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Hello!

New blog!

My name is Myth, I’m 23 years old and I like to draw cats. I go by any pronouns and I’m nonbinary!

My current interests are animals, my OCs, Madness Combat, Guilty Gear, Kirby, Pokemon, Strong Hearts are Mandatory, Petz (the P.F. Magic ones), stuffed animals, and others!

I’m also interested in self shipping and specific characters I like, I’ll keep everything tagged but there’s a forewarning on that lol.

#Myth's rambles #hello

softlyfiercely

i love how weird kids are. they make up the most bizarre stuff when left to their own devices and it's never what an adult would naively predict a kid would do in their imaginative play

my friend's 5 year old recently got a toy veterinary medicine set - it's super cool, like one of those mini play kitchens a lot of kids have, but it's set up to pretend to be a vet (it's this thing) - it has stuffed animals and things to weigh them, give them medicine, take x-rays, write on their charts, etc.

so this kid, who is five and to my knowledge has no experience in the administrative bureaucracy of modern healthcare, puts a stuffed pig named Piggy on the exam table. she pretends to draw blood from Piggy using a fake syringe, and the blood goes into a toy test tube vial that she calls "the resulter"

i'm playing with her, right, so i'm like, awesome, what are the results of Piggy's blood test? and she says "we have to send it to the scientists." so we send the vial to the scientists (put it in her bedroom) and when we get back to the vet playset i'm like awesome what did the scientists say? and she says they have not gotten back to us yet

so she rolls her eyes, exasperated, and says we have to call the scientists. she pretends to call them. apparently, they tell her that Piggy's blood test is "at the bottom of the list" and "we have to WAIT." she frowns. we wait a bit longer and call them back. they tell us it will be a while! she says we should go ask the scientists in person so we go back to her bedroom and she inquires at this imaginary lab, at which point the scientists yell at her and tell her now they will make us wait even longer!

keep in mind she is 100% directing this play. she is making all this up. she is fully in control of this game, and she has decided that what we are going to pretend is that we are dealing with this exhausting nonsense, not actually treating Piggy.

finally the blood tests come back. they are inconclusive. the scientists do not know what is wrong with Piggy. the little girl walks back to the stuffed pig on the exam table, sighs deeply, and says in a very serious voice "we can never help you."

i'm obsessed with this kid. when given complete control over a make believe scenario, instead of becoming the heroic rescuer administering effective cures, she is instead a beleaguered vet making multiple calls to an overworked lab only to be left unable to help her patient.

10/10 no notes. kids are amazing

derinthescarletpescatarian

I used to watch a toddler and this one time she decided that my arm stretched across a doorway was a magic portal to other lands. My arm was a boom gate type of thing that had to raise up to let her go through the portal. I was like, cool, we're gonna go on adventures in some imaginary world full of stuff she likes.

Nope, she spent an hour troubleshooting and repairing the gate, which was broken in multiple ways. We never activated it.

#fave

victusinveritas

God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?

in-the-wrong-direction

NGL, USA getting stoked for the rest of the world experiencing 'murica doesn't excite me. We've got 'murica at home. They've been exporting it for years. (Edinburgh was full of wannabe Scottish cowboys last weekend because someone called Zach Bryan was playing Murrayfield.)

However! I love the idea of the rest of the world happening to the USA. Case in point:

A Bostonian friend even shared that the governor of Massachusetts said something like, "I think I may need to call up to Maine or New Hampshire for more alcohol."

And that was before Scotland won their opening game. 🤣

thatstormygeek

The point is, you don't have 'murica at home. We've been telling people that whatever version of the US you think you have at home is not actually the US because it's not actually the US.

The response has been "nah. we really do know your country better than you do despite never setting foot in it."

Folks being excited about the rest of the world seeing "America" aren't necessarily "yay export US culture and values," but rather "yay! people will finally see that we aren't just a bunch of shallow stereotypes as depicted in the media we also have no control over the content of."

juney-blues

*makes no effort to include self* what the fuuuuuck why do i feel so left out

juney-blues

*makes great, unseen efforts, that ultimately result in nothing because my brain is broken and outwardly look like no effort was made at all* fuuuuuuck fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

monstroso

been really enjoying pretending not to know what pokemon are when i sell the tcg packs to gambling-addicted chuds. they ask me for a tin from behind the counter and i say "which one? the ghost or the tiger?" i called Zygarde a 'green doggy :)' and the guy's face got really red

#fave #pokemon

It’s important to know that hijab is banned in schools in most of the european countries, such as france, belgium, switzerland etc. Millions of girls have to take their hijab off everyday in order to have access to education, and I am one of them. Please spread this as much as possible, it has become so normal here that I feel like a fool for even mentioning it, but I’m pretty sure it goes against the human rights. This senseless law has been on since 2004 and pretends that all the students have to be “equal” and it is prohibited to show that you belong to any religion, any religious sign must be set aside. However, most of us have to take our hijab off in schools where you can clearly see a christmas tree or a christian cross. “Yeah but it’s not the same”, they say. Tell me about double standards. I pray for days when we don’t have to chose between religion and education.

13thpythagoras

unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240

This, but don’t read the notes. It’s all just French people and/or Catholics going “I’m totally not racist or antisemitic, it’s just that I think that Xmas, a holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, is secular, whereas a Muslim or Jew wearing a hijab or kippah is somehow forcing their religion on me by existing in public.” LOL

lothloriien

thank you for the warning because i have no energy to deal with islamophobia today, and YES. THIS. ALL OF IT. not to mention that a cross is something you can easily tuck under a shirt if necessary without compromising your values, whereas a muslim woman having to choose between her hijab and education (who will not be faulted for taking it off in the eyes of Allah SWT) absolutely is compromising her values. it’s disgusting

france, switzerland, belgium, quebec: do better. all of you

radiowlet

Hoo boy Okay. i wanna try out taking commissions on vgen (my profile here) and i need to yknow. get an artist code for that so here we go. i figure it's worth a shot

Hi, I'm Radio! i'm a queer furry digital artist (and aspiring fursuit maker but. stillll working on that)! here's some personal art+a couple commissions I've done!

i need 5 comments and 100 likes on this post to apply for an artist code

so uh. yeah! itd be awesome if you could like this post to help! and maybe also reblog it for reach ?

innerchildabortionclinic

crying never registered to me as a manipulation tactic because crying did nothing for me as a kid. here's the thing. I was constantly crying and panicking in every situation so it was never a shock to anyone and at most annoying, especially at school. i'm curious if anyone can relate.

innerchildabortionclinic

feel like people overestimate the sympathy you get in these situations- not to mention it makes you an easier target for bullying

unfortunatelyem

pondwitch

recently generated a dwarf fortress world and went to start an adventurer but the only options were human and elf. confused, i decided to investigate the history of the world through legends mode. i learned that

-dwarves went extinct towards the dawn of time -almost every character was a were-tapir -there was a blind forgotten beast named Gabe -a goblin who lived to be 3 years old was deemed by the game to be one of the most important people in this world’s history -several artifacts were made by a great necromancer who lived before the dawn of time who was also an actual giraffe -did i mention everyone was a fucking were-tapir

homoidiotic

Trans activist Jamison Green's passport photos before and after HRT. Left he's age 32 (1980) Right age 41 (1989) after being on testosterone for one year (x)

(read his autobiography here for free)

homoidiotic

updated the link to his autobiography because it was broken! here's some more pictures of him (first is mid 90s, second 2013 and last 2024)

there's an interview with him from 2017 along with some information about his life and activism. and he was interviewed on a podcast here. he's not super well known but has been a really important trans activist for decades

ramenheim

Emi Koyama has passed. 🥀

genderkoolaid

Extremely sad to see. She was apparently only 51.

Folks, if you don't know who Emi Koyama was, you should. Her website (eminism.org, which is a delightful pun) has a ton of her work entirely for free.

You can read the Transfeminist Manifesto in particular here. Emi considered it a historical document and she wrote a very good self-critique in 2008 (included in the document) on the subject of the Manifesto, white feminism, and the lack of inclusion of trans and genderqueer people who aren't trans women. I highly encourage everyone who wants to involve themselves in transfeminism to read her work, not because it is perfect, but because I do think Emi Koyama's Manifesto represents the best intentions for transfeminism: the desire to challenge cissexism, to take activism seriously and compassionately, and a commitment to being open and honest about where we fall short and how we can do better.

I really appreciate this quote from her, which I hadn't seen before, on the subject of feminism needing to "fit in" trans people:

Cis feminists do not own feminism. We don't need to "fit trans people into feminist theory"; we simply need to challenge cissexism in feminist movements and theories. Trans people do not need to be explained by feminist theory; we need to start from the fact that trans people exist and matter.

And it would be a crime to not mention how hard she fought specifically for women of color, to challenge racism and imperialism (white/western and non-white/non-western) in feminist spaces and in general, as well as her intersex activism, and far more. She had such a drive to contribute to, engage with, and push for more and better feminist discourse.

You will be remembered fondly, Emi Koyama. Thank you for all your work and for all your life.