been deep in bellyconrad brainrot these past three weeks 😭

16 of 25 authors have now withdrawn from the once respected Polari book prize amid the inclusion of a self-proclaimed 'TERF' https://www.wearequeeraf.com/polari-prize-stands-by-inclusion-of-self-proclaimed-terf-author-as-majority-of-authors-withdraw/

i don’t have guilty pleasures because i’m not christian and don’t feel guilty about my pleasure etc

Meanwhile kpop demon hunters out here just mashing records! But like ew girl cooties

The audacity of someone who works for THE NEW YORK TIMES which regularly refuses to fact check politicians and both-sides every single issue for the sake of clicks or ratings blaming fanfiction and Romantasy for the rise of fascism is like a fucking Onion headline

Thinking globally, but acting locally sparked a movement, that has ultimately spread the Safe Space initiative nationwide https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-my-local-action-turned-into-a-national-movement-creating-safe-spaces-for-trans-people/

1. Four more VA school districts announce they will not capitulate to Trump demands for trans bathroom bans. They show more fight than prestigious universities and hospitals that have bowed. In response, the Trump admin will revoke lunch money for hungry kids. Subscribe to support my journalism.

i’m chronically ill and having a rough time finding another job after being fired for being sick too often. i just need to get by until i can find another reliable source of income, so anything helps @ ko-fi.com/wwxwashere

started ‘how dogs learn’ by mary burch for my degree. on the first page it mentions the onslaught of psuedoscience in the dog industry. this was published in 1999 and this problem has never been more prevalent thanks to the click-ability of dog pseudoscience on social media. owners pls read this!

It was a longer list of cis woman trials and I wish I'd taken a screenshot so I could be more specific. But it made it very clear that she understands womanhood as earned through the process of bodily suffering, which is... very Genesis. Very reactionary and certainly not actually feminist.

I remember when wizard book lady really had a particularly forthcoming day about her grievances and what exactly it was she thought trans women were taking from cis women. And it was all basically, she thinks trans women are stealing valor from cis women, because like. Period cramps or whatever

bellyconrad peach scene

quick reminder for the few new people here <3 #reyloart

Update 💫If You Love Me, Let Me Go💫 The plan is: There is no plan Feeling unworthy of a second chance, Ben is adamant that their bond remain closed for now. What will their next steps be? Perhaps something from Ben's past could help #reylofic #reyloart archiveofourown.org/works/66335641

i keep reading books that are a solid 2/5 stars

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

tea party still going... they love size difference... #jayvik #sansan #helaemond #banadraw

I think it shows just how far right we've lurched that such a central figure to the GC movement being so unambiguously awful has made no dent in their rallying around her at all youtu.be/6Ks0tNKkB80

dreamslayer 💎🕷️

What Labour are doing to trans people is so brazenly unjust. They don't care about the science, the recommendations of experts, the legality, the morality... not even the political cost. It's just full steam ahead with eliminating trans people from public life regardless of the cost or consequences

overall it’s just so sad we can’t have this working on honor system because people haven’t realized how much of a violation AI generated “fanfiction” is. it’s not fanmade, therefore it has no place on fanmade sites. if you can’t respect that, you shouldn’t be in fandom spaces.

15 year olds deserve privacy. There are some things parents can and should do for 15 year olds (make sure they're not getting preyed on, help keep them safe from doing exceedingly dumb things) but one of them should be helping them learn self-reliance by allowing them to rely on themselves.

one of the things i curse the universe about is that it put me and one of my closest friends about a 12 hour train journey from one another. we found one another despite the distance but i always think of what things would be like if we lived closer. much better, i believe.

heres the drawing I did for the lino I really like it #reylo #reyloart

New look at Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth. (Source: @VanityFair | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-monster-jacob-elordi-guillermo-del-toro-oscar-isaac)

dismantled a stack of old cat food dishes and one was teeming will maggots i almost vomited oh my god i hate summer

Changing your phone display to black and white might seem minor. But the tech oligarchs are drawing us into our devices, trying to make us think the world in our palms that’s more vibrant than the world outside. All the while they’re taking over the outside world. www.jphilll.com/p/set-your-p...

🚨 New relationship and sex education (RSE) guidance for England has taken a "trans exclusionary" approach https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-new-transphobic-curriculum-restricts-teachers-from-encouraging-trans-pupils-to-understand-their-identity/

But I've gone for the pelvis widening surgery as well. This piece, written by an archaeologist in 2018, helps to highlight the absurdity that's been going on for the best part of a decade now. psmag.com/social-justi...

#daemyra I choose you and me, religiously

#daemyra my king consort

there are so many posts about people panicking over the possibility of their partner finding their fanfiction but i just can’t imagine being with someone i can’t share all my deepest, darkest fandom self with 😭

I think the UK courts have just totally given up on pretending to be fair or neutral now lol. What a ridiculous ruling. I'm sure that most of the LGBT community didn't want them there anyway, but I'm also sure this ruling will be used to further undermine LGBT rights and support in other sectors

"Coppers do not protect queers, We protect each other. Fuck the Cistem" Taken at Trans Pride Manchester 2024

From a French Revolution museum exhibit in Paris… they wore jewelry with guillotines… ahahaha This is a pair of guillotine earrings with the heads of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI.

editing helaena and alice kingsleigh :)

🖇️ Office AU 🖇️ #reylo #reyloart #reyloau

It was striking to me as I wrote this breaking thread, it's about a Labour government's activity. Aside from the 'new section 28' furore, this will rightly spark: Erasing transgender as a word is a travesty and insult to the millennia-old history of Trans+ communities, whom we owe so much

Ten years ago, on this day 15 July, the Irish Oireachtas passed the Gender Recognition Act 2015 (An tAcht um Inscne a Aithint, 2015). It was a piece of legislation that allowed me to live my life authentically & I'm forever grateful. Despite what others may have you believe, the sky did not fall in.

Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one. If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia

Keir Starmer and the whole Labour establishment are rampant misogynysts as well as transphobes. There is no other reasonable way to read this education guidance and the policy priorities it seeks to represent.

Are any of the teachers unions going to comment on the new anti-science, anti-trans guidance from Labour? How can biologists teach human biology if they have to claim that sex is binary and immutable when it factually isn't?

I honestly do not understand how you are able to ban the spreading of gender stereotypes if you are also to ban any encouragement for children to question gender. None of this shit has been thought through coherently beyond a desperate desire to harm trans kids and people who support them.

A genocide of Palestinians is happening. A genocide of trans ppl is happening. The gov is sending militarized goons to terrorize our communities. Everyone’s stressed the fuck out. We’re all handling it badly as best we can. Our hearts weren’t made to hold this. Let’s give each other more grace.

well this is horrifying.

"Laws about biological sex"? God I wish our politicians would involve actual scientists when creating policy about science.

a copy of lolita arrived in the mail. i’ve never read it before but i am morbidly intrigued

warrior rey