otter chaos

.LUCKY. they/them. ♡ the king’s favorite jester ♡ (:

[honksnose]

i peruse “nope 2022” and other movie tags for fun when i am bored

link to my about for mobile users

[herainsorcia]

[fox-bright]

That is DIABOLICAL museum design, A++, no notes

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[dragonpyre]

[sevastiel]

[pansyfemme]

if you squint you can see that the penis is actually quite phallic in nature

[cricketknight]

Missing them hours

[kerink]

i love when people draw rocky like

[galacticsabc]

Grace flipping his shit, statement.

Bonus:

[mysterycat-official]

I lowkey hate when programs talk to me in a friendly way. "don't worry, nearly there!" Shut up. It should say "loading 64.3% completed. Do not turn off device" and absolutely nothing else. You arent my friend you are computer. Act like it

[the-indigo-symphony]

Ngl as a system I do nooooooot feel safe in any space that says it is only for a specific gender or says folks with specific genders aren't allowed.

Like firstly that is requiring me to know exactly who and what I am at all times so that I don't "invade" the space, which is difficult to impossible because I get blurry, I dissociate, I experience identity confusion, or I literally just guess wrong sometimes.

And then it's a question of cooties. Am I disallowed if I have any alters of an unacceptable gender? If over half of my alters are of an unacceptable gender? If they're bleeding over into me? If they're co-conscious as I front? If we're co-fronting? How much presence is too much presence – how much of the reality of being plural is too much?

And then even if I'm allowed to some degree I have to out myself as a system or lie, lie, lie, because if I switch to someone of an unacceptable gender I've got to leave lest I break the core rule of being there (and haha even supposedly progressive and accepting people get maaaaad at you for "invading" a space "not meant for you"), perhaps in the middle of a conversation, and people tend to want explanations about that.

Or. You know. They could always just erase those of us that complicate their neat little acceptable/unacceptable binary, misgendering those alters based on the fact that other alters have different (acceptable) genders. That's another hurtful option they could take.

"x folks can't be in y space" is soooo ridiculous to me because if you're a system with both x and y alters, the best you're gonna get is x being far away from the front when y is hanging out there. Like I just do not feel safe in any space that might suddenly turn on me and tell me to gtfo just for switching (something I cannot always control). We are a package deal, and any exclusionism acting like everyone's identities are neat and tidy and thus everyone can be directed to specific, "appropriate" spaces is going to hurt systems – even systems whose members are all of a specific, acceptable gender, because 1) more folks = more chance someone discovers they have some complicated gender stuff going on, and 2) they could always end up gaining a new member with an "unacceptable" gender for that space, as such see point number two.

This is probably messy because I'm really out of it but this is something We've been thinking about for a while. "X gendered folks shouldn't be in Y spaces" you have clearly never spoken to or even thought about a system in your liiiiiife and I am exploding you with my mind.

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[dogpuppy]

[cat-mermaid]

[nondivisable]

I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm

if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"

I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix

(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)

this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.

in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.

but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.

one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.

and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.

my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.

yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.

[theroundbartable]

Everything you know, might be smth somone else just found out about.

[duckdotcom]

why don't you agitate the contents of a barrel full of cream for a while then reach your hand inside and maybe you'll feel butter

[duckdotcom]

[gaybichon]

not even funny how true this is for me

[junglejim4322]

Remember when 10 year old girls used to wear happy bunny t shirts that just said shit like “I’m going to skin you alive”

[mxjackparker]

This kind of response to things I say about sex work, which isn't always phrased like this but almost always focuses on me being male or a man or my pronouns, shows a fundamental misunderstanding of why mansplaining is bad.

I am a sex worker. I have been for a decade. The majority of people I know are sex workers and I'm embedded in sex worker community. I started before 18 and have done it in brothels, cars, my own home, clients' homes, saunas, and hotels.

It's absolutely reasonable to criticize men who speak on issues they don't experience like an authority, especially when they speak over women to do it. It is not reasonable to raise someone's gender (or in this case, pronouns) as a reason their thoughts aren't worth hearing when the issue is one they do face.

[mxjackparker]

I see people bringing up that I'm trans in response to things like this, as a way to legitimize my speech. The reason I refuse to do so, despite many of my experiences selling sex being pre-transition, is that I equally do not want cis men who have done sex work to be silenced on the topic.

We need more active and former sex workers to speak out. That won't happen if we're dismissing those who do.

[andhumanslovedstories]

look I'm not gonna pretend I know anything about electronics, but sometimes a plug is so big it blocks another socket, and I'm always like "who the fuck do you think you are"