The World Is Quiet Here

Fabulous. Poet. Front seat drummer. Activist. Backwood soul. Peacebuilder. Hell raiser. Connoisseur. Whisky lover. Non-binary maverique. Queer as all get out. I'm afraid bullying won't get you anywhere you want to be, cowboy. I'm a fucking superstar. My pronouns are they and them. Attempt it.

[remanence-of-love]

[amargedom]

“There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”

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[ddiospyross]

“gender envy” this “gender envy” that,,, sir that man is a senior citizen

[britnxyspears]

I don't plan on being 19 - 24 forever ????? Gender investment.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Gender compounding interest. Gender dividends.

[peccables]

[hellish-daddy]

[imaginablyy]

[succulent]

[amargedom]

“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”

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[flamejob]

me: i hate musicals >:( stinky and annoying

me when i hear the worst pies in london:

[greenlinettfinchbird]

thiS IS LITERALLY MY BEST FRIEND I SHOULDNT BE LAUGHING SO HARD

[aleshakills]

So on my posts about racism or transmisogyny, I often see tags that basically say “I don’t understand this but I’m going to reblog it anyway.” If you see a “social justice” type post that you want to reblog but don’t understand?

Don’t.

I know this goes against everything you’re used to hearing on this website, but listen. Reblogging posts you don’t understand is basically the equivalent of blindly repeating whatever you’re told. Even if you’re right, if you don’t understand why you’re right, you could be spouting utter bullshit and you wouldn’t even know it.

When I see “I don’t know what this means but I’m gonna reblog it anyway” it sends a lot of messages. It says that you care more about seeming right than being right. It says that you want good ally credit without any of the work of being a good ally. It says you’re on my side because I can make a post sound good, not because you actually agree with me on anything beyond the surface level.

So instead of just reblogging that post, save it for later. Like it, draft it, bookmark it, whatever. Go to the op’s blog and skim through a couple of pages, see if you can find some context. If the post is old, you could try asking for context in a non-condescending way. “Is this post referring to something specific?” is a lot better than, say, “Does this even happen? I’ve never heard of this.”

If that doesn’t help, do some more research. Google, search tumblr tags for recent posts on a subject, ask people who have EXPLICITLY stated they are willing to educate. Maybe in the process you’ll find more posts with a similar message to the original, but in easier to understand language. Maybe someone else already added a reply that adds useful information onto the op.

And maybe all of that takes a long time. Maybe, by the time you finally understand what the post was talking about, it’s months old and no longer relevant. Maybe you don’t even want to reblog it anymore. Who cares, fuck that post. You learned and grew as a person. That’s more important than looking good on a blog.

[lesbianherstorian]

from the comic “new contingency groups for the gay pride parade” by jennifer camper, 1992

[amargedom]

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

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[amargedom]

“Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

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[everythingstarstuff]

[lost-carcosa]

Oh look, it’s campus-police officer Lt. John Pike who pepper-sprayed peaceful protesters at University of California Davis.

And UCD reportedly payed $175,000 for this image to not appear when you search it on google:

[ladychurch-deactivated20200811]

Darn shame if this circulated…

[deedesria543]

So you mean to tell me that just by reblogging this I’m ruining an organizations plan, wasting them money, and uncovering some shitbag humans awful behaviour?

T R I P L E K I L L

[feigenbaumsworld]

[astound]

[remanence-of-love]