Haurchefant Plushie Adventures

quieterthanafish:

“They hate us all”: True! A helpful reminder that assimilation will not save you.

“They hate us all equally”: False. An attempt to obscure the ways in which anti-queer policies are disproportionately targeted at trans women, especially trans women of color. A retread of that classic white feminist error of assuming all women have a “common oppression”, which obscures race and class differences among women.

wizardarchetypes:

wizardarchetypes:

just walked in a random direction bc i’m thirsty and i knew if i walked long enough i’d find a shop that’s nor starbucks. when i spotted the tiny bubble tea place i felt like a coyote coming across an uneaten fallen elk. i am so wise and one with the world.

opposite to the time i lived in massachusetts and i wanted dunkin and instead of using my gps i said “if i drive straight we’ll see one” and it took two minutes.

cheaphalloweencostume:

the last 48 hours before travel feels like waiting to be executed

thatnordicguy:

theweirdwideweb:

anchorage lol

repeat urgent request more diphtheria antitoxin lol

nome in grave danger lol

please help lol

songfawn:

Hm i wonder why i feel so disconnected? *watches from afar* *watches from afar* *watches from afar* *watches from afar* *watches from afa

argentsunshine:

well you know what they say. when you’ve invested billions of dollars into hammers every problem looks like a nail and you keep handing these hammers to your users and they go “i don’t really think i needed this hammer” and “but i don’t have any nails that need hammering in right now” and “this is not a nail this is a glass vase that will break if i hit it with a hammer” and “didn’t you used to have, like, other tools avaliable that might be better suited to this job” and you tell them to suck it up because you’ve replaced all your screwdrivers and wrenches and box cutters and crates and ladders and paint with hammers because your shareholders need to see an increase in value from your hammer investments

twinkgami:

how come i just loaded up some random yaoi and theyre on the fucking L train

raibura:

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adodalinil:

some fandom spaces eventually reach a state i like to refer to as “yaoi toxicity”, where the primary way the fanbase engages with women is not by interacting with the (sometimes admittedly few or poorly written) women in the text, but rather by instead reimagining the main yaoi ship as women. interestingly, this form of genderbending rarely involves imagining these male characters to be transgender women or considering the implications thereof, but rather seeks to address misogyny in both the text and the fanbase by just rule 63-ing the whole endeavor. the fact that this in and of itself is still misogynistic wrt the original material, as the genderbent characters and their resulting popularity as a pairing are still due to the privileging of even alternate-universe interpretations of the text’s originally male characters over engaging with the originally female characters (if any) in any capacity, is often completely unaddressed.

i don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with drawing or writing boy characters as girls or liking those kinds of fanworks, in fact sometimes i do it myself and quite enjoy it. i also recognize that a significant portion of fandom creators are female and/or lesbian, and are in part likely seeking to project their own identities onto the characters comprising the main yaoi ship (often some of the strongest and most-developed characters from the source media). however when this becomes widespread as a phenomenon i personally cannot help but think of it as a version of (largely) sfw a/b/o - of trying to subvert or vent about the struggles of misogyny via fanworks without addressing the underlying misogyny in the space itself; a way of achieving “women without women”.

this is why the fact that these interpretations are usually contextless genderbend alternate universes and rarely explicit specific trans headcanons is particularly significant to me. in my mind, an obvious way to imagine “what if this male character was a woman” would be not to necessarily create an entire alternate universe where this cisgender male is her cisgender female “opposite”, but instead to consider the implications of the idea that she was a closeted woman all along, and what effect this would have had on the narrative. however, this necessarily involves confronting misogyny and specifically transmisogyny in the text and in fan spaces, something that many genderbends seem unwilling or unable to do.

again. im not saying you’re a bad person if you do or have done this, i literally have also done this, or that anyone should stop doing this for some implied moral reason. god knows fandom was built on the backs of women writing yaoi where one of the boys is the girl. im just saying that gravitating towards genderbend as a source of female representation instead of trans headcanon or getting interested in the text’s intended female characters in the first place doesn’t always strike me personally as a particularly interesting interpretation

boethiah:

great, my post is in some sort of dungeon