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Hewwo you can call me Rouge or Kurama! Im obsessed with a variety of things (mainly video games) and shadouge and kurahi are my major special interests that consume me in brain, heart, and soul :3 my other blogs are:
@rougeyrose (art blog)
@rougelabatte (fickin blog)
@shadouge (ship blog)
@thekingofthieves (kurama ask blog)
@reikai-records (yyh frame collection blog)
@dawn-hikari (wip pokemon irl blog)
@rubyllusions (wip blog for fanfic)
@bi-lesbian (positivity & explanations)
@les-bi-cons (pride icon request blog)
@aphrodolite (love spam blog)
@locketknife (whump, yandere, god complex blog)
B♡NUS: my girlfriend is over at @ashtwinproject22 (general/main blog), @mobius-prime (sonic analysis blog), and @mid-knife-crisis (whump blog)! yall should absolutely go follow her bc shes wonderful and sweet and cute and smart and (goes on with a million compliments bc theyre true and also shes practically tsundere about me complimenting her so i gotta tease her a bit uwu) ♡
important: do not bring up any anti vs proshipping stuff up to me in asks or otherwise, csa tw for these two posts. do not bring me up in shipcourse in the slightest. respect fucking csa victims wishes for fucks sake.
i think we should be talking about the semi-recent advancements in cystic fibrosis treatment like all the time every day. there hasn’t been a drug like this since AZT medications for HIV infection it is truly fucking miraculous and very important
basically: cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease which makes the mucous a person generates extra sticky. it used to kill people in infancy, then with advancements in medical tech it killed people in young childhood, and until very recently cystic fibrosis patients could expect to live until about thirty years old with consistent painful lung infections and complications.
in 2019 the FDA approved a drug called trikafta (which is really three drugs in one) for cystic fibrosis treatment. what it essentially does is patch up the malfunctioning proteins that cause the extra sticky mucus. trikafta is effective on about 90% of cystic fibrosis patients.
people who had spent their entire lives in and out of hospitals, on and off of ventilators, suffering from pneumonia and sometimes treated through painful procedures like intubation took this drug, got out of bed, coughed up an entire lifetimes worth of mucus out of their lungs over the course of a few hours, breathed clearly for perhaps the first time in their lives, and now go on to live well into their seventies.
like isn’t that insane. isn’t that amazing. doesn’t that give you hope for the future of medical advancements and treatment. fuck. i think about it all the time……
For the people asking "well how do we know people are living that long if it's so new????" Here's a page from the CF foundation about life expectancy.
Additionally, it should be noted that metrics like life expectancy are in no way a guarantee of... Anything. There are significant outlier CF patients who are at an advanced age now despite the odds due to a variety of different factors, having lived the majority of their lives before the development of modulators.
But the fact remains that the odds are better now than they have ever ever been before, by leaps and bounds. It isn't cured, and many patients still need significant treatment in addition to Trikafta, but it is so much better than anyone could have dreamed of twenty years ago, and that is a triumph.
Yes! My sister has a serious form of cf and finally is living a more comfortable and active life. She was also part of many of the clinical trials leading to these breakthroughs due to the nature of her cf. It's been very exciting to see.
If you adamantly refuse to even hear an opinion or point of view that differs from the one you've been taught to believe, you don't actually believe the one you've been taught. A genuine conviction doesn't waver from something as flimsy as mere exposure to disagreeing ideas. If you fear that hearing an idea that deviates from the "right" ones might make you accidentally adapt it, get the two confused and forget which one was the "right" and which one was the "wrong" idea, and get rejected by your peers by accidentally echoing the wrong kind of thoughts, you don't actually truly think that the things you've been taught as right are right.
Not because you would somehow deep down secretly think that the "wrong" ideas are "right" and the "right" ideas are "wrong", but because you simply do not actually think at all.
Kinda like parents who are worried their kids being exposed to outside ideas will turn them down the wrong path. Well if it's that easy, it sounds like your propaganda just sucks and you don't really trust it. Let that shit run free in the marketplace of ideas if you're so convinced you're right.
see one of the biggest things i dislike about the idea of a “trad wife” is that it’s not even “traditional” or “how things always used to be”.
this lifestyle only came about after the industrial revolution and was really only used by the middle and upper classes. before that, men and women would work together. women weren’t sitting around all day taking care of the home while their husbands were away—they were together as a family.
additionally one of the biggest benefits of having children was that, when they were old enough, they could help out with the work however they could. the idea that only men did all of the work is absurd.
there's also the fact that traditional housework was like actual work until the industrial revolution made everything easy.
Doing laundry in the 1800s? took you literally all day of boiling water, fetching more water to boil, and handling various (sometimes dangerous) chemicals. And all those clothes you were washing? You made most of them if you weren't rich enough to buy them. Which meant you were fixing every rip and hole until you had a dress or petticoat or pair of pants made of patches like the Ship of Theseus.
Cooking dinner? Took literal hours of watching a fire that could literally burn the house down for most of history.
Everyone also owned animals, if they had space for them. And those animals needed to be fed and watered and have their barn/shed/stable/coop or whatever they were housed in kept clean.
You'd have a garden to keep watered if you had any space at all too.
I read a really interesting point once about how chores became "easier": new, modern conveniences were touted as making womens' lives "easier" and giving them more time.
The problem was that everyone still expected them to be busy. To be available. To be doing things. Which means that "spare time" just got filled up with MORE things to do. And those new things tended to be more individualistic and less social. While washing took longer, women could do it together, or chat with each other over the back garden gate while hanging up the washing, etc.
This isn't just a problem women face, though. We, all of us as a culture (at least here in the US), modernized ourselves into doing more and more, faster and faster, with less and less togetherness and interaction. Is it any wonder research shows we're dealing with a epidemic of lonelines?
#“decenter trans men” and the “centering” is they had slgihtly more transition tip posts on tumblr in 2015 <- this is literally the logic i've seen people use
but also, taking this in the best faith possible: there are online & offline communities where things are focused more on transmascs, communities where most or all of the resources are on getting things like binders and not much on how to tuck or where to get bras. & its fair to critique that, especially when its your local community.
the problem is that this also happens with transfems. there are also online & offline communities where things are transfem centered & local resources that have very little for transmascs. and notably nonbinary people tend to be an afterthought either way! its not that there is never a context where trans men might be focused on to the expense of trans women! its that this happens with trans men and trans women, and people are only ever to make the point that trans men are "centered" by just straight up ignoring any times that trans women are focused on to the expense of trans men.
people have pointed this out as well but often the resources people gesture to as evidence of trans men's privilege are things that trans men and mascs organized and created for themselves! binder exchanges and PSAs and small trans-owned businesses catering to trans men's products are not systemic privilege, they are literally what COMMUNITY looks like! and many bitter, isolated trans people online would rather tear down what other people have built than start e.g. a clothing exchange, and then have the gall to complain that there's "no such thing as the trans community"
it's all very ironic because the presence of such things tend to be the result of a hole in the community support and resources available, causing people to develop ways to fill that need when nobody else is gonna do it. it's like how women are now excelling in college and higher ed, and all sorts of programs exist to get women into higher ed, and the manosphere likes to point at that as "look how privileged women are" when no, those things came out of disprivilege and discrimination
and it puts you into this tricky situation whenever somebody does get some sort of accolades or support or higher position in life, because it's like. well, will that be used in order to hurt us all and deny the help we need? can we celebrate this transmasc that got into medical school without the looming cloud that their success means one more tally point in the "see! there's proof that transmascs are privileged!" bucket?
So this is not a plea for money. This is something that surprised me, and chatting with people on discord, they were unaware of as well.
Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.
Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.
-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.
Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.
And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.
For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.
And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.
So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.
pretty shocking claim, isnt it? the kind of claim that should be backed up with evidence, right?
well, I agree. in fact, I spent an hour writing up a long reblog proving that the random user @/tomboyfriends is not and has never been the coiner OR the person who popularized the term "transandrophobia", only for the very same person who asked for proof to instantly block me, making my post disappear for everyone else.
I am not going to just drop that. this is now deliberate misinformation being spread by @daughter-of-sapph0, who I now know for sure knows better.
so this is my own original post, documenting her claims and demands for proof, and the post I wrote giving her just that:
below is the reblog chain that led to this.
/end of screenshots
my response:
right. so you admit you vaguely know who saint is, AND that He's the real coiner, but youre claiming that its on ME for thinking that a post that says "the word transandrophobia was coined by a detrans nazi twerf" is about Saint, when there's zero context as to who youre claiming is the "real" coiner. this post is written that way to confuse. even in the screenshots you're using as proof, @/neongreentoxicity immediately knows that person thinks the post is referring to Saint. it is not on me for just reading the post the way its written.
but sure, I will prove how silly this entire conversation is.
this random person who i have NEVER heard of even puts IN that literal post that the word has been used before online, and IN the screenshots you give, @/neongreentoxicity notes that they do know that the word was actually coined on Twitter in 2017. so yall DO know that it is an abject lie to call this person the coiner. she objectively isnt.
also, her bio clearly says "no longer crypto", so she ADMITS she was a crypto all along. crypto terfs exist to spread misinformation and stir up problems in the trans community. this random person ADMITS thats what they were doing!!!!!
but ig now the bar has been moved to proving that she didnt popularize it. fine. thats incredibly easy to prove.
unfortunately, Saint has lost all His posts, as multiple times He was reported repeatedly until He was terminated. so ofc that makes it difficult to prove His popularity, and i know you dont gaf about the actual repeated testimony of people who have been in the community since before this random person's post existed, so I wont even try to use my own experiences as evidence.
but thankfully, we can just use our brains here.
here is that nazi's "coining" post, where op clearly says they didnt coin it, as it already exists. they clearly found the term themselves, and made this post just trying to spread awareness of the term.
lets look down at the bottom. how many notes does this post that apparently "popularized" the term have????? forty-four notes. hmm.
if you go through every other post about transandrophobia on this person's blog, you will see that only ONE other one was made by them. it has fifty-eight notes. interesting.
now lets compare that, shall we?
unfortunately, Saint's old posts are all wiped from this website. I even signed into my old blog where multiple times I helped Hymn find His old posts and sent them to Hymn after he was termed. here's a taste of what that looks like:
genuinely, it goes on and on and on. all of His old posts are gone. its kinda heartbreaking, as its some of the history of our community and a lot of the posts that helped me come to terms with being trans.
all is not lost though. @nothorses (who i will refer to as Grey) is thankfully still around. Grey has been the archiver for our community for quite awhile, and was a mutual and friend of Saint's from the getgo (or at least before I showed up). if you ask around, I promise you that most people will credit either Saint or Grey (or Jaz, or a couple others who routinely reblog from both of them) as where they first came across the term. Grey is always the first to point out that Saint coined it, though ofc now Grey has a lot of original posts and is a trusted figure in the community.
without spending too much time on it (I am sure you can find old Saint posts on Grey's blog somewhere, but I already spent too much time on this post), here is a popular older post of Grey's. no, it is not from before that random person's "coining" post, but it IS just five months later, and you can clearly see that Grey is a popular Tumblr user. this is his original post, and it has six-figure notes.
here is an original post from Sept 2020, wherein Grey uses the term "transandrophobia" and explains its systemic and real-world effects. no, it is not as popular, but as anyone in the community can attest—any post that describes transmasculine oppression using the word "transandrophobia" will never make a lot of notes. however, tons of his original posts from 2020 about transmasculine oppression that do not use the term have a fuckton of notes.
this should be sufficient to prove that he is a popular Tumblr user who blogs about the transmasculine experience. and he has also been using the term transandrophobia since 2020.
now, even if we pretend that this nazi terf liar actually coined the term (which your screenshots definitively prove to be false), how on earth can you claim that she popularized it? she doesnt have a single post on it that breaks three figures. not even 100 people have interacted with her posts.
it's wild that popular discourse around migraines is that there are too many people who claim to have migraines but "just have bad headaches". this is the exact opposite of my experience? i'm still trying to convince several of my friends that their "bad tension headaches" that are unilateral, throbbing, cause light sensitivity, nausea, etc, are migraines lmao. migraine is underdiagnosed and undertreated by every metric i can think of.
this narrative is not harmless! it prevents people from getting treatment that could really benefit them. so i would like it to die. thank you.
As a guy who went to see a neurologist only to "rule out migraines" because I thought I had "tension headaches at worst and also it's not that bad really" only to realize by tracking my headache days that I have very bad chronic migraines just with no aura (most people with migraines don't have them), I co-sign this 100%.
Just starting abortive medications already improved my quality of life so much and now that my doctor started me on preventatives, I might actually be able to have more than a handful of headache-free days each month.
Migraine is frequently misdiagnosed as chronic sinusitis or tension headaches according to research. Mostly because people have a very rigid (inaccurate) idea of what it actually is.
But even if it's not migraine, you still deserve treatment for your headaches. Just because someone else has them worse than you doesn't mean you don't deserve relief.
Learning about the different types of migraine and headache disorders can help you better understand your symptoms and discuss them with you
yeah i found out awhile back that the 'pressure headaches' that i get that 'aren't that bad' (but still leave me feeling sick and dysfunctional all day) were migraines. i now take a low dose of a preventative medication and the number of shitty rain days i have per month has dropped from like ten to two. it's great.
In my experience anyone who has chronic pain of any kind ALWAYS under diagnoses it in part cause people who DON'T have chronic pain always tell them how it's Not That Bad Just Get Over It and it takes a lot of fighting to get anyone (including doctors) to do anything about it. Fucked if I know why. Everyone seems to think we're making it up. I've never met anyone who is making it up.
I see a lot of Tumblr users who don't know their feminist history attributing the fact that women* are "allowed" to be masculine under the patriarchy as some sort of facet of the patriarchy universally accepting masculinity over femininity and that shit pisses me off so bad.
The reason why women* are "allowed" to be masculine when men* "aren't" allowed to be feminine under patriarchy is because DYKES and BUTCHES and other masculine women* SPENT DECADES FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHTS TO EXIST PUBLICLY.
The fact that women* can wear pants and suits etc. and are not constantly forced to be hyper feminine/in adherence with strict gendered dress codes without punishment (AND ONLY IN SOME COUNTRIES!) is a win on behalf of feminist political action NOT because of some baseline acceptance of masculinity in everybody by the patriarchy.
(*and people forcibly socially classed as women and men)
Like oh my lord some of you need to shut the fuck up and learn what it was like to be socially classed as a woman before the sexual revolution and what it continues to be like outside of the imperial core.
You are reaping the benefits of the activists who have come before you but because you do not know your history you are treating it like the boons of the oppressor classes and you are blind for it.
Interesting thing I’ve noticed is that despite openly identifying as nonbinary + multigender, some of the only times people refer to me with masculine terms is when people are mad at me for the things I say about transmasc liberation here on tumblr. I’m very used to people ignoring the alternation part of my any/all pronouns generally, but it’s fascinating to note that I get she/her’d by strangers, they/themed by woke acquaintances and he/him’d by TRFs online. That the masculine parts of my identity are only acknowledged when attempting to get me to shut up (while ignoring all other facets) doesn’t do much to convince me that my masculinity isn’t a core intersectional aspect of the prejudice I face, but it’s not like I expect these kinds of people to actually take exorsexism seriously regardless.
its kinda funny having kins mostly from video game/animated sources, but then having just like a Couple kins from live action shows. bc you can look at all your kins and its like cartoon animals and colorful anime people and then Realistic Bald Old Man
