The Guild of Fandoms

I like my little pony ( haven't posted shit about it tho. WILL IMPROVE THAT SOON )

[tisnotblakeffs]

I got sparkly eyeliner. SPARKLY EYELINER

[morganbritton132]

Keep putting off working out because I need to crochet and keep putting off crochet because I need to work out.

[goth-queen]

[my-dailydreams]

[morganbritton132]

"Do you think my mom and dad like me?"

Carol drags her felt-tip marker from one mole to another, and then down the curve of Steve's cheek to the dots on his neck.

She thinks about it.

They're only five but Carol had a lot of opinions. It makes it easy for her to conclude, "No."

Steve slumps.

"That's okay though," She decides. "My mom doesn't like my sister very much either."

"No one likes Cathy, Carol."

Steve slumps even more until he's lying on his back on her bedroom's pink carpet. Carol follows the movement, hovering over him as she connects more freckles together.

"My mom doesn't like Cathy but she loves her," She says. The statement hangs in the air just long enough for it to hurt when she adds, "Your mom and dad don't love you either."

The hurt is instantaneous.

It hits numb at first. Icing him to the veins and then exploding in the center of his chest. It feels like a knife. It feels like he suddenly can't breathe.

He has to move.

He sits up suddenly.

Carol doesn’t move back fast enough and - "Ow! You hit me!"

"Wha- no, I didn't!"

"Yes, you did!" She accuses, hand to her forehead. "You hit me with your big head!"

"You - you hit me first," Steve shoots back. "You hit me with words. You hurt my feeling."

"I didn't hurt your feeling. I told the truth. Maybe you're just a baby."

"Maybe you're not my friend."

Carol gasps and then turns towards her bedroom door and wails, "Mommy! Mommy, come here. Steve hit me!"

Steve gasps this time.

"You're going to get in trouble now," Carol taunts. "You should've been nice to me."

Steve has a split second.

He decided to meet Carol right where she's at and burst into tears when Mrs Perkins walks through the door.

He sobs about Carol being mean and about her drawing on his face, and he's going to get in trouble at home and - and -

They both end up in time out.

Sitting on opposite ends of the couch, Carol stretches her legs into the space between them until she can nudge Steve with her foot, "Psst."

"What?"

"You're really good at fake crying."

"So are you."

"Thanks," She says. "...It's okay that your mom and dad don't love you 'cause I love you. You're my best friend."

Steve still wants his parents to love him but, "I love you too."

[achillesinhighheels]

sorry i never replied. everyday is blending together and i'm losing sense of time

[ageofthegeekdotcon]

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[loserrsquad]

How to Disappear Completely

[fewpion]

[tisnotblakeffs]

HOLY CRAP YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH JOY THIS FANART GIVES ME.

[comikbook]

ngl the most important thing i was taught growing up was that its not enough to just be anti racist but to also be pro black

[comikbook]

hating racists is good ! but if youre only hating the oppressor and not uplifting the oppressed all you are doing is using a performative method to direct your anger at. being angry is good, but its not enough. you have to love too. uplift the ones that should be uplifted. celebrate black art and culture and people. celebrate blackness for the beauty it is

[geeses]

reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

[animentality]

[i-am-a-lazy-mess]

hate when I type :) and this 🙂 fucker appears. Go away you evil soul

[stillnaomi]

using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold

[tisnotblakeffs]

shh don't wake her up.

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[dimetrodone]

People horrifically fucking up facts about evolution and genetics too support their stupid beliefs or to seem smart and “rational” is probably one of my big pet peeves 

[bogleech]

Yeah. An enormous number of racists, misogynists, homophobes and transphobes I’ve met eventually whip out something about evolutionary biology and they never, ever, ever, ever have the slightest shadow of even a half-right idea what any of it means or ever cite a claim ever actually made by a scientific study.

Here’s a quick handy reference list or anyone who isn’t sure:

Homosexuality does exist in almost all social species.

“Alpha males” are not a real phenomenon and in fact the most aggressive males tend to be the least reproductively successful.

“Survival of the fittest” simply means that the success of a species hinges on how well it “fits” its environment. It does not mean that stronger or smarter individuals are supposed to succeed. Those things can even be a detriment in nature by wasting too many resources.

“Race” is not a biological concept. Someone who looks different from you has the same human genes, just a different grab-bag of dominant traits.

Evolution is not a march towards higher complexity, more intelligence or even more adaptability. It’s just a fluctuation of characteristics dictated by environmental pressures and mutation. A slime mold isn’t “less evolved” than a hawk, just adapted for success under different parameters.

People didn’t evolve “from apes.” It’s more complicated than that. We are a category of ape, sharing a common ancestor with the other apes.

No human on Earth is “closer” to an evolutionary ancestor than any other. We all descended from the same one.

Neanderthals were also a “sibling” species of ours. We didn’t evolve from them.

Some of us did, however, cross-breed with Neandethal man. It is exclusively non-African races, such as white people, who still carry hybrid human/Neanderthal genes. Whoops, sorry “white purity” skinheads, you’re actually mixed with a whole other species.

[sunny-butch-deactivated20220919]

Some more stuff!

Humans are actually more genetically homogeneous than most people suspect. This is possibly due to a population bottleneck at some point in our evolutionary past. Two chimpanzees from different sides of a jungle are likely more genetically different to each other than any two human beings in the world.

Our big brains may help us use tools, but what was really principal in their development was the need for empathy, communication, and cooperation.

Humans. Are. Social. So social it drove an incredibly energetically costly increase in our brain size.  Don’t believe anyone who says its our nature to fight “every man for themself.” We’re humans, not bears. We fight for each other.

And we always have. Fossil remains are found of ancient humans who bore signs of crucial mobility impairments that lived to notable ages. Some even have sticks or other mobility aids – community care and support is our way. We don’t cast off those with impairments, we stand by them.

Human sexual dimorphism is on a decreasing trend. Our ancestors had greater difference in canine size and overall size. Our dimorphism gap has gotten smaller.

Occam’s razor is the principal that whatever is the simplest explanation is probably the most likely one. Don’t believe someone who says the reason we evolved bipedalism is so that males could carry gifts to females to woo them. Yes, this is a real ‘theory’ on how bipedalism evolved.

Skin tone is an adaptation of UV levels vs vitamin D levels. Both come from the sun. UV is harmful, so where sun is plentiful populations develop a darker skin tone for more protection. The skin needs sun to create vitamin D, so where sun is scarce, the skin tone lightens to allow more sun in. This is literally all it is.

Final thing: No one’s mind is really equipped to fully understand how long a billion years is, or a million, or even tens of thousands of years. Evolution takes place over a loooong time. Its very, very, slow, slower than we can really comprehend. We can’t “stand in the way” of natural selection by caring for our ill. We don’t need to “help” evolution in any way. It inevitably happens, but not on any sort of timescale we could possibly affect, so don’t fall for anyone that tells you not to “stand in the way” of natural selection. That’s fascism, and its utterly pseudo-scientific.

Not to mention natural selection doesn’t have a “will” that you can stand in the way of. Its not an entity with wants, its a millions-year long process. And its impossible for our decisions to “stand in its way.” Our decisions to care for one another are what brought our species where it is, plain and simple.