There's always two of us.

Lied and said he was non-verbal

Lied and said he was incapable of communication

Lied and said he had not gotten the surgery of his own accord

Lied and said his "guardians decided [he] was trans"

Got MGT to call a procedure done on a consenting adult "criminal" just because he had cerebral palsy

Mass reported his video and his account, which he ran, until facebook terminated his account for "child exploitation" despite it being his account, him being an adult, and him not being exploited

Ableism and transphobia are inseperable. Just like ableism was used to prop up bigotry throughout history, now it is being used to deny transgender people bodily autonomy the same way it is used to deny disabled people bodily autonomy. It's not a coincidence that so much of the rights transphobic rhetoric is focused on labelling us as "mentally ill". They don't think any disabled people, let alone mentally ill people should have independence or liberation.

very funny that tumblr glitched and sent me this ask twice haha

but yes, i am VERY passionate about not calling it content. if it's art, it's art.

there's such a binging idea to calling it content, at least they way i've seen it talked about on here. makes one think it's just being produced for the sake of being produced, for the likes, for the money made on social media, etc. that you don't have a responsibility in interacting with it, that you can just watch/look at/read and then go off about your life as if the person who created it didn't put HOURS for FREE in it.

calling it fanwork brings the focus back on who created it: a fan, and what it is: a work of art.

you want a thriving fandom? you gotta start respecting the hours put into the works posted by fans. the pay the fans get is $0. it can only be kudos, likes, reblogs, shares, comments, DMs, and other pieces of art inspired by their own.

when an influencer or a company posts on social media? the expected return is money. the person creating the content is being paid to do it. ultimately, what matters is the number of interactions so that they can make more money with it. if a post gets one good comment on a post and makes 3 people follow, and another post gets 30 average/shitty ones and 15 bot accounts as new followers? the KPIs will say the post with 30 comments/15 bots performed better.

a fan? doesn't fully care about the number of interactions, they care about each and every single interactions. the number is still important, especially when you see how many people enjoyed your work, but the individual comments, likes, shares, reblogs, etc. do matter just as much, if not more. getting bots and scams in our comments, in our DMs, getting reblogs from empty accounts with ads added, mean nothing. if anything, it does not encourage us to continue sharing our work.

so yeah, i am very passionate about calling it fanworks and not content.

honestly, i am also very passionnate about calling works of artwhat they are: films, tv series, music, books, etc. not content. what they actually are.

Also everyone: When there's a hurricane you should never drive through water more than six inches deep, water that's a high as your ankle is enough to sweep you away.

"Don't you people have storm drains?"

Yes.

Sam Neill passed today 7/13. FML.

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

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Flamingos can survive in high altitudes, hypersaline conditions, and caustic lakes.

Source: ‘All flamingo species have evolved to live in some of the planet’s most extreme wetlands, like caustic “soda lakes”, hypersaline lagoons or high-altitude salt flats.’

They can survive water so alkaline it burns human skin.

Source: ‘More than a million lesser flamingos breed in Tanzania’s Lake Natron, for instance, a lake fed by hot springs with water so alkaline that it can strip away human skin (one pioneering flamingo researcher named Leslie Brown spent months in Nairobi General Hospital after burning his legs wading out to observe where the birds nested).’

They can drink water at near-boiling temperatures.

Source: ‘They can drink water at near boiling point to collect freshwater from springs and geysers at lake edges. If no freshwater is available, flamingos can use glands in their head that remove salt, draining it out from their nasal cavity.’

The lakes they inhabit can freeze overnight, and the flamingos can survive once it thaws in the morning.

Source: ‘The birds may seem to epitomize the tropics, but they also live in the Andes, 15,000 feet above sea level, where they rest on lakes that freeze around them overnight.

“You’ll see them sitting there like snowballs, frozen on ice,” Dr. Arengo said. “And as the temperature warms up, they thaw out, fluff themselves up and go about their business.”’

The photo is indeed from Lake Natron, taken by photographer Nick Brandt. The content of the lake chemically preserves animal corpses that die there. You can see more photos of this here.

It is also true that 75% of Lesser Flamingos are hatches on Lake Natron.

Source: ‘The lake’s landscape is surreal and deadly—and made even more bizarre by the fact that it’s the place where nearly 75 percent of the world’s lesser flamingos are born.’

Some species of Flamingo eat cyanobacteria or algae.

Good point. We should jerk off and *throws dart* eat some pork bao. Or if you're vegetarian we could *spins comically sized wheel* eat some samosas. What's truly important is we have to jerk off. Together.