you cannot save me!! i am unsaveable!!! i have never been saved!!!!!!!!
I should lock the fuck in *half an hour passes* I should lock the fuck in *half an hour passes* I should lock the fuck in *half an hour passes* I should-
The explicitly pornographic ads paired with porn bans to appeal to advertisers is really aggravating, but I also want to take a moment to complain about really disgusting ads. Cartoon person with disturbingly photorealistic boils and shit, getting giant worms pulled out of their bodies, body horror shit like that. What the fuck is this supposed to be advertising? Why would you show this? Why can't I block it? It always pops up when I'm trying to eat, too. Why is this allowed? Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you FUCK YOU
I don't think you're a trans ally until you accept trans people who don't want to transition. And I don't just mean medically.
I mean trans men who look indistinguishable from cis women and trans women who look indistinguishable from cis men and they're happy like that. Who have no intention of changing their style, presentation, or even pronouns.
Some women don't look like the stereotypical idea of "woman" and it's the same for men. But they're still men and women. I need you to understand that gender has no bearing on appearance and people's comfort in their own bodies is more important than the fictional idea of what manhood and womanhood looks like.
And, yes, some people can't transition due to disability or funds or whatever and they're included in this, yes. But you need to accept people who don't want to either. Who willingly make the choice to not transition in any way because that's how they're the most comfortable.
A trans person who doesn't transition is just as much their gender as anyone else of that same gender. Please get that through your head.
To any trans men who don't want to transition or change their appearance in any way: You're a man. You've always been a man. You will always be a man.
To any trans women who don't want to transition or change their appearance in any way: You're a woman. You've always been a woman. You will always be a woman.
The way your body looks doesn't matter in the slightest, your gender is real and legitimate and valid regardless of any other factors.
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:
The first volume of Caro's biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Path to Power, is really good on this because he takes a LONG Time to EXHAUSTIVELY Describe how difficult and dangerous doing even the most basic housework was before electricity, so you'd understand the MASSIVE Difference LBJ made to the lives of poor and rural USians by getting Rural Electrification done.
Idk if people realize this, but before the days of cheap and easy electricity made Air Conditioning possible, Texas(my home state) was BARELY Habitable. The only places that really had allot of people were Houston(because it could get modern appliances through the port and had easy power-generation from oil), Dallas(cuz it could get them through the rail-head there, and ditto to Houston with the oil), and San Antonio(because, prior to the 20th century, it was the largest city in Texas and its way of life was entirely adapted to the climate). Austin wasn't really a "Big" city until very recently; they didn't even break One Million Pop Until 2003(And THAT'S the greater Austin metro area; the city itself Didn't Hit 1Mil Until 2020[youll need to dl the pdf here to see the data])!
Zhao Zhao (Chinese, b. 1982)
Constellations, 2021-2022
Embroidery on silk
ok so i’ve seen some of you aren’t that sure that this is actually embroidery (i was suspicious too bc damn!!!!) so here you is another embroidery of his with some close ups♥ :
Constellations, 2017 (300 x 980 cm)
embroidery on silk
embroidery on silk-
