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Thirty-year-old Tamara Rees shows us what trans empowerment looked like in 1954. She fought Nazis, taught parachuting, and traveled the world... but her biggest challenge came when the press learned of her identity.

1950s news coverage of Tamera Rees' transition shows a time before the trans moral panic. Most stories regarded her as brave or heroic for her openness. National newspapers even celebrated her wedding in 1955.

The New York Daily News, which now hosts daily anti-trans editorials, ran a shockingly respectful series on trans people in the 1950s. Tamara Rees's narrative was among the longest and most detailed. She thoughtfully implored the public to respect not only her identity, but also other trans people like her.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Today we have ZZH's photos from a photoshoot for 小资CHIC magazine (CHIC Trend / Xiaozi CHIC)—the April 2021 issue. The official release, or premiere, took place on April 28, 2021, although some of the material had been appearing since April 27. The concept title of the photoshoot and cover story is 「瀚海有静时」 ("There's a Quiet Time in the Hanhai Ocean" / "A Quiet Time on the Hanhai Sea"). This was one of ZZH's important photoshoots during the peak of his post-WOH popularity. ZZH appeared here in a black jacket with a striking, abstract print of orange and yellow "flames" or leaves, creating a very dynamic, artistic pattern. He wore a white shirt underneath and accessorized with a black tie. The pants ZZH wore were mustard yellow with dark side stripes, creating a sporty-chic mix. He wore white sneakers with a visible logo. He wore a black hat (maybe a baseball cap) on his head, which gave the outfit a very stylish, cool feel. ZZH had longer, dark, slightly wavy, and "messy" hair, often falling in front of his face, creating a very artistic, rock/romantic vibe. The shoot had a very atmospheric feel, with dramatic, low lighting, shadows, and contrast. The photos are very moody, cinematic, with close-up portraits and full-frame shots. ZZH poses in nonchalant, confident poses—hands to his face, hat, intense gaze. Viewed from the side, it's a mix of vintage, modern street, and artistic fashion. ZZH looks very masculine, stylish, and mature, yet at the same time relaxed and nonchalant. The shoot is considered one of ZZH's coolest and most fashion-forward shoots of 2021. It fit well into the post-WOH period, when ZZH experimented with bolder, more expressive styles. The response to 小资CHIC's "瀚海有静时" shoot was overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic. It was one of ZZH's last major fashion shoots before the 2021 summer events and tapped into the post-WOH wave of popularity. Fans were captivated by the very cool, artistic, and masculine look—the hat, the "flame" print, mustard pants, the casual poses, and the dramatic lighting. The shoot was praised for its "moody/cinematic/artistic" vibe—many wrote that ZZH looked like a model from a Western fashion magazine or a character in a film noir. Particularly appreciated were ZZH's long, messy hair, the hat, and the confident, slightly edgy pose. Often described as one of ZZH's most "sexy" and mature looks from that era, the photoshoot and cover quickly went viral, with fans making edits, cutouts, and printing posters. There were comments: "帅炸了！这组太有味道了！" ("Too handsome! This session has a great atmosphere!"), "帽子的杀伤力也太大了吧，小哲这套真的又帅又酷！" ("The impact of the hat is huge, this look is so cool!"), “慵懒又性感，瀚海有静时这个标题也太配了” (“Lazy and sexy, the title “In the Ocean of Silence” fits perfectly”), “终于看到小哲这种高级时尚感了，印花西装+帽子绝配！” There was much admiration for “long hair + hat” as the best combo of 2021. The shoot reinforced ZZH's image as not only an actor, but also a serious fashion icon — “mature, artistic, stylish.” It's worth mentioning that the shoot included an interview, mostly text in a magazine + a short quick question & answer. The concept title, “瀚海有静时,” reflected ZZH's state of mind after the huge success of WOH.

Leading up to the ceremony ‣ knowing they would not be thrilled, the couple is not informed of the arrangement until it is set in stone and only few weeks away ‣ A had to be locked up and guarded in the days leading up to the wedding to make sure they don‘t run away ‣ B had to physically be dragged to A‘s kingdom

Right before the ceremony ‣ A threatens to stab their promised spouse upon meeting them at the altar ‣ B is threatened by their parents about making a scene during the wedding ‣ both expect the other to be much older than themself, arrogant, or otherwise undesireable ‣ “Is that a knife in your sleeve? Give me that, you are not killing your spouse before the vows are even read!”

During the ceremony ‣ the promised couple meets at the altar… and both wonder why their parents failed to mention that their promised spouse is H O T ‣ both relaxing as they make little comments during the ceremony, matching each other's freaks ‣ both only having prepared passive aggressively insulting vows and either reading them with matching smirks or improvising new ones

but I'm hearing there's a NSFW-friendly ko-fi alternative built on atproto that's actively in the works, and being vetted by lawyers right now. as torrent-princess (OP) says, you should be able to swap out payment processors while keeping your account intact. this matters since even if stripe removes support, you'll still have a shop and all of your links intact. (ATproto is an infrastructure that bsky is built on, but is far bigger than bsky with far more opportunities.)

additionally, the Free Speech Coalition is working on a credit union specifically for adult work (including kink art) - here's the link so you can add your interest & support. Since this will be built by sex workers, there'll be far less risk of being debanked for spurious and puritanical reasons.

on a domain TLD level, there's an initiative here for a .furry domain built from the ground up by seasoned furries; it's unclear whether they'll support NSFW, but it's yet another promising turn of events for a group that's been similarly affected by censorship.

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By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

So, companies are tracking you no matter what you do, but this specifically is something I care about deeply.

Essentially, when you share a link, sometimes it has extra data that tracks where it comes from and goes.

Opening Spotify, clicking the first item, and using the share button, I get something like open.spotify.com/track/4P0f1HTaA2UwtLJGryNgJZ?si=DBvbfihOSweU1KHj9Mib8w

That ?si=...........…. is the tracker. It tells Spotify who clicks on the link and ties it to you, meaning Spotify knows who your friends are even if you never follow them.

Similarly, if on Amazon or EBay in the browser, I get something like www.ebay.com/itm/146493392451?_skw=lenovo&itmmeta=............&hash=item................&itmprp=enc..............

And, similarly, everything after the question mark is tracking you. I had to blank it out because it was so long!

There is an exception for a few things (I.E. the v=..... on YouTube, but not the si=..... on YouTube)

The general rule is delete everything after the ? and if it breaks, add something back.

It is this.

The Emperor has gotten to the bottom of the Lin case and cleared the household and his attendants recite the royal decree listing all those wrongfully killed in that household. And Ning Que says he loved hearing familiar names, but that is not all - and he mentions servants and cooks. I love the bewilderment on the officials’ faces because those people didn’t even register to them. And Ning Que mentions his parents weren’t listed; to which the attendants point the General and his wife were mentioned first. “They were not my parents,” responds Ning Que.

GUUUUUH!!! I love this so! Because it really upends not only the court’s presumption but the viewer’s - through the whole drama, it really looks like it is the General’s son who escaped and now seeks revenge. But no. It’s not. And it really brings to bear the horrifying collateral damage of all those big political and mystical games. Ning Que’s family wasn’t the target not just because the prophecy was misunderstood (hello, wrong house!) but because they weren’t even gunning for them in that house; it was just some collateral murder.

And I love love love love love that the heavenly sects’ sins, the general’s sins, and court’s sins, are brought back home to roost not by a noble survivor heir a la Nirvana in Fire (I love NiF, don’t worry) but a complete nobody, a step up from a slave…

Also, I love this shot:

Why CAN’T a servant’s son seek revenge?

And I will also never be over the fact of how the narrative drives him without preaching or being in your face the utter cruelty of that world of how little life matters - NQ’a whole life, whole family, was taken apart not because he (or his loved ones) was the target of a prophecy, because his family was the target of a conspiracy - they were collateral damage to a wrong GPS reading!!!! It’s like all those revenge dramas, from great ones like NiF and Zang Hai to ones I didn’t care for like Anle - it’s always the survivor of the noble family and yes they also mention the household/soldiers/whoever who died but in one mass. And in EN, for once, someone stands out from that inchoate lumpen mass and goes - I don’t care about your noble goal, I want to avenge a nobody none of you knew or cared for except in concept.

And it makes sense for these characters living in times of absolute class divide to not care for deaths of “nobodies” on the streets or as you said mention them in mass but it did really opened my eyes to how it’s always someone from the nobility taking revenge like what is up with that omg. This narrative of a royal prince taking revenge has been done so many times and each one in similar way that I didn’t even question NQ’s identity to be anything other than the General’s son. He himself never says who he is but the characters assume and I believe that assumption. I see what you did there Mao Ni and I appreciate it. More commoners taking revenge, please.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.