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How can I help you today? Em, They/Them. Proud mother of @crazyzombiecat. Full time writer's block, professionally deceased.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

i am having way too much fun with this

he sticky the leg out real far. big steppy

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wheeeeeeeeee

[arrow-ettes]

how it's feeling rn

[vykodlak]

When god closes a door I shove my sword through the gap at the bottom and swipe at his ankles

[genderoutlaws]

The Trump Administration Admits to Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons

The Trump administration admits to testing conversion therapy on trans prisoners and implies its policy of forcibly detransitioning trans me

i know hardly anyone reads articles when i share them so to highlight some key parts here:

"under [this policy], the ~2,200 trans people in federal custody will be medically and socially detransitioned against their will, all in the name of helping them “recover” from gender dysphoria."

"...the third study in this category attempts to compare trans women who undergo gender-affirming surgery to those with an entirely unrelated medical condition known as ‘adult acquired buried penis.’ Equating these two is an entirely medically inaccurate and hateful rhetorical decision, and it’s telling of the manner in which the Trump administration is trying to frame trans people’s bodies.

Meanwhile, the fourth study analyzes fertility in 18 trans men who paused their hormone therapy in order to have children, and it constitutes the only fertility study the BOP admits to have reviewed. As if that wasn’t alarming enough, this specific study doesn’t evaluate if trans men can carry children after going off testosterone; it actually evaluates when. Given the fact that the BOP has no legitimate reason to concern itself with fertility, this implies that the Trump administration—at least in part—created the prison policy out of a desire to find out how soon the forcibly detransitioned trans men in its custody will be able to carry children.

Finally, perhaps the greatest confession is provided by the last two sources. The first of these is a medical article providing commentary on a study—a study that was not reviewed during the creation of this policy—of trans patients at Kaiser Permanente clinics, and in its words, its sole purpose is to “describe methods of cohort ascertainment and data collection and to characterise the study population.” Put differently, it communicates two things: how to single out trans people through health information and what data a study on trans people should collect."

"So far, the judge overseeing the ACLU’s lawsuit against this policy, Reagan appointee Royce Lamberth, has been surprisingly sympathetic towards the plaintiffs and, as a result, has blocked it from being enforced for the ~800 that have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. However, if the Bureau of Prisons’ policy is eventually allowed to stand by the Supreme Court, it will undoubtedly lead to tremendous suffering among the trans people in federal custody."

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m still listening to that biography of Julius Ceasar by Adrian Goldsworthy. It’s super long.

Anyways a huge mostly unglamorous time of Caesar’s life was spent fighting in Gaul and also getting his ass kicked by the English channel. He was very bad at learning his lessons when it came to the English Channel.

You read about the gaulic wars though and all of the major characters are involved somehow. Cicero, Marc Antony, Brutus, Pompey. It’s a who’s who of late Republican political drama smacking some celts around and getting their asses beat by the English Channel.

[ohholydyke]

[many-sparrows]

Put your sword back in its place, for all who live by the sword with die by the sword

[twoblogger]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[twoblogger]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh

[abyssaldyke]

It's spring now which means the kids in my city have started drawing hopscotches on the sidewalk and as a rule I do every hopscotch I see because 1. Use it or lose it (ability to scotch) and 2. If a child got down on the hardscrabble streets of Boston Massachusetts to draw a scotch the least I can do is use it, but in doing the hopscotches, I've learned that about 50% of them are the typical 8-10 step scotch and the other 50% are. Somewhat avant-garde. And of course I'm not vetting the entire scotch before I start it so sometimes it's like haha 8 steps woo! Childlike whimsy! And sometimes they're 20 steps or 30 or they've got a section with three squares instead of two where you have to do a little Charleston to step on all three, or, memorably, FORTY one foot squares. A full BLOCK of jumping on one foot but I'm no quitter so once I've started Jigsaw Junior's fuckin hopscotch gauntlet I'm there til the end just a daily pot smoker in her thirties jumping kasa-obake style through an affluent suburb while some little proto-kennedy watches from his bedroom window rubbing his sadistic little third grade hands together and cackling. It's amazing. I love spring.

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[phantomrose96]

Gosh I’d love to give it a try. It’s just so hard to find the time with all the *describes a daily schedule that is 65% dilly-dallying*

[what-even-is-thiss]

I can make Tangled (2011) about being queer if I want to.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I am not immune to the cutting of hair being a symbolic representation of both freedom of the new life and death of the old life.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Whoops it was 2010

[what-even-is-thiss]

Somebody asked for elaboration so

Immediately discovering that the way that other people live isn’t as dangerous as an abusive parent says it is

The male lead spends a lot of his time and energy pretending to be something he’s not to try to find a niche in life but really becomes happy only after dropping his macho lady killer facade

The first place Rapunzel finds help and gentleness in the outside world is in a bar full of people that are viewed as dangerous by society, including disabled people, conventionally unattractive people, and people who dress in odd costumes

The cutting of Rapunzel’s hair both literally and metaphorically kills her controlling parental figure. Sometimes to truly be free and be yourself you need to fully cut a controlling parent out of your life and it can feel like a death of sorts.

As a closeted blonde transmasc child who was constantly discouraged from cutting my hair for the benefit of others who liked looking at it I was of course totally normal about the hair cutting scene when I saw that in theatres

[aurelia-dobre]

According to your logic it's ok to hope that the best team does not win because you personally dislike them for no reason! ok sure!

Yes, this is literally how being a fan of any sport ever works

[shitty-check-please-aus]

I've been seeing some absolutely wild "if you liked Project Hail Mary, read this!" recommendations recently. PHM is a very specific flavor of scifi, with a very specific tone, and I don't think recommending any book with a spaceship in it, or any book where first contact with aliens occurs, is a useful recommendation.

[shitty-check-please-aus]

To me the "if you like X read Y" format often fails because it fails to consider that individual readers like different books for different readers. I think the doorways framework is helpful in acknowledging these different dimensions.

For me as a reader, I have certain priorities and things that I liked in PHM.

I like that it's a story about sacrifice and love and teamwork.

I like that it's a story about hope in the face of terrifying adversity.

I like that it's a story about two people learning to understand each other and working together to save the universe.

I like that it's a story about two people brought together to solve a common problem, backed by millions of other people across the galaxy also trying to help (after all, one person, even a brilliant engineer like Rocky, cannot build a spaceship alone).

I like that even though the two main characters are basically platonic soulmates, they live in fundamentally incompatible worlds.

I like that it's a story about problem-solving, specifically scientific problem-solving that explains the science in a way that's understandable to me as a non-scientist.

I do like thinking about the logistics of long-term interspace travel.

I like that there's a ruthlessly efficient German lady making shit happen.

I like that Weir's writing is pretty solidly a 21st century style (I've read so much 20th century and earlier science fiction, I'm not trying to say that it's bad in any way, but if I'm looking for a readalike, the writing style is extremely important to consider for me).

I like how it's a story about first contact that is full of love and cooperation and sharing.

If you recommend me just any book set in space, or any first contact book, you're giving me a useless recommendation because those are some of the least interesting aspects of the story to me. For me, it would make just as little sense as a recommendation as if someone said "here, read this book after PHM because it also features a middle school teacher." I might like some of these other books that are being recommended, but because I like them for fundamentally different reasons, I just don't think it works as a "read this after that" kind of recommendation.

(I have read so many science fiction books, I wrote my undergrad thesis on science fiction books, please nobody interpret this as me not understanding or liking science fiction books)

[girlvasectomy]

[siorca]

this is so fucking funny I love sharks

[carby]

Roses are red, my favorite season is fall,