#this can all be gender neutral btw

[lieutenantselnia]

[nostalgia-tblr]

loki/william rufus fic, where bill explains that as the second son he has inherited england while big brother bob only got the duchy of normandy, ha ha ha.

[scarletkaoru]

are you a legolas girlie? Are you an aragorn girlie?

neither

where are my faramir girlies at? I’ve been obsessed with that pathetic wet cat of a man since he first got a pov

[wild-at-mind]

As of time of writing, Rishi Sunak is still refusing to apologise for the jibe at trans women in PMQ. (Apologise specifically to Brianna Ghey's parents, her mother at least being definetly present at the time.) What will the fallout for this be? This is only days after normally transphobic tabloids splashed the mugshots of Brianna's killers all over their front page with headlines like 'PURE EVIL'. It seemed the spectacle of 16 year old murderers overrode the fact that they normally don't care about trans people. Rishi's remark streamrolled one of the most important optics rules on most parts of the political spectrum- don't say things that upset the grieving family. On the other hand, Sunak was making a jibe that revealed the fact that most people currently in UK politics seem convinced that if they say 'trans women are women' it will not only prove catastrophic for their chance of being elected, it will also cause mobs of people to thrust stats at them supposedly proving that cis women will be in mortal danger. And that may happen! The statistical evidence isn't there at all, though, so I believe it would come to nothing if he rode it out. Anyway, it's the right thing to do. I believe that after a certain point, continually insisting trans women are not women makes you look deranged. I have a trans woman friend who told me she once asked a transphobic/gender critical aquaintance of ours during calm conversation 'how do you see me? What am I, if not a woman?' The aquaintance said 'you're a man dressed up.' Now, these gender critical people claim to be super duper pro GNC cis men (they aren't, because they are worried the GNC cis men might start IDing as trans, and they hate men anyway especially weird queer ones, so it's a non-starter.) But this person was essentially telling my friend 'you aren't what you have clearly demonstrated yourself to be'. It's often said that 'trans women are women' is an opinion, but in my eyes saying that trans women are not women is an opinion. This aquaintance was saying what she had been indocterinated to believe by her TERF online circles, and I don't think she's reachable (my friend is no longer trying, it was a one off conversation as far as I can tell). I've said this before but I maintain that politicians should stop dignifying the question of 'what is a woman? Define what a woman is!' because it's a question that is never asked in good faith. It's a gotcha, and you don't need to answer it and fall into whatever trap they are setting. You just need to put forth policies that support both cis women and trans women- showing support with your deeds and words. And Starmer should have a fucking backbone- Sunak isn't wrong there. If anything what Sunak did was very revealing because it shows he's used to being surrounded only by people who guffaw at the very idea that 'trans women are women' is something true in both theory and practice. Meanwhile trans people are becoming more visible and I truly believe within 20 years, both Sunak and Starmer will look like dinosaurs in much the same way as the homophobic politicians of yore were following a public zeitgeist that was quickly becoming outdated. It's a shame we never seem to learn from the past.

[apheliia]

guys i have no idea when this happened but i have like, multiple new genshin ocs bouncing around in my head

[bastardsofravenkroft-blog]

wait what happened with pissditching? im p sure you talked abt them in an ask response but i never understood what happened...

basically pissditching is friends with revengeromance and girlgerard (both of whom i dislike atp*) i said something in the tags of a post abt how i was pissed at revengeromance for something (unrelated) and pissditching found it and lowkey harassed me and several friends over it and said some real fucking weird shit to me so i blocked them (and probably said something snarky abt them on main but i dont really remember)

*i dont personally like these two users bc they (specifically gg) are the forefront of call gerard way nothing but she/her and i think thats fucking weird 🙂 personally. so i have them blocked and don’t interact with anyone around them at all.

[mycological-mariner]

Ever since my haircut, people I’ve know for a minutes or for the last three years have started referring to me with completely non-gendered language. Like, “So you’ll be our barw— barperson for tonight.” “Sounds like your an individual of many talents.” “You’re an older… uh, sibling, right?” “Hey, watch out, stupid bi— cunt!”

[accultant]

[ SLUMBER ]: sender picks up and carries the receiver because they're so sound asleep that they won't easily wake up. || From Freiora :))

Iago's sleep schedule is... less than ideal, if existent at all. It was hardly any better before they left the temple, but the adjustment to a life on the road is doing them very few favors in this regard. It's new and exciting and terrifying- so much so that they can hardly shut their eyes at night, jittery with fluctuating excitement and anxiety. But it's also exhausting. It's terribly draining for someone who spent the better part of the past ten years holed away in an office.

So it's really no surprise that Iago's brief reprieve with a book by the fire lasts hardly ten pages before they're out like a light.

They've trained themselves to be a light sleeper, for the smallest sound or movement to have them on their feet with a spell on their tongue before they even open their eyes. So it is a surprise when they find themselves dreary and just barely conscious again by the time they're already in someone's arms, having been picked up sometime while they were still asleep. There a fraction of a second dedicated to their usual panic- who is this, where am I, is there a weapon pointed at me right now, where's the nearest exit, blah, blah, blah - but the answers they come up with aren't alarming enough to stir them to action. Freiora is no stranger, and no immediate threat. In fact, she's very warm. And Iago is very tired. And already slipping back to sleep-

"My book," they start, half-awake, aware that they should be full-awake. Being carried like a sleepy child is no way for them to hold themselves. It's silly. Oh, but she is very warm and Iago is so, very tired... Maybe she's put a spell on them. That's why they find it so hard to wake up again, why they're barely coherent and don't even bother opening their eyes again when they grumble, "I was reading a book. I didn't drop it in the fire, did I?"

[dolly-spit]

hhhh i'm finally watching helluva boss lmfao

[alongtidesoflight]

i haven't talked trans stuff with irl people in a while so when i tell you today was exhausting

[idridian]

there’s a lot of overlap between these but that just proves my point i think

[vern-a]

I would like to wish a happy pride to everyone whose gender got transed by a silly little internet guy !

[nbstevonnie]

cannot believe that the doctor at the gic really made me go through a detailed breakdown of my gender identity and pronoun preference, despite the fact i really ID as "non-binary" more than anything else and use they/them pronouns exclusively, only for them to misgender me in my discharge letter??

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Also I'm really into Venom now. Good night!

[flowers-that-sing]

how come when a cis guy dresses fem ppl will still recognize him as a guy but when i, a trans guy, dress fem, ppl go "ah so youre NOT trans" or think it means i am "actually" a girl.

no. i am just a femboy. that is all.

[homosexualcitron]

Pronouns change in my bio it's just he/she now but actually it's just because i think that pronoun set is really pretty, you can still use xe/xem and also it/its for me weeh