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[demonprincex]

statements like "It's wrong to masturbate about a person without their consent" and "It's wrong to do something that quietly arouses you while you are in public even if no one can see it" show that a person's understanding of morality basically involves magical thinking. like I wrote this post on the toilet. That's not the same thing as me literally shitting on you

[vickie21579]

bra strap

[txttletale]

if anything you're reading makes reference to the cultural practices or social structures of "indigenous societies" you should mentally annotate it with "WHICH ONES???" in bright red marker

[evilscientist3]

Theyre called draculas because they drank u. La

[jame7t]

Did anyone else hear just one single angelic note

[wizardshark]

[neiki-kc]

funnybunny yuri cause 1 tfem jax is the truth, 2 it's pride month, 3 tfem jax is pretty, 4 yuri

thank YOU for the discussion!!!!!!!

real talk tho so many ppl be hating on tfem jax and for WHAT she is literally so pretty like.......................................... what

[lamiafemme]

You really start to understand that the “angry black woman” and “mean lesbian” stereotype only exists to shame us for the fact we get reasonably upset about people wanting to horrifically abuse us indiscriminately. Let’s get meaner !

[sapphicsounds1312]

Remembering the time I got called a mean lesbian for not putting up with a transhet girl claiming compgay was a thing and that she was being "spoken over"

[hikes-and-moans]

UNPOPULAR OPINION: A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.

[juniepuppie]

i want to emphasize this, anyone transfem or otherwise tma will get less respect in lgbt spaces and this goes even more so if they dont present as femininely, or god forbid if presenting masculine. i experienced this firsthand. there are points in my transition where i was still boymoding, where i was trying to be feminine and various stages of doing this better as i got used to it, and times when i did not want to shave or dress fem or anything so i didnt. there was a time i identified as nonbinary and then started identifying as a woman. throughout all of this, i was treated worse than my tme peers. this includes my transmasc friends who still presented femininely, who although by wider society would be observed as women, in these lgbt spaces (even those trans focused) they would have their identity respected. i cannot say the same for me.

they werent treated lesser, i was. they werent questioned on their identity, i was. they werent degendered constantly, i was.

the difference was like night and day no matter what i did.

the reason you do not see 'subversive' trans women as often like you do trans men, those trans men who are happy still wearing dresses and having breasts and wearing makeup, is because if a trans woman tries to do this same thing she will lose what little clearance she is given to a feminine identity. trans women often do not get to be gender nonconforming because the very notion of there being men who would choose to become women is already too radical for society

[despazito]

[frostops]

i love saying "x if it was good". such a good phrase

[demilypyro]

every time I post about how awesome it is to be a girl some dude comes along and goes "this but about men" fuck youuu. hands off!! this is a girl post for girls. no boys allowed

[tpwrtrmnky]

we already have a mechanism for telling men that it's awesome to be them, it's called society

[tpwrtrmnky]

Look, over and over again trans women will say "I think transmisogyny is bad" only to be met with "so you hate trans men??" and I think it's actually you who hates trans men if you believe those statements are equivalent.

[tpwrtrmnky]

To be disappointed by someone necessitates a belief that they could have done better.

[tpwrtrmnky]

maybe this is a dumb question but why don’t amab trans ppl want to hang out in amab queer spaces

So a basic element of trans existence is a level of disagreement with the assignment, and it's generally been a fixture of trans politics since... Forever.......... To not enforce a grouping of people according to birth assignment

[taliabhattwrites]

Was not expecting this to be something that needed saying, but men are very transphobic.

[fleshengine]

cis gay men are annoying, next question

[angremlin]

Het can we back up? What the FUCK is an "AMAB queer space"? Unless you want to show me the secret places that are welcoming to cis men AND trans women BUT no one else, I'm pretty sure the only interpretation of the question is "why don't trans women just stay in MEN'S spaces", but of course they couldn't just SAY that bc it's both obvious and would obviously be transphobic to even suggest.

[tpwrtrmnky]

#the blog is obviously fake too#hey maybe we should be a bit more hesitant to answer leading questions from obvious trolls in good faith#3 different ppl in this thread entertained the nonsensical idea of an 'amab queer space'#and thats exactly why the ask was sent

Everyone in this thread knows that the question is bad faith, I chose to respond because it was incompetent enough to be useful as an illustration of the problems with expecting trans people to meaningfully associate with their birth gender assignment as a demographic group.

[frankendykes-monster]

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

literally nothing and i genuinely mean absolutely nothing in this world quite encompasses corporate detachment from the consumer quite like peggle_2_ode_to_joy.gif

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

upon its release to the xbox live arcade in 2009, peggle was THE top selling game for two solid weeks. within a month, more than 100,000 players were on the leaderboards. before it got to live arcade, it had been downloaded 50 million times.

and when it released for ios? holy fuck were they DROWNING in money. when they took a weekend to put the game on sale for a dollar, down from five, a couple months after release, they made as much in that one weekend as they did since its release. it was among the top paid apps for weeks.

with critics, peggle was among some of the top downloadable, mobile, and general best games of all time at the time of its release in 2007 and onwards, and it only shot up in popularity as they made it more accessible to more people. and this was in a time before candy crush.

the thing about simple addictive puzzle games is that they make you feel competent, confident, smart, and cool for being good at them. not everybody can learn how to aim in a shooter or the best strategy in an rpg. but anybodys grandmother or baby brother can play a simple puzzle game, and the nature of these games and the way they make you feel only makes you want to play more and more.

however very very fucking few people who play simple puzzle games that you can master on the toilet would be going to E3 in the early 2010s. remember in 2012 when every ~hardcore gamer~ would screech about ‘fake gamers’ who only play candy crush? thats what peggle was. it was THE crack mobile game from the pre-candycrush era.

no one who was excited about peggle was going to E3. the hundreds of thousands of people who played peggle were not the type of people who would consider going to (or even giving a shit about) E3.

but it sold like hot cakes, and candy crush was churning out content like a madman, and EA owned popcap now, so because the game sold amazingly, and because they wanted to keep cashing in on it, and because corporate drones who controlled the scripts didnt comprehend that their consumerbase isnt one homogeneous mass, they decided to announce peggle 2 at E3 2013.

but not just “oh by the way peggle 2”, no. peggle sold like skyrim, it sold like black ops, clearly they should be saving the best for last, they should announce it like it was the craziest most incredible announcement of the night!

thus:

but in all honesty it doesnt quite have the same impact without hearing ode to joy overtop of the deafening silence of the crowd. so heres a link too. timeless.

[illyamorous]

[stjohnstarling]

I watch a lot of old movies that nobody cares about any more, and this ends up filling in a lot of gaps in my cultural awareness. You would think knowing more about the world would make me more confident in my understanding of it, but you would be wrong.

The Barefoot Contessa (1954) is the life story of a poor Spanish woman who rises up to become one of the most famous actresses in the world. The movie does not bother to give her character traits beyond that she loves to have sex and also that she loves to run around barefoot (the fetishistic connotations are inescapable). She falls in love with a count and ultimately marries him. The big twist at the end of the movie is that her new husband had his dick blown off in the war and so they can't have sex (because, tragically, he never learned how to do hand stuff). Then he murders her for having an affair.

In 1978, Ina Garten bought a specialty food store that, for some unfathomable reason, someone had already named The Barefoot Contessa after this movie, which in 1999 became the title of her bestselling cookbook, which was then followed by a popular Food Network show. Now all of us need to deal with there being a TV cooking show called The Barefoot Contessa as part of the background radiation of our lives.

None of that makes any sense, and I am forced once more to confront the total lack of meaning in the world. It fills me with a terrifying sense of freedom.