Pardon my Paradox

Paradox (Perry) 28, nonbinary man, he/they🏳️‍⚧️

[monsterfucker3000]

Okay I'm making a list of media I love bc maybe someone will see it and check one out (I'll be adding more as I think of them)

Book type things:

Saga (Image Comics)

His Dark Materials trilogy and The Book of Dust trilogy (unfinished) by Philip Pullman

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Princess Jellyfish (Manga; Kodansha USA)

Shows/Movies

Common Side Effects (Adult Swim, 2024-)

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension (1984)

Moon (2009)

Adaptation (2002)

Sing Street (2016)

Aeon Flux (MTV, 1991-1995)

Gattaca (1997)

Red Dwarf (BBC, 1988-1999)

Princess Jellyfish (Fuji TV, 2010)

[lesbian-sweeney-todd]

What you must understand is:

1. Men are systematically privileged over women.

2. Men love to take advantage of that privilege while simultaneously denying that it exists.

3. This dynamic does not change when the men and women in question are trans.

[lesbian-sweeney-todd]

Men get very upset when confronted with this!

[lesbian-sweeney-todd]

👍

[cutecipher]

fuuuuck i forgot to give a shit about stupid bullshit that doesnt matter 🤦‍♀️

[nodietedrecovery]

Image ID: three screenshots of social media posts by @thenutritiontea on facebook.

1st image: "When I think about processed foods I think about how I work with families in public health and many kids have food sensory sensitivities and foods that are processed are their safe foods. I think about how parents are so scared because they read hit pieces about processed foods and think they are wrong for figuring out how to feed their child so their child grows and lives. I also think about how I work with kids and get them to try new fresh foods as well that many of them are scared to try."

2nd image: "True story - a parent was almost in tears today because her child has sensory difficulties and cannot eat fresh fruits and vegetables. We tried giving him a piece of banana and he expelled it right away crying (no he's not allergic).

"I want her to know and to remember that she's doing a great job. She's giving him packaged food in order to feed him and nourish him. This is more than okay because we are all individual and food affects us differently."

3rd image: "This is why I talk about packaged and convenience foods so much. We like to demonize them and list the ways they're harmful instead of highlighting how helpful they are to many. If you also have certain circumstances where you rely on convenience foods, I want you to know that's okay."

[zxbuster-advent]

[wtf-is-hockey]

God sometimes I'm writing smut and I'll like, delete a sentence because I'm like, no, I can't write that. It's too indulgent. And then it's like. Girl, what the fuck are you even going to the candy store for if you're just going to buy raisins. Get real.

[pseudospaceship]

"what the fuck are you even going to the candy store for if you're just going to buy raisins" is honestly the thing I needed to hear today

[ddogsunderstandd]

Drunk Mice

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[househunting]

$325,000/3 br/2.5 ba

Gretna, LA

Built in 1920

[draizetrain]

i think when u clean your house it should stay clean forever. what do u mean i have to do it again

[newyorkcitywater]

why is the human body composed of such capricious tubes

[edgar-allan-possum]

Most important topic in conservation and no one's talking about it

[miscling]

this is TNEMM

[miscling]

we were talking about it, like trans girls do, right at the start: 'okay, I'll get on estrogen by the end of the year, I'll have moved out, I'll have a new job' and you roll out a dozen excuses.

and someone has a spare can of estrogel around, and says 'okay we're doing this now. everyone, get her' and five girls pin her down while that someone gets out the can and puts the first dose of gel on the girl and rubs it in.

and sure, she resists, she's supposed to. she's meant to fight it. just long enough to be sure it's real, it's happening, and that she's not getting out of it this time. there's no more excuses. a dozen hands have made sure of that.

and afterwards, laughing and joking about it. how many of us wish that was *our* first time.

lucky girl, right?

[eilrahcs-so-close]

Just to add to this story, I'm sure that girl is very giddy every time she does her get each night remembering that that was the way it started and not only will she never forget it but she hasn't stopped smiling about it for days afterwards

[eilrahcs-so-close]

Some of my favourite reblogs I've seen on here:

(removed usernames from screenshots just for courtesy)

1. Love hearing that others have had this cos god it was fun

2. Seeing myself described as a girl in the image description one did give me a happy squee

3. How dare a series of tags read me so accurately, yes I have thought about it every time I reapply it

Just...aaaaaaaaaaaaaoebfjejidekdogoelwl

[squeakitties]

following weird horny furries who are into shit like pooltoys and transformation and stuff is enrichment. the vitamins and minerals of posting

[squeakitties]

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

once you get over your ass and realise you will never get some people and that’s ok you are basically immune to right wing fearmongering. otherkin? none of my fucking business

[stevishabitat]

[mandate-transgenderism]

I must not fall victim to disgust. Disgust is the heart-killer. Disgust is the little-death that brings total apathy. I will face my disgust. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the disgust has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

[grendelsmilf]

I think the hot new trends for this summer should be reading comprehension and critical thinking skills

[existennialmemes]

I don't think cis men commit 90% of violent crimes because they are naturally more violent than cis women. I think cis men commit 90% of violent crimes because they are afforded more opportunity and leeway by society to do so.

I think there's an incredible correlation between insulating cis boys from the consequences of their actions and the prevalence of violent crime.

I think we teach cis boys from a young age that violence will be tolerated from them as long as they perform masculinity to society's standards.

That second part is the salient factor here. Because we also teach them that violence will not be tolerated from them if they defy society's standards of masculinity, even if it's self defense. If they're picked on for defying those standards, it's the violence against them that's validated.

I think cis boys who are performing masculinity to society's standards get in no real trouble for snapping their classmates' bra straps or pulling their hair or whatever else gets written off as "he likes you" & it sets them up for a life of violence.

It doesn't guarantee it. But it raises the probability that they will continue to express their desires via violence when they're adults.