Dead blog walking

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[windcarvedlyre]

Hello! I go by Lyre here. This was a multifandom blog but I'm currently barely active; a lot has changed IRL and I've been trying to divert my time from social media.

Thanks for visiting! Have a wonderful day.

[windcarvedlyre]

Had a prophetic vision

-Komaeda undergoes much more positive development in the alt timeline

-This leaves us with at least 3 versions of him with significantly distinct development

-People start shipping them together onceler-style

-More minor timeline Komaedas become fleshed out, form their own fanons and are folded into this, expanding Komaedacest until it forms a self-sustaining subfandom

[eldritchbauble]

Genuinely one of the worst things about being raised by an abusive parent is that whatever anyone on the outside knows about is the tip of the iceberg. Even if they know, they don't know. They didn't live it. And whatever your parent did/does is like 100x worse than what they know about. Because even if you try to relay your experiences, there is still an ocean worth of shit that's slipped though the cracks and you can't even coherently remember it all to tell them. Even when you can remember, it's hard to put into words everything that's been done to you. It's an insanely isolating thing to go through. It's like you're the only one who's ever truly going to know what it's like to be you, even if other people relate and sympathize. Even moreso if you don't have any siblings who shared your childhood. It's just. Shit.

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

Fear not the author who predates a scene with “CONTENT WARNING: dehumanization, medical torture, gore, angst, hurt/no comfort, lack of bodily autonomy, and needles”. Because that will just be a mild angst scene at most with a lab back drop. But DO fear the author who says “lotssss of gore in this one guys” with no further elaboration.

[postmanic]

a comic about different ways autistic people communicate and show we care!

shoutout to @3leafedclover , @mickeymusketeer , and my partner for helping me out with this one and also for letting me use your characters (black cat with shades, orange dog with the mickey plushie, and orange/white dog with the 'nervous' vest, respectively!), y'all are awesomes!

also thank you @3leafedclover for the image ids!

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[gothhabiba]

see this is exactly what I'm talking about. this labour is so incredibly invisibilised that there are real human beings, walking about amongst us, leading normal lives, etc., who earnestly believe that machines can make an item of clothing from start to finish.

[rowanrightalong]

Hey just in case someone on here doesn’t quite understand how labor intensive making a garment is, here is a list of things that (to the best of my knowledge) cannot be done by machine alone, from a costumer/tailor in training

Cutting - in my opinion, the most labor intensive part of the process. The amount of time/effort needed varies depending on the pattern and if seam allowance is included or marked separately, but no matter what this process can not be done by machine. Each and every panel and piece of fabric that goes into a garment must be cut by hand by a person.

Pinning/clipping - pinning (or clipping) is the stage at which you align the pieces you are going to be stitching together and hold them together with — you guessed it! — either pins or clips. This can not be done by machine.

Stitching - the actual sewing. This can be done by a sewing machine, but that machine still needs to be operated by a human being.

Ironing/pressing - two words that mean the same thing. The iron itself is a machine, but once again, it needs to be operated by a human being.

Finishing - depending on the technique you use, there are certain finishing techniques that can only be done by hand. But, let’s assume we’re talking about fast fashion, which is usually just finished with a simple overlock/serger. Once again: these machines need to be operated by people.

These are just the basic steps to making a garment, and don’t include textile arts that I am not as knowledgeable about, such as weaving, knitting, and crochet. Also, it is important to note that there are a lot of things that can only be done by hand, such as certain stitches and decorative techniques.

Also, the machinery being operated in textile factories is not equivalent to a domestic sewing machine. We’re talking about one of these guys:

See that gray cylinder under the table, behind the knee pedal? That’s the motor. These machines can sew through your fingers bones and all and not even stop. The people in these factories and sweatshops are operating heavy machinery, and are subject to all the risk that comes with that in addition to all of the work I mentioned above.

Please respect textile workers and continue the fight to eliminate the use of sweatshops and exploited labor in the fashion industry!

[markovchaingang]

right wing opinion column: Why the New Peter Pan Being Black is Proof That We're Living in The Turner Diaries

centrist opinion column: Why Senseless Killings Can Actually Be a Net Good, as Long as They're Profitable Enough

left wing opinion column: Why my Repeat Sexual Offences Don't Mean I Can't Be a Feminist Ally

[biracy]

I just think it's Inch Resting that "straight men watch lesbian porn because Lol More Hot Chicks And No Ugly Dudes" is seen as completely obvious and a well-known cultural joke, but when women (not even entirely straight women either) display a similar preference for gay porn it needs a billion thinkpieces and Substack articles and video essays to "explain why". The very fact that people think women liking gay porn requires this level of dissection is far more interesting than women liking gay porn in and of itself

[loki-zen]

yeah and we can dissect that instead

personally i think it's that society in general (and I'm including in this the outward behaviour/speech acts of many straight women) does not see women as being horny for men's bodies, or men's bodies as something that people are horny for. And then on top of that since men's attractiveness, not deriving from their bodies, must be bound up in their success as a man and being gay is a failure at being a man, gay men must be extra unattractive, so it's extra perplexing

[hoping-for-novelty]

What seems to be missing from this recent discussion is that "fujoshis are just horny" is, or at least was until recently, a widespread position in the discourse. And that this horniness is commonly framed as being somehow homophobic

The (conspicuously feminist) psychoanalysis explaining why women like yaoi didn't arise out of confusion or academic curiosity, it's a defense against accusations of fetishization

[jambeast]

Accusations that are absolutely accurate - they do indeed have a fetish for gay men, and having a fetish is absolutely 100% fine and they shouldn't be ashamed of it!

And yeah I think a big part of it is a cultural incredulity that women can actually be sexually attracted to men (or indeed sexually attracted), and that they aren't just going along with sex and relationships en masse out of obligation.

[targetedknowledge]

[saveyourhelplessspite]

in part i'd be willing to bet that a good chunk of the discourse around trans men rn stems from an inability to picture a trans man that doesnt pass because a trans man that doesnt pass looks like a woman ergo cant be a trans man ergo isnt pictured as a non-passing trans man ergo all trans men pass ergo circular reasoning ouroboros that blows majorly

[saveyourhelplessspite]

like say what you want but i dont think the tguy down the road that looks like hetero jessica has male privilege, unless you dont think of him as a real man because he doesnt pass, in which case you gotta work on that

[papercranesandpride]

You can have facial hair and a deep voice and present masculine, but if you have boobs, you're still read as a woman and not a trans man. "It's easy for trans men to pass" only works if you think everyone one of us has had top surgery, and forget exactly how hard it is to get any trans surgery. How expensive and inaccessible, how much of a struggle to get it approved, and how you need to have a support network to take care of you afterwards.

Like. I have gotten top surgery. Have facial hair. Have done voice training. Usually get gendered correctly pretty well. And the other day I went "you know, it's silly that I won't wear my pink scrubs anymore out of fear of getting misgendered. I pass well now. I should wear them again" and promptly got called she by two different patients. If a flat chested trans man stops being a man just for wearing pink scrubs? Yeah I know most people can't picture a guy with E cups, who even dressing the most masculine is still going to be read as a butch, not a guy.

[faygeleh-franciszek]

1000000%%% There's just so little space for any socially legible existence.

[ayeforscotland]

Good job Glasgow, massively outnumbering the fash cunts.

[indigonite]

Happy another homestuck day for those who still practice it

[ineffectualdemon]

Every time I apply my oestrogen gel because of menopause I think "there is a trans woman somewhere who is also sitting in her underwear post shower waiting for the gel to dry before she finishes getting dressed" and I feel happy and a sense of kinship and camaraderie with her even though I am not a trans woman or even trans femme in anyway

But I know how to apply the gel because I saw posts from trans women how to apply it and I feel that even though are reasons for using it are different that we are not so different

So for any woman or non binary person out there who are sitting post oestrogen gel application and scrolling on their phone as they wait for it to dry...we are doing this together and this genderqueer person lovee you

[self-loving-vampire]

How To Get Out - Trans Rescue

Practical information to help you survive. While we often gain attention here at Trans Rescue for our work directly extracting trans people

This is a resource for helping trans people leave the US. I know going from the US to another country is going to be inherently different from claiming asylum in Canada from El Salvador over a decade ago like I did, but what I'm seeing so far sounds pragmatic and level-headed to me.

I am also more negative about a few of the countries on the list than the writers are.

A lot of trans people in the US really don't want to hear this but leaving the country might be necessary and you want to at least have a plan for how to do that even if you don't end up needing it. Don't just surrender in advance based on the assumption that you can only immigrate if you're super rich.

[windcarvedlyre]

Sick leave's about to end but I can't do this man, I've started making job applications again

[eveisy]

I think it’s really horrible how normalised it is to wish suicide on others, I think it’s making our societies far less caring and understanding.

Suicide and suicidal ideation are god awful things to go through, and seeing people trivialise it by slinging it around is incredibly upsetting. To even see children participating in this is a bleak look into our reality.

You do not know the complete despair and deep, immense pain of what it’s like to go through these things. It’s not a cute or funny phrase. It’s a phrase indicative of suffering through a long and tiresome mental illness and struggle. It’s not the same thing as a quick and surprising death. And now we’ve created a culture where people can’t even enjoy their hobbies or talk casually without a barrage of hostility.

Don’t say to ‘get offline’, because it bleeds into people’s real world speech. So many of us need to be online for work, communication, information… At what point do you stop blaming the individual people hurt by this to the point they need to isolate from everything to escape, and start understanding there’s a deeper problem on a wider scale of where we’re headed as the human species.

[fandom-geek]

Homes set on fire in Belfast night of violence as MP says people targeted based on skin colour - follow live

On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.

i really don't have the words for how things have escalated to outright race riots in the last few weeks. just to collect a few of the stories the bbc is reporting in their live thread:

Families led to safety through flames (Dan Johnson) Homes were targeted and burned. Families had to be led to safety through the flames - rescued by emergency services risking their lives in the most dangerous situation. It’s what the authorities feared all day. What they warned against and pleaded not to see. The condemnation came quickly and was widespread. It wasn’t just homes, cars were also torched by young masked man in these predominantly unionist streets but the target here was immigrants and the message to entirely innocent families was: "You’re not welcome". In the north of the city, more people were forced to flee including an African family who’ve lived here for 20 years.

People being put out 'because they're black' - pastor A pastor who has been helping those in houses targeted in tonight's violence says people were being put out of their homes "because they're black". Pastor Jack McKee was at the scene where multiple houses were on fire around the Crumlin Road in north Belfast - he says some members of his church "who have been with us for 20 years" were "getting put out of their home, had their house attacked, windows smashed, houses beside them burned". "They're good Christian people and they're getting put out just because they're black," he says. "I'm doing my best to help them, it's as simple as that." [...]

Masked men shouting 'foreigners out' (Kelly Bonner) Last night on the Lower Newtownards Road in Belfast hundreds of masked men walked down the street carrying bottles, bricks and masonry. They set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out". As they walked street to street, they were banging on doors, kicking doors down and breaking windows. Masked man set cars alight and at one point I witnessed them trying to burn a car until a woman came out of her home and told them it belonged to a "local and not a foreigner" and they stopped. A young family had to be moved from their home by police. The scenes of this young family fleeing their home were really quite shocking.

We're seeing a 'race-based pogrom' in Belfast, MP tells BBC Claire Hanna, Belfast MP and leader of the Social Democratic & Labour Party, has spoken to Newsnight about the "nightmarish" attack on Monday, which she says has "understandably revulsed and shocked" people in Belfast. However, she condemned the scenes that erupted on Tuesday afternoon, suggesting that "negative actors online and politicians locally who don't really care what communities in north Belfast have been through" have used the knife attack to incite violence and seed division. "What you're seeing is a race-based pogrom. We are seeing men going door to door asking to get the foreigners out based exclusively on the colour of their skin," she has said. "It's not based on what they're contributing to society, what their status here is and it's terrifying for people in Belfast who want this sort of politics to be far beyond them."