Assigned Bastard At Birth

Riley, 23, they/them, +18, prone to whims and thoughts

[bettercallalex]

[spidersinmysoup]

Spiritually my spirit is always smoking a cigarette but physically i am.not because hashatg smoking kills

[amikoroyaiart]

So rain down on me

[saltoncity]

girl is that a knife in your hand or are you jerking off your sharp detachable penis in my stomach

[raylangivins]

has everyone seen the website that gives you a rothko for your local weather?

[evilios]

Honestly it does feel like it.

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

2003

[halondrus]

Walking into my 9 hour shift and hearing "2 people quit yesterday"

[halondrus]

[drtrinitysantos]

sdxfcgvzdxfcgvhzdxfcgvhbjnkmlcgvhbjnk science

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)

[orcaking]

Wishing you all a get more hairy and naked summer <3

(available as a sticker on patreon through june 2026)

[ppups]

[gogumagirl]

[hisiheyah]

As the leaves on the trees change with the seasons, so do the feathers of the wood-cranes...

[tenorgender]

god didn't give me a dick because he knew I'd get hard when I heard a rich choral harmony

[leidensygdom]

me of late

[clonerightsagenda]

I've been assigned a post-apocalyptic novel to review and I'm bored because they didn't come up with a sufficiently interesting gimmick to distinguish it from all the other post-apocalyptic novels but it's reminding me of how I struggle with something this genre seems to take as gospel, which is the self-evident importance and centrality of babies.

Two characters living alone ended up taking care of a pair of babies, and there have been several comments about how "the babies are the priority", "save the babies", "we knew what was most important" and I guess I don't see the logic, or rather, I know it's not logical - it's emotional and also symbolic. On one hand yes, I believe that a central role of society is to take care of the vulnerable; that is a cornerstone of my politics. However, in a day to day survival scenario where you need to save either an adult or a baby, I don't think you should automatically pick the baby Just Because. It seems reasonable to save the adult, because you need their experience and pair of hands. You can always make more babies if you need to. Making an adult takes a lot more time. But babies tend to attain this exalted, near-religious status in these kinds of stories.

IDK, it would be interesting to see a post-apocalyptic setting where a contraception/abortion provider is a valued member of the community because resources are limited and pregnancy and childbirth are even more dangerous without hospitals, instead of people always popping out symbolic babies named Hope and shit.

[antiqueanimals]

Pintail Pursuit at Sunrise. Peter Markham Scott (1909-1989). Oil on canvas. Dated 1987.

[viralfrog]