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officially decided that anyone who tries to divide the lgbt community is a fed. i dont care if you're not actually a fed, if you're causing infighting in a minority community then you're a fed who just isnt getting paid to be one. either apply for a job at the CIA or shut the fuck up
some people understood this post. some people revealed themselves to be feds
#except panse-- no shut up.#except asexu-- no shut up#youre a fed. a fed whos learned how to talk like a tumblrina#coming back to this because it makes me so mad. it always happens. theres a cycle to it of which posts get deemed okay and funny#quipping snotty pathetic little comments at the designated 'cringe gender cringe sexuality' like youre some kind of tumblr funnyman#when you all fucking sound the same. all the discourse buzzwords were hand selected for you by a person even meaner and slimier than you#youre a truscum and you dont like terfs? actually terfs are your best friends#youre a wounded person. wounded from people you cant hurt in return#and youre frothing. foaming at the mouth. to find someone who CAN be hurt by you. it feels good to be the bully for once hey @seafoamplant I hope you don’t mind me borrowing your tags bc you fuckin NAILED it
Reblogging this because I still see people starting shit about mspec gays/lesbians unironically and y'all thats the same thing too.
Exclusion of good faith identities will never accomplish anything good and if you argue like a terf, you're basically a terf.
whenever I tell someone “I’m tired” and they say “go to sleep” and I say “I’m not that type of tired” and they say “there’s only one type of tired” I always feel amazed. Astounded. How do they not know the different versions of tired.
- Physical exhaustion from the chronic illness. Not drowsy, but needs to lay down. Maybe my Hashimoto’s or bad knees or plantar fasciitis is acting up, but either way, I need to relax with an ice pack and a tens unit.
- emotional exhaustion. The type of “tired” people mean when they say “I’m sick and tired of x.” I’m so numb and usually I’d be about one minor inconvenience away from snapping but the exhaustion of being alive has gotten so heavy that I don’t even notice inconveniences anymore.
- drowsiness. If I’m trying to tell someone I need to sleep, I’ll say “I’m sleepy” or “I want to go to bed.”
- unable to process what’s going on but the closest word I can use to describe how I’m feeling is “tired.”
5. The kind of tired that comes with severe brain fog. You don't mean to be struggling so much just to answer a simple question, but you are. And the effort makes it worse.
6. I’ve been spaced out for the past 3 hours and I can’t focus on work but I can do non brain power related things
The really funny thing about Hobbits dressing like 19th century gentleman farmers and everyone else looking generically renaissance/medieval is that it kind of heavily implies that Hobbits are the only ones who developed advanced sewing techniques.
Hobbits are the best tailors #confirmed
Merry: do you have any scissors?
Éowyn, who lives in the early medieval period: what are scissors
it's just a little interesting that people love genuinely kind and good hearted characters but somehow batmans unwavering belief that people can be better and people can be changed is not enough? even characters within the same media are praised and respected for being the bigger hero and choosing to save rather than to hurt and yet bruce's no-kill rule is often a point of ridicule for his character.
what is so wrong with having a immensely complicated character have slightly less complicated morals about empathy? for a character who loves and hurts and loses why is this something so unbelievably unrealistic for a hero to believe in. what is outlandish about people being people before they are a product of their misfortunes?
of course it isn't a perfect mindset, it isn't even a healthy one in a lot of cases — but it is something that has stayed true to its mission and so i think it deserves a little more thinking before being dragged around as lazy writing.
young just eeps: the judgement of superboy
HOLD THE LINE!! KEEP PUSHING!!!!!
Sorry babes but as someone who lived lug around 500 cds they can die. To me lps are at least pretty and pretentious like a fine wine. Cds have no point
the point is cds are sexy as hell. sorry you dont know what sex is.
visual diagram btw ^
As someone who started listening to music on vinyl back when 8-tracks were still a thing, who saw the switch from them to cassettes and then to CDs, I can promise that recording peaked with CDs. Suddenly shuffle was a thing. they were more portable than vinyl, they didn't get chewed up just because the player got dirty, they had almost no moving parts, they were easy to rip, easy to queue up a song, and you could both carry around your media and easily loan (or resell) it - it combined the best of purely digital music with the best of cassettes, and had better quality/less recording artifacts than any previous medium.
Physical media is also the point.
As someone who has mastered music (my own and others') for CD and for vinyl, CD is a very forgiving and gentle platform, with the ability to go hard and loud or quiet and soft with no audible loss in quality (badly mastered CDs exist, lord knows, but it isn't the platform's fault). Their design allows for incredible feats of sound design, bordering on holographic using phasing tricks that are much more available now than in CD's heyday. We could do some amazing things on modern CDs if we wanted to.
Vinyl is not forgiving, and has needs much more demanding than CD. Your low frequencies need to roll off or the needle will skip; your high frequencies can't be too bright or the sound distorts. Loud songs at the ends of sides sound harsh and compressed because you have less physical space than at the start of a side. You have to be very very careful with your sound staging, making sure to take care of any and all phasing; no special tricks for surround sound are allowed.
I love vinyl as an artifact of the creation of music, but if I had to choose a platform to represent my music accurately, it would be CD.
For every modern trans girl who wishes she could return to the days of being a sumerian eunuch temple priestess, there was a sumerian eunuch temple priestess afflicted by an inexplicable desire to play the synthesizer. These were interpreted as prophetic visions
Ive actually made myself kind of sad now contemplating the poor sumerian eunuch temple priestess having to make do with some sort of Flintstonian bone xylophone instead of a proper eurorack or 808
I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"
TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE
Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.
Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version
Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.
To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 
On the plus side, this will get caught by tag wranglers and synned to the actual ‘Pet Play’ tag so that the fic will show up in the correct tags and filters.
But it shouldn’t have to. For the love of GOD, just put in the actual tag instead of trying to censor your tags. It just creates unnecessary work for the tag wranglers, and does absolutely nothing except annoy them and everyone else who has to see it.
I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"
TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE
Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.
Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version
I feel like you’re blaming TikTok users here.
It’s TikTok the company’s fault, and I’m proud of the people making the videos for being clever enough to say what they want/need to say in spite of capitalism.
hey transfems you can have a life beyond your 20s that you're happy with and feel fulfilled by we can choose good endings
part of the way they try to keep us down and killing ourselves is by keeping us from having stories about ourselves beyond 1) being sex objects, 2) being constantly funny or performing in some socially acceptable way despite how tiring that can be, 3) being fucked up and mentally ill and creepy and gross (which can be fun to wear and take and turn against them but can also be sad sometimes), or 4) as dead bodies
there's an entire psychic component to genocide and like i think this is true across most genocide attempts against lots of different groups but i can't speak for them like i can ours
staying alive is praxis and the trick to staying alive is to build community and the trick to building community is to build fun interests and hobbies and then share those with others and be sweet to each other and the trick to doing that is to be sweet to yourself and the trick to that is to know when to push yourself to expand and grow and when to curl up to be safe
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I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"
TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE
Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.
Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version
Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.
To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 
Just fyi the sonic subreddit has been having a very... fun past couple days
the current icon as of dec 11

I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023
I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.
id in alt
The fact that a lot of people are being so pressed and homophobic about byler *possibly* being canon when Robin x Vickie are practically canon onscreen already and no one is batting an eye tells me that
1) Straight ppl (and a lot of queer ppl too tbh) don’t take sapphic ships seriously bc there is a culture of literally ignoring lesbians and how special and equally queer wlw love is, so homophobes don’t see it as that much of a problem
and 2) The difference between having a queer ship as part of the main plotline between two crucial main characters, vs having a cute but relatively unrelated side queer pairing just for the sake of giving an LGBTQ character a love interest MATTERS when it comes to representation. There are so. Many. Cishet ppl who claim to be “allies” or just “okay” with the queer community until suddenly it looks like a queer ship between two MAIN CHARACTERS is going to be endgame *instead of the het ship*. A few minutes of screentime for Robin and the character put into the show specifically to be her love interest that showed up a grand total of three scenes in the entire season? Yeah, sure, that’s fine, but as soon as it becomes apparent that one of the main young teenage characters is in love with his best friend who is also a major character might actually be reciprocated? Ppl throw a goddamn FIT.
It is so telling that people are coming up with all of these excuses for why byler could never and shouldn’t happen, and why they’re adamantly against it:
“Mike has to be straight cuz he’s with el!” (bi ppl and comphet exist 🤨)
“It’s just not realistic, they’re just friends it came out of nowhere” (it’s canon that Will’s had feelings for Mike since season one so idk wtf ur talkin abt)
“M*leven is the main ship you’re just delusional” (they’re not tho??Are u forgetting abt lumax? Cuz they got wayy more attention and love in s4 than m*leven did. Also jopper and jancy exist)
“Mike isn’t obligated to like Will back” (literally no one said he was? It’s not that he’s “obligated” it’s just that he’s acting pretty fuckin fruity)
And ofc my personal favorite: “It’s the 80s it’s just not realistic for so many ppl to be gay” (if u rlly think gay ppl didn’t exist in the 80s I beg u to open a proper history book)
Translation? “I simply cannot bring myself to believe that a queer character on a show this big would be essential and well loved enough by the writers and actors to get a happy ending. This show was never stated to be strictly abt the queer experience (as opposed to something like heartstopper) so obviously my het ship will be endgame over the queer one, bc a major endgame relationship couldn’t possibly be queer. That makes me uncomfortable.”
Basically, straight people are getting upset about byler bc they’re used to queer ships being sidelined or just put there for clout.
They’re ALSO just used to seeing the main female protagonist end up in an endgame with a guy, bc god forbid a female MC gets to finish her arc single 🙄
We can acknowledge the difference between a queer side ship with one insignificant character and a queer ship between two major characters that is essential to the plot, while also talking about the fact that Robin and Vickie being relatively ignored both by homophobes AND the fandom is bc sapphic ships tend to get sidelined to mlm ships.
Sincerely,
Your local lesbian byler shipper
So the wolf in the Shrek movies seems to identify as a man, and just happens to wear a pink dress as his outfit of choice. Meanwhile Doris the Ugly Stepsister is definitely a woman while having some masculine features. Then there’s Pinocchio who is unambiguously male (he celebrates becoming a “real boy”) but secretly wears womens’ underwear. And I know this was mainly done for cheap transphobic comedy but like. They’re all basically decent people who are on the heroes’ side and get to live happily ever after, so there’s not reason not to read it completely straight. The only person who shames the wolf for cross-dressing is Fairy Godmother, and she’s a villain so we’re meant to dislike her. Shrek’s extended friend group just contains a lot of genderqueer weirdos who are living their best life and I think that’s great.











