#he’s documenting this live

[palipunk]

Two Palestinians, Shireen Abu Aqla (51) and Thaer Yazouri (18), were killed today - and while Palestinians mourn, Israeli forces have already begun the demolition process of villages in Masafer Yatta - there is no time to grieve for Palestinians, the settler occupation doesn’t allow it.

#I’m at a loss for words today #just angry and tired and frustrated #the last two tweets are from a man living in masafer Yatta #he’s documenting this live #// settler violence #// ethnic cleansing #// genocide #// death #save masafer yatta #Palestine #free palestine #from river to sea palestine will be free

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

[bearlytolerant]

This is handsome stranger??? Bahahaha anyway those sandals are cracking me up and the white choker necklace this guy has is a choice but the height difference…help me.

#I’m about to toss this ‘handsome stranger’ over my shoulder #crystal scene was so pretty btw #ffxiv #yes I’m documenting my playthrough #if this is ma boy I’m going to die #lmaooo #update: this is my boy as papashan kindly told me #first impression of thancred live: hilarious #he’s so baby here

[carlyraejepsans]

Did papyrus get a canon age?

nah, i just go by the 95 in his undernet handle, which would put him at 20yo considering undertale came out in 2015. i know frisk didn't fall into the underground in 201*, but you spend the entire game going through the story with that impression and that's how papyrus is presented to you. i think doylistically it's meant to give a general idea of his age to the viewer and show that yeah: he is an adult, not a child.

#HE'S MY AGE!!!!! #srsly papyrus makes so much sense now that I'm actually 20 myself #how can i afford to live in my flat??? idk my parents pay for it #but I'm also going out making my own groceries and making my own food and living without them and handling my own documents #we're learning how to be people. that doesn't make us kids #answered asks #undertale #papyrus

[ghosted-jazz]

I hope he knew how much we loved him too

https://www.curesarcoma.org/technoblade-tribute/

#Mans really put in his final words that he hoped he made us laugh and kept us entertained. I really hope he knew how much he impacted people #technoblade #fuck cancer #I'm glad he made his channel- I'm glad i got to catch his livestreams and got called a nerd by a minecraft pig. his channel dates back to #when he was 15. God his life is documented right there and I hope it stays. I hope decades later ppl get reccomended potatoe war #what we put on the internet lives forever and it better. I hope time and space remembers Alex 'Dave' Technoblade. Technoblade never dies o7 #Drink water and tell people you love them. Show them how much they mean to you. #my art

[kuyatecallate]

Here u go

#inscryption #lonely wizard #sketch from like- July last year #he lives on a lab document somewhere RIP

[balladofmoony]

a little collage for dstg lily of @mayescapade because honestly lily evans and the phoenix are all i think about these days.

#at the top we have our order of people and i am kind of hoping they are well and happy in that memory #look at the nasty dementor! #and beautiful cradle <3 and of course regulily scene #lily and phoenix are the characters of the show #look at the little bird... that fucking bird #also some documents from lily's previous profession. my girl turned out to be a phoenix after all #i will always think about how she lived in a burning house and carried in herself always #btw this was supposed to be a he is for me collage idk lily kind of stole the spotlight #i will always love you dear girl hope you find peace #oh i forgot we have some burning in our eye #also 2 thank you jude for such a masterpiece i love dstg with all my heart

[godofsmallthings]

no offense but. if my girlfriend recorded the most ethereal-sounding september banjo cover and changed the date to make it our anniversary i would simply melt into the earth’s core and pass away or something :’)

#being loved by an artist is a burden and a gift all in one #i've been thinking a lot about jb's paintings of jude #and how jude was saying that when he died there would be nothing to show for him or his life #but how there were all of these paintings documenting his loves and his life and his every day #how being an artist's muse immortalizes you #so long as men can breathe or eyes can see #so long lives this and this gives life to thee #ksjdhfkjshdfjksdhfjsd #anyway i love that joe alwyn is Just Some Guy in the most intense way #but he is her Just Some Guy #oh and idk. something something about art making the mundane feel worthy of preservation #vi is typing...

[lunarharp]

LITERALLY stuff i’ve posted before <<< i just wanted to assemble some modern au scribbles in one place :)

BUT they’re in different brushbug universes tho. in the second one brushbug is a relatively unpopular character with merch & only this family truly cares about it

#witch hat tag #orufrey #it's. like a foster home art school. oru is an old friend who decided to live with them to help out. he does art comms from his room #i thought i wasn't a modern au person or an au person at all but ever since i decided hubert von vestra & ferdinand von aegir met on neopets #when they were 13 and hubert got ferdinand's account frozen by tricking him into swearing on the neoboards losing him his faerie eyrie #and now a facet of their relationship is him trying to make up for that slight and their first anniversary present is a faerie eyrie plushie #i have realised the power and pleasure of modern aus. #there is nothing stopping qifrey from having his realisation while looking at his exhausted friend in a hoodie carrying food #for the kids under his arm & thinking 'is this... am i.. ????' < has actually been in love since they met at age 7 on deviantart #literally tumblr is just good at assembling things for myself. my art documents are kinda.. a mess. i have a folder for each yearly quarter #i hope u read the description i dont want to make it seem like coco invented a character at age 12 that is now on cereal boxes #oru was like what the fuck is this character and why is the house full of it but now he buys merch too & has brushbug slippers

[amazingspider-z]

@wazzappp got me into ghost rider (v. robbie reyes) and let me play with some ideas plus mine.

so.

obviously, dying in a comic book universe means. less than nothing, half the time (unless you're a regular person, in which case rip), but man if your origin has you dying i think the technically completely and utterly dead angle should be leaned the hell in.

most of the time Robbie does look very alive from literally every standpoint (providing you dont look too close at his insides but. more on that later) but i think its fun to work with the idea that the magic/willpower/however it works has a time limit connected to his rider form-the longer he goes without transforming, the more it starts to fail, resulting in things like the vent and suit markings (<concept from wazzapp) becoming more prominent and metallic, his good eye getting milky and dull, any injuries gained not hurting, but also not healing, his skin losing vibrancy but also becoming kind of gray-ish because of increasing mercury levels in his blood (<another wonderful idea from wazzapp), and if he puts off burning up for long enough, even things like rigor mortis and livor mortis (blood pooling due to gravity) to start to set in if he stays still for long enough and coughing up toxic metal

by virtue of burning up his whole entire body, becoming the ghost rider resets the clock on his limit, although things get a bit wobbly once he realizes he's actually dead and he didn't resuscitate-resuscitate, on account of the wavering in the subconscious belief that helps hold him together

also, i think it's fun if Robbie's skull is always made of metal, not just when he's the Ghost Rider, it's just that. usually you can't see it (and bonus if he's working at least partially on zombie-esque rules, having metal protecting your brain is handy)

#robbie reyes #ghost rider #ANGR #im calling this #revenant robbie au #on account of marvel living and breathing alliteration #i will admit. idk how normal ghost riders work #bc. as you may have guessed on account of my pfp. and my url. and my alt. i specialize in spidey #mostly #and. im not reading all that when i have yet to reread spider-man to document all the laws he breaks (<for profit) #which. incidentally. crying in getting in deep over a character who has NO issues. #but also tbh. IDK bc i think ghost riders should all be freakier than they are #even apart from robbie #anyway yeah i think he's neat and im hitting him with my fuck you up for fun and profit beam #tw body horror #tw blood #i think anyway

[mcmactictac]

the dsmp may be dead but I am cursed to only want to write fic concepts related to it. I don’t watch anyone’s streams anymore. I didn’t even watch the finale. But anytime I want to creatively write anything sbi possesses my brain.

#bringing this back since my mutuals and dash seem to be with me on this #dsmp #dsmp fics #some exerts from my notes feature #maze runner au #apocalypse au #one shot of bedrock bros with the squid game marble concept #cell block tango inspired pov of bench trio killing dream and being on trial (he had it coming!) #one inspired by night at the museum that I’ve already done a bunch of backstory for #finishing the one I’m writing currently lmao #dsmp spider verse au?? #these have lived in a document for literal years and I still think about them

[cinnamonrollsledge]

Songs That Give Me Snafu Vibes

Track List

Broken Boy - Cage the Elephant

Blue Blood Blues - The Dead Weathers

Sweet Talk - Saint Motel

Dirty Harry - Gorillaz, Bootie Brown

Run Through the Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Hoist That Rag - Tom Waits

Mama Got the Blues - C.W. Stoneking

Broken Bones - KALEO

Beat the Devil's Tattoo - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Bringin' Home the Rain - The Builders and The Butchers

House of the Risin' Sun - Bob Dylan

Me and the Devil - Soap&Skin

Strong Enough - Sheryl Crow

Rough Around the Edges - Deer Tick

Dogwood Blossom - Fionn Regan

#my headcanon is that he's a blues fan #and will complain about popular music like bing crosby etc being overrated to anyone who'll listen #so i have lots of blues-influenced songs & a few covers of old blues songs #also the juxtaposition of the sheryl crow song lol #it's a snafu/sledgefu song i swear #also this playlist is a living breathing document #snafu shelton #merriell shelton #the pacific #hbo the pacific #hbo war #Spotify #mine #mine: fanmix

[nerosdayinanime]

ok i originally just wanted to think of something w obagiyuu but then it went to obamitsugiyuu but then sabiuzui happened and now its a full on everyone lives au with everyone hugging the last 3 ubuyashiki kids just after kiriya announces the demon slayer corps disbanded and im Crying

#kny manga spoilers #kny spoilers #<just bc its an original post #mitsuri got so emotional she had to hug him but she forgot she lost both her arms. #obanai cant see whats going on so giyuu pulls him over with his remaining arm and they act as her arms for her :) #everyone else joins in very soon after pulling in the other 2 with them #some kakushi sprinted to bring a camera to document the last moment of the demon slayer corps as something joyous #finally get to unveil my sabito lives au idea- in the final battle sabito & giyuu were fighting together and sabito saw an attack coming #before giyuu did so he shoved giyuu out of the way- muzan's attack still got most of giyuu's arm and the end of sabito's forearm #sabito was horrified for a moment bc. that was far to close to losing giyuu in a fuckin *instant* #something something even earlier genya & muichiro live because sanemi stopped koku from fully cutting genya in half & genya regenerated #enough to chomp through the sword going through his mouth. made him more monstrous like how koku was about to do and it had the same 'is #that what i become? what im becoming? and for what- power? life? this isnt worth it' and explodes himself #all 4 of them patch up and recover as much as they can before joining everyone else w muzan #sanemi telling genya that under NO CIRCUMSTANCE is he to eat part of muzan. kokushibo was already pushing it the demon king himself? FUCK n #anyways it all started at an inn on a joint mission with sabito & giyuu and obanai #giyuu & obanai were kinda just chilling while sabito was out and about doing who knows what #'im bored' 'what do you expect me to do about that?.' 'wanna check out the onsen with me?' 'wh.' 'do you think kaburamaru would like the #warmth?' '..i dont know' 'onsen?' 'fine.' que giyuu giving him a towelette to tie over his nose & tying his hair up with an extra he brough #obanai thinks hes weird but is very touched by the gestures nonetheless. they speak sparsely until sabito joins (giyuu left a note) & #starts up a bit more conversation. it gets quiet after a while and sabito looks over and notices giyuu's little smile as hes laying his hea #back on his folded towel on the edge. 'what are you so happy about?' obanai looks over and sees it too 'hanging out with my friends is nice #'plural?' both of them look @ him 'yeah- we're friends right? ..can we be friends?' obanai doesnt answer and focuses back on kaburamaru #swimming around his arms. he glances over at them chatting between themselves about some minor thing- (either theyll scorn me or... or) #he takes off the towel covering his face- neither of them mention it immediately even if he catches them giving a glance or two #'do your scars make it hard to move your face? i think mine cut through the muscle. cant smile as much on this side' he looks at #sabito tapping his scarred cheek. giyuu's back to trying to sleep in the water 'not.. much.. its only deep near my mouth' said quieter #towards the end as he focused back on kabu (his prime excuse to avoid eye contact) sabito nodded and kept chatting about whatever- giyuu #quietly enjoying listening to them. kabu got too hot for the water and curled up next to giyuu's head on the towel. obanai actually enjoyin #himself around other people (than sanemi) its nice :) +theyre still on a mission together for a few more days so its not a one-off thing

[grandwretch]

reading about other ppl's disco elysium experience is so funny bc when i played i didn't even consider doing drugs. idk why but when the game was like oh btw there's drugs that make you better at being alive i was just like oh well obviously we aren't doing that. electrochemistry would try to talk me into it and i would just be like "oh that's nice dear" and get distracted by something else. i was playing on hard mode and refusing to even recognize it

#shut up az #disco elysium #probably bc i spent my early 20s on like 3 different benzos and i was like no not my sweet son #he won't live like that #meanwhile the game is like YOU'RE A DRUG ADDICT PLEASE ACT LIKE IT #me trying to collect every empty bottle possible so i can buy a toy at the thrift store: what #edit: i wonder if there's been any kind of documented difference in the way ppl who have or haven't had a substance dependence play the gam #like is me not having harry drink bc of my own past common? do others do it as to not trigger themselves? idk many thoughts

[fictionadventurer]

✒️

#so my brother found a box full of documents #from when some semi-distant relative was researching family geneaology #and all my time reading old letters on the loc website came in handy #because it meant i could decipher the handwritten document #of my great-great-grandfather's life story #and read it for everyone as we hung out before family sunday dinner #and the pressure is now on for all the unmarried family members #we've got a legacy to live up to with courtship stories #it seems my great-great-grandfather came to america after a failed engagement #a few years later he met a girl and her parents outside of church #the father hired him to work on his farm #three days later the girl rode with him in a wagon somewhere on some farm business #and she was like 'i've been thinking about you day and night since i first saw you and this is our first chance to speak alone' #and she was like 'we should get married' and he agreed and they shook hands #though they did wait until the next sunday to formalize the engagement #they waited three months to ask for her father's blessing #which they got #they got married two months later #and were married for 35 years #until the morning of the day they were scheduled to take their first out-of-state trip #(he was excited to give her a chance to travel after a life of knowing only home and work) #and he woke up to find her dead beside him #he was writing this not long after and you can tell he was heartbroken #so the marriage was clearly successful #so anyway my one brother was like 'now i feel unsuccessful. i've never found a woman who wanted to marry me after three days' #and my married brother told all us unmarried ones that he expects us to be engaged by next week #clearly it can be done #and anyway it's so interesting to know the details #after only vaguely knowing this guy's name

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

really weird fun fact about me,

okay this needs some backstory before it makes sense.

so my nonni know this couple, one is from Trinidad and one is german.

the German one's father was a literal nazi no joke, actual nazi from nazi Germany he also kept a shit ton of journals from nazi era Germany and those probably should be scanned or archived in some form but story for another day.

anyway, so my nonni's friends father was a literal nazi that guy must of stolen a shit ton of stuff ngl but when he died he left it all to his son, my nonni's friend.

and among that stuff was a random brass candelabra, my nonni's friend (the one from Trinidad) was like "here have it, I'm not using it or want it"

so, my nonni now have this brass candelabra. I was living in their house at the time and me and my family were playing around with it.

because you could move the different candle holder branches, and we realised we could make them straight in a line.

and low and behold, it was a FUCKING MENORAH

just.. a random menorah??? that doubled as a candelabra, honestly sweet design choice.

but, my nonni just. have a random menorah now, that is 500% stolen.

so to whoever's family lost a brass menorah that doubles as a candelabra good news! it's perfectly fine!

and that is the random fun fact.

#-pop #nazi cw #nazi mention #other random bits that are important the guy in the story is currently 80 something and uses a wheelchair #he's just a guy his father was awful but he's not his father #also it's pretty funny my nonni have a menorah considering one of them probably is ethnically jewish (yeah we can't really pin it down sinc #who the fuck has birth documents for a random rural ass Italian family there was kinda no way too know bc the records don't really go- #back that far. and also bc like I don't live in Italy and can't go on a pilgrimage to go figure that out it also considering that one of my #other bisnonni was a literal orphan and we know nothing about her mother or anything past that so who the hell actually knows #I one day will get a DNA test and finally figure it out but yeah crazy shit #like you go to my nonni's house and there's just a menorah by the window lol