sleepy weirdo

she/her| reading, sleeping or writing | always jumping from one hyperfixation to the next |

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[azranissu]

[wolfholz]

trust fall

[sharkfiinn]

🐈🐈🐈

[pierogiy]

guy who says eep

[forgleto-o]

Date idea: I lie face down on your bed and you pet my head for maybe 2 or 3 hours.

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

some days i feel overwhelming grief for the fact that i never got to be a teenaged girl

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

i should have been an awkward tomboy slowly figuring out she's a lesbain and crushing on my best friend but instead i was crushed into nothing by feelings i couldn't even point to

[drlivistoned]

I hate the cosmetic surgery industry for so many reasons I really do. But the line between cosmetic and medically necessary plastic surgeries is as a cloud, and we cannot sacrifice bodily autonomy for bans so. We need to dismantle white supremacy and the patriarchy in order to effectively tackle the issue. I should be able to get elective top surgery without medicalising my transness you get?

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

I had a breast reduction when I was 16. I was so top heavy that my back had started spasming badly by the time I was 12, if I hadn’t been able to get my reduction, I would’ve been in more extreme pain for much longer. The relief was almost instant. Just one example of medically necessary plastic surgery, in case people aren’t sure what that looks like.

Medically necessary plastic surgery also includes removing excess skin when someone loses a lot of weight: skin folds can become infected. Burn victims’ skin grafts, those are plastic surgery too. The field covers a lot more than people think.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Harold Gillies, now considered to be the father of modern plastic surgery, developed most of his techniques (many of which are still in use today) specifically to reconstruct the faces of men who'd been injured in WW1.

Advances in weaponry meant that, for the first time, men were coming home from war with literally half their faces blown off, on a regular basis. This was not only traumatic— there were cases of men cancelling engagements or being afraid to see their families, because of their disfigurements— but also caused problems with every day tasks like speaking and eating, in which your face plays a pretty key role.

Gillies arranged for a whole ward, and later a hospital, to be dedicated to the treatment of these men, and took steps to ensure that all soldiers who received these kinds of injuries on the battlefield would be sent to him directly. He developed methods for applying skin grafts so that larger portions of the face could be repaired.

He continued his work treating wounded soldiers throughout WW1 and WW2, and when both wars were ended— just in case he hadn't done enough to establish himself as a full on hero— he was then approached by a medical student named Michael Dillon, a trans man, and was able to use the same techniques he'd developed to reconstruct the penises of wounded soldiers to give him a phalloplasty. The first one ever performed on a trans man. He even diagnosed the guy with a condition to explain the frequent operations, so as to avoid outing him.

Dillon later wrote a book about trans-ness, which inspired Roberta Cowell, who became the first British transwoman to get a vaginoplasty, also performed by Gillies.

In both cases, the techniques he developed were still being used in similar operations decades later. Gillies himself stated that he wanted no publicity for performing these operations, saying that "If it gives real happiness, that is the most that any surgeon or medicine can give.”

[drachenmagier]

RAINBOW MONTH IS HERE

[darkestbrook]

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[sandmandaddy69]

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

[morphogenetic]

(wanting to make a post about something but it reveals too much about your personal life) i have had a negative experience

[you-are-here-question]

I feel like there's something so special about seeing Ryland Grace as aroace because a lot of other aspec characters, especially aro characters (either headcanon or canon) are seen as/are cold, not emotional, don't have friends etc

Ryland Grace is a character who has deeply important platonic relationships in Rocky, a connection not only profound enough that it saves two planets, but also so profound that it lead him to turn and around for Rocky.

Even back on Earth, he forms connections with his students, with Carl in the movie, or Dimitri in the book, or Stratt, who has to send him off to die even when she doesn't want to.

Ryland Grace, who cries all the time, and is funny and awkward and allowed to express emotion.

[havingapoemwithyou]

Burn Lake 3 by Carrie Fountain

[kakashi-fangirl-ita-blog]

Banana Fish is not (just) the doomed yaoi people claim it is

It's literally the condemnation of the western society (but I'd say the right-wing capitalist society more specifically AND even the Japanese society, especially in terms of pedophilia) as a corrupt system that benefits the rich and uses the poor

Ash and his brother are the prime victim of this system. A child sold to rich men for their entertainment and a young man who also sold himself just for the entertainment of rich men.

Now tell me if this isn't a current topic with the Epstein's files, the wars never stopping, the prices of everything spiking to the stars, the rising crime rate...

And the victims are always the poor ones or the innocent civilians or the weakest. Kids, women, teenagers, white people, black people, asians. Ash, Griffin, Skipper, Shorter, Jennifer, Yut-Lung, Michael, Eiji, Jessica, even Arthur is a victim of the system. It's so clear, so blatant.

I love this story so much, it was written in 1980, reproposed in 2018 and now in 2026 it's as important as ever. I'll never get tired of it even if it hurts every single time I rewatch it.

Akimi Yoshida did something before all the shit that is going on right now even was a thing. But probably because the world has always been like that and it will never cease to be like that. As shown with the last violent act of Ash being killed right when he started to hope for a glimpse of happiness and freedom. But maybe, death is the only possible freedom for the very first victims of this system.