ducky | 23

[corrucyst]

dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms

[eroscestlavie]

when you’re a gay lion and you accidentally tried to introduce your lesbian lioness friend to one of her own exes at a gay bar and she goes into the bathroom and bitches you out for not being able to tell her endlessly rotating cast of girlfriends apart which isn’t really fair because first of all they all keep dyeing their hair different colors and second of all she keeps getting back together with different ones at different times and meanwhile you’ve been “single” for like 8 months but are spending a lot of time with one specific guy who works at your old co-op and were going to excitedly tell her about it tonight but now you’ve ruined the whole subject of dating by trying to introduce her to her own ex at a gay bar (which is a watering hole. because you’re lions.) 

[npdclaraoswald]

A doll youtuber I watch has made a video about the history of Polly Pocket, and she's describing the plots of the dvd specials, one of which features an elderly woman named Ms. Throckmorton, and my reaction was

[lizlemondyke]

it’s funny cuz it’s true

[neshamama]

so weird leftists don't call out big food more remember when nestlé was responsible for over 10 million infant deaths in low and middle income countries i do

[neshamama]

report

[neshamama]

or the death and disease they have meticulously inflicted on the most vulnerable of brazil while undermining public health policy and education

[wutheringheightsfilm]

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

[wutheringheightsfilm]

i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post

[nourishedbytime]

[diehellasrache]

I think I'm going to remember this phrase every time I cook for the next five years

[orteil42]

we're overdue for a reactive wave of anti-cozy games. animal crossing but office workers. restaurant management but applebee's. farming sim but all spreadsheets. never see an ear of corn the whole game

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

a young witch trying to solve a gristly murder in the Italian alps during the Years of Lead

[probablyasocialecologist]

After 1989, the idea of breaking with the context of capitalism as it is was all but erased from the conceptual map. With the conclusive defeat of actually existing socialism, an “overwhelming heaviness” paralyzed the imagination, according to Enzo Traverso; the present order took on the guise of an immutable nature that is as hard to shake off as it would be to abolish the law of gravity—and “once capitalism is naturalized, to think of a different future becomes impossible.” Neoliberalism, according to Perry Anderson, “rules undivided across the globe: the most successful ideology in history.” This conjuncture is the indispensable setting for geoengineering. Indeed, it is hard to conceive of any other historical soil from which such a far-out prioritization could grow. Morton, for one, is aware of this: he knows of Fredric Jameson’s dictum “it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” and he elects to embrace that condition. Subjectively and objectively, geoengineering is an extreme expression of a—perhaps the—paradox of capitalist modernity. The structures set up by people are perceived as immune to tinkering, but there is hardly any limit to how natural systems can be manipulated. The natural becomes plastic and contingent; the social becomes set in stone.

Andreas Malm, Planning the Planet: Geoengineering Our Way Out of and Back into a Planned Economy

[pansyfemme]

yes im addicted to attention and orgasms and food and shiny jewlery and 7$ Iced Lattes. does that really not sound like an awesome lifestyle to you

[thecryptkeeper]

[sandersstudies]

Me: I love to eat :)

People who fell for diet culture and fearmongering hook, like, and sinker: Because of this post, someone will die of complications from heart disease 😢 don’t you know that obesity KILLS

[gardengnosticator]

getting teary eyed thinking about gerda gottlieb's paintings of her wife after she transitioned

[gardengnosticator]

[narcissus-thee-squeekual]

thing is, for a lot of these paintings it wasn’t “after” lily elbe’s transition. there was no after to it. the one op posted was painted in 1928. this was 2 years before lily legally changed her name and began undergoing revolutionary gender affirming procedures. unfortunately she died due to complications of an experimental uterine transplant in 1931.

up until that point, during the day lily continued to dress in masculine clothing and even attended galleries showing gottlieb’s paintings of her. which was kind of iconic. she got to stand in a room full of people who were marveling her beauty, not knowing she was right next to them. it must have been such a cute little secret for them as a couple.

here’s gerda and lilly together

not to mention that for most people there is no real “after” to a transition. especially for these trans historical figures who had to balance identity and safety at all times.

i think having a wife paint these portraits must have felt really amazing for lily. to be able to see herself through the eyes of someone who loved her. i’m very much seconding op on the getting teary eyed.

here are some of my favorite gottleib lily paintings

[thelivingvampyrr]

[kibumkim]

If this is real they need to do it again

[lesbinewren]

crazy how every time a female character gets cliche misogynistic writing we have to explain to people again that fictional characters are not real and do not choose things for themselves.

[lesbinewren]

it’s really this at the end of the day tbh

[ryebreadgf]