Leader of The Damkri Army

| Nickie | she/her | 31 | ♈ | Mage of Blood | Prospit Dreamer | | ♦ | | ♠ | main/personal blog which is a mess of my many many interests. also sometimes i make things (like art and shit). click the "links and tags" button up top for more things of varying Semi-Importance, like important tags, other pages, and links to sideblogs and shit. (link for mobile users) cursor by serkets

[h0wait0]

[wosp-reactivated]

I can smell the poison in my goblet but I lowkey don't even care anymore

[wizrdfckr]

me and u both ouppy

[oneheadtoanother]

[tachyon-log]

(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,

[fishmech]

inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.

[bunniope]

can we focus on the gnome for a second

[bunniope]

wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat

[ladyofspoons]

these are the people i have to share a highway with

[fyterx]

[william-snekspeare]

awesome game of bite cardboard. you look like a staple remover

[namethatghostling]

stop drinking beer with the deer and come have a cider with the spiderrrr

[o0kawaii0o]

Hero of Time

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[kittydealer]

u/differentlifer

[rightlessdestiny]

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

[b0nkcreat]

steps

[konoko]

[gumi-megpoidd]

why were the pmmm buildings Like That

[gumi-megpoidd]

ok yeah fair enough

[mama-mozzarella-deactivated2024]

Introducing yourself to people is so embarrassing. Like hey this is my stupid fucking name, I enjoy exactly 3 things, and am clearly anxious. please don't immediately hate me

[tall]

[wnacn]

Drew on the wrong layer again…

[thlayli-rah]

Hot take but I really do think that some of y’all need to consider how/why/when/how often you’re making fun of straight people for being straight

I do it too, I’m not going to pretend I don’t make jokes about the hets, or the down with cis bus, or whatever

But I recently befriended a cis, straight dude and I have watched him be dismissed, degraded, and unambiguously insulted for the perceived “crime” of being straight — all in queer environments where he is allegedly “completely welcome” and surrounded by “friends”

This guy is not a toxic person! But I have seen him be made to feel so small and like his comfort and safety in those spaces are conditional on his silence and acceptance of being treated like a human dunk zone, and I think that some of y’all have had so much shit from straight/cis people that the second you feel like you’ve got an inch, you want to luxuriate in the perceived catharsis of bullying someone who— actually —doesn’t deserve it

And until he very, very carefully mentioned to me in private that it makes him feel bad, I didn’t even clock that I was involved in doing that, that it had become so instinctive for me to make casual jokes like that, and that— well meaning or otherwise —I had been contributing to an environment that made someone I really really like feel like shit

So, I dunno, I think maybe some of y’all should think about that too

[thlayli-rah]

Coming back to say that while a lot of the responses to this post have been mainly positive, some folks have an attitude that it should be something that my friend— or any cis, straight man —should just be able to get over, because fuck ‘em, that’s why, because they’re in a queer space and they should shut up and accept it, because you suffer as a queer person and they should have to suffer too— regardless of whether or not this specific person has done anything to wrong you

I’m gonna say this point blank— you’re a tar pit if you think this way

Your suffering does not make you special, you are not granted brand new permissions to be belligerent and cruel because you have been treated poorly, straight people aren’t an oppressed class, no, but they’re people who are entitled to the same amount of basic decency that you, yourself, are entitled to

It feels good when you’ve been treated like shit to then go forward and treat other people like shit. That’s what you’re admitting. Does it make you feel good to do harm? Are you proud of that? Are you comfortable with being that kind of person? Because I dunno about the rest of you— but I realized I wasn’t, and it turns out it’s pretty fucking easy to change

[therubberducker]

[brinnanza]

you are allowed the make fun of Straight People, the theoretically Platonic collective of Straightness. you are NOT allowed to make fun of a random straight person who hasn't done anyrhing to you. Hetero Jessica, who isn't real and is the sum total of the societal requirements for A Straight Woman? yeah sure razz away, she's not real. but actual human Jessica who is heterosexual and also a real person who has done nothing to harm you: youre just being mean to someone for no reason.

like. someones sexuality does not suddenly become a target just because it's straight. they were also hashtag born this way. you don't get to make fun of someone's imutable trait just because it happens to be the societally dominant one. criticize behavior, yes, but when you write someone off because of something they can't change about themselves that does in fact make you the bigot.