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rly hate when women who are attracted to men, act like they're the sole arbiters of what makes a man sexy or not. Like maybe some things aren't for you.

when anything homo-erotic is done for homo-erotic effect but you as a woman like it, obviously that means the gayness suddenly evaporates and everyone has to care about what you want.

I love that women have spaces to be sexual without the judgement of the patriarchy. but the entirety of the male sexual reality and experience does not have to be designed for you. Not every fandom space has to leave room for heterosexuality and the norms that come with it.

Take the spaces you need, but mind that people other from you will also be there, and your oppression from being a woman doesn't prevent you from benefiting from and weaponizing other forms of bigotry within these spaces.

#don't call yourself an ally #call yourself an uber and gtfo

dogsonline-blog

suncalf

iron man! transformers! king kong, star trek, the silence of the lambs! dozens of shameless war propaganda films barely disguising themselves as sci-fi or horror that were obvious enough even without this list! there aren’t any real surprises here but its worth a read

ginkgo-bilobas

David L. Robb wrote a book called Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors Movies. This Film is Not Yet Rated featured a little bit of an interview with him:

“The military and the film studios have colluded for more than 50 years. Anytime filmmakers want military assets - ships or tanks or planes - they have to give the Pentagon five copies of their script. And, if there’s anything in the script that’s negative, the Pentagon wants them to take it out. And so they negotiate, and take out any war crimes or foul language, or drinking. Anything that would make the military look bad. And than, after the agreement is made, the military sends a minder onto the set, when the film is being shot, to make sure it’s shot just the way they agreed. And then, once the film is completed, it has to be shown to the Pentagon, admirals and generals, before it’s shown to the public. Dozens of films have not been made because they couldn’t get military assistance. So, people have no idea what they’re not seeing.”

spale-vosver

bluehairedspidey

out of touch thursday

leave-her-a-tome

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Unsplash - photography, illustration, and art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Stockvault.net - stock photos

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own.

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

queeranarchism

Yes, it’ll get worse

I’m always a bit annoyed when some ecoactivists are are all “Hope! Degrowth! The planet can heal!” without giving an honest time frame for that.

Like, even if we manage to end capitalism and degrow an all of that, the CO2 that’s already in the air will continue to heat up the planet for decades and the results of that will be with us for this century at the very least.

Yes, ecosystems can heal, yes, that’s worth fighting for. But it’ll get worse before it gets better and most of us won’t be there for the good parts. You can leave that out to spread “Hope”, but all that will do is make people optimistic for a short time only for them to feel hurt and betrayed when they figure out the truth.

An worse then feeling cheated our of a bright future, people acting on this false optimistic worldview won’t build the kind of support networks that we are going to need to survive our real future. Preparing for a more ecologically unstable earth must be part of our work, even as we continue to strive for the end of capitalism an a shift to a far more sustainable way of living.

Basically, if you’re trying to boost your movement this way, your eco-activism strategy is…ehhh.. unsustainable?

sklerbkl

What are ways we can prepare for a more ecologically unstable Earth? I honestly don’t feel very hopeful that we’re going to overthrow capitalism in time and even if we do, like you said, the Earth is going to continue to heat up. Trying to find ways to cope with and prepare for that reality actually feel more hopeful and realistic to me and I’d love to learn about them.

queeranarchism

There are a lot of things you can do, here’s a few:

Get into the habit of sharing stuff for free with others. We’re probably going to experience some forms of scarcity and when that happens, all we have is each other. Self-sufficiency is a myth, community self-sufficiency isn’t. Create neighborhood resources. A tool-sharing shed or a water filter for ground or rain water could make a difference here and now, but will also matter in the future. Advance mode: Start Mutual Aid collectives.

Learn first aid and other emergency medical skills. Whether your region is vulnerable to heat waves, wild fires, flooding, drought, extreme cold or electrical failures, there will be people in need of help an medical systems are unlikely to be able to cope with it all. Learning to take care of others is always useful, even if you’re lucky enough to not experience any disasters at all. Advanced mode: Start a DIY medicine collective or learn an advance skill like growing medicinal herbs or physical therapy.

Learn to break the law. As the crisis deepens, governments will let more and more people fall through the cracks. Refugees and undocumented people are likely to be the first targets but other minorities can be targetted too. Those people won’t be able to survive unless people are willing to break the law to get them housing, food, etc. Advanced mode: get experience breaking the law together and put it to work actually helping undocumented people.

Learn to support each other. Our mental health is as important as our physical health and to truly support each other we need more than good intentions. Learn psychological first aid, learn how to structurally support trauma survivors, people who are mourning, people struggling with depression and more. Advanced mode: start a Support & Recovery collective.

Work on building a community without discrimination and systematic injustice. All of the things to come will hit the most marginalized harder. We can only get through it together if our communities truly value everyone in it and we understand that an injury to one is an injury to all. Learn about systematic oppression, learn about privilege, learn about conflict resolution an mediation and put that to work in your community. Advanced mode: start a transformative justice collective.

… and more.

Important: don’t take on every burden, pick a few things you enjoy doing. None of us can do all of the above and none of us can single-highhandedly prepare our whole community for what is to come. Find a way you can support your community and trust that others will do the same.

the-right-writing

Writer Beware makes posts on which publishing houses to avoid at all costs, which words to look for and which words to watch out for in contracts, and several other things that will keep you in control and knowledgeable about the publishing process. I’d suggest reading through the website if you want to avoid getting ripped off, cheated, or scammed.

the-right-writing

I’m just going to reblog this every so often because it’s a site that every writer needs to see.