[segamascott]

[muzzlesbian]

[silverbridge-harbor]

A juvenile bug isn't called a larva until it reaches the surface. While it's still underground it's called a margma

[just-shower-thoughts]

Babies are socially accepted parasites.

[onion-souls]

When u read Ayn Rand 1 time

[unfitninjuh]

They’re not a parasite, they’re a potential investment

[onion-souls]

When you read Ayn Rand a dozen times

[creatingblackcharacters]

"The white women maternalists of old leveraged their roles as white mothers even though many of them were single and child-free. They reasoned that because they were women, they were much better placed than white men to understand and respond to the needs of Indigenous women and their children.

This professed valorization of motherhood did not extend to Indigenous mothers, whom they disparaged as sexually immoral and unfit for motherhood. If white women were the only true women, then by the same token white mothers were the only true mothers. They see their role not as depriving Indigenous children of their families but as "rescuing" and "saving" them from their uncivilized parents.

In America, they formed organizations like the Women's National Indian Association to fulfill their aims. In Australia, the Women's Christian Temperance Union- some branches of which were active in the suffragist movement- and the Women's Service Guild appointed themselves spokeswomen for Indigenous mothers without seeking input from those on whose behalf they sought to speak."

Chapter 5, White Tears/Brown Scars- Ruby Hamad

[calamity-corner]

idk i just don't think monogamous people should be writing about polyamory. i kinda don't give a shit about your opinions on it. delete your stupid article

[calamity-corner]

like oh have poly tranny dykes just had it too good lately? do we need to remind them that their relationships are actually #problematic? really gotta knock them down a peg huh? should we invite fox news?

[calamity-corner]

SHOULD WE INVITE THE FUCKING PUPPYGIRL

[smsomah]

Scanned from the book Regards sur le Niger; 1978; Michel Renaudeau & Ide Oumarou

[decompose1]

neovaginas can get wet naturally

a neophallus can get erect with an implant (this will either be a bendable rod or a device that inflates with saline at the press of a button, usually in the testicles)

both can feel sexual pleasure and experience orgasm

most neovaginas will be able to tolerate larger insertions with enough dilating/training

the nerves in neophalluses take a while to regrow but it is incredibly rare to experience no sexual nerve growth

both can look and feel "normal" if that's what you want, just take good care of your scars and look at your surgeons' results portfolio (and don't be afraid to be picky! its your genitals, you get to decide!)

in fact it's possible for many people to stealth and for their sexual partners to never know. even for phallo, some people with natal penises have erectile implants too, ED is common. neocaginas are often indistinguishable from natal vaginas

many surgeons are starting to offer preservation options for patients who want a more mixed look/don't want to lose what they have

YOU HAVE OPTIONS! demystify bottom surgery

[deerbrain]

you can also have nothing, if you want!! nullification is starting to become available alongside vaginoplasty and phalloplasty

you can have nothing and retain sexual function, even! it's called nerve-preserving nullification. similarly to other bottom surgeries, they use the most sensitive tissue (glans/clit) to create a subdermal pseudoclitoris

yes you can pee like normal. urethral reroute leaves a small hole at the perineum (taint)

all the advice about scars from OP applies here too!! take care of yourself well and it can heal well

(also, for people interested in the "mixed look" OP mentioned: the magic words are "penile-preserving vaginoplasty"/"phalloplasty without vaginectomy"!!)

[her-aurora-doll]

As someone who has had nullification done, my inbox is always open.

[hagiomoto]

Read Fatale Game over K-manga to improve the sales numbers or buy the print manga if you can afford it or force other people to buy it for you

I am just annoyed that Yuri always gets the short end of the stick every time

[s-aint-elmo]

for those who need more context: fatale game is about a mangaka who gets assigned to a new editor with an interesting strategy for motivating her assignees: acting as though she's completely smitten with every single one of them. clearly, this can only foster the healthiest, most supportive relationships between these poor suckers. i like to say that if battan's last hit was run away with me girl, this one can be most succinctly described as: GIRL RUN!!!

the art is gorgeous and features some incredibly clever panelling, use of negative space, expression work--and ofc battan's signature dazzling lights. it's leaps and bounds from run away with me girl, which itself was already a treat. in so many of these pages you can just feel battan flexing. reading it as an artist felt like fireworks going off in my head.

please support fatale game. i need to know if seri can fix her

[boringkate]

You listen to music regularly? Why? Have you even tried quitting? Could you quit? You get music stuck in your head? Wow. You're so ruined and music brained. I bet you make your partners listen to music with you when you have sex. Music addiction has really ruined a whole generation. You know it's not realistic to expect reverb in real life, right? You're probably so desensitized that you don't even feel anything anymore when you hear a bird singing that it wants some fuck.

[paradigm-adrift]

I don't have a problem with people listening to music per se, but I do have a problem with the music industry exploiting & mistreating artists.

Personally, I abstain from all music in order to keep my hands clean but really music should just be illegal outright to protect musicians from abuse.

[terramythos]

holy shit this person in the notes

[discodyke-dogthing]

[ilynpilled]

a character being a perpetrator does not negate their victimhood and neither does their victimhood negate being a perpetrator. u can accept and reckon w both dimensions in ur analysis

[ilynpilled]

there is nothing morally purifying about suffering or victimhood, it is not something that inculcates “goodness.”

one’s character has no impact on whether they were/are a victim or not, victim status is not something that is only afforded to the palatable.

it also does not = absolution.

[ilynpilled]

ppl cant handle this in cartoons made for teenagers lets not get ahead of ourselves

[tpwrtrmnky]

Like. Look. Listen. I have taught introductory quantum physics at a university level, and I need you all to incorporate this into your trans advocacy: There are situations where you need to make a decision to prioritize being comprehensible to your target audience above being The Most Unassailably Correct.

[peppermintquartz]

You can try to teach a toddler about germ theory or you can get them to wash their hands because "yucky"

[tpwrtrmnky]

Teaching a toddler to wash hands because yucky when the Ethics Understander crashes through the roof. "STOP RIGHT THERE," the Ethics Understander shouts at me. "The disgust response is not a legitimate substitute for a considered value judgment, and in fact, weaponizing disgust instead of grounding those judgments in a more rigorous framework is fundamental to reactionary rhetoric!"

The toddler looks at me. "You are a fascist, auntie. I have seen the light and will now go eat chewing gum from the pavement, unless you can educate me on a rigorous framework on the microbiology of pavement chewing gum this very instant."

[feotakahari]

But I’m not a toddler, and I would never want someone to tell me the “for toddlers” version of their beliefs. If I found out they weren’t telling me their actual beliefs, I’d get mad and stop trusting them. So I don’t want to treat other adults like they’re toddlers.

[self-winding]

Toddlers do generally understand "you could get sick." With very young children who can't understand the reasoning behind why something is forbidden or required, you might have to resort to "because I said so" on occasion, but obviously that doesn't work so well with adults.

Giving people the "for toddlers" version of an ethical position can be effective in the short term but will generally bite you on the ass once they do a bit more digging and realize that you gave them a distorted and simplistic version of the truth, at which point they will tell a bunch of other people, "Hey, X is giving everyone a distorted and simplistic version of the truth" and erode public trust in you.

[queer-folk-abroad]

One simply must not lie.

It’s a simple as that.

We live in the age of the internet, an age simultaneously of great distrust and easy access to all the collective knowledge of mankind. When you lie, it will be found out almost immediately -unless you possess the power to repress the truth of a large government, in which case it will take a lil longer- and the person who was not on your side will call you a liar and dismiss your argument.

“But Trump lies” yes, and when his lies are found out his followers don’t care, the same way when your lies are found out you and your radfem communist circle don’t care- people forgive their own lies or justify them; they don’t do that for the person screaming at them and calling for the destruction of their nation, race, or social class.

Obviously.

So!

Tell the fucking truth.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Cool beans, but the problem there is that the deeper expertise you gain on any given subject the less clear-cut "truth" becomes, until you know deep in your bones that a comprehensive, non-reductive, zero-incorrect-statements delivery of the Truth means spending five hours reciting a whole book at someone who's going to get lost ten minutes in.

That's when you have to realize that "true enough" is extremely valuable.

That's what the post is about.

[daphnis-is-screaming]

When I was in college, I took an epidemiology class where we had the opportunity to design and present a lesson on vaccines and how the immune system works for an audience of 11-13 year olds. (That was very fun BTW. We played IRL Among Us with diseases and I designed a video game inventory screen of the US Vaccine schedule for children and youth.) I also was repeatedly taught in my public health and policy classes how to write policy briefs, which require the ability to quickly explain very dense topics to a layman. This was taught to me as one of the most important things I could take away from my college education.

I work with kids aged 11-14 mostly in my current job and I have worked with kids as young as 5 in previous jobs and as old as 17-18 occasionally in supporting my peers. I do science education, education about the US college system, financial education, arts and writing education, etc. Being able to explain very dense topics to a layman, including elementary and middle school aged children, has in fact been the most important thing I have learned in school.

Adjust your messaging to your audience. Simplify the content of your message and present it in ways that won't cause your audience to tune out after 5 minutes.

[memecucker]

I feel like making fun of Mormons occupies a particular spot in the Evangelical psyche bc the criticisms are usually like “i dunno man i think he just made all that shit up you fucking idiots you know we can do archaeology at the place being talked about ooooooh look at that absolutely fucking nothing supports tour religious scriptures claim oopsie try again you fucking dumbasses like your really believing in some miracle only like six people saw braindead”

Like they use Mormons as an outlet to release their pent up, like, common sense?

[tpwrtrmnky]

we're trying a new branch of feminism called "diabolical feminism" where-

ok so bad news: diabolical feminism has already turned out to be disproportionately white and middle class. it happened SO fast this time. what the fuck

[tpwrtrmnky]

update: the diabolical feminists have now gotten sidetracked from writing examinations of the social structures of patriarchy, because one of them asked if lesbian bdsm was profane and feminist, or if it reinforces heterosexual gender norms and is therefore sanctified and antifeminist. it's over.

[bedupolker]

if youre wondering how things are going in america. This is for the exact same generic drug & dose in my zip code.

[viewtiful-kim-deactivated202105]

Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

[animatedamerican]

… I am unironically here for this

[oldfilmsflicker]

this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

[kabesattic]

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.

So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.

[spicedtealeaves]

A post about this went round recently, and I’m delighted to announce she’s since come out as trans and goes by Jasmine 🏳️‍⚧️

Jasmine Brimsmayd

Actor and Writer

There’s a whole series of the Hamlet videos on her YouTube, as well as a bunch of other films she’s made

[viewtiful-kim-deactivated202105]

Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

[animatedamerican]

… I am unironically here for this

[oldfilmsflicker]

this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

[kabesattic]

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.

So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.

[spicedtealeaves]

A post about this went round recently, and I’m delighted to announce she’s since come out as trans and goes by Jasmine 🏳️‍⚧️

Jasmine Brimsmayd

Actor and Writer

There’s a whole series of the Hamlet videos on her YouTube, as well as a bunch of other films she’s made

[ispyspookymansion]

being a horror fan will have you saying sentences such as “i liked it a lot, super gross and sad”

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

Also true crime

[ispyspookymansion]

no thats a different and worse thing i am not associated with you