I love casual dominance so much, it doesn’t even need to be sexual. Them pushing you against the wall when they pass by you, just to kiss your cheek. Bending you over the counter in the morning as they say good morning. Pressing you to your knees while you’re getting ready to tell you how pretty you look. Letting you go after, just to leave you dazed and confused and needy.
one consequence of transmisogyny (but not unique to it) is that it makes you into a paranoiac. take the example of the "degendering they" or like the "backhanded compliment," relatively minor interpersonal interactions that trans women increasingly feel hypervigilant about. it's probably counterproductive to assume everyone who gives you a compliment or refers to you as "they" or "this person" (<- phrase that actually revolts me a little now in this context) is doing so condescendingly, in a malicious or even just incidentally diminishing way. but also, everything about your life as a trans woman encourages you to be on alert for these kinds of cues, because if you're not paying attention to them then when the hammer drops it will hit that much harder.
just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.
do you think the trolls ever try to think up valid human names?
Karkat: DID YOU NOTICE THAT ALL HUMAN NAMES ARE FOUR LETTERS LONG? EXCEPT THE LAST NAME THAT’S AS LONG OR SHORT AS IT WANTS I GUESS.
Kanaya: Yes I Have Noticed. Why?
Karkat: FUCK, SHIT, AND DAMN ARE ALL VALID HUMAN NAMES.
Kanaya: You’re Right But I…Don’t Think Anyone Would Ever Name A Human That…
Karkat: *pulling out a piece of paper and a pen and scribbling a doodle* THIS IS MY PERSONSONA, HIS NAME IS FUCK DAMNSHIT.
Kanaya: *trying not laugh* Oh My Gog
Kanaya: I Want A Personsona
*Karkat gives Kanaya a piece of paper and the pen and watches her as she draws*
Karkat: WHAT’S YOUR PERSONSONA’S NAME?
Kanaya: Her Name…Is Nook Eater
bwaaaah
The first three are literal genetically enhanced space warriors and the last one is just some twitchy nerd who got lucky
Besides Samus would cream them all
your mind
Isaac's first good day
the hyperspecfic vernacular that you and your partner come up with over the course of weeks, months, and years together is a highly undrrated sort of intimacy
West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory.
All are products that contain palm oil and are made, say the campaigners, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, which has been under Indonesian control since 1963 and where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture.
More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott, which they say should continue until the people of West Papua are given the right to self-determination.
Raki Ap, a spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, which is overseeing the call, said: “These products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where they’ve lived for thousands of years, which has now resulted in ecocide.
“This is a signal to the countries who are dealing with Indonesia, especially those in the Pacific region, to take notice of who they’re dealing with and how they are basically allowing Indonesia to continue the colonial project in West Papua, the human rights violations, and also ecocide.”
West Papuans say more than 500,000 of their people have been killed by the occupation in the past six decades, while millions of acres of their ancestral lands have been destroyed for corporate profit. Indonesia, already the world’s largest palm oil exporter, is now breaking ground in West Papua on the world’s biggest single palm oil plantation, as well as a sugar cane and biofuel plantation that will be the largest deforestation project ever launched.
“West Papuans’, especially the ULMWP, position is very clear: we are a modern-day colony,” said Ap, speaking from the Netherlands.
“Indonesia hijacked the right to self-determination in 1962 when the Netherlands and Indonesia signed an agreement without any consultation in West Papua … After that, in 1969, there was a so-called referendum, which wasn’t fair, which wasn’t under international law, one man, one vote: just 1,025 men were handpicked at gunpoint to vote for integration to Indonesia.
“So this is the foundation of the Indonesia’s colonial project. When we became part of Indonesia against our will, basically the genocide unfolded.”
