ok since jk Rowling has picked a new woman of color to harass i feel the need to remind everyone that she’s not doing anything strange or like. out of the ordinary. and that women of color (both cis and trans) have always had to fight to be acknowledged as real women in white society. like yes she is being transmisogynistic but she is also continuing a very long lasting racist & white supremacist tradition of denying women of color our womanhood.
like a lot of the people who like to mock her treat these incidents as isolated instances of black-mold induced transphobia that is misdirected at women of color. which is not true. she is literally just doing something white women have done to women of color for centuries. gatekeeping being a woman behind whiteness.
ok since jk Rowling has picked a new woman of color to harass i feel the need to remind everyone that she’s not doing anything strange or like. out of the ordinary. and that women of color (both cis and trans) have always had to fight to be acknowledged as real women in white society. like yes she is being transmisogynistic but she is also continuing a very long lasting racist & white supremacist tradition of denying women of color our womanhood.
like a lot of the people who like to mock her treat these incidents as isolated instances of black-mold induced transphobia that is misdirected at women of color. which is not true. she is literally just doing something white women have done to women of color for centuries. gatekeeping being a woman behind whiteness.
can’t believe i haven’t told you guys about my bell ringing lessons. i am learning to ring church bells. why? because it’s sick as fuck. and also i get a lot of joy from being a dirty little sinner ringing gods doorbells
the cafe i work at is part of my local abbey and the average age of the bell ringers there is about 70 so the head bell ringer dude is making it his life’s mission to bring that down by recruiting the entire cafe. he also thinks i don’t have a life (correct) and so decided i needed a hobby (correct) and now i pull a rope for an hour a week while gossiping
also head bell ringer dude casually dropped one lesson that his ex wife stabbed him once, and then never followed through on that fun bit of information apart from to tell me they didn’t get divorced until like 10 years later so. i also keep going in the hopes that one day he will fill me in on the rest of this
genuinely he would do numbers on tumblr dot com he’s wild
Sorry I just gotta
The art of change ringing is peculiar to the English, and, like most English peculiarities, unintelligible to the rest of the world. To the musical Belgian, for example, it appears that the proper thing to do with a carefully tuned ring of bells is to play a tune upon it. By the English campanologist, the playing of tunes is considered to be a childish game, only fit for foreigners; the proper use of bells is to work out mathematical permutations and combinations. When he speaks of the music of his bells, he does not mean musician’s music – still less what the ordinary man calls music. To the ordinary man, in fact, the pealing of bells is a monotonous jangle and a nuisance, tolerable only when mitigated by remote distance and sentimental association… His passion – and it is a passion – finds its satisfaction in mathematical completeness and mechanical perfection, and as his bell weaves her way rhythmically up from lead to hinder place and down again, he is filled with the solemn intoxication that comes of intricate ritual faultlessly performed.
- Dorothy Sayers, The Nine Tailors (1934)
Like everyone who accidentally absorbed it in the course of a detective novel, I’ve been lowkey fascinated by English change ranging for a long time, possibly because of this 90-year-old reference to THE RITUALS ARE INTRICATE. This whole passage is so funny to me that I practically have it memorised. Have literally tried to listen on YouTube to work out what the fuck the loadbearing Grandsire Triples are. You go OP have FUN
Surprised to see people shocked that biden pardoned his son like yeah, he’s a money grubbing opportunist he wasn’t going to do it until after the election lmao
it’s interesting the difference between polytheistic religions where gods are often portrayed as basically very powerful individuals, who can still be defied, injured, or even killed; and monotheistic views of more philosophical gods who are ontologically above the concept of death etc
at the library and i know im supposed to be “volunteering” for “college credit” but theres a dude at the other end of the room playing yu-gi-oh on the computer and let me just say. he is not good at it
“We found that by the most recent 12 months of data, 52% of Covid admissions in children over 1 had an underlying condition. But only 10% of infants did.”
This is one of the biggest reasons why we need to keep masking.
relationships are so much healthier when the goal is to experience life together and not to try to make the person into who you want them to be or to make them do what you want them to do.
how to tell your friends “hey guys i just wanted to say i really value our relationship to each other and you bring a lot of joy into my life” without getting put on ******* watch
It was raining so hard today my friend and I skipped class to stay in working for several hours on this wizard puzzle while listening to dungeon synth and post punk and drinking too much coffee
all respect to the violent femmes but nothing compares to the disappointment of hearing that a band is called the violent femmes and then it’s four normal dudes… i’ll never forgive them
¹backup cameras have been mandatory for over half a decade
THEY HAVE??
WHAT
btw over half a decade is over 5 years, so minimum 2019, to give some context. to give more context,
(yall. yall. YALL. I went way overboard qnd spent like an hour researching. whoops. we are all learning now ig. I did find the bill, and a bunch of articles and stuff. congrats, nobody asked and I delivered)
here’s the closeted furries “hey man… can u bum me a cig” and “the one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”
if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (;
A comic to try and sort through some difficult feelings about being an artist and a reminder to not forget who you are.
Maybe.. we should be more grateful for what ’s brings us here. It’s not big accomplishment, but at least my latest event makes me happy and feels validated as someone who is deadly in love with drawing.
We shouldn’t compare ourselves with anyone because the sun and moon have their own time to shine.
Even if the moon is shining there’s still enough space for all the stars.
And even if yours is not bright enough to outshine the city lights, there’s going to be people heading out to darker places to look for it.
log onto tumblr and you learn that cowboys are secretly leftist and pirates are secretly leftist and superhero comics are secretly leftist and vikings are secretly leftist and greco-roman antiquity is secretly leftist and knights are secretly leftist and the concept of the appalachian region is secretly leftist and all genre fiction is innately secretly leftist and every animated show you ever watched as a kid is secretly leftist and you never have to think about the political subtext of anything ever and you log off tumblr and for some reason people are talking about a descent toward fascism
