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    person: lonewolfmagenta:
mockeryd:

wocinsolidarity:

BLESS

Iā€™m gonna reblog this forever and ever and ever and ever



Imagine still fat shaming in 2020. Imagine being that depressing of a person.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: lonewolfmagenta:
mockeryd:

wocinsolidarity:

BLESS

Iā€™m gonna reblog this forever and ever and ever and ever



Imagine still fat shaming in 2020. Imagine being that depressing of a person.

                
            

            
            
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mockeryd:

wocinsolidarity:

BLESS

Iā€™m gonna reblog this forever and ever and ever and ever



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    person: Sometimes all you need is a movie with your fav person
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    person: prismatic-bell:
the-invisible-self:

pulmonary-poultry:

the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99:


mandalorianreynolds:

kuriquinn:

prismatic-bell:

the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99:


prismatic-bell:


broken-bits-of-dreams:

prismatic-bell:


aiko-mori-hates-pedos:

artbymoga:
Throwback to all these Jesus comics I drew in 2012ā€¦

Good post OP


Good post, OP, and if you ever decide to do another may I please suggest ā€œNOT IN HEBREW IT DOESNā€™Tā€ as a punchline? So much of the Old Testament is HORRIFICALLY translated from the Tanakh, it drives me batty.


WAIT WAIT WHAT DOES IT SAY?????? I NEED TO LIKE,, DESTROY MI MUM FOR BEING REALLY HOMOPHOBIC

Okay, so, strictly speaking, the infamous Leviticus 18:22 does say ā€œforbidden.ā€ Hereā€™s the thing: 

1) The word translated as ā€œforbiddenā€ is ā€œtoevah.ā€ While that translation isnā€™t ā€¦ wrong, itā€™s sort of like saying ā€œMcMansionā€ means ā€œreally big house.ā€ There are a lot of connotations in that word. The specific issue with toevah is that we ā€¦ sort of ā€¦ donā€™t know anymore exactly what it meant. Based on context, it seems likely that the word referred to something ritually forbidden. This part of Torah was written not only as a guide for future generations, but also to say ā€œso, look around, see your neighbors? DONā€™T DO THAT.ā€œ Thus, if we interpret ā€œtoevahā€ to mean something thatā€™s forbidden to do as a ritual before G-d, then the verse says nothing whatsoever about Adam and Steve and their two kids and their dogā€“itā€™s saying you shouldnā€™t have sex with another man in the Temple as a sacrifice.

2) Following the same ā€œthis is ritually forbiddenā€ logic of toevah, this verse may also be interpreted as ā€œdonā€™t do sex magic,ā€ which was a thing in. Like. A lot of fucking cultures at the time.

3) Hebrew is a highly gendered language, and the grammatical gender in this verse is really really weird. One of the ā€œmenā€ in this verse is given female grammar. Why? Who fucking knows, man, this isnā€™t the only grammatical oddity in Torah. (There are also places where G-d is referred to as plural, and also as female.) One suggestion is that this is a way of creating a diminutiveā€“that is, that the verse should be read as ā€œa man should not lie with a boy.ā€ Now, itā€™s worth noting that modern secular scholarship has concluded the written Torah was written down around the 6th century BCE, and most non-Orthodox Jewish scholars are like ā€œyeah, all things considered, that sounds pretty legit.ā€ 

Do you know what else was happening around the 6th century BCE? What laypeople tend to mean when they say ā€œancient Greeceā€ was happening. 

Do you know what happened a lot in that time period in Greece? Dudes forming relationships with younger boys, like ages 10-15, and using them for sex in exchange for financial gifts, mentorship, etc. While we donā€™t know just how young some of these younger boys may have been, we do know some were prepubescent. In light of this, and also something I mentioned under the first pointā€“ā€see your neighbors? DONā€™T DO THAT,ā€ if this verse is interpreted to say ā€œa man should not lie with a boy,ā€ then itā€™s pretty clearly ā€œmy dudes, my fellows, my lads, donā€™t be fucking pedophiles.ā€ 

4) Because of the grammar I mentioned in #3, itā€™s also possible that ā€œshould not lie with a man as with a womanā€ is actually referring to a place, not an abstract personhood: a man shouldnā€™t have sex with another man in a womanā€™s bed. In the time period, a womanā€™s bed was sort of likeā€“that was her place, her safe sanctuary. It was also a ritually holy place where babies were made. By having sex in her bed, youā€™re violating her safe space (and also introducing a man who may not be a male relative, thus forcing her into breaking the laws of modesty). If this verse is read this way, then it should be taken to mean ā€œdonā€™t sexually violate a womanā€™s safety and modesty.ā€5) And as an offshoot of #4, this may be a second verse relating to infidelity. Which womanā€™s bed is any random dude in 600 BCE most likely to have access to? His wifeā€™s. But laws were administered differently based on whether the person they pertained to was slave or free, male or female, and so onā€“thus, a man committing adultery with a woman would be treated differently than man committing adultery with a man (especially because the latter would carry no chance of an illegitimate pregnancy).


So youā€™ll note, there are a lot of ways to read this verse, and only a one-to-one translation with no cultural awareness produces ā€œbeing gay is wrong, all of the timeā€.(Youā€™ll also notice the word ā€œabominationā€ is nowhere to be found. Thatā€™s like ā€¦ a straight-up fiction created for who only knows what reason.)


Apparently tumblr mobile doesnā€™t want to show @prismatic-bell ā€™s long and in-depth essay, so hereā€™s the screenshots, because it still shows up on mobile browsers:








Much appreciated.


I love when scholarship and history debunks bullshit



ā€¦I sadly have more bullshit to report.

ā€œremoved for violating guidelinesā€, EVERY screenshot.



ā€¦goddamnit







Letā€™s try this again



I am horrified that @prismatic-bell keeps getting censored + this info is gold. 

Many thanks, @pulmonary-poultry. This isnā€™t the only Jewish post of mine thatā€™s mysteriously stopped showing up in searches and/or vanished from my blog entirely, but it is the one I get the most requests to repost, so this saves me from having to rewrite the whole damned essay. @the-invisible-self, thanks for bringing it to my attention that someone was able to preserve the post!

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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pulmonary-poultry:

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mandalorianreynolds:

kuriquinn:

prismatic-bell:

the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99:


prismatic-bell:


broken-bits-of-dreams:

prismatic-bell:


aiko-mori-hates-pedos:

artbymoga:
Throwback to all these Jesus comics I drew in 2012ā€¦

Good post OP


Good post, OP, and if you ever decide to do another may I please suggest ā€œNOT IN HEBREW IT DOESNā€™Tā€ as a punchline? So much of the Old Testament is HORRIFICALLY translated from the Tanakh, it drives me batty.


WAIT WAIT WHAT DOES IT SAY?????? I NEED TO LIKE,, DESTROY MI MUM FOR BEING REALLY HOMOPHOBIC

Okay, so, strictly speaking, the infamous Leviticus 18:22 does say ā€œforbidden.ā€ Hereā€™s the thing: 

1) The word translated as ā€œforbiddenā€ is ā€œtoevah.ā€ While that translation isnā€™t ā€¦ wrong, itā€™s sort of like saying ā€œMcMansionā€ means ā€œreally big house.ā€ There are a lot of connotations in that word. The specific issue with toevah is that we ā€¦ sort of ā€¦ donā€™t know anymore exactly what it meant. Based on context, it seems likely that the word referred to something ritually forbidden. This part of Torah was written not only as a guide for future generations, but also to say ā€œso, look around, see your neighbors? DONā€™T DO THAT.ā€œ Thus, if we interpret ā€œtoevahā€ to mean something thatā€™s forbidden to do as a ritual before G-d, then the verse says nothing whatsoever about Adam and Steve and their two kids and their dogā€“itā€™s saying you shouldnā€™t have sex with another man in the Temple as a sacrifice.

2) Following the same ā€œthis is ritually forbiddenā€ logic of toevah, this verse may also be interpreted as ā€œdonā€™t do sex magic,ā€ which was a thing in. Like. A lot of fucking cultures at the time.

3) Hebrew is a highly gendered language, and the grammatical gender in this verse is really really weird. One of the ā€œmenā€ in this verse is given female grammar. Why? Who fucking knows, man, this isnā€™t the only grammatical oddity in Torah. (There are also places where G-d is referred to as plural, and also as female.) One suggestion is that this is a way of creating a diminutiveā€“that is, that the verse should be read as ā€œa man should not lie with a boy.ā€ Now, itā€™s worth noting that modern secular scholarship has concluded the written Torah was written down around the 6th century BCE, and most non-Orthodox Jewish scholars are like ā€œyeah, all things considered, that sounds pretty legit.ā€ 

Do you know what else was happening around the 6th century BCE? What laypeople tend to mean when they say ā€œancient Greeceā€ was happening. 

Do you know what happened a lot in that time period in Greece? Dudes forming relationships with younger boys, like ages 10-15, and using them for sex in exchange for financial gifts, mentorship, etc. While we donā€™t know just how young some of these younger boys may have been, we do know some were prepubescent. In light of this, and also something I mentioned under the first pointā€“ā€see your neighbors? DONā€™T DO THAT,ā€ if this verse is interpreted to say ā€œa man should not lie with a boy,ā€ then itā€™s pretty clearly ā€œmy dudes, my fellows, my lads, donā€™t be fucking pedophiles.ā€ 

4) Because of the grammar I mentioned in #3, itā€™s also possible that ā€œshould not lie with a man as with a womanā€ is actually referring to a place, not an abstract personhood: a man shouldnā€™t have sex with another man in a womanā€™s bed. In the time period, a womanā€™s bed was sort of likeā€“that was her place, her safe sanctuary. It was also a ritually holy place where babies were made. By having sex in her bed, youā€™re violating her safe space (and also introducing a man who may not be a male relative, thus forcing her into breaking the laws of modesty). If this verse is read this way, then it should be taken to mean ā€œdonā€™t sexually violate a womanā€™s safety and modesty.ā€5) And as an offshoot of #4, this may be a second verse relating to infidelity. Which womanā€™s bed is any random dude in 600 BCE most likely to have access to? His wifeā€™s. But laws were administered differently based on whether the person they pertained to was slave or free, male or female, and so onā€“thus, a man committing adultery with a woman would be treated differently than man committing adultery with a man (especially because the latter would carry no chance of an illegitimate pregnancy).


So youā€™ll note, there are a lot of ways to read this verse, and only a one-to-one translation with no cultural awareness produces ā€œbeing gay is wrong, all of the timeā€.(Youā€™ll also notice the word ā€œabominationā€ is nowhere to be found. Thatā€™s like ā€¦ a straight-up fiction created for who only knows what reason.)


Apparently tumblr mobile doesnā€™t want to show @prismatic-bell ā€™s long and in-depth essay, so hereā€™s the screenshots, because it still shows up on mobile browsers:








Much appreciated.


I love when scholarship and history debunks bullshit



ā€¦I sadly have more bullshit to report.

ā€œremoved for violating guidelinesā€, EVERY screenshot.



ā€¦goddamnit







Letā€™s try this again



I am horrified that @prismatic-bell keeps getting censored + this info is gold. 

Many thanks, @pulmonary-poultry. This isnā€™t the only Jewish post of mine thatā€™s mysteriously stopped showing up in searches and/or vanished from my blog entirely, but it is the one I get the most requests to repost, so this saves me from having to rewrite the whole damned essay. @the-invisible-self, thanks for bringing it to my attention that someone was able to preserve the post!

                
            

            
            
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the-invisible-self:

pulmonary-poultry:

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    person: my-pansexualmess:
urbanfantasyinspiration:

supreme-leader-stoat:


mylifeisafairy-tale:

satansbitontheside:

bathedinflames:

nerdyandyouknowit:

cheerfulmetaphysics:

tsamthepoet:

I hardly see any heroic posts about Muslims on here, so here you go.

I love that it takes the time to specify that his attack of choice was a flying kick

The hero the world needs

I remember this. But I feel weā€™re missing some key points. When it happened, he was out jogging with his puppy:

He heard screams and sprinted towards them. He jumped a fence, saw a man pinning a woman down and immediately fly-kicked him in the face, knocking him out. He then gave the woman his jacket because her dress was ripped and got her a taxi home. She only managed to get in contact with him and tell the papers cause she later found his driverā€™s license in the pocket of the jacket.
ā€œIf I see a person in danger then I will intervene. I would not want to ignore it and then read the next day that a woman had been raped or murdered.ā€
And his message to the attacker:
ā€œHe is a coward and a man with no morals. I wonā€™t forget his face.ā€

Glaswegians will always fly kick someone I swear. Good on him.


Something else I love about this is that theyā€™re calling the rapist a ā€œbeastā€ because that is an appropriate word to use for someone who would do something that horrible instead of showing him any form of sympathy or humanizing him 



What a lad

proud of him

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: my-pansexualmess:
urbanfantasyinspiration:

supreme-leader-stoat:


mylifeisafairy-tale:

satansbitontheside:

bathedinflames:

nerdyandyouknowit:

cheerfulmetaphysics:

tsamthepoet:

I hardly see any heroic posts about Muslims on here, so here you go.

I love that it takes the time to specify that his attack of choice was a flying kick

The hero the world needs

I remember this. But I feel weā€™re missing some key points. When it happened, he was out jogging with his puppy:

He heard screams and sprinted towards them. He jumped a fence, saw a man pinning a woman down and immediately fly-kicked him in the face, knocking him out. He then gave the woman his jacket because her dress was ripped and got her a taxi home. She only managed to get in contact with him and tell the papers cause she later found his driverā€™s license in the pocket of the jacket.
ā€œIf I see a person in danger then I will intervene. I would not want to ignore it and then read the next day that a woman had been raped or murdered.ā€
And his message to the attacker:
ā€œHe is a coward and a man with no morals. I wonā€™t forget his face.ā€

Glaswegians will always fly kick someone I swear. Good on him.


Something else I love about this is that theyā€™re calling the rapist a ā€œbeastā€ because that is an appropriate word to use for someone who would do something that horrible instead of showing him any form of sympathy or humanizing him 



What a lad

proud of him

                
            

            
            
my-pansexualmess:
urbanfantasyinspiration:

supreme-leader-stoat:


mylifeisafairy-tale:

satansbitontheside:

bathedinflames:

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    person: novelty-gift-ideas:

I Want to Be a Nice person Mug


    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    person: Soooo, I no longer feel like a crazy person for losing random socksā€¦
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    person: Hoping you swiped on the right person in a group pic like
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    person: awesomacious:

a person of focus, commitement and sheer will!
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    person: awesomacious:

I posted this 69 days ago and Iā€™ve been dating the most wonderful person for a month now.. crazy how things work out
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: awesomacious:

I posted this 69 days ago and Iā€™ve been dating the most wonderful person for a month now.. crazy how things work out
                
            

            
            
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I posted this 69 days ago and Iā€™ve been dating the most wonderful person for a month now.. crazy how things work out

            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            






        

            
                
                    
                    


    

        
        
    




                
            
        
        

            






        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            







    person: trans-mom:
Claim: ā€œTransā€ is short for ā€œtransition.ā€
The Truth: ā€œTransā€ is short for ā€œtransgender.ā€ It is just a descriptor of a personā€™s gender.
Claim: You must experience dysphoria in order to be trans.
The Truth: Incorrect. Dysphoria is an old, outdated term thatā€™s been redefined over time to cover new specific needs. Despite its constant redefining, itā€™s still not an all encompassing descriptor for all trans people.
Claim: You must pursue hrt and surgery to be trans.
The Truth: Incorrect. There are a variety of reasons why someone wouldnā€™t want to have hrt or surgery, all of them valid.
Claim: If youā€™re trans, youā€™d show very specific signs as a child. / All trans people knew they were trans since a young age.
The Truth: A lot of trans people do not possess obvious signs of their transhood as children. Lots of people discover themselves later in life. Your age does not dictate your transhood.Ā 
Claim: Transition is solely defined by hrt or surgery.
The Truth: Transition begins from the moment you feel youā€™re trans and need to alter things in your life. Transition isnā€™t only medical. Itā€™s also social, but most of all itā€™s personal. Something like making a plan to come out in the future is part of your transition.
Claim: You have to come out to everyone.
The Truth: Thatā€™s personal information you owe no one.Ā 
Claim: Most trans people detransition.
The Truth: Detransitioning is rare. And in most cases itā€™s because of financial and safety (read: bigoted harm) reasons. The claim that most trans people detransition is based on an old study where the kids were exposed to anti-lgbt rhetoric and when people didnā€™t return his calls he marked them as ā€œdetransitioned.ā€ The amount of people who detransition cuz they ā€œwerenā€™t transā€ is extremely rare.
Claim: Being on hrt will make you more depressed.
The Truth: Incorrect. Statistics show that the majority of trans peopleā€™s lives improve with hrt. What actually would cause depression is the constant harassment and harm from bigots, often times from the same people who told you hrt will make you depressed. Hrt itself is documented to improve the quality of life.
Claim: You donā€™t need hrt. There are pills on the market made from natural means that will give you the same result without a prescription.
The Truth: This is not only false, but itā€™s a money making scheme meant to exploit your lack of easy access to hrt. These pills will not work, they will actually have the opposite effect, and they cost the same as obtaining hrt without a prescription on average.
Claim: You absolutely must have a prescription for hrt. Itā€™s illegal to get it without and youā€™ll die if you donā€™t have proper understanding.
The Truth: Morality isnā€™t dictated by legality. And, though some dangers exist with self medicating with no knowledge, as someone that did self medicated hrt itā€™s not impossible for you to get educated. Testosterone poses more legal risks and you need to be sure what youā€™re getting is the real deal with T, but the need to do things this way is a sign the system is broken - not that thereā€™s something wrong with the people doing it.
For information about feminizing hormones, go here.
For information about masculinizing hormones, go here.
Claim: You can get hrt through Planned Parenthood.
The Truth: Accurate! Planned Parenthood does offer hrt on an informed consent basis in some places. This is not true to everywhere so maybe call them or check their own web site about it before just dropping in. Smallangryandtired did an excellent write up on how to do the process here.Ā 
However, as I said, they do not offer it in all locations. The main path a lot of people take is going to a therapist for a session or two and getting a letter from said therapist approving you for hrt and taking that to a doctor (who in turn usually recommends you to a specialist).
Claim: After a certain age, thereā€™s no point to do hrt. It wonā€™t have the same effect.
The Truth: That is a lie. Hrt will work no matter your age.
Claim: You can be too young for hrt and puberty blockers are dangerous.
The Truth: That is also a lie. Lots of people have known theyā€™re trans since they were kids and refusing them treatment is child abuse. If a doctor deems a kid too young for hrt, the alternative is puberty blockers because they are not harmful to the child at all. Despite what anti-lgbt groups want you to believe, there is no danger to puberty blockers.
Claim: There are only two genders. / Nonbinary people donā€™t exist. / Biological sex dictates gender.
The Truth: The biological sex you know is only trulyĀ representative of gender stereotypes. The truth is that, biologically speaking, there are more than two sexes and the only true way to identify such is throughĀ karyotypes. Third genders and nonbinary genders have existed through out history, it is not new. The greatest minds in science have time and time again repeated this information, that sex isnā€™t a binary, that nonbinary people exist, that trans women are really women, trans men are men, and that nonbinary people are nonbinary. Even Bill Nye has said this.
Claim: Things likeĀ ā€œstargenderā€ orĀ ā€œnoungenderā€ are ruining the representation of the trans community. /Ā ā€œNoungenderā€ is just children trying to get attention and are not actually trans. / People using neopronouns or nounself pronouns are not really trans.
The Truth: This in inaccurate and often times either a bullying tactic towards those who are different, or transphobic people using such to isolate a group of trans people. Some people do not fit into the binary or gender nor feel like theyā€™re in any defined nonbinary genders. So theyā€™ll define themselves with words and terms they enjoy. Itā€™s no different from you feeling more comfort from being calledĀ ā€œheā€ versusĀ ā€œshe.ā€Ā 
And, in the off chance it is someone just seeking attention. It doesnā€™t matter. Let them have their fun. Theyā€™re not ruining anything calling themselves spacegender on tumblr dot com.
Claim: There are people faking being trans to fit into a crowd. / The entire concept ofĀ ā€œtranstrenders.ā€
The Truth: Not true. This is just age old blatantĀ ā€œyouā€™re fakingā€ transphobia.Ā 
Claim: Trans people on hrt or post-op can not experience sexual enjoyment.
The Truth: Both will change your bodyā€™s entire response to sex. Your enjoyment doesnā€™t disappear, the entire process just changes to something different. This inaccuracy is spread by transphobes on average and isnā€™t remotely true.
Claim: Trans people have a high rate of suicide.
The Truth: Iā€™m sorry to say that trans people are under the stress of discrimination from all angles, and on top of other stresses or discriminations one may experience, it leads us into suicidal ideation. But, thatā€™s why we need to stick together and help each other out. If youā€™re trans and considering suicide, consider the following:
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: Ā 1-800-273-8255
Trans Lifeline USA: Ā 1-877-565-8860
Trans Lifeline Canada: 1-877-330-6366
The Trevor Project Hotline: Ā 1-866-488-7386
The Trevor Project also offers texting and chat
You deserve to live your life. I promise you youā€™re strong enough to get through this.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: trans-mom:
Claim: ā€œTransā€ is short for ā€œtransition.ā€
The Truth: ā€œTransā€ is short for ā€œtransgender.ā€ It is just a descriptor of a personā€™s gender.
Claim: You must experience dysphoria in order to be trans.
The Truth: Incorrect. Dysphoria is an old, outdated term thatā€™s been redefined over time to cover new specific needs. Despite its constant redefining, itā€™s still not an all encompassing descriptor for all trans people.
Claim: You must pursue hrt and surgery to be trans.
The Truth: Incorrect. There are a variety of reasons why someone wouldnā€™t want to have hrt or surgery, all of them valid.
Claim: If youā€™re trans, youā€™d show very specific signs as a child. / All trans people knew they were trans since a young age.
The Truth: A lot of trans people do not possess obvious signs of their transhood as children. Lots of people discover themselves later in life. Your age does not dictate your transhood.Ā 
Claim: Transition is solely defined by hrt or surgery.
The Truth: Transition begins from the moment you feel youā€™re trans and need to alter things in your life. Transition isnā€™t only medical. Itā€™s also social, but most of all itā€™s personal. Something like making a plan to come out in the future is part of your transition.
Claim: You have to come out to everyone.
The Truth: Thatā€™s personal information you owe no one.Ā 
Claim: Most trans people detransition.
The Truth: Detransitioning is rare. And in most cases itā€™s because of financial and safety (read: bigoted harm) reasons. The claim that most trans people detransition is based on an old study where the kids were exposed to anti-lgbt rhetoric and when people didnā€™t return his calls he marked them as ā€œdetransitioned.ā€ The amount of people who detransition cuz they ā€œwerenā€™t transā€ is extremely rare.
Claim: Being on hrt will make you more depressed.
The Truth: Incorrect. Statistics show that the majority of trans peopleā€™s lives improve with hrt. What actually would cause depression is the constant harassment and harm from bigots, often times from the same people who told you hrt will make you depressed. Hrt itself is documented to improve the quality of life.
Claim: You donā€™t need hrt. There are pills on the market made from natural means that will give you the same result without a prescription.
The Truth: This is not only false, but itā€™s a money making scheme meant to exploit your lack of easy access to hrt. These pills will not work, they will actually have the opposite effect, and they cost the same as obtaining hrt without a prescription on average.
Claim: You absolutely must have a prescription for hrt. Itā€™s illegal to get it without and youā€™ll die if you donā€™t have proper understanding.
The Truth: Morality isnā€™t dictated by legality. And, though some dangers exist with self medicating with no knowledge, as someone that did self medicated hrt itā€™s not impossible for you to get educated. Testosterone poses more legal risks and you need to be sure what youā€™re getting is the real deal with T, but the need to do things this way is a sign the system is broken - not that thereā€™s something wrong with the people doing it.
For information about feminizing hormones, go here.
For information about masculinizing hormones, go here.
Claim: You can get hrt through Planned Parenthood.
The Truth: Accurate! Planned Parenthood does offer hrt on an informed consent basis in some places. This is not true to everywhere so maybe call them or check their own web site about it before just dropping in. Smallangryandtired did an excellent write up on how to do the process here.Ā 
However, as I said, they do not offer it in all locations. The main path a lot of people take is going to a therapist for a session or two and getting a letter from said therapist approving you for hrt and taking that to a doctor (who in turn usually recommends you to a specialist).
Claim: After a certain age, thereā€™s no point to do hrt. It wonā€™t have the same effect.
The Truth: That is a lie. Hrt will work no matter your age.
Claim: You can be too young for hrt and puberty blockers are dangerous.
The Truth: That is also a lie. Lots of people have known theyā€™re trans since they were kids and refusing them treatment is child abuse. If a doctor deems a kid too young for hrt, the alternative is puberty blockers because they are not harmful to the child at all. Despite what anti-lgbt groups want you to believe, there is no danger to puberty blockers.
Claim: There are only two genders. / Nonbinary people donā€™t exist. / Biological sex dictates gender.
The Truth: The biological sex you know is only trulyĀ representative of gender stereotypes. The truth is that, biologically speaking, there are more than two sexes and the only true way to identify such is throughĀ karyotypes. Third genders and nonbinary genders have existed through out history, it is not new. The greatest minds in science have time and time again repeated this information, that sex isnā€™t a binary, that nonbinary people exist, that trans women are really women, trans men are men, and that nonbinary people are nonbinary. Even Bill Nye has said this.
Claim: Things likeĀ ā€œstargenderā€ orĀ ā€œnoungenderā€ are ruining the representation of the trans community. /Ā ā€œNoungenderā€ is just children trying to get attention and are not actually trans. / People using neopronouns or nounself pronouns are not really trans.
The Truth: This in inaccurate and often times either a bullying tactic towards those who are different, or transphobic people using such to isolate a group of trans people. Some people do not fit into the binary or gender nor feel like theyā€™re in any defined nonbinary genders. So theyā€™ll define themselves with words and terms they enjoy. Itā€™s no different from you feeling more comfort from being calledĀ ā€œheā€ versusĀ ā€œshe.ā€Ā 
And, in the off chance it is someone just seeking attention. It doesnā€™t matter. Let them have their fun. Theyā€™re not ruining anything calling themselves spacegender on tumblr dot com.
Claim: There are people faking being trans to fit into a crowd. / The entire concept ofĀ ā€œtranstrenders.ā€
The Truth: Not true. This is just age old blatantĀ ā€œyouā€™re fakingā€ transphobia.Ā 
Claim: Trans people on hrt or post-op can not experience sexual enjoyment.
The Truth: Both will change your bodyā€™s entire response to sex. Your enjoyment doesnā€™t disappear, the entire process just changes to something different. This inaccuracy is spread by transphobes on average and isnā€™t remotely true.
Claim: Trans people have a high rate of suicide.
The Truth: Iā€™m sorry to say that trans people are under the stress of discrimination from all angles, and on top of other stresses or discriminations one may experience, it leads us into suicidal ideation. But, thatā€™s why we need to stick together and help each other out. If youā€™re trans and considering suicide, consider the following:
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: Ā 1-800-273-8255
Trans Lifeline USA: Ā 1-877-565-8860
Trans Lifeline Canada: 1-877-330-6366
The Trevor Project Hotline: Ā 1-866-488-7386
The Trevor Project also offers texting and chat
You deserve to live your life. I promise you youā€™re strong enough to get through this.

                
            

            
            
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Claim: ā€œTransā€ is short for ā€œtransition.ā€
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    person: my-pansexualmess:
urbanfantasyinspiration:

supreme-leader-stoat:


mylifeisafairy-tale:

satansbitontheside:

bathedinflames:

nerdyandyouknowit:

cheerfulmetaphysics:

tsamthepoet:

I hardly see any heroic posts about Muslims on here, so here you go.

I love that it takes the time to specify that his attack of choice was a flying kick

The hero the world needs

I remember this. But I feel weā€™re missing some key points. When it happened, he was out jogging with his puppy:

He heard screams and sprinted towards them. He jumped a fence, saw a man pinning a woman down and immediately fly-kicked him in the face, knocking him out. He then gave the woman his jacket because her dress was ripped and got her a taxi home. She only managed to get in contact with him and tell the papers cause she later found his driverā€™s license in the pocket of the jacket.
ā€œIf I see a person in danger then I will intervene. I would not want to ignore it and then read the next day that a woman had been raped or murdered.ā€
And his message to the attacker:
ā€œHe is a coward and a man with no morals. I wonā€™t forget his face.ā€

Glaswegians will always fly kick someone I swear. Good on him.


Something else I love about this is that theyā€™re calling the rapist a ā€œbeastā€ because that is an appropriate word to use for someone who would do something that horrible instead of showing him any form of sympathy or humanizing him 



What a lad

proud of him

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: my-pansexualmess:
urbanfantasyinspiration:

supreme-leader-stoat:


mylifeisafairy-tale:

satansbitontheside:

bathedinflames:

nerdyandyouknowit:

cheerfulmetaphysics:

tsamthepoet:

I hardly see any heroic posts about Muslims on here, so here you go.

I love that it takes the time to specify that his attack of choice was a flying kick

The hero the world needs

I remember this. But I feel weā€™re missing some key points. When it happened, he was out jogging with his puppy:

He heard screams and sprinted towards them. He jumped a fence, saw a man pinning a woman down and immediately fly-kicked him in the face, knocking him out. He then gave the woman his jacket because her dress was ripped and got her a taxi home. She only managed to get in contact with him and tell the papers cause she later found his driverā€™s license in the pocket of the jacket.
ā€œIf I see a person in danger then I will intervene. I would not want to ignore it and then read the next day that a woman had been raped or murdered.ā€
And his message to the attacker:
ā€œHe is a coward and a man with no morals. I wonā€™t forget his face.ā€

Glaswegians will always fly kick someone I swear. Good on him.


Something else I love about this is that theyā€™re calling the rapist a ā€œbeastā€ because that is an appropriate word to use for someone who would do something that horrible instead of showing him any form of sympathy or humanizing him 



What a lad

proud of him

                
            

            
            
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urbanfantasyinspiration:

supreme-leader-stoat:


mylifeisafairy-tale:

satansbitontheside:

bathedinflames:

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    person: awesomacious:

I posted this 69 days ago and Iā€™ve been dating the most wonderful person for a month now.. crazy how things work out
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: awesomacious:

I posted this 69 days ago and Iā€™ve been dating the most wonderful person for a month now.. crazy how things work out
                
            

            
            
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I posted this 69 days ago and Iā€™ve been dating the most wonderful person for a month now.. crazy how things work out

            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            







    person: positive-memes:
dahlias-love:
I need this hoodie!!
I found this hoodie
hereā€¦

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: positive-memes:
dahlias-love:
I need this hoodie!!
I found this hoodie
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dahlias-love:
I need this hoodie!!
I found this hoodie
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    person: saileshvaghellyeah:When Sakhmet met Lucifer (feel like a brand new person). The Wicked + The Divine fan art āœØ @mckelvie @kierongillen @wicdiv
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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saileshvaghellyeah:When Sakhmet met Lucifer (feel like a brand new person). The Wicked + The Divine fan art āœØ @mckelvie @kierongillen @wi...

            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            







    person: I posted this 69 days ago and Iā€™ve been dating the most wonderful person for a month now.. crazy how things work out
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: I posted this 69 days ago and Iā€™ve been dating the most wonderful person for a month now.. crazy how things work out
                
            

            
            
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    person: You are the most amazing person you can be
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    person: What an amazing person
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    person: a person of focus, commitement and sheer will!
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    person: birdofsprey:

harley: you just killed a person
helena: (ā—•ā€æā—•)

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: birdofsprey:

harley: you just killed a person
helena: (ā—•ā€æā—•)

                
                

                
            

            
            
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harley: you just killed a person
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    person: Maybe contact that person
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    person: reblog-house:
I legit was like ā€œhow fucking tall and strong is the person in the alien disguiseā€
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: reblog-house:
I legit was like ā€œhow fucking tall and strong is the person in the alien disguiseā€
                
                

                
            

            
            
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I legit was like ā€œhow fucking tall and strong is the person in the alien disguiseā€

            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            







    person: dahlias-love:I need this hoodie!!
I found this hoodiehereā€¦
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: dahlias-love:I need this hoodie!!
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dahlias-love:I need this hoodie!!
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    person: blizzrhy:

libertarirynn:

dashas-hideous-laughter:

fanburgers:


laizy-boy:


ask-crammaster-ham:


hereā€™s the closeted furries ā€œhey manā€¦ can u bum me a cigā€ and ā€œthe one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anywaysā€


if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE heā€™s trans in this au (;Ā 
ft John:



I found the original 



Oh wow itā€™s even worse than I expected. This is truly the post of the decade



Wait, but SUMO came out in 2016, I couldā€™ve sworn I saw this back in 2015.



How fucking dare you. How fucking dare you put this on my dash again. Just when I had eradicated it from my memory you dredge it back up out of the sewers. I will come to your house. I will burn it to the ground. I will end your bloodline.ļæ¼


Wannabe teens pretending to be trans gotta stop making this shit. Is borderline offensive, honestly. Donā€™t make your characters trans for the sake of it. Youā€™re only using a real and difficult condition to make your characters more ā€œinterestingā€, itā€™s not useful to the story or relevant, to you itā€™s like character being blonde. Itā€™s exactly the same as using rape to add action to an already shitty tale, just DONā€™T. 


Thatā€™s not even the real issue here. The issue is that these guys ARENā€™T CHARACTERS. They arenā€™t fucking fictional! Theyā€™re real historical people! Some of them were straight up fucking slave ownersļæ¼ļæ¼! ā€œWhat if this actual historical person who had a teenage slave concubine was actually a cute black transboi uwuā€ļæ¼ is literally fucking horrifying.ļæ¼
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: blizzrhy:

libertarirynn:

dashas-hideous-laughter:

fanburgers:


laizy-boy:


ask-crammaster-ham:


hereā€™s the closeted furries ā€œhey manā€¦ can u bum me a cigā€ and ā€œthe one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anywaysā€


if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE heā€™s trans in this au (;Ā 
ft John:



I found the original 



Oh wow itā€™s even worse than I expected. This is truly the post of the decade



Wait, but SUMO came out in 2016, I couldā€™ve sworn I saw this back in 2015.



How fucking dare you. How fucking dare you put this on my dash again. Just when I had eradicated it from my memory you dredge it back up out of the sewers. I will come to your house. I will burn it to the ground. I will end your bloodline.ļæ¼


Wannabe teens pretending to be trans gotta stop making this shit. Is borderline offensive, honestly. Donā€™t make your characters trans for the sake of it. Youā€™re only using a real and difficult condition to make your characters more ā€œinterestingā€, itā€™s not useful to the story or relevant, to you itā€™s like character being blonde. Itā€™s exactly the same as using rape to add action to an already shitty tale, just DONā€™T. 


Thatā€™s not even the real issue here. The issue is that these guys ARENā€™T CHARACTERS. They arenā€™t fucking fictional! Theyā€™re real historical people! Some of them were straight up fucking slave ownersļæ¼ļæ¼! ā€œWhat if this actual historical person who had a teenage slave concubine was actually a cute black transboi uwuā€ļæ¼ is literally fucking horrifying.ļæ¼
                
            

            
            
blizzrhy:

libertarirynn:

dashas-hideous-laughter:

fanburgers:


laizy-boy:


ask-crammaster-ham:


hereā€™s the closeted furries ā€œhey ma...

            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            







    person: cindersart:
character: adopts another person, or two, or tenĀ me, immediately falling in love:Ā 
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: cindersart:
character: adopts another person, or two, or tenĀ me, immediately falling in love:Ā 
                
            

            
            
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character: adopts another person, or two, or tenĀ me, immediately falling in love:Ā 

            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            







    person: faheys:

Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if youā€™re going to save the world, Iā€™m the best person to keep you from messing up.Ā 
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: faheys:

Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if youā€™re going to save the world, Iā€™m the best person to keep you from messing up.Ā 
                
            

            
            
faheys:

Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if youā€™re going to save the world, Iā€™m the best person to keep you from messing up.Ā 

            
            
        

    



        

            
                
                    
                    
                
            
        
        

            







    person: atlinmerrick:
dancinggrimm:

truckyousasha:

thekaraokeninja:

fandomsandfeminism:

generalmaluga:

albinwonderland:

fandomsandfeminism:

betterthanabortion:

ā€œMy body, my choiceā€ only makes sense when someone elseā€™s life isnā€™t at stake.

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood.Ā Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didnā€™t want to.
See, we have this concept called ā€œbodily autonomy.ā€ Itā€™s thisā€¦.cultural notion that a personā€™s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.Ā 
Like, we canā€™t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.Ā 
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You canā€™t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they arenā€™t using anymore after they have died.Ā 
Youā€™re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.Ā 

reblogging for commentaryĀ 

But, assuming the mother wasnā€™t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their ā€œbodily autonomyā€ is a choice that the mother made. YOu donā€™t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isnā€™t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.Ā 

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.Ā 
And hereā€™s another point: When you say that ā€œrape is the exceptionā€ you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.Ā 
When you say that ā€œRape is the exceptionā€ what you betray is this: It isnā€™t about a life. This isnā€™t about the little soul sitting inside some personā€™s womb, because if it was you wouldnā€™t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say ā€œrape is the exceptionā€ what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but donā€™t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their ā€œconsequence.ā€Ā 
And that is gross.Ā 

^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!

This is probablyĀ the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.

WHY THE FUCK HAS TUMBLR FLAGGED THIS?! iā€™M FUCKING FURIOUS!!!

Yep, this was flagged for me too. Which is why Iā€™m going to reblog it several time until Tumblr implodes.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: atlinmerrick:
dancinggrimm:

truckyousasha:

thekaraokeninja:

fandomsandfeminism:

generalmaluga:

albinwonderland:

fandomsandfeminism:

betterthanabortion:

ā€œMy body, my choiceā€ only makes sense when someone elseā€™s life isnā€™t at stake.

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood.Ā Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didnā€™t want to.
See, we have this concept called ā€œbodily autonomy.ā€ Itā€™s thisā€¦.cultural notion that a personā€™s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.Ā 
Like, we canā€™t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.Ā 
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You canā€™t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they arenā€™t using anymore after they have died.Ā 
Youā€™re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.Ā 

reblogging for commentaryĀ 

But, assuming the mother wasnā€™t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their ā€œbodily autonomyā€ is a choice that the mother made. YOu donā€™t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isnā€™t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.Ā 

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.Ā 
And hereā€™s another point: When you say that ā€œrape is the exceptionā€ you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.Ā 
When you say that ā€œRape is the exceptionā€ what you betray is this: It isnā€™t about a life. This isnā€™t about the little soul sitting inside some personā€™s womb, because if it was you wouldnā€™t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say ā€œrape is the exceptionā€ what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but donā€™t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their ā€œconsequence.ā€Ā 
And that is gross.Ā 

^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!

This is probablyĀ the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.

WHY THE FUCK HAS TUMBLR FLAGGED THIS?! iā€™M FUCKING FURIOUS!!!

Yep, this was flagged for me too. Which is why Iā€™m going to reblog it several time until Tumblr implodes.

                
            

            
            
atlinmerrick:
dancinggrimm:

truckyousasha:

thekaraokeninja:

fandomsandfeminism:

generalmaluga:

albinwonderland:

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    person: dynastylnoire:

writernotwaiting:

hellenhighwater:

astolen98saturnsedan:

luadell:

thisnewdevilry:

sputnikcentury:

teapotsahoy:

lovedsomuch:

warsfeils:

anubituf:

harukami:

last-snowfall:

weareallmedie:

firedanceryote:

reptila-tequila:

qeilla:

thefreckledavantgardegoober:

mysticmisfit89:

Meanwhile, in prehistoric Canadaā€¦..

No no, you donā€™t understand, moose really do get that big. Take it from a Canadian. Iā€™ve seen that bullshit in person. Scary as all heck.

And thatā€™s how people can die if they hit a moose. Seriously, one of our fears when driving in the country is having to deal with this scenario of a moose jumping out in front of the car.

moose are actual legit ice age megafauna; theyve been here since the ice age, they are old as fuck. they also are pretty terrifying and ive echoed this before but i went to wiki and ā€œIn terms of raw numbers, they attack more people thanĀ bearsĀ andĀ wolvesĀ combinedā€ and ā€œĀ In the Americas, moose injure more people than any other wild mammal and, worldwide, only hippopotamuses injure more.ā€
like, fuck off with that

I was dog sitting a dog once who insisted she had to go out in the middle of the night it was an emergency, so I took her out. Suddenly she starts pointing and barking and I look up and can just make out the outline of a HUGE moose. Iā€™ve been accidentally face to face with a black bear and that scared me less than being up close with a moose. Iā€™m 5 foot so imagine staring up at an animal several feet taller than you that is debating charging the dog whoā€™s leash you are holding. I was terrified as I grabbed the dog by her collar to get better control over her and backed up slowly til I was out of line of sight and bolted for the house at a dead run. Did you know most Canadian lake monster stories come from people seeing moose swimming? They are massive animals.

They are massive and they charge. I get so scared when tourists are all ā€œoh yeah, we got out of the car to get a closer look and, yaā€™ll have some mighty impressive animals around here.ā€Yes, yes we do, and they have mighty tired guardian angels because moose can, and do, charge at people.

Someone my mom worked with died hitting a moose on the highway. Their eyes donā€™t reflect light. In the dark they are literally nothing but a big slightly darker shape in the night. Roughly every year in the town I grew up in, a cow (moose) and her calf will wander through downtown. Maybe once or twice. If sheā€™s aggressive enough, the local Mounties will escort her through to keep idiots away.

Iā€™ve definitely talked with people who thought moose were deer-sized or maybe horse-sized and I was like NO YOU DONā€™T EVEN UNDERSTAND MOOSE ARE TERRIFYING
Moose are terrifying, you guys.

I finally live on a province where moose and deer exist.
I do not drive at night in fear of meeting one. If you hit a moose going 90 on a highway, not only is your car trashed, you are probably trashed. Iā€™veĀ seen cars that got wrecked and there seems to be a consensus that at least half the time, the giant fucking beastie just shakes itself off and continues gallumphing along the countryside.

If you fucking hit a moose with your car and their legs go through your windshield, congratulations, you are dead. Massive hooves kicking you to death? Yeah.Ā 
Moose are fucking terrifying. Bull moose wonā€™t fuck with you too much unless you fuck with them, but the time a bull moose casually swaggered his way past 7 year old me when I was sledding literally put me off winter sports for a solid month.Ā 
Momma moose and their babies, though? I legitimately had to call in to work to be like ā€œey yo there is a moose in my driveway and I canā€™t get outā€ AND MY MANAGERS UNDERSTOOD.
Moose. MOOSE.

I have to admit I thought they were like a Canadian deer before this.

The commenter above who claims that mooseā€™s eyes donā€™t reflect light is only partially correct; if you shine a flashlight in a mooseā€™s eyes it will glow like a cat (and then you will probably get killed to death by an annoyed moose) but the reason they are so dangerous to cars at nights is that they are too tall for the headlights to reach. Think about that.

Moose confirmed for actual kaiju.


Kaiju category: Maple. Ā 


Now I kinda want a kaiju movie set in Canada where itā€™s just a moose. Like a regular moose but more aggressive. 

@ssalogel

For scale, a female african elephant is 7.2-8.5 feet at the shoulder, according to Wikipedia. A moose isĀ 

4.6 ā€“ 6.9 ft. at the shoulder. So instead of thinkingĀ ā€œThis animal is a bit bigger than a deerā€ you can thinkĀ ā€œThis animal is barely smaller than an elephantā€

And they can run up to 40 miles per hour


A 16 wheeler with fur

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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writernotwaiting:

hellenhighwater:

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sputnikcentury:

teapotsahoy:

lovedsomuch:

warsfeils:

anubituf:

harukami:

last-snowfall:

weareallmedie:

firedanceryote:

reptila-tequila:

qeilla:

thefreckledavantgardegoober:

mysticmisfit89:

Meanwhile, in prehistoric Canadaā€¦..

No no, you donā€™t understand, moose really do get that big. Take it from a Canadian. Iā€™ve seen that bullshit in person. Scary as all heck.

And thatā€™s how people can die if they hit a moose. Seriously, one of our fears when driving in the country is having to deal with this scenario of a moose jumping out in front of the car.

moose are actual legit ice age megafauna; theyve been here since the ice age, they are old as fuck. they also are pretty terrifying and ive echoed this before but i went to wiki and ā€œIn terms of raw numbers, they attack more people thanĀ bearsĀ andĀ wolvesĀ combinedā€ and ā€œĀ In the Americas, moose injure more people than any other wild mammal and, worldwide, only hippopotamuses injure more.ā€
like, fuck off with that

I was dog sitting a dog once who insisted she had to go out in the middle of the night it was an emergency, so I took her out. Suddenly she starts pointing and barking and I look up and can just make out the outline of a HUGE moose. Iā€™ve been accidentally face to face with a black bear and that scared me less than being up close with a moose. Iā€™m 5 foot so imagine staring up at an animal several feet taller than you that is debating charging the dog whoā€™s leash you are holding. I was terrified as I grabbed the dog by her collar to get better control over her and backed up slowly til I was out of line of sight and bolted for the house at a dead run. Did you know most Canadian lake monster stories come from people seeing moose swimming? They are massive animals.

They are massive and they charge. I get so scared when tourists are all ā€œoh yeah, we got out of the car to get a closer look and, yaā€™ll have some mighty impressive animals around here.ā€Yes, yes we do, and they have mighty tired guardian angels because moose can, and do, charge at people.

Someone my mom worked with died hitting a moose on the highway. Their eyes donā€™t reflect light. In the dark they are literally nothing but a big slightly darker shape in the night. Roughly every year in the town I grew up in, a cow (moose) and her calf will wander through downtown. Maybe once or twice. If sheā€™s aggressive enough, the local Mounties will escort her through to keep idiots away.

Iā€™ve definitely talked with people who thought moose were deer-sized or maybe horse-sized and I was like NO YOU DONā€™T EVEN UNDERSTAND MOOSE ARE TERRIFYING
Moose are terrifying, you guys.

I finally live on a province where moose and deer exist.
I do not drive at night in fear of meeting one. If you hit a moose going 90 on a highway, not only is your car trashed, you are probably trashed. Iā€™veĀ seen cars that got wrecked and there seems to be a consensus that at least half the time, the giant fucking beastie just shakes itself off and continues gallumphing along the countryside.

If you fucking hit a moose with your car and their legs go through your windshield, congratulations, you are dead. Massive hooves kicking you to death? Yeah.Ā 
Moose are fucking terrifying. Bull moose wonā€™t fuck with you too much unless you fuck with them, but the time a bull moose casually swaggered his way past 7 year old me when I was sledding literally put me off winter sports for a solid month.Ā 
Momma moose and their babies, though? I legitimately had to call in to work to be like ā€œey yo there is a moose in my driveway and I canā€™t get outā€ AND MY MANAGERS UNDERSTOOD.
Moose. MOOSE.

I have to admit I thought they were like a Canadian deer before this.

The commenter above who claims that mooseā€™s eyes donā€™t reflect light is only partially correct; if you shine a flashlight in a mooseā€™s eyes it will glow like a cat (and then you will probably get killed to death by an annoyed moose) but the reason they are so dangerous to cars at nights is that they are too tall for the headlights to reach. Think about that.

Moose confirmed for actual kaiju.


Kaiju category: Maple. Ā 


Now I kinda want a kaiju movie set in Canada where itā€™s just a moose. Like a regular moose but more aggressive. 

@ssalogel

For scale, a female african elephant is 7.2-8.5 feet at the shoulder, according to Wikipedia. A moose isĀ 

4.6 ā€“ 6.9 ft. at the shoulder. So instead of thinkingĀ ā€œThis animal is a bit bigger than a deerā€ you can thinkĀ ā€œThis animal is barely smaller than an elephantā€

And they can run up to 40 miles per hour


A 16 wheeler with fur

                
            

            
            
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    person: Matched 4 years ago. First words to me in person were ā€œfuck, youā€™re tallā€. Married a month ago, despite my shitty manbun.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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kari-izumi:

dancinbutterfly:

edenfenixblogs:
the-omniscient-narrator:


spacevinci:

somethingratchet:


sheisraging:


Cindy:Ā Heyā€¦ can I be a Jew?
Rabbi: No.
Cindy: Can IĀ be a Jew?
Rabbi: No.
Cindy:Ā Can I be a Jew?
Rabbi:Ā You really want this? Sincerely? NotĀ ā€˜cause this oneā€™s trying to blackmail me for something stupid when I was 19 or for broccoli with your dinner? What is this for you?
Cindy:Ā Honestly, I think I found my people. I was raised in a church where I was told to believe and pray. And if I was bad, Iā€™d go to hell. And if I was good, Iā€™d go to heaven. And if Iā€™d ask Jesus, heā€™d forgive me and that was that. And here yā€™all are sayinā€™ ainā€™t no hell. Ainā€™t sure about heaven. And if you do something wrong, you got to figure it out yourself. And as far as Godā€™s concerned, itā€™s your job to keep asking questions and to keep learning and to keep arguing. Itā€™s like a verb. Itā€™s like ā€¦ you do God. And thatā€™s a lot of work, but I think Iā€™m in, as least as far as I can see it. I mean, maybe Iā€™ll learn more and say fuck the whole thing, I mean, but I wanna learn more, and I think I gotta be in it to do that. You knowā€¦ Does that make sense? Shit, did I just talk myself out of it?
Rabbi:Ā Ask me again.
Cindy:Ā Can I be a Jew?
Rabbi:Ā Yes.


I cried so hard during this scene.


First of all, this is beautiful.
Second of all, as a contextual note, the rabbi said no for a reason. In Jewish conversion, one of the steps is that you must be discouraged at least three times. This comes from the story of Ruth, where Naomi told her not to follow her back to the Jewish tribe three times before giving in.
Third of all, this is beautiful.


Adrienne KILLED it in those scenes. I wept with her!
ā€œItā€™s like a verb.ā€ She wants to work on her faith continuously and that was gorgeous and so honest.


THIS WAS SO IMPORTANT DO U UNDERSTAND. We arenā€™t a people who actively convert people. Youā€™ll never see a Jewish person try to convert you. We believe in everyoneā€™s right to believe what they want. But it was so nice to see someone who wasnā€™t raised in it be able to see value in my faith. I have never seen anything like that on tv before  

Not only that?? Its one of the only times Iā€™ve ever seen Judaism The Faith and Religion ever actually articulated on screen. What do we believe? We believe that You Choose To Do God. Thats why weā€™re the Chosen People - because we Chose to Opt In To Doing God this particular way. I have never in my life before seen any form of media EVER express what Jews ACTUALLY BELIEVE ABOUT THE UNIVERSE out loud but OITNB did. And when people ask me? I always throw them here. Because itā€™s dead on. You do God (Jewishly) and you have to choose it. Thatā€™s what we believe. Thatā€™s it. Thats the entire thing. And this is the only time we have EVER had ANY representation and I will cherish it always. And for those of you who didnā€™t see the show? She got to bathe in a mikvah equivalent and convert fully so yes, Cindy is as Jewish as the whitest Ashkenazi Jew. More, because according to the sages, the convert is to be praised for their choice and their dedication. And as such, any children she has will be Jewish too. <3 Love for Cindy. Love to any religious Jews out there who feel unseen in media (youā€™re right, we arenā€™t seen). Love for any converts out there who donā€™t feel Jewish enough (you are - no matter what branch you converted in). Extra love for all my Jews of Color (no addendum - just love to you all period). Stay strong out there yall. Write yourselves into some stories and talk about our faith okay? We deserve to be seen and known, even if we arenā€™t converting. Demystification is part of the fight against antisemitism. 


All of this, but ALSOitā€™s so rare to see black people get to be any other religion of Baptist Christian. Or to even talk about that not all of us believe in God in the way weā€™re been taught. Most of what Iā€™ve learned about Judaism I learned through the Jewish bloggers Iā€™ve found here like @prismatic-bell @realsadjewishhours and @wetwareproblem among others, but even as an agnostic black woman, I was just as happy to see Cindy find her own way, and even happier to hear that they actually did right with the conversion process this time.


And @dancinbutterflyā€™s last line is why, when my rabbi said I should go to rabbinic school, I saidā€¦..no.Rabbi means teacher, and there are a ton of good Jewish teachers of Jews out there. But there arenā€™t so many Jewish teachers of gentiles. Itā€™s why I work at cons under the name Oy Vay Productions. I am like you, except where Iā€™m not, and where Iā€™m not should not have to be frightening or mysterious to you. And then, when someone is all ā€œwell the Jews are a bunch of wealthy lizards,ā€ you can remember me, think of me teaching you not just about anime but about the fact that Jews are just people out here doing how we do, and instead of ā€œthat seems possibly incorrect but I donā€™t know enough about Jews to dispute it,ā€ you can say ā€œthat is not true, I have met and been befriended by a Jew, shared a meal and a class talked, and I know better.ā€I do my teaching by being a loud and proud Jew who is out here doing G-d an living my life. There are plenty of rabbis with skills I could only dream of having. But what I do is just as important to protecting and preserving Am Yisrael.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: prismatic-bell:

kari-izumi:

dancinbutterfly:

edenfenixblogs:
the-omniscient-narrator:


spacevinci:

somethingratchet:


sheisraging:


Cindy:Ā Heyā€¦ can I be a Jew?
Rabbi: No.
Cindy: Can IĀ be a Jew?
Rabbi: No.
Cindy:Ā Can I be a Jew?
Rabbi:Ā You really want this? Sincerely? NotĀ ā€˜cause this oneā€™s trying to blackmail me for something stupid when I was 19 or for broccoli with your dinner? What is this for you?
Cindy:Ā Honestly, I think I found my people. I was raised in a church where I was told to believe and pray. And if I was bad, Iā€™d go to hell. And if I was good, Iā€™d go to heaven. And if Iā€™d ask Jesus, heā€™d forgive me and that was that. And here yā€™all are sayinā€™ ainā€™t no hell. Ainā€™t sure about heaven. And if you do something wrong, you got to figure it out yourself. And as far as Godā€™s concerned, itā€™s your job to keep asking questions and to keep learning and to keep arguing. Itā€™s like a verb. Itā€™s like ā€¦ you do God. And thatā€™s a lot of work, but I think Iā€™m in, as least as far as I can see it. I mean, maybe Iā€™ll learn more and say fuck the whole thing, I mean, but I wanna learn more, and I think I gotta be in it to do that. You knowā€¦ Does that make sense? Shit, did I just talk myself out of it?
Rabbi:Ā Ask me again.
Cindy:Ā Can I be a Jew?
Rabbi:Ā Yes.


I cried so hard during this scene.


First of all, this is beautiful.
Second of all, as a contextual note, the rabbi said no for a reason. In Jewish conversion, one of the steps is that you must be discouraged at least three times. This comes from the story of Ruth, where Naomi told her not to follow her back to the Jewish tribe three times before giving in.
Third of all, this is beautiful.


Adrienne KILLED it in those scenes. I wept with her!
ā€œItā€™s like a verb.ā€ She wants to work on her faith continuously and that was gorgeous and so honest.


THIS WAS SO IMPORTANT DO U UNDERSTAND. We arenā€™t a people who actively convert people. Youā€™ll never see a Jewish person try to convert you. We believe in everyoneā€™s right to believe what they want. But it was so nice to see someone who wasnā€™t raised in it be able to see value in my faith. I have never seen anything like that on tv before  

Not only that?? Its one of the only times Iā€™ve ever seen Judaism The Faith and Religion ever actually articulated on screen. What do we believe? We believe that You Choose To Do God. Thats why weā€™re the Chosen People - because we Chose to Opt In To Doing God this particular way. I have never in my life before seen any form of media EVER express what Jews ACTUALLY BELIEVE ABOUT THE UNIVERSE out loud but OITNB did. And when people ask me? I always throw them here. Because itā€™s dead on. You do God (Jewishly) and you have to choose it. Thatā€™s what we believe. Thatā€™s it. Thats the entire thing. And this is the only time we have EVER had ANY representation and I will cherish it always. And for those of you who didnā€™t see the show? She got to bathe in a mikvah equivalent and convert fully so yes, Cindy is as Jewish as the whitest Ashkenazi Jew. More, because according to the sages, the convert is to be praised for their choice and their dedication. And as such, any children she has will be Jewish too. <3 Love for Cindy. Love to any religious Jews out there who feel unseen in media (youā€™re right, we arenā€™t seen). Love for any converts out there who donā€™t feel Jewish enough (you are - no matter what branch you converted in). Extra love for all my Jews of Color (no addendum - just love to you all period). Stay strong out there yall. Write yourselves into some stories and talk about our faith okay? We deserve to be seen and known, even if we arenā€™t converting. Demystification is part of the fight against antisemitism. 


All of this, but ALSOitā€™s so rare to see black people get to be any other religion of Baptist Christian. Or to even talk about that not all of us believe in God in the way weā€™re been taught. Most of what Iā€™ve learned about Judaism I learned through the Jewish bloggers Iā€™ve found here like @prismatic-bell @realsadjewishhours and @wetwareproblem among others, but even as an agnostic black woman, I was just as happy to see Cindy find her own way, and even happier to hear that they actually did right with the conversion process this time.


And @dancinbutterflyā€™s last line is why, when my rabbi said I should go to rabbinic school, I saidā€¦..no.Rabbi means teacher, and there are a ton of good Jewish teachers of Jews out there. But there arenā€™t so many Jewish teachers of gentiles. Itā€™s why I work at cons under the name Oy Vay Productions. I am like you, except where Iā€™m not, and where Iā€™m not should not have to be frightening or mysterious to you. And then, when someone is all ā€œwell the Jews are a bunch of wealthy lizards,ā€ you can remember me, think of me teaching you not just about anime but about the fact that Jews are just people out here doing how we do, and instead of ā€œthat seems possibly incorrect but I donā€™t know enough about Jews to dispute it,ā€ you can say ā€œthat is not true, I have met and been befriended by a Jew, shared a meal and a class talked, and I know better.ā€I do my teaching by being a loud and proud Jew who is out here doing G-d an living my life. There are plenty of rabbis with skills I could only dream of having. But what I do is just as important to protecting and preserving Am Yisrael.
                
            

            
            
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@pie-and-angerā€‹Ā  

For @witchersecretsantaā€‹ Stepped in for Another person who was struggling! HAPPY LATE YULE!!!


    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                person: pinkatron:


@pie-and-angerā€‹Ā  

For @witchersecretsantaā€‹ Stepped in for Another person who was struggling! HAPPY LATE YULE!!!


                
            

            
            
pinkatron:


@pie-and-angerā€‹Ā  

For @witchersecretsantaā€‹ Stepped in for Another person who was struggling! HAPPY LATE YULE!!!