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para bellum

@ashleymint

ashley - she/they

Yknow tumblr was changing the logo monthly for a little while there. Are they just keeping the one that looks like a period tracker now. It's been there suspiciously long

how do you all have this like wide breadth of musical knowledge I’ve been listening to the same 7 songs on repeat since 2005

whats the gayest dinosaur. ill go first. spinosaurus

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You’re correct. Transing gender dinosaur to me. Look at this gay fucking thing.

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Going to just add some more stuff cause I do think about spinos so fucking often and I truly do think they encapsulate so much of (at least in relation to myself) what it feels like to grow into your own bones as a trans/non-binary person.

The spino is one of paleontology’s greatest enigmas in that our depiction and understanding of it have changes so frequently since it’s discovery. It’s bones are all we have to try and learn about them, to know how they lived- and even then, most of the specimens we do have are super fragmentary.

To change so much yet still… the bones remain the same. The concept changes, but the creature will only ever be itself, yet what that is is open ended.

They mean sm to me because they change, but also, they stay the same. They just are what they are and I think that’s beautiful.

At the end of it all, we are both two earthlings.