Birb-ass Sisterfucker

She/Her Also found on ao3 under the exact same fuckin name.

[wispstalk]

if ur gonna be pressed into service by your liege lord, u want to be the swiftest rider. get good at horses, because they're always sending the swiftest rider off to do some other shit that is, crucially, away from the battlefield. I'm telling u. when ur forces are outnumbered and the enemy legions show up with some unexpected advantage, someone in command is gonna say, "send the swiftest rider to alert the queen!!!" that's u. u want to be that guy

[partypuppy-nastja]

Trans Women Face More Injuries Than Cis Ones (It's Not Even Close)

Transgender women face more injuries than cisgender peers

A new study found that injury rates among transgender women are significantly higher than injuries among cisgender women, based on radiologi

❝Transgender women in the study group suffered 8x times as many head injuries as the controls, 36x as many facial injuries, and 5x times as many chest injuries.❞

So much for "protecting women".

[partypuppy-nastja]

For all those wondering why the title doesn't say this, it's because the study doesn't say this either.

While the cause of the injuries may be obvious, it's not technically known, and science speaks for what is known.

Some (a minority) of the trans women injured reported that it was violence, and some (a smaller minority) reported that it was intimate partner violence, but most did not report anything and the stats are just from the fact that they needed treatment and so went through the radiology department with their injuries.

[partypuppy-nastja]

Getting a lot of reblogs saying "undescribed" and "no image ID" etc, so please be aware that I did add alt text shortly after posting (it was a pain to copy on my phone so I did it on my desktop), but by then, it had already been reblogged by a couple of big blogs, so this alt-texted version is languishing, please do reblog it!

[sadocanist]

What is a no choices night?

Imagine for a moment that the clock strikes 6pm and from this point forward, you are no longer in charge of anything that happens. You respond to instructions only. If you reach a decision point, you ask for direction. Ideally there's protocol on common things, how to ask for food, the bathroom, water. No choices means no choices. If you're not allowed to do something specifically, you cannot do it.

If you're instructed to do something, you do it without thinking. You just follow directions. For me, the ideal version of this allows me to be nonverbal, collared and leashed. I am not to go beyond the reach of my leash without explicit instructions. If I'm told to do something in a specific way, I carry out the task as instructed.

This could mean I'm using my mouth on the person holding my lead, giving them oral exactly how they tell me to. It could mean cooking them a meal. We watch what they put on the TV, we go where they say we go, we do what they say we're doing. No choices means no choices.

Clear?

[demilypyro]

getting an endo who reliably prescribes estrogen and prog is a godsent but it's always a little weird hearing him repeatedly describe my hormone levels as "beautiful."

[demilypyro]

the medic pfp does a lot here

[puppygirllaika]

Christians will say "i wish she'd stop shoving her faggotry down my throat" as if that isn't a literal gift from god.

[puppygirllaika]

"she's shoving her faggotry down my throat" okay??? tilt your head back and relax your neck muscles then.

[abjure-obsolescence]

getting hypnotized is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off

[maletolion]

[jingerpi]

"reblog to give a trans woman soup"

- 144k notes

"trans women experience misogyny because they're women"

- you are now on a blocklist

[seasicksilver]

save the bees

[cipheramnesia]

The Joseph Campbell monomyth is so wrong-headed and damaging to storytelling, anyway here's why all killing in horror films only ever represents violent male sexual penetration.

[cipheramnesia]

I watched a pretty cool Jungian analysis of Us, but unfortunately it was at the end of an attempt to apply the same to the slasher subgenre, which works pretty well for some (Halloween) and not so well for others (Scream) and runs into some issues insofar as Us isn't a slasher, so it doesn't quite dovetail with the rest.

Us by itself is pretty interesting for analysis, because it took Jordan Peele in a direction that critics and filmgoers seemed unprepared for, but also could be described as less meticulous than Get Out. There were some legitimate shortcomings, but more of the criticism seemed to stem from misunderstanding that Us was entirely different - it's meant to be more emotional and evocative, and trying to look at it as something with more story driven, mechanical elements isn't the right lens. Presently it occupies a weird position as a "lesser" movie, which is underrated despite the valid critiques, and has been getting a rightfully deserved reassessment, particularly after Nope pushed in yet another direction - basically refusing to let himself be pigeonholed.

But anyway, the points mostly being the whole thing about trying to define the Slasher subgenre into a specific metaphorical position doesn't work terribly, and she brought up one of those lame "slashers are all male coded penis stabber" books. Which is like, it's a fair cop that many slasher films are unambiguously misogynistic fantasies of violent sex, but it sells a lot of analysis short. It's like the same as theorists who won't position the creature in Alien as representing anything other than sexual assault. It's there but it's not everything.

[cipheramnesia]

Like, as if the Campbell monomyth wasn't a huge millstone on the neck of filmmakers already, it also represents a wider problem which is a this constant need for a general idea or theory to be universally applicable and representative. But no, most large scale ideas about art or psychology or society or such are only applicable within a limited scope. Lots of excellent ideas have been ruined by trying to use them as universal rather than situational, even though it would be super simple to say something like, "a lot of western writers use this interesting recurring story structure" or "these ideas about the self from Jung make an interesting way to approach some specific individual horror movies" or whatever.

[anotherevilenby]

I do think it's important for Kris's character at this particular juncture to interpret them as neither transfem nor transmasc nor even transneutral. I think, to impose a strict identity onto Kris is, in many ways a violation of their autonomy akin to their possession by the Soul/Us.

I think Kris needs to have the freedom to define themselves first.

[ftmtftm]

I see a lot of Tumblr users who don't know their feminist history attributing the fact that women* are "allowed" to be masculine under the patriarchy as some sort of facet of the patriarchy universally accepting masculinity over femininity and that shit pisses me off so bad.

The reason why women* are "allowed" to be masculine when men* "aren't" allowed to be feminine under patriarchy is because DYKES and BUTCHES and other masculine women* SPENT DECADES FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHTS TO EXIST PUBLICLY.

The fact that women* can wear pants and suits etc. and are not constantly forced to be hyper feminine/in adherence with strict gendered dress codes without punishment (AND ONLY IN SOME COUNTRIES!) is a win on behalf of feminist political action NOT because of some baseline acceptance of masculinity in everybody by the patriarchy.

(*and people forcibly socially classed as women and men)

Like oh my lord some of you need to shut the fuck up and learn what it was like to be socially classed as a woman before the sexual revolution and what it continues to be like outside of the imperial core.

You are reaping the benefits of the activists who have come before you but because you do not know your history you are treating it like the boons of the oppressor classes and you are blind for it.

[ashyybees-art]

Happy Pride ya’ll!! 

 Have some Pride Flag Ruby (flags in the captions)~

[draconym]

i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer

[what-even-is-thiss]

Sometimes I wonder if we’ve spent too much time as a society wondering if computers can be people

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah wondering where humanity begins and computers end is an interesting thought but people think that ChatGPT knows them. That thing is not a person by like any measurement we know of. It doesn’t have opinions. It regurgitates statistically likely word salad and scrapes answers wholesale from Reddit.

[puppetstar]

ok. that blog lasted 3 hours. and all it posted was evidence of what they did.

hi, puppet again. homeless and disabled trans woman who lives purely off donations on tumblr, and needs this place for connections. paypal here if you can help at all. puppet loves you so much. dont let them kill it ok ^^

[discolor3d]

The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy.

[discolor3d]

The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy.