Writing, So As Not To Be Dead

Elliot | he/him I’m not a real doctor, but I am a real worm This is a writeblr, but only nominally. Header by @catboyzaid on the platform formerly known as Twitter. Not a minor, not telling you my age.

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

I never let anyone undress me because clearly they’re a plant by the deep-state trying to remove my Battle Ready Armor and leave me vulnerable to attack

[magiccarpetman]

I ate breakfast in the shade on the porch before 8 a.m. to try to get in a little fresh air before it was too hot for me to exist. First meaningful outside time in… a week? First meaningful outside time in daylight in much longer than a week. I was so careful and still came back inside nauseated from the heat. Bleh.

[muffinlance]

When you use the dictionary website to check your spelling and your intended meaning is marked "archaic". STOP CALLING ME OUT, MERRIAM-WEBSTER.

[marithlizard]

(via bsky)

In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

We need a fully funded and staffed FDA, and regulations with teeth - and that's exactly what we don't have under Trump. To make things worse, the CDC is no longer tracking these outbreaks. We're on our own.

[dungeon-bitch]

[magiccarpetman]

Andrew Tate arrested 🎊

[buniix3]

Got some Grade A Senshi propaganda right he- OH GOD OH NO

Senshi... I'm so sorry oh my god I dont know what happened or where that water bucket came from jesus christ all mighty

GO VOTE

Reblog by @mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026 · 1 poll

💬 2258  🔁 10096  ❤️ 15264 · Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Final Round Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

[yesornopolls]

do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 2 days 1 hour

[catboybiologist]

My heart is genuinely breaking for the HHS announcements about putting FDA regulations on binders. Fucked up to the core

[catboybiologist]

It's a piece of fucking fabric

[catboybiologist]

"everyone with tits must wear garments that comply with making them look big and bouncy. We're protecting women btw"

[catboybiologist]

@witchywomin-blog-blog provided this link:

A Guide to Binding complied by Maxwell Xander\n\n(None of the images belong to me; credit to owners)

If anything serious happens to binder access, make sure to hoard resources like this!

[xaykwolf]

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-acts-bar-hospitals-performing-sex-rejecting-procedures-children.html

Specifically, the pertinent part:

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing warning letters to 12 manufacturers and retailers for illegal marketing of breast binders to children for the purposes of treating gender dysphoria. Breast binders are Class 1 medical devices used for purposes such as assistance in recovery from cancer-related mastectomy. The warning letters will formally notify the companies of their significant regulatory violations and how they should take prompt corrective action. “Illegal marketing of these products for children is alarming, and the FDA will take further enforcement action such as import alerts, seizures, and injunctions if it continues,” said FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H.

[official-boob-posts]

it’s been so scary to be openly trans lately

be so safe out there guys

[magiccarpetman]

This has been going around again, so here’s a link to my favorite free binder charity, Point of Pride. In addition to their free binder program, they do surgery funding, 18 month HRT access grants, electrolysis funding, free femme shapewear, and mini grants for other gender affirming supports.

If the Trump admin’s anti-trans bullshit has made you mad and you have a couple bucks to throw their way, here’s the donation page. They also take donated binders here.

[in-the-mists]

computer. The Middle by Jimmy Eat World. loud enough to kill.

[argumate]

What Trump offers is an easy escape from the pain. To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution. He can bring jobs back simply by punishing offshoring companies into submission. As he told a New Hampshire crowd—folks all too familiar with the opioid scourge—he can cure the addiction epidemic by building a Mexican wall and keeping the cartels out. He will spare the United States from humiliation and military defeat with indiscriminate bombing. It doesn’t matter that no credible military leader has endorsed his plan. He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t. Trump’s promises are the needle in America’s collective vein.

The great tragedy is that many of the problems Trump identifies are real, and so many of the hurts he exploits demand serious thought and measured action—from governments, yes, but also from community leaders and individuals. Yet so long as people rely on that quick high, so long as wolves point their fingers at everyone but themselves, the nation delays a necessary reckoning. There is no self-reflection in the midst of a false euphoria. Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.

his article in The Atlantic, 2016

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

No

NO!!!!!!!

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[dykeselfcest]

flanagan's crimes are many and varied but at this point his insistence on taking material explicitly critical of family structures (sometimes including portrayal of intense abuse) and adapting it into stories about The Beauty Of The Nuclear Family is all but indistinguishable from an entirely conservative project

[sunderwight]

media: we have an anti-authoritarian story for you!

me: sweet hit me with the good stuff

media: so there's this marginalized underclass of people, right?

me: okay

media: and they're like, stigmatized for something that's mostly an aspect of how they are born, or where they're from, or they're badly misunderstood, right?

me: yup, got it, I'm with ya

media: so these people are rebelling against the current social order, because it's the instrument of their suffering

me: oh good great sure

media: but also they're violent and deranged and need to be stopped

me: ...what

media: yeah they're going too far, they're trying to overthrow the system and assassinate the nice cop trying to help them and also they burned down an orphanage

me: ...why? would they burn down an orphanage??

media: extremism is bad

me: still not seeing what this has to do with their fight though???

media: also now they've shot a dog. oops they shot another dog

me: what?! why? I though their motive was to overthrow oppression??

media: yes but their suffering has also made them evil

me: ...???

media: don't worry though, the good guys will defeat them and restore the status quo

me: the status quo that's been killing people?

media: well it turns out it was only killing the kinds of awful people who burn down orphanages and shoot dogs :)

me: oh. this is actually a pro-authoritarian story, isn't it?

media: nooo of course not don't be sillyyyyyy we're super progressive look one of the cops is a black lady don't be sillyyyyyy

[friend-crow]

You can tell we're getting into the desperate months of zucchini excess by the way the New York times just sent out a list of 107 zucchini recipes.

[friend-crow]

#I must locate the list of 107 zucchini recipes#I'm not even growing zucchini this year I just like it lol YOU ARE IN LUCK (assuming you're able to read these)!

Best Zucchini Recipes

Zucchini is summer's gift. Embrace it with simple grilled zucchini, crunchy fried zucchini, ever-popular zucchini bread and all the options

Apparently this is just the best zucchini recipes. They aren't even including their bad and mediocre options.

[headspace-hotel]

Oh thank god

[adhdwannabewriter]

Writers, which software do you use?

Google docs

Microsoft word

Ellipsus

Libre office - writer

Notepad (the fuck is wrong with you lol)

Pages

Other (comment, please, esp if you recommend it)

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I used to use Google docs, but the white mode only was really annoying me (tires my eyes), so I swapped to Ellipsus (which I genuinely love and recommend), but it was bothering me a bit that I need wifi in order to use it, so now I switched to LibreOffice Writer, which I do like.

It very much has a Microsoft Word feel, but is open source and you need no accounts to use it. It's local on your device, so no AI can scan it, and no wifi is needed.

I still wish it had the Google Docs cards, because, bitch, that thing is so good for easy organizing.

[stjohnstarling]

Inside the Booming Business of Monster Porn

Teratophiliacs were once a niche group that bonded over their sexual attraction to monsters in obscure forums. Now—as online communities pro

Okay guys, we’ve got to wrap it up now with the monsterfucking and find something new to do. It’s getting write-ups in GQ, it’s so over.

[stjohnstarling]

Sometimes, in their obsession with monsters, humans end up finding other humans. In 2019, Cachét developed a crush on Salad Fingers, the main character in a British cult web cartoon. She drew porn of Salad Fingers and sent it to David Firth, the show’s creator. Firth loved it and followed her back. “He thought I was a guy because no girl would draw porn of Salad Fingers,” Cachét says.

They started messaging. Cachét complimented his drawing of a human-bug threesome and asked for a print. Three years later, Cachét and David got married. The human-bug threesome drawing hangs on the wall of their home.

Okay this does kind of rule though.