#that was...ten? years ago

[arctic-hands]

I gotta kill the Mom 4 Liberty in my head and accept that it's okay to have problematic literature on my shelf considering that none of the authors on my shelf no matter what they did is currently using their notoriety, money, and fan support to fund a hate movement and directly lobbying her government to enact hate crimes.

Or are dead anyway

[beguilingcorpse]

i am glad queer representation has drastically improved in my lifetime. because now i can say that i dislike a gay book and not feel like i’m invalidating stonewall

[kensatou]

meanwhile notes put up by the guy hired by my dad to help with foreign guests at his little ryokan in rural japan (“my english is not perfect,” said the guy earnestly. “but i think i can always get the meaning across.” “great,” said my dad. “that’s all that matters.”):

[queerente]

happy ten year anniversary of my favorite tumblr post of all time!!!

[a-little-bit-oddish]

so i'm joining the stem cell registry and donating blood regularly now, because i like, should. and it's been a good process and they're very nice. but as i was signing up for things, it had the box for sex at birth. Which is kind of an insane question. not "what hormones does your body primarily run on". but just... sex at birth. something that is not relevant for blood donation, and also extremely misleading??

they check your red blood cell count when you show up. if I told them my sex at birth was female they'd be fucking horrified by my count. testosterone does shit to the blood! It is so much more relevant to know that my body runs on testosterone! i keep seeing medical fields doing this.

i think that they assume it's nicer, somehow. they don't just ask sex anymore, they just go haha please tell us what you were called as a baby :) we're doctors so we need to know, it's important :)

except it's not. at all. it is more ethical for me to lie to the blood donation centre so that they don't see my blood and flag it, when it is perfectly good blood for people with more testosterone.

i have to go to a throat doctor next month. they specifically asked for my sex at birth. there was not an option to tell them what they should actually expect from my voice and body. when it asked me to list medications, it physically wouldn't allow me to list testosterone, and it flagged it.

it's nuts, because all these places have actually been really welcoming and cool about me being trans, but the actual system is horrific, it's just forcing me to out myself by having to reach out after to correct it. because answering honestly is medical misinformation.

anyway you can just fucking lie i guess

[evan-buck]

DOCTOR WHO The End of Time: Part II

[egophiliac]

since Eng is getting 7.5 soon(?), I felt motivated to go back to my Meleanor rig and make her a couple of lesson animations! ...except for alchemy, because the cauldron bubbles proved too hard to photoshop around, whoops.

maybe she just got lost on her way to the classroom...?

(credit: backgrounds are from the game, I just put her on top of 'em)

(aside from the backgrounds, this is not an edit, I drew her from scratch! please do not tag or treat as an edit!)

[burntotears]

Sir Hans Capon: looking for true love vs having found true love

[morganbritton132]

I do just love the thought of Eddie being a once-in-millennium famous rockstar and just, never got over the guy he had a crush on in high school.

He’s living the dream.

He’s living his dream!

He got out of Hawkins. He has more money than he knows what to do with. Everybody loves him, or wants him, or wants to be him, but Edide still wants Steve Harrington. A guy he’s never even talked to.

[writernotyetauthor]

screw it, posts cosplay on tumblr

Realized I had everything I needed to cosplay @cherrifire ‘s new Martyn design from the recent ep soooooo

I curled this whole wig Today for this 🤣

[mandareeboo]

Constantly and consistently thinking about Eda being the most Powerful Witch on the Boiling Isles. How it's not even hyperbole-- how Eda was so naturally talented and gifted with magic, with the Isles, that she made a whole room of doors specifically to keep learning magic because she loved it so much. How when Eda loses her magic, it's a giant beam of light that pulses in waves from the sheer FORCE of it. How Lilith Clawthorne, one of the most talented Witches from the Emperor's Coven, could not best her at her worst, because even then she was still more powerful.

And the curse takes it from her. And the coven sigils take it from her. And Lilith tries to take it from her, and even though she deeply regrets it, she succeeds.

Emperor Belos demands Eda brought to him because he knows, deep down, that she is stronger than him. How he deems her not a threat any longer after losing her magic, how she has to rebuild her own identity. How much she loves magic that she infodumps about it-- she takes out library books, she learns how ancient Witches did magic, and how much long she pours over old scrolls and maps of Bonesborough like they're old friends. How, after curbstomping Belos, she immediately opens a college about the importance of wild magic.

The most powerful Witch on the Boiling Isles-- unable to do the thing she spent so long learning to do best-- she's now teaching the next generation of witches to be even STRONGER than her-

[vampiresinthedaylight]

Ok for real happy 413 :o)

[mulderscully]

THE X-FILES | 5.15

[piratespencil]

This is so funny to me. Reducing them down to their simplest attributes. Turning them into symbols.

[non-plutonian-druid]

[ID: A drawing of Grunkle Stan in the 80s, sitting on the floor of what will be the living room of the Mystery Shack. There are papers and books scattered all over the floor and table, and an axolotl smiles vacantly in a tank in the top corner. Stan stares into the distance, haunted, holding Journal 1 in one hand. End ID.]

He's fine, it's fine, everything's. Fine.

[ghostfiish]

i like the red one