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@mikkeneko / mikkeneko.tumblr.com

A pinned post for Mikke

I'm Mikkeneko, Mikke for short. I'm a writer, American, asexual, she/her, in my mid-30s. I post primarily fandom stuff, flowers, and anything else I find interesting or cute or funny.

My AO3 can be found here and contains fic written for Dragon Age, MCU, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Critical RoleThe Witcher, and the latest fandom of interest is The Untamed.  My writing tag on Tumblr is 'mikke fics,' there is some overlap with my AO3 but not total duplication, so you can peruse that tag if you want. 

I'd like to make my blog a nice place for people to visit, but at the end of the day this is my space and I will reblog (or not reblog) to satisfy myself over any other consideration. I will occasionally signal boost real-world or political posts I find relevant, but I keep that a fairly low ratio of my content.

Triggers I tag for:

  • body horror cw
  • high heights (for heights)
  • clusters cw (for trypophobia posts)
  • shirtless cw (for all partial-nudity content, not just bare chests)
  • loud noises cw
  • flashing cw (for any jerky light/motion content)

(Not a trigger per se, but any post that’s longer than two screens gets the long post tag.)

If something comes up that I don't reblog frequently enough to have a reliable tag for it, I will try to tag it "[distressing content] cw" but that may be a bit hit or miss. If there is another category of content that turns up frequently enough to be upsetting and you'd like a tag for it, let me know. I may or may not be able to fill your request but I can at least consider it!

Fun things to do in my blog, I guess?:

Mr. Mojo and I are pretty certain we won the lottery with our first kitty fosters. They're all just so precious and funny. In order, you are looking at Kudzu♂️, Kale♀️ and Fern Gully♀️. (Don't @ me, I didn't name them. Although Kudzu is a great name, actually.)

I've had them for 2 weeks, and in 1 more, they'll be ready to go! They're 10 weeks old right now. I think there's Maine Coon in there, just from the looks of Gully and Kudzu. (Ear tufts, long whiskers, round eyes and small-set faces.)

Kudzu's whiskers are AMAZING... so expressive. They are long and faintly curly, and contrast startlingly with his blue-gray fur.

Gully is the most snuggly, addictively soft. She's delicate under all that fur, though. She has the faintest gray to her ruff to either side of her head, and we would have named her Penumbra if we could have.

Kale is the most playful. (Although they're all playing right now, popping around like armadillos and arching their teeny little backs. I can't manage to get a good picture of that.) She knows what she wants and I laugh at every mealtime because she meows like she's on the verge of death if I can't hurry.

They play hard, they sleep hard, they all eat like demons. I love 'em!

Anyhoo, if you are in the metro Atlanta area and are looking for a kitten or three, I can give you first dibs (I think). You have to go officially through the foster agency, and it'll cost, I think, $175 per kitten... but they're fixed and vaccinated and healthy and socialized.

Not "It's a product of it's time" as a way to excuse its problematic undertones but rather "it's a product of it's time" to say to say that the issues it tackles were relevant then and its stances that now seem milquetoast were radical then, and that heavy handed, cheesy driving home of those viewpoints was sometimes necessary, and our acceptance and normalization of those viewpoints is in large part because of media like it normalizing those viewpoints and imagery, and watching it in the modern day turns into a loving study of history of the masses and public opinion

Yes this is about the original star trek

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there has always been, in the past as in today, a whole spectrum of people, some of whom were fighting even then for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and others who let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the greatest excess. the goal of history and classics education is to teach you how to discern between the two, in the past as in today.

From a previous poll it has been decided that Lan Wangji can cook, but the real question is....Can He Grill?

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I think that as with a lot of LWJ questions it depends on the adaptation. The donghua really seemed to be pushing the notion that Lan Wangji is The Ace, that he is good at Literally Everything. So if donghua LWJ tried to grill I'm sure he would be excellent at it.

Whereas CQL Lan Wangji was more of, he is good at the specific things he cares to be good at and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE. CQL Lan Wangji cannot grill.

I have no idea about book LWJ.

So within two days of each other, Fox News writes an article comparing aromanticism and asexuality to pedophilia, and then Matt Walsh releases a video saying asexuality is a mental illness and asexuals are tricking teenagers into having depression.

Not sure what’s going on right now over in Conservative World, but it’s a hell of wild U-turn for them to suddenly switch from “Oh no! The left is sexualizing our children!” to “Oh no! The left is asexualizing our children!”

It’s a reminder, I guess, that they’re coming for all of us. The fash and the white supremacists will not make nice distinctions between the queers when they put us up against the wall. There is no gatekeeping, no label-policing, no purity-purging and no assimilation that any of us can do that will save us. They want us dead, and while they’ll start with whoever is most vulnerable at any given time, they’ll get around to all of us eventually.

Queer solidarity means all of us because the fash are coming for all of us.

All Dividers are Feds. Stand united or die separately.

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ANYONE who is trying to divide our community is a fucking Fed. That includes other queers who like to argue about who is and isn’t “allowed” in our community.

Asexuals have been saying it for years, but there is no pivot here. This is not the right suddenly going “NOT sexualizing things is bad too!”. This is the exact shit they have been doing THE ENTIRE TIME. Their goal has NEVER been the removal of sexualization. It has always been the removal of choice related to sexualization. By choosing to opt out of it entirely, asexuals are exerting a level of control that the right does not want us to have, just like anyone who opts for something other than a cishet romance for the purpose of reproduction.

Finally, an LGBTQ+ book with no drugs, sex, or alcohol & hardly even a swear word. It was just a sweet, innocent, coming-of-age story about friendships and first love. The one so many of us have desperately needed for so long.

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Happy Pollinator week to the Baltic Isopod, the first underwater pollinator discovered by science! Lab studies imply that their activities help pollinate seagrass and macroalgea. Is there anything isopods can't do?