the stars are the same as ever

i have crossed the face of the universe, i poison it to match my grief 27 - she/her - nonbinary butch lesbian 🏳️‍⚧️

[thisaintasceneitsfob]

[aggot]

billions of dollars and untold environmental damage for this groundbreaking technology

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[anthonycolonthree]

(guy who's not getting anything done voice) I need to learn every skill and all information

[loveridden1999]

what if it all worked out in my favour

[redstonedust]

some people like to get mad at disability benefits because they think its unfair people who dont work get a payout from the government while they have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week. but if you tell them "yeah that sucks i think you should also get a universal allowance and not have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week" thats apparently the wrong answer.

[nepenthean-sleep]

sometimes i see an article or something and i'm like should i drop my hottest take of all time. because this is crazy

[nepenthean-sleep]

ok this is my hot take. ffs is misogynistic, and honestly kind of a pinnacle of transmisogyny and eugenics in my opinion. trans men aren't being told they need to have their whole face surgically altered in order to be "men" enough. trans women have the goalposts for their femininity set so far out that they're being asked to spend tens of thousands of dollars on their face as part of gender affirming care. this is legitimately crazy to me and honestly downright cruel. blood coming out of my eyes like the mary oliver poem "you do not have to get ffs. you do not have to break all the bones in your face to satisfy white supremacist misogynistic beauty standards. you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves (LOVE YOURSELF)" etc etc and yes i know WHY some trans women pursue ffs and i'm not shaming anyone who wants to get it or has gotten it. it's just such an insane double standard to me, especially when so many pictures of pre- or no-ffs trans women look exactly like any random cis woman to me. your face is already feminine!! it came free with your womanhood!!

[nepenthean-sleep]

sometimes i see an article or something and i'm like should i drop my hottest take of all time. because this is crazy

[shadeslayer]

every now n then i think about how native americans as human beings just dont exist in like 99% of mainstream media. in movies or tv shows or books or video games or you know even in porn like we just arent people. when theres a native character theyre like a wild west indian. like truly to ppl we all died back in the 1900s.

[dayeadomingo]

We were so enthralled by this leaf on our walk back from dinner last night

[shesgaymarcus]

yet again wondering when the p-dub will get more butch

[regainingparadise]

The wide variety of comments on the engagement announcement

[hyenaswine]

you can just say "person with ovaries." "an AFAB" makes literally no sense here, in addition to being grammatically nonsensical. sorry but this bleet has been pissing me off all day but i feel like if i reply to it i'll get it trouble.

[hyenaswine]

a trans man who hasn't had any ovaries for 25 years isn't going to experience perimenopause in his mid-40s, so why include him based on a gender assigned to him as a baby? like... he was a baby.

[hyenaswine]

like why bother acting like you want to be trans-inclusive if you're too lazy to recognize that sometimes, trans bodies aren't going to be the same as they were at birth when they got handed their baby gender

[t4tcommunistbimbo]

cis lesbians be like: yes, trans men can be lesbians because they have a special afab girly girl female connection to womanhood. and “transwomen” can be lesbians because anyone can be anything i guess. i am a respected ally of the trans community.

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

every conversation on here increasingly feeling like this tweet

[guacamoolie]

Speaking purely from a cultural fit standpoint and factoring in fanbase enthusiasm. I can’t help but think that if there was a PWHL draft do over Seattle would take Edwards instead of Murphy. Maybe even Janecke but it seems like they completely whiffed on that. The fans don’t seem excited about her at all and with good reason. Just have to think that Edwards is a better fit and replacement for Knight than Murphy is. Which Murphy is a good player but that’s not a good fit for Seattle. Laila would’ve had better chemistry with the other rising stars in Seattle as well.

[nepenthean-sleep]

i genuinely believe seattle would have taken edwards if turner wasn't the GM. turner has a vision for the torrent and it's a "punishing" team, which doesn't seem to be the culture or direction that the team created in the 2025-26 season. i think turner is probably a lot of the reason why so many players left, and her choices are just bizarre to me. like, i genuinely cannot fathom protecting anna wilgren (no offense to her) over hilary knight.

[neurodivergentaf]

it's so wild when your parent changes when you become an adult. my dad is very cordial and non confrontational - he regularly helps me with adult stuff like changing the oil or providing insurance tips. he's always smiling when i call him on video and providing jokes when i complain about college

when i was a kid, i would have to tiptoe around his anger issues often, sometimes running quietly past his work table until he got his own place completely separate from our family, locked away for days. every so often he would start screaming in the car and trying to hit me or my brother for talking too loud while my mom attempted to calm him down as he swerved on the road. and now he, smiling, helps me with car insurance.

like oh, this is just who you are when you have power over someone, and this is who you are when you dont have power over someone. no wonder you can have a normal life, friends, work while scaring the shit out of your kids and wife. i see it now. i see why no one would have believed me. that, i think, is one of the core fears of trauma - seeing the outside of it from the perspective of other adults that brushed you aside, and understanding. of course, that understanding gives the opposite of solace; it just gives you more grief with nowhere for it to go