from the river to the sea 🍉

always suffering from Lauren Shiba brainrot. TRANS lesbian, she/her, #1 music listener in the U.S., 2021. 22, now living in Montana, daughter of Diana of Themyscira, property of the Yoshi cult. really fucking gay. in love with a fuckton of women. I have autism, so please forgive me if I seem rude or inconsiderate

[the-only-useful-lesbian]

Alright, time for an actual pinned post ig

Hey y'all, my name is Ember.

I am a proud Googledebunker (if you understand that reference, please send me an ask and I will follow you)

My pronouns are she/her, I'm a lesbian and a trans woman, and I have been on this earth since 2003.

My general tag is #from ember to you

My movie and show review tag is #ember on stage

My game tag is #ember rolled a 20

My cooking tag (when I bother to cook instead of eating out) is #ember's kitchen island

My poll tag is #ember at the ballot

My resistance tag is #ember calls for revolution

Other tags will come as soon as I start posting about other things, but those are my main ones.

Be respectful or be blocked. I will tolerate no bigotry of any kind. This includes misandry, so if you're one of those "kill all men" types, even as a joke, I do suggest unfollowing and blocking me.

I believe in a free Palestine, a free Congo, a free Hawai'i, and a free Ukraine, plus any others I don't know about.

I do not see the actions of Israel as the actions of Jewish people as a collective, so don't try any of that bullshit. I know people from all walks of life, I'm friends with as many of them as who are willing to be friends with me, but I do not tolerate the actions of a genocidal government.

If you're a mutual, you can DM me for my nsft side blog, otherwise please don't.

And finally, before I sign off, make sure to always read the terms and conditions

[sanlorenzoherald]

good morning

[sztupy]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

You’ll need the link!

Who wants to help Cards Against Humanity f*** with Elon Musk?

We got Musk off our land. Let's build a monument to remind him he's a sad little b**** with no friends.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you were almost turned into a vampire, but before you could be fully turned, the vampire was staked. This left you with a vampire weakness, while still being human.

Spin the wheel to find out your weakness!

How much does this effect you?

Nothing changes

It's inconvenient but I can deal with jty

It will be hard to adjust but I'll figure it out

I don't know if I'll be able to live like this

Maybe I can find another vampire to finish the turning?

I might just kill myself

Results/other

Remaining time: 5 days 10 hours

thanks @theemmjay for submitting this poll idea!! Seriously it's such a cool concept I love it so much

[the-only-useful-lesbian]

I'm already kinda repelled by holy symbols religious people tend to be dicks when I tell them I believe there's truth in all faiths

[aya--bb]

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

[notemily]

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for

[smokeydabear420422]

[lorelei-system]

It’s interesting how there are at least 2 types of “I don’t remember that.”

1. Not remembering until the memory gets triggered/ you are confronted with evidence, and then you do remember.

2. Absolutely no evidence will bring back the memory. The memory does not exist anymore. That wasn’t me. Nope. Didn’t happen.

And then there’s “I have been told about this, and while I do not remember it, I know that it is factually correct. How do I know? I don’t know.”

I don’t even know what my point is, it’s just interesting to think about. Memories are weird, dissociation is weird. The way the highly traumatized young mind deals with memories is weird.

[1five1two]

'Love Letter'. Rebeca Fleur. 2025.

[queer-as-city-folk]

The National Parks Service have purged trans people from the website on the Stonewall National Monument

[queer-as-city-folk]

Trans people threw the first bricks at Stonewall, this is explicitly genocidal and revisionist, they are removing trans people from our history, they don't want us to exist

[queer-as-city-folk]

The fact they can't even acknowledge us in platitudes is fucking terrifying, they can't even say T in LGBT on the website for Stonewall Inn. Stonewall was the start of our liberation and we can't and could never have liberation without trans people and specifically trans women like Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera

[queer-as-city-folk]

During the raid on the Stonewall Inn in 1969, the police forced all women in the bar to undergo genital inspections in the restroom so they could arrest trans women and drag queens. That was what started the riots, people refused to comply with the police attempting to target trans women. It is explicitly revisionist to separate trans people from the stonewall uprising

[snowstories]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[mossbear-minese]

I don't remember where I saw this piece of advice so I can't credit it, unfortunately

But it was along the lines of "instead of asking whether something is out of character, ask 'what would it take for this character to do this'"

Which I think fits really nicely with this advice of making the actual action itself also feel in character

[absolutewifey]

Do You Wipe Your Ass Every Time You Poop

Yes. 100% of the time. Provided there is toilet paper available.

No. Not 100% of the time. If toilet paper is available I sometimes choose not to

Remaining time: 10 hours 5 minutes

I just learned something I find absolutely disgusting about my boyfriend and I am fucking nauseous about it but need to get him peer reviewed before I completely loose my mind because I am so afraid of over reacting.

[godpup]

HEY CAN EVERYONE TELL SHEILA THAT THIS IS NOT AN OVERREACTION AND THAT THIS IS INSANE AND YOU NEED TO LEAVE HIM YESTERDAY

[ivy-michaels]

GIRL, DUMP HIM

[loth-caatgirl]

GIRL KILL HIM

[iwilleatyourenglish]

girl do not be guilt tripped by a man mudbutting through god's green earth

[captain-price-returns]

Re: sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln on half rations.

[spectroscopic-gayety]

Concern grows over conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln

Thousands of sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have reportedly faced food shortages and broken plumbing, with some considering jumping over

[raptorific]

I’m fairly certain that the people who make the “batman could make himself obsolete by using his money to solve the economic strain that drives many people to crime” posts are only familiar with Batman through Will Arnett’s spoof performance in the Lego movie, since that’s the only version of Batman I know where he isn’t hiring so many ex-convicts at his company so they have a legitimate source of income and using so much money to fund social programs that all the other bigwigs at Wayne Enterprises hate him and want him gone

Literally every version of his origin story I can remember involves him realizing that he can’t just treat the symptoms as Batman, he has to treat the root cause as Bruce Wayne. A huge part of the plot of “The Dark Knight Rises” is that his company is on the verge of bankruptcy because Bruce keeps spending all their profits on things like “clean energy” and “food and shelter for orphans.”

The opening of “Arkham City” shows him campaigning against mass incarceration because the majority of the inmates in Arkham City are not public menaces like the Joker, they’re desperate people with no other options, and Gotham should be providing them with legitimate means of stability rather than punishing them for having none.

Especially since the majority of his villains are independently wealthy people (doctors, lawyers, business executives) who are exploiting people’s desperation in order to get themselves henchmen, and the henchmen almost always have jobs with a living wage waiting for them on the other side of their sentence, and Bruce has a standing offer to pay out-of-pocket for the therapy of any of his villains whose crimes are the result of a mental illness (which Bruce is sympathetic to since he is mentally ill himself)

But what’s really damning about these posts is that a lot of them suggest Bruce should use his money to give the police the resources they need to deal with crime on their own, which makes it clear they’ve never actually consumed a piece of Batman media, since the issue with the Gotham Police is not that they’re underfunded. They have a bloated budget, they’re almost militant, and they’re so corrupt that they actually encourage crime, both violent and economic, because they’re on the payroll of the richest criminals. 

Also, some of them refer to Batman as a “old rich white man’s wet dream” and I really disagree here. A story that says the only rich dude in the world who’s not a criminal drain on society is the one who spends the majority of his hefty inheritance and all his corporate profits trying to correct the imbalance that allowed him his wealth in the first place, whose staunch belief is that the best crime control policy is building a world where no one feels crime is necessary, as well as refusing to support mass incarceration or police corruption, systems which stand to benefit him financially? Batman is an old rich white man’s worst nightmare. 

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Bruce Wayne tends to spend so much of his wealth on social reform and funding charities for the needy and helping desperate ex-cons get back on their feet so they don’t have to resort to crime again, that they had to invent ancient curses and shit to explain why Gotham continues to be a shithole because it begins to stretch plausibility that there’s so much call for Batman in a city that has Bruce Wayne in it.

[bigmouthlass]

Well that’s the point, isn’t it? That one guy’s wealth can only make so much difference in a city where the system itself is corrupt. And – I think, I don’t read the comics – Bruce knows this. He does what he can within his reach, and clings to the hope that the differences he makes in individual lives can add up to something greater. He knows he can’t save the world, but maybe he can save Johnny C. Henchman by putting Da Boss away for a while and making sure Johnny has a job and a home to build on.

[omghotmemes]

I laughed way too hard at this

[mezimraky]

in case anyone is looking through the notes trying to find the original artist it’s will mcphail !! feel free to check out his site but also here are some other things he made too !!

[smooththegoofyshark]

OOOHHH CLICK ON THAT LINK THIS GUY IS FUCKING GREAT

[evilkitten3]

HOLY SHIT

this guy GETS IT

[murgaliciousdefinition]

He is also responsible for one of my favorite comics of all time.

I wanted to buy this print but last I checked on his site it was sold out. Here’s his shop though:

WILL McPHAIL

Giclée Print on Hahnemühle German Etching Paper Limited edition of 100, signed and numbered.  A4 - 30 x 22 cm Orders will be shipped

[faejilly]

There’s a Lady No-Kids Continued

Also Triangle is one of my favorites

[cykelops]

another history making marvel post I never see anyone talk about is “so is nobody helping blade kill all those vampires”

[cykelops]

found it

[the-only-useful-lesbian]

Okay I know this is a joke but like Blade does that shit alone WILLINGLY

[evergreen-femme]

had to share this

[wizardshark]

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

[mingpicket]

kink: deleting someone’s pointless comment by reblogging the post from the same person they did

[yzghuldar]

I mean, that’s censorship but okay.

[nutsacktorturer]

ksvskwbidbwkdbskbsjw

[king-of-the-freeway]

[kimberlyannharts]

rip 😔 [x]