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[agelessphotography]

Candy Darling On Her Deathbed, Peter Hujar, 1973

Peter Hujar captured the people and streets of what made New York distinctive to him in the 1970s. Candy’s portrait, made at her invitation, shows the transgender icon at the end of her life, dying of lymphoma in a hospital. The majesty of the flowers, the lighting, and her own carefully-applied makeup speak to the intention around the creation of this work. Hujar unflinchingly confronts her pain and the inevitability of mortality with his own characteristic precision and humanity. – Saint Louis Art Museum

[innerchildabortionclinic]

I will say my problem with young women dating older men is not that I think 20 year olds can't consent or whatever, it's because it's illogical and reminiscent of a world we should have left behind at this point if we actually see men and women as equals. This isn't even my opinion it's a literal fact- the manosphere is freaking out over the decline of "trophy wife" marriages (young woman, wealthy older man) which happened because once women have financial independence they can actually prioritize themselves properly. In fact a lot of "gender wars" stuff online is just men having to face the fact women can choose now lol. If we skip 100 years in the future and there's 50/50 old woman young man and old man young woman age gap couple frequency I would care less. And it's totally possible that can happen if we are truly seen as equals. Just not the case right now.

Also in these marriages both people end up resenting each other anyway--the woman feels like her youth was wasted and the man knows she isn't in love with him. That's why you don't see 40+ year old women talking about the joys of being a tradwife, it's always a 19 year old with an old man.

That's #mytruth anyway...and I feel like it's not often brought up in these conversations. Everyone is primarily focused on consent and life experience when defending or denouncing these sorts of relationships I feel and kind of missing the larger picture. Straight up I will shame you for voluntarily replicating conditions that made every generation of women mentally insane idc if it's lana del rey coquette aesthetic

[80sanime]

Angel’s Egg/Tenshi no Tamago Illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano

[glavilio]

last night a cat burglar broke into my home and replaced all of my experiences with memories, exchanged my objects for descriptions, covered up my actions with evidence... all without leaving a trace

[darkspaceboytoy]

Look I think it is commendable to write a book. That takes work no matter what. But man are there some bad ones out there.

[darkspaceboytoy]

Folks I won’t say it again all authors must be killed

[playwrongs]

remarkable. all these holes look just like my grave

[toiich]

Inland Empire (2006), dir. David Lynch

[voidpumpkin]

it really is impressive how common the response to transfems going 'people underestimate how traumatic a transfems childhood is, particularly going through puberty' by transmascs is 'shut the fuck up, unlike you we actually had a traumatic childhood with rape, abuse and conversion therapy that you (males) would never understand)' implying that we don't go through that and like we do, the CSA rate for transfems is 58% at least. And while fucking hate bringing up examples of 'transmisogyny effects non transfems' cause it decentres us and acts like non transfems are the real victims, this viewpoint also implies that you don't believe gay boys have a traumatic childhood due to their queerness, that being amab is somehow an exemption for homophobia towards children.

Also don't try to argue that this isn't happening, I'm writing this in response to seeing this exact discourse blow up for the third time in a month

[hyperlexichypatia]

IDK I think if cis men are being told that being fat will lower their testosterone and make them Insufficiently Masculine, and cis women are being told that being fat will raise their testosterone and make them Excessively Masculine, and fat trans people are being denied the right to medically transition if they're fat, and thin trans people are warned against HRT because it will make them fat (and this is said about both testosterone and estrogen HRT), and androgynous-presenting people are told that only thin people count as androgynous...

Then maybe...

Maybe...

Maybe the weight loss industry is just using Gender to enforce fatphobia.

[evilvillain123456789]

apparently my aggressive and poorly trained dog that is too large for me to physically control is now making fake as fuck stories for reddit gold

[niceinchnails]

Was carrying my pants i havent worn for a while and 4 gold doubloons and 2 rocks fell out

[cannibalcaprine]

i think about this xkcd from december of 2006 strangely often

[oliverscarlin]

Aristide Maillol - Women Wrestlers (1900)

[slimgiltsoul]

[alphacrone]

as a child i assumed that martha’s vineyard was a fancy private vineyard owned by martha stewart and the reason rich people vacationed there was because they were friends with martha

[highlandvalley]

(via Xユーザーのhorse dentistさん: 「babe what’s wrong? you’ve barely touched your Terminator 2 Judgement Day silver promotional peanutbutter https://t.co/uy4aaxO72i」 / X)

[hikikomoricomplex]

gay people have access to a secret second internet where everybody’s always posting bad-luck-brian memes but they’re weird and sort of scary

[themainspoon]