perpetual disarray

שלום בימינו • he/it •✡️• banner image from @femur-bandit

[butchtoks]

[astra-the-dragon]

everybody say "thank you Jews for Spock"

[astra-the-dragon]

every time a Trekkie uses the "vulcan salute" I think they should pay me, personally, $18

[playwrongs]

Part of me does wonder a bit why the Pre-Raphaelites and their descendants had such a hard-on for rendering things. Take the architectural paintings of Henry Roderick Newman, an American Pre-Raphaelite (yes, there were a few of those);

Tumblr may crush the quality of those, so I’m going to zoom in on a few details here—

He has individually rendered every discolored, separate tile on the facade of the Duomo in Florence…

And this relief of Isis is divided into discrete blocks of stone. He’s drawn every outline.

Now, the effect is very crisp and sharp and beautiful, but I feel like this is a great way to drive yourself to madness! What was the point of working like this? How long did it take Newman to complete each of these? I mean, dear god.

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Embolemus nearcticus!

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This is another very ant-like wasp. And that may very well be on purpose, as the (wingless) females are most often found within ant nests and the burrows of small mammals. This family in general is poorly understood and rarely encountered. What I personally find most interesting is their face shape— it reminds me more of a grasshopper than anything I've seen among wasps!

[waspdaily]

Can't a girl burrow in peace

[apocalypseweather]

i want jewish emojis. mezuzah emoji to put at the start of all my posts. menorah emoji. pomegranate GOD i wish there were a pomegranate emoji. !! HAMANTASH EMOJI.

[sidlingmooselike]

I have a menorah 🕎 and the magen david ✡️ but I would like more. Give me emoji Torah scrolls. Give me the option to have a little guy with a kippah and tallit.

(At least I have a temple! I can put my little guy by it) 💁🏻‍♂️🕍

[apocalypseweather]

I forgot about the 🕎! AND THERES A TEMPLE EMOJI?? 🕍🕍🕍I'm in love.

[smsomah]

Masonjoany in Nosy Be, Madagascar. Christian Vaisse

[afroobeans]

Two sisters playing football before sunset. Salakta, Tunisia. Via afroobeans

[the-squished]

Silly Dragon Flight Rising Comms for $5 USD

I've recently not been able to get a job, and I need to make money to help support me through my next year of college. So, I have found the best way for me to do that is by making some silly dragon doodles in good old mspaint and selling them for commissions. You can get them on my Ko-fi or find them on the flight rising art thread I've made .Thank you again for all the support it means a lot to me :]

[enderhasentered]

I think that the lack of aromantic spaces that aren't also asexual is a function of both amatonormativity and purity culture.

Either you're having sex for love, or you're a wh*re

So aroallo people struggle to proudly exist because we're labeled "shallow" or "unavailable" when we don't fit into the lines drawn for us, without us.

We're just as real and just as normal as anyone else, but the constant shame surrounding sex pushes us to label ourselves wrong.

I cannot be the only person who labelled myself aroace despite knowing it wasn't true because I was scared of what others may think of me, even in my own communities.

Well that's bullshit. I'm not going to live in the closet because of others' ignorance. I want to be loud and honest and maybe if I'm lucky, I can help someone else feel just a little bit less alone.

You don't have to be afraid of who you are. Who you are is cool as fuck.

[aromanticofficial]

official aromantic post

[crabdominalpain]

Analog Horror Kaiju Concept: Cambrian A Quiet Kaiju who's roar sounds of Deep Sea vents. Its shell extends infinitely upward, always looking right at you. No building damage, simply grabs people off the streets and in their homes with its thousands pf appendages.

[nexya]

every bioware animation

back of the head scratch

a character shaking their head in disbelief or disgust with hand on their forehead, looking down

that kiss animation used since origins and in every mass effect game where they very slowly go in, hesitate, bop their heads around, and really go in for the kiss 

when a character, usually female, talks and puts their two hands in front of them like a robot and shakes them to illustrate their point

a character leans back on one leg with their arms loose

the exit-stage-right an NPC does after a conversation ends

angry limp wrist pointing

neck/collar bone scratch 

a slow crossing of the arms in times of suspicion

that punch animation 

drinking alcohol and violently shaking head

a character gives a half smile with an eyebrow raised

pointing behind with thumb, body turns very slightly

[nexya]

[sals-things]

I can never watch a conversation again without this post following me around

[niiix-archive]

I’ll just leave this here…

[omgsolas]

DONT FORGET THE HUNCHED OVER STOMPING WALK THAT THEY DO IN LIKE EVERY CUT SCENE WHERE THEY WALK UP TO SOMETHING

[severalowls]

Bioware did one hour-long mocap session for knights of the old republic in 2003 on a budget of $3.25 and never again since.

[cowboypsyop]

[evergreen-femme]

im just so happy i live in a time period where actual meaningful biological transition is possible. even if we lose rights or the ability to exist in public, nothing can turn back the clock on that, and just by having any sort of access to that our lives are made immensely better. millions of our sisters throughout history would never have dreamed of a day where they could have what HRT does for us.

please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.

[t4t4t]

תפילה להפך – מאבן בֹחן | Prayer for Transformation, from the poem "Even Boḥan" by Rabbi Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir (1322) • the Open Si

A prayer by Kalonymus b. Kalonymus ben Meir that appears in his poem ספר אבן בוחן, יג Sefer Even Boḥan (§13), describing the author's wish t

[unabashedllamamusic]

Cursed be the one who announced to my father: “It’s a boy!"... ...How could he twist the course of the stars so much? How could he have erred so in his astrology? A lying tongue, a fool’s mouth it had given him For he foolishly transformed justice to poison He altered the law and transposed the lines

Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead – a worthy woman... ...I would say "how lucky am I"

Father in heaven who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water... ...Who would then transform me from a man to woman? Were I only to have merited this being so graced by goodness...

What shall I say? why cry or be bitter? If my father in heaven has decreed upon me and has maimed me with an immutable deformity then I do not wish to remove it. the sorrow of the impossible is a human pain that nothing will cure and for which no comfort can be found. So, I will bear and suffer until I die and wither in the ground. Since I have learned from our tradition that we bless both, the good and the bitter I will bless in a voice hushed and weak: blessed are you [HaShem] who has not made me a woman.

I think I'm gonna go lay down for a little while.

[jochi-the-veristithaylen-baker]

In seven days, on the 30th of May, it is Christine Jorgenson's 100th birthday.

She was one of the first widely known transgender women who had sex reassignment surgery and hormone replacement therapy, starting around 1951.

The endocrinologist who administered the HRT was named Christian Hamburger, and in 1953 he published the first academic report about "hormonal, psychiatric, and surgical treatment".

And 3 days ago, on the 20th of May 2026, it was the 141th birthday of Karl M. Baer, who was the first person documented to have received sex reassignment surgery. He was a German Jew, born in 1885, and had surgery in 1906, and full legal gender recognition in 1907.

Tragically, we don't have any details about the surgery, because his medical records were burned by the Nazis in 1933 along with the rest of the books and records of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sexual Research).

120 years of modern bottom surgery, and 75-100 years of HRT. So long time. But also, so short, compared to the thousands of years of transgender people altering their bodies and appearance away from the genders assumed at their birth.

[parasives]

They call me the Wasp Whisperer

[murrrchq]

you are my solution

[astra-the-dragon]

what most of the "fuck Israel" crowd sound like:

"I don't hate Blacks, I only hate rappers. Rap is all about violence and misogyny, all rappers are rapists too. Actually it's racist to call a Black person a rapper! Look at the lyrics to this famous rap song, it's celebrating drugs and hookers, and this one, the rapper is talking about murdering his parents in graphic detail. You cannot normalize rap culture even a little, anyone who performs with a rapper is a misogynist and probably a drug dealer too. Did you know that some of the really big rap labels get involved with politics? Yeah, they control so much of media, every person in a position of power is forced to support rap. Also, I heard all of this directly from anti-rap Blacks. Yeah, the Black Voice for Sobriety."

(I'm well aware a lot of anti-Black racism *is* this digusting, but this post is about antisemitism and zionism)

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[genuinenoprize]

My favorite example of this is the original arcade game of Pac-Man. One of the most Shapes And Colors pieces of pop culture made from the explicit desire to be broadly appealing, maybe the closest game to what people consider apolitical besides something like Tetris (which, would be a whole other post on why the making of Tetris has huge political implications, I'm not kidding).

Starting with what's in the game you'd have to ask, why is it about a Pac Man? Why is he chased by/eating ghosts? Male as default on an otherwise uncharacterized shape avatar is obviously a political aspect but really, why ghosts? For one thing this variant of "bedsheet ghost" is internationally recognized as a mythological character in a way that yokai or selkie or bigfoots just wouldn't be in the pre-web arcade era. But was it ok to represent dead loved ones as edible cannon fodder? Isn't the afterlife a touchy subject for a lot of demographics? Even in the simplest media, real ideas about real stuff creeps in around it.

That brings me to why Pac-Man is my favorite example of how politics happen in a work that seems apolitical: The hero being a Pac-Man is the tip of the iceberg of the game's gender politics. Toru Iwatani's whole idea of a game that was more about gameplay communicated thru simple shapes that do the fundamental human activity of eating was meant as a direct counterpoint to the spaceship/airplane/military games and boxing/martial art/tough guy revenge quest games that were filling arcades and trying to appeal to a boy's demographic. In other words, Pac-Man succeeded because women liked it.