I Bet Tour Parents Picked Your Gender

27 yo. 🏳️‍⚧️. She/her. Living somewhere in Europe. I do tec tec tec and computers do beep boop. I want you damn commies to get to me backyard, come join the polycule.

[artyphex]

“There are no female aliens in our game because we don’t know how to make a female version of this alien” You know that alien you just designed? That male alien? Give it a female voice actor and have characters refer to it as she. That’s it. That’s literally all you have to do 

Make her shorter if you must

Make her BIGGER if you aren’t a coward 

[moonwatcher13]

Take your male alien bodytype, make her like 4 feet taller, give her an extra set of arms and sharper teeth, and as muscular as shit.

Boom.

[skywalkerchick1138]

[lemonsharks]

Give her natural camouflage and make the man like this

Make them exactly the same size and shape but different colors

Give him a huge flock of babies following him around to show off what a great lay he is

Surprise mPreganté

Exactly the same but one of them has a cool hat (you decide which)

Give her a sensible haircut for successful hunting while he has a big dumb mullet so big and dumb the food can see him coming and book it

Please just for the love of pie do not begin and end with boobs

[ibetyourparentspickedyourgender]

at the other side of the city, carrie bradshaw prepared herself to also shoot a shot at a ceo.

[cornishons]

the thing about brasilian ppl is that we love heavily and deeply, our language is one of poetry and song. we are masters of metaphor and lyricism in a way. that being said most of us do need mood stabilizers.

[gatheringbones]

[“In Magnus Hirschfeld’s The Transvestites, “Case 13” consists of letters, written in 1909, from a person known variously as Jenny, Johanna, and John, who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and who later moved to the United States. Hirschfeld considered this person to be “a typical representative of the group we are concerned with.” These reminiscences are abridged from the original.

I was born in 1862. I did not want any trousers and put up such a fuss, and since my sister was one year older I could wear her clothes until Mother died in 1868. My aunts then forced me to wear boys clothing. I clearly remember that I always only wanted to be a girl, and my relatives and acquaintances would tease me.

I wanted to go to the teachers’ seminary because later, I thought, when I finished, I could go around as a governess or a children’s teacher. Even at the time I had firm plans to become a woman. When I saw that they were not going to allow me to study to be a teacher, at the first opportunity I stole from a girl who was my size. I put on her things and took her certificate of domicile and burned my boy’s things that night. Everything boyish I left behind and went to Switzerland where my relatives would not know where I was.

I first went to work as a nanny and did general housework. At the same time, I learned embroidery. I grew strong and not ugly, so that boys would lie in wait for me. At that time I felt fully a young woman, except when the fellows got fresh with me, and it would occur to me that, unfortunately, I was not one. At 16½ a man tried to rape me. I protected myself, but he gave me a bad name as being a hermaphrodite, so I had to move away and went to France. I had a friendship with a girl, who, like me, was in opposition to her sex, namely manly, and when she went to St. Quentin to the embroidery factory there, I followed her. There I had the opportunity for the first time to come together with women who with other women lived like married people.”]

susan stryker, transgender history

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

Denver Zoo and its gay lorikeets said fuck homophobes happy Pride

[agentduckorico]

Homophobes: u mean they act like brothers

Denver Zoo: they’re fucking, lorie.

[inkjette]

So at my workplace, we fund a Food Is Free shelf. It's the basics: take what you need, give what you can - our town has a high level of poverty, there's a cost of living crisis, be the good you want to see in the world etc etc.

Today we had a guy knock on the door and ask if we had a plastic bag he could use to carry a few things - I said sure, got him a plastic bag, and he started packing up his 2 rolls of toilet paper, his 3 or 4 foodstuff items. He said he'd been to a funeral out of town (1500 kms away) and spent his paycheck on fuel - he was only broke till Friday, he said.

And I said, well I'm glad we could help, it's why we have the shelf. We want the community to use it.

And he said:

But people ABUSE it! I've seen people take heaps of stuff from it - and they don't even have kids or anything. And it's fair enough, some people are struggling until the next paycheck, but other people just ABUSE it. You need a sign that says TAKE ONE ITEM ONLY or something. I've taken something from here maybe twice, but I've seen people coming round every week! I've even put stuff on the shelf! Yeah, you need CAMERAS or something. People abuse it.

So here is a man who is actively utilising a public resource that we created to support our local community...And yet he is so brainwashed by capitalism into thinking that people don't deserve basic needs - if they're not working hard, or maybe they're struggling but they don't have it As Bad as others, or they're using a FREE RESOURCE more often than HE thinks is acceptable. He thinks that we should use security cameras to crack down on people "STEALING" from the Food is FREE shelf. Like he's more worthy, like he's a better person, because he doesn't need as much help as others might.

Sometimes, when something is free, people might abuse it. But isn't it better to offer the support to people who need it? To offer an opportunity for people to get back on their feet (even if they're only broke till Friday)? To provide help, no questions asked and no conditions needed?

So what if people abuse it - isn't it worth it if helps someone?

[queeranarchism]

#you run into this mindset all the time in mutual aid#we had people fighting over clothes at the free store on the regular#and it's like... we have dozens of boxes of clothes in the box#we're running out of space for clothes#PLEASE take trash bags full of clothes#go sell them on the side of the road if you want that's literally not our business#no one does that because they're doing well financially

^^^ My experience with free stores is that there is usually too much and you kinda wish people would take more. Our consumer society is wasting such a massive amount of food, games, books, movies, food... the only thing that are ever in short supply are the things that are build to break quickly like smartphones.

[cryptiddies]

Hey shout out to every custodial/sanitation worker taking out and cleaning up literal hot garbage so that the rest of us can go about our summer days like it doesn’t exist

[cryptiddies]

Glad to see this resonated with someone, respect custodial staff or die<3

[branzinos]

and the sunflower cross stitch is... done!

began roughly may 20th, completed this morning sept 2nd at 4am 😅

pattern by coricamo (here) 243x243 stitches adapted to 2 over 1 on 22count evenweave. thank you to everyone who supported me during the process, without your encouragement I probably would have given up, and I'm so glad I didn't. 🌻

[branzinos]

as a bonus, some close ups of the front and back, and a Sharpie for scale! this is definitely one of the neater backs I've done in my time (though some of the tails could do with a trim! I'll do that before framing). learning how to loop start really helped with getting a flatter final piece since it means there's no knots in use anywhere throughout.

[redstarovermoundcity]

mfw they use uranium to boil water to make electricity to send to my stove so i can boil water

[redstarovermoundcity]

just give me the uranium so i can boil the water directly at home. duh

[rebelsofshield]

Andor having Mon Mothma’s daughter gravitate towards the oppressive practices of her family’s ancestral culture as a way to rebel against a mother that has purposefully distanced herself from them is both one of the smartest and cruelest storytelling moves that this show has done to date. Ouch ouch ouch

[kanansdume]

I loved that Cassian and Melshi got helped by the alien natives to Narkina 5. It's not just an abandoned wasteland, it's someone's HOME and the Empire is not just destroying the lives of the people in those prisons but also slowly poisoning the livelihoods of the people who already were there.

And there's absolutely nothing these Narkinians can do about it but stick it to the Empire by helping a few prisoners escape. So they do. Cassian and Melshi were about to steal their ship, but the Narkinians see a kinship with them as prisoners who suffered under the Empire and choose kindness when they don't have to.

We didn't get a LOT of aliens in Andor, but I appreciate that this one moment where we did, they utilized it so well.

[2winleejr]

Has anyone done this yet?

[ibetyourparentspickedyourgender]

She makes this paper that is really nice to touch and tear apart (the texture tickles my brain right and serves as nice stim) (she properly uses the paper, I get some pieces that go wrong) and leaves by my desk so I can tear it during meetings and I love her.

[saudisociety]

"I can be myself when I'm with you" is a top tier compliment

[parrishsrubberplant]

The last three digits of your current follower count is the Dewey Decimal Classification subject on which you must immediately give a 15-minute presentation.

How would you do?

[smallnico]

[ibetyourparentspickedyourgender]

Jokes on yall, I have very few followers and my presentation is about a field I actually studied.

[loudestcloud]

When i started One Piece, I didn't know i was trans and i have this thing where i have to be logical about fictional characters. Would they actually like me, would i hang out with a person like that irl, would they bully me, would i bully them, am I taller than them, what would i be like stood next to them, what would my role be in the group ect. It's not a fun past time either, i can't stop thinking about it once i start so once i found out i was a guy, i started to panic about what each Strawhats reaction to me being trans guy would be. It changed a lot over the years with the 2 constant things being Luffy not caring in the affirmative way and Zoro not caring cos in a whatever way. Sanji and Brook just love boobs and while I don't like mine, I don't mind when people do

Now we have this and i couldn't be more happy about it

I used to think about this all the time so much so that I'd have dreams about a Strawhat adventure getting the explorer team all dirty so we'd all have to take a bath and I'd choose to bath with the girls cos that's what i think I'd be comfortable with and everyone was chill with it. I'd wake up with stress headaches cos i started to over think if thats how it would actually go down. Now i know that I'm right. Luffy and Zoro don't give a fuck. Chopper and Jinbei also don't care nor does Nami. Brook and Sanji just love boobs and Yamato doesn't care that they do. Its literally everything I played in my head over and over but its cannon, its text its physical and I have proof!

I talk about Yamato so much because all i wanted to know was if my favourite characters would like me or not and i never thought I'd get the answer cos it's a silly thing for my Neurodivergent brain to stress over but Yamato gives me those answers i so deeply wanted as a young teen.

Idk, I'm sappy rn. It's my 5 year out 🏳️‍⚧️ anniversary soon so i feel okay posting this rn

[hoshifromkpop]

so the only reason rebel wilson came out was because she was given TWO DAYS notice that a journalist was going to out her... hope those journalists die

[hoshifromkpop]

so not only did they force her out, they then said she spoiled their story, which was going to out her.

[hoshifromkpop]

the other thing, two gay men were involved in this, so not only does that make it worse, but also disgustingly misogynistic.