Cat’s Corner

Cat Paris. They/Them. 26. Leatherdyke. NSFW.

[okkotsuwu]

omg… like to charge reblog to cast etc etc

[papayajuan2019]

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

[ourplague]

[chilewithcarnage]

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

[wizardnuke]

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

[oldshrewsburyian]

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

[black-white-and-leather]

[witch-breaker]

[elierlick]

Never forget that the physicians and "detransitioners" they bring to speak against trans healthcare are paid enormous sums to give false testimonies. They're not legitimate sources and shouldn't stop you from living your best life (source).

[pastimperfection]

They're just not there to platform in the first place.

This is not something that stories about "concerns" tend to highlight, but the number of examples this very motivated nationwide search for "transition ruined my life and maimed my body and it should be illegal" testimonies has found is like...a literal handful.

Set aside percentages of detransitioners broadly defined and poorly researched. If you're talking about people who claim that they have been harmed by transition, the number is essentially nil.

[pastimperfection]

Also, this can't be emphasized enough: of that literal handful, a significant number have come back out as trans and retransitioned (or de-detransitioned). Like, it's not just a small number of anti-transition detransitioners, it's a number that is shrinking because people keep crossing back over to the pro-transition side.

[silentplanetcat]

There was this great article I read YEARS ago about this elder doll who—in the midst of poverty—started working with a Catholic group lobbying against trans rights. She stopped taking hormones, boy-moded tf up and began earning serious money. Unfortunately her dysphoria made her suicidal. Anytime she spoke to her handler about it or confessed to “slipping up” and taking estrogen, he’d send her conversion therapy resources.

I believe she eventually stopped working for the hate group and re-transitioned, but her old trans friends were permanently alienated by all the damage she had done. I think I can recall her saying in the article that she years as an “de-transitioner” advocate against trans rights ruined her life and basically ensured that she would die alone.

If any of you tumblr sleuths can find the article, I’d be grateful.

[jetix]

Bleeding Fairy Helmets on Mount Cordeaux, 2024

[labstrakts]

Isamaya photographed by Steven Klein

[jinxproof]

'Dummy and Human #3' © Helmut Newton

[milksockets]

lürzer's int'l archive (ads, tv + posters worldwide) vol. 3- 2007

[tomhoppusdelonge]

i love following people with kinks I don’t have because somtimes I’m like

[euclyptodis]

men have such one dimensional fantasies it makes porn so boring. there is a whole world of sensuality that doesn't even get touched on in porn because most porn caters to fantasies that don't allow for any personhood on the part of women or femininity. and anti-porn feminists were so misguided and i think honestly very misogynistic because all they did was throw hoes under the bus and honestly cower in fear of their own sexualities in my opinion. if we made porn in a way that did its best not to cater to patriarchy it could be incredible. but that would take a lot of money being in the hands of queer people and women who have decentered men. im so fucking bored and i want to have fun. in the sex work industry everyone has to dumb down their sexuality just because the source of money is boring ass loser men with fragile egos. even the subs are fragile as fuck.

[achillesinhighheels]

The Lovers by Jef Joseph Marie Thomas Lambeaux (1852-1908)

[genderkoolaid]

every since i learned that there was a feminist coalition between housewives, sex workers, and "others" (lesbians and presumably other queer people perceived female) i haven't really stopped thinking about it. we do not talk about this enough

from Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Molly Smith and Juno Mac:

In the UK, the 1970s and 1980s sex workers’ rights movement was deeply entwined with the ‘wages for housework’ campaign. Marxist feminists named the value of women’s unpaid reproductive and domestic labour and demanded a radical reorganisation of society to value women’s work. Around that time, the feminist group Wages Due Lesbians linked domestic work, sex work, and the work of heterosexuality in a solidarity statement against a 1977 vice crackdown: ‘Wherever women succeed in winning some of the wages due us, it is a strength to all of us and proof that women’s services cannot be taken for granted’.

from Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Grant:

“Hookers and Housewives.” It’s hard now to conceive of these groups of women as class allies. Hookers and housewives, to speak in impossible generalities, are too often considered rivals (by those on the Left as much as by those on the Right), occupying opposite sides of one economic circle, two classes of women who earn their living from men’s waged work. Their labor, by contrast, is considered illegitimate. Caretaking and sex should be offered freely, we’re told, with genuine affection and out of love. A housewife maintains her legitimacy by not seeking a wage, and a hooker breaks with convention by demanding one. They are both diminished and confined by the same system that would keep women dependent on men for survival. And they could free themselves from that system together. As Margo St. James recalled in an interview (also from Carol Leigh’s archives), before she founded COYOTE in early 1973, there was WHO—Whores, Housewives, and Others. Others meant lesbians, “but it wasn’t being said out loud yet, even in liberal bohemian circles.” An early COYOTE supporter, anthropologist Jennifer James, coined the term “decriminalization” to express the movement’s goals of removing laws used to target prostitutes. The National Organization for Women (NOW), still very much in its Feminine Mystique era, adopted the decriminalization of prostitution as an official part of its platform later that year.

like. now THIS is feminism!!!!!

[ooppo]

I think we as people who have periods should be able to expel it rapidly all at once like peeing. There's a whole untapped potential out there. I'd let it all go in the back of a police cruiser

[svantetic]

[thestuffedalligator]

“Incurious” is an incredible thing to call someone. It conveys so much with so little. To be so uninterested with learning or developing an understanding that it’s damning. To fail to feel what a toddler does by instinct.

I sometimes go back to the Dan Olson video about Doug Walker and there’s a bit where he says “Doug wants to be a filmmaker, he wants to make art, but he can't, because he's a fundamentally incurious person who isn't much interested in what other people think or feel and all his ideas boil down to ‘what if Batman met Mario?’” and I know that if this was said about most artists I have met they would wither up on the spot like a dying spider

[silentplanetcat]

Legitimately the most potent insult I’ve ever heard. What’s worse is that when I heard him say it, I realized that he’d just described my then-roommate so every time I saw her I remembered the insult and cringed.

[ahotknife]

the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

[clearestbluest]

<3

[shining-bewear]