still the dumb bitch I've always been

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
egberts
writerlyn

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

funnyrobot
citadelbloodbeard

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The response to my last photoset has been overwhelming! Thank you all for the love and the kind words!

I’m nearly 40, and figured most of my cosplaying was behind me, but this has definitely made me nostalgic for all the times I’ve spent with friends both old and new at conventions.

If I decide to attend again sometime, I’ll be sure to announce it here!

In the meantime, enjoy a couple of bonus pics!

funnyrobot
dragon-in-a-fez

said this as part of a larger point in a reblog but I'm gonna make it its own post:

humans have the right to do things that are mildly bad for us sometimes.

dragon-in-a-fez

you have the right to eat way too many pierogi and make yourself a little sick. you have the right to go skydiving. you have the right to pull an all-nighter building the Imperial City of Tamriel in Minecraft. you have the right to get drunk in your living room watching football.

life is not about making the safest most logically correct choice at all times. you're a blob of salty meat piloting a flesh mech and you get to act like it.

problemnyatic

This is called dignity of risk and it's a big topic in disability rights spaces. id elaborate but im fuckin wiped

fedorahead

it's always funny how people will advocate for bodily autonomy when it comes to certain things but then shy away from anything they personally wouldn't do to their own body. like yeah, that's why it's your body buddy. i can do what i want with mine.

funnyrobot
marxism-transgenderism

Hi if you ever find yourself in a relationship saying anything along the lines of "well I can't leave cause I would never be able to find something better than this because I'm trans/fat/aging/antisocial/unlucky" I beg of you to run. Please. You can find and build better but in order to do that you have to take the first step out the door. You do not have to endure abuse, mistreatment, or just plain incompatibility for the sake of a fraction of happiness. You don't.

marxism-transgenderism

This post has ended multiple shitty relationships. Reblog it to end even more

themarginalartist
writing-prompt-s

Wizards live in towers, Princesses are kept captive in towers. You, a mage of wandering interests, come back to find half your towers upper floors occupied by a bored young woman. There are worse ways to find an apprentice.

noglorysavehonor

She screams, so then you scream, so then she screams again, and your familiar jumps off your shoulder and runs away.

"I didn't think wizards were the, um. Screaming type," she says afterwards, when you've magicked up two cups of tea.

"Well," you say, "Well. Um. Maybe not most of them, no."

She blinks at you. You look down at yourself and realize you haven't even cast a hair-cleaning spell in a month, let alone actually washed anything, and you're wearing your travel clothes (aka pajamas). You quickly look back up so you don't come off as self-conscious.

"...I see," she says.

The cat is still sulking.

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