fishing-lesbian-catgirl:

fishing-lesbian-catgirl:

Turns out that in real life it’s not just the tiny skinny ones who end up actually being trans women. Sometimes it’s the people who are built like linebackers, the people so tall they develop back issues hunching over from trying not to be the biggest person in the room, the people who can’t even find well-fitting clothing at big and tall stores, the people who “thigh-highs” barely go above the knee, the people with broad shoulders and high hairlines that bangs can’t hide. And yes a lot of these features aren’t seen as feminine or cute or beautiful. I’m sorry that I resemble stereotypical transphobic caricatures a bit too closely, and I’m sorry that acknowledging the existence of people that look like me might make getting trans acceptance from cis people a lot harder. But frankly I’m one of the lucky ones who realized things before I started balding, one of the lucky ones who has many years of youth spent taking hormones in my future to somewhat alleviate the problems that make me hate my own body. And I don’t think any of these issues makes me or anyone else less of a woman, and if no one else wants to even try to depict people like us in a flattering manner then I’ll do my damnedest to do it myself

To everyone who used this post as an excuse to say “Awooga big women 👀” in the tags please read the fucking room

thunk:

yescountryforoldmen:

toolassistedspeedrunclips:

Game: Donkey Kong Country (1994, SNES)

TAS author: Tompa

Source:

SNES Donkey Kong Country "101%" by Tompa in 41:18.37

Publication [3415] from 2017-06-06

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marlbororeds100s:

marlbororeds100s:

silverjuice:

carseatheadrest:

I wish Carrie & Lowell felt less like a sucessful exercise in generating “Sadness” and more like a collection of songs that the artist cared about writing

this is so funny the guy from car seat headrest thinks Carrie & Lowell is disingenuous. next up, Elvis Depressedly on why Elliot Smith was a fraud

if posts had notes based on how much it altered a group of peoples lives forever this would have 1 million billion notes on account of the sad girl faggot indie music listeners of tumblr dot com

nearly two years later and it’s only gained 5k notes. this post has had such a profound impact on will toledo and how girlbloggers view him. stereogum wrote an article about this post and his subsequent apology. this is a historical landmark.

pussyronin:

smoked a joint the sorcerer gave me and experienced life as a 1989 toyota tercel from assembly and production until i was left derelict in a junkyard in baker california oxidizing and rusting for 10,000 years. my favorite part was five hundred years in when a family of armadillos moved in for a few weeks

artcher-artwork:

I was commissioned to draw an orc baker character and I love her

francisfordpopola:

dreg-heap:

imwiremother:

dreg-heap:

Twitter discourse is exhausting most of the time but that one time it was discovered someone known for giving people shit for every random perceived transgression was actually working a high paying job at Raytheon was genuinely very funny

i come home from work at the exploding orphans factory. i see a post on my tl where someone is recommending a ya book where an iffy exchange happened on page 234. my eyes pop out of my head like a loony tunes character and i start tweeting up a storm in between my posts begging for money to feed my starving cats that live in my 4 bedroom mansion. i heal the world one keystroke at a time

What a day, what a day

The fact that he works at the war crimes factory gets a lot of attention but it should not go unstated that his constant shit-starting was also in essence a job. He very directly made money by harassing people and inciting others to harass them.

Most online harassment campaigns aren’t spontaneous and self-organizing. Pretty much every time if you dig through the mud and the blood and the posts you will find that one or more moderate-to-large accounts pushed the snowball down the hill. This is true, for example, of the social murder of Isabel Fall, which Mardoll was an aggressive participant in. It was a relatively limited internet brush fire until a few big name authors including NK Jemisin (who specifically knew who Fall was, and had pre-existing beef with her) massively boosted its exposure.

The more cases you dig into, the more you see the same names cropping up over and over as the people who throw the first stone in each community. And when you see the same people consistently engaging in a socially harmful activity, it should be a tip-off to any good materialist that someone is making money from it. How, exactly, varies a lot, but the thing to understand is that the value being extracted here is always through the boost in visibility you’re afforded by casting the first stone. It’s a sort of clout-gravity-assist—if you have a big enough platform already to cast a big enough stone, throwing it will get a lot more eyeballs on your account. At that point, anything that converts views proportionally into money is a viable option for cashing out; most people use a mixture. Boosting your own work in the same field is an option. Some people literally just set up a Patreon. One of the most common and easily the most insidious one is just to have constant rotating donation drives for your various agonies.

While this business model is incredibly common across our big beautiful Online, right now on Twitter it is worse than it has ever been anywhere else. Mardoll was far from the worst offender—as already mentioned, many of his personal enemies were doing likewise. There are also just roving gangs of freaks who will put a price on the head of anyone they cross paths with (including recently, the grieving trans girlfriend of a trans woman murdered by her parents) in the name of protecting marginalized people, somehow. And of course the more banal example of the Twitter Main Character, which runs on this same model, and happens so much it’s become a joke and even a point of pride.

Mardoll ran an incredibly common grift and he ran it because it worked. He was a constant fixture in any discourse to do with queer media, very transparently directing hate towards other queer authors on a regular basis, and he made money doing it. Obviously the war crimes thing is more important as well as more dramatic. But I would argue that the two are not unrelated, in the sense that harassing other queer and marginalized people for money and lying about being unemployed when you secretly have a job at the murder robot company both require a truly bottomless kind of cravenness and self-absorption, and betray a complete disinterest in any kind of politics based in solidarity. Both are the kind of thing you can only justify to yourself if you understand your marginalization entirely as a barrier to You Getting Yours, rather than something that has drafted you from birth into a shared struggle for liberation.