Any wizard wanna trans a cis man’s gender so he can properly cosplay his female fursona. I’d make a great bunnygirl
or a witch. I’ll take anything tbh.
I really would abuse the hell out of magic to be the most genderfluid motherfucker possible just for cosplays. But as it stands magic is only fictional (for now). Hence why one of my fursonas is a different gender than me, it’s just fun to think about
so i left the mormon church as a teenager (15ish? 16?), but stayed in attendance until i was 20. i was pretty up front about the whole deciding-it-wasnt-true process with my bishop, who frankly took it really well, but it wasnt like i pulled all 150 ward members aside and had a heart to heart with them. anyway, i didnt believe, so at 19 i didnt go on a mission, and while some people in the ward were totally fine with that, others werent. and there was one woman in her late 50s who pulled me aside one day to interrogate me why i hadnt gone on a mission.
“the duty of every young man” she said.
and the thing is, im autistic. and a lot of people assume that when youre autistic, your social skills just arent very good. but thats not exactly true. your Be Polite skills are kind of eh, and they tend to stay that way, but as a sort of survival mechanism your Be Rude skills become amazing simply because you get put in tons of situations where your choices are to Function or Be Polite. and no one can choose Be Polite forever. the world demands function, it merely encourages politeness.
anyway, it can really catch neurotypicals by surprise, because hey, heres this kind of awkward, graceless guy, who stumbles over his words a lot and is very apologetic. hes probably a huge pushover. but i’m only like that when we’re playing The Polite Game, because i am frankly kind of bad at it. but when its time to play The Rude Game, i go fucking ham and asking about the not-going-on-a-mission thing is Super Rude. so i said:
“sister hadlock… they wont let me go because i lit-er-ally cannot stop sucking dicks. i dont know why, its just so, so hard.”
*dramatic pause*
“also - its very difficult to stop.”
anyway, it almost killed her. i think she’d expected to just kind of steamroll me for the entire conversation, but the answer crushed her soul. instead of continuing her interrogation she made a noise like a horse drowning in a bog and left.
to add insult to injury, she went to the bishop after that, thinking he’d chew me out for being an ass, but instead he chewed her out for not minding her own business. then she went to my parents after that, who basically went “yeah, babylon was pretty rude. but youre also pretty rude. what are you, mad that he’s better at it than you?”
it’s astounding how left internet types of a certain ideological bend have kept quiet about the war only to come out of the woodworks now, again, to condemn the crimea bridge sabotage as “terrorism.” every time ukraine liberates even a small settlement is bittersweet, because shortly thereafter some horrific mass grave or evidence of torture comes to light. russia blew up an apartment building for no strategic reason and killed at least thirty people yesterday evening—is that not terrorism?
very early today russia bombed major cities across ukraine to retaliate for the crimea bridge attack, striking the strategic objectives of “children’s playgrounds” and “university departments.” dozens are dead, more are wounded
terrorism is when they kill people, a measured but firm response to terrorism is when we kill people
@mun-urufu attacked with Bowl of Milk. You countered with Jail (a bit early to pull that but good move still). mun-urufu negated with a Get Out Of Jail Free which ends the turn.
@foxxys-huzband was next and dropped the fiery Yoink. I mean, it’s obvious they’re going for the Four-Fingered Ben and Jerry combo. A bit old school but tested and true.
Which means I have to put up a block before I can roll. Spike in Defense will give me enough time to stall foxxys-huzband since he get a bonus against demons. (This is Angel Spike, not Buffy Spike which was banned in the Donkey Special Tournament rules.)
So now it’s your turn. You can take the enchanted sword, the thicc bookk, or roll to see how far you get through Molasses Swamp.
Have you seen the news about Twitter (now X, but I refuse to call it that) being banned in Brazil? Have you been wondering why that is? I’m Brazilian, and here I am to explain things to you.
You’ve likely noticed that since Elon Musk took over the social media network, hate speech on the platform has skyrocketed. White supremacist and Neo-Nazi groups have been using Twitter to disseminate racist propaganda and hate speech. And although the United States might not be doing anything about this, other countries are not so indulgent. Brazil being one of them.
Racism and incitement of hate (including speech) are crimes in Brazil. So is political disinformation, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism. Hate speech of any kind is a CRIME in Brazil.
The Brazilian Supreme Court ordered Elon Musk to do something about the political fake news and hate speech on his platform, and Elon responded by shutting down all offices in Brazil.
The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) then ordered Elon Musk to appoint a legal representative in Brazil, as NO BUSINESS can operate in the country without a legal representative that can be held responsible to crimes and answer to them in a court of law. The STF gave Elon 24 hours to appoint this legal representative, and now that the deadline has passed and Elon has not complied, it seems that Twitter will be shut down in Brazil.
TL;DR: Elon is salty that he’s not above Brazilian law.
In my opinion, the funniest thing to emerge from this is that Elon used the X Global Government Affairs account to say that Brazilian minister Alexandre de Moraes gave him these orders in “secret”. And no one else other than the OFFICIAL BRAZILIAN SUPREME COURT ACCOUNT responded to this with the ACTUAL FULL LEGAL DOCUMENT LMAOOOOOOO
no but genuinely the trivialization of anxiety disorders is horrific im not gonna write a whole post i’ve done so much writing today but
like. man i get paranoia so bad i can’t eat. i can’t have conversations with strangers i perceive as authority figures half the time because i physically can’t speak at an audible volume. it has a serious negative impact on my day to day life. but anxiety disorders are always viewed as like… “mild” mental illnesses. people don’t talk about the fact that anxiety can be legitimately disabling and idk it’s not as stigmatized as some things but it really isn’t taken seriously and that results in a similar lack of support
seeing a couple ppl in the notes call anxiety one of the “most debilitating” mental illnesses which isn’t really a great thing to be saying. mental illnesses all have different symptoms and cause different struggles and can’t really be measured against each other 1:1 like that. this post wasn’t intended to start trauma olympics and i don’t like the idea that people with any one illness or disability inherently have it worse than people with other illnesses or disabilities. peace and love 👍
People recreationally lying on tumblr is like a misinformation vaccine.
You’re exposed to false information that’s presented as if it’s true, but which has been rendered harmless by being something absurd and utterly ridiculous, and even if you do catch something from it, the response is getting ridiculed on the internet instead of getting sucked into a cult. So the next time you encounter something that sounds absolutely mindblowing, some part of your mind remembers to check the sources, because you’re not going to repeat the purple-eyes-no-periods mistake again.
Completely untrue, the only reason people lie on tumblr is from absolute malice, and the misinformation here is always fatal. Goncharov alone killed 860 trillion tumblr users. Per hour!
Okay but guys have you heard of the Pacific southwest tree octopus? The Pacific Northwest tree octopus was a hoax actually based on the Pacific Southwest tree octopus. As one may know, the redwoods and extremely tall trees have soil up on the top of the canopy. Bits of this soil have become mineralized to the point of impermeability to water. Basically this means there are bowls of soil that don’t let water leak out. This creates a habitat in which freshwater octopus can survive. And they do. Not particularly well though. Here’s a YouTube link to a documentary about it:
my friend who is training to be a 911 operator just told me that they are having to restrain themself whenever responding to training calls from saying “that’s illegal people can’t do that” and I find that so fucking funny
Happy birthday to miku, and brazillian miku, and surinamese miku, and german miku, and moroccan miku, and south african miku, and indian miku, and norwegian miku, and maori miku, and palestinian miku, and dutch miku, and vietnamese miku, and indonesian miku, and hungarian miku, and croatian miku, and belarusian miku, and nigerian miku, and mexican miku, and algerian miku, and liberian miku, and
heres a thing that stays sweet since ever and for ever. in a glass jar it looks like molten gold in light. looks like the sun bled. and its made by bugs that dance and partake in the only monarchy you should respect. put it on anything. dip your finger in it. they dont have honey anywhere else in space this is the only planet that has honey forever who would ever wanna leave
babe wake up! new booktok nsfw censorship term just dropped
what if I couldn’t take it anymore?
Reminder to just say masturbation, sex, vagina, penis, menstruation, fuck, death, kill, boobs, dyke, faggot, etc. like a real adult.
reminder to everyone who doesnt use tiktok: you dont actually get banned for saying these words, people do this to evade others’ tag blockers.
a lot of users DONT want to see this kind of post, so people censor and change words around to get put on peoples “for you” page even if they have been marked as “not interested”. this is part of why it can get really difficult to find posts you actually like on tiktok, is because the algorithm is really bad at guessing that these posts are not actually about “self care”. the creators of these posts are hoping they get forced in front of people who want to see something else.
Oh that’s way worse than what I’d been led to believe was happening
This is actively not true, you might not get banned banned but you definitely will get shadow banned (and sometimes banned banned in the case of slurs) you can block tags but it only works for the actual tag not for the words used in the video or it’s description.
Banks in the US are actively complicit in the forced starvation of Palestinians. Palestinians have known since the Holy Land 5 that anything we do for Palestine can get us sent to jail and it’s a risk we have been willing to take. But now banks even refuse to allow us to send aid to a population that has nothing. Almost every public and private sector powerhouse in the world intends to wipe out the Palestinian people and Palestine and they’re more than content in lending a hand in it.
Sometimes I wish I were a woman purely because I’d make such a fuckin cool lesbian
Look, I’m not saying anything about your identity. It’s yours to figure out, it’s yours to experience, however
You gotta understand your followers end up confused by what you say, because your being pretty contradictory
Yeah so that’s a relic from an ancient time when I was way straighter and not even a femboy….I joined tumblr during the Reddit API protests and I’ve just been tagging my posts with 196 ever since when I don’t have anything to tag them with.
I pity those whose only experiences with Reddit have been fetishization and harassment. It’s really not all that bad so long as you venture in the better subreddits
True….reddit’s quite alright depending on where you are.
As for the post, I think the shaving one would win, it’s currently sitting around 400 notes…or maybe the Wankel engine wanker one
Alligator guy on YouTube says alligators have no capacity to feel affection and thus feel nothing for him. Alligator guy on YouTube (in a separate video) notes that some of the alligators he works with do a distinctive “baby call” to him when they want food, which adult alligators don’t do in the wild but baby alligators do to call their mother. I don’t know what the parent-child bond feels like phenomenologically for alligators but I have to imagine these alligators feel it for this guy in these instances. And I have to imagine it probably doesn’t feel nothing like affection, because, you know, evolution likes to repurpose things and doesn’t like to reinvent the wheel. Although maybe that’s not a good justification, if there’s no comparable ancestral tetrapod emotion. What do we know about the ancestral tetrapod, anyway?
our best analysis suggests it experienced nothing but an omnibenevolent love for all creation, with absolutely no other qualia
the most harrowing animorphs book is the one where the animorphs, who are already child soldiers, are unknowingly forced to fight and kill alien children
yes, this happens
The “good” godlike figure tricks them into it and, the series representation of true pacifism chooses not to tell them what’s going on so he can use them as the tool of vengeance that his pacifism prevents him from becoming himself
From memory I think that starfish one is the one where a teenage girl beats someone up with her own severed arm and also pins a random teenager to the wall in the mall (by her clothes) using steak knives, but more importantly, they are all available online for free with the writers’ blessing.
I hate to be the one to break this to you but Animorphs is in fact a war story. The story does not exist without the war. It is specifically a story abut child soldiers being enlisted to fight bodysnatching brain slugs, meaning that almost every time the kids kill a ‘nasty invading alien’ they are also killing an innocent slave. Concepts of the morality of child soldiers, offense vs. defense, what counts as acceptable losses/acceptable collateral damage and whether it’s acceptable to slaughter enemies while they’re helpless, things like chemical warfare and the rights and protections that should be offered to displaced war refugees, as well as war not having ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ and most actors being victims of their circumstances and societies, are heavily explored. (As well as trauma – these kids have SO MUCH PTSD. The first suicide attempt takes place in book 3 and things don’t really improve, especially after the torture book.)
I once did a quick tally and found that of all the “main” species in the book (humans plus any alien species that appears in three or more books), only three species do not explicitly attempt on-page genocide in the series. They’re the three species who we are introduced to in the first book as the antagonists.
I’ve done this rant before but animorphs radicalized me farther than anything else. I remember setting the last book down at the age of maybe 12 or 13, the book ending with a member of the main cast dead, warcrimes committed in the name of freedom, every character covered in scars both physical and mental, and I thought to myself “I don’t want to join the army anymore” Those books hit their target audience in me and they changed me forever. If not for them, I probably would have joined the army at 18 and royally fucked up my life
& that 1% regret rate is almost entirely “Yes I’m still trans but the surgery was bad, or the transphobia i encounter is so much worse than anticipated, or I was pushed towards a specific treatment by my binary-oriented doctor when I wanted a non-binary transition” etc.
Actual ‘whoops, I don’t identify as trans anymore” cases are closer to 0,02%.
people absolutely get to detransition and retransition and whatever (I personally know about six people who “detransitioned” from being binary trans people, and then transitioned again later as nonbinary people, for example) but the idea that a small number of people going “oops got this wrong” somehow justifies gatekeeping everyone else is criminal, and mostly a deliberate ploy to block us from getting what we need
& that 1% regret rate is almost entirely “Yes I’m still trans but the surgery was bad, or the transphobia i encounter is so much worse than anticipated, or I was pushed towards a specific treatment by my binary-oriented doctor when I wanted a non-binary transition” etc.
Actual ‘whoops, I don’t identify as trans anymore” cases are closer to 0,02%.
people absolutely get to detransition and retransition and whatever (I personally know about six people who “detransitioned” from being binary trans people, and then transitioned again later as nonbinary people, for example) but the idea that a small number of people going “oops got this wrong” somehow justifies gatekeeping everyone else is criminal, and mostly a deliberate ploy to block us from getting what we need
💚🏳️🌈🇲🇽 This pride month I want us to remember Jesús Ociel
[Plain text: This pride month I want us to remember Jesús Ociel]
Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo (1984-2023) was the very first non-binary person in Latin America to become an electoral magistrate, being a member of the Electoral Tribunal of Aguascalientes in Mexico since October 2022. They also received the first birth certificate to have the sex registered as Non-Binary, a big achievement in the recognition of Non-Binary people.
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Amongst other things, they defended trans youth, gay marriage, the fair hiring of LGBTQ+ people in the INE and overall pushed for a public acceptance and the stop of discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community. Jesús was known for going to work with high heels, makeup and their iconic fan with the rainbow flag, often carrying the non-binary flag too, and they fought to give visibility to non-binary people. They won the hearts of thousands.
They are considered a very important figure for the LGBTQ+ movement, specially in Latin America, as they fought very hard to defend the rights of it, both socially and politically.
They were found dead with their partner, Dorian Daniel Herrera, in the 13th of November of 2023 in Aguascalientes, in their home. The prosecutor’s office affirms it was due to a fight the two of them had, but many say it was a hate crime; the murder of activists are not too uncommon in Mexico, and even more considering their gender identity and sexuality. The ‘crime of passion’ judgement is also often put when the death of an LGBTQ+ person happens.
Either way, their death has sparked movements to punish hate crimes, and their figure remains as a symbol of hope for a better future. Mexico has a long way to go for LGBTQ acceptance, but their actions have pushed towards that goal and their memory continues to push forward. I recommend you investigate further about them if you have the time.
And in your fight for LGBTQ+ rights and your celebrations this pride month, please do not forget about Jesús Ociel.
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“We are, we exist, we resist and we go for the spaces that by right correspond us and that historically have been denied to us.”
- Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo
Descanse en paz, magistrade 💚 acá a usted no se le olvida
every single person who uses “nonbinary” as a stand-in for “people i consider to be women” needs to do some work on themselves, no matter their gender, sexuality, or any other marginalization
Jose and I are going to start a “Non-binary club for people who are not welcome in other non-binary clubs” and we’re going to be nice out of spite.
Yeah this is what happens when masculinity in queer spaces is so demonized that anyone who looks “too masculine” is assumed to be a cis man and therefore automatically dangerous, instead of judging by actions rather than looks. And idk people in the reblogs are acting horrified, but that’s exactly what it’s like on tumblr :/. I have a friend who is very tall and looks androgynous and on the masculine side, and has told me multiple times about how disillusioned they’ve gotten with queer spaces. We’ve actually bonded over discussions of anti-masculinity/anti-transmasculinity because it’s such an issue. There should be some sort of hang-out for people who are considered “too masculine” (and therefore predatory and dangerous) for queer spaces, and we can all have a lovely time.
Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.
I can’t think of any part of science I’ve ever studied that has ever concluded in any sort of binary
The answer, whether it’s sex, gender, types of fish, whether fish exist or not, or whether you yourself are a fish, is and always has been “it depends”
That’s science. Diving into the nitty gritty of what it depends ON? That would likely be how you find yourself holding a science degree 🤣
it would be super cool if someone had mentioned intersex people in this post talking about some of the different intersex conditions that exist(all non standard chromosome combinations are considered intersex)
fun fact btw.
There have actually been examples of humans self fertilising
So it is genuinely possible even in practice for humans to both be male and female.
I really wish more intersex people knew this as well, because even we are taught to fall heads over heels to go “but we can’t actually be both at once, we’re still only really one or the other”
Obviously not blaming any intersex people for this, I was very much like that before I learned about this. But I think it would be good if we didn’t have to self flaggelate every time we talk about our biology to appease a perisex society
There have actually
been examples of humans
self fertilising
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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