Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

« A thousand things make it impossible to mistake the verdict on queer lives and on women’s lives, as on the lives of those who are poor or not white. The hecatombs of queer youth; a decade squandered in a killing inaction on AIDS; the rapacious seizure from women of our defense against forced childbirth; tens of millions of adults and children excluded from the health care economy; treatment of homeless people as unsanitary refuse to be dealt with by periodic “sweeps”; refusal of condoms in prisons, persecution of needle‐exchange programs; denial and trivialization of histories of racism; merely the pivot of a disavowing pronoun in a newspaper editorial: Such things as these are facts, but at the same time they are piercing or murmring voices in the heads of those of us struggling to marshal “our” resources against illness, dread, and devaluation. They speak to us. They have an amazing clarity. »

eve kosofsky sedgwick, 1993

you say you listen to queer elders? ok name five of their songs

it’s really obvious from like a few seconds which moderators actually care about the safety of the people here, and which moderators care about cultivating a certain kind of liberal space or discussion platform with no considerations made for the fundamental vulnerabilities of being human, or not Enough for them to sacrifice their perfect vision of Liberalism in favour of actual measures to protect users

if your posts are indistinguishable from that of a CIA plant trying to sow controversy and foil collective action, maybe consider making different posts

the kind of idle linkfollowing which people now see as relegated to sites like Wikipedia or TVTropes was once how the entire internet operated

oh look, #cats is trending

give me a playlist of music released between 1996 and 2008

on a cohost retrospective one quote which stuck out to me was “it was the only website i’ve been on where it felt like no matter what i posted, somebody would read it” and i’m sorry your internet experience has been so impoverished

if you had a small group of friends with ssh access to a cheap server you could make a simple forum with just a bit of shell scripting and it would be better than 90% of social media

you can title your fic “Echoes of Wisdom: Lesbian Edition” but that’s just Echoes of Wisdom

it is MY castle and i can break the pots if i want!!

oh right, she gives out the Rainbow Badge

searching bulbapedia frantically like “is Erika a TERF”

oh right, erika’s is the lesbian gym

there is no way they would let you name your pokémon this

« It focuses psychic energy into its tail and rides it like it's surfing. Another name for this Pokémon is’ “hodad.” » ho dad

it’s october; read ghost town
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20822714

“smell ya later, gramps” was the original “ok boomer”

professor oak: are you a boy? or a girl? please just let it be simple unlike my grandchild

. @Satsuma has successfully convinced me that Blue is trans on account of their grandfather never remembering their name

Archive of Our Own tag wranglers have, in all their wisdom, decided that the canonical tag for Green as she appears in various pokémon media, for example the YouTube shorts and video games, is “Female Pokedex Holder Blue | Green (Pokemon Adventures)”

went from taking a passing interest in a side-character from a pokémon animation as a potentially useful protagonist in a ninetales smut to planning out a whole novel around her pokémon journey ama

you’d think the New York Times of all people would be better at creating graphics which are still readable in black and white

@aescling @wallhackio https://tshamusic.bandcamp.com/album/sad-girl

pokémon needs to stop adding new regions with new pokédexes to complete as DLC and just go back to adding things like Battle Tower instead