Alisa Shea, ‘A Feminine Touch’, 2021 Watercolour on paper, 35 x 50cm
What the fuck do you mean watercolour on paper
Because I'm curious and I really don't have much sense any more of who is here on Tumblr after the various waves of immigration from other sites and people leaving for other places, or who's reading this blog.
I'll let it run for a week, to increase the sample size. One simple question with ranges...
you fools. pepe le pew is quebecois.
REBLOGGING FOR LAST COMMENT
There is a thread 🧵
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if your child doesn't come out until they've moved out and have a strong non-family support system
they didn't JUST become trans ya dingdong
they just became safe from you
and I hope you feel every bit of what that means
and if your child starts HRT or gets a surgery date the day after they come out to you,
no, they didn't start medical transition on day one
it's day several hundred and you're the last to know
(media should REALLY stop taking parents' word on this particular point)
(sorry if this is a little unfair to parents of people who transitioned later in life for other reasons and do have a decent relationship, but if you are one of those you already know it instead of having a giant grudge around "my child didn't even give me a CHANCE to stop them")
All my love to the people replying to this with your stories, and -- please don't feel guilty. You do not owe your parents a trust they did not earn. You deserve, and did as a child, to be seen and loved as yourself. 💕 [heart emoji]
once again I must scream to the heavens that a lot of parents fucking suck and choosing not to come out to them until you near the point where you physically can't hide your transition is not "suddenly becoming trans", it is basic self-defense
"mom, I think I might be transgender, but I'm not sure, can you help me work through my feelings" - something that in some families is a reasonable request, and in others you might as well pour barbecue sauce down your shirt and climb in a tiger cage
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...maybe the biggest problem is the fact that you already wanted to stop them and that's why you found out last
If you're the last to find our your kid is queer/trans, take a minute to think about why that is.
““If Musk hadn’t made it so hard to research disinformation on his website, this case would be a good way to show the growing overlap of the pro-Assad, the pro-Putin, and the US alt-right griftospheres,” Higgins wrote on X, adding: “Musk hasn’t given the voiceless a voice, he’s just dragged us all down into the swamp, and the only people who truly benefit are shameless grifters.””
Source: Wired
I do have to impress on anyone who wasn’t around for it how batshit the reality boom of the 2000s could be. Especially on Fox.
Here are some 100% real 2000s reality shows:
- Who’s Your Daddy? A woman has to guess which of eight men is her biological father. One of them really is, and if she guesses right she wins $100,000. If one of the seven fake dads convinces her to guess them, he wins $100,000.
- Black. White. A white family learns about racism by living a month in blackface, while a black family spends a month in whiteface. The black family was a real family, but the white family was just some actors hired to put on blackface to prove racism exists
- Without Prejudice? Five strangers decide which of five strangers gets a cash prize based off clips and their answers to political questions. Cancelled when one of the choosers openly said he’d eliminate all black contestants
- Welcome to the Neighborhood. Three conservative white families in a Austin subdivision decide which diverse family gets to move in. Unaired due to being literal housing discrimination
- Seriously, Dude, I’m Gay. Two straight men try to pass themselves off as gay and whoever seems more gay gets $50,000. Unaired due to. Due to. Due to
- Playing It Straight. A woman tries to find love among fourteen men, half of whom are straight and half of whom are gay, and she must eliminate two men she believes are gay each week. If she ended up picking a straight man in the end, they’d split a million dollars; if she picked a gay man, he’d win a million dollars
- Boy Meets Boy. This was Playing It Straight but starring a gay man and he had to eliminate straight people
- Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire? He wasn’t a multimillionaire. He didn’t even have a million dollars in liquid assets. He had a battery conviction Fox claims they didn’t see. Because it was the 2000s, somehow this ended up with the woman he won being widely vilified and turned into a national punchline. How dare she complain about a massive corporation tricking her into marrying a lying abuser, good thing Matt Lauer’s there to take her down a peg
- The Swan. A “ugly” woman is given plastic surgery and wins a prize if she’s the hottest at the end of the season. If she’s not hot enough by the show’s standards she’s eliminated and called ugly on national TV
- The Biggest Loser. Overweight people engage in competitive crash weight loss that often led to awful health complications. Studies showed basically everyone on the show regained any weight they lost once it was over and they didn’t have abusive trainers demanding they take huge health risks to win a competitive weight loss competition. Like the others, this one was cancel-oh, it was a massive hit that ran for 18 seasons? Yikes!
- Wife Swap and Trading Spouses. These were the same show and had a wife from one family go to another family that was different politically, racially, culturally, religiously etc. Most famous for the God Warrior
At the time people focused on the likes of Fear Factor but looking back it’s wild how many of the worst shows toyed with politics. So many of these shows have a premise that’s like “what if we exposed these conservatives to these people they hate?” or hyping themselves up as Important Experiments. Then they’d freak out when they got the kind of viral bigoted freakout they were trying to construct the whole time.
There were also a bunch of horrible reality shows, thankfully this time mostly unpopular, in the 2010s that based themselves around economic themes as a response to the market crash, but that’s a story for another time
For the notes: these shows all predate the 2007-8 writers’ strike. They’re not ~because of the strike~. The early 2000s were just. That awful.
Here's the trans pride USB power symbol tattoo I told @kernalphage and @pillsburysoyboy about! (Also tagging @solstakao bc you mentioned a USB trans symbol.) I'm probably going to tinker with the exact proportions and stuff before I put it on myself, but this is the general idea. DM me if you want the SVG!
omg the fucking this does is immeasurable
KFHAJFH YOU'RE NOT WRONG
@plaidos this makes me think of you and if you ask me why, I genuinely couldn't explain.
This fucking slaps. I may get this tattooed and I desperately want to make a patch with it.
Ya'll remember Ace? Bat-hound?
No WAY Cujo became a Ghost and He did not.
Is he a little lost? Maybe. This is not his beautiful home. This is not his beautiful, maladjusted, Bat Family. Who are you people!? Where IS he!? This place is FAR to cheerful and green to be Gotham!
But he is Bat-Hound. A PROFESSIONAL. A HERO. He can handle this. He just has to track his humans down... through... whatever this is. If Krypto can fly, bless his mostly empty, hyperactive head, then so should he! It can't be THAT har-*Thwonk!*
.....no one saw that.
But what's this? A helpful young pup? Cujo you say. Ah, he too, was once a gaurd dog. Cujo, lad, he seems to be lost. Could you...? You WILL! Fantastic. But wait? You're worried about your Young Human?
*Bat Concern Rising* *Doggy eye squint*
WHY?
*cujo spills the frankly horrifying beans about Danny's home life*
.........ha ha, NOPE! We can be having THAT! He's coming too! Bruce LOVES young humans! Especially sassy ones. He'll adopt him in no time! You grab the older one's, I'll grab the baby. Then we can head home, yes? You'll love gotham! Plenty of scoundrels to chase!
Cut to the Bat family. Damian is training Titus in the yard. Rare sun-ish day. It's a cook out. The Kent's are over. When?
Titus and the Supers both perk up. You hear that? Somethings about to-
*reality RIPS* *Ace the Bat Hound, dead for over a decade, jumps through... THE SIZE OF A HORSE. He is holding a struggling small preteen girl in his mouth* *Splat*
He dropped her. Eeeeeeew! She is loudly protesting. There is a SECOND dog. Green. Two more teens, clearly related to the first. Dumped on Bruce's lawn.
Ace looks proud of himself. Shrinks to normal size and pads over. Plops down in front of Bruce like he'd never left, tail wagging. Still in costume. He's glowing.
The burgers burn on the grill. No one can bring themselves to notice or care. Damian is elated. Krypto is fly wrestling is bestest buddy. Bruce is having a nervous breakdown over his dead dog.
Clark is calling their co-workers and trying to STOP the nervous break down.
Lois is just feeding the strage kids the dogs brought. Asking some casual "I'm totally not an investigative reporter" type questions. Who wants chips? Have a towel.
Ace? Is a Good Boy. 🐶
Why tf are King Shark and Killer Croc the go to batman underwater villains when the nine foot tall musclewoman marine biologist whale milf is right there
The what
She has a human husband and I'm positive he's the luckiest man in gotham
Fun fact I never got to share on stream: Tucker Carlson's most recent book did not make the NYT bestseller list. Do you know what book beat it out? Baking Yesteryear by that tiktok cooking twink.
Tbf, the baking book is actually useful and well written.
it occurred to me I think a lot of people on Tumblr in particular maybe don't know anyone personally who has died of COVID because they don't know that many people and I'm losing so many just because I'm super social in terms of online at least. like I know and talk to literally hundreds of people a year, I keep up with them monthly or every few months. professionally I do have a career that involves like actually knowing people mostly online so I just hear about it when people die. and I think that has made it so I find out about those excess deaths personally a lot more often than a person who has the average number of social contacts.
this is why I am on here every single day begging you to wear a mask. you don't know the people you're killing or crippling unless it happens to you, but I do. and I'm going to tell you about them.
this is the biggest "push this button to kill one stranger" experiment you'll ever be involved in. except you don't get a million dollars when you push the button you don't get anything. you're just an asshole
who tagged this "#slurs". do you think "asshole" is a slur
(Some people find using the slur cripple as an adjective or verb to be as bad as calling someone the slur. That’s what they’re tagging for)
No one dog pile op, they visibly didn’t know.
That said you are absolutely right about all the rest and should say it.
Covid isn’t over and one of my friends is dead, and a lot of people in my tribe died. Us being sick or old doesn’t make it okay for people to kill us by not caring.
In my book series, Hunger Pangs, you could sign up to be a named character in the book via my patreon, with everyone's names listed in the back. The first book came out in 2020.
For the second book, I will have an "in loving memory" section for those who didn't make it. It is not an insignificant amount.
In March 2023, it was in single digits. As of October 2023, it is in double digits. We're still dying. We're still being killed by other people's negligence. And I will never stop being inhumanly angry over it.
my favorite customer service slip ups
here are some extra ones that made me break out in tears enjoy
frankie and i got really high and went to spray paint the skate park at last night and frankie, a bug nerd, tried to write “bugs rule” at the bottom of the skate bowl, but they got distracted and wrote, super huge, “BUGS RUG” and we were trying so hard to not die of laughter so the cops didnt come but we were WHEEZING on our backs at the bottom of the bowl in complete darkness. we went back in the morning and took a pic. u can also see the trans anarchy symbol i did.
to my beloved mutuals, I am asking-- nay, begging-- you to come help me finish this stew. my roommate can't eat it and I only know how to cook for a small army. i can offer a sourdough roll and potentially a slice of orange cake for dessert. please consider my offer.
yours truly,
narwhaled
When I have too much stew (which I always do!) I make a quick savory butter crust, add a bunch of eggs to the soup, put the crust and the new quiche mix into the muffin pan. YES! THE MUFFIN PAN! Then I bake them into mini quiches (with parm, mozzarella, or mexican cheddar depending on the style of the soup) and I put it in the freezer, so in the middle of the day, I have a little mini quiche snack for brunch!
So yummy! And never any wasted soup!
you are thinking in 6D
This blew my mind
Has a worm ever gotten struck by lightning
I’m so shook amazing :0
I’d really forgotten how much I love this site
We actually have no evidence on whether or not diplodocus causes gonorrhea.
If you guys don't start behaving I'm going to turn off reblogs for this post. This post is about launching matchbox cars into your wall at high enough speeds to lodge them there. Nobody cares about how strong the walls in your house are, and I'm suddenly learning that a lot of people on this webbed site don't know what drywall is, but none of that matters.
The only thing that matters is shoot cars into your wall.
