climb the turnbuckle high

★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★ (call me june, 20s, they/them, white)

[dogpuppy]

[doctorworm]

what if i learned filet crochet and started reproducing photos of wrestlers that way…

[artistofthefloatingworld]

miscellaneous sculptures by Ruben Raven imitating filet crochet

[closet-keys]

I don't know how to address this properly because I feel like every time I write about it I get the same misunderstandings from every direction.

the thing happening right now (at the very least in the US and UK) is that trans youth are actively and systemically losing access to healthcare. this has been gradually escalating since the start of the pandemic, and more young people lose healthcare every single year.

when I talk about this I tend to get two responses

"why do trans adults want to expand these experimental treatments to children who can't consent"

"providers offering care to trans adults is a step in the right direction, even if they aren't offering it to trans youth. the perfect is the enemy of the good. we can't fight our allies."

do you see how both the overtly transphobic version and the nominally "pro-trans" version replicate the same misinformation?

this is not a question of "should we expand access to trans youth?" trans youth have had access to medical transition care for a long time. what is happening is the care they already had access to is being made inaccessible and then criminalized systematically.

am I making sense? places refusing to offer care to trans youth are not "a step in the right direction" because that implies that the trend is expanding access that "begins" with trans adults and innately will gradually encompass young people. that is not the case. this is not a hypothetical thing that we can all have different theoretical opinions on. what is happening is the systematic revoking of healthcare.

the further this progresses, the more healthcare is restricted for more demographics. that's how this works. healthcare is being restricted across the board as part of the broader eugenics project. abortion is being restricted. vaccines are becoming more expensive. insurance companies are denying more treatments to disabled people. anti-fatness is surging. ableism is surging. there are active campaigns to get people to mistrust the very idea of healthcare in favor of "wellness" grifts. no one wears N-95 masks. this is the trend. it's been the trend.

I don't know how to communicate that we are not at an early step in a progressive trajectory, we are mid-stage in a eugenic order. please understand what I'm saying.

[lakevida]

boy are you a werthers original cause i could suck you for about three minutes

[subcultureblues]

but after that im chewing on it

[neshamama]

Sampler, silk embroidery on linen foundation, c. 17th century, England

[svetzzi]

go away forever with me

[mrfunnyinthebank]

the larger piece is entitled Samoa Joe Has Been Voted Sexiest Man Alive For The Twentieth Year In A Row and has this text on it in braille, which I wrote (by hand):

The champ is here – the 25 year old world champion rests in the corner of the barricade, glistening with sweat. The competitor in the two-toned trunks is billed at 6'2" 270 lbs. His wrist tape is white, for now.

His lips are parted and his thighs are spread in his squatting position, elbows resting on the barricade walls. His mid-thigh trunks ride up. the lights in the high school gymnasium bounce off the shiny fabric.

The wrestler shaves everything below his eyebrows, which are thick. The dark hair on his head is thick and full as well, cut respectably yet fashionably short. His eyelids are shiny with sweat, resembling the glitter of eyeshadow.

14 months, 19 men, and none of them get it done. CM Punk thinks he can take the belt tonight, but he is sadly mistaken. Samoa Joe is professional wrestling, and he cannot be beat.

the smaller piece is entitled That Fat Ass Samoa Joe and has this text on it in braille, quoting the Big Bad Booty Daddy Big Poppa Pump and Lauren Thompson in the Steiner Math promo:

See, but I'm gonna break it down for all you ladies: would you rather be with me? Or would you rather be with Joe?

"Well, I think Joe's kinda nice, I mean, y'know..."

See, you're one of those girls that like romance. I'mma talk to all my freaks out there. Would you rather come home to me, a genetic freak, to be satisfied every night? Or go home to that fat ass Samoa Joe?

[m3atbuff3t]

How i imagine the Mox & Pac relationship is mox being like

[klapollo]

Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.

Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.

[androdragynous]

The source of a diarrhea-causing outbreak in the U.S. has been found. Now what? | CBC News

The source of a diarrhea-causing parasite that has been plaguing Americans across multiple states for weeks has been found, so now what?

Different article that I think is unpaywalled! Important except imo:

On Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that contaminated lettuce imported from Mexico was served at Taco Bell locations in five states: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.

[...]

The CDC says it continues to investigate other outbreaks of the parasite that are unrelated to this outbreak. There are at least 34 states in total reporting cases.

[officialpenisenvy]

jake and logan paul will die by each other's hand outside the city walls of westlake ohio like eteocles and polynices outside the walls of thebes

[hammerofparadox]

ICW Newcastle One Fall Brawl

[d-lanx]

big day for fans of punk being forcibly stripped :)

[oplishin]

ROH SOUTHERN HOSTILITY, DECEMBER 6, 2008. BRYAN DANIELSON VS. CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI.

[doctorworm]

i should not have looked at chicago job postings i found the $32.30/hr starting salary library associate job with multiple openings posted today on the city of chicago website

[kaylmao]

idk i would personally rather give up access to certain products seasonally or locally than have people enslaved to give me the ability to have any product any place any time. i think i can go without tomatoes in january.

[kaylmao]

i truly do think that most people if confronted with it and pressed on it would agree. but it's comfortable to gain privileges from someone else's suffering, especially if you don't have to see that suffering directly.

[xalatath]

3-5 turkey vultures will soon be dispatched to your location.