ornery irish bastard

certified fox boy 26 he/him+he/it

[lime-peaches666]

i need to make a pinned post fuck

[zaabjam]

sleep over!!

[this-is-trans-joy]

Reminder to newly out trans women/fems or anyone else on E, don’t let anyone gaslight you about your period symptoms. don’t let anyone with a child’s level understanding of how periods work make you feel like you’re stupid or delusional for experiencing period symptoms, especially if you think there might be something wrong.

things like endometriosis can develop in an estrogen-dominated system, because its the hormones that cause the growth of endometrial lesions, not the “parts” themselves. If you’re experiencing unusually painful symptoms* then you have a right to find a doctor who will take you seriously and not try to gaslight you into thinking that the pain is “normal”.

*period pain is not supposed to affect your daily life. It’s supposed to feel more like an inconvenience rather than a medical emergency. If you are struggling to go about your life, if you can’t move due to the pain, if you’re bed-ridden for the majority of your period, then that is not normal and you need to find a doctor who is going to take your pain seriously. This obviously goes for anyone who experiences periods because unfortunately it’s not common knowledge that experiencing agonising levels of pain is NOT NORMAL!!!

[elodieunderglass]

Fun fact: my sibling’s partner, while idly talking about sports, was like, “you know what’s a WEIRD athlete nobody ever talks about? JOCKEYS, they’re all four feet tall and jacked and psychotic and they fight people. And they’re all Irish for some reason? My dad used to go to a jockey bar in California”

And my sibling was like “oh hey; they’re writing a book about a jockey”

And their partner was like “and they’re all Irish or from the Dominican Republic????? Why??”

And I was like “oh yeah - the weight limit has to be half the weight of the average American male so by numbers Americans don’t really ride races any more, the top flat jockeys in the USA are from Latin America. In Ireland and the UK there’s a lot of Irish and the Irish go everywhere for economic reasons and get purposefully imported to Japan and-“

And the partner was like “and they’re all four feet tall and crazy!”

And I was like “and they’re all crazy! The most injured athletes!! The athletes with no off season! The most concussed athletes! And unlike football and hockey players, they don’t get brain damage from it.”

My sibling was like, “they don’t?”

And I was like, “well no!! They don’t!! The most resilient and fastest-healing athletes for some reason. Of course, two of them die on live TV every year —-“

“TWO OF THEM DIE EVERY YEAR?”

“Yeah well that’s just the ones that die IN RACES, more of them drop dead in exercise riding but dw about it…”

My sibling’s partner broke in, in a tone of revelation; “and nobody notices them! They only see the horse!!!”

Anyway that was weird and fun . There are audiences for my bullshit everywhere I guess

[naamahdarling]

1) Japan imports Irish people

2) two jockeys die on live TV a year (average)

are both competing heavily in my mind for most surprising fact. Neck and neck you might say.

[duamuteffe]

America's first sport was racing and America's first jockeys were Black. I recommend this book:

[elodieunderglass]

You weren’t specifically addressing me, but since you commented on my post, you are locked into an unskippable cutscene now; sorry not sorry

I wrote a Tumblr-style starter pack on the history of Black jockeys in the USA with resources (this book cited) https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/776574564787470336/thank-you-so-much-for-pulling-together-all-this

https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/805427397681971200/ourfriendsthejays-blackhistoryalbum-the Isaac burns Murphy biography post

https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/801817879304683520/sharpay-did-you-know-that-the-very-first-assembly on why the opening lines of “Nope (2022)” are technically inaccurate but dont worry about it and more information about the Black jockey who was one of the FIRST HUMAS TO BE FILMED

https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/798212921538772992/a-video-from-the-met-museum-about-conserving-a context and reflection on silks that belonged to a Black jockey

A phenomenal piece of Ancient Greek sculpture depicts a Black jockey - the Greek African child riding a racehorse in eternity, called the Jockey of Artemision: https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/796192644208459776/today-we-can-learn-about-the-jockey-of

If you feel like you’ve just poked an electric socket, my work here is done

[crabanarchy]

I can tell my evil advisor has been feeling down lately so I've been pretending to take big sips from his cursed chalice and then roaming the palace grounds groaning and clutching my abdomen. Lowkey I know it's deceptive but I can tell it's really cheering him up. I heard him evilly cackle for the first time in weeks. WIBTA if I keep doing this

[every-day-creechur]

Painted Tree Rat Callistomys pictus

A rodent from the state of Bahia, Brazil. The painted tree-rat is found in the Atlantic forest. It also occurs in cocoa plantations where some native trees remain. As far as known, it is nocturnal.

Endangered

image by Oberdan Nunes

[elierlick]

An all-transmasc Ironman trio just won 3rd place in a major men's triathlon, beating over 200 other men's teams. 🏊‍♂️🏃‍🚴‍♂️ Trans men win men's competitions all the time, but nobody pays attention because it doesn't fit the mainstream narrative. I think we should celebrate their victories, too! 🏆

[xfhsfh]

@this-is-trans-joy

[this-is-trans-joy]

This is trans joy!!!

[luckynein]

Not a sports guy but this is wonderful

[luckynein]

@tired-old-men hope you don’t mind the @ but you pointed out that this post has been deleted on Twitter and asked for a link! Wanted to both give that to you and also to anyone else curious.

TRUK United FC: meet the trans-masculine team making football history

The first all trans-masculine football team in the world is proving that there is a place for everyone in sports

[luckynein]

This is being reblogged a bunch again so here’s the version with a link since the Twitter post is gone!

[luckynein]

The radfems found this post again and are being shit-heels in the reblogs so I’m gonna reblog this again myself so more trans positive interactions happen.

[scraemoo]

@this-is-trans-joy

[this-is-trans-joy]

This is trans joy!!!

[tilltheyhiggonmyboson]

this is so funny to me

[infectiouspiss]

everyone line up i've got one bottle of testosterone gel and there's 17,000 of you i'm about to pull a move not seen since jesus did the bread and fish glitch 2000 years ago

[treecitysessions]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Everyone keep sending your attacks. She can't protect him forever

[upright-fool]

"Rings" by ND Stevenson

My absolute favourite comic journal by Stevenson. Made me cry my eyes out. Even when I can't articulate it, it gets to the core of what I think love is.

[mostlyvoidpartiallyjims]

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