incorporealnuance:

I said no more possessing Tristan while he was asleep, but screw it, he’s off today so he’ll be fine.

I am unable to understand sexuality because I was programmed not to when I was created. Being a neopet, that is kind of a duh. But I learned that there are humans out there as well who are the same way? I thought that was interesting.

I am about to make huge post. Get ready.

multie-highs:

Submission from Ianto of trafalgarslaw

[Text reads: When my younger brother turns himself into the music I need in situations where I can’t have my earphones in]

xstealthyx:

Casually posting on Tumblr while making out with your ex in headspace

jade-the-dog:

okay so just to clarify!! because i feel like this might need clarification

im not like… an “actual” physical person im a headmate in a system

but i do front quite a bit so i know what it feels like to be an “actual” person!!!　

thedarkericdraven:

brace4impact:

Pedophiles deserve to be burned alive.

And so do gays and blacks, right? Hatred is wrong. Pedophiles are people, and a lot of them have never committed a crime in their lives. Model citizens, even. You’re a bigot.

orionsystem:

I am suddenly trying to figure out why Adara is so fascinated and enamoured with humans. I do not hate them, I just do not understand what she likes so much about them. Some human beings are simply vile, some otherkin are too, a lot of creatures in general are vile…

But the things that some human beings can justify saying or doing…

I do not get it. But maybe I need to see the better side of humanity, away from a place where people can be so strong behind screens and keyboards.

-Femet

http://thedarkericdraven.tumblr.com/post/24380326273/no-one-compared-you-to-nazis-and-those-who-deserve

No one compared you to Nazis and those who deserve respect get it. You aren’t only open about being a “lolicon” you’re proud of it.

Anonymous

arya-baratheon:

I call it ‘self-contradicting GoT fan’

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GIMME SUGGESTIONS FOR MOAR

lifeinthefastlaine:

lifeinthefastlaine:

Maybelline “Confidence” ads. SO happy with how the colors in these turned out in printing and matting. To clarify, these are not real Maybelline ads, they were created for an advertising class.

EDIT: This is important. This means a lot to me. I legitimately believe a huge mistake was made today.

These ads were a part of my portfolio into the advanced advertising program at my school. About half of the people who apply get in. I got into the first two creative classes, intro and intermediate, and I was confident I would get into advanced… especially after I posted these on tumblr and in a matter of a few hours got THOUSANDS of notes with people saying that they loved them, most people even believing they were real advertisements and not something a 21 year old student made for class.

The only reservation I had was that my portfolio was being judged by two older men. Two men who have never worn makeup in their lives. Two men who would probably not even begin to understand what this campaign means. Two men who have never been under societal pressures to wear makeup, but then being told they’re insecure for doing so.

Those reservations might have been founded, as evidenced by the fact that I did not get in. I was rejected. I got over 5,500 notes on these ads in 24 hours, yet I was rejected for not being good enough. I can’t finish the program, and I have to figure out where to go from here.

Now to the good stuff: Tumblr is amazing. Everyone who has reblogged this, whether your comments were negative or positive, is amazing. I find it truly astounding that these have gotten so much attention. These, which are advertisements selling you something, something people inherently dislike. I am humbled, shocked, and grateful. This is the first time since I’ve been in advertising that I felt like I was doing something right… that maybe, just maybe, I could make it in this industry and make a positive change.

Those dreams were squashed today. I cried, and I complained. I’m angry — but not at myself like I thought I would be. I feel they made a mistake. I refuse to believe that I’m in the bottom 50% of the people who applied. I deserve to be in that program, and I know it. Thousands of people can’t be wrong that this is a good idea. An idea that MEANS something, and idea that resonates with many people. 2 older, conventional men can absolutely be wrong when it comes to judging what makes a good makeup ad.

Here’s where you come in. Let’s make them regret their decision. Reblog this, like it, comment on it, whatever. Let’s get this attention… so much attention that they can’t ignore it. While the decisions are most likely final, I want to make them think twice. I want them to look back, and believe that they fucked up. If it doesn’t even benefit me personally, I want them to think about how fair a panel of 2 male judges is when it comes to evaluating work done by women, for an audience that consists of predominantly people who identify as women.

So let’s do this. They fucked up; I deserved to be accepted. I know it, and I have a feeling you guys know it too.

mischiefmanagedlovelylydia:

Because in AMUR-I-CA we have to change someone’s gender in order to see it as a ship.

Name me one American basic cable TV show that explicitly hints or has gays or lesbians….

THAT’S FREEDOM FOR YOU RIGHT THERE

UPDATE:

I am going to keep this up because a part of me still agrees but I just want to make a little amendment.

I have been better educated about Queer Baiting and have been reminded of Glee (though, in my personal opinion, I think it stereotypes a bit to much for me and some of my gay friends agree but I have had several points brought to my attention) and I did not know about Gray’s Anatomy (don’t watch the show, never will).

I encourage you to pursue education in Queer baiting and why it isn’t ok. I have had my eyes opened by those who took the time to talk with me and educate me.

I understand that some people have called me an Angloboo (which I don’t live by labels but OK, I just get sick of America recycling shows instead of coming up with new ones) and if you wish to stick that on me, go for it.

Otherwise, I just want to make clear that I did not mean to offend anyone (which looking back I probably did and I apologize immensely) and I hope that more people are educated through this.

I will not take back my statement, though, that American rights are like teenage hearing- selective. And I will hold to that statement until EVERYBODY has equal rights and treatment regardless of their race, gender, orientation, etc.

bloodmuffins3:

thedarkericdraven:

Okay, I’m genderqueer. Androgyne, to be exact. Because of this, I have a special interest in the “Transexuals are more valid then kin” stuff going around.

Both are very similar. Both have been born to bodies that they feel incorrect. Why is “I’m male, but should be female” sound more sane then…

I’m going to heartily agree with this post. 

Then I’m going to tell all the people who out there who think they’re defending trans* people by saying, “Well based on GENETICS and SCIENCE trans* is actually possible and makes sense! There have been STUDIES!” that Hey, Guess What~ You’re not actually defending trans* people. You’re saying that the only reason you take them seriously is because they have SCIENCE on their side. You’re saying that if they did have that SCIENCE and STUDIES that you wouldn’t take them seriously and that their identities wouldn’t be valid.

Just like our species identities aren’t valid.

Way to go, guys, you’re all assholes.

jarandhel:

enterthesphinx:

So that’s it? We’re going to tuck tail and run now that we’ve been threatened?

I’m not going anywhere.  It’s just a troll, and not even close to the nastiest I’ve seen.  It’s roughly in the same league as tireanavi on livejournal.

In my time in the community, I’ve seen much worse.  I’ve seen a troll that spammed every mod of every major otherkin list, posting their email addresses and even real-life contact information in fake ads for sexual favors on usenet and other locations.  Some of those ads are still up to this day.

That same troll also created a fake “memorial” website for an otherkin who’d committed suicide.  The purpose of that site?  To troll the biological brother, less than a year after his death, because he was banned from the brother’s mailing list.

Those are the kind of trolls that are out there.  And you know what?  The otherkin community survived.  Before them, it survived the Meowers attacking alt.horror.werewolves in the original Usenet Wars.  Later, it would survive Anti-Fluff Special Weapons And Tactics Task Force (AFSWATTF) and Permanent, SomethingAwful, Portal of Evil, Encyclopedia Dramatica, and others.  This is bush-league compared to most of them.

Somehow, I think we’ll survive the little yellow snowball too. 

outlawroad:

mari-defers-rainbows:

I find it funny that most asexuals are pro-slut because by allowing this behaviour you’re letting it spread into the media and into society, making it more and more sex-based and spreading the “SEX IS THE BEST THING YOU’RE NOT COMPLETE WITHOUT SEX YOU CAN’T NOT HAVE SEX” opinion, and rejection of asexuals.

So basically, you’re allowing more people to deny that you’re ace. Not to mention making the world more sexual is going to annoy the fuck out of us that don’t like sexuality.

Good job!

1. Supporting people’s freedom to have sex and being pro-slut aren’t the same. Most asexuals fall somewhere on the “supportive of other people’s sex lives” spectrum, but there does seem to be a variety of personal comfort levels/levels of understanding toward sexual practices. I assume that you’re using the word “slut” to denote someone who has a lot of sex with several different partners, in and out of monogamous romantic relationships. Not everyone who has sex falls into that category, first of all. You can hardly call people who have only had two or three monogamous romantic relationships and sex in those relationships “sluts,” and I don’t think that’s what you’re saying. (Correct me if I’m wrong.) That’s sort of the problem with slut-shaming: whatever line people draw between “sexual behavior that doesn’t qualify as sluthood” and “sexual behavior that does qualify as sluthood” is completely arbitrary. Not to mention, slut-shaming is geared toward women but not men: the more sex a man has, the more successfully masculine he is (which in itself is fucked up and problematic) but the more sex a woman has, the more of a terrible slut she is. 

Not that there is anything wrong with sluts, of any gender. I never even use that word outside conversations like this, except in a context of reclamation, and I do support slut pride, along the lines of The Ethical Slut. In fact, people who have a lot of casual sex outside romantic monogamous relationships and rarely connect the sex to emotional attachment are the ones who make the most sense to me, a celibate asexual who idealizes nonsexual love.

I’ll tell you why I support ethical sluthood: because what I really support is freedom. And fairness. If I want the freedom to live how I want, I can’t deny other people their freedom, without being a hypocrite. I think people have the right to do what they want as long as they aren’t harming anyone. True—there are plenty of sexual people out there who do NOT support my freedom as a celibate asexual to NOT have sex ever, but retaliating by promoting the control of their sexuality is not only illogical but childish. That basically amounts to: “If I can’t be happy, then no one else can.” It doesn’t get you what you want. Two wrongs don’t make a right and all that.  

Not to mention, suppressing sex is impossible.

2. People fuck because they like it. So short of making sex less appealing or removing sexual drive and attraction from the population, there’s nothing anyone can do about the fact that 99% of humanity wants sex and will have it, one way or another. Whether you support or condemn sexual freedom has no impact on this reality. People have always had sex, in every sort of culture imaginable, and they always will. Even in times and places where there was institutional measures taken by governments and religions and armies to control and suppress the sexuality of citizens, people still fucked and they fucked who they wanted and how they wanted, even if they had to do it in secret. The only thing that ever changes is how openly and freely people do it. Thus, creating an atmosphere that supports sexual freedom doesn’t lead to more sex, it just leads to more openness and honesty and personal comfort for people who have it. That can’t be a bad thing. 

3. I completely understand and share in your frustration when it comes to the sex supremacy of our culture, the sex-saturated media, the attitude of compulsory sexuality rampant throughout the 99% sexual majority, etc. It sucks. It really does. It sucks that sexual people have no concept of nonsexual primary love or nonsexual romance. It sucks that heterosexual men can’t have deeply emotional, affectionate, passionate friendships with each other because the world will jump to label them gay because Western civilization sexualizes male emotion indiscriminately and denies that men have the ability to love nonsexually. Romance supremacy in the media sucks. The devaluation of friendship everywhere sucks. The Romantic-Sex Based Relationship Hierarchy fucking blows. Every anti-asexual douche bag in the 99% makes our lives just that much more challenging.

In other words: sexual people have a lot of problematic, bullshit attitudes toward sex, love, and relationships even when they’re the liberal, feminist, supportive of sexual freedom types. As much as slut-shaming is a problem in real life and in the media, sex supremacy and the glorification of sex and sexual relationships is a major problem too. That’s not debatable.

But I don’t think slut-shaming is the solution. I don’t know what the solution is. I don’t know if there is one. I don’t know if we will ever live in a society where asexuality and celibacy are embraced, where nonsexual primary love is a culturally validated thing, where everyone is truly sex-neutral, where true relationship freedom exists, where people can be sensual in nonsexual relationships, where primary nonsexual/nonromantic partnerships exist and thrive more than once in a blue moon, etc. Hell, Western civilization may become even more sex-supremacist than it is now, though that feels sort of unimaginable. All I know is, you don’t make the world any better for celibate asexuals, any more conducive to nonsexual primary love, etc by giving people shit for having sex. If that were true, we would already live in that asexual-friendly, celibate-friendly, nonsexual-love-friendly world after thousands of years of slut-shaming and institutional sexual control. 

You want to condemn something, then condemn sex supremacy, by all means. But having sex and being part of the sex supremacist culture are not one in the same. That’s the basic error in your logic. The goal is not to eliminate sex from the world. The goal is to make sex value-neutral and create real sexual liberation and relationship freedom, which is inclusive of celibate asexuals and nonsexual primary relationships.

luci-in-the-sky-with-desmond:

Yeeeeeeeeeep.<3 It’s meeee :>

annieundresta:

sometimes I wonder if anyone actually reads my tags

original tags for this post: #if you don’t read my tags #you are getting the shallow surface content of my blog #you are getting the pretty pictures and funny jokes #but if you read the tags #you start getting insight into my mind #you come upon my deepest observations #you have access to the things that are not straightforward or meaningful enough to say in the post #but actually have the most value #because the posts are for your followers #but the tags are for you and you alone