Patron Saint of Struggle

Vann; ~30; QUEER; they/xe; white; cyborg; kinky; morosexual in chief

[pitbolshevik]

i still think about the fucking quesadilla terf

[pitbolshevik]

iirc it was like this terf who was absolutely fuming because her brother was dating a trans woman and she started claiming that she was clearly male socialized because the terf made quesadillas for dinner and the trans woman was like "wow :) this is really good, what is it?" and if she was a REAL woman she would instinctively KNOW what a quesadilla is

anyway it turns out the reason the poor woman didn't know what it was was because the terf had used hummus instead of cheese for some fucking reason so it wasn't even a quesadilla

[wizardarchetypes]

getting my labs done today i was thinking about years ago when i went to the doctor and i was like 'i've been to another doctor already but he wouldn't listen to me. something's wrong. i've never been this tired in all my life. i know i'm in college and i know i have depression but this is different. please you have to try something.'

so the doctor (back then) ordered labs and it turned out my vitamin d level was like 5 or 7 and i've never seen a doctor so elated about lab results in my entire life. she said, 'it's never. vitamin d. but it is this time. we can fix this. you're going to feel better.'

she was literally like

[chilewithcarnage]

we're not ever gonna make this website a safe space for black people or have a substantial black user base anymore unless y'all (non blacks obv) come to grips with the fact that y'all hold internal biases whether some of y'all be blatantly racist and hide behind your disabilities/mental illnesses queerness/transness or it's something as simple as if you see black face on your dash you immediately swipe up

[chilewithcarnage]

I dip into a lot of spaces on this site. non black fandomites I don't ever see you all discuss or celebrate the black characters in the media you partake in. You don't reblog fanart or gifsets of said black characters. You actively don't follow and ignore the black fans in the space you occupy. When the topic of racism gets discussed in these fandoms there's a lot of denial and throwing stones and hiding hands. On queer visibility days I don't ever see y'all reblogging selfies of black trans women, black trans men, black lesbians black gays or black bisexuals. I very rarely see y'all circulating mutual aid posts of black users. People in NSFW arenas, I don't ever see you reblog content of black swers. For whatever reason y'all keep the black people in your likes. It requires posts to be made by white and non black people discussing racism and social justice to actually get some traction when black tumblr users will make the same talking points but get a fraction of the notes.

We Keep Having Discourse About Rap Music For Christ sakes.

[fibromyalgicaf]

Edited to add: Since a lot of people are reblogging this original post, I'm adding the updated version I did that incorporates the intersex circle...

I know intersex people are still getting excluded in a lot of LGBTQIA+ spaces (let alone wider society) and I think it's crucial to show this group is included in the statement that we all deserve equal rights.

[vann-haal]

God as somebody who learned Japanese in Japan from a Japanese man, the western use of the word umami pisses me off so fucking bad. It's literally "savory" and means savory like it's not some magical, mystical flavor of the orient. It's goddamn savory

And when you correct westerners, they're like "well, savory just means not sweet" when no no. Savory literally means meaty and rich and refers to beef, mushrooms, etc. Literally the same foods umami refers to

I literally saw a YouTube video where a dude was talking about the creation of MSG by a Japanese guy back in 1920 and was all "so umami literally means tasty" when no. If you want tasty/delicious oishii is right fucking there. It means savory. But then he goes on to say that the word umami didn't exist until MSG when no. That's not true. The word umami has existed much longer than MSG and is baked into the language

I just so genuinely loathe the way the Japanese language is treated by westerners. I've seen tattoos where they're like "hey so I've had these for years. What do they mean, actually?" Like????????? You don't even speak the language and yet you have it permanently etched onto your fucking body? Why? Because it's ~foreign~ or whatever? Go fuck yourself

Just western orientalism never went away and it just pisses me off so bad to see how rampant it is

[a-stray-lonely-soul]

[kayvsworld]

my body, tearfully: when sleep???

me: my dude we just woke up!! It’s time for wakefulness and doing things and Productivity

my body, weeping: but???? when sleep?????

[rizaoftheowls]

me: okay, finally now is sleep

my body: no. wrong.

[depsidase]

[epicallyepicnerdery]

[stevishabitat]

Transcript from image:

From pics community on reddit

You can fight ICE by annoying them

Mess up their food/drink orders- Lose their tickets/reservations

Overtighten lug nuts, strip spark plugs

Give them incorrect but real-sounding information

Record them with your phones

Disrupt them with loud noises (car alarms, music, banging metal) and bright lights (flashlights, headlights)

Shame them

(fuck yeah)

The fascists want complacency.

Do not give it to them.

(fuck them white supremacists )

It is your right to make "Mistakes"

[bumblebeeappletree]

It’s important to note that this is a poster on a glass window. It’s very important to note that the (fuck yeah) and the (fuck them white supremacists) have been written in with a pen by someone on said poster.

Anyways fuck fascists and white supremacists

[depsidase]

[verifiablebot]

'this property says it has nine acres but those neighbours look pretty clo-'

oh.

ohhhhhhhhh no

[kiwisoap]

When i saw this I immediately suspected it was in Louisiana so I did a reverse image search to confirm and, yep!

The reason its so long and skinny is because Louisiana has (had? not sure if they're still in place) Forced Heirship laws. which means that you are required to leave a portion of your estate to qualifying heirs, regardless of whether you or they want it, and also regardless of what your will says. This is then combined with the fact that property in many parts of Louisiana was originally divvied up into parcels by Spanish land grants, which looked like this:

Which over many generations has led to large properties being slowly divided into thinner and thinner strips of acreage in order to satisfy the forced heirship law. Which is why they now have strips of property that are like 50 feet wide and 2 miles long

[txttletale]

if anything you're reading makes reference to the cultural practices or social structures of "indigenous societies" you should mentally annotate it with "WHICH ONES???" in bright red marker

[treasuredplanet]

in hindsight sending the number one digit at a time created the funniest half second of either of our lives

[dreadwedge]

you can tell things are bad when this type of article is coming back...

[butiknowiloatheyou]

i'm sorry mr beast and his what now

[upandoutcomic]

This was back when I I used to dress slightly more masculinely (if you can call a button-up shirt paired with skin-tight jeans and heeled booties masculine lol).

Shoutout to the "We can always tell" crowd never being able to tell and ending up being gender affirming :)

[7pleiades7]

Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs (1864) by Sir Frederic William Burton (Irish, 1816 – 1900), watercolour paint and gouache paint on paper, 95.5 × 60.8 cm (37.6 x 23.9 in), National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

[msbarrows]

I hope I'm online when it happens. I want to see a sudden flood of crab rave memes right after refreshing my dash, and in the middle of it all, the Castiel news meme. That's how I want to learn of it; not through anything solemn or serious, but via overwhelming silly celebration.