Pop culture nerd who loves the Sounders, Reign, Kraken and Storm. You may have seen me at a PNW convention or two. She/Her, BLM, Trans Lives are Beautiful, living on the homelands of the Coast Salish peoples
I was thinking recently about how “alt” subcultures are so aestheticized now but they used to be much more about your societal views than the clothes you wore or even the bands you listened to, and my brain connected some dots. Idk if this is anything
ALT
Yes, this is it! This is exactly it!!
The black lines of this chart are drawn in the cheap waterproof eyeliner that binds these sibling cultures together
It has become apparent that the gothy DIY knowledge of years past has not fluttered out to many folks. Here, let me give you some quick suggestions:
The Tights Thing: Get a pair of tights. (Which can often be found at dollar stores and thrift stores!) Cut out the crotch, and cut off the feet or make holes for your thumbs and fingers. Ta-da! A shirt!
Things To Do To Any Garment:
Safety pins: Get lots of safety pins (which can also be found at dollar stores), and use them to make designs on an item of clothing. (I’ve added safety pins in a line down seams on jackets.)
Paint pens: Draw on your clothes! Write song lyrics or quotes! (This also works with bleach pens.)
Appliques: You can sew or use safety pins to attach damn near anything you cut apart from another garment, a patch, or pieces of other fabric to something else.
Change the buttons. You can buy all sorts of interesting buttons from fabric stores, Amazon, eBay, Ali-Express … you get the idea. Change the plain buttons on a shirt or jacket to interesting ones!
Add trim: Lace, ribbons, fringe, grommet tape … hell, you can even sew chain onto things.
“No adult should be telling children that they’re safe, it is creepy as hell.”
Transphobes act like they’re “protecting kids” and then say shit like this completely unprompted and unironically.
Tennant?
TENNANT?
She’s coming for David Tennant??
OK BUT REBLOGGING BECAUSE OF THIS:
The pin reads “You are safe with me.”
So if anyone out there STILL wants to hang on to that H@rry-P*tter-adjacent username
GO FUCK YOURSELF
Why did she change her name from Kellie-Jay Keen to Posie Parker? Is she trying to confuse people into thinking she’s actress Parker Posey?
Anyone who supports ether kellie-jay keen otherwise know as poise Parker and JK Rowling needs to get off my dash and stop fallowing me.
It doesn’t even refer to children in any way! It’s from the Gayprideshop.co.uk and it looks like this.
What a stupid fucking maneuver. Graham Lineham lost his agent, his marriage, and his career after making the same accusations against Tennant for wearing a “Leave Trans Kids Alone” t-shirt and this random transphobe thinks she can make a swing based on literally nothing at all? Good fucking luck.
Adding to this post cause I really want to stress how much Kellie-Jay Keen/Posie Parker is NOT ‘just some random transphobe’.
She has extreme power and influence in transphobic circles (both of the TERF and general right wing variety) and is on a whole other level to JKR when it comes to the stuff she says/supports (at least based on my knowledge at the time of writing).
For example, she does not believe that it is possible for a person to be trans, she wants men to go in to women’s bathrooms for the sole purpose of shooting anyone who seems trans/gnc, she believes that women’s (and especially girl’s) access to abortion should be greatly limited, she’s the origin of the phrase 'woman = adult human female’, she holds no claim to the word feminist and actively identifies as a transphobe, she often let’s far-right/nazi groups attend and 'protect’ her events, etc.
(Shaun has a good video about her called Kellie-Jay & the Neo-Nazis, but be warned she gets significantly worse than the stuff I’ve mentioned here)
Some of y'all really think that JKR is the final boss of transphobia and I’m here to tell you that she absolutely is not. Honestly I don’t even think that KJK is the final boss. The goal of the trans rights movement should always be actually improving the lives of trans people, some of that work is reducing the impact of transphobic influencers, but the majority of that work is in improving access to transition, reducing the numbers of trans hate crimes, supporting anti-discrimination laws/cases, etc.
i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year
actually i’m reblogging this again with commentary, fuck it.
There’s people in the notes talking about “not basing your worth off numbers”, and like. that isn’t what this post is about. It’s not a threat, either, it’s a comment on how this site works, at a mechanical level.
Likes are worthless. Let me say that again.
Likes. Are. Worthless.
They don’t do anything. They’re a bookmark. They were never part of how tumblr works - in the early days we didn’t even have a like button, and the site still more or less acts as though we don’t. They’re personal bookmarks and the only people who “get” anything from them are you (you bookmark the post) and the OP (maybe a very slight serotonin boost), but they don’t keep the post in circulation, they don’t keep it alive.
Without reblogs, a post will be dead in the water within an hour. No matter how good it is, no matter how many hours of painstaking love and attention its creator put into it, it will be dead within an hour and never seen again. It gets pushed down the dashboard and nobody aside from the followers who were online when it was posted will see it. And there’s a huge difference in engagement on posts that get even one lucky reblog from someone with wider reach - that one reblog shows your post to five, ten, fifteen other people, and if one of those people also reblogs it, and so on and so forth, that’s how posts stay alive and in circulation. It’s like a contagion, but we’re sharing creativity instead of disease.
And that matters. That “lifespan” of the post matters, artists and writers give up on this site and go to sites where posts have longer lifespans because it sucks to spend hours of your life, maybe even days, to get two notes and some fucking pocket lint for your efforts. We create for ourselves, but we share because we want people to see it, because that engagement offers positive feedback and encouragement to continue. But more than that, if every post (whether art, fic, gifset, whatever) is dying within an hour or a day of being posted, that means it’s not making it onto your dashboard. And if it’s not on your dashboard, you won’t see it. This kills the site, after a while. You stop seeing the posts, because nobody is putting them on your dashboard, because this site doesn’t have an algorithm like twitter and insta’s and it shouldn’t, it’s the last bastion of chronological timelines.
Forgive my giant fucking rant I am so tired right now and full of the plague but like stop acting like artists and writers are just being whiny little babies, or “threatening” to withhold our fucking work (you’re not entitled to it! it’s ours! if we get nothing out of sharing it we’re well within our rights to keep it private!) when we say this site will dry up without reblogs. We’re just stating facts.
also I’ve seen some people in the tags say ‘oh there have always been more likes on posts’ no there haven’t ????
these are posts from 2013, look at the ratio
not to sound like a nursing home resident but back then people know that the point of this site was to reblog things and share them, not to bury them away among your other 23k liked posts
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