........the "a son. a magnificent son." scene never fucking happened. or the scene at the end of bittersweet sixteen where blinky got the parts for a vespa so they could build it together because toby told him about how jim's dad left after getting him a bike kit. or jim coming to save blinky and blinky saying he shouldn't have come and jim responding by saying that they still have to build the Vespa together. none. none of it happened. no one fucking TALK TO ME

EXCUSE MY YELLING BUT IS BLINKY SUPPOSED TO BE TOBYS FATHER FIGURE?? EXCUSE ME??? FUCKING COME O N

Texas Republicans are now trying to pass Bill SB1646, which would remove transgender minors from parents who affirm their gender and support them getting proper transition care.

I repeat, they are trying to criminalize parents supporting their trans children and make it legally child abuse, and a removable offense

Its a lot of legal verbatim but the specific points are underlined

Transgender people in the USA need help now!

My heart hurts. I’m not the best at describing my emotions, but that’s what it feels like. The United States of America continues to single out transgender people, young and old, and become hostile for them to live in. In 2021, 28 bills have already been introduced targeting trans youth.

Arkansas legislators overrode the veto from Governor Asa Hutchinson and passed HB1570. This bill makes trans youth unable to obtain gender-affirming healthcare. Puberty blockers will be barred from trans youth who are scared of their growing bodies and hormones will be unavailable to trans minors as well. Surgeries will also be unavailable. Arkansas legislators have also introduced two bills that would ban trans students from school sports: SB354 and SJR16

Alabama’s Senate Health Committee approved a bill, SB10, that would make it a felony for doctors to provide gender-affirming treatment to transgender minors. Doctors could face up to 10 years in prison.

Arizona has also joined Alabama in introducing a bill that would punish doctors for providing trans youth with gender-affirming health care. They are also introducing a bill that would make trans students unable to participate in school sports. SB1511 and SB1637.

Connecticut legislature is voting on two anti-trans sports bans that would prevent trans youth from playing in school teams “to protect women’s rights”: SB00324 and HB 05795.

Georgia’s legislature is voting on a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care, namely HRT and puberty blockers, for minors: HB401

Two other bills, SB266 and HB276, would prevent trans athletes from participating in school and university sports programs, even at private institutions, if passed.

Iowa’s trans medical ban would prohibit gender-affirming care for minors with the exception of intersex youth if HF193 is passed.

The state is also voting on two bills that would prevent trans athletes from participating in school sports: HF184 and HF327.

Indiana is voting on two bills, both of which would bar doctors from giving gender-affirming care to trans minors: SB0224 and HB1505.

Kansas state legislature is considering whether or not to prohibit gender-affirming care like HRT and puberty blockers in two bills: SB214 and HB2210.

Kansas will also vote on SB208, a bill that will stop trans students from participating in school sports to “create fairness in women’s sports.”

Kentucky’s HB336 would make providing gender-affirming care for trans minors illegal and protect public officials who express views against gender-affirming care if passed.

The state legislature is also debating two bills that would stop trans student-athletes from playing sports: SB106 and HB471.

Louisiana’s SB 104 would make it illegal for doctors to provide gender-affirming care to minors without parental, namely gender-affirming therapy, puberty blockers, and HRT.

Minnesota is voting on three bills that would prevent trans students from participating in school sports: HF1657, HB471, and SF96.

HF 1657 would specifically criminalize trans women who try to participate in girls’ sports or even try to use the locker room that corresponds with their gender rather than the sex they were assigned at birth.

HB471 and SF96 are bills that would prevent all trans students from playing on school sports teams.

Mississippi’s bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for trans youth, SB2171, was killed in committee.

However, Mississippi lawmakers passed a bill that will prevent trans girls from participating in female school sports, SB2536. It is unclear whether or not the law will be signed into effect by Governor Tate Reeves.

Missouri’s HB33 and SB442 would both ban doctors from treating trans youth with HRT or puberty blockers.

The state is also attempting to pass four bills that would prevent trans people from participating in school sports: HJR53, HB1184, HB1077, and HB1045.

HB1077 would specifically prohibit any state funding for schools that allow trans students to participate in school sports.

Montana is considering five trans medical ban bills, one of which would make it legal for doctors to refuse to treat any patients: HB113, HB427, SB195, SB245, and SB280

The state’s HB113, HB427, and SB195 bills would prevent minors from accessing gender-affirming care like HRT, puberty blockers, and any gender-affirming surgeries like breast removal.

SB245 and SB280 would impact all transgender people in the state if passed. SB245 would allow insurance companies and healthcare providers to refuse to cover or treat trans patients on the basis of being trans.

SB280 would make it mandatory for trans people to have gender-affirming surgeries like a vaginoplasty to change their legal sex on their birth certificate and other official documents.

Montana’s HB112 would require public schools to categorize sports teams based on biological sex and not allow trans people to compete.

New Hampshire’s medical ban would criminalize and define gender-affirming care for trans minors as child abuse if passed: HB86

HB198 would stop trans athletes from playing school sports on the basis of preventing gender discrimination for cis women.

North Dakota is voting on HB1298, which would stop trans athletes from participating in school teams if passed.

South Dakota lawmakers voted to pass a bill that bans trans students from playing on school sports teams on March 8. Governor Kristi Noem killed the bill on March 29: HB1076.

Oklahoma may pass two bills that would prevent minors from accessing gender-affirming treatments: SB676 and SB583.

The “Save Women’s Sports Act,” SB331, would prevent trans athletes from participating in school sports teams if passed.

Ohio is voting on a bill that would prevent high schools, universities, and private schools to stop trans athletes from playing in school sports teams: HB61.

Tennessee’s legislature is trying to pass two bills that would prevent trans youth from accessing gender-affirming care like HRT and puberty blockers: HB0578 and SB0657.

The state will also vote on two bills that prevent trans athletes in middle and high school from playing team sports: SB0228 and HB0003.

Utah’s “Preserving Sports for Female Students Act,” HB0302, would prevent trans students from playing sports at the high school or collegiate level.

If passed, the state’s HB0092 would prevent doctors from treating trans minors with HRT or puberty blockers.

Spread this! These cannot be allowed to pass.

out: going ghost

in: guess ill die

redo of this

Happy anniversary Magnus Archives! 5 years of definitely being A Podcast!

the boon series is COMPLETE!!! 🔥🔥🔥

individual posts: ares + dionysus | artemis + aphrodite | demeter + chaos | hermes + athena | poseidon + zeus

Yo this is hot as shit i'd buy a poster of it for real

hmm... I might want a dress...

something subtle... I'd wear a hoodie over it, I dont want my shoulders to stand out...

I dunno, I'm pretty afraid itll be a waste of money

Do it!!! Maybe something a solid/dark color and flowy would look really subtle under a hoodie

Hi, I’m really ashamed to post this but I need an abortion and I’m lacking the funds. I need to raise $700 so I can go out of state and get one. The guy who I slept with has bailed on me and has blocked me on everything again. I can’t ask my parents since they kicked me out last year. I’m still quite early but I really need the help! 

Please repost this. And if you can help message me so I can share my friend’s paypal with you. (My mom hacked mine last year). Please repost this if you can.

Still could use the help, please repost this if you can. Thank you.

well shit

Ah yes, the profit motive, always incentivising the best outcomes.

just because you can afford to commission a scribe to chisel out cuneiform hatemail does not make your contemptible attempts to defame me any less disgraceful, the quality of my copper is HIGH my ingots are PRISTINE

I was going to say something rude but that’s actually that’s fascinating and I would genuinely love to hear more about mesopotamian writing methodology

Okay! It’s inscribed with a cube-shaped tool, as seen here.

So I throughly enjoyed this it’s delightful, but also I have a suggestion: Cuneiform ASMR

What’s really cool is that there were schools called Edubbas (although later on they were less schools and more just Some Dude’s house.) where young scribes-in-training would practice their craft by writing signs over and over again on a single tablet, (if you don’t cook the clay you can wipe it clean and reuse it) transcribing poetry, etc. and it turns out school really hasn’t changed in 4,000 years - There was homework, recesses, (overseen by a lukisallu, or “yard man”) there’s literature depicting parents scolding their kids for skipping class to mess around downtown with their friends, there’s tablets that seem to have been written by students struggling with dyslexia - but the coolest thing to me is this:

A bored student, thousands of years ago, decided to pass the time by doodling a fish on the back of their worksheet. It’s such a little thing but it’s just so incredibly cool to me that I can see the work of someone who lived so long ago and just think “same”.

Disclaimer: Most of this info came from the book “Reading and Writing in Ancient Babylon” by Dominique Charpin which I read years ago, so some of this information might be out-of-date and/or misremembered.

Sorry for rambling, you just activated a really big dormant hyperfixation of mine.

Oh my gosh this is unbelievably lovely

Holy shit. I had never even CONSIDERED the possiblity of dyslexia affecting any writing aside from the modern alphabet. This is literally so fascinating vdskakak

4chan is at it fucking again

tw: transphobia and slurs v

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The "all nonbinary terms are childish" rhetoric feels a lot less like "childish terms are getting applied to nonbinary people against their will" and a lot more like "I think all nonbinary terms are childish because nonbinary people are inherently childish to me."

Anyway "enby" is a perfectly reasonable shortened form of "nonbinary," y'all just have sand in your underpants.

And before anyone comes at me:

If you are nonbinary and you do not like being called "enby," fine. I'm not here to tell you to use a word you don't like. But maybe unpack the reason you feel the need to talk about how "childish" it is. I have seen other nonbinary people go on entire tirades about how it's "offensive and wrong to use it as a general term," as if it's some kind of slur.

It is literally just a shortened form of "nonbinary." That's it.

does anyone else kind of.. enjoy spoilers ?? like they're sort of a relief because then I know whether or not something is worth investing in watching or reading or not

I'm not gonna be disappointed if it doesn't turn out how I want plus I'm not going to fast forward and skip through large parts of it to find out what happens, which I'm embarrassed that I do I just don't have the patience

Is that just a me thing or do other people do that too? Is that an adhd thing?

I just do way better watching things if I already know the entire synopsis and can predict kinda when things will happen like landmarks in a movie that help me through

Please tell me this is an actual thing and not just me

ok so recently i wanted to read a book to my niece, who just turned 7, that I thought she’d like. but it had some scary parts in it, that might be too much for her. she’s tough, but she’s sensitive too, like any kid her age.

so what did i do? I spoilered it. I said “hey this kid runs into some monsters that are gonna try to eat him, and then they chase him and it’s very suspenseful. You think that would be too scary?”

She considered it. “Do they eat him in the end?” she asked.

“No,” I said.

“Then no,” she said. And then, when we were about to hit the Big Reveal that this person who had helped him was secretly actually a man-eating monster, she lit up and was like “IS THIS WHEN IT HAPPENS” and I was like “SHH yes!” and she was like “AHH YEAH” and loved it.

I don’t think spoilers are just for kids, though. I’m now so Tired of conventional media’s endless race for The More Shocking Ending that I refuse to watch shit when I don’t know how it’s going to end. It’s not that I don’t have the emotional resilience to handle unexpected things (well, sometimes I don’t, honestly, and have no shame about that), it’s that if the unexpected thing is the “fuck you if you liked these characters ha ha ha!” plot twist, I just don’t have the time to invest in your fictional world. If you can’t respect me as an audience then I have other shit to do with my time.

Even my own writing-- I dithered a bit in my latest series, which was going to hinge on a dead character being revealed to really be alive. I did my best to avoid spoilers as I was writing the thing, but now I’ve posted it and I figured, the thing to do is just to-- tag it for the reveal. It’s not worth trying to be coy or people won’t know whether they want to read your shit.

I stand by my view that if knowing the twist ruins your story, your story is poorly written. Like, I appreciate that some people love the thrill of discovery, and as such, I support making sure people don’t stumble over spoilers without warning. But I’m sick and tired of stories that go “Ha, ha, tricked you!” or confuse shock value with suspense. 

Does anyone else have a particular date or event that ‘started’ the pandemic for them? Even though that event clearly happened after everything ‘started’?

re. the last reblog, I have a “reading webcomics” primer zine I’ve been meaning to finish for like a year with some resources on how to start reading webcomics when “37,000 to choose from spanning all genres” is a bit overwhelming. but like goddamn seriously, read webcomics. everything you’re missing from mass-market blockbuster bullshit is THERE

ACTUALLY the biggest ace up my sleeve is @webcomiclibrary​ who does amazing work curating an incredibly comprehensive list of webcomics, searchable by ALL KIND of categories:

For example, my webcomic on their site:

It’s an incredible resource and a great place to start whether you’re like “I’ve read everything that exists” or “Webcomics who?”

If you live in Alabama and you have a trans child age 19 or younger and they're receiving hormone therapy, get THE FUCK out now.

The state of Alabama has just made it a felony to give trans children ages 19 or younger hormone therapy or affirmation surgery.

Trans Lives Matter and stay safe.

-fae

IMPORTANT ADDITION: The Alabama House bill that will accompany this bill forces teachers and medical professionals to out trans youth to their parents.

THIS WILL KILL TRANS KIDS.

This combination of legislation is The most violent anti-trans legislation to date in the US. If you can do so safely, get out. Get out now. Get your children out. Please.

grogu sending SOS’s through the force: [please send help] [my dad and i need help] [if there’s jedi listening] [my dad is very caring] [he’s fighting imperials] [but he can’t keep holding them off] [even if he could totally kick their ass] [he’s been protecting me so much] [he’s afraid of nothing] [he’s also very strong] [won the super darksword] [from evil gideon] [with a stick] [so strong] [so brave] [took out a sand dragon] [on his own] [he’s a real warrior] [big armor] [tough] [so badass] [big hard armor] [but he’s lonely] [lonely warrior dad] [also single] [did i mention big armor?] [please jedi] [dad needs you]

luke, grabbing the tightest Gucci pants he owns: I’m on my way

Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian but it’s Toxic by Britney Spears

hadn’t seen star wars or the mandalorian but i watched this video and now i’m here. it was this video and like, this post, and now i’m here.