Tishina's Tales

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

My art for the Dragon Age Reverse Big Bang @dragonagereversebang !!

Fic paired with this art by the wonderful @harellanfellavhen and can be found here!

A young Dalish elf dreams of becoming something more than just another hunter and halla-tender for the clan. His uncle and mentor worries about his future and the size of his ambitions. But when danger and excitement come to their doorstep during a routine hunt, it opens Davrin's eyes to the kind of life he could have out there beyond the trees of Arlathan forest.

I didn’t screenshot it because I was too stunned

The sheer joy I get from showing someone that I have several 100k+ posts for something I'm doing just because it makes me happy, not to get notes, is so worth it because they are usually trying to actively get a following. As the guy said yesterday "YOU are getting these numbers?!" And I am over here like

Also it baffles them when I tell them this doesn't make me famous/give me anything to monetize. I truly love the anonymity of Tumblr.

Apologies for being late! Please welcome the prompt list for #wolgrahaweek2026!

ALL ships with G'raha and WOL/OC are welcomed - platonic and romantic! Any media counts - art, fic, gpose, video, however you want to celebrate our favorite catboy!

I also want to emphasize especially in the wake of recent events that WolGraha Week is meant to uplift ALL WolGraha creators - an event to celebrate the breadth and depth of work to be found in our little community! It is for EVERYONE and all are welcome here as long as there is love in your heart! Please support your fellow WolGraha artists during this time - we definitely will!