all skinned knees & gapped teeth

Ari. She/her. Gay train wreck. “Your beauty can’t be covered by insecurities. I hope the same truth would still hold true for me, ‘cause I drowned in mine.”

[torteen]

[aibidil]

Why ‘female-presenting nipples’ matter

When I was 10, my mom made me wear a bra and it felt like a punishment for being different.

When I was 10, I took the bra off when changing for gymnastics and accidentally dropped it in the school hallway. A teacher picked it up and said, “Oh, this must belong to you” and handed it back to me in front of everyone. I quit gymnastics.

When I was 11, I thought maybe the boobs would be okay so long as they didn’t get any bigger than would fit in my hand, so I kept measuring it, but they did.

When I was 12, I started wearing two or three sports bras to smush them down, until one day a classmate said, “Are you wearing two bras?!” while laughing.

When I was 13, a boy told me he wanted to squeeze my boobs “until they popped.”

When I was 14, I got cast in a play as an older character and a classmate told me I got the role because I had boobs.

When I was 17, my mom told me to return a swimsuit because it would be too distracting for my boyfriend’s father.

When I was 21, I got properly fitted for a bra and everyone felt the need to tell me how much better my boobs looked.

When I was 26, I got pregnant and my immediate fear was that my boobs would get bigger.

When I was 28, I got shamed for trying to feed my screaming baby in public without a cover.

When I was 28, people asked me “why are you bothering to use a breastfeeding cover?”

When I was 30, people gave me weird looks that I wasn’t yelling at my kid for putting their hand on my boob.

When I was 31, I avoided going to the beach or pool because I didn’t want to have to deal with boobs in a swimsuit.

When I was 32, I got asked, again, “why don’t you get a breast reduction?”

When I was 33, I watched a 5yo girl get shamed for running around in sweltering heat without a shirt on and had to reprimand a bunch of tween boys who thought it was okay to shame her for doing something they do all the time.

When I was 34, my kid kept patting my breast and saying “Mommy’s squishy breast!!” They will never see me express any shame about tits, because I want them to have a different mindset than I had. Yes, boobs are nice! They’re squishy! They’re fun! That’s the end of that.

I’m 35 and no longer give a fuck. I don’t care anymore. As a teenager my tits were covered in stretch marks. They’ve been engorged with milk. My nipple changed shape with pregnancy. Give it another couple decades and my breasts will probably be all wrinkly. It’s sexual when I’m using it sexually. I don’t fucking care, and I won’t be ashamed anymore. 

Every time a policy or cultural hangup treats people with breasts differently, it fucks us over. 

Tumblr’s new policy makes an active choice to participate in this culture of shame. By classifying “female-presenting nipples” as explicit material, Tumblr has taken a stance that any chest or breast that differs from a male default is worthy of shame and unavoidably sexual. The idea that breasts are shameful and unavoidably sexual is exactly what fucked me up for so much of my life.

Stop shaming people for having bodies. 

[lettersbyelise]

I’ve been seething in rage thinking of this all day and @aibidil put into words what was reeling in my mind.

Our bodies are not porn.

[billysquirrel]

@staff

[dedalvs]

How do you think I can find out what gender my nipples are?

Thank you for bringing this question to me. Much like chick sexing, determining nipple gender is a difficult and hotly debated issue. In the United States prior to 1896, specialists were paid thousands of dollars to sex nipples, so to speak, until it was revealed that most were charlatans that had no idea what they were doing. One would make a run of the western territories for a bit until another came along that claimed to have some sort of contraption required for nipple sexing, and then the first would claim that one was only 96% effective and that his new contraption was 99.9% effective, and so on it would go. Truth be told many people have lived and died without ever know how their own nipples presented.

With the advent of black light, determining nipple gender presentation became a relatively simple matter, though it still requires some expertise. By shining a black light on the nipple, a word is revealed on the underside of the nipple in the areola—if you’ll allow me to demonstrate with this male-presenting nipple diagram:

Now, of course, the word itself is not in English, but in Latvian, for reasons which should be obvious, which means you’ll have to consult a Latvian dictionary or native Latvian speaker to determine what gender your nipple is presenting. That shouldn’t be too difficult in the modern internet era, though.

Back to your original question, if you’re like me, you neither have a black light nor ready access to a fluent speaker of Latvian (well, I mean, I do, but I no longer need her services, as I long ago determined the gender presentation of my nipples. I don’t think I would have survived my 20s had I not known). But worry not! The encoding remains even on images of nipples. Thus, all you need to do is the following:

Take a photograph of your nipple (the closer the better, as the writing is small).

Post it here on Tumblr.

Have as many people as possible reblog it in hopes of finding someone with a black light.

Have the black light holding individual shine a black light on the screen and take a screen shot and post that.

Reblog until you find a Latvian speaker who can tell you the gender presentation of your nipple.

Simple as that!

Now, under ordinary circumstances, both nipples will present the same gender, but in 15% to 20% of cases, an individual set of nipples will present different genders. In case you are one of the 15% to 20%, it makes sense to put up images of both nipples—just to be certain.

Now if the black light doesn’t reveal a Latvian word, there may be a chance that the particular black light used falls outside of the nipple gender presentation revelation spectrum (certain common varieties of black light used by clubs in the 90s are like this, as they were very cheaply made. You get what you pay for!), so if the black light doesn’t reveal anything, don’t fret! It just means you need to find someone else with a higher quality black light. Soon your nipples’ gender presentation will be revealed, and you’ll be able to rest easy—unless your nipple gender presentation changes (which can happen every 20-30 years).

Thank you for question, and best of luck!

[ariannecrow]

help I’ve fallen into ACO and I can’t get out

[frodo-baggins]

I’m the Commander. No one fights for me.

[nerdjpg]

Mom: hey did you call the doctors office and make your appointment

Me:

[weasal]

@entirelytookeen

[officialdiagnosis]

someone: you forgot to eat? how?? aren’t you starving?

me: I don’t know I can’t feel anything

[its-me-ya-girl-deactivated20200]

I’m so hype for Harley content that doesn’t involve her being the clown’s punching bag

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I am very much here for Margot Robbie’s Absolute Hatred of Harley/Joker and getting her as far away from him as possible

[victorsatoru]

[weasal]

WERK

[gramjams]

You forgot the best one…

[rytfujgkuhhgmjgh]

actually the best part of the lotr cast commentary is getting to hear about sir ian mckellen’s gay agenda

[rytfujgkuhhgmjgh]

i phrased this as a joke because it is pretty funny but its also worth reading what he said:

IAN: When I suggested to Sean that he took Elijah’s hand it was because I thought anyone who knew the book would care about the deep friendship, often of an innocently physical nature, and that might’ve been missed by two resolutely heterosexual actors who mightn’t appreciate that gay people like myself saw in a touch something perhaps more meaningful than others might. So to persuade him to touch Elijah, I’d say, “Well look, it’s in the book.”

[Sean & Elijah in a separate recording] SEAN: Ian brought the book to me right before we shot it and he said, “Now look here, it says that Sam runs over and grabs Frodo’s hand,” he said. “The fans of the book are going to want to see that.” I sort of—I believed it, and I got a fan letter the other day that a neighbor friend handed to me, and it said how much it meant to her that Sam holds Frodo’s hand at that moment because it was something that she—it was one of the most important moments to her in the book. ELIJAH: Oh, that’s fantastic. It’s those subtle little nuances, man. SEAN: So thank you Ian. ELIJAH: That’s unbelievable.

[ruinedchildhood]

[becksofhouseblackadder]

It’s too much, go back! Go back! 😂 😂

[ruinedchildhood]

[ariannecrow]

[susiephone]

i don’t know if anne hathaway and keira knightley playing vintage girlfriends in a period piece with a good soundtrack and pretty cinematography is what i need, but i feel like it’s what i deserve

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

a collection of underrated tweets, part 4

(the series)

[kathsbishops]

lexa + hands

[postapocalypticcandlehoe]

This is Elyza Lex as fuck.

[rivertalesien]

Post-Apoc Super Model Zombie Killer Doing It For Her People Because Life Is About More Than Just Surviving, Bitch.  

[teenagerposts]

their website is wearethorn.org