#they threw the first bricks at stonewall

[hanzajesthanza]

“vampires in folklore prey on women? well then, my vampire will be a feminist 😏 and also, pro-choice 🧐” — andrzej sapkowski writing baptism of fire (true) (real)

[ihatethebrits]

jacob and gianni preparing to talk about the binary bfs in interviews:

[fart-boys-blog]

tumblr user fartboy fails to learn how to sort monkees content into different posts and puts them all in one again

[williamismyhomeboy]

[kcyars99]

most of the industry since this spring : f you Drake Megan since January :

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& Did!!! Give that woman her credit for dissing Nicki, Drake, Tory supporters, her old dudes all in ONE SONG and going #1. That shit was EPIC!!

Give her the flower garden for starting this hip hop war

[immoralkombat]

i'm going to be so mentally ill about evil ninja mime and fire lord johnny cage now <3

[angie-long-legs-moved]

// @top-shelf-tender im SCREAMING at husk being at stonewall omg, king shit???

[bunny-banana]

something so poetic about Maddie being the first to clock buddie and Buck being the first to clock madney

[masonsbfgaming]

i have many mason headcanons that aren't even Head, simply because i keep saying shit that eventually just gets confirmed via asks or canon content. HOWEVER. i do have one specific Actual headcanon that mason was a huge scene icon on myspace in the early 2000s. I'm saying he was on there making glittery scene kid blingee aesthetic pictures and posting them once a week all dressed up in the neons and black with the fucked up raccoon hair, but after the peak of the homoemo era ended, he deleted his account. This lead to him becoming a mysterious scene icon, whose pictures float around on the internet to this day as the very definition of the myspace golden era. same levels of iconic as these pictures.

[your-subby-creature]

*skitters into your inbox* hey!! if u have anything u wanna infodump about rn or whenever u want, i am sitting down and very ready to listen :D

Hello!!! Since I've been feeling kinda sad/anxious/insecure today (forgot my meds oops), I think for our infodump I'm gonna tell a nice story out of trans history that's always been a niche favorite of mine. Mind you, this is my interpretation, and truly only based off one article from long ago, so take all my tales as slightly taller than they appear. Now settle down, and let your pal Creature spin you a yarn.

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In the late 1890s, an old farmer, one Mr. Otto Schaffer, was living out his years on a small plot of land in Kansas. He'd served in the Civil War, a Union man through and through, and was content to settle down and make his living in the calm country of the once-bloody state.

Unfortunately for Otto, this land held more than the idyllic calm he'd imagined, and one day a terrible storm rolled through. They say it was as he was sending up a prayer to his God that a bolt of lightning struck poor Mr. Schaffer dead, but the man lived alone, so there's no way to tell what really happened that stormy night. Either way, that storm was his last, and when the townspeople came to collect Otto's body, the lightning strike wasn't their only surprise.

Now, they didn't quite use the same terms and divisions we have now, so when the press ran the headline "The Old Soldier a Woman," it was really about as close as they could get to explaining the deceased Mr. Schaffer's transness. They seemed to sense it too, seeing the man in front of them as more than his assigned sex at birth, never once misgendering him in the article, never questioning that he'd get the soldier's burial he deserved.

It was an honor reserved for men, in those days, and not a single one of his brothers in arms so much as thought of refusing to raise their guns for the final salute as Otto Schaffer's body was lowered into the ground. It must have been a shock, then, as the guns went off and the whole town said their goodbyes, when a single dove fell from the sky, shot dead by the salute, coming to rest near Otto's grave.

The papers honestly seemed more intrigued by this second death than any of the events prior we may see as more salacious today, calling it "peculiar and romantic," spending more time on what the dove could have meant than anything truly surrounding Otto or his body.

The article was published around the state but no further, just another oddity to read in the paper, nothing special about the old soldier Otto Schaffer except for the dove who lost its life to his final gun salute.

Other than this single article, we know nothing of Otto's life, nothing of the man he was or the person he would have been today, and yet I find myself smiling when I think of his story. He's the earliest evidence I've found for an American trans funeral, and yet he was respected and honored by his local community, by the military, by the press (who cared more about the bird than anything, so it seems.)

I feel a kinship with him, a tie that binds across the centuries, and while I know his existence is more complex and ambiguous and altogether unknown, his story never fails to remind me that we've always been here, and we've always been loved by someone.

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(Remember that this is heavily narrativized by some guy on the internet, fully my creative nonfiction take on a primary source. The original is available in the Digital Transgender Archive, either Otto Schaffer's name or the headline "The Old Soldier A Woman" should get you to it. It's important to write and teach our histories through storytelling, but I don't want to create any impressions that this is all objectively 100% hard fact that's had no personal spin at all. I embellished for narrative effect, and I gladly and openly admit it. Lastly, this whole story exists in a broader context of colonialism and white supremacy and the gut-wrenching history of the United States, and I do want to make sure we remember and acknowledge that. )

-your Creature

[trans-goddesss]

[slamminslamminmcgill]

tony is non binary if you consider faggot a third gender

tony has done more for the trans community than caitlyn jenner could ever dream of

[viric-dreams]

Poppy - How is your OC around strangers?

Ockham really likes being in larger crowds or surrounded by people, often strangers. Heshethey will decide rather quickly on whether or not a stranger has good or bad vibes and behave accordingly.

Elias doesn't care much about strangers, unless they're in his way.

Strangers make Nicholas nervous, because he never knows which are actually strangers. It's happened once or twice that someone has definitely recognised him, and he has no idea who they are. One of those interactions started with someone cold-clocking him, so being out in public always comes with a low grade of stress.

[theworldsownoptimist]

the way people talk about t*ika waititi on this website makes me feel insane

[mivolasvivi]

Thinking about the time that thrift shop came on at a gay bar and the go go boys just weren’t sure what to do

[soullessjack]

spn fans will be smart enough to be like um no this fanfiction where dean is a top and cas is a bottom is inaccurate because here’s my college thesis on the complete inner machinations of their minds and how dean is actually a bottom if you study the texts but still fail to comprehend that a character not even textually but literally saying out loud that they aren’t a child means they aren’t a child. in fact spn fans will react to this and other clear examples of that character being an adult by saying “silly baby you can’t do a sex or say swears you can’t know birds and bees your precious widdle mind is so pure you can’t be corrupted” as if he wasn’t fighting a goddamn war and killing people for the first year of his life.

the ableism runs so deep in this fandom it’s not even funny anymore I hate all of you actually