it's so funny (read: sad) that if bigoted fuckheads didn't insist i was a woman simply by virtue of my body at birth, i'd probably be chill with she/her pronouns in addition to he/they. if my mom didn't insist i was her daughter, i'd probably let her call me that, and we could still have a relationship.
i'm nonbinary and 'gendered' words are hypothetically meaningless, but because there are so many people who are more interested in telling me who i am rather than lovingly and curiously letting me express my own sense of self, those words carry trauma.
there's no reason a nonbinary person like myself can't be a son and a child and a daughter. there's no reason a nonbinary person like me can't go by he, they, and she.
'she' is not a slur. 'daughter' is not derogatory. 'beautiful' 'pretty' 'gorgeous' 'feminine' are not insults.
to the contrary, they're parts of language that express certain facets of a multi-faceted human existence, like mine.
and i have this sad, mournful feeling that if it weren't for unloving, condescending people, i'd probably be down to be called any of those things alongside my usual masculine/neutral terminology.
but i'd rather die than let anyone tell me what i have to be called.
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a friend playing rdr for the first time told me that the arriving in Mexico experience was overhyped and I was like "haha yeah I guess I might feel the same way if I played rdr1 before rdr2" while actively trying to not think about arriving in Mexico in rdr1 because I didn't want to burst into tears
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Typical family gang how are we feeling after seeing baby megs in the leaks
we’re actually not okay! thank you so much for asking!
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Nghhh chewing on finweans and realizing how self-sacraficial is so deeply instilled in that family, and that that particular trait is prevalent in each generation.
Finwe knew he couldnt win against Morgoth, but he could try and protect his grandchildren. He fought regardless.
Fingolfin knew he couldnt twin against Morgoth in 1-on-1. He fought regardless.
Finrod knew he would die on his quest for Beren, and still fought the wolf to save his friend. He did.
Celebrimbor knew he could protect others by dying, protecting the knowledge about the rings. He did.
It stands to reason that Elladan, Elrohir or Arwen, would have come upon a similar fate.
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another one of those "a square is an ignorant tool" moments to me is the way he describes isosceles adoptions. like specifically, how he says that the parents are all "proud yet sorrowing" but all willingly give up their child to be adopted by equilaterals if said son has 60 degree angles, because absolutely not. i'm not saying there aren't any isosceles couples who bought into circle propaganda, or even ones who knew this was wrong but figured that their child would be given a better life if they let the board take them, but that cannot have been all parents. there have to have been isosceles parents who realized their children were technically equilaterals and tried to hide it, tried to run away with their newborn baby, or tried to make some sort of stand. there had to have been isosceles families who kicked and fought and bit and screamed to be able to keep their infants, who were probably jailed or killed for doing it, but who wanted to keep their baby and did everything they could to keep their family together. and a square doesn't even think about that possibility, because he cannot conceive of someone who would love their baby more than they would love the laws of configuration
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ok im aware this is a very unoriginal and uninspiring metaphor but talking to my mum about her experiences with my father and slowly unpacking decades of abuse she was entirely unaware of feels like. wandering down a deep dark tunnel with a torch and working to get a better light. but instead of illuminating the path and showing the end, it just shows how the tunnel stretches on further and further and further and does not end
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So I’ve been reading through all the posts after a day off of bb tumblr and… goddamnit I KNEW I never should have trusted a man named Jared, no matter how legendary his mom is 😒.
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