Mine Diamonds

I’ve talked about this before on this blog but this is the most disgustingly transphobic and lesbophobic narrative I’ve ever come across. 

CWs: transphobia, homophobia, lesbophobia, corrective rape, voyeurism

The book Adam by Ariel Schrag is being turned into a movie which has been named as one of the most exciting LGBTQ films of the year. You should know before watching that the book is about a cis boy who pretends to be a trans man in order to persuade lesbians to sleep with him.

Yeah… you read that right.

Book plot summary: 

boy spies on his lesbian sister having sex

boy decides to pretend to be a trans man (gross)

i.e. pretends to have a vagina because he thinks lesbians will want him then (he literally wants to fuck lesbians because he watched his lesbian sister have sex wtf)

he does get a lesbian to sleep with him, he straps his penis down using ace bandages and uses a strap on.

all the actual trans dudes we meet identify as lesbians this basically implies that trans men are not real men (lesbians i.e. women)  

another time they have sex again only he uses his actual penis but tells her its a strap on. that’s literally rape, she didn’t consent to an actual penis.

he confesses that he’s been lying to her this whole time but she doesn’t break up with him. she even says its okay cause she fantasised about him being “a real boy"

that’s a direct quote. massive transphobia. huge. not to mention this is now the “lesbian is cured by dick trope” which is disgusting and that trope leads to real lesbians and bi women being raped to “fix” them. 

he leaves new york, they’re long distance. they get in an argument and he calls her a slut and a whore among other things and then she dumps him

eventually they get back in touch and she has a new cis boyfriend so yep, she’s been “cured” woo she’s actually straight and he helped her realise that yay (massive sarcasm)

It is deeply deeply transphobic. To imply that our identities are just costumes for other people to put on erases who we are as people. More than that, to imply it is done to trick people into sex is a dangerous lie that literally gets us killed.

It is also deeply lesbophobic. To fuel this narrative that lesbians can be “fixed” by having sex with a man leads to real corrective rapes happening. 

Here is a review of the book by a trans man. I have yet to find one by a lesbian but will edit this if I do.

This book gives out incredibly harmful notions about trans men and lesbians that are used to hurt them in real life. It’s so entrenched in the narrative that I don’t see how the film can possibly be any better.

I do not say any of this lightly. it’s very very rare for me to call out a piece of fiction or for me to decide that a story is unfixable. But this… there’s no excuse for the bigotry in this. 

I’d like to tell people to boycott it but I can’t tell you what to do. So instead I’m going to ask that you share this because it being named as an exciting new LGBTQ film is going to make LGBTQ teens want to see it. And they should know beforehand how hurtful it could be. They should be able to arm themselves with that knowledge.

Don’t make queer kids see this film believing it will represent them only to be exposed to this hatred of their identities. 

- people who make fun of autistic people and/or those who think it’s okay use the r word

- people who make fun of other mental illnesses/disabilities (adhd, ocd, psychosis, schizophrenia, etc.)

- pedophiles, incest shippers, and people who fetishize gay relationships

- queerphobes and exclusionists ([bi/pan/ace/enby]phobes, terfs, swerfs, transmeds, truscum, etc.)

- nazis and fascists

- anti-vaxxers

when i first arrived, i saw iron armor (shirt and hat) on some stands outside near a blast furnace. so i thought “sweet free armor!” and yoinked it. now here’s where it gets odd. right after i put it on this blacksmith comes BOLTING out of nowhere, and i can’t make this up y’all, he straight up chases me. like you know how villagers walk towards you? this guy ran towards me and wouldn’t stop. like he knew i stole that. he knew and he was out for revenge. he finally did stop running at me once i got far enough from the village but oh man i legit thought maybe the ai was changed for the 1.14 update and he might have actually been angry or something?? idk man, my heart was pounding fghgfh

so i come back to the village (steering clear of the blacksmith) then i see children. three of them. and they’re all running around. ok so villager children play, their ai does that. but this? they were running around me and didn’t stop until i followed them. upon which they ran off. i stopped following. they came back, i followed again and they ran off again but i kept following this time. they led me to a small cave. in which a zombie villager was in. it attacked me and the children ran off, leaving me to fight this monster. like they straight up led me to a mob that kills players. like?? rude. (tbf it wasn’t a very hard fight..i play on easy lmao)

so after i killed the zombie farmer i go searching the houses. i come across one way in the back. in it, two villagers. one of which is straight up trapped inside a rectangular box of trapdoors. the other is standing nearby staring him down. so i free the trapped one and he immediately runs to the door. only to be blocked by the other villager, who also ran to the door after i freed the trapped one. so the previously trapped guy is pushing the other one, trying to get past while the kidnapper/serial torturer?? is trying to push him back in the house. i push them both out of the way and the trapped fella takes off sprinting back to the main area of the village. i lost sight of where the other one went..

you have long cat (serval)

ear cat (sand cat)

small evil cat (black footed cat)

spherical cat (pallas cat)

cat who probably watches makeup tutorials on youtube (caracal)

very round cat (leopardus guigna)

water cat (fishing cat)

cat with socks (leopardus colocolo)

grayscale cat (geoffroy’s cat)

and let’s not forget revolver cat (ocelot)

Are You 100% Sure This Isn’t A Lemur (flat-headed cat)

That’s A Fucking Stoat (Jaguarundi)

Foot Fetish (canadian lynx)

(OK I’M SORRY FOR THAT ONE BUT JESUS JUST LOOK AT IT.)

and I move that my favorite, spherical cat, should be renamed Redonkasaurus Rex immediately (pallas cat)

how could yall forget

Tinie Babey aka smallest cat species (rusty spotted cat - Prionailurus rubiginosus)

Get That Cat A Modeling Contract (asiatic golden cat - Pardofelis temminckii)

Tater Tot Spots (andean mountain cat - Leopardus jacobita)

Smaller, More Alien-looking Ocelot (margay - Leopardus wiedii)

and finally I’m Pretty Sure That’s The Love Child of a Snow Leopard and a Clouded Leopard (marbled cat - Pardofelis marmorata)

• All villagers speak the same language, but have wildly different dialects and accents depending on the biome. A taiga villager will almost certainly have some difficulty talking with a desert villager. Wandering traders, however, are usually decently familiar with several if not all biome dialects.

• Villager names used to be just things like Wheat, River, Oak etc. However, through linguistic evolution and cultural exchange with other biomes, actual names came into use. For example Gren, a modern name common among snowy biome villagers, actually originates from the name Grain (commonly used by desert villagers) being adapted for pronunciation with a snowy biome accent.

• Herobrine is present in villager folklore in every biome, but each biome's folklore has a completely different version of him.

• In the plains, he's considered a mysterious person with godlike powers, unpredictable and capable of both great benevolence and cruelty.

• In the snowy biome, the legends say he appears to those who are close to death to answer any questions and doubts they may have and ultimately take them away to the afterlife.

• The desert biome has a somewhat similar version of him, but there are some notable differences. It is said he only appears to those who die by getting lost in the desert. Some say he forms from the sand before the dying person's very eyes. Others describe him as "blurry at the edges" and "rapidly blinking in and out of existence", as if he's not quite there.

here are some links.

Shahd Khidir uses her platform to spread awareness 

Nahid Jabrallah tells DW about the sexual violence 

Authorities Are lying about the death toll

Government is killing people during an internet shut down

Central Committee of Sudan Doctors confirms that it’s still going (i linked their whole facebook for updates. these doctors are sided with the protestors) 

VILLAGE

and 

EDIT:

Alex is Scottish.

Evidence:

Red head

Aggressive

Absolutely ready to square up (look at the pillage update promo art, Alex is squaring tf off)

Pale