thebibliosphere:

vaspider:

vaspider:

goddamnshinyrock:

goddamnshinyrock:

oh god what is going on now

guys calm down, you can still draw fictional people naked

#just not fucking.#I can live with that.#honestly this is slightly irritating but not ‘THE SKY IS FALLING’

Yyyyyeah except they’ve already:

  1. purged the ‘chronic pain’ tag
  2. purged the ‘top surgery’ tag
  3. made ‘trans’ tag inaccessible to non-functional
  4. deleted a bunch of chronic illness blogs
  5. deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)

This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects. 

The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.

ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers. 

Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)

This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.

I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.

Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.

(As an interesting aside: isn’t it funny how all these sites attribute these things to an algorithm error? Itsn’t that funny.)

Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.

And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.

So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.

^^^ What thebibliosphere said.

I’ve lost accounts over this shit before. I’m not confident I won’t again, even with a nominally sfw blog. Well, sfw by the standards of people with an ounce of common sense.

I hope it won’t. I hope this will pass, and things will improve. But I’m not confident, and I’m not fool enough to hold my breath over it. If shit happens, I’ll be on DW and Pillowfort and AO3, where I’m not wrong for existing as queer and disabled. Like I was on LJ.

Announcing STAR WARS BIG BANG 2019!

swbigbang:

swbigbang:

If you’re like me, you’ve been waiting for this moment since, oh, probably May 10th.

Sign-ups for SWBB 2019 are now open and this year we’re using a fancy new Google Form to get everyone situated.  You can find that here:  https://goo.gl/forms/gjOxoMCPxZ0hzK4y2.  Author sign-ups close December 29th.

Dates (and hopefully a FAQ!) are coming soon; your mod got caught up preparing for NaNoWriMo and November snuck up out of nowhere.  Such is life.

Interested in doing our banner art this year?  Ping swbigbang@gmail.com and prepare to be glomped.  Feel free to ask any questions at that address or by submission to this tumblr (response times will vary).

To our old and returning friends–good to see you again!  To our new ones, welcome!  May the Force be with you all!

So clearly I didn’t do the queue thing right.  This was supposed to be reblogging all this month…

SWBB
2019 is NOT canceled with all the tumblr weirdness going on lately!  We
run on email (swbigbang@gmail.com) and AO3–tumblr is mostly an
advertising platform that I am admittedly very bad at.

Sign-ups are still open!

I take a mental health day and come back to find things on fire, and am sitting here reminded of getting online to check LJ one day in 2007.

Anyway. I’m morgynleri on twitter, AO3, pillowfort, and dreamwidth.

My email is a gmail account with the same username.

If people want to keep up with me, my fic is likely to be mostly on AO3, and there may be updates on the state of me on DW periodically (and likely to be more private than here). Also updates on the state of me are likely to be on Pillowfort once it’s back up.

I’m not going to be leaving tumblr entirely unless they shove me out the door kicking and cursing. Kinda like I didn’t leave LJ until they decided I was horrible for posting queer content, and suspended my journal.

I might post more elsewhere, I might be even less active here than I have been in the last year and change, but I am not leaving. Because for all their code is made of angry wasps and tumblr’s staff have their lips glued to someone else’s ass, I am a stubborn bitch who really hates moving. Even when being edged out of a neighborhood.

supercanaries:

cornbreadfishncollardgreens:

xphilosoraptorx:

To me, the biggest contrast here is T’challa appears as a grown man in his vision, while Erik appears as a child. Both reflect their inner mind, their core emotional state.

As a man, T’challa is emotionally honest about his grief and the fact that he’s not ready to let his dad go. Erik, on the other hand, says he’s accepted his father’s death, that “It’s just life around here”, but his appearance as a boy suggests that it’s a lie told from immaturity, one that comes from the belief that tears are a sign of weakness.

Their reactions after waking up from thier visions further add to this. T’challa is smiling. He’s overjoyed to have seen his father. While he still misses T’chaka, he’s truly at peace with his father’s passing. Erik is in distress when he wakes up, confused, and maybe a bit disoriented. The absence of his father was a huge blow to him, and the flood of memories that the vision brought back were too much for him. They left him emotionally wrecked.

Keen analysis

This is the exact reason I made this gifset. I was rewatching the movie with my boyfriend last night, and I was talking to him about this, and I realized even though I had loved this parallel, I had never giffed it. I’m going to add a few more notes to what said above:

Confirmation of Erik’s lack of honesty about how he truly feels about the loss of his father can be found in the fact that once the movie shifts from child Erik to adult Erik again, he’s shown with a tear running through his face. Because the childish mask of denial is off. 

Erik being tied to the past in constrast with T’Challa, I believe you can also see this with the setting. T’Challa immediately steps into the field of the ancestral plane, free of his past even if not indifferent to the pain. Erik is stuck in the apartment in California. He cannot get into the plane, because he is trapped inside the past, his anger feeds on his personal pain more than his ideals.

The movie raises the question of what a good father does. At first you’re left to wonder “is it true what T’Chaka says? That a father who hasn’t prepared his son to be without him has failed as a father?”. You’re only getting an answer an hour later or so. Erik’s father in tears says “Well, look at what I have done”.

Hugs for EVERYONE*

morgynleri:

*hugs you all* Because today is a day for hugs, and I’m going to run out of spoons if I go putting hugs in everyone’s ask box.

Feel free to reblog this to give a hug to every one of your followers.

*who is comfortable with being hugged. If you do not like hugs or are uncomfortable with physical contact, or even just prefer not a hug from someone not a mutual friend, cookies or other snacks suitable for your dietary needs and restrictions.

ds9promenade:

Autistic Julian Bashir in ep 1.12 “Battle Lines”

The screencaps don’t do a good job of showing it, but Julian’s words have slowed down and become carefully enunciated for these lines.
“She neeeeds treat-ment. I’d like my medical case – if. you. don’t. mind.”

When in intense situations where he needs to keep in control, Julian often talks like this – I do the same thing when I am upset or nervous and need to be understood. I talk deliberately and slowly to make sure my words don’t come out garbled and incoherent.