Holocaust.

[jenpsaki]

[gaywill]

i should be allowed to kill people based on how they talk about lesbians

[kriminalistic]

idc how #feminist you think you’re being but saying shit like “why would you ever want to be a man???” to trans men is just straight up transphobia. yes, even if it’s another trans person saying it. trying to make trans men feel guilty for being men is transphobia. trying to convince us that we’re better off detransitioned is transphobia. i don’t fucking care if it’s “just a joke,” your joke is transphobic.

[rozeoverdose-main]

For pride month, here's an unfun fact: there was a trans man who was a poet in early 1900s Poland and his name was Piotr Odmieniec Włast. He burned all his feminine clothes, wrote personal letters using masculine pronouns on himself and had teeth removed to make his face more masculine (but don't try this one, okay?). He was thrown into an insane asylum by his family for being trans. He is still called a woman and she by most polish publications about him (including his own memorial website), university literature professors refer to him as a woman, and has his deadname on his tombstone.

There is a difference between women writing under a masc pseudonym and Piotr. That was not a pseudonym. He is a man.

I just think he deserves justice, and to be known by his real name. Piotr Odmieniec Włast.

[raisinchallah]

nobody wants to say it but loumand blood drinking in front of daniel while actively mocking him and waiting for him to call them on their weird servant roleplay nonsense and armand being a vampire while unbelievably horny the entire time was the best sex scene on iwtv and we will not reach such highs again

[reticent-vampire]

[insert-witty-user-name-here]

[cunning-linguistix]

Pro tip: when you see a brand new slang term, your first question should be how that term has been used in AAVE for the past 20-30 years.

[lacunaanonymoused]

This, too. This is a big one as well.

[relelvance]

A woman's place is on the battlefield

[vympr]

so you think women should die

[duncebento]

funny how you immediately assumed the women would lose the battle….misogynist much?

[vympr]

you're right i will reflect on my behavior. sorry women

[gaymaramada]

I keep thinking about Piano Jax.

When Pomni asked where the “real” Jax was, I interpreted it as an inaccurate observation; that all of the different versions of Jax were just different aspects of his personality.

I still believe that to an extent, but this one — the frightened, trapped, quiet one that only serves as background for the other personas — is the most raw, honest side of Jax; the part of Jax that, had he not let herself succumb to his fear and self-hatred, would have ultimately saved her from abstraction. Even after it was essentially all over, she still tried, offering Pomni a way to reach her as soon as he had the chance.

Jax wanted to reach out, wanted to ask for help, but his ego, dysphoria, internalized misogyny, and self-hatred continued to hold her back until the very end.

[hahaimdrowning]

Elizabeth Kirkman Fitzhugh, Militant Mary

November 13, 1914

[adelphicoracle]

I had never heard of this character before, but it really was published over a hundred years ago. Here’s a comics blog talking about her, and a couple more gems:

Obscurity of the Day: Militant Mary

It's hard to believe that this blog has been running over a dozen years now, and I am just now getting around to mak

[roguesquirrel]

my pre-columbian miis and the art they were based on

[ruffboi-mags]

Hey, as a heads up, if you are being harassed or sexually harassed at work, report that shit to your supervisor and/or HR, and do it in writing such as an email you can forward to your personal account, a text message you can screenshot, or a document you can have the person you're reporting it to sign and photocopy to keep a record of it. If your work has some sort of online report system, make sure you can get a copy of it, or at least screenshot or screenrecord the process of submitting it.

If you are being harassed, especially for an extended period of time, and you don't report that to your employer until you're quitting, until after you've quit, or at all, then if you try to file any sort of discrimination case there is a high likelihood that the result is going to be that because you didn't report it and give your employer the opportunity to respond, they are not liable for what occurred, and you'll get nothing out of it.

Report it. Document your report. Keep copies of everything you send them and everything you're reporting. Yes, even if you're positive your supervisor/manager/team lead/whomever is aware of what's going on. Yes, even if you're 100% sure that nothing will be done. If you don't report it, if you don't report it in a way that can be documented and provided to support that you did report it, then all they have to do is say they had no idea it was happening and were never given the opportunity to correct the situation, and you won't be able to conclusively prove otherwise.

This is about US employment specifically, if this is not the case in your non-US country then that's great but this bean soup is not for you. Thank you.

[rachamemories]

This June was the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of SS Tanais, a cargo ship used by the Nazis to transport nearly the entire Cretan Jewish community that was torpedoed by the British, resulting in nearly everyone drowning and effectively destroying the Cretan Jewish community. The synagogues of Crete included Beth Shalom (bombed and destroyed in 1941) and Etz Hayyim, which was looted and desecrated, then occupied by squatters until the mid-1950, then served as a place to dump trash, used as a chicken pen and dog kennel. Etz Hayyim was finally restored in the years 1996-1999. It houses the oldest surviving and functional mikveh in Greece.

[marymsjay-art]

- What are you waiting on? ⭐ -

[myfootyrthroat]

I'll see people talking about a specific war/conflict as if the combatants are doing something incorrectly because civilians are dying and I regret to inform you that all wars are like that.

[zaprowsdower27]

#“war is hell” is a fundamental truth

#even the most just and necessary wars are absolutely horrific

#and that is why you should never trust people who glorify war

#(and yes 'violent revolution' counts)

Not letting these stay in the tags