Beneath the Boughs

She/Her/30 Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written! (Est. 2012) Chronically Ill, Bisexual, Ex-military Environmentalist, Witch and Editor Side Blog for Editing: SilverOak Editing

[oakenroots]

My 16 year old nibling is transing their gender and trying to see where they fit (their pronouns are they/he/she at the moment) and they asked me to buy them men's clothes and a binder and I'm so excited for them.

Except I am very poor and can't afford to get them the nice stuff and I'm too far away to just take them thrift shopping and they have no adults who are supportive of their love of girls and queerness and I'm trying so hard not to let myself get sad at feeling like I'm failing them since their mom committed suicide and their dad is a homophobe and bigot. They're currently IDing as GNC but have privately disclosed that they're pretty sure they're trans they're just scared of losing what little family they have left.

I am terrified of losing them to suicide like we lost their mother and I desperately want them to be able to express themselves without feeling imprisoned by their gender so please consider sharing this so I can try to scrape together the bare minimum funds for them.

Now accepting donations at $IngaLRClark and Paypal: [email protected]

100% of the proceeds will go towards helping them trans their gender!

[oakenroots]

My 16 year old nibling is transing their gender and trying to see where they fit (their pronouns are they/he/she at the moment) and they asked me to buy them men's clothes and a binder and I'm so excited for them.

Except I am very poor and can't afford to get them the nice stuff and I'm too far away to just take them thrift shopping and they have no adults who are supportive of their love of girls and queerness and I'm trying so hard not to let myself get sad at feeling like I'm failing them since their mom committed suicide and their dad is a homophobe and bigot. They're currently IDing as GNC but have privately disclosed that they're pretty sure they're trans they're just scared of losing what little family they have left.

I am terrified of losing them to suicide like we lost their mother and I desperately want them to be able to express themselves without feeling imprisoned by their gender so please consider sharing this so I can try to scrape together the bare minimum funds for them.

Now accepting donations at $IngaLRClark and Paypal: [email protected]

100% of the proceeds will go towards helping them trans their gender!

[dwcmarshalarts]

"Some catch, that catch-22..."

Fox Yossarian drawn by yours truly

[faustandfurious]

One advantage of not really having a strong sense of gender identity is that you’re very [shrug emoji] about how people gender you. Sometimes people call me by she/her pronouns and sometimes they go with he/him pronouns and on the internet people often default to they/them, and neither option is entirely right but also, fuck if I know what would be right, and I don’t particularly care. Therefore I’m perfectly happy to outsource my gender identity to the people around me who actually need to figure out which box to put me in. I don’t need to talk about myself in third person, so really my pronouns sound like a you problem.

[faustandfurious]

My pronouns are I/me and the rest is for someone else to deal with because I have better things to do.

[faustandfurious]

Very fond of macrolabels, like “queer”, that provide zero extra information. Is it genderqueer? Is it romantic/sexual orientation queer? Is it queer as in “none of your fucking business what’s in my pants and what I do with it and with whom”?

[randomslasher]

This is actually probably the first time I’ve ever read something that accurately describes my relationship with gender--ie, ‘my gender is me and my pronouns are a you problem’--so thank you for that!

[ober-affen-geil]

#you cannot gender me in a way that matters

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

[lakevida]

[thequeeninyellowlace]

[batsandboba]

tried to make simple syrup for the first time accidentally boiled it too long and now i have some kind of brown taffy

[batsandboba]

OH. yeah i made caramel

[jewish-rock]

it should be socially acceptable to wear whatever type of clothes you want anywhere and i am not kidding

[jewish-rock]

dress is an indicator of status that poor people, people of color, disabled people, some religious people, and women consistently fail to meet due to social prejudice or barriers to acquiring the appropriate clothing

[jewish-rock]

obviously there are scenarios where specific clothing is required (like PPE at a job site)

but a person coming to an office job in sweatpants doesn't make them less qualified to do their work, it just means they're more comfortable while doing it

[jewish-rock]

"you're required to wear a face shield, an apron/coat, and closed toed shoes in this lab environment for your safety" awesome perfect, i love safety, and i can wear whatever i want under it.

"you're required to wear a suit to present your lab work" i do not become less intelligent wearing non-formal clothing, and this presentation has now become inaccessible to someone who cannot wear appropriate formal dress

[jewish-rock]

I FORGOT FAT PEOPLE IN MY ORIGINAL REBLOG, DONT REBLOG WITHOUT INCLUDING FAT PEOPLE

[ismisesionnachan]

All this plus Indigenous people worldwide whose traditional clothing/accessories/body art gets excluded from definitions of 'professional attire' as part of the systemic attacks on us expressing our culture in public.

[seraphrain]

nobody coughs up blood dramatically into their handkerchiefs anymore

[transmechanicus]

Tuberculosis vaccines - Wikipedia

[oakenroots]

"phone battery critically low"

Goodbye cruel world! I will be free of the brain rot soon!

[shaydh]

"why did you write that"

my fetish

my friend's fetish

not my fetish but it fits in the story so i threw it in there as a treat. you're welcome.

[shaydh]

"why is THAT your fetish"

idk i was probably scared of it so i decided to get horny about it instead. to deal with my fear. fuck off.

[vulcanette-deactivated20260506]

absolutely could not live with myself if i did not share this with all of you:

[ospreyonthemoon]

The chewerrrrrrs

[pizzafelony]

nothing has fucked me up more than knowing the australian white ibis has a near-identical sister species called the african sacred ibis. the african sacred ibis is associated with thoth, ancient god of wisdom and reason. the australian white ibis is most commonly referred to as a “bin chicken”.

[triangleofdog]

And how to dress like a bin chicken….

[katebeckets]

"it's a tv show" "it's not real" i don't care. NO SHOES ON THE BED

[katebeckets]

okay if this breaks containment I think my asian grandparents would be proud of this post being my legacy. but for their sake i must clarify my personal stance. NO SHOES IN THE HOUSE AT ALL

[queer-as-city-folk]

Anti-city people are just plain fascinating to me

[fractally]

There's quite literally a grocery store two doors down from me. A round trip for milk takes less than 10.

[bookwalmartav]

Same. I have distinct memories of being sent to the store 3 times in a row to buy single ingredients my mom hadnt realize we needed until she needed them. I just need to cross the street.

[dgilse]

Goodreads reviews are a sort of inoculation against the notion that reading is a particularly more thoughtful means of engaging with shit vs like, watching or playing or whatever.

[filmphotofranz]

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