gender is a performance and i have stage fright

[gender is a performance and i have stage fright]

I am in the ‘collage of whatever fandom i happen to like right now, along with life stuff and fiery opinions’ camp when it comes to what kind of tumblr blog this is. 

I do art and write fanfiction! My art tag is nightfalcon arts and the occasional time I do promote my fanfics/join in writing games it’ll be nightfalcon writes and for when i’m complaining at an unholy hour in the morning, it’s writing liveblog

I don’t really have a DNI (except for the usual - no TERFs, racists, homophobes, transphobes, alt-right [how are you here on tumblr], anti-Semite, Islamaphobes, you know the drill) the exception to this can be found in my about me page. My only age restriction is that if you’re not in high school yet…please get off tumblr. Basically, trust your gut instinct! If my vibes don’t feel right to you, don’t follow me! 

I tag triggers and squicks as either tw: _____, cw: ______, or with just the word. You can reach out to me privately if there’s something that managed to slip through the blacklist.

I do occasionally reblog discussions or stories about sex/adult things, proceed with caution. I do not make it the focus of my blog, but I do have such content here, so blacklist ‘nsfw’ and ‘ish’ if you are underage/uncomfortable with such topics.

Queer is not a slur to me. I tag all queer things with lgbt, lgbt+, lgbtq, and lgbtq+ because that’s how I tagged it when I first came onto tumblr and so that I don’t accidentally step on someone’s toes, but I will discuss queer topics as well, queer. 

[gender is a performance and i have stage fright]

[gjjuddmk2]

[gender is a performance and i have stage fright]

[zooophagous]

There's a lot of dumb ass animal cruelty takes in general but my favorite is the people who think you need to force sled dogs to pull.

Have you ever walked a dog before in your entire life? They love to pull. They're the pullingest damn things you ever saw. They'll merrily rip your rotator cuff in half like a phone book for the chance to stick their own face into a pile of old feces. They'll drag you down the road while you go through all 5 stages of grief trying to make them stop.

There are hundreds of products on the market promising to get ordinary non sled dogs to stop pulling their hapless owners down the road and spilling their iced coffees. People have gone so far as to use electric collars to try and zap sense into their poor stupid labradoodle that wants nothing more but to suicidally pull itself and everyone it loves into the snarling maw of the nearest leash reactive pit bull.

A dog that's allowed to pull, nay, encouraged to pull, is probably the most self actualized animal on the planet right after seagulls that live somewhere with food stands outdoors.

[gowacab]

Just because you don't have to force them to do it, doesn't mean you should do it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[zooophagous]

The tags on this are so stupid lmfao like "yes the dog loves pulling but if you also enjoy it that makes it wrong"

Girl idk what to tell you but my dog loves making me happy it's literally his purpose hope that helps

[darkwood-sleddog]

Man, people are so downright weird about sled dogs. If my dogs weren’t allowed to pull sleds, bikes and rigs they would be legitimately depressed. They know when we’re going just based on the context of what clothes I wear and they go insane. They strain against their harnesses and wag their tails and love every second of it.

I don’t do sledding because I enjoy being on a dog sled, I do dog sledding because I love watching my dogs having the time of their life and if I am physically able to provide that for them it’s a great feeling. The peace and silence of dogs truly focused and enjoying work is just a bonus. Being in nature with my dogs is just a bonus.

Pulling stuff for people is one of dogs very early purposes and arctic indigenous cultures still use sled dogs for hunting and travel to this day. We cannot and should not demonize indigenous practices that have nothing wrong with them (in fact governments have in the past used the culling of sled dogs as a way of forcing Inuit into settlements as recently as the 1970s).

[gender is a performance and i have stage fright]

[cloverhighfive]

Originally posted by machetelanding

[scarf-it-box]

In case you’re uninitiated:

These are the current female volleyball uniforms

The Norwegian team on the left got fined a ridiculous amount of money for wearing shorts to the games

When you compare the men and women, it becomes very clear how sexist the uniforms are.

[ssjdebusk]

“Sexism is dead women are so annoying to keep talking about it”

*professional athletes get fined for wearing shorts*

[gender is a performance and i have stage fright]

[yu-gi-oh-slavia]

Touchscreens do not belong in cars

[yu-gi-oh-slavia]

And gauges and dials should be gauges and dials, not screens

[taken-aurally]

Door releases should have a direct mechanical link to a latch, not send an electronic signal to a servo

[lithominium]

You should not have to have your phone alive to unlock your car

[rayclubs]

Most touchscreens have a temperature resistance of less than 40°C (104°F). They do not belong on cars, toasters, ovens and stoves, any kind of safety equipment, or any equipment that requires precision of operation to maintain safety. They do not belong anywhere near a working engine.

[gender is a performance and i have stage fright]

[bug-maniac]

[Image ID: A picture of a bee and a wasp, both labeled. Both are colored yellow and black. Facts are listed about each one in their respective columns.

Bee:

• Cute and fuzzy, like a friend
• Make honey
• Come in pretty colors with different occupations (blue orchard bee, carpenter bee)
• Pollinators!
• Freeloaders who will come build hives in the walls of your house
• Communicate with dancing
• According to all known laws of aviatin, honey bees can fly up to 15 mph
• Like sweet things
• Over 20,000 species--not just honeybees!

Wasp:

• Cool and sleek, like a motorcycle
• Prey on pests
• Come in pretty, iridescent colors (ruby tailed wasp)
• Will try to mooch off your drinks (so check your cans!)
• Pollinators!
• Leave you paper nests that you can sell to collectors
• Communicate with smells
• Like sweet things
• Over 30,000 species--not just [kind I hate]

At the very bottom, in smaller text, is the URL bug-maniac.tumblr.com. /End ID]

NO ANTI-WASP SENTIMENTS ON THIS POST

[headspace-hotel]

I love showing people this wasp. Behold the beauty of the wasp!

[gender is a performance and i have stage fright]

[the-cimmerians]

right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties–the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters. 

[silverhand]

Prepare yourself to vote for Biden now, because the only other option is someone who will make 2016-2020 look like a picnic.

You work with what you’ve got, not what you wish you had.

I detest Biden more with every passing day (and he was not in my top 10 candidates in 2020). 2024 will be an election between:

• Biden/The Former Guy
• Biden/DeSantis
• Biden/Republican Fascist to be Named Later

No Labels is an op. It’s being funded by unknown parties to defeat Biden and the Democrats. Their election scenarios are fantasy football for political junkies.

No Third Party has a road anywhere outside statewide offices (Bernie is the exception that proves the rule, and he’s a Democrat for all intents and purposes).

Arguably the rosiest scenario is that TFG breaks with the Republicans to form his own party and tanks any chance the Republicans have, but that’s not looking as likely as it did two years ago.

If you’re pissed, get involved in your local elections. Ensure that no position is running unopposed (and that includes if you’ve got a conserva-Dem somewhere now–primary them).

Get the House back in the Democratic hands (unless you’re up for two more years of this only with MTG as Speaker this time). Increase the margin in the Senate (and send Selema to her post-senate career). Make sure your school board isn’t full of flat-earthers. Wake sure your county counsel isn’t going to shut down your libraries if they have a book someone doesn’t like.

As Stonekettle says, if you want a better country, but a better citizen.

[prismatic-bell]

There’s a reason we call it a civic DUTY, not a civic privilege.

Starting mid-April I’ll be posting to-do lists and action items for people who’ve never gotten involved before. One party wants you dead. FIGHT.

[lookninjas]

Speaking as a Michigan resident:  Look at the laws being passed in Michigan.  Now look at the laws being passed in Florida.  Spot the difference?  That’s because Michigan is being governed by the Democratic Party, and Florida is being governed by the Republican Party.  That’s the difference.  They’re different parties.  It is not the same.

You want what we’ve got?  Vote for it.

(And you want Michigan to stay the way it is and not slide backwards into the shit we had to deal with with Rick Snyder, or even just the way it was when the House and Senate were Republican-controlled?  Keep fucking voting.)

[quiteegregiouslychuffed]

D are not our friends or even allies but R is a staunch enemy

[weaselle]

look the main thing is that our first-past-the-poll voting style automatically and always devolves into a two party system where the majority of people dislike both parties. This is now a known phenomenon, a feature of our voting method as inevitable as water running downhill. 

But that isn’t going to change until we get some sweeping voting reform that revises our voting system into some kind of ranked or run-off voting

Meanwhile one of our destined-to-be-disliked parties is actually trying to do things we want (health care, living wages, social services, public transportation, civil rights, education, support for gay and trans people, religious tolerance, etc) and one of our parties is banning books and undoing women’s rights and supporting corrupt racist police and endangering gay and trans lives while paying people to make posts about how both parties are equally bad so that people don’t vote democrat.

Like, we are going to not like a lot of how the Democrats operate, that is a feature of the current design, but they are trying to protect women’s rights, they are trying to help the homeless, they are trying to raise minimum wage they have agendas that include important things. And republicans? are at this point a literal cult that want to create a religious fascist state.

Even my father, now 80 years old, a man whose politics i have often despised, a man who voted for Reagan for fucks sake! even he (unhappily) votes Democrat now, because he’s not an insane person, and the republican party has become SO BLATANTLY EVIL AND STUPID that he can’t ignore it.

Democrats pass legislation we want that republicans then find ways to block. Democrats have passed bills that:

close gender pay gaps
raise federal minimum wage
make becoming a US citizen easier for immigrants
protect civil/public water sources from pollution
cut greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change
increase gun regulation
lower and control prescription drug prices
improve healthcare access for those with pre-existing conditions
protect net neutrality
protect gay marriage rights

these are all the subjects of specific real bills that democrats have either passed into law or tried hard to pass in the last few years.

Meanwhile republicans act to block these bills while championing book bans and attacking trans folk and giving more power to corporations to ruin our planet and taking away women’s rights. 

when you see posts attacking Democrats from the left or whatever, the talking points and quotes can often be traced back to right wing sources

So all posts trying to keep non-republicans arguing amongst ourselves and calling for us to not vote democrat (or not vote at all) ? I will be assuming they are bad-faith posts and i won’t be spreading them or engaging with them or anything.

Honest critique of the party is necessary, but like it or not our system currently is a two party system, and i’ll be voting for the better of the two until we can change our voting style to make additional political parties viable.

[elljayvee]

I live in Pennsylvania.

Neither of my children is cisgender.

The last gubernatorial election was, literally, do we elect this guy who is overly fond of cops but is generally a normal human being, or do we elect this other guy who believes frightening conspiracy theories and wants my children removed from my care and forcibly detransitioned and honestly would prefer them to be dead?

That’s it. That’s the kind of choice we get in first-past-the-post voting. If that second guy won, we needed to move. There was no safe way to stay here. The votes of my fellow citizens were all that was standing between my kids and serious fucking danger.

And my fellow citizens DID turn out. Lots of them came out and voted to reject the scary death cultist. I am grateful to all those who went, ugh, I don’t really like this guy, but the other guy is worse, and hauled themselves down to the polling place to get it done.

You, too, can vote to reject scary death cultists, in your hometown and your home state and in the country as a whole.

[findingfeather]

Getting rid of the scary death cultists is a prequisite for getting political representation you actually want.

[gender is a performance and i have stage fright]

[modern-politics111]

‘People need to be riled up’: meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas giants

Guy Walton has christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP in attempt to name and shame fossil fuel firms

the Guardian

[ms-cellanies]

CHEERS TO GUY WALTON FOR “OUTING” THE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES

From the article:  

Walton has devised his own criteria for named heatwaves in the US, based on duration and extremity, on a one to five scale similar to hurricanes. Heatwave Chevron is classed as a four and is “historic”, Walton said. The meteorologist said he has a list of 20 oil and gas companies – including Exxon and Shell – for upcoming heatwaves and will turn to coal companies if he runs out of names.

[headspace-hotel]

OUTSTANDING MOVE

[gender is a performance and i have stage fright]

[piinfeathers]

just in case anyone missed this in the news or maybe not in the loop, Disney is currently refusing to meet with or acknowledge the newly formed animation production workers union that just voted to join IASTE and become an official part of TAG, the animators and animation artists guild

production workers across all studios are currently voting to be recognized for their hard work and invaluable skill at keeping these productions running, but studios are refusing to meet with them to let them negotiate deals or even exist

as someone who works in animation as a designer i know i wouldn't be able to do my job at all without any of my production workers. they are the incredibly hard working people who oversee pretty much everything in animation. they make sure everything is running on time, that schedules are being followed, they have to know pretty much every single word of the scripts and beats from the storyboards to make sure nothing is missed, and most importantly, they make sure artists are being taken care of and not overworked. they really are the unsung heroes of the animation world

production workers are also by far the most exploited workers in animation currently. they make about a fraction of what artists make for just as much work put in, and currently have no agreement for health coverage or other benefits that artists protected by the union are guaranteed

BUT! there is some good news. right now there's a petition on IATSE's website that has over 80,000 signatures currently addressed to disney leadership to do the right thing and meet with this new union and recognized their vote to form. it still needs roughly 21,000 signatures and only takes a minute to sign! anyone with a zip or postal code can sign, meaning both US and Canadian residents can sign and help this union get the deal it deserves!!

PETITION: Demand Disney recognizes Animation Production Workers' Union!

IATSE

[captaincrais]

i was able to sign from Germany so international zip codes also seem to work!

[gender is a performance and i have stage fright]

[prevailing-westerly]

[gender is a performance and i have stage fright]

[brendanicus]

Nothing new but TERFs really are some of the most pathetic vindictive creatures ever unleashed on the ever-evolving hate crime that is social media

[brendanicus]

Diversity win: women can also become terminally online Internet trolls who dedicate their entire off-the-clocks lives to stalking and harassing people they don't even know because hateworms have hatched in their brains and are slowly sucking their life force dry