February 2012
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Alright, let's do this.
kiriamaya:
My living expenses are taken care of for a good while — which means it’s time for me to refocus on saving up for surgery. My RLT will be complete in August, and the sooner I can get surgery after that, the better.
To that end, I would like to kick off a Help-Kiri-Get-Surgery fundraising drive!
My goal is to raise $15,000 — enough to cover surgery fees, travel expenses to Thailand,...
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So last night I went to a little Half-Price Chocolate Day (15 February) party hosted by a very nice friend of mine who has very nice friends. There was chocolate (although it’s bizarre how hard it was to actually find discounted Valentine’s chocolate — it had just all vanished, and meanwhile there was a baffling quantity of half-price *Easter* chocolate, which does not compute at all)...
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tbh all this has accomplished is making me think of internet asexuals/otherkin sitting in a closet chanting “I’m a taco I’m the best taco” while tears run down their face
… and the idea of people weeping in closets amuses you, does it?
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Using only song names from one artist, cleverly...
(Meme from Tchy.)
Pick your artist: The Beatles
Are you male or female? Your mother should know Describe yourself: You know my name (look up the number) How do you feel? I feel fine Describe where you currently live: There’s a place If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Across the universe Your favourite form of transportation? The long and winding road Your best friends?...
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Oops.
As bits of publicity material / leaks about series four of Being human have been becoming more frequent over the last few months, I’ve developed the habit of just scrolling away / turning off the sound on the TV / running away with my hands over my ears every time I’ve seen anything that might possible contain spoilers.
As a result I have singularly failed to notice that the...
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Summary: Neil Gaiman says positive things about ‘piracy’ of books and I have some reservations. Longness warning: pretty long.
triangularisthepie:
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories up. They put my stuff up on the web. I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on...
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Another irrelevant thought I had today: if you ever wanted to stop people buying a certain brand of sandwiches (or other packaged food products, but I think sandwiches would be especially suitable), I reckon a pretty effective way to do it would be to go into the shop and sneakily adorn each package with a colourful, friendly-looking printed label saying ‘GUARANTEED 100% SAFE TO EAT!’
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Tweeted a flippant criticism of Fathers 4 Justice this morning. They just retweeted it without comment. And I must say, it left me completely stumped and a little off-balance.
I mean, looking at their Twitter, I suspect they may just have some kind of gizmo that automatically retweets any tweet that mentions them. So I’m not going to say ‘Well played, Fathers 4 Justice’.
But...
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This morning on BBC radio’s flagship news programme an eminent journalist defined ‘transphobia’ as ‘irrational fear of people who change sex’.
(The LGBT activist he was interviewing didn’t disagree.)
I post this because I’m aware that as part of the discussion about whether words like ‘homophobia’ and ‘transphobia’ should be...
January 2012
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Oh, I’ve caught up. I was less far behind than I thought… Confusing.
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Continue The Song!
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palesheep:
‘Kay, so not that these ideas of mine generally seem to take off, but giving it a shot anyway. I just watched this video, in which John Green can’t remember the words to Hush Little Baby and starts making stuff up, and it turns hilarious. And I realized that I don’t remember much farther than he does.
So I figure, if each person adds one more silly ad-lib...
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14kgoldnyc replied to your post: 14kgoldnyc replied to your post: There are a few…
I think with words that are in the process of changing, especially, people need to be much more conscious of age and background. My dad still cringes when I use ‘queer’, because that was a slur aimed at him. It’s an important perspective to keep.
True, true. Good point. Our ways of expression and...
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dinoquark replied to your post: There are a few people who use “bisexual” as “attracted to all possible genders,” claiming that the “bi” can refer to “people with genders like yours” and “people with genders not like yours.” But they’re also usually the people who deny the rights of others to identify as pansexual, so I’m wary of the logic, as it seems to come from a place of dictating how other...
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14kgoldnyc replied to your post: There are a few people who use “bisexual” as “attracted to all possible genders,” claiming that the “bi” can refer to “people with genders like yours” and “people with genders not like yours.” But they’re also usually the people who deny the rights of others to identify as pansexual, so I’m wary of the logic, as it seems to come from a place of dictating how other...
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perseidbadger asked: There are a few people who use "bisexual" as "attracted to all possible genders," claiming that the "bi" can refer to "people with genders like yours" and "people with genders not like yours." But they're also usually the people who deny the rights of others to identify as pansexual, so I'm wary of the logic, as it seems to come from a...
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mikroblogolas replied to your post: Re: Nixon, I fully support her right to define her own sexuality as long as she doesn’t try to erase mine, i.e. “I don’t pull out the ‘bisexual’ word because nobody likes the bisexuals.” (Source Towleroad. Ask filters links, but I blogged it earlier today.) Maybe if “nobody” likes us, media figures should stop acting like bisexuality is something to be ashamed...
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doctordisaster asked: Re: Nixon, I fully support her right to define her own sexuality as long as she doesn't try to erase mine, i.e. "I don’t pull out the 'bisexual' word because nobody likes the bisexuals." (Source Towleroad. Ask filters links, but I blogged it earlier today.) Maybe if "nobody" likes us, media figures should stop acting like bisexuality is something to be...
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So Jamie got an Ask a couple of months ago...
torayot:
This is the ask in question.
I know that it is important for certain aspects of an identity category to be questioned, but seriously, my gut reaction to the ask was this:
I don’t exactly like the implications of my being misgendered. Hmmm.
The picture is a simple drawing of someone side-eyeing a computer screen.
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And here’s another response:
qinhara answered...
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Dr. King, Nichelle Nichols, and Dr. Mae Jemison
Summary: an article about Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura in the original Star Trek, and Mae Jemison, first black woman in space.
kiriamaya:
racialicious:
Curator’s note: this post didn’t make it into today’s lineup at the main blog—I wrote this way late last night/early this morning—but I wanted to share it because it does speak to the power of seeing one’s image in pop culture. It’s also...
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silentpunk:
“The parents’ plotline is my favorite part of teen melodrama.”
— no one
(via supcakes)
My so called life anyone?
(via yeahgrrrl)
Joan of Arcadia anyone?
I really liked the way My so-called life used Angela’s parents to resolve the problem the writers were stuck with when it got cancelled. [Spoilers.] They’d obviously wanted to set Angela up with Jordan and then play...
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Help Kiri out? →
tchy:
Kiri’s tax refund still hasn’t come in, and she’s living on very little in terms of money for her food and necessary living expenses right now, after having paid her rent.
If you have any change to spare, it would mean a lot if you could send it her way and help her not go hungry. If not, could you reblog this for her?
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And if I’m still following you now, you were not one of the people mentioned in the previous post.
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Gonna do a little bit of unfollowing, just three or four people who I don’t really interact with and whose main topics of discussion don’t overlap with mine. Very nothing personal! I like you! And some of you don’t even follow me anyway!
And maybe, just possibly, I’ll find that that makes space on my dashboard so I can start following one or two of the gazillions of you...
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Triggering Movies, Books, etc. →
“This page was created because I got tired of being “ambushed” by books and movies with triggering topics. This list was compiled by survivors and allies to warn survivors about triggering material. This is by no means a list of books and movies to avoid, as many are wonderful and can help you on your healing journey. Of course, some of them are crap. Either way, it is important to prepare...
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pareidolalia answered your question: I try not to be reactionary about linguistic…
Yes. It is. And it’s dreadful. I’ve also seen “debate” used in both ways.
That’s… even more curious, given that it doesn’t traditionally mean either. In fact doesn’t ‘debate X’ conventionally imply ‘consider the possibility that X may or may not be true’,...
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(On a more positive note, I like the word ‘jurisdiction’ and I’m glad that I get to say and write it quite often for work.)
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I try not to be reactionary about linguistic change in UK English, but seriously people, I do not think it is a good idea for the phrase ‘argue that X’ to be used to mean ‘advance the proposition that X is true’ and ’advance the proposition that X is false’.
Personally I would prefer the former, having been established in common usage for centuries, to remain...
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Okay so I made a post a few days ago that I initially saved as private so I could have a think about it and now I’ve made it public but I can’t get the time-stamp to update so it will appear on your dashboards among other posts from 9 January.
Matters arising:
This is the post in question (a response to an Ask asking ‘can a person really call themselves queer when they dont...
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Anonymous asked: hey,ive been thinking about something and i want to know your thoughts because your analysis is usually insightful. can a person really call themselves queer when they dont face any of the systematic oppression queers do? your situation came to mind, for exmple. it is true your partner is marginalized for their gender, but you as a cis guy still recieve straight privilege in every respect,or am i...
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eateroftrees asked: As far as I know Terry Pratchett's latin is generally pretty inaccurate? In at least some of the cases I know it's deliberate--'cause discworld--but idk if that one was or not.
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Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged...
Summary: a meme where I say ten things about myself. Press J to skip down (or K to skip up).
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I’m actually not tagging anyone because, after subtracting Alex and the people Alex already tagged, I haven’t actually got ten tumblfriends who do memes! But, er, if you want to do this meme, consider yourself tagged. :)
Okay, ten things about me. Hmm.
I picked up the complete...
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Help Me Out?
iced-chai:
For those of you who know me, I am struggling financially as always. I have a part-time job that pays pretty decently and I’ve been looking for a second job to no avail (minus insurance crap and pyramid schemes, of which there are plenty).
Since the business I work for is trying to cut labor costs, my hours have been drastically cut and my schedule is extremely unstable. I was not...
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“This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
– In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.
She wrote, “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever...
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December 2011
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Hey everybody are you still in the spirit of...
tchy:
Because if so you should defs go leave a few dollars in Kiri’s donation box.
She’s decidedly short on funds right now and if she doesn’t get some money soon she may not be eating much at all for the next while.
Even if you can’t spare much every little bit helps, and so do reblogs.
Thank you.
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3 NICE THINGS, AND WHY YOU CANNOT HAVE THEM ON...
odditycollector:
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WHY TUMBLR IS THE WANKIEST PLACE THAT DOESN’T REQUIRE A CREDIT CARD NUMBER
That awkward moment when you’re backreading your tumblr dash and you find yourself in the middle of yet another spiraling fandom argument involving from all perspectives people you enjoy and respect.
And you think, not for anything like the first time, that tumblr is TERRIBLE for this. It is. It is...
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Oh pants, I forgot I was going to stop putting ‘read more’ cuts in stuff. Sorry Sparkles! Gonna take it out now.
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Some animated gifs of fluffy bunnies.
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Summary: I butt in on a conversation about the character Shane McCutcheon in the television series The L word. Spoilers up to about the end of season four. Press J to skip down or K to skip up.
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silentpunk:
step by step by step: silentpunk replied to your post: I think: Bette’s going to cheat with…
wishingthehoursaway:
silentpunk:
wishingthehoursaway:
[Earlier conversation...
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Okay, so I’m really really tired now and I’m not going to finish sending ‘happy today’ messages to everyone I meant to send them to. If you haven’t had one, I probably did intend to send you one and in any event I still wish you a very happy today.
I’m almost caught up on Tumblr after several months of chronic behind-ness and at least a couple of weeks of...
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Camembert Cumberbatch
(Context.)