You either get it or you gont

Aster * 28 * she/her * proshippers terfs and MAPS fuck off * I have many sideblogs. No you cant see them

[gigglybumbug]

randomly getting intensely interested in some bullshit like

[austimpowerz]

MOODBOARD FOR WHEN SHIT IS FUCK

[laqueus]

[houndmother]

The fact of the matter is that every trans masc is on thin ice. trans women are being directly and specifically targeted by the state, and rather than show any form of solidarity, these dudes are helping throw us to the wolves.

[houndmother]

it is not sufficient for you to be neutral. you must be a vocal and aggressive ally to the trans femmes in your life. you must not be complicit.

[quasi-normalcy]

So what I think is that there's this default belief in patriarchy that men are superior to women and therefore the "masculine" sphere is superior to the "feminine" sphere. And so, as feminists have fought to expand the number of allowable female activities, men (on the aggregate over generations) have retreated from those activities because they're now seen as "feminine", and so partaking in them is incommensurate with their belief in their own superiority. And, unfortunately, as this has progressed, this has resulted in a lot of men sectioning themselves off from, frankly, everything that actually makes being alive worthwhile. It's a misery spiral, and the only way out is to abandon male supremacy.

[quasi-normalcy]

#men gave up deep friendships and reading and poetry and colourful fashion#all things that used to be considered manly in the 19th century#they're currently giving up on studying law and medecine#it's so stupid and sad

(I mean, the colourful fashion was more of an eighteenth century thing, but yeah)

[parkchanwoohoo]

[b1tchcup]

my favorite tweet ever. Every time I go to find it I’m blown away by how few retweets it has

[unicorn-argent]

The downfall of the Avatar franchise is exactly they deserve for how the fandom treated Utena fans during the tumblrs favorite show poll

[papayajuan2019]

one day, i hope to be moved from your downloads folder into somewhere more deliberate

[byjove]

[byjove]

this is the range of puffins, widespread North Atlantic seabirds related to the great auk, that is why a Victorian era guide calling them “Welsh parrots” is so funny. not strictly Welsh. not remotely parrot-esque.

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.

[kristina100000]

love me love me say that you love me fool me fool me go on and fool me

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[zeldahime]

(US public libraries context)

It incidentally also betrays a lack of understanding of how licenses and (hopefully) how her own royalties contracts work. The library has to pay an exorbitant fee for the license to allow the patron to borrow things, and for most items on Libby, it’s not unlimited. Last I was involved, most licenses were good for about 7 borrows or a specific length of time like 6 months or 2 years, and then the library would have to purchase a new license. Unless her contract was written to exclude royalties from licensing purchases, in which case she got a raw deal from her publisher but is not the library’s fault, some percentage from those licensing purchases DOES go towards her royalties checks.

Which means that, if her book is popular enough for licenses to get renewed, she effectively is being paid per borrow.

[h0neyfreak]

Some patently insane things happening on Christian small town romance bookstagram. “No one is buying my wholesome small town Alaskan romance novels because of library card fraud” is a hell of a cope.

Trad pub authors making tons of money are doing so by selling the adaptation rights to their books. Most trad pub authors aren’t out-earning their advances with book sales. Indie authors making tons of money are publishing multiple books a year and have cultivated large, dedicated audiences willing to buy special editions and merch. Or like. running Kickstarter scams.

If you ever find yourself thinking “people should pay me every time they interact with something I’ve created” you have already lost.

[johnnyvalance]

mutuals seeing me post about The Character again

[nirnroot-dot-wav]

Me watching my mutuals post about The Character again

[3000s]

Yes, your dentist can absolutely tell if you masturbated at home before your appointment. And in fact, a shower and change of clothes does little to hide this. The best step forward is to apologize to your dentist for masturbating.

[3000s]

- mockup of results from my new search engine called "Google OCD"

[infectiouspiss]

everyone is like "hey don't interact with [x]! dont give it attention, it gets money from that attention!" and thats pretty universally understood like yeah the right wing ragebaiter is doing all that for attention everyone gets that, but as soon as you bring up the marauders everyone suddenly forgets that attention=money and now i'm the bad guy for telling you that hey maybe don't give attention to the bigoted holocaust denier. what happens in people's brains for them to think jkr is somehow getting psychic damage from your t4t wolfstar fic? like no buddy you're just keeping her work and therefore her relevant and then you have the audacity to act shocked when she uses that to power to harm trans people. it's pathetic

[infectiouspiss]

also lets just circle back to something here real quick. JK ROWLING IS A HOLOCAUST DENIER. and you somehow still enjoy her work. how do you sleep at night? like genuinely?

i don't care that you're trans and write trans fanfic about her characters, she actively denies that the nazis ever burned books on gender, she called this FACT a "fever dream" and you can just somehow look past that?

[t4timekeeper]

so why is incest treated like a joke in a manner that most people would hesitate to treat other forms of sexual abuse? like, the vast majority of people in progressive spaces are inclined to agree that rape jokes are bad. unless ☝️ it’s this specific kind of rape that only happens to Us, because we are apparently a special category of people (who probably deserved it or brought it upon ourselves or secretly wanted it anyway), then it’s fine.

[t4timekeeper]

like, why is an “incest survivor” a kind of sexual assault victim that you’re not only allowed, but almost encouraged to treat like a punchline, without the same degree of guilt and shameful connotation that comes with joking about other kinds of sexual abuse? it’s everywhere. once you start seeing it, you never really stop.

[t4timekeeper]

and no, there is no such thing as “consensual incest” - which in itself is a myth manufactured by rape culture to insist that survivors of incest are ‘asking for it.’

incest jokes are jokes about sexual abuse, point blank. call them what they are.

[identitty-dickruption]

my safe clothing items that I wear day in day out for years and years should never break or rip or wear down. the power of friendship should stop that kind of thing