My hat is a raindrop; your argument is invalid

Bouncing my reality checks since 1985. | I'm here, I'm queer, I'm over it. | I'm not a minor and that's all you need to know. | Apparently my purpose in life is biting transphobes. I'm cool with this. | Fanfiction.net profile:  https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1389324/ | AO3 profile: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Vanshira

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Gold pendant necklace with crystal intaglio of a fish, Khmer, 9th-14th century AD

from Sotheby's

[circusheart]

No death cab for ugly? Ugly has to walk?

[vanshira]

Ugly called an uber

[heavyheavycream]

feedist kinktober 27 : boozy belly

this was one of the first things i wrote about em. i'm not the best at writing dialogues so i hope it's not to clunky, enjoy!

[voidscreamingformillenials]

There was a massive shift in how our culture understood morality when, after World War II, the general public realized “just following orders” was not an excuse for crimes against humanity. Now we need another moral shift in which we decide, as a culture, that “for the benefit of the stockholders” is not an excuse for anything.

[speciesofleastconcern]

We kind of need to relearn the “just following orders” part again

[modelsof-color]

Gia Tang , Hilda Lee, Giwa Huang and Chinchin Hsu by Dan Martensen for Vogue Taiwan Magazine - March 2020

[the1920sinpictures]

1925 c. Ruby and diamond cocktail ring from LangAntiques.com.

[bekkathyst]

White and red currant Topfen (quark) buns with a streusel topping.

A side note, my oven sucks because it doesn’t have a bottom heating element or a fan, so I’m always nervous when making things like this. But I’m pleasantly surprised with how nice these look! I’m going to do a taste test after I go on a walk, but I’m certain they taste superb.

[bekkathyst]

For anyone interested - I used this recipe and just substituted half the currants for white ones and the cream cheese for quark!

[bitcoitus]

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

[bitcoitus]

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." — Robert Anton Wilson

[eriebasin]

A large articulated silver filigree fish pendant with orange enamel detailing. Chinese and dating to c1950. Weighs 24.5 grams.

eriebasin.com

[sightkeeper]

🍂 Golden Hour 🍂

[Patreon]

[eriebasin]

A c1930 18K rosy-yellow gold collar necklace with a removable bib of opals and diamonds. Art Deco in era and construction style, but nostalgically designed, referencing Victorian collars. Not hallmarked with a country mark, but possibly German or Austrian. Weighs 48.0 grams.

eriebasin.com

[tepkunset]

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.

[depsidase]

[tuttle-did-it]

People need to be told this more often. Especially the wankers who keep supporting the billionaires. They're not going to give it to you.

[alphacrone]

writers and artists everywhere all the time

[jaymzeecat]

My friend Tuvi is missing. Please keep an eye out for them and share any info.

[strictlyquadrilateral]

i read an anecdote ages and ages ago from a gay person who grew up with gay parents, and struggled to find any kind of belonging in the gay community because everyone else there was bonding over having homophobic parents. everyone else was defining themselves by their suffering and oppression rather than by their sexuality, leaving this gay person to feel like they weren't really gay because they didn't have the right experiences. they wondered whether more gay people would feel this way as more children grew up with gay parents, if the gay community would leave them behind for not having suffered enough. i think about that anecdote a lot.

a lot of the current rhetoric around gender reminds me of that anecdote. a lot of people are willing to go "transgender people are oppressed for their gender presentation, therefore if you're not oppressed for your gender presentation, you're not trans." but i don't think we should be defining ourselves by our suffering and oppression. what will we do, in a few years, in a few decades, as there start to be, say, adults who were supported in their transition as children? what will we do when a stereotypical trans person can genuinely say they didn't suffer hardship for being trans?

i'm afraid i know the answer. i'm afraid that people are going to close ranks as they've already started closing ranks against intersex people, against nonbinary people, against double binary people, against closeted people. as some people have started closing ranks against people who transitioned in the opposite direction from them. as many people have closed ranks against people with edge case gender experiences. "i don't consider you to be oppressed, therefore you are not welcome to share in this community you might otherwise belong in."

i wish people would understand that we shouldn't do this. i wish people would understand that we benefit from a broader, more inclusive community more than we benefit from whatever purity testing oppression olympics it is that i keep running into.

[memories-of-ancients]

Commemorative stela uncovered from the Temple of Marduk in Babylon, 900-800 BC

from The British Museum

(1) (This) image of Adad-etir, the dagger-bearer of Marduk, (2) adorned by Sin, Shamash, and Nergal, (3) who fears Nabu and Marduk, who owes allegiance (4) to the king, his lord, Marduk-balatsu-ikbi, (5) his eldest son, has fashioned, (6) and for future days, (7) for his seed and his posterity, (8) has set up. (9) Whosoever in days to come (10) the image (11 f.) or this memorial-stone (13) shall destroy, (14) or by means of (15) a crafty device shall cause them to disappear, (16) may Marduk, the great lord, in anger (17) look upon him, and his name and his seed (18) may he cause to disappear! May Nabu, the scribe of all, (19) curtail the long number of his days! (20) But may the man who protects it be satisfied with the fullness of life!