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words and concepts don't mean anything anymore

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The magnificent and vainglorious humpback chub!

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My maternal grandmother could crochet.

Nothing complicated. Basic granny squares and double crochet, but she was the one in the family who made blankets for her kids and grandchildren. Dementia hit in her nineties but she still remembered how to make granny squares and made dozens. I asked her for one last blanket but by that point the dementia had taken how to join the squares. They were stacked in piles around the dining room table and when she went into care, into a plastic box for storage.

When she died, I asked for them. By that point I could crochet but didn’t know how to join, and figured, someday, I’d learn.

It’s at least a decade later. I’m the one who makes blankets for my nephews, for my cousin’s children, for pregnant coworkers. Last year I made seven blankets, three for Project Linus, the rest for family and a friend. I can follow crochet charts, filet crochet, do clusters, fans, basic lace, amigurumi.

The world, as is its wont, is on fire. Tonight, I have opened the plastic container for the first time in a decade. I’m sorting them into piles by color. I know now how to look at them and see where her memory slipped or areas I’ll need to repair. There’s no printed pattern but if I need more I have the skills to copy the pattern.

Each square is 5 inches. Blanket size for Project Linus is 40x60. I’ll see how many people I can give her last crochet legacy to.

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I'm too tired to be able to write a big beautiful essay about being a trans guy like people would prefer but I do have enough energy to complain about the fucking audacity of people who claim that the patriarchy rewards trans men and that we're liked and accepted by cis men.

As if I didn't get barked and growled at by a bunch of cis guys a little over an hour ago.

As if cis guys haven't been criticized by their friends for saying "bless you" after I sneeze (No joke, the guy would say "bless you" to me and then his friend next to him would be all "why tf are you saying that to her"), because as a tranny I'm so beneath them that being even slightly polite towards me is unthinkable.

As if cis guys haven't threatened to beat me up because they were mad that a tranny was taller than them.

As if cis guys haven't literally come together to talk about me and collectively decide that they're gonna make fun of me whenever they can.

As if cis guys haven't looked at a girl proudly and openly being my friend and decided that the best response was to directly tell her about how they think I'm a useless ugly retarded tranny-faggot.

"Cis men respect trans men" my fucking ass.

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nobody in the doctor who fandom talking about billie piper and michelle greenidge in the new show 'kaos' together, aka rose tyler and carla sunday

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I'm going through the tag for Kaos and keep seeing people complaining about it being inaccurate and?? Inaccurate? To the Greek Mythology?? The stories that were passed down orally and had so many different versions at the time when they were being told, not to mention now? That Greek Mythology?

Kaos is a fun show that takes the mythological figures we've seen a million times and makes them something new and fresh and I, for one, am totally here for it. I go buck fucking wild for stories where humans rebel against the gods and I will be speaking a season 2 into existence every day.

Please sit back and enjoy the wild ride, because there has never been, and there never will be, an accurate 'adaptation' of Greek Mythology because the myths themselves aren't accurate to their earlier versions.

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I love that Kaos allowed all of it's ensemble to speak with their distinct native accents. Minos the President of Crete has an Irish accent and his daughter has an English one. Poseidon has a NZ accent. Zeus' accent is a northeastern US amalgam. It adds a bit of surreal dissonance that is a lot of fun!

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Caeneus’s ‘we stay winning’ attitude in Kaos honestly makes for a top tier character like. Harrowing backstory, spent 10 years in the underworld thinking his mum sent his former family to kill him, deadnamed 10 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH lmao, the only good thing to ever happen to him in life was owning a plant one time that smelled kinda nice and he gets up every morning like it’s his birthday. 10/10 no notes my favourite character grade 9.

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Y’all! Suzy Izard sighting!!!! I started the Netflix show Kaos and have been binging it over and over again. I was so glad to see Suzy be part of the cast. The show has quite a bit of trans representation and I really appreciate it. She did amazing and I’m excited to see her slay again if there’s a second season. She looked genuinely beautiful and her outfits and nails were amazing together. she served so much cunt I cannot even lie

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Saw one or two people complaining about how the scene with Hera raping one of Zeus’s lovers (as in, having sex with them disguised as Zeus) was presented as a “girlboss” moment, and… was it?

Like obviously I don’t know how it was intended, but I always saw it as a kind of dark joke contrasting the human’s completely understandable reaction of horror and panic with Zeus and Hera’s unfazed ones, showing how little the gods care for human life. Like when Poseidon casually drowns someone or Zeus starts shooting the ballboys; the show goes out of its way to show the mortals’ terror, because this show is in part a comedy and the gods’ cruelty is one of the main plot points.

Also, immediately after this part, Hera tells Zeus to kill a baby and turns the woman into a bee. The bee thing is very much not presented as a girlboss thing in Dionysus’s plotline, so I KNOW I’m not misreading that bit

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Technically this is a bad review but since this is tumblr and I really want people to watch the show, maybe this will encourage you guys

Ps: The show is Kaos, you really want to watch it

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Everything in Kaos is so colorful and kitsch and strongly influenced by David LaChapelle's photography, and then there's the Underworld, with its nouvelle vague black and white, fantastic brutalist architecture and that Soviet rationalist aesthetic that I absolutely adore!

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kaos has done a fucking phenomenal job of incorporating a trans character and their transness into a broader narrative frame. it is shocking in its grace. i am floored.