Once upon a time...

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Emmy: They don't give out medals for 'almost'.
Luke: They do, and they're called silver!

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neurotypical-karen

After seeing multiple creators having to publically out themselves or reveal past traumas in order to get fans to stop yelling at them for representing a certain minority/concept in fiction, can yall learn to take a second to consider how your words and actions affect others? Especially in fandom spaces? By demanding that people can only talk about certain issues if they’ve personally been affected by them, you are directly forcing people to reveal their trauma/minority status.

neurotypical-karen

This was prompted by fans’ response to the latest episode of a TMA featuring substance abuse, but also remember a few months ago when Jameela Jamil was cast to play a queer woman in an upcoming movie and there was so much backlash that she had to come out as queer? That fucking sucked.

dinosaurrainbowstarfish

^^ and the same thing happened with Keiynan Lonsdale from Love, Simon?

callmearcturus

#hot take–‘you’re not x so you can’t write x’ is bad praxis #if you can’t find something actually wrong with the actual portrayal #maybe take a step back and ask yourself if perhaps your trauma is getting in the way of you’re enjoyment of the media #which is a totally valid but SEPARATE issue from creators being bigoted (via @dinosaurrainbowstarfish)

mindthelspace

I hate “If you’re not X/haven’t experienced X, you don’t get to write about X.” Partly because of this- it forces people to make their traumas and identities public knowledge- and partly because it honestly seems inclined to shut down empathy. “You haven’t experienced X yourself, so you are dramatically and irrevocably different from people who have, to the point where you’ll never be able to conceptualise X well enough to write about it non-offensively.”

Sorry, but that’s bullshit. To give an example I’m qualified to give- If a neurotypical person wanted to write about, say, an autistic person facing ableism, and put actual care and thought into it, that’s brilliant. Like, yes, please do this! Please try to understand and relate to us and think about how the world looks to us! Thank you for thinking our stories are worth portraying!

“You’re neurotypical, therefore you’re Not Allowed to write about an autistic character facing ableism”? Fuck off. That sounds like a good way to discourage people from writing autistic characters, for a start, while also entrenching the (already very prevalent) idea that we’re too other for non-autistic people to comprehend.

self-winding

I wrote a book about an autistic character and was pressured to out myself. I’ve heard stories of authors being asked invasive personal questions about their sexuality or gender identity by agents who are deciding whether to take on their work.

The whole #ownvoices thing started as just a way to draw attention to existing marginalized authors, but once it became a trend and a “selling point” it really started to become harmful to those same authors.

To some degree, the identity of the author has always been treated as a commodity or a marketing tool in the publishing industry. But it’s gotten worse in recent years. And it’s hard to know how to fight it. I want a world where stories are judged on their own merits and not by which identity boxes the author can check, but it’s harder to create a viral hashtag campaign around that idea.

pigcatapult

If you have put yourself in a position where you would be less upset if you learned someone went through something traumatic, you have not put yourself in a moral position.

theshadiertwin

indigenousfawn

I just want to remind everyone how affordable buying food from indigenous tribes is. I live in a major city and I was able to purchase and ship (15) pounds of fish from back home to myself for cheaper than I could buy it from a grocery store here in the city. Yeah, shipping has its own environmental factors but I was able to support an indigenous owned business while also getting my groceries at a lesser cost. (Buying in bulk is always a good idea if you’re planning on having something shipped to you)

Some tribal owned grocers that ship:

Bow and Arrow (Ute Mountain)

Native Harvest (White Earth)

Red Lake Fishery (Red Lake)

Wozupi (Mdewakanton Dakota)

Ramona Farms (Gila River)

Tanka Bars (Oglala)

Indian Pueblo Store (Pueblos)

Twisted Cedar Wine (Cedar Paiutes)

Ute Bison (Ute)

Seka Hills Olive Oil and Vinegars (Yocha Dehe Wintun)

She Nah Nam Seafood (Nisqually)

Sakari Botanicals (Inupiaq)

Honor the Earth (?)

Nett Lake Wild Rice (Anishinaabe)

Passamaquoddy maple (Passamaquoddy)

BONUS: coffee :)

Yeego Coffee (Navajo)

Spirit Mountain Roasting (Yuma Quechan)

Birchbark Coffee (Anishinaabe)

Thunder Island Coffee (Shinnecock)

hmm food for thought reblogging for reference maybe

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prof-peach

Join us in our talk on Torterra tree care, much needed after our PoGo community day recently.

im-not-trash-im-compost

OKAY BUT THESE ARE ACTUAL GARDEN TIPS AND SCIENCE FACTS MASQUERADING AS FANON ART - WHAT THE HELL ITS BRILLIANT

mostlycatsmostly

everythingfox

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cinnamoncandycanes

Never has a kitten’s mew evoked “Mom! Mom! Mom!” quite so strongly. :)

Source: instagram.com

themadgirlinthefandombox

serotoninsuggestion

an author i love just tweeted about how “big joy and small joy are the same” and how she was just as content the other night eating chocolate and cuddling her dog as she was on her Big Trip to new york and honestly. i think that’s it. this morning i was listening to an audiobook while baking shortbread in my joggers and i realised i really didn’t care what Big Things happened in my future as long as i could keep baking and reading at the weekend and maybe that is the kind of bar we have to set to guard ourselves against disappointment. just appreciate and cherish the mundane stuff and see everything else as a bonus.

serotoninsuggestion

found it - she was replying to this thread that starts “unpopular opinion: i don’t think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition; i think it’s okay to just wander through life finding interesting things until you die” and i for one think that’s fucking brilliant

themadgirlinthefandombox

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professor layton game starterpack

welcometogressenheller

prologue takes place in london
“letter for you professor!” “oh my Old Friend/Former Student asking me for help…”
at least one villa
hotel!!!!
someone involved in the investigation pretending to be someone else (bonus points: it’s either don paolo or descole in disguise)
tall building (bonus: where you meet the antagonist)
…and just what would a city be without either a casino or an amusement park (or both)
orphans. dead parents. dead wives. all of them.
obnoxiously rich people. like how are they THAT rich
“there seems to be a supernatural explanation to these phenomenons but that’s obviously ridiculous. so here’s an even wilder solution!”
robots
sword fight? puzzle fight? why not both?
Scotland Yard is involved but cannot get the job done in the slightest
butlers. so many butlers
museum

mitsybubbles

A girl who has a secret and is drawn with her hands pressed to her chest
Layton fighting out the mystery early but choosing to not say until the Grand Reveal
Granny Riddleton
Luke talking to animals
Luke touching fire/things that hurt him? Or is that just the prequels???
Someone needs to teach you how to walk. Usually if not always is some dude who probably stalks Layton
Villain has some sort of sympathetic backstory/isn’t what they seem to be
Someone dies.
The Finger Point ™

reiicuum reiicuum

lukes endless appetite eating layton out of house and home (and his wallet)
layton going “hmm.” at any minor inconvenience
luke and layton having conversations that you swear would otherwise make them father and son
layton casually putting himself (and luke) in serious danger
one absolutely HIDEOUS npc per game
you get trauma! and you get trauma! and YOU get trauma! everyone has trauma!
puzzles or hint coins are referred to as physical objects
layton actually does his job (for once)
characters are introduced and then are never seen or spoken of again in future games (im looking at you, miracle mask) dialogue always ends with something along the lines of “we’ll be sure to visit again!” (they never do)
animal-related minigame that later tells you where hint coins are
slide puzzles.
layton being strangely enigmatic

themadgirlinthefandombox

Anonymous asked:

Ok so I like boys and I might be a trans dude but I’m really attracted to the lesbian label idk why but aaa isnsuhsuwnsus Idk what to do what is wrong with me please help me

official-cisphobe answered:

I have the same problem with the term ‘butch’, I really like it but I’m not a lesbian so I can’t exactly use it

so instead I just call myself a sparrow stag (meaning a sorta low-maintenance masculine nb)

intersex-ionality

Queer men (especially trans men) have been using the term butch for decades, and the movement to redefine butch and femme as lesbian exclusive terms is spearheaded by and beneficial to terfs.

If butch is the word that fits, then use it. Terfs don’t deserve to shape your life or our community.

Terfs don’t define us, and they certainly don’t define you.

official-cisphobe

is that true? Do you know where I could read more about it? The only things I could find just state that butch is a lesbian term

intersex-ionality

I’m on mobile right now, which is always hard on research, but I will collect you some sources tonight, no worries

official-cisphobe

Thank you so much!

intersex-ionality

Starting off simply, here’s a timeline of the history of “butch,” exploring its roots in working class queer women of color’s bars (remember, the word lesbian just meant “woman who has sex with women” until the 70s). The 80s is when the author first starts talking about the use of butch by queer men. Specifically, urban men of color.

And, while I hate to play the “defer to authority” card, when it comes to butch identity, there are few people who would know more about it than Butch Voices, the largest butch activist organization in the world. Which specifically refuses to exclude men, and more than that explicitly includes trans men.

Gay men often describe themselves (check out these personals ads), their partners or their friends in terms of being femme or butch, not just in casual contexts, but in research ones. That’s how deeply these identities are felt. Again and again, the term used to describe all queer masculinity is butch.

And while most definitions by queer organizations welcome and acknowledge the fact that butch was popularized in post-WWII women’s spaces, you’ll note an absence of gender limitations on the definitions themselves.

That’s because butch identity, by its very nature, is a violation of gender norms (one that some people say is outdated and antiquated, though I strongly disagree).

And so, too, are all forms of queerness ultimately a violation of gender normativity, of strict definition and categorization.

That’s why major butch authors, for example, hesitate to even use traditional gender pronouns such as “he” or “she” when writing about the hypothetical butch. Because a butch may be a woman, but womanhood is not a necessary component of butchness. And I do apologize for that link, I know it only shows scraps of the whole book, but it does at least include a couple of the more relevant essays about the complexity of trying to assign a gender to butch identity.

For all queer people–including the men–butch identity is an act of reclamation of masculine performance, in the same way that for all queer people–including the women–femme identity is a reclamation of feminine performance, ripping it out of the hands of the cisheteronormative hegemony and saying, hey, fuck you, you don’t get to decide who counts as what, who gets to do what, get fucked. And this can be fumbled, of course, but so can anything. Performance is what it is, and we all make missteps.

Now, as for the other half of my conclusion: that the constant claims about butch (and femme) being “lesbian exclusive” are TERF propaganda.

The following links require content warnings far in excess of just “these talk about queer history and the evolution of terminology.”

These are links to TERF news articles written and intended for non-TERF audiences. That means they present TERF talking points in positive language. Be careful when you approach them, be careful when you read them.

Since at least the 1980s, when masculinizing medical transition started becoming more accessible on a larger scale, trans-exclusionary feminists and trans-exclusionary lesbian separatists have been going out of their way to erase, shame, and punish their trans brothers and lovers for “betraying” them,.

A great many people who had previously identified as hard-butch lesbians because it was the only word they new moved into identifying as trans men. And because radical feminist, lesbian separatist theory had no place for any kind of men, the only way that kind of act could be frames was as treachery. The men who did so, some of whom had been stalwart feminists for decades, some of whom had even been powerful voices in second wave feminist movements, were suddenly treated as abusers, drug peddlers, and sexual criminals.

And that is why it is imperative that we refuse to let TERFs define who does and does not get to be butch. They never got to before, and they sure as hell don’t get to now.

official-cisphobe

thank you for the sources! This was all really interesting!

I’d also like to highlight that in the first link they also mention that butch is also been in use in the nonbinary community, which I think is very interesting

autismserenity

Les Feinberg and Stormé DeLarverie are just two famous nonbinary butches. It’s LONG been a thing for genderqueer/nonbinary people.

aevios

[id= screenshot of text that says “While ‘butch’ remains a word that’s primarily used among lesbians, it’s also used by nonbinary and genderqueer folks. Some communities have embraced other terms for masculinity, like ‘stud’ and ‘tomboy,’ while ‘masc’ is used more widely by gay men and trans people.” /end id]

bunch of things I wanna read later

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