shokra toh ebra

venn. they/them. talk to me about seivarden vendaai.

[venndaai]

 the latest tumblr shenanigans reminded me to have a backup plan in case this site goes down for good one of these days, so: you can find me at the same url on dreamwidth, and if tumblr disappears I’ll post any new social media there

[pagets]

Interview with the Vampire ★ The Vampire Lestat 2x04 "I Want You More Than Anything in the World" 3x02 "Toledo"

Inspired by this post, @howmostardently.

[chongoblog]

you resisted the forcefemmification beams for too long

Nope. Completely incorrect and wrong.

This is a decision that I made for myself. I made this choice because it's who I want to be. Not because someone else wanted me to for their own pleasure.

[paper-mario-wiki]

hey to all those people a few months ago in mine and Jenny's notifs saying "cis guys are so sensitive lol whats wrong with being called a trans girl" i want you to know you actively made it feel less safe for my friend to transition for, quite literally, years. there is a difference between speculating openly about the gender of a fictional character, and the gender of a living human being who has asked people to stop doing so.

you didnt "force open" the egg. you didnt help. you told her "this isnt your choice, nor is it important. what you are is mundane and obvious, and we can all see it. stop pretending." that isnt encouragement. thats impatient and reductive. that's childishness. you threw an ideological tantrum when she asked you to stop. you threw a bigger one when other trans girls who actually know her asked you to stop.

you arent her friend. it wasnt your place to speak with familiarity as if you were. you made it more difficult for a public figure to come out as trans, and she was asking you to stop the entire time. that is the irrevocable truth.

there is no universal "best way" to have your egg cracked. if you keep trying to crack eggs that you shouldn't, youre going to end up with a lot of dead birds who you denied the opportunity to fly, all because you wanted to be in some part responsible for how beautiful you thought it might become.

[trawl]

aita for trying to liven up my workspace

i (late 30s, m) have been conducting an arts project in the crawlspace of my work, but my boss doesn't seem to appreciate the drawings of my coworkers as animals i've been doing. he says it is "scary" and "weird". i think it's a fun way to bring everybody together. i'm pretty sure he's avoiding me because i stroked his neck, which i get was maybe misinterpreted, but he hasn't said anything else about it. am i going to get fired? was i in the wrong?

[trawl]

[sick-jan]

[hotvampireadjacent]

There’s a really good book all about this.

Last seen by Judith Giesberg

[eameschairs]

go, my girlgrace doodles

[rolledincense]

Juneteenth Celebrations in Milwaukee, WI from 1988 to 2006.

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[hakeacarapace]

Take just Australia as an example:

And the 6 seasons defined by the Noongar people of south-western Australia, relevant to that area:

[tacticaljorts]

every piece of media would be better with a butch in it

[thayneart]

chronology

[disoda]

a window

[just-jellyfishing]

don't know anything about it but the art scratches smth in my brain

[smumjii1]

[anxident]

for the first time in a long time i feel like i'm right where i'm supposed to be

[fluorescentbrains]

this pride month i don’t think i have any patience left for people insisting that “les4les” is just like a totally neutral thing to say that has nothing to do with any biphobic assumptions or behaviors. the discourse literally always starts with “i just want to date people who share my experience!” and ends with victim blaming bi women for their boyfriends abusing them. i actually could not care less about your preferences but if you feel the need to announce them all the time it’s usually because you wanted to say something else!

[fluorescentbrains]

this comment is just so deranged to me like wowwww sorry that woman was getting terrorized that must have been so inconvenient for you. maybe there’s a world where OP articulates her sense of exhaustion here without blaming the victim? but the framing of this is just insane. “i can’t date bi women because they keep getting beaten by their boyfriends and it’s like really hard for me to watch :/” you need read your shit back a few times and realize how you sound because what the fuck is this.

[sparvverius]

anne looks so incredibly despondent in this dress

[sparvverius]

they won't let her be a man and they won't let her be a woman and she's all alone and kicked to the curb and she has fucked it all up and she can't even hide behind her big hat anymore and maybe her abusive marriage was actually supposed to Build Character and that's all fucked too just like everything in her stupid gay life........

[maybe-boys-do-love]

Tom Thailand 2026

Thailand’s first pageant for masc-lesbians and trans men (aka toms)

Particularly interested in the description, “less about tiaras and more about something harder to quantify: quality of character, self-confidence and the courage to be seen.” I’ve always been intrigued by queer women’s’ aesthetics because of how disruptive they are to the dominant model, and this suggests the competition will be focused on this qualities rather than solely focused on visual beauty standards…Will be interested to see the development here.

[blignick]