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A steam locomotive is a type of doll
This one is also a type of doll, but it repeats itself
Guh. Anxious. Need to get groceries and hygiene stuff soon but I have like 20 whole dollars. Need to sleep so I can be a human and stream tomorrow but my brain is full of bees...
Bluh you're probably right. Hi my ko-fi is here and if you want to get some music I've made for oyur troubles I have an itch.io page here
I have never, and will never, use "ofc" to mean "of fucking course". It literally stands for OF Course...
every tgirl you know will become one of three-ish kinds of people. If she's unlucky she'll become multiple kinds of people in a really annoying and bothersome way. they are all different people but they come from the same place: this world fucking hates us and we need to become something that can weather it. she needs to survive and this is how that works
the shrinking violet, who will compress herself into any space as long as you'll have her, you won't even notice she's there. she's in the background. she walks like she's floating on air, and you can barely fucking hear her talk. she is an ant in your world, praying that today you will not notice her. when she is smothered by you, wallflower that she is, she will not cry. crying brings attention and attention means she will die. she accepts her death with dignity and grace, and you will not know her as she spoke not.
the 8itch. she will rip this world to pieces, and has thistle where a heart should be. she is either a grim survivalist who's voice died 5 years ago, or a loud punk who wants blood slicking her hands and someone's gotta pay for what happened to her. she's accepted that you don't want her, and she doesn't want you either, so don't even bother. her body is a fortress at defcon 1, ready to explode into violence whenever it seems like it'll break bad for her. you can't kill her, but only insofar that she is a kind of living corpse running on hatred rather than actually living. you will not know her, because she knows your type. she'd rather not waste her breath.
and third, the maid-knight. do you want something, sir? do you need something from someone? take it from her, sir, because she is a giver. her body is a garden ripe for the picking, and she will have you partake of its bounty. what are friends for if not this? she will never ask anything of you, sir, no sir, that would never do, not when there is more to give. please stay longer, sir, and take more of her. love what she does for you, how useful she can be, how wonderful it is to have her, to need her, feel the chill in the room when she's not there and beckon her to your side. she wants what you want. she needs, what you need. she laughs at your jokes and gasps in stunned awe of your greatness. being around her is a drug and the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh hits are free. she'll show off from time to time, but only to entertain. you'll find her an excellent conversationalist but in the quieter moments, when the wine has flowed and we talk of our younger selves, she is always the first to change the topic. when she dies of exhaustion, it is a tragedy. it was preventable. all she needed was to speak up, to take. you thought her as some kind of person beyond people, able to give from a bottomless well. you thought "how does she do it"? and the answer was she was convinced she did not deserve the bounty she grew, so she gave it to you instead. you will not know her, because she was always interested in what you had to say, what you wanted, what you were, where you were going, what excited you. you will learn later, pieced together from scattered accounts of the partygoers that also took her for granted, that she stood by your side convinced that happy endings don't get to happen to girls like her. it was easier to be happy when other people experienced joy than to hope that joy would come to her.
All the reblogs are arguing about this like its some astrology shit and not some common self-destructive coping strategies. What I havent seen anyone say or ask is how to help her. How do you give a voice to someone that has it but refuses to use it? How do you show you will stay to someone that prefers to pretend she doesn't want you there, and attempts to kick you out at every chance even if it destroys her, because the idea that you will leave on your own is worse? How do you give back to someone that refuses to touch, scared of taking? How do you help the girls that feel trapped in either of these archetypes? Because like it or not, so many are, and they deserve to let go of the destructive ways the world forced upon them. But they shouldn't do so alone. So how do you help?
If you don't feel safe talking to your partner about transmisogyny, or even reblogging posts about transmisogyny, you need to start making plans to get the fuck out of that relationship. Full stop.
When the health food store unionized, something wild happened that I thought was just a goofy one-off, but makes more sense now.
There was a big push to eliminate "degrading jobs" but the strategy was to eliminate the position, then create a new position outside of the bargaining unit to do the work. So like, we wouldn't have dishwashers, but we'd have people who washed dishes that weren't eligible to be in the union.
I was like A) what the actual fuck? Dish washing isn't "degrading", it's fucking vital. B) What the actual fuck? You want to create a union just to exploit different people?
There were enough of us to be like "Absolutely the fuck not," and put a stop to it, but I was absolutely flummoxed that people involved in a union would say that out loud. Working with more leftists now, it makes sense.
I think it was coming from a background that viewed labor as necessary to accomplish anything, but advocated for the equitable distribution of the gains made by labor... and then being thrown in with people who just thought labor was icky.
The first time someone told me that busing tables was "degrading", I was like "Oh, uhh, yeah, like it's very necessary work but under compensated for how vital it is?" and they responded "No, touching plates that other people have eaten off of is disgusting."
But I want to eat off of clean plates. So somebody is going to have to touch/clean those plates. And I respect that person and want them to be able to afford to live.
Those people sound like a guy I'd make up to be mad at.
I mean, that job definitely had a Truman Show vibe. If they hadn't been in-person interactions, I'd think I was getting trolled.
Just to put a bow on it:
In bargaining, someone on the Union side suggested that we eliminate all the cashiers and exclusively use self-checkouts (they were a cashier and didn't like it). The organizer told them that the union wasn't in the habit of eliminating bargaining unit positions. (This is the same person I've talked about how said that "as a prison abolitionist" we just needed to execute most criminals.)
When I explained holiday scheduling (time off requests granted in order of seniority, shifts assigned in reverse order of seniority). Someone was angry and said that time off requests potentially being denied "wasn't in the spirit of the union". When I pointed out that our departments made like 30% of our annual revenue between Thanksgiving and New Years and that required production staff to be working, they said that we just needed to create a class of positions ineligible for the bargaining unit that wouldn't be able to request time off. (Which again, most of us figured we'd just rotate holidays or something, but assumed that some holiday production was mandatory.)
I was on leftie tiktok (as a creator) for a bit and I saw this attitude there as well. I specifically remember one argument around cleaners where someone said that employing a cleaner was, like, ethically bad, and that "after the revolution" we wouldn't have cleaners.
It got me thinking, along with Ann Russell talking about how to treat cleaners (being a cleaner herself), about how we conceptualise domestic service as particularly degrading in all its forms, when, really, why is that? Why is paying someone to do something intrinsically bad?
Like, even in a moneyless, gift economy society, there would still be people whose primary contribution to their communities would be cleaning. Some people like to clean, and are really rather good at it.
I've talked ad nauseam in the past about how British attitudes towards cleaners and other service based positions today are the descendants of Victorian attitudes. That is, both the attitudes of conservatives and many progressives of that time. The trade union movement was particularly exclusionary towards service workers.
I think people on the left thinking about forms of labour can sometimes be worse than people on the right. People who have taken these positions generally just conceptualise them as something you need to do to get by, and there are particular employers where these positions are degrading but in general the jobs themselves aren't.
Yeah, that really sums it up. There's stuff that needs to get done, so I'll never be of the opinion that it's degrading work. I worked in kitchens for a long time, and every other position is reliant on having clean dishes, so nobody can really be "above" washing dishes. The shitty thing about washing dishes or busing tables is how people treat the people doing it. The work itself is vital.
And some of those jobs are like, sure, you can throw almost any warm body at it and get it done adequately, but you still run into people where you're like "Holy shit, you're good at this."
People doing a job most people don't want to do should be paid MORE in order to get people to do it. That's how it would work if we weren't mired in a schema assuming that less-frequently-desired jobs are the province of people who "can't do better" and "deserve" poverty because they have less value as people.
Peer reviewing the tags: #these attitudes are also why ppl are weird about sex work#and weirdly enough visibly disabled people working - like esp thinking of like#places that employ ppl w LDs as workers and volunteers#what they FEEL is 'these people make me uncomfortable'#and they say 'they shouldn't have to do that'#so the solution is. no visibly disabled people getting to work#the fact that. they want to work. and want jobs#is irrelevant#too many people base their politics off their like. gut feelings of discomfort and unease#which are completely disconnected from both practicality and actual morality
if you're having trouble sleeping the best you can do is put a bright object close to your face and look at it for at least 30 minutes. if that doesn't work you can close your eyes but make sure to think really hard about a bunch of bullshit
It really is crazy the way anybody ever managed to push the idea that there is a real, tangible "transmasc erasure". If you look up books, comics, movies, plays, etc. starring a trans protagonist pretty much every single time they are going to be trans masc or TME nonbinary. You have some notable exceptions like Nevada, or Detransition Baby, but pretty much every one of those is going to be BY a transfem author telling our own stories. But they will swear that transmascs are being erased in media compared to trans women so you will go through a list of the top 50 trans books and top 10 trans films for pride and the top 8 queer comic lists and they will pretty much all be about a transmasc experience and you will be like. okay so I reviewed 60 pieces of media and 5 of them were interested in representing trans women and the rest were transmasc or TME nb what do you mean by erasure and they will look you in the eye and say with a full chest "I am jealous that you guys get more blood libel than us"
watching cowboy bebop for the first time. 90s anime with non-binary hacker character Ed that (as I've seen so far) never is subject to transphobia or anything, just treated as "genderless hacker gremlin". Almost 3 decades old show. imagine being a tme trans kid and getting to see yourself in an anime as a character who simply exists as they are and isn't constantly the butt of transphobic jokes.
now imagine you're a tma trans kid watching the same show, where in a later episode Spike meets three "crossdressing prostitutes" who are extremely caricaturized, transmysogenistic characters that just exist to be the punchline of "Spike was looking for a Julianna and someone said "yeah she hangs out over there" but what if instead of the woman he's looking for, from the back it looks like her but they turn around and it's a man in a wig with lipstick and stubble talking stereotypically and soliciting Spike for sex!" that's the rep you get as a tma.
ok i absolutely need to know what accents u all have pls reblog and tell me or comment or whatever I must know
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hello again friends, loved ones, and beloved mutuals. i hate to be making a post like this again so soon, but bottom surgery was extraordinarily expensive, and the time i had to take off work for surgery was not paid which has made bouncing back financially quite difficult while i wait for insurance to reimburse travel and lodging.
as such, myself and my live-in partner @delicate-viscera are coming up considerably short on the bills this month. we could really use some help making ends meet with rent, utilities, and groceries, as well as catching up on the money owed for the cat sitters who helped take care of our beautiful furballs while we were away from home.
i've never raised near this much money through tumblr before, and honestly i don't expect to, we're scrambling to find help through every avenue available. but anything you can do truly means the world!! even if it's only a couple bucks, even if it's just sending it to someone who you know is in a better position to help, or just sharing it on your blog for reach. we are two dykes in desperate need, recovering from surgery and sickness respectively, please help us make ends meet!!
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jesus, i forgot to add the links like a fool. please reblog this version tysm ily
um actually there's nothing wrong with letting cats be outdoor pets. your cat is depressed locked inside forever. it's animal abuse. let it outside. more cats should be let outside more often. especially overnight.
tme, saw my friend get bullied out of a TTRPG group for speaking about her experiences n frustrations with transmisogyny, still furious about it. they turned on her so fucking quickly and she didnt even do anything wrong, she literally bent over backwards not to cause a stink and then they STILL sought her out in private to explain to her why what she did was "wrong", several times and through several people. no matter how loud we were and how many times we told them what they were doing was wrong, cruel and disgusting, they thought that we just "didn't understand" and that somewhere, there was a correct combination of words that would make us less transfeminist.
and the thing is!!! before it all went to shit!! I'd literally talked and complained about transmisogyny!! several times, even. but it was brushed off and everyone would proceed as normal. but the second a trans woman talked about the exact same fucking thing they went completely mask off in less than a day. im still reeling because i guess it was the first time i saw it happen firsthand in a personal setting. i guess it was the two-facedness of it all and the refusal to take any responsibility after the fact. it was so disgusting
being a trans woman will reveal to you the horrible secret B-sides of kind, ordinary people
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I got tasked with the most serious commission, after the box office results of last week (Jax is a trans woman)
know your meme is a really valuable and useful resource unless you want to use it to find new memes you haven't already seen or read the history of a meme you're already familiar with the history of or look up literally any tumblr-exclusive meme. but other than that it's a great website
like sure literally every time I've looked up a meme on know your meme where I happen to already know the history the article has been either absent or wrong. but that doesn't necessarily mean that I should assume it's wrong about all the other memes right
If staff reformed the ban system to stop banning trans women and used the resulting good will to re-introduce pornography, this site would become a juggernaut. It would swallow Twitter whole.
staff hates trans women so much they'll sink this website over it
I think leftists need to refer to the United States as a slave state more often. It has one of the highest prison populations per capita of any nation, slavery is legal as punishment for a crime, and Black people are disproportionately imprisoned and given longer sentences. The prison industrial complex is modern-day slavery