See me, Lord of the Thomas Guide

New posts at https://cohost.org/tjc • Openness is really important to me, so I make sure to disclose the history of my body before I have an intimate interaction with someone. What I mean by that is that every time I have a conversation with someone for the first time, I open my mouth real wide so they can see I don't have a uvula. I would never want to force somebody into a conversation without their consent, and how can you give informed consent to a conversation with somebody unless you know that they can't pronounce a uvular trill, or God forbid, a uvular fricative?

[dateagirlwhosweird]

date a girl with eight prehensile arms and no bones

[caldrive]

Kelbaker Road, California, mid-1990's. Over the last month or two I've rediscovered and rescanned a bunch of medium- and large-format film I've had lying around since the 1990's, so you're going to have to put up with a lot of really old stuff I took literally decades ago for the next few months…

[tekunoraizu]

FUCKKKKKKK what if something bad happened and I forgot to worry about it

[decompose1]

you tell me that all the bad people are stupid. you tell me that stupid people should be killed, bred out, that evolution will leave them behind. i tell you that's not funny, that i have an intellectual disability, that i want to be allowed to love and to have children of my own. that maybe it's not the end of the world if "stupid" people get to stay. that my caregiver loves me and takes care of me. that she reads to me. that i get by with my little accessibility tools scattered about the house, my aac, and by being gentle. you tell me it's a joke. clearly you aren't like those REAL eugenicists, you only talk like them. you tell me surely i must agree- all the bad people, the ones who take away my rights, they must not be smart, they must be lacking some information to make them like this. i tell you smart people have hurt me more than anyone else because they know better and they still choose cruelty. these people in power aren't lacking anything. they have all the resources in the world and brains that work the way they want. they don't know struggle, they doom everyone who does. you don't stop talking about "stupid people" like we're a disease to eradicate. i note you down as one more smart person who has failed me by choosing to be cruel when you knew better

[emotionallaborunion]

I learned that Mar (@cowthropologist / @worldcylinder) died in 2024. I hope there's some mistake, but I suspect there isn't. We met up for sushi in Allston in 2017. I am sad to see that they're gone.

[emotionallaborunion]

They almost came to the Mountain Goats house concert I organized in 2016, but didn't make it. I wish they had gotten to go.

[emotionallaborunion]

I found this obituary, which misgenders them, but at least now I know for sure.

[emotionallaborunion]

I learned that Mar (@cowthropologist / @worldcylinder) died in 2024. I hope there's some mistake, but I suspect there isn't. We met up for sushi in Allston in 2017. I am sad to see that they're gone.

[emotionallaborunion]

They almost came to the Mountain Goats house concert I organized in 2016, but didn't make it. I wish they had gotten to go.

[emotionallaborunion]

I learned that Mar (@cowthropologist / @worldcylinder) died in 2024. I hope there's some mistake, but I suspect there isn't. We met up for sushi in Allston in 2017. I am sad to see that they're gone.

[elfchewtoy]

in a world where a prominent branch of anti-trans activism focuses on fearmongering about "parents' rights," trans rights and youth rights become inextricable.

trans kids deserve to be called the right pronouns and the right name by schools and doctor's offices, regardless of "parental consent." trans kids deserve to undergo the right puberty at the same time as their cis peers, regardless of "parental consent."

the very concept of "parents' rights" is a smokescreen that enables the abuse and dehumanization of children by adults. this is bad for cis kids, too.

[floodpool]

I am very much trans, but I was also a sickly child. I won’t get into all the details but for example I have moderate severity asthma. At this point in my life I need to take medication twice every day for my asthma in order to breathe as well as someone who doesn’t have asthma. If I do not do this my blood oxygen level is around 90%-92% depending on the season and the air quality. This is comparable to someone who has COPD and might be at least part time on oxygen.

I was never treated for my asthma until I was almost an adult. The inciting event is that I was seventeen I got sick. Like. I caught a cold and then the flu and then another cold and so on. I was sick for something like four consecutive months. Just coughing, sneezing, achy, fatigued, and my throat was so sore I could barely talk. For four months. And then one day I had an asthma attack. It was bad. I couldn’t stand without almost blacking out. Even sitting down I couldn’t breathe and talk at the same time. Between breaks where I was gasping for breath, I explained to my mom what was happening to me. That I needed to go to the hospital. I needed to see someone NOW. It wasn’t something she could put off anymore, it was urgent. I was seventeen and suffocating in my own body, legitimately afraid I would die and too oxygen deprived to help myself. She said no. I threatened to call the ambulance myself. She grabbed my cellphone out of my hand. She told me I was making it up and that the doctor wouldn’t help. I would still have to drive myself to school and I needed to stop complaining.

It took me telling her that I had already informed multiple friends and they were threatening to both call an ambulance and report her to CPS for her to cave, and the entire time she was disparaging and criticizing me. I saw the doctor, I was diagnosed with asthma, I was prescribed an inhaler. Then, still gasping for breath, I had to fight to be allowed to go pick up that inhaler. It cost less than $20 with the insurance I was on, and I paid for it myself. It wasn’t about money. It had never been about money. I used that inhaler and took my first clear breath in months. I got better. I wasn’t sick anymore. She never apologized.

That was one of many medical neglect induced near-death experiences I have had, and every time I hear about “parents rights” I remember how many people I had who wanted to help me and couldn’t. Teachers, friends, trusted adults in extra curriculars, and parents of friends all had to sit and watch for months as I got sicker and sicker. Had to sit with the fact that every time I disappeared from school I may not come back because they knew that even on my deathbed I would never see the inside of a hospital. All because my mother’s right to choose for her child was more important than my right to live without suffering. So I’m a bit leery of parents rights over children’s rights.

[byjove]

Paying your way through college by selling weed or doing Only Fans or whatever is infinitely more honorable than joining the military to get an education. Never forget community college is an option and you do not have to contribute to American imperialism to attend. I knew a girl who had scholarships but sold her dirty socks and underwear to pervs online for living expenses and she is stronger than any US marine for that.

[kosmogrl]

[girlballs-archive]

happy girlpenis saturday. reblog to advance the cause of global communism

[hotvampireadjacent]

[deanwinchesterapologist]

Weed gummy should cost 50¢ and be sold out of vending machines and at corner stores

[chill4234-reblogs]

Hi, yes, question?

What about children?

[deanwinchesterapologist]

I'm sure the kids can scrounge up 50¢

[oh-bother-stickers]

[i-am-l-ananas]

if you concentrate really hard you can exude all of your microplastics into a thin waxy layer, not unlike that of a babybel cheese

[jethroq]

[holleywoodsigns]

[naamahdarling]

"Family-friendly" has been a dogwhistle for all kinds of evil horseshit since at LEASE my childhood, 40+ years ago.

Don't fall for it. And don't let pro-LGBT+ people use that language without challenging it, it's a direct fucking quote from our oppressors.

[sarcastic-clapping]

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