#I NEED COMMUNITY INPUT

[daughter-of-war]

Something I think about a lot is how the 13th Doctor clearly has dyed-blonde hair. She has visible dark roots. This can mean two things: Either Time Lords can just... regenerate with funky, non-natural-human hair colours (perhaps like how Time Ladies always seem to regenerate into a full beat of makeup..), OR that the regeneration energy of 12 to 13 fried her otherwise naturally brown / black hair into a blonde.

Of course, the latter leads to so much potential. Does the Doctor now have to upkeep her dye job? Does she disappear sometimes for "five minutes" only for Yaz to stare disapprovingly at her grown-out roots? Has any of the Fam ever taken her to a hair salon or does she bleach her hair in the TARDIS console room with a jug of water and some totally-safe-don't-worry Space Bleach that nearly sets the console on fire when she bumps into it? Where is all the art of 13 with dark hair?

I need answers.

[ghostlyglooms]

my favorite thing about dirkjohn is that i have never seen a truly bad interpretation of them. anything works with them. they have never met. they have secretly known each other for years. they’re fluffy and adore each other after being deprived of love for so long. they fight and bicker and yell at each other. they’re unlabeled. dirk is so obviously gay and john is so obviously bi and they have been boyfriends for a while. you can have depression dirkjohn. ultimate dirkjohn. fucking tattoo artist and flower shop dirkjohn. everyone’s jaws drop at this arrangement. everyone thinks about it and realizes it actually makes sense. they are thematic foils who completely contrast. they are more like alike than anyone thinks. the possibilities are endless with dirkjohn.

[saytrrose]

Does abstracted queenie pass the harkness test

[bleachbleachbleach]

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[1mlostnow]

OK!! I WANNA TALK ABOUT BEING GAY!!!

I hope that caught your attention :)

I’m also hoping to get more input from the queer community here so please comment or rb with anything you have to say.

Please read I think this is incredibly important.

Okay ⬇️

I am a trans man and I have only socially transitioned. I don’t usually like to talk about the fact that I’m trans, because I have this underlying fear that it will somehow remind people that I’m “not really a man” or something. Internalized homophobia, I guess. But this feels really important to talk about.

The 2024 Election. I am confident in my belief that we will have a second trump term. It is so incredibly important for trans kids to build community. If he gets elected, that puts us and queer people as a whole at risk.

Depending on which state you’re from, you may have already gotten a taste of this. I’m from a primarily red state and we’ve got bathroom bills, book bans, and transparency bills.

Bathroom Bill -> bans trans folks from using the bathroom which aligns with their gender identity, requires them to use bathroom that corresponds with their sex at birth. I know for a lot of states, this also removed gender neutral bathrooms in a lot of places.

Book bans -> thank you Ron Fucking DeSantis (florida governer, ran for president but dropped from race in January 2024(?)) Lawmakers can decide what books they consider inappropriate for schools, and have them removed. They defend it by saying they’re banning “sexual content” but majority of it is mentions of queer folks in books. To them two boys holding hands for one sentence may as well be a book full of smut. Overall, they’re only retracting what they want to, excluding gender/sexuality mentions and critical race theory.

Transparency -> OH MY FUCKING AHSHDHDRRR. Okay so. In my state and many others, there’s something referred to as a transparency bill. It was advertised as transparency in education and a right for parents to know what the schools’ curriculum consists of. Part of this bill requires teachers and administrators to out a student to their parents or guardians if they come out at school. — Going into this school year, I was unaware this bill had passed. I emailed my teachers the week before school and on my second day, the principal was legally required to phone home. Luckily, everything was fine on my end and my mom already knew.

Now these are the things that have already happened. There is so, so much more. Bans on gender affirming care, legally classifying marriage as between a man and a woman, and SO much more that I can’t even comprehend enough to type out. Please do your research.

It’s so hard to stay positive when I fear for my wellbeing, my future, and my life. I am a teenager. I am meant to be going to school to learn math and science, not the Ten Commandments. I’m meant to be able to use the bathroom without feeling out of place, no matter where I am.

I know this focused primarily on trans people but this also affects the queer community on so many levels.

I cannot be happy in a country that believes that being queer is a mental illness.

I hope to god I’m reaching people. I think building community is one of the most important things that we could be doing right now. As well as educating and encouraging others to vote blue.

It’s between a man on his deathbed and a felon.

It’s between a man who doesn’t know where he is and a man who claimed this country would become a “unified reich.”

A democracy or a dictatorship.

[tmae3114]

the example people always go for with 'taking things literally' is 'not understanding idioms and metaphors' or 'not understanding sarcasm' and that's frustrating for Me, Specifically, Personally because I am a person who has a lot of social struggles with Taking Things Literally but, crucially, not in that sense. I understand idioms & metaphors just fine and, as someone who's primary special interest is the written word & storytelling, actually am pretty good at them and thrive with them. I miss sarcasm occasionally but catch it most of the time and am often sarcastic myself.

No, my Taking Things Literally is that if you say something to me or give me an instruction, I will Understand It Literally. I will get what you said and not at all what you meant. There are exceptions to this in cases where I've learned the script and even use it myself (e.g. the other day I asked my mum "Is this Not Butter" about a thing, and she replied "Yes but it has buttermilk", because we both understood the real question was "is this the lactose-free spread?" because I was making food for my sister) but in the vast majority of cases, I just. will miss implications and unspoken assumptions. I will just completely miss them, they will not register, I Did Not Know They Were There.

Implications in a narrative? I am on it immediately, this is my bread and butter, I can pull a story apart to get to five layers of subtext & implication & theme like breathing

Reliably understanding that the request "Can you empty the dishwasher?" includes emptying the drying rack which is not physically part of the dishwasher because the real request is "Can you put the clean dishes away?"? Not a chance

[bananonbinary]

i keep getting stupid google ads for letting AI write your emails for you and this is actually the exact sort of thing that is horrifying about AI right now. i wouldn't trust a strange HUMAN to write emails for me with no further instruction than "ask about deadlines" and you want to let a free-to-use market-driven robot do it?? holy shit this is gonna cause so much confusion and miscommunication

[r0b0-writes]

Not only do I think that SCC are poly. I also think they are committed to each other in a way that is simply undefinable. I might label it as a QPR, but I could never hope to define the connection they have. It’s just so uniquely them.

[attackofthe50footidiot]

Growing in a small room not with the intent to break anything but because I desperately need to be in a small confined space that squishes me a bit.

[nothorses]

hey as someone who was homeschooled i want to say thank you for your thoughts on the matter! homeschooling should be illegal imho and i hate when people try to deny the fact that, ultimately, it’s a way for parents to control their children. it’s not something that many people talk about so it’s refreshing to see when someone speaks out about it!

I don't know about fully making it illegal- I think there are some (limited) circumstances where it's genuinely the best option for an individual- but imo, it should at least be a lot more regulated, and include a lot more supporting infrastructure. Ideally, homeschooling would still take place through the public education system in some capacity; kind of the way online college works. Though I think there needs to be some infrastructure in place for socialization and community-based education opportunities, and for oversight from adults outside of a particular family.

That's kind of a tangent, though. I very much agree that the larger political push for homeschooling is founded pretty much entirely on a desire to own & control children, and one of the best tools we have available to combat that large-scale isolation and abuse is a system of public, free, socialized community-based education. The one we have needs a lot of work, but it's still miles ahead of anything large-scale homeschooling has to offer.

[whump-it-like-its-hot]

Fellas it’s time for a poll because this question is nagging me because is this a hyperspecific memory of mine or actually more universal?

(Disclaimer: This is not meant as in putting Make-up over actual wounds/scars (please don’t put makeup on wounds) but for using makeup and modeling wax to create the illusion of a wound)

[howldean]

finding low-cost mental health resources for queer people is fucking impossible istg

[heartsmi1es]

also important question for the 4 wild grinders fans on here: who is the Fujoshi in wild grinders. (im trying to do that one the struggler shitpost)

[lupismaris]

Lmao okay okay white cishet social manager has now been added to the DEI Pride planning meetings which frankly is important to ensure shit is done right I’m attending as the multi-tool queer of the division and comms administrator/quartermaster who’s main role is holding the comms team accountable (my supervisors/head of comms words not mine) so my goal of making sure our Pride and LGBTQIA+ history month campaigns aren’t reductive capitalist rainbow washed nonsense is still a go