dreadfully delightful semi-spectral things

i hope everyone is ready to celebrate International Down With Cis day on April 4th.

happy 9 years to the Down With Cis bus!

happy 10 years to the Down With Cis bus!

As a former librarian I'm actually required to remind you that many libraries that subscribe to Libby are opted into a program that lets you subscribe and access magazines for free with no wait

And that this is actually a really fun, low cost way to not only access news and larger cultural magazines, but also to get free patterns for many different crafts that you can screenshot if need be and that lower the financial barriers to entry for trying new things

From my experience working in both academic and public libraries, many libraries are use it or lose it funding-- I have to say this because a lot of patrons feel guilty for how much they use the library and how often they're using it funny enough, but the worst thing you can do for libraries is not try out new features and not use what's already given to you as much as possible.

The numbers that come as a result of your patronage are how most libraries justify their continued existence in times of financial hardship, which sucks but, go check out some magazines on Libby!

turukáno and anairë. like mother, like son.

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

imagining a fantasy world where transmisogyny has recently been like... cut in half. and fandom people have to deal with their #fruity guy blorbos actually transitioning and becoming women. imagine june egbert but its happening to MCU fans.

i just want it to happen once. god, please. let one of the mediocre Sad Man television shows that tumblr gets obsessed with reveal tumblr's favorite Tortured Angsty Guy has been a trans woman the whole time.

VERY IMPORTANT this needs to happen after AT LEAST one season so the fandom can get a whole year's worth of obsession before they discover he's not fruity in a fun dismissable yaoi boy way but is actually a she/her transgender woman.

and of course she will continue to be a main character and will transition and present as a girl and get a dozen A- and B- plots about the transfeminine experience and these fuckers will have to explain why they suddenly stopped watching after episode 2.2 Meet Bonnibel

So, we tried doing this with a cat we were looking after. We would not get up until the alarm clock went off.

One morning, he was standing by my head and screaming, but not in my ear. I looked up and saw that he had his little face one inch from the alarm clock. Because we only woke up when the alarm clock went off, he decided that it was the alarm clock that he needed to scream at until it woke up.

Sorry babe but if me saying I use "any and all" pronouns stresses you out, that's honestly a you problem. It's not my job to pick a "true" or "most preferred" pronoun for you to call me by when my preference is, in fact, use everything chaotically and change it up often.

If you want to ask for clarification on how I'd like various pronouns used, that's fine. But saying to my face "ah I always get stressed about any pronouns - what do I call you"? Just rude tbh. I told you my preference, figure it out. It/they/he/she/xe/zir/fae/rat/bitch/ass/motherfucker I don't care, it's not my problem.

Also like. This is SUCH a young queers problem, almost exclusively. I've never had an old gay be confused or stressed about my pronouns when I say "eh whatever", they've all just gone "hell yeah absolutely" and thrown spaghetti at the wall. But young queers love to externalise their anxiety about Being A Good LGBTQ and make it my problem. It is sooo not my problem. I didn't say any pronouns to be cute. But I've had 20-30 year olds say to me, multiple times, "I don't know what to do with any pronouns". Bitch what do you MEAN you don't know? It's the most easy thing in the world to pick a random pronoun and use it. People do it all the time for strangers. Why is it harder when I ask you to do it?

These tags absolutely sum it up. "I'm impossible to misgender but you've found a way to do it". Exactly exactly.

This goes out to every single person who has tagged this with "well maybe they just want to clarify" or "you should at least clarify how you want them used they might just be nervous".

Thank you, yes, I addressed this in the original post.

I explicitly want people to ask me if I would prefer neopronouns or if I'd like to switch it up often or whatever else. I want that, I like that, it's good. My personal answer to all of those questions is "do whatever you want i do not care".

In this post I am talking about people who outright just ask me to pick a favourite or who tell me "it makes me stressed" with no further information. It is not my problem if my pronouns make you stressed. Make an effort or just use my name, I really don't care, I just dont want to hear about how difficult I'm making your day by not having One True Pronoun.

they Expect you to Pass but they dont expect you to pass

What's happening to Mahmoud Khalil is wrong, full stop, and even you see some dumb hot takes it's not that hard to stay focused on the fact that it's extremely bad that the government revoked a green card for a permanent resident over exercising his free speech rights. This is true regardless of whether you like the speech or not.

It's also bad that they transported him across the country without telling his family or lawyers where he was to try to find a more conservative, anti-immigrant location to try him at; lied to his wife about where he was and she only found out he wasn't in New Jersey when she went there; and hung up on his lawyer every time she called to try to reach him.

Some people have tried to justify this with "Well we have to wait for due process and if he did nothing wrong he'll be released." The reality is that there IS no due process in the US immigration system and with ICE. It is too fundamentally broken and racist for that to be the case.

Trump's administration is full of racist, Islamophobic liars who think all Muslims are terrorists who should be banned from the country (remember the, you know, Muslim ban?). Their claims simply CANNOT be taken at face value when they accuse a Muslim man of being a terrorist over speech.

[simple video description: a person dances in a smooth, modern style while in a Double Dutch jump rope. Many times, their dance moves carry them over the rope without looking like they are leaving the ground, like sliding the feet up and over as the rope passes. The rope never catches on the dancer nor falters until they leave. A hip hop song play in the background. End VD.]

The song is "King Kunta" by Kendrick Lamar.

thingol and beren parallelism of hearing the song of a woman from an older more powerful race, falling into instant inescapable love with her and fathering a child -- your one and only child -- with a heritage unheard of ever before or ever since; and then years later watching powerless as that child runs into a larger and more turbulent fate than you ever hoped they would have to endure

also dad jokes

Okay, I was not expecting this at all and I have to admit, I have not listened to any music from Chappell Roan before, my fault and that is going to change...but this is hauntingly beautiful and it's beautiful to see so many people come together to do something for not only themselves, but for this video too.

This needs to be shared everywhere really, it really is beautiful.

I know this song well but hadn't listened to it in a few months, and this version just made me cry and made me think about various queer regrets and frustrations I had during the era I grew up in. It means so much to see people come together to sing this.

i hate it when clones die

if u have a mirror self just protect them ok

and if u Are the mirror self. for the love of god stay safe

archers gloves vs digital artist gloves being opposite of one another

Much like how archers and digital artists are mortal enemies

Behold, the digital artchery glove!

….but Wait…

…….!!!

FUCKA YOUUU!!!!!

Ok but wgat if we held hands…..

and we both had carpal tunnel syndrome 😳

not carpal tunnel syndrome 😫

this website really has ruined me… i didnt catch the G, so i spent like 4 minutes scouring the second pic for thee Lucky Luciano 😭

hand in unglovable hand

Harbor boy Finarfin! Or the one that just wanted his brothers to get along and was so done with drama he moved to the sea :) And that concludes Finwe's boys, but perhaps I'll continue with their kids

when ever I start hearing the horns of the apocalypse I just say out loud to myself "the tumpet. bwaaa" and it makes me feel better every time