#queer face claims

[ofnailbatsandaxefives]

In the source link you will find #570 gifs of Froy Guiterrez in The Strangers: Chapter 1. He is Mexican (Caxcan descent) and white (Norwegian, Hungarian, English, Irish, some German and Swiss-German). Froy is queer which is something to keep in mind if/when choosing to use him as an FC. Do not use in gif hunts or make icons. See gif directory for full list of rules. Remember to please like and reblog if you decide to use.

[lollytea]

Tbh I think the Barbie movie handled its theme of existentialism better than the feminism.

[lord-radish]

imagine thinking that trans men are inherently bad or evil or predatory on the basis of gendered privilege and societal power structures. cringe

[johnny-depplyloveyou]

I know there are many bad takes about Gale on this site, but the worst takes I’ve seen on another social media site in another language are much more abhorrent than anything here tbh, the recent one I’ve seen even gets some popularity among his “fans”... They were basically saying it’s Mystra who made him the humble man he is now, without her influence on him he would be as egotistical as in his god ending, and more than a hundred of reblogs are all thanking Mystra for “training her lapdog so well” for them🤢

Did we even play the same game? Isn’t his god ending a direct result of Mystra making him think he will never be enough as he is, and he can only find his self-worth through gaining more power? Didn’t Tara say he’s not himself anymore and she would no longer be his companion in his god ending, she knew him long before Mystra made him her chosen, he was powerful enough before his relationship with Mystra, if he’s anything like god!Gale at the time wouldn’t Tara just leave him? I’d imagine he would have been more confident and had a more stable self-image if Mystra had never contacted him, therefore he didn’t even need the Gale of Waterdeep persona. He would always have been Gale Dekarios in that timeline. And people glorifying Mystra’s grooming and abuse towards him and unironically calling him “her lapdog” is just... I have no words. But what do you expect from an online space that’s infested with terfs and radfems? They just won’t recognize or acknowledge any abuse from women towards men...

[scuba-divers]

god i love how people are slowly starting to consider asian people as white² 😍😍😍 !!!

[teddievan]

for someone who claims not to be homophobic there sure are a lot of y'all feeling way too comfortable throwing around homophobic language specifically targeted at lfjr

[areyoudoingthis]

having a mental breakdown on the bus over people claiming stede's development over seasons 1 and 2 is too vague and undefined to claim he's had a queer arc on the show, cause all he really did was get a boyfriend

[mixmangosmangoverse]

(Vague post)

Popular analog horror has gone down the antisemetism rabbit hole so I no longer feel bad about using a vaguely similar idea. I think we need a Jewish analog horror ARG in fact

[jynjackets]

Being an ace spectrum lesbian in fandom among overt hypersexualization of men and especially women, stripping them of any character or meaning whatsoever with the way personality or actions are never meaningfully discussed.

[n0isy-gh0st]

Dr. Adeline Bastien looking so sharp~ (and definitely not eyeing Iris at her desk)

[majoringinsarcasm]

The thing about TERFs is that they’ll talk about the issues women face and how things are unfair or not designed with women in mind and how society was shaped around men and how it still is like that in many many places.

But instead of seeing that as a system that needs to be changed, they take all of that as Inherent and Biological when that’s not the case. And in fact is just adhering to what the system has been from the start.

More rambling underneath idk I’ve just been thinking about stuff lately

“Men are born hating women. They are born with this instinct to harass and assault and it’s only a matter of time before they do. You cannot transition into a women because you are not socialized the same was a them. You didn’t suffer what they suffered. You don’t know all the True Ways of being a women so anything you do is a mockery.”

And I just have to wonder. Who taught you about women hood? I don’t mean what did society tell you or show you. Who taught you as an individual why being a woman meant To Them.

Because there are a lot of women in this world who wake up and are so happy to be women. Who feel pride in not just their body but their mind and goals and ideals and dreams. Who see womanhood as something to strive towards. Not one thing to earn by doing the right things but panting to gain For The Self. The way they carry themselves and treat others, the way they see and want to shape the world.

I am not cis, but not because I was scared or felt that I was failing at being a girl. I didn’t feel like one. All of that Inherent and Biological stuff I was meant to feel as a girl and future women wasn’t clicking. All the talking points that TERFs and transphobes make about this or that. It wasn’t clicking. I was a Girl no doubt, because I wasn’t a boy and those were my only options. And it was fine for me because I wasn’t taught to hate it. I was surrounded by women who enjoyed being women. I don’t reject my upbringing bc it’s the only one I had. It was fine because My Life more or less wasn’t filled with that kind of suffering.

I do not define my identity by suffering. I tried to once and that almost killed me. I was taught by other queer people that I had to hate my body or I wasn’t really trans. I’ve never been assaulted for being queer but I’m not out at work. I don’t feel safe and I know I don’t look any different. It took me ages to just be okay with My Body being a trans body I’m not sure when I’ll be ready to take that next step. But I’ll make it in my on time if I ever do.

But I’m trans bc I LACK the euphoria of being a woman. There is no joy or pride. I was a Weird Girl bc no other word existed for me back then. I was a human but a girl. I was a person but a girl. And when I discovered there were other words I felt happy. I didn’t need to be a Different from the rest girl or a Late Blooming girl. Nonbinary came along. Trans came along. Agender came along. I had new words to try out and they fit me in the way Weird Girl no longer needed to act as a placeholder.

I say All of this just to reiterate how stupid those biological talking points are. On both sides mind you because the queer community from what I’ve seen is not kind to AMAB people and that upsetting. Because there is no inherent evil of birth sex or body. There is no way to tell who is Good and Safe and who is Harmful other than their actions. This is not me ignoring society structure. This is me saying that

“You don’t know my pain so you’re not a real X”

Sounds a lot like

“If all you need to be X is the desire and genuine euphoria with identifying as such to the point of choosing a scary series of events and possible hatred from others, all because you will be happy at the end of the road, then My suffering doesn’t mean I’m worthy of this title. I am just someone who suffered.”

And it’s fucked up the way we live now. And there is no blank slate. And we STILL act as a group on these issues. But it doesn’t need to stay that way. We as individuals can make that change day by day until we don’t need to fear or resent each other to feel safe. Where we won’t have to fight over scraps. But we won’t get there by listening to people who wish us harm or who make up criteria that even other cis people don’t meet.

[pankomako]

sometimes media serves as an example of what NOT to do. now i say this thinking about a streamer committing too much time to an impossible task when he has more important things to do but genuinely this goes for a lot of media and people need to remember that

[ofspvrta]

Y'all... y'all...

@torntruth

[queer-disabled-plurality]

Meet me and my alters :3

Brian, age unspecified (adult), he/him, male

Melody, 9-20, she/they nonbinary woman

E, 18, she/they, nonbinary woman

Error, 20s, No pronouns or they/them, agender nonbinary

Lewis, 18, he/they/it/blob, transmasc nonbinary genderfluid

Libby, age unspecified, she/her, female

Please feel free to ask questions about us!

[highfantasy-soul]

So I'm going to poke my toe into BookTok drama for a second here, so if you're not interested in a bunch of queer people denying queer book bans, ignorance of screen readers for blind people, and assuming that a queer author saying he's experiencing the effects of homophobia as he's trying to sell his books is actually just lying for publicity....keep scrolling

This issue is layered, so I'll go through some of them.

Pretty much, a blind, gay TikToker got a pretty big following by posting videos of his husband doing harmless pranks on him due to his blindness (think 'how long will it take my husband to notice I'm surrounding him with stuffed penguins', 'how long will it take my husband to notice we're wearing the same outfit', stuff like that). It's super wholesome and shows that partners can still prank and joke with one another - including a disability - rather than having to tip toe around it and pretend the disability is so awful, horrible, they'll never be happy again if they remember they're blind.

The blind partner has a degenerative eye condition where he started out being able to see, but his vision is slowly going completely, but he had a love for art and drew a bunch, so his goal became to 1) find accessibility tools to help him draw (he found iPads with their brightness turned to max and zooming in to work on a tiny square at a time worked well for him), and 2) to publish picture books before he fully lost all vision.

The incident I'm talking about isn't the first time he's spoken out about being treated poorly due to his minority status - usually over his guide dog not being allowed in businesses or people being rude/inconsiderate about his dog. He's even been on the news about such incidents trying to raise awareness, for example, so people know that some blind people do still have enough vision to be able to look at you when you're talking to them but it doesn't mean they're safe to walk about a busy street without a guide dog.

Recently, he's been posting more content about the books that he's published - very cute children's books about a gay penguin couple helping out all their animal friends.

The incident in question was a video he posted where he was devastated because a bookstore bought 100 copies of his book, but then returned them saying 'the content isn't something that aligns with what we want in our bookstore'. He had his screen reader read out the email and only gave the first name of the sender - not naming the bookstore or the manager's full name (the same thing he did with the restaurant who kicked him out because he had his guide dog with him - his reason being that he wasn't looking to shame or punish, but rather bring awareness and hopefully the chance to learn and grow from the event).

He said it was heartbreaking that he lost that sale due to what he believes was homophobia and it's crazy that his book had been banned.

This, of course, started some discourse.

Many started making videos about this claiming that he was lying for attention and publicity (as many people obviously started ordering his book due to that video) and that his story didn't line up with 'how the industry works'. Not to mention the slew of abelist remarks about how the 'voicemail' sounded AI generated even though it's clear in the original video it's his screen reader reading off an email. And who can forget the rows of commenters under those videos claiming 'something always felt off about them', 'I always did get a bad feeling about them', 'the book isn't even that good anyways!' when the 'call out' had no proof, only a bunch of assumptions that they THOUGHT the author was lying.

So I'm seeing a few things that stand out: many indie authors have been coming out 'debunking' the 100 copy order claiming that never in the history of the world has a bookstore ever ordered 100 copies of a book, not even from a well known author. To that point, the OG poster made a follow up video explaining more about the situation in that that order was for a signing on-location. One of the bookstore employees had made the arrangements, ordered the books for the signing, but then someone higher up decided to cancel the event due to 'the content of the books'. As many others in the comments pointed out, it's normal for signing events to have 100 copies of a book purchased, especially a short children's book.

To me, this argument that 'he's lying because bookstores don't buy that many books' is a massive assumption and kinda reeks of jealousy that THEIR debut book didn't do that! No mention of the fact that this guy has a huge TikTok following or that he's been on the news several times for non-book related things. That type of exposure does lead to more people knowing your name and being more likely to put in orders.

Another claim was that 'stores wouldn't order books they hadn't personally read, especially not 100 copies/set up a signing'. This comment tells me they have never worked for a shitty boss before. Shitty bosses delegate - they make their employees do EVERYTHING and rarely look it over until the last minute because they couldn't be bothered. The author's follow-up video also said that he was informed the employee that set up the event was no longer working at the company - no detail about that situation, but a reasonable assumption would be that they were fired due to ordering 100 books about a gay penguin when the store owner was conservative and didn't want to stock gay books. Of course, the only reason for return given was 'the content of your book does not align with what we want on our shelves' so, you do the math.

I think what gets me most are gay people coming after the author claiming 'stop saying your book is banned! That's not how that works!! That's not what that word means! Stop watering it down!'

To me, this reads as so many people thinking 'book bans' are only some nebulous concept - not tangible things that can happen in every-day life. Book bans are only big, scary, Supreme Court cases where every single store in the country will no longer be allowed to carry any queer books at all. So when it happens small scale, a store telling an author they won't stock their book because it 'doesn't align with the content they want to promote', that's not actually banning - that's just a business doing what they are legally allowed to do! (Yes, a queer author literally said a bookstore refusing to shelve a queer book wasn't banning it, it was just the bookstore making a reasonable business decision).

Book bans are whenever an entity - public or private - refuse to shelve a book because it has content they disagree with. That's literally it. No laws required, no big movement by Mom's for Liberty, just a single store owner refusing to carry a product for the express reason they don't want a gay book on their shelves.

Concepts don't stop being real when they become...real. Why scream and cry all day about the US banning queer books, but then when an author comes out and says 'my book was sent back because the bookstore found out it was queer', the immediate response is 'Thatls not how book bans work!! You must be lying for attention!!'. Are book bans really a thing we need to be worried about or not? Sounds like those 'queer authors' don't actually think it could happen to them...it's only the nebulous concept they're worried about, not the every-day reality of discrimination.

Another massive thing I think has come of this discourse is leftist's purity politics. As long as you're quietly weeping in your poorly-lit apartment with shitty video quality and only 50 followers, you're telling the truth, you're down for the cause, you're really facing discrimination. The MOMENT you don't look like you're struggling anymore financially, the MOMENT you get publicity beyond TikTok, you must be lying. You magically no longer are able to be discriminated against, you must just be lying for more attention.

A queer Latino author actually said 'he's weaponizing white twink tears to sell his book' - claiming that the whole thing was just made up for publicity (with no proof). Is there a huge issue with white privilege in society and in the queer community? Yeah. But that doesn't mean that they suddenly don't also face homophobia.

It's like the left HATES when anyone succeeds at anything. Be an aspiring author, be an aspiring content creator, but the MOMENT you gain any level of success, SCREW YOU, YOU'RE A SELLOUT, YOU'RE A SHILL, YOU LIE ABOUT YOUR MINORITY STATUS FOR ATTENTION!!! Do some people lie about that stuff to get ahead, sure! But you better have proof that's what they're doing, or else you're just making being public about your minority status a minefield for EVERY OTHER PERSON WHO'S A MINORITY!! You are HURTING gay people when you dismiss their stories of experiencing homophobia - just because they have a level of success you don't!

This is a rambling rant that I don't blame no one for reading. But I just had to get it out of my system after seeing so many responses to the author's initial post where there were no facts, no evidence that the guy was lying - it was all assumptions about how the person THOUGHT the bookstore business worked, and everyone in the comments ate it up like it was fact and have started turning on this blind, gay author just trying to sell his children's books about gay penguins.

The og author doesn't need to provide 'receipts' naming the bookstore. He's worked through stuff like this privately with the offending business in order to rectify the situation without blowing up the person's life (they aren't the ones with the platform, he is, and if it's a private business, he's stated he's not interested in sending angry mobs their way, he just wants the situation to be known so others can do better).

In today's age of 'gotta show receipts so I can go mob the offending party and feel good about myself', withholding that info can look like you're just making stuff up for 'clout' or whatever - but another idea is that whipping up targeted hate isn't going to solve the underlying issue - talking about it broadly might (so if the individual business gets negative reviewed to oblivion and closes down, people don't dust their hands off and think 'well done, we did it' and walk away and ignore the numerous other businesses doing the exact same thing).

Ironically, those demanding receipts offer none of their own, only baseless assumptions of how they THINK things work and how 'well if it hasn't happened to me, it must mean it never happens!', whipping up their own angry mobs who are too eager to tear down a queer disabled author because he's gotten a level of success.

[tigercomplex]

memes about the hbomb vid are really funny rn but really it does make my blood boil how much of a raw scumbag somerton is in absolutely every way.

plagiarizing virtually everything he has said in his videos. outright lying for the rest. the misogyny, the lesbophobia, the biphobia, the transphobia. arguably emotionally manipulating his audience to give him amounts of money that are downright ridiculous, claiming he would have to shut his channel down if they didn't give him more, then spending it completely frivolously. making off like a god damn bandit with kickstarter money. i sure fucking hope he never has a career in this field ever again once everyone's through with him.