#(or a raid honestly)

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

[sunnymainecoonx]

Can u guys tell I like setting up different interpretations of the same character together yet

I've done so with swap(he's the most obvious one) and I've done so with horror. And now dusts on that list too. I have had thought of others like ink but, maybe another time

[solarpunkani]

Hot 4am take but I feel like if we want to get people more interested in making their yards a more habitable space for wildlife like insects, we have to acknowledge that ‘Don’t want bugs in your house’ is still a 100% fair and valid point of view. ‘Loves nature’ and ‘doesn’t want roaches spiders and mosquitoes in the house’ aren’t opposites.

And with that in mind, when we propose to people that spraying pesticides around houses is Not A Good Idea, Actually, I feel like we need to give an alternative asides from ‘deal with it.’

[im-just-a-ghost]

Edwin living with Charles for 30 years but being clueless about the extent of his best friend's trauma, meanwhile on his fourth(?) encounter with the Cat King hitting him with the "lmao you're lonely that's why you change outfits" analysis

[thapunqueen]

so i might be a little late to this trend

[berrydoodleoo]

i am the emissary and i shall never die

[infizero]

GUYS PREVIEW PAGES FOR GERALD'S JOURNAL JUST DROPPED AND WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING TO SEE GERALD'S TWO SONS LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO

[areioshq]

Just going to leave this here. For now. Enjoy my first and only Omi.

[adelacreations]

For context I got permission to show everyone these from @half-oz-eddie

I'm sorry anon, are you unaware about what a Maid Cafe is? The point is people regardless of gender are either maids or butlers. I'm SO SO sorry your transphobic ass feels so uncomfortable about the concept of male characters wearing nail polish and lip stick

And that "some have lipstick that's too much" that's Lord Billy, an Resident Evil Village x Stranger Things AU yours truly (me). Lord Billy is genderfluid.

You're frankly a coward to sit there on anon and type those words to the @harringrove-cafe which was designed to bring joy to people's day. We don't tolerate this type of behaviour towards the Cafe OR in the harringrove and Billy Hargrove fandom in general.

Come off of anon and say that shit with your WHOLE chest since you have plenty of words to say about what Billy and the other male characters should and shouldn't wear. Cisgender males wear lipstick and nail polish in real life, does that give you the heebie jeebies too?

You're actually pathetic, get the fuck out of here and back to the vile river of hate that you came from. You're not welcome here.

To everyone else: please show the Cafe alot of love. We artists all had a fun time drawing these for the maid Cafe event!

[cosmical-flowers]

His card set looks so cute … is happy ele torturing me because I know no new shinobu cards will happen for a while

[lady-quen]

"Escaped the realm of the dead and all I got is this lousy chair. Another god scorned is another day adorned."

??????? @fern-hounds up and went and got me a Final Judge chair? Simply because it would look good with my beautiful edgelord plant man? Holy shit. Thank you so much you're awesome as hell! Now he can sit with all the smug bastard flair he deserves! 👏

[chaotic-fandom-hoarder]

The angst goblins are running rampant around in my brain, specifically rotating about that one post with the idea for a bad ending of the sitcom au where Alex gets kidnapped by the Lankmann foundation

I missed the opportunity in my fanfic there to add in that, this is an alternate version of the incident with the police hunting down Alex. Meaning that they were asleep. Meaning that they wouldn’t be wearing their glasses.

Imagine the imagery of Clyde frantically searching the ransacked house, futilely hoping that Alex is somewhere in there, safe and ok, and then Clyde sees their glasses sitting on the floor, with a cracked lens from getting launched off the nightstand during the struggle. Imagine Clyde taking the glasses with it on its roaring rampage of revenge. Imagine

[m-for-musings]

To be able to "recruit" NPCs from the Absolute cult besides Minthara would solve a lot of BG3's narrative problems when dealing with her recruitment.

Don't get me wrong, I love the game. I just don't love how black-and-white the moral dilemmas are (but this is a D&D alignment system problem I already rant about a lot).

Ok replaying Act I and seeing all the dialogue options we have with Priestess Gut just served to strengthen my idea of how cool and narratively accurate it would it be to just convince people who would be "villains" that the Absolute is a fraud and having these people at least hanging around your camp.

In Act I we'd have Gut, Ragzlin and Minthara. Nothing can convince me that the three of them couldn't simply be convinced to come along. There is a full dialogue with Gut where you see a mindflayer inserting a tadpole in her head (and she sees your insertion too) but for whatever reason she was just like "nah you're confused". Like yeah, I got it, but can I at least roll a persuasion check? Especially if I have previous knowledge about the Absolute (through encounters with the cultists or reading Halsin's diary entries about that)?

Also Minthara: she admits in Act II that the whole idea of raiding an insignificant druid grove was... Stupid. And she only agreed to that because she was brainwashed. So like, why can't we just... Un-brainwash her? Let her delve into our head and see for herself? Especially when around the artifact's area of effect?*

It would be a way of encouraging the players to resolve conflicts non-lethaly while it could also be a stronger appeal to swallow down tadpoles (in order to make it easier to pry into people's minds and show the truth into their heads, for example) giving the game a heavier moral dilemma: is it ok to simply brute force people out of a religion that was brute forced on them? How far you'd go for that? Is it worth to have a million brain worms in your head? You're helping people at a great personal cost, and you might be doing it wrong.

*another incongruence: at the beginning it is implied that the artifact has an area of effect (the cutscene where Shadowheart uses it to dissipate the Absolute's voice when we're entering the goblin camp) and then in the end it is implied that it's the squid who gets to choose who will receive the protection or not (with the whole "hmm nah I'm not protecting Minsc" ridiculous pout scene)

[zeloinator]

no thoughts, no spoilers, just staring at her (also finally got CUL to 100 so I can start crafting raid food almost a whole tier late >.<)

one with her 'new' old tail ogh it fits her so well I just wish it was more spikey

[fishlung8877]

yayo

+ Random closeups under cut :3c

[thecityofdoors]

howling at the computer screen