[ s a l i e n t ]

alex, he/they. 25 (🔞/mdni/etc). relentless optimist (nihilism subtype). into phil ochs and isaac asimov a Normal Amount.

[stephenbyerley]

the grave-digger puts on the forceps

hi, i’m alex/asimov/whatever you want to call me really. i’m a nonbinary transfxg (he/they) who’s had this blog for >10 years now, tho i did take a prolonged sabbatical in my late teenage & early adulthood. here you’ll find a mishmash of things i think are funnie, politics, my interests, and random ramblings. i’m also one of those annoying people who yaps in the tags a lot, sorry. more—one might even say tmi—under the cut.

some fun and/or boring facts about me, in no particular order:

ive had phalloplasty (ALT specifically)! transition (especially surgical) is a major interest of mine so please feel free to ask me anything. seriously, i have zero boundaries and looove talking about this shit.

i live in toronto

i have a partner whomst i love very much

you can see my face at #alexelfie

i am obscenely horny for old men, all things grotesque, and fucked-up dynamics

i’m a leftist who is not well-read enough to narrow my political ideology down to a particular label but i usually describe myself as a commie. it’s close enough, at least.

i love diy projects, i like knowing how things work and being able to take them apart & put them back together :)

i am terrible at taking initiative but i am always happy to chat about anything & everything! you can always slide into my inbox/dms and treat me with whatever level of familiarity you like and i’ll reciprocate. conversely, if i ever come off as too familiar, let me know and i’ll back off.

i am a very honest and genuine person—it’s something i pride myself on. i am happy to (over)explain myself if i ever say anything that doesn’t make sense or raises an eyebrow, and i always want to be corrected and given more info when i’m wrong about something.

related to the above, i can be obnoxiously pedantic. i do my best to rein it in when it’s something unimportant or just a joke, but it’s a deeply ingrained habit. feel free to call me out on this. i rarely intend to be condescending, but i know i can come off that way, and it’s something i’m working on.

thanks for reading & hope you enjoy my blag!

[kikmessenger]

sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

[kikmessenger]

skips a stone over a few posts

[ferrettaur]

So like an hour ago I just lear🪨︵︵ned that— what the fuck was that. Someone just skipped a rock across my post did you see that

[lesbian-sweeney-todd]

if phrases like "afab bodies", "amab people", "afab healthcare" ever leave your mouth, you are at best being quite cissexist, and probably (due to the uneven nature of regendering/degendering) being grossly transmisogynist. stop believing in immutable binary sex and start using accurate language.

[undeadscenequeen]

i feel like a good way of thinking of it is your AGAB isnt a type of body, its something that happens to it, and arbitrarily at that. also lbr, not just cissexist, not just transmisogynist or transphobic in general, if you talk about bodies like there's 2 completely separate types and thats it i dont trust your opinions on intersex people. i honestly doubt these people even think of us 😭

[lesbian-sweeney-todd]

yeah totally. sex assignment is a medical-legal process. an “AMAB” person might not have the body parts that “AMAB bodies” have for any number of reasons (intersex, transsexual, etc)

[orcinus-veterinarius]

When I was 15-16, I talked my family out of visiting zoos (something we’d always loved) and even told people I no longer wanted to be a vet (my dream since 8) because I “loved animals too much.” Basically, I was a genuinely animal-loving kid with a computer who trusted the first thing I saw on Google, which was usually PETA.

All this to say… you can change your mind. You don’t have to cling to something when you have learned the information you were given was incorrect. You can grow.

[deadandwalking]

hey kitten. daddy needs to talk to you. your kink blog is great, but you are not highlighting the words correctly. kitten. stop highlighting. this is shit. did you seriously highlight that period. kitten.

[beartnie]

There’s a quote from Bert where he says he‘s “known big bird since he was a little bird” and the thought of it makes my heart cry so here’s that

[bearie]

click and drag to take maisy car for a drive around your dashboard

[bearie]

if you are on mobile good news! you can just move your phone around and it is like you are driving maisy car around the real world!

[mousidy]

the discourse on shaving and wearing makeup is starting again so i'll say one of the more subtle and consistent ways tme ppl have consistently fucked with me is by saying i'm not progressive for wanting to learn makeup and shave my legs lol

noooo don't transition that's so regressive haha. I'm progressive btw 🙂

[mousidy]

cis women are not on the hook for normalizing unshaven legs or bare faces because their performances of femininity are thought of as natural and innate. they go unremarked upon

trans women's femininity is treated as contrived and artificial, so every little thing we do to perform it is thought of as a Choice, which means we are Choosing to uphold regressive beauty standards

we and cis women are both held to the standard that women are supposed to have bare legs, but we are thought of as being responsible for this standard, rather than being influenced and subjugated by it just like every other woman is

[mousidy]

part of this comes from the idea that trans women are somehow immune to misogynistic standards. people seem to think that we won't face any consequence for not performing patriarchal standards of femininity, unlike ~real~ women, who are under ~real~ pressure to do these things. so the responsibility falls on us to normalize these things, because we are supposedly in the best position to do so

distressingly few people seem to have gotten it through their skulls that trans women are held to especially high standards of femininity, and the consequences for failing to perform it are especially bad

yes, we are punished for our femininity, but this does not mean we are rewarded for not achieving patriarchal femininity either. it's not either or. we are punished for both. there is not actually a win condition, trans womanhood is a double bind under patriarchy

[silverrdagger]

whatever 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

[jeroenapers]

Een ruïne van het modernisme in de jungle van Brazilië. Het nooit afgebouwde toeristenhotel Gávea Tourist Hotel nabij Rio de Janeiro. In 1953 begon Décio da Silva Pacheco met ontwerpen en in 1972(!!!) werd de bouw stil gelegd door de ontwikkelaar. 10 jaar terug werd nog een poging gedaan om het af te bouwen, met de komst van de WK voetbal, maar ook toen lukte het niet om deze flat af te bouwen.

[orcboxer]

by disagreeing with me on this topic, you're aligning yourself with everyone else who disagrees with me, which includes the Chaos Death Cult, and they chaos kill people so....

[lokaror]

we dont chaos kill that many people.

[orcboxer]

Well If You Say It's Not That Many

[herpsandbirds]

White-lined Marsupial Frog (Gastrotheca albolineata), female with eggs, family Hemiphractidae, endemic to SE Brazil

Eggs and tadpoles are carried in a pouch on the females back.

Photograph by Edelcio Muscat

[timberland-4-16-players]

just put my joint out on the open mind of a child searing it and instantly destroying his ability to dream or imagine. sad but i don't care

[freakoutgirl]

is it normal to want to cry at this image

[jakemorph]

the only “v” “tubers” i care about are the “root vegetables” i grow in my “vagina”. to all the haters who saw this post early on patreon and told me not to post it: kill yourselves, sincerely this time

[xenostalgic]

Bertie, please, this is the Augustine chapter. can we get back to Augustine

[wildgifthorses]

Vriska=Vriska