pirate jane @piratejane@mastodon.social

This essay neatly explains one of my big problems with fandom and the fandom concept of "canon."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/satanic-panics-and-the-death-of-mythos

The use of Annihilation is really interesting, since the whole point of that film and the Southern Reach book series is that the actions of a broken alien terraforming device are not conventionally explicable.

The unlikely queer family at the heart of the Moomins
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/february/Moomins-tove-janssen-lgbtq-history-chosen-family.html

i feel like waaaaay more stealth trans people exist than most people realize, and also that the main reason it seems like older trans people don't exist sometimes is that most of us went deep stealth. it's so easy to just stop interacting with the trans community entirely when you've done that. this is the only place i post trans stuff at all these days, and even that's only because this is where i came out in the first place.

it's not a new observation that the iceberg of LGBT culture is so much larger than the bit society lets poke above the surface, but it's so especially glaring with trans stuff and can give a poor impression to younger trans people. ("Why are none of you older than 25, is that the age something terrible happens to us, or something??")

point is, always remember when you're lgbt/specifically trans, there's hecktons more allies around you than you think, living happy lives and thriving.

Anhinga, Hilton Head

On my blog: Why bisexuality isn't binary (and neither is homosexuality.)

Warn for historic images of colonialist and anti-LGBTQ violence.

https://www.bigeekfan.com/post/20210121_why_bisexuality_is_not_binary/

anyone here who had or is thinking about getting top surgery for different reasons than dysphoria? anyone with mixed feelings before/after?

I'm in the process of getting it and the few cis people I've told seem to try to apply some narrative of it being my only option onto me that I don't think fits well. I also don't correct them because then I might have to justify my decision to them and I don't want or need to do that.
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if your cat often bothers you at your computer and walks all over your keyboard, it's because they're trying to join you and do what you're doing. It's a sign of affection! One way to mitigate disruption without pushing away your cat is by buying your cat their own laptop and plugging it in next to yours. make sure the laptop has wifi, a VPN, and access to the darkweb

Not only does LeGuin get a US Postage Stamp, the background celebrates one of the first and most notable #nonbinary characters in #sff.