THIS IS NOT A DRILL

I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL

please don’t start reblogging this again this post ruined my life

I had, weirdly enough when I describe it, the absolute sweetest interaction at an IHOP today.

We'd been sat at this booth for a little over an hour, eating and planning for this year's NaNoWriMo, when a waitress who was not our waitress came over and leaned down.

"Can I ask you a question?" she said quietly.

My friend, instantly alert, asked, "Oh, do we need to go?" (Thinking we had overstayed our welcome, since we had already paid the check and our waitress had just in fact collected the signed slip.)

"No, no," the waitress assured us. "It's just...I hope you don't mind..." She turned to me and asked, so quietly I almost didn't hear her at first, "What kind of...what are you on? Because..." She gestured at my face.

For those who don't know, I look like this:

(And yes, I'm wearing those buttons today. The one you can't really see clearly in this picture is the Genderqueer pride flag with my name and pronouns.)

It turns out the waitress' son, who is 21, is trans, has been on HRT for four years, and is becoming frustrated that his beard is not growing in as thick as he'd like. His mother had tried to reassure him, but he was still upset and insecure about it, so when she saw my pins and realized I was at least some flavor of trans (the shirt I'm wearing today also has vaguely trans colors in it, although that's not intentional, it's actually just a blushing blue crab in a viking helmet sitting in front of a typewriter but the graphic is flaking off badly - side note, Redbubble sucks), she came over to our table, hoping I wouldn't be offended, to find out if the testosterone I was taking would somehow help her son grow thicker facial hair.

I actually felt kind of bad having to tell her, "I'm so sorry to tell you this, but I'm actually not taking any. I'm intersex. This is natural." She was genuinely astonished.

It just...it made me feel good. I live in Virginia, which isn't the most conservative state out there but is still on the redder side of purple. And here was this mom who not only supported her son enough to help him with his transition, she was willing to step out of her comfort zone and ask another visibly trans person for advice. And listening to her talk, it was so obvious she loved her son and was trying her hardest to do right by him, to refer to him using the language he preferred and talk about him as naturally as she would if she'd known he was her son from the day he was born. And she seemed really grateful when all three of us assured her that even cis men don't get full, thick beards right away and that he'll get there, he just has to give it time.

Just...yeah. Made my whole afternoon. The world needs more mommas like that.

anyone of any gender or identity can use whatever pronouns they want. trans men can use she/her, trans women can use he/him, nonbinary people don't have to use they/them or neopronouns, genderfluid people don't have to alternate pronouns, anyone can use they/them, it/its, ze/hir, xe/xem or neopronouns, cishet people can use whatever pronouns they want. anyone can use whatever pronouns they want

pronouns are not locked or tied to genders. destroy the binary in your mind that dictates that pronouns have an assigned gender, presentation, or identity. they don't. the only thing a pronoun set means about you is that you like to use those pronouns. have fun, be yourself

i just wanted to say as someone who came out as genderqueer in 2011, you are in no way obligated to switch from using "older" other gender terms to newer ones like nonbinary. it's okay if you like the term nonbinary, but it's also okay if you'd rather stick with something else instead, like neutrois, genderqueer, genderless, boygirl, multigender, or whatever else your preferred term may be. use what suits you

gayness and lesbianism are inherent parts of the bisexual experience. gayness and lesbianism are not exclusive identities that cannot exist alongside other types of attraction. gayness and lesbianism do not mean exclusively attracted to men or women. bisexuality does not exist outside of lesbianism and gayness, it encompasses and includes them. these terms are not and will never be mutually exclusive, they can be and are parts of the same experience.

reminder to all systems out there that change is normal. it's okay if your name changes. role changes. the people in your system or the way it all functions changes. change is normal and what you needed last week/last month/last year/last decade is most likely different than what you need now

I take no criticisms

If there’s a “Pagan Law” I’ve never heard of it. I’m living happily as an outlaw. Come join my merry band!

Fuck the pagan police. ACABradabra.

How dare you be funnier than me on my own post.

reblog for a larger sample size pls etc etc i'll pass u a strawberry 🫶🏽

we did it! we formed a statistically significant sample size with a perfectly acceptable margin of error!

2000 was almost 14 years ago 2000 was almost 14 years ago 2000 was almost 14 years ago

hey op guess what

oh nevermind you’re died

I practice a lifestyle I call "stupid hedonism" where instead of axting to.maximize my pleasure I mostly just do wharver j want and then face the consequences :/

Something that really bugs me about AI voices and stuff is that it could be useful!! If I could get an AI version of my own voice (and, presumably, connect it to text-to-speech), I could see myself pursuing some careers that I'd like that aren't really available to me as a semi-verbal person, like streaming or even call center work. But instead we've got "Do you want to replace this big part of your work that you enjoy with AI so you can Work Faster?" and "What if we just replaced artists instead of paying them fairly?". Like, of course you'd say that, you greedy fucking corporation. Why think of ways to help people when you can be thinking of ways to make more money?

I know I don't talk politics on here much but. Ugh, capitalism.

AI voices would be cool as SHIT if they were done like Talkloids or whatever those speech vocaloid things are called. Itd be nice for people who are severely dysphoric/dysmorphic about their voices, or for who need additional voice actors for their projects but just want to do things themselves. There IS a place for this type of thing but it has to be ruined

see now THIS is how you do an introductory google form

[ ID: two required questions on a google form. the first is "What are your pronouns?" which is answered "they/them" and the second is "What pronouns should I use when speaking to your guardians/family?" which is unanswered. End ID ]

the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ has only been actually typed once by a single person, everyone else who has ever used it has just googled “shrug emoji” and copy-pasted it

why repaint the mona lisa

As someone who has painstakingly typed it out because I forgot there were other options, I can guarantee my forgery was not up to the quality of the original.

did you install a katakana keyboard just to type it or did you have to Google “katakana alphabet” or something and copypaste from that

Pretty sure I just did a vaguely cursed bootleg thing like this:

-\_(“✓)_/-

that’s a guy who has lost control of his life. there is no more cheerful nihilism in his smile, no more mischief in his eyes. that’s an emoticon with clinical depression

Doctor: $140,000 a year

Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year

i think you’re lowballing the furry art amount tbh

I’m sorry for the inaccuracies, Doctor Yiff

no matter how I respond to this I don’t look good, well played. i walked right into that

Well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor, so I can see that.

Did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8+ years in a university to give you your lung transplant?

doctors are bullshit and furry artists perform an infinitely more valuable service to society compared to them

You will die in 7 days

It took doctor’s like 10 years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was faking for attention while a furry artist I knew just went “that sounds like crohn’s” after hearing me complain once and ended up being right

Also I can’t go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I

You could if you weren’t a fucking coward

World Heritage Post

Art by coolfrogdude together at last

[ID: a comic illustrating the above thread as if it was happening in a theater. The users are mostly shaped like their icons, pukicho is a pikachu and hokuto-ju-no-ken is a gengar. The last panel is gengar looks back where a speech bubble comes out of the crowd to say, “you could if you weren’t a fucking coward.” /end]

I can’t believe I’m actually seeing this post

Magic of tumblr,

I am morally obligated to add the YouTube video whenever this thread crosses my dash

I’ve seen this thread more than a few times. But this is the first time I’ve seen this video. So thank you for your service.

Here you go redditors

Reblog if you are not a coward

If a woman has

STARCH MASKS

O N   H E R    B O D Y

does that mean

she has been pGReNant bef o r e?

DANGEROPS

Pranget sex?

Will it hurt baby top of his head????

Can uu get,,,

𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓰𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓮

38+2 weeks

can uu go down a

20 foot waterslide

while uu are

For anyone who doesn’t know what this is referencing

@funnierasafictive when you look at fancontent of your source