meow-moment:

oysters-aint-for-me:

joyfully-it-devours:

devinwolfi:

pandora-s-shit-deactivated20220:

Having ADHD is that your brain either feels like

Or

And it can switch in a matter of seconds.

bold of you to assume im not

THATS IT THATS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

birdy.., !’

Yep that’s what it’s like

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jewishvitya:

jewishvitya:

I was asked why there’s a zionist claim that the Palestininian identity is not legitimate. And I think it’s important to understand why Palestinians as a whole are seen as a threat by Israel. To understand why it’s not about Hamas.

The claim is that the Palestininian identity was made up in order to push us out. Palestinian existence is a threat to the legitimacy of Israel as a country.

I was taught in school that Palestine was empty when we got here. They used a Mark Twain quote. It was a barren land full of swamps and some nomadic people (Beduins) but as soon as we wanted to come here, the awful antisemitic Arabs sent people to settle here before we could to take up the space. I was in school in the settlements though. I was taught the most extreme version of this.

Another version of this is that Palestine was never its own thing, they’re just Arabs the same as all Arabs from the surrounding countries. So they could just… scooch over and give us the space, please and thank you. In Israel no one uses the term Palestinian. If I do, people roll their eyes and dismissively go “Arab.” An Arab is an Arab. It’s a way to strip away their unique identity and blend them in with the rest to say they could always move to Jordan, or Syria, or Lebanon, and it’s all the same to them.

It’s a way to make Palestinian existence by itself into a malicious plot to deny us a homeland.

Because if Palestinians exist as a distinct group of people, we aren’t the only ones with a connection to this land. And you don’t create an ethnostate by sharing.

You still hear echoes of this mentality. Why won’t all these Muslim countries take the people of Gaza as refugees? That’s asking why they won’t let Israel make its ethnic cleansing more neat and convenient. Yes, refugees should be taken in and given shelter. But this question shifts responsibility away from Israel. Palestinians shouldn’t be forced suffer either ethnic cleansing that leaves them as refugees, or a genocide.

The claim here is that Palestine was never its own country, but the name that foreign occupations gave this land, and Palestinians can’t be indigenous because why would an indigenous group identify with the name given to it by an occupying force?

This disregards just how long Palestine has been under occupation, conquered by different forces. Whoever named it doesn’t matter. The indigenous population gets to decide what they call themselves, and even if they didn’t have their own self-governing country for a very long time, this doesn’t erase their shared national and cultural identity.

This is Israeli propaganda using past occupation and colonization to erase the people who had to live under them.

(via ringneckedpheasant)

kaz2y5tiel:

the-gayest-tuba:

arodabi:

Sometimes i feel like younger queer kids are getting a bit to bold with openly talking to people they don’t know In The Context Of:

More than once i have had a younger/same age queer person come up to me in public settings and say something about “finding other gays” or clearly clocking me as nonbinary and I’m like :)))))))) hey buddy I’m here with my conservative parents can you fucking not out me :))))))))

Just say you like my outfit or hair and move on, fuck even tell me you like my shoelaces. Don’t call me gay and limp your wrist at me when you don’t even know me? Especially when there’s a bunch of ppl around?

i was out with my ex once when three *very* young queer kids, like thirteen years old, came up to us and asked us “are you guys, you know…” and did the limp wrist thing at us. one of them loudly exclaimed that it was so cool to meet other queer people in real life. this was in public in an unbelievably conservative area - we didn’t even feel safe holding hands because we were surrounded by Mormons. we got lucky that day, but I’m begging y’all to remember that the world doesn’t work like the internet. other queers are real fuckin people. don’t do this shit. OP is right; tell me you like my jacket, or my patches, or the rainbow spokes on my wheelchair, but don’t out either of us!

iima: not to be Old, but the limp wrist thing was an insult (gestural slur?) until very VERY recently and honestly I still feel like throwing up a little when I see strangers do it. It’s awesome folks are reclaiming it, but please be aware that for anyone much over, say, 25 or 30 (a guess) that has a strong chance of coming off as aggressively homophobic — like “faggot” it’s probably best to hold back until you know your audience, y’know? So walking up to a stranger (who might not be spending all their time on social media, for example, and therefore not be aware it’s being reclaimed by Kids These Days) and doing that is not only potentially outing a stranger, it could be upsetting or even terrifying. In other words, the opposite of what you’re going for.

(via defectivegembrain)

starlightshadowsworld:

Palestinians are not “animals.”

They are not “children of darkness.”

Little kids are rescuing cats and trying to comfort them when they themselves are terrified.

A doctor broke down when his father and brother came into the trauma unit.

And several of his colleagues hugged and gathered to comfort him.

Journalists are playing with babies.

Doctors are refusing to evacuate hospitals because their patients can’t and refuse to leave them.

There’s a little boy who gives tea to the journalists and thanks them for spreading their stories.

He’s displaced at the hospital, his home is gone.

A kid was asked what he wants to be when he grows up and he said kids in Gaza don’t grow up.

Kids are writing their names on their arms so they can be identified.

Momin Kireka is a Palestinian journalist who was disabled by an Israeli attack in 2008.

And despite the difficulty in moving around, he vows to continue to show the world the truth.

Awni, a young Palestinian boy has a gaming YouTube channel he loved so much.

He was killed in the bombing.

Mohammed Sami was an artist who’s dream was to open an art gallery.

He was playing with the kids to raise their spirits. And the next day he was killed.

They are victims.

They are going through unimaginable horrors and still find it in their hearts to be kind.

They have hopes and dreams just like you and I.

They are people.

And they deserve to be remembered as such.

(via defectivegembrain)

warriorskitty:

(via dana-chan-the-control-brain)

necromosss:

squeakitties:

As the person who got their R keyboard broken and the world mocked me for being forced to use the uwu language as replacement

My condolences

(via redjeliton)

wilwheaton:

thoughtslostandfound:

All food service workers should 100% be entitled to free ass meals on the job. Not discounted, not half off. Free.

This should not be controversial.

(via redjeliton)

thetursithan:

A great magician…

(via roach-works)

caffeineandsociety:

swampgallows:

sarahsscrapbook:

swampgallows:

swampgallows:

“tbh we might have clowned on [aros & aces] a lil too harshly” bigotry. the term you’re looking for is bigotry. denying communities their vocabulary and ability to safely exist because you think you’re the personal arbiter of which identities are “valid” is bigotry. minimizing and infantilizing and harassing entire groups of people based on their orientation is bigotry. aphobia isn’t some forgettable phase of being cringe as a teenager, it’s bigotry that inflicted long term damage to these communities.

These notes are heartbreaking. There are hundreds of aspec people describing in detail how they went back in the closet or lived in denial or in fear because of the malice, harassment, and ignorance toward aromantic and asexual people. Aspec positivity tags used to be full of porn and gore. This included pictures of the corpse of a teen girl who came out as asexual the day before she was brutally murdered—and Internet strangers responded by debating her orientation.

Aphobes tried to argue that only lesbians could experience corrective rape, or that it was somehow appropriating a term exclusive to South Africa, or that an asexual person willing to have sex could not be correctively raped. They insisted any evidence of oppression was either misdirected or fabricated. Being an entry in the DSM until 2013 and developing medication specifically for treating the condition didn’t count. 

They told us all of our words were either stolen or stupid: allistic people tried to say that “aspec” was specifically about people on the autism spectrum; “zucchini”, squash, and other innocuous aspec terms and motifs (black rings, playing card suits, cake, space, dragons, etc.) got ridiculed to death; QPRs as a concept are derided as “just friends” and irrelevant to anyone but aspecs, who themselves are deemed irrelevant. In fact, the “clowning” quote in the OP was in the notes on a post of mine about the importance of recognizing queerplatonic relationships. 

Aphobes insisted that aspecs couldn’t speak other languages, that it’s a “white people thing”, that teenagers are just trying to feel special, that it’s a side effect of SSRIs, that we’re “basically straight” (straight-passing, i.e. erased). Anything to deny us our existence. Anything to minimize us, to keep us invisible and silent, to blame us for intracommunity issues, to invalidate us. 

I got attention for getting angry in 2018, and I’m still angry now. This has been happening on tumblr for over a decade. It’s been known for a long time (and even admitted by terfs themselves) that aro/ace exclusion and trans exclusion go hand in hand and contribute to terf rhetoric. When you hurt us, you are hurting your own community. Arguing that aspecs do not belong is not “discourse”. It is bigotry.

I remember this, it was awful.

I’d also invite everyone to read this Twitter thread, if you can stomach it. It was a post by the UK Girl Guides supporting their asexual members for Ace Week, and it was dogpiled by TERFS screaming and lying and calling them paedophiles. I will never forget or forgive.

The thread above is from 2021, and it is indeed full of terfs (or “merfs” as some of them have called themselves to double down on the transmisogyny). This is still happening. Aphobes want to argue about whether or not aspecs “belong”? You can read for yourself in the thread over and over that our oppressors have already decided that asexuality is “Stonewall indoctrination”. Terfs, homophobes, transphobes, etc. don’t care whether or not you personally agree that aspecs are part of the community. They include us because they see all of us as pedophiles, groomers, creepy, a cult, “a sick joke on sexuality and human experience”. 

We are in this together, so we need to work together. Confront your bigotry. I have seen some people in the comments asking what they can do to learn, change, or show acceptance, so here is a short list of bullet points that i wrote for an anon with similar concerns. It’s nothing elaborate, but at the very least, it’s a start.

#every time i see this#i think abt how i saw someone get cancelled#in REAL TIME#because they support the aspec community#previously they had been a tumblr darling#mentioned his support#and within the fucking HOUR there was a callout post circulating#made THAT. DAMN. DAY.

Oh I remember that too!

I also remember how it was carefully worded, because juuuust enough people were onto the fact that this exclusionism was bullshit, to hide the fact that it was about DARING to support ace people; instead, no, it was about…calling them a pedophile for [checks notes] staying involved with high school theater after graduation. And people bought it because damned near no one bothers to fact check and those who DID, those who found out it was really just about ~ace discourse~, decided…oh, okay, it’s a false accusation, but no need to refute it or anything, it’s totally impotent, because those Ace Discoursers don’t do REAL harm, right?

It’s all just clowning on ~cringey~ ~frivolous~ tumblr infighting, right?

Right?

(Extremely fucking wrong and I will not forget.)

(via monsterboyfriend)