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this one kinda hurts when i see it every pride month. im glad to see an art piece of mine still circulating, and with nearly 100,000 notes too! it just hurts that im separated from it. everyone in the notes thinks im gone. im still here, but my potential community and connection is lost because im forgotten in place of the art. yeah, my deactivated profile does add to the profoundness of what i was saying, but i am still removed.
genuinely the most haunting, fucked up scene in not the matrix franchise and beyond. sometimes i still get this like... Episode (one I often get when experiencing mentally painful intrusive thoughts or memories, where my whole body jerks on reflex, then tenses / curls up and my head shakes for a few seconds) when remembering it. especially the way she screams "I'M REAL! I'M REAL!!!" in a distorting voice as she's torn apart? horrifying. youd need to be painfully unaware of the trans experience to argue theres no similarities.... also unaware the wachowskis are trans lol?
https://twitter.com/birdtickler/status/1552657242909904897?s=21&t=q4JEDIALmV-cAjcoEOypdw
ok so I looked it up, and it turns out they made a track out of PVC pipes, down a hill. The owner didn't realise PVC expanded in the heat, so on a turn the track just fell apart and the dude inside went over a fucking free way and into a swamp.
The funniest part is that the inspector was watching the whole time, and once the ball stopped he left without saying anything. Park management just shut it down then and there.
"The ball cleared a small hill, briefly going airborne, then zipped right across Route 94, the two-lane road splitting the park. Cars honked and slammed on their brakes. If there had been opposing traffic, Frank would have become part of a real-life game of Pong, volleying from one bumper to another.
Still in pursuit, we followed the ball toward a small lake in Motor World that had been earmarked for a fleet of tiny bumper boats for children. The area wasn’t open yet, but the empty boats were being tested and floated on the surface. The ball soared over the grass and smashed into several of them, scattering the others with rippling waves from the impact, which launched some of the boats several feet in the air.
Charlie and Ken waded into the water looking for the hatch. After some difficulty, they got it open. Charlie pulled Frank out by grabbing him under his armpits like a baby. Frank crawled up the bank, coughing and sputtering. He splayed across the grass as we all stared at the ball, which bobbed in the water like it was attached to a fishing lure.
We did not ask for the inspector’s report, nor did we ever hear of one being filed. Ken Bailey returned to Canada. The snow-makers cleared away the PVC. Told to dispose of the Bailey Ball, they rolled it into the woods, where it remained for many years."
I don't know that this beats the teeth story, but it's pretty great.
This is why Pride is not just a party. It's a joyful celebration, but it's also a pointed and colourful two-finger salute to a world that stood back whilst so many of us died. And we'll never go quietly, never again.
Xena is a great show, as someone who is more knowledgeable than average about classic Greco-Roman history. Not because Xena is historically accurate, but because it doesn't give a shit about historical accuracy.
One episode, Xena is hanging out with her...ex? Hercules. And the next Gabrielle is going to Bard school with *Homer*. And then Xena is talking about cesarean sections (for a half centaur-half amazon baby) and medical ethics with Hippocratus AND Galen. And then she's encouraging Brutus to murder Caesar. Next week, she's gotta beat up Ares and return the Arc of the Covenant to its rightful people.
When is this show set? The time of legends, shut up.
this part is one that i'm really going to hate. in the wake of all that happened yesterday, i need to talk about finances. i know this is long, but i urge you to read through, because i could really use some tangible, real help right now.
as many of you know, the work we did for Avid was substantial. the music we made with him has been our lifeblood for the past several months as we have been reeling from the onset of a severe, life changing disability diagnosis that prevents us from working a typical job. music, video editing, streaming, and making our own videos are about all we can do. our disabling dissociative amnesia prevents the timely and reasonable learning of new skills. while we have been working constantly with a dissociative specialist to inch towards remedying this, we do not expect that we will be equipped to work in any other capacity any time soon.
the royalties we received from the music we made together with Avid were roughly 80-90% of our income on any given month for the calendar year so far, and they have helped us stay afloat while we have been trying to go through the rigorous and ill-equipped disability system.
putting all your eggs in one basket is never a good idea regardless, and the fears i had building for the past couple of months only further emphasized this. as such, i have been trying to diversify by engaging with streaming, trying to get my name out there for collaborative work in other SMPs, and reaching out to my creator friends for editing work. i really can't thank two people in particular enough - LeonSBU and NatureOfGaming - for providing me work as they have been able to afford and especially in Leon's case, getting my name out there for other SMPs.
unfortunately, the true extent of Avid's manipulations and lies were more than i could ever have imagined. the fact that my entire understanding of his intentions has been flipped in a matter of no more than 3 days feels like being hit by a truck. for full transparency, i am no longer in contact with Avid, but i did inform them that i was leaving the fate of our music in their hands. in the final messages he sent to me before i cut contact, he told me that he "would never cut [me] off financially". he told me he would never do a lot of things, so forgive me if i have trouble trusting this. regardless, the dropoff in listenership after what has been revealed will be substantial and immediate.
in the best case-scenario, i have a month or two left before royalties catch up to this dropoff, and will see consistent income for that time still. in the worst, i will no longer be able to afford my rent by the end of the month if he does remove the music and disable my royalty splits.
what i need is two things: i need immediate funds to fall back on in case things go poorly, and i need longevity. i have been so lucky to be surrounded by so many truly astounding and generous creators who have been willing to put my name out there for work. i am hoping this comes to fruition. i am already hearing from some about potential editing opportunities which is amazing. but things are still up in the air, and i need to be quick and smart. this is why i am doing something that my fans know i hate. i'm asking for help.
as i see it, there are three pillars to this. all the highlighted text below links directly:
immediate aid - if you have the funds to spare, buying our music on Bandcamp and donating to our Ko-Fi are methods of which we see the funds in a matter of days, if not instantly. this will help us build an emergency fund if worse comes to worse.
supporting our work - by spreading the word about our streaming on Twitch and listening to our music on streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube (and any other platform our music is on), you provide a significant source of consistent income that we can rely on month-to-month.
word of mouth - talking about what we do and why you enjoy it is a surprisingly big help, because it helps us find connections for potential growth opportunities and commission work. additionally, letting people know we have a Discord and are the ones responsible for Avid's music in the first place not only helps us, but it helps the people who loved Avid's music know there is more out there from the person who made his songs possible.
i'm gonna level with you all. i fucking hate writing this. i feel like a beggar. i feel humiliated. these past three days of piecing things together have been some of the worst of my life, and having to once again ask for help is the cherry on top. since i learned about the truth three days ago, this has been constantly looming over me. everything else has been made crystal clear to me, so i at least know without a shadow of a doubt what happened. but with this? i'm terrified. Avid knew my situation, my disability, my reliance on our work together. he has left me in a truly impossible situation. i am taking it as an opportunity to double down on the work i was already doing and try to turn it into a positive. i hope that you all are gracious enough to help me make that a reality. it would really mean the world right now.
for some positivity in all of this, here's a sneak peak of my next song. i'm so ready to move forwards and i'm trying to let this empower me to make some awesome fucking art. thank you to everyone who read to the end. hope to see you all soon <3
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I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.
title of this is just ‘lesbian sex’
lot of terfs have been reblogging this so I may as well publicly state that the woman on the right is modeled with permission after my transfemme friend. if you relate to it as strongly as many of you claim in the tags I urge you to reflect upon that with empathy and compassion about the depth of experiences you truly do share with trans women.
otherwise fuck off I guess. my art is not fuel for your hatred.
My memory of The Birdcage (1996) is always that it's more dated and more difficult to watch than it actually is. You hear "drag-themed comedy from the 90s based on a musical from the 80s based on a play from the 70s" and you brace yourself just a little, right? But the film has a strong gay perspective, so the fruity fag jokes mostly come off as warmly affectionate. There is a surprising amount of poignancy in Robin Williams' portrayal of Armand, grudgingly agreeing to his beloved son's request that he go back into the closet for an evening ("do me a favor and don't talk to me for a while"). The drag club's staff attempting to redecorate the apartment with stuff straight people might like (a taxidermy moose head, an enormous crucifix, and Playboy magazine) is extremely funny. Albert's histrionics are a point of tension because he does often come off as a stereotypically pathetic/comic figure, but towards the end of the movie he makes it very clear that he's aware of how people see him, and asserts that trying to copy a stoic masculinity he doesn't possess for the sake of social approval would be more pathetic. In the 1983 musical adaptation, they give "Albert" (Albin) the only good song in the whole show, "I Am What I Am", which Gloria Gaynor covered to the delight of gays everywhere. Apparently Nathan Lane wasn't (publicly) out yet in 1996, which is amazing because it means that at one point in this movie you're watching a gay man playing a straight man playing a gay man playing a straight man, in a movie about how it's important to be yourself, an absurdity that does seem to encapsulate the state of gay America in the 90s.
I'm seeing a couple of posts circulating about the gay 90s and this movie. The above is a very good summary, and I think it's worth adding a few other points.
This movie got made because Robin Williams said yes to it (and it's important that Gene Hackman did as well). Williams in the 90s was a mega-star of a type that's not present in the current media environment (maybe Tom Cruise, but I personally think that's echo from his salad days). Even his flops made money on the back end in the video rental market, which also doesn't exist anymore (streaming is different). Hackman was on the other side of his A-list career but still Hollywood nobility if not full royalty.
Playing gay was considered career suicide in the 90s. There had been a number of actors who put lie to that belief stretching back decades, but this was Williams and Hackman (yes, being on screen next to a gay character was enough to get you blacklisted) saying "screw that" and doing it anyway.
Being gay and out was career suicide in the 90s.
Nathan Lane had a really nice gig going for himself. The Lion King put him into the Disney rep company with people like Williams, Bette Midler, and Whoopie Goldberg (check their IMBD list from the 90s--they were making bank at Disney).
Lane didn't come out until several years later (nice summary: https://deadline.com/2024/06/nathan-lane-robin-williams-advice-coming-out-birdcage-1235975010/).
I don't want to imply that this was a Sorkinized moment where everything changed because of one thing, but this was a very important movie that caused real movement in the needle on queer acceptance.
It also proved that there was a market for films with gay characters, which had the knock-on effect of gay filmmakers being able to find distributors of their gay-themed films. Which meant that more people than ever (queer and non-queer) got to see representation on-screen.
The ATLA comics were weird.
I read the comics exclusively for Azula and I think a good amount of people did so too. I’ve got very mixed opinions which often lean to the negative side of it as a good percentage of people do lol. But I wanted to points out some points which really struck with me.
The way they screwed up Ty Lee and Mai
Not a lot of people say this but Ty Lee and Mai weren’t just henchmen’s to Azula. They were extensions of Azula.
Ty Lee represents the “femininity”, the princessy aspect, the need for love and validation around her, the need to stand out, what Azula has basically. It makes sense why she was pressured to join a mission that would involve brutality, murder and manipulation. Her admiration to Azula, and the cutesy responses she has to everything that happens around her… I think that those might represent some form of innocence and love buried deep that Azula might have.
Mai on the other hand represent the need to be good for her family. In fact all the campfire confessions at the beach (including Zukos) also stand for Azula. But most importantly, Azula was raised by Ozai in a way that she never had to question why and how, but rather to do what she was told to do. To remain quiet about it. Mai brings out the stoicism that Azula carries herself with. Until she explodes, that is.
Anyways both Ty Lee and Mai are conflicting figures to each other. One loves a carefree life at the circus and the other devotes herself to the family similar with one of Azulas inner conflict between herself as Azula and herself as the Fire Nation princess.
Where I’m going at with this is that both Ty Lees and Mais development are not independent from that of Azulas. Both are as directionless as Azula is. But they do have loyalty towards the nation. That, ultimately gets questioned when Zuko is the one betraying it, and Zuko is the one who needs to die. Azula tries to spare him (somewhat) and even takes him in ba sing se although she didn’t really have a practical reason to since everything was in her favor up to that point. Azula looks out for Zuko, however she’s still a representative of the fire nation and his mistrust of her as a person and as a representative and the ultimate betrayal after the day of the black sun, was one of Azulas first triggers. Seeing that Azula the unstoppable forsce who was surprisingly not that lethal, not only treating a Zukos possible death with nonchalance, but also acting on it , radicalised Mai and it also radicalised Ty Lee to take her down.
Up until that point however, BOTH girls were 100% on board with Azula (save for one or two instances where Mai pulled back but even then you could make the argument that they’d still fail if they didn’t give up). Both were fire nation girls brought up and groomed similarly to Azula, with their heart and respect to the fire nation. What’s more important is that both (or at least ty lee) had the chances to betray and ditch Azula, while pursuing Aang, during the drill, during their plans to get ba sing se. However they cared about the nation and their families and also admired Azula as anyone in the fire nation did.
So it’s weird that there’s this sudden 180 flip where they’re like “ yo I never fucked with this bitch Azula like EVER! She was so evil and mean!!” Or the way both treat Azula with zero regard whatsoever. I would’ve liked seeing Ty Lee and Mai, even if one joined the Kyoshi and the other is Zukos girlfriend to be more affected by Azulas fate. And their “betrayal” against her to have come from a place of concern, not that of simply “choosing Zuko over her”.
The positive in this is that the Spirit temple treats it a bit more carefully even tho they kinda fucked it it up as they still had to be loyal to “the search” material and made Azula not be deadly towards Ty Lee.
The characters were weird and felt weird.
Aang was weird, Katara. Sokka, Zuko. Everyone overall felt very flaunderised and if not flaunderised they felt as if they were mixed on a pot with boiling water and came out looking like boiled chickens without a speck of seasoning.
Azula is obv very screwed over by this. She works as some sort of weird ass villain. It feels like the comics just make fun of her mental state and cruelly remark and point at it. It doesn’t address her status as princess anymore even though it is very important. It’s just the hallucinations, even though there were so many pivotal moments needed to be addressed properly, BY AZULAS POINT OF VIEW.
Also, if they make a new Ozai society, and try to free him, why the fuck wouldn’t they also try and make one with Azula on top. He’s stripped from his bending! Meanwhile Azula was one of the best chances they could logically get to question Zukos reign. Even if they didn’t do so for misogynistic reasons, or idk, because she got locked up in the institution? it would be more infinitely interesting to mention their dismissal towards Azula, and having her story center around this conflict for a while until she moved on.
Her plans do not feel smart or effectively, it feels like her maliciousness was shrivelled up in the process. It doesn’t have a threatening, it-girl factor. And I can’t tell if it’s because Azulas creative juices ran out, or is it because the writers creative juices had gone out.
The spirit temple does a better job at showing Azula that villainry isn’t the option but even then it’s kind of like…meh.
However two things I want to point out.
None of the gaang have a proper interaction with Azula. Why is it important? These lil bitches are curious as hell. If Azula was locked up in an institution for a year, and was acting all weird and nearly jumping from appa, why couldn’t a SINGLE ONE OF THEM “interrogate” her, ask her? Talk to her??? Why would they take Zukos words for granted? lol. It doesn’t feel like the gaang at all because there would be like one or two convos during the ride with Azula in it, and not just with Zuko. They didn’t have to go well, they just had to happen.
Like u mean to tell me that Katara and Aang just casually kiss there meanwhile the fucking elephant in the room stands on their bison???
You mean to tell me that Azula said this and none of these noisy little bitches asked her or Zuko who was this person she was talking about? Or at least bring up the fact she’s hallucinating her mother? Like even as enemies there should’ve been a bit of “concern”, as in something was wrong either as a trick or as an indication or a message of sorts.
And Zuko being wayyy too agressive at Azula kind of contradicts his character development ENTIRELY! Worse, his treatment towards Azula is also seen as “reasonable”.
Also him being immediately okay with the fact his mother had changed identity and history kind of sets me off but whatever good for him to have found her.
My opinions on Azula and the spirit temple.
It was good…kind of?? But it felt EXTREMELY underwhelming to have been waiting two years since the announcement on such little revelation. Did Azula get a step closer to development? Yeah. Was it enough after all those years of anticipation and waiting from fans? Not really, even if Azula doesn’t have a use for the studio or the number of engagement from fans. I liked it, it did a good job on Azulas character and did focus on some things about her which was cool. But idk…it was not very wow or anything.
Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904
this is an extremely important picture
Ive never seen someone from 1904 having fun omg
He has a nice face
No but the history behind this picture is really interesting
The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasn’t that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture.
It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like.
But one time some British dudes went to china to go on an anthropological expedition, and they met some rural Chinese farmers and decided to take their pictures. Now, these people weren’t exposed to the weird culture of the time around getting your photo taken, so this guy just flashed a big grin during the photo because he was told to strike a pose and that’s the pose he wanted to strike.
I think painted portraits and old photos give us the idea that in general people were just really unhappy because those are the visuals we have. This is so refreshing.
Hey, look; “Man Laughing Alone With Rice” is back on my dash.
always reblog Happy Rice Guy. once upon a time, he really enjoyed his lunch, and that’s beautiful.
Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending
You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:
When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case
I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed
Everyone stop getting married now
I love you being trans I love you trans women i love you gender exploration I love you self discovery
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[ID: two screenshots of a reddit post on r/offmychest by user awaythrowjessie, titled "My girlfriend made me realize I'd be happier as a woman". it reads as follows:
I am 33, born male, and have had major self image issues my entire life. I hated seeing myself in mirrors, pictures, you name it. I honestly thought it was kinda normal so I just accepted it.
Now about 3 weeks ago I was at my girlfriends house, we have been dating a little over a year now, and have plans to move in together soon. Now recently she has shaved her head to support of her friends with cancer (side note thenl treatments for that friend are going very well). She had since bought some wigs to wear while her hair grows back out. We were joking around as I have male pattern baldness, and when she went to the bathroom I jokingly threw a wig on and waited. She came our, saw me we laughed for a bit and she said "you know I think you'd make a pretty girl" we laughed some more but those words triggered something in me.
Cut to a few night's ago she asked why I've been acting weird lately and I just told her how i was feeling. She said "alright let's do this " and when I asked what she told me she was going to give me a bit of a makeover and put me in one of her dresses and if i liked it then good. I was nervous and asked what if I did like it would she still be attracted to me. She just responded with "Baby you know I'm bi, guy or girl you're still mine." Her words reassured me honestly i love her so much.
Anyways she finished the make up, fitted a wig on me perfectly and got me in a dress and even helped me put a bra on and stuff in a little so i could see what breasts would kinda look like on me. Now I expected to see myself in the mirror, laugh this off and move on right, but I didn't. She did an unbelievable job, like I looked like I had been born a woman, and when I saw myself in the mirror for the first time in my entire life, I liked what I saw. I probably stared at myself for a good 10 minutes before she finally asked me something. She asked what I wanted to be called. After a few seconds I said Jessie, I always like the name Jessie. She whispered in my ear "well Jessie, you look beautiful." And that was it, I knew this was who i wanted to be.
I'm nervous now though, my friends will accept it but my family are, well let's just say not very progressive. But this is what I want.
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there’s an update!!
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[ID: A screenshot of a Reddit post from r/offmychest by user awaythrowjessie, titled “I went out as Jessie for the first time and I was honestly surprised”. The screenshot reads: Hello everyone, this is an official follow up to my previous post that went viral and caught me off guard.
So me and my girlfriend, (Who has officially agreed to disclose her name lol) Emily, had gone shopping for me to get me outfits and the like. Earlier today i put on one of those outfits and officially faced the world as Jessie for the first time.
To say I was nervous would be an understatement. We went to our local mall and I was almost shaking, thankfully Emily calmed me down and said if anyone said anything mean to me she'd handle it, then playfully threw up her hands like a boxer lol. We stepped inside and started walking around going in stores and I noticed something, no one was staring. Like at all. I live in an area that still has issues with LGBTQ people so I was afraid of staring or aggressive people. But none of that happened. People greeted me, the store workers were kind and nobody looked at me like I was weird. I felt comfortable, and Emily even said she saw someone check me put, though i doubt that.
This was unbelievable to me and honestly I felt like myself. I feels nice that I can go out without worrying about Judging eyes.
To all the supporters of my previous post thank you, you have made me happy. Ill keep this account going to let you join me in my journey and once I'm confident enough I'll post up some pics of me and Emily too :) end ID]
I'd much rather people reblogged this version of the post than any other at this time btw
Honestly crying right now. Wherever Jessie and Emily are at this moment, I hope they're doing well.
This is so similar to my wife's story I'm smiling and crying at the same time. I love it every time someone realizes they can live as their authentic self.
