More Mouse Bites!

I love rats and mice, and I think Mikey Way is a cool dude (unrelated) 🦎

[electriccenturies]

The Cis/Trans Binary Is As Terrible As All The Other Binaries

It's already detrans awareness day 2024! This year, I'd like to share a personal experience with something that is not at all uncommon among detransitioned people. I think it's sort of a misunderstood thing. That thing is re-identifying with one's sex.

FOR ME, realizing I could reject gender as a concept and identify simply as 'female' gave me a sort of freedom that my transition never did. I am a "woman" for reasons of convenience in the world (ie. I do not go around announcing myself as 'a female'), but I do not have an identity as a woman. I can no longer even define 'woman' (or 'man') in such a way where I would feel comfortable pinning my sense of self to or in opposition to those concepts. It is easier and more accurate for me to simply conceptualize parts of what I once understood to be my gender as being about my sex, and then to understand all the rest of it as being about myself as a human.

I am not nonbinary, nor agender as so many people like to tell me I must be when I talk about this. I could use those labels, but I don't care to anymore. I think they'd imply something about me and my identity that is not true. Besides — how much 'freedom' do I really have if not being a man or a woman STILL forces me into a box!?

In reality I am not cis, I am not trans... I am a secret third thing (None). Turns out, that's what I was looking for all along.

And I am not your enemy for it!

[kragehund-est]

this pride month i'm coming out as me

[butterfrogsaysxd]

flashback to when i made a gerard way pride flag a few months ago and then completely forgot to post it

[noodles-07]

websites often misjudge how far I will go to avoid ads. "you can't use this site until you turn off the adblock sowwy" I Am Leaving Your Website

[mychemicalcollective]

Visit Original Link

High quality version of a folk song, The Water Is Wide (Oh Waly Waly), Gerard recorded for the film Tusk, released in theaters earlier this year.

[kosmogrl]

[achillesinhighheels]

Do you think protein wants to be in all these things ?

[c0ryph]

unc still got it

[jessaerys]

hate when im reading and theres a word i dont know so i search it in the dictionary and its like: beuperer. noun. a person who beupers. i'll fucking kill you

[korrasamibottles]

Not enough people talking about how well broccoli holds a sauce

[8nin]

"There's millions of Tumblr users" to you. To me There's only about 12 and we all reblog the same five posts from each other

[littleguymart]

(source)

[electriccenturies]

[themoonandmyman]

Guys. Come on now. I don’t want to make things too serious but here’s something you really have to remember:

[roycohn]

idk man when i was a kid i remember a lot of adults saying "if you can read and follow directions, you can cook" so i was like yes i can do these two things. doesn't seem that hard. and it wasn't! so it just always surprises me when i see people of any age who are capable of reading and following directions bemoaning how impossibly hard cooking is. like i know i'm always on this hobbyhorse but it just seems like a lot of people have never developed basic life skills and instead of going "oh wow that's embarrassing, i should learn and catch up" they instead get defensive and turn it into a learned-helplessness thing where they CAN'T POSSIBLY be expected to learn something that's SOOOO HARD. and suddenly somehow we're the oppressors for thinking it's weird that a grown adult can't grill themselves a cheese.

[carosbee]

Also! In the pre-internet era where information was generally conveyed through books, you'd have to rely on words or still images. Sometimes 'fold the batter' doesn't explain what that *actually* means, and the picture is no help either.

Now we literally have YouTube! Any small barrier to you cooking something can easily be crossed by just searching up 'how to x' and watching a video on someone doing just that!

If there's a skill you struggle at, you have to understand you're not a child anymore. It is your responsibility to learn how to do it for yourself. This is your wake-up call to learn a basic life skill you can't do at the moment because, let's be honest, there's probably a YouTube video on the topic. Or an article on it. Or a thousand of both of those.

It is a choice you are making every time to either a) not do it or b) get someone else to do it. Stop pretending things are beyond your capacity as an adult and learn.

[girlstunts]

it’s kind of useless to say at this point but honestly “My Chemical Romance” as a band name kind of hits it outta the park

[spittingoutthebloodandscreaming]

you are STRONG. you are BEAUTIFUL. your psychic link with gerard way that gives you insight into their innermost thoughts is REAL. dont let haters dull your sparkle