[alittlewarlord]

If you’re here from writeblr, this is the main blog for @magic-is-something-we-create :)

If you’re here from mineblr/video game tumblr, this is ALSO the main blog for @prismarine-biologist :)

if you’re here Just Because: hi!! im pax, please use he/him pronouns for me, and be aware that im an adult. this blog is a mess of everything that doesnt fit into the above two categories

i am also the artist/author of @thelost-comic which is my Labor of Love sci-fi webcomic about the way media corporations shape the world and how we perceived it, and how that can be both amazing and horrifically dangerous, examined through the lens of the comedic and occasionally horrific adventures of 4 aliens that hate each other. also there's sapient flesh-machine spaceships (that don't wanna be spaceships)

[valtsv]

my that one friend that's too woke opinion is that in a similar vein to how you almost never see fat people or women without makeup on tv you never really see anyone experiencing incontinence issues unless it's a humiliating comedic moment at their expense and that's kind of scary

[valtsv]

like sorry to be the bearer of bad news but people piss themselves. when they're afraid. when they've experienced mental and/or physical trauma and their body needs a way to express that stress. when they've been sexually assaulted. when they get older and their muscles start to wear out from a lifetime of service. a not insignificant majority of people Will experience incontinence in their lifetimes and while there are steps you can take to manage it for your own comfort and others', there's simply no moral dimension to it whatsoever. & like i'm not saying every show and movie needs checkhov's bed wetting scene but we have seriously got to get more okay with acknowledging that somehow.

[valtsv]

[quietwingsinthesky]

friend is trying to convince me this is a common experience and I do not believe her, so

Do you expect to be paid back if you pay for something for your friend while you’re hanging out? (I.E. a ride, a meal, a trinket.)

Yes, always

Yes, but only if it’s above a limit of money

No, never

I don’t buy things for my friends.

bald button

Remaining time: 2 days 7 hours

For a more illustrative example, say you go to the movies with a friend and you buy them popcorn, do you expect them at some point to send you money back via cash or through an app of some kind? Will you be upset if they don’t?

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

"are you gonna take those pills the rest of your life?" you mean my molecules? why surely you wouldn't deprive me of my molecules. they are shaped exactly just so, you see. my molecules

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

do you know how hard someone had to work to make my molecules into their molecule shapes??

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

they invented a new shape of molecule just for me and you want me to what, not absorb it???

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

reblog to remind somebody about their molecules

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

people who shape molecules at their jobs found this post and they're in the notes being happy to be appreciated. go take your fucking molecules

[didiwithdiscourse]

It’s genuinely so gross how common the phenomenon of dark skinned characters being whitewashed in order to be depicted as soft/innocent/feminine is.

[messengerofmechs]

Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.

Expanding ways to share on YouTube

People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.

[shamebats]

For context: Jonis Josef is a famous Norwegian comedian.

[brightlotusmoon]

[scramratz]

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be free” men CAN get pregnant and they’re treated worse than women who can get pregnant

[scramratz]

oh folks really don't like being asked to consider trans men

[bloggingboutburgers]

We're getting there little by little, sure. But it's a road.

Anyway happy international asexuality day back to work I go

[m-has-a-blog]

Lovely sentiment but the way it’s worded sounds like this dude got fucking killed during a little league game

[wordfather]

this is inexplicably my favorite tiktok ever it brings me to tears every time why did he do thatttt

[wordfather]

me when i fucking GET you

[wordfather]

[evilscientist3]

Theyre called draculas because they drank u. La

[jame7t]

Did anyone else hear just one single angelic note

[wizardshark]

[purplegfdgirl]

WHAT HAPPENED HERE

[evilscientist3]

the angelic note is playing at your dashboards resonant frequency. shaking its miserable posts apart

[desert-palm]

[captain-acab]

Catch me being a modern-day cyberpirate screaming up alongside you on the 405 in my mad max car with half a bitcoin farm's worth of RAM in the backseat as I hack your Bitchless Towyota™ device and steal the boat you're towing right off the back bumper of the tesla your dad bought you

As i roar into the sunset you have to swerve* to avoid the small flotilla of hacked Towyota devices trailing behind me

(*in fact you do not swerve because you're on hands-free driving to go along with your hitch-free towing so you can only watch helplessly as your tesla mistakes your stolen booty for a small child and accelerates crashing into it and killing you instantly)

[entities-unknown]

"TME boydyke girlfag genderfuck thing just calling themselves that cause they think it's FUN 🙄" yup, I do think it's fun, I think gender is a fun thing to play around with and explore, it's a form of art to me, and I think it's fun that my gender happens to be multigender and weird and genderqueer in all the ways that it is. I think it's a beautiful thing about myself, just like all trans people deserve to have fun with their genders and have fun exploring their genders and see beauty in their transitions and trans identities.

You know what makes it not fun?

Not being allowed to identify as my true, whole self in the world.

Being forced to put myself in one of several boxes that don't actually apply to me, because forms never have options beyond "trans man", "trans woman", and "non-binary" (there is no way to be a non-binary trans man or non-binary trans woman or a non-binary trans man who is also a woman or a non-binary trans woman who is also a man or if you're xenogender in any way or).

Being forced to use only one set of pronouns that don't actually fit at all times, because my pronoun situation is too complex of an option (I use they/them exclusively, unless the person knows what pronouns I like in that moment).

There are no options for a non-binary trans manwoman/womanman whose pronouns change at any given moment. When I do see doctors, I am forced to identify exclusively as non-binary, because the only thing worse than erasing the "man" and "woman" parts of my identity, is being exclusively put in the "man" box or the "woman" box, so being put in the "neither" box is LITERALLY the "most comfortable option" I'm forced to identify myself as outwardly in the world in spaces that are trans-accepting (or barely "trans-accepting").

I can't even make friends with most other trans people BECAUSE my very identity isn't accepted by the community at large. And if the Queer community can't even understand the concept of a lesbian man, of a manwoman/womanman, you think someone outside of the Queer community will? Very unlikely! Some people, regardless of whether they're Queer or not, are absolutely willing to be open to the idea, but for the most part, not really, and it takes having to explain a billion things that are frankly fucking exhausting - MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE IS HAVING TO EXPLAIN AND EXPLAIN AND EXPLAIN AND EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE what my gender is, my sexuality, and justify why I'm allowed to call myself these things.

But, yeah, sure.

I'm just a "transtrender" identifying this way "for fun".

Sure.

[homoidiotic]

Trans activist Jamison Green's passport photos before and after HRT. Left he's age 32 (1980) Right age 41 (1989) after being on testosterone for one year (x)

(read his autobiography here for free)

[homoidiotic]

updated the link to his autobiography because it was broken! here's some more pictures of him (first is mid 90s, second 2013 and last 2024)

there's an interview with him from 2017 along with some information about his life and activism. and he was interviewed on a podcast here. he's not super well known but has been a really important trans activist for decades

[hunterinabrowncoat]

not even two years after the 2024 racist riots and attempted pogroms, we are back to more racist riots and attempted pogroms.

a mosque in scotland had to be put into lockdown. they are going door-to-door with hit lists and addresses in northern ireland, setting houses alight. they firebombed an imam's house in manchester. people of colour are being targeted and attacked by racist mobs in the street in broad daylight.

and instead of widespread condemnation or wall-to-wall coverage, the UK media and political establishment is filling air time talking about the "legitimate concerns" people have about "illegal migrants"

[you-are-a-saucy-boy]

i do wanna say for those that haven't heard, that yesterday there were anti-immigration marches planned in multiple major cities in the uk and there were some extremely successful counter protests stopping them.

https://socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/anti-fascists-refuse-to-let-fascists-take-the-streets-across-britain/

(i am not a fan of the swp but this source is accurate to my knowledge)

in all of these cities the right were outnumbered by the anti-fascists. in some of them, by the thousands. Stand Up To Racism's instagram has a decent amount of footage from multiple cities.

the major news sources reporting on it aren't describing just how successful the counter protests were, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. in a lot of places, the right didn't cause nearly as much damage as they planned to and their marches were successfully cut off before they got more than a mile from their starting point.

all this to say, there are movements against the rising fascism, and you can join them. these counter protests were very well advertised and there will be more. i want to encourage people to see that this is happening and, instead of getting all doomer about it, join the counter movements in their areas. it is working and you can help.

[transgenderballofanxiety]

like. for instance, racism has always been noticeable in the tech industry and it's almost never actually addressed properly

health tech, facial recognition, motion sensors, speech-to-text, anything that has ever tried to prevent crime, like.

it's extremely noticeable and usually the reaction from a room being told this is to shrug and say "that sucks" and not press the issue further. it's really fucking telling whenever a black person has to struggle with the soap and towel dispensers in a bathroom like wtf

they put that shit on cars.

[transgenderballofanxiety]

and this is about fascism as a whole still bc the ultimate unstated goal is to put the oppressed to work as slaves or just kill them. the racist health tech wants to kill black ppl bc it doesnt care about being accurate for them. facial recognition and crime prevention tech LOVES to false ID black ppl and jail them and slavery is acceptable punishment in prison

like it's just always fucking fascism and not an "oops, we didnt have a black employee to try this on"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯