alarms and surprises

alia, she/they, trans, nonbinary, lesbian, asexual, grayromantic, plural @lifelessdaughterofthesun is my pet <3 big fan of: metal, prog, indie rock, actually any music, psychological horror, yuri manga, linguistics, philosophy, computer stuff, communication and compassion

[cooked-companion]

despite my bio seeming to introduce me as a typical well-rounded tumblr citizen who posts on many topics but this blog is 90% just me flirting with my girlfriend and I am not ashamed. suck it

[maxxie-or-smth]

every few months i'll think i found something that can pull me out of this and be something good and then within 2 months maximum i'm bored with it

[the-supernatural-atheist]

one day i'll post "i have a boner" but i WONT have a boner i will be LYING

[the-supernatural-atheist]

i dont have a boner

[glowbeam]

"trans men make 10¢ more than trans women" hey did you know that the data analysis that this information comes from also concluded that asian/pacific islander LGBT+ workers experience virtually no discrimination in pay compared to the average worker

[evilgoblinbff]

touching myself and thinking about you btw

[lifelessdaughterofthesun-deacti]

@cooked-companion

[marxism-leninism-utenaism]

theres definitely a line of thought ive noticed in liberal circles and in media and stuff where they think that bad stuff works and is true but is just bad for some moral reason.

but the thing is that this stuff is just factually wrong. eugenics doesnt work. race science isnt true. theyre morally wrong, yes, but theyre also factually incorrect, ideas that are deployed in service of monstrous ideology despite the fact that they simply arent true.

and its a major impediment to effectively combating these ideas, because if you concede their premises, you have already given ground to your enemies.

[doberbutts]

Another point that reminds me of my privilege in this world is when I think about the fact that we sell the cure for tuberculosis to people to give to their dogs for a UTI. Millions of people literally die every year because they can't access this medication and I'm giving it to people to shove down their dogs' throats to make them stop peeing in the house. It's one of the more expensive antibiotics and people always whine about the price but then it's not their daughter they have to watch slowly suffocate as bacteria turns her lungs into swiss cheese. It's not their father that coughs and coughs and coughs until he's spitting up blood.

The deadliest infectious disease in human history is cured by the same packet of chewable tabs individually packed in foil. It comes in beef flavor so your dog won't resist taking its meds as much. It's like a hundred bucks for 30 tablets on pretty much any pet pharmacy.

It makes me think about medicine scarcity and how it's all fake in order to get enough capital that you can have individuals with higher net worth than entire countries. And in the mean time, hundreds of millions of people are dead because they don't drive the bottom line.

[catgirltoes]

What the hell happened to the energy around gender neutral bathrooms. Remember when we were fighting for all bathrooms to be gender neutral. But now we can barely argue that people can use the gendered bathroom of their choice. Maybe there's some single stall bathroom tucked away in a basement somewhere.

[album-you-should-listen-to-today]

ALBUM YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO TODAY (#3 - 3 May 2026)

Quidam by Quidam (1996)

Quidam is a super awesome prog rock band. On this album especially, their tone and atmosphere is so on point. The bass playing is incredible and everything grooves really tightly. It's late so sorry this post isn't more in depth lol. I'm gonna try moving these earlier in the day

[analwhhoore]

can i come over and make you painfully hard while i act innocent?

[busket]

you cant hope to do ANY good progressive work as a feminist if you think that body shaming is a valid tool at your disposal. yes, even against men. any trait you can insult a man's body for there exists a woman with that trait who knows you arent in her corner. there are women who are fat and women who are hairy, women who are balding. women with penises and testes. women with acne and neckbeards. these traits are not exclusive to the misogynistic creep cishet men who you are trying to insult.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[wctruitt]

What we seem to be seeing in these times is lack of healthy debate. I think a healthy debate is the bestt way to get people to shore up their arguments—or expand the framework of their perspectives, expand their field of awareness, and get feedback on their hypotheses, beliefs, and ideology. I also think it's important for the skeptics to have their own voice, and propose the questions that challenge people to really drill down into their own ideas and galvanize their foundation of evidence.

What we see now is an abandonment of meaningful debate, a tendency to dismiss alternative ideas as being unfounded, too radical or not relevant. And we see the tendency to go one step further — which is for people of differing opinions labeling the other side with blanket labels and insults, which does nothing to discredit the other side. It only makes the “discrediting” party seem that much more shallow, uninformed, and weak.

We don’t have to agree with everything out there, but a justifiable debate may make us more inclined to humanize those we are so quick to criticize and judge and condemn.

[cooked-companion]

exactly. everyone disagrees with everyone else on something. if your only friends are people who don't disagree with you, you don't have any friends.

[cranberry-branflakes]

if you ignore my depression im a really happy person btw

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the ashtrays in airplane bathrooms are a fascinating harm reduction metaphor. yes it's illegal as hell to smoke in there. yes there's a smoke detector that will snitch on you the second you light up. so why is there an ashtray? because if there weren't, your single momentary dumbass crime could kill 300 people. it is fucking vital that if someone does have a lit cigarette on a plane, they have a place to safely put it out.

[8nin]

I'm like if a missing person was literally right there

[learn-how-to-love]

Ice cold take that’s somehow controversial on this hellsite but it’s actually equally extremely transphobic to say that all transmascs are secretly detrans TERFs in the making as it is to say that all transfems are secretly white supremacist misogynist incels. Bioessentialism isn’t totally fine and cool when it’s against the bad privileged trannies and all you’re doing is showing your bias in “defense” of another.