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I think a lot of my followers are 25+ so I wanna see something.

“Mid-twenties effect” is defined here as like, your moods and mental health leveling out and somewhat stabilizing. Not mental illness disappearing but a general decrease in mood turbulence and that feeling that everything is the end of the world mostly disappearing. And this usually happening around age 25 though anywhere like 24-27 would also count it you had to place an exact time where it “flipped”.

Did you experience the “mid-twenties effect”?

Yes

No, I am 28+ and this has not happened at all as of now

No, but I’m in the 24-27 range so there is still time

Yes, but this happened later in life for me than 24-27 (tell me in the notes)

Under 24 button

Voting ended onOct 6, 2025

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corantus

i dont do many ref sheets lately but i had the urge! for a while ive been thinking abt creating a lesbian dog to dress up in little outfits like a ken doll

she is a pit bull mutt, butch4butch, genius at home repair but really stupid at everything else

hollowgods-deactivated20250921

Being told to stop using em dashes in my writing because ChatGPT uses them a lot and people might think it's written by AI...

desinteresse

Apparently saying “Are you open to feedback?” is not considered a polite thing to say when someone tells you they’re moving in with the partner they met 2 months ago.

desinteresse

“Can’t you just be happy for me?” I don’t do improv acting

tpwrtrmnky

TME/TMA may naively seem like useful analytic tools but in my experience here are the discourses you get tangled in if you try to apply them as intended:

Actually there is no such thing as being "not affected" by a phenomenon. The entire world is interconnected. If a butterfly on the opposite side of the planet posts a transmisogynist callout, it'll result in a hurricane on the opposite side of the world, and do you know who that hurricane will harm? That's right, cis men with strong opinions on late-00s gaming culture.

What about this case of someone who isn't a trans woman, but has been assigned male at birth and fits these hallmarks of transfemininity? Has your umbrella term considered them? In this essay, I will deconstruct every flaw of your theory that I have projected onto you.

How dare you not let me into the TMA clubhouse? I'm literally nice??

This is bioessentialist as everyone "TME" is actually AFAB. Yep. There's no AMAB demographic that isn't trans women. None whatsoever. Never heard of one.

[Bizarre and incoherent invocation of intersex issues that completely erases the existence of intersex people who've been assigned male at birth and then transitioned]

The Magnus Archives? Haha my fandom!! Fandom mentioned!! :OOOOOOOO

if you think there are gendered power structures in society that makes you a terf. Everyone who says "TMA" is a terf.

I also think that TME is such a huge demographic with so many different relationships to patriarchal power structures that I've sort of soured on treating them as a cohesive group. Cis man transmisogyny, cis woman transmisogyny and trans man transmisogyny manifest very differently in practice.

No shade to people who continue using them but like. I'm so tired. It's so tiresome. I just genuinely prefer using other terms at this point.

tpwrtrmnky

Like don't get me wrong here, I think there's a real use case for them. They describe a specific power dynamic very effectively. It's just tedious as all shit to use them in public-facing discourse.

tpwrtrmnky

Basically I only feel comfortable using them if/when:

I feel they're the best terms for what I'm trying to talk about

I trust that the recipient actually knows what the fuck transmisogyny is, and not a pop-tumblr-politics version of it.

I trust that the recipient will know that I'm using a correct definition of transmisogyny.

I trust that the message won't be misrepresented through the lens of a failed understanding of transmisogyny regardless.

Now here's the thing: On my public Tumblr account those four conditions will never be satisfied simultaneously, and predicting who's going to fail conditions 2-4 does not relate to whether the recipient is TMA or TME.

Like let us not erase the hard work of the world's many TMA transmisogynists working day and night to fuck over their sisters for personal gain!

fintan-pyren

academic who writes a paper and just puts "credit to original author :)" for all their citations

fintan-pyren

The WHOLE POINT of this post was that this would be a bad thing to do, so you shouldn't do it with art either. This is a PRO-CITATION post. Stop complaining about citations and saying that you wish you could get away with this.

depsidase

c31l1ngf4n

@i-add-sources

i-add-sources

This is a Aug 3, 2025 tweet. I will get the most recent available data for each point

In 2023 the US was 55'th in life expectancy (UN via wikipedia)

In 2025 The us is 57'th on the free press index (RSF.org via wikipedia)

There is no one scale or ranking for education quality worldwide, and various rankings are so different they are impossible to average out

In 2025 the us was 24th on the world happiness report (Oxford University, UN, via wikipedia)

In 2025, the us was shared 17th on the human freedom index by Fraser institute, but this is a us-based institute and in the "freedom in the world" index 2024, the us was 53rd with a 84/100 (freedomhouse)

In 2024, the us is #1 in military spending both in $ and in % of gdp (SIPRI via wikipedia)

In 2025, the US is #1 in number of billionaires, 11th per capita (Forbes, Hurun, via wikipedia)

In 2024, The us was #1 in number of incarcerated people, 5th if taken per 100,000 inhabitants (World Prison Brief via Wikipedia

The us had 517,308 bankruptcies in 2024, but i cannot find a comparison per country from a trustworthy source.

I haven't been able to find a comparison of medical debt per country, either nominal or per capita, but the us is #1 in the amount of bankruptcies caused by medical debt, with 66,5% of personal bankruptcies caused by medical debts.

In 2021, the us was 2nd globally in gun deaths (homicide, suicide, accidents combined), but first in suicides

This is partially true

quasi-normalcy

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

You need to flood your democratic congresspeople with complaints telling them not to go for this.

quasi-normalcy

maythray

it rained today. it was quite nice. i got some of it on me and it felt nice and sweet.

maythray

in the high 70s today. i walked outside to go to my car and saw the oaks (?) in my neighborhood turning yellow. i hope this happens to the oaks right outside of my balcony, would be quite nice to watch the change. it is fall. its cloudy and drab and rainy but i couldnt be happier.

iamthetruestrepairman

women’s bodies weren’t “made” to do anything, nature didn’t “intend” anything, no human action is “unnatural” and there is no inherent “purpose” to a human life

pincushionsoup

queer-as-city-folk

Chicago!!!!!!!!!

queer-as-city-folk

It's been over a year, I miss her dearly ):

queer-as-city-folk

Like how the fuck is a girl expected to go over a year without Chicago

queer-as-city-folk

I need to find a way to fix this

queer-as-city-folk

Me if I was a pokemon trainer!

quasi-normalcy

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

You need to flood your democratic congresspeople with complaints telling them not to go for this.

quasi-normalcy

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

You need to flood your democratic congresspeople with complaints telling them not to go for this.

quasi-normalcy

queer-as-city-folk

correct women be like: chicago

EXACTLY!!!!

fatguarddog

"Yeah I get really turned on when people are kinda forward about wanting me" - person who struggles to feel desirable

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