i'm the same as anybody else

Zel, 20s, haunted and/or haunting, they/them ze/hir, just kinda hanging out lol, bi femmedyke, white, tme nonbinary (mobile header image is the words "I want to believe" in black text on a white background surrounded by doodles of planets, stars, comets, and a ufo)

[trans-ralsei]

[righthandarm-man]

can you remember the name of every person you’ve kissed?

yes, I remember all their names

I could name most of them but there are few I can’t remember

if you put all of them in a room I could put a name to at least half the faces

i’m not confident I could name a quarter of them, let alone half

I can’t remember more than one or two names

I’ve never kissed a soul and want to see the results

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

[minormalady]

I am the surgeon & I am the patient & I am the technician handing over the scalpel & I am the scalpel & I am the pervert touching themselves in the corner

[redsixwing]

Hey, Bandcamp users. You have probably already heard, but Bandcamp was bought by a music licensing firm, and laid off half its staff "as a cost cutting measure."

I will be downloading everything I purchased from Bandcamp and keeping an eye on it.

Bandcamp Undergoes Ownership Transition with Layoffs and Industry Concerns | Enterprise Wired

In a significant shift of ownership, Bandcamp, the renowned digital music marketplace, has officially transitioned from its previous owner,

[paper-mario-wiki]

transitioning is like putting on the They Live glasses and seeing that 90% of people looking at you are either jerking off or furiously sharpening a knife. or both. and i do not mean that in a sexy or fun way, and i dont like clarifying that, but i know there's a 90% chance you are thinking it, because i wrote it while being a trans woman.

[paper-mario-wiki]

to clarify:

when considering the sexual violence against trans women, it's important to remember that "people only view us sexually" does not mean the same thing as "people only find us attractive". it means "people can only conceptualize of our existence within a sexual light" because that's how the majority of our coverage in media has been tinged in the past century. as a result of the chaste and patriarchal nature of modern capitalism, gender and sexuality are inseparable in much public discourse by virtue of propaganda, and as a result, a trans woman is seen as sexual because efforts towards projecting specifically femininity is only categorized as sexual. and when paired with the uncharitable perception of "man", that propaganda can often evolve how people view us directly into "sexual threat" anywhere, for any reason. i could be in the freezer aisle of costco looking down at the ground while i push my cart and i'd still get dirty looks for wearing a dress (this has happened).

when i say "they're either jerking off or sharpening a knife", i mean we're either viewed sexually, or as sexually threatening, in almost all scenarios.

[NOTE: AS WITH ALL MATTERS OF TRANSMISOGYNY, THIS ISSUE IS 100 TIMES WORSE FOR BLACK GIRLS]

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[nitrobishop]

boston driving advanced tech guide

you've probably already noticed that turn signals ("blinkahs") don't serve their usual function here - a common saying on the server is that using them as intended is just giving information to your enemies. you may be tempted to conclude that these "blinkahs" are useless. not so! they are exclusively used for parrying cars audacious enough to think they can just drive past you. the timing is a five-frame window beginning when you can first see the approaching car in your sideview mirrors. simply engage your blinkah and then immediately jump out in front of your opponent. if you get the timing right, you will build super meter. if you're too early, you've accidentally performed a safe traffic maneuver, resetting your meter to 0. if you're too late, you crash and may have to transition to direct PvP, which is outside the purview of this guide.

yellow lights can also be parried by running them, with the amount of super gained determined by how far you make it through the intersection before the light turns red. the ideal window you're aiming for here is between your front and back wheels crossing the white line

you can use your super meter to cast a variety of spells to hinder your opponents. popular meter-efficient spells include mainstays such as "Summon Double-Parked Uber Eats Driver", "Line-Skipping Merge", and "Greater Unmarked Cop". if you max out your meter, you can cast the legendary "Power Word: Storrow".

the super meter system works differently for bikes. obviously, since they lack blinkahs and run red lights anyways, they can't build super in any of the normal ways. instead, they build it up passively, since their very existence enrages every driver around them. to offset this, the spell list for bikes is a lot lower-power than the spell list for cars, mostly being focused on mobility or utility instead of offense (although there are some notable exceptions like "U-Lock Missile"). the capstone spell for bikes is, of course, "Post Misleadingly Edited GoPro Footage On Reddit".

Quincy is a PvP-enabled zone.

[dampfnudeldove]

shot in the HEAD. and you're to blame. You are not good. At dart game

[vampireghoul]

stalked ur blog shawty, just gotta say, fantastic tits… and i’m sorry u had a bad day, also.

[memorycycle]

dino saurs were not scary monsters they were mamas with eggs and when they drank water they were like fuckk yessss waterrrr

[rathayibacter]

you spill dr pepper on the concrete and a single perfect rose pushes up out of a crack

[sapphling]

the sex binary is socially constructed and not actually descriptive of any biological truth. you know that, right? it's important to me that you know that

[sapphling]

i know people can be a little overzealous in describing political backslides ("this used to be the feminism website!!!" etc.) but it's disturbing to me how much incredulity i've gotten from other trans people as of late just for, like, saying that "biological woman" is neither a real category nor a phrase that should ever leave your mouth uncritically

[amazoogle]

love when someone unironically posts some shit like "bring back cucumbers" they went away??

[glowcowboy]

it meant something to me! maybe that can be enough

[tpwrtrmnky]

Ok but when you say "restorative justice" do you mean "hegemonic power structures need to provide ways for people who've done bad things to reintegrate into society" or do you mean "you, personally, someone with no hegemonic power whatsoever, need to keep forgiving people who've hurt you forever" because those are like. Pretty different.

[communicationissues]

actually very unrelated to the previous post but I recently heard that someone was talking shit about me to a friend (who obviously stood up for me and told me what was said) but the heart of it was that I've changed and become more pretentious. my friend countered that he's known me longer and I've always been pretentious and if that person didn't see that it's because I wasnt fully comfortable around them and was hiding parts of myself and when I did open up I was proven correct in my discomfort

[librarycards]

regarding that post about language becoming more "pretentious" as a sign that a highly verbal autistic person is having a more difficult time...there's also the corollary of the traumatized [often also autistic] person who has been repeatedly been put into the position to debate themself into existence / out of immediate danger using Facts and Logic becoming more and more rigid, intellectual, and distant the more panicked and triggered they (we) become –– this reaction ought to be as big a red flag that something bad is happening as someone screaming or crying, but is too often dismissed/mocked/viewed as an instigation into further discourse/escalation rather than a sign that the situation needs to be deescalated + the traumatized person supported immediately.