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Important reminder that this is an queer, ace, aro, trans and nonbinary friendly blog. Ace and aro folks are lgbt+, you don’t need dysphoria to be trans, and exclusionist rhetoric hurts all questioning lgbtq+ folks.
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May the 4th be with you✨
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It's this man's day, go wild
From me it's a messy paintover of that sketch from last year. I have to say, gold and turquoise are his colours for real
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The channel was created on October 9, two days after the war began, as “The Avengers.” The next day the name was changed to “Azazel,” based on the Hebrew pronunciation of “Gaza” and a word for hell, before being changed to its current name [72 Virgins Uncensored]. One entry posted on October 11 reads: “Burning their mother … You won’t believe the video we got! You can hear the crunch of their bones. We’ll upload it right away, get ready.” Images of Palestinian captives and corpses were captioned “Exterminating the roaches … exterminating the Hamas rats. … Share this beauty.” In another instance, the following caption accompanied a video of an Israeli soldier allegedly dipping machine gun bullets in pork fat: “What a man!!!!! Lubricates bullets with lard. You won’t get your virgins.” And: “Garbage juice!!!! Another dead terrorist!! You have to watch it with the sound, you’ll die laughing.”
And here's a link to the original exposé, published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (behind a paywall)
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HI !!
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The person who grew up expecting to be the “chosen one” learns that they are meant to destroy the world, not save it.
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op turned off reblogs on this post for safety reasons but gave me permission to repost it because it's an important message.
[ID: screenshot of a tumblr post and subsequent reblog. the username has been removed so the op can remain anonymous.
the main post reads, "random Jews throughout online spaces and the real world have nothing to do with Israel or its crimes against humanity and to equate Every Jewish Thing with Israel is exactly what Israel wants in order to retain the idea of cultural homogeneity / the idea that Israel is the only safe place for Jews"
The reblog reads, "the colonial state of Israel wants people to think that all Jews are affiliated with Israel so that goyim feel guilted into backing it otherwise they’re “antisemitic”, or it preys on Nazi ideas of a “global elite” controlling everything. Judaism pre-dates the state of Israel, and its presence is an exploitation of our religion by (mostly) the US in order to have an excuse to send Jews somewhere else and displace the people native to that region and now Palestinians are being slaughtered in order to build condos and beachfront hotels where their homes once stood
“Never again means now. Free Palestine” end ID.]
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anakin's whole thing is unhealthy posession and that is most clearly shown with his relationships with women. after his mother dies, he goes on a murderous rampage. when padme rejects him, he chokes her. he must wholly possess the women closest to him. mother becomes a sacrificial lamb and wife becomes the loyal appendage. he recognizes his son's power instantly, but it takes three movies before he recognizes he has a daughter
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i feel like the boeing whistleblower case should radicalize more people. a major airline company is producing planes with less and less regard for safety and it's starting to get noticeable. man takes them to court, which would reduce profit at the cost of public safety. he fucking dies the night that boeings legal team asks him to stay an extra day. if nothing happens about this, i hope it gets through to people that america would literally kill you for a few extra cents
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i think if i were a jedi i would make it my life mission to make yoda angry. i would give anything to hear his little goblin voice mutter the words “thin fucking ice, you are on” and click his little cane on the ground. i would do anything. kick him as im walking and be like “oh sorry didnt see you there.” go with him to the market and try to buy him for four credits and say “oh my bad i thought you were a head of cabbage.” raise all the chairs in the jedi temple just an inch. catch him while he’s sleeping and paint his little nails and then be like “odd that someone caught you slippin master yoda. wonder who could have done that.” leave crumbs in his seat in the jedi council. i mean i would do anything
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The Rules:
- Every twenty-four hours there will be another round. After every round, the character in last place will be eliminated.
- If there are multiple characters tying for last place, there will be a special elimination round. In these rounds, every character in last place will be eliminated, even if all the characters have tied equally.
- When there are only two characters remaining, they will face off against one another in a week-long poll to determine the victor.
- If the character that you consider the hottest isn't listed here, hit the 'what about ___???' option and reply to this post with the overlooked character. The character with the highest 'write-in' votes will be added to the next round. Unless the 'what about ___???' option is the least voted for, in which case it will be eliminated.
- This is all for fun. Don't take it too seriously ;)
It's time to get thirsty, everyone! Happy voting!
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ID: A messy digital sketch of Eighth Brother from Star Wars: Rebels. Eighth is a tall, thin man wearing a set of black armor which covers everything except his hands and feet. He’s kneeling on the ground and looking up at three lightsabers pointed at him, one blue, and two white.
Yeah so I felt sort of garbage about a lack of art recently, so I did a screenshot redraw/somewhat of an anatomy exercise/some sort of excuse for value practice. I did take where his joints went directly from the screenshot, as I had never previously been sure of exactly what limb went where in this scene before that, but now I have a fairly decent idea.
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Contemplating his future.
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ID: A picture of Eighth Brother standing with a knee popped in a slinky aquamarine dress on a dusty pink background. The Eighth Brother is an extremely thin terrelian jango jumper with teal skin and yellow tattoos that run down his face, arms, and chest. He has three large red dreadlocks running down the center of his head and tied at the nape of his neck. He has black sclera with yellow eyes, and orange, catlike pupils. He has large burn scars running down his chest and arms.
Alright, let’s upload this for real this time, now feat. his scars where they belong and a better color for shading. A friend said “Imperial Gala,” and honestly, if you want to imagine this as a companion piece to the Grand Inquisitor in a dress, you can.
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So. A transmasc child is dead. Assaulted by their classmates, left to die by school staff, misgendered and deadnamed by the press. And it's about fucking time we have a serious talk about the way we discuss transmasc victimisation - or rather, the way we don't.
The dynamic is especially evident in the way we talk about terfs, and exemplified by the dichotomy: "terfs recruit trans men, but they want trans women dead". This does three separate things:
- It minimises the harm terfs do to the transmascs they recruit. Terfs don't just want transmascs to join them; they want transmascs to live as women. Coerced detransition kills. Suicide rates are extremely high among transmascs, and lack of support raises them further. To want trans men to detransition is to want them dead.
- It positions trans men as a threat to trans women. As, essentially, terfs waiting to reveal themselves. What should be seen as a common enemy instead becomes a new vector for division. This fear is such that a common retort against transmascs who are seen as misbehaving is "you're gonna become a terf". Trans men are scrutinised for signs of this inevitable transformation, inundated with prophecies of their induction into the cult that wants to drag them back into the worst period of their lives.
- It boosts the narrative terfs want to spread about themselves. Terfs love to say they are a safe space for transmascs. It helps them sound less hateful, and it helps them recruit. In reality, terfs are extremely hateful against transmascs they see as too far gone to be targets for recruitment. They see rape and hate crimes as just desserts, they wish death on transmascs who disagree with them, they talk about trans men on hrt as roided up monsters. And yet all of that has seemingly gone under the radar, because we're just not willing to acknowledge it happens.
More broadly, transmasc victimisation is seen as a joke. There was a hilarious post going around a while back about transmascs in abusive relationships with cis men who won't let them transition - the joke being on the transmasc in that situation. Multiple posts about specifically nonbinary transmascs, characterising their fears of transphobic violence as the oppression fantasies of privileged women, their experiences of dysphoria as laughably immaterial. No negative experience is serious enough once it's stacked up against murder, and trasnmascs who have been murdered aren't exactly in position to use that fact as a gotcha, are they?
There is a broad resistance to understanding transmascs as the victims of any situation. Part of it is a sort of trans-inclusive sexism: we don't think of cis men as victims, so we can't think of trans men as victims either. But they are.
Another is plain transphobia: dismissing trans people's experiences as not that bad, irrelevant to their trans status, or entirely fabricated is old hat at this point.
A third is a kind of... weaponised transfem advocacy? Any discussion of transmasc experience can be derailed by claiming transfems are somehow being harmed by it, and any harm that befalls a transmasc person can be dismissed by conjuring a hypothetical transfem who would have had it worse. And it sure seems like great allyship at the moment, despite the fact that it doesn't actually help transfems at all.
We often urge transmascs to be the protectors of transfems. Trans solidarity is crucial. But unless we are able to also conceptualise transmascs as needing protection, our solidarity will remain incomplete. And transmascs will continue to die, and be buried twice, both outside the trans community and inside it.
A clarification: I am using transmasc as an umbrella term for a wide variety of trans people, not all of whom fit comfortably under it. This is one of the pitfalls of discussing something as complicated as gender identity in a short format.
We do not know whether Nex identified as transmasc. They have been reported as being nonbinary and genderfluid. I do not want this post to spread misinformation about their identity.
Another clarification: the paragraph on "weaponised transfem advocacy" refers to a specific phenomenon that can be described as a form of whataboutism. It is not genuine advocacy, it is the rhetorical use of transfems and their oppression as a way for self-appointed allies to shut down other trans people. The "why are we talking about this when there are children starving in Africa" of trans discourse.
Transmisogyny is a lived reality for trans women, as recent events on this site have shown, and discussing it is necessary. I do not mean to imply otherwise.
A correction: I have been informed that Nex did go by he/they pronounds, according to his friends.
This would make the insistence on they/them pronouns by the press an act of degendering, adding insult to the injury that led to his death. This is how transmasc victims are treated by their allies and by their community: erased in death for the comfort of those who cannot bear the discomfort of their women-as-victims, men-as-perpetrators worldview being challenged.
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So. A transmasc child is dead. Assaulted by their classmates, left to die by school staff, misgendered and deadnamed by the press. And it's about fucking time we have a serious talk about the way we discuss transmasc victimisation - or rather, the way we don't.
The dynamic is especially evident in the way we talk about terfs, and exemplified by the dichotomy: "terfs recruit trans men, but they want trans women dead". This does three separate things:
- It minimises the harm terfs do to the transmascs they recruit. Terfs don't just want transmascs to join them; they want transmascs to live as women. Coerced detransition kills. Suicide rates are extremely high among transmascs, and lack of support raises them further. To want trans men to detransition is to want them dead.
- It positions trans men as a threat to trans women. As, essentially, terfs waiting to reveal themselves. What should be seen as a common enemy instead becomes a new vector for division. This fear is such that a common retort against transmascs who are seen as misbehaving is "you're gonna become a terf". Trans men are scrutinised for signs of this inevitable transformation, inundated with prophecies of their induction into the cult that wants to drag them back into the worst period of their lives.
- It boosts the narrative terfs want to spread about themselves. Terfs love to say they are a safe space for transmascs. It helps them sound less hateful, and it helps them recruit. In reality, terfs are extremely hateful against transmascs they see as too far gone to be targets for recruitment. They see rape and hate crimes as just desserts, they wish death on transmascs who disagree with them, they talk about trans men on hrt as roided up monsters. And yet all of that has seemingly gone under the radar, because we're just not willing to acknowledge it happens.
More broadly, transmasc victimisation is seen as a joke. There was a hilarious post going around a while back about transmascs in abusive relationships with cis men who won't let them transition - the joke being on the transmasc in that situation. Multiple posts about specifically nonbinary transmascs, characterising their fears of transphobic violence as the oppression fantasies of privileged women, their experiences of dysphoria as laughably immaterial. No negative experience is serious enough once it's stacked up against murder, and trasnmascs who have been murdered aren't exactly in position to use that fact as a gotcha, are they?
There is a broad resistance to understanding transmascs as the victims of any situation. Part of it is a sort of trans-inclusive sexism: we don't think of cis men as victims, so we can't think of trans men as victims either. But they are.
Another is plain transphobia: dismissing trans people's experiences as not that bad, irrelevant to their trans status, or entirely fabricated is old hat at this point.
A third is a kind of... weaponised transfem advocacy? Any discussion of transmasc experience can be derailed by claiming transfems are somehow being harmed by it, and any harm that befalls a transmasc person can be dismissed by conjuring a hypothetical transfem who would have had it worse. And it sure seems like great allyship at the moment, despite the fact that it doesn't actually help transfems at all.
We often urge transmascs to be the protectors of transfems. Trans solidarity is crucial. But unless we are able to also conceptualise transmascs as needing protection, our solidarity will remain incomplete. And transmascs will continue to die, and be buried twice, both outside the trans community and inside it.
A clarification: I am using transmasc as an umbrella term for a wide variety of trans people, not all of whom fit comfortably under it. This is one of the pitfalls of discussing something as complicated as gender identity in a short format.
We do not know whether Nex identified as transmasc. They have been reported as being nonbinary and genderfluid. I do not want this post to spread misinformation about their identity.
Another clarification: the paragraph on "weaponised transfem advocacy" refers to a specific phenomenon that can be described as a form of whataboutism. It is not genuine advocacy, it is the rhetorical use of transfems and their oppression as a way for self-appointed allies to shut down other trans people. The "why are we talking about this when there are children starving in Africa" of trans discourse.
Transmisogyny is a lived reality for trans women, as recent events on this site have shown, and discussing it is necessary. I do not mean to imply otherwise.
I'm transmasc- I have had instances where people literally tried to physically attack me *because of my trans masculinity*
Yet when I talk about this in this community, I'm hit with "nobody hates trans men for being trans men, also you're erasing transfem experiences with transmisogyny" interestingly, every person who has told me that was AFAB and not transfem at all. And every trans woman who I have shared my experiences with is on the same page as me. It's really weird when offline, I can easily share experiences about the nuances of transphobia- experiences aimed at me, and experiences aimed at my transfem and trans woman friends. We create space for each other so we can share about negative experiences and look for intercommunity support.
But when any of this is shared online, it's straight to this weird discourse that is focused on dividing transmasc and transfem communities, and refuses to see how BOTH of our struggles are connected.
This tumblr crowd is really good at pretending to be allies to trans people, but it's fake as fuck. This exact behavior shows fake allyship, and it's driving wedges in the trans community during a time where we are under intense attack. It makes my blood boil to see people genuinely claim that AFAB trans individuals never face violence, and then they are absolutely silent about this very problem when it does happen.
Justice for Nex Benedict. And may every fake trans ally Im talking about here, feel shame at their actions and take the proverbial foot out of their mouth.