someone

idk, I'm here I guess ne/nym/nyrs & ve/ver/vis

[luxiomahariel]

i- (remembers that i dont feel love) dont love you ⭐

[this-is-anti-subtliden]

Genuinely DESPISE how testosterone is treated as the ‘boy’ hormone and estrogen as the ‘girl’ hormone

[eptck]

you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

you have to be kind. you have to be kind.

[phantomrose96]

Hey hey don’t cry. Character who destroys themself in the end for nothing

[vaultkniqht]

Why did we as a society accept the fact that we're no longer getting bloopers reels for TV shows

[kosmogrl]

let’s all quit our jobs and just go on walks

[kill-jar-dyke]

make the transfem that's bigger and taller than you feel cute and safe or I'll fucking kill you btw

[the-reynolds-pamphlet]

sorry i didn't text you back. it's just that my days are so busy it's making me dizzy there's so much i gotta do. there's lunches and meetings and poetry meetings and endless interviews

[wheelie-sick]

checking - parts of my diagnosed OCD that you might not know can be OCD

disclaimer: just because you experience some things on this list does not mean you have OCD (or any disorder related to these at all). these thoughts and behaviors can come from multiple sources and can also be completely normal in moderation. these thoughts cross the line into OCD when they are not better explained by something else and they cause dysfunction or distress in your life

checking looks like a lot of things, not just checking the stove. sometimes checking is small and minimally invasive but other times it's more intrusive. checking can look like:

checking texts/emails/etc. I sent over and over again to make sure I didn't send porn

rereading everything I send (or post online) over and over again to make sure I didn't accidentally say something terrible

replaying the day in my head to make sure I didn't do something awful

ruminating on conversations to make sure I didn't say something awful (and often ruminating on specific things I said and imagining worse ways I might have said them)

when I read about or hear about something bad that some people do, investigating my memory to make sure I didn't do it

resubmitting assignments online multiple times to double check that I attached the right file

tapping everything I carry with me to make sure I still have it

adding and removing email recipients to make sure I'm adding the right people

tapping my headlights on my car while driving the make sure they're still turned on

turning my headlights in my car off and on multiple times before leaving to make sure they work

one of the things that sets OCD apart from doing these things normally is the repetition. many people will feel randomly anxious that they sent porn in a text and they might check once. someone with an OCD compulsion (like me) will check 10,15, 20+ times because no check feels good enough. there is no satisfying the itch that compels you to check to make sure you weren't sending porn.

[prokopetz]

Strictly speaking, "ultimate" means "last", not "best". It's often figuratively employed in the latter sense to suggest that the thing so described is the final word on the subject, after which nothing more need be said, but if we're being real technical, describing a game or movie that was so bad it killed its entire franchise as the "ultimate" is in fact correct.

[prokopetz]

@ffoxer replied:

Now I'm thinking about the prefix "pen," which as far as I can think I may have only ever seen in "penultimate"

It's Latin for "nearly" or "almost", and it does pop up in a few other English words. "Penultimate", "penumbra" and "peninsula" are the only ones I can think of that you'd even remotely expect to encounter in everyday speech, though; the rest are all medical or mathematical jargon.

[prokopetz]

#so peninsula means what? #almost island? #lmao (via @actualanxiousswampwitch)

That is the actual etymology of the word "peninsula", yes.

[this-is-trans-joy]

i am trans and i made banana bread yesterday and its fucking delicious!!!

This is trans joy!!!

[uptownthots]

“it isnt something you have to read critically” well 😭

[uptownthots]

this technically is true but I think this also perfectly encapsulates why I am inherently distrustful of like. “”cozy”” “turn your brain off” fiction lmfao. like okay WHO gets to turn their brain off and who has to suffer through bigoted caricatures of themselves while everyone else is having cozy silly no brain time 😐

[hotnfreshtakes]

trans men and transmascs do need to hear they aren't hurting anyone for being masculine, but more than that they need to hear that they are loved for being masculine. your masculinity is wonderful and magical and you pull it off incredibly well. your masculinity is cool, it's desirable, it's attractive. there are people out there who will be drawn to you because of your masculinity, not just in spite of it. you deserve more than just to be tolerated in queer spaces. your masculinity deserves to be celebrated

[saros-system]

@this-is-trans-joy

[this-is-trans-joy]

This is trans joy!!!

[slimetony]

in 2017 we’re replacing our cerebrospinal fluid with sierra mist

[c3po]

no idea what this means

[slimetony]

lemon lime spine

[fool-counter]

in 2017 we’re replacing our cerebrospinal fluid with sierra mist

no idea what this means

lemon lime spine

fool count: 1

[hyperlexichypatia]

IDK I think if cis men are being told that being fat will lower their testosterone and make them Insufficiently Masculine, and cis women are being told that being fat will raise their testosterone and make them Excessively Masculine, and fat trans people are being denied the right to medically transition if they're fat, and thin trans people are warned against HRT because it will make them fat (and this is said about both testosterone and estrogen HRT), and androgynous-presenting people are told that only thin people count as androgynous...

Then maybe...

Maybe...

Maybe the weight loss industry is just using Gender to enforce fatphobia.

[redstonedust]

my worst habit as a writer is that i lovveeeeee to expand on families as character and worldbuilding but then i have to sit here like. is there any possible way for me to introduce "has an aunt whos a postal worker and single mother trying to bounce back from a recent divorce' into the narrative. can i naturally drop my aunt lore. its important to me.

[writers-bane]

The thing is, writing is not just putting the Character in a situation. It's also putting myself, the writer, in a situation (having to write)