white boy shocks everyone at the restaurant by ordering in perfect Proto-Indo-European

75% decrease in insect biomass within my lifetime and I'm supposed to care about cover letters

while i hope the AI boom dies out i also hope we start acknowledging data center water overconsumption as it's own unique issue because like. it's not AI itself that harms the environment it's the hardware hosting it, right? same reason nfts and cryptocurrency were also bad for the environment. the root problem isn't going away so long as we allow big companies to continue hitching their wagon to the next big tech trend. i worry if they don't get stronger regulation we'll just be repeating the same issue whenever the next toy comes along.

i keep seeing that post about how frustrating the buff guy -> petite girl type genderbending is, and i wanted to add my two cents regarding the addition of ‘just swap pronouns and don’t change the design’ approach because i think these are two sides of the same coin, as they both fail to really delve into what i think is the most interesting aspect of this design exercise.

the reason i find genderbending to be such a fun and interesting challenge is because, if you actually want to be good at it and put thought into it, you have to really consider the character’s canon gender expression and think about what it means to them and how it reflects in their outward appearance and presentation.

is this male character buff because he likes to work out / be strong, or does he aspire to achieve conventional heteronormative male beauty?

is this female character a tomboy because she likes to express herself in a more masculine way, or is she doing it to fight gender norms?

the answers to those questions should produce very different designs!

this website loves to say that gender is a spectrum, but sometimes i genuinely wonder if people actually understand what that means. 

gender expression, much like gender, is also a spectrum, which is why keeping the character exactly the same won’t always work, in the same way that just making the character conventionally attractive won’t always work. but sometimes, a buff dude would actually just be a hot girl. lady bane, however, would 100% look exactly the same.

(inspired by this classic tumblr post)

my understanding and interpretation of Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” cannot be untangled from the fact that it was originally published to follow her poem about childhood sexual abuse, “Rage”

i just don’t think it was unintentional that these were presented flush against each other

Diversity win! The cultist trying to get you and your boy partner to graphically fuse is actually two gay men merged together

I see a lot of Tumblr users who don't know their feminist history attributing the fact that women* are "allowed" to be masculine under the patriarchy as some sort of facet of the patriarchy universally accepting masculinity over femininity and that shit pisses me off so bad.

The reason why women* are "allowed" to be masculine when men* "aren't" allowed to be feminine under patriarchy is because DYKES and BUTCHES and other masculine women* SPENT DECADES FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHTS TO EXIST PUBLICLY.

The fact that women* can wear pants and suits etc. and are not constantly forced to be hyper feminine/in adherence with strict gendered dress codes without punishment (AND ONLY IN SOME COUNTRIES!) is a win on behalf of feminist political action NOT because of some baseline acceptance of masculinity in everybody by the patriarchy.

Like oh my lord some of you need to shut the fuck up and learn what it was like to be socially classed as a woman before the sexual revolution and what it continues to be like outside of the imperial core.

You are reaping the benefits of the activists who have come before you but because you do not know your history you are treating it like the boons of the oppressor classes and you are blind for it.

It's also the trans masc binder availability thing for me too.

I see people going "well trans men can easily get a binder" and like. Okay yes A: nowadays and B: potentially not anymore under this current administration. The reason binders are so accessible for trans mascs is because *trans mascs* got tired of the shitty options and made their own binder designs and binder companies and then dedicated to selling them at the lowest price to be able to stay in business but still be accessible in pricing for the most part. This isn't a boon that cis people have granted trans mascs, it's something trans mascs made for ourselves! And now with these new FDA warnings it's exceptionally clear that it was always on thin ice!

Here's something for the people agreeing with the above post to consider:

Trans women have been fighting for our rights at the same time that these "Dykes" and "Butches" (seemingly here only refer to cis women), yet these same gains have not been available to trans women and other transfems.

Trans women have been at the forefront of LGBT liberation since the very beginning, often leading the charge, yet we were never granted the same "allowances." The transfems of these times were only acknowledged as "men in dresses" and they fought for their rights to not be persecuted, to exist in public!

Why is it that it's more accepted for a "woman" to wear a suit than a "man" to wear a dress? Are you saying that trans women and transfems did not fight hard enough for our right to exist? That they didn't fight for this at all?

Or, as this poster so quickly dismissed, is it that masculinity is more accepted than femininity? This is not a fringe idea! This is a basic tenant of feminism, of feminist thought since its beginnings. Ignoring how masculinity and femininity are treated by our cultures, and how masculinity is women is treated vs femininity in men, is just burying your head in the sand.

And for the comment of binders, let me ask you this: Why was it that these trans men were able to create these companies, were able to secure funding and able to create these products? Why were these products able to be viable in the market? If you think that trans women do not have similar needs not being met by clothing companies and specialty products, we do, and many trans women would love the chance to create something like that.

Trans women lack the privilege and resources to create things like this. While these trans men were building brands to sell binders trans women have been fighting to keep our sisters off the streets, away from widespread homelessness and survival sex work.

When we call out these things, we are calling out these double standards. We have been fighting this same fight the whole time, and we have seen none of these victories or these concessions. There is a reason why.

Thank you for the worst faith possible interpretation of this post!!!!!

Thank you for trying to find the absolute worst possible reading of everything being said because of course when I said dykes, butches, and women I absolutely MUST have not been including trans women and definitely must not have been including the trans dykes and butches and mascs who have also been actively fighting for their rights to exist as masculine people against oppressive psychiatric/medical standards that didn't allow for GNC trans women and non-trans men GNC + nonbinary people to access HRT and SRS for decades too (/heavy sarcasm).

Because of course I didn't mean those people (/heavy sarcasm).

How fucking stupid of me to think people could understand this post in good faith and think that I inherently included trans people in my statements.

If the post included trans dykes and butches, why is it so focused exclusively on the right of cis girl to be masculine?

These are not the issues that trans dykes and butches have historically been fighting for, actually.

Trans women, particularly trans lesbians and butches, were literally medically/psychiatrically barred from transitioning if they didn't perform heterosexual femininity for decades and had to fight for their right to be openly lesbian and masculine in order to transition jfc.

No apology for misgendering me?

Actually, as a trans women who was denied medical care for not being feminine enough, and knows a lot about this issue, actually we haven't been fighting for our right to be masculine.

We have been fighting for our right to transition to not be controlled and barred, we have been fighting to not be at the whim of any doctor to determine if we are trans enough.

You very clearly do not a firm grasp of transfeminist theory, I would recommend reading Julia Serano's "Whipping Girl" and anything by Talia Bhatt.

Radical Feminism is a fucking plague regadless of who is peddling it but it is ESPECIALLY a plague from Andrea Dworkin stans like Bhatt. Thanks for recommending a book I've read three times over to me though, I'll put another tally in my annotated copy of Whipping Girl.

If we're giving reading recs, you should read the Transfeminist Manifesto and literally anything else Emi Koyama has written considering she wrote it before Serano's work erased her from the transfeminist narrative, like most white feminism is want to do to WoC. Or Kate Bornstein for that matter. Who's also been around as a transfeminist writer and activist for decades longer than Serano and Bhatt combined.

Still no apology for misgendering me btw.

Ok well I actually have read those? Why do you assume I haven't when I was simply giving a recommendation.

And you really have not read Talia Bhatt's work and don't seem to understand what her books are saying in the slightest, and you should not be ignoring her works and theory so easily. Trans/Rad/Fem isn't about how "Radical Feminism is Awesome!!!" And you would understand than if you actually read any of it beyond the title

I don't care how annotated your copy of Whipping Girl is, especially if you are trying to pick and choose what transfeminist writings you think are worthy or whatever.

And I literally already addressed that in the other reblog chain? You posted this after that?

But yeah, I didn't mean to do use the wrong pronouns. I'm sorry that I used the wrong pronouns, I don't do that on purpose.

At this point tho it seems like you are just trying to use this as a cudgel against actually talking about any of the points I made in my reblog.

I was attempting to address the points of the post, not talk about you specifically in literally any way.

I literally could ask you the exact same question about assumptions??

Anyway, I'm not a radfem. I don't care for the works of radfems. I'm not going to go out of my way to read the works of self identified radical feminists who enjoy and endorse one of the most broadly damaging to modern feminist rhetoric radfems to ever exist (Dworkin). Because I know radfem history and respect myself and my time. And pretty on principle don't like radical feminism. On account of the fact that most of my own intersectional feminist positions oppose radfem positions. Even when trans people are trying to grift and spin it in favor of themselves.

Radical feminism can't be salvaged, not even by trans women. Sorry.

Also how is addressing someone directly as OP and talking about what you think that person meant NOT talking about that person specifically? Be so fucking real.

what is it with bhatt/radfem fans and not thinking misgendering is a problem unless it's happening to them? god these people are insufferable.

sorry I don't respect the woman who tried to publish her racist academic fraud narrative about how much of a victim she was for Black trans people confronting her on the anti-Blackness rampant on her discord server. sorry I don't respect the woman who participated in mocking me for being a victim of SA by creating a nickname specifically to mock me with that vaguely referenced rape in the nickname itself. sorry I don't respect the woman whose following has tried to get at minimum 4 different trans people doxxed at this point, 2 of whom were trans women, one of whom was trying to hold her accountable for anti-Blackness yet again.

sorry I don't respect the woman whose entire MO exists on trying to tear other people down in order to boost her own ego and status. sorry I don't respect the woman who contributes to rape culture in the trans community & denies victims their right to tell their stories without being fucking mocked for it.

sorry I don't respect the woman who seemingly only gives a fuck about herself. sorry I don't respect the woman who has used her thousands of followers to attack anyone she even slightly dislikes online, regardless of how dangerous that is to do to trans people especially.

sorry I don't respect the woman who told 7 trans women to k*ll themselves and then played the victim and blamed those 7 trans women for "pushing" her into doing it, because she literally called them a slur and they got upset about it in response, so they toooootally "made" her tell them to k*ll themselves. sorry I don't respect the woman who liked and retweeted a bunch of comments and posts afterwards affirming that she did nothing wrong by, I repeat, telling 7 trans women to k*ll themselves (one of whom was in a psych ward at that very moment for an attempt).

sorry I don't respect the woman who harassed ME for over a year despite me being on the verge of psychosis and nearly landing in a hospital myself due to the harassment I was receiving. after I asked to stop. many times. her "theory" is dogshit pulled from the handful of books she's read that she tries to pull off as if its her own. none of it is truly integrated, she just grabs white cis feminist theory and slaps a trans label on it, then acts like her shit doesn't stink and her vomit is made of gold. she is a manipulative garbage human being who pretends to be nice to people when they're useful for whatever it is she wants.

she does not care about trans women; she cares about herself and only herself. she does not care about feminism; she cares about her own ego and that's it. she has no true love of epistemology or whatever else she claims to hold dear, because otherwise she would not act the way she acts. she would not have these massive temper tantrums followed by victim blaming DARVO shit. she is clearly incapable of taking accountability for any time she hurts other people, because she can't even fucking apologize in the most basic ways without following it up with why she's actually not in the wrong and she's the real victim here.

she is incredibly anti-Black. she is incredibly fucking racist. the fact that she is not white does not make her immune to these things, and she is perfectly okay with her friends and followers harassing Black trans people because she has realized that white trans people love nothing more than to go on a witchhunt over a trans person of color, especially if they're Black. she's okay with weaponizing that, regardless of the consequences, because it means more followers.

because the people seeking excuses to justify why it's not racist to launch hate campaigns on queer POC flock to tokenize people like her who make them feel as if they're not participating in racist behaviors. I have watched her and her friends harass the fuck out of all of my Black mutuals with an escalation of violent rhetoric that is instantly worse than anything they've ever done to me, and they've done some pretty awful shit to me.

it took months for them to get to the point of calling me "violent" (which is almost laughably untrue, but that's not my point). it took hours for them to get to the point of calling one of my Black mutuals a "wife beater". and the same pattern has repeated. all of my Black mutuals are targeted far more severely and intensely. on bluesky, the azuka fields transphobia labeler (who are mutuals with several of those people) has labeled all of my Black mutuals with the "transmisogyny" label. nearly all of Black trans bluesky that isn't buddy buddy with that radfem group has that fucking label on them now. I don't think that's a coincidence!!!

And note how this thread was derailed from talking about how women have fought to be masculine, and how trans men have the right to exist.

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck.  Not bad luck.  I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!

“See him face”

I sure fucking do see him face

Him face

Reblog him face for good luck in 2021

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here’s the og video. Go see him face for real this time

it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

Holy shit. "The demese ef the Ne'enderthels: Wes lengege a fecter?" published in the Science magazine

short but sweet

chef’s finally free

He gets up like nothing happened . he doesn't even care

You can pinpoint the exact moment he turns to liquid

[C][NN][SS][BBFF3][YYTT][YY4C]

what about the 2nd cat?

pokey mon 👍

A relatively pg example of a netbooks contents from the era

Oh, yeah, there was a genuinely surprising frequency of random piss kink and diaper stuff in D&D netbooks in the early to mid 1990s, even in the ones that weren't otherwise pornographic. You'd be skimming one of those big stupid "d1000 wild magic effects" tables and entries 637–645 would just be a straight run of piss calamities. That "dare you enter my magical realm" meme is 100% not exaggerating!

Well, this post chain ended up going in a STRANGE direction.

I know for a fact you're not new here.

years ago I read a post from someone playing rimworld in the jungle biome and lightning struck and set off a fire which set several elephants alight and they were sending colonists around trying to rescue and heal them but I couldn't concentrate on that because the phrase 'I can still hear their haunted toots' fucking sent me