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- Noah’s wife was straight. Lot’s wife was straight. Pharaoh was straight. Literally every person who is punished ~by name~ in the Taurat, Injeel AND Qur’an were heterosexual. Coincidence?

- If Adam’s judgement wasn’t clouded by his heterosexuality we wouldn’t be in this worldly mess in the first place. IF Adam was gay like a normal person we never would have been kicked out of the garden.

- “Straight”/”Hetrosexual” are modern sociological constructs. Heterosexuality is bidah. 

- If heterosexuality is permissible then why are there gendered barriers in the masjid? Why are men allowed to expose their navels so wantonly amongst their brothers, but not amongst women?? HMMM?

it would be fucking ridiculous, wouldn't it?

yeah so the "are cishet aromantic men queer" poll should be seen by EVERYONE as fucking ridiculous. because it is. it's not really up for debate.

if someone asked you right now, are lesbians queer, you'd tell them to touch grass. at best. you'd probably ignore them if we're being honest. but suddenly when they ask about aromantic people it's up for debate? or worse you "don't want to get involved"?

but this is the least persuasive thing to say if we elder gays want actual solidarity

don't fool yourselves into believing the middle-class gays aren't thinking the same thing! because first of all it's a practical question. the people passing horrible legislation are in legislatures, how do we get taken seriously if someone shows in full drag to a legislative session? yes, the cringe part is thudding-stupid, but it's rooted in a *real question* which we are not taking seriously at all

oh yeah, let's throw away the actual question of how do we make traction if the world doesn't take us seriously. there are so many layers of sophistication to tackling that, including wholly practical political strategies. but sure let's miss that point totally

second of all, we elder gays are NOT acknowledging the vast swathes of young people who are in the midst of cult indoctrination

they are not only functionally illiterate, their oppressors keep them functionally illiterate

they are not only emotionally stunted, their oppressors keep them emotionally stunted

do you honestly think they can sneak to the corner shop without being tracked by their phone or their car or their key fob?? how do you think they're going to go to a drag show or attend pride? they're probably sneaking onto freakin pinterest just to look at pictures of queens

yes, your response is valid

it's also a fucking useless turn-off that will just drive them back to indoctrination

because the key here is that in a world of strict hierarchy, appearance is reality

and drag queens do look like clowns. you can sit back and discuss how the two cultures have similarities but in their world, a clown is a clown is a clown

anyone wearing a mask is suspect. how the fuck do you think we got so many anti-maskers?!? did you miss that about the pandemic? a mask is a mask is a mask

some things are costumes and some things are not, and did you miss how oppressors brand anything not patriarchal white-supremacist as costume, from indigenous regalia to leather jackets to freakin' safety pins?? darlings, they get blowback for *coloring their hair*, how blind are you to miss this??

young gays are by and large not free of this

they are financially and materially dependent on this world

and when you drag their question and their visible anxieties by implying they are missing some key component of being human,

and then fail to explain how that component works to someone who has never fucking reframed a thing in their lives because they're punished for doing that ?

no fucking wonder young gays run the fuck away from us.

someone came up to you and voiced their anxieties ! holy shit, that was your response? they're never coming back to you again! we show our gay asses, that we've never actually conversed with young people, that we've never unraveled emotionally and experientially immature wording

this isn't tone-policing. this is the practical observation that that you're going to lose your chance at solidarity if you can't talk to the old narrrow-minded fool who asks an offensive question and gives you a wide-open door to unravel and un-know some of his bigotry. yes of course keep yourself *safe*

but against our own kids? what kind of fucking family is this, then?!?

naturally we fail to take that opening with much more flexible queer youth. we alienate them the moment we snap our fingers. ha ha, you got notes, aren't you clever. yeah, well you just lost the kids in the middle of a horror movie, are you glad? do you feel better about defending your queer history?

you made it us vs them!

and then you made it like you're going to give up on them on the spot?!?!?!!!!!

50K notes of mockery!

the oppressors love that!!!

because you do not understand that they do not understand how the knee-jerk reactions of punk-coded petty gay clapbacks work. they're still at the stage of believing that all aliases are insincere and dishonest, how do you think they're handling sarcasm?

you want to teach history, then roll that shit back, back to the basics. to how masks function not only theatrically but how theatericality projects the emotions that can't be fully externalized otherwise. how anonymity can protect. how pain and grief can turn into joy. how power dynamics are games; hell, how games and playing work in the first place, these kids aren't allowed to go on playgrounds unsupervised

they do NOT KNOW THESE THINGS. they have never tasted catharsis in their lives, they've heard about it on tiktok somewhere before the algorithm buried it

you cannot just say: "you're imitating our oppressors" and then they say "well what are we supposed to say then?" and your answer is "i don't know be more human instead of acting like a fucking cunt" and then act like you're not the villain origin story here

you can't go and warn youths about _forces trying to divide us_ by saying the most fucking divisive shit in the most condescending way that would have made you go fucking feral when you were a teenager

we lecture so much about systemic oppression, then we fucking turn our backs on its youngest victims! our own baby gays!

yes it's so complicated reaching in and taking every question in good faith and trying to detangle someone else's distorted world-view. yes it's demeaning to be dealing with so much ill-intent. fuck you, did you think it was easy? does it actually matter if they're trolls? answer like you're the gay auntie they need! answer like you're the queer daddy who'll open the fucking door to warmth and laughter and hope instead of slamming it on their fingertips!

sometimes it's not about you!

sometimes you have to stick your hand in the cage and unlock it from the inside

we old-ass bifocal-wearing queers need to get serious about de-programming efforts, which takes a ton of empathy and about 700% less bitchy defensiveness.

Source

Video of Tama

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

And they are announcing the winner of the “up and coming god” award, and of course, Yato thinks it’s him.

But no-

- “that’s a good point and i appreciate your input but i disagree”

- “i don’t know enough about xyz to form an educated opinion but i can share what i do know”

- “i have actually spent a lot of time studying/interacting with xyz and my opinion is informed by this close study”

- “sorry, i lied because i was afraid you would think badly of me. here is the truth”

- “i enjoy your company and would like to spend more time with you”

- “this task is beyond my ability at the moment”

- “can you explain precisely what you mean by xyz, i don’t understand”

- “i need to go home and rest/i need a break before we continue”

- “this conversation/activity isn’t pleasant or productive, let’s talk about/do xyz instead”

For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.

This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.

As a disabled person that needs daily access to meds to ensure my ongoing survival, fuck you and your instance on your nerd DIY shit.

obviously NOT making insulin in tool sheds. But, the Open Insulin Foundation is constantly hard at work researching a way to produce insulin on a small, community-based scale, without breaking any patents.

This is super important, because regardless of what people say, diabetes is an immune disorder— and especially type 1 diabetics can not produce ANY insulin at all. Rationing insulin is unsafe for any diabetic, and small scale production would make insulin affordable and accessible to people all over the globe. Companies use the fact that without their insulin, people will die to create incredibly large profits on the backs of millions of disabled people all over the globe.

Also, your response doesn't address the anarchist mouthpieces aiming to dismantle the structures and chains open insulin relies on – because they're just roleplaying in a lab without the donations, universities and labs to serve as the backbone of their project here – or the fact they have no real structure behind this "community driven insulin solution". It really appears like their end goal is simply to dodge the patents (which is noble on its own i guess, but is useless if you don't have ACTUAL production plants out there) and not to create safe, proper facilities to supply insulin, instead throwing it at volunteers. And we all know volunteers are just so great and can do no wrong, right, mormon troubled teen industry? Right, salvation army? Right, LGB alliance? You seem awfully blind to the fact when a lot of these people say "shed", they fucking mean sheds.

As a disabled person that needs daily access to meds to ensure my ongoing survival, fuck you and your instance on your nerd DIY shit.

To start, technical aspects! let's go over what a shed doesn't have;

HEPA filters, rounded corners, structural prep for production of medicine such as resin coating on the floors and healthy circulation

Black, Gray and White rooms (level of sterilization) to accommodate different excipients and their sensitivity to contaminants +

Proper PPE practices. This one is self explanatory

A comprehensive quality control process including in-process testing and final product testing performed in sterile environments

FUCKING MICROMOLECULE PER M³ OF AIR LIMITS

Literally any form of actually sterile material storage – no, you can't just put everything in a fridge, proper sealing and storage varies from environment to environment. Also. Air contaminants. Because you don't have a HEPA filter or a hood

Proper equipment for the purification and concentration of extracts if you're doing pharmacognosy – and let's be real, in a world without supply chains you'll be forced to extract your medicaments from plants yourself

Efficient extraction practices – without supply chains, good fucking luck getting your hands on an ultrasonic extractor or even better a supercriticial fluid extractor for your thermolabile medicaments. Cloroform wasted by the liters BABy

Sterilization. Sterilization. Sterilization.

Let's be real you're not gonna be able to make bulk or match the production level of even a barebones lab when you don't have the equipment necessary for that nor the suitable environment for that– again, a fucking shed. So you're gonna need a small storage form. Ampoules? Well get ready to pick up glasswork or buy one of these bad boys.

A non-contaminated batch because it's a shed and you're washing your beakers in water thinking that's good enough. You just made death-fluid and potentially are causing an outbreak of blood-borne disease. Yippee

And that's just the essentials of any drug's production. I just went looking for the production of insulin in the middle east because I hail from around these parts and found a JULPHAR plant working on exclusively producing insulin– the first in the region, so they had no experience in doing this stuff. Ok, let's look at what they do.

Oh, they're using DNA technology and industrial-level fermentation tanks? And they STILL needed supply chains to even get their hands on the needed crystals in the beginning?

The entire production process is monitored and controlled using a process control system with a capacity of about 10,000 items of input and output information.

Hm. Looks more advanced than a shed to me.

Secondly– societal aspects! what about the disabled people who physically can't produce their own insulin? People with asthma, physical weakness, autism or ADHD? Having to stand there in a humid hot environment stirring a disgusting tank of e.coli – as harmless as it may be – is a lot of strain. Will you produce it for them? In that case you'll need to upgrade your equipment to handle this new load and actually would need to pay further attention to your batch quality. What will you do when your insulin contaminates people? Even the best factories have a risk factor.

What will you do when you inevitably make people sick?

What will you do if someone dies?

How will you identify the source of contamination? How will you retract your insulin from the community-? OH.