SUGAR IN THE FUEL LINES

puck they/them 28 appalachian lesbian anti-american it would be disingenuous to call this a spn blog but I will be posting more spn than most people find palatable

[franniegore]

i literally dont care if women are evil

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[sanjipussyindulgence]

[fairycosmos]

burnt out at 24 what now

and now you can finally live. releases you from your cage

[hochiminhts-deactivated20190916]

[futchcassidyandthecumdancekid]

​still genuinely might be the best own ive ever seen in my fucking life

[pjackk]

Dont be very woried about me since i deserve all of this

[top-cheese]

ok so its a pretty good story but you know what would make it better? a liar. a character who lies. maybe two.

[aphrodite-is-tma]

okay. when we say that a transandrobro is simultaneously occupying the position of the rational male who's so much smarter than everyone else and the position of the delicate AFAB who must be protected, it's not because the transandrobro thinks of himself as occupying these positions, but rather because of how he positions us.

he positions us as simultaneously irrational women who must be controlled, with all these crazy radical opinions, and as dangerous AMAB aggressors threatening and harassing him, who are hateful and bigoted.

those are both relational social positions, that are occupied in opposition to the rational male, and to the delicate afab.

so by leveraging transmisogyny against us, THAT is how he is able to occupy these contradictory positions, regardless of whether or not he realizes he's doing it.

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

it is always narratively correct to make your characters sleep together before they sort through the hundreds of lies and misdirections between them. make things worse make things worse make things worse #i love betrayal #i love lying #i love people feeling bad about themselves

[lesbian-n0ise-enthusiast]

Totally normal comments on a reddit post about a comic about trans women being excluded from women’s shelters and “afab only” housing and how people will then hyperfixate on the trans woman potentially saying a mean word to the people excluding her rather than the mass exclusion that trans women face. Literally every single one of these comments are pearl clutching over the fact that the trans woman in the comic said a mean word to the precious “afab” (just ignore the wildly transmisogynistic things that were hurled at the trans woman just moments before)

This is the comic for context

[specialagentartemis]

thought that just occurred to me and now I need to inflict it on you all:

The failure mode of Andy Weir is Ernest Cline.

[specialagentartemis]

There’s a highly specific style of sci-fi written by a highly specific kind of author: straight, white, male, Gen X, usually from North America and with a STEM degree, who was a Nerd in high school and still has a vision of Nerdiness strongly defined by a straight, white, male, Gen X experience. An experience of reading a lot of Heinlein and Asimov and Tolkien in high school, where Apollo 11 happened before he was born and space exploration was happening at what felt like an ever-increasing pace, where computers were rapidly advancing and every advance was exciting, where video games were played in arcades or were text adventures with minimal graphics, where Star Wars was mind-blowing and Star Trek was experienced as reruns so The Next Generation was cool and exciting, where fanfiction is not part of their fannish experience and probably never occurred to them, where blogging on your own website was a natural part of internet culture, where the economic boom of the 80s meant engineering/programming/IT jobs were easy to get.

These influences define the niche that Andy Weir and Ernest Cline both write in, as well as certain other prominent figures like John Scalzi, Randall Munroe, Cory Doctorow, and kind of Rich Berlew.

It’s not an indictment of them; it’s just a particular niche. However, due to the specifics of such authors’ identities and experiences, they can often write with the apparent idea that they are not specific; that they are universal and apolitical. This often comes with an idea that they believe in racial/gender/sexuality equality, and they do because they believe equality is good and humans are all more alike than we're different and humanity is fundamentally decent, but also they not-infrequently write like they don’t really know any gay people or people of color and have never really thought very hard about it.

And one of the reasons I still haven’t read The Martian or Project Hail Mary even though I have been intending to for years and I’m confident I would enjoy them… is that in my large and ever-growing TBR I tend to de-prioritize this particular sci-fi niche. There are SO many good-sounding books in the world that I want to read and I tend to prioritize books by women, by authors of color, by queer authors, by authors with social science backgrounds. The only Scalzi I’ve read was Redshirts and it wasn’t that great and was kinda thoughtlessly sexist; and I have many, many thoughts about Ready Player One and Ready Player Two (almost none of them good lmao). I definitely have my beefs with Cory Doctorow despite respecting him in other ways. I found his YA novel Little Brother respectably ambitious but also kinda mediocre. And I have followed Order of the Stick and xkcd for more than a decade and you can really see the political/social evolution of the authors over time. That’s another trend; you can see these authors reacting and adjusting to more nuanced gender/race/queer issues over time!

It just feels to me like a highly identifiable style, one that has been more miss than hit with me, which sometimes is made more frustrating by recurring beliefs that there’s nothing uniquely identifiable about it; that books by Gen X straight white men aren’t identity-based books like books by and about women and people of color and queer people are.

And. Like. I love Order of the Stick! I have Munroe’s first “What If” book, autographed! And though I’ve read little of his fiction I think John Scalzi is overall a cool guy (though sometimes thinks he’s funnier and cleverer than he is). And when I get around to reading The Martian and Project Hail Mary I also genuinely believe I’ll like them—I floated on fuzzy warm emotions for days after seeing the PHM movie, certainly! This isn’t to say this automatically makes a work bad. It does however make a work specific, in a way straight white men are rarely expected to think of their work as specific. But like. It’s a style, a niche, that’s definitely specific.

And Andy Weir takes it and writes widely beloved stories about hope and humanity and Ernest Cline takes it and writes about how being able to play video games and quote 80s movies better than anybody else means you’re the most important person on the planet.

[pokeballvictimized]

Its so weird to me that people say "bomb that kills all tmas" as a response to "bomb that kills all tmes" because the latter is pretty clearly an expression of frustration at how much it can suck to be a trans woman and have cis men and cis women and trans men not really know how to talk to or about you (or outright discriminate!) And then the former is like. Pretty in line with the American republican party's solution to trans women. How are those equivalent or reciprocal.

[stardustsubspace]

"I think all [oppressors] should die"

> "Oh yeah? Well I think all [oppressed] should die"

Good job on aligning yourself with an oppressive power dipass 👍 You're really making the world a better place by hating an oppressed group of people who make up less than 0.5% of the population 👍👍👍

[catgirlnailpolish]

“bomb that kills all tmes” is also like. 99% of the population so it’s a concept so over the top as to lose all rhetorical weight. “bomb that kills all tmas” targets less than 1 percent of the population and is an actual achievable goal that fascists are currently aiming for.

[pokeballvictimized]

Its so weird to me that people say "bomb that kills all tmas" as a response to "bomb that kills all tmes" because the latter is pretty clearly an expression of frustration at how much it can suck to be a trans woman and have cis men and cis women and trans men not really know how to talk to or about you (or outright discriminate!) And then the former is like. Pretty in line with the American republican party's solution to trans women. How are those equivalent or reciprocal.

[estro-boi]

rule 1 of nonbinary club: there is no right or wrong way to be nonbinary :)

rule 2 of nonbinary club: if u mention that half of us get seen as quirky and the other half get seen as rapists then u will be hunted for sport

[valtsv]

basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.

[valtsv]

[with obvious perverted intent] hey. don't you want to release the safety catches on that character. don't you want to flip off all the switches holding them back and let the control rods go.

[fulda-gap-express]

who is the Toronto baseball warlock

[lusciouslusciousliz]

it's utterly fascinating how many so-called allies believe both "not telling someone you're trans before sleeping with them is rape by deception" and "rapists deserve the death penalty/vigilante justice" at once. literally recreating the gay panic defense from first principles. and by fascinating I mean fucking sickening

[bigtigers]

feed me glue