That survey about how "Gen Z says they don't want sex scenes in movies!" is going around as outrage bait & my fave part of it is that the age range surveyed was 10-24. Most headlines are just going with "Gen Z" but some of the respondents were actual children, and some were college grads, and they were all lumped in as one category

Also that's one question on a survey mainly about their wish for more representation of platonic relationships and less of toxic or obligatory, undeveloped romances, but that doesn't fire up the ol' engagement numbers like playing into the "young people are all puritans" moral panic, so

This is still going around and still being presented as if they weren't surveying 10 year olds ("teens and young adults"). This poll had 100 respondents per age, which means the majority of respondents were minors and 300 of them were literal children

Which, to be fair, is the actual age range of Gen Z...but to be unfair, is an absolutely pointless group to throw together. Almost like generations are fake or something

"Hey you fucking dorks, grow up!" This is a study that quotes eleven year olds lol (also, the study has one question about sex and is mainly about representation)

So they released this year's survey which means the "teens said in the survey that SEX SCENES are BAD" story is happening again

Now the report is more explicit that ten to thirteen year olds were not asked the sexual questions, which instead just group fourteen year olds in with twenty-four years old, which is clearly more useful and valid data

The reaction is mixed, with about one-third being a conservative moral panic saying it's creepy to ask "children" this question, and two-thirds people going "wow, kids are LOSERS now!" and pretending fifteen year olds have very real power over media censorship (some of them are also doing the "when I was twelve I was doing drugs!" fake boasting thing bc everyone wants the energy of the worst song ever written, Lukas Graham's "7 Years")

Which, they don't, no matter how much people with opinions on fanfiction imagine otherwise. Last time this spread I saw several people point out something rather obvious: that when someone that young says Sex Scenes Are Bad they probably mean it in a "it's awkward to watch one with my parents" way and not a secret fascist out to destroy art way

I mean, "it's so awkward when you're watching a movie with your family and a sex scene happens" used to be a pretty common experience to joke about, back when things could just be a thing and not be immediately drawn into the lore of some sprawling, insufferable culture war.

according to BSky it's National Unicorn Day!? I saw too many unicorns on my feed and had to doodle some for myself, it's been a while

The writers of Rawhide saw Clint Eastwood and said we need him shirtless NOW.

and they were RIGHT!!!

OKAY I'm starting Rawhide tomorrow I stg

bulbasaur bouquet ✿ bloom at your own pace

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TINY BABY

i love when characters lie to themselves in the complete privacy of their own minds

hmmm

Finally, someone who remembers the true purpose of Lego!

The person who originally did this is a phenomenally talent builder. Here’s some more of their work:

To anyone interested, this is Joss Ivanwood, or Jayfa_mocs

googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

I actually, genuinely think social event aftercare would fix me. I need someone to put me to bed and say "you were fun today and no one hated you"

A bad photoshop will always be funnier than an AI image no matter what

it's very clear why aphobia is one of the gateways to wider queer exclusionism when you have to witness these types like, make up a guy to get mad at. "what if there was a guy that was straight in every way except he was ace/aro/demi/whatever" yeah man what if? who cares? then you realize the real question being asked is "are queer people still valid if I can't tell they're queer by observing them and need to be told directly?" and it's like yeah I see why you also have weird ideas about bi/pan people and anyone else that doesn't fit your mental image of what a queer person should look like. if your basis for queerness is whether someone appears sufficiently queer to others, you cannot construct a meaningful definition of queerness that doesn't exclude some queer people. no wonder you have to keep throwing more and more people overboard to keep your narrow definition of the queer community afloat in your mind. is the next discourse going to be that happily single lesbians with boring gender-conforming taste in fashion aren't really queer? come off it

Have to preface this by saying that I don't think JKR's exclusion of asexual people follows the exact same logic as my original post above. She's coming at it as an outsider to the community, for one thing, and her gateway to exclusion was transphobia, especially transmisogyny. I still think the Chief Transphobe revealing herself to be aphobic as well is just another example of how bigotry and exclusion towards one group easily leads to bigotry and exclusion towards other groups.

A consistent theme in her bigotry is that she just doesn't believe that trans people are authentically who they say they are. They are pretending to be a different gender for some nefarious goal, or have been tricked into believing they're a different gender by other people with some nefarious goal, or are just making up genders up for attention. You can see a similar thing here -- she just thinks asexual people are making up oppression, even if she likely doesn't see them as a threat in the same way she does trans people (as evidenced by the fact that she cannot shut up about trans people for five minutes).

The point is that no matter what direction you approach exclusion from, the ultimate result is going to be the same. Trying to draw any firm line between the "real" queer community and the rest of the letters in the acronym is a failed endeavor. It only ends when there's no community left to carve pieces from. The "real" queer community to JKR is likely just gays and lesbians, and even then, only those who agree with her (because any gay person that would claim to be trans inclusive clearly isn't a real gay person, but a faker or someone tricked into accepting trans people). And she will still cast even them away and claim them to be fakers or predators the moment she thinks it serves her purposes. Her current arguments about "predatory" trans women in women's spaces have been applied widely to lesbians in the past, after all.

People that say "don't worry guys, I found the one group that it's morally correct to exclude and be bigoted towards" have literally never stopped at one group, and people that think that one group is asexuals, I think you should be very uncomfortable about finding yourself in agreement with JKR and maybe examine how you got here, and where that same thinking could lead you.

Wtf how did she even find us? I'm ace and I didn't even remember it was asexuality day. I had something queued, but I forgot on the actual day.

Aces 🤝 Bi/Pan 🤝 Trans/Queer

A recent commission of Worf’s son, Alexander Rozhenko, in a custom Starfleet uniform that reflects his Cossack heritage ✨

As someone with Tatar Cossack roots myself, this was such a blast to work on! I love when commissions let me get creative with all the details :)

Commissions are now open indefinitely, btw, so feel free to reach out if you’ve got an idea you’d like to bring to life!

This version is downscaled and watermarked at the client’s request. Please don’t copy to other sites.

awesome. this is just what America needs

when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw

Lil’ baby lizard again because he’s cute and I need no better reason.