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steamboat-itchy:

steamboat-itchy:

2013/2014: It’s cool to like steven universe

2015: It’s trendy to like steven universe

2016: It’s uncool to like steven universe

2017: steven universe has left the public consciousness and the only people who talk about it are weirdos with cartoon critical blogs

Hopefully 2018: The weirdos have become such a huge embarrassment that it’s cool to like steven universe again

I was right

I think Queer is possibly singled out as an irreclaimable slur/identity term because it is such a fluid and encompassing term. Literally anyone who feels they fall outside of cishetero-normativity can use Queer and that is where it comes up against objections. People who want to cause rifts within the community will fight against its use and shout “Queer is a slur” and exclusionists pick it up and use it as a way to close people out. They don’t want the umbrella wide like Queer gives us

apersnicketylemon:

thefisherqueen:

terflies:

Oh yes, absolutely.

Queer is dangerous to these people; they want it to be a slur.

We’re here, we’re queer, we’re dangerous to gatekeepers, and that’s a good thing

It’s especially apparent that their real issue is not with it ‘being a slur’ when we consider the term ‘MOGAI’.

This term was not a slur. It had no ‘problematic’ beginnings, has never been co-opted by straight and cis society, was for us by us, did not include anyone who did not need to be included, but it was very inclusive. So they lied about it, rejected it, and use it as an insult against people. They talk about ‘The mogai’s and ‘mogai identities’ as though they’re some kind of joke. They talk about it like it’s the worst thing you could be to them.

Again, there is nothing wrong with the term. It’s just too inclusive and encompassing for them. They can’t cause a rift in that community if that’s the acronym. They can’t cut portions out of an ever-expanding community if all the identities are contained within it automatically.

Their current reasoning is ‘it includes pedophiles’ which is a blatant lie (The original coiner was a minor at the time they coined it and they’re also a CSA survivor). The other reasoning I’ve seen is ‘it includes cis and straight women’ (It doesn’t). They have NO real reason to reject that term, especially as it was created to BE the umbrella term they claimed to want so desperately without ‘being a slur’. And yet, they do. Because it’s too inclusive. “Queer is a slur” is at this point, a deflect. They need it to be a slur because it’s too inclusive. They can’t cause a rift in the queer community if the word used for the community is all-encompassing. Just like they need MOGAI to include people it never did, so they can safely reject the label that was just too inclusive for their liking, too difficult to cause rifts in. They need these terms to be dangerous, bad, ‘problematic’ or a slur, because they need us to not have an encompassing umbrella if they are going to maintain their gatekeeping.

People who might have written Shakespeare’s plays

listing-to-port:

The ale-pushing hand of Kit Marlowe’s ghost; metaqueen Elizabeth the zeroth; Prospero, of whom Shakespeare is the lightly fictionalised equivalent; a passing bear; they are a group effort and ongoing in-joke of the time travelling community; they are the work of trees trying to decipher human behaviour, each peer-reviewed by more than a dozen larches; Bacon (two slices of); Sir Thomas More; Sir Thomas More than that; Sir Thomas Most; Stonehenge but with fingers; Don Quixote; you (having the advantage that you may have read them first); the dark lady; a vague but pen-having sense of patriotism; in a stunning twist, it was the anthropomorphic personification of the authorship question itself; Shakespeare.

prokopetz:

titleknown:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

People are talking about “slime girls” on my dash in such a way that I’m honestly not sure whether they’re referring to a video game monster or a lifestyle aesthetic, and I’m kind of afraid to ask.

@nyannnnpassuuuu replied:

I’ve seen both… stick to videogame monster slime girls only… please…

Okay, now you’ve got me legitimately curious what “slime girl” as a lifestyle aesthetic actually entails.

Long story short, slime girls/goo girls are basically fantasy-type slimes ala Dragon Quest; but taking the semi-humanoid form of attractive women; made out of slime, with varying degrees of viscosity depending on the work.

If this sounds like a fetish thing, yeah that’s basically how it started. But, over time; they kinda made the jump to “regular” fantasy, and honestly that sort of drift fascinates me.

If only because I think those weird anthro planes could do something similar because I’d think they’d work really, really well for China Mielville-type New Weird fantasy…

You completely misunderstand. I know what a “slime girl” is in the fantasy monster sense. What I mean is that I’ve started running into folks talking about being a “slime girl” in such a way that it’s unclear whether they’re referring to the fantasy critter or some sort of lifestyle aesthetic (i.e,. in the same sense that being a “goth girl” is a lifestyle aesthetic).

u just got to wear bright colours and Always Be Sticky