if i had a dollar for every pixel in this image i’d have 15 cents
if i had a dollar for every ounce of rage i felt in my body after i read this comment i would have enough money to buy a cannon to fire at you
actually I did the math, they would have $225, not $0.15
sis i’m right here….
if i had a dollar i would buy a can of soda :)
while you’re there could you buy me an apply juice please?
sorry i only have a dollar
:(
hey I just realized my friend Vriska is right, they would have $22500 not $225
^my friend Vriska
if i had $22,500 i would buy a can of soda and an apply juice
You can buy anything you want with $22500
yeah and they want soda and apply juice
apply juice to what
directly to the forehead
Great post guys
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Like, I support the fuck out of trans girls and young trans women, don’t get me wrong. But it would be nice to see some more pics of middle-aged and older trans women, too.
Speaking as a slightly older-than-tumblr-average trans woman (I’m 41), we’re out here. It’s just that most of my peers don’t hang out on Tumblr, they’re on Facebook or Twitter.
I’ll be 37 this year. Wow … that hurt to say, a little. But yeah, we’re here. <3
39 here, and quite proud of it. Also not on Facebook for what it’s worth. I like the peers I have here on Tumblr. :)
*sigh* fine. FINE.
i’m… 39. i just turned 39.
i’m only owning up to it because i was terrified of transitioning at 34 and i would do anything to alleviate that fear for someone else.
we are NEVER talking about this again tho
35 now (just got home from a shoot and an outcall when this was taken)
… the women above me give me lots of hope and joy
THIS IS MAKING ME SO HAPPY OMG
It’s always really nice seeing pictures of older trans people, because quite often on here it’s the transitioning teenagers, and it’s scary because it makes it feel like we don’t have a future
I know I just restating the point of that post but respecting religious freedom will sometimes require you to respect someone’s belief that religious beliefs are categorically untrue, and there are a lot of people who are unable to handle this, and even more people who think they agree with this but haven’t really grappled with what it means.
Something that a lot of religious folks don’t seem to realize the extent to which non-religious people, more than any other religious minority, are expected to walk on eggshells around other people’s beliefs at the expense of their own for the sake of social decorum, in a way which no one else is expected to do with theirs.
To name a bit of an example I have personal experience with. When I was mourning my cousin a couple years ago, I was constantly faced with the situation of people trying to comfort me from a religious perspective.
And whenever this topic comes up, the conversation is always about how “you have to be mindful of their intentions, they’re trying to reach out to you and comfort you in the way they know, they’re being nice, you have to appreciate the effort they’re making, you have to meet them where they’re at and appreciate their attempt to help you”. Which is what I did, of course. In this situation, replying to their attempt to comfort you with any reminder that you don’t believe in this stuff is considered a big social faux-pas that will make you look like an asshole. And to an extent I agree, it can be rude and needlessly combative.
But somethin I feel it’s conspicuously absent from any conversation surrounding this type of situation like. Any interrogation of *why* is going “sorry, I don’t believe in any of this, this means nothing to me” considered a bigger social faux-pas than trying to comfort a grieving person with religious beliefs you know they don’t hold.
Why, even when you’re literally grieving, the onus is on you as a non-religious person to be mindful of other’s worldviews and tread lightly and meet them where they’re at and not contradict what they believe in and never the other way around.
I don’t think it should be rude or needlessly combative- I don’t like it when Christian’s start spouting at me when I’m grieving. I understand they mean well but it comes off as tone death and frankly kinda emotionally manipulative to do this.
Religions and cults often “get new converts” from exactly this, people who lost someone, etc. are way easier to convince than just some random person, so it’s understandable that it feels “emotionally manipulative”.
Yeah that’s kinda what I’m getting at here-I haven’t experienced this particular brand of Christianity much PERSONALLY (mostly because I’m young) but like this SHOULDNT be acceptable behavior and the fact that so many atheists I know have experienced this and it’s considered RUDE for us to put out foot down about it is-
Literally sick to death of twitter throwing a fit every single day about art depicting visibly trans people, GNC trans people, etc, and calling it a hateful caricature. ESPECIALLY when often it turns out to be explicitly based on someone the artist is friends with, and people still say the most horrible things about their appearance.
Like, I get it. Many trans people feel defensive because there absolutely are a lot of shitty caricatures of us. And since two out of the three ‘controversies’ I’ve seen most recently were transmasc artists drawing transfem characters - Yes, trans artists should think about the ways they depict other types of trans people and ideally not stereotype them and show their diversity too.
But all too often people just project their own issues and judgements on a particular piece of art and basically end up making up a guy to get mad at.
This is the one I saw today -
It’s not even a drawing of a trans woman, turns out. According to the trans man artist who drew it, the piece is called 'genderless’ and it’s based on a real person he knows. It’s at a gay bar.
And it bothers me that people were so quick to assume, and many even to double down on gendering the person depicted in this drawing. This is just a clear representation of a trans person whose gender and sex are ambiguous, intentionally. They are intentionally visibly trans, but crucially, not in a way that tells you anything about what type of trans person they are.
Or do these people just not realise there are transmasc people who look exactly like this? Who have stubble and hairy chests and small, 'deflated’ breasts. It’s not uncommon at all. There are trans women who look like this. There are nonbinary people and genderfluid people and agender people and genderqueer people who look like this.
So it’s honestly really shitty to assume a trans artist just decided to draw a hateful caricature at a gay bar instead of simply representing one of these people. Which is what actually happened.
Frankly it just feels like weird respectability politics, and some people having a disgust response to a visibly non cis, non comforming body presented in a neutral way. And finding ways to justify that after the fact.
(At least in some cases. I have no issues with trans women who didn’t personally like it and suggested at least the name of the art piece should be available for context in a little plaque or something. That makes sense!)
Hot take even trans people who “look like” transphobic caricatures deserve to be celebrated and perhaps we should instead be targeting people who think looking like that is a bad thing.
YEAH thank you!! Like I don’t know how that’s not obvious to more people
There were so many replies just absolutely insulting this person’s appearance and reinforcing the idea that looking like this is wrong or disgusting. Someone said “my partner looks like this and I think they’re beautiful” and got told they were insulting their partner with the comparison. As if looking like this is some unthinkable flaw
i’ll always be happy to spend the time here with you
gee i wonder who i wrote this post for 😏 *slyly nudges my mutuals who are lined up like dominos but does it a little too hard so the first one falls over and then the rest follow in a conga line of destruction that bruises at least several peoples shins and i panic and run away in the ensuing smoke and chaos while they’re all distracted*
“don’t mass reblog/like :/” coward. fool. somebody just went through and liked and reblogged 64 things from my blog in the span of half an hour at most. and i’ve never felt more alive in my life
This isn’t Instagram, my darlings. It’s not considered creepy (except by people imported from Instagram and frankly they need to learn the culture HERE before trying to boss anyone around) or weird or particularly distressing. Many of us don’t even look at our notifications to realize that you’ve done it.
And frankly, I put that on my blog to bring me some joy. If it brings you joy too, put it on your blog along with the next fifty posts in the same theme. (If you’re reblogging my fics, thank you, I love you 3000.)
newbie asked if we’re supposed to look out for ‘red flags’ in interlibrary loan requests in reference to a request a patron had made for a book about cannibalism. she was looking expectantly at me like she was expecting me to be equally aghast at this……..girl why would you work at a library if you want to play book police
I’m fascinated to know what kind of world this girl lives in. For what reason are those books in the library at all if not to be checked out and read? Are they there as honeypots for Problematic People™? If you check out a Red Flag Book™, you’ve fallen into the Evil Person Trap™ and need to be taken in for reeducation, I suppose.
The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that’s really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that “I’m me! No! No!” as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course
When I made this post I did not expect it to be an effective test of which Tumblr users actually read a post fully before reblogging, and yet
“Truscum/transmeds are the only ones who really care about trans people.”
Never mind that that’s not true; it’s outright manipulation of vulnerable people.
anyway, skye is a boy and i support him way fucking more than i would ever support truscum
I fixed it.
@vince-dafreak anyway you dont get to play god and decide peoples gender for them and you being a trans man doesnt give you authority over others peoples presentations and identities!
THANK YOU FOR FIXING THIS POST YOU’RE BLESSED
Truscums: wants you to hate yourself and kiss cis people’s asses
Trans people: want you to love yourself, dysphoric or little dysphoria
reblogging for the fixed editions.
I got so pissed when I saw the OP, then got all happy at the reblogs. Skye is a man too dang it!
-Aemeon
This is literally that “I like gay people who are quiet about it” post but in a different flavor
whenever I see archeological remains of a human who suffered from a terrible disease that couldn’t be treated in their lifetime but could be fixed now, this wave of sorrow and mourning washes over me. a woman in the 14th century who spent her 35 years of life bent at the waist because of congenital scoliosis. a man from the 18th century who died because of a non cancerous mass on his jaw that made eating progressively more difficult. remains of a woman from the Neolithic who died in childbirth having evidence of peri-mortem trepanation on her skull.
and yet she survived to 35. and yet the physicians in his time tried to strengthen his jaw. and yet someone 4,000 years ago tried to save someone they loved from dying of preeclampsia/increased cranial pressure. we tried. we tried and we tried and we tried. we failed and we learned but we tried. that’s what makes humans so beautiful.
its just so insane how ingrained misogyny is into everything because a girl celebrity can be literally nailed to the cross for being mildly abrasive but let a guy be physically abusive or racist or an actual sexual predator and at most hes “cancelled” for a week and his victim is ruin for her entire life like i cant take of these criticisms surrounding miss roan seriously coming from the same crowds that were in shock about megan thee stallion talking about wanting to kill her self because of how society / social media treats her women can literally be a victim or just existing as real people and get burnt to the heavens because of it and when you question if any of this is a little overblown nobody can do the introspection to go “huh yeah maybe we are being a little harsh” and ofcourse this hits marginalized women harder out of everyone
I know I’m old by Tumblr standards but that cannot be just me.
A few years ago I started seeing references to “VCs” doing this and that and I was like “Viet Cong? That cannot be right” and had to be told (and later remind myself) “venture capitalist.”
ive said this before but it was on my old blog so I’m saying it again
dehumanizing abusers is not effective at doing anything other than make people think they’re ontologically incapable of violence
it’s also creating a class of people who you can abuse while telling yourself that you’re Good and Moral and Not an Abuser.
if you dehumanize the caught abusers then the uncaught abusers will use their humanity as proof of innocence
if you dehumanize the hypothetical abusers you create incentives for false accusations as a means of dehumanization whenever dehumanization is desired for other reasons
The number of people in the notes of this being like “lol i’m the motorist” with 0 sense of shame or self awareness is crazy. You should all get your licenses taken away
me when other people tag me in things: this person??? thought about me???? i’m so flattered??????? 🥺💕🥺💕🥺💕🥺💕
me when i consider tagging someone in a post: i am annoying!!!! i am overstepping every single boundary!!!! i am making an absolute fool out of myself!!!!!!
[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: “Aw man, that guy’s cake is way better than mine.” The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork “HOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!”]
Some day I want to see a sci-fi production where the Nerd spouts twenty seconds of impenetrable technobabble, and the Salt-of-the-Earth Audience Identification Character is just like “well, shoot – it sounds obvious when you put it that way”, and proceeds with the plan without ever demanding a plain English explanation for the benefit of the audience.
(Over the course of the series it becomes a running gag that the
Audience Identification Character perfectly understands
technobabble, though they don’t speak it themselves. There are recurring
exchanges to the effect of “you know, the thingy with the bit on
top” “you mean the [something with an implausible number of syllables]?”
“exactly!”)
Okay yes but this is literally what trying to do science in a multilingual lab is like.
Nobody can FUCKING REMEMBER the english word for the machine so it gets called the “microbial tilt-o-hurl” or the “germ carousel” and then everyone looks at you because english is YOUR first language, remembering english vocabulary is your department, and you can’t do anything because you’ve been trying to explain the difference in english notation between fractions and ratios for half an hour and you just yell “it’s the one in the left corner that beeps!”
the reverse of the second thing was done in Thor 2 and it’s one of my fav things in any movie ever!
Actual conversation I’ve had:
“Go get me the thicc boi”
“You mean the Erlenmeyer flask?”
“No, the sexy one”
“Volumetric flask.”
“Yeah, that fucker.”
THE SEXY THICC BOI
The best part about this is when you have a household object you use for some obtuse laboratory purpose but your colleagues don’t know the English word for it so they use a technical description.
“Can you hand me the box with the static dischargers?”
With how difficult it's become for some people to use Google to find information for research, papers, and just general learning over the past year or so due to AI generated content and fluff posts being pushed to the top of searches what are some ways you're able to avoid this while researching online? (I.E. browser extensions, keywords, alternative search engines)
set the google search terms to “before 2020” and you’ll filter out basically 100% of the AI-generated misinformation fluff. you’ll still have to sift through the organic home-grown misinformation though
I fully understand why “character A is astounded at the sight of character B’s penis” is a specific kink that gets tagged for, but the fact that some platforms choose to tag this kink as “penis awe” is unintentionally very funny. Now I’m picturing penis experience kink tags for all those other allegedly transcendent emotions in the glossary of your Philosophy 101 textbook. Penis faith. Penis Weltschmerz. Penis apprehension of the absurd.
“I’m not going to do the thing because I don’t view it as important.” ←Conscious decision made of your own free will.
“I want to do the thing because I view it as important, but trying to get myself to do the thing creates the same reaction as trying to put my hand on a hot stove would.” ← Executive dysfunction, a physical health problem that doesn’t answer to your own free will.
“Trying to get myself to do the thing creates the same reaction as trying to put my hand on a hot stove would. This must mean I don’t actually want to do the thing and I’m just tricking myself into thinking I do.” ← No, that’s still executive dysfunction, but you’re having brainworms about it.
It’s like the idea that the phrase “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” now means ‘socioeconomic advancement is something that everyone should be able to achieve by themselves’, when originally the point of the phrase was that it is a physically impossible task and was intended sarcastically.
It’s like the idea that the phrase “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” now means ‘socioeconomic advancement is something that everyone should be able to achieve by themselves’, when originally the point of the phrase was that it is a physically impossible task and was intended sarcastically.
