beyondergod asked:
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There are no universes, just Battleworld and the void.
Goa'uld Jedi Luke and Leia Skywalker, from the “Star to Steer By” series and “Slipstream” in particular
Someone made an engagement map for TERF tweets
Y’all in the notes please be mindful when you say stuff like “it’s time to kill the British.” The people suffering the most from British transphobia are....British trans people.
^^^^^ for serious. British trans folks rarely get to transition at all, and when they don't they're often denied any social transition period. TERFs in the UK aren't here to start laws against people in America, they're trying and succeeding to kill off trans people in the UK. This really isn't the situation to cram on the brits to look and feel better about yourself... the trans body count is tremendous over there. Please have some respect for the people actually effected.
Please do keep this in mind. As much as I find the anti-British memes funny, this is a genuine issue in the UK.
I’m a trans man in the UK, I’ve been on the waiting list to be diagnosed for just over 2 years now, and am expected to wait around another 2 years before I get my first appointment (if the wait time doesn’t increase). I will then wait around 2 more years (at the very least) for my second appointment, and if I’m very lucky and am diagnosed in that appointment (which is not guaranteed in the slightest), I’ll enter another waiting list to access healthcare. The service I’m in is considered around average. There are people waiting 6 years for their first appointment in other services, so I am incredibly lucky with my supportive family (in that I haven’t been kicked out or abused, parents still don’t respect pronouns or name) and I have good friends who respect me, as well as only waiting 4 years for a first appointment.
Maybe you could go private if you had the money, right? Go a similar route to trans people in the US? A diagnosis from a private practice can be rejected by your General Practitioner, and any referral you get for hormones or surgery can be completely dismissed, because you weren’t diagnosed by an NHS practice. You would likely have to go entirely private, which is not possible for thousands of trans people who rely on the NHS. This is an issue within the NHS and a completely lack of funding and training for trans healthcare, resulting in horrifically long wait time and difficult to access help, especially given doctors and surgeons have and are having their practices shut down because they aren’t considered proper by the NHS, despite being one of very very few who commit to this kind of work.
The transphobia in the UK runs far deeper than just tweets, and combining the aggressively transphobic attitude of a large portion of the population with the lack of healthcare due to wait times and difficulties with funding, you set up an incredibly difficult and dangerous position for trans people. Maybe this sounds like a bunch of complaints and nothing to people in the US, but people here are dying as a result of this. Please do keep this in mind when making anti-UK memes surrounding specifically transphobia.
also, our wait times for HRT have gone up to 6 years through the NHS.
There are officially English asylum seekers in places like New Zealand now because other countries have acknowledged that it is genuinely unsafe for trans people to stay in this country.
Also you need to understand that while engagement in Britain is off the charts it is NOT because there are a lot of transphobes - polls show brits are MORE accepting generally in fact. What this is actually showing is the small and completely insane network of online terfs in the UK who dedicate unfathomable amounts of time and energy solely to driving up engagement on transphobic content, the numbers are unbelievable. Britain is not a place full of transphobes, it's a place with very dedicated transphobes who have the backing of the government and a certain outrageously wealthy and bigoted author.
i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out
brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad
OP this is EXCELLENT
Now THAT’S a self care resource! If you’ve gotten distracted by capitalism’s appropriation of “self-care” and watering the meaning down to nothing this is a super helpful guide to cut through the bullshit.
If you are thinking about it on paper, the bus running every half hour doesn't sound so bad, until you're waiting at the stop and you miss a bus or it's delayed. Then you're waiting a very, very long time. To people who never take transit, that's probably fine. Why do you care. To people who only take transit, they're expecting it, it's baked in their lives. But the important part, what really impacts our cities, is what happens to people for whom transit is an option.
The spiral goes like this. You go to take the bus instead of driving, thinking "I'm going to o have a couple drinks" or "I don't want to worry about parking where I'm going." So you take bus. First bus is right on time. But then you transfer from your neighborhood line to the line that takes you where you actually want to go. And your bus is delayed. And it only comes every 30 minutes. And then you're waiting, 40 minutes later, wondering where your bus is, knowing you could have driven there in 20 minutes.
Why would you ever chose to take a bus again? The bus made you waste precious time on your day off just sitting there. So next time you drive. Ridership goes down. When the transit authority asks for more money for more buses and more drivers, people point to the ridership numbers and say "why should we pay for this instead of paying for our schools/police/baseball stadium/parks/police again (let's be real that's who's taking all the money)?" If we want to increase ridership we need to actually design and fund functional transit networks. If we want people to actually ride the bus we need to make it a better option than driving, which means reliable service, which you don't get with a bus every 30 minutes.
Every 15 minutes, everywhere, all of the time.
This should also apply to trains, by the way. Maybe not every 15 minutes but 30 minutes would be nice; I'd settle for even every hour.
This message brought to you by three Saturdays ago, when we missed our train out of the city to the park 'n ride and had to wait two hours for the next one, which is especially annoying since two hours is the time it takes to drive directly from that same station to our house.
@thundersolstice Lion-O and Wilykit’s second set of twins based on @thundersolstice’s headcanons. I will proceed to make dolls of them.
Struck by the selflessness of the humans who aided her, J'Ridia remained on Earth, forgoing her U'sr'prian name. Again known as Her, she discovered that Adam Warlock had been resurrected with his soul restored, but Warlock, occupied with the universe-threatening menace of the Infinity Gauntlet, Dismissively rebuffed Her’s advances. At loose ends, Her remained in New York City, protecting it against threats of Eon’s expanding corps and Edifice Rex. Her soon realized that she and Warlock would make a poor parental couple as they possessed virtually identical genetic material, and decided to seek the best mate from within humanity. She created pods of genetic material designed to draw the best of herself and a mate, and attached these to the back of six males: Wonder Man, Hyperion, Hercules, Doc Samson, Ikaris, and Gilgamesh. When Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) opposed her, she placed a pod on him as well, drawing the ire of Moondragon, who had decided Quasar was her own perfect (if unwilling) mate. While the three battled, the Avengers succeeded in removing the pods from the others, and her decided Quasar was indeed her ideal mate, as he was the only being to evidence concern for the contents of the pod over himself. However, Quasar pointed out that her desire to parent children was arising solely from her creators’ wishes and not from herself, challenging her to find her own purpose in life. Uncertain, Her removed the pod from Quasar, but decided to remain close to him as a companion, observing his humanity. #marvel #marvelfans #marvelfan #marvelcomics #marvelcomicfans #marveluniverse #marvelmemes #marvellegends #marvelfanart #marvelcosplay #marvelnow #marvellegacy #marvelhero #marvelous #marvelsuperheroes #marvelentertainment #mcu #marvelstudios #marvelshots #guardiansofthegalaxyvol2 #marvelcinematicuniverse #MarvelCharacters #marvelart #marvelcomicsgang #marvelfandom #marvels #kismet #ayesha #characteroftheday
Since I’m waiting on Infinity Crusade vol. 2 to arrive in the mail, I thought I’d run through all the key early storylines you’d want to check out if you’re learning about Thanos, Adam Warlock, and the Infinity Gems. I’ve put the important stuff in bold if you just want to skip to those parts.
(This is only going to go up to 1995, since the usual gang of Starlin characters kind of get scattered to the four winds after that.)
If I could write a Marvel book that wasn't an X Men title, I would probably do an Adam Warlock series where He and Quasar are dating, just because I think it would really annoy Jim Starlin
Alternatively: A series where Peter Quill, Gamora, and Adam Warlock are a polycule and Kismet/Her/Ayesha is dating Quasar in an attempt to spite Adam Warlock
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Anonymous asked:
What an awesome question, thanks for sending it anon!
Oh my!
Ideally: I’d want to be a stormtrooper, and rise through the ranks that way, becoming a commander in the stormtrooper corps. Maybe one day I’d get to go to battle alongside Darth Vader, and my life would be complete!!!
Realistically: I’d never make it in the navy. :D
However, I might have a chance to get a civilian job at the Navy Command’s public information division (or whatever it is called in the galaxy far far away). As my studies in this world included communications in addition to the visual design, I’d have the educational background to do it. The job title would probably be public information officer, media analyst or press secretary.
The Imperial Navy and Army most likely also have their own internal publications (magazines, holonet site / intranet). I’d definitely have the skills to work there too.
And if these jobs are only available for those with basic military training, I’d either get it, or then choose a career in the government, which would definitely be interesting too. Maybe I’d work in the Ministry of Information dealing with the design any visual information and communications. That way I could also build a steady life on a nice planet.
