Jack is Otter

[catchymemes]

[memewhore]

[ihavenohotcocoa]

babe are you okay you reblogged got that fog in me 11 times

[catgirlanarchist]

wait, i did? i don't remember doing that...

[lillyrosaura]

There’s a website where you can learn ASL (American Sign Language) on your own, free and it’s a 31 Day program! The woman on there, her name is Rochelle Barlow, she runs the site and she actually is a homeschool teacher and teaches ASL. I am passing this on to some of you guys cause most of y’all on here is open-minded and curious and it is something important to learn.

I truly believe this site is helpful for some people who can not afford to going to ASL classes, or someone like me that just enjoys learning something new. This site will help with that. Once you sign up you will put in your email address and Rochelle sends you emails on tips on how to sign, gives you practice sheets, and gives you your weekly videos. And its all online. No need to paying for anything. (Unless if you want to she has something very different to this program) 

IMO and yes, this site is really amazing and is important because you never know if someone who is deaf or HOH needs help, if you end up losing your hearing ability this is something you will at least have on the back of your head, and it is just like any other language and should be taught. 

[buzzfeed]

[un-magnificentlivesofadults]

My mom just sent me this picture of my dog…I guess we got a lot of snow, then

[un-magnificentlivesofadults]

update:

[back-that-sass-up]

Great update

[badlydrawneverything]

[respectfulmemes]

[dailyotter]

Otter, You Have Such a Long Tail!

Via iseseaparadise

[foxthebeekeeper]

Tiny unidentified solitary bee/wasp nest on a stalk of flowering lavender. Perfectly round. Perfectly adorable.

[disgustingplants]

I appreciate your devotion to the solitary lifestyle… however with all real estate the most important thing is location location location.

[babyanimalgifs]

why is my pencil talking

[setheverman]

why is your cat full of star wars sound effects

[square-enix]

my dad noticed i was stressed so he 3d printed me a little wooden elephant

[m86-deactivated20171116]

[m86-deactivated20171116]

[aquaristlifeforme]

When you have to eat your cucumber pieces upside down. 🙄

[gillianlesbian]

the best scene in cinematic history

[canisluneslunes]

I have no idea what movie this is, but I am a better person for seeing this scene.

[otterqueer]

Omg @canisluneslunes this is Beetlejuice!! You must see it

[dailyotter]

Otter Is Getting Very Dramatic

Via SeacretBox

[lilbittydragon-deactivated20241]

Gender and pleasure

So much of the Euro-American understanding of being trans (or anything other than 100% constantly identified with your assigned gender) focuses on discomfort. 

Some people take this idea to an extreme and claim you can’t be trans unless you hate your body and want every surgery available to you. As many other writers have said before, that’s not true. It’s perfectly possible to be trans with only mild dysphoria or none at all. It’s perfectly possible to be trans and have a mental map of your body that looks just like the one you already have. 

But I’d like to push even harder against the idea that trans=discomfort. I’d like to offer this: sometimes the exploration of one’s gender can be motivated by pleasure rather than discomfort. 

Let me give an example. Let’s say there’s a person named Cal. Most people think of Cal as a boy, and Cal’s all right with that. So far as Cal’s concerned, a boy isn’t a bad thing to be. But sometimes, Cal likes to imagine being a girl and being treated as a girl. Those fantasies are always accompanied by feelings of pleasure, satisfaction, anticipation, and warmth. Eventually, having had these thoughts for years, Cal asks people to use ‘she’ pronouns in private and to refer to her as a girl. Cal does this for another year before claiming the label “trans”. 

Some people would say a person like Cal can’t be trans because there’s no dysphoria, self-hatred, distress, or even discomfort. There’s just a pleasure-based preference. But why is distress necessary? Why are trans people supposed to be defined solely by our pain and self-hatred?

It’s my opinion that defining trans people solely by discomfort is an aspect of transphobia. The idea behind trans=discomfort is that being anything other than 100% cis is so awful that no one would do it unless the alternative were unlivable. Think about that: defining trans people solely by their experiences of discomfort means believing that being trans is so awful that only misery could drive us to it. And to me, that sounds like the thinking of someone who really hates trans people.

So I’ll come out and say it: sometimes transition or self-exploration of gender is not just about lessening discomfort, but is about improving and deepening the pleasure we take in our lives. 

[psshaw]

“Think about that: defining trans people solely by their experiences of discomfort means believing that being trans is so awful that only misery could drive us to it.”

[yourlgbtfriends]

Alright there’s an ask I don’t really know how to answer in the ask box so just look at this; this is what I, Mod Quinn(blog admin) sticks strongly to. Read it please, its worth the read.

~Mod Quinn

[exigencelost]

Look the princess from princess and the pea had fibromyalgia and that’s just a fact