#it's not a choice

[honeydreamzz]

i don't get why there are people who believe that being queer is a choice. why would trans people choose to be uncomfortable with our bodies and have to use up a ton of money and time just to make it what we feel happy with? why would queer people choose to be prejudiced and discriminated against, oppressed and possibly revoked of rights or killed?

being an alterhuman isn't a choice either. why would we choose to wish so badly that we were born in our real bodies, the ones we were meant to take on, that we hate who we actually are?

[shouldering-worlds]

... sigh you already know what I'm about to say.

[randomfoggytiger]

Hey Tiger! So fan fic has never been my thing, which I know is highly unusual in this fandom, but I have read my fair share!

Personally I prefer to have my own head canon about the MSR but I read #8 and really liked it, so tell me about it! Thank you! 😊

High praise! Thank you! :DDDDD

"It's Not a Choice, but a Calling" is my first blatantly romantic piece, I believe. Usually, the lines between romantic overtures and professional banter in my fics are more blurred than outright crossed; but Mulder and Scully are married, here, so that wouldn't work. William was an addition at someone else's request; but I believe he works-- an outside figure, in a way. Or, more accurately, a figure Mulder and Scully must keep "outside" (for now) to preserve his innocence. I kept the child sexless to fit into anyone's headcanon-- be it their canonical son (like I imagined) or a different, adopted child (like @television-overload's recent series explored.)

I was also neck-deep in medieval Sims 4 mods; so, the magical turns of phrase practically wove themselves in. ;)))

Quote:

Scully leaves him on the couch, darting from room to room until she finds her potion jar and a pair of long, woven socks. “For your mucus,” she instructs, pulling at Mulder’s shirt until he hands it over, disappointing him by transferring the goop on her fingertips to his. Divesting him of his beach sandals, she sets to work slathering the fleshy part of one foot, then the other, with Vick’s while Mulder sniffs, then snorts, behind her.

[some-user-some-place]

If I wasn't sure if I'd make it, now I know I will.

[canonkiller]

eat drink sleep play

[lindamccartneysstrap]

I still think its the funniest shit ever that when I used to volunteer at planned parenthood every week even though I walked past mostly the same protesters every single time they were begging me not to get an abortion theres other options yadda yadda. Like meemaw you see me here every week. They call me abortions georg because I get another one every Monday at 8am

[daakureisaiko]

[oscar-isaac]

RYAN GOSLING "I'm Just Ken" wins Best Original Song at the 29th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (January 14, 2024)

[haootia]

the xbox is a Machine. the playstation is a Device. the switch is a Toy. the personal computer is also a Machine. what the world needs, is a way to play video games on a Contraption

[stump-not-found]

what's your point, man

[witchytakes]

and terfs still thinks being trans is a feeling or a choice Say the same thing to gay people and everyone will say that's homophobic as hell

“Terfs reduce women to their genitals!”

At least I don’t reduce being a woman to a feeling!

[animentality]

[titleknown]

So, a comparatively high amount of states are voting on the fate of ranked choice voting this year. Missouri is voting on whether or not to kill it, Alaska is voting on whether or not to keep it, and most importantly, Nevada, Oregon and Idaho are voting on whether or not to adopt ranked choice voting, with maybe Colorado to follow.

And if you live in these states, even if you don't want to vote at the top of the ticket, I urge you to get out there and vote in favor of ranked choice voting on all of them.

Like, the two-party monopoly is a big part of the reason why politics in this country is so shit, and a big part of that is our "first past the post" system making it basically mathematically impossible for candidates outside of them to win anything beyond a local or state level.

So, if you want to try and break the cycle of voting for the lesser evil, of bipartisan cruelty towards the Global South and the country's own citizens alike, we need to change this and we need to vote on it where we can.

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]