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i love the kind of ship where calling them lovers feels almost reductive, when the friendship they share is the most important aspect of their closeness and has been there since way before they actually fell for each other.. calling you my “friend” because my attachment to you is not purely based in romance, you were my dear friend first before you became anything else. because i’m not just attracted to you, i adore your soul and how it connects with mine. because i don’t just love you, i like you. because love can end, but in our case i know even when you leave that you will always return. THROWS UP EVERYWHERE!!!!
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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.
in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.
But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.
our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.
anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.
this post is closing in on 10k and it’s really quite enlightening reading through the notes.
the most frequent reactions are from people from Not America agreeing that the cultural force of american pride has detracted in some tangible way from their knowledge or recognition of their own history. there’s so many links and references in the notes now, for so many different places. i had a scroll through some of them, that i could find versions of in english. the world has such a rich queer history, and i am inspired by all of the people saying they’re going to go and research more of their own histories. there have been resources shared from all six permanently inhabited continents (none from antartica, yet…), including a lot (relative to the usual zero) from the regions most frequently glossed over in our global queer histories; africa, the middle east, southeast asia, the pacific, and south america. every single person who’s shared a queer historical figure’s name, or a book or other source, or a historical event from their country or culture is doing an important thing by helping to dismantle the US pride hegemony.
the next most frequent reactions are from americans pissing on the poor, and claiming that either it’s not their fault individually because [nebulous reason missing the point] and/or that i’m racist (someone even said fascist lmao?) because the two people i mentioned were Black and latin american… it’s not the fault of those two women nor myself that americans have chosen their faces and names to put at the front of their imperialist pride. cultural imperialism doesn’t have to LOOK racist! you can be unintentionally culturally imperialist and look woke! a lot of the people who do this are queer and liberal or even leftist. the problem is forcing american queer history on the rest of us. shoutout to the Black and latine people in the notes who’ve rightfully pointed out that that’s a bullshit rebuttal. I’ve also noted the autocorrect typo on Marsha’s name, and fixed it, thanks for the heads up.
sort of the point of cultural imperialism is that the people doing it don’t notice it on an individual level. of course you don’t feel like you’re responsible! of course you struggle to see it when the rest of us point it out! that’s by design! if the rest of the world is saying something is a real experience that they’ve had, and you say “well i don’t see it / i’m not responsible for it,” that is blatant denial of a very real issue.
finally, for the love of god, stop using they/them for me, a trans woman who exclusively uses she/her. my pronouns are front and centre on my blog! funny how the people calling me racist and transmisogynistic for Using Examples are also frequently degendering me in the process, huh?
anyway, this vent was never intended to go viral, i posted it on a quiet afternoon after a conversation with a friend about our queer history here. i’m glad it has, though, because glossing over the americans swinging and missing, the breadth of history and knowledge being shared in the notes is a wonderful thing.
I feel a way about this post, but I don't think its my place....
Okay. I’m going to say this as diplomatically as possible because I don’t know OP from Adam. First of all, countries do have their own Pride Months. Canada hold their’s between July and September. New Zealand hold their’s in February. The reason why some countries hold their’s in June alongside America is because it’s often easier and more convenient, particularly if you’re part of an international community and you want to promote unity and shared values. Now if you want to call that cultural imperialism, that’s fine. I won’t argue with you. You may even be somewhat right. But to say that that alone is the reason behind Pride Month is incredibly disingenuous.
Furthermore, the fact that you even have a Pride Month, on any month, at all, is a luxury a few countries simply don’t have. As far as we’ve come in terms of equality and freedom, there are still so many people who have to hide who they are in fear of the state punishing them for the crime of simply existing. That’s why we celebrate Pride. Not just to celebrate our own hard won freedoms, but to show our support to countries and communities that haven’t got there yet. And in places like America and the UK where there’s a risk of that progress slipping backwards, it’s to remind the state that we’re still here and are not going anywhere. I think somewhere along the way you completely forgot that.
Yes it’s important to know queer history and recognise your own country’s history. But it’s not just about that. It’s also about the future. It’s about making a statement to the world saying we’re here, we’re out and we’re proud. That’s universal. That could be set on any month. If you want people to recognise your own history, you’re going to have to put that work in yourself. Contact your local government officials. Start a movement. Create an exhibition. Educate people. Put your energy into that. There’s literally nothing stopping you from focusing on the “International” part of International Pride Month.

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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.
in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.
But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.
our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.
anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.
this post is closing in on 10k and it’s really quite enlightening reading through the notes.
the most frequent reactions are from people from Not America agreeing that the cultural force of american pride has detracted in some tangible way from their knowledge or recognition of their own history. there’s so many links and references in the notes now, for so many different places. i had a scroll through some of them, that i could find versions of in english. the world has such a rich queer history, and i am inspired by all of the people saying they’re going to go and research more of their own histories. there have been resources shared from all six permanently inhabited continents (none from antartica, yet…), including a lot (relative to the usual zero) from the regions most frequently glossed over in our global queer histories; africa, the middle east, southeast asia, the pacific, and south america. every single person who’s shared a queer historical figure’s name, or a book or other source, or a historical event from their country or culture is doing an important thing by helping to dismantle the US pride hegemony.
the next most frequent reactions are from americans pissing on the poor, and claiming that either it’s not their fault individually because [nebulous reason missing the point] and/or that i’m racist (someone even said fascist lmao?) because the two people i mentioned were Black and latin american… it’s not the fault of those two women nor myself that americans have chosen their faces and names to put at the front of their imperialist pride. cultural imperialism doesn’t have to LOOK racist! you can be unintentionally culturally imperialist and look woke! a lot of the people who do this are queer and liberal or even leftist. the problem is forcing american queer history on the rest of us. shoutout to the Black and latine people in the notes who’ve rightfully pointed out that that’s a bullshit rebuttal. I’ve also noted the autocorrect typo on Marsha’s name, and fixed it, thanks for the heads up.
sort of the point of cultural imperialism is that the people doing it don’t notice it on an individual level. of course you don’t feel like you’re responsible! of course you struggle to see it when the rest of us point it out! that’s by design! if the rest of the world is saying something is a real experience that they’ve had, and you say “well i don’t see it / i’m not responsible for it,” that is blatant denial of a very real issue.
finally, for the love of god, stop using they/them for me, a trans woman who exclusively uses she/her. my pronouns are front and centre on my blog! funny how the people calling me racist and transmisogynistic for Using Examples are also frequently degendering me in the process, huh?
anyway, this vent was never intended to go viral, i posted it on a quiet afternoon after a conversation with a friend about our queer history here. i’m glad it has, though, because glossing over the americans swinging and missing, the breadth of history and knowledge being shared in the notes is a wonderful thing.
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The secret to always having things go according to plan is to have multiple mutually exclusive plans which between them encompass the entire space of possible outcomes. That way, no matter what happens, it will be according to a plan.
I think there's some medias that you just cannot meaningfully engage with if your main priority is shipping
(Tired aroace voice, metaphorical cigarette in hand) You don't have to make them kiss... they don't always have to kiss...
So many other kinds of human connection get put to the wayside with our current culture’s obsession with romantic love.
Don’t get me wrong it’s ok to ship romance but it doesn’t have to be the only type of relationship we celebrate in media, fandom space included.
You should take some time to read @3liza's post documenting the Phantom Report Bug (which she deserves praise for doing, thank you eliza) and see how fucking broken Tumblr's report tool is. I also want to reiterate something she is once again correct about: no one files bug reports. I have first hand experience working at Tumblr and I remember having to tell web devs on Staff "i saw a post about someone talking about a bug" and they were unaware because no one followed through to file a bug. I have fixed bugs that I saw people posting about that were in my domain (I'm a mobile dev) but were not in the system. No this is not an endorsement of "complain about it enough and eventually someone will see it", this is an endorsement of "file a bug report directly to computer companies and people will most likely read it and probably fix it". I mean it this is not a Tumblr-only thing. I've seen this at every company I've worked for. Just fucking file a bug report please I beg you, software gets complicated and the devs are just unaware that there's a bug until you bring it to your attention. And they want to fix the bug! I promise!
WHAT AM I ALWAYS SAYING TO YOU PEOPLE. COMPLAINING GETS THE GOODS. YOURE NOT ALLOWED TO GET MAD UNTIL YOUVE COMPLAINED ABOUT THE PROBLEM TO SOMEONE WHOSE JOB IT IS TO FIX IT
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reminder to visit museums, even if you feel out of place. you feel out of place because there is an established concept of inaccessibility of "high culture" to the masses, purposefully developed to distinguish between social classes.
take up space, read the plaques, get the audioguides. you are just as entitled and right in being there. visit museums, boycott museums, be expressive about your opinions about museums.
a lot of museums are free, or discounted for youth and students. take advantage of that. check your local art museum. check your local history museum. museums are there for you, they are there to educate the public, not to distinguish between class. it isn't a private collection, it's a public exhibit.
GO TO MUSEUMS!!!!!!!
your twenties are not "late" to start hrt. that is a normal time to start hrt. your thirties are also a normal time to start hrt. your seventies are pretty late to start hrt, but not too late. like, statistically, that's at the end of the curve. but if you are not dead, it is not too late for hrt.
I've tried a few times to articulate why I enjoy writing about female characters-- both in original fiction and in fandom-- and every attempt has sort of turned into a rambling nothingburger.
But you know what a big part of it is? Spite.
There is so much fiction out there that treats its female characters as disposable. Background noise. A love interest to check off a box, to give the male character as a prize, but unimportant beyond that. Doesn't matter what objectively interesting things have happened to her, when looked at on paper; the powers she has, the major life shifts she's gone through, the grief or pain or terror-- it's all secondary or tertiary to the guys'.
So I like taking those characters and saying No, and forcing the spotlight on her.
And then. And then. When you find those stories that do care-- that do see the full intelligence and complexity and autonomy of their women-- then I'm not fighting against the writers. I'm fighting alongside them. I'm holding hands with the authors, and each of us are picking up a pick-axe and taking it to the patriarchy.
Come, join me. It's a lot of fun.
Why would you keep a fully functioning, human equippable version of this machine set up and plugged in?!
This is New York, motherfucker, SOMEONE'S gonna try and steal it!
Amazing Spiderman 386
Frankly I question what could possibly be an ethical application of this technology.
I guess if you can transfer life force from an animal to a human you could maybe use it to heal wounds? Although I don’t know if it can even do that or if it just reverses aging.
Still if you can just juice the life out of a pig to extend your own life that’s relatively ethical immortality. But I’m not sure if having immortality would be all that great. Actually wait that’s just mechanically induced vampirism minus the sunlight weakness, it was even established at one point that marvel vampires can subsist on animal blood they just have to fight their craving for huhsn blood but modern writers kinda forgot that and instead badgered richards invent a blood substitute
If you don’t mind sleeping during the day tooms you could just become a vampire, although I guess you’d probably be stuck looking the age you are now.
So since I gave no idea what “life force” is but know for a fact that souls exist in marvel it’s entirely plausible this machine eats souls. Somebody call dr strange to take a look at it.
Dr Strange: .....
What the hell is this thing made of????
Dr Sanchez: I used some...unorthodox parts....
Dr Strange: SUCH AS??????
Dr Sanchez: (mumbling) 'n 'rphan....
Dr Strange: I'm sorry
Did you just say
AN ORPHAN!?!?!?!?
Dr Sanchez: a...a little orphan boy
Dr Strange: IT'S POWERED BY A FORSAKEN CHILD!?!?!?!?!?
Dr Sanchez: Well I didn't use the WHOLE orphan....
...I started scrolling down and knew exactly what quoted conversation was coming. :)
You are a treasure!
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As soon as Dr Strange was mentioned I HAD to make this reference :D

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INCREDIBLE to exchange feedback with someone in a mature way. To give and receive critique when there’s mutual respect and both parties’ first desire is not pride but improvement of the project, the skill, the product, the art.
When someone is EXCITED to hear your feedback EVEN if it’s critical. When you get excited to hear critique because you know it’s going to push you to improve.
*we are both giggling and kicking our feet but instead of drawing hearts we are dashing aggressive red pen marks all over the paper*
I told a director “hey I think the way this event is planned is haphazard. I know it’s too late now but I have some ideas about how it could flow a lot better next time.”
And he said “it’s not too late, I’ll send out an email and correct it.”
Rescheduling the way an event was run when somebody pointed out that it could be done better — no pride and no hemming and hawing. It could be better so let’s do it better.
And that’s why this is somebody I’m able to TAKE criticism from. I know this is a reasonable person who can focus on a goal before personal feelings.
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