Author: Erin Hockings

will-you-forget-that-i-m-celeste:

saxifraga-x-urbium:

systlin:

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok

My violin teacher, the day I started: So we still use horse’s hair for the bow because if 4 centuries we haven’t found anything better

Generator Land: TCW Plot Generator

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

yulerule:

dapurinthos:

forcearama:

darthplodder:

sl-walker:

ajax-daughter-of-telamon:

sl-walker:

sl-walker:

Here.  Have fun, because I sure did.

An example of my genius at work:

Bant Eerin is a freighter captain and Mon Mothma is a victim of sex pollen. They run afoul of the Hutts on Corulag. Optional plot: Camping happens.

These are fantastic!

I got Shaak Ti and Feral (THANKS FOR INCLUDING HIM, HOLY SHIT) being menaced by a rancor while camping on Felucia. Shaak Ti’s a Republic soldier and Feral’s an adopted Mandalorian.

… Adopted Mandalorian Feral has a whole lotta potential, given his brothers’ relationship with Death Watch.

I was thinking of your lament about variety when I made this generator. XD

I got:

Quinlan Vos is a trade-unionist and Obi-Wan Kenobi is an escort for hire. They are taken prisoner by the CIS on Mandalore. Optional plot: Zombies

First of all, this thing is amazing and almost every one of them makes me think or laugh.  Second, I can see this happening, but why the hell would the CIS want that kind of trouble?!?

*cries* This is beautiful. Please, enjoy these highlights: 

Anakin Skywalker is a university professor and Fives is trying to share the message from the Church of the Sacred Sarlacc. They are drugged and hallucinating on Arkanis. Optional plot: One of them is actually from the past.

1. Why and how did Anakin get put in charge of a class. 
2. LOL. 

Anakin Skywalker is a member of a royal family and Wolffe is unemployed. They are petting tookas on Bespin. Optional plot: One of them ALMOST gets hurt protecting the other.

SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME PRINCE ANAKIN AND WOLFFE PETTING SMALL ANIMALS FOR NO REAL REASON. 

Anakin Skywalker is a Sith Lord and Yoda is a musician. They are lovers on Falleen. Optional plot: One of them has inappropriate feelings

THIS ENTIRE AU IS INAPPROPRIATE FEELINGS. 

Quinlan Vos is a diplomat and Quinlan Vos is a trade-unionist. They are lovers on Ord Mantell. Optional plot: Someone is wearing a tracking device without realizing it.

TWO Quinlans.

Padmé Amidala is a droid mechanic and Obi-Wan Kenobi is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. They are helping refugees on Kadavo. Optional plot: Thrawn. Somehow Thrawn.

I am in favour of ALL the Somehow Thrawn. I would pay good money to die of the snark level with Padmé, Obi-Wan, and Thrawn in one room.

@deadcatwithaflamethrower I don’t know, for the weirdness?

I laughed until I was on the verge of crying. Utter win.

I got:

Mina Bonteri is a pilot and Feral is a fallen Jedi. They are old
acquaintances on Ryloth. Optional plot: One of them is on the run from
the law. 

&

Siri Tachi is an adopted Mandalorian and Barriss Offee spends time
picking up dropped credits in order to eat. They are being hunted by
assassins on Bothawui. Optional plot: One of them is planning on killing
the other. 

and will now spend a lot of time contemplating these things when I should be doing other things.

Especially that last one.

Generator Land: TCW Plot Generator

sos-fandoms:

prince-addai:

windupdolls:

trans–reality:

Hey if you’re against trans women getting uterus implants because it’s “stealing” from afab people, you’re trash

please steal my uterus i sure as fuck don’t need it if someone came by and just took it while i was sleepin that’d be rad I’ll even pay you to take it

relatable shit

Reblog if you’d happily give your uterus to a trans woman

Please take it I hate periods.

kanguin:

instantgalaxy-justaddstars:

andrea-dworkin:

“A long-term study of children
raised by lesbians found that these children were less likely
to suffer from physical and sexual abuse than were their peers
who were raised by heterosexuals. This is thought to be due to
the absence of adult heterosexual men in the households (Gartrell,
Bos, & Goldberg, 2010). Girls raised by
lesbians tend to have higher self-esteem, show more maturity
and tolerance than their peers, and are older when they have
their first heterosexual contact (Gartrell et al., 2005, 2010). Children
raised by same-sex parents seem to be less constrained by
traditional gender roles; boys are less aggressive, and girls are
more inclined to consider nontraditional careers, such as doctor,
lawyer, or engineer (Gartrell et al., 2005; Stacey & Biblarz,
2001). Over the course of more than 20 years, scientists studied
the psychological adjustment of 78 teenagers who were raised by lesbian mothers. Compared to age-matched counterparts raised
by heterosexual parents, these adolescents were rated higher
in social, academic, and total competence, and lower in social
problems, rule-breaking, aggression, and externalizing problem
behavior (Gartrell & Bos, 2010).
There are fewer studies of children raised by two men, but gay
fathers are more likely than straight fathers to put their children
before their career, to make big changes in their lives to accommodate
a child, and to strengthen bonds with their extended families
after becoming fathers (Bergman, Rubio, Green, & Padrone,
2010).”
~ Martha Rosenthal, Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society, p.247.

“having gay parents will harm children”

I love that this is cited and sourced ahhhh. Actual researched support! So good.

canmom:

trancer21:

ratherembarrassing:

blitzfrau:

Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y’all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.

and if you can, go and see The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson, which includes this footage as part of a fuller segment on Sylvia Rivera’s life right up until her death. what an amazing person who the world was not ready for.

(Transcription follows🙂
Sylvia Rivera: I may be—

Crowd: [booing]

Sylvia Rivera: Y’all better quiet down. I’ve been trying to get up here all day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help and you all don’t do a goddamn thing for them.

Have you ever been beaten up and raped and jailed? Now think about it. They’ve been beaten up and raped after they’ve had to spend much of their money in jail to get their [inaudible], and try to get their sex changes. The women have tried to fight for their sex changes or to become women. On the women’s liberation and they write ‘STAR,’ not to the women’s groups, they do not write women, they do not write men, they write ‘STAR’ because we’re trying to do something for them.

I have been to jail. I have been raped. And beaten. Many times! By men, heterosexual men that do not belong in the homosexual shelter. But, do you do anything for me? No. You tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs. I will not put up with this shit. I have been beaten. I have had my nose broken. I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation and you all treat me this way? What the fuck’s wrong with you all? Think about that!

I do not believe in a revolution, but you all do. I believe in the gay power. I believe in us getting our rights, or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights. That’s all I wanted to say to you people. If you all want to know about the people in jail and do not forget Bambi L’amour, and Dora Mark, Kenny Metzner, and other gay people in jail, come and see the people at Star House on Twelfth Street on 640 East Twelfth Street between B and C apartment 14.

The people are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that belong to a white middle class white club. And that’s what you all belong to!

REVOLUTION NOW! Gimme a ‘G’! Gimme an ‘A’! Gimme a ‘Y’! Gimme a ‘P’! Gimme an ‘O’! Gimme a ‘W’! Gimme an ‘E! Gimme an ‘R’! [crying] Gay power! Louder! GAY POWER!

There’s some really important commentary on this event by several trans women on the previous upload of the video. I’m going to quote it here so it’s not lost; unfortunately the original commenters have deleted their blogs or gone private so I can’t provide full attribution.

lilacbootlaces said:

[[Trigger warning: suicide]]

Sylvia went home that night and attempted suicide.

Marsha Johnson came home and found her in time to save her life.

Sylvia left the movement after that day and didn’t come back for twenty years.

@ourcatastrophe said:

this is incredible, she is incredible, I highly recommend watching it

but I think the addendum re: the effect of this day on sylvia is really important

so often we valorise decontextualised moments of tough, articulate resistance and rage

and
the suffering of the people who embodied them is not acknowledged, it’s
uncomfortable, it’s not inspiring, we want them to stay tough and cool
and stylish forever

which is particularly terrible when I think about how sylvia felt like that because of women like me — women who are now watching this video and feeling inspired and impressed
and maybe a bit pleased with ourselves for finally having watched a
speech by the famous and really cool to name-drop sylvia rivera

girl-assassin said:

rebloggin for the true as fuck commentary (bolding mine)

n
like, on one hand this moment is decontextualized as fuck, but on the
other hand a lot of ppl try to hyper-contextualize it to make it
“history” and a very specific historical moment, so we (cis women) can
be like “oh so sad that’s how it was in the 1970s, radfems were so
awful, but it was only the whole second-wave scene that was the problem,
glad that’s over.”

Like have we forgotten the fact that Sylvia
only died in 2002? And she died young, if she were still alive she
wouldn’t even be 65 yet. I know hella older ppl in NYC who knew her
personally, and hella “leaders” of the NYC queer scene pulled horrific
shit on her constantly in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, like literally
until the day she died (ppl from Empire State Pride agenda literally
went to St. Vincents to beef with her on her death bed) Where are the
video tapes/memorializing of that shit?

N now the Manhattan LGBT
center on 13th st has a room dedicated to her memory, despite the fact
that very center permanently banned her in 1995 for daring to suggest
they should let homeless QTPOC sleep there in sub-zero weather.

N
now there’s a whole homeless trans youth shelter on 36th st named after
her, Sylvia’s Place, that kicked my TWOC friend out on the streets for
testing positive for marijuana; failing to recognize how fucked up that
is in a shelter named after a woman who struggled with addiction all her
life, and was very vocal about the relationship between drug use and
the stress of living under constant threats of violence.

N from
the late 90s onward rich gays and lesbians openly fought against Sylvia
to try to shut down 24/7 access to the piers that she n hella other
QTPOC cruised and lived on bc they were bringing down the property
values of their multi-million west village apartments.

N like 90%
of the individual people who perpetuated fucked up violence against
Sylvia are still alive and high-profile leaders in the NYC LGBT
“community” today.

So like yes, good, remember the oppressive
weight of our history of transmisogyny…but also remember that this shit
specifically ain’t even history, it’s the current reality of the NYC
queer/trans hierarchy today—like not even figuratively, literally the same people
who pulled shit like this on Sylvia are still alive n well n all over
NYC cutting the ribbons to the newest Sylvia Rivera memorial n
eulogizing her like they never tried to fucking kill her themselves.

bearymcbearface:

karoliciousbanberry:

bree-3po:

desbreaux:

I don’t get why people hate immigrants so much… Like they’re literally just… People… From another location….

My partner is an immigrant from the UK and still holds his citizenship. At a recent event, an acquaintance talked about how many “immigrants” get jobs over “Canadians” and they shouldn’t allowed to be management (which my partner is). My partner reaches across the table and goes “Hi, immigrant here!” and she goes “Oh I didn’t mean immigrants like you…” And you can so tell they just mean “brown people” or “Asian people” but they pretend it’s about jobs and shit.

That’s the same with my family. We were war immigrants from the soviet union and now live in Germany. Now the syrians are here because they also have war, and people keep asking me why I’m defending them so mercilessly. And when I tell them that my family (that is still alive) has gone through the same bullshit. But they insist that both scenarios are completely different. They’re not different, you’re just racist.

THEY’RE NOT DIFFERENT. YOU’RE JUST RACIST.

I’m a New Zealander in the UK and one of my bosses is South African. Someone in the lunchroom was ranting about ‘immigrants’ and I was like ‘um, I’m an immigrant, so is he,’ and they were like, ‘oh but you’re the RIGHT type of immigrants’, and I replied, ‘what, white?’ and they shut up.

Knitwear for sale!

knitwearforsale:

Hey guys! I’m about to post things I knit that I’m selling for less than I paid for the yarn. I’m doing this because I knit more things than anyone I know needs. I need more room and I need funds for moving out, therapy, self care, medications, and just life happened a lot in June things. 

Here’s a couple of things to know: 

  • I will post a picture of a thing I have knit with a price underneath that includes shipping. If you want it, you message me with your venmo/paypal name and address. I will then charge you for the item and ship it out. All things posted are already finished and ready to be shipped out. I will try to delete things that are already sold, but if you message me before then I will let you know as soon as I see the message. 
  • I can’t remember every yarn because some things were knit a little while ago and they yarn band was lost before that in some cases. Just assume everything is wool. I tend to use merino wool but I can’t guarantee it fyi.
  • Pricing will be less than what I remember the yarn costing. Things will cost more for more colors used and gradient yarns. This is just due to 2 balls costing more than one ball of yarn/gradient yarns being more expensive. The point here is not to make a profit off these pieces but to recoup some of the cost of the yarn.
  • Just for some background: my mom taught me how to knit when I was five, so at this point I have been knitting for 2 decades. If I don’t think something is nice enough, I won’t post it.
  • If you have any questions, please message me!