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greatwyrmgold · 48 minutes

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maybe cain wldnt have killed abel if they had video games to healthily channel the violence between siblings. unfortunately back then the only smash brothers they had was smash brothers head in with a rock

#bible #cain and abel #video games #or lack thereof

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greatwyrmgold · 2 hours

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don't talk to me until i've had my morning onikoro!!

#(googles onikoro) okay yeah that's what I expected #bocchi the rock!#fanart #kikuri hiroi

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greatwyrmgold · 3 hours

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> you try and harass a trans woman off the website

> trans women are less trusting and polite about tme people

> a trans woman does not straightforwardly answer a bad faith question, because she doesn't trust you

> you accuse her of being a bigot or a sexual predator for not answering the question

> you try and harass a trans woman off the website

and the cycle repeats

#transgender #tumblr

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greatwyrmgold · 4 hours

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Liberal Dissociative Amnesia

The Cass Review is the most discussed political topic among trans people in the UK right now. The 388 page report by Dr Hillary Cass examines the gender services available to young people in the UK and concludes that young people are being let down, gender services need to be taken out of reach for trans people under 25 and a new system which urges avoiding transition at every turn needs to be created which will refer people at age 25.

I just watched Michael Walker on Novara Media say "I think there are some very difficult questions here that I really don't know the answer to", and I find myself baffled by statements like this. I did actually understand in watching what specific questions he thought were "difficult", and I think someone could probably answer them pretty effectively to a standard he was happy with if he had a well informed trans person who he trusted in his life. The problem is, the whole segment was presented with as much equivocation and both-sidesing as possible, this constant air of "what if"

I feel like I'm observing a dissociative amnesia that people like this run into when discussing something that people they can easily see are bigots have declared to be scientific and complicated and requiring serious scrutiny. The Novara team understand the broad wave of anti-trans attacks happening across much of the world, particularly America and Britain, right now, even if they won't necessarily call it genocide - so why does this story exist completely devoid of context? Why is it suddenly time to ask "difficult questions"?

Walker wonders out loud about people on a spectrum where at one end people would have always been cis under all circumstances and on the other they would have always been trans, and in the middle of course are people who might transition if it's easier and there's less stigma. His point as far as I can tell is that somewhere in there it could get TOO easy to transition and then people will do it and regret it. Do I need to bother saying this is why we have informed consent?

It's like the people trying to wipe us out are playing Simon Says with the most progressive of our liberal media. The progressives can see bigotry for what it is most of the time and then somehow suddenly it becomes ✨special science bigotry ✨ and, perhaps because there's an institutional weight behind it, perhaps because it claims to be a serious study, or perhaps just because of the aesthetics of intellectualism the progressive journalists mysteriously forget about the whole wider context of transphobia around the world and have to apply rigorous journalistic standards to it.

"There's social contagion!" "No that's bigotry"

"They're just undiagnosed autistic people!" "No they're trans AND autistic"

"They're coming after the kids!" "No, that's age old queerphobia"

"✨Simon Says ✨ there's social contagion!" "oh well this warrants very careful discussion, I need to think very hard about this before taking a side here, it's a toxic culture war debate and we must remain ✨rational✨ when discussing issues like this..."

#neoliberalism #politics #discourse #news media #transphobia #uk politics #not that the USA is much better...#we just don't have a famous billionaire author backing our transphobes

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greatwyrmgold · 5 hours

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angel

#chainsaw man #angel devil #fanart #art #monochrome

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greatwyrmgold · 6 hours

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#that can NOT be a safe way to bring a small child on your bike ride #dungeon meshi #au #fanart #senshi #itsuzumi #falin thorden #thistle dungeon meshi

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greatwyrmgold · 7 hours

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Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

#lord of the rings #lotr #(I don't remember which tag I've used in the past)#demon #spider

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greatwyrmgold · 7 hours

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before the poll, a quick definition of terms:

"mutual" - you found this post from a mutual (on their blog or your dash) "following" - you found this post from someone you're following, but who isn't following you "random" - you found this by scrolling through someone's blog, who you don't follow. this includes people following you "For You" - you found this on the For You page "recommended" - you found this in a "Check out these blogs" popup, or a "recommended" post when looking at a different post "other" - you found this post some other way. comment how? "reblog ✅" - you're going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post "reblog ❌" - you're NOT going to reblog, queue, or schedule this post

with that out of the way:

#tumblr #poll

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greatwyrmgold · 8 hours

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There's a few people on this website I follow just because they believe the exact opposite of everything I do. It's useful to see what they think about any given topic.

#twitter

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greatwyrmgold · 9 hours

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I lovvvee this little comic from Ryoko Kui 's Daydream Hours ♡. I would read a whole slice of life manga about Falin and Marcille's time together at the magic academy (⁠´⁠ε⁠｀⁠ ⁠)

#dungeon meshi #falin thorden #marcille donato #farcille

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greatwyrmgold · 10 hours

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its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

#generative ai #education #or lack thereof #cajun #elves

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greatwyrmgold · 11 hours

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Elizabeth Kirkman Fitzhugh, Militant Mary

November 13, 1914

#not sure how to tag this #class war #or something #politics #history

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greatwyrmgold · 12 hours

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All it means when people say “you’re speaking from a place of privilege” is that you’re likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It’s not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.

#privilege #rhetoric

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greatwyrmgold · 13 hours

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it’s insane how quickly your life can just. suddenly improve. i used to be so miserable but now i own 5 swords

#anecdote #tarot #swords

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greatwyrmgold · 14 hours

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The thing that too many people are failing to grasp is that there is a moment coming when the people will throw themselves at the state with the force of the resentment and the bitterness against the unfairness - the cruelty - of the lives that the state has imposed on them, and that moment is coming over and over. When the moment comes, if the organising has been done the state will be toppled, and if it hasn't then it won't, but the state cannot topple the people because the people are its foundations, so the moment will come again.

#politics #praxis #liberation

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greatwyrmgold · 15 hours

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Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

#boat #gender

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greatwyrmgold · 16 hours

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Purity Politics

#kink #call out post #social media #acab #(all calloutposts are bullshit)

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