I JUST TURNED THE MET GALA INTO AN X-GALA

Exi + 20 + she/her + autistic + christian + leftist + profiction + Irish/Italian/Mexican + mpregmaxxer + currently into various little plastic people, j/k-pop stars, and a handful of video games

[hikar-u-tada]

I know this sounds insane out of context, but any tips on being Mexican to the point that it makes my white parents uncomfortable? Obviously “finally become fluent in Spanish” is at the top of my list but like. I’m genuinely asking.

[sunthoon]

Project Hail Mary fans after finishing the book and the movie

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[lilliana-m-elrod]

Writers when the dots start connecting SO BEAUTIFULLY but there’s NO ONE TO TALK TO ABOUT IT

[steveyockey]

affirmations they will not kill me at work today. it is not in my job description to get killed. if they did kill me at work that would be weird and probably not worth it for them

[hikar-u-tada]

maybe constant labor is the only way to be happy

[wastrelwoods]

his frog was getting nasty from chewing and I had to put it in the laundry. happy reunion after 90 sad and lonely minutes without #myfrog

[stone-stars]

[ID: A black cat laying contentedly on a frog plush]

[theehorsepusssy]

[writingdose]

the author’s barely disguised love, joy and passion that they have for the characters, writing and their stories

[niceinchnails]

[charish-cherish]

[fairycosmos]

the issue with growing up in the 2000s and 2010s was like there was this really big push toward "accepting your weirdness" overall but they meant like idk wearing mismatched socks or something not being tangibly beyond the norm in any way shape or form

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[mildmayfoxe]

1) any stretching is better than no stretching

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are

[emberglowfox]

my housemate's cat is super chatty so i've just started responding to him

[emberglowfox]

mister controversial himself

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

Literally how I talk to my cats. They are.... Talkative. And have learned to mimic certain human sounds enough that if someone isn't paying attention, it sounds like I'm having a real conversation with someone who's eating a taco or something.

[vacuously-true]

I'm always saying shit to my cats like "oh yeah is that what you think?" "Do you have any proof? You can't say shit like that without evidence" "I can't believe you would say something like that, I thought we were friends" and so on. And they don't know what words mean.

[lupismaris]

Do it scared but please don't do it hungry. Please don't do it dehydrated. It's gonna make it so much scarier. Please.

[papercranesandpride]

I remember years ago, long enough ago that I was still using either Tiktok or Instagram regularly, because that's where I saw this, long enough ago that unfortunately I do not remember the username, I saw an older trans woman responding to a comment asking "how come we see trans women from your generation, but never trans men?" And her response was simple. "Unfortunately, it's because most of them are dead." Between lack of safe and legal abortions (which, hey, look what's an issue again), the HIV/AIDs crisis (which still is lacking in approved treatments for trans men, and they're still likely to be denied PrEP/PEP even when they should be eligible as sexually active queer men), and how many of them chose to take their own lives after being forced into marriages and other women's roles, a lot of the trans men that should be elderly right now did not make it.

And now, when I find myself making the mistake of going on Instagram, I get to see trans men themselves talking about how historically, trans men didn't do anything for the community, and so we need to step up now. Which, first of all, that isn't true, but second of all, if trans men's contributions are lesser, that makes a lot of sense if we listen to that trans woman talking about the trans men she was in community with back in the day. It's very hard to advance the trans cause if you're not alive.

Anyway. It's a really chilling answer. "Where are all the elderly trans men?" "They're dead." And I just wish more people saw that tiktok and listened to it and really took it to heart, now that we're in the age of "well obviously trans men have it so much easier."