[vickir0se]

I’ll still be here, but if people would like to follow me elsewhere, here are my sites and social media accounts. The same rule from this Tumblr applies, so please don’t follow if you’re under 18. That said:

longpaleroad.com - personal website with its own domain (yeah, it’s a Wordpress page. Not happy about that at the moment, but hey)

My patreon - Where you can support me for writings on the above website, though I haven’t written anything new in months. I appreciate people who support me through here, it helps with bills.

Mastodon - I’m active on two instances: on the “official” one, mastodon.social, as @/Y3WTREE and on deadinsi.de as @/PurpleRose. I’m mostly active on the latter one. I share opinions and media, same as here.

My Bluesky profile is vickirose.bsky.social.

You can also DM me for a Discord if you want to keep in touch through there.

[vickir0se]

A friend is getting shit from her parents and isn't getting money for food. Last year, I made a GoFundme for her to cover living during the Winter. It was helpful, and here is the campaign page as proof: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-trans-woman-in-illinois

Donate to Help a trans woman in Illinois!, organized by Farah Thompson

I am Farah, and I'm raising awareness for a friend in Illinois. She has recently secure… Farah Thompson needs your support for Help a trans

She is now asking me to share her Venmo so she can get immediate help. Please donate to her Venmo: @/olola31.

[tsunderemployee]

graham platner asks the question of what if your dumbest state-ranked-DUI-champion cousin was also an einsatzgruppen and then fed a steady stream of leftbook memes from 2017 for several years

[vickir0se]

As wonky as my circumstances are, I'm starting to come around to the idea that even if one has been treated like shit and is isolated, there is still something one can do about it like getting a hobby (not the phone) or seeking out in-person stuff to do. Problem is talking about this online involves either demands for exhaustive qualifiers and confessionals, or Eugenics Movement-type shit from first principles.

[suzirya]

I got permission from this friend to post this because holy fuck I can't stop laughing

[homoidiotic]

Sylvester, the "Queen of Disco" (1947–1988)

Born in Los Angeles Sylvester developed a love of singing through the gospel choir of their Pentecostal church. In their early teens Sylvester left the family home to live with their grandmother, who was more accepting of their homosexuality and crossdressing

In the 60s Sylvester found friendship among a group of black cross-dressers and transgender women who called themselves 'The Disquotays'. Sylvester performed in drag as Ruby Blue singing Billie Holliday and the other blues singers. While in 'The Disquotays' Sylvester befriended Etta James, getting to sing together in her home. After moving to San Francisco in 1967, Sylvester joined avant-garde drag troupe 'The Cockettes'

In 1973 Sylvester started working on music, recording an unreleased album. "His backing band for this project was unique in that the members were all white heterosexual males called 'The Hot Band.'" Switching management Sylvester found new backing singers, duo 'Two Tons O’ Fun' who would later change their name to 'The Weather Girls.'

In 1977 Sylvester released their first album and the next year they began working on their follow up album, which produced their biggest song “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” Sylvester went on to release ten albums in the span of nine years.

Sylvester was an activist who campaigned against the spread of HIV/AIDS. Their partner Rick Cranmer died of AIDS-related complications in 1987, a year before Sylvester would also pass from the virus. They left all future royalties from their work to San Francisco-based HIV/AIDS charities. As per their wishes, they were buried in a red kimono with full make up.

When people would ask them to label themselves, they would say simply and proudly, “I am Sylvester!"

[grinningjackal]

We really need to disentangle whiteness from being trans because every day I see people on various social media sites telling trans people of color that we won't pass unless we perform gender the same way white people do and not only is it ignorant, but it's culturally violent.

[s9sh9]

Washing down my antibiotic pill with a probiotic kombucha

[giragirameganedan]

[vickir0se]

Too horny and restless to deserve to live.

[vickir0se]

Wild that you can sort by oldest and newest likes now. Really takes me back. No, I will not make mine public.

[androdrawco]

Mmmph

[tied-up-transfem]

"I want to lose" ranked as the hottest thing a submissive can say.

[ot3]

i think a new rule of engagement we should have for discourse is that any time someone says "the lesbian community" "the trans community" "the queer community" or something of that ilk you just dead stop the conversation in its tracks until they have successfully explained what group of people they're trying to refer to with this. because there is no such thing as a 'community' that every lesbian, or every trans person, or every queer person automatically belongs to/participates in, and acting like there is, or that we are all otherwise on the same page about which people these 'communities' actually consist of, lets people do a whole lot of lazy generalization that doesn't hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.

[witnotwitchcraft]

...we call the queer community a community because we are choosing to band together for safety and support. it is not woke to say "actually its every man for himself! i have nothing in common with the rest of you freaks!"

[ot3]

ok. well is "we" in this instance Every Single Queer Person on the planet, or are you perhaps doing a bit of generalization that won't stand up to being scrutinized. dont you think there could be some benefit to attempting to establish which people have made that choice you're referring to, and whose safety they are prioritizing. because if you have to make the choice to do this, then it categorically doesn't include everyone. and if it categorically doesn't include everyone, then conversation only stands to benefit by clarifying who it does include.

[witnotwitchcraft]

literally no one is able to speak for "every X person on the planet", that gotcha expired three years ago.

"we" refers to anyone who is fighting beside me. self inclusion and self exclusion are copacetic concepts.

i understand the danger of generalizations but if you lean too far in the other direction you get people trying to establish a literal gay card and set of criteria that is Queer Enough.

do you have a specific example of this generalizing language being utilized in a harmful way? it largely seems that language is being used by people being people and speaking in general terms about broad subjects

[ot3]

when did i say anyone was or wasn't queer enough? this isn't about deciding who does or doesn't actually count as queer this is saying that people are not automatically in community with each other by sharing an orientation label.

here's some examples of how these phrases are used that i don't like:

"the queer community needs to remember our history!" which history? in practice, on tumblr at least, almost always the american lgbt movement. i think its wrong to imply that american queer history Is queer history, and not just the history of queerness in one corner of the world. i think expecting any and everyone to both know and be deferential to the history of the american lgbt movement just because they are queer and speak english, regardless of whether or not thats actually their history, is weird nationalist behavior.

"the trans community has too much infighting" this is a statement that serves to imply that trans people are not allowed to have or capable of having legitimate ideological conflict with each other. it's frequently used to paint trans women specifically as instigators of meaningless internet drama, and completely discredit the critiques they have of the way they're treated by people who are supposedly 'in community' with them

i think pretty much every time "the lesbian community" with no further qualifiers is rhetorically used in a discussion it's been at best meaningless but often actually harmful, because understanding of lesbian identity has long been pretty heavily split between people who are using bioessentialist ideas about who actually Counts as a lesbian and people who aren't. i am not in community with twerfs and never will be, and i think trying to understand or portray lesbianism as a "community" without factoring in these peoples' presence just throws trans women under the bus.

"we refers to anyone who is fighting beside me" is literally a meaningless statement to make to a stranger. i dont know who you are. i don't know what you're fighting for. i dont know what someone has to do to qualify as being beside you. that clarifies nothing. the problem isn't broadness of the category, it is the complete lack of specificity regarding the criteria used to categorize. i'm not trying to gatekeep or police anyone, i'm just saying if you're trying to have a conversation about groups of people, you need to make sure whoever you're addressing can understand who is being rhetorically included in that group.

[vickir0se]

I think I'm too much of an autistic shut-in to try sex work or organizing again.

[vickir0se]

A friend is getting shit from her parents and isn't getting money for food. Last year, I made a GoFundme for her to cover living during the Winter. It was helpful, and here is the campaign page as proof: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-trans-woman-in-illinois

Donate to Help a trans woman in Illinois!, organized by Farah Thompson

I am Farah, and I'm raising awareness for a friend in Illinois. She has recently secure… Farah Thompson needs your support for Help a trans

She is now asking me to share her Venmo so she can get immediate help. Please donate to her Venmo: @/olola31.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

top economists are saying today that so long as the coyote doesn't look down he will never fall