#can you be neutral about a baby??

[goldenspringmornings]

slowly rotating an au where nyx grows up to be so fiercely Illyrian he’s the one to start the civil war that’s been simmering in the night court for centuries under the surface

[gxlden-angels]

I love getting validated on small things that I didn't even consider like it's always a treat and this time it's Gender

The Fundie Baby Voice™️ has been popping up a lot in ex-christian spaces lately and I actually had one in middle school and part of high school! I learned when and where to use it and how to turn up my southern accent just enough. I can still do it but it sounds weird after 3 years on T. The main place I used it was at church cause it made me sound sweet and polite. I used it for old ladies when I worked at a grocery store too. My family didn't like it when we were just all together cause they said it sounded like baby talk, but loved it when I used it at church cause everyone would tell them how sweet and soft-spoken I was

My therapist said it actively made him feel uncomfortable when I used that voice. He couldn't quite put his finger on why it made him uncomfortable (other than him only knowing me on T) but he very much did not like it and he's so so right for that

[starwhipnspin]

koko and baby lloyd cuz i recently rewatched the ninjago movie

[contagious-watermelon]

i think part of the reason that so many people, especially people who call themselves allies or themselves go by they/them, continue to have a problem of calling trans men and women gender neutral terms and refer to them as they/them, is because they have (subconsciously) decided that it's easier to conceptualize trans people as a whole into an "other" category

so then this is fine for nonbinary people whose gender is that "other" that people group them as — though it may be annoying that they're only seen as that because of their transness rather than their gender being respected in itself — but people, including allies and some trans people themselves, think of "trans woman" as a different gender to "cis woman" and "trans man" as a different gender to "cis man."

which leads to things like this person I know calling me and all their trans friends they/them regardless of our actual gender, when in the same breath they think about and refer to my cis guy friends as male. or the ever-prevalent phenomenon of people calling trans women they/them even when they know full well they're women, because it's much harder to get people to believe that using gender-neutral pronouns and nouns can be misgendering as well

[here-there-were-dragons]

i'm seeing three times as many people bitching in the tag about the very idea that someone might not like this breed than i see people actually expressing unambiguous dislike for this breed

[jazzy-a]

I've been thinking, and... I kind of love the fact that Mai and Kaiba have a crap load of stuff in common and would probably get along really well in a crack timeline.

Please try to picture this and tell me you're not smiling:

(Both of them standing next to each other)

Kaiba: So... grew up rich?

Mai: (nods) Grew up rich.

Mai, side-eyeing now: Neglectful parents?

Kaiba, surprised: Neglectful parents.

Kaiba, thinking this is gonna be the deal breaker: Friends are stupid?

Mai, full on enthusiasm: OMG! Friends are stupid!

Mai: ... Joey Wheeler?

Both, now facing one another pointing like that Spiderman meme: JOEY F*CKING WHEELER!!

[narutomaki]

get me OUT OF HERE

[icewindandboringhorror]

*screenshots the highlights of my youtube to mp3 downloads folder as if it were some fancy aesthetic spotify wrapped image or whatever* 

[crossbackpoke-check]

wait you got me so invested in the stammer & heddy tailor au....

this is my standard disclaimer that i have never posted a fic on ao3* and for however much i say “au” i truly mean that it’s a universe that lives in my head & i am absolutely delighted to tell you all about, all the time <3 if it helps i ALSO got me so invested in the heddy & stammer tailor au

ok now that the author’s note is out of the way here’s some notes about the not!fic heddy & stammer tailor au:

stammer as the tailor from gent’s playbook, very reserved, quiet, with an excellent eye for details (honestly the evidence i have for his style sense is just that he’s best friends with pk subban so it has to be there somewhere if only by proxy irl) is hired by victor hedman, star of the tampa bay lightning who is every other tailor’s nightmare to dress (huge, opinionated, fashionable)

heddy is decently well-known throughout the league for being very well-dressed & becomes quietly well known for also being one of his new tailor’s favorite loyal customers [heddy has the nicest fabrics. he has his suits the first day a new collection drops & e v e r y o n e is jealous]

stammer’s business booms after heddy takes a chance on him as his first big client & promotes him, heddy sees him grow in popularity & get more clients

heddy also moonlights as a model for stammer’s suits on instagram, initially to help him grow his business because then he won’t have to pay for a model and then because he’s over there all the time anyway because they’re dating (that’s why the model’s face is never in the pictures)

there’s not really a plot to this besides the vague idea of a plot where stammer makes heddy his lucky suit that he wins the cup in & sews a special little tag into the lining of his jacket that says i love you

because love sometimes is picking out the perfect right color pocket square to match your husband’s beautiful suit that you fitted like a kiss to the curves of his huge body

& also sometimes love is making your beautiful husband who makes you beautiful clothing enjoy nice things for himself once in a while, like the fancy watch you bought him or the nice suit you custom-ordered for him (from him) just so you could take it off of him

[ikkan]

one of the reasons i would never want to be on a college campus: the fear of some weirdo republican kid coming up to me with a camera and a mic asking me questions about my opinions on public bathrooms

[lonesomedotmp3]

like in philosophy you just cannot use up your word count with two+ paragraphs examining the language used in a single sentence of an entire novel you can't to that you just have to keep finding new stuff to say. it's EXHAUSTING

[zzxid]

I genuinely think Mouthwashing fandom is a good example on how real life misogyny is very wired on people brains and influenced how they engage with fictional misogyny.

You have a story about a woman being assaulted and telling a man he trusted but being dismissed because he is friends with the attacker, and people fixate on shipping her with either of those men.

You have a story about how men that downplay their male friends violence, assume neutrality is the safer option, unintentionally help create an environment that's unsafe to vulnerable people, at a risk becoming a victim themselves. And people make it about toxic yaoi.

You have a character kill herself because she didn't want birth the child of her abuser. And people make AUs where she happily keep the baby.

Misogyny isn't just "I hate this women", it's also downplaying their trauma, defending those who caused it, and reducing them to mothers or wives against their wished under this idea of what womanhood is about.

I don't think we can separate fandom misogyny from it's real world influence, not yet.

[cuteniarose]

Okay Google how the fuck do I handle the thought of Suiren being more than twice the age she is in SotRL

[hauntingblue]

Hands is too op... billy is bigger and younger and more beautiful

[kingpains]

i love my catsssss i love my Kitties i love them soooo much

[tenok]

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