That One Commie

Maria/Hawthorn, 1995, worlds first transmasc trans woman Not going to coddle men or white people, suck it up

[arthropodrespecter]

feels like every november i write a song

[porcelain-dollbones]

i don't really like it when western mythological terms are applied haphazardly to essentially unrelated ideas. this is a completely lost battle but a lóng is really not a dragon, it is its own thing with only surface level similarities

[porcelain-dollbones]

i especially dislike many works that try to fold all sorts of different mythologies into a single consistent schema because they tend to heavily privilege western conceptions in doing so- see 'dragonology' books twisting basically every mythical reptilian under the sun into the mould of 'a species of dragon', implicitly centring the beowulf-style firebreather as the default from which all other mythologies derive, or basically anything that does worldwide vampire bloodlines

[porcelain-dollbones]

relatedly a qílín is not a unicorn, a fènghuáng is not a phoenix, and a jiāngshī is not a vampire, and it can impede understanding when they're approached from the standpoint of being the 'chinese version' of these concepts from western myth

[acoolguy]

cyberpunk construction worker: hey maybe for this building let’s not put a bunch of hexagons on it?

cyberpunk architect: shut the fuck up

[arthropodrespecter]

wild how religious people are missing out on the fact that everything came from the stars. like that's science and it's more incredible and wonderful than any creation myth i have ever heard.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

the problem with being a knight errant girl is that there are just SO MANY neglected princesses in the kingdom & it gets overwhelming trying to rescue all of them from peril AND ravish them all. i don't even have a fucking noble steed. fuck me

[arthropodrespecter]

>knight

>no steed

prithee find thy way to the Woman-At-Arms guild, they accept even the destitute and the hedgeborn.

provided your arm can keep up, that is.

[sforzzz]

i agree that kids deserve and need more access to HRT earlier in life should they desire to transition but i really hate that the main argument in favor of it is "we need to have people transition earlier before PERMANENT IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE makes it so they can NEVER EVER look like their desired gender and they'll be FOREVER UGLY AND CLOCKY"

[sforzzz]

like i just want more bodily autonomy for everyone why do we gotta frame it like this

[crabussy]

really fond of humans just from an appearance standpoint. the long legs. the manes of hair that can come in practically any colour and texture. those crazy high-contrast eyes with the white scleras and colourful irises. the fingers being so much longer than the toes. there's a lot to love. solid 10/10 animal species

[devotedgossamerreader]

hey there just out of curiosity are you not human, too?

[crabussy]

hilariously enough, I am probably the most human out of anyone on this entire site. earlier today I was posting about getting "species euphoria" from doing human activities like ecosystem management. I'm the worlds first therian to have a kintype that aligns with his biological species. shirt that says "I ❤️ being a sapient omnivorous primate & bipedal persistence predator" on the front and booty shorts that say "largest gluteal muscles to body size ratio on the planet"

[lesvegas]

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

[lesvegas]

literally how it feels

[welpnotagain]

[arthropodrespecter]

lenin is the 7th most translated author of all time

[arthropodrespecter]

i was at a charity book shop in chorlton the other day and i saw this

[arthropodrespecter]

NOT WITHOUT YOU ★ Anthology

An anthology of transformative artwork, comics, and stories.

they raised $80k for stucky

[arthropodrespecter]

i was at a charity book shop in chorlton the other day and i saw this

[arthropodrespecter]

he's scared

[hollowistheworld]

I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.

[saveaboud]

THIS MAY BE MY LAST TIME HERE.

If you hate Israel, repost this.

[saveaboud]

I may die after being thrown out of a hospital in Gaza today. My only crime is that there is no treatment available for me.

[saveaboud]

My little siblings will die after me. Please donate to help cover the cost of my treatment in a private hospital.

Chuffed • PayPal • Verified

[aboud-lives]

Please share my story and speak about my suffering.

[servuscallidus]

I'm going to *remembers suicide is often not a desire for death itself but rather an attempt to radically change one's life because the current state of being has become unbearable but the person can't think of any way to change it other than death* kill myself

[ivyroseiris]

I think leftists need to refer to the United States as a slave (nation) 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

[quitblamingnarcissism]

Your parents are not "narcissists". They're typical authoritarian assholes who treat you like their property because society allows them to.

Your ex boyfriend is not a "narcissist". He's a typical misogynistic douchebag who treats women like shit because society allows him to.

Your boss is not a "narcissist". They're a typical classist dipshit who thinks workers' entire purpose in life is to generate profit because society allows them to.

And even if they happen to be a "narcissist", that's not what gave them the power to get away with abuse.

So stop blaming mental illness and start blaming society's normalization of abuse. Stop acting like someone has to have a mental illness in order to do something cruel when ordinary people have been doing atrocious things since forever.

[arthropodrespecter]

your parents are also not "authoritarian" because that's a meaningless word. they are in positions of authority over their children because their children don't have human rights.