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idk, I'm really not sure what to put here at this point.

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. I click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

Ragebaiting my fat dog? More like master baiting my fat hog!!!!!!!!

❗️Great Hog is displeased by this.

The kingly pig looks taken aback by this statement. "You claim to be 'baiting' our kind?.. A master of it, no less - after all the trust we hsve placed in you?"

- Your relationship with the Hog Society 🐖 is now Unfavourable.

*scrolling tumblr* hmmm. i agree with the sentiment of this post, but the phrasing feels off to me. it doesn’t really have that Reblog factor, you know? *scrolls* oh good, a post that just says “i jerk off till my penis scrweam” . i better reblog this

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When trans women are mocked and made into jokes in the media, I get very upset, and I am often told “Kay, you can’t go through life getting offended every time someone makes a joke.” And I sputter and object but they don’t hear me. So I want to be clear for once, about why the jokes make me angry.

I learned to hate myself for being transgender before I knew I was transgender. I laughed at the jokes in stand up comedy routines, and prime time sitcoms, and animated comedy shows, and in the movies, and in books, and in games, laughing at trans women for existing, about “men in dresses”, about people who “got their dicks chopped off”, and I learned to think that was worthy of ridicule.

And then a day came when I felt a pang of envy at what my female classmates were wearing and I repressed it, and felt guilty, and a day where I felt incomplete because I had no breasts and I repressed it and I felt disgusting And a day when I realized the only images of romance that made me feel anything showed two women together and I repressed it and I felt like a monster And a day when I realized I felt sick when I looked at myself in the mirror after every shower before work and couldn’t bear to look at my own face, and I hated myself. And then there came a day when I hated myself so much, and I thought I could never understand why, and so I just wanted it all to end. And it was just a miracle that I swerved my car back into my lane in time.

And all of it started with a joke that I heard on TV, and then kept hearing from all the voices from the ether, over and over and over, worming an idea into my mind before I was old enough to realize I was absorbing it, the idea that a man in a dress is funny, and that changing your body parts makes you a freak, and that women who have penises instead of vaginas are liars and hurt men. And they’re still making these jokes. And somewhere out there right now, just like all those years ago, there is a little girl in a t-shirt and cargo shorts with buzzed off hair watching the TV, hearing that joke and absorbing it without knowing it, who will someday have to pry herself apart to tear it out of her head, just like I did.

That is, if she doesn’t kill herself first.

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starlingsongs

I know this is a really heavy post but if you read it and you appreciated it, I’d appreciate it in return if you reblogged it. This is really important to me and I want people to read it and understand it. Thank you.

every time I'm too scared to pull the trigger on a bluesky post, I know I can post it here. you all get me.

Comedians in the '70s and cartoons in the '90s: weird how your kids can watch violence and murder on TV but the FCC wants us dead if we say the word nipple.

Internet users in 2025: you didn't warn me that there would be erotic themes in the game you just mentioned which is fucked up because I thought it was going to be a normal "morally struggle with killing people" game but now it's gone too far :-/

A lot of you are playing into a lot more reactionary of hands than I think you would like when you act like tits are more shocking than gun violence.

We need to call people posers again. We gotta. We just gotta. No you aren't a countercultural weirdo because you made a battle jacket, you get tangibly viscerally uncomfortable if someone is breast feeding in public and that is incredibly square of you.

my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who's my best friend in the world and recently he was like "you're too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!" and I was like "a niece might be more up my alley" and he just got more excited and said "ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful"

OP the tags!!

calling all authors!!

i have just stumbled upon the most beautiful public document i have ever laid eyes on. this also goes for anyone whose pastimes include any sort of character creation. may i present, the HOLY GRAIL:

this wonderful 88-page piece has step by step breakdowns of how names work in different cultures! i needed to know how to name a Muslim character it has already helped me SO MUCH and i’ve known about it for all of 15 minutes!! i am thoroughly amazed and i just needed to share with you guys 

Cultures include Yoruba, Sikh, Vietnamese, Polish, and dozens more!

This could also be a good staring point for conlangers looking for inspiration for personal name conventions.

Québec names are largely catholic-church-inspired and not on the list, so in case anyone wants to write a french canadian character:

A generally older or more traditional french canadian name will be formatted as “Marie/Joseph” “Middle Name(s)” “Given Name” “Family Name”, though I’ve seen less of that from my generation’s kids. Unsure if being anglicized or just because most of my sample is from french-speaking families in Ontario. (Even as a completely atheist french canadian, it didn’t occur to me not to use this format for tradition’s sake)

So you might be “Marie Thérèse Louise Tremblay”

and your actual, useable name will be “Louise Tremblay”

Anglophones do not get this. I’ve had to get into arguments with the federal government because they “fixed” my legal name on my passport, and I demanded a reprint.

No, “Louise Marie Thérèse Tremblay” isn’t the same. No, I do not want to legally change my name so it’s formatted in a way that makes the federal government happy. Yes I will keep complaining that it doesn’t match. No, I don’t care that you personally think it’s the same and makes no sense.

See also: I did not take a spouse’s name. Neither did my mother, or my grandmothers, or my great-grandmothers. We don’t do that, except for some anglicized bitches, I guess. Their loss.

But if I look up my grandparents on a geneology site, my grandmother is listed as Béatrice Tremblay “Née Larose”, and that was never her name. Her name was Béatrice Larose. But the english geneology sites literally can’t recognize a wife with a different name, so they “correct” it.

I did find one french-language geneology site where all women in my family were properly listed by their actual motherfucking names.

And when we moved to NWT and lived in a largely English town- with some Inuktitut but it wasn’t the majority- other women would shame my mom for not “loving her husband enough to take his name”, or my dad would be shamed for having a “mistress” instead of a “wife”.

I would bet that Jean-Jacques Leroy from Yuri On Ice is probably legally called “Joseph Gilbert Jean-Jacques Leroy” and his mother is probably named Louise Dufour, because Louise is THE MOST COMMON BOOMER WOMAN’S NAME.

hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to "in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?", respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn't pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.

watch out for the trap! there's ONE QUESTION where the last option *isn't* the max 'no AI' option, read each part carefully to be sure

Looks like they took it down lol

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