open trans-man peddling window treatments for a living.
author. gamer. geek. fanboy. sarcastic. stubborn. internet lurker. online roleplayer. tabletop roleplayer. cosplayer. con-goer. black sheep. physical. emotional. mental. temperamental. punk. loud. can't decide on a steady hair color. can totally admit a candy addiction. could live without the state of texas. couldn't function without hot tea.
not to sound like a repetitive asshole here but honest to GOD cishet girls/women are some of the most toxic ass people in fandom spaces i have ever, EVER seen.
whether it’s 17 year old girls fetishizing their precious sin babies and wishing they had a korean boyfriend because of exo and bts, or 27 year old women with steven universe icons pretending to be “fandom moms” creating excuses for children to be shipped adults, opening up gateways for pedophiles to groom these baby 13-14 year olds under the guise that “in (x) show (character) and (character) have a 10 year gap its no big deal!”.
cishet girls will constantly either infantilize gay/trans men or hypersexualize them. they only care about bisexual men when they’re in a relationship with another man, and when said bisexual man is in a relationship with a woman they get so fucking nasty it’s appalling. cishet white girls feminize asian boys for the sake of their yaoi and turn black and latino men into these beasts for their fetish fiction.
and then they have the absolute NERVE to dismiss criticisms of themselves under the guise of misogyny, as if there aren’t wlw in fandom spaces that know not to pull this shit, as if there aren’t trans women and woc in fandom spaces that know. not. to. pull. this. shit.
i understand why when you hear “cishet” you immediately think of a cishet man. but it’s time we start being unapologetically critical of cishet girls in fandom spaces as well.
That’s it! This is a last call for recipehs for the Unofficial FFXV Community Cookbook, v3 before I start compiling together all the lovely dishes that have already been made. :)
What is this? The cookbook is a compilation of recreations of recipes discovered by Ignis from Final Fantasy 15, created by a wonderful group of fans, for fans!
How do I sign up? The following is a link to a list of recipes that haven’t been claimed yet. If any dishes catch your eye, feel free to shoot me a PM/ask! http://bit.ly/unclaimed_recipes
A huge thank you to the host of folks who have already contributed amazing recipes to the cookbook. Hope you all have a lovely day!
a lot of my issues with kink discourse (both pro and anti) come from its assumption that “kink” is a unique phenomenon, as opposed to like, one of the many ways humans explore power play, risk and danger in controlled environments
all public school anti-bullying activism is extremely transparent and meaningless
faculty: BULLYING IS BAD!! ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY!! THIS IS A HATE FREE ZONE!!
me: hey this person called me a stupid dyke today
faculty: hmm that’s unfortunate. have you tried perhaps, not being gay?
I feel like everyone is against bullying until they actually look at the kids who are being bullied.
The cheesy anti-bullying tapes that they show in schools feature these skinny straight white neurotypical kids who get picked on for no reason. Usually the insults are something along the lines of “You’re a loser!” or “Get lost, freak.” All the kids watching immediately feel bad for the victim, and think “Aw! She didn’t deserve that!”
Then, ten minutes later, they go pick on some marginalized kid without thinking twice. As an autistic person, I was often this kid. The insults I heard growing up were not “You’re a loser!” or “Get lost, freak.” They were “Don’t let the retard work with us” or “Shouldn’t she be going to the special school?”
The problem is we teach kids that bullying occurs for no other reason other than just to be mean. This could not be further from the truth. Bullying occurs because as a society, we condition kids into hating fat, black, neurodivergent, queer, and disabled people. Kids don’t bully each other just to be mean. They do it because if something’s “wrong” with the person, it’s completely justified.
But of course, we can’t tell kids this kind of stuff. We can’t say, “Hey! Making fun of your gay classmate is bad!”
Because when we do, suddenly the phone calls come pouring in, each with a parent on the other end screaming “You can’t be feeding my son that liberal propaganda!”