it cannot withstand you

a substance almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. level 30. they/he.

[sailermoon]

having unwashed hair will have you believing shit like i can’t be saved

[cutest-silly-nb]

inside me there are two lungs. and one liver. one stomach. a few meters of intestine. there's a lot inside me actually

[cutest-silly-nb]

this is the funniest thing i've read all day

[alleesaur]

the red herring

[hes-the-stallion]

emoji kitchen is lowkey beautiful guys…

[strongermonster]

i'm helping out at a creative writing workshop for uhhh i think 10-12s? 10-14s? idk. but that age range. and anyways

a) i forgot how fun this is

b) it's really hard not to like, re-write for them and stick to just "hey add descriptions here, change this grammar, really cool ideas!" bc i'm an adult and not trying to talk over/railroad these kids, but i'm just so excited for their ideas!!!

c) little boys write cool stuff like "what if we went to mars but it sucked so we left, but left behind all our technology and the technology rose up and created its own society and then went to war with us for abandoning them? what if transformers had 100x the war crimes? what if the earth blew up. what if we were the robots all along?"

d) little girls out here writing like "aunt melanie's skin was sloughing off the bones as her beloved dogs tore her apart, turning on her in blind animal instinct. the second she stopped providing food, she became food." and a lot of body horror and dark themes about group pacts and betrayals and ritualistic murder/sacrifices. like a lot

[strongermonster]

me, turning to the teacher who is also doing this: hey so, i'm personally really cool with the tone and direction these girls take, but is any of this? how you say... a red flag?

teacher: little girls have really rich inner lives to combat the way they're puppeted by society in real life. they'll learn to censor it out in a couple years, but it doesn't go away.

me, who was also a weird little girl who phased in and out of weirdness depending on social settings: nice.

[taylornprice]

california butterflies!

[em-iliart]

how this week has felt

[em-iliart]

Prints of these are now up on my inprnt! Link in bio as always and thank you for the lovely comments 🖤

[em-iliart]

Once more, with feeling

[swordtit]

the best thing you can do to a character make them averse to touch and absolutely starved for it

[burntmyleg]

i love reblogging things i've already reblogged like. y'all are going to see this again

[gendercensus]

The 2026 Gender Census is now open!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

[gendercensus]

Day 4, Thursday 16th July 2026

There have been over 1,000 responses since midnight, bringing the total to comfortably over 14,000 so far - great stuff!

During its busiest hour the survey received about 10 responses per minute (one every 6 seconds):

43% of participants are newcomers, and the more the merrier - my eternal mission is to get as many different types of people as possible represented in the survey results.

Another struggle is getting older participants involved. The age structure of a population varies a lot from country to country, but let's use the USA as an example since they're over half of Gender Census participants so far. In the USA generally more than 60% of the population are aged 30 and over. [Source.] In the Gender Census, only 25% are aged 31 and over so far:

So, since the survey relies on spreading by word of mouth, this is where you come in.

Older age groups tend to show up in the survey coming from Facebook, mailing lists, instant messaging groups, and (somewhat) Bluesky. If you haven't already, might you consider sharing in any of these mostly super easy ways?

If you are on the Gender Census mailing list, forward the email to any LGBTQ+ family members over the age of 30. (If you're not on the mailing list, you could just email people with the survey link?)

Share this post on Facebook, to your own profile and to any local LGBTQ+ groups you think might be open to it.

Hop into the WhatsApp and Telegram channels and forward a message to a any queer groups you're in on those apps.

Share this post on Bluesky.

Or just share the survey link one-on-one: survey.gendercensus.com

We have gained about 500 mailing list subscribers this month, which is EXCELLENT in this department!

Shares here on Tumblr are also obviously always welcome, and here is the end-of-survey page with all the sharing links.

This year we're not reaching as many participants as the two previous years:

So every little helps, even if you only share it with one person!

Thank you so much everyone. ✨ This survey is powered by people connecting with their people and I love that for us.

[ Take part in the 2026 Gender Census before 13th August 2026 ]

[toskarin]

your 20s are about elves, your 30s are about continued meditations on the elf

[toskarin]

once you hit your 40s it's time to find an elf

[slorty]

Fuck I hate elves god damm it

[toskarin]

you've got 2 years left of that but then you have to make some changes

[nagsyl]

[vile-things]

[cat-the-comet]

devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit

[herssian]

deepen the shadows bro. it'll be ok

[herssian]

i meant art-wise but if any dark sorcerers see this. you do you

[jethroq]

[aphleos]

prev dont leave this in the tags

[silvergryphonart]

Literally the definition of imperialism and classism. Doesn’t matter how many peasants you sacrifice as long as the most powerful piece is left standing

[musicalhell]

Proximity of bishops to the rulers promotes theocratic oppression

[juh-was-deactivated19691231-dea]

the horse is so fuckable

[kosmogrl]

I can’t overshare because that would be very humiliating but everyone else should overshare because I like to know everything