Cathy Linh Che, from Go Forget your father//Friedrich Nietzsche// Richey Edwards//// Moss Angel, Girldirt Angelfog// Rainer Maria Rilke, Fragment of an Elegy,// Leila Miccolis, till death do us part.
Every time I see some moral panic article about how some alarming % of teens admit to vaping or smoking or doing drugs or whatever, I think about that time in 9th grade when school handed us a survey on substance use, told us we had to fill it out, and me and a half dozen friends reported that we’d been habitual users of heroin, cocaine, and acid since the age of 9.
“Mischievous Responder Bias” is a known problem in surveying youth but it’s annoying and expensive to overcome it so often people don’t….also the things that come up when people try to look for it are hilarious, like 99% of the kids who reported having a missing limb were lying.
It is my favorite thing about education research: that you have to remember that your subjects are a bunch of little scamps trying to prank you.
The computer is a machine built for looking at pictures of fish you wouldn’t otherwise see. Anything else you can do with a computer was an accident and unintended
website with pictures of fish you wouldn’t otherwise see :) ⬇️
Just so like… it’s clear… anyone who censors words that contain “man” or “men” to anything like “xxn” that’s TERF shit.
Any reference to women/womanhood that solely revolves around having a uterus or “womb” is TERF shit.
Any sentence where the OP says they support people being “trans identified” with quotes around “"transwomen”“ or ”“transmen”“ is TERF shit.
I’m seeing a lot of you baby Tumblr gays out there not knowing what these specific TERF dogwhistles look like.
"Wombxxn” is an incredibly dumb way of spelling “woman” that treats the word “man” like a slur and also reduces women to their ability to give birth.
“Trans identified” is their way of saying “this person calls themselves trans, but I don’t believe they are.”
Saying “People should be allowed to identify however they wish, but we still need to protect women/children” IS TERF SHIT.
Learn to identify this garbage, because not all TERFs are going to spell out their intolerance for you. Some of them are going to try and seem reasonable and polite and normal, and it’s fucking dangerous to our community.
Also unpack any internalized transphobia and your transmedicalism, because both those things will have you quickly siding with TERFs and bigots.
November 5th 2020 was one of the most absurd days in internet history, and frankly, in overall history.
So the world is trembling over the US election right. The votes are being counted, everyone is on edge and even over here in Europe, people are holding their breath because whoever wins this election could change the earth as we know it. Around that time, the third wave of Covid hits (I think), and sends us all back into lockdown.
Then, on Nov 5 specifically, there’s this moment where Nevada’s votes could make all the difference (that’s why sometimes, Nevada pops up in the shitposts too). And Nevada is slooooow. The results aren’t coming in, and everyone is constantly checking for updates. Also apparently, Georgia and Pennsylvania are turning blue (democratic) for the first time in ages (or ever? don’t know, I’m not that familiar with US history) but anyway, it’s unprecedented.
On the same day, the romantic relationship of Dean Winchester and Castiel (Destiel), two characters of the show Supernatural, becomes canon after 15 seasons…but in a really weird way that is dissatisfying to most of the fandom (I think. Not in that fandom either). Now the fandom in itself is huge though, one of the biggest fandoms on Tumblr ever, and there’s this sort of massive Spn renaissance happening that just consists of…complete disbelief lol.
On top of that, rumors of Putin’s resignation arise, being widely spread through the Supernatural fandom’s Destiel shitposts. This, again, could change world history if true.
And at this point, everyone’s just going crazy-town banana pants.
Because of the sheer absurdity.
AND I LOVE IT.
Because one person summed it up in the following sentence that went viral and honestly explains best what the heck happened on that day:
And this sentence MAKES ME COME ALIVE. Because DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY FACTORS HAD TO WEIGH IN FOR SOMEONE TO UNDERSTAND THIS REFERENCE????????????????
It’s a meme consisting of at least 5 other events to explain the 5th of November feeling. The peak comedy being that this is the first sentence of “My Immortal”, the worst fanfiction ever written, implying that November 5 2020 reads exactly like that.
It’s a cultural treasure, that’s what this is.
And I’m just like…WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE. WHAT A TIME TO BE ON TUMBLR. WHAT AN HONOR TO WITNESS THAT TRAINWRECK OF THE US PULL ITSELF OUT OF THE DIRT AND LIVE ANOTHER DAY. ALL IN THE MIDST OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. FAITH IN HUMANITY RESTORED. RELIEVED FOR ALL MY US MUTUALS.
HAPPY DESTIELPUTINELECTION DAY ANON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy destielputinelection anniversary eve everyone
This explanation is neglecting to mention that, due to the high saturation of gifs of the relevant Supernatural episode at the time, many of us (including those of us who don’t give a shit about supernatural) were somehow learning about important world news via Supernatural memes. Which was just an extra layer of absurdity.
It’s also why you occasionally see important world news being delivered via a very specific Supernatural gifset.
Bisan just posted four videos on Instagram and is saying that they might be the last updates from Gaza since the Israeli army destroyed any way that could have been used to generate electricity including solar panels
bakeries were threatened that if they opened that they would be bombed. they ran out of petroleum and wheat and once they obtained some stock, they were bombed. no clean water to drink for four days now. water that can be obtained is not clean or drinkable. Israeli army dropped more phosphorus bombs and gas went all over Gaza. Bisan said her eyes, nose and mouth are burning and she has a headache. people are coughing and trying to find ways to cover themselves from breathing it in. paper notices were dropped telling people in Gaza that they have to evacuate and it’s their last chance to go south, walking without using any vehicle. she said it’s planned and all elements of genocide. this is awful
she said that even if they survive the white phosphorus, the bombing, that there is no food or clean water to drink and the only water they have is salt water from the sea. that they’re trying to kill people with hunger and thirst and making them sick. from the beginning of the war they ate once a day but that’s no longer the case. there are no products, no food, no aid, there’s nothing. people are dying from hunger and there is zero aid that enters through
It hasn’t rolled out to everyone yet. Take this moment to just fucking delete your acct and uninstall. Holy shit.
Can you IMAGINE getting a call from whatever popular acct you follow that gets hacked? Or getting a call from fucking Arby’s because you followed their Twitter acct for the art? Imagine every fucking creep being able to call their fucking followers?!?
IF THE TWITTER APP CALLED ME I WOULD DESTROY MY PHONE AND MOVE TO THE FOREST. I WOULD GO FERAL.
So I work I healthcare. I’m in management. I don’t touch patients. Not qualified for that.
But I help make sure the hospital stays open and the lights stay on.
I’m also massively prounion, and pro-universal healthcare.
So that said, I hope they rip that fucking prick in the recording a new asshole. I hope the feds come after him for that HIPAA violation and they beat him so badly that the other hospital administrators only dare whisper about his fate after a few drinks.
Follow this lady’s advice. And if they are fucking you, get help and get what’s owed. No mercy.
just had to take a fucking second and close my eyes because i remembered that on the night of november 5th tumblr had convinced me, an outsider, that this was an actual gif of Castiel Supernatural being sent to mega fruit hell
We all learnin’ today ig…
Its from the 1997 movie ‘Spawn’ if anyone was curious
btw this is the actual footage of castiel getting dragged to super hell
it’s like i am literally never going to own a house or find authentic love or escape the clutches of late stage capitalism so really what am i living for
I love this post so much I have done everything in my power to make sure I will never forget it via reblogging it every October 5th, in memory of discovering it for the first time
I love this post so much I have done everything in my power to make sure I will never forget it via reblogging it every October 5th, in memory of discovering it for the first time
There is still hope. Say it out loud. Palestine will be free. The Palestinian people will celebrate their culture and heritage with each other. We will love and be loved. Do not fall into the trap of despair.
I’m not saying this just for morale. I’m saying this as a reminder that the colonialist regime relies on your despair, uses it to further their propaganda. Once you lose hope, and tell everyone you lose hope, you are aiding the Zionist Entity.
Make it a point that you BELIEVE that Palestine will be free even in the face of genocide. Hope can halt genocide. Do not aid our oppressors.
don't use "ftm" it's outdated and offensive. it implies that the trans person was their agab, which we never were. i was always a boy, never a girl who became a boy.
i’m 35 years old. i’ve been IDing as trans or something similar to trans for nearly 20 years. i was probably calling myself FTM while you were playing tag during recess, anon.
i WAS a girl. i IDed as a girl early in my life. i recognized myself as a girl, called myself a girl, lived as a girl, and was a girl. who then IDed as a man. hence, F t M.
spend more time worrying about yourself instead of strangers on the internet, anon.
sorry not sorry if this comes off as needlessly hostile, but i’ve been getting a lot of shit from a lot of teenage trans kids about the language i use to describe my own goddamn experience, and i’m growing real fuckin weary of it.
i have elder trans friends who call themselves transsexuals and transvestites and trannies. are you going to seriously go to a 60-year-old trans person who survived the reagan years and tell her she’s not allowed to use certain language to describe herself because it might offend the delicate sensibilities of some teenager on the internet?
do yourself a favor and log off, find some real-life trans people who are over the age of 20 or 25, and spend time talking to them instead of getting all holier-than-thou at random strangers on tumblr.
It may be weird to encounter because it’s not the trans narrative that the media sells to us as ‘the only valid way to be trans’, but the 'I always knew I was x’ is not all-encompassing.
Anon there are more people than you think who were girls who grew up into men, or boys who grew up into women, or girls or boys who grew up to be nonbinary. There is a rather obscure theory that girl and boy are distinct genders from man and woman and while the most common trajectory is that boys grow into men and girls grow into women it’s not the rule.
Let people define themselves.
also if you think genderfluid people are real and you’re not just humoring us, you by definition have to allow that gender can change over time. I was a girl once. I am not a girl now.
Chiming in with solidarity to OP.
I feel very protective of my former identity BECAUSE there’s so little room in the Mainstream Trans Narrative ™️ for allowing gender to change.
I was a girl. Now I’m genderqueer. Maybe later I will find different words for myself.
There has to be room for all of us in the trans community or there’s no point to any of this.
Ive been here long enough to see words like ftm/mtf, afab/amab, transmale/female, trans man/womanall go through the cycle of ppl telling you to “Dont use X word its out dated. Now use this Y word”. Only for a year or two pass and suddenly “Y word is outdated. Now use Z word” like yall this is exhausting. Just because a word is old doesn’t automatically make it a slur or offensive.
They’re pulling high school clique bullshit out and just replacing 'uncool’ with 'problematic’ and pretending it’s activism somehow. We’re trying to get work done here not everybody is going to keep up with the ever-rotating lexicon of words.
I used to be a member of the commentariat where I learned the phrase
THERE IS NO QUEER REVIEW BOARD
Which has kinda helped me be a bit better at being decent
One of the most dangerous things in the world is not being able to say no to people because you don’t want to upset them or dissapoint them. This will completely ruin your life in every way possible, at work, in your private life, your sex life and your friendships. It’s a way of removing your own consent in your own decisions and go against your wishes, it is always a crime against yourself. Let yourself have a say. Upsetting people is better than traumatizing yourself.
If the simple act of having boundaries causes you to lose your family and friends then you’ve got shit family and friends who lack any real respect for you.
if you have friends or family that you don’t dare to disobey, then what you actually have is masters. and that is significantly worse than being on your own
do you have to fail an IQ test to work for doordash
don’t you just have to be overworked and underpaid? or is that a different food delivery service I’m thinking of
i have dealt with a lot of overworked and underpaid people, i’ve BEEN overworked and underpaid people! but, in my experience, ONLY doordashers have, with shocking uniformity, put me through such fucking GAUNTLETS as
delivering my food to the far side of an active construction site and described that as ‘left at your front door’
circled the block twice, called me for directions, parked across the street against my clear instructions to go to the huge colorful landmark, and walked back and forth for multiple minutes talking over me while i tried to explain that i could literally fucking see them 50 feet away if they would TURN. AROUND.
called me and insisted that i come downstairs and take the food from their hands 'for their safety.’ the house they were demanding me to exit was not my house. it was, in fact, the aforementioned construction site, which was still wrapped in tyvek and had no lights on
engaged in a nearly 15 minute conflict about which house was mine despite being REPEATEDLY told Not To Look For A House, It’s The Fucking Mailbox
insisted over and over again they could not find my mailbox, finally said 'there’s no mailbox, just the house number.’ when i said That Is The Fucking Mailbox, You Are Looking At The Mailbox, they asked if i wanted my food left next to the mailbox. on the ground.
just to name a few
(context: my delivery instructions say 'please leave it in the white mailbox.’ there is only one mailbox and it has my house number on it in huge black font.)
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