10.000 years & you're still on your own

aime🕊️, fagged-out goth thing, 20s

[evilvillain123456789]

I'm sorry that you apparently felt "tortured" by my behavior. I personally love experimental research chemicals and would enjoy being force fed them while locked in a windowless cell but I can see how someone with a less positive additude might not enjoy that. Anyway sorry I guess. I hope you can get over your close mindedness since it's clearly a source of pain in your life.

[jessaerys]

hate when im reading and theres a word i dont know so i search it in the dictionary and its like: beuperer. noun. a person who beupers. i'll fucking kill you

[wyllzel]

hemlocke springs — be the girl! (feb. 13, 2026)

[sunlaine]

hate looking at a new novel to judge whether to try it out and the blurb is like a bad prose poem. tell me what the book is about ....

[tobermoriansass]

the ~nuanced~ version of this post is that:

while in theory i support the notion of nuance re. gender identifications of historical figures, this nuance moves in only one direction: everyone is presumed cis until they are proven trans. however, the presumption of automatic cis-ness is also very much an assumption, by which i mean that we are assuming that the historical figures understood themselves as men and women in the same way that cis people today understand themselves as men and women, which any serious study of historical sexgender will demonstrate is not really true at all.

what does it mean, for example, for an aristocratic historical "woman" to sign herself as male in order to access power and then to make use of that power, while referring to herself as female elsewhere? does this mean she has the same conceptualisation of her gender as, say, a working class woman in that same society? does this mean she even has the same conceptualisation of her gender as a fellow aristocratic woman who accepts her exclusion from the public terrains of power and accepts the limits of cisfemininity as it exists in that particular time period? why do we assume they share a similar conceptualisation? what happens if we break from the assumptions derived from the only 200 year old two-sex biological conceptualisation of gender in the back of our minds, or the assumption that "true" gender is always personal and private, and instead ask about the nuances of gender and self-concept that are going on here? do we in our biologically driven model of sexgender even have a concept of what this primarily sociopolitical gendered set of relations and identifications actually means? are we willing to begin destabilising that?

and here, mind you, i am presuming a willingness to even engage with transness and gender nonconformity in the more "modern" and "open" sense, but this is strictly not true, right? feminist readings of historical figures who dressed and spent their lives as men are riddled with modern assumptions about gender and indeed, many of the assumptions of r*dical f*minism specifically re. transness. other histories are riddled with blanchardian models of transness that conflate transness with sexual orientations - real trans people can only exist if the cross-dress to fuck people of their assigned sex, if they do this all the time. no possibility is left for the gay trans man, the lesbian trans woman, the nonbinary or gnc person, or trans people who only allow themselves to slip into transness in the interstices of otherwise cis lives, or even trans people with ambivalence or confusion or instability of their senses of selves. in other words there is no room for the nuances of gender nonconformity: either a figure is able to identify themselves legibly with a gender opposite to the one assigned at birth, or they are "cis" - and their cisness is largely assumed to be congruent with our modern understanding of cisness. these are histories that must be engaged and refuted before we can even proceed to the business of retrieving and salvaging transness from the historical record, even when they make - to the trans gaze - hilariously misguided and idiotic statements and obvious cissexual misreadings from the personal records left behind by these individuals. the trans gaze must prove its authority, its "objectivity", its capacity to read material this way before it can refute the cis gaze.

so like, in the grand scheme of things, i really don't think a bunch of people on tumblr getting excited about calling a historical figures trans is that harmful, when it serves to draw on these instances of gender incongruence - as fleeting as they might be - to ask if there are trans possibilities there. at the very least it might be interesting to interrogate our presumptions of cisness until proved otherwise! i thought, in fact, that we had covered all of that plenty of years ago.

[frostedmagnolias]

Black Silk Gauze Gown

c. 1866

Augusta Auctions

[havingapoemwithyou]

To a stranger by Walt Whitman

[dragon-png]

[sunlaine]

[Image description: a screenshot (overlayed with a rainbow filter) of Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney saying "Your pride...?"]

[prasinospathi]

rozencrantz left guildenstern on read

[guelwaar]

like in general making care work dependent on sentimentality is a fucking bad idea lol, to some extent you can't really prevent the fact that people interacting with one another will probably feel some type of way about each other but esp when you are taking on a role where people depend on you for basic bodily care tasks, necessary medications, proper performance of potentially dangerous procedures &c it's not actually about YOU or your feelings at all & the more you make it into that type of ego trip looking for self satisfaction because youre soooooo self sacrificing and empathetic and you love your patients sooooooooo much -- the less you actually see & think about & serve those patients. never confuse personal fondness for evidence you are doing right by that person -- completely irrelevant & not at all protective against or mutually exclusive of abuse. people who are disliked or dislikable also need care! you signed up to provide it to them. if you cannot do bear to do that and do it fucking well then find a different job

[dickstolebyanalien]

i'll show you yours if you show me mine

[bugshroom]

my mind palace is not up to code

[maskdoll]

duckduckgo is a great search engine if you hate finding what you want

[kuttithevangu]

Gentle notice that “highbrow” and “lowbrow” are eugenics/race science terms and it may be better to just quietly retire them in casual discussions of art

[filmphotofranz]

[kelpiehoof]

image description:

Tweet by Stella Sacco at antlervel.vet reading

"Have you identified a pervasive societal problem or was that one person weird to you"

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[letterful]

The Kind of Short Stories People Really Want to Read

moral judgment on Reddit.com

The literary genres that maintain their popularity now are not the sort of thing that most literature professors would want to spend much time on: science fiction stories, fanfiction, and litRPGs, for example. But if I had to choose the most popular kind of short story today, I would choose that old Reddit chestnut, the “am I the asshole?” (AITA) post. For the uninitiated, the genre works like this: the original poster (OP) describes a scenario in their life where they have been accused of treating someone else poorly. They appeal to their audience of readers, who render a verdict on whether this person is the “asshole” in the situation. (...) Reading AITA posts is something like reading the penny-dreadfuls of the nineteenth century. (...) They are avowedly not journalistic, and they’re all about middle-class manners, one of prose fiction’s most enduring themes. And anyway, the line between fiction (invented, not-true) and nonfiction (discovered, true) has never been that solid. 

[op-la]

"Who are you, Louis?"

For @ldpdlweek2026 day 4 - guilt | reconciliation and forgiveness

You can get this as a print here