@willow-wanderings / willow-wanderings.tumblr.com
This thread omg
Family doesn’t have to be blood related.
Sometimes family is a righteously angry little girl, her supportive brother, a random stranger with a thirst for chaos and justice, two foreign grandmas, and The Rest Of The Plane.
yasss this makes me happy like nothing else lol
I want to boost everything this person has said and add on.
The reason I call myself a tomboy now, despite it being seen as a childish word and having had someone swear at me over it because ‘tHeRe’S nO suCh thInG as BoY thInGs anD giRL thIngS sHut uP’ is because I couldn’t call myself that or be like that when I was a kid. It was seen as a negative thing and I was already bullied enough. “Looking like a boy” was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.
And I’m not even 26 yet. We aren’t talking 30+ years ago, we are talking 2000s and even 2010s. It’s only since trans people have become more accepted in the past few years that gender nonconformity has too.
And the people who helped me accept my gender nonconformity more than anyone else? Were trans people. They taught me, “there’s nothing wrong with how you feel. You’re still a valid woman no matter what you wear, how you have your hair or what you’re into ❤️”
And don’t even get me started on how people treat gender nonconforming men. JK Rowling has a lot of nerve to be like “uwu boys can wear dresses and only us gendercrits accept that!” when she has, even in recent works, made femininity in men a negative trait, as well as making masculinity in women a negative trait also.
A lot of people still don’t accept gnc people even now. Just last year I had someone tell me they’d never let their daughter “dress like a boy”, and I’m always terrified to walk into a bathroom in case the next JK Rowling is in there, sees my gender expression and pepper sprays me or worse.
“There’s no such thing as boy things and girl things.” I don’t need to be told that and I’m sure 99% of trans people also don’t need to be told that. Tell that to the society that hates us both instead of actively encouraging that hate.
Gonna point out the og tweet thread is now full of terfs saying that life was better for gay people in the fucking 80s, that it was super easy for them to be a tomboy in the 70s and 80s and therefore it must have been that way for everyone, and that it was totally acceptable to be a gnc gay person in the 80s! 🤪
They’re rewriting history as we speak to try to argue trans acceptance is making it harder to be gay and gnc for youth than it was to be gay in the 80s. This is a blatant lie.
The fucking 80s??? As in, “aids crisis” 80s?? As in, “the government actively avoided funding research to help gay people” 80s????
Man I knew terfism was brain rot but I didn’t think it was this bad.
Actually I'm not going to just keep this in the tags
[image description: a series of tweets by the user Q. Maclamore. the @ is cut off, but begins with @GhawinRi... . the tweets are a thread on being a tomboy.
the tweets, when read together, read: "Remember when girls were just tomboys?" I see this talking point a lot, and I call BS. No, actually, no I don't. What I do remember is parents being paranoid their girl was a lesbian and trying to force them into ballet classes instead of boxing and football like they wanted. What I remember is the DSM-IV explicitly calling a refusal to wear dresses and an interest in video games symptoms of a mental illness. I remember girls begging their parents to have short hair and their parents putting them in Bible camps because of it. So, no, ads run on my feed by Texas Conservatives, I don't remember when girls were "just tomboys", because you creeps didn't accept that either in the '00s and don't actually accept it now; you just find it less objectionable than a single-digit percentage of Gen Z being trans. Like, if the image of a girl kicking a boy's ass on a playstation is supposed to be "the good old days", why'd I have to smuggle pokemon on a game boy to girls I was friends with because that was "for boys"? Why'd my partner's parents only ever get games for her brother and never for her? Why'd they never accept her masculine interests in fighting, or engineering, or mathematics, or contact sports? Why'd they police her body and food intake to make her more feminine? Any way you slice it, gender nonconforming girls never get to just "be tomboys", because you assumed their "masculine" interests were a phase and wouldn't let them get better at them than the boys were and would insist they let the boys win to spare their pwecious feelings. This narrative they're trying to spin, that they were fine with gender-nonconforming kids, is just a bald-faced lie to anyone who actually remembers the last 30 years. They weren't fine with lesbians, and they weren't fine with hetero tomboys either, and they still aren't. Because the second they've successfully rolled back queer and trans rights, they'll start looking for any sign of closeted trans and queer people, and suddenly they'll start policing expressions of non-traditional femininity YET AGAIN, because this is how this always worked.
the second image reblog is a screenshot of a user's tags, which read: i keep telling y'all terfism is a reactionary movement and just like an other reactionary movement it mythologizes an imagined past, a past that is totally incompatible with the reality of that time. the 80's were close to one of the worst decades to be gay or trans in. the absolute revisionism is honestly really scary.
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This is what happens when I talk to my cats through the camera my family has set up on them
if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?
They ship of theseus’d my girl
Can’t have shit in Detroit
this actually perfectly demonstrates the transitive property of memes: you can replace a meme piece by piece until it only structurally resembles the original, and it is, in fact, the same meme.
call that the meme of theseus thesis
tumblrites can have a little intertextuality as a treat
my naym is ship and when i’m broke the broken part from me they toke
replace the part had been the plan but in the morn hand door car man
*me shoving transitive properties into my purse* sorry, I have to go
We owe the reddit refugees an apology for making them see posts like this
absolutely not, they need to be naturalized to the environment quickly
why is “get ___ed idiot” one of the funniest sentences in the english language
get verbed idiot, the sequel to “ok nounboy”
get verbed nounboy
When aromantics say they are aromantic and don't add to that sentence, please take our word for it and don't assume we are also asexual when we've never mentioned it in the sentence; It was left out for a reason.
I'm not ace, I don't relate to any experiences that are, and whilst I can relate to aromantic allosexual experiences, I just don't need a sexuality term to pair with my aromanticism.
I'm aro. That's the whole sentence. Don't try to add to the text you didn't write.
Yes, you can finally go on a wholesome adventure with this cute little mushroom and help him to find his way back home ❤️
Smushi Come Home is available on Switch and Steam:
i was expecting a bloodcurdling scream the internet has ruined me
We have GOT to stop being assholes to people with receding and balding hairlines. There's not a single person that it can't affect. It affects trans men, particularly on hormones, it affects trans women, particularly those not on hormones, it affects people with endocrine issues, something that's becoming more prevalent and common, and it can affect people without a particular cause, including cis women. It's a normal part of being human and we NEED to stop dehumanizing and humiliating ppl for it
It happens to just about everybody if you get old enough. Like... a lot of cis women starts to lose their hair as they get older, endocrine issues or not.
I think if i put into words how happy this type of image makes me I would get diagnosed with something
We finally get to see the SNW Enterprise deck plan up close!!!
Aaaaand it's just the Discovery "all corridors, no rooms" one, slightly modified to fit into the Enterprise's shape. Which is exactly what happened in 2013 when they reused the U.S.S. Kelvin's deck plan from 2009 as the U.S.S. Enterprise:
History lesson time. Mike Okuda came along in 1987, with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. What did Star Trek do before that? Let's look at the most popular Star Trek movie, Wrath of Khan:
Enterprise deck plans on damage control displays!
Except... those are Franz Joseph Schnaubelt's old 1974 Star Trek Blueprints, for the TOS version of the ship and not the classic movie version. They lit up the right part of the ship for the attack on engineering but...
There's no intermix chamber, no engineering spaces. It's crew quarters that were hit according to those graphics. And those plan and forward views of the Enterprise? They're for the Phase II TV series version the sets were originally designed for, not the TMP-onwards version of the model that was built and have several differences (something they even referenced in Lower Decks, showing a Phase II Enterprise cutaway during a Wrath of Khan holoprogram)
The ability to turn the post above you into the speech bubble of a character of your choice is an essential weapon of tumblr pvp.
It's not that I think a person, entrusted with control over their own body, could never make the wrong decision, I just think that any entity entrusted with control over someone else's body is definitely going to make wronger decisions
i always forget my grandma used to be a clown so it caught me the fuck off guard when she saw this
and no hesitation saying “oh it’s that creepy clown- oh he’s drinking that’s against clown code”
1. ARE YOU NOT GOING TO EXPLAIN YOUR GRANDMA’S PAST CLOWN CAREER? 2. WHAT’S CLOWN CODE??????????????
Clown code.
I call a lot of y'all clowns but it turns out that’s too good for you since even they live by a code.
Lost DS9 season 8 episode plot : Quark becomes a rainbow capitalist
And we wouldn’t wan’t to disrespect tradition, would we ?
