the common name “fools gold” for iron pyrite is funnier than we give credit for. imagine scientists discover a new metal and they’re like “We’re calling this Copper for Idiots”
spent some time with our neighbors today. their kids were playing nearby on a trampoline and after a while, one of the kids went. “i can’t tell if you’re a girl or a boy! you are wearing lipstick, but you have a beard! and you are wearing pink, but you have a deep voice! i can’t tell!”
i responded with “hey, that’s okay!” and his mother responded with “your favorite color is pink,” and the kid stopped bouncing and went. “oh!” and went on about his day, no longer questioning things. he didn’t need anymore info than that. kids aren’t scared of queerness, and don’t reject nonbinary, gnc, and genderqueer people. they’re just curious about us, and that’s a good thing. if you just take the time to explain, they get it.
A book with a first person narrator what describes everything with oddly specific clarifications and denials, coming completely unprompted.
“I poured myself a bowl of cereal that had no cockroaches in it.”
“Her hair - which was real human hair, growing naturally from her own scalp - was brown.”
“I walked to my car which I legally owned and whose rightful ownership had never been under question or dispute.”
“Their dog was barking in a way that is entirely normal for a regular, full-blooded dog, and could not be mistaken for the vocalisations of a half-wolf, a jackal, or perhaps a hyena.”
“My mother - who has never been convicted or imprisoned for manslaughter - emerged from the kitchen.”
reminder that fatphobia is not simply a deep-seated hatred for fat people. It is the pathologization of a body type. you may think you love a fat person dearly and still view their body as a problem to be solved. our oppression is systemic. it is not just a matter of attitude change.
I realize that’s what’s missing from “queer” gear these days.
The absolute pride in being a God damned freak. In being something society saw as wrong.
It’s all uwu you’re valid and society should accept you
Like no fuck your society. Your society is bullshit and relies on oppression to create its “norms”. I don’t want societal norms expanded to include me. I want to blow those structures the fuck up
yeah like when people say “normalise” about everything and I’m like, I don’t care how normal it is, I just want people to stop being punished for being weird. We can either attempt to normalise everything one by one, or we can do the whole thing in one fell swoop of “so what if it is weird? Nothing wrong with a bit of weird”
“I don’t care how normal it is, I just want people to stop being punished for being weird.”
hate it when I call myself a girl and then someone goes “you’re not a girl you’re nonbinary/agender” and it’s like. I am whatever I say I am. freak. I am a girl I am a little guy I am the man of the owl. I am nothing. I am everything. do not presume to know me in anyway I do not know myself
if we want to stop the patriarchal concept of surnames being passed down the male line, we have a few options options that i’d be 100% fine with:
children get whichever surname is cooler, to eliminate uncool surnames over the generations
children get whichever surname is rarer, to achieve a utopian future in a few centuries where all surnames are more or less equally common
children’s surnames are randomly generated: say, heads for parent #1’s surname, tails for parent #2’s surname
parents pick the first names first, and then a court decides which surname fits it better. so if a couple named mr. madison and mr. liu want to name their daughter alison, she’ll get the surname liu, because alison madison sounds ridiculous
everyone stops having children right now
6) both parents’ surnames are combined into a new name, in the same vein as portmanteau ship-names
7) We adopt elvish naming customs and have upwards of three names for each individual, none of which are surnames and all of which may be translated to any other language for any reason at any point in our lives. This has no advantages but will really annoy every government on earth and I just think it’d be really funny to watch them figure out the paperwork for that
I once completed a name change for a Miss White, she was getting married to Mr. Black
Shipping isn’t trying to explain why a relationship is actually canon. It’s not even trying to explain why it should or could be canon. Shipping is saying “wouldn’t it be funny if these two fucked” and everyone needs to remember that.
and sometimes it’s “wouldn’t it be fucked up if these two fucked”
Just a person, chilling through life. 
