#am i the only one??

[rnmidnm]

I think it's severely overlooked that Arthur was raised by UTHER.

Uther who burned children, Uther who kept Arthur under so much pressure since he was a kid. And despite everything Arthur became the man his father never was. Yes he is a prat, yes he is arrogant, but he is also loyal to a fault and compassionate. He makes mistakes but he tries his best to fix it, Arthur isn't afraid to admit that he'd done something wrong. Which is a huge deal for a king or crown prince.

i can only imagine how difficult his childhood was, because he was growing up without mother. And he is stating repeatedly himself that he was trained to kill since birth. I just love him so fucking much.

Bro is my fav character

[lena-artz]

Been thinking about this lately...

[chaosandmarigolds]

for the record I consider myself petty feminine but NOTHING makes me feel like more of a man than when my girlfriend is putting moisturizer on my face and I start tearing up because-oh my god why is it stinging, it’s stinging Lori- and she then proceeds to scold me and my lack of a skincare routine

I have face wash and moisturizer

[bluesylveon2]

Twst spoilers!!!

Why does Crowley lowkey look like he's holding a keyblade? 😂

[teatimemols]

I played one episode of the Haze will take us...or whatever and Oh my Goddess!

I hate it here 😭😭😭😡😡💯

What is this!?!? Why did Alice have to write a MC who has been described quite as "good for nothing," with a PerfectTM Twin Sister?

Who will have the gal to turn to MC and say shit like:

I'm so envious of you who just accept you're bad at everything so you don't care about anything or anyone 💀

Honey

And then the poor thing cannot even avoid parties because her perfect sister will drag her there anyway...

Just so we, suddenly, have to PAY 70 diamonds for our MC to not feel deeply ashamed of her "clumsiness"

Seriously 😒

[hufflepotato-18]

so am i stupid or what?? because everyone is complaining about how marinette lied about gabriel and made him out to be a hero and is keeping everything a secret from adrien, while i was over here thinking she obviously didn’t remember everything because why the fuck would gabriel go through all that trouble and then let ladybug of all people with her memories intact when she knows he was monarch AND when she’s in love with his son??

[diamonddoll]

I see a lot of anti-porn feminists kinda dismiss the harm of “smut” because it doesn’t involve real women being exploited which is true, but I think we need to have a conversation about how it has similar damaging effects on women’s brains as porn does…the whole “booktok” subculture is women who have devolved to not being able to read a book without it being erotica. And they crave more and more depraved scenarios as they keep consuming. they’re the female version of a coomer. It’s always heavily misogynistic and bdsm influenced themes as well.

[jenhoneys]

ok but we're all in agreement that nat is the service top/submissive top to lottie's power bottom/dominant bottom right? like. that's what everyone's picking up from the worshipping, absolutely reverent way nat stares at lottie, and the delicate, sacred way nat curls her fingers around (and inside) her right?; the way she utterly believes in lottie's every word even if she shouldn't/feels she shouldn't want to, and the way lottie gently coaxes nat back into their circle around the fire that eventually ends with lottie in nat's arms, right?

[thequietesthing]

okay fine so maybe I've never been shitfaced drunk, but have you ever been word-wasted

(i.e. when you read so much that you feel drowsy, giddy and have trouble forming coherent thoughts; synonyms: readache, lit-lag; look up also: literary lethargy)

[adaav]

Who else doesn't have polls yet??

[gendertroublemaker]

I hate it so much when ppl on this site will call lgbt ppl “freaks” like idc if ur gay or whatever it’s not cool. U can call urself that but don’t call me that.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[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.

[seren-dipitous-art]

If chaos was personified I think it would be Damian. Tiny child filled with rage and equipped with far too many weapons.

They look SO CUTE altogether!!

I love this au so much. Bats on thrones makes me so happy.

[shitpostingkats]

We need less "shy, anxious, always second guessing" Apollo in fanworks, and approximately 400% more of whatever the hell this is.

[notherpuppet]

Radioapple doodles whilst listening to arctic monkeys