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Jerkasaurus Rex

@dirtyhecker / dirtyhecker.tumblr.com

My name is Marley, 35 (she/they). Very tired. Just wanna be a tree.
Magic is a tool. This was a lesson that had been ingrained into the very  bones of Sebastian Crow from the moment of his birth. Magic existed to  be commanded by those of certain breeding. It did not possess an agency  of its own, it was not a living or feeling thing. Any personality  contained in certain spells or enchantments were a remnant of the mage  who had performed the casting. Therefore, it was best to only perform  great acts of magic when one was possessed of a calm mind, emptied of  superfluous thought or emotion. This was what Sebastian had always  believed. Until he met Asher Lewis.  

Tabernam Mea is a five-star rated, urban fantasy queer romance, set mostly inside of a sentient magical shop full of cursed items. Both heroes need each other more than they realize--something they will soon come to find out if the shop has anything to say about it!

Available in paperback and ebook format!

Also, look at my cats!

Please call this recession the Trump Slump.

We need to put Trump's name on this.

if ever anything I wrote were to ever go viral, let it be this. Let everyone talk about the Trump Slump. I want to hear this term in the news.

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✨peaceful, safe, warm✨

they’re so in love and they’re married now and getting a much deserved rest after saving the world

my thea and lucanis kofi comm from the lovely @mehyann ♥️✨

Periodic reminder that you are not immune to reactionary radicalization through fandom.

We all know the “jokes” about how old bronies either came out as queer or became fascists - except they’re not really jokes, and a lot of the queer ones admit to having been in the pipeline before they came out (some in a way that implies they never totally got out of said pipeline and don’t understand the gravity of it),

We’ve had terfs right here on tumblr dot com BRAGGING about how useful fandom is as a recruiting space,

TJLC was a big pipeline for acephobia on this hellsite in particular, when people argued that headcanoning Sherlock as ace was inherently homophobic because it was denying a TOTALLY GONNA BE CANON (while the creators were promising that it wasn’t going to be canon) gay pairing, and puritanical, and just HAVING that headcanon was saying that people COULDN’T ship Johnlock, all in the interest of a “fake” sexuality and “pretending to be oppressed” and oh whoops there you went,

We see people who all but center their fandom activity and identities around figuring out which people in predominantly queer fandom spaces are SECRETLY PEDOPHILES AND GROOMERS, acting consciously or otherwise under the assumption that predominantly queer fandom spaces are just massively infested with them in a way that other spaces are not for SOME reason, who twist the definition of “pedophilia” in these spaces until it covers shipping a 17-year old fictional character with an 18-year old fictional character, or a 30-year old with a 45-year old, or including an autistic character in a ship, and drawing two 17-year old characters kissing constitutes “child porn”, and who unironically say we should bring back the Hays Code and Censorship Is Good Actually And Our Problem Is We Don’t Do It Enough and this often becomes a pipeline to “sex ed is child abuse; people shouldn’t even know what sex is until they turn 18; you need my consent to wear certain outfits in public if I see them as sexually charged, and Pride SHOULD be an assimilationist sideshow for our corporate overlords family-friendly party with no sadness or anger or ESPECIALLY acknowledgement of sex allowed”,

We’ve seen otherwise progressive people defend literal hate symbols in fanart when pushback against the above brand of reactionaries gets corrupted into zero-nuance “it’s us vs. them so anything they don’t like is Good”,

Even outside of those examples some of the most vicious, unapologetic, blatant queerphobic abuse I’ve seen in recent years hasn’t come from right-wingers but from LGBT+ people, dressing their deep, violent, seething hatred for queer people who aren’t exactly like them in a thin veneer of progressive language, who have become so convinced that they’re the main character of the fucking universe that they think writing or enjoying a queer story that doesn’t resonate with them is more queerphobic than sending a queer person who writes or enjoys such a story countless rape and death threats and denying their identity,

We’ve seen these examples again and again and again, and we keep seeing it again and again and again, so I am once again on my knees BEGGING people to recognize that this is not Something That Happens To Other, BAD People, or Something That Happens To People In BAD Fandoms, or Something That Happens To People On The OTHER Side Of Perennial Drama; this is something that CAN happen to you.

These things are the result of the fact that fandom is, by nature, a place of heightened emotion and if you don’t know what to look out for that is very exploitable; you need to know the methods people use to do this, simply Being In The Right Fandoms or Liking The Right Ships is not enough.

So, if you see someone trying to convince you that you have the ONLY valid approach to any specific character, or ship, or show, or whatever, that your ship is activism and your fanfics are praxis, and liking something else or liking the same thing differently is Only For Bad People, that is the single biggest red flag that YOU NEED TO RUN, THEY’RE TRYING TO SELL YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU DO NOT WANT

Seeing people reblog this with mile-long DNI pages that talk about about “irredeemable media” and “you’re a pedophile if you like XYZ mainstream piece of media and I hate you” and “if you like these things that are bad irl happening in fiction in any context that’s apologism for them in reality and you should be ashamed” and “if you’re okay with consenting adults having weird sex and talking about weird sex with other consenting adults and putting weird sex in appropriately tagged fanfics that means you support rape and pedophilia and bestiality and incest and you’re evil” and “terfs and exclusionists and gatekeepers gtfo BUT combination labels aren’t valid and trans men aren’t really oppressed beyond collateral damage and fuck off if you think they are lol” and doing the biggest facepalm of my life like

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

So I sincerely hope, if you’re one of those people reblogging this, you’re taking it as a call to seriously reflect on those beliefs and how you came to hold them, and not just sitting there smugly thinking that when I said “YOU are not immune to this” I meant “YOUR FOLLOWERS may not be immune to this, but YOU are, oh great and glorious Knower of Pure from Irredeemable, holder of the True Correct Media Opinions”

Let’s simplify it a bit: No one is immune to doing evil, period. Always reflect on what you are doing and saying and why. Becoming complacent, thinking that you’re a “good person” and thus can only do “good things” is the fast-lane to the worst kind of evil: that which tries to justify itself as good.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, indeed.

Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

Hey, I think it’s important to note that this tag also includes:

> Fics written by humans and edited by AI

> People who generate a fic for fun and think the result is stupid and hilarious

> Fics that have fragments of AI-generated text (for some fuckin reason) but are predominantly written by a human

None of which I support (for ethical and environmental reasons) but I’m seeing a lot of existential despair in the tags and replies so guys. There aren’t actually this many unironic AI-gen fics on AO3.

Excerpt:

"Hungary can't demand proof of gender assignment to correct an Iranian refugee's gender status, the European Union's top court ruled today [March 13, 2025].

The Court of Justice ruled on a case brought by an Iranian transgender man, born as a woman and named only as VP, who obtained refugee status in Hungary in 2014 as a transgender person, supplying proof with medical certificates. Hungary accepted him as a refugee but listed him as female in the asylum register.

VP tried to rectify this using EU data protection law, which gives people the right to correct inaccurate information about them. Hungary had rejected this request, saying it wasn't supplied with proof of gender reassignment surgery.

The court confirmed VP's right to rectify personal data on gender identity, saying that a "Member State may under no circumstances, by administrative practice, make the exercise of that right subject to the production of evidence of sex reassignment surgery."

"Such an administrative practice undermines the essence of fundamental rights … in particular, the essence of the right to the integrity of the person and the right to respect for private life," it said.

Gender identity is "one of the most intimate aspects" of private life, it said, adding that transgender people have a right to "personal development and to physical and moral integrity, as well as to respect for and recognition of their gender identity."

Hungary does not legally recognize transgender identity. However, the court added that a member country “cannot rely on the absence, in its national law, of a procedure for the legal recognition of transgender identity in order to limit the exercise of the right to rectification.”

This is huge for trans people in the EU.

We have a right to have our gender identity legally recognized, whether the country we live in has laws enabling us to do so or not.

went to an arcade today and used some of the built up credit to get a 'lucky dip' bag because i thought it would be fun to give to some younger family members over the holidays. so i ask for one and the kid at the desk says "sure. do you want a boy one or a girl one?" and babe i'm usually polite about this but i'd dyked myself up to the max today and had apparently forgotten my mental filter at home so i instinctively burst out "THEY'RE GENDERED?" in the middle of a very busy arcade and the guy starts laughing so hard he has to pull out his inhaler

Here's a fun story of malicious compliance to brighten your day:

Until recently, a few people in my office had these desk shades to combat the obnoxious fluorescent lights, which is very helpful for people (like me) with migraines or other light-sensitivity issues.

A few days ago, everyone who has them was told to take them down. Different people were given different reasons - It violates fire code (it doesn't) / It blocks line of sight (sort of?). Since this goes against the existing status quo, the union reps (my beloved) jumped on it. Someone jokingly suggested using umbrella hats instead, since hats are allowed in the dress code. Today, the union reps are passing out these ridiculous things in protest:

If the rules are absurd, the resistance should match.

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