rawr means "trans rights" in dinosaur

considering Neopets has an item dedicated to changing your pet’s gender and how easy it is to alter their color and species I think being trans would just be accepted immediately. like no one really cares that your red Ixi coworker is now a woman when Bob from accounting woke up one morning and decided he wanted to become a pea

It’s a common misconception that vampirism automatically leads to bisexuality but shocking new information from the World Health Organization says that, through sheer coincidence, everyone who’s ever been turned into a vampire was already bisexual. Scientists and statisticians all over the globe are working hard to understand this absolute statistical clusterfuck. More at 11.

Answering questions from the crowd:

Q: does being bisexual make you a vampire?

A: no it’s a coincidence.

Q: so everyone else is immune to vampirism?

A: no it’s a coincidence .

Q: do vampires like bisexuals more than other people?

A: it depends on the vampire. But also no it’s a coincidence.

Q: can only bisexuals be turned into vampires?

A: no it’s a coincidence.

Q: is there something about being bisexual that makes you able to be turned into a vampire?

A: no it’s a coincidence.

Q: are vampires purposely only turning bisexuals?

A: no it’s a coincidence.

@albatris

For those of you who weren’t able to get 100% of the total solar eclipse today… I gotchu <3

I think it was put 10 million years ago just for cats

I respect neopronouns and even played a bit with them myself back in the day but I also think I need a pronunciation guide for some of them

You need to be prepared to answer the question “How do I pronounce that?” when you come up with your pronouns.

I’m not trying to discourage you from coming up with weird pronouns. Be yourself. Confuse the cis and whatnot. But like. Know how your own pronouns are pronounced if you want them used irl. I’ve come across people with neopronouns who had only ever used them online who didn’t have an answer when asked how you pronounce that. Don’t let this be you. Have an answer ready.

This is a good post and these tags are a great addition

everybody just latched onto “terf = enemy” and then never again put any thought into why that is, and what transmisogyny is, so they just make a big deal out of being an anti-terf instead of understanding the problem in the first place

Some stuff to know:

TERF - Trans Excluding/Erasing Radical Feminist:

Someone who believes that trans women are not women and don’t belong in women’s spaces. They believe that trans women are predatory cis men pretending to be women in order to have sex with lesbians.

SWERF - Sex Worker Excluding/Erasing Radical Feminist:

Someone who believes that sex workers (those who make money from pornography or prostitution) are not feminist / not valuable / should not be welcome in feminist / women’s spaces. They believe that women participating in pornography or prostitution are upholding patriarchy and damaging the feminist movement.

Truscum aka transmedicalists:

Someone who believes that you must experience body dysphoria in order to be trans. They also tend to be attached to the gender binary and erase or exclude anyone who does not conform to a male / female gender identity (genderfluid, non-binary, agender, bi-gender, etc)

Ace exclusionists:

Someone who believes that ace-spectrum people are not inherently LGBTQ+ and do not belong in LGBTQ+ spaces. They see ace people as secretly cis/straight invaders and leeches to LGBTQ+ programs and resources. They also tend to believe that the definition of LGBTQ+ centres around those who experience discrimination for same-sex attraction, and therefore ace folk do not belong.

Trans women are women. Non-medical trnas people are trans. Ace people are LGBTQIA+.

Know why we do not welcome these people.

All of this (ye gods I am tired)

had to combine two in each answer cuz of poll limitations but hi. im curious…. round to the nearest inch. cm users do your best

the weird thing is, when I view my job as some sort of background extra it becomes much more palatable. people go to a library and see me shelving a stack of books in my cardigan and glasses (now with glasses chain!) and they go "yeah, that's exactly right. that's how it's supposed to be in a library." and for some reason, that's comforting? the work is whatever, and the customers are customers, but sometimes it feels like I'm being paid just to make sure this places looks right, and I find that very fun.

stop being funnier than me on my own posts

maybe cain wldnt have killed abel if they had video games to healthily channel the violence between siblings. unfortunately back then the only smash brothers they had was smash brothers head in with a rock

Well this is pretty annoying

Well people in the path can't see shit either.

every time i start thinking about the Cagots i go a little insane

great work on the tags everyone

i mean it's not like racism is based on anything natural and intrinsic to racialized populations either tbh. the difference is not that the modern ideology of racism makes more sense, but rather that the socioeconomic function of the oppression of cagots is in comparison not as well understood

this just reads as basic occupational casteism. the specific features of ritual pollution match up with other very common examples, as does the association with specific families and family lines. in many societies these forms of oppression continue well into the modern day, with japan and its historic butcher and undertaker caste, the burakumin, for instance, having continued to battle legal and social persecution well into the 1980s and '90s

yup there we go

Hey remember when I said "you know I thought Sam was a bit mean to Smeagol/Gollum at first but then remembered that he canonically knows that Gollum ate babies and I have to admit I'd be Sam in that situation"

And people were like "no you don't UNDERSTAND there are deeper emotional and symbolic narrative things at play here. It's not about eating babies, Sam doesn't care about him eating babies. It's bigger than that"

And I'm just saying that Sam was a hobbit of the people. A simple down to earth hobbit

And narratively for Frodo there might be some deeper symbolism making him more tortured and needing to be nice to Smeagol/Gollum, but to Sam that guy ate babies and you don't like or trust people who eat babies

And like for having to hang out with a serial killer/baby eater Sam was being relatively chill!

But I am on team Sam with this because if Baby Eater Smythe joined my party and promised to guide us somewhere I would also be so distrustful and aggressive!

He's not even "no I won't eat babies anymore. I think that's bad" Gollum would still eat babies if they were available! He probably ate babies on the way there! He is objectively pro baby eating!

He's not sorry he ate babies and reflecting! He's just like "you have the nuke I want and since you could use it on me I'll play nice" like !!!!!

Frodo is busy being posh and artistic and tortured and being like "the narrative parallels between us are too much! If I knew about the Picture of Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde I'd be making veiled references to them in my diary that I also do not have rn"

Like the guy is going through it. Like a 15 year old traumatised girl with the older boyfriend that she does not like and who treats her like trash but she thinks she deserves (she does not)

*cough*...okay anyway

Meanwhile Sam is just like "the creepy dude eats babies. Gandalf told Frodo he eats babies when I was 'trimming grass' why are we trusting a guy who eats babies? Frodo I love you but did your arts degree fail to teach you not to trust baby eaters? More importantly he tried to kill you. I was there. This sucks."

And he's RIGHT

TBC I like the story as it is as a story I'm just saying that if I was in Sam's place I would have been worse to the Baby Eater who tried to kill my QueerPlatonic Soulmate