i dont care about validity i care about my civil rights
“can you be trans without dysphoria” “can you be an aromantic lesbian” “can bisexuals only date one gender” i literally do not care. in what states and countries are we protected from discrimination.
yo so theres this korean news channel i watch that has cute animal videos, today it freaking posted a vid about Chill guy! Have no idea what they’re saying but chill guy is taking off over there
yeah, he’s pretty huge in south Korea rn, out of all places and I love it, ive seen a lot of cute stuff out of there. I watched this entire video with 0 understanding/context/translation, all I know is theyre debating what animal he is 😃
me and my bf were talking about fluttershy probably being terrible at smoking weed and that evolved into the idea of pinkie pie giving her the worst high in her life
Once knew a guy from LARP who told a story about when he had first gotten his hands on chainmail and was getting used to wearing it and maintaining mobility and balance with the weight of it (it was heavy stuff). So he started wearing it under his clothes when he was out running errands and stuff to practice for when he had to wear it in mock combat.
Then one night he was coming home late and got mugged by a dude with a knife.
Apparently the look on the dude’s face was amazing when he went in to gut the guy for his wallet and found out he was wearing medieval armor under his hoodie.
So, you know. Pretty good argument for wearing it under streetclothes!
so maybe my type isn’t totally unrealistic
Fun story, i talked to two people who worked at a convenience store in the Kingdom of An Tir (SCA medieval society, An Tir’s territory is WA, BC, northern ID, and OR, and in the past included AB and SK).
This convenience store was notorious for getting robbed in the evenings one or two times a month, so nobody wanted to work the night shift. The one fellow, he desperately needed a job, but he was also learning how to be a heavy fighter (sword & shield) in the SCA, so he had just finished a chainmail shirt, and asked if he could wear it under his uniform shirt, so long as it didn’t show. The manager was just happy that he had someone willing to work nights, and said yeah, sure, so long as it doesn’t show.
Guy starts working the night shifts, things are fine, he’s getting used to everything, then late one night, a guy in a hoodie comes in, and asks for a pack of cigarettes. Our guy turns to get the pack, and feels a thump on his back. Turning around, scowling, he demands, “Did you just hit me??”
Guy in the hoodie widens his eyes, goes ash-gray, and faints. Clerk can’t budge from behind the counter in case this is an attempt to distract and rob. But the guy remains out coold. Confused, our clerk calls the emergency services. EMTs come along and start checking out the patient, who is still out cold on the floor. While they’re doing that, one of them comes up to the counter and asks what happened, exactly.
Our man tells the EMT, “Well, he just came in, looked around, came up to the counter and asked for a specific pack of cigarettes, so I turned to get them–”
And he demonstrates by turning his back to the EMT, who suddenly starts shouting, “–Sir! Sir! Are you okay? Don’t move!”
Our man feels the EMT groping his upper back, and then the EMT asks,
“What the hell are you WEARING?”
“A chainmail shirt. I have to get used to the weight of it, so I wear it a lot. Why? Is something wrong?”
“You have a KNIFE in your back!”
“Uhh…no, I don’t? I mean, I don’t feel hurt? He only, like, punched me or something. There’s no knife back there–I mean, I’d KNOW if there was a knife back there, right?”
EMT grabs the knife and pushes on his shoulder, yanking it out. “THIS knife! I’m going to need to examine your back!”
So they manage to get him out of his uniform shirt and out of the hauberk and out of the linen shirt under it (because chainmail bites suck, plus it’s not nearly as fun as a Brazilian waxjob, because my SCA friend was hairy)…and it turns out he only had a very small scratch from the tip of the knife…which had gotten lodged in the riveted links.
…That was why the guy fainted. He’d stabbed the store clerk, who had turned around angrily, knife still lodged in his back.
Manager was so happy to have hired the guy, as that was the first time in like eight or nine months that the store hadn’t been successfully robbed.
seeing all the 14-17 y/o queer kids who don’t know what v for vendetta is…. u mean the blockbuster film written by two trans women about a masked vigilante who decides to singlehandedly take down a fascist alternate version of england set in the distant year of 2020… and his driving force was getting justice for a lesbian who he never met but whose diary he found, who was separated from her wife before being killed by said fascist gov…. and it stars natalie portman…. okay
and they’ve never been more relevant
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
There’s strong subtext that V is a trans man and A)the lesbian from the diary or B)her wife.
frankly I prefer the movie over the comic, for three reasons:
1) lewis prothero as a rush limbaugh/glenn beck/bill o’reilly type is both more applicable and way funnier than a 1940s radio propagandist
2) it has stephen fry as gordon detriech, and makes him explicitly gay and pretending to be attracted to evey as part of being closeted than actually attracted to evey and having sex with her while she hides in his home.
3) the movie came out in 2005; that is, only four years after 9/11, while the Iraq war was still in full swing, and while xenophobia and Islamophobia were not just acceptable, but tacitly encouraged by the administration at the time. which makes the following exchange even more poignant and sweet:
Evey: [seeing a book in a glass display case] What is that? Gordon: It’s a copy of the Qur’an, 14th century. Evey: [shocked] Are you a Muslim? Gordon: No, I’m in television. Evey: But why would you keep it? Gordon: I don’t have to be a Muslim to find the images beautiful or its poetry moving.
just… the easy acceptance of it. the idea that a religion that he doesn’t believe in and that has been explicitly outlawed in-universe is a source of beauty. I’m not Muslim, either, but that particular moment really stuck with me emotionally.
Love this movie
“…I remember how different became dangerous. I still don’t understand it, why they hate us so much. They took Ruth while she was out buying food. I’ve never cried so hard in my life. It wasn’t long till they came for me.
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years, I had roses, and apologize to no one.
I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An Inch, it is small and it is fragile, but it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you. -Valerie”
The term ‘ship’ is too vague. I don’t think they should date i think they should be fucking regularly. I don’t think they should date i think they should yearn for eachother endlessly but never have it be requited. I don’t think they should date i think they should kiss one night and never talk about it again. I don’t think they should date i think they should hate eachother so much that it turns into bottled up lust. I don’t think they should date i think one of them should have a one-sided crush on the other. I don’t think they should date i think they should have a situationship that ruins their lives. I don’t think they should date i think they should stab eachother
If someone is cold and you have extra layers to spare, offer to loan them your jacket/sweater/cardigan/ ect.
For example, you went to the movie theater with a group of friends. Your friend forgot that the inside of a movie theater is usually chilly so they only wore a tanktop, meanwhile you’re wearing a cardigan or jacket AND have long sleeves, ask them if they want to borrow your cardigan or jacket for the duration of the movie.
If you have extra layers to spare, and someone else is cold because they forgot to bring enough layers or wear something with sleeves, or maybe you just have a higher cold tolerance than them, why let them go cold?
Some people might feel awkward or hesitant to do this because giving someone your jacket has been popularized especially in older media as a romantic flirtatious gesture. However, there is a difference between offering someone your jacket as a gesture of kindness and politeness, and giving someone your jacket as a flirtatious romantic gesture.
When done as a romantic flirtatious gesture it’s more standard to take the jacket and wrap it around the shoulders of the subject of your wooing. But when done just as a friendly polite gesture one just hands the extra jacket / cardigan / ect. to them and leaves it to them to put it on themselves.
Another way to differentiate between a romantic gesture and just being nice is that in a romantic gesture one doesn’t ask for the jacket back, and it is in the possession of the subject of their wooing for an indefinite amount of time.
With a friendly non-romantic gesture it’s only temporarily being loaned. So if you really want to be sure you’re not accidentally sending the wrong message when just trying to be nice, add a disclaimer such as “just get it back to me at the end of the movie / when we get back to the car / ect.” (in a friendly tone, not an aggressive or accusatory tone as you also don’t want to come across as accusing them of trying to steal your clothes)
“In Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling, it’s revealed that Rachel is now a transgender woman and has finally found happiness selling Fatheads popsicles in the desert.” src
It literally strikes me dumb how completely disconnected people are, especially family members.
I made a comment to my sister about how my rights and Healthcare are being stolen from me and she looks me dead in the eye and says “Well you can still be you”
What in the literal fuck amiright?
Anyway… sorry your fam doesn’t get it either sis <3
That same conversation has happened *multiple times* too!
It’s ludicrous
I’ve never actually gone and said “I don’t want to get murdered or locked up”
I think they’d think I was over reacting and would say “that’s not gonna happen,” which would upset me even more
I’ve said it, got exactly that response.
It’s always the victims who are overreacting. Then it is “who could have seen this coming”
It literally strikes me dumb how completely disconnected people are, especially family members.
I made a comment to my sister about how my rights and Healthcare are being stolen from me and she looks me dead in the eye and says “Well you can still be you”
What in the literal fuck amiright?
Anyway… sorry your fam doesn’t get it either sis <3
That same conversation has happened *multiple times* too!
It’s ludicrous
I’ve never actually gone and said “I don’t want to get murdered or locked up”
I think they’d think I was over reacting and would say “that’s not gonna happen,” which would upset me even more
I’ve said it, got exactly that response.
It’s always the victims who are overreacting. Then it is “who could have seen this coming”
I’ve been seeing a lot of intersex people on tumblr making the claim that you cannot be born with both a penis and a vagina, and I think that what they are trying to do is fight against the Hermaphrodite stereotype - which involves being born with a “fully formed and fully functional” (under perisex ideas of genital normality - our genitals may be fully formed and fully functional to us even if others do not consider them so) penis and vagina.
The thing is, it’s been slowly evolving from correcting misinformation to actively spreading it and erasing the lived experiences of those of us with ambiguous genitals.
I think that part of the reason for this is that most folks in the intersex community trend more towards either side of the genital spectrum, and those of us born with more ambiguous genitals are less common, and those of us who were allowed to remain ambiguous beyond childhood and into adulthood are even less common, much less speaking about it regularly on tumblr. As such, you get a lot of generally well-meaning intersex people just sort of making guesses as to what that experience is like and playing a sort of game of telephone about it.
You can be born with both a penis and a vagina, it just may not look or function the way perisex people would expect a penis or vagina to look or function.
A hypospadic micropenis is still a penis. A shallow vagina that doesn’t go anywhere is still a vagina. There are plenty of combinations out there, they just don’t fit perisex ideas of normality or what might immediately come to mind when we talk about someone having “both sets of genitals”.
This isn’t even getting into our own perceptions of ourselves and how we label our genitals, as well. Just like how a transmasc individual may refer to his bottom growth as a dick, intersex folk label their genitals a variety of different ways regardless of what others think a penis, vulva, vagina etc “should” look like or what they’re “medically” considered to have.
Anyway, just something I’ve noticed and wanted to talk about a bit. We can combat stereotypes without throwing each other under the bus.
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