#i refuse to be polite anymore

[opashoo]

I'm absolutely losing my mind seeing "We need to not treat men and masculinity as inherently evil and worthy of hatred, and not fall back into biological and gender essentialism because that hurts everyone, including trans women" being misinterpreted as "Women need to stop oppressing men", "I think trans women are actually men" or "You specifically who have trauma around men need to get over it because men are the real victims". It's so willfully disingenuous. It makes me sick how willing people are to read in bad faith, especially how willing other trans women are to suddenly start harassing and dogpiling another trans woman.

I am a trans woman too, I understand what it's like to feel unsafe, but it helps no one this cynical attitude that crops up every time someone suggests being kind to men in our lives. "You could save a man you know from falling down the alt-right pipeline" is not the same as "It's your fault that men murder you". "There are people who could be on our side if we don't meet them with immediate hostility" is not the same as "You need to shut up and stop criticizing power structures for the sake of your oppressors' feelings" (I promise there are a lot of people who can be taught about their complicity in oppression without immediately shutting down but you need to work with them). This kind of attitude isn't somehow more informed or correct. It's just lashing out to avoid considering one's own agency.

Making a better, safer world for ourselves requires all kinds of work, but it's always work. It's hard to try to reach out to people who could very realistically harm us, it's work that not all of us can afford to or are able to do and that's fine because we're all just trying to survive. But some of you would rather condescend, tear each other down, and make more enemies before even considering it a possibility.

[diaruchann]

"Old king, forgive us instead. So that no more blood is shed. Let's have open arms instea-"

"No.."

I bet Odysseus didn't even recall Polites at that moment because he was so full of rage.

[shootingstars-or-airplanes]

Politics in the US are fucking scary right now. I'm not gonna sugar coat that. I'm fucking scared. But in an attempt to keep myself from panic-DMing all of my international friends and mutuals to see if any of them can smuggle me out of this hellhole, here is a running list of things that I'm going to try to do for myself and you can do, too. (Please reblog with any further ideas for keeping sanity in whatever the hell it is we're living through right now)

Self-Care. First and foremost, I need to calm the fuck down. Nobody ever made smart decisions when in a panicked frenzy. If I get to feeling like this, I'm going to attempt to give myself a day to not think about it. Watch some TV, play some video games, go for a walk, do literally anything but scroll on the internet and let myself feel worse and worse over this shit.

Stay Informed Responsibly. It's so easy to just see bad headline after bad headline and feel hopeless, but I've found that only really serves to make me spiral like this. I find that influencers and youtubers like Leeja Miller and allie_202_ who share the news alongside direct action items are helpful. These two also balance their bad news out with good news (or at least, less bad news) which helps. I plan on rewatching Leeja's Is It Time To Leave The US? video tonight to help remind me where I stand and hopefully break me out of this fight of flight (apparently my answer is flight) response.

Gradually Take Action. I keep kicking myself for not taking action and I think it's because it all seems so overwhelming. There is so much to do and I'm prone to all or nothing thinking so if I don't do all of it, I feel like I've already failed so I just end up doing nothing. I want to actively break out of this. I want to try to add one action item to my to-do list every month. Hopefully, as I add more, they'll seem less scary and I can build up to adding items every week or so. But I want to set my expectations small so that I'm less likely to fail right away and give up

Build Community. I want to build community and solidarity with other people who feel like me. Who feel like it's all just too big or too much right now and are sick of feeling helpless but are struggling to actually take action. I want us to be able to come together and celebrate each other's wins. Like hell yeah I called my senator today even though I was terrified to do so! Whether this community takes the form of a discord server or something or just the notes of this post, idk and idc. I just want to stop feeling alone.

Like I said, this is an incomplete list. I'm hoping to add to it and I would love to see others add to it as well. I'm just trying really hard not to lose my mind right now. I don't want to run away. I want to fight for my home. But I am so scared right now and I recognize that if I let that fear bind me, then I'm no use to anyone. For my sake and the sake of my community, I want to get better. I want to get better so I can fight.

[noperopesaredope]

For those of ya'll who were able to vote and didn't vote Kamala. Specifically, those who were able to vote and chose not to vote at all.

I know some of you have reason to dislike or even hate her. But as much as you may hate to acknowledge it, voting for her would have been 1000x better and more honorable than not voting at all.

I was a first time voter. As a young trans person living in an increasingly anti-trans country, this meant everything to me. I may no longer be a minor, but I am 19, and I am young in many ways. I have friends who are still in high school, still not old enough to vote, who are terrified for their lives and safety right now. Young trans people who are being targeted and depend on us to help them. But not just trans folks. POC, immigrants & children of immigrants, women, AFABs, victims of SA, general queer folk, and so many others.

Not long ago, I was unable to vote. I was powerless. This was the first time in my life I felt like I had real power over my future and safety. I and so many other first time voters had finally gotten to have a voice, something we had been denied for long despite it affecting everything about our lives. We had finally gotten the right to vote.

And some of ya'll-- and I know most of ya'll are adults who aren't first time voters --who had the privilege of being able to influence your country, who are able to do something about it, who have the power in your hands to do something- anything. You chose not to vote. You chose to throw it away.

You can hate her. That's your right. You can disagree with me. That's your right. But if you chose not to vote when you could have, knowing how many people whose lives depended on the outcome of this election? Knowing how many young people out there rely on your vote because they cannot advocate for themselves and their freedoms?

If you chose to throw away your vote knowing how many people depended on you...

get the fuck off my blog

[cannimumsable]

hey israel lovers why r you arguing so desperately the semantics of what an ethnostate is and who the land belongs to when we all fucking know that killing people is Bad

[gremnda]

INSTAGRAM COMMENTER COMING IN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR-

[goldkirk]

I hope former NAXes (and former supernumeraries and numeraries, but mostly the naxes) get to fuck Opus Dei up all over the world more and more as more things come to light and more evidence is presented because it’s beyond deserved.

You Argentinian NAXes are brave as hell. You’re gonna be remembered as major heroes for refusing to break apart or give up even though the process got interminably long and majorly stacked against you for quite a while and you’re never gonna see this post but I hope you get to live the long, happy, free from human trafficking and labor exploitation and mental and emotional abuse lives you always always deserved. It’s magical that the reveal behind the Oz curtain really started coming from those of you who were most ignored and abused.

[loredwy]

Mmmmm okay but honest question tho

The KOSA regulations would need to be implemented even if the companies offer their services only outside of the country? 🤔 And if they are established on another country and offer its services to usa, they need to implement the regulations right?

Because like, I was thinking of how mihoyo moved from china to avoid the censorship regulations globally, for example

And like, couldnt then social media companies preassure the goverment about doing that too, then

Like, even if they had to censor stuff for usa, they would be losing a lot of potential interactions because of the content theyre hiding, so if they had to censor everything in case of being established in usa (even if it is content being shown outside of the country), wouldnt it be better for them to just move the company to another country then. To continue having those extra interactions from "censored posts" shown to other countries.

Or even, if the cost of filtering the posts was too high, its possible some companies would choose to not offer their services to usa anymore. Idk how taxes to big companies work in those cases, but that would be a loss for them in the long term too right.

Like, isnt the whole bill a bad idea even commercially?

And couldnt it happen that companies publish a statement about getting out of the country in case the regulations were stablished?

[jamiemaybeme]

every single reference to christianity i can find in bears' in trees songs because. yeah. fight me

uhhh idk why i'm doing this at 1am but enjoy ig

just five more minutes:

4am: "for god's sake it's only 4am"

fly out to alaska:

"well moses saw God in a burning bush, so i'm praying please"

bits n' pieces:

fyaaa (bandcamp exclusive): "praying to saint jude all of our lives"

i see blue:

nights like these: "stop asking st anthony"

EDITED: two of my very lovely friends, berry and jamie 1, pointed out that "mother help me, madonna and child" is a reference to mary and Jesus. thank you guys!!

i want to feel chaotic:

rust: "a broken piece/of God's great plan"

"stop me eating the sand/stop me feeling so goddamm bad"

keep me safe:

laugh/cry: "demons of the soul"

and everybody else smiled back:

heaven sent is a coffee cup: ..."heaven" (repeated throughout the song)

mossy cobblestone (kind of): "stained glass" - stained glass windows are often found in churches

"my body is a temple" - common idiom with religious connotations

"and God knows i'll live forever/or die in the attempt"

confidant: "but because you were my home/built on stone instead of sand" - reference to the wise man and foolish man, a parable Jesus told in the new testament (in the bible)

little cellist: "“even Jesus Christ himself needed help to bear his cross”"

sun machine: "i cradle God on my walk to u n i"

"she preaches gospel truth down the hall"

if i just ask politely: " you tell me you're going to church in the morning"

precipitation:

"they said the clouds opened up/and the heavens came down" (technically it's an idiom but leave me alone idc /lh)

every moonbeam every fever dream:

kind love: "set 'em in stained glass windows/build cathedrals to our flaws/the spire's crowned by galaxies"

doing this again: "oh [my] God we're doing this again"

"my mother 'cites a rosary downstairs"

"but Lord these blesséd words fail me"

how to stay shining:

bart's bike: "find heaven sent in brooklyn street" - a reference to heaven sent is a coffee cup

how to build an ocean: instructions:

i can't see anything i don't like about you: "when i'm good, good god, i'm great"

"i am everyone and everything all of the time/oh god i'll be..."

all you get is confetti: "you are magdelene, mary" - mary magdelene is a woman from the bible, who was possessed by demons until Jesus told them to leave her alone. she then became a follower of Christ and was with him until his death. in all four gospels she is cited as one of the women, or the only woman, to be the first people to see Jesus' empty tomb. she also is the first person said to see Jesus resurrected. he speaks to her and she does not recognise him until she says his name.

henry says: "but/and i'll make snow angels out of all their bad dreams"

hot chocolate: "and if it snows right now that would be heaven/i mean honestly, that would be heaven"

nothing cures melancholy like looking at maps: "praying the police won't call on us"

we don't speak anymore: "we can part any sea/that surrounds us" - in the old testament, moses leads the israelites out of egypt by parting the red sea. it is a miracle that God performs through him. moses is also mentioned in fly out to alaska (above).

unreleased songs:

tea: "whether it's the devil's water or the holy water/your essence bleeds out and you diffuse"

[ovisiphorus]

Found screencap I had taken of a prominent white trans woman in the old tumblr dyke clique from back in the day responding to an anon genuinely warning her that a ~certain black butch with very bad “leftist” politics and an obsession with guns~ was finally *loudly and proudly* a transphobic pos and her just stupidly being like “uwu, i still like her and i am comfortably living with difference, are you?”

Woman, PLEASE…Be serious and don’t philosophize about -contradictions- about this. So stupid.

[hellconsumed]

out of character . if you voted for the ugly ass orange man , you can just block me .

[revenge-of-the-assbutt]

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[orfeolookback]

i wish everyone who expects others to know who the fuck usamerican politicians are dies. i only care about them bc they oppress the third world. if u live in the us apologize right fucking now

[hoarseebooks]

A) fuck yeah MaRo, knocking it outta the park lately

B) part of me wants to say “how do people not get this” and I’m sure some don’t, but lately I’ve just known that it’s all bad faith and malice.

In a previous answer you said: "For far too long, fantasy, as a genre, was used as a way to reflect the worldview of [...] how the privileged wished the world was. Modern fantasy is more reflective of the actual world". Isn't "fantasy" explicitly supposed to be a wish for how the world could be and not reality? Wizards of the Coast is an entertainment company and should genuinely stay away from "educating" it's audience. We're grown up people who just want to be happy in our daydreams.

Fictional worlds all make commentary on the real world. Some just do it more subtly than others.

[shivapvoid]

my parents : i want you to succeed in life

also my parents : giving me the bare minimum of everything ever just so they can brag and say "my kid did everything themselves!"

[snekdood]

can we talk about what seems to be a concerted effort by a lot of leftists in my life, conscious or not, to prevent me from having love, literally the only thing I want and need and have wanted and needed ever since I was a child, literally the only thing that would "fix" me in a way to actually be helpful to society and how im apparently not supposed to think ppl doing this are just fucking evil