“Lee broke into a run” rather than “Lee broke into a ran” as “broke” is already past tense right?
But then it’s, “Jamie felt depressed” rather than “Jamie felt depress” because
Fuck you English language.
I want to read this book but I don’t want to buy it because by paying for it I’m essentially screwing over the writer, who I’d like to support.
This is a new one.
When I write experiences, feelings and record of my own, I am a narcissist.
When I write experiences, feelings and records belong to others, I am an overstepper.
Somehow my work on the visual novel turned into a side project of (lol) autobiographical Twine game. I don’t know if I will be brave enough to release it. Hint, it’s as whingey and self-obsessed as you can expect from me making an autobiographical Twine game.
Someone else identifies as heterosexual transman does not disqualify your identity as homosexual ciswoman. The transman’s confusion and journey upon his identity is not a challenge to your sureness of yours.
There’s enough love going around. Transphobia wins you nothing, but we all lose something along the line.
Then turned out 90% of the places I’m applying to have mandatory photograph policy, or we are disqualified on spot.
Well.
I’m actually really cute. Tall, really skinny and blonde. This is me. Please hire me. Etc.
I do have some extremely embarrassing wish-fulfilling.giggle giggle this-is-my-fantasy-ideal-life-that-will-never-happen thoughts. Sometimes I indulge in them. I’m content with that they are nothing more than fantasy and will never happen.
Reading about this clusterfuck is a great way of putting a foot through that fantasy.
Hey Mythbusters will you hire Kiera Wilmot? She’s clearly too amazing for her school to handle.
Homer Hickam approves her. That means something.
Went to a Beijing GBLT event today, with the theme of online hatespeech.
It is absolutely amazing. The forum itself did occur in a confrontational, perhaps even a bit triggering type of way, but I thought it was necessary given the topic. It makes sense here. Being abrasive is our national sport. Even I’m scared of the Chinese internet.
There was a planted mole who was there to throw regurgitated homophobic arguments commonly seen on the internet. There were quite a few people who didn’t realise the moleness joined in the debate. It was spectacular. Spontaneous it may be, I am in utter awe of just how much so many of the people know. No tables were flipped, I’m not going to say if it was close.
Some of the Chinese specific queer issues:
- Confucius philosophy and its effect on the culture. (This deserves its own topic, consider I have so, so many more issues with Confucius philosophy and quite frankly I take issue with people who tried to claim that it’s a historical pride point. I see Confucius as our cultural shame.)
- The societal attitude where marriage and having biological children are seen as mandatory
- Sexism. The way women are seen as commodities, hence lesbians are treated with more hostility than male queers. (i.e how dare another woman who should be a man’s property tries to take the property that should belong to another man?
- The layperson’s scientific understanding appears to be weaker than some other parts of the world
- The general discomfort with sex for pleasure.
- Huge emphasis that family is more important than an individual: if your mum wants you to be heteromarried, you are selfish for not doing it.
Some Chinese specific queer strengths:
- Homosexuality was never illegal.
- The dominating religions in China are nowhere near as hostile toward homosexuality compared to Christian based countries. Taoism is pretty much whateves, while Buddhism shakes their disapproval toward any kind of pleasure seeking yet without the degree of hatred. I’m not particularly familiar with Chinese Islam’s take on homosexuality, certainly not seeing anyone running around with Homophobia For Allah signs ever.
- The sheer speed of change of attitude here amazes me. There are still plenty of hostility, but just comparing the general societal attitude every five years and I’m rolling in warm fuzzies.
Despite of having GLBT rather than GLBTOMGWTFBBQLOL type of acronym, this is the most inclusive major queer activist group I’ve ever seen. There is a strong push for fighting for all disadvantaged classes. Just within the room decoration, there were posters against family violence, against sexual assaults, pro religious diversity, pro accessible health care, huge visible trans/intersex encouragement.
Then during the event itself, the topics touched upon included need of sex-positive education, sex education in general, age discriminations, mental health ableism, discrimination based on physical attractiveness, areal discrimination, poverty. At one point it deteriorated/elevated into an academic discussion regard to evolutionary mechanisms efficiency, only to be side tracked by an academic discussion regard to anthropology of Naxi family structure.
I’m so boiling with happy hot red blood right now I’m basically a cheerleader on Ouendan. Even if I did end up missing my train and had to take a taxi back.
EDIT: I did wish that I could raise the issue regard to pick our battles and block the trolls, but I’m kinda lazy like that so I guess it’s a good thing we ran out of time.
One way of functioning on auto-pilot based on the inertia of how your body runs.
Sometimes it makes mistakes.
One of my regrets is that I was too much of a coward to write anything prior to reading up to all the How-To-Write-Shit things. What I would write would be utter crap, but I’m concerned that what I’m making now are utter crap strangled by dogma.
I know that plenty of people have unfollowed me (quite possibly in meatspace) because I never shut the fuck up about the whole race thing, but yes it is a thing.
I highly recommend Mitu’s incredible GDC rant about race in games, by the way. Some of her situation are identical to me, others, not so much so it gave me extra insight on what she had to deal with.
Now in my post because ohoho it’s my Tumblr and I’m a self obsessed shitbag.
I’m back on Tumblr for a moment and I can honestly say that I have not felt this unhappy since last time I’m on Tumblr. This is even after weeding out most of the rebloggers on my follow list.
How did a social networking site manage to amplify loneliness this effectively and still have such a huge userbase is beyond me.
Depriving someone of the knowledge of their employment security isn’t giving them a fundamental human right. In fact if there’s a “right” involved here, this is the opposite of it.
I’m blocked from Twitter because China thinks it’s like, relevant or something.
I can’t directly access Tumblr through my phone.
However I could port things over with Instagram. So whenever I feel like littering the cyberspace with more of my brain scatters, I just take a random picture and post them here via Instagram.
(Thought sometimes the pictures themselves are the stars of the post. It happens as often as shiny Pokemon)
allurious answered: I GIGGLED, you have the best humour. (: if you actually need assistance, i have done a lot of resume stuff lately? and i look at them at work
AHHHH if you could I’d really really appreciate it omg
