#long blocks of text are funny. this cat is VERY funny. failing to fully escape ridiculous disc horse is pretty funny although a bit vexing

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behaviours that are forbidden from online as of april 2, 2021 (following a brief adjustment period): defending the artistic merit of the fanfiction/YA/marveldccomicspulpymainstreammovies narrative mollycoddling hell trifecta, acting like ~lgbt~ people don’t exist in media if that media isn’t part of said hell trifecta, conspicuously reading shakespeare or carson or siken or whichever tumblr darling bc it’s “literature” and you’re over-invested in a defensive facade of intelligence and credibility, taking random posters’ inaccurate unsourced explanations of ~[insert group and subject buzzwords here]~ as fact, circulating images/videos of pets that shouldn’t be kept as pets, spreading newly-out trans people’s badly formulated opinions that they’re likely to find lacking later like they’re the trans activism gospels, not knowing the first thing about disability but invoking the figure of someone who magically has the precise ill-defined imaginary condition that’d prevent them from doing what you don’t want to do so you can smugly justify not doing it and feel like you’ve pointed out inequalities when your depiction is terrible and also does nothing to address the issues you’ve raised, discoursing online until the dead horse is even deader, making weird historiographical and epistemological claims and stuff like “humans have always ___” for uwu clout points, any variation of “tenderness” or “radical vulnerability” i swear to fucking god, obsessing over labels and slurs and hypothetical identity terminology whether niche or non-niche (also “longing”) instead of living non-hypothetically, using “intrinsic”/“inherent” to establish short-form naturalistic fallacies, constructing entire fields of strawmen, gxrlboss female gothic gender essentialism, pretending to be jaded to cover up naïveté (see also: being intensely invested in slur reclamation), using identity politics to justify your bad opinions and gloss over your lack of knowledge outside your own experience, performing adoration of the idea of trans women and then falling for the first moral panic/DARVO against your token figure, performing exaggerated attraction to This Year’s Hot New Handsome Man of Colour to show that you experience attraction wokely or something, knowing fuck all about transmisogyny and doing nothing meaningful to support trans women, establishing gender via “gender envy” as something innate that’s possessed by mostly cis white famous men but for People Like You it’s a source of jealousy and you’re endlessly trapped in this idealized impossible aspiration which is frankly kind of wrong-body narrative pathologized essential dysphoria of you and even if it’s a funny joke it’s not a great way to conceptualize gender and aspirations, tagging boring outfits like they’re fashion, white theyfab-centric discussions of gender, digital blackface, weird knee-jerk defenses of stuff you’re overinvested in, feeling disconnected from community and history and making them up instead of finding them, making me see pictures of dogs when i really hate dogs and think everyone should tag them, “supporting small businesses” but anticapitalism (???), ~visibility~, pronouns/bathrooms sub-entry-level trans “allyship”, being annoying in my activity feed, uwuifying trans men, pathologizing your entire being, dealing with depression by not doing anything, using the very subjective moral standards of your specific internet circle to justify harassment campaigns and/or callout posts when that’s usually not a remotely suitable reaction, 2017 bathroom thread behaviours, claiming that any remotely firm parameters or standards are gatekeeping, posting angsty amateur autofiction/art about being trans instead of keeping a diary and posting about cool robots or something because cis people are less likely to write really bad angsty fiction based off of that and as per baby trans principles you’re likely to regret it, seeking attention via self-deprecation/oversharing/guilt trips, posting music that really sucks, bad DIY tips, anti-intellectualism

behaviours that are on the menu for april 2, 2021, and beyond: this cat :)

#long blocks of text are funny. this cat is VERY funny. failing to fully escape ridiculous disc horse is pretty funny although a bit vexing #have any of you read infinite jest and was it any good. this was going to be a joke about having really obnoxiously terrible taste in books #txt