they should make more things pink. i think this would heal us
Mobility aids and sensory aids aren’t a “worst case scenario”
Stop acting like it’s a tragedy when someone starts using a cane or wheelchair, and stop acting like it’s someone admitting defeat if they need ear defenders or stim toys.
Aids are a good thing. They allow us to live better than we could before, and that’s something to celebrate, not demean and be doom and gloom about.
non-it/its users need to get their shit together fr
ok time to elaborate.
earlier today i was talking to someone and i mentioned one of my friends, and said 'yeah it was saying-' and before i could finish my sentence she interrupted me and went "it?" as if i'd misspoken. when i said "yeah, it said-" she looked at me as if i'd like insulted her or something and went "why are you calling your friends its? don't you mean they?"
i pretty much just went "nevermind" because that's not worth it (and no i'm not misgendering a friend for someone else's "comfort" like wtf) but the issue is
this. happens. every. time.
you tell someone else you use it/its? they look at you like you're fucking insane. 99% of the time they will refuse to use your pronouns because it's "offensive" to them (yknow what else is offensive? purposely misgendering me when i literally just told you my pronouns). when you talk about a friend who uses it/its pronouns, 99% of the time the other person will try to like. correct you or stop you even though they don't even know who you're talking about.
"well they/them is gender neutral too so just use th-" no. my pronouns are it/its. they/them is not it/its. they/them is misgendering.
"but it's gender neutra-" okay and? if dude said he uses he/him and you used they/them that's misgendering. why is it okay when it's it pronouns?
"but it's offensive to refer to people as-" bitch i am literally referring to myself as it/its. i am telling you directly in plain words that these are the pronouns that make me comfortable. i don't give a fuck what you think of them they are my pronouns
at this point i settle with they/them because i'm just done having people look at me like i said a slur when i tell them what pronouns i'm comfortable with.
hi everyone im still pissed we never learnt in school that shakespeare was bi and wrote the sonnets about a dude and a woc he was into
hi everyone im still pissed that we were told emily dickinson was a spinster when she spent her whole life writing love letters to a woman
hi everyone im still pissed about the fact that we never got taught any of the super super gay Greek myths. it seems impossible to think they managed to pick all the hetero myths when Greece was just THAT gay but guess what? they did.
hi everyone virginia woolf was also bi im still pissed that so much of literature is queer and has queer coding within it that deserves to be analysed through that lens in the same way that we don’t ignore the gender of an author, but sexuality is never mentioned in highschool literature classes
hi everyone i’m still pissed that we were never taught that da vinci was gay af and that the ideal the western world has of jesus (white, long straight brown hair) was based on one of his male lovers
hi everyone i’m still pissed that we were told sir isaac newton died a virgin when he had multiple boyfriends over the course of his life one of whom he wrote passionate love letters too and lived with
hi everyone i’m still pissed that we never learned about Tesla in high school and how he was asexual aromantic af, also that it was him who invented the lightbulb and not that shitbag of an Edison
j-shaded
Hi everyone I’m still pissed that this post never came up on my dash earlier so I could tell more people about it
hi everyone i’m still pissed that I never knew Louisa May Alcott was probably a trans man, had their adopted children refer to them as “Papa”, passed as a man and said they felt like they were a man’s soul in a woman’s body
RATING: PARTIALLY RELIABLE*
*It should be noted that the specific terms used in the post are ahistorical, as many of these individuals predate the use of these terms. The concept of sexuality differs in different times and cultures, and they may have not considered themselves queer in the way that we perceive them to be. Furthermore, the sexuality of many of these historical figures are still debated today, and we may not ever know for certain.
Shakespeare’s sexuality is a matter of large debate, and even has its own Wikipedia page. He wrote many sonnets addressed to a young man known as the ‘Fair Lord’ or ‘Fair Youth’. He also wrote sonnets about a ‘Dark Lady.”
Source: ‘The sonnets, written perhaps over an extended period from the early 1590s into the 1600s, chronicle a deeply loving relationship between the speaker of the sonnets and a well-born young man. At times the poet-speaker is greatly sustained and comforted by a love that seems reciprocal.’
Source (Sonnet CXXX):
‘If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.’
Emily Dickinson’s sexuality is also a matter of debate. There is speculation that she may have had romances with women, but also with a man (Judge Otis Phillips Lord) later in life.
Source: ‘Her female friendships, notably with schoolmate and later sister-in-law Susan Huntington Gilbert and with mutual friend Catherine Scott Turner Anthon, have also interested Dickinson biographers, who argue whether these friendships represent typical nineteenth-century girlhood friendships or more intensely sexual and romantic relationships. […] A romantic relationship late in the poet’s life with Judge Otis Phillips Lord is supported in Dickinson’s correspondence with him as well as in family references.’
Homosexuality was commonly depicted in Greek Myth, although their societal understanding of sexuality is different to ours today.
Source: ‘Some of the earliest known Western artifacts concerning same-sex sexual relationships have come from ancient Greece. In particular, sexual relationships between men were commonly depicted in literature, art, and poetry.’
Virginia Woolf had several relationships with women. Whether she would have identified with bisexuality is a subject of debate; she is quoted as saying that she loved her husband, but had no sexual attraction to him.
Source: ‘“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia…It is incredible how essential to me you have become,” wrote Vita Sackville-West to the novelist Virginia Woolf in 1926. A popular writer herself, Sackville-West was proclaiming her love for Woolf during the most intense years of their romantic relationship in the 1920s. Although both were married to men, the two women penned hundreds of poetic letters to each other, and their relationship would inspire one of Woolf’s most celebrated works, the 1928 novel Orlando.’
Source: ‘She told Leonard point-blank in a letter that she had no physical attraction to him whatsoever. But at the same time, she did love him, and he made her happy. So in the end, she said yes.’
Leonardo da Vinci was likely gay. However, we do not know who he based his portrayal of Jesus on. There are no record of any models for the Last Supper. Furthermore, I cannot find evidence that da Vinci’s portrayal of Jesus significantly affected the common portrayal of Jesus.
Source: ‘When he was twenty-four years old, Leonardo was arrested, along with several young companions, on the charge of sodomy. No witnesses appeared against them and eventually the charges were dropped. It must be said that often anonymous charges like this were brought against people just for a nuisance. Renaissance Florentines didn’t make the distinctions we make about sexuality today and apparently it was common for young men to get into sexual relationships; in fact, the word “Florenzer” was German slang for “homosexual”. Leonardo had no relationships with women, never married, had no children, and raised many young protégés,’
Source: ‘There are no records of whom Leonardo used as models for the figures in “The Last Supper,” but he was painting on a wall, undoubtedly from sketches’
Source: ‘Byzantine artists, looking to show Christ’s heavenly rule as cosmic King, invented him as a younger version of Zeus. What has happened over time is that this visualisation of heavenly Christ - today sometimes remade along hippie lines - has become our standard model of the early Jesus.’
There is no serious evidence that Isaac Newton had any sexual relationships in his life. His sexuality has been debated, but remains unknown.
Source: ‘Newton, whose only close contacts with women were his unfulfilled relationship with his mother, who had seemed to abandon him, and his later guardianship of a niece, found satisfaction in the role of patron to the circle of young scientists. His friendship with Fatio de Duillier, a Swiss-born mathematician resident in London who shared Newton’s interests, was the most profound experience of his adult life.’
Source: ‘It has also been suggested - though this is purely conjectural and much disputed - that he was a repressed homosexual’
Nikola Tesla seemingly had no interest in sex or romance, and in modern times may have been considered asexual/aromantic. Tesla did not invent the lightbulb (although technically neither did Edison).
Source: ‘In fact, he often asserted that any thoughts of romance or sex would hinder his creative abilities, and so he never even took any lovers let alone married. […] Tesla said: “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success…such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.” Not that he had much to compare the joy of invention to. Tesla died a virgin – a situation not unnoticed by his contemporaries – and is now widely believed to have been both asexual and also aromantic.’
Source: ‘Long before Thomas Edison patented – first in 1879 and then a year later in 1880 – and began commercializing his incandescent light bulb, British inventors were demonstrating that electric light was possible with the arc lamp. In 1835, the first constant electric light was demonstrated, and for the next 40 years, scientists around the world worked on the incandescent lamp […] When Edison and his researchers at Menlo Park came onto the lighting scene, they focused on improving the filament […]
(Historical footnote: One can’t talk about the history of the light bulb without mentioning William Sawyer and Albon Man, who received a U.S. patent for the incandescent lamp, and Joseph Swan, who patented his light bulb in England. There was debate on whether Edison’s light bulb patents infringed on these other inventors’ patents. […])
Both Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla experimented with fluorescent lamps in the 1890s, but neither ever commercially produced them. Instead, it was Peter Cooper Hewitt’s breakthrough in the early 1900s that became one of the precursors to the fluorescent lamp.’
Lousia May Alcott was quoted as saying she had a man’s soul. Although we will never know how she would identify in today’s language, it is speculated that she identified with masculinity.
Source: ‘"I am more than half-persuaded that I am a man’s soul put by some freak of nature into a woman’s body…. because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.’’
ENOUGH ABOUT BOOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE FUCKING COMET IS COMING
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if you ever use the phrase “glorifying obesity,” i genuinely do not think you’re a good person.
if you can’t look at another person in any context without their body type becoming your primary focus and invoking rage or disgust, you have serious issues.
like i really need you to know that looking at another person and seeing only how much they weigh and then having a negative emotional response to that is a deranged thing to do.
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what is your most controversial video game hot take? 🎮🎮🎮
The pursuit for photorealism in games is a fruitless endeavor that only results in bloated file sizes that take too much space
coworker walked in on me enthusiastically making recordings of different sounds I found around the room (keyboards clacking, pencils scratching, whiteboards squeaking, phone busy tones, chairs creaking) and started laughing hysterically when I told her that I was “DJing reality”. she then left the room and came back with some crepe paper to tear and cut to capture more unique noises. delightful.
I might be autism
met a cat named Lily the other day which is kind of ironic considering lilies are poisonous to cats. it’s like naming a human Asbestos
sudden urge to burst into tears. im not a toddler i just agree with their beliefs
If you have body image issues I genuinely advise you to get a fursona it will help so much
I'm not shitposting or trolling or joking but genuinely having a sona modeled after me myself as I am has made me go from "I hate this body im ugly" to "im kinda hot now, I see it."
Like a lot of furries have started working out or gaining weight because they want to mirror their sona more, me included. It's not instant and not even noticeable when it happens bit gradually the more In tune with your sona you get the .ore you model yourself after them and the more you accept yourself.
This really goes for gender dysphoria too. Having a fursona that's majorly fem-presenting has likely saved me years of grief with gender dysphoria. Even today, where hrt is out of reach both because of financial reasons and [gestures at the state of American transphobia], my fursonas are d doing loads of heavy lifting to keep my mental health in this regard above water. I'm not fem-presenting at all irl, unfortunately, but it hurts considerably less when I have p pictures of a really pretty anthropomorphic Vulpix/fox to look at and say "That's me!"
rb to explode a terf ^_^ nonrefundable ^_^
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a few days ago bf told me that a couple years ago when he played counterstrike he would respond to dudes getting angry and aggressive and hostile by saying “a kissaroo from me to you” in a slightly goofy friendly voice sort of like the voice you’d associate with a dog muppet. he said they would absolutely lose their shit every time, insisting things like “i dont want a kissaroo from you! only tall blonde girls!”. they always said kissaroo. i cant stop thinking about this