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[ultraviolet-ink]

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Art by the amazing and wonderful @pickledragon​

[gursevraq]

shipping the popular yaoi pairing but shaking my head while i do to indicate that i also care about the work's themes and other characters

[brakvrack]

FINALLY I GET TO SHARE THIS PICTURE

[background-character-341]

For all its faults Tumblr has truly ruined all other social media for me because my friends all have Instagram and are all trying to get me on Instagram more but every time I open Instagram there are like fifteen things screaming for my attention and when I get over myself long enough to start scrolling it's like. Where is my chronological dash. Where is the following-only option. Who are these people. Why are there so many videos. Everyone is screaming at me. And then before I know it I'm thirty minutes into scrolling and I haven't seen a single thing that I actually care about. At least on Tumblr when I see stuff I don't care about I know someone I follow has found a new interest.

[chronivore]

Lustige Blätter (German magazine, 1932)

[hylianane]

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

[aioleis]

24-year-old Tracy Chapman forced to fill in last minute and stuns Wembley Stadium into silence with just a guitar and her vocals, 1988.

[chrombits]

princess of the stage

[thesitharts]

Once you start noticing the erasure and exclusion of trans mascs in everything from media to academics you can never stop noticing it

[burning-gray-mon]

Back when I was in university we were asked to do a brief research exercise on a health condition impacting a community. Can't remember what I wanted to look at now, but it was something to do with the trans community.

Whatever it was, to put it this way, if there were 10 studies on the trans community as a whole, there were 3 on trans women and trans fems and 0 on trans men and trans mascs, and 0 on nonbinary people. All of the mixed studies were also pretty much useless for my purposes as well because they were all so lopsided.

I think I swapped to a bunch of different things - addiction rates, smoking, depression, mental health in general - nothing that was even roughly equal in looking at all of us. Trans men, trans mascs and nonbinary people are so under researched as to be nonexistent.

To keep this brief since I've rambled a bunch - this is a major issue health wise since we have not a lot of literature on what testosterone does to certain bodies. This can lead to major health complications, not because of the testosterone itself, but because there might be an interaction thats missed or a complication that's not noticed (which is the same for any medication that's under researched on certain bodies. This is not me scaring people off of hrt, this is me pointing out its a medication like any other.)

[genderkoolaid]

#the therapist who wrote my permission slip for hrt was a trans man#and during that appointment we talked about the erasure of trans men from basically everything#and i talked about an article i had read a week or so earlier about trans people and hiv#it very in depth about risks prevention treatment etc#except that it exclusively referenced trans women with a single sentence at the end basically saying 'oh trans men are at risk too'#less than a year later i saw that same therapist speaking at an hiv organization fundraising event#he talked about how he had just recently been diagnosed with hiv#and had to sit there while this doctor told him all about how the treatment options had never been tested on trans men#none of them#they knew that the treatment would work#but not how effective it would be in comparison to its effectiveness in other demographics#no idea what kind of side effects he might experience#how it would interact with his body and his hormones#what the long term effects would be#nothing#he had to sit there while his doctor told him he would have to be a guinea pig but its not like he has a choice#the only alternative is dying from aids#that whole thing was kind of a wake up call for me#and i started paying more attention getting tested regularly myself and all that sruff you're supposed to do#and over time i befriended the person who did most of my testing#they were also trans masc and we would talk about this kind of stuff#and i told them i wanted to get on prep but every doctor i asked had a wildly different answer on if i even could take it#which verison i could take etc#and they said that only one form of prep has been approved fot trans men but its never actually been tested on trans men#and that one version isnt good for long term use because it has some pretty serious side effects long term#and they said that they regularly go to conferences and meet with representatives from all these drug companies#and they ask 'wheres the data on trans men' 'when are you doing clinical studies on trans men'#and the answer#every single time is: we have not done any studies on trans men and we have no intention to ever do studies on trans men#this is not some passive result of trans masc invisibility it is an active act of erasure that needs to be recognized as an act of violence

[quastions-i-dont-ask-on-main]

And then people say things like that when we point out that we're just.... Actively erased and ignored.

[catgirlcadaver-deactivated20241]

by far the best ad I’ve gotten on this app entirely because I tried rotating it out of sheer curiosity and absolutely nothing happened

[catgirlcadaver-deactivated20241]

[helenvaughans]

[zitasaurusrex]

[holdoncallfailed]

how it feels to post cringe fandom stuff on the cringe fandom website

[kyraltre]

Fandom is a potluck.

Everyone brings a dish to share. A table full of endless choices stands before you. Some dishes are labeled correctly, others arnt. Some are extra spicy so read notes and tags about the dishes.

But as you go down the table, you have the choice for what you put on your plate. Don't pick up the pasta if you're gluten-free. Avoid the stew if you don't like onions.

You have a choice again when you sit down and take a bite. Was the tater tot casserole not really what you wanted anymore? Cool, stop eating it.

Fandom is a potluck and you have a choice to not consume the things you don't like. You don't get a choice over what others bring to the potluck. You don't get to police others for what they want to eat either.

Don't be mad that we brought egg salad when you hate it. You're the one that is forcing yourself to eat it when we told you exactly what it is.

Don't like something? Don't put it on your plate and eat it. You do not get to be a bully and be mad that someone brought it and someone else likes it.

The fandom isn't all about you and your likes. We don't have to cater to you.

Find the dishes you like and just eat them. If you don't find anything you like, maybe it's time to contribute to the potluck yourself.

[coffygifs]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 3.05 “Homecoming”

BONUS:

[nox-3002]

been re-watching the ace attorney trilogy and just felt like drawing lotta :)

[yamelcakes]

I need to plaster this on every surface of my house tbh

[im-here-for-the-content]

Transcription of image titled, “Quick List: When Are Apologies Appropriate?”

SAY SORRY WHEN: (Column on the left side)

You’ve crossed a boundary

You become aware that someone felt hurt by an action of yours

You were mistaken about something

DON’T APOLOGIZE FOR: (Column on the right side)

Taking up space

Consuming resources

Existing

Expressing yourself

Asking for something

Asserting yourself

Putting yourself first

Being different

Disappointing others

Choosing what works for you

For saying no

For saying yes

For being happy

For being sad

For being upset

For having needs

For having feelings

For having wants

For being

[chilimayonnaise]

record store ruckus

[velvet4510]

Friendly reminder that not once does Faramir ever say "put that sword down if you want to marry me, I expect you to be a docile wife who doesn't fight and knows her place." He doesn't even mention a career as a healer.

All he does is affirm that Éowyn has accomplished her dream of achieving valor and renown, and he does not pity her for it; he ADMIRES her for it, and he'll love her no matter what, whether she's sad or happy (in sickness and in health, basically), then asks if she feels the same way about him.

It's Éowyn and only Éowyn who decides to be a healer and love all things that grow.

And his response to this is "well then if you want things that grow, I'll give you a whole garden!" Making good on his earlier vow and supporting her new dream.

Éowyn becomes a healer because SHE WANTS TO, not because any man, including her fiancé, tells her to.

[ayashitetsuko]

I love that this is a classic “once you decide to take a leap, everything will fall into place” situation

[tearfulnienna]

This is so so true! One of the best things about Faramir’s proposal is that it’s riddled with asides that boil down to “only if you want to.” Faramir isn’t in the business of forcing anyone to do anything.