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Butch Women Talk About What It Means to Be Butch. Originally posted by them on Youtube. Excerpts featuring Cade Russo Young, a 37 year-old butch dyke.
TRANSCRIPT:
What isn’t sexy about other butches, are you kidding! Oh, my god! To me, butch means someone who I was brought up by, and admire. Butch is nuanced. Butch is more than we’ve been talking about. Just because I identify as a butch dyke and a cis woman right now, it doesn’t mean I always will. Who you are, right now in this moment, is perfect. And if that changes, you’ll be perfect in that moment too.
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Yesterday, at last: Maratus speciosus, the Oceanic Peacock Spider. Absolutely gorgeous colours.
I'm very pleased.
Canon R7
Canon EF 100mm USM macro
Raynox DCR 250
Diffuse flash
Canon R7
Canon EF 100mm USM macro
Natural light
Bonus
My pronous are They and Them.
Not singular genderless, but like "that's what They want you to think", "They put chemicals in the water",
This is my best and least appreciated joke
Yesterday, at last: Maratus speciosus, the Oceanic Peacock Spider. Absolutely gorgeous colours.
I'm very pleased.
Canon R7
Canon EF 100mm USM macro
Raynox DCR 250
Diffuse flash
Canon R7
Canon EF 100mm USM macro
Natural light
my toxic trait is having a complex about only being a 4 on the schmidt pain scale
God made it so I'll never defeat a Tarantula Hawk Wasp in a fight and I coped so hard I became an acceptably successful internet personality on the worlds worst social media app
it doesnt fucking matter I NEED TO WIN
Sorry but I scored 5
Sorry but I scored WEREWOLF PUSSY
The scale is just 1-4. Bullet ant and tarantula hawk are the worst, 4. If something new shows up they could add a 5 I guess.
I know, however solution of cause migraine here injection would be a 5 or worse anyway
Ooh interesting. Now I'm trying to conceptualise the schmidt scores compared to pain scales.
They can't convert because 1-4 are somewhat objective (single subject, Schmidt) and only rank pain of insect stings. 1-10 pain scale is subjective and supposed to reflect individual experience, and includes everything. But that aside it seems interesting.
The worst pain I've experienced was a migraine I would rate at 9. I was largely incapacitated but I was able to speak enough to at least say "headache". I don't want to know what 10 is like.
I think 10 is sometimes described as "can do nothing except perhaps scream". It sounds like some of the Scmidt 4s could be a 9 or 10. I think Coyote Peterson was pretty much incapacitated by one, I think the tarantula hawk.
Also regarding venom, I've been stung by very few things but:
Bees are the official 2. For me really not bad, but I think I'm partly immunised by repeated stings. On the 1-10 I'd call it a 2.
Then I agree with the official paper wasp = 3. Definitely another level, both times I was stung were instant fire but not unbearable, no comparison to migraines. On 1-10 I'd say 6.
Bluebottle (Australian smaller species of Portuguese Man Of War) was astonishingly agonising, but I was young and may have had a low pain tolerance. Also I'm not sure it could be rated, as insect stings are meant to be single, but this delivered venom over a large sting area from several tentacles. 1-10: maybe 8.
Another point of comparison is my femural bone island, which gives randomised but mercifully very brief bursts in the 7-9 range. Never fully incapacitated, but close.
my toxic trait is having a complex about only being a 4 on the schmidt pain scale
God made it so I'll never defeat a Tarantula Hawk Wasp in a fight and I coped so hard I became an acceptably successful internet personality on the worlds worst social media app
it doesnt fucking matter I NEED TO WIN
Sorry but I scored 5
Sorry but I scored WEREWOLF PUSSY
The scale is just 1-4. Bullet ant and tarantula hawk are the worst, 4. If something new shows up they could add a 5 I guess.
I know, however solution of cause migraine here injection would be a 5 or worse anyway
Ooh interesting. Now I'm trying to conceptualise the schmidt scores compared to pain scales.
They can't convert because 1-4 are somewhat objective (single subject, Schmidt) and only rank pain of insect stings. 1-10 pain scale is subjective and supposed to reflect individual experience, and includes everything. But that aside it seems interesting.
The worst pain I've experienced was a migraine I would rate at 9. I was largely incapacitated but I was able to speak enough to at least say "headache". I don't want to know what 10 is like.
I think 10 is sometimes described as "can do nothing except perhaps scream". It sounds like some of the Scmidt 4s could be a 9 or 10. I think Coyote Peterson was pretty much incapacitated by one, I think the tarantula hawk.
my toxic trait is having a complex about only being a 4 on the schmidt pain scale
God made it so I'll never defeat a Tarantula Hawk Wasp in a fight and I coped so hard I became an acceptably successful internet personality on the worlds worst social media app
it doesnt fucking matter I NEED TO WIN
Sorry but I scored 5
Sorry but I scored WEREWOLF PUSSY
The scale is just 1-4. Bullet ant and tarantula hawk are the worst, 4. If something new shows up they could add a 5 I guess.
Often I want to image the most unusual and beautiful creatures.
Sometimes it's satisfying to photograph a very familar subject in really nice light.
Australian raven, Corvus coronoides.
Canon 60D
Canon EF 100-400 L IS USM
Actually, regarding that anon that @genderkoolaid got earlier today about cis women identifying as gay men—I have some thoughts.
Before there was really any awareness of transmasculinity, before there was really any mainstream transmasc activism, there were in fact "cis women" who identified as gay men—AFAB people who would go about most of their lives as women, exclusively attracted to men, but would be active members of queer men's communities. And they were definitely oppressed, they faced sexual assault, and they very much faced homophobia. They would call themselves faggots and while cis gay men would oppress them too, they existed, and none of this stopped them from proudly identifying as fags.
Today, most of those people would probably be considered trans men, but I don't really care about the words "trans man" and "cis woman." In fact, I don't really care about gender at all. If a faggot wants to be a faggot, who is anyone else to stop xem?
The truth of the matter is that female faggots, FTM faggots, nonbinary trans faggots—they're my brothers. And really I feel like cis women faggots are the same as me, not because I am cis or a woman, but because there was never a meaningful border between us anyway, and I'm not one to create one. 50 years ago we were one and the same, and we will always share the past that made us who we are.
Some girls were born to be faggots and if trying to get rid of us has failed for thousands of years, it's not going to work this time.
I empathise as something similar/opposite. Lesbianish nonbinary butch, but so far from passing that I'm unfortunately almost always read as male.
Solidarity with fellow gendercomplicated queers.
*idk if gendercomplicated means anything specific, I just made it up and it sounds good
My favorite gag is mixing up the distinction between oft confused terms. Like, oh no, it's quite simple: stalactites have hit the earth's surface but stalagmites are found in space. Meteorites can be distinguished by their round snouts and asteroids by their sharper snouts. Oh, and remember: crocodiles hang from the ceiling. It's alligators that point up from the ground.
"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."
"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."
One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.
First one’s an ally from the south. Rough around the edges, but heart of gold.
Second one is a polished turd. Sure, it’s said nice but it’s all shit.
Wrong vocabulary w nice message VS correct vocabulary w awful message
I'll pick Southern ally any day!!!
Scorpion, Cercophonius sp. Spotted by UV spotlight at night, Donnelly River, Western Australia.
@smilehilist I spent a while trying to get the eye and tail both in the focal plane. One of the challemges of macro photography. I'm very pleased it came out well.
When you say “there’s nothing vegetarian here” and people say “there’s a salad" there's really nothing to be done. Like. You might as well commit seppuku. You are surrounded by people with only a weak understanding of what is and is not food. At any point they might start eating sand. Or suggest saltwater as a replacement meal. Especially given that restaurants near the beach have only the weakest conception of a meal that isn't either meat or just bread
WHAT A HEFTY BOIE!!!!!!
a sizeable lad!!!
Perucetus, my beloved blorbo!!!! ive only known you for a day but i am literally so obsessed with you now aaaaaaaa!!!! the boy already is getting a bit controversial, so i added a more reasonable, standard basilosaurus-shaped version as well they are frens
Scorpion, Cercophonius sp. Spotted by UV spotlight at night, Donnelly River, Western Australia.