#community

fandomsandfeminism:

friendlymathematician:

262v:

genderkoolaid:

genderkoolaid:

the queer community was formed by people who were deemed strange and abnormal in society based on them not conforming to expectations about sexuality & gender. there are no specific boundaries bc this isn’t a club. a cishet guy that likes wearing dresses who fights side by side with us for true liberation, is 100x more queer than a millionaire gay man who’s besties with companies that sell us watered down versions of our own culture for profit during pride while donating to homophobic lawmakers every other month.

i’m gonna say this again because it really pissed some people off: yes, I would rather have a cishet GNC man who stands with queer people, is involved in our spaces and our culture, stands up for us when we are attacked, and is active in furthering queer liberation, than a rich gay man who spits on the lower-class queers who gave him the ability to be out, who sells his soul to corporations who couldn’t give less of a shit about us, just for the wealth and power of capitalism. Fuck that guy. I’m not saying he isn’t gay - he is! Nothing can take that away! But we have the saying “not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you” for a reason. The family-friendly gay millionaire isn’t my brother. The poor crossdresser who has been a part of this community since it’s inception is. Fuck your bootlicking bullshit.

yes evil gay man & our poor little cishet king

Looks like that saying came about in spring 2007… Pretty sure gay people have been around and had a community for longer than that.

Kind of like Queer people have been the center of the activism and the community for longer than the specific phrase “queer as in fuck you”

No one is saying that gay men are inherently not queer. What is being said here is that queer is a more nebulous and complicated label than just a synonym for LGBT specifically, and that much of its power is rooted in its disruptive and activist nature. That yes, cross dressers and drag queens, regardless of how they define their gender and sexuality, can and always have been part of the queer community- and often far more so than assimilationists who side with conservatives and reactionaries.

Edit: ahahahahaha blatantly trabsphobic posts once I check your page. Dammit, every God damn time it’s a transphobe. Yall are so predictable.

intersexfairy:

once u stop hating, mocking, or generally judging (quietly or out loud) your lgbtq+ peers for their identities/gender expressions that u for whatever reason don’t understand…

u will 100% be a happier, kinder, and prouder member of this community. legit.
when i was a young teen, i used to think neopronouns were weird/fake, xenogenders were stupid, that you needed dysphoria to be trans, that trenders existed, etc… but i worked on understanding my peers and realized that i actually relate to them!

it feels so much better being kind! and understanding them could allow you to better understand yourself, because you won’t have these toxic notions that may be causing you to do/think things about yourself you wouldn’t otherwise.

like. it’s okay if you don’t understand, gender is hard! it’s confusing! it’s complex! but it costs you literally nothing to just be kind and respectful. as the adage goes, if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all. 

you aren’t being productive by being an asshole. you aren’t protecting the lgbtq+ community by being an asshole. you aren’t being an activist by being an asshole. you’re just being an asshole, and likely making people who already struggle with confidence in their gender hate themselves/their gender more.

be nice.

wistfulwatcher:

Community| 3.22 “Introduction to Finality”

25 Days of Christmas: 11/25 | Community (2009) | S01 E12: Comparative Religion

After the last instalment of highlights, a lot has happened, from negotiating with immortal Death Knights to winning big in a Feywildfighting pit, to now wanting to talk to the Queen of the Feywild herself, so let’s get into some explanations, shall we?

Shattered Souls: Bustin’ Heads & Winning Big!

After arriving in the Feywilda few sessions ago, the Party gathered and discovered that the famed Cultist of the Red Star that they had been hunting down was working in the Feywild Fighting Pits of the Starlight City, and after pulling off a few displays of daring dauntlessness, the Party challenged the Gladiator himself, going by the title of “The White Ram” due to his albino tiefling skin, to a Fighting Match on the Day of Mid-Summer, when Lady Shandria,Leader of the Starlight City andNiece to the Queen of the Feywild, could observe their fight.

Following some more preparations and a few bets made of the Party’s behalf, Ibernia, a Former Champion of the Fighting PitsandMonk of the Astral Self, stepped forward to duel The White Ram, but quickly fell to his blade…

That is until Blanche, the SorcererandWarlockof the Group, abused her knowledge of The White Ram’s True Name to rack his mind with psychic pain, allowing Iberniato recover from her near lethal injuries (thanks to a Natural 20 on a Death Check) and rise up after nearly being bisected horizontally, now able to turn the pretty face of The White Ram into a bloody caved-in mess of broken bones.

Now, with their fight won and their spoils of war received (as well as a few tens of thousands of Gold Pieces in bets), the Party finds out that Blancherequires the body of The White Ram in order to complete a sinister deal she made with “An Old Swamp Witch”, who just happens to go by the name Baba Yaga.

What does Baba Yaga have in store for Blanche, how will the Party cross a Feywild Swamp the size of a small sea to find this ‘Old Witch’, and how will they leave the Feywild if they don’t even know how they entered?

Looks like the only way to find out is to listen to Shattered Souls Live in our D&D Discord Server…

Heaven & Hel: Making Friends & Crossing Planes…

When we last left our heroes, they were floating around in the Astral Sea looking for a Lost Library, carved from the skull of a long dead goddess.

Well, as it turns out, they found it!

And after completing their travels through the Astral Plane, and managing to find a Colour Pool back home, the Party quickly realised they needed some rest and relaxation, as their time away from the Material Plane quickly caught up with them as soon as they arrived back, causing the Party to gain a whole 5 Level of Exhaustion (let’s just thank them for not staying in the Astral Sea any longer…)

But after a short amount of Downtimeand rest, the Party had finally awoken in their forest camp outside of the small forest town of Thanlo, feeling refreshed and rid of their Exhaustion.

And so, after recovering from their time away catching up with them, the Party now plans to investigate the local ruined Farmhouses and Mill to the north of Town, with the hopes of finding a Fey Crossing into the Feywild, so that Maltuul, the Elven Wizard of the Party who has been trying to convince the World that the Prophecy of Ragnarok (Known also as “The Old Apocalypse”) is real, may cross over into the Feywildand convinceThe Summer Court of his Homeland to aid him in his Quest to halt Ragnarok.

Will Maltuul and the Party be able to convince the many Archfey of The Summer Court to aid them in their time of need, or are these Demi-God like powers a-ok with the destruction of the Material Plane?

Looks like the only way to find out is to listen to Heaven & Hel as it happens, Live in our D&D Discord Server!

Debt & Darkness: Welcome to the Jungle…

After exploring the many rooms of the Demi-Plane DonjonofTulkaz the Lich’sAstral Dreadnought, and dealing with its many traps and dangers therein, the Party discovered a Concealed Room within the Donjon, finding within a Grey Gateway into the Ethereal Plane.

With some hesitation, the Party entered and fought off a few denizens, before finding the forgotten mass of bones described in Tulkaz’s notes.

Following a few conversations with the denizens of the town’s twisting necropolis, the Group was directed to a Man known as “Lord Ran”, an undying Death Knight who spoke to them of his life in Tulkaz’s service, and how the KeytoThe Second Ward of Tulkaz was magically tethered to his Life Force, and his Body bound to the town itself.

However, after a flash of genius and some quickly planning, the Party was able to use Tulkaz’s own magical Wards against him, as they brought the floating Grey Gateway of Tulkaz’s Astral Dreadnought into the civilization known as Bonetownand convinced Lord Ran to step through, where upon his first steps into the Aura of Anti-Magic that surrounded The Second Ward, the necromantic energies that sustained him were stripped away, leaving only a corpse that crumpled to the floor, while also rendering Tulkaz’s Puzzle Box nothing more than a piece of mundane wood, which was then broken open to reveal a serrated Key.

This is honesty one of the proudest and funniest moments there’s been in the Campaign so far, as absolutely zero Party Members wanted to fight Lord Ran, a CR 19 Death Knight, and so had to “Get Creative!” to find a way of getting the Key from him without fighting him…

Using this Key, the Party was able to open The Metal Door that was The Second Ward of Tulkaz, where they found an empty space beyond, with a single pink jewel suspended in place.

Carina, being the bold scientist of the Group and willing to test her hypothesis, touched the pink gemstone and was scattered into a Pocket Dimension, as she was then shortly followed by Innocence, as they both found themselves falling into a deep blue ocean.

And so, after a brief stint of panic from falling into the ocean, CarinaandInnocenceswam to the shore of this otherworldly jungle, arriving on the beaches of an Otherworldly Isle in the middle of a vast blue expanse, where they now hope to navigate the new place they find themselves in, still on the hunt for Tulkaz’s Hidden Phylactery.

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