Zafyrus

Just some bi guy who saw a bunch of P.M. Seymour vids and wanted in on the fun. Also now a certified Reddit migrant, here for the #196 tag. He/Him, Cis Man, over 18, might reblog 18+ stuff

[afurioushawk]

They waited until the literal last minute, got hand-slapped by a judge to get it done by noon, then hauled ass (hiding behind a curtain to remove the name). What a pathetic cultural end to this institution lmao.

[captain-price-returns]

Corporal Seyit (Seyit Ali Çabuk) demonstrates how he allegedly managed to move 215kg coastal artillery shells by himself (albeit with a wooden replica). When the British and French tried to force the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915, the mechanical crane system for the gun Seyit was assigned to was disabled under heavy bombardment. Seyit supposedly managed to load and fire the gun three times by himself, striking HMS Ocean below the waterline with one, and forcing the ship to drift into a naval mine.

[phlebotomies]

choices made in anger is such a crazy image. if you know what i'm talking about

[phlebotomies]

i'm gonna thrup

[ventismfsblog]

[despazito]

really loving this fake AI scandal of trump secretly meeting with the volturi

[despazito]

[pissvortex]

BREAKING: Trump Has Allegedly Signed The White-Gold Concordat And Is In League With The Thalmor 😳🚨

[pattern-recognition]

top ten moments of anti white racism of all time

[escuerzoresucitado]

[cutecipher]

never had a date check my credit score or debt

[kushblazer666]

[gunsandfireandshit]

[captain-price-returns]

Austro-Hungarian soldier sits on the remains of the caponier of Fort Hermann which was heavily damaged by Italian siege artillery. WWI

[grossvampire]

laughed myself sick last nioght imaging lotr gollum having a blog where he just talks normally while also signing all his posts in beautiful cursive for some reason. like this:

[slunch]

[blessyouhawkeye]

forever thinking about that girl at my uni orientation who, after being told to pour out her water bottle before entering an event, looked at me and said "they tell us to stay hydrated and then make us pour out our water, this is like totally kafkaesque" and then poured out what was very obviously an entire water bottle full of whiskey. hope she's doing well.

[feminist-space]

[feminist-space]

[ruimtetijd]

same energy:

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

gotta love the irony of the u.s. americans in the notes defending not putting their country name on international mail because their state is in the address, on a post about how u.s. americans themselves don't even know what country all their states are in.

[captain-price-returns]

Russian T-90A that fell off a bridge in Abkhazia, seen pre and post recovery. 2012

[kenway]

these 2 posts are essential ato texts to me like i can't think about hoshi/haruka without remembering them

[gwennafran]

Pale Lights - Think of The Story

Song, Angharad and Maryam

Pale Lights book 3, chapter 61

Angharad is convinced she's the sane one...

[kayla-denker]

Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

[kayla-denker]

I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

[kayla-denker]

Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.

[pangur-and-grim]

it’s funny bc I think I have a lot to learn, with blindspots that I’m still trying to fill in by reading more and talking to people etc, but when I’m hanging around certain family members I suddenly become The Wokest Person Alive just by merit of having made some attempt to not be shitty. and this isn’t level 3 discourse like “conflating submissiveness with a preference for bottoming is misogynistic”, it’s basic shit like “no, health is not a state of mind, and sick people are sick for reasons beyond bad attitude,” and “no, you should not loudly talk about how shocked you were that a Nigerian man was at grandma’s funeral,” and “please don’t say that about Jewish people,” and so on.

and usually they are willing to listen when I talk about this stuff, so there is a benefit to me being there, but holy crap is it a tonal shift going from online to real life.

[pangur-and-grim]

[sawnik]