Déagol but he's a Soviet citizen

every lotr adaptation you hated I love | (he/him 21 transsexual gay man) | not a lotr blog anymore but keeping the theme to preserve my history

[ichorknight]

driving my chevy to the levee today

[ichorknight]

what the fuck

[void-flesh]

2026 and we dont have cigarette that is good for you or strap you can feel. What is it all coming to.

[queertemporality]

something that frequently gets missed in discussions about kids and medical transition is the fact that kids are constantly having medical interventions forced on them without their consent and, in I’m sure many cases similar to my own, against their express wishes. i do wish there was more of an effort to unite discussions about the rights of trans kids and discussions about the rights of disabled kids (although I realize the framework I’m looking for here does exist: youth liberation). but specifically we should be focusing on how disabled kids (and all kids!) deserve autonomy when it comes to receiving medical treatment.

this is an objectively small example in the scheme of things (and frankly in my own childhood medical history…) but when i was a kid i had a painful and uncomfortable jaw realignment device glued in for a solid year and to this day i still do not know if it was “medically necessary” or if “medical reasons” were invoked to hide the fact that it was primarily cosmetic (and yes, I’m aware of the blurry overlap between “cosmetic” and “medically necessary”, particularly when it comes to orthodontics). the way they explained it was that my jaw in its pre-treatment state (minor underbite) would cause me significant pain and difficulty chewing and dental issues, etc. etc.

well, I didn’t have jaw pain/instability until the device was installed and I continue to have jaw pain/instability to this day. and who’s to say whether I would have had the same symptoms had I not undergone “correction”, but the point is that all the reasons I received for why I needed the device ended up being null and void because the things happened anyway. I don’t care if they would have been “worse” without intervention because I did not have the power to decline it.

you know what I don’t regret? my transition. you know what I do regret? many (arguably most) of the medical treatments i received as a child.

if I had been able to transition as a teen, I think I could have avoided a lot of grief. children’s lack of autonomy is the underlying issue and I wish more conversations on the topic of childhood transition were framed in terms of youth lib and expanded to include disabled kids.

[rubysapphrald]

sharing a wikipedia page is romantic

[rubysapphrald]

my favorites

[diosapate]

looking at your phone is always one of these two experiences

[pjharvey]

our age of blogs is collapsing

[yaoiblackmold]

All the vampire chronicles books (both Epub and PDF versions)

26 files

[daisywords]

the plot chickens (becomes scared of its own premise)

[samshepard]

Hey man. Not my mountain not my eagle not my liver. Not my problem

[fairycosmos]

a slaughterhouse. an outlet mall. slot machines. fear of god. you know the usual

[cassili]

[iskwekan]

brutalist phalloplasty #HisProletarianSlab

[iskwekan]

brutalist vaginoplasty #HerIronCurtains

[orteil42]

unconvinced i'll ever find "the vitamin" that makes me all better so i can get real work done but i do expect they'll elucidate whatever my deal was post-mortem, after which what i did manage to accomplish with my life will be regarded on the level of Beethoven composing despite being deaf or Gordon Ramsay cooking despite being british

[sansevierias]

[goldensunset]

ok i’ve been curious about something. can you name a character who is, all three at once,

1. canonically female (no variation)

2. canonically the protagonist of her story (if it’s an ensemble cast you have to say you can legitimately see her as The main character)

3. your personal #1 favorite character in that story (ties are acceptable)

?

yes

no

super nuance bald extract button (use this wisely)

Voting ended on7h

[eebie]

i named them cruelty of the heart and sickness of the mind

[cheesenames]

personally i do not prefer when stories engaging with complicated topics attempt to make themselves good educational resources on said complicated topics

[cheesenames]

and i understand that sometimes it's a very thin line between giving a realistic depiction of a serious topic and ending up in after-school special mode, but i also notice that no one is doing this when a character gets the flu (which kills many people every year) and PERSONALLY i don't love the patterns i'm vaguely sensing about which experiences can be depicted normally and which experiences must always be a learning opportunity