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Willow• 22, white, high femme, trans gal with a whole host of undiagnosed shit• 1950's housewife but grunge and gay• TERFs, creeps, and generally shitty people get blocked on sight• I don't talk a lot on here, it's mostly just a collection of other people's stuff, have fun I guess
found out 2 months after the attack that i’m 2 months along. don’t have enough money to cover moving expenses and there’s no fucking way i’m telling my transphobic parents either. my cash*pp is $marcotheraz in case you’d like to donate there instead.

Hey, so some people have complained about payments not going through on fundrazr. If you run into that, you can also try giving through my kofi: https://ko-fi.com/marcotheraz.  Thanks so much. 

“How can you not be angry?”

“I am angry,” the werewolf said. “But unlike you, I don’t have the luxury of showing it without being called a monster. Without someone taking it as a sign of proof that I need to be put down like a rabid dog, that I’m just like what the stories tell you.” 

“But everyone gets angry…that’s human.”

“Up until the point when you’re not human.”

such a wonderful metaphor for anyone Othered by society

anyway just a reminder for the myth lovers out there

king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.

on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.

i’m just saying in my experience a lot of these legends had been so anglo-fied in the past and it’s like, all this cool shit is celtic welsh legend.

Arthur’s wife was called Gwenhwyfar first.

Like the kraken I emerge, summoned by the English theft of Arthur

  • Arthur is a Welsh name. It means ‘bear’. He’s likely derived from a Gaulish bear god
  • In the form of King Arthur, he is an anti-Saxon mythological WELSH figure, representing the native Brythonic people of Britain against the Anglo-Saxon invaders, dating from the 500s AD
  • The version appropriated by the English in the 1100s is the shitty boring sanitised version - they did it because they were trying to compete with the romance tradition on the continent at the time but didn’t have anything of their own to romanticise
  • Merlin is called Myrddin
  • Percival is Peredur
  • Kay is Cei, and also was subject to enormous character assassination in the English version - in the Welsh version he’s much closer to Arthur’s right hand man
  • Guinevere is Gwenhwyfar
  • There is no Lancelot, no Galahad, no tedious affair story
  • There is no Camelot. Arthur’s seat was Caerllion - modern Caerleon, putting him into both the region of the Silures (one of the most fearsome and warlike of the British tribes, modern South East Wales) and the old Roman fortress, which would have been an impossibly huge Palace for a warlord at the time.
  • They all have super powers and get up to wacky hijinks involving hair care, giants, strange giant wildlife, spectral revolving/glass fortresses in the Celtic sea, and a really fucking weird chess match. Also a cloak made out of beards.
  • What the fuck is the round table

Anyway it’s particularly irritating because traditional Welsh culture and beliefs have been so thoroughly stripped away and destroyed by England over the centuries, and Arthurian legend is one of the few surviving fragments we have left to preserve. And he’s specifically an anti-English figure. So the ubiquity of the boring and appropriative English Arthur across the whole fucking world is… Well, it’s not great.

Can I ask about the spectral glass fortresses in the Celtic Sea? Also the chess match, that sounds cool too.

I think one of the reasons drag kings aren’t as popular as drag queens, aside from the fact that straight women don’t like us, is that people are uncomfortable acknowledging masculinity as a performance. Like we as a society know that femininity is a performance, with its own costumes and rules. Masculinity is also a performance, and nothing makes that more clear than someone making an exaggeration of it

To everyone saying that “uh actually it’s cause drag kings aren’t as visually interesting”

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lms if you think braiding reeds is normal for a guy to do. trying to prove something to my dad

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not chewing sacred roots with thok NOOO MORE 😭 bro saw himself in still water n started crying

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i be knapping a different type of flint tonight if sugat don't stop wearing that honorable pelt 🥴

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any1 else look at the fire and get really scared?

anyways (I say this as someone who is deeply critical of the united states government, military, unchecked capitalism, police, etc) I am SICK of people treating america as if it has no cultural value or positives so….. I love u 85 million acres (bigger than italy) of national parks. I love u harlem renaissance. I love u groundhogs day. I love u sweet tea and fried chicken and jambalaya. I love u apple cider donuts and maizes on crisp autumn days. I love u 95k miles of coastlines and new england fisherman and hand knitted sweaters. I love u halloween where millions of people dress up and give candy to strangers and carve jack o’lanterns. I love u small talk and small towns and potlucks and bringing over casseroles to your struggling neighbors. I love u cowboys and ranch hands and arizonian cactus. I love u appalachian trail and dirtbikes and divebars. I love u sparklers and fireflies. I love u mark twain and toni morrison and emily dickinson and henry david thoreau. I love u rock n roll i love u bluegrass and hippies i love u jimi hendrix and nirvana and CCR and janis joplin. I love u victorian houses and jonny appleseed and john henry and mothman and bigfoot. I love u foggy days in the pacific northwest and neon signs and roadside attractions. I love u baseball and 1950s diners and soft serve. I love u native american art and pop art and poptarts. I love u blue jeans and barbecues and jazz musicians 

“Will women always die? Let some men die too,” Dogan told police. “I killed him for my honor.”

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Since it was not included in the article, I thought I would provide a rough translation of her historical defense on court;

“When men wear suits and look down they get their sentences lowered; I dont have a suit, my mom barely managed to find this shirt for me. I won’t lie, there is also the joy of being able to survive that i can’t conceal. I’ve walked the corridors of these courthouses countless times, my face covered in bruises, for a restraining order. I didn’t have any other choice. If he hadn’t died, I was going to. He wasn’t going to tell you he had decided to pimp me out, he wasn’t going to talk about his plans of putting me in the arms of other men, he wasn’t going to tell you about the beatings I endured just because the eggplants were slightly overcooked, because the curtains were dirty, because there were leftover crumbs on the table. He wasn’t going to mention how many times I was hospitalized. There is a picture of me taken in the teahouse. I’ve smiled a bit lopsidedly. Maybe he was going to show you that picture and tell you I looked like a dishonorable woman. He was going to tell you he ‘cleansed my honor’ as if he wasn’t planning to pimp me out. You were going to sentence him to 3-5 years and pardon him because i had dishonored him and see my lopsided smile as provocation and feel sad for him. However, honor is mine Mr. Judge, I won’t leave it to anyone else just because I signed a paper.”

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her name is Çilem Doğan and she was sentenced to 15 years for this. the court initially wanted to give her life imprisonment. she was released on bail in june 2016 and has since become a symbol for the movement against femicide and violence against women in Turkey. 

The Daily Adventure Prompts Masterpost

After several years of running this blog, it’s become more and more evident that I need some central reference where people can access all my different DM advice posts, important tags, and ongoing series. Sharing my ideas with people and helping to improve the art and craft of being a dungeonmaster was always the point of DAP after all, and its of no help to anyone if the answers to important questions are buried under a hundred or more pages of my rambling.

To that end, I present this post as an ever expanding catalogue of my thoughts. Something that you can page through at your leisure in hopes some of my hardwon lessons will be of use to you.  

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“The abolitionist mission isn’t done until every prison is empty. When there are no more cops, when the land has been given back, that’s when it’s over.”

-Tortuguita

I want to talk about this because I see a lot of white leftists just flat out ignoring this person’s mission. Tort was about the complete and total abolition of the police. Tort was about Land Back. Tort was non-binary. And they tied to their Anarchism. Yet the debate bro breadtube space would have painted someone like Tort as a antiwhite racist. Hasán Piker has more relevance and influence than Tortuguita who has helped start food banks and provided housing for people in need.

This is the divide between white leftists and leftists of color. Why a lot of people in movement spaces don’t fuck with DSA or class reductionist white leftists who have tokenizing their black socialists like Dubois or Huey Newton but ain’t ever read them. Tortuguita should be championed and spoken of in every American leftist space and not just in some haphazard way.

As of this writing, the date is April 23rd and it is Tortuguita’s birthday. They were vilified and slandered in death for months and then redeemed a week ago.

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I AM BEGGING YOU PLEASE READ THIS. THIS IS THE MOST URGENT POST IVE EVER MADE. WE HAVE NO PARENTS OR FAMILY. PLEASE. IF YOU SEE THIS PLEASE SHARE FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART I AM BEGGING YOU

DISABLED TRANS COUPLE NEEDS URGENT HELP SURVIVING

this morning i had to take an ambulence to the hospital after the worst psychotic episode of my life i have nowhere to go from here ans got fired from my job. i lost so mucu weight im underweight now. i havent been able to stand sometimes and been falling over. the effects its been having on my body has been so bad this morning i had to get the fire department this morning to come to my apartment to get me out, had to haev a wheelchair, i couldnt walk

i had to take out a credit card to be able to eat. someone stole my debit card information and took hundreds of dollars out of my account while i was having the worst mental health ive ever had in my life so i didn’t notice until it was too late. the only reason i can even coherently type righht now is because they gave me sedatives in the hospital but i havent been ablr to write full sentences in a while

I NEED HELP RIGHT NOW MORE THAN IVE EVER NEEDED HELP IN MY LIFE. if you need proof anything or if yoi want to just talk because i really need someone to talk to really badly please like if you even feel compelled to chat with me do it im so lonely i feel like me and my girlfriend got left to die. msg me on my alt @skynettle if you want i can send you proof or we can chat. im goingt o the crisis center tommorow so idk if ill respond immedietly

WE HAVE NO FOOD, NO TOILET PAPER, NO MENSTRUAL PRODUCRS, NO CLEAN CLOTHES, NO SOAP, WE ARE GOING TO LOSE EVERYTGING PLEASE HELP.

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WE NEED 300 DOLLARS TO PAY RENT BY MAY 1ST OR ELSE WE WILL GET EVICTED AND WR HAVE NOWHERE TO GO AT ALL.

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"neckbeards" are a common facial hair pattern for people with PCOS and hirsutism and people who go on T and people who have a lot of weight on their face. It is not funny or cool or based to use physical features as a moral attack, and especially not when it's a common feature of intersex people and trans people and fat people and countless other types of people who society already mocks.

What?? Neckbeards are made fun of because they are too lazy to shave properly..

the fact that you see that as some sort of moral detriment is exactly the problem. Who the fuck cares what someone does with their facial hair, why does the way someone's hair grows naturally need to change. Terrible take. Get lost.

for their behavior??? not their appearance??? it's pretty simple.

"But OP, that's my emotional support bodyshaming!!!!"

Guys, those options sound awful but yes I will try them next time I have a cold

You're just making me want soup, I'm so with you

Genuinely I don't know what hickory is, but I'm with you otherwise! Altho I think ginger is for nausea not fevers. Honey is so good

My ex house mate Taylor, I'm excited to show him this post cos he's so wrong about it. He has a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar every morning. He hates it every morning. He has more if he's sick. It's deranged

You're right but I think there's too much scientific and clinical agreement on that for it to be a home remedy, you feel me?

The legacy of anti-Black racism is that Black struggle gets deemed the property of all other social justice struggles. The symbols and tactics of Black struggle are deemed the common property of all. Black people are required to show solidarity with [others], without [others] owing solidarity to Black communities. Black oppression is always analogized to other forms of oppression in a manner that disappears Black oppression itself. It is presumed we already know everything about Black oppression, so we can just use it as an empty signifier to explain other oppressions.

Yom HaShoah is an observance separate to International Holocaust Remembrance Day where Jews around the world come together to honour and mourn the atrocities specifically committed against the Jewish people during the Holocaust.

A major aspect of this is humanizing and dignifying those lost to this horrific violence by reading the six million names, split up amongst the world's Jewish communities so they are never forgotten.

For those looking to join in remembrance and solidarity with the Jewish community Illuminate the Past is a wonderful website that entrusts you with a name to remember and keep alive through your life.

Just a warning that this is a very emotional experience and there is a chance the name you will be given will belong to that of a child, take that and your mental state into an account before clicking.

[ID: A logo on a background of blurred lights. The logo reads "Illuminate" with the tag line "Remember one Victim of the Holocaust." End ID]