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there’s actual nsfw fanfic about REAL CHILDREN on ao3 that they refuse to take down, not to mention all the other p*do garbage involving fictional characters. child pornography is not free speech or a simple “bad choice” and this is a really fucking weird hill to die on.

Man I hate when these purity kids try to take down ao3 because ao3 is about sharing and choices. You get to CHOOSE what you are comfortable with! A true safe place is about informed choices, not guidance designed to keep you ignorant.

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ummmm idk this article makes it pretty clear you guys 🤔

the fact that liberals are on social media resharing pics of joe and jill biden��s dogs like “omg we did it!!! we’re gonna have doggos in the white house again, everything is going back to normal! 😍🤧” like I really don’t know what to say other than please shut the fuck up

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PLEASE be aware that antifa has stolen “piss” from fine upstanding liberals!!!!! now it stands for

Psy-ops In Soviet Service

spread this like wildfire!!!! stay safe don’t get “sucked” into the vortex of “PISS”

watch out for conspiracy theories and misinformation originating from a group calling itself PISSVORTEX

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when garfield’s gas cap breaks and the tank spills fuel everywhere

challenge: make a funny caption for this gif in a way that is completely unrelated to sex or body fluids

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overall, there’s not really an elevated risk. some studies indicate that up to 10% of pregnancies reported by people who “routine[ly] use progestin-only contraceptives” are ectopic. for reference, overall, ectopic pregnancies account for about 2% of all reported pregnancies.

so? nothing is 100%. another fun way to phrase that is “it works 9 out of 10 times”, which sound like pretty good odds to me. also,

this is... a lot, so i’m gonna break it up into a couple points.

first of all, there is no evidence of increased risk of cancer with short-term use of progestins. just for good measure, here’s another source saying the same thing.

the american cancer society does list specifically combined estrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives, with the note that there’s also evidence they may help guard against certain types of cancer as well.

plan b consists of one synthetic progestogen called levonorgestrel. it is not a combined contraceptive.

you know what else is on the list as a group 1 carcinogen? alcohol, diesel engine exhaust, untreated mineral oils, outdoor air pollution, consumption of processed meat, UV radiation, soot, talc, wood dust, workplace exposure to paints, dyes, metalworking compounds, etc.

i’d advise anyone looking for more information on plan b to ignore the above website and instead check out these websites that i used as sources for this post. https://ec.princeton.edu/emergency-contraception.html https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2009/021998lbl.pdf https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/general-info/known-and-probable-human-carcinogens.html

Before you take Plan B, there are some things you should know.

Did you know that Plan B:

Triples the risk of ectopic pregnancies? A life threatening condition if left undetected.

Fails 1 in 10 times?

Is labeled as a Group 1 carcinogen, the same cancer risk as cigarettes and asbestos?

Save time and complications, and get real help by visiting: www.planbfacts.com

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Listen here cum-slut, I bet you 5 million dollars that you don’t own a plane. But guess what? I own 7. And I can tell you right now that a plane would never just kiss another plane gently or something. They’ll rarely even hug. But say that your idiotic theory is correct. Say they did actually kiss. Those planes still probably died. Is that still funny to you? Do you still get your kicks out of knowing that those planes were probably terrified and went down in flames moments after this picture? And if you say yes then you seriously disgust me as a human being.

Love

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if one more person calls me ignorant of history for “not even knowing about the spinster movement” when the concept of “the spinster movement” was literally invented by one single tumblr post, i will scream

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this post is... a gigantic, ahistorical mess. there are a variety of reasons why women would choose not to marry, depending on the era. but regardless, it wasn’t about the desire to have or not have sex.

i guess i’ll start with the  “[...] sexless or homosexual hoydens” mentioned above. which, by the way, the first mention i could find of that being quoted is in a book called Lesbian Teachers: An Invisible Presence.

[image ID: an excerpt from “Spinsters, Bachelors, and Other Gender Transgressors in School Employment, 1850-1990″ by Jackie M. Blount.]

please take particular note of the “threat to traditional gender order” comment and the observation on the development of the study of human sexuality.

the stereotypes of spinsterhood are inextricable from lesbophobia, and the fear that heterosexual society has of women who reject men in any way.

and by the way, a researcher, Katharine Bement Davis studied these spinster teachers’ romantic experiences and found hey, about half of them have been involved with other women.

obviously, spinster teachers weren’t all lesbians. and yeah, i’d bet a lot of them weren’t interested in men OR women. but even as recently as this, it gets a bit thorny trying to assign modern labels to people. our society and our ideas of sex and sexuality have changed so much, and so much of sexology has either been manipulated to support oppression (see above) or destroyed if possible. would some of these spinsters have identified as asexual, had the modern concept of asexuality been around then? i mean... probably, at least a few! but it’s inappropriate, homophobic, oversimplifying, and just plain incorrect to label spinsterhood as some kind of asexual movement. it literally was not.

what it boils down to is this: spinster teachers weren’t feared and punished for not having sex, they were feared and punished for being “bad at being a woman”, basically. and again, that’s something that is inextricable from lesbian history.

victorian spinsters sometimes remained unmarried not due to a lack of desire for marriage, but to a highly idealistic view of marriage and a religiously motivated need to find a “purpose” in life.

and uh... 

honestly, i don’t know enough about specifically victorian era spinsterhood to write about it here, so i won’t. but i do want to observe that it seems to be a complicated thing that is tangled thoroughly up in gender and sexism among many other issues - a product of its time with little relevance to modern notions of sexuality.

if an asexual woman looks at the history of spinsterhood and feels a connection to it and finds comfort in it, that’s fantastic! women of all orientations may feel a connection to it, because it’s a history of all types of women - lesbian women, asexual women, straight women, bi women, trans women, dysphoric women, nb women. 

TL;DR: spinsterhood is complicated. women have been spinsters for all sorts of reasons - non-heterosexual orientation, religion, sexism, opportunities for work - and it’s not the unique history of asexuality. nor of lesbianism! it’s very often intertwined with lesbian history and societal fear of lesbians, but not always. it’s dishonest to erase all of that and bundle it all into “asexual history”. just... chill.

Look I have no problem with aces being part of the community, but historically queer was never used as a slur against them, so as someone who has been called queer as a derogatory insult plenty of times, I'm pretty uncomfortable with them using it. Reclaiming the word queer is fine, but not if it wasn't directed at you in the first place.

Hey.

Quick tip. 

You are not the Queer Pope. You don’t get to decide who is and isn’t queer. 

Also, get off my blog. 

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RUMIKO TAKAHASHI WAS FINALLY INDUCTED INTO THE EISNER HALL OF FAME! 

This is her fourth time being nominated, but the previous times she did not make it in (much to the frustration of many fans). She is one of the very few Japanese comic artists to be honored with this induction. The others are Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), Osamu Tezuka, Goseki Kojima, and Kazuo Koike (the latter two both of Lone Wolf and Cub fame). You can see from that list how rare an honor this is. 

The Eisner Awards are considered the ‘Oscars for comics’, and being inducted into the hall of fame is the equivalent to a lifetime achievement award at said Oscars. 

Rumiko Takahashi is the most successful female comic artist of all time not just in Japan, but throughout the entire world. That alone should have warranted her inclusion the first time she was nominated, but I’m so pleased it’s finally happened now.

(I had an inkling that MAYBE it would happen this year, considering the UY license rescue, but I wasn’t going to get my hopes up.) 

edit: A photo from the ceremony

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before talkin shit on straight men maybe try talking to some for a period of more than five minutes at a time cause all y’all treat straight men on this website like incels treat women

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Mahou Shoujo Yurina’s main heroine by okyankyan03

The author is working on a follow-up! Please show them your appreciation by liking and sharing their post. Translation and typesetting by Ray Distance. 

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大きくなっても一緒。

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