Is he “female socialized” or is he just a standard flamboyant sensitive artsy gay dude who would honestly be indiscernible from any other fem gay guy if you didn’t see him as a walking vagina first and foremost.
Is she “male socialized” or is she just a tomboy with a fucking spine who doesn’t let anyone talk to her any old kind of way who would honestly be indiscernible from any feminist cis woman y'all gas up on here if you didn’t see her as a walking penis first and foremost.
This is insane to me. Please there has to he someway that we can put these posts into a translator and make them comprehensible.
The post is saying that people often label things that trans people do as being a result of growing up as a certain gender even when they wouldn’t make that type of claim about a cis person acting the exact same way. In fact some people might celebrate that type of person or see them as normal or unremarkable if they didn’t know they were trans.
the thing about living with mental illness for decades is that occasionally your brain will be like hey you’re useless and should kill yourself and your only real reaction is cmon man right now im in the middle of something
Average disability discussion almost always waters down to that post that’s like “I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people”
Since the AO3 fundraising drive is coming up, this is your friendly reminder that AO3 has zero ads. That’s right, zero – even if you turn off your ad blockers. There are zip. Zilch. None.
There are vanishingly few places these days that don’t sell you. If you’re sick of being sold, and if you have the means to do so, then maybe you should consider supporting those sorts of sites.
There was an airplane with a banner ad at the beach once. Hated it
There was an airplane
with a banner ad at the
beach once. Hated it
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
it’s like yall think ppl want to vote for biden. rather than not letting the fucking. genocide-for-everyone-we-dont-like guy in office
yeah, it is still in fact lesser of two evils. expand your imagination till you recognize the fact that trump will definitely be worse about literally everything.
im so done w accelerationists. “everyone i love can die as long as i get to be a smug prick who goes ‘i told you so’ when every marginalized person is being killed, even though we could have implemented change slowly like how shit actually works irl instead of daydreaming about an overnight revolution taking place the way christians daydream about the rapture”
Definitely still vote for Biden because the alternative is unimaginably worse. That’s basically it. Cast your vote from behind the shame curtain and ghost. That’s it, that’s all we gotta do at minimum.
Trump and his allies have lined out a VERY clear game-plan for going after trans and gay people. (Project 2025, you’re gay and ever around children? You’re arrested now.)
There’s no lesser of evils; there is only self-preservation.
Additionally, Trump gave more to Israel than his predecessor. That trend will almost certainly continue if elected.
Revolutionary politics are “yes and” voting. Otherwise it’s just a far-off fantasy. Damage control is a real consideration.
So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.
Stay woke
Is this true?
Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”
You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.
Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST
It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worst
Komen For The Cure is pretty much awful.
My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:
So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.
Stay woke
Is this true?
Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”
You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.
Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST
It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worst
Komen For The Cure is pretty much awful.
My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:
I’m a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it’s so much better when you lean into programming tropes.
A spell the wizard uses to light the group’s campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn’t work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.
The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver’s foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.
The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party’s rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard’s “drying spell” seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.
A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The “shelter for the night” spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.
A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he’s written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.
Wizards enjoy each other’s company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.
Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they’ve taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.
Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be “nevermind, fixed it”.
“This spell causes the hair to fall off cats.” “It works with my tome”
“This spell causes the hair to fall off cats.” “That’s fixed in Xaranthius’ latest publication, you just have to rewrite your entire spellbook for compatibility.”
“This spell causes the hair to fall of cats.” “Magister Olaus of Writhington uses it to help with his allergies. WORKING AS INTENDED.”
I want to see wizards snarking at each other over different magical languages/scripts, the same way programmers do it over different languages.
Sure, “High Tower is a powerful language, but it’s such a pain to write. I just use Unity* as it’s simple to write and can do nearly everything I need” “cranky because you can’t memorize all the conjugations and declensions, aren’t you?” “LOOK MAN, I CAN MEMORIZE ANYTHING, INCLUDING THE FACE OF YOUR MOTHER IN ECSTASY. IN FACT, BEHOLD!” *a little time window appears between them, demonstrating exactly that. The first wizard (seen through the window) turns around and winks at the “camera”.
“you kids today with your lizardman. How can you get anything done in a language without gendered pronouns? It’s like fingerpainting. Sure you can learn on it but once you’ve got the basics you should switch over to a REAL language”
“the Kalic have been here already. We better get out before the rest of their army marches in.” “how can you be sure?” “you see that teleport?” “no” “well, if you COULD see it, you’d see it’s written in Adevic Yevi. That’s the Kalic magic language.” “couldn’t it be someone else? We saw those Monon traders, maybe one of them…” “no. No one writes Adevic Yevi unless they’re being paid to. It’s a language written by committee.”
Wizards going on a quest to get the spellbooks for a lost spell, only to find out that it was written in skydove cant. No one can read that shit! The creator must have been one of those weird “functional wizards”. (They’re obsessed with making sure their spells have no side effects)
There’s a small library on the outskirts of Freeport which tries to collect versions of basic spells in every language. The Adevic Yevi version of “fireball” takes up 7 pages, mostly boilerplate setting up the interfaces with fire and explosions and ExplodingMagicalBallFactorySingletons. The Lizardman version is basically “AHAHAHA, YOU GO BOOM!”
There’s a bunch of wizard apprentices working on porting an old “Summon Bread and Fishes” spell from the absolutely archaic language it was written in. Once it’s in Unity, it’ll be easy to modify and teach to more wizards, which’ll obviously be good for disaster areas. It’s just too expensive to keep paying the ancient guys who can still do magic in TRAN-FOR.
Eccentric wizards keep inventing new languages for spells. You look at them and they’re neat, but it’ll never catch on. And either you’re right, or the next time you’re applying to be a court wizard, the advisors want to know if you have at least 5 years experience in Tilted Runic and you’re like “it only came out 2 years ago!” “aren’t you a chronomancer?” “oh good point. Yeah I’ve been using it for 20-30 years.”
There’s wizards who will spend incredible amounts of time doing silly things with spells in strange ways. There’s this guy (Vorth) who made his own language where there’s only one basic spell: fireball. Everything else is basic magic glue tying multiple fireballs together. So like, he’s got a breakfast spell. Stand back (good advice for all his spells), and you’ll see a fish get knocked out of the local pond, flung through the air by successive explosions, and eventually it lands on his plate, nicely cooked and deboned, if slightly charred (the glass of milk is harder to explain). His magical door locks involve a quicksilver sphere and molten lead changing shape when heated… It’s tricky but it seems to work. He’s working on a teleport spell, but so far it’s mainly just killed test subjects (primarily sheep from a nearby farm).
* so the funny thing here is that this isn’t a reference to the unity game engine. The main country in my One Hundred and One Magical Pistols setting is called “the union” and their language is called “unity”.
ALT
It’s wands vs staves vs bare hands.
Wanders are like “they’re available everywhere and once you learn how to do it it’s so powerful!”
Staffguys always talk about how you can do ANYTHING with a staff. Wanders claim it’s a pain to carry around an overpowered device that can do ANYTHING when you just need to cast fireball or a simple one man teleport.
Meanwhile the bare wizards are showing off how they don’t need any magical tools and can just do hand motions.
Wanders and staffguys retort that when a spell goes wrong, THEY need to go to store for a new magical tool. YOU need new hands.
Preoccupied by the way polyamory is treated with hate. I’ve gotten hate for even approaching the subject in the past. There’s so much violent rhetoric and ideation surrounding it, so much genuine bigotry and prejudice towards people who practice it. But if you mention that, you get met with dismissal. It’s not a big deal. You’re taking it too seriously. Who gives a shit. Get over yourself. It is something that people respect so little that they refuse to even see it as a legitimate identity. Even left-wing progressive types will make jokes tantamount to thrashing blue-haired SJW snowflakes when it comes to polyamory. They’re gross. They’re weird. They’re always cringe. It’s never the people you want to be poly. I would rather kill myself. You’d think simply changing the structure of a relationship wouldn’t be a problem, but even the most ardent defenders of equality can begin to say some pretty awful shit. Problem is, fundamentally, it is not seen as legitimate. It’s not seen as deserving respect. There’s all this handwringing about how these relationships are doomed to fail in order to justify this kind of thought and speech. It’s bizarre to watch unfold. Frankly, it’s the same sentiment and a lot of the same jokes as those cracked about nonbinary people. We’re at a point where we’ve firmly accepted that everyone has a right to do what they want within the structure of social norms, you can take any side you want and do it with whoever you want. But as soon as you step outside of those norms, as soon as you go beyond the boundaries of social convention to find what suits you personally, everybody becomes a bitter reactionary.
I think it’d fuck to have an advanced survival mode in cotl where you’d have to account for seasons and such though I think it would require a lot of tweeking with the base games mechanics to make it work. The base management portion is fun but pretty simply and I think I’m order to make it more complex you’d have to change the way time passes in crusades to keep the gameplay feedback loop balanced.
While we spent the last week watching horrors unfold in Lebanon, Israeli newspapers are shamelessly publishing articles claiming parts of Lebanese territory. If you think their only aim is to fight “terrorism” you are a bloody fool.
it’s genuinely wild how hawaii’s independence isn’t like, a huge and widely recognized issue. that’s one of the US’s biggest and most glaringly memorable crimes and it just continues on and on instead of being righted in any way. like holy shit how is hawaii still a state. it’s downright fucked that people just casually live there and visit there to this day in 2024 knowing full well that, at the very least, it was a sovereign nation that the US conquered by force in the late 1950’s. there are people alive now who are older than hawaii’s statehood. idk it’s one of those things that just baffles me. stop going to hawaii, leave them alone
it’s genuinely wild how hawaii’s independence isn’t like, a huge and widely recognized issue. that’s one of the US’s biggest and most glaringly memorable crimes and it just continues on and on instead of being righted in any way. like holy shit how is hawaii still a state. it’s downright fucked that people just casually live there and visit there to this day in 2024 knowing full well that, at the very least, it was a sovereign nation that the US conquered by force in the late 1950’s. there are people alive now who are older than hawaii’s statehood. idk it’s one of those things that just baffles me. stop going to hawaii, leave them alone
I used to believe liberals were actually just a little misguided and just needed a little push in the right direction. But seeing all the stuff thats going on in my country im now racist towards liberals
“How do you write such realistic dialogue-” I TALK TO MYSELF. I TALK TO MYSELF AND I PRETEND I AM THE ONE SAYING THE LINE. LIKE SANITY IS SLOWLY SLIPPING FROM BETWEEN MY FINGERS WITH EVERY MEASLY WORD THEY TYPE OUT. THAT IS HOW.
one of my favourite new upcoming GL manga rn, love bullet, about girls who get reincarnated as cupids except they’ve modernized and now they use guns instead of bows…. silly sounding premise but the visual direction is extremely striking and its been super emotionally impactful to me so far at just 7 chapters out. check out the fan translation on mangadex/dynastyscans and if you like it please buy a copy of it for 5 dollars (guide on how to buy it below) cause the sales are struggling and if it gets cancelled ill die badly,,, thank you
The creator of LOVE BULLET made a post on Twitter sharing their appreciation for the support from english speaking readers! (Link above, text below)
There are no words to describe how moved I am by the movement of overseas LOVE BULLET fans to help increase volume sales. Since the book is in Japanese, I understand that this is a collective “vote of support” for my story, and for that I’m so grateful…! 😭 I don’t know what the future holds, but I’m going to continue working as hard as I can!! 💗💥🙇♀️
i wish tumblr would let you append a little memo when you blocked someone so i could remember if i brought the hammer down for virulent transphobia or for having slightly too annoying of an opinion on a day when i was hungover
As a trans guy who’s been working out for a few years now and has learned a lot about their body and building muscle and whatnot in the process, here’s something I don’t see mentioned, like ever.
Abs don’t really look Like That™
when they’re relaxed.
I rarely see male body positivity posts in general but I’ve never seen this mentioned, and honestly? Call me stupid for it if you want, but I genuinely thought that super defined look was something that was achievable in a relaxed state, simply because I’ve never seen anything to the contrary.
As someone with body dysmorphia as well as dysphoria, you can imagine the damaging effects that might have had on my mental health trying by to achieve the impossible. I can only imagine how many other masculine folk out there could be struggling with the exact same thing.
Anyway like, this is mostly to point out for masculine folks that might be pushing themselves too hard, that you’re probably doing better than you realise.
Anecdotal stuff aside, this is an important thing for artists to remember as well! This is something I never realised despite being an artist that goes to figure drawing classes on the regular and having modelled for them myself- because of course people with abs are flexing for the poses! I was doing it too!
As a trans guy who’s been working out for a few years now and has learned a lot about their body and building muscle and whatnot in the process, here’s something I don’t see mentioned, like ever.
Abs don’t really look Like That™
when they’re relaxed.
I rarely see male body positivity posts in general but I’ve never seen this mentioned, and honestly? Call me stupid for it if you want, but I genuinely thought that super defined look was something that was achievable in a relaxed state, simply because I’ve never seen anything to the contrary.
As someone with body dysmorphia as well as dysphoria, you can imagine the damaging effects that might have had on my mental health trying by to achieve the impossible. I can only imagine how many other masculine folk out there could be struggling with the exact same thing.
Anyway like, this is mostly to point out for masculine folks that might be pushing themselves too hard, that you’re probably doing better than you realise.
Anecdotal stuff aside, this is an important thing for artists to remember as well! This is something I never realised despite being an artist that goes to figure drawing classes on the regular and having modelled for them myself- because of course people with abs are flexing for the poses! I was doing it too!
