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#ive been getting back into dnd again after years of just... struggling to #for personal reasons ig #but reading this truly warmed me and reminded me of the joy it has #no matter your age or your familiarity with DND #im glad she got to enjoy it as much as she could #Terminatur the best lil gnome

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Gay & Lesbian Pride Parade, Seattle, Washington, 1991.

James May

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Here's my family tent and their kitchen and how they heating water to take shower.

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HEY Q U I E B R A , AY!

🎶Dale tu cuerpo alegria Macarena, que estamos enterrados en deudas, dale tu cuerpo alegria Macarena, HEY QUIEBRA, AY! 🎶

There's one brain cell and somehow the ones who don't have it are winning.

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TWO HOURS AGO: israeli tanks are headed towards rafah, they are moving forward with their ground assault. as we all watch the solidarity encampments across the us, REMEMBER WHAT THOSE STUDENTS ARE FIGHTING FOR! DO NOT LOOK AWAY FROM PALESTINE!!

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Old paintings, that day is the Mid-Autumn festival.

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Prime's Fallout Spoilers

I just had another revelation about Michael Emerson after binging most of his discography in TV today;

If I had a coin for everytime Michael Emerson played a character who's life ended with their head decapitated I'd have two coins. Two whole coins. How many actors go through characters who have similar or exactly the same outcomes?

I adore his acting but these similarities are so funny to me. Man's really gets somewhat type casted.

#rambles to the void #fallout #fallout spoilers #i couldnt sleep so i decided just to bing almost all his TV appearances #And no #I have not yet finished POI because i refuse to let it go #but his portrayal of William in The Practice was so fucking good #like the top of his acting IMO #kinda wish it went on a little longer #or that he got to make an appearance in Boston Legal that would have been incredible to see #William and Crane's interactions are something I'd pay to see

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Prime's Fallout Spoilers below

If I had a coin for everytime Michael Emerson played a disabled character with a Belgian Malinois being hunted by some governmental figure in America, I'd have two coins, which isn't a lot but it's very wild it happened twice.

Can we make it a triple, sir?

#rambles to the void #fallout #fallout spoilers #ish #it was shown in the trailer but still being cautious cause it did just drop #michael emerson #you sir have a trend going on in your career #it's somewhat funny how different yet exactly the same they are

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Prime's Fallout has dropped and y'know I had to watch it because of not only Michael Emerson but also the goofy potential a series based on that game has.

Only on episode 2 and already I'm close to tears because a friend of mine I'm watching it with pointed out that CX404 (?) had a bear teddy and I almost lost it.

I HIGHLY doubt it was but that would have been such a neat little nod to POI cause c'mon of all plushies to give a dog it was a bear plush? To a Belgian Malinois?

God though the mood of that whole opener was wild from start to end that's all I'll say.

#rambles to the void #Fallout #Fallout show #Fallout spoilers #ish #its very minor #poi #michael emerson #belgian malinois

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WE'RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON'T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.

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We won't let this stand any longer. Let's start a riot and get this trending.

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@staff

OUR CONTENT SHOULD BE OPTED OUT OF AI TRAINING BY DEFAULT!

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good morning to these talented husbands who are both called david and wear the same outfits and to them ONLY

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#Twitter is just as much of a shithole dont go there #Bluesky seems to be solid but ill see this place burn to the ground

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Daniel Arsham & Hajime Sorayama Sculpture: Holding Hands (2019)

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James Somerton made another apology video which essentially boils down to him saying he wants to "start from zero", he will be making a new Patreon so that way those who still wish to support his content can support him there, but the funniest goddamn thing about this is that the title is stolen from Hbomberguys old series of the same name

MY MAN PLAGIARIZED THE TITLE OF HIS APOLOGY VIDEO FOR PLAGIARISM FROM THE PERSON WHO CALLED HIM OUT ON HIS PLAGIARISM

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I think about this image a lot. This is an image from the Aurat March (Women's March) in Karachi, Pakistan, on International Women's Day 2018. The women in the picture are Pakistani trans women, aka khwaja siras or hijras; one is a friend of a close friend of mine.

In the eyes of the Pakistani government and anthropologists, they're a "third gender." They're denied access to many resources that are available to cis women. Trans women in Pakistan didn't decide to be third-gendered; cis people force it on them whether they like it or not.

Western anthropologists are keen on seeing non-Western trans women as culturally constructed third genders, "neither male nor female," and often contrast them (a "legitimate" third gender accepted in its culture) with Western trans women (horrific parodies of female stereotypes).

There's a lot of smoke and mirrors and jargon used to obscure the fact that while each culture's trans women are treated as a single culturally constructed identity separate from all other trans women, cis women are treated as a universal category that can just be called "women."

Even though Pakistani aurat and German Frauen and Guatemalan mujer will generally lead extraordinarily different lives due to the differences in culture, they are universally recognized as women.

The transmisogynist will say, "Yes, but we can't ignore the way gender is culturally constructed, and hijras aren't trans women, they're a third gender. Now let's worry less about trans people and more about the rights of women in Burkina Faso."

In other words, to the transmisogynist, all cis women are women, and all trans women are something else.

"But Kat, you're not Indian or Pakistani. You're not a hijra or khwaja sira, why is this so important to you?"

Have you ever heard of the Neapolitan third gender "femminiello"? It's the term my moniker "The Femme in Yellow" is derived from, and yes, I'm Neapolitan. Shut up.

I'm going to tell you a little bit about the femminielli, and I want you to see if any of this sounds familiar. Femminielli are a third gender in Neapolitan culture of people assigned male at birth who have a feminine gender expression.

They are lauded and respected in the local culture, considered to be good omens and bringers of good luck. At festivals you'd bring a femminiello with you to go gambling, and often they would be brought in to give blessings to newborns. Noticing anything familiar yet?

Oh and also they were largely relegated to begging and sex work and were not allowed to be educated and many were homeless and lived in the back alleys of Naples, but you know we don't really like to mention that part because it sounds a lot less romantic and mystical.

And if you're sitting there, asking yourself why a an accurate description of femminiello sounds almost note for note like the same way hijras get described and talked about, then you can start to understand why that picture at the start of this post has so much meaning for me.

And you can also start to understand why I get so frustrated when I see other queer people buy into this fool notion that for some reason the transes from different cultures must never mix.

That friend I mentioned earlier is a white American trans woman. She spent years living in India, and as I recal the story the family she was staying with saw her as a white, foreign hijra and she was asked to use her magic hijra powers to bless the house she was staying in.

So when it comes to various cultural trans identities there are two ways we can look at this. We can look at things from a standpoint of expressed identity, in which case we have to preferentially choose to translate one word for the local word, or to leave it untranslated.

If we translate it, people will say we're artificially imposing an outside category (so long as it's not cis people, that's fine). If we don't, what we're implying, is that this concept doesn't exist in the target language, which suggests that it's fundamentally a different thing

A concrete example is that Serena Nanda in her 1990 and 2000 books, bent over backwards to say that Hijras are categorically NOT trans women. Lots of them are!

And Don Kulick bent over backwards in his 1998 book to say that travesti are categorically NOT trans women, even though some of the ones he cited were then and are now trans women.

The other option, is to look at practice, and talk about a community of practice of people who are AMAB, who wear women's clothing, take women's names, fulfill women's social roles, use women's language and mannerisms, etc WITHIN THEIR OWN CULTURAL CONTEXT.

This community of practice, whatever we want to call it - trans woman, hijra, transfeminine, femminiello, fairy, queen, to name just a few - can then be seen to CLEARLY be trans-national and trans-cultural in a way that is not clearly evident in the other way of looking at things.

And this is important, in my mind, because it is this axis of similarity that is serving as the basis for a growing transnational transgender rights movement, particularly in South Asia. It's why you see pictures like this one taken at the 2018 Aurat March in Karachi, Pakistan.

And it also groups rather than splits, pointing out not only points of continuity in the practices of western trans women and fa'afafines, but also between trans women in South Asia outside the hijra community, and members of the hijra community both trans women and not.

To be blunt, I'm not all that interested in the word trans woman, or the word hijra. I'm not interested in the word femminiello or the word fa'afafine.

I'm interested in the fact that when I visit India, and I meet hijras (or trans women, self-expressed) and I say I'm a trans woman, we suddenly sit together, talk about life, they ask to see American hormones and compare them to Indian hormones.

There is a shared community of practice that creates a bond between us that cis people don't have. That's not to say that we all have the exact same internal sense of self, but for the most part, we belong to the same community of practice based on life histories and behavior.

I think that's something cis people have absolutely missed - largely in an effort to artificially isolate trans women. This practice of arguing about whether a particular "third gender" label = trans women or not, also tends to artificially homogenize trans women as a group.

You see this in Kulick and Nanda, where if you read them, you could be forgiven for thinking all American trans women are white, middle class, middle-aged, and college-educated, who all follow rigid codes of behavior and surgical schedules prescribed by male physicians.

There are trans women who think of themselves as separate from cis women, as literally another kind of thing, there are trans women who think of themselves as coterminous with cis women, there are trans women who think of themselves as anything under the sun you want to imagine.

The problem is that historically, cis people have gone to tremendous lengths to destroy points of continuity in the transgender community (see everything I've cited and more), and particularly this has been an exercise in transmisogyny of grotesque levels.

The question is do you want to talk about culturally different ways of being trans, or do you want to try to create as many neatly-boxed third genders as you can to prop up transphobic theoretical frameworks? To date, people have done the latter. I'm interested in the former.

I guess what I'm really trying to say with all of this is that we're all family y'all.