Getting a new follower and finding out they’re a terf is kind of like getting a new follower only to realize it’s a porn bot, but a thousand times worse.
Porn bots don’t give a fuck about my content or who I am, but this terf actually scrolled through my blog and thought, “yes, this is a person whose opinions I’d like to see more of.” It makes me feel super fucking gross and that I’m probably not doing enough to support trans women.
So just for the record: trans women are women. The existence of trans women does not detract from my womanhood or the womanhood of anybody else. This is not a blog for people who believe otherwise. Take your transphobia elsewhere.
And, to my followers: please help me stay accountable. If I reblog something that marginalizes trans people (or sex workers or POC or anyone else), please let me know so that I can make amends.
PSA if you’re a terf and you follow me please just … don’t. Thanks.
Of course you don’t. Free college might hinder the school-to-prison pipeline your prison owning donors depend on
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“Clinton would create a grant program available to states that set tuition levels so that students could graduate without having to take out loans in order to afford it. She believes tuition should be set so that students and families don’t have to borrow in order to pay a cost that’s beyond their means, but that it’s not unreasonable to ask families to pay a price they can afford for higher education.
‘I don’t believe in free tuition for everybody,’ Clinton said Saturday. ‘I believe we should focus on middle-class families, working families and poor kids who have the ambition and the talent to go to college and get ahead.’”
in other words, make rich people pay for college instead of raising taxes more on everyone
just wanted to note that op was one of the URLs listed as a russian state-sponsored disinformation account – this was a single sentence taken entirely out of context that garnered 200,000 notes, and i’d guess that the majority of the reblog chains weren’t accompanied by any corrections like the one above.
So now you all are just going around dragging up old posts and rewriting the context to make it seem like all of these black people were “Russians all along”. Now you can just hide your antiblackness behind “see? They might have been a Russian agent so anyone who has shared that same criticism has to be as well”. This is exactly why I can’t get behind how folks are handling this. They’re way to quick to believe it and are doing it with way too much relish for it to genuinely be about Russian intervention.
Its defianately time to move off tumble and let their shares drop
Its the red scare all over again. Anyone with a dissenting voice will be labeled a Russian spy. McCarthyism all over again and this definitely a tool, just like in the past, will be used against Black activists.
The Russian thing (on Tumblr & Twitter, and most likely all other platforms, so rage quitting Tumblr won’t do much unless you become a Luddite) is doing exactly what it’s supposed to: create division and make everyone suspect all sources.
If you are up this morning, making posters and getting ready to travel to any number of the rallies or marches, ready to be one of the hundreds of thousands marching today, I am proud of you.
If you are watching from your TV, following on social media, texting your friends and telling them to be safe and good luck, I am proud of you.
If you can’t attend today, because you are barred from standing up for your beliefs, prevented from being part of The Voice because your family is scared for your safety, because you have commitments you can’t break, because you simply cannot physically be there, but your heart is with those who can, I am proud of you.
If you are forced to sit silently, tongue bitten and raw inside of your mouth, as adults around you spew nonsense about their right to own guns and “these youngsters being puppets” because you are being more respectful listening to their opinions than they could ever be listening to yours, I am proud of you.
If you are loud, if you are the person willing to argue with those in your life who believe they have rights more important than your right to live, I am proud of you.
The generations before you will try to silence your protests, hinder your arguments with false logic and discredit you based on age alone. If you are one of the many, withstanding the idiocracy of those who came before you and continuing to demand change, I am proud of you.
Be safe today. I am with you and every ounce of me, every fiber of my being, is proud of all of you for standing up and demanding that this stop now.
Anonymous requested; “The Reader is the trueborn daughter of Robert and Cersei. She is betrothed to Robb at a young age and is sent to Winterfell soon after. She grows up beside her future husband and both are utterly in love. They get… physical a few years before they are supposed to marry and the reader falls pregnant. How do the families react?”
Warnings: pregnancy, mentions of pre-marital sex,
You’d loved Robb since you were a child. You’d loved him since the day he confronted you in the courtyard of Winterfell, thrusted three winter-roses into your hands and pressing an painfully awkward kiss to your cheek before scurrying back to Theon- red in the face.
The thorns had been digging into your palms, but all you could do was stare after him, floored.
It was a few months before you had garnered the courage to return the sentiment. A girl of three and ten, you weren’t yet inventive, but you’d caught him staring enough times to know that his feelings had not yet faded.
Hi. I’m a 20-year-old French student. If you follow me, you’ve maybe seen this post I made a couple of weeks ago. I’m going to explain real quick, because it’s not the point here. Maybe you know this, but college in France is free. We are very lucky, we do realize that. In February, the Ministary of Higher Education decided to pass a law which will create selection before entering uni, start an entrance fee, and all sorts of unpleasant, expensive things. Collectively, French students have decided to stand up against this law. My university, Paul Valery in Montpellier, has been the leader of this movement. In the past two months, we have blocked the university for weeks, stopping classes and creating an alternative schedule with our own courses. It has been wonderful, and we have been heard.
Yesterday, March 22nd, was a day of National Strike decided by the unions and syndicates. Not only were the universties blocked and teachers striking, but so were a lot of people in other fields. As a consequence, the University of Law of Montpellier was legally occupied by the Paul Valery collective to instigate debates and discussions. There was a vote, which decided that one amphitheatre would be occupied during the night.
At midnight, the Dean of the University of Law was seen counting students in the lecture hall. One minute later, a group of masked men broke into the amphitheatre, armed with wooden bars, tasers, metal bars. They attacked the students who were pacifically speaking, some of them sleeping. There were high schoolers occupying the room.
They sent three girls to the hospital and hurt a dozen more. That picture is a friend, who had her skull fractured, ribs cracked, and was dragged out of the room by her friends while she was bleeding in the hallways.
Since then, we’ve learned that the Dean was the one who called the fascist group and let them in. The university personnel held the doors open while the masked men beat my friends, my fellow students, minors, into submission. As the girl was dragged out, the personnel closed the door stores on her legs and almost crushed them.
A student recognized one of the masked man as one of the University of Law’s teachers.
I spent the entire day in the streets, with hundreds of students, protesting against what happened. They sent the police against us. We peacefully went to the local senator’s office and waited hours for the Minister to take a stand. She didn’t. Only the local authorities condemned the Dean’s actions. Until a few hours ago, the only news spread was that students from my University decided to attack students from the University of Law.
Let me stress this out. The DEAN of a Univesity called a fascist group to beat up uni students and high schoolers. This morning, as I sat in front of the University of Law with almost a thousand students, there was still blood on the stairs leading to the doors.
Please share this around.
Last night, a teacher sent a girl to the hospital with a cracked skull.
I think it’s fucking hilarious that the FCC just tried to slide the whole net neutrality thing by, meanwhile buzzfeed and other hellsites are like “Is it really that important? :)”
Meanwhile Ajit Pai is now under federal investigation, almost the entire country is making its own state legislature to supersede the FCC regulations, the giants of the tech industry and getting ready to launch a massive legal battle, and half of congress is against it and need literally one more vote to overturn it. As well as plenty of other loopholes that people are taking advantage of, i.e. Mayors and some states just going “While you have no legal reason to follow net neutrality. We’ll just not do business with you if you don’t follow it :)” .
It warms my heart. Also makes me feel better about the dystopian hellscape to come because if whatever corporate shits were pulling the strings on this one seriously thought they could just slide this by and hope nobody would notice then holy fuck they’ve got to have brain problems of some sort.
tv shows with time travel organizations/bureaus/police/agencies/whatever should have a department with instead of a tech genius eating candy, it’s a harried seamstress or fashion designer who is like
“1450 italy? does it look like I have the time to dye you wool? nO. YOU’RE GOING TO THE 1980s”
and throws shoulder pads at the hapless time agent
“I literally made three- THREE- 18th century corsets last week. You can wait until one of them gets back, or you can go sometime post-1920s, because if I have to sew one more god damn channel I will literally lose my mind.”
“Upper middle class?!?!? You told me upper class! FUCK YEAH THERE’S A DIFFERENCE!!!”
“How about kimoNO.”
“Look me in the eyes. I do not care what you want. This is the 1500s. You absolutely cannot wear trousers.”
“Another court gown?? Here’s a novel idea: go as a peasant for once in your life. Why do you do this to me? You’re fucking sadists that’s why.”
“Don’t mind me, I’ll just be up all night hand painting silk.”
“THE POLICY IS ONE MONTH’S ADVANCE NOTICE ON PRE-1900s WOMEN’S FASHION FOR A REASON, DEBRA.”
This is kinda an actual thing in the Ruby Red trilogy by Kirsten Gier. There’s a secret society with two time traveling people and a person specifically hired to provide authentic costumes. They also hired another person to teach the time travelers how to behave/dance/etc.
i’m reading a very manly 1950s account of a hunt for el dorado but i’m thirty pages in and the narrator has already described his traveling companion as “handsome” 4 times, “extremely handsome” twice, “exceedingly handsome” once, his voice as “quietly husky” and “a husky whisper,” his fingers as long and deft, his body as “tall and cat-like,” and his eyes as some variation of ice-blue at least three times.
just men being dudes. dudes being pals. it’s great. this is great.
“Ever since he had aimed that gun at my throat, I had liked him immensely. And now I liked him even better.”
oh my god
“I awoke when a beam of light fell across my eyes. Jorge had come into my room carrying a lighted candle.
‘I’m going with you,’ he said quietly.
‘I can’t pay you.’
He smiled. ‘I thought I was a partner?’”
OH MY GOD
according to apparently every adaptation of a search of el dorado, i think we can conclude that maybe the real el dorado was the homosexuality we found along the way
#i’m adopting this as a term for someone working to understand their sexual orientation #‘oh megan dated dudes exclusively in college but these days i hear she’s on the road to el dorado’ ( @buetterfliege )
From now on, every person figuring out their sexuality is on the road to el dorado
the real treasure was the gay we found along the way
andtheytoldustotellyouhello 