a noisy noise annoys a noisy oyster

Emily. 34. They/she

[killerqueenmp3]

[laura-the-swarming]

My mans unlocked a higher level of synesthesia

[loveless-arobee]

Hey, cis women who say "I wish I was a man but definitely not a trans way, haha! I would never be a man :)"

I say this with all the gentleness in my heart: It is okay for you to be a man. If you want to be a man, you can just be one. You also don't have to stop being a woman to be a man. Multigender people exist. You can be a man and a woman at the same time. Or you can be just a man, or a non-binary man, or non-binary, or something entirely different. You can do and be whatever you want and whatever makes you happy.

Becoming a man is not a betrayal of womanhood and feminism. And everyone who makes you feel like it is an absolute asshole, and you should not ever listen to them. You do not have to push your own happiness aside for other peoples' comfort.

If you want to be a man, try it out! See where it gets you. Maybe it turns out that you really weren't trans, or not a trans man but something else entirely, and that's fine, too. Maybe it turns out you are a trans man. In any case, following those thoughts might get you to a happier and better place in the end. And if you turn out to be happier as a man than you were as a woman, that is wonderful.

Please don't feel forced to stay a cis woman for feminism - any feminism that mistreats or hates trans men and transmasculine people is bad feminism. Being a trans man or transmasc is not a moral failure.

Trans manhood and masculinity are wonderful, and you deserve happiness. And if you find that happiness in manhood/masculinity, you don't deserve to be shamed or harassed for it, and you should not be made to feel the need to put yourself down for it, either.

[loveless-arobee]

Saying this because I used to be this "cis woman/girl" a few years ago, and felt exactly the same about myself. I did believe the "every woman feels like this! You're not trans!" shtick for years, and forced myself to stay a girl and a woman because that was "the right thing to do" according to the "feminists" I was around.

I know what it feels like. It can get better.

All of this also goes for trans men and transmasculine people who still struggle with such thoughts, of course. It doesn't just go away the second you realize you are trans.

What sparked this post, however, was a video I saw made by a cis woman lamenting that she was a woman and wishing she was a man but she couldn't just be a man because she "wasn't trans" and still liked being a woman, and a lot of other cis women in the comments agreeing. And I just feel so bad for them. If you feel miserable being a woman and wish you were something else, try this "something else" and see how it feels. See if you'll be happier. Because sometimes, the grass is greener on the other side, and you don't have to keep suffering in your own body or mind.

[genderkoolaid]

And being a trans man or transmasculine is not giving up, or taking the easy way out (fucking lol), and it doesn't mean you are less of a feminist or that you will become an outsider to feminism. Your relationship with your life as a girl/woman and the misogyny you've experienced is yours alone. You are allowed to be a man in ways that cis men do not understand. You are allowed to have a relationship with misogyny and womanhood that cis women do not understand.

Hell, you can just decide one day that you are a man and change nothing about your life if you want to. The possibilities are endless. Transmasculinity is not a loss, a lessening, a closing of doors. It does not mean you are boring or traditionalist or falling in line with the status quo. It's cool as fuck, actually, and takes a lot of bravery and determination.

Surround yourself with revolutionary transmasculine feminists; let yourself realize how many doors can open when you stop defining transmasculinity by everyone else's metrics.

[7dmom]

I am so sorry you had a traumatic childhood and it made you stupid on line. I was raised as a lotus flower and I smell like vanilla all the time

[7dmom]

I put your name on a beetle and let it die of thirst

[i-am-a-fish]

hey guys does anyone know where I can find respite from the horrors

[jesus-holding-your-fave]

here fish, i will offer you respite

stay as long as you need, friend

[i-am-a-fish]

oh, hi Jesus

thank you I appreciate it

[seeyoulaterallig8r-deactivated2]

its of utmost importance you have sound on while watching this

[augustdementhe]

If you can’t make use of the sound, please imagine the soft snuffles of a hand vacuum that’s capable of love.

[lacefuneral]

i love it, sniff animal

[lacefuneral]

sniff animal saturday

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

There’s also some very subtle slurping!

This is Tilli, an aardvark at the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, WA. I looked up the video source, and here’s what the zoo’s Twitter post from October 2021 says:

“Tilli the aardvark has her amazing sniffer going while she inspects keeper Brynn’s homegrown, 53-pound Cinderella pumpkin! Tilli’s care team punctured holes in the giant pumpkin and filled with yogurt for a special Zoo Boo treat.”

So when she looks like she’s sniffing super hard at the pumpkin with her nose flat against it, she’s probably sticking her tongue into a hole to get to the food. Aardvarks are insectivores and have tongues very similar to (although not as extreme as) anteaters. Here’s a video of Tilli engaging with a puzzle feeder so you can see her tongue (best clip is 0:40), as well as a keeper sharing a bunch more info about her.

And because I love these buddies, here’s another aardvark tongue video of two at the Omaha Zoo learning to get treats out of a maze puzzle feeder. (The good part starts around 1:15 - it takes them a bit to figure it out).

But also, I just want to give a shout-out to the keeper who brought their home-grown giant pumpkin in for Tilli in the first video. Whatever else you might think about the zoo industry, it’s a certain fact that zookeepers adore their animals and spoil them whenever they can.

[library-seraph]

It’s october, you know what that means

[ephemeral-arteryyy]

I love her and I wish I could kiss her on her little sneef snorfing snoot

[fleshdyk3]

everyone loves to shit on shoebills like omg this bird is SO SCARY its TERRIFYING which like first of all shut up youre annoying second they are literally just standing there what the hell is your problem

[fleshdyk3]

why would you hate him. what did he ever do to you

[ephemeral-arteryyy]

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[valtsv]

i have no idea what passes for humor on this site anymore. i feel like i could say shit like "hey what's up guys i'm still trapped in this abandoned grain silo" and it'd get notes.

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

I watched this without sound and it was just so happy and joyful I knew it could only get better with the music

And I was right

[liveleaker-deactivated20250423]

why do u post so much

this is literally the post so much website

[fairycosmos]

i’m just a bitch with bad posture and an irregular sleeping schedule 

[stuckinapril]

are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

[stuckinapril]

this is not just "look out the window and sigh" longing. i'm talking you're at the grocery store and you're suddenly hit w a wave of grief bc you don't have it. you don't have whatever it is you ache so badly to have. you go about your everyday life and yet it throbs under your skin moment by moment, almost as though it has a life of its own. that's the kind of longing i mean.

[applesauce42069-deactivated2024]

This is what it’s all about

[jantesika]

people have already mentioned this, but I wanna bring it up as well:

wonderfully fitting name. Emet. truth. because he found it, didn't he?

[post-punk-post-twink]

i never know what to say when someone is embarrassed about their age

[sleepy-ace-dragon]

So we all know afab and amab, what does this make captain ahab? Assigned hater?

[plaguedocboi]

Assigned Harpooner At Birth

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

crying at these tags

[ephemeral-arteryyy]

[furrypost-generator]

indecipherable text lost to time

[40ouncesandamule]

thank you for explaining because ever since I first saw this post, the phrase "nurning annintant" has been burning a hole through the back of my skull

[poetry-protest-pornography]

I also came up with "nurning annintant" and am fully crying laughing about it