I will never understand why people upload cropped, low-res, uncredited art. Here's the full piece, originally created for a collaboration with watchmaker Ulysse Nardin:
Milo Manara, 2019, Ulysse Nardin, 2, mixed technique on paper
My one boring tip to anyone in their 20s is to resist the temptation to rot in your room every time you get a free moment. Dismiss any neuroses you have about going outside and "being perceived". Be a dictator about it, plan your hangouts like they are binding commitments. No excuses! Go to the bar with your friends. Be kinda hungover at work. Socializing is like exercise; even if you don't feel like you want to, you should still do it because it's good for you.
Auf einen Angriff "gegen die Vielfalt und Toleranz in unserer Gesellschaft" richtet, mit Beileid zu antworten, während die eigene Regierung Programme wie Demokratie Leben! gezielt so umbaut, dass queere Vereine es schwerer haben, ihre Förderung weiter aufrecht zu erhalten. Während der Sozialstaat für Militärausgaben gekürzt wird, während es Pläne gibt Register für trans* Personen einzuführen. Das ist doch an Hohn wirklich nicht zu übertreffen.
In eine Menschenmenge fahren macht mich immer unglaublich wütend aber das auch noch im Kontext vom CSD macht mich nochmal extra wütender. Und das tut echt im Herzen so so weh
the state of Tennessee is now requiring all "women" have at least 1 child. a woman's sterilization surgery was canceled because she hadn't had 1 child yet. are transmascs allowed to talk about reproductive oppression now? are we allowed to talk about literally any of our problems yet?
Seconding this. Used that list and cross-referenced it with my insurance, found a doctor who did an amazing job taking out the whole kit and kaboodle with minimal pain and minimal scarring.
I've had a (partial, technically) hysterectomy since 2022. it was the best decision I've ever made and I will stand 10 toes down on that. nothing has had a more meaningful impact on my quality of life than that singular surgery. getting that thing out of my body single-handedly added years to my lifespan via sheer stress reduction alone.
if anyone is considering surgical sterilization, and has any medical questions about the various options available, please ask me anything and everything.
I did so much research prior to getting it done (...I wanted to make an informed decision), but a lot of people aren't even aware that different options exist. or they're only aware of some of the aspects, but not others.
for instance, did you know that you can negotiate where you want your incisions to be?
I specifically didn't want a scar along the "bikini line" because it reminded me too much of a c-section scar and that would be dysphoric for me, so my surgeon and I had a conversation and we decided to just extend the belly button incision a bit instead (because they still have to pull your uterus out of the body somehow and I was keeping my cervix, so we couldn't go out through the vagina like you'd usually do).
there's a massive amount of anti-hysterectomy disinformation on the internet, spread by various anti-abortion pro-forced-birther groups specifically to scare people out of getting sterilized in any way (they're typically the same groups spreading a lot of the anti-IUD disinformation as well). if you ever see something talking about how your spine will slowly collapse into your body or whatever..... that's where that comes from lol. same about anyone fearmongering about pelvic organ prolapse.*
*your biggest risk factor for pelvic organ prolapse (which, by the way, is not the worst thing that can happen to somebody. yeah you don't want it to happen, but things like old age and lifting heavy weights can cause it. we've got techniques for attaching your organs back into your body. you'll be fine. it really isn't the end of the world, I promise you) is giving birth. most people who get hystos are pericis women who have already had children. most studies that have looked at this have stated this skew in the data, since it's hard to tell what confounding variables are impacting the results. as far as we can currently tell, if you have not had any kids, you probably aren't putting yourself at a massively greater risk of prolapse, if any at all.**
**there are some theories that the reason we see higher rates of prolapse post-hysto in parous individuals could be due to structural changes in those pelvic muscles and tissues after birth, making them less resilient to further changes (like removing an organ), whereas somebody who is nulliparous with full structural support intact may be able to handle a hysto without much of an issue. like a jenga tower. imagine the tower has already had a bunch of blocks taken out of the bottom of it, and now you're taking another block out. it's more likely to fall, compared to if you were taking a block out of a tower that was fully intact with no blocks removed yet.
(also I'm not trying to body shame with any of the above notes about structural integrity. it's just a medical fact that giving birth does damage to your body, especially your pelvic floor. human beings (and any other creature tbh) were evolutionarily pressured for offspring and parents to survive childbirth. whether or not we had permanent non-lethal health problems was just not part of the darwinian equation, there. you can survive with a fucked up pelvic floor. as long as it doesn't kill you and your offspring can survive to reproduce (& especially if you survive to have even more kids), that's 99% of what evolution really selects for. the human spine is a structural mess that's prone to issues. those issues make you miserable, but rarely kill you or prevent you from reproducing. so it just... doesn't get selected out of the population. there's a lot of shaming around the bodies of people who give birth and I just want you to know that being disabled is not a moral flaw. having a body that has been ravaged by a baby is not a moral flaw. having a pelvic floor that has been torn to shreds from a 3rd degree tear is not a moral flaw. but it's still a factual reality that having kids f u c k s up your body, health-wise, in many ways. also fuck anyone who turns it into an aesthetics or beauty thing. I'm aware there's that whole aspect of social pressures, and that that's why people get so touchy about admitting that having kids fucked up their body, because they associate "fucking up your body" as being an appearance thing. and like. no. i mean that in a health way. you pushed a baby out of a very small space and tore through your own muscles. that causes permanent damage! that is a type of fucking up of your body! it doesn't have to be visual! aaaaaaa)
When I turned 17, we ordered a cake at the grocery store for my party, as we’d done many times before. If you wanted something written on the cake you’d write it into a section of the order form. We requested, very simply, “Happy Birthday Courtney”. When we went to pick it up the day of the party, this is what we got.
The bakery employees had absolutely no explanation for this. The order form, attached to the box, very clearly did not contain any of those extra names. Whomever had done the writing was no longer in, so there was no one to ask how this had happened. The fact that the name ‘Juan’ is misspelled bewilders me to this day. (I’ve never seen ‘Miley’ without the E, either, but it’s believable that someone might spell it that way.) Did this cake slip in from an alternate universe where I’m one quarter of a set of Hispanic quadruplets? Dyslexic Hispanic quadruplets, maybe?
This cake became the focal point of my party. At least two of my friends regularly called me ‘Courtney Mily Jaun Pablo’ for years to come. My siblings and I still reference it sometimes, eleven years later. It is probably the funniest thing ever to occur at any birthday celebration of my life, and may well remain so for the rest of my days.
one time me and some pals spotted one of those big cookie cakes in a store. it was done up with red icing and little X's for kisses and in the middle it said
No One Like You
now, it took us a while to realise it meant "(there is) no one like you". at first, we all parsed it as a botched "no one like(s) you"
for ages after when we'd wind each other up we'd declare "NO ONE LIKE YOU ☹️👎"
I love the “captain’s log” mechanism in Star Trek as a method for time skips and exposition.
I am, however, devastated that we never got an episode where any captain’s voiceover is strained and slow. very precise about the events they’re describing. While the screen itself is showing the most batshit insane events and making it clear that the captain is trying VERY HARD to keep everyone involved out of a court martial.
Man kann btw jetzt für das neue Euro Schein Design der EU abzustimmen, falls ihr das mal anschauen wollt damit die neuen Scheinchen nicht ganz so hässlich werden
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