#i can't believe they actually. communicated.

[hiiragi7]

Feeling extremely disappointed in the community response to Trump's gender order regarding X gender markers on documents. Can y'all quit with the victim-blaming and "I'm so glad I don't have an X gender marker, I knew it was a bad idea" statements for two seconds to support those of us who are targeted by this?

I have X on all of my documents. Birth certificate, passport, ID, you name it I have an X on it. I'm intersex & trans. I'm percieved as ambiguous 100% of the time and I can't pass for shit. Stealth is not an option for me, I am visibly intersex/trans no matter what.

Having either M or F on my documents wasn't any more feasible than having an X on everything at the time I got my documents. Which I had to work my ass off to get, by the way, because I was homeless and had no documents and I needed to obtain everything from scratch, which of course is made as hard as possible to do. (How do you provide proof of identity without any identity documents? How do you provide proof of address without an address? How do you pay for any of this when you can't even afford your own groceries and you get all your needs met through local mutual aid? How do you drop anything off or attend interviews or court without transportation?)

Goddamn right I was getting an X on my documents after having to go through hell to obtain them. If I had to work that hard for them, my documents were going to be how I wanted them.

Now I'm being told the president is trying to invalidate my documents, that depending on how things go I may be held if I try to go anywhere due to my passport having an X gender marker, that we don't know the ways this will be enforced and whether I will still be able to use my documents or not, and my trans community is saying it's actually my own fault for having an X gender marker in the first place and that I was just begging to be discriminated against by having one.

I am in a very vulnerable position and I should be supported by my own community when anti-trans anti-intersex discrimination targets me and people I care about. Y'all are dropping the ball and abandoning your siblings when we need each other most.

Also, for the record, I believe that no documentation should have gender markers. However, the US requires gender markers on documentation at the moment and that fucking sucks. It seems like this will be the case for the foreseeable future. The way people have been saying "nobody should get an X gender marker because gender markers shouldn't exist" just feels very "your strategy pales in comparison to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart" and then not firebombing a Walmart. While we can and should work towards gender markers not existing in the future, people with X gender markers exist right now and maybe y'all should support us instead of constantly throwing us under the bus.

[prezohhh]

as someone whose ACTUALLY queer, im not trying to attack you here, im being genuine in saying that its WILD you're justifying your behavior just bc adin is worse. you think it's harmless to "pretend to be gay" just so you can make jokes about gay men & think it somehow gives you the right to use the f-slur. something many ACTUAL gay men don't even say. just bc your community thinks there's nothing wrong with it & you have gay guys like Austin who think it's funny doesn't mean it is. it's not only cringey af, but it's so offensive to use the f-slur. you're not a gay man. you don't get to use that word. the fact that you don't see a problem w saying "i'm just calling myself gay while making fun of myself & my community".. so you're making fun of being gay? what's there to make fun about? what's so funny about being gay? i truly thought u were gay for so long bc i thought there's no way a straight dude is pretending to be gay as a "joke" so he can say the f-slur. that's fucking insane. i can't believe you don't see your privilege. you can "pretend" to be gay & use the f-slur online but the second u get offline you don't have to deal w ANY of the shit us queer people do. you can walk away from "being gay", we can't. just bc adin is worse doesn't mean what you're doing is fine. tbh i don't understand how you got your progressive friends to go along w this bc it's fucked up. you'll never know the experience of internalized homophobia & hating yourself bc you're queer bc you grew up being called the f-slur, being told to kys, and seeing the way the world treats queer ppl. just to log onto twt to see some straight dude w a girlfriend using the f-slur bc he thinks it's funny. like i genuinely want u to consider that what you're doing is offensive. austin doesn't speak for entire the gay community, just bc he's cool with it doesn't mean it's cool. it's offensive & annoying & cringe & lame & you're not an ally to the community. love u honey

-text from my mom

[clairelutra]

not that skip beat pulled a gun on me and squeezed the trigger, but 281 was really something, huh

[wanderlustknightofmagic]

"Technically, the card they will assign you would become the default unless you had a device or spell available. The people at the guild have those who could use... I believe you called it 'Message'?, but they have that type of spell with one of the staff so they can contact you if they need to. You could also use them to relay a message to another person. Those who have a device for such communication are rare to find and even rarer to actually get in-contact with. They may still ask you for a residence to refer to, on the off-chance they can't reach you in any way, though such is really just used for personal requests, if you become popular enough, or for... -sigh- fan mail," He'd groan at the last part as he finished his own meal.

"Whatever the case, I'll help you fill everything out and double-check before we leave." He would then turn to Wicht as she asked if she should register to. Rain would open his mouth for a moment before closing it and giving a tilt to his head. "...We do actually have a system for magical beings... Sure, let's get you registered too. If you have something like what the fae of this world do, for example, fairy dust, you could sell it and be marked as a good's provider. Aside from that, having another way to reach you both would be good." He looked over to see Noelle ready and decided the quick-way was best. Casting a spell in his own language, his armor and accessories would appear on him.

"Rain? I caught some fish and wanted to know if you wanted to cook with me. I know our last little bout was fun, but I think I can best you this time."

"Oooooh fish? Is it native from here or is it from another world? It's fine either way, but I would like to know if this is something you have a little more... familiarity with. After all, I encourage you trying to get an edge up on out-cooking me if you think it'll help," He'd smirk while he'd pull out his hairband to help push his hair back.

[unclewaynemunson]

Pt2 to this post

'Is something wrong?' Nancy asks, not long after the two of them have taken their familiar spots on the hood of Steve's car. They're basking in what might be the last warm sunlight of the year, looking out over the quarry, at a safe distance from the edge.

It's become a tradition the two of them share, ever since they reconnected back in March. It calms them both, to just sit here and take in the view, no one around but each other. Nancy is one of the few people Steve can share a comfortable silence with: sometimes they sit here quietly for what feels like hours, side by side, listening to music or to nothing but the birds singing around them. But they also have their best conversations here: it's the place where Nancy entrusted him she wanted to break up with Jonathan; it's the place where they talked about their shared past and decided they would always love each other as friends; it's the place where they finally talked about Barbara in a way they couldn't when they were younger. It's where Nancy talked about the ghosts still haunting her and Steve talked about how lonely he sometimes felt.

Steve huffs. 'How did you guess?'

'When you frown, you always do it with your whole face,' Nancy notes. 'So it's hard to miss, really.'

Steve glances at her side profile. There's a serenity to her features that's still relatively new. It means she's healing, slowly learning how to be happy again. It means she stopped waiting for the end of the world and started believing in a real future again. It makes Steve proud of how far they both have come.

'I had a fight with Eddie,' he confesses. 'And with Dustin, I guess.'

'What happened?'

He sighs. 'It's complicated.'

'Wanna tell me about it?'

The look in her eyes is kind and inviting. Steve hesitates. He wants to, but he doesn't know if he can. It's a risk. It's scary.

But he can't imagine Nancy Wheeler ever being careless with his secrets. He can't imagine her judging him, can't imagine her being as small-minded as most people in this town.

He was planning on telling her anyway, because things had been going so well with Eddie lately and – no, he shouldn't think about that right now. But maybe it would actually be nice to talk about it with Nancy.

'So, um...' His throat feels tight and his hands are sweaty. 'I recently discovered some things about myself. I-' The words get stuck somewhere on the way to his mouth, and he clears his throat.

Nancy doesn't push, but only gives him an encouraging nod, waiting for him to find his voice again.

'I found out I like boys,' he finally manages to confess. 'And I need you to know that – that that doesn't mean that what I felt for you wasn't real. It was. I loved you, and now I fell in love with a boy. And-'

'Steve.' Nancy's hand suddenly covers his, causing him to finally jerk his head away from the view over the quarry, to focus on her face again instead.

Her eyes are wide, and she squeezes his hand.

'You don't have to explain yourself to me,' she tells him. 'We're good. But thank you for telling me. For trusting me with this.'

Steve heaves out a relieved sigh, and Nancy smiles; it's that genuine kind of smile which reveals all kinds of dimples and soft lines across her face.

'We might be more similar than you thought,' she tells him, a faint blush spreading over her cheeks.

'Really?' Her words make his breath catch in his throat. He squints at her, trying to see her in this new light. 'Are you saying what I think you're saying?'

She shrugs. 'I don't know. I'm not sure yet,' she admits. 'Still figuring things out.'

'Take your time, there's no rush,' he tells her. 'But...' He bumps his shoulder against hers. 'When you're done figuring it out, talk to me, okay?'

She nods. 'Okay.'

For a while, it's quiet between the two of them. Some kind of raptor circles high above them in the sky. They both follow it with their eyes until it disappears among the tree tops west of the quarry.

'Is it Eddie?'

Steve blinks dumbly a couple of times.

'Wha- what?'

'The guy you were talking about. The one you fell in love with. It's Eddie, isn't it?'

'Jesus, Wheeler, what kind of sorceress are you?' Steve exclaims.

Nancy laughs again. 'You're not being as subtle as you think,' she tells him. 'The two of you have been hooking up for a while now, haven't you?'

Steve huffs dramatically. 'This is unfair. You know everything; I can't even tell you my own secrets anymore!'

'So what happened?' Nancy asks. 'You said you had a fight with him?'

'It's fucking stupid,' he sighs. 'Dustin was getting way too excited about the fact that I was gonna be hanging out with you, so I told him I was seeing someone. Next thing I knew, he was telling Eddie all about how I was seeing a girl.' He waves his hands around to make annoyed air quotations. 'I wanted to tell Eddie it was a misunderstanding, but Dustin was there, so I couldn't out us just like that, and he looked so betrayed and heartbroken... He didn't wanna listen to me.'

Steve sighs; he still can't manage to forget that look in Eddie's eyes when Dustin delivered the big news. 'I wish I would've talked about what I felt for him earlier. I should've been honest when I had the chance, y'know. But I was afraid he wouldn't wanna label what we had, that he wouldn't feel the same way – and now we're in this whole mess. God, he must hate me right now, Nance.'

To his surprise, Nancy gives him an unexpected slap against his arm.

'Ouch, what the hell was that for?!'

'What are you even doing here with me, Steve? You should've gone after him, tell him how you feel!'

'I tried, obviously, but he didn't wanna listen to me!'

'So make him listen! You're in love with him, he obviously feels the same way about you, and you let him leave to wallow in a broken heart he doesn't even need to have!' She rolls her eyes and slides off the car, adding something under her breath that sounds suspiciously like an exasperated 'Boys!' before she pulls Steve off the car as well. 'C'mon, time to get your ass over to the trailer park. Right. Now,' she says through gritted teeth. And, well, Steve knows better than to argue with a determined - and truthfully quite terrifying - Nancy Wheeler.

Read the last part here Taglist: @withacapitalp @ultimatedreamer104 @irregular-child @jcmadgirl @estrellami-1 @myguiltyartpleasure @hallucinatedjosten @jaybren @thew1ldblueyonder @melodymeddler @alycatavatar @zoeweee @lolawonsstuff @fairy-princette @saramelaniemoon @phirex22 @krazyperson @xxsky-shockxx (I only put people on this list who explicitly asked to be tagged. That's really no problem, I love to do that so dw about asking, but I got a lot of relatively vague reactions to the previous post that i'm not gonna dissect and interpret, bc I don't wanna clog anyone's notes unwanted. So just to be clear: i consider it a huge compliment if anyone asks for a tag but please do it clearly if you do!)

[coffeelovinggayidiot]

Like all of tumblr, aparently: we 💜 love ✡️jews✡️ and we would 👊 punch nazis and we reblog five 5️⃣ different haukkah 🕎 posts a year we are like so progresive 💁✨️

Also all of tumblr, aparently: death to all jews 🚫✡️ if you're a jewish person who lives in IsNotRaEl then you're an evil 👺 bad jew and you deserve to be raped and murdered ☠️☠️ what? You fled to israel because we were murdering you by the millions??? Well you should have all died lol ☠️☠️ happy hanukkah btw 🕎

[gangstalkerbarbie]

And it's been so forever. Before Vidvilt there was Nero.

Everyone knows the orthodox history about Nero, written by a Senate that didn't like his efforts to improve things for people who weren't them. But once you know that he was actually a quite reasonable person (for a Roman emperor), popular among the lower classes and with the Jews (who he was slightly nicer to than Caligula), it begins to make sense that there's a Talmudic legend where things went differently.

Where he actually faked his own death and embraced Judaism, becoming an ancestor to Rabbi Meir, of Berurya's husband fame. No really, I'm not shitting you.

Nero Redivivus, believed to be due to return by commoners any day now for centuries on end, was probably a prototype for the legend of Arthur's return.

A Christian version, no doubt influenced by the specific terrible things he actually did do to that unfortunate community, has him as the Antichrist and his return as something to be feared, but in the rest of the empire the myth endured well into the 400s, into the period Arthurian scholars often cite as the germination point of the legend. There's a chance that Artos the Celtic king, if he existed, I don't know, this isn't my wheelhouse anymore, has a legacy because there was a precedent. Because people already had practice hoping for the return of the good king.

This all seems extremely unbelievable, but look, I've brought sources:

The legend about his conversion is in Gittin 56a. The Nero Redivivus legend comes down to us from a wide range of sources as it evolves, but first from a Sibyl (The Sibylline Oracles, IV, 155-159.178-180; V.137-141; V.361-396 — linked here).

The sibyl is cited by Dio Chrysostom and to the best of my understanding this is when it really takes off. Much later, when the legend has had time to cook, Christian authors like Augustine of Hippo begin connecting him to the Antichrist, because, like, let's be fair and look at this empire's opinion of them and its crimes against this population.

I don't know when the legend about Meir's ancestry took shape (probably before the Antichrist thing by a couple centuries, we don't know, there might be books we don't have about that from closer to Nero's time, peril of the field of study and all), or who invented it.

Meir collected religious animal stories (equivalents Jews used to have to things like the Haida legend of Raven stealing the sun, although the establishment at the time was very conservative and harsh about this due to the social climate and their strong commitment to aniconic monotheism, so his "fox fables", although he collected them from laypeople in a proto-anthropological spirit and appears to have liked them, don't come down to us. In fact they're called fox fables not because they're about foxes, but because the teller is a fox — the opposite of a lion of Torah in the idiom of the time). He might have personally wanted some legitimacy because of the ensuing damage to his reputation, or he might have been assigned an illustrious but morally spotty ancestor because it bangs rhetorically and helpfully but indirectly makes the point that this illustrious sage we can't speak ill of might be... compromised. I don't know this either.

Go have a look at what comes up under "Nero Redivivus" on like, JSTOR, and then compare it to the King Arthur lore you may be familiar with.

Kind of fun and kind of mind-blowing, isn't it? :D

There is something fascinating about Yiddish Arthuriana, because these people knew better than anyone that it wasn't historical- and wouldn't it be great if kings and knights were nice? holds such specific weight to it.

[faceeeeee]

Did you think I was joking? ....Well I kinda was, in the sense that I haven't redesigned the entire cast...JUST YET!

This is an old render I made last year cause I was mesmerized by the voice actor for this guy and the fanart so- there's that. I've been watching the whole fandom plus the games for a while now and I think it's time to jump in the hype train now that the 7th installment arrived like a week ago.

I'll probably end up remaking this design but for now, this is everything I've got.

[mormonforgetmenot]

I love being queer and I love being a mormon, but there are times when I'm just so tired.

[existentialcrisis-9-5]

Do you think they've ever wished on a shooting star?

Close-up:

Just a quick doodle I did to try and quell my excitement for tomorrow. I'm going away to see my first proper meteor shower! It was at its pique last week, but by the time I was actually able to get people to go with me, everything was booked out. I'm just hoping the weather works with me (it won't :') )

As an unrelated side note, I wasn't keen on drawing the goobers in this style initially, but it's starting to grow on me a bit.

[stupendousfoxthing]

I alternate between thinking it's hilarious and sad when I see other shippers (not just the neighbors or Taennopes) having to analyze color choices, actual numbers, symbols or codes they think they've cracked. This is nutbar conspiracy theorist territory, and it just looks insane. You've really gone off the deep end if this is how you're keeping your ship alive. There are some Taekookers who do this, but I put them on a list of people to not ever take seriously and ignore them. Most of them are pushed to the fringes in this community anyway. Or Instagram. 😂 In my Taekooking, I don't have to do this and there's still SO MANY real connections. Way more significant ones than any of the other ships people bring here thinking they're actually doing something. I can't believe people have so little shame that they try to argue with Taekookers over stuff like this. Whatever you have, I promise you Taekookers have something better and in much greater quantity. Also, this is not something to even try to genuinely answer. I see the "he wears red because of the fortune teller" excuse, and sure he worked some red into his wardrobe because of that but more likely he just likes most of these things he's wearing and they have nothing to do with a fortune teller or any ship. Like any other regular human being. He wears red, and he wears lots of other colors that you don't place any significance on. Editing this because I want to point out how this is one of my favorite kind of anons. The anons pretending to be Taekookers who just now noticed another ship thing and are shook, running here to bring other Taekookers the news. It was just now that I learned that Jennie's 2nd name is Ruby and I've also noticed she has been sporting Red since BP's last comeback. It's been her nickname since she was a kid and her Instagram name for years. BP's last comeback was 2022, but she's been wearing red for a lot longer than that. It's a signature color of Chanel which she has been a brand ambassador for a long time. The joke among her fandom that she wears a ton of red despite saying she hates the color is years old now. I think anon may be a dirty little fibber pretending to be a Taekooker because these crazy coincidences ain't coincidenting at all the way they want. None of this lines up unless you're a desperate shipper OR you just woke up from a coma and the first thing you did was check Taennope accounts to try to catch up. Admit it anon. You're a Taennope just bringing your ship's latest talking points here hoping that Taekookers are as gullible and uninformed as you.

I've always wondered why Tae changed his mic color to Red and has been wearing Red colors a lot. I noticed this all started at the same time Taennie rumors came out. It was just now that I learned that Jennie's 2nd name is Ruby and I've also noticed she has been sporting Red since BP's last comeback. It's just too much of a coincidence, isn't it?

https://twitter.com/kchartsmaster/status/1881873703425941988?t=m-dwzbdygELY6ssWO7lMWQ&s=19

Jkkr and maths 🤝 Taennies and red

Meanwhile Tkkrs…

[pluralhottakes]

Weird opinion as an endo myself, but;

Not all "anti"-endos are bad

Im sorta friends with someone who doesn't believe in them and to me thats okay, because they are letting me use the term

Its only when they harass people that it's bad

Just because we dont agree about endos doesn't mean we can't talk or we cant be freinds, its just means that endos are a touchy subject or something else, because to be fair, no one can know it all about neuroscience, no one can know every little thing that can lead to an endo, so not everyone needs to believe in it.

to clarify i am VERY pro endo myself, im just saying that not all anti-endos/endo nonbelievers are harmful and hateful

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[iloveacronix]

Woohoo, remake of my first digital drawing that I made a year ago!

[system-voices]

It's crazy how people (coughs anti Endos) seem all ready to debate and argue about hills they're willing to die on but when I'm actually asking a genuine question about their thought process they don't want to say a word.

Everyone wants to talk until someone actually leads the conversation. I'm just saying. - 👊

[the-starry-lycan]

I would like to know, in the most absolutely completely totally normal way, which Sea of Stars character you find the most biteable.

You read me right.

Biteable.

Mine would be Seraï, Zale, or Brugaves.

[lesovyart]

im so obsessed w them that I made fanart AND my own playlist