honest.. it needs to be better known that you can get phalloplasty without a vaginectomy (= keeping the vagina), you can get phalloplasty with or without ‘burying’ your t-dick (aka its either in the phallus or remains outside of it/accessible), you can get phalloplasty with or without creating testicles, you can get phalloplasty with or without urethral lengthening, and there are multiple options for graft sites outside of arm or thigh grafts.
i knew pretty much none of this before i happened upon the blog of someone who had phalloplasty without vaginectomy. this is all stuff a surgeon would explain to you - but you may never consult a surgeon if you, like i did, think the only option available for phalloplasty is forearm graft phalloplasty with testicles, vaginectomy, clitoral burial and urethral lengthening, and that doesnt work for you.
phalloplasty in general is misrepresented terribly all over the place and many, many people say “i dont want bottom surgery because phalloplasty cant give me (x) result” and the one thing holding them back will be something thats entirely possible. meanwhile the main thing you hear about phalloplasty in the community is “the technology isnt there yet” “it doesnt look good/natural” “its not functional” etc etc, and while that may be true for many people, i suspect the lack of information about what a post-op phallus can actually look, feel and function like and the options you have regarding the surgery play a big role in the really bad reputation it gets and makes a lot of people completely give up on a surgery theyd really want because theyve been fed outdated and incomplete ideas about it.
coworker asks if i like harry potter and i have to make a disco elysium skill check to come up with a response
CIS COWORKER — Hey you seem really into wizards and stuff, I bet you love Harry Potter :)
EMPATHY — He’s just trying to be polite and make conversation. He doesn’t know about JK Rowling’s opinions on trans people. Let’s politely change the subject.
We have GOT to pick a better name for our galaxy than the Milky Way, if aliens ever come from the Andromeda Galaxy they’re gonna think it’s a horny thing
sorry but you’re gonna have to rename the entire concept of a galaxy if u wanna fix this problem
>discover humans
>they classify gravitational wells with a large number of stars as milk
>they call their own region of space a particularly milky milk place
>when they’re born they need milk or milk substitutes to survive
>name their whole taxonomic class of animals after glands that produce milk
>whole entire industries dedicated to the production of milk
One time I tried to say “take care” after ringing up a customer. I opened my mouth and for some reason I was unable to make a noise except for a very small “t-eh” sound initially and by the time I remembered how to make words I had to shout across the store for them to hear me. What I ended up saying was “Take over!!!” after which they glanced back at me uncomfortably and left without another word.
I am haunted by that interaction to this day.
I worked at a bilingual call centre and once tried to end a conversation by saying either “salut” or “au revoir” but I combined them into “savoir!!” So i just said “to know!!” To the customer and hung up
Ever since I learnt to use a drop spindle and I was shown a spinning wheel, I had the question that probably all handspinners have:
how the fuck did the Sleeping Beauty managed to get punctured by this?
Now, there are theories, very interesting about all that, but what people rarely think is how the consequence of Sleeping Beauty’s curse was her parents burning all spinning related things so that she would never meet her fate.
This effectively means that in this kingdom they have to import most types of fabric and clothing. Or maybe they only import the thread, if they had a flourishing loom industry, but still. They probably can only work with leather and felted wool. Also a problem for ropes of all kinds, now that I think of it.
So the kingdom of Sleeping Beauty was known for about 18 years as (first of all) the kingdom with the terrible policy about spinning, and secondly as the best artisans of leather and felt.
But then, there is also the whole “I am too poor to care, I can just spin with a stick but I do not have any means to acquire thread or clothes in any other way”. A whole black market of home-made spinned thread, a whole way of spinning in creative ways so that you can easily hide what you are doing. A sinking spinning wheel industry but a blooming “just a stick” industry.
And then, she met her fate and so people were like “so I guess I can use a spinning wheel again, or is it too soon?” Regions closer to the castle took longer but nobody really enforced the law after like 6 months anymore.
I feel like ai art would be fun if we were all still just typing random prompts into it like mushroom giving a ted talk and going lol this looks stupid wasn’t that fun but instead people are like trying to replace jobs with it
I had fun going like “computer, show me cat with long tail” and then the cat looks twisted and distorted and wrong and I clap my hands and go hahaha very good computer but then it turns out the computer is using up a lot of electricity and stealing things and that other people think that by telling the computer to make cat with long tail that makes them an artist for some reason?
There’s nothing like inherently wrong with wanting to make this type of technology I think. The problem is that instead of going “wow, cool.” a bunch of people went oh finally I can stop paying my employees
This is a good thing! A lot of stuff that’s considered “common knowledge” is actually wrong or misleading, or it really has changed since you learned it. It was common knowledge that the Sun revolver around the Earth…except that’s not true. It’s common knowledge to hide under freeway overpasses during tornadoes…except this is extremely dangerous and warned against. It’s common knowledge that you have to wait 24-48 hours in the US to file a missing person report…except it’s actually recommended to file as soon as you know someone’s missing because the first few days are the most critical to finding them.
I get that this post is about anxiety and memory issues, but the truth is that knowledge changes all the time. It’s good to avoid spreading false information, even if you do it by accident.
considering that just within my lifetime the names and borders of a third the countries in Central Asia have changed, and Pluto is no longer a planet, I cast zero shade.
Sometimes being a therian is “I’m a lil kitty haha :3” and sometimes it’s “My bones are wrong. My muscles wrap around them the wrong way. My eyes can’t see in the dark the way they should. My hind legs are too long. My fur is gone. My fangs have been stolen from me. My joints ache when I place them the way they should be. I curse whatever deity or being has placed me in this form.” And then it’s like “haha I’m a deer UwU.”
I just think everyone should take a moment to consider the question “what is your visual shorthand for cruelty?” and then follow it up with a critical “and who taught you that?”
specific examples include but are not limited to
why is an evil timeline character design disabled? (why do the heroes go through equally punishing battles and never lose an arm, a leg, an eye?)
why are the futuristic scifi terrorists uniformly darker skinned? (why are the heroes so much lighter?)
why is the greedy boss fat? (why are the heroes skinny?)
why is the criminal mastermind heavily scarred? (why is the brooding, traumatized hero unscathed?)
why is the predatory creep a bearded person in a dress and makeup? (why are none of the heroes trans women?)
who taught you that this is how things are?
how long do you plan on repeating it?
guys the point is “reflect on how you have learned bigotry through exposure and you parrot it in your own works and in the fandoms you engage with without self awareness” not “tell me, specifically, what random motifs you think are evil”
on the flipside, to everyone adding notes about hooked noses, turbans + headscarves, nonwhite features and cultural clothing in general, mental and physical disorders, and surely others I’ve missed in recollection: you are entirely right and should say it.
i have the opposite of that “everyone is an npc” mentality people have embraced where i’m instead like. the person next to me in line has someone they can’t wait to go home to, the person picking up their mail has felt devastation before, everyone in this grocery store is doing their sunday shopping, maybe the person that just honked at me is having the worst day of their life, my neighbor has doctors appointments and favorite foods and a song they can’t stand to hear anymore… you are all fully realized complex people and that is overwhelming me on a spiritual level…
once I was at the only gay bar in town and one of my students caught me there and they were like “so this is what you’re doing instead of grading our papers” and man what do I even say to that
This is kinda neat cause you could do ceo nari got thrown out of his familys company. To get revenge, takes some intern from one of the smaller groups they bought and destroyed, and grooming them through a startup to take down his siblings. Then, in the end, he demands they sell the company they made to him, but the intern refuses. Narinder is homeless and penniless, but now the lamb can choose to take him in as an intern or not.
And yeah, a business trip at some point, there’s only one bed in the hotel, yadda yadda.
This is kinda neat cause you could do ceo nari got thrown out of his familys company. To get revenge, takes some intern from one of the smaller groups they bought and destroyed, and grooming them through a startup to take down his siblings. Then, in the end, he demands they sell the company they made to him, but the intern refuses. Narinder is homeless and penniless, but now the lamb can choose to take him in as an intern or not.
And yeah, a business trip at some point, there’s only one bed in the hotel, yadda yadda.
Step 1: figure out a poll question. Something bland, but it’s nice if you can get a class angle on it so it makes you look privileged. Example: “How many horses does your family have?”
Step 2: figure out what the most common answer would be. In this case, zero. Most families have zero horses.
Step 3: compose your poll to leave out that option.
Like make the options “1-5”, “10-25”, “50-100”
Step 4: add “other (include in tags!)” as the final poll option.
Step 5: your poll will now get a lot of results because people keep reblogging it to say “wtf my family has zero horses!”
Please just be aware that this is a thing, and if you see a Bad Poll come across your dash, it might be getting reblogged so much because it is bad, and it might also be bad on purpose.
once i was in the TSA line for a flight and it was SO LONG that TSA decided to just drop all the security protocols. leave everything in the suitcase including electronics. keep your shoes on. don’t go through the fancy 360 scanner, just the metal detector. get out of here. and i was like ohhhh so you admit this is all just your stupid community theatre production that you’ve made me be a part of for all this time and it doesn’t actually mean anything real. okayyyyy
I fly often enough and with a service dog that I got TSA precheck so I skip the general TSA line and in precheck we don’t have to take off our shoes or empty our bags and usually we just use the regular metal detector, all based on a clean background check and the assumption that someone planning an enormous crime wouldn’t be able to recruit people without prior charges. so not only what you said but also u can buy your way out of it which totally makes sense if the real concern is national security, yeah
I want a management sim that’s a historically accurate castle builder. I think I would learn a lot.
“Derin that wouldn’t be an adventure of building grand castles, you’d spend 90% of the game hoarded up in a small stone box with a board on the door or harvesting reeds to make rushlights and hoping you have enough wood and food for the winter” yeah I know what I said.
I just feel like my knowledge of fact vs theme park shit in this area is severely lacking and I’d rather play a computer game about it than read sixty seven history books and try to figure out which ones are mistaken. If Civ II could get my brother to learn basic world history this way then I’m confident I could learn basic castle life from a management sim. I know there’s someone out there with an obsessive knowledge of medieval life and a basic interest in game design who can do it.
Btw I get anons from people who just mistakenly assume I am Palestinian that are so incomprehensibly vile and racist it’s almost beyond belief so I want every person who has ever complained about getting messaged asking for help for fundraisers to think about the fact they’re definitely receiving a thousand times worse like not only are they using limited access to have to beg people to care enough that they don’t die they’re also receiving some of the cruelest harassment anyone could ever come up with
the decrease in costuming quality over the last 20 years has been soooo precipitous & nauseating. i’m not even talking abt marvel’s cg supersuits or anything this time, look at the fabric quality, structure, layering, character, and craftsmanship of older costumes in 102 dalmations (2000) vs cruella (2021)
ever after (1998) vs cinderella (2021)
lord of the rings (2001-2003) vs the rings of power (2022)
this trend should upset you not just because it looks cheap, but because it suggests a strong anti-art and anti-labor movement in film and tv making. don’t forget costumers are unionized
I WORK IN COSTUMES AND CAN TALK ABOUT THIS MORE SPECIFICALLY
It’s not just that we’re unionized, though that absolutely plays into the financial aspect of it to a degree. There is 100% not just an anti-labor and anti-artistic sentiment, but also just an overall shift from these productions being treated as less like storytelling and performance, like they were in the past, and more like corporate investments and business endeavors. Everything is bottom line vs potential profits, marketability, and modern trends, or what will trend on tiktok, and you have to design to that constantly.
It’s also that filmmaking has developed the expectation of making movies on such a short production time that there’s no time to MAKE amazing beautiful pieces like this. A good gown may take weeks or months to complete and many rounds of fittings and mockups, and might be very heavy or restrictive to actors and limit how long they can shoot in a given costume. From my experience, things are decided on one day and have to be ready to shoot in a few weeks, and that’s only if the writers aren’t constantly having to make last second changes because the directors and producers change their visions constantly on a dime, down to the very last minute, and there’s nothing we can do as the costume team except make it happen or make a REALLY good case for why we can’t just find some cheap option fast that would work instead. So you might spend thousands on that beautiful dress only for them to completely cut the scene, change the context entirely in rewrites, or just decide they don’t like the dress and want something else.
And because directors and producers get last say, and often they have Bad Taste and want things that are modern and marketable, and often will think things look great that are actually pretty unfitting for the character or make no sense for the design of the film, they insist on bad choices that then get pushed through to the end result of the film. Actors do this too sometimes, like what happened with Emma Watson and Belle’s dress in the live action Beauty and the Beast remake, but usually only the big name actors have enough star power to swing full changes like that.
And of course, yes, there’s not enough budget for high quality work. Costumers, like everyone else on film sets right now, are expected to stretch the budgets they’re given to ‘make it work’ because so many have (in order to make the producers happy and keep their jobs). And in return, quality goes down, because in order to build a costume you need good fabric, embellishments, and labor. Good fabric costs a lot of money, embellishments cost a lot of money, hand fitting and skilled labor cost a lot of money, and costume budgets are being given none of that because the studios are incredibly strict and frugal with what they expect you to spend so they can make the most profit off of a given project, so cuts to quality end up being made somewhere in order to make up the difference and get the actors clothed.
I’ve rambled enough, but basically, yes, unions, but also there’s a lot of deeper layers that go into why these things have been declining that are all interconnected and related to the general commodification of art and framing of art as content to consume rather than stories to tell that’s happened in the past ten years or so.
and it results in VERY VERY GOOD costumers being hampered
Rings of Power? that was Kate Hawley. who also did Crimson Peak (2015) and produced costumes like this:
so it’s not always a skill issue, to be sure
To continue with “it’s not always a skill issue”, Jenny Beavan designed the costumes both for Ever After and Cruella.
It just shows what a talented designer can do with time and resources (and no interfering from directors, producers or actors).
when you’re out at a restaurant or a coffee shop or a target or whatever with your friends and you overhear/eavesdrop the same snippet of some stranger’s conversation, and you look at each other for a second to check that you both heard this stranger say the same weird/funny/baffling thing and just break out in knowing grins and quiet laughter… that’s a love language
I hope Robert and Barbara Wire are in a happy and committed relationship.
Everything about this is so fucking funny. The song. The chubby dances. The way he just gets fucking KIDNAPPED. The presentation of the guy in the white shirt in the picture when he returns. This is my favorite post.
If you look closely, she’s got the heart tail so. Girlboss.
i see your “goncharov can’t be made into a real movie cause that would ruin it” and raise you; someone does make a real version of goncharov but films 3 or 4 different versions of each scene/plot point, and than mashes them up to create like 30 different versions of the same movie. it’s released in theaters under the guise of being a perfectly normal film, but every person who goes to see it sees a slightly different version, which will just increase the confusion and amount of unconnected lore. is that possible? probably not. but it would be hilarious.
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