The personal blog of Janet Collins, the Cunning Aesthete. She/Her pronouns. This blog will contain many things, including, but not limited to, feminism, cute animals, general anime interests, and some images and text of a pornographic nature. Browse at your own risk.
A man goes to see his Rabbi in a panic, and he gets there and he says, “Rabbi you’ll never guess what! My son has run away to become a Christian!” And the Rabbi responds, “Well you’ll never guess what! My son has also run away to become a Christian!” So the man asks the Rabbi what to do and the Rabbi says that they should pray to G-d. So they pray and tell him of their plight and G-d replies, “You’ll never guess what!”
- An old Hasidic joke that my Dad likes to tell me
So many anti friend groups are just straight up cults and it's genuinely terrifying to see and be part of.
If you're scared of your friends for whatever reason, it you're scared of liking being in a specific fandom or liking a specific ship because you think you'll lose all your friends over it, if your friend group is essentially built on the idea that you're all good and everyone else is bad, if your friends use social ostracization and online stalking and harassment campaigns as threats and weapons, if your friends use fear and moral panic to keep people in line. . . . .
Please get out of there. This isn't even about shipping or fandom or whatever, it's about staying safe and not getting sucked into a literal cult. Cut them off, block them on all your social media, remake accounts if you need to, and make new friends who don't leave you feeling like you're walking on eggshells around them. Just stay safe.
It is deeply, deeply beneficial to TERFs if the only characteristic of TERF ideology you will recognize as wrong, harmful, or problematic is "they hate trans women".
TERF ideology is an expansive network of extremely toxic ideas, and the more of them we accept and normalize, the easier it becomes for them to fly under the radar and recruit new TERFs. The closer they get to turning the tide against all trans people, trans women included.
Case in point: In 2014-2015, I fell headlong into radical feminism. I did not know it was called radical feminism at the time, but I also didn't know what was wrong with radical feminism in the first place. I didn't see a problem with it.
I was a year deep into this shit when people I had been following, listening to, and looking up to finally said they didn't think trans women were women. It was only then that I unfollowed those people, specifically; but I continued to follow other TERFs-who-didn't-say-they-were-TERFs. I continued ingesting and spreading their ideas- for years after.
If TERFs "only target trans women" and "only want trans women gone", if that's the one and only problem with their ideology and if that's the only way we'll define them, we will inevitably miss a vast majority of the quiet beliefs that support their much louder hatred of trans women.
As another example: the trans community stood relatively united when TERFs and conservatives targeted our right to use the correct restroom, citing the "dangers" of trans women sharing space with cis women. But when they began targeting Lost Little Girls and Confused Lesbians and trotting detransitioners out to raise a panic about trans men, virtually the only people speaking up about it were other transmascs. Now we see a rash of anti-trans healthcare bills being passed in the US, and they're hurting every single one of us.
When you refuse to call a TERF a TERF just because they didn't specifically say they hate trans women, when you refuse to think critically about a TERF belief just because it's not directly related to trans women, you are actively helping TERFs spread their influence and build credibility.
💖 Hey everyone! We just wanted to give a super-duper announcement to let you all know that we are officially ¼th of the way through our stock of books!!! Being a limited printing, we’re only going to be getting 200 zines in, total.
You can pre-order a copy of the zine here! And once they’re gone, that’s it! So be sure to snag a copy while you can!!! 💖
✨Eeveeluzine is an illustrated artbook dedicated to our favorite fuzzy little bundle of raw potential! We asked 40 artists to illustrate their favorite Eeveelution and show us why they fell in love with the franchise.
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✨Eeveeluzine will be a 40+ page, 8.5" x 11", full-color, perfect-bound, hardcover coffee-table artbook.✨
✨The book will feature at least three full color illustrations of every one of the nine eeveelutions.✨
✨EEVEELUZINE IS A LIMITED PRINTING!✨
✨ONLY 200 COPIES✨
✨Each copy will be hand numbered.✨
✨All profits from Eeveeluzine are intended to benefit the Center for Animal Research and Education. The Center for Animal Research and Education’s mission is to provide for a safe, permanent and loving home to exotic animals in need. CARE focuses on excellence in physical and emotional care, advocating animal welfare through education, and conducting minimally-invasive research that will improve living conditions for captive animal populations world-wide.
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✨All artwork for the book has already been submitted and compiled. The InDesign file is ready to be sent to the printers. The books are ready to be put into production after the first 100 copies have been ordered.
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Yaoyorozine is ready to celebrate our favorite Hero Student, Momo Yaoyorozu. All profits will be donated to the National Coaltion Against Censorship https://ncac.org/
Applications are open until Mar 15th
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Applications are now open for Evolution Tarot - A Pokemon Tarot Deck !!
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We will be accepting 72 card artists and 12 merchandise artists. Please make sure to read the google document linked above before asking questions here. If your question is not answered there, then please make sure to reach out!
Applications will be open until 11:59pm EST January 31st, 2019