The Man that Can™(?)

☆|Cain|trans man|He/Him|20+|☆ I post art on here, but this blog is mostly reblogs. This is a lgbtqia+ INCLUSIVE blog. I am still working on my study! I have it on a new blog that I'll link when I finish building it out with my resources and links! Thank you to everyone following on this project. It will take a long while due to the subject matter and how much I was to do with it, but I know in the end it will all be worth it. My askbox is open 24/7. Those who wonder, Free Palestine. My profile picture was drawn by one of the nicest people I've ever met https://www.tumblr.com/m3taphorical-cats The Adorable header drawn by http://mirosuikaaa.tumblr.com!

[transslyblue]

You know, sometimes I feel so smugly justified when someone calls me a snob just to turn around to say I was right

[transslyblue]

By the way, y'all, if you read this: DON'T leave water in your kettle. Whether it is electric or not. Water goes stale. Water grows mold. Your kettle WILL get moldy, and that's infinitely harder to clean and more expensive to replace than just clearing it out when you're done.

Also, every once in a while, especially with electric kettles and coffee makers, boil vinegar in it once, twice, then run CLEAN water through it at least twice to get it cleaned and cleared. This is so so important if you have hard water.

[transslyblue]

Since I'm still thinking about hard water and water quality for drinking. Another part of why you don't want water to sit in your kettle or coffee maker isn't just because of mold growth and stale water. But also limescale.

Hard water is different from soft water. Where I live, I have moderately hard water. It's why I filter my water from the intake and have to change the filters consistently.

Water hardness comes from how much the "forever chemicals" calcium and magnesium are measured. This isn't involving other contaminants. When the water is cold and running, calcium and magnesium stays desolved, but when water dries or heats up, the calcium and magnesium latches itself to whatever it's on, which leaves a white residue called limescale. It is safe to drink, but you really taste it. Also, it kills your kettles, coffee makers, and even other water appliances much faster over time since it has to work harder to heat up the water. So it's not only better to clear out your kettles to avoid stale water and mold, but also for its lifespan from limescale.

[transmascpolls]

Transmascs: if you play Stardew Valley, who do you romance in game the most?

Abigail

Alex

Emily

Elliot

Haley

Harvey

Leah

Maru

Penny

Sam

Sebastian

Shane

Remaining time: 6 days 8 hours

Unfortunately tumblr polls only allow 12 options, so it’s just going to be the original 12 romantic interests without an “other” option for mods and non-romance run stuff or a “see results”.

Sorry, take it up with tumblr! I would add more options if I could, but I don’t want to double up options and bias things.

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[lesvegas]

you can only reblog this if you're not racist

[love-ardour-anarchism]

Growing up dysphoric and closeted it’s so easy to view manhood as a prison, masculinity as it’s cruel warden and testosterone as poison.

When you’re raised inside a single room with no escape in sight, forced to contort your body and your soul out of shape to conform, how could you not?

But a room is just a room.

When we fight our way outside we come to realize there are others who were also raised in rooms like that.

And there’s some who upon gaining freedom decorate their room the way our prison was.

I have one piece of advice for you: sit with them. Drink some tea in that room that looks just like the one you almost died in. Internalize the fact that whoever lives there now is free to go and happy just to stay.

Manhood may not have been who you were. Masculinity might be foreign to you.

Testosterone might have done things to you that you hated.

But a room is just a room is just a room.

To someone else it’s home.

[tyriq-edits]

Is it ok to ask why you dislike the new odyssey? (From seeing the trailer itself, I do agree that it’s not accurate to the myth in some things)

1) calling it inaccurate to the myth is an UNDERSTATEMENT dear anon.

2) Nolan FUNDAMENTALLY misunderstands what the Odyssey is about and why it is such a significant text to greek and western culture as a whole. The slogan of the movie is: One man who defies the gods. THAT IS THE POLAR OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE ODYSSEY IS ABOUT!!!!! THE ODYSSEY AND GREEK MYTHOLOGY AS A WHOLE ARE LESSONS ON WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER DEFY THE GODS! The whole fucking reason why Odysseus is lost for a decade at sea is because he BROKE THE LAWS OF XENIA, the laws of the Zeus. The reason why Telemachus cannot simply throw out the suitors? XENIA! The Odyssey is there to teach the readers about Xenia.

3) no greek actors in sight anywhere. Imagine if Nolan made an adaptation of journey to the west and hired only white actors from the east coast.

4) The movie was filmed in the illegally occupied western Sahara, thus supporting settlements and colonialism

5) the movie looks like ASS. No colours, no interesting settings and everything is drowned in lights. And the costumes look like they are bought from the dollar store and spray painted. The entire movie looks like a 13 year old edgelord’s definition of “coolness”

6) the same way Nolan fundamentally misunderstands the point of the Odyssey, he also fundamentally misunderstands greek culture and history. WHY IS TELEMACHUS WEARING PANTS?!? WHY IS ANYONE WEARING PANTS?! Why does Odysseus’ boat look like a viking ship? Why does the suit of armour look roman???? WHERE IS THE BRONZE?! The COLOUR?! And this is not a “whoops we were off by a few hundred years in some artistic styles”. This is a “WE WERE OFF CENTURIES! Mycenean greece and the Roman Republic are 1200 years apart. 1200 YEARS!! At that point you might as well give Odysseus a jetpack. It’s like if i made a movie adaptation of Frankenstein, still set in the 1800s, and made Victor wear jeans and sneakers. It is THAT level of inaccurate. Pretty much the only historical accurate part in this movie is one of the suitors gay flirting with Telemachus as a way to assert dominance. Which yeah, is something the greeks did, using homosexuality as a way to dominate other men.

7) WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO LET AGAMEMNON AURA FARM? Agamemnon! AGA-FUCKING-MEMNON!!!! AURA FARMING?????????

8) Nolan is so preoccupied with being a pretentious fuckass that he lets this get in the way of his own art’s quality.

9) bro took out the whole “nobody blinded me” scene. You know… the story that just so HAPPENS TO BE THE CATACLYSM FOR THE WHOLE STORY!

10) it just fully gets rid of the gods. Poseidon? Never appears. Zeus? Never appears. Again Nolan is a pretentious asshole who tries to turn the Odyssey, again a book about the laws of the gods and why you need to respect them, into an atheist redditors wet dream. And i am saying this as a staunch cold hard atheist myself. Imagine if someone made a movie based on the new testament and just COMPLETELY left out God, the angels, the immaculate conception or that Jesus is the messiah.

11) After Nolan was done shooting the movie, instead of safely getting rid of all the equipment and stage props, HE JUST DUMPED IT ALL INTO THE OCEAN!

12) Zendaya (and I think some of the other actors but I’m not sure) wore ancient bronze discs that were stolen from an archeological dig and turned into Earrings to the premier of this movie. This whole movie LITERALLY supports art theft and the theft of ancient cultural artefacts by doing this. And as an archeologist specialised in ancient roman and greek history: I AM PISSED!!!!!!!!

I could go on for much much much much longer but these are some of my main points why I hate this movie with the same intensity that AM (from I have no mouth and I must scream) hates humans.

[dramatic-dolphin]

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

[hiveswap]

^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.

[sevenmoreminutes]

kurtis conner video: This Conservative Influencer is Crazy

drew gooden video: The us governments obsession with integrating ai into every facet of our daily lives is going to bring about the collapse of society if we don’t get of our ass and start taking action

danny gonzalez video: Buying Food on Ebay

[sevenmoreminutes]

eddy burback video: I did the russian sleep experiment for a month

[iamthelowercase]

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 1

What's your hypothesis, OP?

I am not talking about that unless I have results to share. That would bias the results.

I did write them down and I did share them with a trusted contact who can prove that I wrote them down the same day I made this post. (While I did so before I made this post, I am not sure they will be able to provide proof of that, because I did so on the same day.)

OP are you interested in...?

Do you have to click through to see the post? Does the clickthrough contain the words "mature content"? Then yes.

OP are you interested if the post is about...?

I am interested in the mature content labels, not the content of the post. Is there a clickthrough that contains the words "mature content"? Then yes.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 2

Should I reblog this for reach?

Yes, please. I felt really silly when I noticed I forgot to include that in the original post.

Is it okay if I send you my own posts?

Yes, those are perfect for what I'm looking for. I actually need to do some processing on a post to make it useful for testing my hypothesis, and this makes it easy.

Are you looking for "potentially mature content" also, or just "mature content"?

I want both, please. Anything that throws up a blocking screen that you have to click through. The distinctions between them are one of the things I am hoping to study.

Does it matter when the post was made originally?

Technically no. There's no way to respond to this without introducing some bias in the results, and I don't want that. However, I do collect some data on a post as part of making it useful to me, and that data is easier to collect if the post is recent.

What if I request content label review on a post after I send it to you?

I need to see the mature content label to be able to use the post. Because the mature content label hides the content of the post, it is very hard to use a post that no longer has a mature content label. You could send me a screenshot, but people could use that to lie to me.

Basically, it's more work for you to make it usable to me.

OP are you a transphobe? It would ruin the experiment for me if you're a transphobe.

I promise I'm not a transphobe and not doing this for transphobic reasons. You should still double-check that I'm not a transphobe for yourself, though. I am not sure that this study will have the useful effects you're hoping for; I am studying something specific, and it may not be what you hope.

[funstyle]

[recommending something i sincerely love] ok so the thing about it is it kinda sucks

[transslyblue]

I gotta say, my martial arts classes are going well.

I found out today I can do push-ups now! Also, the older students who have been there longer than me have been complmenting me on my progress and have been having me lead some of the stretches and basics

[transslyblue]

Ya'll, I am so tired of seeing and blocking people who keep talking about transmasculine experiences when they themselves are not transmasculine or talk to transmasculine people.

[zk-j]

If you tell tell a black transmasc that they have it easy because they're black I'm going to kill you with hammers. Non-negotiable.

[starlightomatic]

They hate us so much

[starlight-shadowbanned]

If you are a gentile I would like it if you reblogged this so that people can understand the kind of thing we’re dealing with right now. A lot of people think antisemitism isn’t real or isn’t a big deal. Your blog may be able to reach people mine cannot

[transslyblue]

I just found out about this proposal to change how federal funded grants are given.

This change states it is to improve transparency and accountability, but within the very first page, it will allow the current sitting government to have full oversight from funding to publication. This means that the current sitting government can and will refuse funding to all research and to researchers that do not align with their view, while also discriminating against the researcher(s) for being lgbtqia+, Black or Brown, and who do not have the same ideals.

We are still in time to publicly comment, but this window ends tomorrow, July 13th, 2026. Please comment while you can if you want to. These are just comments, so if you are uncomfortable with your name being on the comment, there is an anonymous option.

[mysticalspiders]

I feel like we don’t talk enough about how having chronic illness and/or chronic pain makes you irritable. It makes you grumpy. It can make you a not very fun person to be around. 

We don’t talk enough about the ugly sides of chronic illness/pain. The parts where you feel like a bad person not because of the pain in of itself but because everyone else thinks you are pushing them away. The times when you don’t bear it like a saint and the roughest edges of your personality come out. Where maybe you do hurt other people’s feelings. Its a complicated side of the experience thats resists an easy answer. 

[mysticalspiders]

Another more mundane but perhaps more insidious side to chronic illness, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, and probably other is the way it can hurt your friendships not in such a direct way as I describe in the post above but because you simply can’t be there. All the times when you have to cancel plans because you don’t have the energy or the ability to be with people. All the times when you can’t make plans in the first place.

It makes me feel like such a terrible friend to say I can’t hang out with you. And it makes me feel like I can’t ever truly deepen my friendships because I’m not able to put the time in that other people can.

[bowlingwithroman]

Howdy! I hope you've been doing alright lately.

I also wanted to send some colors from the moot post you reblogged:

Goldenrod - i really wanna sit next to you and watch a sunset/sunrise. or maybe just look at you.

Ruby - you are such a gem, you deserve so much better <3

Green - wanna go touch grass with me?

thank you for being so nice to me 🥹 I always appreciate it. you're great!!! I am existing, started a new med that makes me sick to my stomach lmao but I gotta take it. I also got a cpap machine for my sleep apnea and holy shit it feels like a torture device that gives you good sleep. #MyTorture

[transslyblue]

Aw, thank you!

I'm glad you're still existing if nothing else. Hopefully your new medication settles soon! Have you been getting good sleep with your cpap machine?

[bowlingwithroman]

yes, I actually feel rested for once. cpaps keep your airway open by pumping filtered air into the mask.

I have the full face mask and it kinda sucks, but I can swap it out with something else. my machine is humidified and even connects to an app to monitor my sleep. it's easy to use. where the tube connects to the mask rotates so moving around isn't too bad. I just don't like the pressurized sensation, freaks me out. but I like being able to sleep so I'll get used to it.

[transslyblue]

Wow, modern science is amazing. I'm glad to hear you're getting restful sleep, even if it's a weird feeling right now with the mask!