Tell Me Not In Binary Numbers

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

people love the social cantagion/"only contagious mental disorder" model of restrictive disordered eating because it's a very clean comfortable pleasant way to ignore the fact that disordered eating is quite often just the most logical response to being inundated with the message that fatness is morally and medically repugnant, socially unacceptable, sexually repulsive, a fate worse than death -- and you can see this in the very way people express concern for the visibly anorexic, lamenting that they "weren't even that fat" and "didn't even need to lose weight." these are things you will never, ever hear if you're fat and your anorexia almost kills you, btw

like i think that "role modeling" and the glorification of dangerous thinness play a part in this, i do think it's irresponsible to model this behavior for young women, but placing the whole weight of disordered eating as a phenomenon on the shoulders of ariana grande or any similar figure falsely locates the problem within the superstructure. your average teenage girl is being put less at risk by waiting starlets than they are by constant, grinding, "well-meaning" daily fatphobic jabs about food and their weight by their parents, teachers, doctors, siblings, classmates, friends etc.

yes grace is going to go crazy on that ship having nothing to eat but opioid sludge for years without any human contact but i think we need to remember that rocky is also going to go crazy living in mine shafts for years with nothing but their walls to remind him of his entire planet. the alien he's hitching a ride with has an endless supply of entertainment but rocky has to keep being like "look at this new pulley system i designed. it's the 84th version of it i have made on this trip. tomorrow? version 85" otherwise he's gonna snap for real. the alien is also perpetually gurgling

idk I can tell that some tumblrinas are not up on fat politics because I see a lot of people saying stuff like “it’s better to be a little fat than waste your life trying to be thin” or like “it’s chic to have a little belly” like okay but there are fat people who are “a lot fat” and have “a lot of belly” which everyone is weirdly silent on all the time. Like the fattest person on earth still deserves to exist in human society with joy and dignity regardless of how they got to that weight or how many health conditions they have as a result of their personal actions…that should be everyone’s baseline here I’m not really sure what’s complicated about it

Frankly I think a lot of Tumblr users think there is no overlap between trans women and gay men like there is between trans men and lesbians 1. because RuPaul did a great job intentionally convincing at least two generations of baby queers that gay men and trans women don't share culture because he's a transmisogynist piece of shit who intentionally kept trans women off Drag Race for years - shattering the perception of our community overlap in the eyes of the mainstream, 1.5. and that culture he cultivated in the mainstream made you afraid of drag as an art so you're uncurious about it, and 2. you're afraid of learning about balls because they're not sanitized white queer culture.

Once upon a time a huge proportion of trans women came out from the gay community. My trans mentor was one such person. It was a core part of our history, one of the only communities where we could experiment without (much) fear. Trans women who still ID as gay (for men) fucking exist, just like trans men who still ID as lesbians. It’s pretty normal to want to keep IDing with the community which gave you your life and stay part of it. Transitioning shouldn’t mean giving up that community, and the expectation that we should is transphobia.

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

another torment nexus I enjoy imagining is yáo and ilyukhina starting to get grace into the full coma setup once aboard the ship and they just. aren't saying it out loud. stratt already told them both that grace agreed, and then she said they wouldn't be able to hear from him until wakeup in tau ceti, and neither of them are stupid enough to not have a good guess about what that means. and they aren't saying it. there's a too-sharp intake of breath while stripping him here, a visible tremor looking for a vein there, but no words. the closest they come to saying it is while getting to the most invasive parts (NG tube, rectal tube, catheter), where yáo starts trying to forge ahead and get to them first. ilyukhina half-hisses "no, no, don't, I'm better with my hands, I do it better," and he responds "when he wakes up, I have to be able to say I'm the one who did it. I won't let you be responsible." "so lie about it. I can do it best then you take worst of blame for me. very generous commander, thank you." "one of us will have to remember doing this part, and I won't let you be that, either."