tell me

here’s my one whole discourse post for pride month. you fucks will never ever ever wean off the radfem shit if you keep trying to give “cis men are evil” nuance. no, it’s not bad because they could be closeted or questioning, it’s bad because gender essentialism is a fucking brain poison and it makes you stupid

Just for the record, cons are staffed by PEOPLE.

Often unpaid volunteers.

If you think that a staffer should be reprimanded because they said they didn't like another con's *checks notes* "moderated panels" you need some perspective. Humans are allowed to have opinions. Chill.

Additionally, if they're unhappy with the way they were treated by ANOTHER con they staffed (separate from the one they complained about), that is also FUCKING OKAY. That's not "unprofessional." People are allowed to talk about their negative experiences with organizations.

And it may surprise you -- that while this involves a con I help run this is not about me. I am, surprisingly, not a party to this. I'm just our communications person, so I see the emails and tweets about it.

For context: Not long ago one of our staffers tweeted at another con that "no one likes moderated panels." This staffer was, at the time, also on the staff of another anime con. We'll call them Con B. Someone reaches out to Con B about the tweet, and Con B reprimands them over it. The staffer, angry with this, quits Con B. They also tweet a few times about how it's the reason they left Con B.

And now people are tweeting and emailing my con about the whole thing.

What. the. actual. hell.

...also a part of me is a little disappointed that no one's reached out to us to try and get ME kicked. Like the absolute shit I've been talking online for decades about other cons when they do something I don't like makes it look like what this person said was a COMPLIMENT. 😆

In my opinion, you reprimand con staff when they do something that endangers others, makes the con less safe, or has legal ramifications for the event. Saying they don't like panel moderation does not pass the minimum requirements here, y'all.

This feels like people with a personal vendetta trying to find an excuse.

And I'm not here for it. Like I don't necessarily agree with our staffer's opinion on moderated panels... but I care about it as much as I do their opinion of hot dogs. I literally cannot be deeply offended by their preference on the topic. Touch some fucking grass, y'all.

how do draw good

I know I've been over this but man HRT is good stuff. I wanna shake the hand of whoever invented it. It's a crime that I don't know who that is actually. They're more important than Einstein

id also been really curious about the history of hrt so i had some tabs open:

The first hrt treatments were mostly estrogen extracted during pregnancies to be used for menopause symptoms, but the first usage of those medicines for trans women is credited to the world's first Trans Clinic, opened in pre-WW2 Germany by Magnus Hirschfield, a gay jewish man.

Oh he looks delightful

Thank you grandpa

The comparasion to Einstein was actually made at the time too! He was commonly refered to as “the Einstein of sex”, to which he supposedly once replied that he would rather Einstein be called “the Hirschfeld of physics” lmao

Oh my god

"Bird Brain" is a Myth

Birds are, in fact, not stupid

In fact, birds have 60% more brain per brain than mammals do

This has been a PSA

ignore the fucked up emoji please

I'm sorry but the fucked up emoji is really hard to ignore

Scientists once thought that ADHD symptoms were always present. But previous research from Rapport, who has been studying ADHD for more than 36 years, has shown the fidgeting was most often present when children were using their brains' executive functions, particularly "working memory." That's the system we use for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning and comprehension.

Here’s full study: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/478386

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My grandma just called and, among other things, said “You have hips. That’s good! Men like hips!” and then she interrupted herself to say “Women like hips. People of your preferred gender like hips. I can never remember”  And I was like “Thanks grandma! My preferred gender is none of them, no thanks.” and she was like “Okay, no one will comment on your hips!” very self satisfied, like “aha, I have figured it out” I think like half her grandkids are some variety of not-straight and she can’t always remember which is which but she is the epitome of like “she’s a little confused, but she’s got the spirit!”

Update: I gave it some thought and my estimate was wrong. Of the grandkids that are out, it’s 1/3, not ½

I told my grandma that I’d told my friends about what she said and that some of y’all had said you wished she was your grandma, and she said “Well, you can never have too many grandkids!”  So like…consider her your honorary grandma* I guess? *if you want an honorary grandma, that is

Pride month is almost over, so here! Have my confused-but-supportive grandma again

hate when I finish a really brutal movie that shakes me to my core and then I can’t even recommend it to people. like it’s incredible and everyone should see it but also I have to slap 3,000 warnings on it and tell you you’re gonna feel like shit

maybe it’s an unpopular opinion and I’m not saying to watch media that will trigger you on purpose obviously but I think people need to be okay with movies that make them uncomfortable sometimes. it’s good to feel like shit now and then. the beauty and horror and poignancy of the human experience shouldn’t always be watered down and neatly tied up into a palatable package. something that disturbs you can also move you. it can change you. growth is often uncomfortable. there are so many masterpieces that might profoundly affect you that you’ll miss if you only look to movies for pure entertainment and nothing else

sorry to be autistic about this post but they literally solve this dilemma in the show because U only get a cutie mark during a life defining moment where U discover your true passion and also cutie marks mainly Represent more abstract passions not jobs. like pinkie pies is balloons not because she’s gonna become a balloon maker but because her life’s mission to to bring joy to other people and she does that through her parties. so even if pinkie Decided to do something else with her life her defining trait is still bringing joy to other people and her cutie mark wouldn’t change. like the cutie marks Are very personal and are specific to the individual because it’s pony magic… Also destiny is real in the show anyway and U get a cutie mark at the point U begin to fulfill your destiny (like twilight got hers when she got into magic school) so like moot point. I don’t play about those talking horses.

I just learned about ecosystems and conservation, son. I'm a changed man. go unmow the lawn right now

People talk about the surprise albums from people like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé that drop with zero warning but I have just been existing in this world where every album I've ever heard in my life has been a surprise album because I didn't know that musicians had schedules that we could see

this gun is way too big!!!

this is a gun that is too damn big!

c’mon now son, put the big gun down. this is a job for a big axe

my son. my giant onion son. do not go the way of the giant conflict. you may be very large too, but your heart is bigger.

did not realize there was a Gollum game out so I was staring at this thumbnail like 'well damn the little dude had his problems but 22 minutes of criticism seems excessive'

everyone knows about silly putty, and silly string, but what you need to watch out for is serious putty (C4) and serious string (tripwires)