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Intro post, cause why not?

Hi! I'm Jace (he/they/ey/em). I'm queer as hell, a bigender trans dude (dude with a side of agender), arospec and asexual, and the amazing, lovely @impartialbias is my fiancé! (Shes amazing, and she's also an incredibly talented artist, please go check her out and if you're interested commission her!!).

I live in the US, and was adopted from Volgograd, Russia. I am slowly learning and trying to get familiar with my heritage, despite the shit the Russian government is pulling. To be clear, I am very much against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine is an independent country and should have all its territory returned to it, including Crimea and anything else that was invaded.

Also going to say that this blog is not always going to be SFW as of fall 2025 and if you want to block that kind of content, you may filter it out with #nsft or #kinkywxnerd (that one is a bit more memorable and unique). Beyond that, you’ve been warned.

Gonna go ahead and state this to make it crystal clear - I am very much pro-ship because I understand fiction is not real life, and I'm not a fan of censorship for the most part. If that's not your jam, feel free to not interact. Or do, I don't control you, but you've been given a heads up. Along those lines, I am generally what you'd call "inclusionist" regarding the queer community - barring obvious bad faith bullshit like "MAPS" (that's not queer. That's pedophilia. Fuck all the way off with that). Labels are personal and I have experienced too much exclusionism on the basis of being ace alone to be okay with that.

I'm autistic and ADHD, and I have (at least therapist confirmed) OCD as well. Thought that was just the autistic need to line things up and have them be "right" for a while until I got stuck in a cleaning loop of a pot that I was going to try and cook hotdogs in....yeah, turns out it's OCD too.

I'm also dealing with some physical disabilities as well, and as of winter 2025, it’s likely hypermobile ehlers danlos. Genetics came back with a VUS, but its not currently considered clinically significant so hEDS is the current answe. POTS is also confirmed (turns out your heart rate isn't supposed to go from 65 to 110 laying down to sitting up, and then only drop to 105 when standing. And stuff like laundry, and just standing around isn't supposed to be physically exhausting....haha....). I do use a cane and braces when needed.

I'm autistic so obviously we gotta mention the special interests. In no particular order, Project Hail Mary, Star Wars, Marvel, Leverage, Arcane, Alex Rider, Doctor Who and a couple other things on occasion. Weather is always present in the background too lol, and I actually work in a related position. And if turns out that the kid who went to space camp and dressed up as an astronaut for Halloween and loved space is not as gone as I thought he was :). (When you look at the special interest list…are we surprised? How many are space-related, again?)

I have graduated college (Comp Sci BS) and got my first career type job :)! I work on weather stations across my state!

I want to potentially go for a meteorology (likely planetary meteorology tbh) masters, hopefully in fall of 2027!

I also have a sideblog for religion posting (queer Christian is the best description right now). @queerchristianweathernerd for posts about it as of April 2026. And just to be clear, I am NOT posting out of desire for conversion, or because I think I’m Better, i’m just a fucking Nerd and that includes the faith thing. I love seeing everyone’s faiths and do not remotely consider mine to be the Only True thing, which…my childhood church would be horrified to hear, lol. Anyways, if interested feel free to follow that sideblog too, but otherwise feel free to ignore it. I do tag any posts here or there with #queer christian - if you need to, you are more than welcome to block that tag too, I genuinely do not mind and encourage making your space feel safe.

I tag any personal events going on with "#personal shit" but unless specifically noted I don't mind commentary, reblogs, etc. I tag that to track it so i can find it more easily. I do tag stuff about pots, eds and such with pots syndrome, heds, ehlers danlos but usually personal shit as well.

The most consistent tag is gonna be the personal shit one, lol, but I’m slowly working on updating it. If you’re on desktop, my Tags Reference page has a list, and those are mostly up to date.

i got home and realized I accidentally threw away my bag of 8 green beans ive grown.

im genuinely upset, those took so long to get to that many :(

marzipanandminutiae

"there were major systemic problems in that era of the past!"

"yes!"

"so nobody in an oppressed group was ever happy!"

"no, some of them were sometimes"

"oh so the oppression wasn't real then!"

"no, it very much was and needed to change"

"but...if they were happy..."

"humans find ways to be happy in even bleak circumstances. it's kind of a defining trait of humanity. they had to live their lives in the world as it was, even while fighting to change it, so. yeah. they made happiness for themselves the way everyone does, even now with the problems we have today. there were good things in their world, too, alongside the bad. even some things we could learn from now, though definitely not their macro-level social attitudes!"

"...ohhh you're a shill for conservative values and you wish you lived back then! got it!"

"let's go over this again"

only-cat-memes

goldcrescent

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

goldcrescent

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

allthingswhumpyandangsty

dreamstars

stormbornwitch

"Let your craft be like a tree, firmly rooted in the old, but stretching into the new. Get your hands dirty, and find out what works and what doesn't work for you."

- Roger J Horne's Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land & the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner

lastoneout

We gotta do something about ecoableism, guys, I can't keep seeing people confidently assure everyone that their ideal world is one where disabled people with specific needs don't get to be alive.

lastoneout

The most insidious thing about eugenics is that society is so ableist the majority of people do actually think eugenics would work and disabled people are better off dead, they just tack on an assumption that while yes eugenics works it's still bad because disabled people dying for being disabled is morally wrong. But they never actually think it's scientifically or medically wrong. We're just civilized enough we've decided to politely pretend the science isn't right because social justice.

It's like how a bunch of celebs were big on body positivity and fat liberation...until Ozempic dropped and it turns out no, none of them ever believed any of that! They just pretended to bcs up until now healthy, long term weight loss was impossible so they had no choice but to cope by learning to love themselves no matter how they looked...but now that it's here we can go back to the truth! Being fat is ugly and gross and unhealthy and you should starve yourself and take experimental meds right now so you can be skinny which is what ALL humans are clearly supposed to be!! Yeah that body positivity stuff was fun, but come on. We know you actually just wanna be skinny and think being fat is a fate worse than death.

That's what it feels like to me. Every single time. Honestly in a lot of other areas too, one of the big issues with the left is that they really do seem to think that Republicans are right about how things work and should work but we just pretend otherwise because it's the right thing to do and it reduces suffering. Which seems fine, but you cannot be an effective leftist like this. You do actually have to deconstruct your beliefs and biases and world systems, you can't go around like "well yeah we aren't gonna kill disabled people that's eugenics and it's wrong" when you clearly don't actually think it's wrong. You think eugenics would work but implementing it would be uncivilized, and it shows. You have to actually understand that racism and ableism and all other forms of bigotry are not just cruel, but entirely incorrect.

Idk if this makes sense but yeah. We gotta do something about this.

lastoneout

This is what Into the Woods meant when it said nice is different than good.

lastoneout

This is also how you get people being like "I'm not an ableist! I love disabled people!" after making a joke about Trump wearing diapers or not being able to walk down a ramp. They don't think ableism is wrong, they just think it's right but impolite, so only okay aimed at those who deserve to be insulted.

Absolutely part of why shit sucks so much rn.

lastoneout

Ngl I'm glad I figured out how to word this, bcs trying to articulate it as "you don't actually think bigotry is wrong you just think the target should be someone else" always felt incomplete! I now know what I meant was "you don't think bigotry is wrong you just think it's impolite and that's different" that's what I needed. You just think bigotry is being mean to a marginalized person who, crucially, has done nothing to deserve it. The second they do tho? Anything is fair game.

Yeesh. What a rancid ass way to view the world.

enbaluka-tokyo-drift

rebel-hunk-enjoyer

The worst-sounding piece of advice I've ever been given that does actually work is to frame your health concerns as coming from someone close to you, whom you do not believe. Tell your doctor that you've been having pain and your mom/friend/partner thinks it might be an ovarian cyst, but you don't think so because the pain is much more intense and it has to be something else. This gives your doctor an unseen third party to fight instead of you. They can't just tell this third party, who isn't present, that you pulled a muscle, they now need to prove to this third party that it is not an ovarian cyst.

At which point they will find an ovarian cyst, but they now get whatever fucked up satisfaction they derive out of proving you wrong, because you didn't believe it could a cyst at all, but guess what? They did find a cyst! It's such a good thing you didn't listen to your intuition and came to them to verify your lay diagnosis from that third party! Bonus? Doctor doesn't have to feel like they look stupid in front of a patient, which is really what all this is about. Not your health, why would you think your medical diagnosis is about your health? It's obviously about a doctor's potential ego.

And apparently this works. Apparently you just need to be able to always play 4D chess with your medical professionals in order to find an avenue of advocating for yourself and getting you medical needs met. Isn't that great?

I hate it here, actually.

laserbobcat

Writing characters be like "Ok what neurodivergence do i give to this one"

intheafterlight

Writing characters be like "Ok what aspect of my own neurodivergence did I already give this one without realising?"

laserbobcat

Playing DnD be like "Oh I just realized that's the 5th character I write who's obsessed with food, is overworked and has a terrible relationship with their father but surely this means nothing about myself"

aughtpunk

Okay so many years ago when my mother read the first rough draft of my novel Echo of the Larkspur she congratulated me on writing the most realistic autistic character she's ever read before

And I just remember sitting there going that can't be right, that character just thinks the same way I do and *I'm* not autistic, she's totally in the wrong about that

Fellas, I bet you cannot guess what I was diagnosed with shortly afterwards, you simply can't

earhartsease

be us writing a novel about someone who finally discovers they're able to be two people, one a boy and one a girl, a decade before coming out as trans, and two decades before realising we were plural and it was way more nuanced than "a boy and a girl" so we're still trying to write it

hailed-marys

how to get out of your own way

nebulations

[ID: A Project Hail Mary comic. (Edit: OP kindly added this ID to the og post, so please go reblog from there instead!!) Grace is frowning as he works on a report, and Carl asks from offscreen, "Have you ever thought about getting out of your own way?" Grace, confused: "Huh?" Carl, unimpressed: "You're smart, man, but you cut yourself off halfway through all your sentences. Why?"

Grace hunches in and says, "Guess I was bullied a lot growing up, haha-" Carl cuts in. "So was I." Grace: "What? Really?" Carl pops Skittles in his mouth as he replies, "I grew up fat and black, I got my fair share of shit. Sure, it got to me, but I came around to the idea that those teenage dipshits were wrong about me. What's your excuse, man?"

Grace says uncomfortably, "I never- Uh. I, well-" Carl looks very unimpressed and says, "See? You're doing it again. Say what you mean to say." Grace slumps. "I guess I never thought about it that way." Carl: "Yeah. I know. That's why I said it. Get out of your own damn way."

We see the first panel in color: Grace floating outside the Hail Mary, surrounded by the red glow of Astrophage, as Carl says, "And once you do that? Hoo, man. You'll be unstoppable."

Back to black and white, Grace smiles emotionally and says, "Thanks, Carl." Carl stands up to leave and points at his paper. "Remember, Stratt wants that report by end of day." Grace hunches again and scowls, "Thank you, Carl." End ID]

angelicdewdrop

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queertility

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tokkibean

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

harpyharpyharpy

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

audible-smiles

My memory of The Birdcage (1996) is always that it's more dated and more difficult to watch than it actually is. You hear "drag-themed comedy from the 90s based on a musical from the 80s based on a play from the 70s" and you brace yourself just a little, right? But the film has a strong gay perspective, so the fruity fag jokes mostly come off as warmly affectionate. There is a surprising amount of poignancy in Robin Williams' portrayal of Armand, grudgingly agreeing to his beloved son's request that he go back into the closet for an evening ("do me a favor and don't talk to me for a while"). The drag club's staff attempting to redecorate the apartment with stuff straight people might like (a taxidermy moose head, an enormous crucifix, and Playboy magazine) is extremely funny. Albert's histrionics are a point of tension because he does often come off as a stereotypically pathetic/comic figure, but towards the end of the movie he makes it very clear that he's aware of how people see him, and asserts that trying to copy a stoic masculinity he doesn't possess for the sake of social approval would be more pathetic. In the 1983 musical adaptation, they give "Albert" (Albin) the only good song in the whole show, "I Am What I Am", which Gloria Gaynor covered to the delight of gays everywhere. Apparently Nathan Lane wasn't (publicly) out yet in 1996, which is amazing because it means that at one point in this movie you're watching a gay man playing a straight man playing a gay man playing a straight man, in a movie about how it's important to be yourself, an absurdity that does seem to encapsulate the state of gay America in the 90s.

silverhand

I'm seeing a couple of posts circulating about the gay 90s and this movie. The above is a very good summary, and I think it's worth adding a few other points.

This movie got made because Robin Williams said yes to it (and it's important that Gene Hackman did as well). Williams in the 90s was a mega-star of a type that's not present in the current media environment (maybe Tom Cruise, but I personally think that's echo from his salad days). Even his flops made money on the back end in the video rental market, which also doesn't exist anymore (streaming is different). Hackman was on the other side of his A-list career but still Hollywood nobility if not full royalty.

Playing gay was considered career suicide in the 90s. There had been a number of actors who put lie to that belief stretching back decades, but this was Williams and Hackman (yes, being on screen next to a gay character was enough to get you blacklisted) saying "screw that" and doing it anyway.

Being gay and out was career suicide in the 90s.

Nathan Lane had a really nice gig going for himself. The Lion King put him into the Disney rep company with people like Williams, Bette Midler, and Whoopie Goldberg (check their IMBD list from the 90s--they were making bank at Disney).

Lane didn't come out until several years later (nice summary: https://deadline.com/2024/06/nathan-lane-robin-williams-advice-coming-out-birdcage-1235975010/).

I don't want to imply that this was a Sorkinized moment where everything changed because of one thing, but this was a very important movie that caused real movement in the needle on queer acceptance.

It also proved that there was a market for films with gay characters, which had the knock-on effect of gay filmmakers being able to find distributors of their gay-themed films. Which meant that more people than ever (queer and non-queer) got to see representation on-screen.

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