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[evilkitten3]

hey is it just me or is tumblr view reblogs uh. broken

[ask-the-praetors]

hello assembled ranks of the perfected! it’s me again. i would like to address all of you with this one; what are your genders/pronouns?

WHAT IS IT WITH FLESHLINGS WONDERING ABOUT OUR "GENDERS"? CALL ME WHAT YOU WANT, BUT WOULD YOU LIKE A LIST? TRICK QUESTION, I CAN'T REMEMBER THEM ALL. -V

[superfluouskeys]

so i mostly love my classes this term but of course there's this one required credit that is like a disproportionate headache for absolutely no reason, and my fitness class that i love so much moved its tuesday time up 30 mins which means until this required class is over i can't go, and i was like......so upset lol even tho the fitness class is 3x per week this term but i was like idk if i can wait til wednesday i am circling the drain here you feel me. and this required class like. makes me insane lol like 3 classes 2 of which made me cry out of frustration is not a great record even accounting for recent crazy brain levels!!!

so today when the prof wanted us to just,,,,, sit in the zoom call and work on our assignment for the last literally 40 mins of class i was just like you KNOW WHAT??? NO <3 and just fucking held down the power button on my computer and went to my fitness class LOL. on the surface not my most responsible move but i literally feel mentally completely fine now for the first time in weeks and was able to focus on the work i needed to get done tonight with no issues so tbh i'd say it was strategic.

[cainite-bite]

no i dont want to use the app! i dont even want to browse it on my phone! let me open that shit on my desktop! why is everything barred to a stupid app on google store! get that outta here!

[flowersforvax]

PSA: there seems to be a glitch on tumblr that shows you who sent an anonymous ask sometimes

Source: me getting an anonymous ask, half replying and saving it to my drafts, coming back to my drafts later and it's suddenly no longer anonymous

[nintendont2502]

Does anyone else's tumblr app do this fun thing where it randomly starts running at 2 fps

It used to only happen when I scrolled past a large gif or on the memories acc, but now it's just. Randomly happening on the regular dashboard

[sneefsnorf]

MY TUMBLR ISNT LETTING ME RB POLLS???

[izzy-b-hands]

...I think I'm missing ppl on my dash and i shouldn't be??? (I haven't unfollowed anyone in the last like, idk, tenish+ hrs?)

if Tumblr accidentally unfollowed ppl again I'll eventually get everyone refollowed again here. Gonna go thru the list and see who im missing for sure

[red-revival]

I considered worldanvil but it turns out that unless you get a monthly subscription there's a limit of like 10-20ish categories? Which. When you have several worlds and continents and countries within those continents and culturesand species within those countries and multiple pantheons and types of pantheons.... 10-20 categories is not fucking feasible lmao. I'd run out of categories before I even finished naming the continents

So that leaves me with! Figuring out what cosing system tumblr uses for heavily customized blogs and making CaDi's guide/project changelog here!

It'll take a while, but I'll be starting to make the CaDi blog soon, so everyone look forward to that!

[fandanglefrogfarts]

You know this new phenomenon of the mobile app suddenly blasting audio from an ad I cannot locate is really starting to become irksome

[thepresidentstolemyfuckingsafe]

Figuring out how to change settings and shit on this app would be way easier if the settings options on listed online were actually available to me

[superfluouskeys]

i need a new singing tag lol ik tumblr is a barely functioning garbage fire but like it just puts whatever in there and it annoys me

[brain-in-a-skin-suit]

shoutout to my biggest fans: gods-greasiest-sewer-rat, misanthropymademe, gods-greasiest-sewer-rat, misanthropymademe, gods-greasiest-sewer-rat, misanthropymademe, gods-greasiest-sewer-rat, and, drumroll please, misanthropymademe

[magpiesbones]

oh my god I’ve just discovered that one of my loadbearing tags got deleted off all the posts tagged with it oh FUCK

[metamatar]

In 2005, the tellingly named studio After Stone wall Productions released a film titled Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World. Featuring interviews with various LGBT activists from different countries outside the West, spliced up and lumped together haphazardly, the film delivers the following overarching messages: that it is not safe to be queer in the "developing world," that what queer spaces do exist in the "developing world" are to be found in certain metropolises: Cairo, Kuala Lumpur, Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro—and that these sites trace their genealogy to the Stonewall riots. Furthermore, according to the film, queerness/gayness and sometimes transness (when it is acknowledged) were invented in the West. Epistemic breaking points such as the Stone wall riots and canonized locales such as San Francisco and Greenwich Village are the originating points of this innovation against the backdrop of a timeless, pervasive heterosexism. This cosmopolitan gayness/queerness then "spreads" from the metropole to the periphery, forming a web from city to city This coincides with Jack Halberstam's (excruciatingly white) analysis in his book In a Queer Time and Place: the idea of "metronorma tivity" that "the rural is made to function as a closet for urban sexualities in most accounts of rural queer migration" and that "the metronormative narrative maps a story of migration onto the coming-out narrative" (2005, 36-37). We can extend Halberstam's analysis further and see the ways that the closet/rural/(post)colony as well as out/urban/metropole get col lapsed onto each other—the queer is always pulled closer to the heart of capital.

The overarching savior narrative occurs towards the end of the film, when each interviewee, in clips spliced together, tells his or her story of emigrating to the West. After a particularly heart-wrenching story of Ashraf Zanati's departure from Egypt, the narrator comments that "Ashraf Zanati left Egypt. Ashraf had become part of a planetary minority." Although the film purports to care about the status of queers in the "developing world," it actually forms a wounded attachment that fetishizes displacement and bifurcates the queer from his or her society. This narration of non-Western countries as inherently unsafe for queer subjects produces the very displacement it describes, in a manner similar to the ways nine teenthcentury colonial archaeology laid the foundations for Zionism and the dispossession of Arab Jews. Writing about the European "discovery" and destruction of the Cairo Geniza—a building that had housed pieces of paper documenting centuries of jewish Egyptian history—Shohat (2006) shows us that the discursive/ archival dislocation of Egyptian Jews by the forces of European/Ashkenazi colonialism anticipated the later dislocation of Egyptian Jews. This dislocation would form part of the backbone of Zionist historiography's production of a "morbidly selective 'tracing the dots' from pogrom to pogrom." The fetishization of queer displacement, as projected by Dangerous Living, performs a similar historical flip to the one Shohat documents: "If at the time of the 'Geniza discovery' Egyptian Jews were still seen as part of the colonized Arab world, with the partition of Palestine, Arab-Jews, in a historical shift, suddenly became simply 'Jews'" (Shohat 2006, 205). Through various colonial practices, there was a discursive bifurcation between the "Arab" and the "Jew"; in the case of case of Dangerous Living there is a similar bifurcation between the "Egyptian" and the "Queer."

Papantonopoulou, Saffo. “‘Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv’: Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1/2, 2014, pp. 278–93. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24364930. Accessed 11 Nov. 2024.