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22, Victorian (Australian). Stuff. 

[lovenotereminders]

Friendly reminder: when people say ‘as long as you tried your best’ it doesn’t mean ‘the best you could possibly have done ever’ it means ‘the best you were capable of at the time.’ Sometimes ‘trying your best’ is just getting out of bed in the morning. Just because you weren’t working yourself to the bone doesn’t mean you weren’t trying your best. 

[refinery29]

Watch: A documentary is explaining the many ways movies, TV shows and ads makes fat people feel cursed and invisible

When you only see yourself depicted on the screen as a sidekick, a villain, a predator, or a joke, how does that affect the way you view yourself in real life?

Gifs: Fattitude

WATCH THE PREVIEW

[gummysdeleted-deactivated201911]

fat trans ppl deal with a lot of shit and its so sucky because some people will only support skinny trans ppl bc thats all they can conceptualize and accept when trans ppl in actuality come in all different types of bodies

[gummysdeleted-deactivated201911]

if u dont support fat trans ppl the way u support skinny trans ppl u need to rethink what kind of “ally” u are.

[queenofnevers]

As a fat trans woman this is so true even within the trans community. I’ve had so many other trans women invalidate me, be dismissive of my issues and experience, and so forth simply because of my size. It’s really fucking disappointing to run into.

[thetranskidsarealright-deactiva]

Y’all should check out the works of Rakeem Cunningham! He photographs a lot of diverse and beautiful people, both cis and trans. As a gay trans man myself, they really help to reassure me that there are gay men beyond photogenic cis twinks and bears. These photographs are from his series Body Pride:

These are from his Trans Professionals series:

Also, check out Jess T Dugan’s photographs of trans and genderqueer people:

[dandelionwhiner]

As a trans photographer, Jess Dugan is basically my role model. Her photos of elder trans people, To Survive On This Shore, is amazing.

[thefugitivesaint]

Someone out there on the internet found the original booklet that came with the original Nintendo system version of ‘Tetris’ and, hold on to your hats people, the blocks have names. THE BLOCKS HAVE NAMES!

[phemiec]

[spacecowboybriony]

When you know something is satire but it could so easily be real

[sar-kalu]

I fucking love the Chaser

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[marsixm]

[2no1]

I didn’t know double texting was such a big deal?? I have a lot to say

[afrodesiaq-deactivated20250629]

on international women’s day don’t forget the day was started by jewish socialist women & immigrants striking against unfair labour conditions and the first marches that began the international women’s day movement were organized by socialists as well. it isn’t just some uwu solidarity good feel day, it is explicitly a day to talk about labour, to show solidarity with working class women, to strike back against capitalism, and if your women’s day organizing leaves behind women of colour, immigrants & jewish women, focuses on how women should “lean in” & acquire corporate power over others, you’re fucking up bad.

[mishmonkey]

You know what makes me mad? I used to work at Pizza hut and everyday we would have to throw away perfectly good pizza or potato wedges or garlic bread in the bin because it was the wrong order or the customer had changed their mind. They made us bin the whole thing. We weren’t allowed to put it aside to eat from or take it home (we all earned minimum wage so it’s not like we culd afford pizza that expensive a lot). But what makes me even madder is that they could easily give that to the homeless or poor. Like, if a homeless person came into the store, we could have easily given him one of the 20 or so pizzas that we would be binning every single day anyway. Imagine all the pizza hut stores in the world. Imagine each and every one throwing away on average 20 pizzas a day. Imagine how many people that would feed. Fuck corporations man.

[scabphobic-deactivated20170206]

Capitalism is violence.

[mysmysmysmysmys]

Grocery stores almost always throw out food when it reaches the expiration date, and most of them destroy it so no one can take it from the dumpster and eat it. Literally, destroying food so no one gets to eat without paying for it. My local Stop & Shop does this.

[whes-blog-deactivated20180525]

c a p i t a l i s m    i s    v i o l e n c e

[brunhiddensmusings]

one of the top tricks homeless people learn is to stakeout the bins behind pizza hut and little ceasars- during the high traffic times for ‘wrong’ pizzas at hut, and during low traffic times for ceasars for the hot and readies that dont sell and are getting ‘old’ you probably were feeding people who needed it, but in a more degrading and less sanitary way

[theradicalace]

CAPITALISM IS VIOLENCE

[sapphicdumbass-deactivated20220]

fun fact my cousins go dumpster diving a lot, and once i went with them and the lengths stores will go to to avoid homeless people using their wasted products is actually insane

i dont remember where we went diving, but it was a clothing store and there were a TON of bags of shoes. pretty decent sneakers, not anything fancy or rich ofc but good sturdy ones. except that they slashed open the soles of every pair. every. single. pair. easily 50 shoes per bag and not a single one could be salvaged. it must have taken hours to destroy each one.

Theres no point in doing it, if a person is looking through the trash for things they need theyre obviously struggling enough that you’re not losing their business if you let them take what you dont sell, youre just being greedy and violent and incredibly wasteful for the hell of it.

eat the rich.

[transfemmepositivity-deactivate]

[sermna]

I decided to marry Penny this playthrough!! I like to think of this picture as being right after a summer wedding when you’ve gone home and gotten into comfy clothes to enjoy time with your new spouse in the sun 💛🌼🌞

[gayavatarstyle]

Sokka: Aang y'know how you took away Ozai’s firebending?

Aang: I recall yes

Sokka: can I have it

Aang: …what?

Sokka: can I have his firebending. just for like ten minutes

Aang: what no

Sokka: why not I wanna prank zuko

Aang:

Aang:

Aang: okay five minutes

[gayavatarstyle]

Zuko, bursting in Katara’s door: HOW LONG HAS SOKKA BEEN A FIREBENDER

Katara, who has no context but likes to mess with Zuko: our whole lives why

[gayavatarstyle]

Zuko: this is so messed up. I thought Sokka was a non-bender

Katara: you thought the avatar’s brother was a non-bender?

Zuko: …excuse me?

Katara: [airbends away]

[gayavatarstyle]

Aang: I’m starting to think I abused my energybending somewhat

Suki, using waterbending to put out a fire Sokka started: nah you’re fine

[gayavatarstyle]

Zuko: at least you’re still normal Toph

Toph: sure am. by the way did you change your hair? it looks nice

Zuko: [screaming]

[honeycranes]

Hullo I return bearing PART 2

Also yes I slightly over-buffed Aang, but back muscles are tasty so I have no regrets

[gayavatarstyle]

the way you draw Zuko’s hair and Aang’s muscles is more important than the Oscars

[boy-obsesed-barbie]

Happy International Women’s Day to women everywhere except for that 53% of white women who voted for Donald Trump. They can choke.

[lil-sweet-star]

So here’s a thing or two about my girlfriend:

She plays first person shooter games and is really really good at them. She plays electric guitar and shreds like a beast. She loves death metal music, and even produces her own. She wears Hot Topic T-shirts and jeans. She doesn’t like dresses, but might wear a button-down top every now and then. She loves having the side of her hair buzzed short. She has a half-sleeve tattoo on her bicep that is Lovecraft-inspired. She has stretched earlobes, up to a 00g right now. She LARPs (live-action role plays) and kicks ass. She loves watching horror movies even though they scare her sometimes. She’s into girls and wouldn’t turn one down in bed.

She’s transgender.

Now of course, there are the people who will take what I wrote and say, “Oh, well doesn’t sound like she’s really trans. Sound like she still likes a lot of guyish stuff so, like, is she sure…?”

But wait. If I had said all of these things about a cis girl, she sounds like a guy’s dream girl. How come after I said that she’s trans, suddenly people think there’s no way she could actually be a girl. If cis girls can like those things without their gender being questioned, so can trans girls.

Let trans girls be masculine.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Let trans girls be masculine

[star-anise]

rppadthai reblogged your post “Stop writing men as if modern Western toxic masculinity were the default throughout time and space. Your medieval…”

#so what you’re saying is#the bed sharing trope is historically backed#and should be included in MORE FIC

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT ABSOLUTELY

I’ll be honest, I’m gagging for M/M chivalric romance-inspired erotica. But so many authors DON’T UNDERSTAND THE PERIOD so they write shit where like… you have a brooding 13th century knight who’s like “I am Very Manly… I don’t like fancy clothes or music… they are not manly… but that other knight likes flowers and writing poetry… but despite his effeminacy I am attracted to him…”

and I am raging and feeling absolutely thwarted like

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

everyone shared beds so much!!! sometimes it was gay! sometimes it wasn’t! winter is cold and body heat is essential, give me more medieval snuggling for warmth fics pls

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Are you saying Medieval men really did kiss their homies goodnight?

[star-anise]

OH BOY KISSING

tl;dr: Kissing as a greeting, ABSOLUTELY. Kissing goodnight? Up to them.

We have so much more information on kissing than sleeping, largely because for centuries the kiss of peace was a central part of Christian ritual. Kissing was a major way of greeting and showing respect.The kiss was a sign of peace, agreement, and a way to affirm and stabilize hierarchical bonds; during Mass until the 14th century, a senior priest would kiss a junior priest, who would kiss a deacon, on down through the whole church in order of precedence. This is why traditional churches were split, with women in a different part of the church from men; it was okay for people of the same sex to kiss, but if you let men and women kiss you’re gonna get an ORGY or something. Christians are now way less pro-kissing-other-people-in-church, but when I was Catholic, I participated in an annual ritual where we went up to a cross, knelt before it, and kissed it.

Anyway, here’s a picture from a legal manual from 13th century Spain, showing how one man pledges fealty and gives homage to another:

To the medievals, what mattered about kissing was the power dynamics. A person of higher rank had the right to kiss a person of lower rank on the mouth; if the person of lower rank wanted to kiss their superior, the respectful thing was to kiss their cheek, hand, foot, etc. 

Which you can see echoes of in modern society! Kisses and other gestures (like kneeling) that used to be very commonplace are now rare and supercharged with erotic intensity. But they weren’t always.

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

This is legit informational and all but no wonder they had so many plagues back in the day

[sugarkittea]

the cutest magical girl in all of stardew 

[feministfront]

just a reminder that the UN classifies forced pregnancy/denial of an abortion as actual torture. that’s how essential reproductive rights are.

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

Here’s the report. The section on reproductive rights starts on page 10.

[sar-kalu]

Considering my Mum called her pregnancy with me “a tad uncomfortable” and “like an alien invasion”, I’m inclined to side with the UN on this one.