#yes i am queer fuck you if you are hating

[gameshowtrainwreck]

welp. apparently i decided to hold a monday sermon with a dear friend who turned out to be a pro-life conservative. she wanted to 'resepectfully [...] agree to disagree' when i pointed out there were a lot easier, a lot cheaper, and a lot more effective ways to reduce abortions than to criminalize it. i replied to her that, respectfully, the savior i worship does not allow me to be content with thought-terminating cliches when people are getting hurt because of this.

a teenaged girl in Texas (18, might be around the same age as her daughters but I'm sure her girls are completely different) died painfully and unneccessarily of sepsis because she was forced to carry stillborn. but hey, according to her, innocent lives have to be protected. courts should start finding people innocent or pregnant.

those responsible for her death are hiding behind the pulpit, using God as their scapegoat. whatever argument the american civil religion might have about protecting the sanctity of life has gone straight into the fuckin trash can as far as i am concerned, because this very thing has happened before and people were warned that this specific kind of thing would happen.

even the most ardent, women-must-be-subservient-to-men, conservative, orthodox jews know that if it came down to a zygote or a grown woman, the woman is never to be the villain in these matters. but despite christians believing themselves better because they eat bacon, they somehow are caught severely lacking in this particular comparison.

contrast that with the venn diagram between "those in this country who claim christianity (a system of rules and dictates revolving around a man who famously blessed peacemakers)" and "those thinking the Palestinian genocide isn't going hard enough" being a single circle.

hell, our government executes people who turn out to be innocent all the time and yet the death penalty is still just as popular with the crowd that likes to print Jesus everywhere but on their own hearts. a mean person would interpret the broader consensus as thinking the government should only be used as a tool of God's wrath, not His love, not His benevolence, and certainly not His mercy.

(I try not to be mean, but that doesn't necessarily mean I am good at it.)

so, no. i will argue this because it is on my heart to argue it.

this isn't even something you can write off as hospital negligence, because how many doctors were literally afraid to treat her because of all of the hassle, paperwork, and government intrusion into their lives that would have resulted due to changes in texas' laws? isn't that one thing a lot of christians specificially say they wanna change the government to avoid? surely they did not think this happened solely in a vacuum, do they?

one hospital could be negligence. three refusing to treat her is a pattern. the purpose of a system is in what it does, which means laws designed to be compassionate towards a clump of cells has produced a lot of dead women in order to do it. if one isn't enough to count as 'a lot,' especially in the field of 'unnecessary misery and death,' please tell me where you set your number and I will pray for God to humble you in a deeply meaningful way.

the british jurist lord blackstone, the man who many consider the father of british (and by some extent american) common law said that he would sooner allow ten guilty men to go free than to see one innocent man hang. mind you, this was back in the times when a dude could get drawn and quartered for farting on a picture of the king and somehow he's ended up more-advanced than christians in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four.

this would not have happened had republicans treated pregnant women as literally anything other than irresponsible and/or slutty and democrats done literally anything about roe v wade getting repealed beyond fundraising off of it.

and yet here the fuck we are. I hope we are all proud of that, because the people got exactly what they wanted with it.

[thatcontrolfangirl]

me, trying to say bitch:

autocorrect:

since this breached containment, let it be known this includes trans butches, radfems fuck off <3

[autistic-katara]

does it annoy tf out of anyone else that when a character says smthn like: “i’m not in love with [a male character], i was in love with [female character], it took me a while to accept and i’m incredibly scared telling you please don’t tell anyone” people immediately go “ah yes, canon lesbian, i don’t know how u can’t pick up on that”

meanwhile when a character says smthn like: “i’ve tried for years to force myself into a romantic relationship, thought it would ‘fix me’. but i realise now that’s not how it works, a romantic relationship won’t fix me and i honestly don’t think i was attracted to any of the people i tried to date, im going to swear of romantic relationships for life bcz i don’t experience romantic attraction, later guys ily platonically” 99% of the fans go “oh, ok. so they’re probably asexual but it’s definitely up to interpretation. wtf is ‘a romantic’, yeah they’re a romantic; in a romantic relationship with their ‘best friend’ who i ship them with and is basically canon. very homophobic of the author to make them explicitly state that they weren’t into them like that. they must hate gay people despite the rest of the queer characters in here…”

[winds-of-zephyr416]

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Hey, if you’re trans or nonbinary in the US, you’re valid. I love you.

If you’re queer in any way in the US, you’re valid. I love you.

Gender and sexuality are incredibly vast, complex concepts that can’t in any truthful way be shoved into a box. They can’t be defined by words or legislations, they can only be defined by you.

You can’t define gender or sexuality for yourself if you aren’t here. You’ve probably heard this a million times already, but fuck it, it’s true. You gotta live. We gotta survive this. Heck, we will survive this and it’s gonna be out of sheer fucking spite.

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

[flying-cat]

gays for trump and lgb without the t people i hope you're so glad that you sided with the people who are going to hurt you. you threw trans people under the bus because you don't like them and now it's gonna be catastrophic for all of us. like we all told you it would be. because once the leopards eat trans peoples' faces, they're going to eat yours too, along with all the rest of us who were warning you because they hate all of us. what did you not understand? they fucking HATE us. whatever you think about trans people, they think of lgb the exact same way. we're all on the same level of disgusting and subhuman to them.

[feral-ass-raccoon]

why are all these posts acting like US queers are dead. like i love the positivity[?] but we aren't. we aren't dead. guys. we're fucking spiteful you really think we're going down that easily??? i kid you not i saw a post that went like "we mourn your deaths but stay strong" like bestie??????? "bring out your dead" "I'M NOT DEAD YET" fuckin scenario

no i don't know a whole lot abt the situation but i 1000% wanna check in so if any body has articles abt both side pleaseeeeee sharee 👉👈 looking at you @santaclaushohoho1

[slutdge]

Not to get deep here or anything but i really think i dont want to have a relationship with my sister anymore and ive been reflecting on that a lot. like sure she didnt abuse me or really do anything to directly traumatize me, but she voted against me having human rights because im queer, as well as voting for a party that wants to harm first nations people despite both of us being first nations i just.... i dont think i can forgive her for that. weve had laughs and good times together but i find myself unable to forgive her for her politics. i wouldn't tolerate bigotry from anyone else, i shouldnt tolerate it from someone just cause theyre family.

[beigetiger]

Uh. Medias I like. Kind of somewhat. We’re going with loose definitions here but basically here are some medias and you’re allowed to go bother me with questions about them. Idk.

Shows:

Sighs deeply

- Monkey Wrench

- Murder Drones

- The Amazing Digital Circus

- waiting for The Gaslight District and Knights of Guinevere

- The Owl House

- Good Omens

- Our Flag Means Death

Movies:

- Nimona (the movie version)

- The Wild Robot

- SECRET OF KELLS

- pretty much anything made by Studio Ghibli, but some favourites are Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, and Nausicaa of the Winds

Not much else because I actually don’t like movies that much. There are movies I enjoyed but none of them spark any sort of brainrot or inspiration.

Books:

- Skulduggery Pleasant (of course)

- Iron Widow trilogy

- Sunbearer Trials trilogy

- Hell Followed With Us

- Nimona (the book version)

- Monstress

- used to be into Wings of Fire, read up to book fourteen I think? Lost track

- probably more, I am an avid book enjoyer

Games:

- Sky: Children of the Light

- Dungeons and Dragons

- Ultrakill

- Cult of the Lamb (have never played, would like to at some point)

- Mouthwashing

- hey have I mentioned Dungeons and Dra-

[sege-h]

Ummmm it doesnt matter that character ages were removed from the Sonic character profiles they do still have their old canon ages and if you think that actualllyyyyy they never acted or sounded like those ages then youre a creep looking for excuses to put them in adult situations :/ Like thats child endangerment that you're depicting there??? Why do you wanna see that blorbo of yours beaten and bloodied and traumatized??? You ACTUALLY wanna beat up kids? You freak??

And why are you drawing him driving a fucking car he should not be driving a car he's a child! And STOP drawing Shadow with guns!!! Children shouldn't have those!

And while you're at it, stop drawing art of Amy working at a bakery! Like wow what a freak you actually want to break child labor laws in real life???

I know plenty of 12 year olds that own apartments and cars of their own, so I can confirm that these characters were always ALWAYS meant to be their previously listed canon ages! If you say otherwise youre a freak!

(This is Not a serious post, for the love of god)

[inutaffy]

well at least it won’t be weird when the party gets older next season and it’s then all normal and fine to explore, or be ‘weird’ since the fandom gets to be like the older st teen fans since they’ll be the same age. anyone who still calls it “weird” (whatever that means lol, exploring a character’s adolescent experience during all teen ages isn’t weird especially when it’s queer.) after s5 needs to do some maturing themselves or learn a fandom doesn’t cater to them and you have to coexist with mature content. this fandom has behaved so abnormally we’re overdue for just being a regular community that scrolls past things we don’t like lol, and no that’s not an invite to bring up anything that’s previously happened when I’m talking about how your statement in the tags of that post becomes null after next season and people will be responsible for curating their own space.

man yall dont listen to me

[deneveve-is-lost]

I'm the worst because if I find out complete strangers who I follow on social media think something I like is annoying I start thinking I should probably just kill myself and save myself the embarrassment, it's not ideal

[asmallenby]

Gotta love my mom pushing alloromantic rhetoric on me until 1am and implying that I can’t be properly loved unless I have a romantic partner 🙃🙃🙃

[lovelyrotter]

fellow fictives my babes my darlings i am BEGGING YOU to stop tagging your very personal stuff with ships relating to your fictive-shape and then start talking about whether or not you ''condone'' these ships entirely purely based on your personal comfort as if youre talking about law. do what you want with your own irl body and relationships. you are not part of shipping. you are a real person. i am BEGGING YOU PERSONALLY to not partake in the crossing of these lines

[ugly-anarchist]

People are now calling aros homophobic for saying "love loses" and disliking the phrase "love is love"

I don't dislike the phrase "love is love" because I'm aro and I hate the concept of love and I want to trample on queer joy and I don't understand the meaning behind love is love.

I dislike the phrase "love is love" because I don't believe that minorities should have to say "we're just like you!" In order to be accepted. I dislike it because it doesn't apply to all queer people, (including bisexuals, gays, lesbians, etc) but people treat it like it does. I dislike it because it's a product of a sex-negative society that deems queer people to be disgusting sex pests and instead of going "that's fucked up because there's nothing wrong with sex" people go "that's fucked up because we're not like those dirty disgusting predators who want sex without romance (coughalloaroscough)". I dislike it because arophobia is rampant in the queer community and people will throw us under the bus for points and have. (Stonewall UK posted a tweet acknowledging aros during aro week and other queer people called us predators and implied we were cishet invaders) I dislike it because the word love is shoved onto aros and whenever we say "please don't" people just redefine it to force it on us. I dislike it because there are better alternatives. I dislike it because rainbow capitalism has taken it over. I dislike it because it just feels a bit overused and cliche at this point. I dislike it for plenty of reasons, from legitimate to petty. Because I'm a person, not an evil aro who wants to destroy the queer community.

Aros, for a very long time, have had the word love used against us as a tool for our oppression. (Yes, love can be used to oppress people) And a lot of aros are sick of not being represented in queer spaces. The community puts so much emphasis on romantic love in an effort to not be the stereotypical sex obsessed queer but that leaves out aros. And people will be like "it's to uplift gays, bis, and lesbians" but there are aromantic gays, bis, and lesbians! I'm an aromantic bisexual person! I am directly harmed by the whole "we're not dirty sex pests, we can love (romantically) just like you!"

I, and many other aros, dislike the phrase love is love because it leaves us behind in the dirt. We often feel like the dirty side of queerness that no one wants to acknowledge. Saying "queer love is real love" isn't a bad thing, but having that be the one and only thing queer people ever talk about leaves out a portion of the community and we're allowed to talk about it.

"Love is love" doesn't represent me as a bisexual aromantic person. Not everything has to represent or include me but it would be nice if just one thing did. My version of queer joy is not represented by love is love and I just want a fucking alternative that does include it!

[Don't tag as ace/aroace or derail]

[genderqueerdykes]

14 year old transgender girl Pauly Likens was unjustly robbed of her life due to trans panic between the dates of June 22nd and July 3rd, 2024. say her name.

i have seen only one or two posts about this, but none of them include her name and it sickens me. Her name is Pauly Likens, a 14 year old transgender girl from Sharon, Pennsylvania who met up with a 29 year old man whom she met on Grindr who was brutally murdered and her body was dismembered because she was a trans girl. she went missing on June 22nd, and her dismembered body was found on July 3rd, 2024. her body was DISMEMBERED and thrown into a river. she was not only murdered but BRUTALLY murdered. she was 14 years old. 14. she couldn't even legally drive yet in the united states. she just barely graduated elementary school.

her mother is fighting for her case to be processed and acknowledged as a hate crime. i am disgusted to find out that my home state of Pennsylvania only considers racial discrimination as real discrimination that can be persecuted by law. gender identities and sexual orientations are not considered at all. lawyers and government officials are also trying to deny that it was a hate crime, because her murderer was a self admitted gay man. i don't care what type of queer you are: there is never an excuse to lay hands on a transgender person just because you don't like how they identify.

this is utterly sickening. to say this wasn't a hate crime is living in denial. i don't care if her murderer was gay. he's a murderer who had a clearly charged reason for doing this. he stole a life from a young transgender girl for no reason other than she identified in a way he didn't like. he's not dangerous because he's gay, nor is he exempt from being transphobic. his sexuality had nothing to do with this. not only was this man a dangerous transphobe, but a predator. a 29 year old man willingly met up with a 14 year old child. this man is dangerous for reasons that have nothing to do with his sexuality. he's a transphobic child predator. he deserves no sympathy or to get off scott free just because he's gay. he willingly met up with Pauly. she didn't force him to do anything. she was a child, and he is an adult.

please say her name. while talking about the dangers of Grindr and how minors should not use it, please include her name. yes Grindr is an extremely dangerous platform for trans women, men, and trans people in general, but that shouldn't be the focus of your conversation about her. don't use her death as a platform to discuss how fucked up grindr is without acknowledging who she was as a person. don't just make her another statistic on a page. she was a real person, a child, who was robbed of her life, and robbed from her community. she is not just another number in a long list of trans panic murders. her life meant something. say her name. fight like hell for Pennsylvania to acknowledge that her death WAS a hate crime. their archaic outdated laws need updating.

her family has a GoFundMe to give her a proper burial, please consider donating or spreading the word about it:

here is a news article that genders her correctly where you can read more about what happened:

rest in power, Pauly Likens, we miss you. you are loved. we will fight like hell for you and your family. remember her.

[scientia-rex]

One of my patients used to be a Big Deal Specialist in the city and you can just TELL he’s SEETHING that no one out here is even qualified to understand what he did, much less how important he was. He’s also terrified of death. It’s both annoying and really sad. Like, sir, I hate to break it to you, but no amount of knowledge will protect you from the ravages of time. It’s a special kind of hell to know the stages of various fatal diseases intimately. What is it going to feel like when it’s my turn? How do doctors want to die? Suddenly, quietly. Slip away painlessly in my sleep. But how likely is that? Not very. More likely I’ll get cardiovascular disease or cancer, the greatest killers of our time.

He was so afraid of cancer he had an organ that wasn’t cancerous removed just in case. He talks down to me as if I’m his student, and who knows? Maybe I was. He was in the same city as me, and they were forever dragging Big Name Doctors in to teach us things. Maybe I learned how to elicit Achilles tendon reflexes from him.

But mostly I find myself a little scornful. Who lives without the shadow of death? Who doesn’t think about death all the time? When you die, life is a round thing, finished and whole. What will your life look like when God holds it in the palm of his hand?

Also don’t fucking call me by my first name unless I’ve specifically said you can. I don’t GIVE that permission to patients, except for my mentally ill trans and queer patients. If I wanted to be disrespected by an older man I would have married young.

You do not have time. This important doctor who based his whole life around his importance lived as rich and full a life as anyone. And now he’s clinging to it, leaving fingernail marks on the walls on his way out. No one has time. There will be a moment when you’re dying when you think, I would give anything I have to be back in that moment. Any ordinary moment. Taking the dogs out to go potty. Browsing at the grocery store. When you’re being crucified on a hospital bed, dying and aware of it through the morphine, you would give anything you ever possessed to go back and have one more agony-free afternoon. Sit on a curb or a stoop. Walk through a park. Hug your spouse. These tiny fragmentary moments that we are constantly sliding through, tobogganing past at high speeds, these are what will be our life when our life is over.

I am accountable to that self. To the dying me. What did I do with this gift and curse? I don’t believe in God, but I know that I will die, and I have watched enough dying people by now to know the kinds of things I’ll think about. I want to make that me proud of what I’ve done and how I’ve spent my life. She will be a harder judge than God, and I want her to look at this one little life and think, yes. I did what I meant to.