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make bad art or you will always feel bad about your art. Make bad art until you find joy in the crooked lines and the off colours. Make bad art because art is about expression and artwork is never ugly because it was made by someone who has lived a life no one else will ever live. Make bad art and find love through ugly. Make bad art so you make art at all. Make bad art.
And no I don’t think love ever leaves because it’s been eight years since my dad died and he is in every thought and hope and dream. and when I think I can’t fix the computer he is here. and when I eat chocolate cake he is here. and when the sun glows at 3pm he is here. and he will always be here because his life made mine, and my life will be his epilogue
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i reblogged this in march 2017.....
hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious
gordan ramsey said this on kitchen nightmares and it blew me away so i took a screenshot but amazon prime app censored me and handed me this work of art
i thot this was from evangelion
do you ever just want to sit outside with someone and talk all night
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unfortunately, a lot of the userbase won't opt out. those who don't see this post, those who have posted to tumblr but don't anymore, users on older versions of the app who forget to opt out next time they're on desktop, etc. the point of making it opt-out is to take advantage of people who wouldn't have opted in but don't/can't opt out in time. automatically opting out people who have discouraged search crawling is a gesture that helps Tumblr look more kind, but from the fact that everyone else has to manually opt out, Tumblr is definitely not looking benevolent.
I wonder, will Tumblr/Automattic be selling images from deactivated blogs? I assume deactivated blogs can't opt out.
when will they start selling this data? Is it already too late to keep them from selling every image you've posted before you opted out?
and if they're especially malicious, I wonder if they could get away with saying "this image is from a blog that's opted out, but it was reblogged by a blog that hasn't opted out, so we're selling the image that's on that non-opted-out blog."
making users need to opt out to keep their images from being taken and sold is a shitty move that makes it clear Tumblr/Automattic don't respect our privacy, and @staff are really not giving us much info here to suggest otherwise.
parsnips in june????
Yz the human goose
meteortunes?
Minimum happiness?
Highway single destruction
conservative Batman discourtesy. Hmmm
@faggyv4mpire @bitchboy @doingpushupsindrag have fun hahaha
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unofficial twitter. lmao
everybody ready for the cruellest month? cruellest month tomorrow
you've all forgotten your roots anyway here's bulma waking up surrounded by garbage and then immediately chugging a warm beer she picked up off the floor
I think it's worth noting that she's about 3 months shy of 29 years old in these images
i'm really panicky rn. so panicky. i'm just venting. almost nobody follows me on here anymore so nobody even knows who i am anymore😎😎 lurker mode: ultimate unlocked😎😎
"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level
what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i'm busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box
nuclei don't touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.
you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.
electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.
you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.
arguments that r no longer allowed in the “cAn TrAnS mEn Be LeSbIaNs” debate:
- but what about cis men (if a cis man feels a connection to lesbianism he’s probably not a cis man)
- they’re invalidating themselves (do u think trans men are stupid)
- lesbian is nonmen loving nonmen (literally a tumblr definition from like 2014)
- trans MASCS can but not trans MEN (there is no objective line between man and masc)
- trans men are just trying to invade lesbian spaces!!!!!!!!! (terf)
- why can’t they just identify as straight (relationship dynamic is different with straight women than it is with queer women)
anyway, shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can i just ask why does a trans man choose to identify as a lesbian? like why do you guys feel comfortable (or uncomfortable!) with the label?
I have an answer to this, but I'm at the doctor rn - I'm reblogging this so I don't lose it, and I'll write it up when I'm home
oh hey thank u if u got time I’d love to hear what u think about it 😘
So this is a really complicated question with a very complicated history. I can only speak for myself and others with my same experience, and you should absolutely speak to other transmasc lesbians because they will have other reasons than this. I first want to give you a quote from the book "Butch Is A Noun," By S Bear Bergman. This is by far my favorite book dealing with gender, and quite possibly my favorite book of all time, and it is something I would highly suggest you read if this is a topic that you want to learn more about. This is from hir essay "I Know What Butch Is," and lays the groundwork for just about everything I'm going to say.
"I know what butch is. Butches are not beginner FTMs, except that sometimes they are, but it’s not a continuum except when it is. Butch is not a trans identity unless the butch in questions says it is, in which case it is, unless the tranny in question says it isn’t, in which case it’s not. There is no such thing as butch flight, no matter what the femmes or elders say, unless saying that invalidates the opinions of femmes in a sexist fashion or the opinions of elders in an ageist fashion. Or if they’re right. But they are not, because butch and transgender are the same thing with different names, except that butch is not a trans identity, unless it is; see above.
Butches are always tops. They always fuck the girls, and, for that matter, their partners are always girls; there is no such thing as a butch who is attracted to men. Well, transmen, but that’s just butch-on-butch repackaged as faggotry. But no non-trans-men. Unless the butch in question is a non-trans-man, then it’s okay. Except that non-trans-men cannot be butches, because butch is a queering of gender that assigned-male people cannot embody, unless they occasionally can, in which case they have to be gay men. Or the partners of femmes. Or not. But no one with an assigned- female body can be a butch and do it with assigned-male men. Unless they’re femmes. Or butches. I’m really putting my foot down on this one."
I hope that's clear and concise!
In all seriousness, though, this passage is so integral to understanding lesbians who are also trans men. For as long as butches have existed, there have been transmasc butches - some binary, some not - and transbutch individuals (like myself) that may or may not consider themselves transmasc. Butchness is so intrinsically tied to queer masculinity that expecting there to be a clean cut line between trans men and butches is ludicrous. There really is not that big of a difference between a straight binary trans man and a cis butch lesbian, in the eyes of society and in their legal needs, so when you get into the weeds of trans butches (of ANY flavor), things get even more messy.
Now, not all butches consider themselves lesbians, and not all transmasc lesbians consider themselves butches, for all manner of reasons, but we are siblings in arms. Most transmasc lesbians I know grew up as lesbians, in lesbian community spaces, fighting for lesbian rights. Many of them were butches, and some of them still identify as butch in conjunction with their trans identity. When you grow up with something as a formative part of who you are, the relationships you have, and the network you rely on, changing your gender identity does not mean that you have changed how those formative things built you into yourself. Me changing my gender does not mean that my previous relationships are void, or my network no longer wants me, contrary to what the popularization of lesbian separatism and radfem rhetoric might have you believe. I am transmasc, and I am in a women's chorus. I fight for feminist causes, and go to pride flying my butch flag. All of these things have not changed with my transition, because they are a part of me.
This belief that there are hard and fast lines between identities is not a widespread one outside of the internet. I have old queer friends in their 60s whom I'm unsure are trans or queens (or both!), and it's not really relevant when we're hanging out. I have old butch ladies in my chorus that are the only people I don't mind calling me "she", and I know a gay man who is deeply in love with his wife. Queerness is a vibrant spectrum, and the people who have told you otherwise are doing a disservice to you and to every queer person on the planet. It's messy, and wild, and the chaos is what makes it so alive. It's how you end up with people like me - a bigender transbutch lesbian, in a poly relationship with one cis man I've been with for nine and a half years (long before I even knew I was trans) and one nonbinary man I've been with for five (hello @doki-deku !). I'm a fucking mess of identity and labels because my labels are there to serve me, not anyone else. They are tools to communicate who and what I am to others. There is no word for what exactly I am other than queer, and I love that! It's why the word is so important to me! But when I'm talking about my space in the lesbian community, I am going to use the word lesbian because I am one. What other people have to say about that is none of my business.
I really hope you do talk to other people about this, and please please please read Butch Is A Noun. The book is spectacular, and is much more eloquent than anything I could write on the subject. Bear is a phenomenal writer and educator, and you'll love hir book. Hope this was a good step into the soup, and I hope you have a lovely day.
If I may add a second book rec here: Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam is a wonderful deep dive into the history of lesbians, butch, and trans men and all the ways they overlap.
it's such a bummer that losing control of your emotions only makes the entire situation worse in really embarrassing personal ways. losing control of my emotions should give me pyrokinesis.
Okay, I know I acted silly about this, but the fact that there is 1 singular year round roller skating rink in the city of Philadelphia home to 1.6 million people is kinda fucking horrifying when you think about the broader implications of it.
We live in a society without access to third places and those that existed in the past are dying or dead. There aren't cafes on the corner anymore, they are illegal to open with current US zoning laws, there aren't cheap movie theaters anymore, skating rinks are dying out, community centers have been getting shut down or under funded for decades, apart from parks and libraries there are literally no places that people can exist in withoutbeing expected to spend money.
How does a society function without leisure, is not pleasure and happiness what we live for and yet in the capitalistic system, we have destroyed every option people have for recreation without spending because we as a society place profit above all else, and that is tearing away at the societal fabric as we can barely deal with it.
The current loneliness epidemic is a direct result of how we have taken away places for people to exist and replaced them with places to spend money at, you don't try to meet new people while shopping for clothes or furniture, you avoid others. We complain children and teens don't go outside but we have totally removed every single thing for them to do that isn't digital
Libraries remain, go hang out at them.
how does tumblr even work do you just like talk to yourself until people are like "i like this one"
this is actually exactly how it works
lmao
It's unfortunate how so many people are far more outraged at the imperialist murders committed with bullets and bombs than the millions upon millions more committed with poverty; the countless people consigned to miserable lives and early deaths through malnutrition, disease and pollution.
Like by their nature Imperialist militaries are brutal institutions, with a structural tendencies to committing atrocities that are considered excessive and criminal even by their own standards, and it's definitely important to notice these acts and condemn them for it. But all that is ultimately beside the point. We could live in a world where say the IDF is the most disciplined and merciful military on the planet, not even touching a hair on the head of any civilian as they neutralise enemy combatants with surgical precision, stopping only to give out lollipops to school children and help old ladies cross the road. They are still ultimately fighting to maintain a cruel and exploitative system that condemns the oppressed peoples to a slow and painful death, every day representing another invisible massacre. The wars that the US and their associates bring upon the world are truly hideous things, but their version of peace is far worse.
And I do think this is important to keep in mind because a lot of people discuss conflicts in terms of "which side did the most bad things" without any regard for the surrounding context. Like it is incredibly stupid to equate the actions of fighting to free themselves from oppression to those fighting to maintain said oppression. Imperialist media does love to fabricate atrocities in order to discredit revolutionaries, but the thing is that in the chaos and desperation of war even best intentioned forces can and do commit mistakes and excesses. Now these events shouldn't be celebrated but at the same time you can't use them to condemn the entire movement.
Like being generous I'd say that least 90% of the supposed "Hamas Atrocities" you hear about are complete bullshit*, but even if any of it was true these isolated incidents do not change the overall nature of the war. To put it bluntly; I don't care how many Settler babies get chopped up by Hamas because every day of "peace" kills far more Palestinian babies through poverty. There is a fundamental difference between the desperation of the oppressed and the sadism of the oppressor
*and mostly stuff that in fact Israel was/is doing to Palestinians anyway
Like even more than 200 years later you still see people demonising the Haitian Revolutionaries, accusing them of being just as bad (if not worse) than the French through their supposed act of Genocide against the Whites on Saint-Domingue. And not only is this an inaccurate way to characterise it as numerous groups of Europeans were intentionally spared from the mass killings of 1804 (like the German Settlers who had taken no part in the Slave Plantation Economy or the Polish Soldiers that defected from the French military and actively helped to dismantle it), but such killings were clearly a lesser evil compared to what came before. The most generous estimates of the 1804 massacres puts the death toll at 5,000; the most conservative estimates of slaves killed from overwork and mistreatment by the French is 500,000. Around half of all Africans brought to Saint-Domingue died within 3-5 years; it was more profitable to work slaves to death and buy new ones than to grant them a bearable standard of living. This isn't even touching the hundreds of thousands of Haitians who had been murdered (often in a torturous way) by the French military during the War of Independence itself
Like the 1804 massacres were directed against those who had participated in or enforced the exploitation of African slaves, and importantly were very likely to aid any reactionary forces that sought to reimpose it (as had already been attempted). Looking at the hell that they'd been subjected to, you can't blame these newly freed people for doing whatever it took to protect their fragile liberty and avoid the return of such a terrible system. These were acts of self-defence as much as they were acts of revenge, not that you could blame them for the latter anyway.
I am usually very hesitant to give any credit to Trotsky, but he was really onto something when he declared “A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!”
