the wood wide web

Hazel, 25, he/him

[dogpuppy]

[houndmother]

in the early 21st-century, the “small business” was a sort of small temple run by a local warlord. Patrons could purchase small trinkets and be granted absolution for the sins of their empire. This was called “ethical consumption.”

[coyoteguuurl]

reminder that diy hrt is not only objectively safe, but in a deeply transphobic world, is imperative to the safety and longevity of trans people.

[coyoteguuurl]

Second time I've heard about diy being safer, so, in what way (s) is non-diy dangerous?

a few things:

pedantic, but the claim wasnt that diy is safe, wasnt that it is "safer", but in many ways it is.

doctors are often (read: almost always) uneducated on transgender health. from Continuing Gaps in Transgender Medicine Education Among Health Care Providers "few of [the endocrinologists] (11%) rated themselves as very compotent in transgender care. Consistent with their self report, only 5% correctly answered knowledge questions. Further, only 36% reported training in transgender care during endocrinology fellowship."

because of this, trans women are often prescribed doses of estrogen so low as to have very little feminizing effect. for example, the common dosing of 2mg daily estradiol tablets with 50mg daily spironolactone is generally not enough estrogen to dominate a woman's endocrine system, but is enough to strongly weaken her testosterone, which is likely to cause harm (your body needs a dominant hormone, it doesn't care if it's estrogen or testosterone, but not having either is directly dangerous). these doses also fail to meaningfully decrease risk of depression and its symptoms (self harm, suicide, etc).

in a deeply transphobic world, where trans rights are constantly under massive threat, anything which can give care to trans women is imperative to their safety.

[depsidase]

[paintedpawcat]

felt like drawing some anthro Pinestar

[tim-official]

what world do people imagine their fursonae exist inside of. I love how undefined it is. some people are like "this is my sona Hryàxe, a hybrid dragon with ice powers who has been alive through three astral ages and toppled many kingdoms of men" and someone else is like "this is my sona he's an arctic fox named blurt and hes a barista in Toronto who loves to play mahjong." And then blurt and hryàxe are lovingly having sex on a tropical beach somewhere. and I'm like how'd they get to the beach

[bitchautism]

can we kill Charlie kirk again that would just really cheer me up

[rehabghost]

fanart of x the everything app

[nemfrog]

Original illustrations of the mammalian eye by George Lindsay Johnson and Arthur William Head. 1901.

The eyes of four breeds of dog painted in watercolor by a scientist.

Internet Archive

[txttletale]

computing technology has led to a marked increase in the efficiency of productive labour performed by many workers—under socialized control of the means of production this could significantly improve the quality of life of the masses, but under capitalism it only allows the bourgeoisie to appropriate an amazing digital surplus

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

My son's tattoo hurt me deeply

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

[brawlcloud]

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

[monkey-cat-vivi]

He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"CAR PARK LIGHTS" (2006), I'M $PARTACUS

[videolottery]

thing that are not and can never be art: fanfiction

video games

animation

film

books

art

[cheddar-baby]

You know im all for The Fountain, i think its a masterpiece but i hope more non art people also know Duchamp for his other work. Like Nude Descending a Staircase No.2 is one of the most striking paintings ive ever seen.

[grundoonmgnx]

Lindsay Merrill (American b. 1987), Untitled, 2026

Oil on canvas, 41 ⅞ x 55 ⅞ in

[krasnoarmeyets]

genuinely the most bizarre anticommunist argument is when they start examining the moral character or qualities of MARX. like what’s the logic here, what…

[krasnoarmeyets]

do they think marxism is when you really like marx on a personal level

[tamamita]

Revolutionary Intercommunalism & the Right of Nations to Self-determination - Huey P. Newton

[weaver-z]

I think that the Hamilton musical is objectively the funniest thing that could happen to that man's memory. Imagine dying of a gunshot wound infection in 1804 and learning from the afterlife that tweenage girls in 2017 are drawing thousands upon thousands of images of you making out with your fellow congressmen because someone wrote a 2-hour rap opera about you. I like to imagine that Hamilton found a monkey's paw and wished to leave a legacy, and this is what it did to him.

[happiebirdie]

you don't control who lives who dies who tells your story