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Fyrasha
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i don’t paint often, but when i do
it’s world unicorns
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i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like
AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE
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Like…the short answer is that I use any pronouns.
The medium answer is that I do have some preferences depending on who I am around but not at such a level that genuine engagement ever feels like misgendering.
The long answer is that I can often tell the assumptions and thought process that goes behind someone’s choice and some of those piss me off greatly. While presenting very Man™️ I had a classmate in law school refer to me as she to piss me off. He was not misgendering me, but he was trying to. I’ve had people think they clocked me as a trans woman or a trans man try to use the “opposite” pronouns to insult me. Getting a really smug “he” while presenting more like a woman is clear that we’re not playing with pronouns together.
I’ve also had people like…cut corners on their gender unpacking. People I came out as binary trans to a decade ago were relieved I used any pronouns because they could just use the set they already learned. “Nothing had changed” in their eyes. Others look at my presentation and assign binary pronouns based on that. I have to be a boy or girl to them and outside of that can only be a boy who is being weird or a girl who is being weird.
The last category is not (usually) as intentionally cruel as the one above it but sometimes, especially from trans people, still being filtered into a binary is really frustrating and it’s less to do with pronoun usage and more that I realize you are humoring me in being a weird girl or weird boy but you do not see me as outside of the binary.
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I wanna tell y'all about the Human Library
From their website:
Now, I’ve been part of this amazing organisation for a very short time, and I have to say, it is easily one of the GREATEST things you can ever take part in.
As the website states, in the Human Library, the books are people.
You are published under a ‘click bait’ title, designed to catch the public’s eye. (You choose your own title. I have published under Borderline Personality Disorder and under Queer).
Along with your title is a list of stereotypes that people have about your label. Depending on where the library is taking place, you may get the chance to add to the list yourself (I wrote my own for both Borderline and Queer)
With that done, people come and take you out. They ask you questions. And you have a conversation.
I’ve had some amazing conversations with people. Because guess what, people WANT to learn. The issue that comes is that a lot of the team, people don’t want to ask the questions they have, because they don’t want to upset people. This is fine. It is not socially appropriate to come up to someone with self harm scars and go: “How did your parents react to you doing that?” (A question I got asked by someone who took me out as a Borderline book)
But within the Human Library, you’re trained to park your offence at the door. To allow people to ask the questions that they really want to ask, but don’t want to upset people by asking.
Questions I’ve been asked, across both of my titles:
-I thought we weren’t allowed to use queer, why is that your title? (Asked by a young gay man)
-If you’re borderline, that means your not really sick, right?
-Why did you self harm?
-How can you date if you’re Asexual?
-Can you be a lesbian if you’re Non-binary?
-How did you know you weren’t a boy or a girl?
-Did you have a happy childhood?
Now, I wouldn’t accept those questions from people on the street. That would be weird. But being a book, I’ve taken on the responsibility to answer these questions to the best of my ability.
ALL OF THIS BEING SAID!
You also don’t have to sit for the entire conversation. While it’s never happened to me (thank goodness), if a conversation makes you uncomfortable, you are allowed to leave. You can catch the attention of your librarian, and they will end your conversation. They will cut the loan period short.
If someone is being genuinely mean, rather than simply not being educated on your topic, you can end the loan. If someone is just making you uncomfortable for some reason, you can end the loan. YOU, as the book, have the power.
So please, if you’re someone who can stay calm and answer questions, consider signing up to be a book with the Human Library.
(soft bonus: if you have to travel for a library, they’ll pay for your travel and any over night stays that are necessary)
HERE’S THE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION!
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One more joke hate: You may claim to be a woman but biologically you are a featherless biped and thus a man.
Finally a good argument for why I'm actually a man
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In 1944 a kitten named George (short for General Electric) was saved from drowning by a U.S. Navy crew member. George was then photographed and given a liberty card and detailed health record. Source.
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Reblog if you love AO3 and appreciate their volunteers who are working harder than God, fighting battle after battle, making sure the place that is a safe space for every fandom is staying up and running for all of us
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You have one super power: The ability to know without fail what the truth is to any asked question. You planned to help the world as a super hero. It took you six hours for the government to declare you public enemy number one and the most deadly super villain alive.
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"well if it's not androgynous what should a nonbinary person look like??" ***EXTREMELY LOUD BUZZER SOUND*** WRONG!!!! YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG!!!!!!! NOBODY "SHOULD" ANYTHING!!!! THAT IS NOT WHAT QUEERNESS IS ABOUT!!!!! GO TO THE CALM DOWN CORNER AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE JUST SAID.
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Lactose: e-excuse me...
Stomach: hey, what do we have here? Some goddamned lactose!
Small intestine: we don't like lactose here, ya know? You're gatecrashing a very private party!
Large intestine: (pushes him, making him stumble) there's two ways you can leave here... The easy way, or the hard way. What's it gonna be?
Lactose: but I...
Lactase: (deep voice) step back, everyone. (walks up and puts his arm around lactose's shoulders) he's with *me*
Large intestine: lactase?!
Small intestine: b-but you're both...
Lactase: I *said* he's with me. You got a problem with that?
Stomach: (finishes sizing him up) right. Course not. It's cool, lactose. Just don't cause any *problems*, you hear?
Lactose: I-I w-
Lactase: you don't have to answer that, babe. Just keep walking
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So while rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender recently, I noticed a trend
A number of spirits we see have an animal form, specifically animals we recognize as "normal" for us. For example:
- Wan Shi Tong is an owl and his knowledge seekers are foxes
- Tui and La are koi fish
- Hei Bai is a panda
-The guardian of the mother of faces is a wolf (The Search)
Heck there's even the talking Baboon spirit and the monkey missing its face that we see in the Spirit World at the end of Season 1.
Basically every time we've seen a "normal" animal, they've been a spirit.
My point? I argue that Bosco is a spirit bear that's chilling and living the good life in the mortal world just because he can.
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European elections are on Sunday, June 9 🇪🇺
And for the first time, 16- and 17-year-olds get to have a say!
If you are
- 16, in Austria, Belgium, Germany or Malta
- 17, in Greece
you can vote in this election.
AND YOU SHOULD!
European elections might sound boring, complicated, less sexy than your average national elections. But they matter greatly.
Since the establishment of the EU, this previously volatile region has not seen war. We are stronger and better together 🫶 But our peaceful life together doesn’t run on autopilot. Right-wing populists across the EU are spreading hatred, trying to draw lines between “us” and “them.”
DON’T LET THEM WIN.
Democracy and the EU we have right now depend on all of us to get involved. So make your voice heard. Vote in the EU election on Sunday, June 9. In some countries (for example in Germany), you are already able to vote now, via mail-in ballot or by going to your city’s election office. Whichever way you do it…
GO VOTE!
You get to brag about it here afterwards (and, you know, get to keep living in a democratic society 🙂)
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“LOL. You think your vote matters? ROFL and LOL.” Yes, I am aware my vote carries less and less relative power the more people I’m voting with, but unlike your glorious violent revolution, it actually exists.
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Hey, this pride month (or literally any time of year), you wanna know something fairly easy and great you can do?
Contact your local library (or comment on their social media) positively for any pride/LGBTQIA+/queer-related displays or events they have going on.
Seriously.
What I’m seeing and hearing from the (mostly US-based) library workers in my groups and social circles is that the anti-queer (anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-drag queen story time, etc.) comments and complaints that have ramped up in the past year aren’t going away. Even library workers with supportive coworkers/bosses/boards are steeling themselves to deal with an avalanche of garbage, or are second-guessing their displays and events because the amount of vitriol can wear a person down so much. And the ones without supportive people or work environments? It’s worse.
Give the library something else: give them both the ammo (by being one of the numbers they can count worth the positive group) if they need to show their community isn’t wholly negative. Give them the compliment of knowing that their work got appreciated.
A comment like “I love this” or “Wow, that looks great!”
An email about how much you’re excited about X event
A call saying you wanted to let them know you appreciate this thing
Tagging them if you share a picture or positive comment on social media
“Cool shirt/pins/etc!” (Because people are also bring harassed about personally being queer, even if it’s not a library display)
Literally anything that would be positive for them to receive
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