Professional Trash Can

Mit | Non-binary / Demiboy | "Artist" | (they/them) (he/him)

[wound-snail]

Why the fuck, do you have to be such a shit??

Why

[wound-snail]

¿Dónde está mi casa?

Mi casa me encerró durante 19 años en un inmutable martirio de manipulación emocional, terror psicológico, gritos, depresión y aislamiento. Un día me dijo que no quería saber de mí, ¿cómo alguien te va a querer así?

La siguiente me acompañó en silencio, me enseñó a dar sin expectativas y a disfrutar de las pequeñas rarezas.

Otra huyó lejos, y sin darse cuenta me abandonó, cuando intenté abrazarla me empujó para salvarse.

Durante mi búsqueda confié demasiado y en medio de la confusión, me robaron la confianza.

Entonces intenté desesperadamente construir una nueva casa, pero los materiales eran falsos y al final sólo quedó una de sus piezas.

No quise rendirme, así que intenté construir una segunda con mejores materiales, con bases más sólidas, con esfuerzos conscientes, con cuidados detallados. Muchas veces se cayeron algunos pedazos que me golpearon en su trayecto al suelo, quizá no los escogí bien, no los aseguré lo suficiente. Otros se quedaron en su lugar e hicieron raíces, incluso florearon, pero fueron únicos aquellos que dieron fruto. No sé en qué momento mi casa se pudrió, cuando retiré la pintura me dí cuenta de que el problema era enorme, y entonces mi casa me dijo que ya no era más, se arrancó de sus cimientos y se fue.

Ahora no sé dónde estoy, estoy aquí y estoy allá, pero no estoy en ningún lado.

¿Dónde está mi casa?

[wound-snail]

Hello void, imma install Candy Crush and begin my downfall into the dark pit of depression

[kosmogrl]

2026 ins:

- being cringe

- whimsymaxing

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[endykelopaedia]

forgot how white this website is and expected there to be more uproar about the US bombing my home country, nigeria, on christmas day. my mistake!

[endykelopaedia]

Sokoto state, a majority Muslim state in north-west Nigeria was bombed on Christmas day. It is still unclear how many bombs were dropped and where. Confirmed is a bomb dropped on a Mosque in Jabo, killing 5 people.

Trump has claimed that this is in retaliation of the "Christian genocide" happening in Nigeria, committed by "radical Islamists" of the ISIL (ISIS), and the specific choosing of Christmas day was to reify that this is a religious based retaliation.

This Christmas, I am in Nigeria. My family is majority Christian. We are without fear of being persecuted on the basis of our religion. So, what is going on?

There is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. Nigeria is a complex country that faces a lot of violence, exploitation and subsequent neglect from our government. But it is not Christians being targeted in our country. This insidious piece of misinformation has been dutifully organised by US officials for months and gained steam on platforms like X and Truth Social.

I do not believe though, that this action was done to fight Islamic terrorists or protect Nigerian Christians. The reason being:

Sokoto state is not a state with ISIL activity.

This is another display of US throwing its weight around, conveniently, onto the most oil-rich country in Africa.

Do not believe everything the US tells you about its foreign affairs. The US will gladly spill blood on the flimsiest of justifications just to continue gorging its empire.

Please keep love in your hearts for the Nigerian people.

[wound-snail]

I'm too queer for 36 hours with extended family

-sigh-

[vonlipwig]

I just thought 'oh man at least labubus didn't overlap with nfts' and the wave of relief that washed over me was so potent I felt dizzy

[yb-cringe]

happy normal fuckin day to everyone who doesnt celebrate christmas or rly any holidays today n tomorrow. hope you have an average day. hope its chill like any other

[sparrowsocks]

Have a day

[yb-cringe]

have a day yeah

[pigswithwings]

but whatever i don't feel strongly about amatonormativity at all .

[pigswithwings]

i think it's bad that people of any age feel pressure to find a romantic partner. i think giggly "who's your crush" questions at age 9 are weird. i think young people getting into bad relationships because "it's what everyone does" is shit. i think that marriage should not be emphasised as the pinnacle of a relationship and frankly i think that marriage should not be expected at all from romantic relationships. i think that there needs to be more embracing of qprs and friendships and simply not getting a romantic partner. i think it's weird that half the time when you do something nice for someone people wonder if you're flirting. i think that people can and do care deeply about each other without needing to subscribe to the mainstream ideas of love. i think that there should be less of an emphasis on "love" in general. i think the idea of what is "romantic" versus "platonic" is different for everyone and therefore doesn't really have a use except to evoke vague ideas about social customs

[pigswithwings]

[wound-snail]

It's curious how I've come to terms with the fact that my extended family will simply not stop misgendering and dead-naming me during the holidays. Yet, I firmly believe they would gladly donate a kidney to me if I needed...

I can feel genuine love every time I've come to visit, and I know they'd notice my absence if I'd stop.

I think, I've grown to believe that sometimes loving it's just simply accepting the genuine gestures that other people offer, because that's everything they've got to give. I guess, that might result in some sort of one-sided relationship, but maybe by focusing on the things that I might believe are lacking I may be leaving empty spots for the other end. Maybe other people believe I'm also lacking in my own ways.

Idk...

I can't deny I'm a little annoyed and upset after all these years of transition... But I think I can give something up and deal with some discomfort from time to time, if that means I can reciprocate some of the love I'm receiving

[rotisseries]

the fact there were porn games for the atari is perhaps the truest example of indomitable human spirit. imagine spending 40 dollars in 1983 to jack off to this

[united-hairlines]

[adelphicoracle]

BEST TAG EVER:

[mixelation]

things ppl often get wrong in academia AUs (specifically ones in modern university settings with focus on graduate students & professors):

no one is spending enough time complaining about writing

hierarchy is wrong. your grad student TA is not a professor or faculty and might not even be considered an employee. that 32 year old man is not a full professor no matter how talented he is or how old you think 30+ is, and he should be talking more about "the tenure clock"

grad students only ever taking or TAing classes & never doing research or working on their thesis/dissertation. there are masters programs with no thesis component so i'm sure there are ones that have no research requirement, but you can't get a PhD only taking classes

everyone has too much money. but also if it's set in the US there's an obsession with accumulating student debt for positions that generally you would not have to take out loans for

relationship with academic advisor never sufficiently unhinged

not enough discussion of stats where it's obvious everyone only barely understands what's happening

[mixelation]

"what is a sufficiently unhinged student-advisor relationship?"

link to the article

[argentsunshine]

well you know what they say. when you've invested billions of dollars into hammers every problem looks like a nail and you keep handing these hammers to your users and they go "i don't really think i needed this hammer" and "but i don't have any nails that need hammering in right now" and "this is not a nail this is a glass vase that will break if i hit it with a hammer" and "didn't you used to have, like, other tools avaliable that might be better suited to this job" and you tell them to suck it up because you've replaced all your screwdrivers and wrenches and box cutters and crates and ladders and paint with hammers because your shareholders need to see an increase in value from your hammer investments

[asterosian]

“Do trans men belong in women’s spaces?” I hate the phrasing of that question entirely. It’s secretly multiple questions disguised as one while using a vague term that serves no purpose other than to lead someone to a specific conclusion.

So let’s rephrase it.

“Do trans men belong in women’s spaces clinics that offer services meant for those with vaginas, uteruses, etc?” If they have the relevant anatomy that needs care, then obviously yes. I’m sorry, do you want trans men to get cancer and die because it went undetected too long? Because that’s how you get trans men to get cancer and die because it went undetected too long. Also, why is that space considered a women’s space to begin with and why should we let it stay that way?

“Do trans men belong in women’s spaces feminist advocacy groups fighting for abortion rights?” Yes because leaving trans men out means the people writing the law can simply forget trans men exist and write it in such a way where some asshole familiar with the law can use the exact wording to justify denying necessary care to a trans man because he is a trans man. If the law says “no woman should be denied access to abortion care…” and the trans man is legally a man, he will find himself in the same situation as the trans man who gets that phone call from his insurance saying “hey, sorry, but since you’re a man, we’re not covering that pap smear and you will be charged the full amount.” Not just in terms of paying either. “If you were a real man, you wouldn’t need an abortion. Come back after you fix your documents so they indicate you’re a female, but like, maybe motherhood would fix you so. Idk not my problem anymore. Goodbye!”

“Do trans men belong in women’s spaces lesbian book clubs or whatever?” They’re probably already there anyway and they’re not causing any problems just by being men in what is traditionally a women’s only thing. Plus, chances are they’ve been there since before coming out as trans so you’d just be kicking him out for coming out. I don’t have to explain to anyone why that’s kind of messed up, right?

“Do trans men belong in women’s spaces Should we kick people out of our arbitrarily female-only group if they come out as trans?” I guess I have to explain after all. It’s not gender validating for us to be suddenly ejected from every space we’ve found friends in before. You’re punishing someone for being trans. That’s all they did, was be trans.

[asterosian]

You’re still effectively punishing a trans person for coming out. I can guarantee there have been trans man lesbians for longer than you’ve been alive. But interesting choice to call trans men cunts while telling us to cry about… social isolation as a result of being trans. Why not complain about butch flight and how we’re betraying womanhood while you’re at it?

Also, don’t reblog my post just to piss and moan in the tags about some part you don’t like. Either make your own post or shut up.

Edit: removed part of this cause turns out this is from a trans man who hates his own community. Thats on me for assuming, though in fairness I’ve mainly heard this argument from cis women who think my very existence is revolting.

[queen-of-obsessing]

i love that people say "we'll never have another lord of the rings" when it comes to people writing fantasy novels and trying to create the Next Big Thing TM

because the current plot of fantasy novels - "there's evil rising and the chosen one has to defeat it before it takes over the whole world" isn't even the plot of lord of the rings.

the actual plot of lotr is "the evil is here, everything has gone to shit and we have no other cards left to play except trust this random guy to save us" with zero guarantees that it will actually work.

it's literally a hopeless, post-apocalyptic hail mary mission with barely any magic set in a fantastical world

we haven't had our next lotr because no one's bothered to divert from tired tropes to write one

[breeyn]

It's also about how team work is essential and ✨everyone✨, no matter how insignificant they seem, can make crucially important contributions to the outcome. Which frankly is a message we really need emphasized right now