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And you know, the crazy thing is that I just realised that maybe some of my envy for other people is rooted in the idea that I can’t actually see what my best self looks like. So I just long to copy other people hoping that I can get close to that. Because that’s brilliance I can actually see. And that’s just so much more easier to attain than my own brilliance, which might not even exist.

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Hello, yuri warrior, has this ever happened to you?

Don't you wish you could do something about this besides grumbling about the annoying nature of fandom spaces?

Well have I got a solution for you!

Join the Yuri Shipping Olympics today!

What are the Yuri Shipping Olympics, you might ask? Well, the Yuri Shipping Olympics are an annual yuri challenge, where artists, writers, and all manner of creative folks come together, form teams, and create in service of their favourite f/f ships. This year I will be leading a team dedicated to various different video game ships. (And I'm also specifically recruiting all gamers who wanna create more yuri!)

But you could also form a team based on a specific ship or theme, or join one of our many teams now! (Teams have covered everything from Horror animanga to Total Drama to even original characters!)

You can follow us on Tumblr at @yuriolympics, and even join our discord server. And if you're not particularly up for creating, you can even join up as a voting member, where you get to vote for your favourite works produced during this challenge.

So what are you waiting for? Make friends, celebrate yuri, create, collaborate. Join the Yuri Shipping Olympics today!

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#idwtbamg ✨ @kianamaiart

full under readmore

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A small Hoshi redraw for a warmup.

I was just going to draw Hoshi by themself, but since I added the shading I ended up adding the background too :P

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the prom episode! 💫

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Sparkly homecoming dress zira ☝️

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if you have a band you can play a truly epic MUSIC PRANK by

making a good album

and then simply

not making any more good albums

follow for more epic MUSIC PRANKS

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To-do list:

Back up #tabby says something

Back up #read later, #watch later, and #play later

Start blogging more on my Dreamwidth

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With all my free time I’m going to start doing my readings of books about trans men again. Going to read Sons of the Movement: FtMs Risking Incoherance on a Post-queer Cultural Landscape by Bobby Noble. If yall have any books about trans men you’d recommend my ask box is open and you can send me them.

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With all my free time I’m going to start doing my readings of books about trans men again. Going to read Sons of the Movement: FtMs Risking Incoherance on a Post-queer Cultural Landscape by Bobby Noble. If yall have any books about trans men you’d recommend my ask box is open and you can send me them.

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Non-FtM stuff on my Queer reading list as requested by some anons.

[once again a note so people don’t get mad at me. I haven’t read these yet. These are just things recommended to me that I plan to read. If one of these is problematic or whatever I’m sorry don’t send me mean asks]

Where Black Feminist Thought and Trans*Feminism Meet: A Conversation By Kai M. Green and Marquis Bey

Black Trans Feminism By Marquis Bey

Trans Cinema and its Exit Scapes. A Transfeminist Reading of Utopian Sensibility and Gender Dissidence in Contemporary Film By Wibke Straube

QUEERING GENOCIDE: Israel’s Pinkwashing Campaign and the Ineptness of International Law in Gaza By Izat el-Amoor

Queer Politics, Bisexual Erasure By JUANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ

Feminism against Cisness By Emma Heaney

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cav, do you have any resources (or suggestions on where to start looking) re: ways for suicidal people to deal with suicidal ideation that are not the suicide hotline? i know of carly boyce's suicide intervention resources, but do you happen to know of any others? it's alright if not. thank you...

Here are some of my favorites:

Hello, Cruel World

Questions to Ask Before Giving Up

How to Make a Pocket Crisis Guide

Mapping Our Madness

The book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha also has some useful essays on care, hope, and collective struggle in the face of despair.

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Excuse me if this has been asked before, but what are books/essays/authors you recommend looking into from a Marxist-Feminist standpoint? Also is there something I should know before delving into Marxist-Feminism? A lot of materialist feminists I've been reading have made anti-transgender sentiments, or have ignored the existence of transgender politics entirely, so I'm a little wary.

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir is not technically Marxist, but it’s very influential globally for Marxist feminism. She also interprets gender in a way that I think lends itself to transfeminism, in that she says that humans always have to interpret nature instead of just immediately appropriating it “as it is” and that gender is one such way that we interpret nature (and implicitly that we collectively have a freedom to alter this interpretation through political struggle).

Alexandra Kollontai is a very influential Marxist feminist, though I think her idea of sexual liberation was still subordinated to the idea of the national state’s camaraderie and fraternity. Make Way for Winged Eros is a very interesting essay arguing for free love as an element in social revolution.

An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman by Claudia Jones is very important as a response to the de-classing of Black women’s struggles and the dismissal of them as particularistic. The work of Jones gives a much more concrete and human sense to who the proletariat is, instead of the image of the white man-machine that a lot of socialists fantasize about.

Mary Inman is very important for being the first Marxist to extensively analyze unwaged domestic, reproductive labor, pairing well with Jones who had begun to analyzed waged domestic labor. Her essay The Role of the Housewife in Social Production is arguably the beginning of the housework debates in Marxist feminism, which were about the role of housework in the total reproduction of capital, the reproduction of labor-power, and the production of surplus-value.

The essay which really kicked off the housework debates was The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by Selma James and Mariarosa Dalla Costa. This is still one of the most important Marxist feminists texts that people still come back to in these kinds of debates.

The Arcane of Reproduction by Leopoldina Fortunati takes the housework debates into a more complex level by connecting it to Marx’s full discussion of the production and reproduction of capital in Capital and Theories of Surplus-Value. This is probably the highest theoretical point of the debates.

Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution by Raya Dunayevskaya is very important for the reconsideration of the role of feminism in “orthodox Marxism,” or the generation between Marx and the Third International. I do dislike that Dunayevskaya neglects the housework debates almost entirely, and especially because this is due to very petty personal beef with Selma James (they had formerly been part of the same political circle via CLR James).

Night-Vision by Butch Lee and Red Rover is an interesting Pantherist-Maoist analysis of class struggle, gender, and neocolonialism. They give a lot of attention to the development of a highly gendered proletariat in the late 20th century, marking shifts in the gendered structure of the wage away from the patterns of the father’s family wage and couverture.

The Point is to Change the World by Andaiye is a collection of essays analyzing similar themes. As an organizer she was on the ground in Guyana dealing with these new realities of the structure of the proletariat and trying to figure out a new global strategy for it.

Kinderkommunismus by K.D. Griffiths and J.J. Gleeson is a very good essay analyzing the patriarchal family in the 21st century and showing the importance of communizing kinship to communist political strategy, feminism, and transgender liberation

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I’m actually quite happy whenever I hear a Gen Alpha kid playing an old Minecraft song I recognise. It’s nice that the youths are getting acquainted with the classics.

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If tumblr goes down, I think that will be it for me. No more social media. If anyone has any discord servers for me to join, here’s your chance.