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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
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Peter Solarz
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Andulka
noise dept.
we're not kids anymore.
cherry valley forever
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@walpurga
Introduction
Age: early 20s
Language: English
Pronouns: They (or she)
Queer and Trans
Reintroduction
Age: mid-to-late 20s
Language: English and Welsh
Pronoun: She
Transsexual, transgender and not really feeling the 'queer' thing.
FREEDOM
Rescue professional here:
If you need rescuing or help, DON’T FUCKING MOVE. You are so much easier to find when you stay put.
Credits: @foxes-in-love
Your most important survival skill is asking for help
Goddamn preach this
"Your most important survival skill is asking for help." THIS, it makes me so damn pissed off when parents try and normalize that asking for help is a taboo thing!
This feels important to reblog
Fuck this whole “victim mentality” shaming. There is nothing wrong with weakness or needing help. Sometimes you can’t do it all by yourself and that’s okay
I am so fucking sick of that 'MLK never rioted and they killed him anyway!' post, because you can tell it was written by morons who just want to justify their own violence. It's fucking easy to see and it's annoying that they don't! Here's how it goes.
MLK Never robbed one store, never destroyed one town. And they had him assassinated because of how much of a threat he was.
The rioters burned down buildings and ruined city centers... and were set free by the DA's, never to face a punishment for their crimes.
The powers that be saw MLK as a threat to their power. You? You're their controlled opposition.
It turns out people are more likely to support your movement when you DON'T destroy their property and threaten their livelihoods! And then callously brush off the fact that you probably just ruined their lives and drove them into poverty by saying "they have insurance" even though that's not how insurance works!
Wow! Who would've possibly guessed that?
Aside from literally everyone with a working frontal lobe and moral compass!
I feel like "detrans kink" ppl posting in the detrans tag has the same energy as "force fem sissy" ppl posting in the trans tags :| you are NOT US please get out of our tags
I don't kink shame and idc what u do but it's hard for detrans folks to find resources and community on here w the detrans tag full of kink content.
TERF war
OK, I queued up some controversy before work so I’d have a fistfight to come home to and start the weekend off right. let’s get to it. cut both for transphobia stuff and also bc this is long as fuck
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TERF war
OK, I queued up some controversy before work so I’d have a fistfight to come home to and start the weekend off right. let’s get to it. cut both for transphobia stuff and also bc this is long as fuck
Keep reading
The bit that sticks with me in all this is:
the whole modern wave of trans-inclusivity … was premised on “if you say something gender-related to a trans person that they don’t want to hear, it’s tantamount to violence and they might literally die.” That means that in the context of the most recent wave of trans advocacy, talking about gender is an inherently dangerous and negligent act, and thinking about it is painful and thankless.
I’ve encountered this sooooo many times, and rub is that it’s sort of true. I often hold back from expressing or even floating controversial gender opinions/theories around my trans friends bc I’m afraid of worsening their dysphoria, bc for some of them, that would worsen their dysphoria. Some of them are in such vulnerable and dire situations that it would be negligent of me.
The only trans friends I’d maybe trust to discuss this stuff with are the ones who are a) older, b) laid-back, and c) are in good, secure situations (they’re several years on HRT/are stealth/have consistent access to medical care they need/etc).
And honestly the “but I’m trans too, I’m allowed to say this” excuse doesn’t always work. I’ve witnessed plenty of nasty internet fights between trans people that boiled down to “your gender opinions are making everyone else suicidal so shut up.” Or worse: “If you believe this, then you must be Fake Trans.” If you’re a trans person whose own identity and feelings are unconventional, you can be accused of being “dangerous and negligent” just by like. Existing.
Ideally we would have designed spaces (IRL or online) that were explicitly for Unfettered Theorizing About Gender, where you only participate if you feel emotionally secure enough to handle it. Like I get why people don’t want to be blindsided by “maybe your entire self-conception is wrong?” discourse without warning. But fuck’s sake, we need a better way of handling this than “Never talk about gender ever, just toe the party line.”
Imagine that a century or two from now, the eastern half of the United States is conquered by the Canadian Empire, its intelligentsia deported, its land colonized by Canadian immigrants, and its remaining people mostly gradually absorbed into a Neo-Canadian identity. The West reorganizes, developing a new political and cultural center, and comes to regard itself as the "true" United States, with the remnant culture of the East (by now much changed by Canadian rule) as representing an unchanged tradition stretching back to the time of George Washington. The holdout western half is subsequently conquered by the Reformed Mexican Empire, and while most of the population remains in situ, its elite is taken to Mexico City. There, for three or four generations, they do their best to maintain their distinct American identity, focusing on the American "civil religion," the distinctive political ideals and cultural features that mark them out as Americans, and come up with a new way of interpreting their history that allows America to be a perennial idea, something not directly physically tied to the territory of the United States, which no longer exists. They compose a body of historical works based on Washington Irving's rather fabulistic approach to early American history, the half-remembered popular versions of the stories of Columbus and the Pilgrims, the First Thanksgiving, even the Revolutionary War. They don't have access to the original texts anymore--let's say this is all taking place in a post-Collapse North America where long-range travel and communication is difficult and a lot of history has been lost--but they do their best. They append to these books, or include in their text, of history a copy of the Constitution, big chunks of the United States Code, and Robert's Rules of Order.
Subsequently, the Empire of Gran Columbia invades, conquers southern and central Mexico, and its Emperor lets the captive Americans go home. They return north, mostly to California, find that the version of American history and civics that is remembered there isn't the same as the version they have (not that the Californian one is correct--the Mexican Empire has suppressed English-language education and high culture in its Aztlani provinces), and set about reforming and reorganizing the Western States (as they're now called) to be more in line with the forms they brought back from the exile. In the meantime, other bits of important literature start being kept in libraries next to copies of the received histories: some bits of early American literature, like Hawthorne, the Song of Hiawatha, some highly abridged Herman Melville, Thomas Paine--heck, even some John Locke, and quotes or fragments from Shakespeare. Some traditionalists now argue the capital of the United States has always been located in San Francisco, and that Washington, D.C. only because the capital later, under the influence of Eastern heretics.
In the following centuries, the Western States retain their independence for a time, but eventually become a secondary battleground for a lot of other empires--the Mexicans, the Canadians, the Pan-Pacific Federation, and so forth. American culture remains distinctive, insulted in part by its unique traditions, though now everybody speaks Future Spanish, and only learns English to read the old texts. In this period additional material, including later compositions, continues to accrete, forming a distinct body of sacred American scripture, although it does not exist in a single canonical form. Attempts to reconcile distinct sources, like more literal and historically-grounded accounts versus the simplified narratives of figures like Irving, produce hybrid texts that sometimes are full of internal conflicts.
Oh, and through all this, some institutions of American government like the Supreme Court still function, although their rulings only apply to Americans, and there isn't much in the way of a federal bureaucracy.
Finally the Great and Sublime Brazilian Potentate conquers most of the Americas, sets up an American client state that roughly coincides with the heartland of the old Western States (California, Oregon, most of Washington and Nevada), and allows the Americans to elect their own President (subject, of course, to Brazilian approval). During this period, an apocalyptic street preacher from Los Angeles claims to have inherited the authority and power of George Washington, and is executed by the Brazilians; his later followers point to the prophecies of Emperor Norton, and out-of-context bits of a Quebecois translation of Moby-Dick and some Mark Twain stories to say no, really, he was George Washington. Inexplicably, a version of this religion becomes the dominant faith of the Brazilian Empire before it collapses. But long before then the American state in California fails, crushed when it tries to revolt against Brazilian rule; the remnant Easterners likewise dwindle down to only a few hundred souls living in a village in Alexandria, Virginia. Centuries from now, as the descendants of the descendants of the Brazilians colonize Mars, they will point to the sacred Americanist scriptures, the Neo-Americanist narratives of their prophet's life, and the letters written by the early leaders of Neo-Americanism, and say, "all of this was written by the spirit of George Washington, and is free from contradictions." Meanwhile the remnant Americanists, who have been writing about Americanism and how it applies to their everyday lives in the centuries since, and whose commentary has formed around the copies of the last editions of the U.S. Supreme Court Reporter (SCOTUS managed to outlast the final American state by a hundred years or so) plus the thoughts of the remaining Americanist community in Mexico, continue to regard their traditions as the unbroken and unaltered practice of American culture, politics, and ideals as they existed since the Revolutionary War.
This is, as far as I can tell, approximately how the Bible was composed.
Introduction
Age: early 20s
Language: English
Pronouns: They (or she)
Queer and Trans
Reintroduction
Age: mid-to-late 20s
Language: English and Welsh
Pronoun: She
Transsexual, transgender and not really feeling the ‘queer’ thing.
Re: reintroduction
Age: no longer 20s
Languages: English and Welsh
Pronoun: any
Possible detrans, dysphoria meltdown, revivified the male body
I’ll definitely be writing my own “masterpost” about David soon
It's been a long week... And it's only Wednesday...
Man, I'm tired
I had been looking for that book again because i remembered it had a great tiger in it, and I remembered correctly:
there’s still another tiger picture i’m trying to find again. similar style, but i believe it’s a woodcut and the tiger’s head is even more spherical.
is it this one
Fierce Tiger Drawn from Life | Utagawa Kunimaro (1860)
it isn’t but that fucking rules
frog phone
How peaceful God’s work.
1928 Wanda Stevenson by John Mirjian. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.
women get weirdly defensive when i say that in my personal experience of transitioning as a queer trans man, men — even the cishet ones — have been more supportive of me than women — queer or trans or cishet — have. and like. idk how they expect me to react. do they want me to lie and say women have been more supportive even though they haven’t been???? do they want me to ignore the fact that my friends who are queer women or “femme aligned” dropped me like a hot fucking potato the second i went from identifying as nonbinary to identifying as a trans man????? do they want me to pretend the men and non “femme aligned” people in my life didn’t step the fuck up and legitimately save my life??????
like genuinely what the fuck do y’all want from us? because you don’t seem to like when we talk about the realities of our lives, so it’s starting to seem like y’all want us to concoct this nice little fairy tale where women are angels and men are terrible, even when our literal life experiences show that’s not true, so y’all don’t have to examine yourselves and come to terms with the extremely harmful rhetoric you’ve internalized and acted upon. and tbh that’s not our fucking problem.
... Y'know what, sure. why not
This should be considered a form of art.
Because it is. This was made by artist Foka Wolf. You can find more examples of his art on his instagram.
Yep! To be clear this was made out of fake ads and posted in a public space by the artist. That's why everything lines up so conveniently and the fonts match.
I've seen it called brandalizing. :)
