Melon Bride

Nonbinary woman, she/her, old millenial I reblog shitposts, queer politics, cute stuff and nerdy stuff I try to keep my blog SFW but things can slip through Inconsistent tagger, I try my best, let me know if you need something tagged About me one of my headmates has a side blog and so does another one and a third one

[shrimpy-in-wonderland]

Some Queenie fo today

[sapphicgardensinmymind]

i’ve never seen a mouse that looks so much like a mouse before

[great-and-small]

She looks like she belongs on the cover of a beloved illustrated children’s book 🥺

[normalwomansstuff-deactivated20]

HOT AUTISTIC ADULTS IN YOUR AREA ARE UNSURE IF YOU WANT TO TALK TO THEM...CLICK HERE TO ESTABLISH CLEAR INTENT

[horsegirlslove]

x

[mewcharm]

arthritis

[koiagain]

anxiety disorder more like Ummmm more like stupid fcuking scared disorder

[sexchangedotcom]

disco elysium is a game that makes you feel bad for hours on end and you absolutely should play it during a transitional period of your life and when you have a lot of other problems you arent dealing with. advice from me

[wizardlyghost]

the best time to read shit like this is at a moment when it feels way too applicable to your real life circumstances

[homunculus-argument]

A free-range group therapy called "get herded, idiot", where you and everyone in your group is set loose to run around on an open field while a highly trained shepherd dog tries to keep you all in one group. I am not sure what benefit this would have for anyone involved.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This would fix everyone involved including the dog

[down-sizing-redux]

Peer reviewed tags from @heliotropist

[pachatata-deactivated20180510]

Musicians of Bahia, 1940, Brazil Lorenzo Turner Collection, Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC.

[transgender-dumpster-princess]

For me a big part of “sex work is work” is that sex work should be socially viewed as totally legitimate work. I should be able to put sex work on my resume. I should be able to lean on the skills and knowledge I gain in this field and have that experience be respected. Right now I have a gap in my resume. But I’m also consistently doing advertising, social media management, inventory, merchandising, customer service, upselling!!! I’m working self directed, I’m solely responsible for every aspect of my business. I deserve respect, fuck.

[frontmansdefender]

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[psychotic-gerard]

love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.

[roguebombshell]

I remember when I was about 12, I watched a show on TLC that followed people as they got somewhat uncommon medical procedures.

There was one episode with a trans woman getting different gender-affirming operations, including breast implants. It showed the procedure, and (what I found so fascinating that it's stuck with me for decades), as soon as the doctor put the implant in, a censor blur popped up on the nipple.

And you just know there was a meeting between the TLC lawyers and the editors and producers of the show to discuss what the difference was between a "man nipple" (can be shown) and a "woman nipple" (no no must obscure, 'tis naughty). And they decided that as soon as the implant goes in and the nipple has more mass behind it, that's the moment when it becomes a woman's nipple and must be hidden to comply with TV rules.

But it's the same nipple. On the same person. I know what it looks like; I just saw it. But TV and obscenity rules are rules, and the rules say woman nipple = sexual and therefore explicit, but man nipple = neutral, just fine.

"Free the Nipple" was calling out arbitrary bullshit like that, because someone just existing with their body parts should not be considered obscene, and the double standard that men can be topless but women can't is so blatantly ridiculous. All nipples are just nipples. If you get turned on or bothered by them, that's on you.

[100prcntbitter]

Sketch comm for @frailgun , thanks for donating!

[folly-of-alexandria]

Today a random clip of a F1nn5ter Q&A stream found its way into my feed.

Someone asked F1nn why it was that on her larger branded social media accounts she still listed herself as a femboy in some places while in more intracommunity spaces she more readily and comfortably identified as transfem.

Now, depending on who you ask that kind of question to you'll probably get a meandering answer on the complexities of how one defines their own identity. But instead F1nn gave a very quick and simple answer.

She gets less death threats or other general threats of violence from people when she calls herself a femboy vs calling herself transfem. It wasn't any deeper than that, and some people in her audience understood that, while others were confused that femboys were more palatable to cis people than transfems.

[folly-of-alexandria]

Another Clip of F1nn made its way across my feed today, she mentioned a little bit more on the difference on being known as a Transfem streamer vs her old Femboy days.

"As soon as I came out as trans, it felt like everyone was an asshole and I had to adapt to it again...I don't know, people just don't like it if you're not [just] some funny guy."

[folly-of-alexandria]

1. Being Genderfluid is not mutually exclusive to being transfem.

2. F1nn explicitly stated both she/her and he/him pronouns with no preference for either. She has even expressed annoyance towards people actively discouraging others from using She/her.

[northca4]

Thank you for the correction! 🫶

[this-is-trans-joy]

i am fighting for a future where i become a beautiful fat man .. that’s it!!

This is trans joy!!!

[kai0shi]

«I will be crushed into dust by the truth, while she will be the star shining above it»

[brewinglilies]

Eternal sugar cookie