Death is Divine

|| Jasper || 25 || non binary || white ||

|| vae/vaem // they/them ||

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minors don’t follow

Life is Deadly

ever since I learned about identifying people based on dental records I knew I would never be able to commit a biting related crime bc I have a distinctive bite pattern but then a few years ago I let the stupid government fingerprint me so now I can’t commit any crimes

biting someone to death like a wild dog is back on the menu boys!

Baby Horse Shoe

Other little guys can run,
play, and frolic in the sun
but I can walk!
(They can walk!)

Other like guys can roam,
upgrading and changing homes,
but I can walk!
(They can walk!)

And sure, I might not have a funky design,
but I like to walk; for me it works fine.
You can find me in Paleozoic years
And guess what, I'm still here!

by Gerard Donelan

For historical context, this is about making a panel for the AIDS quilt, a memorial project which began in San Francisco in 1985. Due to the stigma surrounding both homosexuality and AIDS during this time, victims of the epidemic were often cremated and disposed of or buried without ceremony, their bodies unclaimed by their families or origin or held by hospitals rather than released to same-sex partners.

Each panel in the AIDS quilt memorializes a life lost to the disease. Each panel is 3′ x 6′ (approximately 1 meter wide and 2 meters long), the approximate dimensions of a cemetery plot. The quilt, which then consisted of 1,920 panels representing 1,920 individuals lost to AIDS, was first displayed in Washington DC in 1987. The public response was immediate, positive, and overwhelming, and the quilt began taken around the country to be displayed in more cities. At each stop, the names of the dead were read out loud. At each stop, more panels were added.

By the time the quit returned to the US capital in 1988, it had more than 8,000 panels.

The quilt continues to grow. Today, it has over 50,000 panels memorializing over 100,000 of our dead. It’s too large now to physically display in its entirety, but you can view the entire thing online. There are also curated virtual displays of just panels which honor the Black and native people killed by the virus because in the US (and likely abroad, although I don’t know enough about public health elsewhere to say so with confidence), communities of color are disproportionately impacted by epidemics, as we have seen time and time again.

You can learn more about the quilt and its history here, and you can learn how to add a panel to the quilt here.

If you’re unable to access the quilt, here’s a zoomed in screenshot of the bottom left corner:

The quilt is made up of several panel, each panel itself consisting of 1 to 8 quilts.

Here’s a screenshot of the whole thing:

This is only about half of the people - our people - who were left to die because the government didn’t think “the gay disease” was a problem. This is why we march.

also like, multiple nontransphobic detransitioners have literally said the exact same stuff i’ve said: that there will never be zero detransitioners, that there need to be more resources for detransitioners and less stigma around detransition, and that the trans community needs to be more supportive of detransitioners. this is not some transmed fallacy this is literally what detransitioners are asking for.

In addition to this there should be less stigma around exploring gender entirely. The understanding that gender can shift and change and that that isn’t a bad thing, that for a lot of people being a certain gender isn’t permanent and that there isn’t anything wrong with that. The things that make people scared to detransition are the same that make them afraid to transition in the first place, a fear of permanent change and gender nonconformity, a fear of not having a place in society.

that alphabet completionist blog has activated something in me so now i think i'm just gonna start making posts where it seems like a quirky little joke at first except underneath i subtly try to include all the letters. already made one but it didn't catch on so now i have to make more. i realize this might be a bit silly and pointless of me but i don't care. i wanna win the alphabet

you could at least tag me if you want to suck my dick

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

26/26

what people think turning the oven to 600 degrees for 10 minutes will do

bakery wizard off the shits

So when are we gonna talk about the east asian fetishism problem in white transfem spaces

fucking gutted to be asian and having to be within such close proximity to these spaces

still thinking about when someone on here made a post about "harmless facebook trans girl memes" and I was like "okay but some of these are sexualizing the school gym uniforms of japanese girls, specifically, here is an article talking about how this is a problem, maybe we should be considerate of this" and she blocked me over it immediately (I was being pretty conversational, so it was clear she just. Wasn't interested in having a conversation about this.)

it is wonderful to celebrate being LGBT, but, ultimately, being LGBT is value neutral. It is indicative of oppression, not content of character, and be wary of people who are trying to conflate those two things.

Hope this isn’t derailing but there’s a very similar phenomenon of white transmascs pulling this shit with south asian/west asian/north african aesthetics especially in the realm of video games (gerudo link being the most notorious example) and it’s fucking gross and exhausting. The discussion on gender-affirming orientalism in white trans spaces is long overdue.

I'm seeing an annoying amount of people in the notes going "don't blame this on white trans people specifically; this is a problem all white people have" – and while you're not necessarily wrong, that's not the point. The thing is, by not cracking down on this, you actively make spaces that are supposed to be safe for trans people into unsafe spaces for white people only. We are pointing to our absence in spaces that are supposed to be for us as well, and you responding with "well, this is a problem with white communities in general" does not solve the problem of us not being able to access the same safe spaces and resources that you can. Do better.

love wins moodboard

happy pride

can’t believe you guys left out the entire stacy’s dad amv

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

happy pride month to this post specifically

ALT

[False face must hide what the false heart doth know.]