It's Not Linear /// Why do you exist here?

i seriously seriously hate the fact that with the new update xkit isnt working anymore because like how am i supposed to post or reblog anything without the oneclick post extension??? i know i don’t post much anyways but i feel since this ridiculous tumblr update, i do nothing but scroll and click like because at least that’s something i can do in one click fsdksdl

okay no reconsidering and like... i need xkit. i hate not having it and like do i really want something else to hate about social media

liberal family members when a woman cuts her hair very short: I respect your decision but I can't lie, I think you look better with your hair longer. Is this just an experiment, do you think you'll grow your hair out after this? Again, I respect your decision, but I do think longer hair looks better than you. I think it is very important that, while I know I have no say in what you do with your hair, I need you to know that I think you look better with your hair long. Don't be offended, but it is of utmost importance that you understand that you look better to me when you have long hair.

posts about BLM no longer being on peoples dashes is so frustrating cause I feel like if you’re following the right people, especially black artists, creatives, activists, etc. then you wouldn’t be having that issue, I’m certainly not. There’s still so much left to be done and the fight is no where near over. So please consider following more black content creators and activists cause trust me when I say, your dash and your world view will be much better for it.

@puciboi and the other folks asking for some recommendations! Here’s a list of just a few of the wonderful content creators I follow here on tumblr! And as always I can’t reccomend the drawingwhileblack tag on twitter enough, it’s a great resource full of amazing artists in the entertainment/game/publishing/illustration/etc. industry!

List of Black Content Creators on Tumblr (and more!)

rest in power john lewis

remember when tumblr used to have the format for reblogged additions on posts be indented instead of vertical and if the post had enough additions to it (which happened frequently because no one on tumblr can shut their fucking mouth) it would just push all the text off the side of the post completely and it became unreadable. it would get so far pushed over that it would just be exactly one character per line and you had to read the post like that. that was a real thing that happened

Remember when people got pissed when staff changed this even though it what was probably one of the only good updates this website ever had

Lmao imagine yelling at fans of color who are discussing fandom racism and how it dimishes their fandom experience that “fandom is supposed to be fun and you’re ruining it for the rest of us” the absolute Caucasity. Newsflash: fandom IS supposed to be fun and when y’all are racist and micro-or-macro-aggressing us, WE CAN’T ENJOY IT. Also imagine admitting that you can’t enjoy fandom if you can’t be racist asdfghjkl can’t relate.

Breaking: redditor discovers a core premise of capitalism

yall know eventually we have to talk about the way terves insert themselves into nonbinary spaces right 

^this. The idea of “sex based discrimination” is at the heart of most of this. Terfs love to promote the idea that while they might not have a gender (cough cough opting out of the system that they see as enabling trans women to identify as women), they do have a sex, and that is “female”. They draw in people by talking about how gender is fake and then bolster the underlying transmisogyny that they find after gaining a foothold, avoiding accusations of transphobia with their own trans identity. This is an idea that’s already invisibly present in nonbinary spaces semi-idependent of radical feminism. A lot of them, especially generalized online communities on tumblr or twitter, heavily center around afab nonbinary people, and heavily reinforce socialization narratives where “woke” nb people discuss the intricacies of the “afab identity” as a closed phenomenon that inherently excludes trans women on the basis of their agab. We as a group (especially tme nonbinary lesbians) really need to be more vigilant about this kind of rhetoric when we’re building spaces that are supposedly safe for trans women. Otherwise all we’re doing is making empty gestures that make us feel better while alienating the women who we claim to care about.

“We were all very close to Rene, and to Rene’s character Odo. I would say that Kira’s romance with Odo was only topped by Quark’s romance with Odo.” - Armin Shimerman (Source)

I watched this live while messaging with @regina-cordium and we were trying to guess who would bring up the gayness of their character first. Andy was the solid prediction, but Nana had a good chance as well. We did NOT expect it to be Armin fdskjdklsf

compliment recklessly! say the nice things that come to your head! we've got better things to do than resisting the instinct to be kind!

Indigenous protesters at Mount Rushmore, July 4 2020.

if you can read this rn learn american sign language

as a place to start i strongly recommend Dr. Bill Vicars’ free lessons on youtube and at lifeprint.com (which also has a huge ASL dictionary and lesson plans/outlines). there are also freelance ASL tutors online who can help personalize your learning experience and give you opportunities to observe and practice signing naturally, if you don’t already have Deaf friends/family

Gallaudet University, a university designed for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, offers a few online lessons for ASL! https://www.gallaudet.edu/asl-connect/asl-for-free

I also have used this website to practice fingerspelling, https://asl.ms/. You can select the speed, and though it’s designed to help your receptive skills in knowing what the spelling was, you can practice your own fingerspelling by signing along with it.

The ASL App is also pretty good, though you do have to pay for most of the lessons, beyond the basics.

I am Deaf and used to TA the ASL program at the University of Missouri and I currently teach workshops about LGBTQ ASL and intersectionality and I wholeheartedly recommend lifeprint.com as a place to start!

But!

1. You can’t learn a language, and certainly not a visual language, alone. If you want to learn conversational ASL, you will need to seek out opportunities to connect with the Deaf community in your area. Dialects and accents vary greatly, and signs you learn online may not actually apply to your IRL conversations.

2. Don’t. Learn. From. YouTube. It is full of hearing people with one or two ASL classes under their belts “teaching” flat out incorrect signs. Related! If you are not a fluent ASL user (and you know if you are or aren’t) don’t. Post. “Instructional”. Videos. It is a huge pet peeve of mine and I find it disrespectful to the Deaf community.

That being saaaaaid, covid has cancelled most of my gigs for the rest of the year and I have been doing private ASL tutoring to earn some extra money. If you’re interested in learning (and putting money into the Deaf community!) send me a PM and we can talk lessons!