I’m watching this episode of MLPFiM called “Ponyville Confidential” and the editor pony reminds me of my boss *facepalm*
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A couple of you guys have been having a rough time, so I thought maybe I’d post this in a feeble attempt at helping from long distance. I’m not good at really personal stuff like this, so skip it if you’re not into symphonic-ish music and rambly thoughts.
This is one of my favorite pieces of music. When I’ve reached the point where I’m saturated with humanity, and I can’t stand being surrounded by walls and squabbling people and the smell of car exhaust, I put this on and close my eyes.
It’s a little different each time. I’m swimming like a dolphin, or I’m flying on the wings of a hawk or a crow. The world is brilliant and blue and green and vibrant, and it’s full of life; plants, fish, birds, everything, and it’s beautiful. I lose myself and glide through this amazing blue/green world, teeming with the most amazing creatures. There are schools of brilliantly colored fish, corals that duck in and out of their carbonate shells, and sharks and rays, and enormous, majestic whales. Or there are birds everywhere, and herds of deer or antelope running across rolling hills of grass, hunting creatures slipping through the shadows of a forest. There are the most beautiful mountains and valleys; sunsets and cloudless skies full of stars, and it’s all so big. It’s exciting and soothing and it leaves me just a little breathless with awe.
When it ends I feel a little bit better, like I’ve reconnected to the heartbeat of the world. I hope this helps if any of you need something like that.
Oh my god this is an amazing piece. I need to get me this on MP3 because yeah, it is big and beautiful and lovely. Thank you.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D - Official Trailer (x)
Attention fandom:
We won.
*SCREAMS*
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AND SO IT BEGINS
Yes folks, its that time of year again. I had my first school visit today. Yep, my first wide eyed and bushy tailed group that listened to my talk promoting the Summer Reading Program with glee. Okay, maybe just mild apathy combined with a relief to not have to be in real class. But I will take that!!
For those people who do not have a librarian in their life, Summer Reading Program is to libraries as Thanksgiving-Christmas is to retail. Basically the time when everything is busy and everyone goes batshit. I’ll spend the next two weeks working an insane schedule because I see schools in the morning then close in the evening. In that time, I will give the same speech at least 20 times. I will eat, sleep, and breathe this speech.
Then once school is out, all hell will break loose.
We will be overrun with kids and teens and adults and people and questions and the entire library staff with go all Jessie Spanno “I’m so excited, I’m so excited, I’m so excited, I’M SO SCARED!”
So if you need/want/desire anything from now through the end of June, uhh, please message me. Because I have entered the zone. The SRP zone.
Trans 101 for Trans People
A Trans 101 For Trans People
- You are human. You are worthy of respect. You deserve to be treated with the same dignity as anyone else. There is nothing inherently wrong with your gender. You are not broken, you are not disgusting, you do not deserve to be hurt.
- You’ve been brought up and live in a world that’s designed to erase and demonize your existence, you’ve probably internalized a lot of that- and that’s not your fault. But it can be hard to deal with. But you aren’t alone in dealing with it. And sometimes you have to buy into it to be able to handle it (trigger warning: transphobic violence). And that’s okay.
- Your gender is no more or less than anyone else’s. Your history doesn’t make you “not really” or “less” your gender than someone with a cis history, it just makes you a person of your gender with a different history.
- You do not deserve to be held to higher standards than cis people. You do not have to “prove” your gender by forcing yourself into societal roles that may not fit. You are not “failing” anyone by fitting into societal roles that are comfortable. It is not your job to break down the binary/patriarchy/or anything else. If you want to, go for it, but you have no obligation to do anything for cis people just because you are trans.
- Being yourself does not hurt trans rights (so long as you aren’t trying to do so while stopping others from being who they are) and is not a reason why people don’t have to treat you with respect. There is nothing wrong with being a feminine man or masculine woman, or being a person who’s comfortable in their body, or being a person who doesn’t transition all the way, or being out about having a non-binary or genderqueer gender. You have not “failed” anyone by doing this, you are not “less” of your gender than someone else. Being who you are is not a valid argument for why people can’t treat you as who you truly are.
- No one else has the right to say your body needs to be changed. It only does if you need to change it. Or if you want to change it, that’s valid, too. Your body does not make you “less” your gender. It doesn’t make you “not really” your gender. It doesn’t mean you’re trapped in someone else’s body. You do not have to fix your body to “become” your gender- you already are your gender. All you need to do is what you need to do to be comfortable in your body. And if that includes reclaiming your right to label your own body, you are allowed to do that.
- You have just as much of a right to privacy as anyone else. You do not need to tell anyone about your body, your medical history, or anything else. Whether or not your body needs to be changed for you to be comfortable, you do not have to change it to deserve to be treated as who you are. You do not owe anyone intimate details about your personal life before you can be treated as who you are.
- You have no obligation to educate anyone. This includes trans people, but is most important with cis people. You are not a walking encyclopedia of transgender and/or transsexual information, you are a person. You do not have to answer every question any cis person comes up with, you do not have to represent trans people as a whole, (see 7) you do not have to bare the most personal and vulnerable parts of your soul to other people on demand.
- Not educating people does not “hurt” trans rights. NEVER let anyone try to guilt you into educating people or doing something you don’t want to do by insisting that doing otherwise will “destroy trans rights/acceptance/whatever”. Trying to force trans people to become walking information desks or to put themselves in dangerous situations regardless of whether or not you’re even up for dealing with this destroys trans rights and shows a great deal of intolerance. Asserting that you don’t have to tell anyone anything you don’t want to? That really doesn’t.
- If you do want to educate people, you are allowed to set limits and boundaries. You are allowed to say that you won’t talk about certain issues, or that you will only talk about them on your terms. You are allowed to decide which people you will talk to about which issues. You are allowed to change these boundaries if you become uncomfortable educating people you were previously willing to educate. You are not obligated to educate anyone just because you educated someone else.
- You deserve to take care of yourself- whatever that means. You deserve to be comfortable and safe. You deserve not to be in dangerous situations. If you can’t handle something alone, you deserve to ask for- and get- help or, if you can, take a break from it until you can handle it. Or just stop doing it all together, that’s okay. Taking care of yourself does not make you weak, it does not make you an attention-grabber or overdramatic, it does not make you “less” your gender, it does not mean you betray other trans people by not being a full-time (or even part-time) activist. You’re human, you have limits, and that’s okay.
- You deserve to have your boundaries respected. Any boundaries- how and where people can touch you, what information you give to who and when, what places you feel comfortable going or who you feel comfortable going with, what people can tell others about you.
- You deserve to have the words you are and aren’t comfortable being referred to as respected. You deserve to have the proper pronouns used (and, if there are times when it’s unsafe for that to happen, you deserve to have your safety maintained by those around you), you deserve to be called the proper name, you deserve to have the words you want used to describe your body used, you deserve not to be called by any label, pronoun, word, or name that you don’t want to be called.
- If you’re asking for something that you need to feel respected, comfortable, and safe- you are not asking for too much. Your identity is not “too complicated”. Your needs are not less important than anyone elses’.
- You are human. You are worthy of respect. You deserve to be treated with the same dignity as anyone else. There is nothing inherently wrong with your gender. You are not broken, you are not disgusting, you do not deserve to be hurt.
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Ugh, finally done with work…. almost 12 hours after I left the house this morning. Starving. Things at work are completely insane. *flops* I might try to RP after I eat but no promises.
must. reblog. infinitely.
For a dear friend <3
This dear friend loves you immensely <3
*blows friendship kisses at frozensolvent*
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John Green’s car breaks down
The Fault in Our Cars
this calls for a
John Green gets locked in a pub
The Fault in Our Bars
John Green writes a strongly worded pamphlet on the flaws of the Russian Monarchy
The Fault in Our Czars
John Green writes a sci fi.
The Fault in our Mars
John Green receives some jam with the safety seal broken
The Fault in Our Jars
John Green’s cruise ship is hijacked by pirates
The Fault in Our Arrrrghs
John Green and Ira Glass film a ‘Epic Rap Battles in History’
The Fault in our NPR’s
(Source.)
True story! His family has donated a ton of money to Planned Parenthood.
totally didnt know!
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Went on a Buffy bender this weekend. Made it to the mummy episode of season 2. Season 2 is off to a nice start. Willow is adorable. Giles is also adorable. Xander is kind of a Nice Guy, but he’s still fun.
This series is really fun so far. :)
Ohhhhh Season 2 *bites fist* So many feels…..
Now I am afraid to become emotionally attached to anyone in fear they’re going to die horribly even more than just the usual Joss-has-that-reputation-I-can-love-no-one! WHY DANI WHY! XD
Let’s just say that death is not your only concern in Season 2…. some things are worse than a little death ;) Other things aren’t.
Mmmmmwwahahaha mine is an evil laugh.
Went on a Buffy bender this weekend. Made it to the mummy episode of season 2. Season 2 is off to a nice start. Willow is adorable. Giles is also adorable. Xander is kind of a Nice Guy, but he’s still fun.
This series is really fun so far. :)
Ohhhhh Season 2 *bites fist* So many feels…..
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