mystic @portalsminded - Tumblr Blog

For the sake of your mental health, let people think what they want. Their fiction is not your truth.

actually microlabels and xenogenders and weird pronouns are cool as fuck and anyone who says otherwise lacks whimsy in their life send post

kairithemang0-fm

Reblog if you're transmasc, support trans men, or want a chocolate chip cookie

weirdtranssexual

call me crazy but i think public transportation should explicitly also be for actively drunk/high people. so they don’t, you know, drive under the influence.

nineties-effect

morbidblooduse

all femmes deserve to be manhandled by a butch this pride month

reasons-to-not-end-it

REASON TO NOT END IT:

"Outlive Donald trump

Outlive old conservatives

Outlive the people that hurt you

Outlive old traditions that deserve to die"

-anonymous

#662

redwiwo

im kinda tired and rambly rn so maybe this has already been said lmao but one thing ive always loved abt “evol” as the xlov fan name is not only the fact that it’s love backwards but also the fact that evol > short for “evolution” > aka transformation…. you catch my drift

poetry-protest-pornography

XLOV on their concept (and gender in general)

I love them all so, so very much

ashortcuttomushrooms

[Video description: an interview with the members of the group XLOV. The video interpolates the members talking into the microphone and clips from their music videos. Transcript of what the members say (as translated by the subtitles):

Hyun: It came naturally...

Wumuti: Speak up!

Hyun: Yeah, it came naturally to me. Using this rigid [masculine/feminine] criteria to define people... I wondered if we had to, from a very young age. It's something I've thought deeply about. So as soon as the offer to be in the group came in, I thought, "I have to take on this challenge no matter what. I want to deliver this message, in my language, in my voice, to the heart of this world". In a way, I felt it was fate. So I took on the challenge.

Rui: I feel the same way. Also, since I've always been a dancer... when you're young and you start dancing, you're told, "men have to dance like this, and women, like that". In classical ballet, women wear tutus skirts and pointe shoes. And they'd say, "in ballet, only women can do that". You really hear it all the time. And since I was little, I heard this and thought, why? Because I'm sure I'd be even better at this ["feminine" dance] than at that ["masculine" one]. Why can't I try it? I can be flexible too, I can wear pointe shoes too. Why do you tell me that I shouldn't? So, when Muti hyung invited me to do this, together, I just said yes right away, and I had so much fun doing it.

Haru: For me, the way I see this genderless concept of ours, it's about wearing whatever you think looks beautiful on yourself, about being able to do whatever you want for yourself. So what we want, and what I want to do with my hyungs, is to keep going forward as a team who acts like that.

Wumuti: Yes, what I'd like to emphasize once again is: it's not that you need to use what society call the 'opposite' gender you were assigned at birth to express yourself without gender. It's about expressing yourself accordingly to what you feel makes sense at that moment [sometimes "femininely", sometimes "masculinely".] This is what we call the concept of 'genderless' or 'gender-free'. Because when you, let's say, are going somewhere [formal], if you were born a man, and it says "male" in your ID, there's this idea that you should only wear a suit and tie. We want to break it. If I want to wear a tie, I will. And if I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress. The way I present myself is mine and I'm the one who gets to choose it. This is the message we want to continue conveying.

End video description/transcript]

kangsyeosang

princeofc4ps

Invocation and hymn to Aphrodite

Orphic hymn #55

Heavenly, smiling Aphrodite, praised in many hymns,

sea-born, revered goddess of generation, you like the nightlong revel

and you couple lovers at night, O scheming mother of Necessity.

Everything comes from you; you have yoked the world,

and you control all three realms. You give birth to all,

to everything in heaven, upon the fruitful earth

and in the depths of the sea, O venerable companion of Bacchos.

You delight in festivities, O bridelike mother of the Erotes,

O Persuasion whose joy is in the bed of love, secretive, giver of grace,

visible and invisible, lovely-tressed daughter of a noble father,

bridal feast companion of the gods, sceptered she-wolf,

beloved and man-loving giver of birth and of life,

with your maddening love-charms you yoke mortals

and the many races of beasts to unbridled passion.

Come, O goddess born in Cyprus, whether you are on Olympos,

O queen, exulting in the beauty of your face,

or you wander in Syria, country of fine frankincense,

or, yet, driving your golden chariot in the plain,

you lord it over Egypt’s fertile river bed.

Come, whether you ride your swan-drawn chariot over the sea’s billows,

joying in the creatures of the deep as they dance in circles,

or you delight in the company of the dark-faced nymphs on land,

(as, light-footed, they frisk over the sandy beaches).

Come, lady, even if you are in Cyprus that cherishes you,

where fair maidens and chaste nymphs throughout the year

sing of you, O blessed one, and of immortal, pure Adonis.

Come, O beautiful and comely goddess;

I summon you with holy words and pious soul.

progressivemillennial

“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”

― Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist