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we're not kids anymore.
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@yo--letsstealtheircannons
When a friend’s ex does an insta story about how they’re writing a memoir, then proceeds to read a section about my friend/one of their last moments together. (Meanwhile my friend hasn’t said anything on SM AND keeps anything about him dating on “close friends”)
I never watched Game of Thrones but i was on tumblr witnessing the decline and fallout from the final season, and watching everyone get hyped about House of the Dragon makes me feel like i did when my middle school bestie took her shitty boyfriend back
Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post
My emotions are valid*
*valid does not mean healthy, or good, or to be privileged above common sense and kindness
A distinction for anyone who is young and hasn’t figured this out yet:
You are allowed to have whatever emotions you want. No one can control your emotions. Emotions are healthy responses to things.
You are not allowed to have behaviors that are harmful just because you have certain emotions. Your behaviors are what you can control, and they are far easier to control than your emotions.
You can be jealous about someone or their talents until you turn green, but it is harmful to yourself and to that person if you try to sabotage them because of it. You can be so angry you can literally feel your temperature rise, but this does not give you permission to rage at others.
Your emotions are valid. They are always valid. You are a person of value. However, you behaviors are not always justified just because of those emotions. You may not be able to control you emotions, but you can certainly control your behaviors.
and this one, i beg you to learn before you become right-wing fundamentalists: just because something gives you revulsion feelings does not mean it’s morally wrong.
you may be sex-repulsed; that doesn’t mean sex is dirty and bad. maybe you were bullied by teenage girls; that doesn’t mean teenage girls are a force of evil. perhaps a villain in a work of fiction reminds you of someone who abused you; that doesn’t mean people who enjoy that character or that fiction are abusive. your feelings about those things are absolutely valid, and it’s not right for people to tell you you shouldn’t feel that way. but it’s also not right for you to act out against others based on those feelings.
that instinct to generalize served our species well when we were hunter-gatherers living in small bands in a hostile wilderness. you nibble a delicious-looking berry, you throw up, you know that berry is BAD and you make the yuck face whenever you see it so the other hominids know it’s a bad one. but in the modern world, in the information age, there are so many complex things you might encounter, you’re going to have badfeels about a lot of things that aren’t actually across-the-board bad.
you need to not be ruled by your hominid yuckberry instinct. that’s where bigotry comes from.
That last line deserves to be an iconic tumblr quote.
I made a nonfiction booktok two months ago and now two of the creators who influenced me are following me!?!?!?! (one added me to a nonfiction booktok creator group!!!!) What is my life right now.
i hate this weird sense of internalized queerphobia of like. being visibly and really loudly queer is somehow immature and childish and one day you'll grow up and fall into cishet line and stop
#conforming is not synonymous with maturity
I love you so much for saying this
this sucks so i went looking for some gnc adults
Love Bites by Della Grace
Trans dream portraits by Landyn Pan
Hobbes Ginsberg - Still Alive
Texas Isaiah photography
Tears for the Dying (Adria Stembridge)
Téa Campbell Ada Juarez and Edith Johnson of Meet Me @ the Altar
Dorian Electra
Princex Vidal (Vidal Francisco)
Beautiful Boy by Lissa Rivera (BJ Lillis)
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Getty Images (yeah)
Edward Howell
Norbu Gyachung
Patrick Perkins
Mary Saxaroz
Manny Becerra
Sheena McGrath Mars Ganito Joe McCann and Jade Payne of Aye Nako
most of these people are still relatively young so here's gorgeous fae trans icon Alexander James Adams
OH THANK YOU
You don't age out of queerness, you don't have to "grow out of" it either.
You don’t age out of
queerness, you don’t have to “grow
out of” it either.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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So, uh, I reckon what makes Ed happy… is… you. You make Stede happy.
Am I surprised Killing Eve ended in the bury your gays trope? No.
Am I surprised at the amount of LGBT folks pissed about this and didn’t see it coming? Yes.
as someone who uses they/them pronouns and works with children, never let anyone tell you that you can't or shouldn't teach children about pronouns and gender diversity. It's possible, it's easier than you'd think, and it's beautiful
highlights from this summer at camp, where I work as a program staff member:
-I come out of my cabin dressed in a button-up and a tie for our weekly fancy dinner. Eight-year-old boy A sees me and says "she looks nice!" Eight-year-old boy B cries out at the top of his lungs, "IT'S A THEY!"
-A very young girl I'd never spoken to approaches me at checkout, hands me what appears to be a piece of abstract origami, and walks away. I unfold one of the flaps to find "peace love pride gay" written inside
-Nonbinary campers are increasingly out and visible, and they notice me (our camp director now mentions me and our other nonbinary staff member when parents call with concerns about their nonbinary kids attending camp). One spends an entire programming hour glued to my side, talking emphatically about their favorite anime while we walk down the beach together. They later present me with a nonbinary flag friendship bracelet. They're eleven.
-Ten-year-old boy who typically has a great deal of difficulty controlling his impulses and responding appropriately to his emotions asks me suddenly over dinner whether I'm a boy or a girl. I thank him for asking me and tell him I'm not either. He responds, ever-so-chipper, "well, (camp name), I like you just the way you are!"
-Yet another rowdy ten-year-old boy, at the end of his second session at camp of the summer, tells me unprompted at dinner, "you know, (camp name), I'm really glad I came to camp, because you're the first they/them person I've met. I'm sorry if I get it wrong sometimes."
My 8 year old met a non-binary person at camp a couple of weeks ago (another child) and when I picked him up, I asked if he made any new friends and he said, “Yes, Nathan who is a boy and Ari who is neither a boy or a girl.”
It was said with such certainty and when he mentioned Ari later, he referred to them as a “she” and then stopped and said, “wait, Ari uses they/them so they said...” He’s 8. Kids can absolutely learn this and have fewer problems with it than grown ups often do.
me falling into nonfiction booktok/bookstagram is not what I had on my 2022 bingo card.
i honestly dont get why people stopped reblogging things they like on here bc like what are you afraid of??? people thinking youre cringey?? guess what bitch! youre on tumblr! it's all cringey! reblog everything you like and do it shamelessly no one fuckin cares
Bc I know some of y'all are about to have a fit in the notes
you weren’t a “well behaved” child you had anxiety and were terrified of conflict
It’s that time of year when HS classmates start adding me on social media again. I haven’t found a nice way to tell them that the person they are reminiscing about hasn’t existed for about a decade.
Doc Ock when he saw Tom Holland’s Spider-Man instead of Tobey
The thing about “kill pedophiles” and “castrate rapists” and all that is that it’s a flat-out reactionary sentiment that gains a lot of traction in Leftist circles and it goes practically unchallenged because anyone who does challenge it can be accused of advocating rape or sex with children.
Some radfems have found this post and of course they’re treating it with all the nuance such a sensitive subject deserves (telling me to kill myself).
I made a joke a couple years back saying that it seems like for a lot of anarchists, the actual issue with the justice system was that the government wouldn’t let them have lynch mobs. And dear god has that one come true, I saw something just the other day saying that the problem with capital punishment was that the government shouldn’t have the right to kill people, but if you just let me bludgeon people to death with a baseball bat it would be great.
i think what people are failing to understand is that the moment anyone is allowed to be an executioner, that power WILL be misused, and it WILL come down hard on literally anyone the group in power wants dead, regardless of whether or not they’ve committed a crime, because that’s how the legal system works rn; people with enough power/influence easily gets away with crimes that people without can’t. just because we’re turning to mob violence instead doesn’t mean that’s gonna change - people who are without power will be executed, and people who do have power will benefit
The moment I read this my first thought was: There’s currently countries in this world, that actively accuse lgtb+ people of pedophilia. So guess who will get lynched first, if y'all made lynching legal?
dear god yes all of this. it’s very clear that a lot of people don’t want to dismantle the power structures, they just want to be at the top of them
Your Very Unfriendly Reminder that the #1 thing Black men were accused of to justify lynching between 1865 and … well, there’s no official “end date” to lynching, but roughly 1940-50s, was rape. Rape of white women and girls.
Anyone who spoke up against lynching was immediately attacked in the press for defending rapists (and pedophiles, though that wasn’t the word they used).
Ida B. Wells’ The Red Record is free and everyone should read it.
When we have the positions “it’s legal to do whatever you want to someone who has done _______,” and “community justice is the answer to government oppression,” we are always going to get to lynching.
I think that “the problem with capital punishment was that the government shouldn’t have the right to kill people“ person being referred to might have been me, in which case, I want to clarify that that is not my opinion.
I did not say this as something I personally think but as an example of an opinion that exist in the world, which I mentioned when talking about the fact that not every prison abolitionist has the same concept of justice.
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I think that all of the above is important and it’s really important to talk about how rape accusations have been used as a lynching tool and how “it’s legal to do whatever you want to someone who has done _______,” leads to lynchings.
Punishment is about power. As a result, punishment does not happen to ‘bad’ people. Punishment happens to people who can’t stop it from happening to them.
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All that said, if one of my friends comes to me and is like “someone tried to rape me last night so I stabbed him”, I’m probably buying my friend a drink. Does that make me a hypocrite? I don’t know.
The tension between violence as punishment, violence as self defense and violence as resistance to the state and its systems of oppression, might be where a lot of this shit comes from. As anarchists, most of us know some violence is necessary and we know that nonviolence in the face of great injustice means allowing that injustice to continue. But to wield violence, we need to uproot our impulse to punish.
Like, when Richard Spencer got punched, I felt joy. Not just at the thought that this would harm his movement (which is a good reason to punch nazis), but at seeing that fist in his fucking face (which is my impulse to punish), and expressing that joy might be seen as pro-punishment, but it’s not meant to be.
So if we accept that violence against injustice is necessary, but punishment is bad, we need to grapple with the fact that many acts are a bit of both.
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