Well, there you are then

Adult | I like cartoons | Sometimes I draw

[zirconpetals]

Check out the Spones Den community on Discord - hang out with 4 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

I made a spones server!!!

Spones 💙🩵 spones 💙🩵 spones 💙🩵 spones 💙🩵

I need people to be unhinged about them

EDIT: here's a permanent link in case the other one expires

[blazeofbones]

Happy Pride Month

[zirconpetals]

Obsessed with the way they keep holding each other throughout the conversation after Spock comes to

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[genericpuff]

Kwe! It's officially ✨Pride Month!✨ Happy Pride to all my friends and enemies alike <3

Just as a reminder (or announcement to those unaware) I am a Two-Spirit Saulteaux-Mi'kmaq person!

My pronouns are she/he/they. You'll usually see me refer to myself as a woman, but this is simply because it's my assigned gender at birth and not because I exclusively identify as a woman (so please don't be worried about using the wrong pronouns on me, I am, as they call me, Miss Gender /j)

But I figured in addition to this ceremonial outing, I wanted to provide some fun facts on the Two-Spirit identity, as there are still many people out there who don't understand the term beyond just being a queer label (it's a lot more complex than just being an Indigenous word for 'trans'!) and oftentimes, the 2S (for Two-Spirit) is noticeably missing from the LGBTQIA+ line-up (though this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I'll explain more about why below!)

Text version:

Two Spirit (Anishinaabe definition: niizh manidoowag)

To put it simply: a term used to describe Indigenous peoples with both masculine and feminine spirits.

Coined in 1990 by Myra Laramee (Cree Nation), the term was designed as a unifying term for Indigenous peoples to reclaim roles, identities, and teachings that were disrupted by colonization.

Contrary to non-Native belief, Two-Spirit is not simply an Indigenous word for "trans" or "non-binary". Rather, it's often used as an umbrella term for many gender and sexual identities. Most importantly, what distinguishes Two-Spirit as its own unique term is how it uniquely describes the Indigenous experience as it pertains to queerness, separate from that of non-Native peoples.

To inherit the label of Two-Spirit is not just to identify one's own queerness, but also to inherit the roles and responsibilities passed down through individual tribal traditions. It is a term of reclamation and resistance.

Whether an Indigenous person chooses to use Two-Spirit exclusively or in addition to colonial terms within the LGBTQIA2S+ umbrella is their choice. There are even Indigenous peoples who identify solely with colonial labels such as non-binary, trans, and gender fluid, but do not identify as Two-Spirit.

Regardless of how an Indigenous person chooses to use Two-Spirit, it was a word made for Indigenous peoples, by Indigenous peoples - the term is and always will be theirs to choose.

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Of course, there's a lot more to the Two-Spirit identity than I can summarize in a single image, and what the Two-Spirit identity means will vary to different people and tribes. Some people do purely use the term to describe their trans identity or their sexuality; others use it to uphold the traditions of their tribe, especially as they pertain to the roles and responsibilities of members of the tribe, and how gender often influenced those roles and governed those responsibilities.

As an example, in many tribes (see: not all) women were often considered the healers and caretakers of their tribe, while men were considered the protectors and hunters. Within that particular framework, someone who is Two-Spirit would often be embraced as an asset to their communities, as they could fulfill the duties and roles of both men and women, being both caretakers and creators and also protectors and fighters.

But not all Indigenous peoples or tribes define Two-Spirit in that way. Many exclusively use it as a sexuality / gender label, the same way one would use "gay" "bisexual" or "non-binary"; some even doing so as resistance of their own against established gender norms, even as they existed within their own tribes.

What's important is to acknowledge, identify, and respect the term as an Indigenous word. It is not for non-Natives to use for themselves. It is our word, one that we cherish as a sacred thread connecting all Indigenous peoples who've lived through the shared experience of being raised and oppressed under colonialism. While all queer people regardless of race are constantly under threat, it's absolutely vital to recognize and understand how cultural context plays a contributing role in queer oppression, and how the suffering of Indigenous queer people naturally varies from your own.

And so this is why, as I mentioned above, it's not necessarily a bad thing when 2S is excluded from the LGBTQIA+ umbrella - because Two-Spirit encompasses all of that umbrella, but exclusively for that of Indigenous peoples. Same, but different.

At least, that's how I try to rationalize it for myself, but in reality, it's hard to deny that seeing 2S excluded from the umbrella can feel exclusionary, ignorant, and neglectful - but that's all the more reason why I personally choose to take power in its exclusion, because in my view, its exclusion from colonial terminology gives it strength and importance. As for the road to inclusion, we've made some progress - such as having our own flag and symbols - but we've still got a long ways to go.

With all that said, please respect this post as education, not as an invitation. Non-Natives have their words to describe their relationship to sexuality and gender; Two-Spirit is ours, and ours alone.

I hope this was informative for you all, Native and non-Native alike ! Kesalul <3

[genericpuff]

this is why we need two-spirit education

[genericpuff]

hey so if your first response to a two-spirit person asking for tag colors for their specific tag because that's what they're personally inclined to do is "yeah but um nonbinary and aromantic and queer also don't have unique colors" and then i explain to you like a teacher explaining to an overgrown toddler that just because i love pancakes doesn't mean i hate waffles and you double down by calling my response a 'tirade', insinuating that i'm not responding "reasonably", and then weirdly project onto it as some sort of admittance of guilt-

then regardless of your own identity, you're part of the problem and no ally of mine, and you will be promptly blocked, followed by unapologetic spectacle in the town square that is my blog.

how's that for a tirade, you insincere jackass?

[noelledeltarune]

before pride month ends does anyone wanna admit they have a crush on me

[noelledeltarune]

posting this on the first day of june so you all have plenty of time to gather your nerves and whatnot

[sleepymccoy]

New Spock and McCoy ship name: McCock (has this been done before? Yes? Probably? Anyway)

I feel like a fandom elder rn cos you're asking me and I know the answer! Yeah, this comes around every couple years and it's always hysterical. You're on the money, mate, good on you! One of us!

Let's have another community poll 🩵💙 and this time I'm adding some options based on the tags from this poll I ran a while ago

mccock or spones?

exclusively spones cos that's what it is usually now

exclusively spones for the SEO! won't people think of the poor seo

mccock cos it's funnier

spones for prime universe, mccock for mirrorverse

spones to keep it distinct from mckock/mcspirk

mccock, while is funnier also has more whimsy and glee which is important

spones cos it sounds nice!

Remaining time: 12 hours 9 minutes

Also despite being a mccock anti I also did this mccock art to celebrate the last poll. Tho I can't find the final pic which I'm sure I posted too

[egonkula]

No but guys I was really onto something in February.

[zirconpetals]

Tired of the tos/aos cross-pollination

[medievalsquire]

Squire Affirmations

I will not trip and fall down the stairs while carrying all of my knights armor again

The horses love me

I am not in love with the wizard apprentice

My knight appreciates my hard work

It is not my fault that my last three knights died horribly

[wordcubed]

[obrashir]

like i KNOOOWWW i wear my spones goggles too tight on my face but also there's NO way on earth this wasn't intentional. like. he literally JUST told him he respects him. and then they have this conversation. throwing around the word "respect". like helloooooooooo

the "bones randomly wears a necklace at the end of the movie" thing is just an additional fun little thing i always like to add to this whole narrative <3

[zirconpetals]

So someone mentioned alpha/alpha omegaverse and I started thinking about how no matter what I do I can't imagine Jim as an omega & in fact I feel like a lot of the omega Jim stuff comes from the fact that in pon farr Spock is giving all of the stereotypical alpha rut behaviors so Jim as his partner has to be an omega, but that's the thing, he doesn't have to be. So it makes k/s alpha4alpha

And then I started thinking about how I once got a comment that was speculating that ships with McCoy weren't as popular back in the day because he was too "femme" & it wasn't as appealing for the m/m fans back then.

& I was like. McCoy isn't femme 🤔 I don't know about this.

But. If you think about it from a different perspective, he is kind of omega coded. So. It kinda makes sense.

(& also I would personally make Spock an omega despite the pon farr, because I think it would be interesting if in an omegaverse au the a/b/o stuff was specifically a human thing, so he gets the omega stuff from his human side & the pon farr "alpha" stuff from his Vulcan side. It would also be interesting to consider how the human/Vulcan relations in general would work if from the human perspective all Vulcans are more or less alphas)

[animentality]

[foldingfittedsheets]

During one semester of PE in high school I got put in a section called Team Sports. This was significantly better than a regular unit because the athletic kids were able to play and I largely got to sit and watch.

Months were devoted to what they called Pickle Ball but I’ve since learned was basically ping pong with larger than average paddles. The paddles had been through the absolute wringer, all padding had been rubbed and torn off by a relentless stream of bored adolescents like myself.

This presented me with a unique opportunity. I had a pencil, nominally used to keep score. I had a blank wooden panel. And I had large stretches of time sitting on the sidelines.

Every day I’d pick a blank paddle. I’d doodle little animals, bizarre monstrosities, and a bunch that were just a huge eye in the middle with the words “Big Brother is Watching”. What can I say; I was reading 1984 at the time.

When we finally finished with the paddles and moved on to badminton I completely forgot my dozens of illustrations.

It wasn’t until several years later that it got brought up again. I was hanging out with a friend and their younger sibling. We were listening to them lament their high school experience of the day. “But I won the Pegasus paddle, so that was cool.”

“Wait- what?”

“Yeah, most of them are just Big Brother, so they’re not exciting, but there’s only one Pegasus so we fight over it. Last week I had an elephant I really liked though.”

“You guys fight over the paddles with art on them…?”

“Yeah!”

My friend turned to me and asked, “Didn’t you make all those drawings?”

Their sibling lit up, “You made them?!”

I sat in silence as the complexity of the world and the waves we leave behind as we move through it washed over me. I contemplated how intertwined I was with the rest of existence to create such a beautiful moment.

I had made art on a whim out of boredom and it had an effect on someone else’s day, someone who through random happenstance years later was telling me about it all unknowing.

Their sibling was delighted when I drew them another pegasus on the spot and announced that they’d be the talk of PE now that they’d uncovered the mystery artist.

[wasorum]

i was shit bored in an immunology class so i decided that he gets to be shit bored too

[passionpeachy]

year of the horse

[undying-princess]

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey