#need a catchall tag for my craft stuff

[siegecraft]

notebooks with cross stitch embeds i made this year, faves pt 2. open spine style is coptic stitch, closed spine style is french link.

[freackthejester]

I've had this same tumblr since late June 2012, and I am now basically 30. U do the math. I settled on a initial bio that I like so much, I am loathe to change it and the My Little Pony reference in it a decade later.

Here is a collection of the tags I use regularly:

I Say Stuff - every original post is tagged with this

spn - i tag most of my supernatural(2005- 2020) related posts w/ this so ppl can block 50% of what I post here

supernatural - this is the tag I use for my original posts about the show. I am a fan of the fandom and the meta analysis of the show more than I enjoy watching the show, so I personally think my collection of takes is good takes.

Kneat Knits - I follow the knitting tag and reblog a lot of the cooler handmade knit projects that I come across. it became my catch-all tag for any kind of string craft, which I am very into.

my stupid face - is the #gpoy tag I made up years ago that I'm stuck w/ bc too lazy to do a tag>search>replace, so>is still my #selfie tag . I look great, go forth

gloriously excessive landsharks - I like cars of a very specific sort. Here is the tag

Star Trek - JK I never got good at tagging the fandom in posts its all a mess

gif art - catchall tag for my own artistic digital creations, it's like woah in there some flashing gifs in that section

the simpsons - yeah that was a thing

Homestuck - My original fandom on this website.

My url Freack the Jester is a reference to my HS classpect (Jester of Hope) and a made up internet name from when you needed those.

My first URL was Freack the Hopeful, but there was a tragic bot-stealing-your-url-while-you-have-a-holiday-url incident, and I decided to pretty much never change my URL again for link-preservation reasons.

Anyway, this is my new pinned post, I am the swamp hag who only cares about fiction mankissing bisexualasexualcommiedetransitionedbluecolar dyke of your nightmares it's a tumblr blog we all have better places to be lets go

[chmaxion]

key of tags 4 sorting:

ref -> images or information i want to directly use e.g. for a drawing study, inspiration

info -> something on a subject I'm interested in and wish to research further into

aes -> pretty :) here for the vibes

obsessed -> things i go insane over and need to always have access to, things core to my existence

want -> crafts I want to make, things I would like to buy/have, video games I want to play, etc. just like stuff for future use

to use -> sites or links that i'll use eventually i promise, various resources

misc -> catchall so I can keep track of posts without a category

style -> art or tutorials I want to incorporate into my work/use as inspiration

anthropology -> information/articles on history that are just interesting :)

events -> stuff related to current events in the world, mainly political analysis or rare issues, donation links and petitions

disability -> posts from others that I relate to, hopefully I can use these to properly explain my problems to doctors and stuff. also resources, research, discussion of societal issues, etc.

gender -> things that reflect how I want to present and be in the future. discussions of feelings/issues, resources, grounding, etc. related to gender

study:__ -> images or prompts i want to use for practice, sorted into specific subject categories by what i want to work on: general, body types, light, texture, colour, poses, environment, animal, stylized, realism, composition, technique, line, painting, writing, comic, medium

story:__ -> is direct inspiration for one of my stories/long term thoughts, reminds me of it or can be used when developing it, basically pintrest boards :/

ghost -> alternative medieval world seen through lingering spirit, interpersonal drama and political consequences, green bog vs red desert, advanced technology in semi-accurate medieval aesthetics, diplomacy and intercontinental conquest

nefelibata -> fantasy/sci fi cloud civilization, looping story about dealing with regret/grief/shame/depression with many possible outcomes, modern fantasy aesthetics, bright blue and faded colours, intended to be video game (so may also include coding/mechanic references)

tbh -> to be a hero, teenage adventure set in 2012, very realistic but narrative carried by exaggerated/idealized perspective of main characters, time powers, exploration of queer relationships and aroace identity

fnetgj -> for not even the gods judge, historical fantasy exploring religion and life in Europe in __ period (currently undecided :/ originally reformation), travel through continent while discussing social existentialism, historical recreation/costuming is big resource, not accurate reflection of history but a dissection of themes/cultures in an imagined world

long -> biopunk sci fi post-apocalyptic action epic, so many fucking characters/plots/backstories, basically young me's diary/collection of inspiring media and way of processing world, exploration of variety of issues mainly societal/governance and interpersonal connection despite trauma, decolonized leftist theory and sustainability, solarpunk vs afro futurism, decaying brutalism vs modernist perfectionism vs low culture resistance

babylon -> cyberpunk dystopia in high concept/absurdist world, allegory for climate crisis, inhospitable city that keeps building upwards as water rises, chosen one narrative, existential philosophy through multi-layered metaphors

minecraft -> inspiration for builds in my minecraft worlds, yes this belongs here >:^(

games -> medieval islamic and eastern aesthetics/inspiration, biblical themes as allegory of societal collapse/events, sequential world building of an isolated culture through a series of different tabletop games :) first: dnd campaign second: risk/civilizations empire management game (need info on mechanics, play styles, execution for both)

superhero -> contemporary world with established superhero industry, set it american city with asian diaspora, explores complex relationships with family, inherited trauma and responsibility

photographs -> completely normal contemporary world, gay love story except told as if one of them died, homophobia testing limits of familiar bonds, set on post colonial polynesian island (parallel world not real)

scifi short -> high military sci fi short, brutality of reigning class emphasized through sudden shift of perspective, probs written but i have so many cool ideas for costume design :(

potions -> classical fantasy throughout time periods centred on cottage pocket dimension, girl makes potions and steps into unique times/places for ingredients, removal from flow of time, collection game/simple tasks and minigames, variety to allow me to practice coding and video game design

fairytale -> various classic fairytales reinterpretated through queer theme (e.g. aro beauty and beast, trans little mermaid, dysphoria as doppelganger), reference to all versions of tale and historical perspectives, uses aesthetics from source material but completely modern narrative, historically accurate/reconstruction 1800s world with fantasy/magic

dreamer -> classic high fantasy vs contemporary, teenage isekai, about types of relationships and love/reliance, RECENTLY REVIVED BABEY!!

other -> catch all for smaller ideas

theme:__ -> the start of an idea but not a full project yet, organizing categories to be used within and bridge across other sections. List of words used so far under cut (try to stick to them for the love of god).

# 3D modelling,

A architecture, artifact, antisemitism

B

C chinese painting, clouds, creatures, crystalline, cyber, cat

D decay

E embroidery, environmental

F fashion, folklore, futuristic,

G growth, ghastly

H hostile

I

J jewellery,

K kill all men,

L language

M machines, medic, memory

N nostalgia, nmc

O oppressive structures

P physics, pokemon, prehistory, print, privacy, pixel

Q queer

R relationship,

S salt, sand, shadows, skateboarding, slogan, snow, space, statue, steampunk,

T tech, trauma

U

V vintage, videogame

W worldwide, watercolour

X

Y

Z

[lairofsentinel]

that bi post is interesting- i guess i have a third pov tho. ive seen some people use bi in a "new" way, to mean stuff like "attracted to women and nb people", "to men and nb people" or "attracted to several genders but not necessarily all" and so on, but also to mean, yeah, pan. and ngl thats cool. i think bi's pretty much a neat catchall for multisexuals of all kind, a bit like how queer is a catchall for anyone not cis or straight, and historically bi even used to group ace people too.

i reread your tags three times and actually it seems that we agree- i guess im just tempted to say that while everyone agrees on the meaning of pan, some people however use it differently to reflect their experience better. but unlike most people i dont view it as a bad thing but way more as something great because people can talk about their experience without feeling bound by, well, limits and definitions and blah i guess ? and as a trans person i find this great and important, not transphobic

Hello there,

thank you for sharing your pov.

I mean, the “new” way sure has a lot to do with “in which country you live”. Here, where I live, people is not using bi-pan in any new different way. But I've seen/read certain strange uses online. [the funniest use and also the only one that annoyed me was, time ago, when some weird straight people started to say: “I'm bisexual, but I only like men/women”.... like... what? How that bisexuality works? XD, but anyway, I'm nobody to go as a gender/sexuality police. Pft, I can't even speak English properly in a discussion. xD]. Also, years ago, some weird people started to say that pansexuality included trans people, while bisexuality no, so they kind of enforced the concept that “bisexuality ” had a transphobic root in its own... which is stupid, since statistics shows that trans people has quite more chances to be in a relationship with a bi/pan partner than a gay/hetero one... so.... soooooo......really crazy the way people spread misinformation. 

The meaning of the tags... well... it's long: I can't be anything else but chill about the enormous amount of words that LGBT community has crafted along these last years, because sure, we all want to have the exact right word for us, to condense all our complexity in a single word XD. But let's be honest, no way that would happen, ever. So, until people “discovered” [or more like accepted] that gender and sexuality are a spectrum and are more complex than 3 or 4 words, we developed a lot of words along the way, and made use of the same word with several different uses, making of this world a more complex one [because we are never satisfied with our own :P]. And I'm not even counting on the fact of those “re-appropriated” words that were a slur previously, back in time, such as queer. Those words are a whole lot of mess. 

Two simple examples:

A friend of mine at work is a bisexual woman [happily married with her wife

Another case: I, for example, feel super weird with labels. I'm nb, I give a fuck to any word of any gender. But I live in a Spanish speaking country and.... the HELL with the strongly gendered languages... I keep jumping from masculine to feminine or using the “new” neutral forms with -e [that all puritans hate and fight me for that]. But still yet, I keep using the word gay [in English, because at least it's more neutral than any other], because for the world, I'm a gender that can't be hidden once I speak [you know, damn voice] and I kind of be attracted to people of the “same” gender that everyone attaches to me [I said it in that way, because I'm more like a demy-gay, but forget to use demisexual here, nobody knows shit XD]. So... the obvious, shortest way, and efficient way to get rid of that problem every time I have to deal with that [aka, some person asks me with a reasonable argument that doesnt make me to toss them away], it's the word gay. But again, not even that means what it usually means, in my case. But again, imagine explaining all this shit, all the time, every time someone asks me with good reasons?. No way, I'll get bored of all that jabber.

So, these 2 single examples are to explain that... well, LGBT identity words, today, are a mess. Especially if you start adding those trans-masculine and trans-feminine and a lot of extra adjectives.... to me it's more confusing to understand what that person truly is, but what it's clear with that is that such person has a complex identity that wants to be acknowledged. So, if I know this, and if it's relevant for some valid [aka non-creepy] reason, I would ask to understand exactly the shade they mean, so I can acknowledge them properly. Because every gender and sexuality is a mess by its own. We will never get one single word that can embrace it wholly. I know some lucky people got it, they are gay, and cis, or trans and hetero and they are super fine with that...and I'm happy for them, they don't need extra explanations for describe their genders and sexualities xD.

That's why my tags were like that. Pansexuality appeared some decades ago [it's a super young word], specially in countries that are not USA [which it is the country that everything usually revolts around, here in tumblr]. Pan is a super new word, that mostly young people would be more inclined to use. It's more meaningful for young people [maybe. This is not a must. More like an average estimation.]

It's like queer. The oldest LGBT people, with USA-background, will probably hate it to use it. They attached to that word a slur shade that pierced their lives, it's too harmful even to use as a re-appropriated word. Yet, young people love it. Specially people without usa-background. Some of them can't even fathom the hard history meaning behind it.  

Well, queer word, outside the history, is a whole mess in its own XD. What does a person mean when they say that they are queer? Are they gay? Are they trans? Are they nb? . Nobody knows. And it's ok, the clear meaning in that word is “look, I'm not cis and/or hetero”. And that's the way it works. I like to use it sometimes too, now that it has been popularised in the South hemisphere thanks to the influences of Butler. 

So, yeah, we agreed, anon. XDI tried to say the same as you in my messy tags. I wrote that because sometimes I find such a nerdrage about the **chastity** or the **purity** of languages with this mess of words, or the annoyance of people that don't know the 52 labels at our disposal to describe the LGBT experience. And I simply say that it's okay not to know all of that, and not to force or stress into picking one, because most probably, you will not get it completely explained in one single word, since words, despite being 52, are limited, and sexuality and gender is a whole mess with flavours, colours and shits, that—even worse—may change with time xD.

So... the most mature attitude I think someone can take about this mess is to relax about those labels, pick the ones they think fits better for them, and understand that everyone has their own gender/sexuality, and that label may not suffice, so, when it's relevant, it's ALWAYS important to speak honestly. Yeah, all this textwall could never enter into the tags. xD.