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frozenfirecats · 1 month

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Pirate101 ask Meme!!!

Questions 1, 2, 4, 5, 6,7, 9, 10, 12, 18,27, 28, 34, 38, and 41!!!

oh man that's a lot of questions, ok lets go

1 - Favorite crew member/companion?

bonnie anne my beloved. she’s so cool I wish foxes were real.

2 - Favorite world?

marleybone. the aesthetics and music go hard and the story peaks here

4 - What is your favorite class to play as and why?

musketeer for soloing cause it's the easiest imo and also the most fun, privateer for group play cause I like playing support

5 - What are the backstories for your Pirate? (Parents' death, where were they trained, Etc.)

Esmee: armada/skull island. Grew up among the rats in the sewers, having to steal what she could to get by, leading to her being quite adept at sneaking and using daggers. Strongly despises the Armada since she lost her parents to them, so she tends to be a lot more reckless whenever in a battle against clockworks.

Remmy: storm/marleybone. Was aboard a ship with his parents and sister, Maeve, when a storm struck. His parents died in the storm while he and Maeve where separated. After which, he was found by a Marleybonian ship and the dogs took him in. He grew up in Marleybone training to be a privateer but eventually found ranged weapons to be more to his liking. Was aboard a cargo ship tranporting weapons to Port Regal when he got captured in ambush by the Armada, and met Esmee that way.

Brynn: lost/marleybone. AU character of my ice wiz Brynn, just thought it would be fun to have her as a pirate so yeah no backstory.

Flint: mutiny/mooshu. haven't really worked out a backstory for him, this is just what it says in game. Will likely be change once I develope him more.

Maeve: squid/krokotopia. As mentioned earlier, she is Remmy's sister who was seperated in a storm (that a squid may or may have not been present in idk yet). Ended up in Krok where she learned magic.

6 - Who is your LEAST favorite crew member/companion and why?

wing chun, his voice and personality is a bit grating. idk I don’t really hate any of the mainline companions, and most of the non-story ones aren’t memorable and are lackluster combat-wise so they all meld together, so again I don’t have strong negative feelings towards any one in particular.

7 - How many Pirates do you have?

six, have five maxed out, the sixth was actually my first pirate I made, a musketeer named Ingrid, but I didn't make it that far into the tutorial before stopping. Later I made Esmee and it was then I got super into the game. I don't plan on questing with Ingrid anytime but I don't really feel like deleting her so she's just kinda there

9 - Any headcanons for your crew?

uuuuhhhheeeeuguh i got nothing sorry

10 - What does your flag look like? What are your crew colors?

Esmee

Remmy

Brynn

Flint

Maeve (hopefully I stay settled on this one instead of changing it a fifty more times)

12 - Do you headcanon anyone as LGBTQIA+? If so, who?

yeah I got a few. Bonnie: Lesbian, Ratbeard: gay, Toro: bi, Gracie: aro/ace, Sarah: lesbian. I would include Catbeard but that's canon now so.

as for my pirates, Esmee: ace, Remmy: bi, Brynn: pan, Maeve: trans mtf.

Flint is the token straight who's on thin ice

18 - Opinions on Cool Ranch?

love Cool Ranch. Visually it's gorgeous and the music absolutely slaps, however some parts of it drag and I don't like having to choose between wearing something culturally offensive or having shitty stats for my witchdoctor.

27 - Is there anything you wish was in the game? (Crafting? Fishing?)

tbh I find crafting really annoying in wiz so I hope it never comes to pirate. But I would love to see events akin to wiz's lost pages/five boxes. Especially five boxes I would love to see pirate get its own version of that.

28 - How long have you been playing Pirate101?

at least 3 years, can't remember exactly when I started

34 - What are the hardest and easiest parts of the game to play for you?

easiest is pretty much everything up until Cool Ranch, which is where the difficulty starts to ramp up. hardest is definitely the new updates, Tartarus and Wheeler especially.

38 - Is there anything you hope for in a future update(s)? What would you like to see?

would really love to go to Albion sometime. as for features, pretty much stuff we already have in wiz like character name/appearance changing, option to hide quests, and setting a minimum player requirement for team up, and please for the love of all that is holy give us the option to trash doubloons

41 - How did you first discover Pirate101? (Commercial, a friend, fanart, etc.) What inspired you to play?

kind of always knew about it through wiz, wasn't until around 2020/2021ish that I got interested in playing

#sorry for late response i forgot about this lol #pirate101 #p101

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ao3feed-komahina · 4 years

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by That_Gay_Shit_jpeg

the irony in the title is not lost on me thanks.

These are gonna be a series of drabbles in no particular order of Kaede and Maki and their adventures and experiences living together :)

They're cute and I love them sm. this is also My first time writing for this fandom so the charachters might be a little ooc, sorry.

I'll try to progress the drabbles so they get like more intimate/significant as they progress, but again, no real order to them. Except the first two chapters. deff read those first as they're introductory.

I have a list of prompts i'm filling out for them kind of but if i ever run out i might let some of yall request something since i know the newcomers to this fandom are content starved as hell.

Words: 1304, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types, New Dangan Ronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Akamatsu Kaede, Harukawa Maki, Amami Rantaro, Iruma Miu, Mioda Ibuki, Koizumi Mahiru, Saionji Hiyoko, Nanami Chiaki, Sonia Nevermind, Hinata Hajime, Kamukura Izuru, Komaeda Nagito, Oowada Mondo, Hanamura Teruteru, Shirogane Tsumugi

Relationships: Akamatsu Kaede/Harukawa Maki, Koizumi Mahiru/Saionji Hiyoko, Hinata Hajime/Komaeda Nagito, Hinata Hajime/Nanami Chiaki, Hinata Hajime/Komaeda Nagito/Nanami Chiaki, Chiaki Nanami/Sonia Nevermind, Minor or Background Relationship(s), pretty much all of them are minor or background relationships, except Kaede and Maki, this is a kaemaki fic, Harukawa Maki & Kamakura Izuru, Amami Rantaro & Harukawa Maki, Harukawa Maki & Owada Mondo, Akamatsu Kaede & Koizumi Mahiru, Akamatsu Kaede & Nanami Chiaki, Akamatsu Kaede & Mioda Ibuki, Akamatsu Kaede & Iruma Miu

Additional Tags: Akamatsu Kaede-centric, Harukawa Maki-centric, Kaemaki roomates au, And they were roomates!, oh my god they were rommates, pretty much all of the charachters are minor or background charachters, some might not even get mentioned idk i'm still fleshing this out, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Lesbians smh, Useless Lesbians, Kaede is bisexual actualy, wlw, wuluwuh, Maki is a lesbian, Le$bean?, LeDollaBean, Bisexuality, Kaede plays piano at a bar bc ofc she does, Mahiru owns the bar because fuck you I do what I want, Kaede's work uniform includes a bowtie, Kaede doesn't know how to tie a bowtie, Maki knows how to tie a bowtie, lesbianism ensues, oneshots, Gay, Gay as hell, Love, two girls, just two girls in l, they are two girls in love, they live together, Roommates, its a roommates au, Falling In Love, why are all the recomended tags from fuckign supernatural, I feel like I'm missing something, How Do I Tag, Angst, Menstruation, yes because I'm afab and it hurts so I'm going 2 vent about it, Trans Hinata Hajime, Trans Izuru Kamakura, because fuck you a second time, Maki and Izuru is an underrated friendship concept i think, wow this has a lot of tags, maybe if i just keep typing them I'll come up with some that are actually relevant, Maki litteraly needs someone to tell her she is whiped, like this girl is down so bad, I Will Go Down With This Ship, Kaede plays the piano for her <3, So back to that angst tag, panic attakcs, :), Kaede is on antidepressants because fuck you again for like a third time, also she wears contacts, Kaede is the Messy Roomate™, Izuru and Hajime are twins but their last names are different because they grew up in seperate homes, if you were wondering, also the komahinanami thing and the sonianami thing are both cannon at the same time, shshshs let chiaki love three people, even if it's just in the background, idk might fuck around and give chiaki her own chapter trying to flirt with sonia, no update schedule, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Non-Despair (Dangan Ronpa), I hc chiaki mumbles all star lyrics as an idle stim, deff not bc i do that, AHAHAHA, cries in adhd, this is my current hyper fixation lol, god how many tags do i rlly need, ffs, okay but did I cover all the relevant ones???, Living Together, Spoilers, maybe?? - Freeform, idk man, i mean maki's talent might get spoiled idk, if you're here tho you've probably already gotten to that point, I say as I havent even gotten passed v3's first trial, okay I think that's all, I'm lazy, Coming Out, also also not to project or anything but, she is deff the type of bitch with 5357928479752 cups in her room, V3 is so emotionally draining, if i hear one more upsetting spoiler i think i will begin aging rapidly, I would put this tag ->, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, except I probably /wont/ do that

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #hinakoma #komahina #sdr2

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ayy-spec · 4 years

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Anything to Add?

The final question in this survey was a write-in section for people to leave any additional comments. 113 people responded.

Important/Particularly Interesting Comments

• I hope this goes well for you because you seem nice and if you have any advice for new to the community 15 year olds like me, don't be afraid to share because I'm trying to embrace my sexuality as much as possible but it can be hard when I don't know where to go or turn to to find what I'm supposed to do and where to ask questions and just fully embrass this part of me and it can be hard when I don't even know many if any aspecs so representation is great and it is helpful to hear your experiences and how you handle certain parts, so just keep doing what your doing because it is making a difference [note: 🥺🥺😭]

• i often consider myself more as just aroace rather than aro and ace seperately so i prefer seeing the blue and orange aroace flag over the individual aro and ace flags

• I don't really shorten my identity often with aroace, only when im feeling very romance repulsed and its been a while since I felt romantic attraction. I am a pan-demiromantic asexual. My pan label makes me feel more connected to the lgbt+ community bc it feels like my nonbinary and intersex status doesn't count either. I know I belong in the queer community, but the lgbt+ community is so sexual orientation focused.

• Thank you for having a wide variety of labels to choose from in the options!! I don't see the term aegoromantic very often on things, it feels nice to be known I guess haha

• Thank you for this, i recently started thinking about being in arospec and it was so relieving, all this time i thought something was wrong or maybe i was broken. I'm still trying to learn more about it, and I'm grateful for people willing to teach and help

• didn't realize I hadn't experienced sexual attraction until I finally did and was like "OH, no wonder all my other relationships felt like I was playing pretend"

• I dont often tell people I'm gray aroace. Not because of shame or it not being "as important" (I'm a gay trans dude) but I think because I just feel its a very intimate part of myself, as well as my romanticism and sexuality (in terms of like asexuality) feeling as though it doesn't always need a label. I'm fine just being myself most of the time, a lot of labels can be tricky for myself I think. I'm happy the label exists nonetheless though because Its nice to know I'm not the only one who feels like this.

• I'm queer! But if I'm getting down to the bones of it, I'm pan/ace. Still relearning how to be proud of that, after The Grand Clusterfuck years back.

• even though I would be considered to have an alloromantic orientation, alloace isn't really a term I feel any strong connection or attachment to

• i'd like to add that i do consider myself alloaro and use that label openly but i'd also not consider myself 100% allosexual. i'm questioning my sexuality but even if i do end up feeling more solidly ace-spec i'd still use the alloaro label

• Idk who else does this or if this is interesting enough to write down, but I thought I would! I use Aroace as a label. Other, smaller labels inside that would probably fit me better! Aroace feels too big, like it doesn't *really* define exactly who I am. But at the same time, I prefer using it because more people know what Aroace means (at least compared to myrromantic and myrsexual). I use Aroace so the public can define me. I don't typically use it around my close friends 'cause they already know my idiosyncrasies and where I really am. They already made their own definitions for me, so I don't have to make one for them!

• I'm still figuring myself out, so I leave myself at the blanket terms and hopefully everything'll work out in the end

The rest of the responses are below:

Comments Alerting Me About Typos (that I was then able to resolve)

• There's a typo in your "sexual orientation labels" question, because you have Aroflux listed and not Aceflux, but I didn't want to confuse things so I put Aceflux (which I do use) under Other. I also am polysexual (I flux between polysexual and asexual but I am always aegosexual) but didn't know if I should but it under Other anywhere since it's not an acespec label. I consider my polysexuality tied to me being aego/aceflux though, which is why I mention it here.

• the sexual orientations options are the same of the romantic ones ( for example, there's arovague and arospike in the sexual cathegory)

People Clarifying/Expounding Upon Their Own Identity/Experiences

· to clarify: i'm unsure whether or not i am demi or aceflux; so i use graysexual since both labels technically fall under that as an umbrella term.

• I’m still a confused gorl and I really only know that I don’t like sex it sexual acts but I do like romantic and sensual acts

• Sex/romance repulsed and I have aesthetic attraction

• I'm also animesexual and fictosexual (and romantic I guess but I don't like using the SAM for myself).

• I have never seen most of these labels, haha, I expect one of them is the one I always forget that's for being aro due to past trauma but people always assume it's romantic/sexual trauma so I don't use it and thus have forgotten it...but that's the essay I'm not usually up for writing: was biromantic but then had several awful life events on top of each other and had a complete breakdown and have been aro since. Unclear if it's permanent but it's been 14 years now. [note: I believe this person is thinking of caedromantic]

• I tend to use the word ace more than asexual because it's shorter, but I don't feel more favorably about one than the other.

• i can't tell the difference between platonic vs romantic attraction, and am unsure if people i have "liked" in the past was romantic, platonic, or a fake stemming from peer pressure.

• Also Gender-Neutral/Agender

• I’m gray-aro but identify more with being biromantic even though I know I’m aro-spec. As for sexual orientation, I’m just completely ace xD

• The fact I'm still trying to figure out my gender makes it harder to pinpoint exactly what my orientations are :( but I usually say I'm queer, and if it's safe: Bi Ace, and if I can get more specific: biromantic grey-asexual

• I also use a platonic label (biplatonic). I use it not in a friendship way, but more like in a QPR way.

• Thank you for doing this! My identity on the aro/ace spectrums has shifted a lot over the years and while I’ve just settled on aroace and queer for the most part, this community is so diverse and under appreciated. People who find joy in/identify with micro-identities are valid and deserve representation!

• I'm still figuring out my romantic orientation but it's looking less allo by the day lmao

• My romantic label is very fluid, but in terms of sexual labels, very sex repulsed Asexual

• Content with just Aspec cause it's difficult to pinpoint anything but cool with both asexual/ace and aromantic/aro

• I think of my romantic orientation as halfway between aromantic and homoromantic

• I'm a polyamorous ace, if there'd be a way to include that sometimes that'd be neat :)

• I am still questioning my identity

• I used to identify as 100% ace but now I have no idea other than that I seem to be pan-ace in some way shape or form so my identity is ???people???

• Sex/romance repulsed and I have aesthetic attraction

• to clarify: i'm unsure whether or not i am demi or aceflux; so i use graysexual since both labels technically fall under that as an umbrella term.

Queer Rights

• Trans rights, baybee 🤠🦂

• I just hope a-spec and aro-spec people will experience less negativity and hate this year <3

• Aspec rights!!

• aspec rights, baby

People Being Nice to Me (I appreciated this thank you everyone!!)

· :)

• Have a good day

• Uhhh, cool survey, nice to see a lot of labels.... good job! Nothing I have to add, it was great

• Have fun chief, thank you for your work

• Thank you for creating!

• thanks for the survey! I don't know too many aspec in person so I love participating in things like this about the ace/aro community!

• Thank you for what you’re doing

• just hi :)

• thanks!!

• I really love your blog! Reading your posts always makes me happy :) [note: thank you!]

• Good luck, have a nice day !

• I hope you're having a good day :)

• you're lived and valid af!! have a great day!!!

• Thank you for all your hard work i really appreciate it ☺️

• Drink some water Right Now OP

• Nope, :> hope the best for you.

• Cool survey, 10/10 would survey again.

• 💛

• Have a nice day uwu

• Nope! Have a nice day!

• Thank you for making pride flag edits! They're really nice! [note: thank you!!]

• nope, but this is really cool!!

• ❤️

• Have a good day.

• I think this survey idea is super cool! Definitely a great way to see what sort of aspec people are on tumblr :)

• You are doing the lords work

• Thank you for asking us.

• good luck!

• This is really cute idea :)

• I hope you're having a nice day!

• Good luck in your endevours!

• Thank you for making our community visible!

• Have a good day :3

• Have a good day!!

• Keep doing great stuff!

• Thank you for all the positivity I get from your blog! It's super helpful, keep it up :) [note: thank you!!]

• thanks for doing this. recognition is always nice

• Have fun <3

• Lots of love 💛

• This is a cool project, thanks for doing it and good luck! :)

People Saying They Love Me (and I love you, random a-specs)

· i love you OP!!!!!

• love you, hope you have a great day

An A-Spec Person Being Rude to Other A-Specs

• If you enjoy sex with your romantic partner then you are not asexual

A Person Who Is Not A-Spec Being Rude To A-Specs

• sweetie im sorry that you're so insecure that you feel like you have to make up new identities to feel better about yourself. if you are a lesbian or bisexual please know that you are welcome in the community, but other than that making thousands of microlabels like this makes a huge joke out of what was once an important and respected group. nobody takes us seriously anymore because of this shit. does labelling your identity like this really help you with anything? demisexual and fraysexual and all this are just fancy words for normal human feelings that everyone has. there is no need to microlabel it.

Other

· [variations of “no” (12)]

• not sure that helps lmao but still hope it does. all the best

• Axolotls (or as I like to call them, asexulotls) are amazing and I love them [Note: the man in question]

• Sorry, I can't remember the names of any blogs that do edits

• Ok random but the colors of the aro/ace flag? The blue and orange one? They’re gorgeous.

• I'm not so sure if I should use the aroace flag, I feel comfortable using both aro and ace flags, but I don't like the colors for the aroace flag :c [note: these are in chronological order, it’s a total coincidence that these comments are together]

• Curious to see where the survey goes

• It would be cool if you could also do some aplatonic-spectrum edits!

• there were fully half of the terms on that list that i had never even seen before. like, everything below litho down to no label was entirely new to me. at some point i will look into those! (but not right now, my brain is full enough at the moment)

• actually had to look up the majority of these orientations. Thank you for the opportunity to learn!

• Gonna reblog and follow and hopefully learn a bit more, about others and myself

Note: The only comment that is not listed in order is the first comment, which I put at the top because I found it the most important. It’s so important that kids and teens have space to explore their identity and learn about themselves. The reason I made this blog in the first place was because I was 19 and working on figuring out my gender and sexuality. Now that I’m a bit older and understand things better, I’m so glad that I’m able to help people in this way.

I make it a point to be very openly queer in my life and at work because I need LGBTQ+ people, especially youths, to know that we’re here. I’m lucky that I live somewhere that I can be visibly queer and speak about it openly. We are everywhere, and there’s more of us than you think!

Something that I really like about the comments at the top is that they show how diverse we are, and how people use words differently. Some people feel like they’re more aroace than aromantic and asexual separately, and others consider their romantic and sexual orientations to be completely different things.

I definitely relate to the person who identifies are myrromantic and myrsexual with their friends but just says aroace when speaking with people they don’t know as well. I believe a lot of people use different words depending on who they’re speaking with.

#survey results #aphobia cw

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zenkaiankoku · 5 years

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You know what. I realized I cant fight with them. I wont win because they think theyre right no matter what. They already rook the words of the attackers over the victim so no use arguing with them. I deleted by reblog. I'll just continue to support gayherobrine on my own posts and theirs.

If you think gay_herobrine is lesphobic because they didnt include a lesbian parrot, unfollow me. They've literallt already made a lesbian cat. They arent excluding anyone but they had limited textures. And its /their/ peoject they can chose whatever flags they wanted. They tried to be as inclusive as possible even. They could have just done flags relevant to them. Which is also not exclusion they are simply supporting those groups.

As for their responses, they started out calm. Explaining their choices. Then they offered to commision the flag. (Why do people take this free stuff for granted? They dont owe you anything). Then they started to get tired. And heated. After multitudes of asks and messages. Many i'm sure we didnt see. Claiming lesbians were more opressed and deserved it more. That they were lesphobic because lesbians deserve inclusion in apparently every pride post ever.(cant include every group everytime guys. Sometimes a post supporting a few groups is fine! Weird right?). Going as far as to make SEPERATE posts calling them out as lesphobic (based on the original false claims!!) Because they got mad at these anons and shit!

Seriously. I never called anyone panphobic for not including my flag. For including us under the bi flag. Or the rainbow flag. I never called anyone out for making a post supporting lesbians and gays, because they didnt include me. Its not exclusion. They didnt say no lesbians. They actually included lesbians, under the true meaning of the rainbow flag.

Y'all just wanna start fights. I still think its exclusionists who started this. Someone supports ace or trans people?? Oh how long until they get called out on some bs claims?? Second popular blog I follow this has happened to this year. Think critically before just believing every callout post ever guys. Maybe actually fucking go look at the blog too. You'd see their other pride posts(that included lesbians) and maybe even their new project. (Which also includes lesbians. It was one of the first flags they did actually).

Sorry if I sound mad. This mineblr as far as I've seen, is a good person. Theyve been veey inclusive of all pride groups. And this new war against them is unfair and cruel. And to see people on my dash supporting the false claims against them makes me want to cry. Half of the argument too is they should have included the lesbian flag instead of one of the others. Like my flag. Apparently supporting pan people is a cancellable offence now. ;_; C'mon guys. Just think before you reblog please. And if after all of this you still think gay_herobrine is lesphobic... You night as well block me. Because I dont want to be around that type of person.

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e-de-mimsy · 6 years

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Sapphic Solidarity Flag as designed by me, January 2019

[Image description: a flag with three vertical stripes. All of them are of the same width. From left to right the colours are violet, a lighter rose, and a magenta-pink.]

Are there thousands of flags yet? yes. Am I sorry for creating another one? no, although I did hesitate.

Background: I myself currently identify as Bi, but most of last year I’ve been questioning if the label even fits me or if I’m actually a lesbian. I started following several wlw blogs and they all helped a lot. On top of that a good friend of mine came out as a trans woman to me and we found a lot of comfort in each other during last year. I am so thankful for this community and for everyone who helped me figuring this out. During all this I learned how important the solidarity and support for one another is in this community, but I also saw a lot of intra community disagreements or even bigotry. So I got this idea for a flag like this. One that celebrates all wlw, that stands for the support and solidarity, and is explicitly including trans women, always.

About the design:

It features the colour purple/violet for lesbians, the light shade of pink from the transgender flag, and a slightly less saturated bold pink from the bi flag. (Less saturated so it doesn’t clash with the other two colours)

I chose 3 colours because it makes the design easier to remember, also a design of 3 looks more balanced & harmonic in this case

at first I had the stripes in the common horizontal fashion, but then I thought that I’d prefer them to stand equally next to another. Additionally it makes the flag stand out in the sea of horizontally striped flags.

not only do I prefer the look of the transgender flag pink in the middle, it also has a meaning for me: per design it is 100% included and there to stay.

Who’s represented with that flag? Who can use it? (before anyone asks)

lesbians, no matter if butch, femme, bambi, ...

trans women, no matter what their orientation is.

wlw who are attracted to multiple genders (bi, pan, poly are all summarised under the stripe of the bi pink)

I know that people who ID as wlw/sapphic can have a difficult relationship with gender, so of course it includes NB people/people who fall under the NB umbrella.

questioning wlw. Labels can be difficult and we’re here to support & uplift one another

If you’re ace/aro and ID as lesbian, bi/pan/poly, are a trans woman or generally go by sapphic/wlw, then you’re included too of course.

you are any of the above and want to express your love and support for the others represented in this flag. This flag is supposed to be a direct statement against hate & bigotry.

Who cannot use it?

Transphobes, Terfs, Truscum, Transmeds

lesbophobes & biphobes

racist folks

generally: if you discriminate based on gender, orientation, ethnicity & race, religious believes, disabilities, class, ... I need you to better yourself. Until then this flag isn’t for you.

cis people who are not wlw

you’re a MAP

Additional notes (because this is the internet):

This isn’t anti gay/bi/trans men. This is not supposed to be a new, seperate community, instead it is about strengthening the wlw parts of the community and about the rejection of intra community transphobia. It is a symbol for the solidarity and respect I wish to become the future for the whole LGBT+ community. We’re the strongest when we work together.

While cis non-wlw women are not included in this flag it doesn’t mean we don’t care about them. Feminism is deeply rooted with sapphic and trans women, and we sure as hell won’t make exceptions when it comes to our feminism.

This flag is about love, compassion, support, solidarity, respect, united strength and acceptance. We stand up for another and won’t tolerate hate against any of us.

#wlw #sapphic #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #trans women #feminism #positivity #pride flags #lgbt community #original stuff by me #oof I'm anxious about how this will be received #terfs and transphobes don't interact #of course this flag is *just* a proposal #I just really like the concept #... obviously #wlw positivity #LGBTQ

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jerek · 6 years

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like do i think a 30 something cis aspec het whose worst deviation from normative straightness is only ever crushing on fictional characters with deep buttery baritones is going to have a lot to say in complex intercommunity discussions of homophobia or transphobia? probably not but like... otherwise... who gives a shit oh my GOD. even if u think her experiences with being aspec are caused just by misogyny... AS A LESBIAN I LOVE BITCHING ABOUT MISOGYNY. HALF OF WHAT I DO AS A LESBIAN IS BITCHING ABOUT THE SPICY MISOGYNY I FACE BECAUSE OF WHO I AM AND AM NOT ATTRACTED TO. SHE SOUNDS LIKE MY TYPE OF GAL. i really don’t give two shits whether she considers herself part of the lgbt, part of some seperate aspec community because as an arospec bitch whos been in non-aromantic lesbian communities all my life i think it might be for their own good not to fight for the right to Not be in certain relationships in the same community as a bunch of people fighting for the right to Be in certain relationships, or whether she just considers herself a spicy cishet. if she wants to start acting like iding strictly with her agab and being only attracted to men doesn’t give her privilege over gay and trans people? then i have a problem but otherwise like. who cares that much about pride flag toting strangers on the internet.

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ao3feed-danganronpa · 4 years

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I'm falling in love with my roommate. (She has a bisexual flag in her closet.)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3kN2S27

by That_Gay_Shit_jpeg

the irony in the title is not lost on me thanks.

These are gonna be a series of drabbles in no particular order of Kaede and Maki and their adventures and experiences living together :)

They're cute and I love them sm. this is also My first time writing for this fandom so the charachters might be a little ooc, sorry.

I have a list of prompts i'm filling out for them kind of but if i ever run out i might let some of yall request something since i know the newcomers to this fandom are content starved as hell.

Words: 1304, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types, New Dangan Ronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3kN2S27

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #dangan ronpa #danganronpa #dr

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prideboards-andstuff · 4 years

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what i make:

moodboards

icons

headers

pride sets

what i will do

lgbt stuff

non-lgbt stuff

icons (lgbt or not)

name association moodboards

relationship based moodboards (this totally includes m/f relationships) for couples or poly relationships or lockscreens

stuff for headcanons or canon lgbt characters (usually icons, but if you specify, these can be moodboards too)

live action characters

mogai (please just tell about the flag and where to find it, or send it to me)

what i won’t do

straight flags by themselves

anything that makes me uncomfortable

anything about killing/stalking

real people, although groups are ok, but no like one member of the group

ships

anything nsfw

anything that is hating on anything

anything political

other stuff:

please don’t send more than 5 requests at a time

if you need me to use a bigger font size, let me know in your ask and i’ll make sure to make it larger

i will tag anything you ask me to if i don’t already tag the thing/s that triggers you (it will be tagged with thing and tw thing)

harassment/hate will immediately be deleted.

go ahead and submit the stuff you’ve made! Either message me or submit it, and if you want it to be anonymous let me know and i’ll make a post with your edit and write “made by anon” below it. things sent to me won’t be posted unless given permission

you can ask me any questions in my ask box, but if you want to have a full conversation about anything please message me privately

please send all requests to my ask box

if you’re more comfortable speaking spanish, then go ahead!

please message me about any confusion around my rules or dni so hopefully i can clear things up or explain it better

request guidelines:

please specify whether you would like a flag or not

if you want a specific background color, please let me know

if you’re requesting aroace, i’d prefer if you said aroace because it’s confusing to me when people say like aro and ace cause i don’t know if they mean seperate or not

if you put more than one request in one ask, please seperate them with a • or a ****

icons:

let me know if you want circle or square

i can do more than one flag in a set, just let me know if you want them seperate or not (if you want bi and ace, let me know if you want a bi/ace icon, or if they’re all seperate), just put a “seperate” or a “combo” somewhere in your request

please tell me what your character is from

if you want an oc or drawing you’ve made, submit it or message it to me

pride sets:

let me know if you want a whole set (gay, lesbian, bi, pan, ace, aro, trans, non binary, genderfluid) or just some specific flags

you can request more than one theme at a time, but separate them.

other:

please let me know if there’s something you explicitly don’t want in your request, like if you absolutely do not want knives or something in a cook/kitchen request bc you’re bothered by them, tell me

let me know if there is something you do want

if i’m uncomfortable with a request, or if it’s it’s against the rules, it will end up being deleted

please send all requests into my inbox. if it needs to be posted privately, send it off anon, tell me, and I will

DNI:

TERFS

SWERFS

MAPS

NOMAPS

nazis

NSFW blogs

racists

sexists

queerphobes/homophobes/transphobes

transmeds/truscum

facists

anti-MOGAI

exclusionists

#rules #request guidelines #dni

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allthebest20 · 3 years

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How to Fix A Drug Scandal (2020)

6/10 - Interesting enough that I watched the whole thing, but not so much that I'd recommend it. The actual documentary is okay and they do a good job, but the story really got me thinking about what makes a drug addict, the powerful role addiction plays in our society, and white privilege.

How to Fix a Drug Scandal is a documentary, done in 4 parts, following two consecutive incidences of misconduct that occurred seperately, in Massachusetts' two evidence-processing drug labs. The primary story is about a young women, Sonja Farak, a great student and athlete with a promising future and a happy family, who graduates UMass with a degree in chemistry. She gets a job working at the state's drug lab in Boston right out of college. She enjoys the job, but hates the cost of living, so she is happy when she is approved to be transferred to the state's other, smaller lab out in Amherst, which processes all the drug evidence for Western Mass. In the Amherst lab, things are much more laid back. There are only a handful of people who work there, and the chemists are mostly unsupervised. One time, when she is alone in the lab, Farak decides to try a little bit of the pure methamphetamine that the chemist use as a standard. In her confession, she says she does it because, as an undergraduate, she had been depressed and had done a lot of research into recreational drugs. Farak thought back then, if she could try any drug, it would be meth, so when the opportunity arose, Farak thought it couldn't hurt to try.

I think now it is appropriate to mention that Farak is gay. She is visibility butch in appearance, an athlete type, and the documentary mentions she has a long term girlfriend from college who moved with her to Amherst. Perhaps the queerness of the area was another reason she was happy to go to Amherst. Perhaps she also hoped for less supervision, a chance alone with the drugs. It's funny how we can have so much: intelligence, an education, physical health, family support, a partner, a job; and still be so sad. It's true of all people, but especially with queers. A lot of modern white queers, and white women, live their lives in resentment of the privilege they thought they were promised, but fell they never fully obtain. This is partially because the world is changing: white millennials and zoomers are not inheriting the economy their parents had, they're getting something much different. As a young white women raised in a liberal Massachusetts town, just like Farak, I was told I could use my intelligence and girl boss energy to get anything I wanted, but that's actually not true. As queer people, especially queer women, it becomes even harder to catch the privilege that comes off the coat tails of cishet white men. As white people, we often act very immature because of this angst. Many white cis gays are so ready to throw black people, trans women and gnc lesbians out of their community if it means more privilege for them. Closeted, passing gay men have been doing this in Western society for centuries. Many white lesbians are ready to forget about black and indigenous people and trans folks in order to advance their ideas of feminism.

We never learn about what happened between Farak and her girlfriend. Was it trouble at home that drove her to try the drugs? Her family is interviewed for the piece, and they seem very ordinary, supportive, and compassionate for Farak. The girlfriend is not interviewed. How long did they live together before she found out about Farak's drug usage? Was she using too? Did she try to make it work or did she leave immediately? I respect her decision not to talk -- I wouldn't either -- but I am still curious. Perhaps, simply a life of feeling like you don't belong manifested as a deep depression, something that drove Farak to drugs. Perhaps it had nothing to do with her queerness.

Farak moves from meth to other standards, and eventually she starts taking drugs from large evidence hauls. At first, she claims the drugs helped her do the menial task of testings, helped keep her hyper-focused and moving fast. Eventually, she was leaving the lab multiple times a day to smoke crack, and she had long ago gotten sloppy and started doing suspicious things. Obviously, she looked horrible, but she claimed she was having health problems.

When they find her crack pipe, law enforcement attempt to bring justice down quickly. She signs a plea deal and gets a relatively short sentence. A couple of months worth of cases are thrown out, but some defense lawyers are suspicious. They believe more cases should be thrown out, since it was likely that Farak had been using for several years - she has, and eventually evidence that police tried to hide, shows this. The documentary spends a lot of time exploring this and what it means for the justice system as a whole. Farak doesn't believe she messed up all the cases. In fact, she believes in the justice system pretty full and naively (more evidence that queer =/= progressive). She claims that if evidence was sent to her, it was probably really drugs, and if she messed up a test, the accused should know and request a retest. There's a little truth in this: yes, most of the samples sent to the drug lab were probably real drugs, but police also make mistakes and are corrupt, so definitely not all the samples were illegal. It should be obvious that the drug labs are a line of defense to help people remain innocent until proven guilty, and it's so selfish and privileged of Farak to care so little about the lives of people who are targeted by the police. She shows no empathy for fellow addicts or families torn apart by carceral justice, poverty, and addiction.

The state had Farak sign a plea deal, hoping to brush the extent of her misconduct under the rug as to limit the repercussion for the prosecutors, who would have to re-try all the cases Farak was involved in without the drug lab evidence. Without that evidence, tens of thousands of people could be set free -- and eventually, 24,000 were. On top of this scandal, the state was just recovering from a scandal that happened in the Boston drug lab only a few months prior. A star chemist there, Dookhan, who had for years been churning out more tests than any other employee, was found to have been faking results to get ahead in her career and forge relationships with the prosecution. The documentary doesn't talk much about Dookhan. She doesn't have a drug problem. She came to America at a young age, graduated UMass Boston with a B.S., and was divorced with a son. She chronically lied about her resume and her personal life. Her misconduct led to the release of over 20,000 offenders. Apparently her supervisors had ignored many red flags, like frequent simple mistakes and impossible speed. Her co-workers had been complaining about her for a while before a probe was launched that ultimately uncovered her wrong-doings.

Farak's case was similar: there were red flags, although smaller, that were ignored. At the Amherst lab, however, people were less concerned with Farak's work. The lab was underfunded, in disrepair, and inundated with cases. No one cared what Farak did as long as her work got done. There was no one to supervise her and no one that objected to her working her own hours. Perhaps then, it wasn't her queerness that pushed her to drug addiction, but the tediousness of a job that pays poorly but demands specialty, carefulness, and long hours. Perhaps it was merely a crime of opportunity: she should never have been alone in that lab, it was totally against protocol, but still, a common occurrence.

The documentary, obviously, never, as it cannot, identifies the reason why Farak became a drug addict. It could be anything: relationship troubles, alienation related to queerness, capitalism, or simply genetics. All we know is that Farak was sad and vulnerable when she first took those drugs, and the problem snowballed. Neither, can we diagnose Dookhan with a personality disorder that caused her to be a compulsive liar with little empathy, although it is likely linked to trauma and genetics, just like Farak. We could make reccomendations to fix the justice system, but the problems are way bigger than two drug labs in Massachusetts. The justice system is shaped by white supremacy (ex. majority white judges and high carceral rates for black and brown communities) and capitalism (ex. prison industrial complex), the same forces that allowed for the scandals to go on for so long and that pushed these people into addiction and other mental health issues. The same forces pushed the state to cover up the extent of this misconduct.

In a lot of ways the story goes full circle, and in that way, it is a very interesting case. As I grew up in Massachusetts, I am interested in stories that are based there and how they are shaped by social norms there and in turn, shape social norms there. This story really highlights the class difference in Mass, the divide between the professionals and the criminals, is not a moral one, not an issue of intelligence, assiduousness, or hard work.

#how to fix a drug scandal #tv #tv show #doc #documentary #non fiction #drug #drugs #addiction #mental health #mental illness #queer #lesbian #justice system #whiteness #capitialism #massachusetts #boston #amherst

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second-chances123 · 5 years

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I saw the nonbinary november asks and decided to do them.

1. Which labels do you use?

I'm a bisexual nonbinary person! I also use gay and queer to describe myself.

2. What are your pronouns?

They/them

3. How old were you when you came out as nonbinary?

13/14? That's when I first saw the word nonbinary on tumblr lmao. It was fucking eye-opening for me. I just, saw the desribtion and went,,,, that's me!!

4. What's one thing you'd like you tell younger you?

It will get better. You'll be safe and happy one day. I promise it's worth living even when it feels like it's not. You'll be glad your attempt failed.

5. Is there a myth about nonbinary people that annoys you the most?

"It's not grammatically correct" bitch the oxford dictionary says it is stfu. Also the "it's hard for me to switch" OH BOO HOO. It's hard to be trans Karen

6. Is there a nonbinary celebrity you look up to?

Jeffery Marsh, Sam Smith, JVN, Ivan Coyote

7. If you're out, how did you come out?

Uh well, everytime I realise people aren't using my pronouns I take a moment and out myself. Also, the first time? I can't even remember anymore.

8. Is there a gender-related pun you like?

Not really but being a bi nonbinary sounds like a juxaposition and I like it.

9. Do you have friends who identify as nonbinary?

Hell yeah. My one group of friends is three trans guys, me and another nonbinary person, someone uses she/they pronouns and the last one is questions her gender so.

10. Do you have a favorite LGBT character?

Double Trouble, everyone in Queer As Folk, the boys from As You Are, I could go on

11. Which acronym do you use?

Lgbt+, simple but inclusive

12. How do you explain the term nonbinary to people who have no idea what it means?

I tend to start with "for me personally" and explain that I'm in the middle of boy/girl but that others experience it as an entirely seperate gender. But that the term enconpasses a lot of different experiences and it's different from person to person.

13. Tell us a fun fact about yourself

I'm planning to major in percussion for college and that's my life rn basically

14. How did you find your name?

Billie is actually my birth name but the last name I want just kinda,,, came to me since I hate my actual last name. I also don't want a middle name at all.

15. If you're in a relationship, how did your partner react to you coming out?

Well, almost three years into dating she came out to me so. Also, I was out before we got together so if she doesn't like it then idk what to tell you.

16. What term do you prefer when in a romantic relationship?

I use the word partner to describe myself and the person I'm dating. It makes it easier on everyone.

17. A piece of advice for questioning kids

Question away! Try as many labels/pronouns as you want! Figure out what works for you! I'd recommend starting in a small trusted group and if your first try isn't it, try again!

18. Which flags do you use?

The nonbinary one and the bi one! Those are the ones I identify with the most

19. Any tips for bad days?

Get out of bed, shower, change into clean clothes, and eat something. That's all. I know what it's like to have even just that be exhausting.

20. Do you have a favorite nonbinary blog on tumblr?

No, but I follow a ton and they're all great

21. Feminine, masculine, androgynous-- or none of the above?

I'm definitely masc to andro. Anything I can do to make people think I'm a guy or at least a super butch lesbian is where it's at.

22. What are your three favorite things about yourself?

My hair, my punk rock aesthetic, my style

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