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Sup, my name is Simi

| he/him | 28 | Queer | Ⓐ | Satanist | Metalhead | no minors plz |

This blog will mostly consist of stupid memes, political rage, music, and me treating Tumblr like a personal journal. My personal posts are tagged "simi speaks", depressing shit is tagged "sad boy stuff" (in case you wanna filter potentially triggering content)

If you think "pro-ship/anti's" matter or have an extensive DNI list you may wanna stay clear. Keep your callout posts away from me.

I'm from the USA, mid Appalachian region, but if you know me IRL no you don't.

(if I tag your art as "tats" pls know I'd never get your art tattooed without permission. I always pay artists before using their work. That tag is mostly just for inspo)

Nsfw blog @simihasthotthoughts (this blog is occasionally on lockdown. Password is 800813)

The interview went really well and I'm so qualified for this job but there's other applicants who are almost certainly already living in the area. I need all the good vibes y'all can send me, I need this so bad and it's totally out of my hands now

I don't even believe in thoughts, prayers, and vibes but i need them nonetheless

Every child abuse survivor who has done even 2 secs of healing inherently understands why we should not be mindlessly supporting “parents rights.”

Just another way the right is using warm fuzzy language to describe truly heinous things.

Thank god for the adults who taught me things my parents wouldn’t. Thank fucking god.

Transphobia cannot be separated from fascism because it relies on white supremacist principles to function. There are two genders, male and female, each serving a singular biological purpose: the continuation of the race. Anything outside of that binary logic is broken or degenerate. And while not all transphobes might agree that this race must be white, it’s generally white beauty standards that transphobes choose to call upon when trying to determine what a woman is.
The rules prohibiting high levels of testosterone in sports are still more likely to eject black cis women than anybody else, while the assumption that ‘real women’ will always be shorter, smaller, and less hirsute than ‘women who actually men’ leads to the unfair and unnecessary scrutiny of (usually queer, non-white and/or disabled) women’s bodies, sometimes to the point of even the most slightly gender non-conforming cis women being attacked.

and further to this article, this grim perennial reinforces this with historical force: 

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Another reminder that if your system of morality is based solely upon what’s legal and illegal, you have no moral system.

In an ideal society laws exist to protect people and make life easier. We do not live in an ideal society.

Anonymous asked:

Do you have any references for centaur foals? It's really hard to find any references that's not adults

Yea! Enjoy a dump of all my centaur babies! They're mostly a bit older drawings but I think they still hold up haha and I don't think many people draw them cause they can be a little funky- what with the chunky little bodies on big ol spidery legs 😅 But I still think they're cute 💜

And a lot of my drawings of the bitties are in slings, as that's how I built in infant care with an L-shaped infant 😂

and of course, some goofy little baby Sunny doodles <3

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Anonymous asked:

what like actually is the middle class are they proletarian or bourgeois how does this work

you're using two different ontologies:

one, the socialist one, talks about society as of class war: precariat, lumpen, prole, bourgeoisie/capitalist, aristocrat, etc.

the other is liberal, focused on how much money one has rather than their relation to the means of production used to get that money: poor, lower class, middle, upper/rich

a prole, someone who doesn't own the means of production but puts them to use in exchange for a wage to the benefit of someone else, may be very rich; that is, may be middle or upper class.

someone that does own the means of production, a capitalist, despite their systematic leverage over proles, be poor/lower class if they can't compete with other capitalists in the market place.

someone like Beyoncé, to flatten their actual position, is a worker, just a very rich worker but who ultimately doesn't own her means of production, but rather gets paid well.

Your local mom and pop store, struggling alongside corporations like Walmart, Amazon, Whole Foods, etc., are poor and, again, struggling, even though they don't depend on a boss for their income.

it's two different ways of dissecting society with different purposes in mind.

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Some union basics:

1. Striking is the LAST RESORT. If a union is at the place where a strike is being proposed it is because they have been bargaining for a long time and exhausted all their other options.

2. Before a strike happens, all the members vote. Everyone is very aware of the status of negotiations long before they’re made public. But if a strike is occurring it’s because an overwhelming majority voted to strike—you want almost everyone in the union to agree before you take such a huge step.

3. Strikes are difficult but necessary demonstrations of workers’ collective power. The hope is that your labor is so essential that the bosses lost profits will make them come back to the bargaining table. The bosses are hoping that the workers will starve to death.

4. Working during a strike is called scabbing. Coming in from an outside industry to do work during a strike is sometimes called crossing the picket line. Both send you straight to hell.

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'the human body is perfect god doesnt make mistakes' what about wisdom teeth then. huh. gonna let those bastards grow in and fuck up your jaw for god. didnt think so

also the exploding appendix

there's an entire book about all the ways the human body is fucked up, but the highlights I remember are: -The blood vessels for our rods and cones in our eyes don't run behind them but rather in front of them. It's like putting the power cables *over* a camera's lens -the nasal sinus cavities fucked up during evolution. when our skulls shortened, we went from having a straight shot from one end to the other to having basically a basin which can collect mucus, which then has the actual exit for the chamber at the top of it. this normally isn't a problem bc cillia can work viscous mucus up it, but when we get sick and produce super watery mucus, it no longer works, which is why our noses get stuffed up. the book is called Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes. I recommend it.

Most mammals can’t get scurvy. They make their own Vitamin C. But in primates, the gene to make it is broken. Normally, when an important gene breaks, the organism dies and has no surviving descendants, but when it broke a few million years ago, our ancestors were living in a lush climate with lots of fruit and survived the failure just fine.

Then humans invented fire and clothing, and moved to colder climates where fresh food was only available part of the year, and scurvy was born.

And our reproduction, oh heavens. There are SO MANY WAYS that human reproduction is fucked up that simply DO NOT APPLY to other animals, even the our nearest relatives, the great apes. When a gorilla is giving birth, she finds a nice hiding place in the trees, squats down for like half an hour, and pushes out a baby. Humans, not so much. In fact, the outcomes of unassisted childbirth in humans are so poor that most anthropologists agree that we must have invented midwifery in some form before we became fully human.

So my coworker was telling a story about how, when he was in college taking biology/anatomy classes, he repeatedly refused to dissect the male cadavers genitalia because he "didn't want to take away his manhood and pride".

When I said it sounded like he was just squeamish he doubled down saying that, even in highschool biology he vehemently refused to cut into the reproductive organs of the male cat cadavers too. That it was too disrespectful or some shit.

He didn't like that I laughed at him and said no it definitely sounds like you're just afraid of other guys dicks and squeamish about it; "upholding their honor as men" is a weird thing to get hung up on in a class full of corpses. He looked so conflicted. That was a delightful exchange.

Yall do NOT hop on a cosmetic surgery hate train during an ongoing campaign against trans Healthcare I am fucking begging

My tits didn't smaller themselves, fuckos. Either you believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.

The sacred bond between trans people who've had plastics and cis people who have had plastics is fucking sacred and I will not tolerate anybody in the queer community trash-talking plastics no matter what it is and who is getting them and for what reason!!!

I want there to not be a line between 'costmetic' and 'necessary'. If there's a line, then insurance companies and whoever-the-fuck-else will decide everything is 'cosmetic'. That happened to me with getting my jaw rebuilt when I was A CHILD. 'oh it's cosmetic' My insurance wrangler lady and the surgeon had to write SEVERAL LETTERS to the damn insurance company detailing out just how graphically I would DIE if I did not get my face rebuilt before I was 18! If 'we won't pay for cosmetic plastics only necessary ones' wasn't a thing, that wouldn't have had to fucking happen!

So you know what? I don't want to hear the word 'cosmetic' out of anyone's mouth. it's ALL just plastics. And all plastics are still 100% the person's choice to get, I don't care what the reason is, all reasons are your business and should be honoured and that's as it should be. As Sweaterkittens said, you either believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.

Signed,

A Transman who has had exclusively plastics for all FOUR major surgeries throughout his life.