local emo ghost

Atlas | 25 | he/him | bisexual trans guy | atheist that believes in religious freedom | ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45293752 | pfp: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1868017

[girlwithlandscape]

“I Saw the TV Glow” (2024)

[dramatic-dolphin]

i love declining birth rates 🥰 "what a horrible problem! society will collapse!" oopsie it looks like you're gonna have to make having children worth it 😊 teehee you're gonna have to improve society in order to fix this problem, or it will all collapse. oh noooooo. how horrible. :3c

[love-ardour-anarchism]

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.

[skronklpus]

Bojack reference

[atlasisntdead]

Huh, as more time passes after I cut off my abuser, it seems like I'm moving from AVPD to PPD. Wonder if this is a common experience?

[atlasisntdead]

When you're in a competition for never moving on from anything but your oponent is me

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[xhcoffee]

I made this AO3 skin just ‘cause I’ve been listening to Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS🎧I just wanna scream every day…

[arc-angel-o]

@atlasisntdead

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

Clip of Lucy Dacus on the Las Culturistas podcast.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Speaking as a childhood Harry Potter fan, the enduring persistence of its popularity including amongst adults is 100% because it is slop without substance.

It flirts with the idea of rebellion and emancipation from slavery but ultimately discredits those notions by having the rebel leader become a lead cop in the institution that was repressing him and by making emancipation seem silly.

It reflects the chauvinisms of a British aristocrat who offers an impossible narrative of an abused child escaping abuse through the purity of their Aryan magic blood. It’s a fantasy that doesn’t even pretend to offer catharsis or self-actualization, merely hundreds of pages of occasionally racist drivel about a special little boy who joins the SS after reforming them from the inside.

That’s why it has maintained such reverence - because it doesn’t actually offer a subversive story but the aesthetic of one while reflecting the conservative biases of the author. It speaks to a certain liberal perspective that is progressive only so far as the oppressed don’t hurt their feelings.

[therottenkingsreckoning]

I hate current & historical colonization for all the obvious reasons of course, but also it makes me so fucking mad that we'll never get to see what a modern version of The Americas or Australia or the UK or Africa or any other places whose history was massively altered by slavery & foreign takeover would be like if they'd instead been left alone to develop and enter the global trade network as their own fully respected and sovereign nations. I wanna know how similar or different a fully Pictish modern Scotland would be, a surviving and prospering Caddo people still living on the Great Raft's ecosystem, what cool things the native people in Aoteoroa would've come up with if we'd just let them do it in peace and on their own terms. You get what I mean

[bonivers]

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

[secondbeatsongs]

if you really cared about me you wouldn't have to ask

[ilovesherlock]

I love the internet because someone decided to ship regina george and rodrick heffley on a random monday and everyone agreed

[decadentqueentidalwave]

"Theyfab is a slur against trans men!"

And nonbinary people, right?

...

...

...and nonbinary people, right?!?

[carapaced]

imo the reason that theyfab actually “works” as a slur is that it’s meant as an insult to nonbinary ppl because of its inherent derision for anyone seen as “not trying as hard” to pass as a binary gender, and its assumption that enben are somehow less trans because of this. So, first and foremost, it’s a slur against nonbinary ppl.

The myth around trans men is that they pass as a binary gender soooooo much easier and more quickly/reliably than trans women, so, when ppl who feel this way see trans men who do not pass, are gnc, or who are not making efforts to be stealth/100% pass as a cis man, the assumption is that (just like nonbinary ppl), they aren’t “really” trans, just sort of trans lite.

TLDR: It’s only an insult for trans men because of the idea that comparing them to nonbinary ppl is calling their transness into question

[syn4k]

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

[joyflameball]

[thememedaddy]

[theanoncollective]

You'll see pseudo-marxists on here talk about how material analysis is important and then they'll proceed to say something along the lines of "transgender men have systemic male privilege and privilege over cis women" as if that's based in any material reality of the systemic conditions transgender men face.

If you were able to transition out of systemic misogyny into systemic male privilege, the patriarchy would not exist as we know it. Cisgender women would just be able to transition into transgender men and not only face zero consequences, but be rewarded for it too. Looking at the academic literature out there though, the actual material reality is that transgender men tend to have worse outcomes than cisgender women in almost every field— from sexual violence to amount paid to ability to access healthcare.

An actual Marxist material analysis of transgender men under our system would understand that while some of the most privileged in the community can get some very conditional male privilege off of the basis of being mistaken as cis men; however that doesn't equate to systemic access and the overwhelming majority of transgender men have never benefited from this and never will. Actual material analysis would acknowledge that transgender men outside the global north exist and face much harsher conditions and barriers to transition that transgender men in the west do not. Actual material analysis would note that transgender men, while men as in the gender identity, are never let into the group of men as a social class. Actual material analysis would note that transgender men are much more likely to be working class, unemployed, or in poverty than cisgender people and need extra support under capitalist systems that don't cater to them. Actual material analysis would be noting that there are not any transgender men who are in positions of significant political power, and if they were accepted as men (the socialpolitical class) they would be overrepresented into positions of power and privilege as opposed to consistently erased and left to die.

An intersectional, Marxist analysis of the material reality of transgender men would see them as a marginalized group who is disproportionately burdened and erased within our society— a group that has no access to systemic patriarchal or capitalistic power in any way.