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Hello!! I was looking for non-fiction books of butches and femmes that mention bisexual butches and femmes too! I guess that's a very specific thing and difficult thing to ask for but I was hoping if you knew some? In the end, I'll take any and all butch femme non-fiction books you know of please! 👉👈💖
hello! okay so don’t wanna promise bisexuality in all of these because that’s tricky to do without having read each cover-to-cover*
that said, we do have some recs! I’m going to split this up two ways;
Non-fiction (not memoir)
Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman
Persistance: All Ways Butch & Femme eds. Ivan Coyote & Zena Sharman (& it’s precursor, Persistent Desire: a butch-femme reader although sadly it’s not available as an ebook for us to purchase)
The Life & Times of Butch Dykes by Eloisa Aquina
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline D. Davis
& one essential we haven’t gotten around to buying yet: Female Masculinities by J. Jack Halberstam
Non-fiction (memoir)
Burning Butch by R/B Mertz (also in audio)
Pregnant Butch by A.K. Summers
Rust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne Jolie
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H. (also in audio)
& before anyone asks Stone Butch Blues is NOT in our collection, but that’s because it’s available for free, as a pdf, directly from Leslie Feinburg’s website
#*alas the stereotype that librarians have read every book in the collection#or get paid to read#couldn’t be further from the truth!#but fortunately that actually means that there are far too many queer books out there for us to have read them all!#a fact which I for one#am grateful for#queer liberation library#qll#asks#<3#queer books#thanks for asking!#butches#book recs
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the way sam changes from the beginning of s8 to the end of s8 makes me ill.
coming off their separation, he starts out trying his best to be unapologetic abt the choices he made when dean was gone. openly calling dean out when he makes him feel like shit (“you’ve been kicking me ever since you got back, but that’s over.”) insisting that he knows he wants a clean break and that it’s not actually his Responsibility to suffer for the rest of his life. refusing to let other hunters like martin talk down to him.
and then dean’s lies and hypocrisy abt benny, and dean’s fake SOS text from amelia, and sam breaking up with amelia bc with dean back in his life he doesn’t want to hurt her with his mess, and dean’s doubt over sam’s ability to complete the trials.
which all culminates in the state he’s in by the season finale - uncaring of whether he lives or dies bc he’s always been a burden to dean anyway and maybe if he’s the one to close the gates of hell it’ll make up for everything else he’s supposedly done wrong. “these trials, they’re purifying me.” / “you think I screw up everything I try - you think I need a chaperone, remember?”
this alone:
“what happens when you’ve decided I can’t be trusted, again? I mean, who’re you gonna turn to next time, instead of me? another angel, another… another vampire? do you have any idea what it feels like to watch your brother…”
the speech dean gives sam in the church Woefully misses the mark in that it doesn’t address any of the events that pushed sam to the ledge. it doesn’t address dean’s mistreatment of sam as a partner in the slightest. empty words that sound nice on the surface, like the majority of dean’s attempts at patching them back up from s4 onwards.
#wincesties i love you on principle however most of you do this thing where you don’t acknowledge the staggering power imbalance at all#or worse: twist it in the other direction#the fans were upset whenever the boys took a break. they bought into canon’s idea that they’re better/stronger together#but post s3 that couldn’t be further from the truth lmao#spn#im writing s8 era angst rn so this post was cooking in my head#also at some point I’m going to write a thing abt how uniquely loaded the words ‘brother’ and ‘family’ are on this show
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its so sad that agatha had to live with the rumour she traded her son for the darkholdTHE DARKHOLDDD yknow, they thought she was evil incarnate tho tbh could you blame em
#its heartbreaking#cos that couldn’t have been further from tbe truth#nicholas (and agatha) created one of the most infamous pieces of witch lore#wow#this time im acc right lol#agatha all along
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Source - The Jerusalem Post
You can’t make this shit up. This is actually insane and disgusting. People can lose their job for pointing this out while a fcking Israeli politician can just literally say this. What the fuck do you mean do to Gaza what was done by the Nazis?
#I mean it’s not surprising to me#but them admitting it so openly#and he still being labeled antisemitic for pointing out what they themselves are fcking saying is crazy#and ppl will write all these thinkpieces about how it’s antisemitic and an act of terrorism to say ‘from the river to the sea’#because ‘it’s calling for the extermination of the Jews’ (which couldn’t be further from the fcking truth)#meanwhile Israel is openly talking about wanting to commit war crimes and atrocities and genocide#like I have a list of these horrific ppl calling for genocide in different ways. an entire list. all Israeli politicians including Netanyah#disgusting#where are the israeli supporters now?#how do you still defend this??#is your hatred making you this blind?#anti israel#free palestine#free gaza#Palestine#gaza#Israel#idf#auschwitz#gaza strip#benjamin netanyahu#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#current events#important#war crimes#genocide
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Me trying to explain to my vaguely religious mother that Dionysus and Jesus may actually be two aspects of the same diety
#Dionysus#hellenism#paganism#Local man looks after the sick and immigrants and protects minorities#Is raised from the dead and has a father who rules the skies#Blood. Wine. Vices or sin as they call it#Dionysus existed before christ and before greece#I have a lot of very specific and detailed feelings about my spirituality#Jesus is a flawed diety as all others are he was just as much off his rocker as the lord of parties themselves in this essay I will#people only view dionysus as the hedonism god who doesn’t care about your liver it couldn’t be further from the truth#do you really think a diety of wine would encourage its abuse get the fuck outta heeeeeere#Duality is also big in pagan deities#Embodying the suffering itself and freedom from the suffering works just fine#‘’But OP he tells people to worship the one true god’’ which one. go on tell me#also can man not lie when writing things down?#the bible is in several languages it was a historical document collab#you could also see the one true god as a god that embodies all other gods#an unnamed force all gods came from#he also spoke in parables constantly and the old testament was literally a bunch of metaphors to teach lessons barely any of it was-#-actually real#saying jesus was a pantheon god is probably the least popular thing i’ve said#may make many people mad#but jesus loves these kinds of people he knows that the ones who know him will be shunned by the majority#which is why i don’t abide by organised religions worshipping jesus#often it’s a malformed and terrifyingly bastardised version
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i wish there was more rep for trans characters whose voices don’t pass at all and that isn’t used to mock them.
#the only example i can think of is rachel bighead i love her#but yeah. please. more trans men with ‘girly’ voices <- as a trans man with a girly voice#more trans women with deep voices#like these people just exist! but i feel like people sometimes view vocal dissonance as inherently problematic or whatever#and it couldn’t be further from the truth cuz like. i struggle to see myself in a lot of that because that’s just not what i sound like.#like i know that when people hear my voice they think of me as a girl. but like that doesn’t make me any less of a man for it.#this is nonsensical sorry i was just thinking about this earlier#txt
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Rikki cutscene?
phhhhhh my godd covering my mouth and giggling and kicking my legs and rolling around in bed and. rikki . she is everything to me. she’s like if a girl was sooo fail and had everything wrong ever. imagine masking your entire life and pretending that everything is okay. pretending you enjoy the golden child #lifestyle and that you’re actually really respectful and polite and considerate. But actually u are so full of anger. so full of rage and violence. but it’s ok really <3 you’ve been suppressing your emotions for decades and shelving away every problem ever but it’s fineeeeeee believe me it’s fine. it’s all good. yiu’re not even mad. it’s not avoidant and conflict averse behavior it’s just literally fine. also it’s less hassle if there’s no problems and everything’s gucci and no one’s mad (you are mad though. but like dont worry about it). it’s much less hassle to pretend like nothing has ever bothered you at all and to just nod along. you just don’t want trouble. you don’t want to get into trouble. you’re not honest, you might even push someone else under the bus if it helps you stay afloat. you’re only caring and considerate when it benefits you, you don’t actually know any of these people, you don’t actually respect any of them. it’s just easier to pretend like you do. and all you ever wanted was an escape, and you got it, and was it worth it? of course it was, you were doing the right thing, you were following your dreams and saving both him and you. he just didn’t understand—he’s your little brother, of course he didn’t understand. he never even cared, did he? or, wait, you shouldnt badmouth the dead—except of course he’s not dead, everything is fine, he’s just been missing for what, 7 years? but it’s fine. if you acknowledge something bad might have happened to him all those two decades of repressed feelings might just drown you for good. he’s fine. and then it turns out he really is fine. he’s just alive, and—oh. he hates you. he thinks you didn’t care. he thinks you abandoned him (he thinks you hated him). but what else were you supposed to do? you were just trying to save you both, to do the right thing. you wanted a better life. it’s not your fault that you lied, you were just trying to avoid pointless conflict—it’s less hassle that way. but of course he still got mad, because he’s him, and he only ever thinks about himself. and now he thinks you didn’t care. ridiculous. maybe he didn’t care when he tried to talk you out of following your dreams. maybe he didn’t care when he didn’t even leave a note, any sort of explanation. maybe he didn’t care when he said you didn’t care! because that’s so stupid, of course you cared, all you ever cared about was him. see, you did the right thing. you simply knew better. he doesn’t understand. nobody does (nobody ever understood how hard it’s been being the perfect one). but it’s okay. everything’s fine. you guys aren’t even fighting. you’re not even mad! everything’s good. it’s all okay. sure, your brother takes any chance he gets to antagonize you and act like the only victim on planet earth, but really, it’s all good. because you’re so polite. and you’re so respectful, and so considerate, so calm, so rational, so obedient, so perfect. nothing could ever get under your skin (except everything). nothing could ever make you mad (except everyone). and surely nothing could ever make you blow up, make the dam inside you finally burst, make all your anger and grief and every bad emotion under the sun known.
(…except him.)
#hi. rikki and william are so normal. come closer#he MADDDD he thought growing up in an abusive household was for ONE DAY ONLY ! and that it would make u NORMAL ! and make u normal about#conflict and emotions and relationships and such#god. i made rikki sound evil in this and like a total asshole . and lisyen. he was kind of an ass for (gestures vaguely) lying to his#brother and then abandoning him. but william was also an asshole for shitting on rikki’s one(1) singular dream of his entire life#and for not supporting him when he needed it the most. will kind of sucked for that im ngl#and really he could’ve left a note if he was gonna just run away from home#AUEHHH. me when im in a fucked up siblings competition. Rotating them in my head#two people who thinks the other abandoned them and hates them and never cared for them#but they couldn’t be further from the truth#imma start eating metal#cramswering
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i think kunikida might be the biggest victim of mischaracterization in this fandom
#i see your dazai/chuuya would not fucking say that and that’s very valid#but like kunikida gets repeatedly characterized as an unfeeling asshole when that literally couldn’t be further from the truth#like how did people even arrive at this conclusion kunikida does literally nothing but care about people#anyways justice for him fr
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“I’M JUST A MAN.”
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this early in the morning & already a call out
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Dear Friends who post request/follower celebration/send me a [] things:
Please know when I don’t send a request it’s not bc I don’t love ur work, it’s because I am too intimidated to ask anyone for anything directly and if you ask me to think of a prompt my brain promptly stops functioning.
Queer reguards
Mark, purveyor of the finest RSD anxiety disorder
#brain: they said mutuals- we are one of those#heart: but what if they mean not us#brain: shit ur right#anyway- post bc I keep seeing so many people make these#and I’m so 🥺 at all the incredible work#also I once had a friend assume that bc I wasn’t asking I thought their work was shit and that couldn’t be further from the truth#you should see the pretzels I bend myself into whenever Niamh MAKES me send her one
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I just watched Elemental.
I am very normal about this movie.
… That is a lie I am not okay
#elemental#I’m sobbing#left the theater in tears#still haven’t recovered#someone called it ‘a bad analogy for interracial relationships’#that couldn’t be further from the truth#the trailers lied to us about what this story is#it is a love story but it’s also more than that#go watch it if you haven’t already
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when people expect you to feel sorry for male rapists and go “you ruined his life” as if their willingness to commit such a terrible act doesn’t appropriately go hand in hand in order to show how depraved these human scum are - willing to selfishly traumatize women and leave a scar on their livelihood all for a five second orgasm.
#ic.text#why do men always bring up ‘ruined lives’ as if their scolding women it feels so misogynistic as if women are#so morally bankrupt in general to make false accusations and like to mess with men’s lives just for the fuck of it??#it all stems from the belief that women are self -victimizing manipulators and you can’t change my mind#and there’s also this mra mentality of ‘female privledge’ in that women are automatically believed as if that couldn’t be further from the#truth - and the implication that women come forward solely because we are always unconditionally believed and it’s like the perfect full#proof way to ‘mess up some guys life’ is so messed up#they really villainize women who come forward through this way huh?
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not aromantic in the sense that i don’t experience romantic attraction, aromantic using the same connotation of the a- prefix as atheistic, to denote that i do not believe in romantic attraction
#aromantic#aro#i mean it’s more nuanced than that#but i’m genuinely starting to think romance is just a blend of other attraction types and some severely fucked up social constructs#Happily Ever After™️ strikes me as a kind of death#like now that you’ve achieved The Romance there is nothing left to achieve#no change or growth or creation or ANYTHING left to accomplish#when that couldn’t be further from the truth#i respect people who can actually make romance work for them#but i am not one of those people
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having an rbf in general sucks bc if people don’t assume you’re mean, they assume you have zero enthusiasm about anything
#I have an extremely neutral face when I get competitive and it’s helped me on the court#to unnerve my opponents#but around family they think i find no joy in anything or that I’m bored which couldn’t be#Further from the truth. don’t look at my face- look at my hands and legs#i am TREMBLING
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hmm, been thinking. is it fair to actually not include madoka in the pink mahou tournament because she will literally just destroy all the competition that easily?
because in a simple popularity poll obviously the most popular character should win, but i feel like the fun of a tournament is that it can go in different directions and you can change the outcome if you campaign hard enough. you can’t really have that when you know who’s going to win from the start
context: over 10% of submissions are madoka, with the second most frequent character being less than 3%
#millie.txt#polls#downside is that people might assume that pmmm is one of the sources i don’t like#which couldn’t be further from the truth#the second character is mew ichigo btw <3#she always had a spot in this from the start she is my childhood
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