Keira Knightley 20 January 2018

Does anyone else remember the story about that poor lesbian who came out to her mother and her mother cried and said “it’s all that damn Keira Knightley’s fault, I knew I shouldn’t have let you watch pride and prejudice as a child” because I’m really feeling that now

Yes

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THE “HELP IRENE PAY RENT” CHALLENGE

I don’t like having to make this post, but things have gotten a little bit dire.  In brief: I’m a trans lesbian who has recently (8/11/18) moved to a new state, and has been steadily unemployed since then.  I’ve been looking for work, but no one seems to want to take a chance on me.  And now it appears that I’m going to be about $100 short on rent this month.

Please, if you can spare anything, donate to my Ko-Fi.  Anything helps.  If you don’t feel comfortable simply donating money, you can ask me to write something for you in exchange, and I will do it gladly (as long as it’s not some sort of hateful political screed or illegal pornography or something of the sort).

Every donation keeps me a little bit further from having to move back in with my parents in the depths of a red state, and is therefore more precious to me than you can imagine.

Dueling ballerinas. 

OCs Jin Shuilang and Xiao Wen (their story on my instagram)

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makin this posts again bc i cant find the last one

my bank thinks its fun to charge overdraft fees for 1 fukin $20 charge so now im almost $800 overdrawn, my birthday is in less than a week, and im leaving for vacation on sunday. i have money for bare essentials, but thats it.

im opening up my paypal for donations, and my cash app is $phoenixrex

Me

until we yeet again…

im not american, can someone explain what he did?

Reagan was elected in 1980, around the same time that HIV began spreading and turning into a pandemic. Nearly 60,000 cases were reported with more than 27,000 dead before he even mentioned the disease in a major speech, during his second term.

His administration spent years pushing back on requests for funding for treatment and research. It’s impossible to know for certain, but if the disease had been aggressively studied and treated in the early years it might have been contained to a few hundred or few thousand deaths here in the USA.

Also he cut funds for mental health treatment and facilities, turning disabled people out onto the streets, the War on Drugs was cranked up to inner-city warfare, and the fundamentalist Christian “Moral Majority” that was his power base happily watched queers and black people and sex workers and homeless people die alone and scared.

Until Donald Trump was elected, he was the best example of an oblivious wealthy white person riding a wave of bigotry into the White House, and empowering that bigotry to a degree that cost tens of thousands of lives.

TL;DR, he watched us die and didn’t care.

My friend: “I thought everyone liked Reagan.”

Republicans like Reagan, idolize him because he was a good public speaker (he was an actor) and he had an overwhelmingly popular re-election campaign because he survived an assassination attempt.

Make no mistake though- blood is on Reagan’s hands for every single person who died from HIV/AIDS. Worse still, his economic policies condemned an entire generation: we’re still suffering from Reaganomics and the stunning amount of cuts he gave to the wealthy to fuck the middle class.

Ronald Reagan can burn in Hell.

When Ron, frustrated with studying for NEWTs and with Hermione’s anxious sixth-year nagging, explains to her what reading is like for him, Hermione’s breath catches. “Ron, you’re dyslexic,” she says, softly, and instantly regrets every snide comment she’s ever made towards his study habits. 

Soon, by asking around, Hermione amasses a list of spells for Ron to try - some stilling the page, some changing the font of books for easy reading, some going after Ron’s temporal lobe directly. 

These help, a little, but not as much as knowing there’s a word for why reading is so hard for him. That it’s normal, that he’s not stupid, and that Hermione suddenly helps instead of criticizes, looks for solutions rather than complains, praises instead of gloats. 

!!! Oh

#listen tho what if #muggles are terrible about disabilities#but wizards are even worse#they don’t even have the terminology that muggles do#it’s all ‘kinda loony’ or “just dim’ or (most often) ‘not a talented witch/wizard’#and ofc ~everyone knows~ that all illnesses can be cured with magic#(except for some magical illnesses that can’t be cured at all)#but as ron talks more with hermione and other muggleborns#and researches the spells hermione gets him#and realizes that most of the spell creators probably also had dyslexia but had no word for it#he realizes that what ‘everyone knows’ isn’t true at all#after abt a year of this he talks to mcgonagall abt changing his career goals#goes into healing with a concentration on research#and a secret concentration on finding out what muggles know and bringing it into the wizarding world#(his dad is so proud of him and prolly helps out a lot too)

this paragraph is better than anything jk ever wrote about grown ron

Uhhh. This is canon now. Yep!

Don’t feel bad if you giggled. There’s definitely something funny about that juxtaposition. However, it is the actual state of our lives, which is decidedly less funny.

Hey, I’m Nik. I’m a 20 year old Jewish lesbian with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which, if you’re not well-versed, basically means that my tendons and joints just absolutely hate staying in place. It’s caused severe chronic pain since I was thirteen, and has ruined my ability to do any kind of physical work. Regardless, I’ve been working retail jobs on and off; as you may know, minimum wage is not enough to live off of. My story is, in short, my body is all fucked up, my father’s dead and my mother is basically a teenager, and my fiancee & I are all alone in this wild world.

My fiancee, @meanexwife, is also here with me. We are both disabled, we are both doing literally all we can. In our rush to find somewhere to live, and at my mother’s pressuring to stay close to home, we’ve made a pretty grave mistake. 

Our apartment complex is having us pay an exorbitant amount for a roach-infested, barely functioning home.

You can see the more detailed receipts on what’s wrong with the apartment here. 

All of our plumbing is prone to breaking at the slightest provocation, we’ve got G-d knows how many roaches in our bathroom and kitchen, and their so-called pest control has done literally nothing. We’re also two disabled women living directly adjacent to known sexual predators. The apartment complex has acknowledged they know the people across from us, who have gone after us both before, are predatory. They have also done nothing about it. As an added fuck-you, they initially tried to give us a (somehow) worse unit; when we complained and tried to get it fixed, they gave us a second floor unit. Both of us have declining mobility. The stairs are not going to be doable for very much longer. 

Management here is unavailable almost all the time and has no interest in the quality of life of their tenants. We’re poor anyway, and they are currently doing the wonderful work of exploiting us while keeping us in abysmal living conditions. If we can pay rent, we can’t eat. So. Help us out if you can. We’re not going to be able to do this much longer, and we have no outside help.

Donate at:

paypal.me/alexandriarain for paypal $runefire on cashapp @niarkos on venmo

You can also buy my poetry at payhip.com/raccoon or commission me for fiction on my blog.

hey guuuuuys! so our rock-spitting sink was the least of our issues I’m afraid. we’re also surrounded by bugs and people who would like to do us harm.

we’re probably angling for about $4000 to get us out safely. I know that sounds like a lot and that our situation’s been tough for the last year or so, but if each follower of this blog just gave us $1 we would have enough to survive and get somewhere safe.

if you’re able, please, please donate. like. this is actually a very big deal and a serious issue. anything you can spare is enough, even a few dollars. 

we love you guys! stay safe

I actually don’t agree with this. If you don’t stop hurting someone like that when it’s visibly affecting them in a negative way, you’re actually a shitty friend/human being. That chick was in the right, imo. Don’t make someone feel like shit just because of their sexuality. That’s fucked up, no matter what your sexuality is. Heterphobia is a thing that is unseen by most. That girl was just doing the same thing you did to her.

Public Service Announcement, people:

Women can be sexist

Racial Minorities can be racist

Gay people can be heterophobic

Wake up people, you’re not born better than anyone else. I hate it when people think that they don’t have to abide common sense/decency because of how they were born.

*mic drop*

hi—an actual expert here. i’ve completed my first year of my phd course in straight theory. i think the above summary is brief and doesn’t touch on what we know about the heterosexuals. essentially: almost everything here is incorrect and taken from conspiracy theories the internet has allowed to run rampant.

we do have examples of heterosexual existence dating back to older societies. admittedly, noteworthy academics have believed these examples to be decontextualised from their original performative cultural significance.

but heterosexuality is inherently performative. it is reactionary. the argument is barely biological and this is an oversimplification. especially given the events this post speaks of never happened! if you’d fact checked OP, you’d know that this “genetics” and “first humans” argument originated from a viral post on reddit.

heterosexuals MIGHT have existed, but we still don’t know whether this was due to their biology. at this time the only arguments we can propose are entirely psychological, historical or societal.

don’t believe everything you read on tumblr dot com.

oh goodness, okay. I guess you need me to clarify I’ve been working in straight theory for three years & have completed my PhD in anthropology. this is the field I actually work in, and have been doing research on early heterosexual concept since you were in high school.

we’re talking about the existence of straight people in the sense of actual, decisive evidence. whether or not people were made to act as “straight” for some reason or another, a performance or a try at social activity is not actually the same as a straight person existing. this theory you’re talking about is weak and honestly was created by some really determined hopefuls in the community. we can talk all day about how some people may have acted as if they were tigers, but that doesn’t mean they were actually tigers.

I understand your reasons for not citing any sources, given that you have none, but you have to understand that the work on this has been going on for several years and we have found no evidence to support the existence of a heterosexual human being in history or currently.

also, the argument is not from reddit. it’s based on an actual piece of scientific research which has since then shown up in many papers on the matter. just an example of one of them from the University of Edinburgh:

next time, how about you check your facts before you’re contrary? thank you! x

fucking thought provoking. let me begin with this: you have cited an outdated text by another extremist.

like you, fialovā suffers from oversimplification. her work as a whole references several untrustworthy sources, notably romanyuk. romanyuk was a politically charged man and held extremist beliefs. if you’ll remember, he was arrested in 2001 due to his compliance in a program primarily experimenting “with” (on) children. he was searching for psychic ability.

during his career he claimed to have contact with extraterrestrials and mathematically predict the coming of christ. should romanyuk uncharacteristically not have bullshitted his research, he would still be unreliable.

with him removed from our picture, who are we left with? from 1980-1998: taylor, davies and nowak. these three attended the same university, partnered often and based the groundwork of their research off neanderthals.

when nowak later (much later) analysed the dna of preserved early humans, he thought he’d discovered biological heterosexuality. the conclusion he came to was degradation of dna, yes—but one of the founding fathers of anti-heterosexual academia changed his mind. post-1998 he refused to rule out the possibility of ancient heterosexuals due to.. genetic variability, perhaps? migration of early humans? degradation of dna itself presenting a poor argument? nowak suspected a heterosexual mutation to have existed within pockets of early nomadic humans.

(on another nitpicky note: fialovā combats the anthropologist david müller, and repeatedly shows herself to be revisionist.)

but heterosexuality is displayed plainly in greek society through both art and writing. performative among the wealthy, the argument can be made that among them were hiding true heterosexuals. this would align with nowak’s migration theory, placing the group with the mutated gene in the right place and time period. a well documented example is the greek poetess anat of tegea. she wrote of romantic interest in men, and is thought to have taken male lovers before the practice became fashionable.

but anyway, thank you for reminding me we have years before the pretentious attitudes clear from our unfortunately shared field. :)

by the way—from the information you provided me and a skim of your blogs archives, it was easy to puzzle you out. unsurprisingly, you primarily source fialovā in your academic work and venture into even more unorthodox theory in your private life. unsurprising that you should use social capital to claim credibility. your misinformation relies on taking advantage of the impressionable through a cult of personality.

straight people do this

pay me

can we cut the whole reparation crap? this is bullshit

for $8000 i will stop