At the end of Everything, Hold on to Anything. Make it Last.

Thistle | They/Them | TMA | Fat Stone Butch Lesbian | White | 20s | 18+ but not nsfw | Kinda reclusive

[limitsontoday]

Hello everyone! My job is resuming operations two days from now, after a break that went on longer than I anticipated. I had not been able to find work during this time, and I am afraid I will need help once more.

Due to a mishap with the A/C months ago, I have been paying a hefty energy bill. I'll need $259 to pay this off this month.

Additionally, in the interest of minimizing the help I'll need, I'll also need $894 to pay the first part of my rent for July. With work resuming, I should be able to cover the rest.

I thank you all so much for the help you've given me so far!

ca: $pageofbreath

venmo: limitsontoday

paypal: on request!

[limitsontoday]

Thank you all for the help so far!

The energy bill is due a week from now.

20 / 1153

[limitsontoday]

Energy covered! Rent is coming up.

280 / 1153

[collemblogging]

megastructure fans

[cricketandmouse]

They’re passive aggressively cleaning each others faces in the banana bed rn

[cricketandmouse]

peace and love on planet earth….

[europe-abolitionist]

(popular leftist voice) these right wingers are so mad because they get no women. if you are a Good Person a woman will appear and suck your dick.

[ainecdote-remade-deactivated202]

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

[sloppity-bilepiper]

1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.

[vintagedean]

adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.

here's the intro

i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"

[ttaibhse]

i just simply can’t let that happen. i won’t allow it

[pmamtraveller]

Fate, by Hugo Lederer c.1905.

[kippwire]

my lesbian clown girls

[birlinterrupted]

a lot of the first wave of queer theorists (thinking here folks like Califia, Rubin) fell into a mistake where they looked at the ways that Stranger Danger and other forms of "protecting the child" from the shadowy figure of the pedophile, noticed that this was leveraged against gay people specifically, and then chose as a reaction to consider "boy love" (as it was usually called then) a sort of oppressed sexuality. I believe at this point, none of the currently living theorists who argued this still hold it, from what I understand.

So, what does that sort of lens miss? Some provisional thoughts:

The simple abolition of taboos across the board really has no liberatory meaning. A society with no adult-child sexuality taboo isn't inherently more liberated than the alternative - just look at Ancient Rome. Of course, many of those early gay people were actually very nostalgic for the non-Christian, more idiosyncratically open to homoeroticism mores of the Greco-Roman world. Regardless, as we can see, adult-child sexuality frequently fits into larger heirarchical models of social organization. One simply has to make the actual argument for why something is good - beyond simply that it rejects a current repression

Is the "Pedophile" socially sanctioned, marginalized, punished? Certainly, just as much as the "Rapist" as a category of person is socially sanctioned. Does that mean that child sexual abuse is? That seems to be much less the case. Child sexual abuse, like other forms of sexual coercion or exploitation, seems common enough to say that it is not fully condemned by society in some sense. Especially taking into consideration the likelihood of allegations of this really only sticking to or affecting disempowered people (see by contrast: the President).

Countenancing the psychiatrically constructed category of the "pedophile" and then arguing for its liberation reifies the modernist categorization method. A comparator might be less something like gay people or trans people, but if the DSM-6 had a paraphilic category called the "rapeophile" - someone who had an inborn sexual identity that meant they could only be attracted to people and have sex with unconsenting sex partners. Even if those put in the Rapeophile subgrouping were truly oppressed (say, diagnosis results in death sentences, no matter one's conduct), this wouldn't have anything to say about the underlying acts themselves. It would merely be an argument against the naturalization categories. It wouldn't really follow that we need to 'destigmatize rape'.

In any case, I think that this is one of the many traps of naturalized sexual identifications - if they were true, it might follow that there's really nothing morally actionable about someone's inborn disposition. But luckily, there's all sorts of queer and trans perspectives that reject this sort of re-affirmation of modern sexological and categorical systems.

[chortlebot]

before someone screenshots this and posts it elsewhere this is me

[clawcakes]

PREV TRUTH NUKE

[fagrrot]

starting to think some of yall arent serious bout finding beauty in the grotesque

[akashicrecord]

the lesbian computer from portal was right. given the circumstances ive been shockingly nice

[balisongbutch]

Rave later but I'm so fucking tired

[roundtop]

Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear so immediately that the two of you, on some level, belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you’re in love or creating things together or foxhole buddies or partners in crime. It’s so clear, right off the bat, that this is what you’re supposed to be doing, that this is what you’re for. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest of circumstances, and they help you make a life. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but. It definitely makes me believe in something.

[markovchaingang]

guy who jerks off to anime girls from korean gacha games: those fucking wokealizers changed the valentines event line from "i love you, selfinsert-kun" to "i like you, selfinsert-kun". (((they))) literally can't stop trying to push their cuck agenda onto you

gal who jerks off to the spy from team fortress 2: lol i'm such a freaaaak haha. unlike those moids with their boring generic hear me outs mine are stuff like slightly abnormal hollywood actors or buff and menacing humanoid monsters

guy who jerks off to diagrams of planes: actually it's pretty normal, you know. plenty of people do it

[king-incarnadine]

Oarfish

[bigflooparh]