Do you have an ASD?
Presuming you mean Autism Spectrum Disorder, no, I don’t, but I follow and am friends with many people who do, and I know many of my followers do, so I often reblog things others have written about their experiences.
June 2013
how to tell if something is nsfw
would you show it to a nice old lady with 2 cats who takes knitting as a hobby
idk whats she into
“If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.”
—
Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)\
I dunno how many which ways this needs to be said.
(via aragingquiet)
If you feel victimized for being cis on tumblr log off of tumblr for a bit and bask in the warm glow of an entire fucking civilization designed to make us feel comfortable you whiny shitting infant
What a lot of people aren't getting is when you read your own writing as a writer and it comes off as false
Or you can already see all the holes
And it’s very
very troubling
you are fab. just.. such good arguments i could never. seriously, like the OP seems nice and all but you can't complain that you have a lack of representation because you're straight. that's just not a thing, that is male rights activist territory we do not go there it is a bad place simba
glad you enjoyed it, thanks for reading!
Question, because maybe I missed something...
Where did this idea spring up that Tumblr ‘revolves around equality and acceptance’ or ‘supposed to be a happy and accepting place’? As opposed to a social media outlet/microblogging site?
Oh god, I can't. Your take downs are brilliant and so straight forward and are actually wonderful pieces of art, I tell you! Oh my goodness. I am a big fan.
<3
"Tumblr. Is a place. Where people can speak." THEN FUCKING LET PEOPLE SPEAK, REGARDLESS OF THEIR SEXUALITY? like seriously, i used to like the stuff you post, but fuck now you're just a fucking hypocrite.
See here’s the thing: When you speak, people speak back.
Especially if your words are ‘You should shut up, because it makes me feel awkward’.
this is just gonna be a mini-rant because iunno, i have a need to rant about this because it’s been nagging me ever since i got onto tumblr
has anyone else noticed the distinct lack of posts that say it’s okay to be straight? i mean, don’t get me wrong, i support gay marriage and i think that sexuality is your own choosing and no one else should ever judge you for what you decide, but at the same time, i think this particular website fetishises being gay or bisexual.
once again, i have nothing against homosexual people (heck, i was into girls at one point in my life before i decided that i was straight) but i don’t like the way that it’s seen on tumblr.
i scrolled past a post earlier saying ‘man, i can’t believe that i thought i was straight’ with 13,000 notes, and while yes it’s kinda funny, it does send a message that almost reads to me as ‘LOL WTF I USED TO BE A STRAIGHT PERSON HAHAHA WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME’ like it’s something to be laughed at and that being straight isn’t normal.
being straight is normal. being gay is normal. being bisexual, pansexual, asexual is completely normal. but instead, i feel like that being straight on tumblr is abnormal, that it’s something that i shouldn’t be proud of, because “hey, who wants to be proud of the fact that they’re straight?”
and it bothers me because if i made a post saying “man, i can’t believe i thought i was gay”, i probably would get bashed and hated and verbally abused on this website for the rest of eternity, whereas it’s okay to make a similar post saying that the person couldn’t believe they were straight at one point?
there’s one thing to want all sexuality types to be equal, and then there’s a completely different thing where the dominant sexuality (as in percentage wise in the world) is seen as something that should be striven against on a blogging website which apparently promotes acceptance and non-judgement.
ugh.
Let me lay this out for you, because you apparently need it explained:
The entire world tells you constantly that it’s ok to be straight.
Every piece of media you were given as a kid had hetero-normative characters. Every love story arc in every children’s show and movie, everything ever made by Disney or Pixar of Don Bleuth or Nickelodeon or Studio Ghibli or whatever.
And you know what? LOL WTF I USED TO
BETHINK I WAS A STRAIGHT PERSON HAHAHA WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME’ is kind of EXACTLY what that post was saying. And the answer to ‘What was wrong with me’ was heteronormativity completely erasing the possibility of anything but heterosexuality from the auspices of children, making kids who aren’t straight feel unsupported, unrepresented, and abnormal.You have wandered into a tiny alcove of safe space. It’s not even exclusive safe space; no one has told you to stay out (and I’m pretty sure if straight kids were told to stay out, they’d break out THOSE TEARS)
You have happened upon one of the only places where people who aren’t straight feel safe in making it known. Where people - especially young people - can talk about their non-straight sexuality without fear of being ostracized or beaten or murdered.
How many people have been ostracized or beaten or murdered for being cishet (extra points for ‘by police officers!’)? How many young people have been abandoned by their families and put from their homes for being cishet? This is a number that floats comfortably around FUCKING ZERO.
Meanwhile up to 40% of homeless young people are queer.
We live in a world where ‘gay’ is an insult, where it gets you bullied, and where authority figures often accept it as a reasonable explanation or even EXCUSE for bullying. Where the answer ‘well, the kid’s queer’ is met with an attitude of ‘Oh, I guess that makes sense then’ when a case of bullying is investigated.
To quote another wildly popular tumblr post, because this is EXACTLY what you’re doing right now:
why isn’t there a STRAIGHT pride parade?? why isn’t there WHITE history month? why isn’t there an international MEN’S day!? why isn’t there a hospital for WELL people?? why isn’t there a soup kitchen for RICH people??!?
And another:
the way I see it, “black pride” (or any sort of “minority” pride movement) means “I am proud of who I am DESPITE those who have told me and my people that whiteness is superior” while “white pride” means “I am proud of who I am BECAUSE whiteness is superior” and that’s why it’s ok to say one but not the other
THE. ENTIRE. FUCKING. WORLD. Affirms your sexuality in a million ways every day. In commercials and greeting cards and billboards and media and songs and stories and EVERYWHERE, CONSTANTLY. Cishet affirmation is in the air your breathe. It is as easy as breathing for you to participate in it.
If you feel out of place or awkward in a space where representation of any other sexuality takes center stage, if that makes you feel uncomfortable…
GOOD.
MAYBE YOU NOW HAVE THE TINIEST, MOST FLICKERING IOTA OF BASIC COMPREHENSION OF WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE IN THE REST OF THE WORLD EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR ONE’S ENTIRE LIFE AS A QUEER PERSON.
I mean, how DARE a space exist where queer people can say ‘LOL WTF I USED TO THINK I WAS A STRAIGHT PERSON HAHAHA WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME?’ and actually have a talk about that with other queer people, right? What kind of silly nonsense is that, shouldn’t we be thinking about how we’re making the straighties feel? It’s not like they have anywhere else they can go to feel affirmed and talk about their issues!
OH WAIT.
Think about the fact that this post is your reaction to the one time in your entire life that you have encountered a space where everything isn’t about representing YOU. Think about what that says about you, and about representation.
When you make posts like this, you make yourself part of the problem. Because this post is basically a whine to the tune of ‘OMG, SHUT UP ABOUT BEING GAY, IT MAKES ME FEEL, LIKE, SUPER AWKWARD!’
No1curr.
I’m going to start off by saying fuck you
The point of the original post was to point out that tumblr’s supposed to be a happy and accepting place but it really isn’t
It supports minorities at the cost of insulting everyone else, and that’s not okay. No one wants to be complimented by calling someone else worse.
The OP is saying that while people on here seem very willing to except queer people they also take out their frustration on straight people and that’s not fair. Being straight is also not something you can help and you shouldn’t judge someone based off of that either.
This post wasn’t complaining about the queer representation and their posts, it was complaining how unfairly one-sided it was and how we like to treat straight people very differently then gays.
No that post wasn’t a fucking whine about people saying they’re gay it was an observation of how two-faced tumblr likes to act,
TL;DR DON’T BE A FUCKING ASSHAT AND RECOGNIZE THAT TUMBLR IS A PLACE FOR EQUALITY NOT MAKING FUN OF OTHERS IN ORDER TO TAKE OUT YOUR REAL-WORLD FRUSTRATIONS
-hugs and kisses
Oh I’m sorry, I missed the Kumbaya clause in the terms of service that indicates that tumblr is supposed to be a criticism free zone where we’re all happy and complacent at all times.
I don’t really care what the OP is ‘trying to say’; I care what they SAID.
“The OP is saying that while people on here seem very willing to except queer people they also take out their frustration on straight people and that’s not fair”
It is entirely fair that queer people have a tiny corner of the world in which to vent and complain about straight people, given the fact that straight people oppress queer people. You are making a false equivalency.
“This post wasn’t complaining about the queer representation and their posts”
Yes, that is exactly what the OP was doing. Go read again.
Tumblr. Is a place. Where people can speak.
what two fictional characters am i the child of
(via lullabydust)
I’m not a misandrist, but boys should really stay out of cosplay, especially superheroes. NO ONE wants to see your genitals through your elastic superhero pants, and besides, sewing and craft-making is a traditionally feminine hobby. Stick to what you’re good at, boys.
i want to hit your face with a brick oh my god.
This may be the first reblog I’ve seen in a while where someone’s wanted to actually physically harm us
Condensate leak near Manning, Alta. - Edmonton - CBC News →
cbc.ca
Plains Midstream Canada has shut down a pipeline and activated emergency response procedure following a condensate release on its Kemp pipeline system.
Another pipeline leak, this time maybe 15 minutes from where I actually used to live as a kid. Much of my extended family still lives in the area.
There is absolutely no information about the contents of this one, or its volume.
I do know that it’s part of the same pipeline infrastructure as the recent one up near Zama. Everything that side of the river is from the local natural gas field, or from further North and West in the Chinchaga. There’s pipelines everywhere
I’m going to be following this really closely. It’s way way too close to home.
so far Tumblr is obsessed with:
- A genocidal, time-travelling alien
- A sociopathic detective
- An insane, mass-murdering god of mischief
- A manipulative cannibal
- Two monster-hunting serial killers
welcome to tumblr
I think you mean “scrawny weird-looking white guys, usually British”
“I’m an adult” I whisper as I try not panic while I’m filling in all those forms that I don’t understand.
Careful with this shit; this is how I ended up massively in debt.
Xbox stumbles, he has lost a lot of blood. He sees his loyal friend Master Chief struggling to get up.
“Chief” he whispers. He can barely move now, his strength is failing him. In the corner of his eye he sees his old friend Gamefly making his way over, sword drawn.
“Sony sends their regards” declares Gamefly, as it delivers the mortal blow to Xbox. Master Chief screams.
Game of Consoles.
tragic backstories explain bad deeds but they do not excuse them
- tragic backstories explain bad deeds but they do not excuse them
of course guys think its attractive to have low self esteem it means they’ve succeeded in forcing you to internalize the bullshit that makes them the arbiters of your self worth and gives them power over you for your whole life don’t fall for it love yourself and delete what makes you beautiful from your itunes
“See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (via blitheringbibliophile)
I've just realised that I reblogged the post on sexuality from you and added a little note myself; none of that was aimed towards you. It wasn't aimed towards anyone in particular - just the people I have met in real life and occasionally on here that have told me how to feel about things - I realised after I posted it that I probably should have just done a separate post but ah I can't delete it now! Just thought I'd let you know it wasn't aimed at you :')
Thank you for the clarification, but just so you know you CAN delete it now and make a separate post about straight people stealing the spotlight from queer people to soapbox for ally points if you want. That’s a thing tumblr allows.
“I wish men could understand we’re not here auditioning to be your girl.”
—dream hampton (via tirhase)
Why couldn't Thor's hammer break Captain America's shield?
BECAUSE IT WAS MADE OUT OF FREEDOM AND THE DREAMS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
uh excuse me wasn’t it adamantium
no it’s vibranium
you mean FREEDOMIUM
Aren’t wolverine’s bones made of adamantium?
No, Wolverine’s bones are made of crystalized maple syrup and universal health care.
REBLOGGING FOR CANADA
The Peddler of Smiles: You know, I always love the concepts of Micro homes →
hamburgerjack.tumblr.com
But I always think about how they look and how expensive they are
And no, you cannot raise children or families there
But something that size would be ideal for students or young people who need cheap housing
And it’s never cheap.
Why is such small spaces so expensive
They don’t want us to live or to eat
And yet they have constructed a society where they say, “Do everything yourself, relying on others or living with parents is bad.”
Living with roommates is billed as only temporary or college something
The existence of some people and their ways they say is “harmful” to society
But this is the only way they can get by
because you’ve constructed a world that is full of horrors
“Received a message recently. Perhaps my most vocal critic from the feminist blogging world said nice things about my work on Jimquisition, notably the recent episodes on female protagonists and objectification versus idealization. I would never in a million years have anticipated that. I will confess it is an emotional thing for me. I don’t request or expect readers of my older, vulgar work to see me as anything but an offensive igmo. It is the reputation I sought, and earned, and a reputation I deserve to have shadow me. It’s nonetheless a humbling thing when someone who used to hate my guts doesn’t quite hate my guts so much. Not just when it comes to feminism, either. Whenever my work of the last two years has had a positive impact on people who despised me, it makes my brain do a happy cry. Today has been a good day.”
—
Jim Sterling (on his facebook) [to which user Jill Seale said ” If we can’t believe that people can change, what is the point of feminism?”]
Thank god for jim! :D
(via horridlittlegames)
There are a lot of people who seem to think that spending time on the internet will wreck a person’s vocabulary
But au contraire
the internet has taught me an assortment of new words to use that have completely replaced really disgusting words in my vocabulary
So I mean
Self absorbed adults can continue to vilify the internet while calling it the r-slur while I sit here and muse on what pestilent children they are.
Everything Americans Think They Know About Drugs Is Wrong: A Scientist Explodes the Myths →
alternet.org
Columbia University scientist Carl Hart combines research and anecdotes from his life to explain how false assumptions have created a disastrous drug policy.
[Kristen Gynne]:How does institutional racism affect policy? In your book, you talk about how crack, which is pharmacologically almost identical to cocaine, is punished with an 18-1 (and once 100-1) sentencing disparity because of racially coded language linking the “crack scourge” to bad behavior in poor, black communities. There was also a recent ACLU report, which found that blacks are an average of four times more likely to be arrested for pot than whites.
[Carl Hart]: ‘I often testify as an expert witness to help women who have used marijuana while pregnant to keep their children. Case after case is a black woman. Security in the court is all black; the judges are all white; and the lawyers are young and white, building careers. It’s just slavery all over again.
When you have a group that’s already identified as an “other,” or a villified group that is a minority, it’s easier to associate a behavior with them. But people don’t see black people as being fully human. That’s what happens in the US, although people won’t tell you that.
Because when we think about Trayvon Martin, when we think about Ramarley Graham, Sean Bell, these black kids who were killed at the hands of some security or law enforcement person—that almost never happens with white kids. If it did, it would be a national crises. But it’s not a national crises because we really don’t value black men and boys in the same way we value white boys and men. We don’t see them as being equal.
I look at how people behave, and it’s clear. As long as you view this group that way, you can continue to put large percentage of law enforcement resources in those communities, but not so much to make them better. If you want to make it better, you give people jobs. Instead, we put police in those communities to pretend that they care, to pretend that you’re doing something. But that’s not helping.
Whereas drug reactions are predictable, interactions with police are not and too often become deadly. As a parent of a black youth, I’d much rather my kids interact with drugs than law enforcement. White people don’t need to think about that. Police officers too often see young, black boys as less than human. It creates a mentality where black kids are supposed to “know your place,” and it affects your psyche. Indignities become part of who you are.’
