The Randomest Sh!t

An eclectic collection of the fandoms I'm in, as well as trans things, obviously

[prof-grace-aspen]

Gender is fake, let's party

Anyway I think if a cis woman wants a beard she should get on T or buy some minoxidil and just go for it. I think if a cis woman doesn't want breasts she should cut 'em off. She should go topless at the beach, with or without breasts.

I think if a cis man wants breasts he should get on E and grow a pair. Buy breast forms and wear 'em around. Put on that sundress. Get electrolysis. He should wear a bikini to the beach without tucking.

No one can stop you and no one SHOULD.

I want to live in a world where you cannot tell by looking what someone's sex or gender is. You can't even assume. That person wearing a cute floral dress with boots, a beard, and a sunhat could be cis or trans or anything in between.

I want the world to be so thoroughly confusing that TERFs and radfems and gender criticals and transphobes won't know what to do.

Gender is fake. Let's party.

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

Image Description.

Facebook post from Matt Norris.

Post reads like a conversation between 2 people:

Prison labor is a problem we need to address soon.

Convicts in prison should have to work like the rest of us.

You mean like slavery?

No, we’re giving them 3 meals and a bed, at our expense, while they just sit around and watch TV. They should have to work!

Right. Like slavery.

It’s not like slavery!

Can they leave?

No.

Can they refuse work?

No.

So how exactly isn’t this slavery?

We DO pay them!

Do we pay in accordance with labor laws?

No. We pay them between 33 cents and $1.41/hour with a maximum daily wage below $5, then take up to half of that as room&board fees and victim compensation.

Right. So like slavery.

BUT.

No.

Image then links to this url.

How much do incarcerated people earn in each state?

Prison wages come up again and again in the context of prison conditions and policies. So, we found the most up-to-date information for each

Below URL image reads “fun bonus fact: enough of our labor market currently relies on labor at these depressed rates, that it has a substantial downward pressure on both wages and job availability in low-skilled sectors. Immigrants aren’t taking your jobs. Slavery is.

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I’d also like to add it’s not just private prisons. It’s also private detention centers where ICE keeps the immigrants.

-fae

[regicide1997]

The constitution even acknowledges that it’s still slavery

[brunhiddensmusings]

a hefty chunk of items with that ‘made in america’ sticker are in fact made by prison labor at the very least anything that is a product of prison labor should be required to have a similar sticker to inform consumers they are taking part of this system, which is difficult to track because prison made manufactured goods include almost the entire uniform of a US soldier, road construction in most southern states, and agricultural goods sold in most stores

this…. looks familliar

[mushimononoke]

Prison is just covert slavery and that’s why they wanna keep so many black people in there for the smallest offences.

This is insane

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

(Just to clarify, I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m just giving you more information because you’re right, and I like your blog, and I want you to have sources in case you need them.)

It’s not even covert. It’s blatant and overt. It’s even called slavery in the constitution.

“Slavery is illegal except as punishment for a crime.”

The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

SECTION. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, sh

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

People just don’t care because they think it’s all murderers and rapists, despite the fact that the number of violent criminals in jail is so small it might as well be negligible.

Incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

As of September 30, 2009 in federal prisons, 7.9% of sentenced prisoners were incarcerated for violent crimes,[39] while at year end 2008 of sentenced prisoners in state prisons, 52.4% had been jailed for violent crimes.[39] In 2002 (latest available data by type of offense), 21.6% of convicted inmates in jails were in prison for violent crimes. Among unconvicted inmates in jails in 2002, 34% had a violent offense as the most serious charge. 41% percent of convicted and unconvicted jail inmates in 2002 had a current or prior violent offense; 46% were nonviolent recidivists.[46]

It’s literally slavery, just dumbass racists and capitalists don’t care enough to figure out why we’re calling it that.

-fae

[eddiemunsonsmiddlefingers]

Oh fun, brain has decided this term is over now.

No brain. No. Two weeks to go you stupid asshole.

[xx-skullheartz-xx]

I hate carrying around this hand in my pocket cause its rlly fragile ughhhh.... one of its nails is chipping off rn. its also rlly sticky for some reason

[xx-skullheartz-xx]

CERAMIC HAND. CERAMIC HAND. FROM ART CLASS. I PROMISE YOU I AM NOT CARRYING A DETACHED HUMAN HAND AROUND THE SCHOOL HALLS

[xx-skullheartz-xx]

do you all think that i kill. that i am capable of taking a life. of amputating a hand. do you. do you.

[xx-skullheartz-xx]

oh sure, call apollo upon our fragile souls. let him burn me to smithereens with his prophetic words.

[here-there-everyfuckenwhere]

Thinking about how Fall Out Boy said “I swear I’d burn the city down to show you the light” and how My Chemical Romance said “if I could be with you tonight I would sing you to sleep, never let them take the light behind your eyes” and how Gym Class Heroes said “I know I’m young but if I had to choose her or the sun I’d be one nocturnal son of a gun” and how The Killers said “I don’t mind if you don’t mind, cause I don’t shine if you don’t shine” and how All Time Low said “I’d kill for one more day to tell you how you make me better every day”

Nobody does romance quite like lyricists from early 2000s emo bands huh..

[universalequalityisinevitable]

[universalequalityisinevitable]

Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.

[ebonykalokoh]

Brilliant

[unapologeticexistence]

Spot on. Like Coretta Scott King said, I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

[megpie71]

Boosting signal

[gender-luster]

people from this country are cool as fuck and i love them

[chunkecheeks]

type “i am” in the tags and whatever comes up first is your new mandatory kin

[floatygirlii]

I am best girl🌸

[eastern-lights]

…

[deanwasalwaysbi]

[atransboywithfeelings]

[cloudsinsummertime]

hot take: hrt, gender therapy and trans surgeries should be free

[cloudsinsummertime]

if cis people don’t have to pay to have a body that doesn’t make them dysphoric, neither should trans people

[daisto-deactivated20181027]

So by that logic does that mean that I should get anti-depressants and all the other pills for my mental issues for free because the people who don’t suffer from them don’t have to pay to have them?

[cloudsinsummertime]

yes

[fun-with-colors]

And does that mean that corrective lenses should also be free, because people with good vision don’t need to pay to see clearly, and that devices to aid in mobility for people with limited mobility (from crutches to (practical) canes to wheelchairs to prosthetics) should also be free, because people who don’t have limited mobility don’t need to pay for them?

[cloudsinsummertime]

yes? why does everyone in the notes keep trying to come up with gotchas lmao everything to do with healthcare should be free

[tabbytheravioli]

Then by that logic, healthy food and clean water should be free because without food and water we will die. Also, without water, hygiene will be minimal therefore increasing the chances of disease.

[bintilleil-deactivated20200510]

Yes. People should have access to a healthy happy life and the whole point of a society is to support eachother and work together. how brainwashed by capitalism are you to think food and water shouldn’t be free in an ideal world.

[cherryseltzer]

this post is such a wild ride every time. ‘so by this logic, people should have free access to the things they need to live and survive?????????’ like yes bitch, all of it !!!

[atransboywithfeelings]

if you didn't pay for whatever is causing the problem, you shouldn't have to pay for the solution. gender-affirming care, mental health care, vision care, healthy food and clean water, LITERALLY ANY OF THE THINGS WE AS HUMANS NEED TO SURVIVE HAPPILY AND HEALTHILY

the concept is very simple besties, and there's more than enough money in the world to accomplish it

[souperboy]

you know in ep 1 when charlie tackles nick and then nick's telling him to get up and try it while he's actually moving and charlie says "im going to die" yeah quick poll is that because he's too small and weak for rugby or because he's too gay for that much physical contact with nick nelson and is just now realizing because he's done it once

[eddiemunsonsmiddlefingers]

I automatically assumed it was the physical contact from the start, tbh. XD

[atransboywithfeelings]

i thought it was a combination of both, because i myself am both too small and weak for rugby and too gay for that much physical contact with nick nelson XD

[atransboywithfeelings]

Okay but i'll never be clever the way some people just are, and it's specifically because of the way my brain works.

I don't have word-brain-thoughts, it's literally just vibes and then I spew some bullshit that vaguely resembles the vibes and hope you all understand it .

It's the exact same reason I'm slow with regurgitating facts or definitions. The words aren't words in my brain, they're mounds of connections to other words that are equally as much just mounds of connections. And oftentimes the connections aren't even TO other words, just,,, emotions or sensory experiences.

It's also the reason I over-explain sometimes: the words my mouth produces don't fully match the vibes my brain is trying to communicate, and I really want whoever I'm communicating with to understand, but I'm afraid they won't because the words don't match.

So yeah that's how my brain works. Uh. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk I guess lol

[demilypyro]

Imagine having the money to solve world hunger and just not doing it. What kind of person acts like that. Why would you not want to be "the guy who solved world hunger"

[demilypyro]

If you solved world hunger you could spend the rest of your life having as shitty of a personality as you want. You'd still be the guy who solved world hunger. Nobody would be able to criticize after that. Why would you not

[demilypyro]

We are not speaking in hypotheticals here

[headspace-hotel]

I am glad that bee hummingbirds hatch nests of eggs each smaller than a pea. I am glad that there are oceans two miles deep where fishes unknown to science glow like fireflies.

I am glad that the crumbs taken from my bedroom are returned to tiny cities built by ants, and that the thunder of the storms rolling in from the north trembles in my chest when it is still a ways off. Hello, says the world, you are so little. Hello, says the world, you are so big.

[atransboywithfeelings]

shirtless gwaine make brain go brrrrrrrr

[comradeclodius]

Very bold of us all to assume Gandalf has a gender and adheres to the modern gender binary

[curse-you]

pippin at 3am: pretty fucked up that we assume gandalf is a man. they’re a maia. merry? wake up merry. listen. they’re sexless.

[teaboot]

gandalf at 3am: I identify as Tired, peregrin took

[regularlesbian]

fun fact: any policy on drugs that isn’t harm reduction is going to cause addicts to suffer and die

[uncanney]

fun fact: Drug addiction is a public health issue, and approaching it as if it were a law enforcement issue is prejudicial to addicts and will result in their suffering and death

[jumpingjacktrash]

if you just assume addiction is a method of self-medicating, you’ll pretty much never be wrong.

now, not everything people self-medicate for actually has a proper treatment. i’m pretty sure the reason my uncle made sure to be slightly drunk at all times ‘to round the sharp corners off of things’ was sensory processing disorder. i have that too, and i just kind of accept that i’m going to randomly get my brain sandpapered from time to time. there is no medication for that. all you can do is dull your senses. i’ve chosen not to, but i can’t blame him for his decisions. when a ringing phone feels like getting hit upside the head with a frying pan, liver damage sounds like a fair price to pay.

anyway, it seems really self-evident to me that people don’t enjoy living the life of an addict, they do it because the alternative looks worse. people don’t get addicted to substances just for funsies. they start making a habit of taking something because of insomnia, or grief, or headaches, or depression, or seething undirected rage and terror they can’t put a name to – something that they can’t ignore or shrug off. and for whatever reason – lack of access, lack of knowlege, lack of money, or it just plain doesn’t exist – they aren’t able to apply the Approved Correct Remedy. they use what they can get.

addicts aren’t some weird otherfolk who inexplicably just Do Drugs because they’re Bad. addicts are you with a problem you can’t solve.

[mikkeneko]

these facts aren’t fun but they are pretty important

[owlet]

the word “queer” being used by someone who uses that word to describe their own experience of love and their cherished community should not ever sound the same to you as it does coming out of the mouth of a homophobe. acting like these two types of people are the same is unbelievably cruel

[changelingfangs]

^^^

Adding on once again: there is no word for our experiences that has not been used as a slur and isn't *still* used as a slur.

My mother never said fag but she sure could say "gay" in a way that made it clear that was what she meant 🙃

[alarajrogers]

“Homosexual” in the mouth of a Southern Republican US Senator is more vile than “faggot” in the mouth of a 50-year-old gay man from Seattle, where they made an attempt at one point to reclaim the word. (Unlike queer, it didn’t really work.)

Hell. “Those people” in the mouth of a homophobic mom to a closeted gay teen is probably fouler than either of those.