cabin fever

i'm secretly an alien who learned to speak english (don't tell anybody). i like books and trees. he/him 18+

[solwit]

im solwit; you can call me sol (not my real name). i use he/him pronouns. i am a professional tree-hugger who ironically-unironically wishes he was an alien. i like books, trees, animals, snow, autumn weather, writing, reading, birdwatching, sleeping, taking pictures, playing video games, spoiling my cat rotten, and overusing parentheses and ampersands. i am over the age of 18.

for the most part though i'm just a random person. i post when i feel like it and i have no pattern to the stuff i reblog. thanks for stopping by.

[queerintheuk]

Just met a trans man who's going on T because he specifically wants to be bald and i'm afraid to say i think i'm just never gonna meet anyone cooler than that ever again

[solwit]

i know a trans guy whose transition goal is looking like northernlion. (northernlion, for your reference, is possibly the baldest man alive.) let's give it up for bald trans men

[vitamindeeznutz]

people should stop saying you get ugly on T. guys this is the most attractive ive ever been. i have long hair with bleached bits and i still look androgynous. i could pass as cis easily if i cut my hair. this girl thought i was a pretty cis guy. my friend has been on it for a few years and he pulls left and right. i was an okay girl but im a pretty boy instead. everyone take testosterone right now

[creature-wizard]

Discerning truth from falsehood requires information literacy. Here's a site that will teach you basic information literacy.

LIS 105: Information Literacy Basics (Klein)

This text is written to help students gain the information literacy skills that enable them to find, retrieve, gather, analyze, and use info

[vexwerewolf]

Good morning to the trans man loudly slamming his girlfriend in the bunk above convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, and ONLY the trans man loudly slamming his girlfriend in the bunk above convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell

[photophoros]

Sinner

[waambles]

☀️I love you! And you and you and you and-☀️

It’s t4t summer baby!

[evakshinova]

dysphoria

[kajamnikk]

this was a hit tweet on bird app so might as well post it here too

[casual-haterism]

sad girly girl who wears white dresses and curls her hair and puts on no makeup makeup every morning who gets a butch makeover montage at the end of the movie and everyone goes wow. also they replace his contact lenses with thick stupid nerd glasses. is this anything

[valtsv]

i like sailing myths and superstitions because most of them can be boiled down to "if the ocean doesn't like you it will chew you up and spit out your bones. and if it really loves you it will swallow you whole and keep you forever. good luck 👍"

[valtsv]

[what-even-is-thiss]

You should try out writing surrealism to see if you like it. Write confusing things on purpose. Get into stream of consciousness. Make something purposefully pointless.

[toskarinfr]

it's important to have bits that aren't good and also nobody likes and also aren't funny

[solwit]

that's called "personality"

[this-is-varsexism-transphobia]

Transmasc here, when I went to get a masculine haircut the first time my stylist gave me a very feminine pixie cut instead and wouldn't change it and still charged me for it even though I hated it so I instead had to fix it myself, it looks like shit but at least it closer to what I wanted

This is transandrophobia. I've heard of this happening a lot, it's extremely infuriating.

[solwit]

when i was 13 i went to the stylist and i asked her to cut it "real short." in response she gave me a cutesy bob. i told her that i wanted it shorter, and she replied, "no you don't."

anyways 6 months later i cut it short and i never went back to that stylist bc fuck her. god im so happy im not a girl anymore

[self-loving-vampire]

It feels like in the last 10 years of so people shifted their perception of science, technology, and even "nerds" as a category towards seeing them as right-wing but when I was growing up it was the exact opposite.

The atheist skeptic types who knew about science and critical thinking were considered the progressive archetype standing in opposition to religious fundamentalists, anti-vaxxers, and bigots in general.

And this change in perception is, in my opinion, not remotely justified and seems based more on antipathy to a couple of overly popular celebrities and the specter of "fedora reddit atheists" rather than anything concrete. Atheists are consistently one of the most progressive demographics still, and education also has a protective effect against right-wing demagoguery.

[solwit]

i've been saying this. intellectualism, skepticism, and the pursuit of truth and knowledge is, or should be, a fundamental left-wing value-- it still is to me. progressive "reddit atheists" (so-called) understand this. and they get a bad rap that is, in my opinion, mostly undeserved and disconnected from reality. at least they understand the dangers that pseudoscience and christian fundamentalism pose, instead of pulling out the "it is wrong to criticise any spiritual or religious beliefs simply because they are spiritual beliefs" defence that people have been hitting me with in recent years.

it's even more than just science and technology too-- it feels like a not insignificant portion of the left gave up on intellectualism as a whole to me. for example: "history is all white supremacist propaganda anyway.", "what's the point of a classical education? why do we need to learn about all these dead imperialists?", "literature is a circlejerk of old misogynistic white guys.", etc. it's frustrating to me indeed.

[solwit]

i would like to subscribe to an existence that includes fewer headaches. and fewer stomach aches while we're at it. shoutout to ibuprofen tho you're my goat

[tweeterwilbury]

Collecting those rn

[tweeterwilbury]

[tweeterwilbury]