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The whole transandrophobia discussion thing is weird bc it feels like it's a bunch of poc and jewish trans people being like "here are my experiences of how specifically being MASCULINE had affected me, and the discrimination and violence I experienced based on that. And here is how that relates to me being a racial/ethnic minority"
And then a few loud white trans people going "ohhh you wanna be oppressed so bad you *slur*. This is why there aren't any poc in your movement it's because REAL poc understand intersectionality"
#hot take white culturally christian or athiest leftests do not properly interpret white jewish ppl#like as a poc i and other poc understand that white jewish ppl often get racial privilege#but a) not always b) they experience oppression based off of their ethnicity#idk from my perspective it seems like white goyim either see jewish ppl as 'the disgusting exotic enemy' or 'basically WASPS but they#wanna feel special'#with no nuance. no recognition#look maybe this next part is bc i didnt grow up with jewish ppl and therefore didnt know until I was 18/19 that jewish ppl can count as#white. but like. idk how to say this. i dont wanna speak over white jewish ppl. but like.#jewish ppl that have obvious jewish features (whether Ashkenazi facial features OR they dont have those but wear eg kippahs)#arent like. white. idk pls correct me if this is antisemitic or incorrect or something.#but like. light skinned =/= white obviously.#i just struggle to see how my bestfriend with her lovely dark eyes and curls and nice nose counts as 'white' when ppl call her the k slur#across the street. ykwim?#like white doesnt mean light skinned. it means 'part of the in-group of white ppl'#like my ex who is white and jewish? yeah hes white. if he didnt wear his necklace then goyim wouldnt know. you know#like obvs he still experiences ethnic oppression but he doesnt experience racial oppression#but other ppl with more prominent eg ashkenazi (im singling them out bc most jewish ppl here are ash.) like i dont GET how they have racial#privilege.
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37 years old but everyone keeps calling her girl
#my art#earth-101#dc comics#supergirl#kara zor-el#kara danvers#i think 101 kara struggles with being infantilised by the public a lot#like most capes call her superwoman or kara and she prefers that but most folks on social media and on the streets#still call her supergirl - no struggles with ''living in superman's shadow'' bc i think she's been established long enough#and there's enough other super fam members that its not really on her radar#im brainstormin and still thinkin but i really like this design for her
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I love seeing Rory run in the field!! Bird dog doing bird dog things!! You said in the tags you had different training and priorities with her vs Mav re: offleash running like that. What kinds of things did you do differently with Rory to be comfortable having her offleash at a distance with reliable recall?
I was writing a whole novel but really it boils down to this chart. Under the cut because it's (vertically) long.
In short, it's just as much about what I didn't do with Maverick as what I did do with Aurora.
(Edited to add: I am extremely fortunate to live in the prairies where the kind of visibility I need is easy to find. Use my experience to inspire your own training if you like, but don't use it as a recipe. I have my own goals and my own priorities and those are likely different than yours.)
Maverick:
🔵 Supremely confident from day 1
🔵 Came home in August (extremely good and exciting time for outdoor adventures)
🔵 Prioritized specific sports behaviours over foundational building blocks like engagement and cooperation
🔵 Learned bad habits from my older dog at the time (prey drive > recall)
🔵 Was indiscriminately prey driven. If it moved, he wanted to kill it.
🔵 I phased out treats too fast and didn't want to use an ecollar or long line
🔵 I focused on "social media dog behaviours" (think like walking extremely close to me on trails) and got frustrated when we couldn't meet these rather than meeting my dog where he was at. This created a lot of frustration in our dog adventures.
🔵 I practiced recalls constantly when I didn't have to, making them a tedious behaviour for him. I would recall him 20-50 times a hike for everything from "you're too far away from me" to "I want to take a photo".
Aurora
🟣 Came to me a little insecure and looked to me for reassurance
🟣 Came home in December (a cold and relatively boring time for outdoor adventures)
🟣 I prioritized engagement, cooperation, and name recognition from day 1
🟣 Practiced good habits by walking offleash in the snow either alone or with Pike (amazing recall)
🟣 Is extremely birdy, but is very very focused. She easily calls off deer or people/dogs in the distance because she mostly cares about birds.
🟣 Literally always gets offered a high value snack for recalling or voluntary check ins (I will never phase this out, I will carry chunks of cheese on offleash walks for the rest of her life)
🟣 I never practice recalls if I don't need them. This one is hard to explain, but once Rory understood that long whistle = come back as fast as you can, I don't whistle unless I really need to. I recall her an average of 0-3 times per hike (*based on visibility or wildlife*) and trust her to make good decisions otherwise. I keep my eyeballs on her 100% of the time and choose areas with good visibility, but I don't recall her just for being far away.
🟣 I limit hikes where I have to nag her often (think, in the woods where I dont have a great line of sight and have to remind her to stay close to me) to a few times a month or less so she doesn't start getting frustrated about it.
🟣 I trust the training I put into her and choose to run her in areas with (relatively) reduced risk if she makes the "wrong" choice. I don't nitpick everything she does and I let her make her own choices, within reason.
🟣 I have an interrupter cue to ask her to stop doing something before I call her back (if she's digging a hole and I want her to move on, I use "Rory, enough! Here!") instead of whistling at her.
🟣 I don't force her attention on check ins. If she runs back to me and doesn't want a snack and wants to run straight back out, I let her run back out.
🟣 I have anticipatory cues for the end of a walk so I don't have to recall her when we get to the end of the field.
I want to say that it's nerve wracking to watch my dog sprint at full speed hundreds of yards away from me. I have to fight the impulse to recall her just because she's far away. It's an exercise in trust because I'm always worried about her going over the horizon, or running into a wildlife, or falling into a hole, but it's an important thing to work on if you have a dog that needs that trust to thrive.
Mav and I were a good team, but I never fully trusted him outdoors. I always had my finger on the ecollar buttons ready for him to do an evil and need to be vibrated. It was exhilarating to watch him in the field, but it wasn't really fun or relaxing.
Rory and I built a much stronger foundation of trust (I personally never would have been able to do this if I had more than one dog). She doesn't know any tricks yet, but I'm super confident in her recall and ability to take direction in the field, even when she's sprinting as fast as possible.
#dogblr#about mav#about aurora#hahahaha i still wrote a novel#i have a lot of thoughts about recall#i never want to see a four month old puppy with an ecollar and yet i see it all the time in the gundog circles#and i get it i just find it super distasteful#i was team 'never get a dog in winter' !#and i am now team '100% get a dog in winter'#it was sooooo much easier to build good habits when nothing was moving in the winter freeze#my biggest issue with rorys recall is that she struggles to recall off pike#but even that improves each time we go out and thats more an arousal issue than a recall issue#she's a really cool dog#i still choose my offleash locations and time super carefully#i would never go out at noon on a sunday and run her offleash#i go out to quiet areas at quiet times#and i just let her do her thing#trust is a two way street even with dogs#ask#anon#bird dog training#recall training#recall#<- tags so i can find this later#eta: i want to add that i do use her name to get her attention if i need something or want a photo#and i have a specific cue for 'look at me from a distance and decide if you want to come closer'#but im largely quiet in the field when shes running especially if were walking by ourselves#i just let her do her thing#thats why we're out there after all
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i think what's really been getting to me the past few months is the realisation that i dont relate to literally any of the mental health stuff i see anywhere. like whenever there's some affirmation or motivation or just relatable-sounding posts in general they all seem like such common problems and it's like, damn i literally dont experience any of that. and yet im still crumpling. something uniquely wrong with me
#like ion have social anxiety and my depression manifests entirely differently. already excludes like 90% of things on here#also like. my parents grew up so poor immediately post ww2 and in the ussr that they#were eating dead animals off the street. my father was in a revolution when he was 10 and grew up working in a mine#and ion even wanna think abt the shit my mother endured in transylvania#and they both went to uni for over a decade and made an extremely good life for themselves#and i cant even do 2 yrs of uni without folding?? i dont even have anything else going on#i literally have everything handed to me why can't i just function#maybe i never learned how to struggle for things. i dont know#barking#and i cant say oh well im more mentally ill than them. first of all where do you think i got them from. second of#all they were in a war and spent the majority of their lives in the ussr. they wont even#talk about most of the things they went through#like dont get me wrong i have such a long list of mental issues my biography would count as the next dsm#but it's not like my parents were okay at any point. so like#for the record they stopped living in the ussr because the ussr ended they didn't move out or anything. we're still in eastern europe#which is definitely contributing to my overall state. please can i fucking leave pleeeease
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I'm so glad people seem to like the little tom ludlow imagine I did 😭💖 i was nervous to post it bc I've never written anything like that before and I literally know nothing about ludlow except for the vibes lol so I really appreciate the nice things y'all are saying in the tags 🥹💚
#street kings is definitely on my to watch list#im so used to writing fluff and crack and a lil bit of smut here and there so darker topics are a struggle for me lol#but it was fun to challenge myself with it!!#m: ash speaks.
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nikkicafeina said: There's just /something/ there when all our revolutionary leaders learned about justice and heroism and politics from Europe (sometimes IN Europe) and Europe learned it from Rome and in the end it just comes down to how we've never learned to say "freedom" in our own languages, and maybe we never can.
I actually have a much more optimistic opinion on this! even if our history has been brutalized four times over (spain, america, japan, and both marcos administrations), we did, as a people, learn to cry for freedom, and it did not come from a place of Roman imagery or European thought.
there were parts of the Philippines that managed to escape the full force of imperial violence due to the simple fact of geography, and they resisted tyranny as much as someone inspired by the writings of Rizal did, and there were parts of the Philippines that have always resisted the forceful reach of Manila to culturally assimilate and consume all other cultures and regions under an invented national one. these are calls for freedom, maybe without language, but it IS resistance born out of the filipino people, without the hand of europe to guide it.
even if much of our history was lost, rewritten, bastardized, the Filipino people have always resisted, even if the conclusion was tragic or forced into something else by someone's poetic but misguided bullshit, because at the end of the day, it is intolerable to be under the foot of someone else and it always has been, everywhere across the world.
the continuation of imperial visuals (whether it's the Western talking points of the government, the architecture, the Roman Empire) has a lot to do with structures of power. the government is distinctly European-Western. honestly, it's fucking American. it's driven by capitalism and imperialism, or a desire to ally with imperialist nations, to subjugate and maintain power to benefit a handful of officials who desire profit above all else. this is a tragedy, and we seem unable to shake it!
but. our students have always come forward to fight against injustice. we burned effigies, we protested, we call for justice even when our journalists are killed, our farmers are massacred in the streets, when our people are shot down by the military. many people from my province do not have a higher education, they would not know of the messy politics of imperial powers, but they do know that the elections were bullshit and the farmers are suffering and government doesn't fucking care, so they all turned out to march through the city to cry for justice, to be recognized.
today, we hold hands across seas with other oppressed people who are also desperate for freedom and peace. it would be nice to have our own words for it! but I'm not sure that we need it. it's enough to stand next to our countrymen and for others across the world and say, I got your back.
as the chant goes: from the classrooms to the streets, etc.
if our history had not been colonized, we might have had our own words and philosophies for it, instead of borrowed approximations, but the desire for freedom and justice is very much ours, and we have always called for it through action. the language now, I think, is one of solidarity. like, I think above all else, we MUST believe in a better future.
#also shout out to the universities who keep trying to make all their journals open access but are at the mercy of western publications!#you're the real MVPs!#i gotta post more about academic racism and how the philippines has been struggling against it for awhile now#SHSHD hi. sorry to make a whole speech about this. i think about it a lot!!! arguably this takes up. 60% of my thoughts on a daily#basis. i have a lot of complicated feelings about ph history but i always look to see who is calling for justice and freedom#and im like. yeah. YEAH. FROM THE CLASSROOMS TO THE STREETS!#and then I walk backwards to call for justice for the revolutionaries. andres bonifacio…………..#I want to. un mythologize our history. I think. which is why I’m focused on it’s tragedy. but I also try not to get Stuck in it
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ill answer ur asks soon my lovelies thank u sm for sending them in<3
another rant in tags im so sorry tw death again
#i am just trying to grapple with my grief rn#n sorry for yapping about it here but in my little pea brain spitting it out onto tumblr is gentler on me than talking to people#because talking is too hard#but just throwing it out is cathartic#but anyway. i am Struggling and the grief is crushing#but ill pull through eventually#it just seems cruel and absurd that the world Didnt Stop#it really feels like it should have#the death of someone under the age of 25 feels so insane to me. im angry at the universe for not just. straight up pausing everything#and each time i forget about it n remember again it hurts the same as when i found out#today i thought i saw him out on the street and for a brief second i hoped maybe it all never happened#but it was just someone similar to him#i cant get myself to put on his album or look at at any pictures#he was supposed to be playing a show saturday#he had so much potential#his band was Just starting to take off#im fucking distraught#it’s just Not Fair and was So Preventable#im furious and although we didnt used to speak much recently i can feel the gap he left in our lives
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#been stuck in bed for the last 5 days#tried to go outside today#went to a bakery nearby and fell in the middle of the street while crossing it#some people mainy kids going back from school got concerned#they all asked me if im okay#i got up was okay and went back home#and then proceeded to sob because thats the first time in months somebody irl near me cared#my body is aching from the fall#still#and i just realised iv been so exhausted mentally and physically and burnt out i cant function anymore#i thought i would be fine that im just being lazy with the staying in bed#but after my last job fucked me over i think that was the last of any energy i had#honestly ive been crying at least once a day for the last two weeks#usually twice or more times tbh#been crying all day today#i think im just a shell of a human at this point#ive been struggling for the most basic shit in the last 6 months#couldnt find housing still struggling with a job#cant even find a single friend#i keep trying with everything#but its not working#and im beyond exhausted#this new job better treat me like a human and pay me because i dont know if i can take another one of those on#like im unable to do anything make meals take showers you name it#i am absolutely shell of a human#i just want to feel like im able pay for my survival thats all#personal
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playing toys
#have another heister oc idea. weird woman who was sole caretaker for her grandma for like 20 years and the greatest thing she took--#--from that experience were that she is incredibly scared to get old (reason why she starts staging larger + larger solo heists) and would-#--rather go out guns blazing while shes still '''got some life left in her''' <-- clearly warped+pessimistic view. her early struggles to--#--afford to care for her grandmother properly (was 17 when she first started up and never graduated hs) and the absolute assurance that--#--she would have NOBODY willing to care for her the way she did her grandma (disowned by parents. grandpa dead b4 she even moved in) rlly--#--affect her view of what old age would mean for her#fun ideas 4 her would be 1 her grandpa was a bank robber himself and she spent 20 years hearing absurd stories abt--#--him while looking after her grandma and 2 she loves street racing. hardcore adrenaline seeker though her real flat + grim affect doesnt--#--convey it well#dont have any setting yet which allows for getting a bit silly w modern era characters so im doing this lol#pday stuff
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in pathologic 2 i tell the giant bird to fuck off, then i immediately contend with the fact half the list of people will probably die
#personal#fucking notkin picked my corpse up and scolded me after that he cant keep doing that. it was so humbling. like yeah ok i wont keel over#in the street anymore. idk how that happened (those clouds kept attacking me)#and ive already died more than once. its so mean abt reloading#i dont even think im halfway through too. they're all gonna kick it if im struggling rn
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hello little gay ppl who live in my phone, since it is a good day today you can have some cute pictures of my dog. her name is pączki.
#isnt she *adorable*#only she is also very loud#as i type this she is having a conversation with the dog across the street#shes just amazing tho#how tf do you tag a picture of your dog help#im struggling#lmao#dog#doggo#cute dog#rambles!! many rambles!!!
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"no dw he's super friendly!!" after i was pounced on by a massive dog that im not familiar with 🧍🧍
#tp#ma'am do you not see the bag and suitcase im hurriedly pulling behind me???? do i look like i CARE if your dog is friendly??#get it off me oml#today has been eventful. awful cramps + travelling back to work + exam stress + bus only once an hour bc it's sunday#so i had to drag my bags with me walking for twenty minutes which isn't bad but i was on a time crunch and my train was gonna arrive soon#and this dog jumps on me and the owner can barely hold it back#and the train ends up coming in five minutes late (pretty standard DB behaviour)#AND it's filled to the brim with middle aged smokers all pushing each other to get to the big soccer game#i hate match days. so much. all of the streets become clogged and a three minute underground train becomes a forty five minutes struggle#plus EVERYONE and their mothers are smoking and it stinks and burns#sick and tired of the yellow and black merch y'all iykyk
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finished a long-ish comic for @jancyweeks … now time to try and write some fic?
#actually so in love with my sketches#drawing has been so easy lately its very weird#meanwhile im really struggling with the whole writing thing#because i start writing a scene but get so derailed with the characters side thoughts#doesnt matter if its jonathan or nancy or whoever i just make them have so many thoughts#to the point of it truly hindering anything happening in the scene and everythings just weird introspection#mainly because i write about v mundane moments and really plotty things are too hard for me#i mean i can only write in my downtime i cant just get in some writing between shifts or meetings or whatever#its for downtime downtime#thats how i operate#but i have no downtime#so all my fic ideas are essentially - what if they kissed#what if they said this thing to the other person and the other person said something back#what if they held hands and walked down a street#what if i make them kiss what if they make out#what if they breathe#what if they sleep#and then when it does have a plot its like what if they breathe but its her BIRTHDAY#what if she takes a nap but she also gives him a HAIRCUT#i just love boring things im so sorry#sleepy teenagers doing simple things while overanalyzing the hell out of each other and saying petty things about hawkins high#its all i can offer#stranger things#jancy#writing#personal#text#and yes this is a cry for help#social battery drained from halloween and writing tumblr tags helps me recharge apparently
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genders people have assigned me based on my clothing
hoodies and basketball shorts: a teenager
noodle strap tops and lace shorts: a gay university student
printed shirts & jeans: a lad
brightest eyeshadows known to humankind, jeans & tshirts: a lesbian university student
flower print dresses: a tourist lady
shirts & black formal pants: office worker of unidentified gender
vintage coats & long skirts: a lad, again
#nb#im starting a list because it's funny#not the least becuase i get assigned boy when im not wearing traditionally masculine clothes??#anyway nothing beats the gender euphoria of a dayı on the street struggling to place me and then settling on evladım#but it's weird that people think my brother and i are twins cause im 10 years older than him 😭
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If there's anything that I noticed bout my writing recently is that I realized that I'm actually pretty good at jumping around dodging something but it still comes out flowing well in the story anyway. Like, I make something both vague yet clear enough for anyone to understand.
#aria rants#im mostly talkin bout stuff i have no clear knowledge about#like with that jokid oneshot i posted. i dont know the streets around shibuya#and i only just finished futabas arc at that time too#but by writing ''outside of shibuya'' and ''futaba's recovery'' the setting is clear#i did the same thing with the mhyk fic i just finished too. vague yet clear#and ngl it helps a TON for me somehow. cuz when i was writing my omori fics#i was describing nearly everything in the scene and struggled so badly cuz of it#cuz i used up the majority of my brainpower visualizing the scenes#when i couldve just used a simple description and anyone couldve understood#so with this newfound discovery. im going to use it a lot. well actually#im gonna use it whenever it can be applied thatll still flow well in the story
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there's this one particular kind of pet owner that will brag about the size of their pets like my dog is 100+ lbs 😏 and then you meet said dog and the dog is morbidly obese
#gab gabs#ive met a presa canario like this he was over 200 lbs and poor thing was so big he could barely walk#and people across the street would compliment him loke. ok. he is not doing good y'all#then theres the lab im sitting for right now who is over 100 lbs and aging... the owners are somehow unaware that they are feedinf him way#too much#they seem to think he's supposed to be this big?#they put him on joint supplements and like ...the irony.#ive also met a massive dobe that was over 100 pounds and so overweight. he sucked he had horrible separation anxiety and would use all of#his weight to jump on people and scratch with his big paws it was awful lmao#i have sympathy for people who have pets that struggle with obesity bc i know its genetic but so many.pet owners dont give a shit and dont#even see a problem with their pet's weight lmao. it's really disheartening
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