Less than Three Questions

Weird things for imaginary people. She/they/it. 30. Talks about theatre, movies, horror, and being trans.

[ashleyloob]

Blåhaj pile

[milquetoast-zeitgeist]

[i-add-sources]

Were Gay Concentration Camp Prisoners 'Put Back in Prison' After World War II?

An online comedy series highlighted the fact that the end of the war did not mean the end of persecution for many gay German men.

This is true

Reading tip: https://www.amazon.com/Einsam-war-nie-Lutz-VanDijk/dp/3896560972#detailBullets_feature_div. It's published in at least German and Dutch, don't know about english. Günter Grau does have some other English (translated) publications that might be worth reading but I have not read those myself.

[astraldemise]

theres too many pokemon games where you play as a kid whos full of life and full of potential. there needs to be a pokemon game where you play as a college dropout who lives in a shitty apartment

[astraldemise]

your starter pokemon are trubbish, rattata and glameow. which symbolise the trash you keep forgetting to take out, the rats living in your walls and the stray cat you keep trying to befriend but it keeps hissing at you.

[astraldemise]

[astraldemise]

you guys dont get it its not supposed to be dark and edgy its supposed to be living in a mundane setting and slowly rediscovering the wonder in the world by going on a journey with a magical trash bag that is your friend, its about love and recovery and coping with the stress of your adult life with your friend who is made of sentient garbage

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

I’ve never been so attached to literal trash before

[sudorm-rfslash]

[pokefuseme]

I am similarly attached to the sentient trash. Can't wait to take him on little adventures

[nomadiclegends]

[mousidy]

we're abolishing gender! in the future people will just be referred to as AMAB or AFAB, no need for gender at all! 😀

[mousidy]

this is a progressive stance, you see, because AMAB and AFAB are different words from "man" and "woman." we're leaving such outdated concepts behind!

[mousidy]

no no no it's not "misgendering you." it doesn't refer to your gender, it refers to the sex you were assigned. that way we don't need gender anymore! you can just throw that old thing away

[mousidy]

now there's only two categories: AMABS and AFABS! so much simpler! what? no I didn't say there's only two genders. these aren't genders they're categories. this is progress we're making progress

[mousidy]

you want to change your assignment? because of what, your gender? no you don't need one of those, I said to get rid of it

[mousidy]

you know this started satirical but this is the logical endpoint of what so much of the "queer" community has already been doing. erasing transness by increasingly focusing instead on assigned sex at birth, something that truly cannot, by its definition, change. we're already doing the right's jobs for them, but if they realize this about agab language and adopt it too... trans people are really well and truly fucked, you know

[mousidy]

don't fucking let this happen, yeah? stop fucking throwing around "amab" and "afab" in place of "male" and "female" I'm begging you

[realflaminglily]

the right is so desperate to find something about "sex" that's immutable and permanent and unable to change just to delegitimise trans people that they've gone genitals to hormones to chromosomes. meanwhile the "left" have found what they've been looking for all along: "something a doctor said about you decades ago"

[closet-keys]

"biological" really just means "state enforced" at this point

"what is your state enforced sex?" "there are two state enforced genders" "use state enforced pronouns to identify students" "transition is against your body's state enforced purpose"

[capnsoapy]

When some TERFs started saying "biological name" (instead of "deadname") it really said this out loud.

[boccher]

transmisogynists like to say a lot of uncharitable things about how growing up transfem is like in my experience it's like you put a girl into a box surrounded by boys 5 days a week and let those boys do anything to her free of consequence and if she complains then everyone tells her that it's her fault for not trying hard enough to fit in with the boys and be like them and she is actually socially privileged to be allowed to grow up around boys and they lock her in the box

[boccher]

It's second nature for us transfems to understand how a closeted transfem behaves and presents, you kind of forget how the average person perceives them. Like genuinely, what do the people around me make of a depressed and friendless long-haired "boy" with an aversion to buying new clothes. What alternate explanation seems logical in their mind. I would have no clue.

[mousidy]

prev tags:

I was in the latter category 🙃 same hoodie every day, not looking in the mirror, don't perceive me

[riseofthecommonwoodpile-deactiv]

“I love the way the player’s body moves in Bloodborne: You can fly in any direction like that, like a nervous little bird. If you want to be close, you are instantly close, and if you want to be away, you are instantly away. What a gift. Of course everything is violent and wants to touch you, but if you are perfect, you will not be touched. There is a little secret here which perhaps you can notice: When the ugly monster’s limbs reach out to touch the small human’s body, there is about a tenth of a second—maybe less— where her body is invincible. It doesn’t even matter if she’s geometrically in harm’s way or not. She is safe because she timed it right, was perfect. See, even in this very hard game, there is something wonderful and fair: The game doesn’t care about the way bodies actually intersect. If your timing was correct, it agrees: “You were not touched.” Many games hide that tiny moment of invincibility within quick movement, and it feels so kind just knowing, no mater how bad you are, that if you could fit every moment of pain in that one tenth of a second you could be invincible for the rest of your life. Sometimes I wish I had this power in real life. If I had it would mean never having to say ‘no’ in so many words, nor the confrontation that sometimes comes with saying no. But that perfect, flawless dodge is not sustainable—you have to be devastated so many times to get the timing so flawless. And here’s my bad secret: when I killed this one monster, I didn’t do it by dodging flawlessly, but by mashing some awful weapon in her side while her limbs were flailing and she could not hit me back. Unfair and problematic of me, I know. So often, games’ expressive qualities are limited to the violent motion of virtual bodies, yet they can be extremely articulate within that vocabulary. As much as I want to be an untouchable angel of forgiveness and grace with a bottomless well of compassion for all living things, I keep messing up that dodge and I think it’s making me a bitch.”

— Aevee Bee, “I love my untouchable virtual body” (via goodbyemisery)

[drumandbassdoll-deactivated2023]

[pranks-zappa]

GEORGE: You know Jerry, I gotta say, I'm pretty UNNERVED at the impossible hallway outside your door.

JERRY: What do you mean, impossible?

GEORGE: I mean, in the dimensions of this building, it should not exist! It is a thing that should not be!

JERRY: George, that's ridiculous, you walk through there all the time.

GEORGE: And yet I cannot grasp how I manage to move through that space! It's a NonEuclidean hallway Jerry! NonEuclidean!

JERRY: What, you're crazy, I think that hallway is VERY Euclidean! It's a perfectly Euclidean hallway!

***KRAMER bursts through the door, somehow he is upside down***

JERRY: Kramer, do you think our hallway is NonEuclidean?

KRAMER: Oh, you're just putting that together now, huh?

[mousidy]

some of you never let go of the binary you just say "amab" and "afab" instead of "man" and "woman"

[mousidy]

[mousidy]

if you've medically transitioned at all, including by taking HRT, you probably don't have a body that fits into the male/female sex binary, and slapping "amab" and "afab" over it isn't gonna change that

I can't answer whether we should call that intersex or a "nonbinary sex" or what, but I'm begging you people to understand that TRANSITION CHANGES YOUR SEX

[mousidy]

TRANSITION CHANGES YOUR SEX

[homosexualisopod]

Kind of insane how worldview-altering the toothpaste is becoming to me

[mousidy]

honestly it's the perfect example, because SO MUCH propaganda has drilled it into our heads that "male" and "female" are rigid biological categories instead of labels ascribed to common clusters of traits

I think terfs and other right wingers have done such a thorough job saying we're "denying reality," framing the argument as "sex is real" vs. "sex is fake," that it's easy to think "I mean... chromosomes are a real thing, they do have a point there..." and start unconsciously buying into their definition of the week--chromosomes, gamete size, etc--and start thinking in binaries

but that's the thing! your hormones, your genitals, your chromosomes, your organs, the gametes you produce? those are all separate variables related to sex, and if you step back and look at the full picture, you'll realize individuals can have different configurations of all these variables, and each one affects how their body works and interacts with medicine in different ways

for most people, the statement "toothpaste doesn't work as well for women" is a useful shorthand to digest the information as it relates to themselves, but it's a statement that assumes a particular configuration of variables! you can't sub in "toothpaste doesn't work as well for afabs" and make the statement magically work for intersex and trans people too!!

ironically, the people saying "sex is real" are doing a lot of obfuscating about how sex actually works! the problem isn't that they're just not saying it wokely, the problem is that they're wrong

[valdevia]

Copper rot (Xylaria electrophaga) is a newly described fungus that, through yet unknown means, appears to obtain energy directly from electricity.

The adaptation, believed to have recently evolved from a wood-boring mushroom that fed on utility poles, lets this species enter cables through exposed metal, then grow outwards. This not only damages infrastructure, but often ends in a fire, which it uses to disperse its spores further. If encountering copper rot, it is not advised to touch it, as its white tips can conduct enough energy to cause electrocutions.

(Bestiary)

[chrispshakebake345reblogs]

oh my god i saw this without seeing the username first i got so scared

[valdevia]

Remember, kids!

The actual horror is reading things online without checking the context :)

[daughter-of-sapph0]

seeing tmes self identify with the slurs used against trans women is so fucking infuriating

even more infuriating is getting harassed and threatened for simply pointing this out

[mousidy]

saw a self described "afab trans woman" calling themself an "autogynephile" and I've never had the good fortune of being able to forget about it

[mousidy]

I get the impression that some people are drawn to transmisogynistic stereotypes and caricatures because they feel "edgy" and controversial, and they want to cosplay being edgy and controversial too, having no goddamn idea what it's actually like to have to live that

[mousidy]

see also: tme obsession with rocky horror

[mousidy]

see also also: drag race

[glitchlight]

The Nasdaq were a collection of economic spirits venerated the middle to end United States imperial wealth cults. Economic spirits, referred to as "stocks" (/stɑks/) in the obscure dialect of French spoken in the United States, were categorized into one of several "exchanges" ( /ɛksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/) based upon perceived impact and power. The Nasdaq are believed to have been held in higher esteem than other contemporaneously worshipped exchanges in the Dao and the Nysse. Shamans of the imperial wealth cults ("brokers" /ˈbɹoʊkɚ/) were known to sacrifice offerings ("layoffs") to the Nasdaq in hopes of receiving material and spiritual rewards from the supreme deity of the United States, The Free Market. Brokers were often known to interpret omens of the day by questioning the effect of such omens on the stocks.

[fipindustries]

i really im absolutely astounded at the phenomenal job that MIB did not to be racist against aliens, despite being a movie about secret agents chasing evil aliens. that scene where jay helps an alien mother to give birth is probably one of the most humanizing moments for an Other ive seen in a movie ever.

[fipindustries]

like it grabs the body snatcher trope from the cold war "aliens are all around you, hidden in diguzise, they could be any one of us!" and then it says "and theyre just people, theyre literally just people trying to live their lives and thats fine"

[fipindustries]

you literally have a whooe scene where a cop stands out because he says "i dont care how menacibg or threatning someone looks im not going to shoot them if there is a reasonable explination for what theyre doing, one is sneezing and one is just doing excercise", and that is the guy that gets aproved to join MIB.

[phaeton-flier]

The movie has a real love for NYC and immigrant culture as a part of that. The opening scene where K welcomes the undocumented immigrants to the United States. One alien greets another and says he's ordered him pierogi. A lot of them are refugees from their home worlds who just want to survive.

[maybeasunflower]

"Congratulations Bob, it's a ... squid"

[liirker-at-thresholds]

I really like how the scientology speedrunning trend is developing, in this clip we see that the participants are

Not deterred by the closed door

Working as a group

Protecting their identities

Inflicting material costs to the institution via property destruction

Getting away at the end

These ideas were not all here from the beginning. They are genuinely gaining experience that can be applied elsewhere

[liirker-at-thresholds]

The church of scientology is on tumblr and they are sending me anon asks telling me that they can't even commit to reporting a post

[landscape-suicide-deactivated20]

It is really funny how much some tumblr users build their understanding of what is taboo in a degenerate immoral fashion vs what is taboo in a subversive radical fashion exclusively on aesthetic appeal so they’re willing to drastically alter their moral stances based on what media they’re obsessing over currently

[landscape-suicide-deactivated20]

Blogger obsessed with posting about sexual cannibalism and toxic doomed yuri complaining about incest fetishization… you’re two Ginger Snaps gifsets and a Flowers in the Attic excerpt away from trying to recreate Single White Female with your mutuals

[adhdavinci]

[sandmandaddy69]

[captain-talla]

Hey it's me explaining the joke. This gets infinitely funnier when you realize that this is the art for a magic the gathering card named homicidal seclusion.