I guess it's true that some people really got to fight to survive

And some people are lighteyes in 1165

i have no idea whats going on with my gender here but i do know that its goth wizard wednesday everyone say yay for goth wizard wednesday

People not understanding how schoolboys - perhaps particularly British schoolboys of a certain era - interact when there are five of the cheeky little bastards and they’re incredibly excited to be where they are but bored and overwrought and also pampered is exactly at the root of Larry creation 😭

honestly. like imwdi ... how does anyone take that seriously? 💀

So |'m sure more creative people than me have pointed this out, but: the guy who scored the 3-0 is literally called "Regenboog" or Rainbow.

That, uh, seems like it probably was not a coincidence because, spoiler: that's not a very common name. Probably it means something, is what I'm saying, in this show of ours that keeps getting queerer.

If I had a nickel for every time a King of England was canonised, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

If I had a nickel for every time an Anglo-Saxon King named Edward got canonised I would have the same nickels, which I think is even weirder

It is sometimes almost unbearable to watch old media and see how the women are written. Some characters (and then, only some of the time usually) are pleasantly almost better written than one would hope for, but sometimes. Oh my god. Sometimes. The hero tries to help a group of refugees off of his spaceship and gets them to their destination on a pretty much empty planet, and then the young, pretty woman (who has three kids, mind you) among them immediately decides to go and sabotage the hero's ship to force him to stay with her, something that would warrant at least some anger, but certainly also a punch if she were a man, but since she's ~a girl~ no. She just gets to act this way with no social consequence. She says she doesn't love her companion (who asked you to???) and doesn't want the hero to leave her here alone (not his problem?????). She gets lectured by her companion (not a lover or family, just a guy she was escaping with but who somehow acts like he's in charge of her, and so does she) like an unruly child, as he tells her that the hero saved them and then she goes and does something like this to him (which, yeah!! Precisely! You'd think an adult woman wouldn't recklessly do this and expect the hero would then trust and love her and yet!! Apparently this is not a deal-breaker in and of itself since she actually ends up with this guy companion!). Then her kids comfort her (what the fuck??).

Anyway, I've seen the worst Battlestar Galactica series (the old one) episode yet, and this damn character was only one of my grievances with it, but uurggh I can't stand how they write women sometimes, I really can't.

For instance I hate how a weird guy who is obviously sus as hell enters the plot, and of course a woman will immediately be seduced/influenced by him even if he's twice her age and not appealing at all.

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

by Molly Buford

academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

getting distracted while studying with a friend and now i'm thinking about doing a different major

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

The global reaction to Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation has been very jarring. I understand how powerful and scary it is to witness such a young man set himself on fire while screaming for a free Palestine, but to now see comments like “his death will not be in vain” and “the video will haunt me forever” is very strange considering the depravity of the videos we have been seeing coming out of Gaza for 4 months. It seems like people are now using Aaron as the “perfect martyr” of Palestine that we can put all of our efforts into celebrating as if there has not been 30,000+ Palestinian martyrs that we have been begging you to acknowledge