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Transphobes, Exclusionists, and TERFS fuck off challenge

They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her

tlirsgender

Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure

weedass

woke up and turned over and there was a roach next to me.... wtf did we do last night....?

mr-freezo-42069-inactive

how dare you make me read this

#kafka

threeamserif

Kingston Lacy (Dorset), August 2025

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academic-vampire

𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔰 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰

thena0315

New Naruto Artwork

timcurrysbooty

carlottagiudicellivevo

takiki16

NO FEAR. The actors who played Long John Silver and Captain Flint in Black Sails FULLY ACKOWLEDGE that the Muppet adaptation was the best

(source)

saint-batrick

alder-knight

hi i hope i get to be the one to break this news on Tumblr, because

I am reading Tim Curry’s 2025 memoir, Vagabond

and in it, he not only devotes a chapter to Muppet Treasure Island, but also references this very post

so, to recap

no, Tim Curry is absolutely NOT a Muppet; however

yes, he and Miss Piggy ABSOLUTELY fucked

anscathmarcach

All this discourse over who does "painting with light"

Hiroshi Nagai's paintings need sunglasses to look at.

They look like how it feels to walk across a parking lot on a 98° summer day without a speck of shade in sight.

They look like heaven but also like you'd burn your bare feet on the ground.

Even when you can see shade you know it's not enough and the minute you step out you'll be burnt to a crisp like a vampire.

And it's BEAUTIFUL

dbarenzu626

I'll throw in the wonderful Eizin Suzuki into this ring too, a man whose work just breathes light without actually using dynamic lighting in the usual way. It's no surprise both Nagai and Suzuki are both considered prolific in art pertaining to the city pop genre because they're able to paint these kinds of scenes with a delicate touch.

This feels like I could trip on that radio and fall right into that water, feeling the crystal waves as I drop in.

And this, a nice stroll down a resort strip, where my sunscreened skin could literally feel cooked if I leaned too close to the tiling.

And then a nice stretch of summer street, wherein you could see your face in the flushed red of that car provided it didn't blind you from its sunny reflections.

I don't think I even need to say anything more, Suzuki's a massive influence in how he even places colours so warmly in such unorthodox manner. It's a naturally sunkissed talent~ 🌊

#art

toshimon-97

Itachi's epistemology (and why I think it's such a clever choice)

During the buildup to the fight between the Uchiha brothers, Itachi says something which stuck with me, probably because I study philosophy and it was overtly philosophical but that's neither here nor there.

Itachi's words are as follows: "Each of us lives, dependent and bound by our individual knowledge and our awareness...All that, is what we call reality...However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal..Ones reality might be another's illusion, we all live inside our own fantasies."

I just think this is such a fantastic character choice because it's using Itachi's view on perception, and thus knowledge in order to tell us about his character.

Given that he thinks perception is a good source of knowledge we can roughly infer that he is some sort of empiricist, we are able to gain knowledge about the world by experiencing it using the five senses is one way of wording such a view.

Another implication of this quote is that we can ONLY gain any worthwhile knowledge from these experiences, and this all culminates in an understanding of the universe which is then called reality.

Now the thing that really interests me is that he seems to be some sort of anti-realist about truth, talking about how each individual has their own reality constructed from their individual experiences.

This is such a clever choice for his character because Itachi's whole gimmick is that he's a master of illusion and genjutsu, and especially with his signature technique Tsukuyomi, which does the work of constructing the sense data which constructs reality, and so, sceptic that he is, he understands fully that it is entirely possible that he too is under a similar technique and is just none the wiser (a glaringly obvious Descartes reference if there ever was one). I think this is such a lovely bit of characterisation because of course such a talented illusionist would take such a radically sceptical view of things, and how he would come to distrust his own senses and reality as he toys with the reality of others through his technique.

jakeperalta

not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!

stegostarr

WHY ARE THERE *TRANS MEN* SAYING WE - TRANS MEN - DO NOT EXPERIENCE SYSTEMATIC OPPRESSION THAT'S UNIQUE TO ONLY US??????? UGH

transfemme-shelterdog

There's a certain subset of binary trans men who told their parents at the age of 10 that they were trans, got on blockers and HRT as soon as medically possible, and have grown up in supportive communities their entire life.

Then they just assume that everyone else is like them.

hideyourautumn-milkteeth

^^THAT and a lot of trans men have legitimately been gaslit into denying their own oppression. It is a genuine problem.

I've had trans men who've experienced literal trafficking before, say outloud that "Oh but trans guys just always have it easier." and I had to literally talk him through the shit he's experienced to make him realize the Realness of his own oppression. I've had to teach other trans men that their trauma fucking matters.

The erasure of our suffering is so insidious and so deeply rooted in our society and our community that when a trans man DOES experience oppression or violent bigotry or sexual violence or medical neglect, we are taught that our first instinct in response to it should be: "well it was bad but it clearly wasn't THAT bad/it still would've been magically so much worse in every single way if you were a transfem."

We're taught as girls to take up as little space as possible, to speak as quietly as possible or not to speak at all, and that we're only valuable in the space we DO take up if we can be useful to someone else. Imagine trying to unlearn that when you transition and turn to your community and you are told the Exact. Same. Thing.

TERF transfems on this site are regularly spouting the idea that "Trans men should only exist in trans spaces if they keep their mouths shut and JUST focus on servicing the trans women around them." and I can say with all confidence that THOSE IDEAS PERMEATE REAL LIFE QUEER SPACES LIKE THE FUCKING PLAGUE. So for most trans men who're figuring themselves out, that is the only fucking way they are told they can exist in their community.

They are taught that their silent suffering is necessary praxis. I've literally watched trans men around me slowly kill themselves because of these fucking ideas. It's disgusting.