You may sometimes hear a little voice that tells you that you don’t need to use that much butter but I am here to tell you that that voice is the grim specter of the late Dr Kellogg and you should banish that demon immediately with even more butter. This is my solemn magical advice.
why is the default terf insult “you’re just a freak wearing a dress,” like, you call yourself a feminist and yet wearing a dress is the best insult you can come up with, something soooo shameful for men to do?
even if they’re not trans?
wasn’t the whole point that no one should have to wear pants to be respected, lol?
wasn’t the whole idea that we as a society don’t need to throw people in the boxes of woman that stays home wearing dress and flower apron and man wears the pants and goes to work?
Yeah. I’ve never really made a series of it or put it on anywhere except maybe a few paragraphs on my tumblr, but when you get obsessed with something sometimes there’s not enough content and you have to make your own.
Fuck Israel and fuck everyone who still wants to pretend this is confusing or complicated. Is it really that hard to point out the “bad people” in a scenario where a multi-billion military apparatus is handcuffing and killing children and medical staff inside a fucking hospital?
Yeah. I’ve never really made a series of it or put it on anywhere except maybe a few paragraphs on my tumblr, but when you get obsessed with something sometimes there’s not enough content and you have to make your own.
A trans woman invents a new way to describe her own personal experience.
GO TO PAGE 52 IF: her new term is gendered
GO TO PAGE 53 IF: her new term is ambiguous
52: Woah there, partner! Seems like you’re trying to stir up some discourse, there. Why don’t we just shut that down so we can get back to fucking you?
53: What an awesome new term, little lady! So awesome, in fact, that we think we want it to apply to literally everyone! What’s that? It’s personal to you? It means something to “your community”? What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you some kind of pervert? Stop trying to divide the community and let us use your words.
Right now I am a PhD student, and the main obstacle for me in beginning my transition is knowing that during my PhD process I will have to travel to conferences, some of which are held in countries which are not very accepting of trans people. As you are also a PhD student, I am wondering whether you have any advice for navigating that complicated part of transitioning during studies?
This is something that’s been somewhat on my mind. It hasn’t been a problem yet- I haven’t been to any conferences since starting HRT, and I’ve never been to any outside of the US.
Still putting this out there bc I’d love to hear if other people had perspectives, though.
unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.
bonus it ALSO fills that dopamine hit of in-person shopping. “oh I didn’t go in looking for this but hmm, I’m tempted… I can’t resist… oh ho ho I have made some irresponsible decisions at the library today [carrying my stack of ten random books]” and then it doesn’t even matter if you don’t like them because a) free b) you’re gonna give them back anyway
Librarian here! Please please please please PLEASE do this! We don’t have any way to know if you read them, and we don’t care! We’re happy to see those books go out because that helps our stats. And that affects how much money we can get.
So grab that silly paperback romance, and maybe this new YA fantasy, oh and check for the new movies too! And don’t forget to check Libby and hoopla for music and ebooks and e-audio.
If some of you don’t understand why I’m so passionate about helping people understand the DIY and anti-consumerist themes of alternative fashion it’s because I just read an article about punk fashion that had a section dedicated to “shopping some of our punk favorites” that included a $53 pair of fishnet tights
I get my fishnets from the dollar store, I make jewelry out of safety pins and soda tablets cans, I buy “normal” looking clothing at thrift stores and cut it and sew it and wear it so it fits with my style. That’s what it’s about. When punks, goths, emos, scene kids, etc tell you that dressing this way should be cheap it’s because it IS. Don’t let big corporations tell you otherwise
Autism has long been synonymous with “struggle”. If you don’t struggle, if you’re successful or you’re just happy with life people are less likely to recognize you as autistic, except for other autistic people.
I swear, we have an autism radar. Autie-radar? Autie-dar?
Secret about autistic people: a lot of times we don’t actually miss a social cue. We see it. We just decide to ignore it because we think it’s a stupid social cue.
online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you’ve never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you’re only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn’t have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.
and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there’s this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.
there’s a strange kind of love to it. i don’t know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don’t anyone will notice or care when you’re gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.
i hope you’re all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.
I actually think about this so much you have no idea.
I mourn every friend that’s gone off somewhere
I actually
think about this so much you
have no idea.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
“is sex with angels monsterfucking” forum thread shut down by moderators after 300 pages of fierce debate, 26 banned accounts and 8 doxxed members
“would the angels consider us bestiality” Follow-up thread created and instantly closed with the forum going into lockdown temporally
“would the angels that consider it beastiality think that makes it better or worse, cus like kinky angels must be god approved right? or would they be riddled with catholic guilt? or would the guilt make it better?”
a tittle I think would be funny to have the pope need to weigh in on
“is sex with angels monsterfucking” forum thread shut down by moderators after 300 pages of fierce debate, 26 banned accounts and 8 doxxed members
“would the angels consider us bestiality” Follow-up thread created and instantly closed with the forum going into lockdown temporally
“would the angels that consider it beastiality think that makes it better or worse, cus like kinky angels must be god approved right? or would they be riddled with catholic guilt? or would the guilt make it better?”
a tittle I think would be funny to have the pope need to weigh in on
can i jsut say… isnt it insane that polar bears go underground like imagine just walking along with a shovel and u start digging a hole and a bear is in there
THEYRE JUST? THERE…. IN THE SNOW
I know it‘s supposed to be scary that there is apex predators just potentially sleeping under the surface of the snow like some kind of greek mythology monster but it just makes me laugh bc them living in holes just means polar bears just have little houses and look out of their little windows like:
can I be real I dont think any job position that require a curriculum with mostly pictures needs 3 months to answer that theyre not interested
like I get it things can be hectic and i dont expect a reason why im not chosen. But 3 months? for a no??
scratch that if your job listing is “urgent” tell me youre not interested after a week. i dont need reasons i dont need anything but a default mail but dont make people wait for months, plural
straight guy geologist describing a vertically oriented igneous intrusion to his buddy: it’s a . well. i’m not sure i can reclaim this one just get over here
When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.
ok hold on actually i rb’d this before with just tags but im going to come back in on this again
any medical diagnostic you will ever undergo does not mean “always 100% Every Time Ever you have this problem”. And it sucks because they will phrase it in a way that SOUNDS like 100% Every Time including on the testing for being a person who has trouble with how specific phrasing is supposed to be.
literally the example I always use is I spent way longer without glasses then I should have because the eyesight chart diagnostic is “identify the letter”, so I went ‘ok the point of this is to do good identifying letters’. Then i realized
they want to know if I can see. Not if I can identify that a blurry shape is an A because of its unique outline.
So i started qualifying my answers with “blurry”. Blurry A, Blurry Y, Blurry Z. Now I have glasses.
they do not make this clear. I do not know why. But you can more or less apply this to any medical diagnostic, and if it’s a written diagnostic if your answer is 'sometimes’ and the only answers are 'yes or no’ you put Yes.
Do I have trouble getting out of bed? Sometimes, yes. So the answer is Yes.
Regrettably tests are made for and by non-autistic people and aimed at non-autistic caregivers and medical experts, which isnt how it should be, and makes it one more complicated thing to navigate. World a hell.
Also, if you’re filling out Disability paperwork, you’re supposed to answer it for your worst days, and without accommodations.
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