I had fun once; it was terrible

This is the second coming of weighedandmeasured.tumblr.com It turns out that perhaps using an email from a college attended (and transferred from) six years ago is not the best course of action. Can't log back in to my old tumblr, but I've been here so long, I can't really leave.

[weighedandmeasured-redux]

НОТ УОUNG WОМАN'S ОСЕАN ОF LОVЕ SЕХ УОU САТСН НЕRЕ.

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[theveryworstthing]

the fight is harder each year.

[theveryworstthing]

gotta keep going because nothing ever stops.

[stillwatersofconsciousness]

imagine the sweetest guy in the world but he shouts every word he says

[nyanbinyuri]

[partialbirthabortion]

We really have harmed a whole generation of trans and gnc children by failing to communicate how serious a decision binding actually is, how there’s no ACTUALLY safe way to bind, how it permeneantly damages the body, how it can make top surgery more difficult in the future. I don’t think we should be keeping trans kids from binding (we let kids do all sorts of things they’re really not old enough to understand the potential consequences of) but we owe them the ability to make informed decisions at LEAST

[arty-ari]

So this is definitely an important conversation to have, but can you point me at some reading about “permanent damage”? I might just be lucky, but I had zero lasting effects from binding. I’d like to at least read up on it so I can have this conversation and be more specific than “be careful.”

[partialbirthabortion]

Of course! I can’t easily source right now but I am more than happy to provide further info when I am not at work and on mobile. Unfortunately, like a lot of trans healthcare, a lot of what we know about binding is anecdotal and word of mouth. BUT permeneant damage can include:

-Musculoskeletal damage. Binders are indiscriminate compression tools; they can’t flatten the chest without applying pressure every other anatomical structure underneath including the spine, ribs, lungs and heart. Many people who bind experience chronic back pain, shoulder pain, sharp stabbing chest pains, permeneantly decreased lung capacity, literal spine deformation, etc etc.

-A continuation of the above but the ribs are actually jointed bones. Their ability to flex is absolutely vital to their ability to withstand trauma and protect your vital organs. Imagine the damage that would be done to your elbow if your bent your arm to full flexion and then tightly bound it closed like that, for six, eight, twelve hours per day, every day, for weeks or months or years. And you don’t NEED a functioning arm to live!

-Tissue atrophy. Forcing chest tissue to lay in an unnatural way can and will change the way that tissue looks, even to risk of atrophy. Some people who bind and only moderately dislike the way their chest looks find that they HATE the way it looks after binding for a period of time. Tissue atrophy can also make top surgery more difficult in the future, and increase the risk of complications like nerve damage.

-Worsened dysphoria. Once someone starts binding and becomes accustomed to seeing themselves with a flat chest, it can be much more difficult to see yourself without one, and dysphoria that much more intolerable. You can imagine the psychological feedback loop of binding more in response.

The typical safety measures passed around about binding are harm REDUCTION measures and should not be advertised as making binding “safe.” Binding is not safe. It is a very serious health decision with long term consequences and should be treated as such. That doesn’t mean it’s the wrong decision, but it should not be considered the DEFAULT decision for chest dysphoria which is frankly how it’s currently treated.

[mikstapes]

gonna drop some links to read more:

Health impact of chest binding among transgender adults: a community-engaged, cross-sectional study Inside the Landmark, Long Overdue Study on Chest Binding  

Binding FAQ

Health Consequences of Chest Binding

[fandompariah-deactivated2021120]

@pooflyperfectprincess

[clothing-references]

Holy shit

[cruvcio]

Hogwarts Houses as Latin Phrases [click to enlarge ⚡  info]

[pervocracy]

If you actually look at the facts about plastics, most of the plastics in the ocean are fishing waste, and so developing better ways to manage and reduce waste in those industries, it'll have a bigger positive environmental impact.

This is true of almost any environmental issue, actually; the impact from industry is enormous, but individuals are heavily pressured to be virtuous in ways that make their lives less comfortable and impact about 0.1% of the situation.  (I.e., taking shorter showers when the real problem is industrial-scale farming of unsuitable crops in a desert.)

[sipisttoo]

I may never recover from finding out today that Winona Ryder married Keanu Reeves while filming in Romania in 1992 and legit does not know if it was legally binding or not,,, 25 years later and she’s just like lol idk

I BEG YOUR PARDON

[sipisttoo]

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED ME FOR THIS

[zillabean]

“I want to be a Paladin again…”

[archatlas]

The Most Iconic Libraries from Film and TV by Neville Johnson

From hit TV shows to blockbuster movies, libraries often find themselves at the centre of the action. Whether our favourite characters are quietly pursuing the answer to their problems through literature, or causing absolute mayhem between the bookshelves, they’ve served as a base for many a story. To help you get your head around some of modern media’s most famous libraries, Neville Johnson has dissected five of our favourites by studying their on-screen appearances. 

[ace-pidge]

Krolia: *is shown as being shorter than her partner*

Me:

[skindyedblue]

Whenever Hagrid finally decides to retire as Care of Magical Creatures professor you can bet your last knut that Charlie Weasley flies back to England the following week excitedly waving his resume and recommendation letters from no less than two Scamanders and the Minister of Magic, Hermione Granger.

[lost-in-a-wizarding-world]

I’m pretty sure he would also have recommendation letters from Rubeus Hagrid, the retiring professor, Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived and a very confusing one from Puddlemere United player, Oliver Wood, saying that he was one of the best Seekers he had ever seen.

[girlwhohas-everything]

Not to mention the fact that he flies back to England not on a broomstick or any other normal form of transportation, but landing on the Hogwarts grounds on the back of the largest dragon anyone has ever seen.

[headcanonsandmore]

Reblogging again for that last addition. 

[angry-badger-bitch]

Charlie: *glides in on a dragon* HELLO HIRE ME

Everyone: What the fuck

Ron: (in the background, mortified) this is normal

[bnnuyboikase]

keith look what you made him do

[glumshoe]

What? You look like you’ve never seen a robot who is also a detective before.

[valtsv]

honestly the funniest thing about the lord of the rings is how gandalf is literally a minor god sent to middle-earth by The Big Man Himself and yet literally nobody apart from the elves seems to recognise this or take him seriously

[valtsv]

like yeah gandalf is pretty grumpy most of the time but how would YOU feel if you were the fantasy equivalent of an angel and a bunch of people who only come up to your knee were just like “oh fuck it’s that spooky old wizard” every time you showed up for a friend’s birthday party

[awed-frog]

This is both amazing and profoundly irritating - the exact writing equivalent of that thing artists do - you know, how they’ll mess up anything that’s on expensive paper and planned in every single detail but get them doodling during a boring lesson and suddenly they’re Michel-bloody-angelo.

[comicweek]

The BatFamily 

Dustin Nguyen ( @duss005 )

[left-reminders]