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Good night to the AFAB girls who got to know the genderqueer community and felt freer to identify as cis.
Good night to the AFAB girls who got to know the genderqueer community and realized that their feminine identity is inherently trans.
Good evening to the AFAB girls who got to know the genderqueer community and simply realized that their identity/experiences/feelings about their gender could never neatly be classified into the "cis-trans" binary.
Good evening to the AFAB girls who have come into the genderqueer community and realized that their feminine gender identity/experiences/feelings are both trans and cis, and therefore identify as both.
Good night AFAB girls who never felt like they were "biological girls" or that they "always were girls" or, much less, felt like they were girls simply because someone told them so and, with that experience, have mixed feelings about their gender.
Good night AFAB girls who are part of the genderqueer community and enrich it with their feelings, experiences AND confused identities.
I love you girls.
And even more, goodnight to the AFAB girls who are neoagab/agabpunk/anc and self-identified as AFAB, I love you so much, you are wonderful and the genderqueer community needs you and your wonderful experiences and identities.
I love trans voices. I love pre-HRT and “started HRT a month ago” and sore voices lowering and carefully trained voices and I love trans laughter and trans singing and I love the in-between androgyny of some voices and I love MY voice and I love my friends’ voices. I love husky voices and medium voices and high pitched voices and gravely voices. I love range changes and I love the expressiveness. I love trans voices.
give me a character in a horror movie/book whose so kind and like anti-ableist that the moment they see some weird shit they’re first thought is, “maybe [creature in the distance] just has physical autistic traits? maybe their genes are just developing differently than mine so they have [uncanny feature]? are they ill or need help? should i call 911?”
and just the entire start of the story is them just learning how to figure out what’s just normal human shit vs what’s straight up hellish uncanny valley monster stuff and how to interact with that kinda stuff.
maybe there’s monsters out there who have a mental illness or impairment and won’t kill you. you don’t know! maybe it’s just Neighbor Sam’s Kid who enjoys the forest bugs and critters so much they couldn’t wait until morning to go outside! it’s not a bad hyperfixation, they just need to learn that nighttime isn’t the time to go it alone. they could get hurt! maybe people keep drowning in The Lake because there’s a water creature that lives there and y’all mfs keep invading their house! maybe that was just a hungry three legged dog and not a were-creature that was trying to kill you
just,,, give me mental and physical awareness in horror for both monsters and men
everyone always asks "where did you get that information" and "why are you covered in blood" but nobody ever asks how was the time loop was the time loop fun it looked fun
also the thought of fictional villains having hard limits gets me every time. murder isn't out of the question, I would manipulate you for my own gain, but if you hurt children or talk shit about my wife I'm gonna kill you
So I’ve been enjoying the Disney vs. DeSantis memes as much as anyone, but like. I do feel like a lot of people who had normal childhoods are missing some context to all this.
I was raised in the Bible Belt in a fairly fundie environment. My parents were reasonably cool about some things, compared to the rest of my family, but they certainly had their issues. But they did let me watch Disney movies, which turned out to be a point of major contention between them and my other relatives.
See, I think some people think this weird fight between Disney and fundies is new. It is very not new. I know that Disney’s attempts at inclusion in their media have been the source of a lot of mockery, but what a lot of people don’t understand is that as far as actual company policy goes, Disney has actually been an industry leader for queer rights. They’ve had policies assuring equal healthcare and partner benefits for queer employees since the early 90s.
I’m not sure how many people reading this right now remember the early 90s, but that was very much not industry standard. It was a big deal when Disney announced that non-married queer partners would be getting the same benefits as the married heterosexual ones.
Like — it went further than just saying that any unmarried partners would be eligible for spousal benefits. It straight-up said that non-same-sex partners would still need to be married to receive spousal benefits, but because same-sex partners couldn’t do that, proof that they lived together as an established couple would be enough.
In other words, it put long-term same-sex partners on a higher level than opposite-sex partners who just weren’t married yet. It put them on the exact same level as heterosexual married partners.
They weren’t the first company ever to do this, but they were super early. And they were certainly the first mainstream “family-friendly” company to do it.
Conservatives lost their damn minds.
Protests, boycotts, sermons, the whole nine yards. I can’t tell you how many books about the evils of Disney my grandmother tried to get my parents to read when I was a kid.
When we later moved to Florida, I realized just how many queer people work at Disney — because historically speaking, it’s been a company that has guaranteed them safety, non-discrimination, and equal rights. That’s when I became aware of their unofficial “Gay Days” and how Christians would show up from all over the country to protest them every year. Apparently my grandmother had been upset about these days for years, but my parents had just kind of ignored her.
Out of curiosity, I ended up reading one of the books my grandmother kept leaving at our house. And friends — it’s amazing how similar that (terrible, poorly written) rhetoric was to what people are saying these days. Disney hires gay pedophiles who want to abuse your children. Disney is trying to normalize Satanism in our beautiful, Christian America.
Just tons of conspiracy theories in there that ranged from “a few bad things happened that weren’t actually Disney’s fault, but they did happen” to “Pocahontas is an evil movie, not because it distorts history and misrepresents indigenous life, but because it might teach children respect for nature. Which, as we all know, would cause them all to become Wiccans who believe in climate change.”
Like — please, take it from someone who knows. This weird fight between fundies and Disney is not new. This is not Disney’s first (gay) rodeo. These people have always believed that Disney is full of evil gays who are trying to groom and sexually abuse children.
The main difference now is that these beliefs are becoming mainstream. It’s not just conservative pastors who are talking about this. It’s not just church groups showing up to boycott Gay Day. Disney is starting to (reluctantly) say the quiet part out loud, and so are the Republicans. Disney is publicly supporting queer rights and announcing company-supported queer events and the Republican Party is publicly calling them pedophiles and enacting politically driven revenge.
This is important, because while this fight has always been important in the history of queer rights, it is now being magnified. The precedent that a fight like this could set is staggering. For better or for worse, we live in a corporation-driven country. I don’t like it any more than you do, and I’m not about to defend most of Disney’s business practices. But we do live in a nation where rights are largely tied to corporate approval, and the fact that we might be entering an age where even the most powerful corporations in the country are being banned from speaking out in favor of rights for marginalized people… that’s genuinely scary.
Like… I’ll just ask you this. Where do you think we’d be now, in 2023, if Disney had been prevented from promising its employees equal benefits in 1994? That was almost thirty years ago, and look how far things have come. When I looked up news articles for this post from that era, even then journalists, activists, and fundie church leaders were all talking about how a company of Disney’s prominence throwing their weight behind this movement could lead to the normalization of equal protections in this country.
The idea of it scared and thrilled people in equal parts even then. It still scares and thrills them now.
I keep seeing people say “I need them both to lose!” and I get it, I do. Disney has for sure done a lot of shit over the years. But I am begging you as a queer exvangelical to understand that no. You need Disney to win. You need Disney to wipe the fucking floor with these people.
Right now, this isn’t just a fight between a giant corporation and Ron DeSantis. This is a fight about the right of corporations to support marginalized groups. It’s a fight that ensures that companies like Disney still can offer benefits that a discriminatory government does not provide. It ensures that businesses much smaller than Disney can support activism.
Hell, it ensures that you can support activism.
The fight between weird Christian conspiracy theorists and Disney is not new, because the fight to prevent any tiny victory for marginalized groups is not new. The fight against the normalization of othered groups is not new.
That’s what they’re most afraid of. That each incremental victory will start to make marginalized groups feel safer, that each incremental victory will start to turn the tide of public opinion, that each incremental victory will eventually lead to sweeping law reform.
They’re afraid that they won’t be able to legally discriminate against us anymore.
So guys! Please. This fight, while hilarious, is also so fucking important. I am begging you to understand how old this fight is. These people always play the long game. They did it with Roe and they’re doing it with Disney.
We have! To keep! Pushing back!
i loooove being delusional. catch me ignoring reality altogether. catch me never being reasonable ever. catch me straight up making up things in my head to cope. delusion is my best friend
my son jörmungandr has escaped his terrarium and i fear for him life
i fucking love it when ppl take some of the most monstrous villains from entertainment and just go *bonk!* animal bb now motherfucker!
it’s just really funny finding new and more awful ways to make these high and might assholes into family house pets and i think it’s hilarious
uncontrollable laughter together is my favourite type of intimacy
gUYS I WAS GIVEN A GARDEN SNAKE NAMED JÖRMANGANDR HOW DO I CARE FOR IT??!!
sudden urge to burst into tears. im not a toddler i just agree with their beliefs
the 5 love languages are:
- Sharing a blunt
- All forms of cooking
- Being incredibly stupid on purpose
- Collaborative hating
- Ignoring things






