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"Trans men and women are both suffering" and "trans women are often specifically targeted by bigotry and harassment even within their own communities and deserve to be able to talk about their own unique challenges without being talked over" and "trans men are often erased from conversations about how bigotry and transphobia targets them and are not exempt from all the horribly draconian laws transphobes are attempting to pass" and "being trans doesn't make you immune to participating in horrible transmisogyny even and especially if you aren't aware you're doing it" and "holy shit don't reinvent bioessentialism but for trans people like holy fuck men are not destined to be evil and women aren't automatically incapable of harm" are all opinions that can and fucking SHOULD coexist

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If you're in LGBT friendly spaces and someone introduces themselves and cautiously says they're fine with any pronouns, it is your duty to notice which pronouns the people around you tend to default to for them and ensure that you refer to them with any and every pronoun under the sun except for that one. You must.

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Holly Harris/Jason Chan (AUS)

2025 Four Continents Championship Free Dance (108.75, PB)

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It was cocky and overconfident to call the Titanic "unsinkable" but one thing that's overlooked is that she was genuinely really, unusually solid. She could float even with 4 compartments fully flooded, which even a lot of modern day ships can't do.

And it's not like they were wrong about her being solid! Olympic, her identical sister ship, survived being torpedoed and then running over the U-Boat that fired that torpedo. Those ships were solid.

It's very clear that absolutely no other ship in 1912 would have been able to survive that collision, and it's a testament to the quality of the ship that she didn't sink in a few minutes Empress of Ireland style. Part of what makes the Titanic such a tragic story is that it isn't a group of rich idiots locking themselves in a shoddy iron barrel to go 4km underwater. It was 2200 people, most of whom were poor immigrants, on a reliable ship on a commonly-made journey, and then something went horribly, unpredictably wrong.

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Today I was chatting with two guys and mentioned I was aroace. It went a little something like this.

A: wtf is that

B: it means she’s not attracted to people in that way

A: bro you can’t just not pick a side, that’s crazy

B: nah, it just means she’s spectator mode

A: OHHH IT MAKES SENSE NOW

I have never felt more validated or laughed so hard

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“I’m an equal opportunity offender. I make fun of everybody.” - Guy whose identities all align with the systemically dominant power groups in his cultural and geographic context

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what does turkish delight taste like and is it worth the events that occurred in chronicle of narnia: the lion the witch and the wardrobe

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It's really important when you're at work to go out there and really give it your 60%. Maybe 35%.

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gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

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Actually I love the two throuples in Sense8 because one is Kala in love with her husband Rajan but also kinda cheating on him emotionally (and then sexually) with her boyfriend Wolfgang that she's mentally linked with and then when Rajan finally meets his wife's boyfriend his reaction is

And then Lito,Hernando and Dani doing this

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“You think every citizen should have access to free and accessible healthcare?”

Wrong!!!

I think that Asylum seekers and Migrant workers and The Undocumented and Everyone Else should get free healthcare too

I love immigration

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I think part of what’s frustrating me right now about the current discourse is the apparent ignorance of American history. “Oh this is just like Nazi Germany!” No, this is like Operation Wetback.

This is right from history.com

Before that, in the 1930s:

"But what about the plan to build prison ca--" Hello, Executive Order 9066. Again from history.com, there's a lot to say about Japanese internment camps, but let's start here:

Mass deportations backed by a racist campaign and militarized government workers, citizens detained, violence against prisoners, violence against protesters, a Supreme Court that (at least initially) upheld the president's illegal and racist policy...This all sounds familiar, doesn't it?

The point I'm making is that what's happening under Trump 2.0 now falls in line with some of the ugliest parts of 20th century America. You do not need to look anywhere else for comparisons. Learn your country's history. Operation Wetback and the Japanese internment camps ended, and god damn it, this era will end, too. If anything, what distinguishes this era from back then^ is that there's a lot more public outcry now. Trump's immigration policies are unpopular. People should not stop speaking out and fighting back in the ways that they can.

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how do you reconcile with liking morally imprehensible content and problematic media?

i dont reconcile w anything bc i dont give a shit thanks for sending me this batshit ask tho

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Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA)

2023 Grand Prix De France Short Program (101.07, PB)

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading