time & death sleep side by side

kar | they/them | 🍉🥄♾️ | I was once many things, but now I am only several.

[xylophonetangerine]

[witemglitch-deactivated20260709]

It exists and it's called Portland, Oregon

[sanrio-stud]

[lost-carcosa]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[summerlightfever]

he has my whole heart 🤍

[mysillycomics]

how to have a sturgeon summer:

1. be quite large

2. use your barbels to find prey among the gravel along the bottom of the river

3. extend your siphon-like mouth to eat small fish, shellfish, and crustaceans

4. launch yourself out of the water and make a big splash just for fun

5. show off them scutes!

you can now enjoy your sturgeon summer

[luxifers-light]

[diana-andraste]

Der Kuss / The Kiss, Lovis Corinth, 1921

drypoint in black on wove paper

[kusali]

Had a shitty scary situation at work tonight + the nausea and stomach issues that seem to have magically started the moment I began hooking again are still lingering, so I thought I'd plug my fundraiser and my Ko-fi ha ha ha 🫠

Outtakes from work cos I forgot to put lipgloss on

[kusali]

Nothing for a lil while atm 🩷

[kusali]

My phone is beginning to refuse to charge and my job 100% relies on it, without it I'll have to just go into the city and walk around the stroll hoping for the best (extremely unsafe, terrible for my arthritis, illegal, bad all round) so getting a new phone before this one dies is a huge urgency bordering on emergency

This job is so unpredictable I have no idea what I'm going to make when to be able to plan for this

I've also started selling pics and vids plus I have to take pics to advertise so a decent camera quality is absolutely essential. So unfortunately I can't just make do with a cheap burner phone

I don't own a computer, my whole life happens through this phone

$0/$500

Thank you pls reblog if possible 🩷 ❤️

[kusali]

Nothing yet 🥲

[arctic-hands]

No but seriously the United States desperately needs to have a discussion about segregation against the disabled in our school systems and we can start with how anti-masking and perfect attendance policies have forced medically vulnerable kids to either put themselves at grievous risk or pull out of school all together

[arctic-hands]

My experience was years before covid, but those Perfect Attendance Policies meant kids were coming into school seriously ill, which meant my immunocompromised ass would get sick too, and I would get so sick I had to miss even more school, which led to the school sicc'ing the truancy officer on me because I was ruining the Attendance Record, which forced me to drop out because it was better than being arrested

Now imagine being a kid like me during a global pandemic. It's all "the kids need to be back in schools!" until you remember the schools don't want disabled kids

[arctic-hands]

It's not just contagious diseases either. You can't even ban a common allergen in your class because a kid is deathly allergic to it without a mob of moral crusaders yelling about how if little Timmy doesn't get a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day for lunch society will collapse, why should special treatment be given to ONE kid (who will die if they breathe in peanut particles) at the "expense" of others, peanut allergies are over diagnosed because "they didn't exist when I was a child!" (they existed, it's just that those kids died from their allergies without you noticing), why not just put the allergic kids in their own class (literal segregation), and so on.

[arctic-hands]

Bringing this back for Disability Wrath Month and the fact that school starts up again soon

[arctic-hands]

My two (least) favorite replies to this:

The teacher with no reading comprehension who turned this into a tirade about "chronic absenteeism" as if the chronically ill and disabled kids are intentionally trying to miss as much school as a frivolity

The person who got on my ass for saying disabled kids are segregated because that somehow implies racial segregation no longer exists

Learn reading comprehension, motherfuckers

[yogurt-boat-69]

A really unfortunate driver of this is that in the US, many states tie funding to attendance. Meaning the amount of money a school gets is based ona formula of how many enrolled.students attended each day. Which makes schools desperate to increase attendance so they pursue all kinds of ableist policies and programs to try to raise attendance. Instead of actually caring about student health

[arctic-hands]

Was it like this during the No Child Left Behind days? I was always told our funding was due to mandatory test scores, which made my treatment all the more baffling to me bc despite everything I had excellent test scores

[annabelle--cane]

but can we TALK about the racialized subtext of "his wife has filled his house with chintz" linking together femininity, indian export goods, commercialism, and superficiality vs "to keep it real I fuck him on the floor" linking together masculinity, AAVE, authenticity, sexuality, and vulgarity? if our aim as critics of poetry is to reevaluate this text and arrive at a feminist interpretation then we must also consider the poem's vexed relationship to race so as to not be anti-black in our criticism of the piece's presentation of masculinized sexuality nor uncritically reproduce and elevate its image of orientalized femininity.

[annabelle--cane]

also, from looking at the original post (non-explicit gay sex photo but still a gay sex photo so you've been warned): there isn't even any chintz in the photo. the design elements in the room all look broadly western european with the exception of a tall ceramic vessel that may be decorated with a reproduction of a chinese ink painting. chintz is an indian textile pattern, you'll see it on dresses, bedspreads, wallpaper, tapestries, upholstery, etc., but nothing like that is in the image. to imply that the house's interior design is frivolous, artificial, and unusable, the poem utilizes "chintz" despite the obvious lack of chintz because "chintz," as a popular asian export good that went on to be imitated by european manufacturers, is considered kitsch, cheap, and womanly. and, though the angle partially obscures them, the two men in the photo both appear to be white, so the poem uses the AAVE phrase "keep it real" despite the lack of black people to invoke the perception of AAVE as raw, crass, and primal. in both cases, the racialized language is being ascribed to european/white subjects to impart the white subjects with different moral values.

[smsomah]

Muslim village Dhordo, Gujarat. Scanned from the book Desert Village, Life & Crafts; Gujarat, Rajasthan; 1985; Hiroko Iwatate

[itsjunetime]

clowngirl getting an orchiectomy and the surgeon just keeps removing ball after ball after ball after ball after

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

clown nurse standing by solemnly adding each successive ball to the ones she's already juggling

[victusinveritas]

There's worse to come, folks. Strap in and stay strapped.

[thevonntrapp]

Fascists get months and these guys get decades....just incredible how far the USA has fallen.

[victusinveritas]

From PM Press on Instagram:

[1968bullittmustang]

Prairieland ICE protesters sentenced to decades in prison

Activists who didn't plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms.

The Road to Prairieland

The crackdown on anti-ICE activists in Texas reflects a pattern of intensifying repression all around the country.

[victusinveritas]

[vaspider]

Just so we're connecting our dots together, Reed O'Connor is "that Rhode Island hospital should give me all its trans kids records and I pinky swear I won't just give them to the DOJ and I am commanding all the other judges that they don't have jurisdiction, only I do, despite the fact that none of what's happening is actually in my district," among a million other shitty things.

He is a horrible fucking human being and a terrible fucking judge.

[temporalreverie]

anyone have that picture with the 100 pool toy baltos. Its like a modern terracotta army

[temporalreverie]

THEY SHALL PROTECT MY MAUSOLEUM

[20thcenturyb0y]

i miss when summers were normal and not literal hell

[jetix]

2026-05-30

[redstonedust]

had a dream i walked up to a food stall and they tried to sell me 3 takoyaki for $130 and i was so mad that i woke myself up before completing the transaction. idiot lost their customer to the waking world lol. charge less next time.