I’m Not Dead I Only Dress That Way

Finn, 31, they/he, #cryptid confirmed for local, cat parent, on my vampire and necromancer bullshit 24/7, icon and header by oddthesungod

[reversibledoll]

Amie reminded me these pics existed so here a lil more of my Cytherea cosplay!

Photography & edit: amiephotos @ Instagram Cosplay & makeup: me

[natalieironside]

Maybe this is a hot take but the gendered segregation of bloodsports is just as pants-on-head ridiculous as the gendered segregation of any other sport.

Like. This is a fucking game. Two boxers fighting one another in a ring are two gamers playing a game together. I cannot stress the extent to which boxing, MMA, et al are games created and pursued primarily for idle amusement. Just because the game is happening in a ring as opposed to on a pitch doesn't make it less of a game. We are Playing Toys when we glove up and clobber each other. It is For Fun. They're dangerous games, to be sure, but the danger is the chief source of amusement for the participants and the audience. The boxers wouldn't be boxing if they hated boxing.

"If we did co-ed boxing there would be Men Beating Up Women 😡" Last time I checked a fight requires at least 2 active participants unless you're just beating up on yourself alone like Edward Norton in that movie. And as I said above, I presume nobody would pursue a career in boxing if they didn't like doing the boxing.

And moreover, maybe I'm just a hashtag 90s kid but I grew up being constantly innundated with messages about how girls are just as tough as boys and can do anything boys can do. "Fight like a girl" was an inescapably popular slogan. And it was all very nice and heartwarming and inspirational. So I take serious umbrage with the notion that competing in a co-ed fight league equates to "men beating up women" because, here in the real world, the women would lay out the men just as often as the reverse, and this implicit assumption that women are by majority soft, delicate, helpless creatures simply unfit for participation in physical culture has got to be one of the least feminist things I've ever heard.

[coral-skeleton]

Fighting (and weightlifting) would be some of the easiest sports to convert into a co-ed model cause they already have weight classes within the gender segregated versions to keep the sports fair. It really wouldn't be that hard to just combine the two halves into one thing. And this is also what prevents the thing that everyone is so scared of happening from happening. You wouldn't get a massive mountain of a man beating up a tiny woman in co-ed boxing, because they'd be in two different weight classes. If the massive mountain of a man were to fight a woman, he'd be fighting a massive mountain of a woman, and if a the tiny woman were to fight a man, she'd be fighting a tiny man. Thats how these sports already work. (This is also why the argument against letting trans people compete in the gendered categories matching their identities falls flat, people think if you let a trans woman compete in womens boxing that she'd dominate all her opponents, when in reality she'd be in the weight category that ensures her opponents give her fair fights. But that's a different conversation)

The real reason most sports, including fighting, are gender segregated, isn't because men would automatically dominate, quite the opposite actually, it's because the men would not win every single time and would lose to women more often than one would assume. And because our patriarchal society devalues anything women are good at, sports as a whole would be devalued. And that devaluing of womens work, talents, interests, and accomplishments is the real problem that needs to be addressed

[vamplire]

stop domesticating vampires with puritanical bullshit and make them perverts like god intended

[fluentisonus]

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

[ravioliet]

i literally love saying "ON IT BOSS!!!!!" whenever someone asks me to do something like i'm some sort of henchman. it doesn't matter if they're my boss or not for real even because in the moment they are, and whatever they requested of me i'm on it

[afraid-of-woodpeckers]

I miss nadja of antipaxos. you used to be able to turn the tv on once a week and see an insane greek woman ripping people apart and killing and biting and screaming

[smiggles]

I dont know who needs to hear this but your full body commissions are worth more than $20

[bastardofficial]

Conjure Marching Band

4th-level conjuration

Casting time: 1 action

Range: 150 feet

Components: V, S

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

You summon fey spirits that take the form of a marching band and appear in unoccupied spaces you can see within range. This band consists of:

7d6 trombones,

[probablyfunrpgideas]

As an action while concentrating on the spell, you can change the direction of the marching band (you must be within 90 feet of it to do so). Otherwise, the fey musicians continue forward, and turn only when their path is blocked. They can cross mud, dense foliage, and snow with no difficulty, but will not cross bodies of water or dangerous terrain.

When a creature other than yourself first sees or hears the marching band from within 90 feet, they must make a Wisdom save against the Suggestion to join their marching progress. For the remaining duration of the spell, they are compelled to follow and clap, cheer or play instruments in time to the music. If they take damage or are roughly shaken, the effect ends.

[yenthecat]

What did you say??

[rickybabyboy]

i said "a"

[radicalgraff]

"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps.

Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people"

Sticker spotted in Koreatown Los Angeles, CA

[digitalmyyth]

What is forcefem question

[internetfeet]

All Nancy Drew sees is love. Managed to finish this before Pride month was over!!!

Ships in order., since I know I have my own designs: Bess and Sonny, Ned and Joe, George and Deirdre. And then of course, AroAce queen Nancy Drew.

[salvadorbonaparte]

"on god's green earth" is way too fun to say even when you don't believe in god and know most of it is blue, actually

[ashlgcostumes]

Tag via @bluehairedspidey and vocabulary updated

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

[tlirsgender]

"This choice was thematically appropriate but it makes me sad," a memoir

[tlirsgender]

I know this character had to die but what if they didn't: the squeakwel

[windflowerfairy]

by Emily Dickinson

[doriangraysrockcollection]

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

[doriangraysrockcollection]

i am kissing you on the mouth right now

you are the only person who understands me. you and the person who tagged a series of unfortunate events