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your twenties are not "late" to start hrt. that is a normal time to start hrt. your thirties are also a normal time to start hrt. your seventies are pretty late to start hrt, but not too late. like, statistically, that's at the end of the curve. but if you are not dead, it is not too late for hrt.
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mid-way pride month check-in
just saw someone comment under a videoclip of the sylvia rivera interview where she insists on the modern (circa 2001) pride movement being a capitalist smokescreen, a “straight gay” movement that worships the almighty dollar, that:
and this person is likely quite young but this really really really captures the limited imagination of capitalist neoliberal indoctrination around freedom and liberation. radical queerness treated as a paintjob over a prison as opposed to the bulldozer that tears the prison down. we have to dream for so much more and endure the pain of dreaming.
“upcycling” but it’s just cutting up plus sized clothes and frankensteining them onto a skinny body
most fantasy books or fics i’ve read that contained a desert biome fell back on real world prejudice and misconceptions in place of authentic worldbuilding for a place and people, and it is so telling that the trope seems to repeat itself
things like
the desert as a lifeless wasteland where ‘life is crushed underneath the shifting sands and blazing sun’ blah blah blah. deserts are full of life and they are beautiful and people have lived and prospered in them for eons. please read a book
the desert as an ugly or barren terrain where everything is harsh and threatening
the desert as something scary
the inhabitants as backwards religious zealots
the men as overly violent and oppressive
the inhabitants in need of outside instruction/intervention, i.e. “civilizing the savage”
the “harem” and women as exotic, sensual, mysterious
writing tribalism with no knowledge of how tribes actually function
djinn (or for the westerners, genies)
Islam Lite (the aesthetics or spiritual practices appropriated and stripped of meaning)
sprinkling random arabic words for ✨flavor✨instead of expanding your worldbuilding to include language as well
clothing as oppressive or mysterious, instead of serving its actual purpose (protecting you from the elements, which should be obvious but i guess it isn’t. covering your skin keeps you cooler and safer in most deserts)
people who live in deserts as ignorant, superstitious, uneducated
this isn’t worldbuilding, it’s just ignorance and bigotry
yes I ate hot dog flavored ice cream. yes I did order it Chicago style. no this is not a joke. yes it was disgusting. yes I am a vegetarian. I forgot.
it was on a bun instead of in a cone or bowl. btw.
wishing a very unhappy pride to solangelo I hope they break up ❤️
yes I ate hot dog flavored ice cream. yes I did order it Chicago style. no this is not a joke. yes it was disgusting. yes I am a vegetarian. I forgot.
eastcoast: we hate our city and it makes us feel bad. but we like feeling bad
west coat: we hate our city and it makes us feel good
chicago: we love our city
I advise against getting bed bugs. 0/10 would not recommend.
what are people's favorite niche ice cream flavors. mine are superman and blue moon (specifically from the midwest like michigan/indiana/wisconsin), van leeuwen's royal wedding cake, and jeni's wildberry lavender
I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up
the aroace thing also factors in to why I used to think arranged marriages were so romantic. they cut out most of the unpleasant parts of dating (finding someone to like, trying to figure out how the other person feels or what their intentions are, etc) so you can skip straight to companionship, and they’re based on concrete things like finances or take into consideration things like family bonds, and I thought that was so much more pleasant and logical and would result in a much more successful and stable marriage than one based on something as flighty and unpredictable as romantic love.
it wasn’t even that I thought my analytical approach to romance was normal. I knew it was weird that I selected someone to like based on what seemed like the most logical pairing. I just thought that everyone else was stupid for not doing that too.
me when I thought I was straight and allo: “so I like this guy.”
my friend: “oh nice! what do you like about him?”
me: “idk it just seems logical. I like his mom a lot and I figure I wouldn’t mind having her for a mother-in-law.”
my friend: “wtf are you talking about?”
one time I had a therapist tell me she thought I was confused about my feelings for a boy and that I actually just wanted to be his friend. in hindsight I know she was right but it was still a rude thing to say.
