Trans Cordelia Flyte

Vita. Trans woman. Dyke. Catholic. White/Mixed. Christian Socialist. 30s. No minors, trads, terfs, or fash.

[pisshandkerchief]

I have stopped writing the great american novel to look at tumblr.

[oldshowbiz]

The comedy section in every 1980s video store looked like this.

[psshaw]

Apple fanboys also always say “you can buy a dongle to have an audio jack” but listen. I have a dongle. I live with the dongle. I carry the dongle with me every day. I wouldn’t wish the dongle on my worst enemy. It is so long, and white. It’s humiliating. There’s a penis metaphor in there somewhere for someone who has the ability to feel emasculated. It’s bad for me, and it’s bad for the Apple brand. Owning the dongle is a daily admission that I bought an incomplete device. Also, the dongle doesn’t survive well in a pocket

[psshaw]

People have laughed at my dongle!

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically sad about a parasite outbreak in fresh vegetables.

[apricops]

say what you will about the historical figure of Cardinal Richelieu but the ‘black breastplate over cardinal’s robes’ look is some warhammer shit

[slowlymychaos]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Fyodor Andreyevich Bronnikov (Russian, 1827–1902) Martyr in the circus arena, 1869 Shadrin Museum of Local Lore. V.P. Biryukova, Kurgan region

[lightweightkate]

I’ve been cackling about this for like five minutes now

[uncharacter-istically]

[Video caption:

O-okay, let’s get into this, shall we?

*grumbling* Would you rather work for Lex Luthor or the Joker- *shouting* Lex Luthor, by like, a fucking mile!

Yes, yes, working for Lex Luthor is basically like being an Amazon employee that makes weapons of mass destruction, which is bad. Lex is like Donald Trump mixed with Mark Zuckerberg mixed with Jeffrey fucking Bezos, it’s not a great mix. He does not treat his henchmen well. Their lives still suck, and they are probably monitored on how long they take piss breaks for.

But let’s analyze what working for Lex Luthor is like versus the fucking Joker. With Lex you probably get a dental plan, a health plan, a paycheck, and the guy that you’re fighting really cares about human life. Superman will hit you just long enough to knock you out, so you’re not a treat, so he can stop the problem.

If you work for the Joker, your payment is you’re not fucking dead. You say one wrong thing? Bang. You don’t laugh at his jokes? Bang! You do laugh at his jokes? Bang! You think Joker gives a fuck about a henchman?

Who’s Lex Luthor’s right-hand-man? It’s a woman, you sexist, her name is Mercy, she’s awesome. Who’s Joker’s right-hand-man? Bob? Nah, he’s dead. Harley? Tried to kill her multiple times. Slappy? Who the fuck is Slappy?

The best case scenario of working for the Joker is that you fight the fucking Batman! And that presents its own fucking list of problems. If you stop Superman as a Lex Luthor henchman, Lex’ll be pissed, but he’ll be at least happy that Superman was caught. If you stop Batman as a Joker henchman, you better have a fucking coffin picked out yesterday.

This isn’t a fun hypothetical question, this is a screening technique that the doctors at Arkham use to determine your mental health! There is a right and a wrong answer to this question, and the correct one is Lex fucking Luthor. Thank you for coming to my fucking Ted Talk, have a nice day.

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[loveitorreblogit]

Bitch neither I work for Wayne Industries, they got better offers than work these clowns:

[gandalfsbignaturals]

batmans secret special attack is offering all of his enemys henchmen a living wage and guaranteed healthcare

[stuckinapril]

[stuckinapril]

happy if you have scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with your sexuality july

[penny-anna]

okay, for those interested, here is a full timeline of how we got to Count Binface:

1977: Star Wars is released, featuring, of course, Darth Vader

(Pictured: Darth Vader)

1984: Director Todd Durham releases his Star Wars parody movie, Hyperspace, featuring Darth Vader inspired villain Lord Buckethead.

(Pictured: Hyperspace poster featuring two Jawa-esque aliens flying through space in a shopping trolley.)

1987: Hyperspace is released on video in the UK, under the new title Gremloids.

(Pictured: Gremloids cover in the style of the original Star Wars poster, featuring Lord Buckethead.)

To promote the film, Mike Lee, the owner of the distributing company, ran for parliament as Lord Buckethead. He ran in Margaret Thatcher's constituency, Finchley, in order to get on TV. Lord Buckethead was representing the Gremloids party.

(Pictured: Lord Buckethead on TV with Margaret Thatcher.)

1992: Gremloids is re-released. Lord Buckethead rides again, this time against prime minister John Major in Huntingdon. (Here's a fun fact about Huntingdon: I was born there! :D) 87/92 Buckethead seems to have leaned pretty hard into the space supervillain thing, with campaign promises including 'demolish Birmingham to build a spaceport'.

(Pictured: Lord Buckethead on TV with John Major. Other notable candidates include Screaming Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Loony Party.)

2017: comedian Jon Harvey, having recently watched Gremloids and learned of Lord Buckethead's candidacy for parliament, decides it's a great bit. He runs against Theresa May in Maidenhead. 2017 Buckethead seems to have a wackier and also more political approach, with campaign promises ranging from nonsense like 'nationalise Adele' to gesturing at actually sensible policies with stuff like 'lower the voting age to 16 and restrict voting after age 80'.

He also made an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. As with his previous incarnation, he was a member of the Gremloids party.

(Pictured: Lord Buckethead dabbing on stage with Theresa May.)

2018: Director Todd Durham asserts his legal ownership of Lord Buckethead. Jon Harvey opted not to go to court over Buckethead and handed over the reins. Todd Durham extended an invitation to anyone who wanted to be the 'authorised' Lord Buckethead.

(Pictured: the new Lord Buckethead.)

2019: Lord Buckethead, now played by journalist David Hughes, stood against Boris Johnson in Uxbridge and South Ruislip. He ran for the Monster Raving Loony Party, the UK's pre-existing gag candidate party. He ran with a similarly silly manifesto as the 2017 incarnation, but with a bit less of a political edge. His promises included 'All doorways to be increased by 1 foot (30 cm) in height' and 'Nigel Farage to be sold for parts'.

(Pictured: Lord Buckethead and Count Binface square up.)

Meanwhile, Jon Harvey in his new persona Count Binface, also ran against Boris Johnson. Buckethead and Binface face off! Binface ran as an independent with a manifesto once again blending silly and semi-serious promises such as 'nationalising model railways' and 'giving £1 trillion a week to the NHS'. This was also I believe the debut of his promise to 'move the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a more sensible position'.

(Pictured: Count Binface presenting the offending hand dryer, inconveniently close to both the sink and the urinals.)

He has a point.

2021: Count Binface runs for the position of Mayor of London for the first time, with promises such as 'London to join the European Union'. He notably finished ahead of far right party UKIP.

2023: Count Binface runs in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election following Boris Johnson's resignation. He once again gets more votes than UKIP.

May 2024: Count Binface once again runs to be Mayor of London, debuting his now iconic 'build at least one affordable house' promise. Notably, he finished ahead of far right party Britain First.

(Pictured: Count Binface with Rishi Sunak. Also pictured: Monster Raving Loony Party candidate Sir Archibald Stanton with a ventriloquist's dummy.)

July 2024: Count Binface stands in the general election, running in Richmond and Northallerton against prime minister Rishi Sunak. He debuts his promise to cap the price of 99p flakes at 99p. This is his most successful election to date with 308 votes.

(Pictured: Count Binface with Andy Burnham. Also pictured: independent candidate Robert Pownell, dressed as a fox for his own reasons.)

June 2026: Count Binface stands in the Makerfield by-election against Andy Burnham, (recently) former Mayor of Manchester running for parliament with the intention of standing in the Labour Party leadership contest.

(Pictured: Count Binface on BBC's Newsnight.)

July 2026 (this week): Count Binface announces his intention to run against Nigel Farage in the upcoming Clacton by-election. He is briefly the only other candidate in the race and by the time other candidates announce themselves the narrative of 'Nigel Farage vs Count Binface' has already bedded in. And then it was now, and then I don't know what happened.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

For clarity's sake, Robert Pownall is dressed as a fox because he's an anti-fox hunting campaigner, and also he will be standing in the Farage Vs Binface election. So that's fun

[mintii-be-witchii]

Saints to Petition during Disability Pride Month

- St. Margaret of Castello. She was born with multiple deformities (blindness, spinal curvature, one leg shorter than the other, and a deformed arm) and she never grew taller than 4 feet. Her parents abandoned her at a shrine in Castello when she was 6. She was later on adopted by a loving couple that treated her kindly. She grew up to be a nun who nursed the sick, consoled the dying, and visited prisoners. During her funeral, a girl with deformed legs dragged herself up to St. Margaret’s casket, touched it, and gained the ability to walk. This miracle caused the priest overseeing her funeral to arrange for her burial to be inside of the church instead of the churchyard. That said, she is the patroness of the physically disabled and those who are abandoned because of ableism.

- St. Giles. He was born to a wealthy family in 650. After their deaths, he gave his inheritance to the poor. In Greece, he became known as a miracle worker, but he went into hiding in France so that people wouldn’t start worshipping him instead of God. He opted to live in a cave as a hermit for many years up until a deer ran in to hide from royal hunters. One of the hunters shot an arrow into the cave hoping to hit the deer, but it hit St. Giles’ leg instead. He begged to be left alone, but the king at the time sent doctors to tend to the wound he sustained. The king then had a monastery built for him and his followers where he eventually died in the early 8th century. He is a patron of the physically disabled (especially disabilities gained after an injury).

- St. Seraphina. The first 9 years of her life are unknown, but when she was 10, she was stricken by an illness (presumably tuberculosis or osteomyelitis) that began to paralyze her. She took comfort in St. Gregory and prayed for his intercession often. 5 years later, St. Gregory appeared to her and predicted that she would succumb to her illness in 8 days, to which she did. In the following years, many of the sick and disabled people who visited her grave were cured.

- St. Joseph of Cupertino. Born in 1603, it’s suspected that he had some form of neurodivergence. Absentmindedness, forgetfulness, a slow learner, aimlessly wandering around, and a bad temper. No matter how hard he tried, he never really seemed to fit in…until he became a priest. Despite his symptoms, he was always able to see the beauty in every little thing God made and often got lost in thought over it for days at a time. He was famous for miraculous healings of the sick and disabled. He also correctly predicted his own death.

- St. Dymphna. Not sure if I’m allowed to go over her story on here, but she’s a patroness of mental, psychiatric, neurological, and emotional disorders. She is a patroness of a few other things, too, but again, not sure if I’m allowed to get into it.

- While mostly known as a patroness of indigenous peoples & traditional ecological knowledge, St. Kateri Tekawitha is also petitioned for matters pertaining to visual impairments and facial deformities, scars, etc. She was struck by smallpox as a child and, while she survived, the sickness left her visually impaired and with permanent scarring on her face. When she died, it’s said that the scars on her miraculously cleared up.

- St. René Goupil. He was a surgeon and missionary. When he tried to become a Jesuit priest, he was rejected due to his hearing loss. He continued his volunteer missionary work and was later on martyred by Kanien'kehá:ka warriors after teaching a Kanien'kehá:ka child how to do the sign of the cross. He is a (unofficial) patron of the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

- St. Lidwina of Schiedam. When she was 15, she had a bad fall while ice skating and broke a rib. The rib didn’t heal properly which led to a gangrene that spread all throughout her body which left her paralyzed and she suffered from a few chronic and debilitating illnesses. She’s a patroness of ice skaters, the chronically ill, and those who experience chronic pain. Some suspect that she may have had multiple sclerosis, so she’s also a patroness of those who have MS.

If you know of other saints associated with disorders and/or disabilities, you can reblog this and add to the list!

[1five1two]

[decadent-hag]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

there is something very sad and humiliating about having to desperately beg doctors and family members to understand that involuntary institutionalization does not in fact help your mental health, knowing your perspective will always be dismissed at the end of the day

it's such an awful existence to be a psychiatric patient as a teenager, there has to be another way to help aggressively suicidal teenagers, such as addressing the circumstances that make them want to die so much in the first place! you can stop suicide by locking someone up, sure, but they will not want to live

[doe-eyed-disaster]

it's awful that researchers are only now starting to take this perspective seriously, but there is a small but growing body of study supporting exactly what patients have been saying about psychiatric incarceration. one study in particular, from Allegheny county in Pennsylvania, offers a damning analysis of involuntary psychiatric commitments:

For individuals whose cases are judgment calls, where some physicians would hospitalize but others would not, we find that hospitalization nearly doubles both the probability of dying by suicide or overdose and also nearly doubles the probability of being charged with a violent crime in the three months after evaluation. We provide evidence of earnings and housing disruptions as potential mechanisms. Our results suggest that, on the margin, the system we study is not achieving the intended effects of the policy.

[turnipoddity]

two divas having some quality time

[hazyhhh]

[worthless-mess]

"u look tired" dawg i'm going insane

[thundergrace]

If you live in Detroit, it is strongly recommended that you don't breathe.

[missanniewhimsy]

As someone in WI, this whole region is awful so please be careful friends! (7/16/2026)

[nyantara]

Please put on your N95s. The same ones used for covid will filter particulate pollution. I lived in a city with yearly winter pollution levels like this. If you can pay for it, you might as well get an indoor air filter to sleep in.

[ryanthedemiguy]

Do not double-mask — a second mask alters how the mask underneath rests against your face, and reduces its effectiveness by lessening the "seal" of the other mask.

[mtsodie]

genuinely it feels like this sometimes