maimuniya

[maimuniya]

Franz Wright, from God's Silence; "Father Roger Goes for a Walk"

[Text ID: It's the last day of somebody's childhood. / And every day I'll try / to do one thing I like, / in memory of being happy.]

[maimuniya]

When you can’t sleep, and all you can do is read one more drabble… then another… then another… 

But thank you @owlpartytime those stories kept me company till dawn 🤭

[maimuniya]

My dear lgbt+ kids, 

This may be a controversial opinion but: I really don’t like the message “Stay mad” and I don’t believe that it’s helpful. 

What do I mean by “Stay mad”? I mean the following situation that I have seen a lot online lately: 

Someone in our community dares to make a happy post. They’re excited that Trump is no longer president. They’re happy that a teacher said they support trans students. Some celebrity waved a rainbow flag and that meant a lot to them. Whatever it is, there’s a lgbt+ person who is really happy about it - and the people in the comments get angry about that. 

“Stay mad!”, they say. “This means nothing. Homophobia and transphobia still exist. Don’t celebrate the bare minimum, don’t set the bar that low.” 

It’s true - this one positive thing doesn’t erase all the negative things. The fight for lgbt+ rights is far from over. I agree with that. 

But I don’t like the implication that a person can and should be angry all the time. “Stay mad” sends a super unhealthy message to young and eager lgbt+ activits - “hey, you are not allowed to take a break and celebrate the progress you are fighting for! You have to fight and fight and fight without allowing yourself to ever feel like your fight is paying off”. 

That’s not the way to create awareness - that’s just a sure-fire way to create burn-out. 

This is especially important as so many young people in our community are already at a higher risk of depression. “Stay mad” tells us that the default emotion of a lgbt+ person should be anger or even hopelessness. That’s so dangerous and so untrue. 

Please do not stay mad all the time. You can celebrate, you can feel excited, joyful or relieved about positive things - while fighting against the negative ones. There’s space for both, anger and celebration. We need both. 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad

[maimuniya]

Originally he supposed to be in the ISB Trench Coat that we could see on Andor…. but I got carried away. The Request Poll winner of February by @azure-equus

Discord / Patreon / Redbubble

[maimuniya]

Can you be held in contempt of court if your hearing is over zoom? Like how would they enforce that

[maimuniya]

*organizes life at 3am*

[maimuniya]

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST REALIZED

YOU KNOW THE HAIKU BOT???

OFC YOU DO

YOU KNOW THAT MESSAGE HE PUTS AT THE END OF EVERY POST????

"Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up."

YEAH???????

WELL THATS A HAIKU TOO

Beep boop! I look for

accidental haiku posts.

Sometimes I mess up.

NOW YOU LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME THATS NOT THE CUTEST THNIG YOUVE EVER HEARD

[maimuniya]

Seeing a lot of comments again on people being annoyed when yr fic writers don’t research the country. Like the ‘you can tell when it’s written by an American’ kind of comments and it’s just like….. stopppppppppp. If you want fic writers to continue writing, stop saying shit like thissssssssss.

Some of us are full time students who write fic in their free time. And I’d much rather be researching for the essay I’ve got due rather than trying to please the people reading what I write FOR FREE. Like seriously, and if I was going to deep dive into that kind of research, I’m not gonna do it for a fic I work on whenever I’m feeling bored or want practice writing. I’m gonna save that kind of energy on the actual book I’m writing.

Look, I understand that in some instances involving minorities or groups who are discriminated against, that stuff deserves proper research and should be handled with care and accuracy. But when the critique is about the Swedish press seeming ‘too American’ or stuff like ‘the royal family doesn’t actually work like that’, take a minute to question if the comment is worth it before you hit send, mkay?

Also, I’m not even American! Okay I’m done now, sorry for the rant, clearly someone struck a nerve.

[maimuniya]

eli sketch of the day !!

[maimuniya]

i love talking to people in real life and being like “oh yeah i have instagram but i don’t really use it… i don’t have facebook or tiktok or anything like that either… idk i just don’t want to waste my life on social media, i prefer to live in the moment” and then i go home and spend 12 hours a day on tumblr

[maimuniya]

the new family drama i’m obsessed with has been the saga of my eight year old cousin trying to understand how our uncle is related to our grandpa and not our grandma. the answer is our grandpa cheated on her with a nurse and had our uncle, but NO ONE wants to explain cheating and adultery to an eight year old so they’ve just been telling him to ask someone else. so far it’s gone my mom -> me -> his mom -> his dad and he still is no closer to an answer. we are very quickly running low on knowledgeable adults and i cannot wait to see where he goes if that trail goes dry

[maimuniya]

“Lolita isn’t a perverse young girl. She’s a poor child who has been debauched and whose senses never stir under the caresses of the foul Humbert Humbert, whom she asks once, ‘how long did [he] think we were going to live in stuffy cabins, doing filthy things together…?’ But to reply to your question: no, its success doesn’t annoy me, I am not like Conan Doyle, who out of snobbery or simple stupidity preferred to be known as the author of “The Great Boer War,” which he thought superior to his Sherlock Holmes. It is equally interesting to dwell, as journalists say, on the problem of the inept degradation that the character of the nymphet Lolita, whom I invented in 1955, has undergone in the mind of the broad public. Not only has the perversity of this poor child been grotesquely exaggerated, but her physical appearance, her age, everything has been transformed by the illustrations in foreign publications. Girls of eighteen or more, sidewalk kittens, cheap models, or simple long-legged criminals, are baptized “nymphets” or “Lolitas” in news stories in magazines in Italy, France, Germany, etc; and the covers of translations, Turkish or Arab, reach the height of ineptitude when they feature a young woman with opulent contours and a blonde mane imagined by boobies who have never read my book. In reality Lolita is a little girl of twelve, whereas Humbert Humbert is a mature man, and it’s the abyss between his age and that of the little girl that produces the vacuum, the vertigo, the seduction of mortal danger. Secondly, it’s the imagination of the sad satyr that makes a magic creature of this little American schoolgirl, as banal and normal in her way as the poet manqué Humbert is in his. Outside the maniacal gaze of Humbert there is no nymphet. Lolita the nymphet exists only through the obsession that destroys Humbert. Herein an essential aspect of a unique book that has been betrayed by a factitious popularity.”

— Vladimir Nabokov (tr. Brian Boyd), Apostrophes (1975)

[maimuniya]

"old friends" is an underrated relationship dynamic because it's such an innocent boring sounding term for what is usually some of the wildest shit imaginable. it's always like 'oh yeah we go way back, we have history' and then you find out that history includes sex, drugs, murder, divorce, war crimes and The Incident

[maimuniya]

the rest of tumblr: hehoo capybara :)

deutschblr: oh mein gott a wet Pig

[maimuniya]

me: i really dont get why non-floridians lose their fucking shit when they see a beach. it’s just sand and water. who gives a fuck

also me: *sees one (1) mountain* ohohohoohohohohoh holy SHIT holy fuck that’s a big fuCKING ROCK

[maimuniya]

this in the singularity

[maimuniya]

If you expect fiction, especially so-called genre fiction, to educate you on politics, social issues and morality, you might just read too little nonfiction