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Ashton|He/They|28

[belovedisthemuse]

Hi everyone I’m Ashton! I wanna do a quick pinned about me post!

- He/Him/They/Them

- 28 : circa 1998

- I’m a trans man, sexually fluid but i don’t really label it…

- I have a degree an AS in psychology and a BA in Sexuality Studies. I’m in the middle of getting my MEd in Sexual Education which is super important to me

- Leftist, and more political than I’d honestly like to be, but unfortunately just because you don’t fuck with politics, doesn’t mean it doesn’t fuck with you

- I love greek mythology and anything within that realm! I lovee new media recs feel free to send them to me!! I love the games Hades and Spiritfairer! Let’s talk about myths baby!! ~

- I practice an eclectic form of wicca and Paganism. I’ve have had an alter for Lady Medusa and Lady Lilith for almost 10 years

- I have an Aries sun, Sagittarius moon and Cancer rising and a 10H stellium

- I am a BIG fan of Halsey, Dan and Phil and the band Waterparks

- I’m incredibly bad at tagging things!I would love to make things all neat and organized but I always forget to add a tag :( (I will keep trying though)

- I will be using this account mostly as a journal which will be tagged # the artist rambles and # journal entry

- I will generally repost things I like, video games, shows, funny text post but some things that exist in the erotic like shiabri and other photography similar to that. (I will def tag those)

- Feel free to ask me any questions though dm or ask, i love talking to people! Anon is turned on

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[myxomycota]

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[phandomgives]

listen to phem

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[the-pheal]

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[sillyzlaurr]

Chapter 5 dark world

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[tsuchinokoroyale]

Me giving my parents my report card in second grade

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This post starts getting more notes around the end of every semester.

[renthony]

I was 12 when the first of my siblings was born, so I have very vivid memories of the way my mother was excluded from a lot of spaces because people find children annoying.

If you think "children should not be allowed in this space," you HAVE TO reckon with the fact that you are now excluding parents (and very often women specifically) who don't have access to childcare. You are isolating people who are poor, or rural, or single parents, or any number of other factors that might prevent someone from having on-demand childcare. You are cutting them off from being able to exist in public. You are denying parents and children the ability to fully participate in society.

My mom spent several years only leaving the house to buy groceries or take me to school, and even then, people would still come up to her to complain TO HER FACE about how she shouldn't bring a crying toddler to Walmart. Entitled strangers would literally try and demand that my mom leave and come back without the kids.

"Why can't your husband watch them?" Because he was at work, usually working extreme amounts of overtime so we didn't get evicted, because landlords don't like it when you stop paying rent.

"Why can't you send them to daycare?" Because that costs money.

"Why can't your teenager stay home with them and babysit?" Because I also deserved to be able to leave the house for something other than school, and taking me to the grocery store was how my mom taught me to manage a household budget, shop sales, and meal plan.

"Don't bring your kid in public if you can't CONTROL them and make them stop crying!" Kids cry when they're upset, and being dragged around a store is upsetting! Don't be an asshole! Children are human beings who are still learning how the world works, and they don't have a lot of agency. You'd cry, too.

"Spank them until they learn to stop crying!" That's just straight-up child abuse, Jesus Christ.

What the fuck was our family supposed to do? Never go to the grocery store? Starve because strangers couldn't handle a toddler existing in public?

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[thegreatimpersonator]

thinking of halsey's writing the poem "date with an arsonist"

[fairydropart]

Happy Walpurgis Night

[derekstilinski]

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[vetchtibbles]

I’ll never be ok with AI summaries on search engines etc because at the core of me I don’t even want my own computer to know what I’m using it for. my searchbar shouldn’t know what I’m typing into it. close your fucking eyes bitch I’m shy

[hellyeahscarleteen]

This Way, Not That Way: Avoiding One of the Most Common Condom Oops

One of the most common condom whoopsies we hear about from our users involves themselves or a partner going to put a condom on, then discovering they’ve put it on the wrong way.

Often, after doing that, they’ll also report following that up with a second common oops, which is just flipping that same condom over and then putting it on the right way.

Condoms are highly effective safer sex tools to reduce the risk of transmitting or acquiring STIs, as well as a very effective method of contraception. But that effectiveness depends a whole lot on using them not just consistently, but properly. This isn’t proper use.

If you can see the image here on the page, you’ll notice the edge of the condom is rolled facing up. Like the brim of a hat. Or a rolled up sock or stocking before you put it on. Or, if you cuff your jeans, how the cuff looks when you look down at it.

Rolled up, towards you when you’re looking at it, rather than rolled under or down, with the rolled-up rim facing away from you.

When you – or a partner – go to put it on a penis, toy or prosthetic, you want to be looking at it like that, with that rolled edge facing up, then roll it down from there, which will usually be easy when it’s the right way.

If it’s a struggle to roll down, chances are when you look at it, you’ll find it’s not facing the right way: and whoops, you or yours didn’t put it on right.

If that happens, you’ll need to toss that condom out, and try again with a new one.

That one you flubbed with is no good to you anymore. It’s potentially had contact with fluids or pathogens if it’s had contact with whatever it was being put on, the fluids or pathogens a condom, properly used, keeps you from having contact with.

Read the rest at Scarleteen here!

[certifiedsexed]

ID: A close-up photo of someone holding a condom.

[dykephan]

i just love how most of phil's friends growing up were girls and his favorite celebrities have always been women and he never allowed anyone to mock his mostly female audience and he doesn't play into the tendency for gay men to show disgust for women's bodies etc etc phil was always destined to queen out

[emir-kctrk]

Cute sheep..