queer is my identity, not your "q slur" tag

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

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

About post!

I used to be @ the-gay-lady-of-ravenclaw-tower

E or Eon, 20s, they/she, genderqueer lesbian

*** If you tag my posts as “q slur”, you will be blocked. If someone wants to filter out the word “queer”, they can go to post content and filter it out specifically. “Gay” is used as a slur at least as often as queer is, especially in the past couple decades, but you don’t see anyone tagging things “g slur”. Queerphobes will always take the words we use to describe ourselves and turn them into slurs because they hate us. Context matters. “Ew you dirty queer” = slur. “I’m a member of the queer community” ≠ slur. I use queer in the second context, and by tagging it as “q slur” you are saying that my identity is too foul for people to even see the word. That’s very hurtful, and I don’t want to deal with that, so you will be blocked. People have been doing this so much I had to put this in my blog title. Please stop. ***

I tag original posts with “#an e original” and asks with “#ask tag”. If I reblog something multiple times in a row I’ll tag the duplicates with “#duplicate reblog” if you want to filter that. I try to tag for common triggers, just ask if you want something else tagged and I’ll let you know if I can do it or not.

This blog is inclusive to ALL members of the queer/lgbtq+ community— queer, bi, pan, gay, lesbian, aro, ace, polyamorous, trans and enby people, people who use microlabels, people who use neopronouns, people questioning their gender/sexuality, and any others I haven’t mentioned. “Discourse” about someone else’s identity isn’t discourse, it’s just bigotry. Also, welcome to anyone who’s not queer but is an ally!

If you have questions about the queer community, particularly about my specific identities, go ahead and ask them! I will be happy to answer to the best of my ability. I don’t know everything but I will do my best to answer based on my own experiences or point you towards resources that can answer better than I can. I will never be upset by questions asked in good faith, and I assume good faith until it’s blatantly obvious it’s not.

If you love Delta Rae PLEASE come talk to me we are so few on here and we need to stick together

Same goes to wanting to come be feral together about whatever I’m interested in and posting excessively about at the moment

I’m also obsessed with codes and ciphers, if you want to work on a code-cracking problem with me or even just like send me riddles or ciphertext to crack I might die of happiness.

I generally don’t do chain posts, but if you tagged me in one, know that I saw it and I’m happy you thought of me even if I didn’t do it!

If you ever want to talk, my inbox and dms are always open. Feel free to go on anon if you’re nervous. If you’re ever on the fence about whether or not you should message me, please do, you’re cool and I want to talk with you! I love chatting with people about shared interests on here and I always try to assume the best, I will never be annoyed with you unless you are being blatantly rude to me.

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tacofrend

Something that I think should be an important part of solarpunk aesthetics is screws.

Look at your smartphone. No screws. You've got to have specialized tools to get inside your phone to repair something. There are certain pieces of tech that are glued in place and glue can't be undone without permanently breaking the bond.

But screws!

You can take apart a broken old radio, repair what's broken, and, if you were careful in taking it apart, you can put it back together and have a fully functioning radio and all you need is a common screwdriver!

It's hard to build screws and other mechanical fasteners because it requires more planning than clamps and glues, but isn't that what solarpunk is all about‽ It's about care and sustainability and and a radio or a computer built carefully with repair in mind is a sustainable computer that stays out of landfills and in use.

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lazyevaluationranch

What should we grow grapes on?

wooden lattice

metal trellis with little fleur-de-lys finials

just let the grapevines rend the siding from the house

8ft tall jagged iron torus, constructed for unknown purpose, free to good home

lazyevaluationranch

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03/05/2023 Rumbled! In our defense, if the chaotropic tumblr hivemind had voted for the Eight Foot Tall Jagged Iron Torus, Constructed For Unknown Purpose, Free To Good Home, but we’d been unable to procure it, tumblr might have been Very Disappointed In Us. So I put the poll in while the torus-bearing crane truck was pulling up the driveway.

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Details photographed the next day, in fog.

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While we were cleaning out the cracks, we found dried out little segments of rose cane, and beneath them, twisty honeysuckle tendrils. Apparently the Eight Foot Tall Jagged Iron Torus, Constructed for Unknown Purpose, Free To Good Home instills in everyone who sees it the intense desire to grow climbing plants on it.

Some dark day perhaps we will all finally know and rue the Purpose of the Eight Foot Tall Jagged Iron Torus, Free to Good Home. But in the meantime, it sleeps under a curling green blanket and dreams of blossom and berry, lifting sunwards.

a-flickering-soul
quoms

Over the past 24 hours

  • Affirmative action is now illegal
  • There is a constitutionally protected right for businesses to refuse service to minority groups as long as they can shoehorn the words "religion" and "free speech" into their justification
  • No student loan forgiveness

Redacted redacted redacted redacted redacted redacted

vampire-clarissa

AND indiana's Supreme Court blocked the abortion ban injunction so now Indiana has a now-total abortion ban in effect

littlestarsierra

AND Virginia banned porn. You cannot access “any description or representation of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse” unless your ID is collected and verified as being of an adult resident. We live in a theocracy <3

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pissvortex

twitter is going to be shut down. half of reddit is locked or completely unmoderated. the entire first page of google search results are ads. tumblr does not and will never have a functioning search system and their content moderation is 100% automated. youtube only shares ad revenue with people who make snuff films for Youtube Kids. facebook is selling your grandma’s social security number under the table for like $5. web 2.0 is completely dead right

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charliejaneanders

Every single craft has been paying “The Passion Tax” for generations. This term (coined by author and organizational psychologist Adam Grant) — and backed by scientific research — simply states that the more someone is passionate about their work, the more acceptable it is to take advantage of them. In short, loving what we do makes us easy to exploit.

Guest Column: If Writers Lose the Standoff With Studios, It Hurts All Filmmakers

s-leary

If the phrase “vocational awe” isn’t part of your lexicon yet, stop scrolling and read Fobazi Ettarh:

Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.

Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves

I see it in every field I’ve ever worked in: publishing, open source software development, higher education. It describes pretty much every industry that relies on creativity, altruism, or both.