Denying Consistency

Timber? Did someone mention timber?.

no more gendered dress codes. no more gender markers on passports, driver's licenses, ids. i'm not talking about "adding x" or "adding a third category" i'm talking about no more categories, period. why does the government need to know what my genital situation is? why does the government feel the need to assign me a sex on the basis of genitals? why does the cop who pulled me over need to see an m, or an f, or an x?

no more "gender is a social construct, sex is the thing that's binary." sex is not binary. abolish the idea that it is. normalize conversations about intersex traits. being intersex is natural. the sex binary is a thing imposed by the state.

no more gendered sports. if you really care about equity, sort people into categories based on skill level and athleticism, not gender or sex. the concept that there are only two sexes and that one is inherently weaker than the other is pseudoscience. the male/female hunter/gatherer dichotomy is not based in fact, and is a product of modern sexist cultural biases. one gender is not inherently subservient to the other. people are not inherently different on the basis of sex or gender. it is just more complicated than that.

the concept of multiple genders and sexes beyond the man/woman male/female dichotomy has existed as long as humans have existed. the sex binary only serves to benefit the patriarchy. the gender binary only serves to benefit the patriarchy. continuing to impose it just controls (and harms) the people it forcibly categorizes.

EVIL STONATHAN AU

like if they were alive at the time of the Spree events

aand english is not my first language so sorry if there any mistakes

Kurt is a very complex and interesting character to me in terms of personality. Throughout the entire movie, he behaves like an impulsive ticking bomb, but in the last minutes of the film? He is like... so quiet. And that is frightening. I think something still broke inside him at that moment, so... I suppose he would understand that cops will got him right after, so he just went to, yk. but it's just my thoughts for my AU. I don't think of him like depressed deadinside ass, no (bro literally listens to gummybear), I'm just curious abt his real mental state. Is he like psychopath? or sociopath? smth like that.

In my opinion, the relationship between Michael and Kurt would be nothing more than an attempt to take out their own problems on each other. It's not even love, just strange connection between two sick souls. Something like the fact that neither of them would ever become normal people, but Michael still tried to find something good in life for himself, however, meeting Kurt became for him the main point of "I only deserve ts".

So why did Michael stay?

My explanation is the sorrowful desire to obtain love even by the most terrible means (after years of being bullied and rejected by society), and Kurt's obsession is so similar to real love! Yeah. Michael is looking for something that doesn't exist. As much as he longs for love in its normal form, Kurt is simply incapable of giving it. But the paradox is that this lack of connection would somehow keep Michael alive. Neither alive, nor dead. Neither loving, nor loved.

Same with Kurt.

He has a wild desire to be recognized, to be seen, to be noticed, he always feels lacking, and when Michael gives that small bit of attention — he melts. He wants more, more, more. He nuzzles against his neck, peppering his pale face with trails of kisses, pulls him closer (even though Michael isn't particularly fond of touch), and the indifference in the eyes across from him is just gray noise to his wildly beating heart. Because Michael understands his sickness. Oh, he understands.

Michael doesn't even like having sex, and is most likely asexual; it's just... an act of self-harm or releasing suppressed aggression. Nothing more.

That's it.

The point is, they can't be fixed. They're eating what is left.

The first 1-2 pages of All Systems Red, inspired by @nothingiswrongwithyourarmrests's post about how tmbd should have been adapted into a graphic novel.

Version where every tab is readable below the cut, because I spent way too much time on those things for no one to be able to see them

My dad has 4 half siblings and two step siblings. They're all a decent bit younger than him. When I was a teenager, we went to a family reunion, and I realized something—my dad did not respect his siblings. He looked down on all of them. He saw them as fuck-ups and overgrown children. My dad had the American dream: well paying management job, suburban house, wife, and three kids. My aunt and uncles did not. Excluding my aunt, none of them were married or in serious relationships. They hadn't really settled into long term careers. Several of them were working the kind of jobs that get called "Unskilled labor." So he looked down on them because the youngest one was in his thirties (and several were much older), and yet none of them had "settled down" into what he saw as lifelong, permanent careers and relationships and lives. He was polite to their faces, sure, but I heard how he talked about them behind their backs, to my mother.

And then a few years ago, we visited his brothers again for Thanksgiving. And I realized something again--he respected them now. He saw them as equals. Why? Well. All of a sudden, every single one of them had serious, committed romantic partners. They didn't even need to still be with those partners—one of my uncle's fiance passed away from cancer before they could marry—just having had one showed that they matured into a real adult participating in society. In fact, at one point, my aunt was telling my mom about how one of my uncles was no longer living in an apartment she owned, but instead, after having a steady girlfriend for about a year, he moved in with her. And my mom literally said to my aunt, "wow. Look at that. He finally grew up."

One of the lines that frequently gets repeated about anti-aspec sentiment is "why would anyone hate asexuals/aromantics/etc? They aren't even doing anything." And that's exactly it. In the eyes of amatonormative culture, we aren't doing anything. Adults are supposed to do things. That's how you become a member of society.