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sgengibre · 2 months

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made it for woman's day and forgot to post here

#eddsworld #ellsworld #ell #tori #elltori #toriell #trans tori btw

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yuttikkele · 2 years

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day 20: evil hot lady

AAAA I LOVE HOW THIS DRAWING TURNED OUT!! i didn’t mean to shade the whole thing (since i was running behind), but stuff happens man .<.

i think tori is a tad bit neater than tord and deserves to have huge honkaroos, sorry tord.

#she is trans btw #inktober #inktober 2022 #inktober day 20 #cringetober #cringetober 2022 #cringetober day 20 #Eddsworld #eddsworld fanart #ew fanart #tori ew #tori ew fanart #Ew Tori fanart #Ellsworld #ack #draws #Red leader

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benetnvsch · 7 months

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Cringetober day 9: Crackship/rarepair

ft Kurai and Tori who has a less than subtle crush on her hehe

Today's new OC is Kurai :> she is,,, one of the 8 main characters that gets thrown around in all my universes and I think the only one never to go evil in at least one KDJHKDJH. she was created as a middle character at first and just wormed her way into the main cast and now is part of the main four of the main 8 (shhh don't think about it so much-) her hair came to me in a dream and she can roller skate

anyway, she and tori def have romantic potential and tori def has a crush on her in a lot of universes/stories but I am realizing there's not a single one where Kurai actually knows and so I chose em for today DJHKDJ-

#cringetober #kite draws #this also was entirely traced form a ccs gartic phone drawing I made KFJHFKJ #kurai #who also has fallen victim of my inability to come up with last names </3 #tori triax #none of my ocs so far are white btw just didn't color skin for the first few ones cuz I was lazy LMAO #both of them are trans also uwu

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whiskeysorrows · 2 months

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Not the Tories trying to push a bill that allow schools to out trans kids to their parents, something that directly contradict the 2010 Equality Act btw

#they're literally breaking their own laws wtf #this is such an evil thing to do bc it makes kids so vulnerable to abuse #guess they learnt nothing from brianna ghey huh #at least my english lit teacher's awesome she says she'll break the law if this bill passes #rambles #uk politics

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hobsgamchill · 1 month

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You're not a feminist if all you post on your blog is anti-radfem content - if you're actually a feminist, show it: post whatever activism you truly believe in. Don't just tear down women who have slightly different beliefs than you. Stop bootlicking men, they aren't gonna fuck you for posting anti-feminist bullshit lmao

“If you don’t agree with fascists you aren’t a real feminists”

Bootlicking the patriarchy and demanding the genocide of minorities isn’t feminisms honey it’s fascism

You are not a feminist you are a misandrist that pretends to be an activist you will defend the tyrants as long as they say they hate trans people because you believe they are men

Just look at the bedfellows you share … Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles and every terf in the UK supports the tories and their anti gay anti abortion bs

Also I’m a cis man not a woman nor a troon (as you like to say) I’m an anarchist and anti fascist that has fought Nazis face to face for over a decade now(in the very literal sense btw) and I will oppose fascism no matter the genitalia it possesses

#terfblr #radblr #antiterfaction #anarchist #anarchism #terfs #feminism #gender affirmation is good actually #trans rights #you are just a man hater #you are a fascist #you just hate men #actual advocacy #actual activism

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salted-caramel-tea · 2 years

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liz truss straight up said trans women aren’t women btw .

she scrapped the gender recognition act in 2020 meaning that transmed ideologies are still largely the basis for gender transitioning btw .

conservative party members and allies to her campaign have implied that truss has done a u turn and no longer supports the ban of conversion therapy for queer people in the u.k. btw.

liz truss aligns herself with the gender critical movement btw .

liz truss voted for marriage equality but consistently creates hostile environments for lgbt people in panels and weaponises these rights in sentiments shared by queer tory party members

btw .

#british politics #liz truss

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aropride · 1 year

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(ID: an edited screenshot of Tori Vega's status on the social media TheSlap from Victorious. it's edited to read "I love trans people so much it's unreal. Feeling: Proud". end ID)

she and jade are t4t lesbians btw

#text

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newcronomicon · 4 months

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re : uk trans suppression politics

the way I didn't see really anyone minus other British people talking about the uk gov inacting something over the Scottish gov WHICH BTW. HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE to block a bill which would make getting a gender recognition certificate just that Tiny bit easier.

I'm scottish, I love my country dearly. but the English tories has such a tight grip on us when our gov is making steps to be more left leaning and therefore fucking safe for people like me to exist. it's incredibly fucking tiring

#021

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royal-babey · 2 years

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//rant incoming

Thank u uk government I love losing more and more rights oh yes sunak if you get into office put me in the british re-education camps you’re gonna be dragging most of fucking britain into them because we all hate where we live and yes please government remove more abortion rights sneakily, remove gender equality act, remove bodily autonomy rights for anyone with a uterus and also bring back conversion therapy and take away out human rights in general so you can pick and choose. Also yes don’t solve the current cost of living crisis, please put electricity and gas prices up more, kill more and more of us poor people who want to just live and not eat tory shit

Anyway I’m fucking tired and every single day of living is like a chore. Thousands are expected to die this winter btw and the government is like welp don’t be poor and old ig 🤷 there are thousands of empty houses and thousands of homeless too. If you live in britain expect to walk past frozen corpses of any age

I’m tired of no one giving a shit because we’re not america. We have no rights to protest right now either. Trans people are not safe from conversion therapy. The only people running for prime minister are tory and labour.

Scotland is meant to be having an independence referendum next year but I don’t see that happening, no doubt it’ll be blocked again. More and more benefits too will be cut off. Grocery stores are empty.

Also the NHS is severely underfunded and more and more doctors and nurses are leaving. People haven’t been able to see dentists in years and have resorted to pulling their own teeth out. There are no mental health services, fucking none.

For the chronically ill and severely mentally ill like myself, I cannot get access to a clinic that would help me and I have BEEN TOLD unless I’m going to kill myself, don’t try to see a psychiatrist. I was told this by a doctors office receptionist.

We are living in fucking dystopia and no one wants to care. I for one am filled with so much anger and anxiety constantly. I am terrified for my family and my friends who live here too.

We are fucked and no one cares. Not one single person seems to be willing to fight. It’s illegal for us to fight too basically.

#rant #uk politics #i am so fucking upset #I don’t care if you don’t wanna see shit like this on my account - you’re gonna have to deal or unfollow #because this is our fucking future AND THEY ARE TRYING TO FUCKING KILL US #I’m aware the world has problems everywhere but please just let me focus on my fucking home #please #i try to spread awareness for everywhere else in the world but no one does the same for us

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the-warmesthello · 2 years

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owen's family/siblings hcs

a couple of hcs about owen's family bc im sick and need to write these down before the delirium fades and i completely forget all of this.

PRE-POSTING EDIT: i'm better now. i did, in fact, forget all of this and am piecing it back together. this isn't fully sick me's vision, but it is what i think.

PRE-POSTING EDIT EDIT: wow this is so fucking long why am i incapable of being normal about this. btw just realised that these r ocs. im making ocs. i didn't think of them as ocs up until now, just as literally what his family's like the same way canon is what his adult life's like, but i made spies are forever ocs and you will hear about them. this message brought to you by me a week after i started making this post.

this is the springboard for all my stuff about owen's family. in this post i'm only focussing on childhood except where i think i might forget. my barb-owen lavender marriage au is based on inheritance fraud regarding these specific people. i might contradict myself later, but probably not.

trigger warnings: emotionally abusive family, ableism, parent death, traumatic/accidental death, trauma and its aftermath, child labour exploitation i think?, war undertones, abusive school experiences, one mention of anti-welsh sentiment, implied antisemitism. if you want to skip the worst of the death bit, skip the 3rd point under C.

very long also putting in bigger tags so don't want to force people to see triggering stuff, so it's under a read more.

parents

father's (b. 1895) side of the family is old money. very proudly welsh in the way of language and history, but they're politically aligned with the crown. all tories, except for a cousin that started voting plaid cymru in 1927 and was disowned. father has a strong desire for a well-rounded, educated, "manly gentleman" for a son, the same as what his father wanted. lineage is everything for the carvours. that's how it's always been.

mother (1904-1942) was jewish. her family immigrated to swansea when her parents were both children ('they met on the boat over, and it was love at first sight', mother would tell them). they integrated and became comfortably wealthy, though by what means mother never told. when she told her parents she wanted to marry a goy who wouldn't consider conversion, they fought, and even though they made up, the relationship stayed stunted.

sibling intro

owen had 3 siblings growing up: an older brother (by 6 years, A), a younger sister (by 4 years, B), and a younger brother (by 10 years, C).

someone help me with their names i'm tired. some ideas i have: - A (edit: alan reese carvour) i want to be a name that i would associate with an older guy, with fewer spelling-related ties to welsh than his younger siblings. alan, reese, trevor/trev, gavin, brian, edwin/ed - B (edit: catrin avalon carvour) i want to be similar to the name owen, one that's clearly welsh/a welsh variant if you think about it but enough of a common name that it's not super obvious to foreigners. gwen, catrin/cadi, megan, nia, enid, avalon/ava, rhiannon (cant use gwen unless owen's trans and he chose a name similar to his sister's on purpose) - C (edit: dafydd arthur carvour) i want to have a welsh spelling of a name that could be anglicised easily, should he wish. dafydd/dai, gwilym, arthur, daryn, harri

A was born in the may of 1924 while the carvours were still living in london. mother and father had recently married, and mother was young and didn't have very much support outside of her in-laws, who resented her for reasons A will never understand.

he'd always been kind of a troublemaker, throwing things and screaming and colouring all over the nursery wall, but his father didn't bother trying to fix any of it because 'boys will be boys', and his mother used to try but gave up easily when he preferred his father to her because 'forcing someone to like you better never works'.

due to this, he never really learned how to cope with emotions in a healthy way and often "embarrassed" his parents with his public emotional outbursts. only then did his father care how he acted, but the sudden rule change didn't make sense. he picked up on that shame and internalised it deeply, becoming defensive whenever someone suggested another idea to him.

probably has some kind of undiagnosed thing, but nobody ever took him to be tested when he was young, by the time he was old enough to communicate that it was a problem he didn't like either, everyone had already written him off as manipulative and beyond saving.

so he stopped caring. if he did something wrong, he was a horrible little brat. if he tried to do what people asked, they said he was trying to get something out of them.

eventually, his parents (or at least his mother) improved somewhat, but at that point he wanted nothing to do with them and was grateful that he only had to see them on school holidays. their attempts were too little, too late.

resents owen for being the 'better son', but very protective of his other siblings.

found a healthy coping mechanism in lifting heavy things when he was tasked with digging anderson shelters for everyone and felt the weight of his frustration being thrown away behind him with the soil.

this became his go-to calming method, even if it meant father screamed at him.

after 1942, he didn't dig any more holes. it was too much to bear.

so he turned his escapism into perfectionism and channelled his athleticism into boxing. he dropped out of college, got a promoter, and spent every waking moment counting out money, considering the odds of each fight, and training.

it was overwhelming, but that's what he wanted it to be.

eventually got disowned for leftism crimes. (good for him)

owen

yes i'm gonna make one of these for him too.

born in november 1930 in aberystwyth. parents' marriage more established, but not strictly happy. owen picked up on clear ideological differences between his parents at a young age, but both were raising their children under their model of success.

an 'odd' child, but in a way that was less of an inconvenience to adults so was never reprimanded for it.

he didn't really understand why people liked some behaviours better than others, but knew that when he did the right things, people were nicer to him, and sometimes even gave him things, so he learned to play the game.

honestly, as an adult he finds it funny that A was always seen as manipulative when really out of anyone in the family it was himself. i mean, like, he knew that sucked for A, but he wasn't gonna say anything about it.

since he was the "smart one", he became the de facto eldest son, and was given a much more thorough education in languages, music, and science.

played the cello, first because father told him to, then because he liked it. he liked the way it could sway with him and how deep it sounded.

father liked how there were no frets forcing one in line, like a guitar, but one still had to follow the rules or it would sound bad.

when war broke out, owen was introduced to a family that had recently moved in. his father said that he should get to know the children, they were his age. they could be friends.

after dinner that evening, his father invited him to his office, a rare honour. a machine was already set up, and owen watched the wheels rotate as he answered question after question about the neighbours' children's lives.

where are they from? have you been able to see anything in that room no child is allowed into? what did that note slipped under the front door say? can you draw it? what have they overheard about the move? what did they say their parents' jobs were? what is... who did... where... thank you, owen, that's all. you may go to your room now, there's something there for you. think of it as a token of gratitude for your trouble.

this continued for a few months, all the way up until the family disappeared. owen thought it was odd that they hadn't brought their things.

either way, the conversations stopped after that, until the next time. and the next.

when he decided to join mi6's training program, he couldn't help but notice that his file was already several pages thick on his first day.

way back in 1942, he was the first to hear the siren. the sound made him feel sick for the rest of his life.

born in july 1934. with the 'heir and a spare' out of the way, the pressure on mother to produce another son was gone, and both parents welcomed a baby girl.

spoiled by her father with material goods, but she could sense that it was to set her up for something, and there was less emotion behind it than a plan, though for what she couldn't know.

had a knack for cheering people up, even father. she could sing, and dance around a room, and perform a smile to make it all better for a moment.

she loved her siblings. if father was treating A unfairly, she would mediate. if owen was cracking under the weight of his schoolwork, languages, music lessons, the now mandatory play sessions with the neighbours, readings, and shooting practice, she would sneak into his room and offer to help cover for him.

great tree-climber. sometimes would go up and wouldn't get down unless there was food waiting for her.

some days, mother would take her into a secret room off one of the corridors nobody went through, and in there were candlesticks, both straight and tree shaped, and a cup that looked older than even mother, and a cloth that mother taught her to put on her head with a song in a language she didn't understand. there was a little metal canister on the doorframe, and when she was very little mother would lift her up so she could touch it whenever she went in or out.

mother used to say, 'this is where we come from. remember that.' and 'this is precious, and secret, and only for us to know. we can't tell father.' and it was only when B was grown, and had her own husband, and her own children, that she understood.

loved painting. mostly her dreams, which she could remember as vividly as any other memory.

what happened that night in 1942 was only 4 hours after she blew her eight birthday candles out. every year hearing the birthday song would bring it back.

talking about mother hurt after that, so she didn't.

her paintings became more focused, more like the dreams she had in the few years after that night, even when her dreams moved on somewhat. the current dream paintings were private, only shared with her family and close friends.

the ones she shared were precipices, a candle being snatched by the darkness of a tunnel, mother telling her that she was sorry for leaving while sitting with B in a sunny field, on a train, in the secret room.

after her death, the moderate number of people in the art world who know her work will wonder who the woman in her work is.

some say a reflection of herself, some a recurring character living a full life, some later on suggest a lover. the truth was that B never fully moved on from what happened, even though her life did.

born during the war in january of 1941. both mother and he had almost died, and he was sick for a month following his birth.

has no memories of mother, but always thought that she looked very pretty in pictures.

C was only 18 months old when the siren went off. mother had lifted him out of his cot while the whole family and staff filed out of their rooms to the shelters. it had been dark, and mother was shaking so much, the way she always did when this happened, and she must have missed a step on the way down. she had twisted backwards to protect him the only way she could.

father never let him forget that it was his fault.

growing up, owen and B were the only people in the house who wanted to take care of him, and they tried their best.

but C was... different. more delicate. he seemed to get sick if someone across the house shut a door too loudly. he had no interest in climbing trees or playing the cello. he seemed almost like a rabbit, always looking around, scared that something was going to get him at any moment.

the only thing he seemed to like doing was reading. he learned at what might've been a remarkably young age, but must not have been, because father never said anything. owen told him later that they'd learned to read at the same age, and he was told that it was early, so C must also have been a quick learner.

owen helped with his learning as much as he could, but support from father was impossible and textbooks were so much more difficult than fiction. in fiction he could go wherever he wanted.

his favourites were a little princess, the naughtiest girl in the school, and trixie belden mysteries.

father tried to take them away, said they were too girly, but B always managed to sneak them back. she recommended more grown up mysteries, like poirot and father brown, for when he needed a 'boyish enough' story. but it was always the boarding school stories he liked best.

so he was excited to see what adventures would await him when he finally got to go himself.

it didn't go well.

(he'd one day find that most things never do go the way they are in stories.)

the school he went to was english, and the boys all made fun of his name and how his chin jutted out when he was nervous and the way he talked, as well as everything his father had.

he spelled his name differently when they said it made him look stupid for 'spelling it wrong'.

the teachers criticised his posture and his handwriting and how he undermined their authority, though he didn't mean to, really he didn't, it was an accident.

the teachers said that if it happened this many times it couldn't have been an accident.

when he turned 21, he changed his uni major (then dropped out altogether), changed his attitude, changed his clothes. became a writer/producer as part of a travelling theatre company. all for the sake of being free.

some would say he went too far in that.

#magnetic tape recorders didnt commercially exist until 1945ish but photoelectric paper ones did so thats what that was #also jurtwen made me do it to em :) i will hold on to this concept forever #holy shit this took so long #anyway hope this is a Thing and not just some prolonged bullshittery #headcanons #owen #im right #owen carvour #spies are forever #tin can bros #emotional abuse tw #ableism tw #parent death tw #trauma tw #school tw #the rest should be fine since it's under a read more and only smaller things but if anyone wants them tagged ask me and i'll do it

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wilbur-sloot · 2 years

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•eret x reader•

requested: no im simping for her currently :3 (eret gos by all pronouns btw)

pronouns used: he/him (trans)

tw//ed

status: lovers 💕

y/n pov

i was having a wonderful nap when i hear a nosie coming from my phone. somwonw was calling me

"helllo?" i say

"hi baby" eret said

"oh hi love" i say still tired

"im gonna be home in 15 minutes did you eat? do you want me to bring somthing home for us to eat?" she asked

"no thank you hun. i already ate" i say

"oh yeah? what did u eat" they asked

"uh- ramen i are ramen" i say

"ok love i will be home soon but im driving so goodbye" she says

"ok bye bye" i say

he hangs up the phone, so i go back to sleep.

~15 mins later~

"y/n! y/n wake up love" i hear a voice. i look up seeing my partner looking at me.

"hey eret" i say my voice more raspy then normal

"hey wanna watch heartstopper together?" she asks me

"ofc babe. i always have time for tori spring" i say

"ok get up" she says

"carry me." i say doing grabby hands which she dose. she carrys me to the living room and puts me on the couch. then he sits down bye me and i put my head on her lap. then i hear the door bell ring.

"baby can u get the door?" i ask too comfy to get up

"ofc darling" eret says getting up and putting a pillow under my head. it's probably the mail man. but when i look up i see eret with a bag. it looked like food. shit.

"who is it love?" i ask

"well i got you food" he says.oh no.

"im not hungy i alredy ate" i say sitting up.

"and what did you have" she asks me

"i told you ramen noodles" i said

"we do t have ramen" eret says

"wha-" i started but eret cut me off

"love you need to eat something wven if its just a noodle u need food or else you will starve yourself"

"thats the point eret" i say

"how will i live eithout you pretty boy?" he asks me

"i dont know there are so many diffrent people out there you can find someone" i say blankly

"please for me love?" she asks looking at me

"but ill get fat and then you wont like me anymore" i said staring down at my feet

"darling what you cant get fat from just one meal hun puls do you think that would matter?" he asks

"how are you so skinny?" i ask

"OH btw idc if hr skinny or not ill still love you!" i say

"see" she says looking at me i still dont make eye contact with them.

"but look at me!" i say tightening my cloths which show how cubby i am and my boobs that keep ni matter what i do working out just makes then bigger.

"and?" he starts "what do you think i see"

i look down then run off to the bed room crying. dose she really not like me? i thought they loved me :( god im so stupid. i took a blanket and a pillow and went into the closet and cried myself to sleep.

~time skip 2 hours eret pov~

"y/n?" i say my voice shaky from crying i fucked up. i fucked up big time. i think that he thought i was saying that he was cubby when hes not he is perfect and amazing. i love him with all my heart and i cant loose him. if i do i dont know what i would do. he is the best thing that has ever happend to me :(

"y/n are you in here" i ask going over to the closet m. i open it and see him asleep on the ground. hi s head on a pillow and a blanket over him to keep him warm. i scoop him up and bring him to bed and i lay next to him cuddling up to him. that woke him up when he noticed he was in bed he was fine but then when he saw that i was clinging on to him, he wiggled out of my grasp got ip and walked out then i heard the door open and the car start.

did he not like me anymore. was he trying to avoid me. where is he even going. dose he have a place to stay? i really hope hes safe. i felt my eye lids get tired and i drofted off into my dreams.

~time skip 6:00 am~

i woke up and went down stairs and i saw our car outside! that must mean y/ns home. i go and look around but i cant find him. where is he. oh wait he has to work today. but how did he get to work if his car is here. whatever.

•y/n pov•

"have a nice day!" i said smiling at the costumer that was walking off with there drink. then someone came in

"hi welcome to the star lake café how can i help you?" i ask looking up to benny

"oh my gosh is benny im my café?" i say

"nah the whole sandlot crew is" he says as evreyone walks out.

"omg hey i havent seen you guys in sooo long" i say walking around the counter hugging them all

"when do you get done with work?" ham asked me

"um i think 7:00pm today i took an extra shift" i say

"aww" all the boys said

"why cant you just take off today?" smalls asked

"i cant no one else is op-" i started but then one of my co-worker came in

"hey do you want me to take ur shift you look a little busy" my co-worker said

"yes thank you so much" i whisper back to them

we walk out of the coffee shop and i spot erets car. shit. eh whatever he's probably just hungry or something

"so how has the big leages been treating you benny boy" i ask looking at him as he swings an arm around me and smalls

"pretty good i mean when you have this one as the announcer you know its pretty good!" he says as me and smalls look at each other and smile.

"so theres no one at the sandlot anymore and if there is we can kick there asses. wanna go play some baseball?" kenny asks as we are passing the drug store.

"hell yeah" we all say. everyone else gos in as i wait

"y/n!" i hear a voice. eret. i turn around

"um hey" i say

"WHERE THE HELL WHERE YOU" he says as i cover my ears and run into the store scared that he might hit me

i run over to benny and barry my head into his chest and start crying as he comforts me

"what happend?" he asks softly

"e-eret yelled a-at me" i say in between sobs

"aww im sorry y/n/n" ham said

"come on lets go" squints said. we all went out of the store and was met by eret

"y/n please just let me talk to you" eret said softly

"fine." i say walking over to him

"listen im sorry i never meant what i said in that way ok hun?" he said bringing me into a hug

"i love you so much and it hurts me to know that i caused you all this trouble please just forgive me?" he continued

"i forgive you and im sorry i overreacted way too much" i say looking down

"its fine love" he says hugging me

"after your done playing baseball will you come home and cuddle me?" eret asks giving me puppy dog eyes

"of cores love" i say kissing him on the cheek and running off.

~time skip eret pov~

its getting dark out and y/n should be backz i mean he has been gone for ofer 6 hours i should be worrying. then i hear the door open and i get out of bed and run down stairs to see y/n with a black eye and shit.

"holy shit what the fuck happened?" i asked rushing over to him

"what dose it look like?" he stated "me and Philip got into a fight"

"oh poor baby" i say craddling him

"babe its fine. im going to bed" he says walking past me going upstairs.

i give him a minute to get into comfy clothes. then i go upstairs to see him in our bed. he gets up and hugs me. i see him in hello kitty pants with a hello kitty shirt. i hug him back and kiss his head.

"i want cuddles" he mumbles into my chest. awwww hes so cute!

"ok darling!" i say picking him up bringing him to our bed setting him on the bed. then i get up and change into my pjs and climb into bed next to the love of my life. then he grabs the remote and turns on Nightmare Before Christmas! then comes back over to me berrying his head in my chest.

"well hello there love!" i say.

"hi baby!" he says smiling at me. " lets watch the movie now!" he said excitedly. they he turned his attention to the tv and watches it.

about 20 minutes later i hear his breathing slow down. i look down and see y/n sleeping on my chest. i take a picture and go to sleep hugging him.

#eret x reader #eret mcyt #will writes

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hyuccubus · 1 year

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15 Tags 15 mutuals

Tagged again by @toribookworm22, which makes me very happy 😊

I don't have a lot of mutuals to tag, though 😶 I'm always looking to change that, I try to follow back, although I have been slacking in searching a little bit.

1. Are you named after anyone?

Funny story abut that, honestly. My father wanted to name me after himself. That would have made my name Teddy, which I would absolutely hate. My mother, whom he was divorcing at the time, hated it as well, and they argued back and forth until my uncle got a book of names from the hospital gift shop and they landed on my previous name, which I still don't have a problem with but is hardly what I'd consider feminine. The surname I use, Allen, is my middle name, which I did inherit from him. I might drop that, too, though, I've been processing a lot of feelings about my dad I couldn't fully come to terms with until he died about two years ago.

2. When was the last time you cried?

Hard? About a week or two ago. Earlier today I teared up during an emotional moment in a Ted Lasso episode. Great show, btw

3. Do you have kids?

Yes, I have one seven year old son. He's a wonderful little guy, and despite my trans-femme identity, I'm proud to be his father for now

4. Do you use sarcasm?

Speaking of having kids, I can say I use it far too much, because he's only just now getting when I'm being sarcastic.

5. What's the first thing you notice about people?

Typically it's their hair or their fashion sense. I have trouble with eye contact, and I like finding something to compliment about someone that was a choice they made, like their nails or their shoes, that sort of thing.

6. What's your eye color?

Very, very blue

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

Happy endings. I love scary stories and video games, but scary movies rev up my anxiety too much. I think it's the music, honestly, good sound design makes all the difference, and in video games I still feel in control.

8. Any special talents?

I am very, very, very good at Guitar Hero/Rock Band. 99% likely I am better than everyone else you know. Proof

9. Where were you born?

Louisville, Kentucky, where I've also lived in or near for all of my life.

10. What are your hobbies?

Apart from writing, I spend just about all of my time playing video games. I suppose a more specific thread of that is that I really enjoy emulating video games on their native hardware, which has nothing to do with being pretty poor and not being able to afford retro games that are becoming a speculative market, combined with anxieties about the limited lifespan of physical media. I get a lot of enjoyment out of tinkering with my PS3 or Wii U and making it do something the original creators never intended. The ingenuity of the gaming community never ceases to amaze me.

11. Have you any pets?

Yes, one cat named Piers.

12. What sports do you play/have played?

I was pretty much forced in playing soccer for around 11 years or so. I really like tennis and I'd love to get into more extreme sports like BMX or skateboarding, although given that I'm going to be 30 this year, that'll need to be sooner rather than later 😆

13. How tall are you?

5' 7"

14. Favorite subject in school?

Drama, I'd say. I really like the stage, although I've never had the courage to join any kind of production once I left school. Could be fun if I had the opportunity!

15. Dream job?

Writing for video games, maybe for an indie studio. I don't have much faith in any of the big companies right now

I'll tag @daisywords, since my other new follower already got one from Tori 😋

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volixia669 · 1 year

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Standing Strong in Current Political Climate

Alright, I mostly try to keep this to silly fandom and tumblr stuff, but with everything going on politically, it’s time for a serious post. About reality, about politics, and about how we survive. This is going to be about transphobia, queerphobia, and genocide, so I’m giving fair warning.

Buckle up.

Now, this is going to primarily US-Centric, as that’s what I’m familiar with, but make no mistake. There has been an authoritarian rise worldwide.

The UK has been Tory central for the past decade.

Australia has been putting climate refugees into concentration camps.

Israel has been using the pandemic to increase efforts to wipe out Palestinians.

Italy’s Prime Minister is Mussolini’s granddaughter (she’s proud of that btw) and is increasing queerphobia.

Russia is trying to recreate the USSR only with no fake pretenses of Communism (it was authoritarianism) this time around.

And the United States? Well the Republicans have been playing the long game since Reagan, and most of the Democratic party is perfectly fine with fascism since it makes them richer.

All this while the Earth becomes unlivable, people starve, and more. Oh, and covid never went away.

So.

The situation is...bad. Let’s just say it’s bad. There also seems to be a target on queer folks moreso than Jewish folks this time around, most likely since the Holocaust made most people a little twitchy about targeting Jewish folks, though that’s not to say those in charge aren’t perfectly fine with killing Jews.

Anyone who doesn’t conform to a mold is at risk.

But.

The situation is not hopeless.

I know it’s easy to read all that and think we’re all fucked, but I promise you, there is hope.

People have been unionizing, and striking at their workplaces.

Time and again, polls show that more people support queer people than oppose.

Time and again, polls show that the extremist view is a minority.

CPAC? That was practically empty this year.

More and more people are making it clear they want policies that help people and they’re tired of policies that help corporations.

People want to help the planet, they want to help other people. They don’t want to mass murder the “outsider.”

So what can you do?

Well, it varies depending on who you are, and where you are. Are you in Canada? Then vote and push for progressive policies, rather than right wing ones. In particular, you can join the push to allow asylum seekers to claim dangerous levels of queerphobia as their reason. This would help so many. Folks in other countries, I would reccomend the same. (Also maybe do something about that law preventing disabled people from immigrating to your country? Yeah, it’s a thing in a lot of countries. And there’s a lot of disabled queer people.)

You can join protests, and help local politicians canvas.

Unfortunately I can’t provide much info on what to do if you’re in most countries where being queer is either criminalized or being criminalized.

If you’re in the US though...

First off, for my white readers, are you familiar with the term antiracism? No? I recommend reading Ibram Kendi’s How to Be Antiracist. There’s a lot of racism in queer circles and it needs to stop. The way we solve these issues is through intersectionality, which means listening when black queer folks speak up. Listen. Learn. Improve.

This is important, because I need folks to understand that black queer folks are far more likely to be arrested, or worse. The cops will target black drag queens before they target white ones. They’ll target black trans folks before they target white ones.

Because this country is built on racism, and racism plays a key part in how laws are policed.

I’m not saying be careless if you’re a white queer btw, but recognize the levels of oppression here, work on improving yourself, but also? Use other people’s racism to protect black queer folk.

Weird sentence, I know, but let me explain, as this actually came up during the 2020 protests.

Say you’re at a protest, and the cops show up. The cops will try to arrest, injure, and/or provoke the black people there. But. If you’re white, you can stand inbetween the cop and the black person. If you get a bunch of other white people to join you, you can create a wall protecting multiple black people. And while you and the other white people aren’t immune from being arrested, injured, and/or provoked by the cops, you and other white people are more likely to come away unscathed.

There’s a bunch of situations this is applicable btw. Just don’t get all “white savior” about it, understand there’s a whole lot of history behind why black people might be wary of you and that’s okay, and ensure black people have the space to speak.

Alrighty, long spiel targeted to one particular demographic over. As for other things to be done? Be aware of the bills being passed in your state. Protest what you can. Make plans for escape if you need to.

Remember these things when crafting your escape plan: -Where?: This will effect everything else. A handful of states have passed bills making them trans refuge states, however getting to them may not be easy. You’ll also need to consider potential support structures that are there. -When?: This will depend on factors like what bills are being passed, how likely you are to be effected, and more. If you’re able to, consider making this a “normal” move rather than a last minute escape. -Finances: If you need to leave at the drop of a hat, can you? Are there any places you can cut back to save money? Are there any organizations that can help you? What about jobs? -Ease of escape: If you’re not in a position where you can move over the course of a month or two, this is where you need to really consider what you need and what you can leave behind. Also attempt to tie up as many loose ends as possible, and reduce the amount of objects you own as much as you can. Having a “go bag” can be extremely helpful. -Transportation: Can you drive? Do you have a license? Is getting a license feasible for you? What transportation is needed to get to the safe zone? Depending on the bills passed, you may want to have multiple options at hand. Documents: Linking back to finances and the go bag. What are your important documents? Where are they? What might you need in a new place and/or to claim asylum? Do you have a passport? Do you have a REALID? Currently you can fly domestically without one, but that could change swiftly. Keep everything together in a fireproof lockbox, until you need to throw it in the go bag. Lots of things to consider, which is why it’s important to think of this stuff ahead of time.

But it’s not all about escaping. Are you in a position you can help folks? Great! Look into mutual aid groups, find out what’s needed and how you can best help people.

So. This lengthy post is all to say the situation is bad, and we need to plan like it’s bad. But that doesn’t mean it’s hopeless. There’s places to escape, there can be even more with increased effort. We can work together to ensure that people stay safe, while also protesting.

And while I used the word “strong” in the title, it’s more complicated than that. You don’t have to be a bulwark. You don’t have to be stone. You can cry, and you can show weakness. This is stressful.

WHich is why, I want to be clear, this will not resolve in a short period of time. This may take years. The bills are passing incredibly quickly, but the resulting fallout? That’s the unknown variable.

The human body is not built to be stressed for years.

It’s just not.

That means the best way to remain strong against the tide of hate, is to have moments of joy. Watch silly videos, play silly games with friends, create beautiful art! Cry! Express your stress, and sadness. Then hold that ember of anger close to your chest, letting it motivate you, but not letting it take over until the moment is right.

Be prepared, be aware, but do not let the stress overcome you. On top of the multitude of negative physical effects, it can lead to snapping at those you love, or jumping the gun too soon. It leads to bad decisions at times those can be deadly.

But by having those moments of joy, you will survive. You will survive the hatred. Together, with the rest of us.

#cw transphobia #cw politics #cw genocide #cw: systemic racism #not a completely negative post btw!#i discuss hope and what you can do

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toririvas · 2 years

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I keep doing the thing where I forget I have this blog so I just think my thoughts in my head rather than put them out into the world. Whoops. AnYWAY here's some orientation headcanons for because I love both lists and gay people <3 maybe I'll do more if this interests someone out there. Also catch me procrastinating this so hard that I forget to do it in pride month.

Tori Rivas:

You look at this woman and tell me she isn't bisexual. Bisexual and I would say probably greyace/greyro, because she really doesn't have a lot of interest in folks in canon text. I think she's just not focused on it so it doesn't exist, but I believe at some point she just sort of "oh. oh." I think she's ambivalent on gender too btw. No real strong attachments either way. Boymode as Hephaestus l, girlmode as Tori, literally whatever's more comfortable or useful. She's efficient like that.

Beverly (a last name I beg of you drew PLEASE):

Also bisexual (leaning more towards men) but Absolutely knows it as opposed to Tori who's like "I'm not sure if I even like boys let alone girls". Beverly knows she's hot shit, and absolutely is into her weird reclusive roommate and that buff dork down the hall. I unironically think her and Austin would be cute but wouldn't work long-term.

Chloe Henson:

This ain't headcanon, it's canon: Chloe is pansexual and has a preference "for people more her size" but other than that doesn't have one. Queen. Love you girlie. Stay winning short king

Lance (last name pls....):

Gay. Homosexual. Fruity. MLM (lovingly). Supportive dumbass. He's just a bro who loves other bros! And grumpy wizards. Especially grumpy wizards.

Warren:

Aforementioned grumpy wizard. MLM. Transed Gender. You're telling me the reclusive bitchy wizard with a techpunk outfit who has a whole background arc about unlearning taught bias with an oppressive mentor figure isn't trans? Bro c'mon work with me here! Gay (derogatory).

Assorted stuff, I think Ivan and Wade had some Experiences in the past but now of course Ivan is Lodestar-sexual and Wade is... Wade. He's an eccentric rich guy he's done everything and he's into whatever I the most interesting. Xelas is yes gender, yes sexuality. She's everything to me. Johnny and Thuggernaut have been married for ten years and are really casual about it but everyone knows. Morgana is a lesbian. Stasis is also a lesbian (but she's bisexual because immortality is boring sometimes). I think there should be more lesbians. Arachnobro is fruity but is really shy about dating because of the whole Bug Thing tm. It's hard to kiss with mandibles.

#villains code #tori rivas #melodys mumblings #chloe henson #beverly bahamut #warren glyph #lance pest control #apprentice squad #the council

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