we need to make peace with the fact that “i am a girl and retroactively i always was even when i didn’t personally think so” and “i am a girl but i used to be a boy” are both equally valid ways to be transfem and both are punk af bc they equally reject societal norms of what a person’s gender experience should be
to all the transmascs and other various queers in the notes saying “this also applies to [insert gender here] but in reverse” i agree with you! but this post is about transfems because that’s what i am :)
“Why don’t people recognize Link in TOTK” bc everyone imagines the legendary swordsman to be built like Ganondorf and Link doesn’t bother correcting anyone bc being hailed as a hero is like on the bottom of his priorities, which are topped by things like “Bake one of every pie”
Rando farmer: They say that once the noble hero of legend passed by this very village! Isn’t that wonderful to imagine, genderfluid stranger?
Link, 5'6" with 2" heels and wearing a backless dress suspiciously stained with blood: no yeah that’s wild
“Wouldn’t they recognize him bc he’s with Zelda” Everyone interacting with Zelda was like “Wow, the princess!! The princess who saved Hyrule is here, talking to us! Plus some guy with three sets of pronouns who’s building a bomb but more importantly The Princess!! Wow!!”
ALT
Zelda keeps coming across spare genders she doesn’t need and Link follows behind scooping them all up off the ground like a starving trash possum
Someone uses an unfamiliar pronoun around Zelda, and she hears the item pickup sound come from Link
Video of a kitten at a vet’s office protesting loudly as it’s scooped from the floor. Another kitten turns around the corner and walks up to the camera, also protesting loudly for its friend. From here.
me for the first 33 years of my life: my dad used to say “what would happen if you woke up on the titanic?? think about it” when he was tucking me in at night from at least age 5 and up, a form of psychological torture
me in my 33rd year of life: my dad optimistically thought i would have $250k to blow on something stupid by now and shut that shit down at the jump in the 90s
What part of ‘the wellbeing of workers has an impact on the work they do’ is hard for some people to understand? Like even if you don’t have a single fraction of common decency or care for other peoples’ welfare, and don’t care whether they live or die, you should still care whether you live or die. You don’t have to be morally against human suffering in order to believe in workers’ rights.
An overworked truck driver falls asleep on the wheel and swerves on you in traffic? You’re gonna die. An overworked nurse doing a 24 hour shift gets two patients confused? You’re gonna die. A bridge collapses under you because the building materials provided were dogshit, and none of the builders wanted to speak out because the one to voice a complaint is going to get fired, and they all have kids to feed? You’re going to die.
You literally do not have to care about other people. Nobody is demanding you to give a shit whether anybody else lives or dies. You just have to aknowledge that if the people touching your food, building the roads you drive on and buildings you go into, and altogether work in putting together every single thing that you need in order to live, are dying on the job, that’s gonna hurt you too.
Being served like a God and fed with human sacrifice does not make you immortal like one.
I’ve found no indication in the game that Zelda and Link are roommates actually. There’s only one bed and it’s not exactly made for two and everyone just refers to it as Zelda’s house. It seems like she just sort of took over Link’s house. No wonder he buys a new house from Hudson. He’s probably been couch surfing.
Zelda: Cool you got a house ready for me
Link, who was raised in the royal guard and can’t physically move himself to say no to a princess: …
Zelda: Where have you been staying anyways?
Link: …
Purah: You just let her kick you out?
Link: Well technically I don’t need to sleep so it’s fine.
Purah: What?
Link: …
Purah: I know that look on your face. I won’t experiment on you this time.
Link: Sometimes I don’t sleep for weeks.
Purah: That’s not normal.
Link: …
Purah: I’ll leave you to think about that.
Zelda: You don’t sleep? That’s awful!
Link: Gamers don’t sleep.
Zelda: What did you say?
Link: …
Zelda: Link what did you say?
Link: …
Zelda: I know that you use your selective mutism to get out of situations sometimes.
Link: …
Zelda: *sigh* fine. Let’s just go. We’ve got a meeting later.
Age-old advice which is more relevant nowadays rather than less. This is the second iteration of it though. The original version is: “Never write anything in a letter you wouldn’t want to see in print.” Advice handed down by my mother from her forbears.
From the IT department. We archive EVERYTHING. And Outlook autosaves every couple seconds.
Depends on the org but 99% of stuff is saved. At my last org, a healthcare nonprofit, I learned that HIPAA requires you to save health data for 7-10 years and then have it destroyed physically. Whenever we decommissioned a computer for recycling, we ripped the hard drives out and threw them in a bucket.
We deleted google accounts almost as soon as someone stopped working for us but they were archived automatically in another system and all your drive files are transferred to your immediate supervisor (this is also a warning not to keep personal documents on your work account or computer).
Allow me to assure you, as a librarian, that if you as a concerned citizen present us with a list of Books that are Bad and should Not Be In Our Collection and which you Require us to Remove At Once, we will scan it for titles that we don’t have yet to add to our purchase list.
Ah, the “limiting access to information is okay if they’re takes I object to” squad has begun to appear.
This is your helpful reminder that:
a) There are legitimate information access needs even to bad information (one cannot, for example, study and deconstruct erroneous information about climate change if you don’t know what people are saying) and it is actually part of my vocation to provide ACCESS to even books I vehemently disagree with. Sometimes I even get to bond with the person checking it out over how appalling it is! Sometimes the reason they’re checking it out is because they need to read it but don’t want to buy it.
b) The presence of a text in a library collection does not imply agreement with or endorsement by the library as an entity; it just means for one reason or another it fits in our collection management policy. Often it’s based on patron requests from community members.
c) The absolute last thing you EVER want is your librarian to be empowered to decide whether your information need is Good Enough to be “allowed” access to the text. You, personally, even you reading this who knows you share the same values as me, do not want your access to be subject to my judgement as to whether or not your information need is “valid”; to be subject to my assessment whether you can be trusted to have access to a text.
I’m not your mom. I’m not even your teacher. I’m your librarian; it’s my job to help you access information YOU need, and YOU decide what that need is. If you ask for my help then sure it’s also my job to help you assess it based on my training and experience, but it is not my job to ARBITRATE your access to information based on my decisions about the legitimacy of your reason to seek it out.
So yes even when that list of books has books on it I think are full of lies I’m probably checking to see if it’s something someone in my community might need access to without having to buy it or expose themselves to the malware risks of pirating.
Because while I kinda hate him Jordan Peterson’s bullshit is RELEVANT to understanding a lot of shit going on today. And you do NOT want to live in a world where it’s my job to test and see if you have a good and pure enough reason for wanting to check his book out.
I’m ages late but:
Excuse me a coworker caught me making a warding sign at fuckin’ Ted Cruz’s piece of shit book the other day, I feel very called out right now.
If you’re concerned that your local library “platforms” a Horrible Perspective too much, one thing you can do about it as a library user is request purchase of books that refute, debunk or answer that perspective. Public libraries in particular very often place “purchase requests from community members” relatively high on the list of reasons to add a book to the collection. You want more queer positive, trans positive, anti-racist, marginalized-author/perspective books on the library shelves? Go request them! Request lots of them! Request them in multiple formats! All the moreso if these are things you’re a domain expert in, because then you know where to start.
Also shout out to all my wonderful sharers-of-field in the various tags and so on y'all are hilarious and everyone needs to buy the law librarians a drink. XD
last month i asked my local librarian how i request she buy things and she was like ‘ahhhhhh well emailing me directly sometimes works? i have all these little pieces of paper with requests on them but they tend to get lost.’ i would never have figured that method out on my own and i don’t think i have the nerve to utilize it.
Your library may have a form for requesting that they buy specific books. Check their website. It’s usually in About Us, or Collections, or Policies.
Hey I'm Ben. I'm a huge nerd and love associating with other nerds. I'm a CS major. D&D, MTG, video games, and anime are big nerdy hobbies of mine and my life's goal is to be a game developer of some sort.
