#mermaids charity

[transhanniday]

OUR CHARITY AUCTION LOTS ARE NOW LIVE!!

Bid HERE!!

We are auctioning three lots via ebay (as it's the easiest/fairest way to do so)

7 Day auction

Auctions have a minimum and no Buy Now option

Buyer pays for postage

The three lots are:

"F**k transphobia Grindelwald" art print signed by Mads Mikkelsen in gold pen.

"F**k transphobia Grindelwald" art print signed by Mads Mikkelsen in silver pen, with bonus incorrect character name

Adapt. Evolve. Become: The Genderqueer Fandom of NBC's Hannibal, and a selection of merch and books (18+) by Max Turner (worth over £60)

[hjellacott]

READ THE WHOLE TRANSCRIPT (pre-approved by all parties) HERE.

These mermaids people are insane. Totally insane. And willful ignorants of biology.

[ofcowardiceandkings]

hello frens !!

i've FINALLY got this all organised (being sick is fun) so everything is liiiive and ready to goooo WHEEEE

so, stream, 1PM (GMT) November 20th via twitch

i'm raising money for Mermaids again, a trans & GNC youth charity in the UK; i'll start with Spyro but after that you can choose what we play, there'll be stuff to win, punish me by making me eat nasty jelly beans, hopefully there'll be a couple more games to add 👀, fun all round ✨

if you can't donate or drop in, let other people know what's up - its greatly appreciated !! 💙💙

tiltify campaign || extended info page || google form survey

[tourmelion]

I gotta find out about this guy, this sounds monumental

An absolute implosion of this guy's life, I gotta find out what happened

In light of recent events, let’s not forget that H. Bomberguy is responsible for driving a formerly-beloved transphobic TV writer into a downward spiral that cost him his career and his family… all by playing Donkey Kong.

[owlpuddle]

Make a poll of your favourite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

I was tagged by @nameless-and-joymaking! And we're doing an all musicals version here bc it would make me sad if I posted this to my main and nobody there recognized these people lol

Tag yourself in if you want, I wanna see everyone else's :3

[penguincountess]

Pearl: I'm excited but nervous.

Iskall: You got nothing to be nervous about. You're a rockstar, I've told you!

[hjellacott]

YESSS!!! Today's a big massive day for gay rights!

[artbytesslyn]

My friend @jawsstone is hosting a charity raffle later today where you can get my unreleased acrylic charm potions, as well as lots of cool stuff from other cool folks! All proceeds go to Mermaids UK to support transgender and non-binary youth!

Link to the stream!

Link to complete raffle rewards!

Link to Mermaids UK!

[transhanniday]

So that's the background, here's the auction info!

We'll be auctioning three lots via ebay (as it's the easiest/fairest way to do so), and winners will have to pay postage on top (this is important for one of the lots which is heavier than the others).

The auctions will go live 31st August and will linked here and on our twitter account. There will be a minimum bid and no buy it now option.

The three lots are:

"F**k transphobia Grindelwald" art print signed by Mads Mikkelsen in gold pen.

"F**k transphobia Grindelwald" art print signed by Mads Mikkelsen in silver pen, with bonus incorrect character name

Adapt. Evolve. Become: The Genderqueer Fandom of NBC's Hannibal, and a selection of merch and books (18+) by Max Turner (worth over £60)

Hannibal? Meeting Mads at RDC6

Following on from meeting Hugh in Boston and gifting him a copy of Adapt. Evolve. Become: The Genderqueer Fandom of NBC's Hannibal, I wanted to gift a copy to Mads.

No disrespect to Mads, but I wasn't expecting (and didn't get) the same sort of interaction I had with Hugh. I've met Mads at many cons before, including one in 2018 right before I had top surgery where I had a lovely chat with him about queer and trans Fannibals.

But I've noticed over the years, including from accounts of other Fannibals too, that he's become much more guarded in his conversations. Which is fair, his star has been forever on the rise and he's been working for bigger studios and properties. But as a trans person, I am always very cautious when people become much less vocal about something they previously seemed to support - though I do acknowledge that some people just don't want to get dragged into what they see as a volatile issue. And I knew, given how much more stoic he's become, and the time limitations of signings at cons, that this would be the case regardless of his personal point of view.

Also (and I've mentioned this before in posts about his answers on con panels), Mads has a habit of just saying what he thinks people want to hear, and what will get the biggest reaction - he's a master at fanservice. Which even includes repeating the same stories (Fragile Little Teacup for example). Which again, is not a criticism, but an observation and another reason why I was pretty nervous about meeting him again. And that was BEFORE a couple of different Fannibals approached me with concerns that some of the things he'd said at RDC6 hinted that he might be making a movie that may include a trans character in an unflattering way. (I'm still on the fence about whether that was his meaning, but I'm glad I'm already pretty emotionally divorced from him since he did FB).

ANYWAY! I had talked with the fantastic wholeanddeadly before the event and we agreed on getting his brilliant "F**k transphobia Grindelwald" art print signed in order to auction it for trans charity (in fact we ended up getting two!). As we knew in advance we would be doing this, I wanted to let Mads know, because I don't feel right auctioning something without someone's knowledge if we had already made that plan.

So, this is what happened:

I was maybe third of forth in the queue (which was huge), so this was going to be a whistle stop and I'd thought carefully how to frame it and use my words wisely. So I walked up and he said "Hello, Sir!"

Which, thanks! (always love getting correctly gendered!)

I asked "May I give you a gift", and he said "Yes, of course!"

Whilst I was getting the book out of my back I told him that I met him in 2018 right before I had gender affirming surgery and he was very kind to me. His response was along the lines of "Oh yeah?"

I continued to tell him that since then, I have been involved a lot with of the trans and non-binary Fannibals and we made this book because of what the show means to us. He took it and flicked through and stopped at some of the art and admired it. He asked if it was just about Hannibal, and I said yes because I totally blanked in the moment, so the HEU stuff will be a nice surprise for him, lol.

Then the art print got passed over by his helper and I said I didn't want him to personalise the photo as I wanted to auction it to a charity that supports trans youth if he's OK with that. And he replied "you can do anything you like with it, man." I said thanks, and we were all done.

Whilst on the surface this was all good, I was definitely struck by the difference between this and times I'd met him before (especially in 2018). And perhaps it was just down to him being more guarded, but it felt very... standoffish. Which is fine, it is what it is.

The funniest thing is that Mads often signs the characters name on the things he signs, and the one we already had signed the day before via a friend, he didn't put the character name on it. On the one he signed for me, he did: Hannibal.

I saw him hesitate part way through signing the name but it just made me chuckle at the potential that this character meant so little to him he didn't recall his name and then the next day confused him for another character - Trans Rights Wizard Hannibal!

Anyway. I hope he reads the book. I hope he gets something out of it. I hope he's not making a transphobic movie.

And I hope you'll all check out @transhanniday on here (and on Twitter), where the two signed prints and some other bits will be going up for auction soon! The proceeds will be going to UK trans youth charity Mermaids, the same charity that Deadly supported with his original art prints.

[manicpixiedreamfae]

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Nicasia?? 🙀🧜🏻‍♀️

[there-are-4-lights]

Happy Pride from Paul Roberts who is still CEO of the LGBT Consortium!

Here's the full transcript from tribunaltweets, the relevant day is Sep 12th. Includes such hits as "i don't think there are many couples like that" (when asked about butch and femme women together), this bit above about how dating sites banning women from seeking to date women only isn't denying them a service based on their orientation (proving that the people wanting the EqA characteristics clarified have a point, but his org is, predictably, doubling down in the other direction), and, of course, he's not an expert :)

[clubbingclown]

HEY EVERYONE SHOULD CHECK OUT THE CHARITY ZINE I'M A PART OF! I MADE A PIECE FOR THE SFW ZINE THAT GOT SELECTED TO BE A PRINT AND A CHARM FOR THE NSFW ZINE!

[riffingtheverse]

I can't believe it's been five years.

I remember watching this stream. On the way to work, at work, falling asleep to it, waking up to post teeth gang nonsense. Seeing Cher and Neil Gaiman tweet about it.

Harry's second channel has the whole thing. Every year on the anniversary I watch it. Every year I'm awake for different parts of it. One day I'll see all of it.

Before this stream I had lost hope. My local community had been devastated by anti trans and anti gay legislation and mainstream radio/news. We faced a world that was openly hostile to us. We still do, but we had much less visible solidarity out there. Hbomberguy and his stream brought me so much joy and life over those few days, I dined out on that feeling for at least a year. It was a beautiful thing to watch unfold.

This thing was epic. Not only did he raise money but he built community and solidarity and with a chat containing folding ideas pio Shaun sterling AOC paris Adamruinseverything Chelsea Shannon crystal & philosophytube to name a few (plus a variety of trans and non-binary people just getting to go on and tell their stories and talk and share) plus there was a skeleton!

People came together to bring joy back into the world.

My heart grew three sizes that day.

So if you only know him from his Somerton or Tommy videos, at least watch the talk above, maybe dip into his other videos, do the yearly re-watch of the stream if you feel like it, perhaps donate to mermaids or Trevor project or whatever local charity or community you have in your area.

And thanks Graham!

Happy five year anniversary HBomberGuy Speed Runs Donkey Kong 64 and Raised Over $340,000 for Trans Charity Mermaids day

[rusticbuck]

Cross posted on my Instagram but! Anyway :)

[emilou-keen-gear]

Day 1: Lei

I'll admit, it's the first time I drew Stitch. The little guy has a cute design, but I'm not used to it.