I’m Lyre. I have a lot of hobbies. Sometimes I like things that are "bad" and dislike things that are "good." Also that sentiment backwards. 23, they/them/他 Assigned Designated Driver At Birth I used to run @wonderful-prompts
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
another ridiculous element to the quiverfull-esque “we must outbreed everybody and fill the polls with our white Christian children” ideology is that ex-Evangelicals are some of the wildest, most anti-Christian progressives I have ever met. no one hates patriarchal Christian theocracy more than the children of a preacher who managed to get the hell away from that man. political and religious beliefs are not genetic and if you torment and abuse your kid their entire childhood, there is a significant chance they will scrutinize and discard every part of your thinking.
my best writing advice *about* writing advice is that you absolutely do not have to follow all the popular advice you see BUT ☝️ you have to make sure you're not following it on purpose
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Transphobia is being signed into law in the UK. Let's fight it together.
I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the rescheduled Mass Lobby at Parliament, now on Wed Sept 9th, 1pm-5pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.
The law around trans equality is fundamentally broken. Government inaction is hanging trans people and organisations out to dry - with a con
The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It became statutory guidance in the UK on August 5th, 2026.
Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.
A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Our demands have changed. Ask your MP to:
Write to Ministers and Prime Minister Andy Burnham to say they are profoundly concerned by the rolling back of trans rights, and that they believe that it is time for Parliament to legislate to protect equality for trans people.
Ask parliamentary questions focused on protecting trans people’s rights and defending trans people’s abilities to live safe and dignified lives.
Speak up both inside and outside Parliament in defence of trans people’s rights.
Meet regularly with trans constituents to understand their lived realities.
Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.
I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.
We have already had some wins because we took action. The 2026 EHRC guidance has already rolled back its most harmful elements because of mass campaigning by individuals like us, and groups like The Good Law Project. This summer, 166 MPs signed the Early Day Motion 240 to reject the EHRC Code of Practice, because of our campaigning. That is 1 in 4 MPs.
It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:
Worried about what to say?
Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. On the day, you'll get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.
Here is an online briefing for lobbyists (10 mins read for essential info, 20 mins for details)
Money issues?
Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.
Got a refusal or no response from your MP?
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.
Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:
Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination. e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee. If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73). A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).
Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).
Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.
Sign up for the mass lobby and email your MP here, or click the main link above.
If you are not in the UK but want to support the case, please donate to The Good Law Project.
Save the date and book off work!! I will see you there :))
This one goes out especially to my fellow Midwesterners:
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund, which pays immigrant bond fees to get people out of ICE Custody, has run so low on funds they've had to put a hold on their work. They have a donor matching funds through $50,000 or until August 21st, so please consider throwing a few bucks their way and telling your networks.
I respect the fuck out of this. The whole site is trying its hardest to go against every selling point the dog robots have as its selling points.
The dog robots are supposed to be autonomous, threehalves is explicitly only for being piloted by a human. The giant horns make it difficult for this machine to enter through doorways, and that is the point. Coupled with the built-in weak points, it is very easy to disable this thing, so it can't be used by the police or the military effectively.
OP alluded to how unsettling the machine looks, and I believe that it was a concious decision; the robot dogs have garnered sympathy due to their apperance, which makes it easier for the police to morally justify their use. This thing? You're not gonna get many people to sympathise with it. The only people who would are monster and-or robot fuckers, and I believe these circles generally understand that a machine cannot be trusted (though of course many would willingly approach it for pervert reasons (positive) knowing full well it's a bad idea).
oh yeah i saw everyone on tiktok freaking out about "if it can't harm humans why does it come with instructions to kill it" it's a safety feature in case of an emergency or malfunction where it needs to be quickly deactivated. "why is it so big and demonic why does it look like that" it's a safety feature so it can do dangerous labor and so you don't feel bad about killing it. "it was designed not to be able to follow you through doors?? why the fuck would it do that that's scary" it's a safety feature so you can't get cornered or have the person piloting it misuse it. "it doesn't have hands but it can attach CHAINSAWS to its limbs???" it's MADE TO WITHSTAND WILDFIRES IT'S NOT GONNA USE IT ON YOU "this thing gives me such bad vibes i do not trust it" GOOD!!! IT'S A ROBOT!!! IT IS A TOOL!!! IT'S A REALLY BIG AND COMPLICATED MACHINE THAT IS DESIGNED TO GO IN DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENTS WHICH WOULD MEAN IT COULD POTENTIALLY MALFUNCTION! USE YOUR BRAIN!!!
admittedly i do think that picture of it standing in the doorway with glowing white eyes is like comically frightening but it's SUPPOSED to be so you don't feel bad for it or approach it
The above posters make excellent points about all of it! But there’s one part I want to emphasize:
“OP alluded to how unsettling the machine looks, and I believe that it was a concious decision; the robot dogs have garnered sympathy due to their apperance, which makes it easier for the police to morally justify their use.”
I’ve been around those robot dogs due to my dayjob in software; it took under five minutes to go from “nope, that’s unnerving and wrong” to “awww, weird looking doggo!” I don’t know for sure if they’ve been programmed to imitate some friendly dog behaviors or if that was a special thing for demo purposes, but … yeah.
Spot a phantom cock from the mezzanine
Set in caulk by the support beam
I’ve done glanced that way about a million times
Checking the popcorn ceiling with the panty lines
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
big fan of Redwall and @bowelfly's little guys, but i always wonder how whimsical woodland monk critters perform the scholarly side of monkhood. illuminating recipes??
also, for your consideration, hedgehog with a tonsure
Just because a demographic is privileged along one axis doesn't mean it is an unmarked identity, it simply has accompanying cultural constructs built into it that we're accustomed to viewing/treating as a "neutral" default. But there is no identity that is a "neutral" blank slate!
To start simply: M/F stories are not neutral, they are usually built on a scaffolding of gender roles and tropes that almost always center romantic monogamy and allosexism. To write an m/f story, you must choose whether you will engage with /subvert / challenge some (or all) of that. Whether that's an active choice or a passive/unthinking one, it's still a choice.
Likewise, male characters are not neutral, they are usually constructed around ideas of masculinity (sometimes toxic) and gender hierarchy, making them more dominant in our shared cultural consciousness. To write a story centering men, you again must choose whether you will engage with that baggage or unquestioningly include the default assumptions that come along with contemporary gender constructs.
See also: other identity axes. White characters are not neutral blank slates! Able-bodied characters are not neutral blank slates! Slim/conventionally-attractive characters are not neutral blank slates! Etc etc.
And things get even more complex when multiple identities intersect. Writing a romantic story between two white men doesn't "erase" any baggage from gender or race - it may challenge heterosexism, but the author must still choose whether that story replicates or engages with the other identity constructs involved (whiteness, masculinity, monogamy, allosexism, alloromanticism, etc).
There is no identity you can write about that is a "neutral" blank slate, even if you set your story in a different world/era without our contemporary hierarchies of identity, because you can't erase the cultural constructs and assumptions that you - and your readers - have inherited from our parent cultures.
This does NOT mean that you can't write stories about characters devoid of contemporary cultural constructs, just that doing so means making a ton of active choices, not unquestioningly replicating the hierarchy we've been steeped in all our lives and calling it "normal"/"neutral."
I would add that, when we look at (for example) a romantic story between two white men, it is not simply that the author must choose how the story engages with the concept of masculinity but that the author must choose how the story engages with sexism both in terms of how men experience and perpetuate sexism and in terms of how the story does or does not include women.
The choice not to include women in a story is no more value neutral nor devoid of sexism than the choice to write women in a sexist way, just as the choice not to address the ways in which men are socially expected to distance themselves from femininity is no more value neutral than the choice to adress it.
We can look at the same idea when writing a M/F couple: the author must choose both how the couple experiences and engages with heterosexism and corresponding gender roles as well as the ways in which the story engages (or doesn't engage) with characters who are not in M/F relationships.
These same sorts of choices hold true in terms of race, ethnicity, religion, disability, weight, etc.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
