Local Garbage Consumer

Sexy raccoon in your area, she/her, lesbian, communist, transfeminist, white, antiracist, disabled, massive nerd.

[midnightvrose]

[tooiconic]

both of them are me

[49wasagreatyear]

[birds-in-posts]

Bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicus)

[awlwren]

[id: photo of the reedling, a fawn and gray songbird, with its legs doing a split as it clings to two plants rising from the water’s surface and ducks its head down to drink.]/end id.

[baradragon]

[tartrazeen]

The Backrooms

[wizardarchetypes]

it's so funny how differently you experience the world as a disabled person. all the time people who don't like dogs are like "how comes dogs are allowed everywhere? dogs go everywhere like stores and all and restaurants and there's no rules about it! no one cares and we're all just supposed to accept it! you're not allowed to say anything about a dog in a public place even if the dog is behaving badly!"

and ofc i know there's nuance here and that plenty of people do bring poorly trained dogs places they shouldn't and get away with it.

but as a service dog handler i can tell you the idea that dogs are allowed everywhere and that no one dares challenge a dog's presence in public spaces is is deeply skewed by your experience as someone who doesn't need to go everywhere (or even anywhere) with a dog.

if you actually have to go somewhere with a dog you will not believe the number of people who will actually start shouting at you and ultimately try to have you removed from the restaurant, airplane, library, museum, entire 12-week university course, simply by saying "I'm allergic to dogs!"

and what never gets old is the way the staff of these places will actually side against you like "well, if they're allergic..."

[wizardarchetypes]

i was once at a random corner store in chicago waiting in line to buy a gatorade and a woman walked in, saw my service poodle, and started screaming (i do mean screaming) in fear and everyone ran to her and asked what was wrong and she said, "why is there a dog in here! i'm terrified of dogs!" and the cashier and multiple bystanders angrily told me to leave.

so i'm really sorry if it's obnoxious that sometimes people lie about their annoying pets to get them into a shopping mall or something but i rly don't have time to care

[wizardarchetypes]

i once had a professor email me and ask me if i'd be willing to drop an entire course and re-take it the next semester because another student emailed him the first day and told him they were bitten by a dog as a child and couldn't focus on class if there were a dog nearby.

i expressed compassion for their trauma but asked the professor whether there were another way to accommodate the student. i said, "what happens if another student next semester is afraid of dogs too? when will i get to take the class?" and i meant it as a genuine concern but the professor was like "you're just choosing to worry about hypotheticals."

[parkchanwoohoo]

[fandomsandfeminism]

This may be the best Pride merch I've seen from a major corporation.

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

And the assless chaps sold out on June 1.

[aetherograph]

They also specifically contacted members of the leather community, used them as models iirc, and donated $100k to Outright International. They talked the talk and walked the walk and put their money on it too. I don't really care that I can't afford and don't want this merch, I love to see my community getting the respect it deserves. Levi's said, "We make jeans which gays wear lots of jeans? Oh leather daddies? Let's call them."

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think Levi's donates to Outreach International every year too, as well as sponsoring pride events and other community support. They were offering Same Sex domestic partner benefits to employees in the 90s, and have been very public about their support for pro-lgbt legislation all through the 2000s.

So, you know, a giant corporation that walks the walk pretty consistently.

[flashbcaks]

They also this past year contributed some pretty decent prizes for one of the challenges in the new drag king reality competition series King of Drag - They're definitely walking the walk right now.

[mintbees]

steam repeatedly notifying you that a friend is booting up a game thats clearly not cooperating feels like ur sitting inside and someone outside keeps trying to rev up a lawnmower

[tartrazeen]

I was save scumming :3

[butchniqabi]

see the thing about iwtv is that i will always believe louis no matter what unless claudia says something different. then i believe claudia. lestat could tell me that it's raining during a thunderstorm and id need a peer review.

[creatingblackcharacters]

not participating on the creative writing challenge because I'm having a problem called "I have characters and story beats but haven't figured out an overarching plot for them yet". but I've been redrawing my OC portraits and wanted to show one of them to you. (I have other Black characters and might share them later, but I'm a slow artist with tendinitis and haven't gotten them fully rendered yet)

this is Lucia, and she's a spirit medium/paranormal investigator/former Catholic nun and the protagonist in a paranormal murder mystery that I'm trying to figure out. if she seems familiar, I've sent you another illustration of her before, which was drawn when I was experimenting a lot with my style and the colors on that one look a bit washed out for me now. she had a necklace in the sketch but if I got a nickel every time I forgot an accessory in the final illustration I'd be rich by now.

she's kind and whimsical and tries to see the best in people even if it sometimes involves ignoring the red flags. can seem a bit airheaded because she sees the world in a weird way (she's, as I mentioned, a spirit medium, she sees dead people all the fucking time of course she's going to act weirdly), but she's just wired different, and is actually very perceptive. think of the "quirky autistic coded detective" trope, but it's a whimsigoth cute Black girl with a complex relationship to religion instead of boring white dude #73.

This is AMAZING WORK! I'd ask if you did commissions but you said you got tendonitis 😭 I do believe I remember this design! Thank you for sharing!

[antifainternational]

FAR RIGHT THREATS

A Reference Guide For Recognizing Far Right Groups, Symbols, and Dog Whistles

[librarycards]

people on here who have been on 10-15+ years like myself...i don't know how they claim that there were never any Black bloggers on here, or that it was always such a white website. trudy gradientlair was on here. thisiswhiteprivilege was on here. there was a feminist citation project sara ahmed was involved in on here. there was someone on here whose username was wretchedoftheearth and that was how i learned who fanon was when i was 12, by googling those words. tumblr was the only place i knew i could go to get accurate & compassionate info about what happened to trayvon martin, when everyone around me irl was rabidly racist. the amount of reportage and scholarship that happened on here before the first big wave of bans was so huge and so much has been lost. where were you when it was happening??? why weren't you paying attention??

[neshatriumphs]

Every time people speak about how all the "problematic" people left the site and went to Twitter, I simply presume whoever says it is racist. Everyone who wanted to try to discourage people from returning here when Twitter was overrun, I presume was antiblack. Twitter became unsafe and Black people STILL kept at it, because it was literally still more productive for them to do work there than it was to try doing it here.

There were folks here that I know elsewhere now who literally help save lives in their communities and have online safe spaces in other places that they were able to build and cultivate. Seeing Black people who became huge when they left here will always be my perception of Tumblr. It is a place that Black people started great work and were put out because the work wasn't valued by the white Tumblr population or was straight up sabotaged by them.

I FINALLY got back in touch with Cashawn, who was the first person who got "Black Girls are Magic" poppin. I hadn't been in touch with her for nearly a decade! Because she fucking left here. And there are a few, very few who tap in and see what's up over here every now and then. But a lot of them simply let Tumblr kick rocks and they were correct to do so.

And it was the central place, not just for Trayvon's story, but everyone's. When other sites were not giving information or giving construed information, there were so many boots on the ground activists who used THIS SITE to communicate their situations and tell you what was real. In fact, one of the main points of the purges were getting rid of activists who were using the site to keep others informed.

This WAS the site people came to for things, and then it had to become Twitter and there are still ignoramuses on here who chuckle "Twitter is having old convos from Tumblr lol" Twitter is having PRESENT convos that many of the same people who were having them on Tumblr had to go have them on Twitter instead, because Tumblr became unsafe for the work that they started here. Twitter is STILL having conversations that Black people have had to have in every space we occupy and are often run out of.

But, because Tumblr IS full of white people, their arrogance makes them think they are special and smart and revolutionary. They don't even know how much of the shit they say has been picked from the bones of something that Black people originally grew on Tumblr before they were deactivated or jumped ship.

[kitsnicket]

The way this was my first thought and then I opened the comments

[prokopetz]

So, you've been on the Internet for a bit longer than me, and it sounds like you've used your full name as your net-facing identity for a good part of it. One thing heavily instilled in me as a child is that I should watch what I post online, since employers may find it (and do still remember how awkward it was to get called into a supervisor's office and shown a series of my inadvisable Facebook posts that said supervisor did not have direct access to). But right now I'm starting to get tired of juggling pseudonyms and taking care to remember who knows which of my identities link to each other. And seeing you post about furry dicks and whatnot under your legal name seems like it's rather liberating in comparison. Which brings me to my actual question: have you experienced (or suspected you've experienced) any employment-related downsides to such openness online, particularly in IT?

Honestly, if I wasn't a published author, I probably wouldn't be posting under my real name, either. I wouldn't recommend it in general; I'm in a position of considerable privilege employment-wise because I happen to be operationally indispensable to some fairly critically placed systems, so I can basically do whatever I want online short of openly committing felonies without any consequences. Most people don't have that luxury!

[prince-atom]

This you?

[prokopetz]

I'm neither furry nor Nebraskan enough to be that guy.

[creatingblackcharacters]

SHARING THIS BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW AND MY MIND IS ABSOLUTELY BLOWN

OK SO DARE BY GORILLAZ (FEAT SHAUN RYDER) ALSO FEATURES ROSES GABOR AS NOODLE'S SINGING VOICE!! NOODLE IS VOICED BY A BLACK SINGER!!! ???? THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME! i feel like so many more people needed to know and I NEEDED TO SHARE THIS WITH SOMEONE

I admit I like one song by Gorillaz and am only familiar with Russel. I do not know who everyone else is 😭 but I'm happy for you!

[creatingblackcharacters]

first time putting my work out there, im a little nervous 😅 but ive had such brainrot for this story recently, i couldnt resist the opportunity to write about it sorry about the low quality 💔

Yeah you definitely gone have to add an image description in your reblog, I cannot read this 😭

Event Rules: HERE

How do you feel about this prompt and/or character description?

Black readers: Could currently use work (how?)

Black readers: Sounds cool so far!

Everyone else: Could currently use work (how?)

Everyone else: Sounds cool so far!

Remaining time: 2 days 17 hours

[jazream]

so sorry thats mb 😅

im just gonna copy and paste the whole thing under the break

Heir of Silver Night

By jazream

GENRE: Dark Fantasy

BACKSTORY AND PREMISE:

In a kingdom of eternal sunlight, a princess lived trapped in a palace of gold and blood. With her mother dead and her father brain-dead, she relied on the sun angel, who was supposed to be a royal advisor. But after her father’s sudden hemorrhage, the sun angel secretly pulled the strings, pretending the king was in charge. At the same time, he directed his feelings for the queen onto the princess. She was abused for her whole life—cherished one moment, spat on the next—but she didn’t realize she needed rescue until a witch, Nightshade, kidnapped her. She took the princess to a hideout in the forest, full of witches. The witches, seen as villains, were actually vigilantes. Nightshade helped her readjust and renamed her Azure Moon. Azure Moon learns her palace ordeal was undeserved, discovers the powers that were gifted to her by the moon angel, and vows to rescue her father, all while avoiding the sun angel’s soldiers.

AZURE MOON’S GENERAL APPEARANCE: 5'4 " tall. Skinny. Havana brown skin. Dark blue eyes, with a star-shaped shine. Dark blue hair, 3A, with a baby blue streak. Short black eyebrows.

START-OF-STORY OUTFIT: Sparkling yellow ball gown with red embroidery. High right slit. Low neckline. Detached yellow puffed sleeves. Red high heels. Gold bracelets. Gold necklace. Gold, low-hanging earrings shaped like suns. Golden Tiara. Short, pinned-up hair.

MIDDLE/END-OF-STORY OUTFIT: Black t-shirt with a long-sleeved, azureish white tie top over it. Layered cornflower blue skirt. Black bustle skirt. Black ankle boots. Large black witch hat with an azureish white ribbon. Hair is long and down.

HER POWERS: Lunar manipulation—gravity manipulation, cold manipulation, lunar dust manipulation, lunar energy manipulation, darkness manipulation. Has a natural bond with animals associated with the moon, especially wolves.

NIGHTSHADE’S APPEARANCE (THROUGHOUT WHOLE STORY):

5'6 " tall. Coppery brown skin. A little burly, has an hourglass shape. Hot pink dreads. Thick eyelashes. Black eyes. Black corset with purple strings, Dark grey blouse underneath. Dark grey pants. Black high-heel boots with purple lacing. Dark purple fingerless gloves. Large black witch hat.

[tartrazeen]

Black reader: could work

I don't know who these people are. I know what they look like, but that's just a character design, not a character. 🤔

[aurpiment]

“It’s easy to assume”: someone’s misconception is about to be amiably corrected

“It’s tempting to assume”: someone’s assumption is about to be criticized

“It’s comforting to assume”: someone’s assumption is going to be read for filth

[markovchaingang]

americans are a saudi oil baron's idea of classy. brits are an american's idea of classy. the french are a brit's idea of classy. unfortunately the chain ends here since the french's idea of classy is also the french