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Stephanie. 29 🇿🇦🏳️‍⚧️ she/her Transfem Marxist and dumbass

[yaoiblackmold]

Why are people on tiktok acting like autism gives you superpowers or something

[strangestcase]

using my autism power (Focused Analysis) to locate the closest narcissist and immediately befriend them to increase our joint slay

[1five1two]

[decadent-hag]

[renthony]

It's wild to watch the phrase "tumblr sexyman" morph into "man that tumblr thinks is sexy," because when I first saw the phrase come into use, I always saw it used in reference to the phenomenon of "when presented with a wide array of fictional characters, tumblr will always pick the skinny white man to obsess over, and if the fan-favorite character has no canonical human appearance, the fandom will inevitably create a popular fanon of the character as as a skinny white man."

When I hear "tumblr sexyman," I think of Cecil Night Vale being constantly depicted as a skinny white man instead of literally anything else. I think of the background character white men who get elevated over protagonists that are women, people of color, or otherwise not the white man power fantasy.

"Tumblr sexyman" is, like. An insult. I DON'T want any of my blorbos to win a "tumblr sexyman" poll. "Tumblr sexyman" is the exact opposite of what I want my own OCs to be. If any of my characters ever get called "tumblr sexyman," I will have to immediately re-evaluate myself and the art I'm making.

[renthony]

Things I think of when I hear "tumblr sexyman":

Cecil Night Vale, as previously mentioned.

Oncelercest, because if there aren't two skinny white men to ship, tumblr fandom will start shipping the skinny white man with himself.

Bill Cipher inexplicably being fanon'd as a white twink despite being a fucking triangle.

Everyone fawning over Marvel Loki while shoving every woman and Black person in the MCU aside.

The way nearly every single character in Hazbin Hotel has the same "tall and skinny" body type, along with all the criticisms Black audience members have made about the issues with Alastor's design.

The way tumblr got obsessed with the white man villain in Sinners.

[circusheart]

On some level you have to admire how gay men will turn literally anything into an excuse to show nudes

[circusheart]

Like come on I don't want to hear about cyclosporiasis while you're jerking your dongggg

[ip2lb]

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[thehappysnail-deactivated202210]

Holy fuck

[musingsofaraven]

This works best if you keep windows closed.

Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.

This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.

https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html

Better Box Fan Air Purifier

A better more efficient and odor eliminating homemade air purifier than just taping a 20x20x1 filter to a box fan. Sometimes you need to

[runcibility]

If you live on the west coast of the United States, fire season is coming and this is vital.

[turtlesandfrogs]

We’ve been using one, and they’re great. Might try to make the double filter version this year.

[objectconstancy]

theyve been doing a bunch of studies on this during the pandemic and this design is best! 4 filters and a shroud to optimize flow rate.

Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

https://encycla.com/Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube

[prokopetz]

Having been Very Online in the mid 1990s is rough because half of your formative influences are like "yeah, this Flash video engages in pop culture deconstruction that's strikingly topical even thirty years later and did things to my vocabulary that persist to this day, and I can literally never recommend it to anyone because its core premise is a level of homophobic ordinarily observed only under laboratory conditions".

[prokopetz]

Them: Hey, you were around for the first wave of real webcomics. Which one was your favourite?

Me:

[prokopetz]

#thank god homestar runner aged well (via @shibascarf)

Homestar Runner is the way that it is in large part because it's a response to the 90s edgelord bullshit I'm talking about; while the characters had earlier appeared in print, the Flash animated version that everybody remembers didn't debut until January of 2000. If it's aged well, that isn't an accident – it's a product of its authors looking at the state of 1990s Internet culture and making a conscious decision to be Not That.

[amongusroleplay]

[midnightglances]

I’m not perfect but at least I’ve never sent a mean anon

[cdigoddess]

everyone on dropout has this bloodthirsty look in their eyes like they'd kill you in an instant for a cameo in brooklyn 99

[daughter-of-sapph0]

> supposed space for transmascs to come forward and share stories of their abuse, as a parallel to transfem voices project... only allowed if the abuser or offender in the story is tma

> transmascs who come forward with stories of being abused by tmes, by cis men overwhelmingly, have their voices ignored

> op goes on a crazy rant about how the woman behind the transfem voices project (hereby referred to as tvp) isn't respecting pronouns, which op claims are he/she. no misgendering ever occurred, op was only referred to by correct pronouns, she was just mad that there was a "he" bias.

> before and during this entire meltdown, no pronouns are posted in ops bio. it wasn't until hours after the fact that op finally updated his bio to say simply "she/he"

> claims to be nonbinary bigender, doesn't put pronouns in bio day one, waits until after his meltdown over a literal nothingburger

> op turns off anons and submissions. claims hes being sent gore and pictures of dead dogs, something that was famously sent to transfeminists for years by kiwifarmers.

> doesn't know that she can turn off asks with media.

> at this point, no transmascs can submit their voices

> he starts going to reddit, screenshotting posts only where trans women are the villains in stories that range from "i broke up with my trans girlfriend because she wouldn't fuck me, here's every reason why she's actually evil" to "r/asklegal, i had sex with a tranny but then i regretted it because i think its gross. can i murder him (sic) or accuse him of rape?"

> most of the people telling these stories are not transmasc. most are cis. many are trans women. in the case of trans women talking about their abuse from other trans women, they feel conflicted and not comfortable with their experiences being misconstrued into hate against transfems.

> all these reddit stories are posted without the knowledge or consent of anyone who originally posted them

> blog is suspiciously made the exact same day that tvp closes submissions for the creators mental health, something that was known by a kiwifarms thread on her and other transfeminists

> op is no sending asks to himself, congratulating herself while refusing to post anything that could contain so much of a crumb of supposed "transmasc positivity". only non anons are from obvious transmisogynists who celebrate the DARVO behavior on display

> even other transandrobros are sick of her shit

im almost certain that transmascvoicesproject is made by a kiwifarms user, made specifically and solely to demonize trans women and call them rapists so he can incite "trans panic" attacks.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

given that the lolcow thread is almost entirely dedicated to this topic, i think we can officially say this is fully confirmed

[sapphling]

it's funny to me that consistently the most polite comment rebloggergirl in the world will fully comprehend your post and append an example or supplementary work directly relevant which adds to the conversation endcapped and tagged with multiple variants of "i'm sorry to add this and i hope it's relevant but i completely understand if you'd like me to remove it or if it derails this post in any way and i hope you have a good day and i apologize" and her reblog will be two notes below scrumbo-the-wumbulous-gerblin, who has added five paragraphs to your post written in buckle up chucklefuck tumblr cadence about how race science is actually real

[paper-mario-wiki]

transitioning is like putting on the They Live glasses and seeing that 90% of people looking at you are either jerking off or furiously sharpening a knife. or both. and i do not mean that in a sexy or fun way, and i dont like clarifying that, but i know there's a 90% chance you are thinking it, because i wrote it while being a trans woman.

[paper-mario-wiki]

to clarify:

when considering the sexual violence against trans women, it's important to remember that "people only view us sexually" does not mean the same thing as "people only find us attractive". it means "people can only conceptualize of our existence within a sexual light" because that's how the majority of our coverage in media has been tinged in the past century. as a result of the chaste and patriarchal nature of modern capitalism, gender and sexuality are inseparable in much public discourse by virtue of propaganda, and as a result, a trans woman is seen as sexual because efforts towards projecting specifically femininity is only categorized as sexual. and when paired with the uncharitable perception of "man", that propaganda can often evolve how people view us directly into "sexual threat" anywhere, for any reason. i could be in the freezer aisle of costco looking down at the ground while i push my cart and i'd still get dirty looks for wearing a dress (this has happened).

when i say "they're either jerking off or sharpening a knife", i mean we're either viewed sexually, or as sexually threatening, in almost all scenarios.

[NOTE: AS WITH ALL MATTERS OF TRANSMISOGYNY, THIS ISSUE IS 100 TIMES WORSE FOR BLACK GIRLS]

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[darkspaceboytoy]

I just wish we’d had some way of knowing that the Nazi tattooed bigot who did mercenary work for Blackwater and was abusive to the women he had relationships with was a bad guy before he’d gotten this far. If only we’d had some sort of visual warning for who Graham Platner was. If only he might have had something on his body that could tell us he was no good, before we let him run this long. Hindsight’s 20 fucking 20 I guess though huh

[minimosquitogirl]

It’s so clear people don’t see people in the global south as real people. The only thing that’s changed since this information came out is that we found out he also victimized a white western woman. We already knew that he bragged about killing people in the global south, but that doesn’t matter because no one sees people in the global south as human.

[dykeselfcest]

I understand the urge to comment on recent trends in which people seem to want increasingly sanitized media compared to the recent past, but when you say things like "people used to just shrug and move on when there were books and movies that made them uncomfortable" it's like...well. actually people used to convict artists of obscenity in a court of law.

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

thou? art not the knave. thou'rt not capable of BEING the knave. i hadst a knave, but now have none. thou. art not. the knave.

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

wench wrench, wretched wench, i madst thou my wench (JESSIE!)

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

my sire and my lady and my lady and my si-ire

[jackalbytes]

I don't get the vitriol some players have for pvp in the souls games. 9 times out of 10 when an invader murders me it's fucking hilarious.