Maie Shallcrass

She/Her (mostly), loves writing, games, puzzles and schlock! Truscum can go and stub their toes.

[Maie Shallcrass @CuddlestheDalek]

So, uh. I'm gonna try and make a pinned tweet! I don't really have much to say at the moment, but I took a selfie last night against my best judgement.
Sooooooo... This is me, please be gentle:

[thereisnobeth @thereisnobeth]

liberal capitalism is a fun system bc if a billionaire decides they don't like a minority group they can shape the whole nations legal system to make that groups life impossible

[thereisnobeth @thereisnobeth]

people seem to interpret passing advice as someone saying "this is how things should be" instead of "hey here's how you navigate the arbitrary and byzantine rules that society uses to determine gender"

[Zar @zarzaliel]

"c-c-cannonball...."

[Maie Shallcrass @CuddlestheDalek]

@VinesMatthew "First they came for The Queers
And I did not speak up because I'm Gay, Not Queer."
I assume I don't need to spell out how the rest of that poem would go.

[Tom Blackburn @malaiseforever]

I wrote this for @tribunemagazine on the draconian National Security (State Threats) Bill being rammed through Parliament this week, and the threat it poses to reporting from conflict zones that doesn't conform to the government's approved narratives: https://t.co/LIxxzyELrh

[Tribune @tribunemagazine]

Rushed through Parliament at a moment’s notice, new legislation aims to stem the free flow of information from places like the Middle East. https://t.co/Ya1YfZTahw

[Zar @zarzaliel]

"Fascinating." "Yes, Fascinating." "Fascinating indeed."

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

A kiss between two women. Photographed in the 1910s.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

African jacanas look like they have eight legs when carrying their chicks

The father shelters the babies beneath his wings, with only their tiny legs sticking out as he carries them to safety

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

An Egyptian Girl, by Austrian painter Leopold Carl Müller (1892). In private collection.

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

'The Kiss'. Photographed by Clarence Hudson White, 1904.

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Miss Lily Elsie and Miss Adrienne Augarde in the New Aladdin. Photographed in 1907.

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Portrait of two unidentified women. Photographed in the 1900s.

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

‘Aunty Mary and her “friend” Ruth'. Photographed in 1910.

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Portrait of Marcela and Elisa (dressed as a man), a lesbian couple that got married in Galicia in 1901. They got married in a church, and it is considered the first registered homosexual marriage in Spain. Authorities persecuted them and they had to leave the country.

[kate @normal_regimiro]

who could forget this classic line

[Maie Shallcrass @CuddlestheDalek]

@normal_regimiro @Freyja_Baird I liked the part where he said "It's maulin' time" and then mauled all over Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan