hello there

over 20, he/they

[nerdpiggy]

i completely understand & agree with the backlash against students using chatgpt to get degrees but some of you are out here saying "getting a degree in xyz means pulling multiple consecutive all-nighters and writing essays through debilitating migraines and having severe back pain from constantly studying at your desk and chugging energy drinks until you get a kidney stone and waking up wishing you were dead every day, and that's just part of the natural process of learning!!!" and like. umm. i don't think that any of us should have had to endure that either. like maybe the solution for stopping students from using anti-learning software depends on college institutions making the process of learning actually sustainable on the human body & mind rather than a grueling health-destroying soul-crushing endeavor

[space-feminist]

one thing i love about helly in severance is that she really drives home how gender conformity is learned, not innate. like she's dressed as a professional woman, in heels and a skirt and makeup, but her voice and body language, all the little ways people perform gender, don't match it. she doesn't modulate her voice higher or modify her speech to be less blunt. she's got her shoulders up in a very tense, afraid posture (bc she IS tense and afraid) and she walks with a very purposeful stride. helly is helena without the years of training to be quiet and compliant, without years of being taught how to perform gender, so she just...speaks in her regular voice. has the posture of a scared little animal because that's what she is. it's gender non-conforming but it's not masculine or anything to do with her personal gender identity. she's just being a person, having realistic human reactions to the situation she's in. and so much of gender non-conformity for women is like this. you don't have to deliberately wear menswear to be seen as unfeminine. you can just not wear makeup or not shave your legs, just exist in your unmodified body and speak with your unmodified voice, and that's enough. i sometimes see art of helly in more masc clothing or trying on mark's suit and it's cute but i think reading her lack of "appropriate femininity" as a desire to present masculine kinda misses the key point that she is not acting like a man or a woman. she is simply existing as a human being

[perverted-asexual]

Every day tumblr users get closer and closer to saying you can only be trans in a god honouring way.

Edit: my problem is with the comparison and trying to rate people's transness and who's more transgressive. If you attempt to turn this into a trans guys vs trans girls post you are missing the point.

[ftmtftm]

This is what white supremacy looks like in the trans community. Genuinely.

These screenshots are literally just white supremacist, right wing talking points about conformity to the status quo being more "transgressive" than people who actually transgress social norms. It's quite literally no different than Christians, MAGA, the right wing, etc. thinking they're the ones who are actually oppressed despite engaging with ideas, values, and presentations that have actually been the ruling class status quo for centuries. It's all taken from the same self victimization playbook.

It's especially clear with the 4chan language mixed in that is just white supremacist incel shit, "gigastacy", "mog", "aura" — that's incel forum channer language that's infiltrated broader internet vernacular and it doesn't matter if the OOPs here are actually explicitly 4chan using white supremacists. They're still engaging with 4chan white supremacist language, behavior, and beliefs.

[inber]

Say you break your ankle. You could know everything there is to know intellectually about the injury. Even with this vast knowledge, you will still experience physical pain.

Now take this logic and apply it to things like ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and other less visible/divergent disabilities. You cannot think your way out of feeling.

That is to say: you are not a bad, lazy, or selfish person for struggling, even if you know why you are struggling.

[thepolymorphexperience]

Genuinely, thank you so much for this.

[cryptic-forge]

no leaves, but plenty of eyes.

inspired by me spacing out on a long drive & staring at trees. this happened earlier this year, and birches ended up growing leaves before i finished the doll.

all branches & roots are made of metal wire + hot glue, which makes them poseable and also keeps them from snapping.

[dorfird]

@dreaming-at-noon @elodieunderglass

[elodieunderglass]

Fabulous and inspiring, thank you so much!

[genderkoolaid]

transmasculine erasure is just so wild. its genuinely like people have blinders. you'd think it would be impossible for someone to make a ludicrous statement like "masculinity is always rewarded and encouraged over femininity" or "a trans man couldn't be mocked for his masculinity, because that would mean questioning masculinity itself," you'd think people would automatically go "well obviously that's not true, people seen as women are actively encouraged to be feminine and to not be masculine, yes femininity is seen as lesser but people seen as women are meant to be lesser and are supposed to be okay with and enjoy this, like this should be so obvious that we shouldn't even need to go over specific examples of how untrue it is" but no. you can say stupid bullshit like that and people will not only take it fully seriously but will genuinely get mad at you if you point out how blatantly wrong it is.

genuinely anti-transmasculinity feels like this ominous looming black void in the middle of feminism that everyone just pretends isn't there, and you are meant to stand around it and act totally normal, and if you go "hey um isn't it weird how no one talks about the ominious looming black void? it makes me feel kind of uncomfortable" everyone looks at you like you are insane and gets mad at you and tells you there is no void and thinking there's a void makes you a misogynist and also if there was a void it would be your fault it exists in the first place. and also it would be kind of a funny, perhaps even good, thing if you think about it. but there is no void! so shut up :)

[therapatical]

you can say these things and not only a bunch of people fail to challenge you on it, you can even publish it! those quotes are literally lines out of whipping girl!!!!

[fandom-man]

[charlesoberonn]

Two conclusions to be drawn from this picture:

1 - the geese in the background show that the fake coyote doesn't deter geese

2 - the fact they needed to put up a sign implies that the fake coyote did deter humans

[some-israeli-guy]

There is an overlap between the smartest geese and the dumbest humans

[the-davest-of-uncles]

If they hadn't put up the sign, the geese wouldn't have known.

[willgrahamscock]

if you see me liking contradicting headcanons for the same character just know it's because I do not give a fuck and I have an active imagination #hewouldsaythat

[willgrahamscock]

sometimes it’s not about ‘would he say that or do that’ it’s more like that would be hilarious if he did because I have a jester’s heart

[innerchildabortionclinic]

interesting kink assortment on the dash

[butch-king-frankenstein]

I think those fancomics where Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes is transgender are cute and fun but I also think it's a deep misunderstanding of Calvin's character to think he would transition into a heterosexual normie who goes to her high school reunion. That girl would have neopronouns and fang implants

[butch-king-frankenstein]

Adult Calvin is a tattoo artist named Panthera who is the bassist in a terrible metal band called Captain Napalm and Hobbes helps do faer E injections

[butch-king-frankenstein]

I know it's like 2 weeks too late to change it but I'm so mad I didn't realize that the band would obviously be called "Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS". I walk the road of shame

[parawyrm]

[parawyrm]

@madnessbrainworms pointing at you

[peach-pot]

anyone wanna guess what this doesthedogdie tie is for?

[peach-pot]

thaaaat’s right!

[peach-pot]

this is kind of a gold mine

[kingcatnine]

kitten fever is worse than baby fever because a kitten is way easier to obtain than a baby so it's more dangerous

[rickybabyboy]

you cant obtain me. tiger stance

[funkycthulhuguy]

@saturnian-catboy

[infizero]

bringing back my too woke opinion that you should be allowed to change labels without the previous one being incorrect

[infizero]

i think you should be allowed to identify as trans without retroactively saying you were also trans in the past. i think the "born this way" rhetoric is limiting and you should be able say stuff like "i was fully a girl when i was a kid and now im a boy" without it invalidating your current identity but maybe that's just me

[skopostheorie]

[twelvemonkeyswere]

gonna do my best to have a great monday because my ancestors* would like me to be ok today

*my mom wished me to have a good day and I believe her

[twelvemonkeyswere]

it's been days since this, the smallest of the posts, and I still don't understand it

[thegroundhogdidit]

in the first episode of the original star trek series spock says "one of my ancestors married a human female" and later in the show we find out that said ancestor is in fact his dad who married his mom who is human

[twelvemonkeyswere]

OH

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

the cute slimes in fantasy-game-styled shows and such are too mammalian in their behavior imo. many slimes are absolutely adorable for sure but behaviorally they should resemble a small amphibian or maybe a slug. you're carrying your pet slime around and showing it various parts of your inn room for the night and it's staring at everything blankly with its little dot eyes and your party's fighter who is watching you asks "does it... enjoy this?" and you say "i genuinely have no idea." you can tell it's excited for mealtime because it slimes it way over to the veggie scraps 8% faster than normal. you carry it around in a repurposed orb shaped potion bottle terrarium on your belt and you drip some well water in there occasionally to keep the humidity up. the life of a slime.

[i-fuck-audis]

MY FUCKING CAR