Jackthemenace

TAG YOUR MOOTS AND MAKE THEM EXPLAIN THEIR USERNAMES LORE

Starting with me:

Hyyl18 because when i was youngest i had a group in a random app with some friends and i didnt knew qhat username to use so i decided to create one with things i used to read since we were talking abt fanfic in this group so: Hot Yaoi Yuri Lemon +18 stuff (i was in my dirty era dont dare to judge me). Hyyl18 thats it. Now i use it everywhere yay

@privygrid

So mine comes from among us, specifically around the time they added the account feature and you could generate random names and at some point i got "privygrid" and it like immediately resonated with me so i use it everywhere now

tags with my questions/guesses below the cut

tags below the cut (holy hell i have so many mutuals)

uh, for mutuals, imma tag those I see more often lol

Fun fact, while you can pronounce however you want, i like to pronounce "og" like in the word "hog"

wow little me had no idea I would always use this name

lowkey wish I chose something else

oh well

yay moots: @veenomorph, @darklightthedragon, @xiaxiaoo, @gone-crabbing (already posted but I'm still putting it), @mistylark, @kadiejolol, @freakunderthecouch, @emilydjgamer, @silly-fi5h, @cultofcreatures, @yourlocalbeavheadshipper, @exkomuses, @nexkode, @vinniewinniethefroggy, @francescaarts, @vanillabean5645, @lizzy1579, @hummingkittis

im done

Chose my own name—Vee, inspired by the gender neutrality in cyberpunk

Was discussing options to replace said deadname username with my partner

Debated between Veenosaur and Veenomorph—based off dinosaur and Xenomorph respectively

And ended up going with the second one, which I’m glad considering how well it goes with my name lmao

Fun fact tho, horrified by those damn things. Most horror movies don’t phase me whatsoever (can probably count all on one hand), but those things just *shudder*

My moots on here, if yall wanna participate, cool but no pressure :)

@tm-sbm-19213 @devilzfiend @dante-collt @puzzleprincex @itsgirlcraft @billie-dawns @bat-boness @elli0-tt @unusualriver @hexcoreart @idontcarebutalright @captainacorn67 @thelaughingdoughnut @fox-gambit @existentiallemons @kiwisherbet @zonsdephnx @jenitheneptunian @dracl-dragon @okaiart @officialluman @brokeartizt @ittybittycritters @kingripperman @sillybillykay @royalbluecomics @xx-kuronikkie-xx

@itsgirlcraft @latileaf @starsoftheevening @itisindigos @thebeingmerf @ohhhsosleepy @kskitten no pressure tags

KS also later turned into the nickname of an older sona-turned-oc of mine that I've done some minecraft roleplay as with a few friends!

i love you, trans femmes,

i love you, trans men,

i love you, trans mascs,

i love you, trans neutral people,

i love you, intersex people,

i love you, lesbians,

i love you, gay men,

i love you, bisexuals,

i love you, pansexuals,

i love you, aromantics,

i love you, asexuals,

i love you neopronoun users,

i love you contradictory label users,

i love you women who go by he/him,

i love you men who go by she/her,

i love you people whose identities 'dont fit',

queer people i love you,

i will always stand with you,

there is nothing in this world that can pull me apart from you,

i promise it will get better, i promise we will win,

i promise we won't always have to be afraid,

i promise, if nothing else, that somebody in this world loves you.

I love you trans people (intersex or not) who don't believe their ASAB affects their gender at all

I love you 'AFAB' transfems

I love you 'AMAB' transmascs

I love you nonbinary and transneutral people whose ASAB doesn't carry any weight to them

I love you transmascfems and transfemmascs

I love you transneumascs and transneufems and transneumascfems

I love you nonbinary people

I love you agender people

I love you multigender people

I love you mspec people

I love you it/its users

I love you queer BIPOC

I love you disabled queer people

I love you nonhuman and alterhuman queer people

I love you plural queer people and queer systems

I love and/or appreciate you aplatonics

I love and/or appreciate you afamilials

I love and/or appreciate you asensuals

I love and/or appreciate you queer people in QPRs

I love and/or appreciate you other aspecs

I appreciate you loveless aspecs

I love you lesboys

I love you turigirls

I love you gaybians

I love you people who use other trans labels other than transfem/transmasc/transneu

I love you trans people who don't use transfem/transmasc/transneu/etc labels

I love you neurodivergent trans people

I love you homeless trans people

I love you queer people who are no longer with us

I love you suicidal queer people

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

But here it is again

I've been experimenting with posting some of the stuff I say here, but as videos

I'm going live in about 15 hours

I have a Subreddit!

It's for a certain group of literary works that I can't name because this dumb website will stop showing this to you

The black community, and my own blackness, has been a major part of how people see me my entire life.

I'm living here in Norway and, for a lot of people, whatever interaction they have with me may be the most significant interaction they have with a black person that YEAR.

I'm proud to be black. I'm proud to be a black woman living in Norway. I'm proud to represent the black community and the transgender community and the wider queer community in every place I show up. And please understand that I'm calling out injustices BECAUSE I THINK THEY CAN BE FIXED.

If I didn't think Molde, or Norway, had any path to being a more accepting and loving place for someone like me, I wouldn't be reporting failures I see. I wouldn't be trying to make friends here and I CERTAINLY wouldn't be willing to... and TRYING to tie myself to someone here as a potential long term romantic partner here lmao

Norway is lovely and there are a lot of wonderful people here.

OK

That being said,

If you are not actively, seriously fighting to improve the lives of black people around you then get the fuck out.

You do not get to stand with us and claim solidarity one day out of the year and shit on us the other 364.

Intersectionality exists and I am a LIVING goddamn example of it because the very people who will stand on a fucking stage and SCREAM that they see me as a woman; that person will suddenly fall into the fucking shadows the moment I turn on a song from Busta Rhymes.

That person who swears my being an American is a BENEFIT to Molde suddenly becomes a white supremacist sympathizer the INSTANT I imply that maybe some of the injustice I've experienced here in Molde happened because FOR SIX YEARS IT'S BEEN BORDERLINE IMPOSSIBLE TO GET TO KNOW ANYONE AND THE ONLY DIFFERENCE THAT'S NOT BEING ACTIVELY FUCKING CELEBRATED IS THE FACT THAT I'M FUCKING BLACK.

People get FUCKING AWKWARD when you bring up race. They want to pretend it's just not a thing anymore. Like they just don't see it. Just don't notice it. Like maybe the fact that you can't get to know people is just because you're not trying hard enough, or that every single case is just an individual who is weird and crazy and "there's plenty more cool people and I'm sure you'll meet them soon"

I'VE BEEN HERE SIX YEARS MOTHERFUCKER. IF THEY WERE HERE I'D HAVE

Fucking

met them by now

And I have to say this AGAIN because there are some stupid ass bad faith motherfuckers living here and they'll try to pretend I'm talking about everybody even though I clearly said I run across really nice people all the time.

I run into really nice people all the time.

But that doesn't fucking fix anything

It doesn't make me any less fucking isolated.

It doesn't get me one singular scrap of fucking help

It doesn't make my goddamn phone ring with friends who want to come over my house and spend time with me.

After six fucking years twisting myself inside out trying to find those so called cool people I'm having a hard time believing they fucking exist.

I have to say these things on my blog because good fucking luck getting more than 3 words out when you're being critical of a place like this. People will cut you off and be like "iS iT rEaLlY tHaT bAd!?"

And then they'll start implying that YOU SHOULD LEAVE

That's what white supremacy FUCKING SOUNDS LIKE

"If you don't like it, just leave"

Motherfucker WHERE? Where on this FUCKING EARTH am I gonna go where I actually fucking FIT IN?

I don't fit

You're gonna have to make a fucking space for me. Because I CAN'T FUCKING DO IT BY MYSELF

So happy fucking Juneteenth tomorrow yall

Your assignment ALL OVER THE WORLD is to make PERMANENT friends with black people, include them in your life, and MAKE your spaces safe for us, even if that means you, your family, and your friends have to be a little less comfortable. AND IF ASKING YOU TO BE LESS COMFORTABLE SO THAT WE DON'T FUCKING DIE MAKES YOU ANGRY, THEN LOOK AT YOUR FUCKING SELF BEFORE YOU RESPOND.

BECAUSE IT'S NOT OUR GODDAMN JOB TO EXPLAIN WHY YOUR COMFORT ISN'T WORTH MORE THAN OUR LIVES.

And finally, give a black person some money.

Just for the fuck of it. I don't give a fuck. Do it just to show solidarity. Do it to show off to your friends by giving a bigger donation than they did

Here, you can start with me

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

Transgender community, please please please do NOT use this product! It will kill you if used, please do not use it whatsoever.

"What if a small group of religious extremists, persecuted in their own country, moved to an inhospitable uninhabited island and had to rebuild society there?" - But the Americas and Australia weren't inhospitable and were full of Native nations, why are you perpetuating the idea of Terra Nullius and manifest destiny? - Yes, that's because this isn't a metaphor for the British invading other countries, it's a metaphor for finding out how much of a person's religious practise is rooted in worldly concerns, vs how much they will really stymie themselves for the sake of God.

"What if 1/100 children born was a werewolf?" - But queer people are no danger to straight people, and disabled people don't have predictable patterns to their illnesses, and most people who have uncontrollable rages really CAN control them and are just lying, and no minority group has superpowers... - Yes, but that's all immaterial, because I wanted to talk about a load of other metaphors about the passage of time and responsibility and the relationship between humans and wildlife.

I think it particularly comes up the moment an author includes any sort of marginalisation/oppression for their fictional/fantasy world. I've lost count of the times now where I've seen people read a book on, say, the terrible oppression of the Gwyllion, and immediately gone "Oh, so the Gwyllion are a metaphor for the real world X people, either deliberately or accidentally through the author's inherent racism. This is therefore super problematic because the Gwyllion are also described as Y, which means the author is also saying that about X people."

There will always be real world parallels when discussing oppression. Always. But that's because oppression is oppression - precise details may vary, but it follows the same pathways the world over, and that will naturally be copied into fiction as well. This does not mean the author is intentionally telling the exact allegory that you've projected onto it. If that's how you read everything, then yeah, everything becomes super problematic, but also, why are you reading any fiction that isn't solely about real world historical events? It's clearly not for you

And, you know, obviously there are works that are racist/misogynistic/etc, including deliberately so. But I really don't like the way people have started going "I have spotted a PROBLEMATIC ALLEGORY here, I'm ever so smart" and acting like they're the cleverest little critic that ever lived. You have to meet a work on its own terms. Lovecraft was a big ole racist, sure. Someone who has written a book about the oppression of magic users in their fantasy world, however, is rarely writing a story about how queerness lurks in family lines and must be controlled; they are way more commonly writing a story about a world with magic that they then wanted to take seriously, and while there might well be elements of queerness there, those magic users are not a 1:1 replacement.

Sometimes these lines are blurry! But we're going way too far to one end of that spectrum

The post that got me thinking about this yesterday was someone talking about how they'd love to write a vampire story exploring vampirism as a disability (dependence on a substance to manage the condition, blindness/weakness in daytime, can't enter buildings without accommodation, etc). But, they said, they can't, because they don't want to be making the point that disabled people are parasites, and vampires are generally considered parasitic.

And like. What an incredible shame. That we'll lose that, because they're already afraid of the "I have spotted a PROBLEMATIC ALLEGORY" crowd. That would be a great story for exploring disability themes, OR just a great new take on vampires, and either of those things would be so good to read. But there would be so many people who would jump in with "So you think disabled people are draining the life force of the ableds around them?", never stopping to actually think "Vampires are not a 1:1 stand in for real world disability because they are fictional and do not exist."