like a lollipop with tourettes.
Decoder - an innocent 30 or 40 year old man - he/him trans guy - acting/performance graduate, marine biology graduate, nursing graduate.
former URLs were DayDreamDecoder and sizzleitup-with-taako, doll blog is marinedecoder xoxox
heads up so nobody is confused - just changed my blog name from sizzleitup-with-taako to rose-coloured-boy. still using the old one, but it’ll now take you to the train-wreck of a blog i use to save all my references for art, etc.
quick linguistic history lesson. the term “woke” originates from african american communities to describe being “awake and aware” of the current sociopolitical climate. this term has been used since at least the 1930s. it wasnt until 2014 during the ferguson protests that the term entered the wider vernacular. mainly as a result of black twitter. and as is common with many things coined by the black community. it was repeated and commercialized to death to the point where now most people only using it mockingly. including people on the left. the point is. “woke” is not a bad word. the alt right wants it to be one.
I watch out the window as my neighbours wiener dog wanders out into the garden in its little blue bandana
I stop, mesmerised.
It’s sniffing flowers — carnations, I think — for quite some time until it becomes excited by a bird overhead and bounces around to chase it’s shadow
the dog returns to the sunlit spot by the flowers and flops over, belly up, to bask in the warm light
“I want to be that dog” I say to myself. “I want to share with the world the peaceful joy that dog must be feeling right now.”
I try to take a picture; my zoom is not enough. I get weird and grab my pigeon-watching binoculars to get a better zoom, line my phone camera up with the lens. And I take one single, illicit, sleepy dog picture.
Grizzly Pines, in Navasota, Texas, reiterated its policy on banning transgender men from the campground, in an online post on Monday (31 March), which was Trans Day of Visibility.
“This campground was created as a haven specifically for men who historically lacked spaces where they could express themselves openly without outside judgment, even from within the broader LGBTQ+ community,” the since-deleted post read, according to The Advocate.
“We’re not anti-trans, we’re just focused on preserving this unique sub-cultural dynamic.”
The clothing-optional campground’s mission was to “provide a safe, affirming and liberating space exclusively for cisgender men”, and it was “vital for guests to feel completely at ease physically and emotionally,” which included comfort with the “types of bodies, interactions and dynamics present”.
Following a backlash, reviews on the campsite’s Facebook page have been removed and a limit imposed on who can comment. […]
A spokesman for The Houston Bears, a not-for-profit organisation for the Texan gay bear community, said they had severed ties with Grizzly Pines calling the ban “incompatible with our values”. A sold-out event scheduled at the campground, scheduled for next month, had been cancelled. Being “forced to tell some of our members, ‘not you’,” was not something organisers were prepared to do.
“We know it is very late in the process but we believe that it is never too late to do the right thing,” the spokesman said.
The RGV Bears also cancelled a summer camp event in solidarity with “our RGV Teddy Bear trans members”.
Gay Camping Friends founder John Anderson told The Advocate he was dismayed by the campground’s tone and timing.
“Their statement was passive-aggressive,” he claimed. “It had a lot of read-between-the-lines messaging.“
They said The Houston Bears had a ‘newfound support’ for trans people, and that sounded like mockery to me. There’s irony in saying you’re preserving a male experience while excluding trans men, who are men.”
Obvs p much what I was banging on about. also tags
I like when people like a character so way too much that it transcends even self shipping or kinning and becomes more of a patron saint that you pray to type of deal
“patron saint” stop using catholic figures in a blasphemous way! it’s disrespectful to catholics.
