Transfem, transmasc, nonbinary, cis, intersex, lesbian, gay, bi, pan, straight, aro, ace, and anyone else I've missed, I love you <3
Also fuck gen AI, the rich, the patriarchy, and those who enforce systems of oppression.
Aaaaaanyway...
Hiiiii :3 I am Snek, I like Snek and bug and kitty and puppy and birb and. Amnimals. And art. And swords. And many things. One might say I have. Interests.
I rb things that bring me joy, which is mostly art and shitposts (on the art and shitpost site :O !?!?). Something spicy may slip in occasionally bc I am, for all intents and purposes, human.
I generally try to avoid arguments, but if I do end up engaging in controversy and come off as rude/aggressive/bigoted just know I would much rather be having a civil conversation but I'm terrible at communication.
Tags I tend to use when not just quick rbing are:
#snek yaps - my own words prompted largely by nothing.
#fav - favorite. I just wanted to save this particular post in some vaguely searchable way.
#silly game ep # - responses to daily asks from @jkl-fff which have been going on for a LONG time now. Not numbered well.
#another for the archive - I am downloading this gif/image/video to use elsewhere, tagged so I may find it and give credit at a later date.
#ow - rbs that cause psychic damage to me personally
I keep seeing this picture and similar ones and it keeps giving me thoughts. Yeah I do agree with the message ! And these animals are hated by many peoole !! But let's be honest. These are still fairly conventionally cute. They're big eyed fluffy affectionate pretty intelligent mammals and birds. So today, I'm offering y'all my own version.
BE NICE TO ALL ANIMALS. INCLUDING THE ONES WHO DON'T LIKE BEING PET. INCLUDING THE ONES THAT AREN'T FLUFFY. INCLUDING THE ONES YOU FIND UGLY. Be nice to the weird ass critters too >:)
you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads
you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride
these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.
final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. 👍
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.
every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.
I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
The US just removed the “T” from LGBT because when you’re using the alphabet soup you can just. Do that. Erase the presence of the identities you don’t respect.
Queer is an umbrella term. It doesn’t rely on respect for individual identities, it stands on the strength of the community
Also, like - I’m not LGBT. You have to get all the way out to LGBTQIA, in the normal ordering of letters, before you hit “pretty sure at this point I’m some kind of aroace,” which is what I’ve got. And I - suppose I don’t feel like I count queer, most days, cis and only not affirmatively straight because I’m too aroace to be able to tell - but I’m in fact a kind of queer, whatever the weasels tend to say, and people like me deserve to be able to count, and you have to get a lot more letters than anyone here is discussing before we would.