pictured: a real thing someone said to me in the manfred von karma tag, where manfred von karma fans hang out
Idk if anyone else has noticed the MASSIVE influx of hate and negative material in their fave character’s tags lately (likely from @staff pushing people to tag posts that otherwise do not need tags) but I think we need to bring back old reliable
It breaks my heart to see how underrated pigeons are. The fact that we had literally domesticated them, making them absolutely dependent on us and now that we’ve abandoned them, we treat them poorly when they try to coexist with us. It’s our responsibility for how they have adapted, how they can’t build nests and how they try to find food wherever we are. Please be nice to pigeons
I bet if a mushroom could lap water out of your hand with a tongue that a gently drinking mushroom tongue on your hand would be the softest and gentlest thing.
jesus christ, i experienced brief but severe grief over not actually being able to experience this.
I think it would feel like a lizard tongue but I’ve never had a lizard drink out of my hand either, and thus the whole thing remains conceptually elusive.
this put such a vivid image in my head i needed to make it real as soon as i got home
I bet if a mushroom could lap water out of your hand with a tongue that a gently drinking mushroom tongue on your hand would be the softest and gentlest thing.
jesus christ, i experienced brief but severe grief over not actually being able to experience this.
I think it would feel like a lizard tongue but I’ve never had a lizard drink out of my hand either, and thus the whole thing remains conceptually elusive.
this put such a vivid image in my head i needed to make it real as soon as i got home
I bet if a mushroom could lap water out of your hand with a tongue that a gently drinking mushroom tongue on your hand would be the softest and gentlest thing.
jesus christ, i experienced brief but severe grief over not actually being able to experience this.
I think it would feel like a lizard tongue but I’ve never had a lizard drink out of my hand either, and thus the whole thing remains conceptually elusive.
this put such a vivid image in my head i needed to make it real as soon as i got home
Seriously though, modern fandom, y’all need to remember that you can, like, ship multiple ships.
Like I can ship two ships that are diametrically opposed, at the same time, because I like both ideas. You don’t have to choose one or the other.
Like I can ship, for example, Sam/Frodo, and also Sam/Rosie, both AT THE SAME TIME. I don’t have to pick ONE couple and denounce all others, and tell everyone else that their ships are WRONG and BAD and mine is the only TRUE AND CORRECT ship.
Related: You don’t have to sink other ships to sail yours.
Exactly! You can have more than one ship. You can have an ARMADA!!!
Ship everything and ship it so hard you end up sideways in the Suez.
Most people don’t care for video games that simulate their day jobs, but engineers love coming home at the end of the day and playing engineering sims because every engineer has that little voice in the back of their mind that says “okay, I know this would be both wildly unethical and probably illegal, but what if”.
The Simpson literally made a joke about this in 1997 this is a settled issue, stop giving power back to straight people
calling yourself homophobic slurs is just doing homophobic people’s job for them, you’re proving them right by identifying within it.
cry about it to some other faggot then please
they deleted… my impact
I need you young people to understand…
Every word we call ourselves….
gay, lesbian, faggot, dyke, queer…
are ALL words they’ve flung at us in hatred.
There is no non-homophobic term. There is just reclaiming them
There’s also the fact that very often historically either
1) straight people would discover our words for ourselves and yoink them and/or
2) a word would be used both positively and negatively IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD.
For example: take “fairy.” In the 1930s, this was three things: a derogatory term for gay men, a cheeky self-identifier for what we’d now call femme gay men, AND A GENDER IDENTITY. That last group considered that fairies were men, but a different kind of men. They engaged differently with their gender presentation and sexuality than heterosexual men.
So while they were cheerfully calling themselves fairies and hopefully getting railed by the dudes of their choice, gossip rags were also going OH NO THE FAIRIES THE DEGENERATES OH NO OH NO.
Same thing at Stonewall. “Nelly boy” was an insult for a femme gay man, but it was also an identifier for a gay man who did gender differently (sort of the same concept as how we use “butch” for women who present their gender in a certain different way). And you wanna know what drag queens and gay men were yelling in a Rockettes kickline at the Stonewall riots? “We wear our dungarees above our nelly knees.” Here’s one that was both, as recently as the mid-2000s, and it’s why I’m so uncomfortable with the “limp-wrist at each other to identify other queers” thing: a “swish gay.” What was a swish gay? The kind of limpwristed, effeminate stereotype gay man, although if it was being used in a derogatory way there was also the implication the man in question would push himself onto straight men. It died out as both an identifier and a derogatory term pretty quickly, but the fact remains, “swish gay” wouldn’t even be old enough for a discount on its car insurance if it was a person, and it was both positive and negative at the same time.
The idea that we shouldn’t cheerfully and viciously take the words of our oppressors and make them ours—or that we should cede our words if they’re used against us—is NEW. As in, last-five-years-and-it-started-with-TERFs new. Hell, there’s some evidence “queer” was a word originally used for gay men bygaymen, and then it escaped containment and has been in a tug of war for about 140 years. (I say “some evidence” because we don’t have anything entirely conclusive, but there’s not a complete absence of evidence, either. Unfortunately most of the queer culture of the 1870s is, you know. Lost.)
The reason vaginal atrophy in HRT is rarely discussed isn’t because some nefarious boogeyman wants to transgenderficate all your pretty lesbian crushes into chronic pelvic pain it’s because people don’t give a shit about transmasculine reproductive health and you hijacking the topic for your detransition propaganda will only make things worse as you discourage transmascs from researching the subject and learning that it’s treatable
“You’ll live with chronic pain for the rest of your life is it worth it” casual ableism aside you’re saying that as if vaginal atrophy doesn’t happen to half of all postmenopausal people, what makes you think you’re immune
Because I am on a mission to make sure everyone knows this and every time vaginal atrophy comes up, I will bring it up:
Vaginal atrophy is easily preventable and treatable. if YOU are on T and you’re experiencing it, PLEASE let your gyno/HRT doc know. They can prescribe topical estrogen which will treat the issue without interfering with your HRT!
I’ve looked into it a LITTLE and over the counter phyto-estrogen creams seem to have an effect but IDK if I’d 100% trust them.
Sorry, this is just super fucking important to me and literally everyone on T needs to know about it because when I was doing the research NO ONE brought up how easily it was treated until I looked into vaginal atrophy itself and found out because of how it’s treated in menopausal women.
When I talked to the doctor at planned parenthood she echoed this, too. That if vaginal atrophy starts to develop, I should just let her know so she can prescribe me topical estrogen to help!
the fact that we aren’t fucking told this is PART of the problem. The fact that we’re told it’s inevitable and untreatable is part of the problem. You don’t *have* to deal with that pain and discomfort.
!!!
Topical estrogen won’t affect your T levels either, from what I know. It will just affect the vagina, so you don’t have to worry that your transition will be impacted if you do get vaginal atrophy treated. If you are worried about topical estrogen affecting your transition talk to your doctor! There’s no reason trans people should suffer out of fear and misinformation.
This is true! Be aware that whether you can get effective treatments over the counter will depend on the exact pharmacy laws in your area – for example, in NZ it’s a prescription-only medicine (but prescriptions are subsidised so this isn’t too bad).
This matters because there’s a bunch of products out there that claim to treat vaginal atrophy, including lube and “vaginal moisturisers”, which don’t have the estrogen in them that makes it work properly. You’ll probably get some relief from the moisturising but it won’t be reversing the atrophy. These products are available over the counter and one is directly shilled by Buck Angel lmfao so it can be tempting to go for them rather than going through the hassle of getting a script, but please, if you can, get the prescription stuff that works the best ^_^
reblogging to add: there are also rings you can put inside the vagina for 3 months of continuous dosage instead of topical cream. my doctor just prescribed me one, and not every insurance apparently covers it, but it is worth looking into as an option as well. (If it’s not available, topical cream does the same thing!)
I’m three years in menopause and this is not information I had.
One of those anime-style spells of fuck your shit up where the verbal component is a long monologue that name-drops a specific demon, except it goes into a weirdly personal level of detail regarding the relationship between the invoker and the demon.
i’m a taylor swift centrist. she makes perfectly tolerable pop music that i can’t imagine really getting into. dunno what it is about her that makes so many people go insane
i listen to one of these relatively bland and inoffensive but nonetheless well-crafted pop songs and everyone around me demands that i proclaim it a masterpiece or artistically bankrupt or whatever. i just want to grill for god’s sake
extremely funny when AI artists feel the need to put watermarks on their images
like oh you’re worried about misattribution and image theft huh. you’re worried that someone’s gonna take the image you made and claim it as their own. or strip away the context and your name. or use it in ways you didn’t consent to. boy that sure would suck huh. i bet that would feel really bad. i bet that would be really annoying. i b
There’s a lot going on in that little critter’s head right now.
1. Power move.
2. Why do people whisked away to magical worlds just automatically believe the first creature that tells them what side the person needs to help? Where’s my isekai where the MC slowly finds out they got in with like the deranged zealots and are part of the evil faction, and not the plucky rebels?
I think about this comic once per week. It’s funnier then anything I can conceive of. Mastery.
Is there a word for that like, “bright darkness” you get in winter?? When it’s been snowing or it’s supposed to snow past sunset and the sky isn’t Dark Enough. One of my favorite things
Thanks to @raindropwindow and a handful of articles, it’s called snow albedo, skyglow, snowglow, or just light scattering! It’s the result of moon- or artificial light reflecting off ground snow, low clouds, or ice crystals.
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