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short fancomic I did with John Grosjean, about something he hopes to see in Far From Home.
So what Iâve learned from the past couple months of being really loud about being a bi woman on Tumblr is: A lot of young/new LGBT+ people on this site do not understand that some of the stuff theyâre saying comes across to other LGBT+ people as offensive, aggressive, or threatening. And when they actually find out the history and context, a lot of them go, âOh my god, Iâm so sorry, I never meant to say that.â
Like, âqueer is a slurâ: I get the impression that people saying this are like⌠oh, how I might react if I heard someone refer to all gay men as âf*gsâ. Like, âOh wow, thatâs a super loaded word with a bunch of negative freight behind it, are you really sure you want to put that word on people who are still very raw and would be alarmed, upset, or offended if they heard you call them it, no matter what you intended?â
So theyâre really surprised when self-described queers respond with a LOT of hostility to what feels like a well-intentioned reminder that some people might not like it.Â
Thatâs because thereâs a history of âpolitical lesbiansâ, like Sheila Jeffreys, who believe that no matter their sexual orientation, women should cut off all social contact with men, who are fundamentally evil, and only date the âcorrectâ sex, which is other women. Political lesbians claim that relationships between women, especially ones that donât contain lust, are fundamentally pure, good, and unproblematic. They therefore regard most of the LGBT community with deep suspicion, because its members are either way too into sex, into the wrong kind of sex, into sex with men, are men themselves, or somehow challenge the very definitions of sex and gender.Â
When âqueer theoryâ arrived in the 1980s and 1990s as an organized attempt by many diverse LGBT+ people in academia to sit down and talk about the social oppressions they face, political lesbians like Jeffreys attacked it harshly, publishing articles like âThe Queer Disappearance of Lesbiansâ, arguing that because queer theory said it was okay to be a man or stop being a man or want to have sex with a man, it was fundamentally evil and destructive. And this attitude has echoed through the years; many LGBT+ people have experience being harshly criticized by radical feminists because being anything but a cis âgold star lesbianâ (another phrase that gives me war flashbacks) was considered patriarchal, oppressive, and basically evil.
And when those arguments happened, âqueerâ was a good umbrella to shelter under, even when people didnât know the intricacies of academic queer theory; people who identified as âqueerâ were more likely to be accepting and understanding, and âqueerâ was often the only label or community bisexual and nonbinary people didnât get chased out of. If someone didnât disagree that people got to call themselves queer, but didnât want to be called queer themselves, they could just say âI donât like being called queerâ and that was that. Being âqueerâ was to being LGBT as being a âfeministâ was to being a woman; it was opt-in.
But this history isnât evident when these interactions happen. We donât sit down and say, âOkay, so forty years ago there was this woman named Sheila, andâŚâ Instead we queers go POP! like pufferfish, instantly on the defensive, a red haze descending over our vision, and bellow, âDO NOT TELL ME WHAT WORDS I CANNOT USE,â because we cannot find a way to say, âThis word is so vital and precious to me, I wouldnât be alive in the same way if I lost it.â And then the people who just pointed out that this word has a history, JEEZ, way to overreact, go away very confused and off-put, because they were just trying to say.
But Iâve found that once this is explained, a lot of people go, âOh wow, okay, I did NOT mean to insinuate that, I didnât realize that I was also saying something with a lot of painful freight to it.â
And that? That gives me hope for the future.
Similarily:Â âDyke/butch/femme are lesbian words, bisexual/pansexual women shouldnât use them.â
When I speak to them, lesbians who say this seem to be under the impression that bisexuals must have our own history and culture and words that are all perfectly nice, so why canât we just use those without poaching someone elseâs?
And often, theyâre really shocked when I tell them: We donât. We canât. Iâd love to; itâs not possible.
âLesbianâ used to be a word that simply meant a woman who loved other women. And until feminism, very, very few women had the economic freedom to choose to live entirely away from men. Lesbian bars that began in the 1930s didnât interrogate you about your history at the door; many of the women who went there seeking romantic or sexual relationships with other women were married to men at the time. When The Daughters of Bilitis formed in 1955 to work for the civil and political wellbeing of lesbians, the majority of its members were closeted, married women, and for those women, leaving their husbands and committing to lesbian partners was a risky and arduous process the organization helped them with. Women were admitted whether or not theyâd at one point truly loved or desired their husbands or other menâthe important thing was that they loved women and wanted to explore that desire.
Lesbian groups turned against bisexual and pansexual women as a class in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, when radical feminists began to teach that to escape the Patriarchyâs evil influence, women needed to cut themselves off from men entirely. Having relationships with men was âsleeping with the enemyâ and colluding with oppression. Many lesbian radical feminists viewed, and still view, bisexuality as a fundamentally disordered condition that makes bisexuals unstable, abusive, anti-feminist, and untrustworthy.
(This despite the fact that radical feminists and political lesbians are actually a small fraction of lesbians and wlw, and lesbians do tend, overall, to have positive attitudes towards bisexuals.)
That process of expelling bi women from lesbian groups with immense prejudice continues to this day and leaves scars on a lot of bi/pan people. A lot of bisexuals, myself included, have an experience of âdouble discriminationâ; we are made to feel unwelcome or invisible both in straight society, and in LGBT spaces. And part of this is because attempts to build a bisexual/pansexual community identity have met with strong resistance from gays and lesbians, so we have far fewer books, resources, histories, icons, organizations, events, and resources than gays and lesbians do, despite numerically outnumbering them..
So every time I hear that phrase, itâs another painful reminder for me of all the experiences Iâve had being rejected by the lesbian community. But bisexual experiences donât get talked about or signalboosted much,so a lot of young/new lesbians literally havenât learned this aspect of LGBT+ history.
And once Iâve explained it, Iâve had a heartening number of lesbians go, âThatâs not what I wanted to happen, so Iâm going to stop saying that.â
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Hairdresser: Weâre going to have to use a color remover to take out the blue pigment, then apply more pigment to allow for the proteins in the hair to adhere to it. Then possibly mix three different types of toners to reach the goal of your natural hair color.
Hairdresser: pretty simple
Me: this is chemistry
Hairdresser: yeah, but people donât like when we talk that way
Hairdresser: so youâre a mortician?
Me: apprentice
Hairdresser: do you know why formaldehyde is used in clothing?
Me: I didnât know that was a thing
Hairdresser: I think itâs due to the preserving qualities? But I donât think thatâs right.
Me: Itâs not just a preservative, itâs also a disinfectant âcause it destroys bacteria as well as their food supply. Itâs also a dehydrator.Â
Hairdresser: why not just use alcohol?
Me: good question. Formaldehyde is super cheap, so probably to cut costs
Hairdresser: is it really a carcinogen?Â
Me: yeah, Iâm going to have so much cancer
Hairdresser: so youâre going natural to work at a funeral home?
Me: yeah
Hairdresser: while still in school?
Me: well we work in the funeral homes so we have uuuuh ⌠experience with cases
Hairdresser: you can just say bodies itâs fineÂ
Me: oh thank god
Five Minutes Later
Me: yeah so we donât do autopsies itâs one of my pet peeves
Hairdresser: what if someone wakes up while youâre embalming them?
Me: thereâs a huge difference between a living body and a dead one
second hairdresser: I think we should add more toner, but yeah I think rigor mortis would make it pretty obvious
Me: that and being in a fridge for a few days you will be dead by the time you get to us
Hairdresser: I think pumping them full of a carcinogen would help with that
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Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) â a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration â was designed to capture images of a black hole. Today, in coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they have succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow. The image reveals the black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. Supermassive black holes are relatively tiny astronomical objects â which has made them impossible to directly observe until now. As the size of a black holeâs event horizon is proportional to its mass, the more massive a black hole, the larger the shadow. Thanks to its enormous mass and relative proximity, M87âs black hole was predicted to be one of the largest viewable from Earth â making it a perfect target for the EHT. The shadow of a black hole is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The black holeâs boundary â the event horizon from which the EHT takes its name â is around 2.5 times smaller than the shadow it casts and measures just under 40 billion km across.
Credit: ESO
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grown ass men are out here not eating fruit or vegetables or washing their face and having a list of things women must do to be attractive to them and thus gain their respect like grow the fuck up and eat a carrot literally no woman needs you
âNo woman needs youâ said the future cat lady lol
Newsflash. No man needs a bitch telling him to eat rabbit food and nagging him constantly.
I cannot wait to see feminism burn itself out.
u gonna die of scurvy in the name of antifeminism
The scurvy got him
I donât get why âcat ladyâ is an insult to women.Â
My dude, you got this backward; welcome to the modern era, we have careers, money, we buy our own houses and cars, and we have easy access to a selection of vibrators our ancestresses could only dream of.  Companionship is great and everything, but as many of us discovered, it comes in many forms.
If a woman has a cat but you donât see a guy, thatâs usually because she did the math and overall, men scored lower than a furry animal that shits in a box and a Hitachi.
she did the math and overall, men scored lower than a furry animal that shits in a box
my dad was saying how he thinks that at every birthday after 18 more and more things should become legal. so by the time youâre like 60 you finally get your meth and arson liscence
if you make it to 100 instead of getting a card or whatever it is from the queen you get to commit treason
your dad is a fucking innovator
hey for no reason whatsoever at what age would i completely hypothetically be able to murder jeff bezos
legal at birth next question
I remember first learning that you can cry from any emotion, that emotions are chemical levels in your brain and your body is constantly trying to maintain equilibrium. so if one emotion sky rockets, that chemical becomes flagged and signals the tear duct to open as an exit to release that emotion packaged neatly within a tear. Everything made sense after learning that. That sudden stability of your emotions after crying. How crying is often accompanied by the inability to feel any other emotion in that precise moment. And it is especially beautiful knowing that it is even possible to experience so much beauty or love or happiness that your body literally canât hold on to all of it. So what Iâve learned is that crying signifies that you are feeling as much as humanely possible and that is living to the fullest extent. So keep feeling and cry often and as much as needed
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Also let yourself cry. It really is a biochemical release valve to dump out all the chemicals that make you feel stuff.
I honestly think one reason men in western culture have so many problems is that we donât let them cry, and literally their brains get stuffed with all this crap that doesnât have a release valve. Men, please cry. Youâll feel better. Itâs ok. You are not lesser for taking care of your health.
This is why tears from different emotions look different under an electron microscope. Theyâre literally made up of different things.Â
Happy tears are structurally different than sad tears than angry tears than overwhelmed tears etc.
I looked it up, cuz that tidbit was dope to me and..
Never would have known
Ah yes, the emotions: grief, change, onion, humor
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