REBLOG THIS POST IF YOU FEEL SAFER WHEN QUEER SPACES ARE OPENLY ACCEPTING OF AMAB NONBINARY PEOPLE
bro it feels weirdly invalidating of MY gender not to see alternatively gendered amabs get the love they deserve like. i am not woman lite. having been a woman previously does not make me a safer or better queer than someone who used to be a man.
I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.
– https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.
– https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)
– https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.
Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)
That Google and Meta can get away with this during an era of intense misinformation and disinformation signals that we cannot rely on large tech companies to provide reliable access to information and news:
every gym leader is like “I lost!?! UNBELIEVABLE!” buddy you live in a world where every ten year old child has always been offered a free fire breathing monster at least once and you brought nothing to this fight but anthropomorphic flowers
gym leaders’ whole job is to provide a specific challenge, a battle of a certain type and difficulty level. if you’ve brought the tools and skills to complete that challenge, you’re going to win by design. the pokémon in that battle are probably not actually the strongest pokemon they have.
when gym leaders go “argh, how could i lose??” they’re acting to give your victory legitimacy because you’re 10. they’re like a villain cosplayer letting a baby knock them over. they’re being nice!!
Really wish tumblr had a “people are appropriating and misusing elements of my faith and that is offensive” option for reporting posts…
CATHOLICISM 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 AN 👏 AESTHETIC 👏
catholicism’s only value is in its aesthetic actually. sorry :/
also the guilt thing can be kinda hot when y'all have gay sex
breaking news: religion that violently forced and continues to force itself upon the masses thinks it has rights, more at 11 [insert 5 full minutes of medical advertisements in musical number format]
change your icon/pfp and put something coherent in your blog description or you’re going to get blocked bcs people think you’re a bot
this site is built around reblogs, so please actually reblog posts(especially art and fics!!)
you can set your likes and follows to private
checkmarks here are a meme and mean nothing
follower counts are private and we like it that way, so get used to not judging people by that metric
drama and discourse is boring, use your blacklist and block button liberally
DON’T CENSOR YOURSELF!! we can swear and say kill and make fun of corporations all we want, and if you tiktok-ify your tags people who have things blacklisted for whatever reason will still see them, and people who want to see that content won’t be able to find it!! spell words out normally, you won’t get in trouble!!
tumblr live is sketchy as hell and full of fake accounts, if you decide to use it anyway may god have mercy on your soul o7
be nice to the reddit refugees, they’re our friends <3
A lot of people say they found Hobie annoying at first when he was establishing hs punk credentials (“I don’t believe in teams or consistency/I’ll do it but not because you asked me to/it’s a metaphor for capitalism” etc.), but what they need to realize is that he’s doing a bit. All Spider-people (except Miguel) become comedians when they’re wearing the mask. Hobie happens to have a very dry sense of humor; so while he’s masked up his jokes are self-aware exaggerations of ‘the punk persona’. Not that he doesn’t sincerely hold those beliefs (it’s made clear he does when he helps sabotage Spider HQ’s unethical trans-dimension surveillance network), just that “I don’t believe in comedy! Just kidding!” is what you say when you know how most people perceive 'punks’ and enjoy fucking with them a little.
Asexuals were always part of pride and it really fucking shows when people think it’s a recent term.
Although not going by the term “asexual” yet, asexuality was spoken about alongside homosexuality as far back as the 1890s. Asexual history is just as vital to queer history as any other term and I’m so tired of watching us being treated like a new thing
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