Rose's Space

I have no idea what I'm doing

[hachama]

DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military's Recognized Religion List

Defense Secretary Hegseth previously announced the change due to an "impractical" system.

Doesn't take advanced pattern recognition to see what's going on here

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[spiraledfaun]

some of you are painfully unaware that part of the whole reason many kinksters are like "what happens in my or someone else's bedroom is no one else's business"

is because people have been arrested and put in fucking PRISON just for having gay sex in the privacy of their own homes. in the United States. this millennia.

if you think i'm joking, look up Lawrence v. Texas (2003). 14 out of the 50 US States STILL had laws on the books criminalizing sodomy--and yes, you could be imprisoned for multiple years and sometimes even life for repeat offenses.

in the years directly leading up to the landmark case, enforcement even in those 14 states varied, but it was absolutely weaponized against queer people, especially when stacked on top of other offenses to make up a longer sentence.

um so anyway, what happens between two or more consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes is none of my OR YOUR business, and i'm not fucking kidding!

[prismatic-bell]

Important additional context:

"Sodomy" does not, in a legal context, mean "anal sex."

It means "any sexual act the court has decided is deviant."

BDSM? Sodomy.

Crossdressing for sexual pleasure? Sodomy.

Jacking off to nude photos or video your consenting adult lover sent you of themselves? Sodomy.

Het oral sex? SODOMY!!!

If you're starting to think "but how could anyone prove that happened without breaking down the door?"

Ha. Haha. Ahaha.

First, I'll give you one guess how they did prove it.

Two, these were often scapegoat charges--basically they couldn't actually nail you on anything because you hadn't done anything actually illegal, only things they didn't like, and they relied on public disgust against your "degenerate character" (yeah there's a very big reason we keep saying not to use that word and it's not to be killjoys) to make sure you knew your place.

Which means that in practice:

Went to a socialist meeting? Sodomy.

Male kindergarten teacher? Sodomy.

Mixing races? Sodomy.

Not Christian (or the right kind of Christian)? Sodomy.

Kink is only the beginning. They'll come after the kinksters because they're low-hanging fruit, and you'll gleefully help them dig a hole, laughing all the way and never consider that it's way too big for the number of bodies you need to bury.

[prismatic-bell]

I see someone in the tags saying "except pedophiles, they don't count, hang them."

YES THEY FUCKING DO COUNT.

Wanna know why?

Take a look at how many politicians have labeled trans people and their allies as pedophiles.

Take a look at how many politicians used to label gay people as pedophiles.

Take a look at how much suspicion falls on innocent men who just think working with kids is fun and want the chance to help, grow, nurture, and teach.

Take a look at yourself.

What about you could someone twist into "that person is a pedophile" if they wanted rid of you?

I can tell you exactly how they'd do it with me. I'm queer. I have a niece who came out as lesbian in her teens. I supported her.

Clearly I groomed her into that lifestyle, right?

Child sex abusers should be proven in a court of law to be guilty, and penalized to the fullest extent of the law. Pedophiles who have not abused children and seek to avoid doing so should not be hanged for something going wild in their brains.

Yes! That's super uncomfortable to say! I'm a CSA survivor! It's awkward and it means I have to defend people I really wish were not the way they are!

But the rope you use to lynch another will yank you into the tree to die.

No sodomy laws. None.

[changeling-droneco]

TW for talk on CSA and child marriage, this topic tends to get me fired up

Its also a fucking useless example for sodomy law especially because of how wildly age of consent can vary even in the united states. Which I hate that people get so weird about when you try to discuss it. No, knowing this stuff isnt a "red flag" you have to know something before you can speak on it or try and change it!

Child marriage is legal in 34 states with 4 of them technically not even having an age minimum outside of common law that could theoretically set it at 12. If we go back a few years the state of it would be even MORE dire as many of these laws putting age minimums only were put into place in the past eight years! So if one defines sodomy as "any sexual act done premarital that isnt missionary" then these wouldn't be covered.

Sodomy laws are USELESS for protecting children, because laws about CSA are better off being their OWN thing with strictly defined terms. Sodomy is so nebulous and hand wavy it does nothing but punish people who have done nothing wrong, strict terms with clear meanings is what creates protections. "You can't just make "if we think its gross" the law and expect that to actually work on deterring people who are doing the actual crimes. Which are ALREADY illegal.

Plus this isn't even getting into the psychology part of it that most people who commit CSA aren't even attracted to minors, they just like power over their victims and its easy to hold power over a child. its about control. Not 100% of the time, but very very often its about dominance rather then attraction. Plus there's the fact of sexual intrusive thoughts being a common form of OCD that causes a lot of distress in those that have those thoughts. This is a whole rabbit hole but just... You dont need to be attracted to a victims to traffic them, you might just want control, or authority, or just money!

[penrosesun]

I think it is really, really worth focusing on that “already illegal” part, because this is the foot in the door for a million and a half fascist proposed laws, not just sodomy.

“We need a law that makes it illegal to go into a bathroom that doesn’t align with your birth sex! Otherwise, people might go into the wrong bathroom to sexually assault someone!” Huh, interesting, but isn’t it already illegal to sexually assault someone, including in a bathroom??? Because if so, then you can just completely discard that explanation for the entire law. It is already illegal to go into the wrong bathroom and sexually assault a person; ergo, the law is not about sexual assault at all, it’s just about bathrooms.

“We need to arrest undocumented immigrants in order to crack down on gang activity!” Huh, interesting, but isn’t that gang activity already illegal??? So, if you wanted to crack down on gang activity, you could simply arrest people who are associated with gangs, and in fact, we do already do that. Ergo, this rhetoric isn’t actually about gang activity at all; it’s just about undocumented immigrants.

“We need to diminish free speech and freedom of movement rights for suspected terrorists, because otherwise they could commit mass murder!” Well, interestingly, mass murder is already illegal, and if you have probable cause that indicates that someone is planning to commit mass murder, you can simply arrest them for that. Since the law is already fully equipped to go after people who are genuinely suspected of gearing up to commit a violent terroristic act, this clearly isn’t really about terrorism at all; it’s just about diminishing free speech and freedom of movement rights.

“We need tort reform that caps the monetary damages that large corporations can be forced to pay, in order to keep people from bringing frivolous and fraudulent lawsuits!” Hmm, but see the thing with that is fraud is already a crime, and frivolous lawsuits can already be thrown out. If a law caps the amount of damages corporations need to pay in lawsuits which were not found to be frivolous or fraudulent, then almost by definition, it has nothing to do with frivolous lawsuits or fraud – it’s just about limiting corporate liability.

I could go on.

Always ask yourself what the actual function of a proposed law is – not just the stated goal, but what it actually does that is not already covered by an equally restrictive law.

And remember, a good general rule is:

If something is already illegal, then the people who are trying to pass a new law to ban it are probably trying to ban something else.

[dykeboytism]

Time to repost our photosensitive and colorblind friendly Jewish queer pride flag. The flags is a combination of the lavender stripe flag, the original flag, and the progress flag with a Star of David added.

[ID: a rectangle flag made to mimic the progress pride flag. The flag is horizontal, equally sized, and 9-striped with the colors lavender, magenta, red, orange, yellow, green, teal, indigo, and purple from top to bottom. There's a layered Star of David on the left of the image with the colors black, brown, blue, pink, white, and yellow from outside to inside. The yellow part has a small purple Star of David that makes the yellow part mimic the intersex flag. /End of ID]

Tagging: @radiomogai @io-archival @themogaidragon @genderstarbucks

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Radical concept but. . . dehumanizing people at all let alone for where they happened to be born. . . . . . is bad.

[chutzpahchesed]

[knight-of-skyloft]

From the Run For Their Lives website:

Yup, definitely sounds like death cult behavior.

The "wishing death on all the children of Gaza" seems to refer to an incident mentioned at the end of this article. The video doesn't seem to be publicly available, but after the firebombing counterprotesters began following the group and chanting "stop killing kids", and it seems someone answered with something like "not until the hostages are released". Which is extremely not cool. But the point is that the distance from "that's extremely not cool" to "therefore it is righteous and just to murder anyone at this event with you" is massive.

[chutzpahchesed]

[littlegoythings]

‘Sorry, there are no Jews allowed’: Israelis denied booking at German hotel

'Are we back in the 1930s?' asks Israeli consul general, sharing message sent by Hotel zum Hirschen in Lam, Bavaria; booking site removes ho

[27dragons]

OMG you guys! I've had this for several days but been sitting on it until the other recipient got theirs but now I can yell about it!

The INCREDIBLY talented and amazing @carcrash429 bound Safe and (the) Sound as a gift for a friend and also sent me a copy!

This is such a stunningly well-made trade bind that honestly, for like half a minute I thought they'd done the typesetting and then had the printing done by a printshop (which, to be clear, would already have been extremely cool)!

BUT NO! Once I looked at it a second time, I realized the whole thing was handmade! (Listen, in my defense, my mail arrives really late and I excitedly opened the package before I even got inside so it was dark!)

I love everything about it, from the font choices to the nautical theme in the accent art to the gorgeous cover and end papers! All the gorgeous art is in there (even the saucy stuff!) and our chapter notes, and it printed so beautifully!

Also I am just crying over the thought that anyone would love a nearly ten-year-old fic enough to want a physical copy!

Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this!!! ❤️❤️🐉❤️❤️

(More pictures under the cut!)

[carcrash429]

for my second @marveltrumpshate auction this year I offered a paperback fanbinding and got to create two books for @tehroserose!!

The first book was a collection of all of Rose's Marvel poems, which was super cool and unique to work on! Usually this wordcount (~12k) would be an A7 size book, but... since it's poetry and I wanted each poem to effectively be its own chapter (eg starting on the right page even if the left is blank) as well as for as many as possible to be on a single page rather than split across couple, this ended up as a 167-page A5 book!

I also indented the text twice as much as I do for a prose block, since the lines mostly didn't take up the full width of the page and I didn't want the shorter ones to get buried in the crease

The title pages in Gabriola, the table of contents page is in Garamond, and the textblock is in Gabriola and Noto Serif Hebrew. For this book I did the typesetting for the textblock in Libre Office Writer and for the front matter in Affinity Publisher.

The second book I made was of Safe and (the) Sound by @27dragons and @tisfan:

This story is mostly set in a beachside town, so I used nautical drawings by Ramona/alderdoodle for the interior design elements.

The title font is Marline Staylish, the chapter headings are Ink Free, and the textblock font is primarily Carlito. This book was entirely typeset in Affinity Publisher.

These were both sososo fun to work on and I'm glad I got to create these books! (also - if you haven't yet, you should check out all of Rose's poems as well as Safe and (the) Sound, they're all fabulous reads!!)

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Happy pride, here’s your yearly reminder that Jews belong in queer spaces! 🏳️‍🌈✡️

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

WITHOUT you subjecting them to ideological purity tests

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

This!!!!!!

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[userfish]

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.

[normalribbongirl]

there is no "epstein class". perhaps you mean capitalists, or men, or adults, or white people. all of those are classes, and membership in any of those classes gives an individual more power that they can use for sexual violence. the random parent or sports coach or whatever that sexually abuses the kid they have power over has no ties to epstein, and i can't help but feel that reducing it all to epstein is functionally a way of defending people like that by pretending the problem is Big News-Worthy Conspiracy and not a society that's extremely full of violence at all levels

[gingerswagfreckles]

When people say the Epstein class, they very intentionally are referring to Jews.

[bippysaurus-rex]

When I refer to the Epstein Class I am referring to oligarchs who have enough money that they have turned to depravity, Caligula style, while destroying the world for everyone else and it seriously has nothing to do with Jewish anything.

Bill Gates is a WASP, ffs.

[vaspider]

"This is an antisemitic dogwhistle"

"Well not when *I* use it!"

Fuck. Off.

[tehroserose]

When told something is an antisemitic dogwhistle there are two responses.

The one shown by @bippysaurus-rex which is to deny that it is, which is just engaging in antisemitism.

Or the one which a friend did on Discord when I pointed it out, which is to apologize and start trying to find a non-dogwhistle to say what she meant.

The first means I can’t trust you to take any antisemitism seriously. If it was done by a friend it would be grounds for IMMEDIATE distrust and a weakening of the friendship, if not an end to it.

The second? That’s what you should do when someone points out a dogwhistle.

[hazel2468]

I think part of what drives me so nuts about the whole Israel/Palestine discourse online in general is like.

There are actual, real issues that we could talk about. We could talk about the systemic issues in Israel, the problems (the BIG problems) with the Israeli government. We could discuss the settlements in the West Bank, we could discuss the issues with extremism within Zionism.

We COULD do all of that and possibly have some really great, productive conversations about how to fix these issues!

But we can’t, because right now every single Jew who DOES want to talk about that stuff is instead busy combatting waves of both Nazi and Soviet era antisemitism at literally every fucking turn, and we can’t discuss how to make things better in Israel for everyone until seemingly fucking EVERYONE ELSE stops advocating for our fucking genocide.

[orcboxer]

voter suppression against black people is reaching Jim Crow era levels in the US so please get registered to vote now, learn who's going to be on your ballot in advance, try to talk some sense into your conservative relatives or coworkers (diplomatically), and, when November rolls around, vote to make Republicans lose as many seats as possible. there are many other things to do, of course, but the midterms will have a massive impact on the future of civil rights.

[djjohnnyt]

The next three elections are incredibly critical to turning back the fascist wave.

2026 - Make the Republicans hurt for all the ways they're trying to strip people of their votes and put a check on Trump. We can flip the House and maybe even the Senate and actually put some of the checks the Constitution intended back in place. SCOTUS is still fucked and not a lot will get passed over Trump's veto, but we can stop the bleeding.

2028 - Get Trump, Vance, and all the fascists out of the Executive Branch. It's also the only way to start on SCOTUS reform and getting back on the right track. This is also the president who will be overseeing the next census that controls which states get how many Congresspeople.

2030 - State legislatures will be the absolute MOST important races this cycle. These legislators are the ones who will be drawing the maps for the next 10 years of elections. Republicans used 2010 to completely rewrite maps across the country; Democrats need to do it in 2030.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Also look into carpooling for voters, whether you need the ride or you can help drive for people who do. Republicans are making it harder to vote and that means that registration is less accessible, polling places are less accessible, and absentee voting is less accessible. In a lot of cases, especially in underprivileged and rural communities, carpooling is the only way many people are able to register and vote and those programs can only exist if there are enough drivers and enough people who know to ask for a ride.

[la-laborista-republiko]

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I am under no obligation to pay attention to the bullshit of random internet weirdos

[blackheartbiohazards]

➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy. 

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

➡️ You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort.

[theblxefox]

Ben Gvir is a convicted terrorist and needs to be in fucking jail, for the sake of literally everyone