60 (!!!) consecutive days of hitting post limit

Mia/Link/Majora/Rolf (give it up for rolf and his 14 def everybody. more def than IKE) ~ 23 ~ Any Pronouns (he/it esp i think) ~ Aromantic ~ Lesboy ~ Multi Fandom ~ if it seems like im taking a long time to reblog im probably at post limit again ~ pfp credit: @lin-of-the-linkverse ~ post limit tracker updated as of 46st june 2026 (i do not acknowledge ceasars additions to the calendar)

[reckless-libertine]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)

Tell me why I can’t stop thinking about them

[genderkoolaid]

it is truly wild that people will say "if you think trans men are in a materially different class under patriarchy than cis men, you must not think they are real men!" with full earnestness and not realize what it is they are actually saying.

idk my friend, if you need to pretend that trans men don't have materially different experience of patriarchy & are classed differently under patriarchy than cis men, in order to see trans men's manhood as real? i don't think your line of thinking is much different than TERFs who stubbornly refuse to admit that trans women are also have a materially different experience of patriarchy & are classed differently than cis men.

in both cases, rather than acknowledging how the cissexism in feminism has led to the erasure of how fundamental queerphobia and transphobia is to upholding patriarchy, you are clinging to that very cissexism, and privileging the experiences of cis people over trans people and basically blatantly stating that it is the experiences of cis people which define what it means to be a "real" man or woman.

except at least TERFs are being transphobic on purpose; you are trying to act like the real transphobia is acknowledging that. being trans matters when it comes to gender in society???????? this is what happens when you only care about the trans-exclusive part of being anti-TERF and not the radical-feminist part.

[genderkoolaid]

Access to gender-affirming care (GAC) varied across gender identity when comparing trans men to AFAB nonbinary individuals (Table 2.5). For example, both groups highly desired top surgery; however, trans men were significantly more likely to have already undergone the procedure (32%) compared to AFAB nonbinary individuals (10%). Both groups also showed interest in hysterectomies, though access again differed, as 10% of trans men had undergone a hysterectomy, while only 2% of AFAB nonbinary individuals had. Overall, this indicates that while transgender men and AFAB nonbinary individuals often seek similar forms of care, nonbinary individuals experience a larger gap between desiring a procedure and receiving it, possibly due to systemic barriers or variations in how medical providers approach nonbinary transition-related care.

When comparing across gender, some similarities exist between transgender women and AMAB nonbinary individuals in their desires for certain procedures (Table 2.7). For instance, both groups wanted laser hair removal at high prevalences (54% of trans women and 58% of AMAB nonbinary individuals). However, transgender women were far more likely to have undergone the procedure (40%) compared to AMAB nonbinary individuals (15%), suggesting a greater gap between desire and access. In contrast, desires for surgical procedures diverge between trans women and AMAB nonbinary respondents. Trans women wanted vaginoplasty at much higher prevalences than AMAB nonbinary individuals (48% vs. 17%), and a substantially larger percentage of trans women already had the procedure (11% vs. 1%). These findings highlight that gender-affirming needs are not uniform across gender identity.

from the USTS 2022 Health & Wellness report, pages 47 & 49

[genderkoolaid]

^ also from the 2022 USTS. & from the 2015 USTS:

Seventy-eight percent (78%) of respondents wanted to receive hormone therapy at some point in their life, but only 49% of respondents have ever received it. Ninety-two percent (92%) of those who have ever received hormone therapy were currently still receiving it, representing 44% of all respondents. A large majority of transgender men and women (95%) have wanted hormone therapy, compared to 49% of non-binary respondents. Transgender men and women were about five times more likely to have ever had hormone therapy (71%) than non-binary respondents (13%)

& note that all of this comes from 2022 (& 2015), so does not represent the full impact of more recent anti-trans legal attacks.

[genderkoolaid]

For these questions, respondents could choose one option between:

Had it but not for gender identity/ transition

Have had it

Want it some day

Not sure if I want this

Do not want this

The charts above only seem to consider "desire it" or "have had it" as far as I can tell, so we do not know the difference in how many nonbinary people were unsure vs how many binary people. It seems like a sizeable amount of people of both assignments selected "unsure" for many options. The numbers below reflect the average between both trans wo/men and nonbinary respondents of either AGAB:

Respondents were asked a series of questions about whether they had received or wanted to have specific surgical and other procedures, separate from gender-affirming hormone therapy. Respondents selected if they wanted to receive questions about procedures or surgeries for those assigned female at birth (such as chest surgery or metoidioplasty) or questions about procedures or surgeries for those assigned male at birth (such as breast augmentation or vaginoplasty). Respondents who indicated they were born with a variation in physical sex characteristics or described themselves as intersex were able to select either set of questions or a third option that included questions about both types of procedures and surgeries. Eighty-four percent (84%) of respondents indicated that they desired one or more transition-related procedures or surgeries, separate from gender-affirming hormone therapy. Thirty-one percent (31%) reported receiving one or more of these procedures or surgeries.

On top of that, there's also the fact that just asking a question like "do you want vaginoplasty" can remove a lot of important nuance. Penis-preserving vaginoplasty is much harder to get & many people don't even know its an option; treating all vaginoplastys as basically the same (or phallo/meta for that matter) might mean losing sight of such differences. Similarly, nulloplasty/nullification surgery was not mentioned, and neither was penectomy for those assigned male (whereas someone with a vagina seeking nullification could at leas select "vaginectomy"). Similarly, nullification surgery suffers from a lack of awareness amongst those who might benefit, and far more difficulty in finding information and a surgeon and getting it paid for.

[genderkoolaid]

Trans men's accounts of their struggles with poverty, from "Pathyways into Poverty: Lived Experiences Among LGBTQ People" by UCLA's Williams Institute

This data is from 2020.

[genderkoolaid]

from "LGBT Poverty in the United States: A study of differences between sexual orientation and gender identity groups" by UCLA's Williams Institute.

This data is from 2019.

[minotauri]

ocean sounds for those of you who need it

[snakepyre]

thanks i made a little painting about it

[rednines]

If you add two pounds of sugar to literally one ton of concrete it will ruin the concrete and make it unable to set properly which is good to know if you wanna resist something being built, French anarchists used this to resist prison construction in the 80s

[catgirlcaliphate]

I’m just gonna go ahead and reblog this for purely educational purposes.

[valhallas-last]

Of course. Purely for education.

[uququ]

after a couple hours chopping dried sea urchins into tiny pieces with a razor blade you start referring to the razor blade as yourself in your thoughts. a little while afterwards you'll inevitably think something along the lines of "i'm getting a bit dull, i'm going to have to throw myself out & get myself a new self" at which point your internal monologue has pretty much returned to baseline

[life-of-jauxro]

[willgrahamscock]

sorry about not replying I think I’ve gone missing

[willgrahamscock]

sorry about not replying I think I’ve gone missing

[wizard-email]

I can’t believe they’re making me do my degree I signed up for

[wizard-email]

Graduated!!

[wizard-email]

they’re making me do my job I signed up for

[notyouiguess]

Looking up to 40 years in the furture when you come to this post announce you've retired

[wizard-email]

in this economy?

[wizard-email]

I’ll add the death announcement on this post to my will

[wizard-email]

I feel very threatened rn

[killerqueenmp3]

[laura-the-swarming]

My mans unlocked a higher level of synesthesia

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

I still think pregnancy and childbirth should be degendered. we stopped talking about that and I need us to pick it back up pls

[darlingofdots]

been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter

[playwrongs]

Tags via @deadpanwalking, editor and ass-kicker extraordinaire

[gingisnap]

Please keep making art. Please make it for yourself. Please don’t let everything become even more of the same flat general appeal nonsense that doesn’t seem to have anything to say

[hell-on-sticks]

Today in australia they started senate hearings on the bill the government hopes will make enough disabled people die or disappear to make us all less irritatingly expensive for them. We had two weeks to submit feedback on over 400 pages of complicated legal terms. They don't care what we have to say and they don’t care that this will kill people and disenfranchise disabled people across the country.

There are 760,000 Australians on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the system that - if they feel like it and your personalised plan says you get to have it - provides funding for everything from personal hygiene care to support workers to therapies to assistive technology. It's already very hard for disabled people to get on the NDIS, regardless of your disability. It's near impossible to access most support and equipment without being on the NDIS. And the government has announced that they want that number to drop to 600,000 in four years. 160,000 of us cut off the Scheme - and countless more denied access. This will cause deaths. People will die and people will suffer because there is no safety net. The NDIS is the only option for most of us. Even private health insurance doesn't cover most of these things. Nobody will swoop in to save us.

The bill wants to give the (non disabled!) NDIS minister basically unlimited power to cut our funding. They're already planning what they'd do with that power. What rights they'll strip from us. What dignity and freedom they'll remove to make their budget look better.

The bill wants to force people to try every treatment out there before they're allowed to be on the NDIS. Including if the treatment is literally impossible to access. There’s a lot of us living in regional areas or out bush who can't just pop to the capital cities for specialists. This will especially hurt disabled First Nations people in regional and remote communities, who already experience limited access to healthcare. Oh, and it includes chemical restraint, too. The government has directly refused to exclude chemical restraint from the required process, calling it "trialling medication".

If you're australian and worried, the ABC did a good breakdown of the proposed changes.

I know australia stuff doesn't really pop up on the radar on this site, but I want everyone to know what's going on. What we're fighting for here. Your australian disabled friends might be NDIS participants fearing for their life, rights, and freedom. They might not be a participant and afraid these changes mean they never will have access. We deserve better. The government built a system with no backup plan, and now they want hundreds of thousands of disabled people to pay the price for their bad planning.

Sorry we're too expensive to have rights, I guess.

[headspace-hotel]

the nature center I work at has classrooms of kids and parents with kids coming in all the time, and I am amazed at how adults treat kids and behave around kids.

Not even always the sense of being openly mean to the kids, but in the sense of acting like they must behave rigidly a certain way at all times and that if anything is one minute off schedule or if kids have any unstructured time at all it is the End Of The Fucking World.

So many adults hustling kids from activity to activity, all snippy and harried as though every single thirty minute Scheduled Activity Block is an unmissable appointment and the whole building will blow up if someone is five minutes late to something.

We have these exhibits with animal bones and rocks and pressed flowers and stuff that are clearly placed at child height and the way parents will SNAP at their kids to DON'T TOUCH THAT DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING amazes me.

There is so little tolerance for kids acting silly or just being playful or anything, the adults will act so annoyed and stern and harsh for the littlest things.

In those kids' situation I would be shitting my pants with anxiety all the time, The level of uptightness and intolerance for any little bit of disorder makes me secondhandedly anxious.

[elucubrare]

i was on the way to the movies & i saw an old guy with a piece of wood over his shoulders. it was huge -- a pole several feet long with a kind of wide fan at the end of it. and i said "what the hell is that?" and he looked at me and had this kind of ear to ear grin, and he said "what do you mean 'what the hell is that'?" and he sat back on his heels, still with that big smile like the sun spilling from the underside of a cloud and waited for me to answer and i said "i mean i don't know why you're walking around with that thing, whatever it is." and he laughed and put down his pole and kinda clapped me on the shoulder. "can i get you a drink?" he said. and i said "no, the show's in ten minutes," and he said "oh? what are you seeing?" and i said "christopher nolan's odyssey, i'm pretty excited," and he sighed and picked up his oar and kept walking.

[ruthvsreality]

I don’t get the joke :( someone help me

[elucubrare]

in some versions of the Odysseus legend, Odysseus leaves Ithaca and is supposed to wander the world carrying a ship's oar until he finds a place where no one knows what it is. here, he encounters someone who doesn't recognize it, but since the narrator is going to see a movie version of the Odyssey, that anonymity can't last & he has to keep wandering.