Author: peasantchick

magistrate-of-mediocrity:

bluespock:

estelwen-greenleaf:

shiny-shock:

types of tng episodes

  • data’s journey of self-discovery
  • worf’s social problems
  • discovering a previously unknown relative, who probably dies at the end
  • The Holodeck Is Being Weird
  • something infects everybody and makes them act weird
  • border disputes

Geordi making friends with someone, thus benefiting interspecies relations

Picard has to deal with his feelings

Riker finding a new alien to kiss, and subsequently lose

  • Troi’s mom comes to visit; is herself as usual
  • The Romulans are at it again
  • New insight/understanding of The Borg
  • “We’ve outgrown our materialistic ways”
  • Q EPISODE!!! *party music*

• WORF PISSES OFF THE KLINGONS
• Worf makes nice with the Klingons
• WORF PISSES THEM OFF AGAIN

sapphicisms:

ok since i’ve decided to be #real on this blog now: fellow lesbians who are not trans women, we need to do better. and that means applying a lot more critical thinking to the “not all lesbians are terfs! stop calling lesbians terfs!” argument. it’s completely true that many (non trans woman) lesbians AREN’T terfs, and many actively work against transmisogynistic ideals in themselves and in society, but a lot of lesbians ARE terfs or blatantly transmisogynistic! and a lot of terfs (and transmisogynists) are lesbians! 

the lesbian community has a massive history of transmisogyny. lesbian activism in the 20th century was rife with it. cis lesbians created events and movements that SPECIFICALLY excluded trans women from attendance or membership. a huge part of the reason transmisogyny is so associated with lesbianism today is because so many lesbians are transmisogynists. 

sure, that’s not true for you — you support your trans sisters whenever possible, you listen to what they have to say, and you’re openminded and forward-thinking and you catch your ingrained prejudiced thoughts and squash them before they reach the front of your head. but it’s true for MANY lesbians. you have heard the jokes, you have heard the casual hatred, you have heard the actual rhetoric about bodies and falsehood and the word “female.” i have, too. we don’t get to separate ourselves from it just because it’s disgusting. yeah it sucks when your people are stereotyped as nasty and hateful but that doesn’t give any of us a free pass to say “that’s not ME, I don’t associate with it, and therefore you must drop the attack entirely, you terrible human being.”

there is logic behind those beliefs. there is a historical precedent for expecting (non trans woman) lesbians to be transmisogynistic. and yes, many nonlesbians and non trans women do not bring up these complaints because they actually care about trans women, but in the long run that doesn’t actually matter as much as making sure the lesbian community’s history of transmisogyny is addressed so that it might be rectified. call nonlesbians out for stereotyping lesbians as evil or predatory or gross for the million other shitty reasons that nonlesbians do that, but do not shrug off accusations of transmisogyny. face them, understand them, and work to eradicate them from the roots.

We normally decide how to pronounce an unfamiliar word by drawing analogies with English words we already know. For example, we knew how to pronounce “-ly” from words like “slowly,” so it isn’t too hard to figure out how to pronounce “bigly.”

But sometimes this approach runs into problems. In this case, there just aren’t any common English words ending in -efe. A wild-card search on the very comprehensive dictionary aggregator OneLook yielded the following list of words: jefe, fefe, efe, hefe, okeefe, hogrefe, keefe, reprefe, tefe and kefe. Pretty obscurefe.

So we have to search further afield. Maybe we go for the Spanish word “jefe,” meaning “boss.” Maybe we look to a different vowel, as in “fife” or “cafe.” Maybe we look to other spellings of the /f/ sound at the end of a word, like “ff” as in “fluff,” “gaffe” and “coiffe.”

The problem is that none of these is a close analogue, making it unsurprising that several Twitter polls have found that people are strongly split. But it looks like the lack of -fefe endings won’t remain true for long. People have started smashing covfefe together with other words to refer to the covfefe meme. There now exists the “threadfefe” (a thread about covfefe), an “exorfefe” (an exorcist of the word covfefe), a “presifefe” (president) and the slogan “If u think you’re above covfefe you’re part of the probfefe.”

I wrote about the linguistics of why it’s hard to say covfefe for the Washington Post.  (via allthingslinguistic)
Source: allthingslinguistic

clitcheese:

clitcheese:

callout post for myself, @clitcheese 

  • has had consensual sex without first disclosing that they are possibly on the aro spectrum somewhere
  • cishet ace
  • has clitoris in their url, quite possibly a terf
  • no really, exclusionists have said both those last ones to me
  • when i had trans lesbian in my bio
  • i’m a Very Allo Lesbian guys i’m not even ace
  • can i make it any more clear that i’m a lesbian who feels sexual attraction. i have the sexual desire to fuck girls and nonbinary people. do i need to say im allo in my bio or something so people stop assuming i’m Not A Real LGBT
  • also doesn’t tag the Q slur :/

i have a terf criticising me as a header image. if u can’t even,, be bothered to hover ur mouse over my url then you should give up on the Discourse tbh

like………. it’s the word clit. my url is in protest of terfs trying to claim a monopoly on the clitoris. i am a trans girl w a clit, lads
#reciepts

@patrexes said: 

but see if u say ur allo then ur ~weirdly and uncomfortably preoccupied by ace ppl and acephobia~

I’m even oversexualising myself, and uncomfortably insinuating that my sexual desires are inherently sexual. gosh

there is one valid criticism about the term allo is that, conceptualising romantic or sexual attraction as a binary thing where you either have it completely or not at all is completely flawed

the thing is though… ace and aro people aren’t pushing it as a binary at all. it’s aphobes who are doing that damage.

I’m hearing shit like, ‘everyone’s a little bit demi, so why even have a word for it?’ pretty much constantly. actual ace-spec people aren’t the ones saying grey-aces are confused and need to pick a side.

a lot of exclusionists say, actually by /your standards/, (our horrible mogai standards), i’d be ace spectrum, but i choose not to use the label because calling myself ace is #problematic, or i’d be ace spectrum but I don’t like microlabels so i refuse to use one.

they’re actively shunning all the microlabels that are amazingly useful in breaking down the idea of an ace/allo binary. they’re shunning any orientation that doesn’t fit into those two categories and calling it progress

some of them are #cringing at the very idea that it is a spectrum, saying oh god mogais, not everything has to be a spectrum! when the first complaint was that aces and aros… weren’t allowing for a spectrum and were slotting people into the allo category by default

and that post that went round, that said being ace = good, calling yourself ace = bad. that’s the kind of shit that haunts me when i sit down to think about labelling my attraction. and the idea that a teenager IDing as ace is sexualising their peers, because the existence of a single ace kid automatically labels everyone else in their school as allo. somehow. which is the most amazingly black and white thinking i’ve seen in my life. people aren’t saying ‘i’m ace compared to all the dirty sexhavers around me’, they’re just saying they’re ace. ace in relation to nothing but themselves. and aphobes have called that a #pedophile grooming tactic.

i have no idea what my romantic orientation is, i have no idea at all if i’m alloromantic, or to what degree my mental illness even clouds the whole concept of romance. but i have felt no pressure at all from ace and aro people to pick a side, i haven’t been labelled alloromo by anyone against my will. I haven’t heard ‘you’re either with us or against us’ from anyone on this side. it’s pretty much just aphobes pulling this crap

and if i ever do pick a romantic orientation, im damn sure the only thing that fits is going to be the most obscure microlabel on the planet. and i’m still going to be a gay girl as well. and i don’t feel like i can even pick one until this godawful discourse is finally over and microlabels stop being this ultimate enemy people are making them up to be… they’re words people are using to describe themselves. I really can’t, comprehend the psychology involved in being against people having words that fit them