Life is all about the write words.

a place for everything I love. Little bit of fandom, little bit of stuff i find pretty or cool, little bit of personal. all are welcome here! They/Them, 40 yrs wise

[climbingthefloors]

good god.

[sassychaostrash]

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[finrays]

I think one of my favorite underrated Aragorn moments is when he shows up at Minas Tirith and gets told “Hey, the Steward of Gondor says he hates you, won’t bow to you, and doesn’t want you in his city.”

And instead of like, attacking or pressing his birthright, he just kinda shrugs like “Oh, ok, I’ll come back later then” and fucks off to camp in a field for a month and a half.

[komaedalovemail]

i fucking hated your shoelaces this entire time

[butterfirefly]

for the uninitiated

[rozarria]

it is lowkey v funny that we started saying “we have got to get regular porn back on this website” bc it’s not wrong but also when we had “regular” porn on this website in 2014 people were still hornyposting box.gif and the weirdfruit.gif

tumblr users simply have the magic ability to find porn in the most mundane of places

[rozarria]

real tumblr veterans remember horny blorbo posting with these gifs

[imkeepinit]

"When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist—after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct." -- from Homage to Catalonia, an autobiographical account of Orwell's time in Spain fighting the Fascists.

“It was five o’clock in the morning. This was always a dangerous time, because we had the dawn at our backs, and if you stuck your head above the parapet it was clearly outlined against the sky . . . Suddenly, in the very middle of saying something, I felt—it is very hard to describe what I felt, though I remember it with the utmost vividness.”

"The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one’s political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one’s aesthetic and intellectual integrity." - Why I Write

In the summer of 1936, Spanish workers had taken up arms to oppose General Franco, who was leading the revolt against the nation’s left-leaning elected government. The fighting broke out on July 18th and as Orwell would write in his essay “Looking Back on the Spanish Civil War,” it is probable that every anti-Fascist in Europe felt a thrill of hope. Orwell determined to go to Spain to witness the fighting and to possibly take part in it. He left England on December 23, 1936, uncertain if he would fight or had the stamina to be a soldier.  -- James L. Franklin, George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War: A brush with death

Now might be a good time to re-read George Orwell.

[enki2]

[gleerant]



[ash-rigby]

"just because you like something doesn't mean it's objectively good and you should ignore its problems, but you're still allowed to like it" and "just because you dislike something doesn't mean it's objectively bad and you should harass or bully its fanbase, but you're still allowed to dislike it" are two concepts that can and should coexist and I'm fucking begging you people

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

Always reblog I love my sisters this is big news

[beardedmrbean]

[megafaunatic]

see her fabulous

[chiimeramanticore]

i wanna see more art of trans men with boobs where the point of the art is anything other than the fact that they have boobs. i want the idea of trans men with breasts to stop being novel. i want people to stop perceiving trans men as only either having already had top surgery or always binding. i want people to stop assuming everyone with visible breasts is a woman or woman-aligned. i want breasts to become a completely genderless feature. i wanna be allowed to let em hang without being misgendered. i wanna be able to stop worrying about what to put on my chest every day for the sake of other people's perception of me without feeling pressured into getting expensive surgery. i want that to stop being the only two options for transmascs

[donniehaspronouns]

it makes me so sad seeing people in my life who tell me they think they might be trans but they’re too scared to confront that reality because the transgender experience just seems to be filled with terror and misery. trans people please never stop talking about the joys of being transgender. please never stop talking about your excitement and joy and happiness. maybe you think that the trans experience is all doom and gloom, too. I promise it’s not. focus on the joy and you will feel better I promise.

[iridessence]

Valentine’s Day, post opera and diner.

[theconcealedweapon]

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[peacozy]

studio ghibli romances be like mmm what if we didn’t kiss, but instead both spiritually matured as people because we met each other