Black Trans Lives Matter

Hey I'm Xander 💙⛓🦋 25 years & counting (He☆They☆Fae)

[nyancrimew]

Hey, you keep on mentioning you don't know how tumblr works. I'd be perfectly happy to lie to you if you want to know more!

ok whats the funniest lie you have about how tumblr works

[chameliyun]

[dajo42]

your favourite local disabled trans woman gently requests assistance affording food and meds again

life is pretty fucking rough

£daisyjago

paypal.me/dajojago

in return as usual i offer a lovely picture of cola

[dreamilypurpleoutcast]

[klapollo]

hi im complaining about tiktok again and i know this has been said a million times but i despise how the self-censorship that got really popular on there is quickly becoming the norm. why is my podcast that i listen to that is by and for adults and swears regularly censoring the word "sex" in its episode descriptions on spotify, a platform where they dont even censor officially uploaded song titles for songs like "fuck the pain away." why are there book blurbs using "unalive" completely in earnest. why are people on twitter writing s3x. youtubers can at least handwave having to bleep terms like "heroin" bc that's specifically a youtube problem but why in an era where everyone is handwringing about how everything is Literally 1984 do people not seem to care about grown adults gleefully regressing into homestuck typing quirks and ugly babytalk

[beatsmybongo]

[ayeforscotland]

With the announcement of the Harry Potter TV series, you will be made aware of the people in your social circle who are excited about it.

Now is a good time to stop knowing them.

[ayeforscotland]

The play here is fairly blatant.

Hire new 12 year olds that haven’t condemned JK Rowling’s horrendous views

Aggressively condemn the inevitable people who say shit about said 12 year olds online to take the moral high ground

Turn it into a show that people hate watch for maximum revenue

[xiaq]

Friendly reminder that JK Rowling is the executive producer for this show. So in addition to benefiting monetarily from its very existence, she will be an active participant in creating its narrative. I won't be watching it and I encourage everyone else to ignore its existence as well.

[tiktoksijustthinkareneat]

[myrinthinks]

[charlesoberonn]

Future Grandkid: Grandpa, what was it like when Obama was president?

Me: Aah, yes… the Homestuck President.

[fozby]

what the shit does that mean

[charlesoberonn]

[charlesoberonn]

I see all of you people who had this post queue’d for 4/13. Good job.

[abandonedambition]

you know what? I WILL play with jpgs like dolls. what if life could be dream

[fullmetalfisting]

…. For now

[miiilowo]

theyare friends. :)

[shamebats]

Things To Never Say To Someone Who Just Came Out by the Onion.

[rocketotaku-deactivated20240529]

The people deserve to see screenshots of the best ones

[bob-belcher]

Shrek 2 + favorite pop culture references

[identityarchitect]

there are like five rules to life and those rules are

1. eat 3 meals a day

2. always have a non alcoholic drink with you

3. never trust anything you think about your life after 8-9pm

4. do a little something for urself every day

5. interact with a Beast at least once a day (human, feline, canine, lizard, bird, etc)

and the secret 6th rule:

6. if you can't do all of those rules, just do the ones you can

[kaleidoscopecatiii]

If you're ever not sure what to talk about in therapy, having trouble with any of these things, steps towards making them easier/possible, or addressing barriers that are getting in the way of these things are all EXCELLENT topics for therapy.

[cryptidjeepers]

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.

Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.

That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.

And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.

Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.

This movie has the potential to change the way we collectively see Barbie radically into what Ruth Handler’s intended, I’m so very excited

[roadhogsbigbelly]

"ryan gosling is too old to play ken" well i think it's cool when actors in their 40s get to play sluts actually

[plumslices]

“We/Us is an intergenerational photography and oral history project that celebrates the undocumented presence of Butches and Studs from working-class backgrounds within the British landscape.” - by Roman Manfredi, 2023

[mythologer]

The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1800 papyri that were carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 CE), constituting the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. Now using new x-ray technique, these scrolls are being read for the first time in millennia

[kloperslegend]

An article by the Smithsonian about it:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-scrolls-are-being-read-new-xray-technique-180969358/

[prof-grace-aspen]

Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia

A revolutionary American scientist is using subatomic physics to decipher 2,000-year-old texts from the early days of Western civilization