Just A Busybody

Turns out once you start learning enough about words and methods, magic starts looking more and more reasonable as an explanation for how something lives, if not why.

[k-mraz]

Pros of vampirism: cool commissions from over 100 years ago. Cons? You have to pay to see them.

[elierlick]

Never forget that the physicians and "detransitioners" they bring to speak against trans healthcare are paid enormous sums to give false testimonies. They're not legitimate sources and shouldn't stop you from living your best life (source).

[microsff]

Every morning, the queen asked her magic mirror to show her the most beautiful person in the world.

The mirror replied "To whom?"

"The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of".

The mirror would show her, and she'd be amazed.

[nullen-void]

The first time, she says "To me," and the mirror dutifully shows her her reflection. And she is pleased.

The second time, she says "To the King," and she is pleased to see herself once more.

The third time, she says "To the Royal Advisor," and is once more satisfied to see herself.

The fourth time, she says "To the scribe who takes the King's letters." She is shown the man's wife. And she seethes, but quiets herself, for it is only right that a man loves his wife.

The fifth time, she says "To the Court Wizard," and is shown the man's departed mother as he remembers her from his youth, radiant and smiling and warm and larger than life.

The tenth time, she says "To the Stable Master," and is shown the fastest horse in the stable, majestic and free as the wind even in captivity

"To the baker," she is shown the man's daughter, young and adorable and full of joy and laughter.

"To the artist who did my portrait," she is shown a painting of a woman done by the man's teacher, who he still looks up to now that he is well established himself.

"To the Royal Knight," she is surprised but not displeased to see the castle's entire guard force in the middle of doing drills.

The one hundredth time she asks the mirror, and it asks her "to whom?" she once again says, "To me." And she does the same the one hundred and second, and again and again and again.

It is a different person each time, and they are all beautiful.

[dahlia-molinas]

if christopher nolan was really the visionary and ground-breaking director everyone claims he is he would have cast ben affleck as penelope

[egregore-engine]

people will see a structural problem and go "is anybody going to attribute to this a surface-level issue that is a symptom and not the cause" without waiting for an answer

[toskarin]

I appreciate that Tamriel Rebuilt fully locked in on the implication that Nerevar was a Char (read: did the Casval thing, among other things)

[toskarin]

Aznable Nerevar, as a shockingly coherent lens through which to read him, despite the fact he later gets Garma'd

[ineffectualdemon]

Every time I apply my oestrogen gel because of menopause I think "there is a trans woman somewhere who is also sitting in her underwear post shower waiting for the gel to dry before she finishes getting dressed" and I feel happy and a sense of kinship and camaraderie with her even though I am not a trans woman or even trans femme in anyway

But I know how to apply the gel because I saw posts from trans women how to apply it and I feel that even though are reasons for using it are different that we are not so different

So for any woman or non binary person out there who are sitting post oestrogen gel application and scrolling on their phone as they wait for it to dry...we are doing this together and this genderqueer person lovee you

[tamamoland-with-a-gun]

people who haven't read the ToS or user guidelines loooooooove condescendingly telling you what they think is in them

[tamamoland-with-a-gun]

i mean if you're transfem they might as well be part of it since tumblr moderation will terminate your account regardless

[tamamoland-with-a-gun]

shoutouts to the person a few blogs back that smugly told me there were no hockey show sex gifs (there are, easily verifiable) and that i was just mad that i couldn't post nudes (something i've never done and not what i'm mad about) because it was against the user guidelines (it's not)

[bisclavaret]

📺💥💕💕

[wiredtiresias]

I complain a certain amount about how awful transmisogyny is to deal with even for a white and financially stable girl like myself. I dont sugarcoat trans life and the tribulations of transition.

But this is also true: transition is still one of the best decisions I ever made, it has increased my happiness to an extent on par with my marriage, it makes me capable of enjoying my marriage in the first place. Estrogen is the most effective antidepressant I have ever tried by an enormous margin.

For anyone questioning who might be reading this: it is hard. Transition is still so, so worth it. It makes certain problems more obvious and blunt, but being who you are meant to be gives you the strength and comfort necessary to face them. Being a woman and being in community with other women, Especially especially other women who had to realize they could be, has given my life color and purpose and meaning in a way i never thought possible. I can’t speak for all experiences or circumstances, but I am not special, i am not perfectly feminine, i am not flawlessly passing, i am a woman and i am loved as a woman. You can be too.

Wherever you are, however long it takes, just know that your sisters are waiting for you. I love you very much 💜

[tankie-transfeminist]

This is transfeminism!

[mousidy]

I once saw someone try to suggest a male counterpart to misogyny should be called "androgyny"

[creatingblackcharacters]

#Make Racists Scared Again 2026

[creatingblackcharacters]

Share if you want people to know they should be scared to be racist around you 👊🏾

[creatingblackcharacters]

"making them afraid will make them more racist" that's wild to me, because we live in a whole culture of social consequences for antiracism anyway. It is literally safer to be a racist than it is to speak up against it, socially.

Idk about you, but "I'm afraid no one will want to be my friend if I'm a white supremacist" seems like a pretty logical thought process to have, and I wish THAT were the normal and not "I'm afraid my friends will hate me if I tell them they made racist jokes".

[mousidy]

at this point a lot of you would cheer if terfs started pushing to relabel bathrooms as "afab" and "amab"

[mousidy]

the arguments for "afab only" spaces are identical in both form and function to terf bathroom arguments, the language used is just "progressive"

[laramisu]

Art trade with @papitamomo

Tbh, I don't know what Berserk is even about.

[plushdablush]

Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely

[somefishycat]

tu LANCES félicette ? tu lances son corps comme la fusée ? oh ! oh ! prison pour les scientifiques ! prison pour les scientifiques pendant Un Mille Ans !

[bug-yogurt]

You can understand the French perfectly fine with only context but the English translation I got still had me floored

[imkeepinit]

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

[directactionforhope]

Feels like a good time to remind certain people that this is coming from Judith Butler, who is not just a leading feminist philosopher, but also THE COFOUNDER OF QUEER THEORY

The literal cofounder of queer theory as an academic field says that abandoning trans people is fascist logic.

The voices in our community trying to exclude us may be loud, but they are not right, and they do not speak for the community as a whole or our history or anything at all.

Trans people belong here. We always have, and we always will.

[imkeepinit]

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

[directactionforhope]

Feels like a good time to remind certain people that this is coming from Judith Butler, who is not just a leading feminist philosopher, but also THE COFOUNDER OF QUEER THEORY

The literal cofounder of queer theory as an academic field says that abandoning trans people is fascist logic.

The voices in our community trying to exclude us may be loud, but they are not right, and they do not speak for the community as a whole or our history or anything at all.

Trans people belong here. We always have, and we always will.