People like to complain about music being all about sex and romance but what I've learned from making a sex playlist is that very little of it is actually genuinely properly horny and not just performing heterosexuality. Huge difference.
Heavy Metal being about literally anything but sex and also A Touch of Evil by Judas Priest being such a powerful gay sex anthem are both true.
Holy shit, I never paid attention to the lyrics but it totally is
comic that appeared to me as I was waking up from a dream
Edit: this got more attention then I thought lol if you wanna redraw this just reblog this with your redraw to credit me or put my @ (idk how tumblr works ngl)
Letters from your younger self
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.
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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.
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I'm gonna start saying "especially non binary ppl" when talking about trans issues. Trans people are really struggling, especially non binary ppl, because we're treated like jokes and freaks in our own communities. I'm kind of sick and tired of things being "especially" about everyone else but us
Non binary people are treated like the scapegoats of the trans community, everything is our fault. We're too loud, to assertive, too annoying, too cringe. Too out there, we are visibly trans a lot of the time, and that pisses people the fuck off because we like it and it's a part of our gender identity and expression. We are just as oppressed and face just as much violence as everyone else
#passing refers to making our transness invisible
I am NOT letting you leave this in the tags prev it is so true. Non binary people cant pass because there is no way to pass for us. Passing as ANY GENDER is getting misgendered because it means others assuming we're binary people, and we're not.
One of the first feelings of dysphoria I got was the feeling of "everyone else will perceive me as a binary gender first and there is nothing I can do about it" and I wanted to stop existing at all, to stop having a body and stop being perceived so no one would dictate my identity for me.
Non binary people arent taken seriously on our own oppression, in talking about trans issues we're an afterthought, because if they cant categorize us then they refuse to talk about us. Binary people, cis and trans, get annoyed when we add onto a conversation with our non binary perspective, when we ask to be included in their talks about trans liberation and fighting against gender essentialism. We complain too much and we're too weird and too cringe, we cant use terms like transfem and transmasc without everyone assuming we're basically binary trans people, and binary trans people are so busy pitting transfem and transmasc as opposites while also saying "oh but we include non binary people!" No you dont, your inclusion is only for monogender enben whose gender is static and aligned with the binary. Because talking about only the existance of transfem and transmasc as two opposite exclusive sides is exorsexist as hell.
And dont get me started on how we dont fucking have LANGUAGE, there are so many languages that have no pronouns or neutral words to refer to people, existing in your native country means being misgendered.
We're either misgendered and invisible or misgendered and hypervisible. And people love to either act like we dont exist, or like we're basically binary cis or trans so there's no need to put effort in accounting for us.
It's literally horrific. If you're binary, at the very least there is language for you, and others to understand who you are.
I think "passing as making transness invisible" is a really good redefining of the term. That definition also allows us to talk about how even trans people who can easily be read as cis may not pass if they are openly trans or were well known (locally or more broadly) before transitioning.
And that understanding for me, stems from the reality that a major way many nonbinary people do not pass is pronouns. The minute you declare yourself nonbinary or adopt any pronoun other than he OR she, you have made yourself socially visible as trans. A 2024 study found that having they/them pronouns on a resume meant it was rejected more than not only the same resume without pronouns, but the same resume with binary pronouns. The author estimated that "74% of the discrimination faced by applicants who disclose “they/them” pronouns is rooted in their nonbinary gender identity rather than the political and other signals associated with the act of pronoun disclosure."
Without understanding this, a lot of nonbinary people are assumed to be functionally cis and move through the world as cis-passing people do, when that is often noy true—being misgendered is not the same thing as passing, but for nonbinary people, it is assumed explicitly or implicitly that if we are not gendered correctly, if we are not seen as our nonbinary genders, it must mean that we are treated as cis women and cis men and thus do not truly understand transphobia.
I'm gonna start saying "especially non binary ppl" when talking about trans issues. Trans people are really struggling, especially non binary ppl, because we're treated like jokes and freaks in our own communities. I'm kind of sick and tired of things being "especially" about everyone else but us
Non binary people are treated like the scapegoats of the trans community, everything is our fault. We're too loud, to assertive, too annoying, too cringe. Too out there, we are visibly trans a lot of the time, and that pisses people the fuck off because we like it and it's a part of our gender identity and expression. We are just as oppressed and face just as much violence as everyone else
#passing refers to making our transness invisible
I am NOT letting you leave this in the tags prev it is so true. Non binary people cant pass because there is no way to pass for us. Passing as ANY GENDER is getting misgendered because it means others assuming we're binary people, and we're not.
One of the first feelings of dysphoria I got was the feeling of "everyone else will perceive me as a binary gender first and there is nothing I can do about it" and I wanted to stop existing at all, to stop having a body and stop being perceived so no one would dictate my identity for me.
Non binary people arent taken seriously on our own oppression, in talking about trans issues we're an afterthought, because if they cant categorize us then they refuse to talk about us. Binary people, cis and trans, get annoyed when we add onto a conversation with our non binary perspective, when we ask to be included in their talks about trans liberation and fighting against gender essentialism. We complain too much and we're too weird and too cringe, we cant use terms like transfem and transmasc without everyone assuming we're basically binary trans people, and binary trans people are so busy pitting transfem and transmasc as opposites while also saying "oh but we include non binary people!" No you dont, your inclusion is only for monogender enben whose gender is static and aligned with the binary. Because talking about only the existance of transfem and transmasc as two opposite exclusive sides is exorsexist as hell.
And dont get me started on how we dont fucking have LANGUAGE, there are so many languages that have no pronouns or neutral words to refer to people, existing in your native country means being misgendered.
We're either misgendered and invisible or misgendered and hypervisible. And people love to either act like we dont exist, or like we're basically binary cis or trans so there's no need to put effort in accounting for us.
It's literally horrific. If you're binary, at the very least there is language for you, and others to understand who you are.
I think "passing as making transness invisible" is a really good redefining of the term. That definition also allows us to talk about how even trans people who can easily be read as cis may not pass if they are openly trans or were well known (locally or more broadly) before transitioning.
And that understanding for me, stems from the reality that a major way many nonbinary people do not pass is pronouns. The minute you declare yourself nonbinary or adopt any pronoun other than he OR she, you have made yourself socially visible as trans. A 2024 study found that having they/them pronouns on a resume meant it was rejected more than not only the same resume without pronouns, but the same resume with binary pronouns. The author estimated that "74% of the discrimination faced by applicants who disclose “they/them” pronouns is rooted in their nonbinary gender identity rather than the political and other signals associated with the act of pronoun disclosure."
Without understanding this, a lot of nonbinary people are assumed to be functionally cis and move through the world as cis-passing people do, when that is often noy true—being misgendered is not the same thing as passing, but for nonbinary people, it is assumed explicitly or implicitly that if we are not gendered correctly, if we are not seen as our nonbinary genders, it must mean that we are treated as cis women and cis men and thus do not truly understand transphobia.
One thing I see get misinterpreted is Grand Mother Silk’s relationship to the Citadel bugs. They don’t worship her, they worship silk production. The Citadel is not a religion with a god, per se.
They see your beauty, so frail and fine,
They see your peace, woven of faith and toil,
They forget your heart, bound in slumber and servitude,
When you wake they shall see your truth,
A beast's nature bare to all.
- From 'Pharloom’s Folly' by the Conductor Romino
Which to me reads as: the Citadel Bugs—not including the Leaders—don’t realize that the silk in the Cradle contains a “Beast” that slumbers. Instead, they see it as a vast source of silk that is holy and must be sung to. That silk then “blesses” the faithful with immortality, and also creates immortal servants which propagate the system they’re indentured to.
The great evil of the Pharloom is not just Grand Mother Silk herself, but industry and caste systems.
There’s something truly horrific about GMS’s chamber and the way she’s forced into slumber and then used essentially as a magic cow (zoomed out clip from Mossbags video):
To me this creates a constellation of evil in Pharloom that is: 1) Citadel Bugs, whose greed and hubris turned into a system that extracts a dangerous substance from a primordial being and who incidentally filled their bodies with a conduit for 2) Grand Mother Silk, who is incapable of understanding love beyond her total control and lives in pursuit of revenge against her daughters for both escaping her grasp and trapping her in what is honestly a nightmarish existence.
Based on Weaver lore, it’s obvious that the way Grand Mother Silk birthed and raised them was undeniably evil. But the game poses an interesting question by revealing that the Weavers plotted her death, but couldn’t succeed: how much punishment is too much? How do you punish something that will never change?
There’s a rune harp in the game that says, "Sisters, spiders, the burden is passed. These simple bugs shall bear it full. Never to cease. Never to silence. / We shall die, and wait, and pray, that one may come of silken strength enough to weave us free.” We could interpret it as saying, “we can’t kill her, hopefully one of our descendants can.” However, I’m not convinced. I think that this relic “Last Words of the Weavers” is an admittance of guilt. What they created is a “burden”, but what if that burden is the knowledge that the system of subjugation they created is evil but necessary because the alternative, Mother Silk’s awoken revenge, is impossible to permit. Why do the want to be woven free if this relic admits they’ll die before it will happen. I think that the thing they want to be free of is the guilt of what they built.
That is one of the reasons I love Hornet’s confused journey through Pharloom. It’s a nightmare of injustice with no explanation. Just systems on top of systems of horror. The judges job is to kill weak bugs because they’re weeding out the population before they enter the gate. The gate has no method to bring bugs to the citadel, its only purpose is to ferry pilgrims to the Underworks. They built a prison in a land of ice and filled its occupants with silk so they can’t die. They funnel noxious fumes into Bile Water. What else can Hornet do but free them in the only way she can: endless, merciful carnage.
In that way, Team Cherry created one of the most relevant dystopias I’ve seen. We too live in a dying kingdom whose systems of oppression and control seem disconnected from whatever purpose they may have once had. We worship a god we don’t understand and we serve a primordial power source that fills us up with cancer and boils our world and lines the pockets of some of us, but not all. We’re all Citadel Bugs.
If oil had a mind, a slumbering goddess beneath our oceans, would we hate her? Would we blame her for what we did? Grand Mother Silk, to me, is not a villain as much as she’s Silksongs most interesting tragedy: a beast desiring of love, whose mind does not permit it to work right. In her daughter’s rightful usurping of her they created a nexus of torment far beyond the crime, creating a world that subjugated bugs as much their Mother ever did. In the end, the only possible good outcome could be death. Hornet’s birth was always intended as a vain wish to end their nightmare.
The reason why I like the true ending so much is hidden in this crunchy, complex, gray area lore. If you think Grand Mother Silk is just the villain, it might seem odd that her final act is to free Hornet and Lace. But, if we see her as a victim as much as her victims were, then her final act being to grant Lace, this embodiment of eternal servitude and forced love, a chance at freedom, then it reveals something tragic and beautiful: did she perhaps have the ability to change? Does she have the right to after what she did, ensnaring the Weaver’s victims with her control of Silk in pursuit of her potentially just but impossibly cruel revenge? Does the Citadel, now missing the entirety of its purpose and built on the memory of its crimes, have the right to persist? In a world of endless revenge that warps under our senseless pollution and hatred, do we?
Also, it’s got bug yuri in it. So, it’s my game of the decade.
Via cyd_dwyer
Just so people know the background on this man and his herd of guinea pigs-- he moved into a house, and discovered about 10 guinea pigs living in a fenced area of the back garden. It was overgrown so he never noticed before moving in. It turned out the previous tenants just abandoned the poor babies. So Cyd immediately was like "well I guess im a father now." And began learning how to care for them.
He didnt realize he had to separate the males from the females (they'd been intermingled when he found them so it didnt occur to him) until suddenly all the females were pregnant and by the time he was able to separate them all out, he now had 80 guinea pigs.
This man became an awesome guinea dad to his 80 guinea pigs. On his tiktok he documents building them new, nicer outdoor homes, beginning to regularly grow grasses to feed them, while also spending over 100 pounds a week to keep them in supply of fresh veggies. He also treats them for lice and tics ever 3 months.
He recognizes each one and each one has a name.
everywhere on socmedia progressive posting is like “never met a single zionist that is not ugly” “how u age when u r racist” “ur face card when u support trans rights” on loop
shout out to people who's family isnt entirely bad or entirely good, but something in between and you dont know how to feel about them. you feel angry but you also feel guilty, because you know they genuinely love and care about you, but sometimes they show it in a way you know its not okay. your feelings are valid, your anger and sadness and grief are valid, and you dont have to prove this to no one. bigger shout out to those with memory issues who know something isnt right but can't recall all of the bad events, only the feelings, which only increases the guilt.
may 2026 bring us closer to a Palestine liberated from zionist occupation, and a Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan free from proxy exploitation. May 2026 see more people gain the courage to make the world a little better than before. May we all remember to tend seeds whose trees we may never sit beneath. Consider donating to/sharing The Sameer Project, or Khartoum Aid Kitchen or Focus Congo. All power to all the people. Happy new year.
