March 2012
So an anon just sent a message to my non-fandom Tumblr detailing sexual assaults to expat women in Uganda.
I responded “fuck you, I’m already a survivor”.
Then they sent a message asking about details of my assault and I’m shaking in terror.
Maybe I should get my Bukowski tattoo this weekend? I’m booooooored.
February 2012
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“I think people sometimes get the wrong impression when they’re like, ‘Oh, well,...”
– Lucy Liu to Jane Magazine in 2003 (via itsinthetrees)
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Soon my posts will be less meta, more cute boys and girls.
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Slash and Racism: Navigating the Borderlands
Title owes a debt to Gloria Anzaldua.
Slash fiction is not the be-all-and-end-all of subversive, radical restructuring of media.
Slash can be subversive - writing about gay characters in media that is determined to pretend our sexualities can only be Very Special Lessons to Teach Good Straight People? That is subversive, I’m not denying that.
But who are the characters we spend so much...
"I have no interest (and evidently that sentiment...
omegalowmaniac:
See, here’s the thing. I didn’t cry when Fall Out Boy broke up. A band I quite literally and honestly claim saved my life when I was experiencing my first true manic episode, a band that has played a huge role in mine and my best friend’s friendship and mental health, and I didn’t cry when they broke up. For all that I love Panic! at the Disco, I didn’t cry during their split. I...
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Sherlock Fandom. A Word?
So it’s homophobic to cast Lucy Liu as Watson because then there won’t be gay subtext.
Oh. Okay, so it’s not homophobic when producers give a wink-wink-nod and fetishize gay people, when we exist as long as we don’t have sex, when we exist only as something to be laughed about but never stated?
That’s harmful. When gay people are only on television to titilliate,...
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-pallasathena replied to your post: The Bravest Toaster: Or, Emma Jean Has -Opinions-
YES In Case the Scene Gets Nasty- that was my first Ryden.
I am still entirely unclear how I ended up reading bandom fic and what was my first….
But it is an entirely lovely fic and the image of Brendon at the piano, uggggh.
The Bravest Toaster: Or, Emma Jean Has -Opinions-
Rec list for bravest little toaster Brendon!
What does brave little toaster mean? I’m pretty sure I heard Mere use the term first and decided it fit perfectly. This is Brendon who yes, can be a bit of a dick, is annoying but ultimately puts on a good face despite the world crumbling around him. I enjoy this characterization.
In Case The Scene Gets Nasty // Ryden AU //NC-17 // passe-simple...
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Dismissing CBS's Elementary is Far Too Premature...
So I see fandom is raging about CBS’s adaptation of Sherlock Holmes already!
Look. My father? Dropped out/was kicked out of a prestigious New York high school to live in London. He lived in London for probably half a decade, on and off. The day he met my mother he had just flown in from Heathrow.
I was raised an Anglophile who as Tumblr is probably aware pretends is one who pretends to...
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So I can’t stop smiling because I had my first pre-Uganda departure meeting today and ugh.
I have wanted to work in development my entire life, I have wanted to go to in the Peace Corp. my entire life. When I was in Ghana we visited hospitals and I realized how little I knew. How my ideas of development were bullshit and how I need to learn so much more and oh my god.
I get to learn.
do you ever see someone and think oh my god i would like to be responsible for your next orgasm
Honey.
There’s a reason you dated them yes.
But there’s also a reason they are your exes.
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Why I Need This Summer To Happe
Uganda
Cape Cod
South Carolina
Toronto for Pride
Wearing summer dresses and seeing pretty ladies in summer dresses. what. I am shallow.
Possible road trip w/buddies from high school!
Biweekly Announcement
tw: slurs
If you are following me and you have a slur in your url including, but not limited to
dyke
fag/faggot
the n-word
any racial slur besides “cracker”
Please stop following me.
This also applies to people who believe these words are okay to use in any sense beyond reclaiming. If you don’t know what reclaiming means here’s a hint:
You use the word in a positive...
“I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with...”
– David Levithan - Supporting Gay Teen Literature (via cake-light)
quick hit about bandom characterization for me
brave little toaster brendon is the best.
I make rec list tomorrow.