Sup.

Oliver. He/him. Various diagnosed mental illnesses, thoracic outlet syndrome, endometriosis with adhesions. Autistic. So Very Gay. hisgreatestadventures.wordpress.com

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Please register to vote of you're in the UK and an eligible voter. I came and posted on Tumblr after literally years just to say this. OUR VOTING SYSTEM IS A BIT SHIT YOU HAVE TO REGISTER PLS REGISTER NOW

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Some trans science fiction and fantasy books. You can find my earlier recs for f/f science fiction and fantasy here and my new recs for bi and pan books here. 

Also I somehow totally blanked on this while making the powerpoint, but Charlie Jane Anders’ stuff should be in the last slide. Her two books are CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT and ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY. I’ll link to some of her short stories below the cut.

The queer SFF database’s tag for trans books is here. There’s more than I included in the rec post, so go knock yourself out!

I included the author identities because I figured people would want to know if the book was own voices. Disclaimer that gender is a weird nebulous thing and life isn’t easy or straightforward, so depending on when you’re reading this post (I’m writing 8/2/19), some of the authors I listed as cis might have had gender realizations. I literally saw this on Twitter this morning with one of the “more trans SFF” books, so figured it was worth saying. 

Below the text cut you’ll find the titles and authors, links to my queer SFF database (which includes links to trans reviewers and content warnings), and some of my favorite SFF short stories by trans people.

Keep reading

[potentiallydead]

@foxy-voxy @batmanisagatewaydrug

[feministism]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Apple: Literally design their phones to become an expensive toxic brick within a few years

Gas Companies: Actively work to prevent anything being done to develop, promote or in any way make green energy sources widely known of available or affordable to anyone because slowly murdering the planet makes them millions of dollars

Big Companies: Literally dump toxic crap where it will cause serious harm to the earth and the species on it

Governments: Clearly what we need to do to save the earth is make people pay money to use carrier bags so they can actually carry their shopping home

AND BAN DRINKING STRAWS

[teathattast]

This, my friends, is called Individualization of Responsibility, aka holding the citizens accountable for the destruction caused by corporations :/

[justanothermlmblog]

shoutout to trans guys who’ve had abortions

shoutout to trans guys that need birth control

shoutout to the trans guys that are often erased in the discussion over reproductive rights

[probodilyautonomy]

Shout out to pregnant trans guys!!

Shout out to trans guys who have given birth!!

[dudewhohadlikeababyandstuff]

Here, here!

[just-shower-thoughts]

b, p, d and q are the same fucking letter and noone talks about it

[tsaimelemoni]

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

a collection of tweets, part 22

(the series)

[theslaybymic]

Watch: Kristen Bell opens up about the mental health double standard and how she manages her own struggle.

Follow @this-is-life-actually

[laureninlilly]

Hit reblog on this so hard

[shushtaouk]

Outstanding heterosexual Tan France everybody 

[lesbiangalacticgoddess]

I love his sarcasm

[humansoflatecapitalism]

𝖜𝖉𝖙𝖍𝖙𝖉𝖜𝖈

[luvrly]

Never forget that the War on Drugs was fabricated to criminalize certain communities. 

[iammyfather]

And the CIA got a source of off the books funding that Congress could ignore.

[knightlyhoods-deactivated202404]

this has got to be THE funniest sentence ive seen all day im gonna cry

[quaadude]

Me getting my name called to get my order at Starbucks

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I'm dying 😂

[rubyetc]

[f0lx]

you can only reblog this once

[faerieincombatboots]

Blaze it

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Mandalas

Given that a tranditional mandala is made of coloured sand by monks, and once completed its swept away with brushy things and completely destroyed, sorta demonstrating the impermanence of everything and cycle of life and stuff...

Is getting a tattoo of a geometric mandala style shape thing, that are currently so popular right now, at odds to the original purpose of mandala art

Or because we die anyway the monks are cool

I wish I had pals who were Buddhist monks

[inkyal-handpoketools]

By @matteonangeroni

To submit your work use the tag #btattooing And don’t forget to share our page too!

#tattooartist #tattooist #tattooing #tattoos #tattoo #blacktattooing #new #black #ink

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I got prescribed morphine yesterday, when I had been in severe pain all day and my regular strong painkillers weren't working.

I spoke to the GP on the phone, asking if they should maybe now be checking it's not something else. I was pretty sure they would end up sending me to a&e, all I could think about was the pain and how it was really bad.

GP asked what I was expecting them to do/wanted to happen, which I always find a difficult question to answer as I usually hear it with a slightly accusatory tone?? I said I'd quite like to have it ruled out this isn't something more serious at this rate as it feeling like someone is stomping on my pelvis.

I headed off to the drs, with a hot water bottle and walking gingerly, to sit and wait for the duty doctor. He called me in while slamming doors. I dunno why he was slamming them.

I spoke about how i have pain every day. How it's not managed. And how I would just like to remind him that I would absolutely not call if it wasn't really fucking bad.

He took my blood pressure - 164/98. At least my body could show i was in pain. Thanks body, you did good. (High blood pressure showed you're stressed to fuck, common in alot of pain)

He prodded and poked as I winced on the table, took my temperature, then asked if I'd ever been on any other medications. I explained I've been prescribed tramadol, amitriptyline and duloxetine before - all went badly. I hated tramadol - felt like a dead person and vomited every day. Not for me.

I did mention I've used oramorph before - oral liquid morphine. I was prescribed it during a special episode of hell where I had an ovarian cyst and a slipped disc at the same time. We agreed together the best action plan is to test my urine, then see if there's another painkiller at this point to add in and see if it can control the worst while this flare settles, because it seemed to be an aggravation of the same old thing - endometriosis.

He ended up prescribing some oramorph, along with a bunch of laxatives to help if that side of things gets even worse.

I find it weird that now I'm at a stage of endometriosis management where I'm on morphine. That two doctors still have to agree a 28year old needs his uterus and ovaries removed, when I'm now in so much pain I've been prescribed morphine.

Also, noone told me it affects your sleep and gives you weird woken nightmares, so I'm writing this at 4.30am. having had 2 hours sleep. Urgh.

[redroseclub-deactivated20191130]

being alive……….. is a lot

[toothyblowjob]

there’s not really much discussion of child neglect on here so i guess i have to do it

p l e a s e don’t shame neglect survivors for not knowing “basic” things like how to eat a balanced diet, when to go to the doctor, how to drive, etc. you know these things (usually) because a caring adult taught them to you. we didn’t have that. we often enter adulthood knowing jack shit about how to take care of ourselves. we know we’re missing information, and we feel so fucking lost.

it’s okay to, if you have a friend who’s experienced neglect, try and help them learn how to take care of themselves. saying things like “hey, do you think you could try to eat at least one vegetable per day?” or “that infection looks pretty bad, do you want to go to a doctor?” is genuinely helpful. but belittling us for not already knowing these things is completely unproductive and unnecessarily cruel.

don’t be a dick to survivors.

[noenee]

I can barely tie my shoes, can’t ride a bike, know how to set a washig machine or dishwasher or cook anythng because no one taught me. Having to learn all these thngs mot people know yourslf is already embarrassing enough, please help us, don’t make fun of us.

[abused-and-usefull]

If your friend doesn’t know how to cook invite them over to your house and y’all can both cook together that way they learn in a fun way or even take a cooking class with them

If your friend doesn’t know how to make appointments then be with them or go with them the first couple of times they do so they arnt alone

If they don’t know how much to tip at a restaurant then show them kindly

Simple things like that make a ton of difference

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I can cook really decent meals off by heart because I was cooking for my family at an inappropriately young age. I didn't learn to meal plan or any kind of budgeting until this year, with the help of a support worker