Am I a ghost, then?

Jasper | he/they/ze | im an adult | just a nerdy dude who likes puns and hyperfixates on cartoons n anime a lot | I yell in my tags | background is by @jamiekinosian header is from @happymoomin

[learn-how-to-love]

For the record, while this should be blatantly obvious to everyone that every blog in the “pro-transmisogyny” tag is a sock puppet, here’s just some evidence that not a single one has existed for longer than about 9 months at most:

None of these are run by real, serious people. Whether they’re TERFs, 4channers or any other hate group doesn’t really matter. Don’t give them the attention they desperately crave, just roll your eyes, block and move on.

[learn-how-to-love]

Missed one. Anyway, transmisogyny is not and will never be tolerated in any circles I run in, person who I’m so sure doesn’t have a main blog that regularly posts with the tag “#r4dfem safe”. I’d say try harder next time but I think I’d rather you just stop trying at all and grow as a person instead.

[a-polite-melody]

Does no one teach “an eye for an eye makes the world blind” anymore?

Fighting bigotry with bigotry doesn’t make less bigotry in the world, it makes more.

[synqra]

People gathered around lava, Iceland.

[jirls]

Ants enjoying a drop of honey

[kedreeva]

(via @netherworldpost)

[literallyaflame]

“afab chests aren’t inherently sexu—” please say breasts please just say breasts please please please stop throwing the term “afab” around say tatas say titties say big bahoona bazingoroos if you must

[literallyaflame]

not to be that guy but if you’re talking about breasts, say breasts. if you’re talking about pregnancy, say pregnancy. you don’t have to bend over backwards coming up with wacky shit like “uterus-having pregnancy-carrier” or “afab presenting nipples” to be more inclusive. half the time, it’s not inclusive anyway. so just be specific. a person with breasts can simply be “a person with breasts.” it’s easy, it’s fun, it’s free

[hypokeimena]

#some trans men don’t have breasts. famously‚ there’s a surgery about it #some cis women don’t have breasts. the same surgery #some trans women do have breasts. famously #there are hormones and also surgery about it #some cis men have breasts. Gandalf for one (via @aurpiment)

[race-bait]

Most Black folks in the US have a deeply painful racial story having to do with interactions with white "friends," including me.

I had a unique experience of going to very diverse schools my entire life, but my family moved out to a mostly white suburb when I was around 11 or 12 years old. So I had friends of all kinds of different backgrounds at school, but my neighborhood friends were almost entirely white. Which was mostly fine as a kid. I even had two of these friends as groomsmen in my wedding.

Things changed shortly after the murder of Trayvon Martin. This is when I started getting more vocal online about racism, anti-Blackness, and the injustices I was observing and grieving throughout the country. It didn't take long at all for the friends from this group to go from uncomfortable, to combative, and then to all blocking me on social media. Once I started talking about race too much, they abandoned me by walking out of my life, which was incredibly painful. These were all very nice, generous, and kind people in every other context of their lives. But something about their racial identity development caused them to turn on me immediately once my voice around race became uncomfortable for them.

Those experiences, along with countless others I've had in my life from white peers, white educators, white store employees, and more, have taught me to be very careful about trusting white folks. Because I have been burned in so many ways in my life.

The key to not unintentionally becoming like this, so wrapped up in your subconscious programming of whiteness and white supremacy that you actively hurt people of color, is to do your inner identity work.

[chipthekeeper]

I have a lot of pet peeves but I think the biggest one is when people say things like “oh it’s such a small town, only 35,000 people” like bitch my town has 200 people, you need to pick a new adjective 

[thegoldengals]

According to Wikipedia, a small town is 1,000-20,000 people. So although you are correct in stating that 35,000 people is not a small town (it is a large town), you are incorrect in thinking that you live in a town. You live in a village. You are a villager.

[chipthekeeper]

I…… don’t know what to do with that information……a villager…

[mf-dude]

[wizzardhat]

Chronic pain is like: I'm in pain. "Well, you really shouldn't let that stop you from doing things." Ok, I guess I'll keep doing this even though I'm in pain. "Well, if the pain was really that bad, then it would stop you from doing things, so it's probably not that bad." Actually, it got worse because I kept doing things. "Well, why would you overdo it and hurt yourself? You should know your limits." Ok, fine. I know my limit, and I have reached it. I need to rest. "Okay, but last week you did all this other stuff, so I know you CAN do more, so I think you're just making excuses?" Ok.

[negativ00]

[great-and-small]

[bird-doodles-daily]

83

[do-you-have-a-flag]

things u do not know about if you have watched project hail mary but not read the book

1: Ryland Grace experiencing involuntary knowledge of his co-workers sex lives because they think of him as someone they need to report to

2: Ryland Grace's surprise at being informed that he is considered the second highest up on the mission after Stratt

3: Ryland Grace finding out a room full of people assuming he's sleeping with Stratt

4: autocannibalism

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

What is the movie even about if they cut out all the best parts

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

THEY LEFT OUT EMBEZZLER BOB AND NUKING ANTARCTICA??

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#THEY REALLY JUST BUTCHERED THE PLOT HUH#phm

I've decided never to watch this movie, because after the way the The Martian movie was eviscerated to the point where the plot barely made sense, I just know that this one would make me just as angry.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#honestly they really glossed over most of the earth part so they could really hone in on the gracerocky bromcom of it all#i do overall like the movie but you have to go in knowing you're watching a bromantic comedy not a fully developed sci fi movie lmao#also they fucking castrated stratt#ran her over and pissed on her grave and replaced her with just. a nice lady.#so kind of. any scene with her is almost unwatchable

THEY MADE STRATT NICE??????

[flowerbleedme]

this xkcd joke is completely hilarious without context. just the way the guy wordlessly steps back towards it

[biglawbear]

I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"

[christaaah]

this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file

[biglawbear]

I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit

[firstbornsons-deactivated202605]

@thesummoningdark hello?????

[thesummoningdark]

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

[biglawbear]

Good afternoon to everyone in the notes having a horrible time! Y'all are fighting demons I never knew existed!! I think every person that makes you do stupid time wasting shit like this because they refuse to learn basic computer literacy should be fired!!

[thenextdraft]

Heaven on Earth

[cryptotheism]

Do you like found family? Queer romance? Enemies to lovers and an epic space opera setting with fantasy elements?

well I didn't write that. You are fucked out of luck.

[anxeious]

one thing about me is i’m gonna go lay down

[scorpiaok]

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[snakebites-and-ink]

Former living weapon absolutely dominating at laser tag

[jockinit]

having friends is important because otherwise you’ll stay convinced your parents are normal

[facepalmmylifeu]

I need this on a plaque