sometimes, the only way i know my roommate is still alive is the $30 cheese that appears and disappears from our fridge
the reviews are in
my tumblr dashboard hasn't gotten the updated UI yet so hearing more and more people I follow gradually post about the nightmare they're currently living just feels like I'm in the first fifteen minutes of a horror series where Troubling News Stories are starting to crop up on the radio and on blurry background TV sets
I am pro-strike I am pro-union I am pro-workers-getting-their-due I want to be inconvenienced A THOUSAND TIMES if it means people earn enough money
died and came back wrong <- became deeply depressed at age 12 and never fully recovered
terfs keep mentioning the % of autistics who are trans/nb and that we're 'brainwashed'
and because i'm an asshole, i decided to look into why so many autistic folks are trans/nb. it's not an inaccurate statement, at least the first half, but terfs lie through their teeth so i decided to get to the scientific root of it.
the answer blew my fucking mind.
the study on gender and autism i found said two very specific things about autistic people: we are more mentally resistant to things like social conditioning and binarism. we like our secret third things, y'know.
an excerpt:
“The finding that non-binary identities are most elevated seems to support hypotheses focussed on autistic resistance to social conditioning, which are consistent with existing evidence of the same effect with respect to self-description of sexual orientation. Perhaps elevated rates of trans identity in autism might result from a rejection of the binary cisgenderist norm, which combined with a below-typical concern for social norms could promote the disclosure of the identity.”
94% of autistics surveyed for that paper identified themselves as non-binary.
other studies have found autistic people have higher levels of critical thinking, and require more evidence to maintain or convert to a belief system (hence why many of us eventually fall away from religion) than allistic people.
which means, at least from my perspective, that:
a) the 'brainwashing' terfs are accusing the trans community of inflicting on autistic folks would likely not even work if they tried.
b) the current binary definition of gender flies directly against embedded autistic modes of thinking to begin with.
you cannot brainwash someone into thinking something they already believe.
when people say they oppose gender affirming surgeries because people might realize that they "were wrong about their gender" I honestly wonder what they would think if they knew me
I was a trans man for many years. I got top surgery. I later became a lesbian. I have absolutely no regrets about any of it.
I was talking about all of this with my mom today and she said "even if you did regret it now and want the surgery reversed, I remember how things were, and I honestly don't think you would be here today if you couldn't access top surgery." (I will add that typically less than 1% of people detransition, and those who do rarely harbour ill will towards the trans community) (also many gender affirming surgeries can be reversed, though again, very few people pursue that)
and that's what it comes down to. for so many people, gender affirming care is a matter of life and death. if you oppose gender affirming care, you oppose the trans community, and you endorse the suicide rate among unsupported trans youth.
it's an issue of bodily autonomy, of the right to decide what we do with our bodies, and of valuing our lives enough to respect said decisions.
buying used plushies feels like buying from an animal rescue instead of a breeder
We all got that homie whose air of silliness doesnt hide the haunted look in their eyes😂👆
having carefree sex with my lackadaisical wife
doing earnest sex with my somber wife
engaging in empirical sex with my evidence-based wife
Mad because you don't have bird vision?
Seethe . You will never b them
theyer old enough that they used to connect
They're older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It's why we're like this, I think. You don't stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You're always going to be a little Off.
consider the sperm whale and the squid. an ancient rivalry that dates back millions of years. we know the whales eat the squids. we know the squids do not make it easy for them. we know this because of the scars the whales carry, scars on the outside of their body, and on the inside as well. how badly must you want something to endure wounds inside your mouth? inside your gut?
consider the whale, who is harmed by what sustains her. consider the squid, whose flesh is soft and delicious but refuses to go down easy.
This post is about lactose intolerance I can smell it.
As I walked home from the allotment I was stopped by three people who wanted to know why my courgette was so excellent.
Women want me, fish fear me.
So many notes ppl confused by corn wielding Colima dog wait until you see the dancing figures…..blow your mind. Teach you true love
clawfootboy
humankind…what more can I say. I can only aspire to have such deep and rich a human connection with anyone in this life that will be as radiant as a ceramic figural pair of dancing xolos
lovingswamp
They’re also at the center of a roundabout
anielka-ela
Mexican here, fun fact! While we call them “Dancing dogs”, they’re a young pup and an old dog, and the older one is revealing wisdoms right on the pup’s ear.
You’ll recognize the older dog bc he’s got wrinkles!! It’s a wonderful scene!!
get high and think of me
No no…
Get high and think of us
i know it's an example of me taking idioms too literally, but the phrase "when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" never fails to make me imagine something like when that lion in madagascar starts hallucinating all his friends as slabs of steak
me when i have a hammer in my hand if i'm being fully honest