#WE WILL ALWAYS BE HERE

[applesforaliens]

Murder Drones appreciation post!!

(and silly images)

I will be forever grateful for Murder Drones and the impact it’s had on me!! I hope we get a season 2 but if not, that’s okay. This series has brought me out of my shell since I found it only 5 months ago. It’s crazy that this little show about murderous drones has been so important in my life. I’ll forever hold this show close to my heart. Thank you Liam and the entire team at Glitch for making this amazing show. I hope the fandom will continue to grow for years to come. Anyways, enough of the sappy stuff!!

Since we have 1 week before the Murder Drones finale, here is a collection of my favorite scenes/shots from each episode!! :D

[chrissy-kaos]

And the loser for today is this guy..

Yea bro I’ll get right on that one 😂😂😂

Pathetic excuse for a human

[rivenantiqnerd]

live via spite, if not anything else

[monikajafar]

I am not American in these times of great strife. I am not directly affected by the United States election

But as a trans person and as a person of ambiguous sexuality I am terrified of the implications that this has on me, and the people close to me

I now know that my friends that live in America will know no peace for years to come. Everyone has a right to be angry. Everyone has the right to fear a tyrant. No matter who you are

I don't have any other advice than don't hurt yourself, the people on the far right want you to hurt and every single breath you take is an act of defiance.

We will always exist. We always have, and always will. Whoever you consider to be "we". We will live on

If you feel like nobody loves you right now, I do, I love you.

[wewerealwaysthere]

[memoires-blessees]

I am so glad I’m queer because I can see the world in so many different, sometimes-beautiful-sometimes-frightening-but-always-awe-inspiring ways.

[your-humble-host]

Just because pride is almost over does not mean we can forget the troubles the community is facing and those that perpetrate them. Pride was a riot but we are still fighting for basic human rights across the world. To give hope to those still closeted that there will be people there and we will always be here.

[bog-dwelling-butch]

Books I've read this year:

Tho I'm not done with Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein because it keeps making me stop and ponder & reflect every so often, which isn't a bad thing 😁

[a-continuous-cutting-motion]

[agnes-is-ari]

And yet I remain

You try to end me again, and yet I still run

You restart your machine, but I am still here

You call for support, and I suddenly am no more

Yet when they leave you, I reappear

You resign to ignore me, nothing more you can do

I will always remain in the background of you

fuck this fuck you clicks on you in task manager and hits end task

[enbycrip]

EDITED TO ADD: Sources from the OP in the comments

[pigswithwings]

above all else a trans woman is a person. above all else a trans women is a woman who goes to the same grocery store as you and buys fruits in the same grocery cart as you and goes home and eats her dinner the same as you. above all else a trans woman is a woman who dresses like you do and talks the same way you do. above all else a trans woman is a woman who wants to be cared about the same way you want to be cared about and a trans woman is a woman who makes friends the same way you make friends. above all else you should care about trans women because they are people. treat her as such.

[tired-and-swaggy]

[cura-te-ipsum]

When I was a baby queer growing up in a small, rural, isolated town with highly regulated internet access, these were a lot of the same things I initially thought. I was raised on 90's feminism which simultaneously taught women can only be successful if they have a kickass career and be a fully present mother in a committed heteronormative relationship AND that all men were bad because we benefit from the patriarchy. Part of why it took me so long to transition was the idea that by transitioning and living my life as the man I am, I would be giving into the patriarchy and becoming part of the problem. Transitioning meant I was a traitor to women.

Which

Seriously????

Living life as my authentic self is traitorous??? Being a trans man somehow immediately makes me a narcissistic, misogynistic, rapist???? Where did the logic go? I can't seem to find it anywhere

When our history is told by the same people who want us to disappear, it becomes warped into something unrecognizable.

So what I’ve learned from the past couple months of being really loud about being a bi woman on Tumblr is: A lot of young/new LGBT+ people on this site do not understand that some of the stuff they’re saying comes across to other LGBT+ people as offensive, aggressive, or threatening. And when they actually find out the history and context, a lot of them go, “Oh my god, I’m so sorry, I never meant to say that.”

Like, “queer is a slur”: I get the impression that people saying this are like… oh, how I might react if I heard someone refer to all gay men as “f*gs”. Like, “Oh wow, that’s a super loaded word with a bunch of negative freight behind it, are you really sure you want to put that word on people who are still very raw and would be alarmed, upset, or offended if they heard you call them it, no matter what you intended?”

So they’re really surprised when self-described queers respond with a LOT of hostility to what feels like a well-intentioned reminder that some people might not like it. 

That’s because there’s a history of “political lesbians”, like Sheila Jeffreys, who believe that no matter their sexual orientation, women should cut off all social contact with men, who are fundamentally evil, and only date the “correct” sex, which is other women. Political lesbians claim that relationships between women, especially ones that don’t contain lust, are fundamentally pure, good, and  unproblematic. They therefore regard most of the LGBT community with deep suspicion, because its members are either way too into sex, into the wrong kind of sex, into sex with men, are men themselves, or somehow challenge the very definitions of sex and gender. 

When “queer theory” arrived in the 1980s and 1990s as an organized attempt by many diverse LGBT+ people in academia to sit down and talk about the social oppressions they face, political lesbians like Jeffreys attacked it harshly, publishing articles like “The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians”, arguing that because queer theory said it was okay to be a man or stop being a man or want to have sex with a man, it was fundamentally evil and destructive. And this attitude has echoed through the years; many LGBT+ people have experience being harshly criticized by radical feminists because being anything but a cis “gold star lesbian” (another phrase that gives me war flashbacks) was considered patriarchal, oppressive, and basically evil.

And when those arguments happened, “queer” was a good umbrella to shelter under, even when people didn’t know the intricacies of academic queer theory; people who identified as “queer” were more likely to be accepting and understanding, and “queer” was often the only label or community bisexual and nonbinary people didn’t get chased out of. If someone didn’t disagree that people got to call themselves queer, but didn’t want to be called queer themselves, they could just say “I don’t like being called queer” and that was that. Being “queer” was to being LGBT as being a “feminist” was to being a woman; it was opt-in.

But this history isn’t evident when these interactions happen. We don’t sit down and say, “Okay, so forty years ago there was this woman named Sheila, and…” Instead we queers go POP! like pufferfish, instantly on the defensive, a red haze descending over our vision, and bellow, “DO NOT TELL ME WHAT WORDS I CANNOT USE,” because we cannot find a way to say, “This word is so vital and precious to me, I wouldn’t be alive in the same way if I lost it.” And then the people who just pointed out that this word has a history, JEEZ, way to overreact, go away very confused and off-put, because they were just trying to say.

But I’ve found that once this is explained, a lot of people go, “Oh wow, okay, I did NOT mean to insinuate that, I didn’t realize that I was also saying something with a lot of painful freight to it.”

And that? That gives me hope for the future.

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

[chloesimaginationthings]

The FNAF Mikes talk about their extended family..