#tagging this

[thelonelybrilliance]

Y'all really fall for that "man spews shallow feminist talking points to distract from glaring concerns about how he actually treats women, such as numerous women in his professional orbit cutting ties with him" every damn time

[velvetvexations]

'masculinity is never used in oppressive tactics'

one of my friends growing up was a very visibly autistic boy. because he was a boy and not a girl, everyone treated him like a potential predator. we went to school together, and the girls would avoid him and the teachers actively encouraged the girls to avoid him.

i was an autistic girl, in comparison. nobody treated ME like that. they treated my friend like that specifically because he was a boy, and so the idea of dangerous predatory men was used against him

like. masculinity and being a man is very much used in oppressive tactics. being a man changes what cruel stereotypes can be used against you, and it's socially acceptable to be more physically violent and aggressive towards people perceived as men. people are still physically violent and aggressive towards people perceived as women, yes, but when my friend was getting shoved around, there was no talk of 'you shouldn't hit a girl'

just drives me MAD that people deny that masculinity affects oppression when it so very fucking clearly does

(my friend is doing much better now. they have come out as he/they nonbinary and are studying at university. we have been friends for a decade now ans they are one of my closest friends to this day)

TRFs will say "but that was because he was autistic not because he was a man, therefore trans men still have privilege" and not realize that trans is also a modifier that dramatically changes how one's masculinity is taken.

Like that's the thing I don't get, you know? Trans men are trans men. There is a fundamental refusal to accept that they are TRANS men. They'll say Black men and autistic men and whoever else can have their masculinity used against them, but that it doesn't count because it's just racism or ableism. The most they'll acknowledge that trans men are trans at all is the extremely misogynistic lie that trans men can and will revert to being women the second it can be weaponized against trans women, which is basically just saying trans men are cis in the opposite direction.

Like, how does that even make sense? How are trans men just like cis men if they're so quick to become women for social credibility? That doesn't...

Oh, holy fuck.

They're saying men are eager to pretend to be women to abuse the real women.

Because of course that's what they believe.

I need a drink.

[vir-bellanaris]

To bind his life force to the Veil, Solas cut into his left palm.

The same side, the same shape as the mark the Inquisitor bore on their left hand.

[len-yx]

Ykw? Sure. Whatever you want past me.

Give me a few hours

[shadowsingerofnight]

I’m sorry but you can’t tell me you genuinely believe elain doesn’t know she can reject the mating bond

so maybe she didn’t ask feyre or nesta about it, I can get by with that, but do you really think her sisters never told her themselves since she is so uncomfortable? like, they noticed it (we saw it in both their povs) and most definitely told her

especially feyre since she is in the position of offering her full protection if she chose to reject it (rhysand has literally said the words)

protection from what I don’t know, because lucien would respect her wishes I have no doubts about that but I digress

besides all of this, don’t some of you claim that nuala and cerridwen are her chosen family? they wouldn’t have told her either, even without her asking?

and also, it’s not like she’s confined anywhere lol she can ask a literal stranger on the street or go to a goddamn library idk even ask a priestess

literally ask azriel since they are in love and know each other so well and are each other’s confidant

like let’s be for real rn

and just another besides, elain is not clueless! she may be soft and kind but she is not stupid and claims like this just anger me cause she has proven again and again that she will make do with any situation she is put in, eventually

you ship what you ship, I won’t argue with that but let’s not be ridiculous

I know this won’t fare well, but sometimes the nonsense gets to me too

I apologize for the rant

[8jib]

bye

[quiet-desperationn]

Pink Floyd talking about The Great Gig In The Sky

[amphibious-thing]

Pet Peeve: people saying underage when what they mean is under 18. Underage is a legal term which refers to the legal age of consent which differs from country to country and even sometimes state to state. It also differs over time.

So no it wasn't legal in 18th century England to have sex with underage girls it was however legal to have sex with girls who were under the age of 18 (and still is). 18th century England did have age of consent laws it's just that the age of consent was much lower than 18 (10 for girls 14 for boys).

It's important to remember that legality and morality are different things. When we talk about historical legal systems we need to distinguish between what was legal/illegal and what is moral/immoral.

[shu-of-the-wind]

you ever sit down and think about the fact that some of king bradley’s last words on this earth were “that’s what it means to be the wife of a king” to LAN FAN SPECIFICALLY because I DO and right now it is ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT ACTUALLY

[soup-of-the-daisies]

[opens fic] ��moony has always been the smartest out of all of us” [closes fic]

[thegunslingerletmedrop]

"You don't ship Buddie?"

Then: Meh, don't have no dog in that fight. Just here for Firefam.

Now: Ngl, kinda rooting against it purely because of shippers. Some of y'all are cool AF and make me want to ship them, but some of y'all make me want to make a blood sacrifice to ensure it never happens.

[threalcrabbysamantha]

The mobile upload of this is in no way doing it justice, but here’s my redraw of the Death card from my ATLA tarot deck!

The original:

kofi | cara | insta | commissions

[velvetvexations]

I'm just saying, etymological nitpicking is just a handy, bad faith argument that's gotten regurgitated over and over again. Remember when "aphobia" was a Bad word for the commonalities of acephobia & arophobia bc it could be interpreted as "fear of nothing"? Or how about the 20 million terms for allosexual we had to jump through bc there was always some issue with the prior proposed ones, and even "allosexual" and "aspec" were ~problematic~ bc they allegedly stole from autistic people. (Not that any autistic aspecs were considered worth hearing on that, mind. We either didn't know what was good for us or were lying about being autistic for discourse points. 🙄)

You will never find a term for transandrophobia that is etymologically pure enough, bc the point isn't about it being constructed wrong as a word. Either you're too distracted arguing that it's fine as it is or you concede and construct a million alternate terms, that are also substandard somehow, until you're too exhausted and just shut up.

Fuck that.

hell yes anon <3

[nalyra-dreaming]

nah they won't do that. it's going to be at max a weird kiss. you can save this ask if you want 😂

:)))) we'll see. Given Rolin Jones talked about "the weird relationship Lestat has with his mother" at SDCC 2022... I think they'll go there.

[hellsvoid]

hey. remember when we all said oilers and panthers are souldbound. panthers lost the SCF last year. you know what happened this year. so obviously, Oilers are winning the cup in 2025!! just one more year guys i am so sure of this