🏳️🌈 Ruth Ellis (1899 - 2000) was the daughter of former slaves. She came out as a lesbian when she was 16-years-old to the complete acceptance of her family. In 1937, Ruth and her longtime partner moved to Detroit from their hometown of Springfield, Illinois for the promise of higher wages. There, she became the first woman in Michigan to run her own printing business. She printed fliers, posters, and stationary in the front room of her home, which also quickly became a hotspot for Black LGBTQ social life. Before long, Ruth was helping those who came around in any way she could, including by paying for college tuitions. After the Stonewall uprising, 70-year-old Ruth began giving speeches in support of gay and lesbian rights all across the country. She remained an activist for the rest of her long life and even spent her 100th birthday leading the San Francisco Dyke March. At the time of her death at 101, she was recognized as the oldest out lesbian in the US. She is the subject of the documentary “Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100” and is the namesake of the Ruth Ellis Center, a shelter for homeless and at-risk LGBTQ youth in Detroit.
Something that’s really funny to me is that people seem to not know what Leshy looked like under his cloak and one person even expressed confusion when I stated that Leshy was thiccer than a snicker.
You can actually see under his cloak in the game at one point, you don’t really get that with the other bishops but with Leshy we do actually have a canon design for his body as a bishop. And he’s thicc in the thigh.
On a less jokey and more serious note… Leshy has legs which is weird to me because he’s a worm, and other worm like enemies do not but I guess hes more anthro??? He also doesn’t have a tail outside of eldritch form- though admittedly it would be cool if he did.
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i just don’t think “is dude gender neutral” is that productive of a conversation because a word can be gendered and still used regardless of gender. i call my male friends girlypop and my female friends man but i don’t think anybody would agree that those are somehow not gendered terms.
the real question is just “would you be willing to apologize and stop using a word if somebody told you it made them uncomfortable?” the answer to which in a surprising number of cases is no mostly because it seems like overall ppl r more upset abt getting accused of transphobia than they are abt being transphobic
my gayboy friends lovingly call me “their dyke”. my qpp called me beautiful for my intersex traits. my beloved transmasc friend got strong on t and he carried me up the sand dunes on the beach because my mobility aids wouldn’t work climbing sand like that. the queens at the bar cheered me on when i got up on stage and i was scared in front of the crowd. we’re here to love each other in our own little ways. there is so much beauty here
Turns out I do need to clarify that these particular comb jellies are actually not filter feeders :)
these are also the true actual first animal group that’s ever thought to have existed; comb jellies or ctenophores are survivors from the *ediacaran,* the point in time where we can’t even guess what kind of animal most of the fossils are. But, maybe all of them were just wacky shaped comb jellies???? we will never know. this one ate them all.
Using both Glaze and Nightshade would corrupt the generation of pictures mimicking artist AND mess with the AI’s recognition of what everything is. Like it would generate a dog when you ask for a cat.
And it would be hell for AI bros to remove the cloaked pictures from their database ʕ 👀人ʔ
“self immolation as a form of extreme political protest has a long history all over the world, and aaron bushnell’s death should not be discussed solely as a suicide”
and
“people who are already hurting and vulnerable can do more to help while they are still alive than they could in death, and should not repeat aaron bushnell’s actions”
are statements that can and must coexist, actually.
he felt that he was complicit in genocide as an active duty us service member, and, to an extent, he was. but also as an active duty service member, he was legally not allowed to quit his job as a member of the military.
his final act was to take drastic measures to draw attention to a genocide that many people in this country are turning a blind eye towards, and i commend him for his sacrifice. it should be honored and remembered.
that doesn’t mean i want anyone to feel that they should follow in his footsteps.
he should not have been made, by nature of his employment, to feel that he was complicit in genocide, because those in power should not be funding and supporting it in the first place. but they are doing so, and he made it clear that did feel that way. we can’t change that. that doesn’t give us the right to dismiss and ignore his actions.
“this [genocide] is what our ruling class has decided is normal.” and it shouldn’t be.
keep bushnell’s message in mind as you organize. protest, fundraise, call your representatives. these are actions that have a tangible effect. and they do far more to help than dying.
but i’m not going to condemn him, just as i’m not going to condemn the likes of thích quảng đức. i’m not going to say that his death was worthless, because it brought undeniable attention to the matter at hand, despite attempts by american media to gloss over why he did what he did.
i understand where people are coming from — self immolation is a deeply disturbing thing to witness, even blurred. i was very deeply affected by the video. but that’s exactly why he did it; to get through to people that this matters.
i don’t want anyone else to die, either. but remembering aaron bushnell and what he died for is not synonymous with encouraging suicide.
his last words were “free palestine” and, as people living in countries that are funding extermination, it is our job to carry on that cry until palestine is free.
that means living to see it through. ensure that he did not die in vain.
annoying gun nuts what the fuck are they doing on signalis tumblr. get the fuck out of here im already almost done with this stupid website
hey any more super duper right wing extremist people follow me on this site? come on out and reply to this so i can block you. i just got one on my replies here
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i think its time to stop being nice and just start a revolution
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I’m glad so many people have discovered Judith “Judy” Heumann through this silly little gif set. I am sorry to say she has died at the age of 75. She was known as the mother of disability rights. In 1970 she sued the Board of Education to become a licensed teacher and she won. In 1977 she was one of the organizers of the 504 Sit-in, a 24 day protest for disability rights. You can learn more about her story from her book Being Heumann, the picture book Fighting for YES! or the documentary Crip Camp.
Judy Heumann believed in the inherent value of each disabled individual and would never back down on what she thought was right. Her friends and fellow activists remember her as a strong leader.
dating someone who knocks the fuck out as soon as they hit the sheets but you have had chronic insomnia since you were 7 but you both get sad if you guys dont hug to sleep is
*listens to ur heart with a stethoscope* *takes ur temperature* *flashes a light in ur eyes* yep…. it’s exactly as i expected…. ur really cute….. *writes a prescription for lots of kisses*
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You died with a remarkable fortune and no heirs. You grant your wealth to two rivalling schools in the same city, under one condition: One of them must always keep your preserved skull. They may keep it on display (therefore attracting interest and potentially fame to the school) but that always raises the risk of students of the other school stealing it. The students and staff of the other school have not only the right, but the duty to do so at any opportunity. Nobody can be arrested for this unless they’re caught breaking some other law.
Ideally, the students of the two schools keep stealing your skull, back and forth, forever. The culture of both of the schools is enriched by this activity, the students are too busy engaged in these harmless shenanigans to drift into worse habits and behaviours, and you get to be included in countless nonsensically frivolous heist operations whose sole purpose is to bring more fun into the world.
notably, I’m like, somewhere between form neutral and form radical but behavioral purist-ish.
A monster should be fundamentally monstrous by nature in some way. A werewolf who has full control over his transformations or who is just a giant puppy when he transforms isn’t a monster. he’s just a dude that’s an anthropomorphic dog once a month or a dude who can turn into an anthropomorphic dog.
A monster must have some element of danger, it must have something it fights against (or succumbs to) in order to be in a “relationship” with a human. It is fang and claw and could (and perhaps even might) cleave me in twain. If it is fang and claw but “misunderstood” and “actually so gentle and kind” and “would never hurt a fly”
Then that’s not a monster.
Likewise, if it’s behavior and motivation is human then I can’t see it as a monster. I think most vampires sit in the middle of a sort of venn diagram between human and monster (this is kind of a very VtM way of seeing them, I think). Some vampires I would not classify as monsters, just non-humans. Some vampires are absolutely monsters. Some straddle the line, some blur that line, some ping pong back and forth between sides at rapid speed.
(This is also probably true of any “monster” born from a human being)
But like, I think there needs to be like, something innately threatening and impossible for a human to fully understand about a monster. Which is why a lot of monsters
I think this is so fascinating from trans folks’ pov because for a lot of cis people I think the *transformation itself* is monstrous
where as for a trans person (or perhaps a furry?) it’s a neutral to positive thing, which means that danger has to be like a separate element to the fact that human becomes non human
I think with monsters a huge amount of their fascination comes from the sublime. so for some cis person who has never dreamed of shape shifting themselves the transformation becoming what they aren’t is sublime; where as to a trans person it just is not at all outside of their understanding, or their conception of self or humanity or personhood
AH! YES! THIS! Like, when I made my monster definition chart, when I labeled “inhuman in nature” that was what I meant, specifically. Like, to me Fae are monstrous because their instincts, their way of seeing the world is not human. They do not understand things the way humans do and it can be so removed from human understanding that it becomes genuinely frightening.
I think that a monster should, at its core, be something the viewer can’t fully comprehend, even if they might be able to empathize with it. Which is why vampires and any monster that started as a human and retains any sense of self/its original morals and instincts, sit in the middle between “monstrous” and “human”.
But yeah, I kind of think perhaps, for trans people and furries and otherkin/alterhumans, the discussion of “what makes a monster” is a lot like that XKCD comic about geochemists “Even when attempting to account for their expertise, most experts grossly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field”. The way of defining a monster is something very much outside of the average POV.
Because yeah, I don’t see a transformation as inherently monstrous at all unless it is a transformation against my will, over which I have no control and no say (which makes sense as a trans person, especially). But a cis person could theoretically see transforming, even willingly, as something horrifying or upsetting.
Ian Stone, Doubting Thomas, oil on linen, 12x16 in, 2023
“If you know the painting by Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas, it was my direct inspiration for this piece.
A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience. 50-60 years ago, it was not uncommon for people to think or believe that being gay was a phase or a mental illness or deviance in some shape or form. It’s embarrassing that the same things are being said about trans people today.”
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