A nonbinary child was murdered recently and I’ve been reporting multiple transphobic comments misgendering them, mocking their death, and deadnaming them. But they stay up. Tumblr won’t do anything about it. But they drop everything to permanently ban a trans women.
Really shows their priorities.
I’m not seeing many people post about this and it’s very disappointing.
Nex Benedict, a 16 year old nonbinary student at Owasso high school in Oklahoma, was murdered on February 8th. They were beaten to death by 3 cisgender girls in the girls bathroom.
Nex was brutally beaten to death and was denied care. Teachers refused to call an ambulance for them.
The news is deadnaming them, describing their death as ‘unexpected’, as a ‘physical altercation’, and saying it was ‘a fight’. The news is erasing Nex’s identity and trying to erase the fact this is a targeted hate crime.
the weirdest thing about the general astarion discourse in the bg3 fandom is that he does actually suck. and astarion fans seem to forget this all the time but he sucks ass. he’s a shitty guy. he’s lame and a loser and rude and kind of stupid and a bad person if you let him get away with it. that’s why i like him.
maybe it’s the blorbo glasses that make people forget about it or maybe it’s the infantilization of grown adults who’ve been traumatized but i see so much fighting about him that boils down to “he’s a shitty person!”/“no he isn’t, he was tortured for 200 years!”. and the answer is that he was a shitty person, got beaten half to death, and then got tortured for 200 years. he sucks and is also a victim. can we fight about something more interesting please.
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