Forkanna/Jessica. Big Honking Gay™. Writer, gamer and giant nerd.
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begging people to realize that “androgynous” is not code for “somewhere on the soft butch to elven twink continuum”
androgyny can & does mean big tits and huge beards and thick dark body hair and cock bulge and fat rolls and dark skin btw and i am soooo sick and tired of people talking about “androgyny” when they only mean a specific form of androgyny that prioritizes the least amount of visible sex characteristics possible alongside “ethereal” whiteness and thinness stop defining androgyny by lack im gonna go insane
idk who out there needs to hear this but androgynous does not just mean “not obviously male or female,” it also means “a combination of masculine and feminine traits.” why do y'all think AndroGynous means “gender neutral.” hello. hello.
Everytime I see posts like this I get filled with such profound sadness
Cause you know who has the same brainrot as you? The same unhinged feelings as you after you’ve read the fic? The person who always wants to scream about the fic with you?
THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT
I never used to leave comments but since I got into the habit of commenting on everything i enjoy it’s been incredible. Especially when the author gets back to me about it and we get to have a discussion of what other ideas they had. One writer replied to my comment with a 5 paragraph essay detailing the Floorplan of the building the characters lived in and it was incredible
Anyways this is all to say that if you find a fic that just makes you want to scream from the rooftops, leave a comment saying that to the author and maybe they will join you and you can scream incoherently together
It’s also important to know, this feeling of isolation is what the author feels but ten fold. It’s the exact reason writers are begging for comments. It’s to talk about the story with someone. That story that’s taken up your life for a few hours, or perhaps days, has taken up the author’s life for weeks, months, and - very often - years. There’s a very good chance these authors are dying to talk to you.
WELL. SO. I’ve been counting down for months and finally the ‘I Can See You’ video is out. I wrote this video treatment over a year ago and really wanted to play out symbolically how it’s felt for me to have the fans helping me reclaim my music. I had my heart set on Joey King, Taylor Lautner and Presley Cash starring in it. Joey and Presley had been in the video for ‘Mean’ when they were 9 and 13 and they are back and so ridiculously bad ass!! Taytay is INCREDIBLE in this (didn’t have a stunt double!) and shout out to Tay Lautner for being so awesome to hang with on set. The Tale of 3 Taylors 😆 I always wanted to direct fight scenes/a heist storyline and had the most incredible time plotting this out with my amazing DP Jonathan Sela. So proud of this one.
WARNING: The following chapters become extremely NSFW, and will include more Punzelsanna content (though this particular chapter is fairly tame). Viewer discretion advised. Also it will be a scene over the course of three chapters, if any of you would rather wait until they’re all out to enjoy cliffhanger-free.
“Anna, will you quit being so evasive?” Jennifer needled her girlfriend as they drove down the coastal highway. “I mean, I know it’s you, and you’re such an awesome girlfriend…”
“Listen to you, buttering me up,” she giggled.
“…and that whatever this surprise is will be great. But can’t I have some kind of hint? Like, just tell me a category. Or the first letter!”
Anna shot her a grin. “Alright… the category is ‘things you do with loved ones’ and the letter is… S.”
Holding back a laugh, Punz instead let her lips twist into a thoughtful smile. “Hmm… skiing? Sushi? Spending time with each other?”
Anna shrugged, purposely not looking at her girlfriend. It was obvious that Punz was getting a little frustrated – all in good fun, but still. “You’ll see soon enough. All you need to know is that it’s gonna be a great time – for us, but especially for you.”
Only 13 percent of video games are readily playable and accessible. No other form of media is as endangered as video games. There is no legal path to preserve or archive video games. You can go to libraries and archives for books years out of print. You can rent a movie or download a pdf. There is no legal equivalent for video games. Games companies do not double as archival organisations and they never will. They have never been about preserving. They are about selling. Which is not inherently evil compared to anyone else but they along with the law are directly preventing archivers and preservationists from doing their job and allowing this entire medium to be experienced in the future.
Think of some of the most influential video games of all time. How many of them can you play right now. Without piracy. How many of these could your not very technology literate friend play. How do you think this is affecting not only the wider industry now but also people in the future. And for completely arbitrary meaningless reasons.
And also think about the games that aren’t the most influential ones, but are important to you. How many people have that one weird edutainment game/indie game/bootleg game that they played a ton as a kid, that they quote to this day?
Those are rarely the ones that are considered super-influential or super profitable. They don’t get rereleases or remakes. They just… fade away. Many of them don’t even get pirated, so you can’t even find illegitimate copies!
We’re never gonna lose Super Mario 64. But if you grew up playing Croc: Legend of the Gobbos instead, you may be in trouble.
So within two days of each other, Fox News writes an article comparing aromanticism and asexuality to pedophilia, and then Matt Walsh releases a video saying asexuality is a mental illness and asexuals are tricking teenagers into having depression.
Not sure what’s going on right now over in Conservative World, but it’s a hell of wild U-turn for them to suddenly switch from “Oh no! The left is sexualizing our children!” to “Oh no! The left is asexualizing our children!”
It’s a reminder, I guess, that they’re coming for all of us. The fash and the white supremacists will not make nice distinctions between the queers when they put us up against the wall. There is no gatekeeping, no label-policing, no purity-purging and no assimilation that any of us can do that will save us. They want us dead, and while they’ll start with whoever is most vulnerable at any given time, they’ll get around to all of us eventually.
Queer solidarity means all of us because the fash are coming for all of us.
All Dividers are Feds. Stand united or die separately.
ANYONE who is trying to divide our community is a fucking Fed. That includes other queers who like to argue about who is and isn’t “allowed” in our community.
stfu this price on food will keep me alive when I’m starving and putting quarters together to maybe stay alive until my next shift.
rich people: why is unhealthy food so cheap? don’t they know we have no self-control and will eat this until it causes health problems?
poor people: oh, thank god, something i can afford.
Five bucks can buy you so much more though if you take more than five minutes to prepare it.
Umm. Idk where you’re buying groceries, but $5 doesn’t get me anything.
Lol they want u to live on salted pasta and nothing else. XDDD God forbid people want something cheap that TASTES good.
Like- if u have more than $5 u can buy lots of things in bulk and per serving it’s cheaper. But for just straight $5??? Fuck outta here. $5 is like the cost of one spice at a grocery store ffs
Yeah for just straight $5 I could maybe buy a bag of rice and a jar of peanut butter, and that’s honestly less complete nutrition than that fast food, which at least has some vegetables in it, some meat, etc.
Rich people don’t get that being poor actually costs money. Terry Pratchett summed it up pretty well in one of the Discworld books:
“But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.”
In fact, it’s such a good example that one widely used term to describe this socioeconomic bullshit is literally ‘Vime’s Boots’
The fuller version of the quote:
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
See here for further developments in the impact of this concept on (for example) UK culture, most specifically as embodied in the Vimes Boots Poverty Index devised by Jack Monroe (and authorized by the Pratchett estate).
NOTE: Wow, did not intend to post this almost exactly one month after the last chapter. But hey, that’s kinda fun! I hope you all enjoy Anna’s birthday celebration (which, also very coincidentally, happened right after my own). See you with another chapter very soon!
John did make the time to stop by the following week. Anna had been out with Punz, but she heard all about it when she got home. That really was the best news she could have expected. She found herself smiling the whole while they were having that conversation, even if it felt a little too early for celebration. But it was a step in the right direction.
Wendy didn’t come around until after Christmas break was over and done with. Anna and Punz were already back in classes, and she only heard through a call from her dad that Wendy had stopped by to mend fences, and been highly distressed that she had missed her chance…
Since Elsa was already gone. Just as she had promised, once the holiday was over with, she hopped into the time machine and fast-forwarded another month. Again, from her father, Anna heard that Doc Pabbie had rigged up her phone so that the call would originate from somewhere overseas - a simple matter for anyone who’d heard of a VPN before, much less an actual scientist - and Elsa talked to her eldest daughter that way. Then checked in with John, as well. Then… gone again.
It was sad that Anna didn’t get to see her during that visit, but it couldn’t be helped. Her mother seemed determined to hold herself to that self-imposed policy that she and Anna had to eventually be closer in age if she was going to let herself enjoy their relationship. So when month after month slipped by, she wasn’t surprised not to really hear from her mother.
Until the middle of March. Anna’s nineteenth birthday.
There should be nationwide solidarity protests for the LGBT folk in Florida.
We need to show we’re united and supportive, that we aren’t just leaving each other to the wolves.
I have a proposal…
June 1st. The first day of Pride. That’s not to far from now.
What if we started Pride with protests in every major city and town that can plan a protest by then. With a matching boycott on everything online/offline for just that one day to match.
The feds and states get taxes on everything after all, it’s not just the companies making profit.
And when you protest you need demands. You cant expect a government that historically has not protected you to just suddenly know/do what’s best. And they need to be concise and focused on your specific cause.
Hypothetically speaking, what if these were our demands:
LGBT & Queer Rights Be Codified
ALL of the same full citizenship privileges that cishet Americans are automatically afforded by age, relationship, or birthright (ex: marriage, medical, spousal, & parental rights) - no longer 2nd class citizens.
Including bodily autonomy as a measure to guarantee that we can make our own medical choices & regulate what happens to our own bodies (ex: HRT, surgery, abortion)
Dissolving and barring any and all trans panic and gay panic laws.
Expand On and Codify Anti-Discrimination Laws
Barring discrimination against those who present or identify as any gender regardless of whether or not that aligns with their legal or physical sex
Religion must be explicitly defined as a non-valid cause for challenging the constitutional or federal freedoms of any specific group
Because of 1 & 2(below) we need a process to remove any government official when states systematically prevent citizens from challenging or removing corrupt officials that are directly challenging our freedoms.
“Lower courts reasonably interpreted Supreme Court precedents as holding that unless First Amendment freedoms were targeted directly and specifically, antidiscrimination laws-promulgated at any level of government, and protecting any group-are exempt from normal constitutional limitations.”
Florida has no virtually no recall laws for governor
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If y'all like these I can make some graphics or something for reposts (or you can make them, whatever works best)
As a fellow queer person living comfortably in a protected state I’m happy to do what I can, just lmk #solidarity
Feel free to repost, y'all.
THE DATE HAS CHANGED TO JUNE 15.
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The graphics are shareable and have been updated to reflect the new date.
Please use them.
#WrathWithPride2023 is the tag for reposts/shares
Share this on other sites! Facebook, Twitter, tik tok, insta, etc. Repost it yourself or share someone else’s repost. Search the tag & like/share/reblog/retweet everything you see there.
Show visible support for this! It takes 3 minutes tops to save and reupload the graphics with the tag! Even less time to hit retweet or a heart!
If we REALLY want to be there for each other and stop fascism this shouldn’t be a huge ask. Small potatoes in comparison. Easy. Just repost/share/like/support the tag and queer rights.
And show up on the 15th.
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Unfortunately this wasn’t reposted enough to gain the traction and virality it needed to be a successful protest by June 1st. It was posted less than 10 times outside of Tumblr despite having over 100k views and over 30k reblogs within Tumblr. I posted this May 5th and like a lot of you, I’m a bit disappointed.
That said, a lot of people only found out about it recently and are still interested and want to do this so we’re going to try again.
So please do not make this flop again.
This will not catch fire without a spark and I cannot be the spark on my own!
Where is my community? Be my community
Hey yall updated post~ go absolutely feral with it this time around please
Hey @anarchblr can you give the updated version a boost please? I appreciate you 🖤💖
why do they let the worlds most boring people direct movies
They explain this in the tinkerbell movies. The light comes from the pixie dust covering every faries wings. This guy hasn’t even seen the tinkerbell movies
Landlocked states, provinces and territories of North America
In Nebraska it’s illegal to talk about the ocean
i showed this to my dad and he said “nebraskans should stay in nebraska because the culture shock of talking to people who know what the ocean is would kill them instantly” and im not over it
Elsa was gone in the morning. Anna knew she should have expected it, but finding her bed empty still hurt. Couldn’t she just stay? Couldn’t she show her that she mattered more to her than a one-night stand? The thoughts may have been unfair, but they kept coming regardless.
Then again, she did find a sweet note on her bedside table. It wasn’t signed, but the contents had her smiling: 'You will always be my toga-wearing princess. Thank you for a wonderful evening, and I will see you soon.’
16th July 2023
Reblogged From yamino
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