I hate the "Oh ur posting without tags? how is anyone supposed to find ur post🥺" warning shit tumblr does now. the hand of god will deliver me unto others

Just saw a Barbie ad here for the first time. It is starting, folks. They must already be desperate if they're buying ad space on TUMBLR.

Do not reblog official marketing or ads from struck works

including (but not remotely limited to) Barbie. They are advertising here because their actors are on strike and will not promote their products.

Barbie is not a struck work. It is okay to reblog barbie content. It's done and finished. Going to premiers for it is crossing the line. But going to the regular ass movie is not.

Read me and read me good: not seeing Barbie is a great way to show execs that we don't care about writers and actors.

Let me say that again: going to see Barbie is GOOD for the strike. Many people who WORKED on barbie are striking. They probably have not been paid yet.

The unions HAVE NOT asked us to picket the movie. Just the premier.

The original post is disinformation.

I believe it to be coming from a good place but avoiding works that are NOT being struck is genuinely harmful to the cause.

Also, the Barbie movie has been advertised on tumblr for a while now...waaaaay before the SAG-AFTRA strike was even being talked about (at least publicly). Idk if I was seeing official ads for it or if it was fan content before the writers' strike started too...

Also: actors and writers are on strike and cannot do official promotional material. Marketing and promotional professionals are not on strike and can continue to do their jobs as normal, except they cannot set up interviews/con appearances/etc for the people who are on strike. People who watch movies are not employed by the studios unless y'all have made some kind of deal no one told me about, and therefore are also not on strike and therefore cannot cross the picket line.

Mike circa s1

wierd little girls who grow up to be weird trans men, and weird little boys who grow up to be weird trans women, and weird little kids who grow up to be weird nonbinary adults

of course lgbt people like horror. what did you think lgbt stands for? lycanthropy gore blood terror

tumblr tuesday: julycanthropy

We're halfway through Julycanthropy, and so here we are, celebrating all the gnarly (affectionate) lycanthropic art you make right here on Tumblr.

(Werewolves, by nature, are a teensy bit body horror adjacent. We've kept that to a minimum here, but just so you know, proceed with caution if that's not at all your thing.)

@amphivena:

@ketrinadrawsalot:

@asmeesh:

@babayanska:

@risottobismarck:

@akreon:

@juleteon:

@werewolfwillow:

@werewolfmetaphor:

@bravo-benji:

@gravedoggg:

@fearandme:

@weredemonz:

@wary-taru:

@monstatron:

@twodeeweaver:

@thecaffeineartwarrior:

@kinerxy:

@literalnobody:

And, a little bonus! @joemerl is sharing daily snippets from their work-in-progress werewolf novel here!

was at a pride parade today. saw a bunch of older guys waving a giant bear flag right next to a zoomer in a frog hat wearing the blue and green gay man pride flag as a cape. true generational solidarity. peace and love on planet earth.

I’m talking about childhood here, not adolescence. This isn’t about getting a job in high school, it’s about what was in your piggy bank when you were ten.

cricket has rules for when and how to pause the match to have tea, and this might be the most British fact I can imagine

Guys we gotta up our game the Georgians said fuck more than us

Having looked through historic googlebooks many a time and been frustrated by how difficult it is to search in this time period, this chart is most certainly due to the algorithm not properly picking up the "Long S" which was an f-like character used in place of an s especially in 17th and 18th century printing.

The rules of when the short and long s's are used are somewhat complicated to modern people, but they are almost always at the beginning of words, never at the end, and if there is a double s sometimes they are combined and sometimes not:

99% of the time the word actually being used is "suck" or "sucking." It actually shows up a lot as a word used to describe babies who were still nursing. In texts from this period the word "suck" will almost always read as "fuck." This makes some of these auto-transcriptions absolutely brilliant in hindsight:

If you search for the word "fuck" in googlebooks within this time frame, you get hundreds of pages of entries like this. For example, this Shakespeare anthology:

This is not to say that people in the 18th century didn't find this hilarious, I'm sure they did, but f-bombs were not being dropped in classic literature at the time. If they do show up, like in this 1785 slang dictionary: it is almost always bleeped out:

The other 1% of the fucks in 18th century books are, of course, not bleeped out because they are in Ye Olde Porn, of which there is a surprising amount on googlebooks.

#labor solidarity with the duck fucker

I should also note if it wasn't clear that the immense dropoff just after 1800 is when the long s stopped being used in print, and the reemergence was in the mid-late 20th century when people DID start dropping f-bombs in literature

if tumblr ever starts forcing us to censor kill and die and murder and fuck and cunt and fag i’m deleting my account and starting an email chain with the mutuals

Wait I just thought about it and it might be cute to bring back wholesome church camp swear-swaps like frick,heck, jeez, mothertrucker. Sometimes the way ppl post we might need a lil. Swear jar,,

absolutely fucking not.

I still use "heck" depending on the context. "Heckin cute" just sounds more wholesome than "Fucking cute". It's all in the tone.

Also it's sometimes so much funnier to use non swears.

I still think about that scene from Night In The Woods where (spoilers) Mae has a near death experience and a mascot shark in the darkness says "You've been Danged to Heck" and laugh about it.

You're all missing the point luvs 💚 peace and love

"No guys don't worry getting censored is like, soooooo fun we can have sleepover activities like making up words that are less impactful to not upset advertisers " SHUT the fuck up please

I’ve just finished a reread of The King in Yellow. The edition I read had a bunch of classroom questions at the end and god these are stupid “what do YOU think yellow symbolizes?” Like what they want some poor kid to just guess? "Oh yellow reminds me of sunshine and piss :)" Well you can't trick me I know too many useless facts!

If you've spent as much time as I have reading obscene trash informative and educational literature, you know that in the Victorian era, pulp books were published with yellowish covers because the cheap paper of the time had a yellow tinge to it, so yellow caught on as a symbol of sensational literature in general. Yellow was the colour of the lurid, the immoral, the transgressive. It was associated with the Decadent movement (which most of the short stories in The King in Yellow are about) whose main periodical in England was called "The Yellow Book." There are a lot of strange and ambiguous things in The King in Yellow but this is not one of them. It's really frustrating for me to watch the Cthulhu-industrial complex pretend there's no context for this novel!

“Why do you think most of the stories are set in Paris?” My god the amount of historical context you would need to respond to that question properly - do you expect these hypothetical students to have read Les Fleurs du Mal? Nobody is going to be able to answer that with fucking guesswork!

I mean my understanding is that a lot of the time those questions are mostly just there to get children to talk and think about what they've read. No one's expecting a correct answer, the point is to say something even if it's "Well Paris is a cool city!" and then the teacher can teach about the context and offer up those answers about what yellow symbolises in this context and so on

tumblr staff says that if we don't buy $17,000 in crabs by 10 p.m. the whole website is going to be shut down by hotel management and all the guests are going to have to go home

there's a 99% chance this person is alluding to a gender crisis and that they might be trans but i think it's funnier to interpret it as "oh god. this can't be happening. i... i think i like homestuck"

Idk a lot of the backlash to broadening who falls under what terms comes from the need to distinctly fall under the specific label you worked towards…but distance from adjacent labels only limits your allies and puts you in a rigid box you can’t come back out of either.

Saw a post by a trans woman horrified by the concept of having overlapping experience with femboys because “fuck you I am a woman.” You are. A woman with a lot of overlapping experience with a GNC man. You’re not a GNC man. He’s not a woman. And the gap between you two is not a chasm.

“How dare you say trans men are similar to butch lesbians. Trans men are men.” Yeah, men with similar experiences to butch lesbians. The butch lesbian isn’t a man. You aren’t a woman. And the gap between you is not a chasm.

This mindset doesn’t even account for GNC men who also ID as women, trans men who use the label of lesbian. Butch can be a label for a person of either AGAB.

Binary trans people wanna separate themselves from each other and from nonbinary people sooo bad. Now it makes eggs feel like the jump from GNC woman to man is an insurmountable journey. A femboy gets told he’s making a mockery of trans women’s experiences. A transmasc femboy is seen as just a faker. A butch trans lesbian is seen as a faker.

These labels are all just plots on the map, not one side or the other. You journey to the farthest edges and you find twinks and lesbians who look and act identical despite being supposed opposites. It’s all made up, we’re all queer.

Like ultimately I get it. When you’re told you’re a man in a dress you’re going to want to distance yourself from men in dresses. When you’re told you’re a confused girl, it’s tempting to dedicate to proving how you’re nothing like a girl.

I came out and my parents made me promise I’d never change my mind about my identity. I swore off anything that was like my AGAB. I was dedicated to running as fast as I could to the “opposite” gender.

All it did was make it 100x harder to realize I was genderfluid.

How could I miss features and traits and behaviors that were from my AGAB? How could I want to experiment again? What is drag? Is it dressing like my AGAB which makes me uncomfortable…or wait…does it? Is it dressing like the gender I transitioned to but exaggerated? But wait…I already exaggerated dressing like this gender in a desperate attempt to run from my AGAB? Does the parody of this gender make me NOT this gender?

I ran as fast as I could to the opposite wall and bounced off, then upon turning around and seeing an entire room I could move about freely, I got stuck terrified about which wall I was meant to hug.

It made me isolate people I could have connected with. “Transfemme” but you proudly look like a man, are you even trying? “Transmasc” but you wear a dress still? Now they’re gonna think every transmasc should be in a dress!

It makes you enemies with the people in the same boat as you, it makes you enemies with yourself!

“Now that I’m a trans man I can’t hug my friends anymore” “Now that I’m a trans woman, if I wanna retain my boy hobbies I have to do it in a girly way”

THESE RULES ARE MADE UP!!

These rules are self-enforced prisons. Community-enforced prisons.

Women with beards are freedom. Men in skirts are freedom.

Not just freedom to be one of them too but freedom to say “okay if I change my mind that’s okay” or “I’m allowed to keep parts I liked without discarding them to fit.”

Kill the gender cop in your head. I promise you that finding community with the freaks and the weirdos will be a longer lasting source of joy than casting off parts of yourself you like to gain acceptance in a space whose love is conditional.

External signifiers of gender feel like they've gotten somehow MORE rigid than they were in my youth in the 70s, and they're being used in ways that ... I don't know...

.... they're being used like archaeologists used to use tiny pottery shards to define entire cultures. "Oh, look! Shards of striped jars! This must mean that a bunch of people came here in boats and killed all the people who made jars with dots!"

Except it turns out that sometimes, the people who made dotted jars saw the striped jars at a trading post and thought they were cool and decided to make their next batch of jars with stripes. And it turns out that Science can't necessarily tell who someone *is* by their outward material culture.

So why do we worki so hard to define gender by outward material culture?

Over my adult life, I've watched as capitalism has managed to apply a gender to literally every part of our day from beginning to end, in order to sell us twice as much stuff. Our sheets are gendered, our towels are gendered. Shampoo is gendered. Soap and body wash are "for men" or "for women." There are apparently gendered fucking dish soaps? Gendered laundry detergents?

My kids went to school with gendered umbrellas in their gendered backpacks and were provided with gendered scissors and gendered erasers and when they scraped their knees there were gendered fucking bandaids for their boo-boos.

Capitalism has fed the gender police for nearly a generation now, dividing household basics and our entire daily lives into a binary of pink bottles and grey bottles, bodycon tees and baggy shorts. An entire generation has been raised with a bewildering backdrop of gendered material culture that they're supposed to want simply because of their gender. It's going to be hard to reject that indoctrination.

But the freedom to be your gender and to freely choose how you express it - whether you lean in to the traditional signifiers or choose the ones that matter most to you? That's worth it.

As an aside though like...

Some butch lesbians are men also. Multigender people exist and trans men have identified as butch lesbians since at least the 90s. So. Like. That may not be true of a particular individual, but like... these hard lines just don't exist within the community as a whole.