The Was and Should Be King

They/Them 21+ Personal fandom blog of rotating interests. Used to be a multi-muse RP account, but that was YEARS ago. Mostly reblogs, but occasionally I post my own stuff ♡

[thewasandshouldbeking]

Reminder that this 🏳️‍⚧️transgender blogger🏳️‍⚧️ still likes the Harry Potter stories, even though they will also throw a full blown party with cake and streamers when the delusional former writer eventually, finally shoves off. 🎉⚰ Consider me a literary atheist, I don't give a shit what "god" says after publishing.

I'm seeing more "you can't separate the art from the artist" rhetoric going around, and if it's that important to you to police how people interact with art and media, just so you can make snap judgments about their real life character, we're not going to be friends. (Go ahead and block me, if it's gonna be a problem. It'll be better for your mental health.)

Also maybe stop putting creators onto pedestals and we wouldn't have this issue in the first place. :/

[snototter]

A hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in the Peruvian Amazon

by Richard McManus

[sennamaticart]

A small snippet from my cyanotype zine I'm debuting at A2CAF this weekend!

[morteraphan]

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[blackberreh-art]

Miss Annabelle Cane is caught in a web...

[lazer-t]

A pigeon crosses your dash

[genderqueerpositivity]

Minnesota’s Giant Rainbow and Leather Pride Flags

June 28, 1998. Both flags measured approximately 50 feet wide and 75 feet long.

[ryuutchi]

Friendly reminder that the leather flag predates almost every other flag. We owe this community to leather daddies and kinksters

[nightmarechamillian]

In the era of corporate sanitization never forget it was leather daddies and S&M folks who protected some of the earliest pride parades.

[glamourweaver]

Three years after that last comment and the corporate backers are fleeing as the moment the political tide turned - the kinksters aren’t.

[mysticalcats]

it's really gross how you can be self aware enough to know what's going on in your head but you can't actually stop it from happening. i need to grab it like a pigeon that got stuck in a house and throw it out the window. be free

[melspontaneus]

[xueyangdaily]

[leebrontide]

Younger people, one thing I want you to understand about Millenials is that, overall, our parents taught their daughters to aim for careers and employment, but they didn't teach their sons to keep house. This causes a whole lot of Situations.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

My brothers are my half-brothers; they spent summers and some holidays with us. I love my brothers.

Their mother picked up after them. They were not required to take plates the kitchen or do the dishes or anything like that.

My mother, who would tell you she is for equality, came home one day, sighed at the mess of dirty dishes scattered about, and said, "Gayle, help me pick up."

"Those aren't my dishes," I said. "I picked up my dishes."

My mother sighed again. "Just help me pick up."

"No," I said again. "I didn't make that fucking mess."

She never approached my brothers and said, "Boys, in this house, you take your dishes to the kitchen." She did not tell our dad, "Hey, tell the boys they need to pick up after themselves."

It was, "Gayle, pick up the dishes."

And when I refused because it was not my fucking mess, I got lectured about being difficult.

See also: My brothers--in a classic dick-move of all siblings--figured out they could pop the lock on the bathroom door and throw it open, and I would freak out because I was in the shower and trying to get five fucking minutes of peace.

Guess who got yelled at for being "unreasonable"? Not the boys. Because a lot of moms of millennial boys still said shit like "boys will be boys" when they should have said "Boys, if you got body-slammed on the concrete, I'm not taking you to the hospital."

[gwydionmisha]

It was similar for Xers. I spent a lot of time in my 20's teaching romantic partners and friends basic household skills and having to be really hard ass about them carrying their weight.

It is stupid and infuriating and I hate that the "Boy Mom" trend is setting yet another generation up for unfairness and domestic strife.

[vaspider]

Yep.

[rhincodono]

One time when I was in high school, my mum came home w/ groceries. She needed help bringing all of them in. Did she ask my brother who was already outside playing basketball? No. Did she ask her husband who was sitting on his ass watching TV in the living room? Nope. She walked past both of them, through the house, and into my room where I was doing homework and yelled at me for not immediately coming out to help her.

I have been told that I am "the last of the millennials" or that I'm a "gen zer" or that I'm "on the cusp" by so many different people that I am 100% convinced this is not a generational problem. It is a societal problem. And millennial parents are not immune to raising their kids this way just bc they're younger than x'ers and boomers. Same goes for gen z'ers and every generation after us so long as misogyny remains the bedrock of society that it is.

[blackberreh-art]

Lovebirds~

[billielhindle]

Coming soon to my YT and Soundcloud for free.

Photo by Natasha Turner

[mossworm]

I like ichthyosaurs, they are like if a lizard was also a tuna

[thewasandshouldbeking]

When the YouTube commenters are like "mwahaha!" But you're like "the stakes and my expectations were already so much lower, and also I'm drunk, so fuck you ♡"

[thewasandshouldbeking]

The hilarious(!) part about being transgender is that often what you're actually fighting for is people dehumanizing you in the correct way. Like no, I'm not a Woman™️ (soulless incubator,) I'm a genderless monstrosity you refuse to acknowledge the very existence of! Or, no, I'm not a Man™️ (predatory rapist,) I'm a Woman!...but without the physical capacity of a Soulless Incubator, so I'm even Less Than Less Than Human!

[thewasandshouldbeking]

Sometimes a chick cannot break the shell and dies inside the egg. This is a story that is worth being told.