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I really don't care if accessibility helps abled people. You should care about us even when there is no direct benefit to you personably.

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"You're a Failure, and your family died knowing it."

I finally finished it!

I got majorly distracted with only 2 sections of this left, and it gathered dust for a bit. But here it is! All the angst!

My Emmit Hawke, purple and unromanced. He's just very tired and never given a break, so might as well strand him in the Fade, right? (I love my Hawke, promise)

There was originally a part 2 that has a bit more of a hopeful tune to leaving him behind, but I dunno if I'll get to that. We'll see.

#:’) #da #da2 #dai #hawke #qq

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Mustarjil is an Arabic term meaning “becoming [a] man.” Although it can be used derogatorily to refer to women who are perceived as having a masculine appearance and/or mannerisms, in Iraq’s marshes, it existed as a gender identity. Within the context of the Ahwari community, Mustarjil was a common gender identity, where people assigned female at birth decide to live as a man after puberty, and this decision was generally accepted in the community. The Mustarjils were one of many similar third gender categories around the world, such as the Hijras in South Asia. [...] “One afternoon, some days after leaving Dibin, we arrived at a village on the mainland. The sheikh was away looking at his cultivations, but we were shown to his mudhif by a boy wearing a head-rope and cloak, with a dagger at his waist. He looked about fifteen and his beautiful face was made even more striking by two long braids of hair on either side. ln the past all the Madan (Ahwari) wore their hair like that, as the Bedu still did. After the boy had made us coffee and withdrawn, Amara asked, ‘Did you realize that was a mustarjil?’ I had vaguely heard of them, but had not met one before. ‘A mustarjil is born a woman’. ‘She cannot help that; but she has the heart of a man, so she lives like a man.’ ‘Do men accept her?’ ‘Certainly. We eat with her and she may sit in the mudhif. When she dies, we fire off our rifles to honour her. We never do that for a woman. In Majid’s village there is one who fought bravely in the war against Haji Sulaiman.’ ‘Do they always wear their hair plaited?’ ‘Usually they shave it off like men.’ ‘Do mustarjils ever marry?’ ‘No, they sleep with women as we do.’” Thesiger continues to narrate several other accounts of mustarjils within the same community, as well that of a “stout middle-aged woman” who wanted to remove her male organ in order to “turn into a proper woman.” Thesiger later mentions: “Afterwards I often noticed the same [person] washing dishes on the river bank with the women. Accepted by them, [she] seemed quite at home. These people were kinder to [her] than we would have been in our society.” Around that time, Britain was still living under the shadow of Victorian norms, and gender non-normative people were still stigmatized and shunned. Communities such as the Ahwaris, presented an alternative model that created space for communities like the mustarjils, despite the dominant gender binary. 

— Recovering Arab Trans History: Masoud El Amaratly, the Folk Music Icon from Iraq’s Marshes by Marwan Kaabour

#very cool to hear about cultures welcoming trans men (not to apply our terminology to them but yknow) #but why are the he’s corrected to she’s but not vice versa? #qq

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yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

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yeah im still thinking about the minotaur sorry but just . imagine youre born wrong. imagine your entire existence is a punishment from the gods. for something you had no control over. imagine your mother holds nothing but contempt for you. she wont even look at you, not really, & she keeps crying & you keep crying & reaching towards her with your little arms & someone drags you away from her. & they keep you hidden & alone & a stranger comes & builds an impenetrable prison around you so youre doomed to forever haunt these endless corridors & youve never known kindness or companionship or love. & when they call you a monster. well. you believe them

#save #because people are recommending things in the notes that i don’t have time to go through rn #qq

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The tumblr experience is having politics that make the most left leaning progressive you know irl blush and then logging on here and getting called a bootlicker fascist because you said that you dont think we should make the reign of terror happen again

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Rough day at the clinic?

Something like that…

#anders #hawke #da #da2 #qq

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there is no greater joy on this earth than Making Lists, Categorizing, & Sorting

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Let's do this, then!

Dragon Age: Absolution Watch Party is happening on 27-Apr-2024, from 12:00 - 14:45 Atlantic Time! (Use a time zone converter to find your local hours, if interested)

We'll be using Hyperbeam, which is a free browser extension / app that allows for group streaming. You will not need anything but Hyperbeam, as I, the host, will be providing the episodes.

English subtitles will be included.

If we have tech troubles, we'll have to reschedule later in May, as I will be away on vacation for the beginning of the month.

#i think that’s 1am on sunday morning? hmmmmm that’s actually probably good timing for me! #i’ve been meaning to rewatch absolution for aaaaaages yay! #da #daa

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giggling, twirling my hair, kicking my feet, etc

#anders #da #da2 #qq #op your tags 💕💕💕💕

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it’s okay to do things that make your symptoms worse (as long as you’ll stay safe)

every once in a while you need to eat something yummy. or go on a walk. or a trip to the zoo. take a hot shower. cry your eyes out. dance. listen to music. draw for way to long. write. laugh. sit in a cafe with a friend. paint your nails. dye your hair. go on a run. pet a cat

sometimes you need to do things that are cathartic or make yourself feel alive. sometimes you need the reminder of why you’re fighting so hard to stay alive

this is your reminder that just because it makes your symptoms worse, it isn’t always the wrong thing to do. there can be value in these actions

#autonomy includes the right to do things that harm you and also just. make mistakes #that’s not what this post is about; taking risks isn’t inherently making mistakes. but it’s related #qq

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#let me recharge from the wall please

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thinking too much about high school and what life was like day to day and the almost boring repetitiveness of the physical & emotional abuse i had to put up with from my only real ‘friend’ and haha i want to throw up or maybe die

#personal #i’m fine i’m gonna go do something else to distract myself #i was just showering so i had nothing else to think about #abuse ment

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#anders #da #da2 #qq

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no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

#the candle because i have the most sensitive nose of all time and would love to make every room smell like nothing pleeeeaaaase

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#in a christian-dominated culture the answer is monday #because god created the world in 7 days and on the 7th day he rested etc and that 7th day is sunday. the holy day of the week #i saw someone say saturday is the last day because of the sabbath and like. yeah! it makes sense! #there are cultural reasons why our weeks go the way they do #not that all sunday people are jewish and all monday people are christian but those are likely the origins of those #like most calendars have sunday as the first day so a lot of people will use that as their guide #but growing up it was always monday because our sabbath was on sunday #but i was born on a tuesday so my weeks start on tuesday to be completely fair

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TODAY: our comrades at sydney university have started an encampment! this student movement is global folks, liberation is near!

#!! #wish i was still at uni so i could help get it going at mine. great to see the solidarity spreading here 💕 #australia #i don’t actually wish i was still at uni but. yknow what i mean