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tumbling | silly cat thing | adult

[certified-eureka-posts]

In Memoriam

In lieu of a Eureka post, today I want to write in loving memory of Madeline, aka Faeriedae, as I have received confirmation that she passed away earlier this week.

Madeline was a cornerstone of ANIM’s community. She was endlessly intelligent, funny, and kind, and her presence enriched all of the community spaces she was in. She was a close collaborator with the ANIM team, and good friends with many of the people in the community. She was a friend and a role model to myself and others, and I only regret that I didn’t get the chance to spend more time with her. There are simply not enough words in the world to express the love which we all felt towards her. She will be sorely missed and fondly remembered.

In the midst of celebrating the wonderful things Madeline brought to the world around her, I must also speak out about the circumstances of her tragic loss. We live in a world that kills trans women. Every single day, transfems and other marginalized people are being pushed to our deaths by the cruelty and violence of society. Madeline didn’t deserve that, and neither did any of the other women whose names I never got to learn. It is painful, it is unfair, and it is not how things should be.

It is up to all of us to create a better world, and if you’re reading this I encourage you to take part. Speak out against oppression. Add your own voice to the chorus calling for justice. And please, materially support transfems in need however you can, especially through donations to individual fundraisers or trans-oriented charities. All of us have the power to help make change. And, along with all that, do your best to survive and keep yourself safe, in spite of the people who want us dead. The world is a better place with you in it, and together we can work to honor the memory of our fallen siblings.

Don’t forget to love and cherish the people around you, especially the transfems in your life, as much as you can. Make every moment with them count. You never know which one will be the last.

Much love to Madeline and everyone who knew her. She was a wonderful person. I’m so sorry.

- Nora

[tincansamurai]

if you put a bunch of vaseline on your chest and then you eat some chips shirtless you can experience something gross and disgusting

[berdyayeva]

can I borrow your house centipede

[berdyayeva]

I need it

[oleskyfm]

[rpfisfine]

[lokaror]

skrillex's "bangarang" used to play

[orcboxer]

what now?

[lokaror]

Silence unending, interurrpted occasionally by flo ridas "cant believe it"

[bardjulus]

guys this bedtime story is really scary can you tell me a different one

[cutecipher]

basketball players fight over the basketball because they are hypnotized before each game to believe it is their egg

[noddaduck]

Do they keep throwing it at the ground to try to help it hatch? Are they throwing it into the hoop because they believe that is it’s nest?

[moveslikekeithrichards]

labubu was meant to be hanging off a kindergartners backpack filthy as fuck with no eyes left

[portaproslowbro]

I can't even lay one Damn Daniel egg. Fml

[thescruffypuppy]

I'll lay 1000 damn daniel eggs before i let this company die

[titleknown]

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Historically Fucked Over Artists On An Institutional Level:

Sampling rights becoming prohibitively expensive to use by small artists

Musicians being forced to sign over sampling rights to their record company, making any benefits they would hypothetically gain moot.

The Digital Milennium Copyright Act leading to the vidmaker-stomping nightmare that is ContentID

The DMCA leading to making it harder than ever to preserve media due to the way it prohibits tinkering with any locks the megacorps put on it, meaning it's way easier for artists' hard work to end up vaulted and lost.

The way basic chord progressions and musical styles have become copyrightable thanks to various lawsuits by the Marvin Gaye estate

The fact that the artists of the past used to be able to remix; adapt and iterate on art made within 56 years of them, likely created in their lifetimes, and now artists can only do those things with art produced nearly a century ago by people long dead.

New and independent artists being crowded out of the market by megacorp-owned IPs that would be public domain (and thusly convey less of an overwhelming advantage-via-marquee-value to megacorps) if the US had its pre-1976 copyright laws.

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Actually Materially Helped Artists On An Institutional Level:

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[carolxdanvers]

Times that Copyright Expansion Resulted In Something Kinda Funny:

When Metallica did a twitch concert and got a copyright strike on their own music as a direct result of their lobbying for copyright expansion

[rockyriverrocksrock]

I know the more likely idea is that the "Flower Kingdom" we all were expecting is just not gonna happen... but consdier

[kayla-denker]

Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

[kayla-denker]

I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

[kayla-denker]

Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.

[eveydeevey]

[magmacanon]

If you want your own mugs you can go buy them >:(

[eveydeevey]

[pinayelf]

white europeans calling race an "american construct" when their ancestors invented it to justify chattel slavery always makes me feel insane

[glitchy-haha]

The biggest problem I have with "support black indie creators" is that people only really ever bring up black indie creators when a non-black (dare a say often white) indie creator gets exposed or called out for racism, and I hate to break it to you guys, but that is actually not a good thing.

Anti-blackness in the indie scene is a serious issue and we should always call it out even if it seems like a "nothing-burger," but at the same time you should always uplift and support black indie creators regardless. Solely bringing them up when some popular indie creator gets called out for racism will only lead them to being forgotten when the controversy dims down and everyone moves on to something else.

Please support black creators all year round and not just occasionally.

[antennae-and-haloes]

Ill block a bitch on pesterchum