Transitional Natcromancy

It's ya girl Nat! I'm a trans lesbian and a socialist fighting for the the abolition of every possibility of oppression and exploitation. She/Her

[txttletale]

to posit that someone who begins transition (changing medically, socially, whatever) and then decides that they are unhappy with their new specific presentation, reception, body, &c. and chooses to make new changes in light of that realisation is "detrans/detransitioned" implies a 'one way only' theory of transition--that there a hegemonic, ur-body that one can progress further from or closer to against which all presentations are measured--& that there is always a potential 'reversion' to 'normal' within every transition that consists of bringing your presentation and body in line with what is expected from your assigned sex at birth, which is fundamentally different to making these changes in any other direction because it presents some sort of return (retvrn, perhaps!)

[correctopinionhaver]

[queer-as-city-folk]

If you are taking the car to Chicago, can you even call yourself a feminist. There are Women on that train who want to have gay sex with you but can't because you are taking a fucking car to Chicago

[queer-as-city-folk]

Right now there is a very buff Butch woman all alone in the Cafe car and she could be having steamy gay sex with you and be moving into your apartment if you were just willing to take the train to Chicago

[queer-as-city-folk]

I'm busy trying to get more lesbians to ride the train instead of taking their Subarus to Chicago

[1-700-aesthetics-deactivated202]

[cowboy]

whaoh why is uncle iroh giving zuko drugs

[konigstigerr]

uncle highroh lol

[cubtooth]

[fallingtowers]

"aw i love your earrings, they're so cute!" i say, making the barista's day. i sit down with my coffee and send a respected mutual an anon ask reading "you look like you've got that homestuck kinnie pussy." thus i have maintained the balance of suffering in the world for another day. as i wander down the beach of life, my footsteps do not even disturb its grains

[bunnyleghair]

IM GAY BABY!!!!

[kaereth]

Glitradora having some chill beach time for a kofi! I want this so bad >o<

[astralbondpro]

The Blues Brothers (1980) // Dir. John Landis

[marblesarelost]

Always reblog Jake and Elwood taking care of business.

[marinella-ela]

[i-am-dulaman]

[primatechnosynthpop]

[Video description: three kittens, a mother cat, and a human baby crowd around a small white plastic water fountain on the floor. Both the kittens and the baby bat curiously at the water. The audio is the cats meowing and a song playing softly from another room. End desc.

Added in the reblog are screenshotted tags reading "#ough, #many babies" in all caps. End ID]

[combaticon]

anyway DDOS ransom attacks suck but since people decided to uncritically spread racist and Islamophobic propaganda in the wake of a common internet attack, instead of donating more money to AO3 (which always gets all the money asked for and more) please consider donating to these organizations

The Rainbow Railroad helps LGBTQ+ people around the globe who face immediate physical danger due to the laws or policies of the countries they live in, up to and including helping people emigrate for safety. They also help with on-the-ground programs for people who they cannot help emigrate. I personally know and love someone who was helped by this organization. You can read their history here.

EATHAN is the East African Trans and Health Advocacy Network who are doing critical, on the ground work to aid, protect, and legislate for LGBTQ+ East Africans. They are active in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. You can donate and read about what they're up against here.

and remember, please to always think critically and kindly; it is very distressing to me how many people immediately bought into infowars level conspiracy just because a fanfiction website went down for a bit.

[uncanny-tranny]

One of my biggest pieces of advice for those taking injectable hormones is to make sure you're injecting at the right angle

For intramuscular (IM), you inject at a 90° angle.

For subcutaneous (SQ), you inject at a 45° angle.

Here is a graphic depicting what the angle of your injection should look like:

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[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[liberalsarecool]

Kavanaugh is dripping in privilege.

Mr I LIKE BEER wants to pretend he works for everything. Ask him about his country club dues, million dollar mortgage, and $200K in 'baseball tickets' got paid for.

[ladydrace]

Has anyone else noticed how, when you have a chronic condition of some kind, that there’s always the basic assumption from people around you that you’re not already doing everything you can?

[squidsqueen]

It’s all about the illusion of control. People who are healthy like to believe they can always keep being healthy if they do the right things. They don’t want to think about how good people get struck with terrible circumstances for no reason. So they keep assuming that if they got sick, they could do something to make it better. And if you’re still sick, that must mean you’ve done something wrong or not done enough.

[atalantapendrag]

Nail. Head. The same attitude can be seen in how a lot of people talk about poverty.

[queeranarchism]

And about being fat (which isn’t a bad thing at all, but people act like it is).

They also like to tell themselves that if they poor/sick/etc, they would have amazing willpower to do everything right, wouldn’t ever slack off or give up, wouldn’t prioritize pleasure.. when in reality (1) that wouldn’t fix the problem, (2) nobody can do that and (3) that’s a terrible way to live and we shouldn’t push people to live like that.

I have talked before about how being okay with your own vulnerability and mortality and flawlessness is a prerequisite for acting like a decent person and this is a huge example of that.

[foone]

A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.

This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.

But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.

But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!

And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.

But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.

[sreegs]

you know you've made it when you're googling problems and ending up with 0-9 results

[manyblinkinglights]

#you don't actually have to be good to have these problems#you just have to be obsessed with a micro-issue that no one else cares about

[teratocybernetics]

[depsidase]

[penandinkprincess]

it obviously makes sense, but one of my friend’s kids is going into swim class, and all the parents got an email today going, “when little ones are scared, they cling on to instructors. PLEASE trim their nails.” 

i don’t know why that’s so funny to me, but just. the idea of this poor, scratched swim instructor having to make sure to email before each class as a reminder to please declaw the children SENT me. 

[thenatcromancer]

Malaysian twitter is now in the throes of the trans bathroom debate god i just love living here =^]