hi :3c

Art blog is photophoros. he/him, 20, bi and trans

[curseworm]

the secret cheat code for women is realizing you dont have to date men

[curseworm]

this doesnt just go for lesbians it goes for bi women and straight women too. i cant even count how many times straight women have told me “i wish i was a lesbian so i didnt have to date men” but guess what … u Dont have to date men 

[curseworm]

to be clear this also isnt necessarily saying ‘go date women instead!!’ its just saying…. u dont have to date men. u dont have to be dating women in order to not date men! in fact if ur not attracted to women at all please dont date women just as a substitute for men. but if dating men isnt making u happy… u dont have to do that. u dont have to make a space in ur life for men

[curseworm]

im singlehandedly destroying every mans mental health by telling women its ok to not date them

[cannibal-flowerbomb]

Every reblog = less mental health awareness for men and more actual autonomy and love for women

[magicalastronomies]

Help out a disabled latina trans woman stay afloat?

Hi everyone, my name is Vi and I'm a trans woman from south america with a disabling neurological condition. I've had extensive nerve damage and years of underemployment has only make it worse to the point where my mobility is heavily compromised and my grip strength is barely nonexistent. Holding on to objects is an ordeal and moving around is extremely difficult.

To make matters worse, the price of groceries gets hiked up ridiculously month to month were i live, sometimes 20% or more, and minimum wage only covers about 1/4th of it, not even taking into account the prices of the medicine me and my mom need, since i struggle with diabetes and she's a cancer patient, and taking even less into account the costs of housing and constant trips to doctor's appointments.

I know things are tough for everyone but please, if you could help us out in any way possible I would be grateful from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for reading so far and I hope you have a good day.

paypal: https://paypal.me/V3nusP

kofi: https://ko-fi.com/S6S6IC6X

[communistkenobi]

honestly one of the top 3 best outcomes of my transition is that no one gives a shit about me anymore. I don’t get leered at in public (outside of clocking obviously), I don’t get sexually harassed by random men, I don’t get followed on the street or through malls by men, I don’t get called an ungrateful bitch for turning down a date, I don’t get sexually harassed at work or school, I don’t get random unsolicited nudes sent to me, I don’t get men being crybabies about me having a higher GPA than they do or making more money than they do, I don’t get disgusting comments about my body, I don’t get called a bitch or cunt or dyke. All the harassment and violence I have faced post-transition has always been because I’m transgender, not because I’m a man. Being invisible in public (RELATIVE TO THE WOMEN IN YOUR OWN DEMOGRAPHIC COHORTS) is an incredible privilege and I didn’t understand the sheer extent of that privilege until I transitioned. Men talk to me like a human being now! They ask for my opinion, they chat with me, they interact with me like a “normal person.” I became invisible in those interactions because I’m just treated like a person and not like a woman. If anything, transitioning made me hate men more, because it revealed to me how capable they are of talking to other people like human beings and not housemaids they can fuck and abuse.

So like the gall to complain about this is insane. Don’t you guys fucking remember what interacting with the world pre-transition was like? How dehumanised and violated and surveilled you felt? Ok so now imagine that there are still women in the world who experience that all the time. Now imagine there is a group of women who have to deal with all of that on top of also being the focus of a global extermination campaign, who have to deal with all of that sexual harassment AND transphobia AND violence at the same time. You want the privilege of being invisible while ALSO still being the centre of attention? What the fuck is wrong with you?

[mevil]

my beautiful wife that is scared of a closed window at night

[slitherpunk]

[birdyaviary]

[doomdos]

[purecinn]

the amazing digital circus

[milkperfume]

little fitz and the fool. they were boys together...

[doomdos]

[lava-lamps-forever]

[compassionlotion]

Help this doll👸🏾

Hi y’all❤️ Made another post & it got no traction so i’m making another one. I’m brie, i’m a black trans woman who is currently between jobs, I’m asking for assistance so I can get groceries & refill my metrocard because I have a bunch of fucking interviews this week. Just asking you see this please boost this. Literally anything helps.

Paypal

Cashapp

Venmo: @miss-brie-nicole

[compassionlotion]

please boost so I can get dinner tonight!

[grootficguy]

“Every Pokemon is someone’s favourite” I’m making a spreadsheet to see if this is true. Reblog with your favourite Pokemon in the tags.

Here’s the spreadsheet in-progress

[grootficguy]

Ok, mother of GOD that's a lot of responses and I am but one man with Excel. I'll update these ASAP but also some rules:

A Pokemon only counts for itself, not its evolution line.

A Pokemon with multiple forms (like Zygarde) will only be counted for the specified form. A Pokemon with multiple appearances (like Spinda, Vivillon, Sylvally, etc.) count for all their appearances.

I'm literally doing this as a testament to my own depression that not everyone is lovable, so add that to the weight of this post's meaning.

[thelastwhimzy]

its black history month and i am about to BE black history if i don't manage to keep myself afloat long enough to get myself to the surgery that may very well save my life in march and then through recovery afterwards 🫠

[thelastwhimzy]

i am essentially getting my insides rearranged next month to hopefully try and make it so i stop going septic every few weeks. cant work because im too ill and cant get more social / gov services than i am already getting rn so im in need of a lot of help. i need to keep up on my rent, pay for transportation to / from appointments when medical transport falls through, and potentially find someone to help care for me right after surgery if i cant do it myself. that all takes a lot of money that i don't have which is scary when you're barely holding on. would so greatly appreciate any $ y'all can spare, stuff has been incredibly rough and i am exhausted beyond belief

pypal | vnmo | cshpp | kof1

[thelastwhimzy]

hi can i get like $12 so i can get to my preferred emergency room please, my treatment resistant kidney infection seems to be turning into sepsis again

[thelastwhimzy]

okay yeah so i was right it did turn into sepsis again. im sorry to ask but if i could get like $70 for some things i need while inpatient it would be really helpful, i wasnt able to grab everything i needed before i left and idk how long ill be here

[thelastwhimzy]

have gotten $5 so far, still need this

[schoolhater]

reject the western gaze!

mutual aid means no hierarchy between givers and receivers

a new mutual aid org, Bridge of Solidarity, has been established in the gaza strip by 17 year old poet yazan mohammed in response to the exploitative practices conducted by some charities and encouraged by the existing charity-based model of fundraising for gaza. according to BoS: "the western attention economy and pity economy plays a large role in who lives or dies in gaza." essentially, people need to make themselves marketable in order to receive lifesaving aid; people who are not marketable die. yazan himself wrote about the damage this can do to one's self image, which you can read here.

after trying for a year to respect his own privacy, my friend siraj was also pressured into posting images of his son's emaciated body in order to gain sympathy from westerners.

we cannot keep forcing people to do this anymore.

here's a declaration of their values from bridge of solidarity's most recent post:

Our organization is against the Western gaze. We refuse to humiliate people. We refuse to force people to take photos. We refuse to force people to take photos with our flyer or logo. People will receive aid freely without being forced to pose. We will respect people's privacy completely. Our principles include autonomy, dignity, sovereignty, mutual respect, and mutual aid.

this org will prioritize giving aid to people without phones or social media, who do not speak english, and who do not have outside support or living parents. these are the people who are not palatable to westerners but who deserve to live with as much dignity as everyone else

as of five days ago, BoS are working on a water truck delivery

Bridge of Solidarity

(Arabic below) 

[doomedmutual]

[raspberryjamnnn]

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[userfish]

i hate when something violent happens to a right wing politician and every left leaning pundit and politician gets on their soap box about how "violence isn't the answer" as if the right wing ideology doesn't inherently encourage violence.

[userfish]

"his son just had his first birthday" they're separating families. they're attacking trans people. they're building concentration camps. they send "thoughts and prayers" for school shootings and don't enact real change to prevent others. they have stood by israel, which is bombing nurseries. they stormed the capitol and physically harmed others. and i'm supposed to be sad he got shot at?

[wasyago]

got into a new thing

[closet-keys]

It literally makes me feel like I'm losing my mind that almost no one in the global north on here will speak about, or even react to, the fact that the US is literally funding Israeli owned death traps for starving families.

The United States and Israel have made it impossible for all actual aid to enter Gaza. Then, private contractors from the United States created the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), with Israeli support, to "take over" aid distribution. They are preventing aid distribution by all humanitarian groups in Gaza that distribute aid in coordination with the U.N., and replacing them with GHF. These GHF sites are set up in collaboration with Israeli military to lure in starving families and gun them down.

[closet-keys]

Palestinians right here on tumblr have been discussing this for months, but so many people just reblog donation posts without even reading them.

Remember the post recently going around about ICE killing someone in California by throwing him off a roof and forcing all the witnesses to delete their footage (horrifying) where I added sources? that got SO many reactions in tags of "holy fuck" and "how is this happening" and general shock and outrage.

Even with all the reblogs, no one has reacted to my post about the food aid hubs in Gaza. Not even "no one has reacted with outrage," but just... no one has reacted in a way where it's clear they read it and felt or thought anything at all about it. Actually one person did, and it was a genocidal tangent dehumanizing Palestinians.

That's the state of things in the imperial core. Of the people who even pay attention, it's mostly people telling everyone else to tune out.

Hell, the US admits its doing this in our own papers. No one reacts. The US government doesn't need to hide anything cause everyone is willfully avoiding reading what we're doing to Palestine. It's grotesque.

[closet-keys]

Will you still reblog this post if I add links to fundraisers for my friends who are starving to death? Or will every last word blur into "oh this is a post asking for money, and nothing else about it is worth knowing"?

Nader is starving. His campaign is vetted (4). You can donate here. His blog is @abdalsalam2000

Fadel is starving. His campaign is vetted (197). You can donate here. His blog is @fadel-dani

Mahrah is starving. Her campaign is vetted. You can donate here. Her blog is @mahrahpalestine.

Mahmoud is starving. His campaign is vetted. You can donate here. His blog is @palestinian95

Ahmed is starving. His campaign is vetted (198). You can donate here. His blog is @ahmedaldani333

Are you still reading? Can you still see my words now that I've included links where you can donate? Did they disappear?

[onenicebugperday]

Leaf-footed bugs in the genus Paryphes, Coreidae

Photographed in Ecuador by Andreas Kay