quick one b4 im out

i needed n excuse to dump all these darn emblems i fuckin mashed up the other day

Really late to post these but these are for Inktober day 1-3

Two more short bits in the Otasune “soulmate wrist tattoo” saga…

After all, this may not be the “David.” And even more terrifying was not knowing what name had been blacked out on Dave’s wrist. 

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Otacon confirmed for big nerd

Spooky Halloween Mood fast paint and sketch ; Vicente Valtiere as Mananangal (Fil Vampire) from Elder Scrolls; IV

Redid some old pixel art of mine tonight.

Pick me up, hose me down, I’m sorry boys about the dirty night clowns

Joining to the Dark Brotherhood in tes games like;

Spinelero

I was debating posting this or not but since I have nothing else why not. But let me just say Bim trimmer is my fav.

Powerful spell ingredients that are specifically NOT herbs, oils or crystals

Because magick works best when there are actual real memories and strong emotions tied to the items.

to attract love in life/increase your or someone else’s happiness:

- your (their) most favourite candy - a colorful ribbon from a gift wrapping - some kid’s love confession letter you found in a library book

to speed up things:

- burnt matches - a watch stem - bus/train tickets - a few torn off sheets from a daily/weekly calendar

to slow down things:

- a snail shell - a queue ticket - a pull-tab from canned food - a few drops of formalin - dried fruits

to protect/threaten:

- tin soldiers - old bullets - cat nails (naturally shed, obviously. inspect your cat’s scratch post) - dead wasps - insect cocoons - glass bottle caps (you know, these sharp metal ones)

to banish:

- a few drops of sanitizer - absorbent coal - a rejection letter - a one-way ticket (away from your location)

to curse:

- a traffic/parking ticket - bones from cooked fish that you almost choked on - your own tears, brought by sincere rage/misery - flowers from a thrown-away bouquet - the most obnoxious ad/spam mail you’ve ever received - a test paper, marked F and mercilessly corrected by a sadistic teacher Use your senses, your emotions, your own memories and your imagination: what does this item make you feel, what did it possibly make its owner feel? You can add to the list whatever feels right to you. Remember that emotions and memories connected to the item are always a powerful magick fuel, especially in spellwork.Note: some of these things are obviously region-specific. For example, living in a place that once was the war epicentre, it’s a common thing for me to stumble across old rusty bullets while taking a walk in a suburban forest. It may be different for you, but that only means you have certain things which are only unique to your place.

people will really be like “🙄🙄🙄 special snowflakes everywhere… EVERYONE online is diagnosing themselves with ADHD and autism and shit” like damn wonder if there might be something about 1) a constantly changing stream of content you can tailor to your current interest exactly and/or 2) a method for socializing with no sensory overload, no fluency in physical/verbal social cues, and a literal off switch when you’re not feeling it that might draw neurodivergent people

“wah wah there can’t be THAT high a percentage of trans people online they’re just transtrending” mayhaps there is some appeal, when you are trans, to spaces where no one knows anything about you or what you look like and you can construe your gender presentation to your heart’s content,

depression apathy is

- walking past your favorite snacks at the grocery store and not having the energy to even want them - listening to your favorite songs and feeling nothing - only being able to muster half a smile when your lover finishes telling a joke - everyone asking you to speak up because your voice feels too heavy to raise - getting irritated at things that force you to feign interest or participate in small talk - knowing you’re kind of acting like a dick but feeling too drained to do anything about it

Okay also when someone asks you to repeat what you said and it requires all your energy to say what you just said again even if it was just a few words

I never heard anyone voice this 🔝 it is so me

the lesbophobia thing

Lesbophobia is real. It’s the prejudice, bigotry, and oppression that exists at the intersection of homophobia and misogyny. Let me say it again: Lesbophobia is real. Hate for lesbians is real.

However, it is essential to acknowledge and understand that the term lesbophobia has been co-opted by a loud and growing contingent of LGBTQ women in communities that share troubling ties and ideology with factions that exist inside the alt-right movement — worse, the dangerous dogma that’s attaching itself to word the lesbophobia has found a new home at AfterEllen.

I first encountered the word lesbophobia in response to the post I wrote called Queer Women Take Over The 2016 Emmys. Her Story got a revolutionary nod for Outstanding Short Form. Kate McKinnon took home a trophy for Saturday Night Live. Sarah Paulson won for The People vs. O.J. Simpson. And Jill Soloway scored another victory for Transparent. On social media there was a small outcry that I hadn’t chosen the headline “Lesbians Take Over the 2016 Emmys,” despite the fact that Kate McKinnon was the only winner who explicitly identifies as a lesbian. (In fact, Sarah Paulson is on record saying, “I refuse to give any kind of label just to satisfy what people need.”) The reasons the handful of dissenters gave for my decision to call the Emmys queer was that I am a lesbophobe, an espouser and executor of lesbophobia.

To be very honest with you, I shrugged it off. The most unwinnable battle we have at Autostraddle is labeling LGBTQ people in a way that satisfies everyone. It’s such a constant struggle, we laid out an explanation about labels in our official comment policy. Recently on a Pop Culture Fix, I wrote about the new queer characters coming to The Good Wife spin-off. One of them will be a lesbian, according to the show’s writers; the other’s sexuality has not been labeled. So, I said, “The Good Wife spin-off will prominently feature two lesbian, bisexual, gay, homosexual, or otherwise queer-identified women.” Just to cover all my bases because it was almost Christmas and I was tired and I didn’t want to have to argue about labels. And yet, the cries of lesbophobia came in again. I got a couple of emails, a dozen or so tweets. Essentially: “Lesbian is not a dirty word! Saying queer is lesbophobic!”

So, on December 26, I tweeted something I think is a true, fair, and accurate analogy:

A couple of days later, AfterEllen’s official Twitter tweeted at me and said: “@theheatherhogan oh, agreed. It’s like yelling “biphobia!” and “transphobia!” when someone says lesbian.“

To which beloved Autostraddle cartoonist Dickens replied:

Dickens was, of course, correct. And her point was proven once again the very next day when an article blasted out to the 125,000 followers of AfterEllen’s official, verified Twitter account cried: “Lesbian Spaces Are Still Needed, No Matter What the Queer Movement Says”. It suggests that trans women and bisexual women’s desire to be included in queer women’s spaces is to blame for the decline of lesbian-specific spaces, which lesbians need to stay safe from trans and bisexual women.

That kind of rallying cry feels very much like the “Save Our White Neighborhoods” rallying cry of the alt-right, so I went on a deeper dive to try to find the origins of what I called “the lesbophobia movement” on Twitter. And what I found was more horrifying than I ever imagined.

A few weeks ago AfterEllen — which everyone presumed dead after the company that owns it effectively fired everyone, including longtime editor in chief Trish Bendix — announced it had acquired a new editor named Memoree Joelle. In October, Joelle, tweeted a Change.org petition that she’d signed called Take the L Out of LGBT. The petition is a direct response to a previously failed petition that called for GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, HuffPo Voices, The Advocate, etc. to Drop The T from LGBT. The most popular supporter of the petition is a guy you might know called Milo Yiannopoulos. He signed it, tweeted about it, and dedicated 3,000 words to it in a post on Breitbart. Thanks to Milo’s urging, Matthew Hopkins, one of the main perpetrators of Gamergate, wrote a post called “Why #GamerGate Should Help the ‘Drop the T’ Campaign” on his personal blog. Hopkins called it “one of the most politically important campaigns of our generation.”

In addition to signing and tweeting about the petition, Joelle commented her approval. When former AfterEllen writer Elaine Atwell brought Joelle’s support of the petition to light, Joelle’s comments disappeared from the petition, and so did Elaine’s byline from the hundreds of articles she wrote over the last five years at AfterEllen.

The comments on the Change.org petition mention lesbophobia multiple times and equate it with trans activism, as do the subreddits that discussed Joelle’s contribution to the petition. “Part of lesbophobia is hating us for our same-sex attraction, but another very big part of it is hating us for our rejection of men,” one user wrote on /r/GenderCritical/. (Trans women are almost always referred to as men on this particular subreddit.) Another Redditor on /r/actuallesbians decried the “male entitlement and lesbophobia” of protesting the petition. “The moment we talk about your rape culture or your male violence we’re ‘transphobic’ or ‘biphobic.’” (The men in this comment are actually trans women and “rape culture” refers to the constantly espoused idea in TERF communities that trans women are male predators.) The lesbophobia tag on the blog GenderTrender is a deeply disturbing trip down an anti-trans rabbit hole. The lesbophobia tag on the website 4th Wave Now is horrifying; it equates allowing trans kids/teens to come out and live openly as their true gender with child abuse, ideas that are — again — shared with Breitbart and Milo Yiannopoulos. Reddit and Tumblr are absolutely flush with lesbians using the word “lesbophobia” to back up the ideas presented in these “Drop the T”/“The L Is Leaving” petitions.

These spaces that use the word “lesbophobia” to attack trans and bi women or people who use the word queer share more than than an ideology with Breitbart. You’ll find them saying things like “trans women want to colonize the lesbian community.” You’ll find them using the phrase “SJW” (meaning Social Justice Warrior), a pejorative term coined by the Men’s Rights Activist movement. And you’ll find a lot of talk about how the correct “biology” is the thing that allows people access to the protections of the majority. And lots and lots and lots and lots of just truly sickening propaganda leveled at trans and bi women. It’s very much about creating an in-group and scapegoating an out-group through tried and true tactics that have been — I’m sorry — utilized by Fox News and the alt-right for years.

I wrote about these things on Twitter, and you can read Dickens further unpacking them here and here. (You should read that last thread before you jump in here and call her “my black friend.”)

Look, we didn’t just wake up one day with an openly racist, openly sexist, openly xenophobic, openly ableist, openly anti-semitic president in the White House, appointing the leader of the most dangerous white supremacist website in history to his top advisor position. We watched blatant and unabashed white supremacist language and ideas slowly take over the movement from the inside. We watched the most powerful scapegoat the most vulnerable. We watched Fox News make heroes out of the white men who murdered unarmed black children and terrify people with their whole War on Christmas bullshit and equate all Muslims with terrorists. A Nazi didn’t walk into the West Wing and have a seat; the slow creep of white supremacy laid the path for him.

Vox did a fascinating interview with former conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes earlier this year. He quit over Trump. But the whole interview is him agonizing about how, to him, the GOP had always been about fiscal conservatism and states rights and he believed in that ideological purity so deeply that he fooled himself into believing that’s what the GOP was about to everybody, despite the fact that he saw the white supremacy and fascism slowly gaining power and momentum until it took over.

To me, what we’re talking about with lesbophobia is a similar thing. Is lesbophobia a term some lesbians have rallied around to protest the prejudice and bigotry that exist at the intersection of homophobia and misogyny? Yes, of course. Absolutely. HOWEVER. I had to go searching for people using the word lesbophobia like that because my entire experience with the way the word kept popping up in my timeline and in my comments and in the comments sections of other websites was to decry the use of the word queer and to espouse anti-trans and anti-bi ideology. And that includes every single person who landed in my mentions on Twitter when I started talking about this. I did not click on a single profile without finding anti-trans, anti-bi language; or ask a single person if they believe trans women are women and have them say yes.

If you are a woman who is using the word lesbophobia to NOT do those things, and you’re more angry at me for pointing out that it’s happening than you are at anti-trans/anti-bi people who have hijacked its meaning, I … I truly don’t understand. What’s happening at AfterEllen is terrifying me. Maybe the website is technically dead, but it still has clout and power and it’s using it to push some really dangerous ideas about lesbian exclusivity, and those ideas are shared by a very loud group of people who use the word “lesbophobia” on their blogs, social media, Reddit, etc. to vilify the people (like me) who stand against them.

I don’t want to cause anyone pain. I don’t want to make anyone feel unsafe or unloved or unaccepted. I DO NOT BELIEVE LESBIANS ARE NAZIS. I AM A LESBIAN. If you truly think that’s what I was saying when I unpacked these ideas on Twitter, I’m sorry. It was not my intention.

I do think, however, that it’s imperative for you to open your eyes to how the word lesbophobia is being used to persecute and oppress trans and bi women in very vocal and influential spaces that have direct ties in ideology and language with the alt-right.

An incredibly important read.

Via Crystal; language in propaganda is important, and often subtle.

“To realize, first of all, that you’re part of a movement that was not the movement you thought it was, that you’re aligned with people that you didn’t really understand you’re aligned with…”

Submission for a masculinity spell jar!

“I made a small spell jar to enhance confidence and help project masculine energy for myself a few weeks ago, and I thought I’d share the process so others can make one too!

Ingredients:

Small sachet or jar

mistletoe

oak

dried bay leaves

a pinch of glitter for confidence and glamour (I used a blend of black, gold, and red from an unrelated batch of confidence powder, but any colors you like best will work) 

some thin peacock feathers

small piece of garnet

a drop of blood (use saliva instead if you’re uncomfortable with blood)

any relevant sigils you’d like to include

I’m a planetary witch, so I made and charged mine during the hour of Mars on a Sunday, but this is not necessary to make the basic jar, it just adds some extra oomph to its energy!

So, I combined everything except the sigil paper and garnet in a small bowl.  Next I pricked my finger and dabbed a drop of blood on the paper and the piece of garnet (this will add your personal energy to the jar and tie the confident, masculine energy to you).  Then I put the paper in the jar, added the herbs, glitter, and feathers on top, and dropped in the piece of garnet last.  I breathed into the jar to seal it, then closed the top and shook it until my arms gave out!  The shaking charges the jar, but any method of charging can be used, its a matter of personal preference. I keep mine on my dresser and give it a shake when I get dressed in the morning; carry it around whenever you need a boost!” 

Submitted by ace-nebula

I love this so much!

I can’t help but get annoyed when people talk like self-driving cars are a red herring solution.

Like, yes, it’s totally true that it’s logistically impossible for absolutely everyone’s daily transportation needs to be served by personal vehicles, as there’s no feasible way to build an urban road network with a high enough capacity to support it.

However, mass transit isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution, either. No matter how comprehensive your bus routes or passenger train networks are, there will inevitably be people who:

a. need to go somewhere that the transit routes don’t;

b. have mobility needs that can’t readily be served by a bus or train; and/or

c. need to transport something that can’t fit in a shopping bag.

Certainly, workarounds for these issues can be proposed, but in the end, a transit system that combines multiple approaches is simply going to be more effective at meeting a variety of needs than trying to bash a bus fleet’s square peg into every conceivable round role. Self-driving personal shuttles will have a place in your Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism.

I agree, a perfect transportation network needs to rely on a variety of technologies, and there’s no doubt self-driving cars will be an intrinsic part of this for many trips. However, the view described above is far less common that of people (mainly Americans, Canadians, New Zealanders, and Australians) who view self-driving cars as THE solution to fossil fuel dependency and road congestion so that, instead of getting out of their comfort zone and stepping on (gasp!) public transit they can simply say “oh sure, I’ll do my part, once self-driving cars appear on the mass market,” which keeps them from having to share their perfect little bubble of personal space. Although self-driving cars will be a part of the transportation network of the future, mass transit, biking, and walking will play a far more important rule due to their space and energy efficiency, and pretending self-driving cars will somehow rewrite all the rules of urban transportation is not at all realistic.

congrats to the ARAs who got facebook to ban animal sales. shortly before then, many rare heritage chicken breeds were getting much needed attention to save the breeds thanks to various agricultural facebook pages highligting them. but now, with the ban of animal sales on facebook, those heritage breeds have become damn near impossible to find again. guess what that means? the breeds will begin dying out again. people will go back to hatcheries who mass produce unhealthy chicken breeds in horrible conditions. folks will always buy chickens, but now instead of buying them from ethical breeders on facebook they’ll be supporting a terrible industry, woohoo.

hope y’all are proud.

as a note for those who don’t know why heritage breeds are so good: they aren’t bred to overproduce. they’re bred for health and longevity. a production leghorn lays over 300 eggs a year and will live MAYBE three years. usually dying of some horrible reproductive illness, even in a good environment. the production meat hybrids get so meaty so quickly that they can’t physically live passed a few months, eight months is the absolute max before their legs stop being able to carry them or their heart gives out. they can’t breed on their own, they don’t live long enough.

heritage breed chickens must average over six years to be considered heritage. they’re hardy birds that lay fewer eggs, often 250 or less. there are many breeds bred for meat, but they grow slowly and breed on their own. they can live long, full lives. there are dual purpose breeds. these heritage breeds have valuable, unique genetics that not only benefit us humans, but their species as well! we have breeds that can withstand frigid winters, fight off disease thanks to breeders breeding for immunity, live far longer than junglefowl (what chickens were bred from thousands of hears ago), and all sorts of cool things. these unique genes hugely benefit science.

corperate hatcheries don’t breed for these things, they might have birds that they claim are heritage breeds, but they almost always have production mixed in. they breed on a massive, uncaring scale. by banning facebook sales, ARAs are saying a big “fuck you” to breeders who are just trying to keep a breed alive and maybe make a living doing so. although i rarely meet breeders who make more money than they pour into those birds. yes, there are bad breeders, but there are a lot of really awesome breeders. all big hatcheries are bad. the decision to ban animal sales directly benefits those bad hatcheries, and none of the breeders.

this is happening with pigeons as well and its terrible. it was already damn near impossible to find a good pigeon breeder but now it IS impossible since all the groups are getting shut down, facebook was one of the few places you could meet some breeders, other than meeting them at exhibitions or clubs in person. it sure is significantly speeding up the decline of the already-scarce hobby of keeping pigeons, thats for sure

It’s hit the reptile and amphibian hobby hard too. We used to have a page to vet buyers/sellers. No one wants to buy a sick animal or support someone who treats their animals poorly. That page was removed, taking out years of reviews.

It’s also going to have a huge impact on genetic diversity since it limits our ability to match animals. Bearded dragons are intensely inbred; the ability to find good lines was essential to correcting this.

It’s happening in rabbits too. And I’d like to echo ALL of these points because they’re good.

Although who are we kidding? The elimination of specific breeds, and animal keeping as a whole, is 100% a goal of the ARA movement.

Sheep as well! The Florida Cracker Sheep group on there still has a lot of cool info but its damn hard to hook up with breeders except in PMs and even then … fb messaging sucks, ppls PM settings vary, and even being like “check out this sheep. PM me” is considered a Suspect Post these days :/

Lol it basically hurt everyone but who it was actually meant to hurt, the dog selling groups, who just don’t use the word sale and no matter how much I report them fbook claims it’s fine

Animals are 100% still being sold on Facebook, I see listings for them every day, they’re just way shadier and harder to track.

I think it's really great when bi people figure themselves out and decide to use other labels in addition to bi! You're bi and identify with being gay or lesbian? Amazing! You're bi and also think queer is a good fit for you? Cool! You're bi and also pansexual? Beautiful! Your bi but prefer labels like fluid or flexible? Fantastic! There is no one way to bi.