Thinking "tsukishima Telling Yamaguchi To Shut Up Constantly Is Mean" Is Okay But Thinking "yamaguchi

queer is literally a slur. like you’ve never been called that in a derogatory context like most lgbt people? you think your experiences escaping homophobia make it okay to justify the use of a homophobic slur?

queer is an identity.

it has also been used as a slur. there is no denying that. but using a word as a slur does not make it a slur. because before queer is a slur it is an identity. before it is derogatory it is a label. the use of queer as an identity is infinitely more important than the use of queer as a slur because the people who identify as queer are infinitely more important than the people who use queer as a slur.

say a lot of people decided they hated me. despised me. were disgusted by me to the point where my own name became a slur. would you tell me not to say it? would you tell me i could no longer be helena, and instead must come up with a euphemism for the name that belonged to me decades before it belonged in the mouths of bigots?

because that would make you an enabler.

you would tell me i can’t say my name anymore because some lowlife decided he could use it to insult me?

you would tell a gay man that he can’t be gay anymore because some teens in the early 2000’s started calling everything they didn’t like “gay”, and now he has to say “same sex oriented male identifying individual”?

does that enrage you? because it should. that’s exactly how you sound.

you are telling me i cannot use my label. you are telling me that when my great-uncle shouted until his face was red and he spat tobacco and the word queer at my feet, he was right. he was right to insult me, and i was wrong to say my name.

you are shitting on every single one of our predecessors. you are slandering every person who fought for their rights to exist and and be tolerated and be celebrated in their countries, every person who was lost to the aids epidemic, every person whose country criminalizes love and gender expression, every child whose parents abandoned them for straying from the norm, every person who was born and will die in the closet longing to be themselves. the queer umbrella is a safety net, a security blanket, the comfort of being known without being pressured to tell. it is near and dear and important as fuck to every member of the lgbt+ community and you are a blight upon the earth you walk.

how dare you speak upon my experiences with homophobia. how dare you disguise your own homophobia as activism. and how fucking dare you have the audacity to come to my blog and hide behind an anonymous ask and preach to me about how i’m oppressing myself. go look at the fucking wikipedia page for queer and read about how 1980s lgbt+ activists, especially lgbt+ people of color, fought to call themselves queer in a world that still hates peculiar things. and here you are forty years later spitting queer back at their feet.

i don’t give a fuck if people start using my name as a slur. my name is still helena. i will not change it. i chose it, i like it, and it belongs to me. it does not belong to bigots no matter how badly they want it. your discomfort with my identity is not my fucking problem.

i am helena. i am queer. die mad & go fuck yourself

me: Yamaguchi would never confess to Tsukishima, it would have to be the other way around.

my sister: doubt

me: i’m not saying that Yamaguchi would never realize Tsukishima likes him, I’m saying that if he did, he would be like “Tsukki needs to man up and confess”

my sister: FAIR

not an artistic bone in my body but may i kindly offer my silly tsukkiyama crows

i hate whenever people say "autism and adhd are basically the same disorder" because that isn't even remotely true. autism believes a strong defense is the best offense, and focuses on keeping plays connected in order to steadily earn points, while adhd is characterized by unpredictable high risk combination attacks that prioritize scoring

SPEAR AND SHIELD!! 🗣️🗣️

the calm shield and the spear that creates a path for the shield to think clearly..

A star gaze night with your bestest friend

I have been reading a bit on the OTW elections and the whole Tiffany G thing, but most of all, I've been reading comments from people supporting Tiffany saying that she just wants to clear AO3 from all the CP (child pornography) content and I don't know who needs to hear this but:

If someone comes to a predominantly QUEER space (like AO3) and tells you that censorship is necessary to eradicate CP... it's not actually CP they want to eradicate...

I've seen this type of discourse about Pride and about queer literature and queer movies and queer communities. It's a tried and true technique of the right and conservative movements.

First, they say there is a DANGER to the community through CP and they conflate the actual threat of CP in the community (we all know someone who thinks that writing a love story between two characters who are 16 is CP...), and make you believe that censorship is the only way to PROTECT THE CHILDREN. And since most people are (rightly) mind-bogled at having to explain that of course they don't support CP content, they bow down and accept the censorship for the greater good, without anyone actually trying to have a conversation about what qualifies as CP (which needs to, you know, actually involve real children and not fictional characters who are 17 and losing their virginity with their crush in a Mature-rated story about high school football and first love based on the author's own experience of losing their virginity at 17 to their crush in high school).

Then, they tell you that there are other forms of DISTURBING CONTENT, and what they really mean is porn that THEY find disturbing, for ex, (and I kid you not, I have seen comments like that) porn featuring disabled characters, which they consider to encourage the exploitation of vulnerable individuals, or BDSM porn (which supposedly encourages violence and lack of consent), or rough p*rn, or any kind of porn that isn't two (preferably white and skinny) able-bodied people doing it missionary style while lovingly gazing in each other's eyes. SO TO PROTECT VIEWERS, that needs to be banned as well.

And then, they tell you that even that sanitized version of porn is still porn and that people under 18 or under 21 or under whatever age they consider too young to view anything sexual regardless of the fact that not all countries have the same law about the age of maturity, should be free to surf the site without having to *gasp* filter out properly tagged works. So TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN, every explicit content is censored.

And then finally, when all that is left is a sanitized, white-washed, ableist, puritan type of content featuring General-Audience approved gay works of two nice men or two nice women holding hands and chastely kissing each other on the lips... Well guess what? :) CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE EXPOSED TO QUEER CONTENT SO WE NEED TO BAN THAT AS WELL, and since we've basically done purge after purge before and there are still a handful of people on the website, well surely they won't mind/care anymore, will they?

It's not just a slippery slope, it's something that has been done time and again, and that is why censorship on AO3 will never, never have a positive outcome.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

YAMAGUCHI TADASHI

GENDER : Male

AGE : 16

BIRTHDAY : 10 November

HEIGHT : 180.0cm

WEIGHT : 63.0kg

POSITION : Middle Blocker Pinch Server

PERSONALITY

Yamaguchi adalah orang yang cukup pemalu yang bergantung pada orang lain. Meskipun pada umumnya dia adalah orang yang baik, dia cenderung tertawa bersama atau bergabung dengan Tsukishima setiap kali dia mengejek orang lain, terutama Kageyama dan Hinata. Ini juga membuktikan bahwa dia adalah teman setia yang sangat peduli dengan teman-temannya, terus-menerus meneriakkan semangat dari pinggir lapangan dan membela Tsukishima.

Ketika dia masih muda, dia diintimidasi karena bintik-bintiknya yang membuatnya sangat tidak aman. Dia terus-menerus meragukan kemampuannya dan merasa sulit untuk berkonsentrasi dengan banyak orang. Ia juga mudah gugup, karena ia cenderung terkejut setiap kali wasit meniup peluit untuk servisnya.

Dia pekerja keras, seperti yang ditunjukkan ketika dia mencari latihan ekstra sendiri dan bagaimana dia terus berlatih di luar tim, setelah melihat betapa lemahnya dia dibandingkan dengan rekan satu timnya yang lain.

Setelah kekalahan fatal dalam pertandingan melawan Aoba Johsai High, dia mendapatkan banyak kepercayaan diri berkat rekan satu timnya dan Makoto Shimada, yang telah membantunya berlatih servis jump float. Selama kamp pelatihan musim panas, dia bahkan melawan Kei Tsukishima, membuatnya terkejut dengan tindakan Yamaguchi dan bahkan memanggilnya "keren" untuk pertama kalinya. Tsukishima mulai bekerja lebih keras, dan hubungan mereka kembali normal setelah kejadian itu.

From divine right granted by the God of Christianity to divine right granted by the God of Capitalism. Sounds about right.

the fact that pro-monarchy arguments have degenerated, over the past few centuries, from “the king rules by divine right and is accountable to nobody but god”, to “uhm the royals generate a lot of income from tourism” will never stop being extremely funny to me

Wow these guys are losers