spurious biped

warning: contains profanity.

[koryos]

CATS

let’s talk about housecats and how fucking weird they are evolutionarily/anthropologically

like who thought it was a good idea to have tiny malicious predators in our homes anyways????? (not us actually)

are they even domesticated????!!!?? (yes) do they even feel LOVE???????!!? (yes)

LET’S LEARN ABOUT CATS

“you ready 2 learn punk”

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[aurevoir-mes-amis-deactivated20]

petition to rename the usa ‘south canada’

[mellowminty]

what about alaska

are we then normal canada

[saahs]

canada a bit to the left

[officialvatican]

[conflagreat]

What about South America? Is that just America? Or South South Canada?

[starshipenterprisee-blog]

[danyinfj]

[te-odora]

i cried my ass of laughing

[plonts]

[prinxessleia-deactivated2016032]

WARM CANADA

i caN’T BREATHE OH MY GOD

[hypnomega]

I’m not even from Canada but I approve this change of names

[pebbles5ever]

[auntbutch]

people have been debating the political efficacy and ethical concerns of using the word “queer” as a self-identifier, unifying term to describe populations, and/or theoretical framework for decades. these debates are not about two sides, where one side thinks it’s great and the other thinks it’s terrible and everybody in either camp agrees with everybody else in their camp. larry kramer’s argument against the use of “queer” is not at all the same as cathy j. cohen’s critique of queer theory and queer activism and their deployment of “queer”. similarly, the way that michael warner imagines the applications of “queer” is not the same as how karen barad uses “queer” to describe natural phenomena. the way that queer as folk invokes “queer” in its title is different than how the office invokes “queer” as an insult. “smear the queer” uses the word differently than “we’re here, we’re queer”. it’s a difficult word, largely by design when it comes to contemporary applications/reclamations. 

any simplistic single history of the word “queer” or of feelings about the word “queer” is already a failure, not only in terms of accuracy, but also just in understanding of how people have come to conceive of “queer” as a thing that cannot be pinned down, easily defined or made stable. whether or not you agree what that understanding, to not include that aspect of the word in your attempt to theorize around it is an unforgivable blind spot. “queer” is complicated, it has multiple histories and meanings, and not accounting for that, especially when talking as if you’re an expert on the issue, is an enormous failure. lgbtq people have rich and complex histories and cultures. if you’re not willing to account for that, then get out of the business of trying to tell our stories. 

[whenpoetsbleed-deactivated20170]

And yet, you kept going.

a reminder; e.d. (via whenpoetsbleed)

[mosaicabstract]

i hope you’re all aware of the 300 recently discovered love letters between two gay british soldiers during ww2 that are going to be possibly adapted into a film.

they’re beautiful and poetic and tragic and heart-wrenching and brave. i highly suggest going and reading the excerpts. 

here’s the one that broke my heart:

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.“

[ezridalmastro-deactivated201707]

an unstoppable force (my love of books) meets an unmovable object (my lack of a desire to actually read anything) 

[mossyshadows]

Robert Frost in a letter to Louis Untermeyer

[hauntingmoon-blog1]

“She’s on the other end of the phone loving me like I’m her next breath and she never wants to exhale.”

Menagerie is about girls having sex with girls. It’s dedicated to every  girl/non-binary person who has felt the gravitational pull of attraction to girls. 

Each of the 9 poems features an unseen font and a fresh perspective on desire, lust, and love for girls. Whether you’re in the mood for bathtub sex, truth or dare, kinks, or questioning your emotions, this book is for you <3 Download Menagerie for free and check out my other free chapbooks

[chemicalxmiracles]

“call me spineless, but at least I’ve got a heart between my lungs”

[bileshroom]

bet yall forgot I was a serious artist huh

*edit

you can also get it as a sticker [here]

[distinguishedbaloney]

[aaitwo-deactivated20250816]

the impulse to just make weird noises for no reason is something i have to ignore like 24/7

[thelimpingdoctor]

Don’t fight it… let yourself honk

[aphelionbruise]

a while back someone reblogged one of my poems on tumblr with the tag “no one deserves to be atlas” and it hit me pretty hard and i want to talk about that today

listen, you are not a life support machine, you are not to be expected to carry someone’s organs. it is easy to fall into the rhythm of building your life around people who hope they are already dying, but that is not healthy.

i know. i am no stranger to people like this. i have known people who swallow pills with a snakejaw, who drink vodka straight without flinching and pray quietly that it’ll kill them, who smoke on their roof at 2am while crying. people who starve themselves until they can barely stand, who burn or cut or bruise their bodies because no one taught them to forgive themselves and be soft with their own skins. i have been these people.

there is only so much help you can give. if you learn anything, learn how to tell them: i am sorry, i cannot do this today. i am aching from holding the weight of your sky, please talk to a professional.

i see a mentality a lot amongst middle and high schoolers. i see it in college kids too, in some of my closest friends and in the drug dealer i talk to on weeknights. and the mentality says “if you are not willing to drop everything for me, you are toxic and a bad friend”

i understand that mental illness does a good job of making you feel isolated and it makes you scared of losing people, but realize that your support systems hurt too, and in ways that you might not even know.

listen, no teenager should have to add “keep my friends alive” to their to do list.

it can be hard to exist sometimes and it is okay to need help but you cannot place your fate in someone else’s hands. they shake just as much as yours, they are not any safer.

if you love your friends do not make them be atlas. they are not titans. they are small and afraid too.

[journeyintomanhood]

You Can Stop Telling Trans People You Don’t Want to Date Them

Every so often, there is a flurry of discussion and arguments in the online LGBT+ community about whether or not it is transphobic to say that you won’t date someone who is trans. That argument is once again happening, mainly among Youtubers, but I wanted to share my thoughts. 

Cis people who don’t want to to date trans folks argue that it is simply a preference, that you can’t help preferences, and therefore it’s not offensive or transphobic. I’m not going to spend too much time dwelling on why it actually is transphobic to say that you just “don’t like” or “aren’t attracted to” trans folks because a lot of it has already been said. Briefly, for those who are curious, it is transphobic for a few reasons. First, it is separating trans men from cis men and trans women from cis women. Second, it is making assumptions about trans folks bodies. Third, it is implying that you can tell if someone is or is not trans.

More than arguing about whether or not it is transphobic to say that you won’t date, or have any kind of romantic or sexual relationship, with a trans person, I want to take a minute and ask why do cis people feel the need to keep telling us that they don’t want to us? 

The most recent incident which caused this current conversation in the community involved YouTuber Arielle Scarcella who, despite having a very fraught past with the trans community, claims to be an LGBT advocate. Arielle, and others, keep arguing that they have every right to not want to date trans folks and that it is not transphobic. The first part is correct: no one is forcing you to date or sleep with a trans person. You never have to date someone that you don’t want to. Why do you feel the need to keep bringing it up? Why do you feel the need to keep making trans folks feel othered and dysphoric? Why do you feel the need to add fuel to the fire of hatred that trans people already face? Why can’t you keep it to yourself? 

We don’t need to hear that you don’t want to date us or don’t find us attractive. The whole world has always been telling us that we are not desirable, that we are not equal, that we are separate and less than our cis counterparts, we don’t need you to tell us too.  

[izzzzzzieeeeeeeee]

When I die, I want my bones fused into position so I’m flipping the bird with both hands, then I want to be launched into orbit so I’ll just end up this angry space skeleton constantly disapproving of everything that happens on earth.

Plus, they’ll have to change all astrology charts.

Jupiter is rising on Virgo, and the angry skeleton is moving into Aries.

[takealookatyourlife]

Athena blessed her with the ability to protect herself and men beheaded her for it.

[takealookatyourlife]

[bloodasredlipstick-deactivated2]

That’s actually a really intetesting intpretation of it I hadn’t thought of. Most people seem to think Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon as punishment for defiling her temple, but thinking that she did so to protect her from being abused again is interesting and I like it!

[gabyluvsxena]

Athena’s hands were tied. Yes, she was a powerful Goddess, but she was very much a woman in a “boys club”, and the true offending party (don’t think for a moment that Athena blamed Medusa for being raped in the temple, Athena knows better) held all the cards. There was nothing that Athena could do to punish the true criminal, and she was expected to punish Medusa by everyone else. What’s a Goddess to do when she cannot punish those who need to be punished and is expected to punish not only the truly innocent party, but her most beloved follower? Use that incredible brain power she had to protect Medusa at all costs, and of course the men would see it as punishment, to be have her beauty stripped from her and sent to live in the shadows. Medusa should have been KILLED for supposedly defiling the temple, whether she truly did or not, but she was given the gift of life, and the ability to protect herself and her daughters (who she bore thanks to Poseidon). This is why Medusa’s image was used to signify woman’s shelters and safe houses.

Medusa means “guardian; protectress”, and she was.

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@winestainreadings

[broomclosetwitches]

@xenaamazon I had never thought about Athena’s actions in such a way. I absolutely love your interpretation.  

[imaginecalazans]