#yes always

[my-jokes-are-my-armour]

I notice that although Jaskier isn't welcome in the dwarves night shed, they pity him and gave him one of their layers for him to sleep on.

Also the first picture always breaks my heart because the frame composition is implicitly saying how insignificant he is. You can miss him totally if you don't pay attention, as Geralt and Yennefer don't either.

My mind always tries to fill the gaps and I try to imagine what happened that night... You know, the bard has been abandoned before he obviously was...

#jaskier #geralt #yennefer #the (in)famous episode 6 #am i analysing too much ? #yes always #the devil is in the details #screen analysis

[toooliix]

can a SNORRRRK MIMIIMIMIMIMIMI girl and a HONK SHOOO boy fall in love

#liix rambles #yes always

[ashipwreckcoast]

something is about me is that i will be taking selfies in historic mirrors

#gpoy #are you wearing the— duck hat that sass sent me? #yes always #i have opinions about the emily dickinson house

[nowandthane]

I really love how by Wednesday the cats see me come home from work and they’re like ‘LEAVE. NOW. GTFO.’ and then the weekend comes around and by Monday they’re like ‘please do not leave us we are baby 🥺’

#make up your minds furry bastards who do not pay rent #did I get woken up by screaming for breakfast meows again #yes always #zi talks

[saturn-sends-hugs]

OMG ok so I just thought of something: In one of my fics I made a note of Echo’s eyes being yellow because, if you look close, they are.

Compared to Hunter’s, his eyes are much lighter. And I reasoned that this was because of the same star wars logic cryogenic fuckery that stole his melanin because his eyes are normal brown before the citadel.

Like I’m pretty sure that’s a different color?

So anyways, I always figured this was just a funky little thing they did. BUT.

You know the parallel thing between Echo and Anakin? How Echo was turned into a machine in order to survive the explosion (in Anakins case, the lava) and he lost both his legs and right arm? There’s more to it but now you probably see where I’m going here.

Echo’s eyes turned yellow, Sith(ish) yellow, as another parallel to Anakin. I never really put two and two together but I’m pretty sure that’s what they were doing here. And maybe someone’s pointed this out way before me and no one said it cause it was just super obvious but uh… I thought it was cool and had to ramble for a sec so poof here you go, interesting parallel stuff. ✨🤲✨

#did that make any sense whatsoever #no idea #did i enjoy ranting about echo #yes always #will i do it again #u bet #arc trooper echo #tbb echo #echo bad batch #clone trooper echo #sw tbb

[greeneryyyy]

⬜️⬛️

#fishing for attention? #yes always

[mxdam]

§ always!!!

a little pocket paladin, you say? a pocket paladin for marg to corrupt?

#afraidofchange #██ meme response tag. #YES ALWAYS

[thelittlemermage]

Not all his ideas can be good ones (but this one is). 

#pinky and the brain #my art #I keep saying I will draw good and be funny at the same time #because it's always my shittiest doodles that get notes #but something tells me this isn't gonna be a hit lmao #so w/e #yes inspired by the one Wimsie did lol #yes always

[neonacity]

LUCID 00' LINE AS THE CARDINAL SINS

ENVY

The desire for someone else's traits, status, and possessions.

PRIDE

The sin which breeds the belief that they are above others. The mother of all sins.

GREED

The need to claim, gain, and possess.

LUST

An inordinate craving and desire for pleasure.

****

+

WRATH

The spurning of love for fury.

#i...dont know why i have been doing these lately #i guess i needed some gas fuel for my next updates #anyway i loved doing this 🙃 #do i miss my lucid boys? #yes always #fic: lucid

[june-again]

hello i’m rewatching gilmore girls and ur the only person i can rant too

it always annoyed me that lorelai was so nice to dean but always had a problem with jess (and even logan)

it’s wack

anyway how have you been ?🤍

EMILY!! darling! i'm doing alright :)) i'm about to start my study notes for chemistry and try not to sob over them because CHEMISTRY 12 IS THE HARDEST CLASS IVE EVER TAKEN LOWKEY 😭

omg literally. i can see where she's comin from with the jess hate because he had a Long Way To Go to become good for rory, but logan seemed like he was just not what lorelai "had in mind" even though i feel like he was at least better than a guy who would get so messed up over a breakup he'd get married a year after and then sleep with the first girl LIKE

LIKE THERE'S NO ARGUMENT. THEY'RE BOTH BETTER THAN DEAN. LORELAI WHAT U DOIN.

how are you doin ? 💚💚

#yes always #sorry i didnt respond immediately #im pretty bad about my ask box sometimes 😅 #june's asks #kouily's input

[goldensunset]

advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love

#peach rambles #you don’t have to get rid of blorbo and squimbus!! they would look great on top of your beautiful new nightstand you’ve been excited about #hall of fame i guess #i get. the sneaking suspicion this post has inspired at least two other posts #to the effect of ‘uhmmm i was ALWAYS excited about these things??’ #yes i did have to do my own chores as a kid prommy. i just didn’t have feelings about stuff yet ok

[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

[samgiddings]

@staff @support @engineering @music @books

Have you ever considered this is a really stupid layout to have when there’s no way to easily get your account back if you accidentally hit the wrong button???

#med mumbles #im mad actually what kind of UI is this #top post #I guess 😭😭💀💀💀 #edit: @ing staff doesn’t actually do that much so try filling out a quick feedback form on their site #also #it doesn’t *ALWAYS* ask you for your password #yes it does in some cases but there are situations where if you link it to your email it doesn’t ask!!! #look through the tags and see how many people have accidentally deleted their blogs before you decide to be a smartass

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[hijaluna]

do u miss me

#yes always

[satzy]

BOYCOTT ALL NESTLE PRODUCTS

your daily reminder

#boycott nestle #always #yes always