#I mean I HAD TO

[ellalba]

I saw the Barbie Movie trailer.

Two scenarios for this: either they got caught without their license (thank you @kyluxtrashpit for this hilarious thought.

Or Hux is mad they had to defect to the New Republic and Kylo is just chilling with the knowledge Mommy’ll get him before he has to spend a single night in jail.

[acidkoipond]

Butch Logan

Because I can :) 🐈‍⬛

[alexbkrieger13]

2019/2023

[belphegor1982]

"Everyone matters, but you know, only for a short amount of time. In a way, I fall in love with everybody, but I just fall out of love too easily."

[postapocalypticspacepirate]

yellowjackets as the magnus archives entities 5/?

jackie taylor - the flesh

[the-gentleman-sockmonkey]

@cisnowflake3 @cisnowflake4

[melffen]

I did a playlist of them! I just needed something to listen to when I was writing stuff about this two but I thought it might be a good to post it here.

It's a little bit short, so if you actually listen to it an have suggestions please give 'em to me

[lucyghoul]

rhaenicent + would’ve, could’ve, should’ve by taylor swift

[kaijumilf]

literally never going to be able to forget the time i walked into the 7-11 down the street during pride month and walked out in total shock, got in my car, and started sobbing.

just bc the older gay man working at the counter saw me. like. really fucking saw me.

the whole place was decked out in pride decoration and i complimented it while i was checking out. he was like “thanks! gotta be loud about our signaling yknow, love to throw it in the face of all the people around here who say theyre cool with it, but really they just want us to be quiet” ((i live in a very performatively liberal place atm. very yoga wine mom beach hippies kind of vibes.))

i just laughed and was like “ha, yeah well, as much as the watered down liberalism sucks, its a hell of a lot better than where i grew up.”

so he asked me where i was from, and i describe it a lot of different ways since most people usually have no clue what im talking about. some common ones, for example: “the closest thing to the deep south you can get in California”, “horse country, CA”, “a middle-of-nowhere stupidly religious hick town in the Mojave desert”, “a literal fucking chemical wasteland”(sometimes ill preface this one with, “you ever play fallout new vegas? yeah. there.”).

i give him a few of these, along with some more concrete geographic identifiers, and i watched him look more and more like he was realizing something terrible with every description. finally he just asks, somewhat hesitantly,“can i ask what the name of this place was?” so, i tell him.

and immediately his entire face twists into one of pure grief. he literally reaches out and grabs my hands and his voice had become so serious, but so earnest when he goes, “oh baby. i know exactly where that is. i am so, so sorry. “

i was stunned and kind of laughed it off and said, “its okay, just glad im out of there,”or something similar. i thanked him and walked out and. yeah cried a lot. i dont really process the reality of growing up there often, especially as a queer person. but it was nice (i think?) to be validated that way. for someone to know the gravity of that town’s name.

[dishsaop]

the worst part about being an adult is thay its no longer socially acceptable to just roll down a really big hill and then run back up it and roll back down again. "oh is this a syphilis metaphor" passerby would ask. "is this for a tick tock". no i just wanna come home covered in dirt and scratches and bask in the the solace of childlike mirth

[squeakadeeks]

bro doesnt even have the jennies (certain je ne sais quois)

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

[the-elf-draws]

Asking for directions

[prophecyguy]

youtube that is a big question

[arunneronthird]

they get along great

[ylissebian]

WOMEN ARE MY FAVORITE GUY 💥