#I AM NOT AFFILIATED WITH YOU.

[soullessjack]

anyone who’s ever said that liking jack is “basically pedophilia” because he’s “mentally a child” owes the autistic community every single coin in their bank account and a free kick in the teeth. what the actual fuck is wrong with you guys 👍👍

[newbabyfly]

Back in 2015, some people started the #IllGoWithYou hashtag. A way for allies to show trans people support by wearing a pin to let them know they're available to go with them to the public gendered bathroom that they identify as.

I haven't seen the founders of this post in over two years and with how much vitriol there's been against trans people lately, I felt the need to revive this, so I designed some new pins for all people to wear to show support of trans people in public spaces.

These will be pay what you want, all proceeds going to the Trevor project. Pick the pin that aligns with what gendered bathroom you're comfy with accompanying someone into.

More info writen up by the founders here!

#IllGoWithYou

[bonyfish]

Since I stopped talking to my parents in 2021, most of the people I have had occasion to discuss it with either knew me and my family already or are part of my own generational cohort of queer people who, if they don't have complicated relationships with their parents themselves, at least know several people who do. So I got used to either very candidly discussing the order of events with people who already had context or just kind of saying I don't talk to my parents and receiving an understanding nod and a change of subject.

Anyway that's a whole paragraph lead-up to me trying to articulate why I was so caught off guard when my new endocrinologist¹, upon hearing that I'm not in touch with my parents, got very solemn and asked me if it was because they're "not supportive" (implied: not supportive of my gender transition). Granted, I do tend to just let people assume that I don't talk to my parents because they have problems with me being trans, but the actual answer is much more complicated.

So like, last year when my sister came to town to visit for Assorted Winter Holidays, my mom sent with her a beard-grooming kit as a gift for me. She does this on holidays: sends gifts via my sister, always with the stipulation that I don't have to accept them if I don't want to². Here's the thing about the beard-grooming kit though. Probably two-thirds of it were actually really handy, things I'm still using close to a year later. However two of the conditioning products contained almond oil, which I'm allergic to³. In fact, I've had a diagnosed nut allergy since I was 7 or 8. I don't think it occurred to her to check.

Anyway I didn't tell this story to my endocrinologist. I just told her it was complicated and that as far as I know neither of my parents have developed any new health problems of the sort that one writes on patient family history forms.

¹ this is my fourth HRT provider in 3 years because they keep retiring?? Or in the case of my last one, just plain Leaving The Area

² I don't know if I am communicating anything unintentionally by keeping the gifts, but Nik did like the crêpe maker she sent

³ my sister and her partner knew some bearded folks without nut allergies to pass these along to so they didn't go to waste, at least

[boringkate]

hello ms. boringkate, do you have any recommendations for someone visiting montreal for the first time?

I dunno. I'm a homebody. TransZen?

Also get some poutine and bagels.

[anthonycrowley]

the difference between me saying this and tacc to be clear is the show was realistically objectively not good and the show having a satisfying ending later does not make it retroactively good and i don’t think it was bad on purpose i just think neil gaiman is a novelist and john finnemore up until this point has written for radio and they are both learning as they go. that being said i do think they were trying to do something here you just have to stare at it from multiple angles for multiple weeks before going oh wait i see what their point was. which again does not make it good.

[cataschism]

url change!! chimerameat -> cataschism

[seventh-district]

i’ve just finished season one of TMA, and being someone who’s okay with spoilers is fun because it means i can peruse the wiki and scroll through the tag and i get to become privy to all sorts of weird, wonderful, halfway-out-of-context information that i get to look forward to understanding in the future

like. what do you mean Leitner’s in the tunnels?

what do you mean Jon eats the extinguished sun??

what do you mean it’s spelled Gerard Keay???

[havendance]

I refuse to belive that Dick will die in any manner other than falling! He needs to die like his parents did! The last of the flying Graysons!

[fuckyeahaudiodrama]

G.O.B.L.I.N.S CROWDFUNDER ENDING SOON!

a comedic fantasy podcast from the Meredith brothers of Stellar Firma fame, the first series of this podcast is closing in on its final hours of crowdfunding!

GOAL: £24,000

CURRENTLY: £20,817 (86%)

the crowdfunder ends at 2PM BST on Friday, August 6th! CHIP IN HERE.

there are still plenty of exclusive rewards left to snag, including (but not limited to):

BLOOPERS

BEHIND THE SCENES

SIGNED SCRIPT

PERSONALIZED VIDEO MESSAGE from a cast member of your choice!

these are just some of my personal favorite rewards, but there are others to peruse!

if you want to help the meredith brothers and friends bring this podcast to life, make haste! not sure? why not CHECK OUT THE PILOT EPISODE. (it’s hilarious)

[isalabells]

Joachim Löw, former national coach of Germany, Hansi Flick, head coach of FC Barcelona, Andreas Köpke, former national goalkeeping coach, and Oliver Bierhoff, former DFB manager during the Farewell Game Of Lukas Podolski, 1.FC Köln on October 10, 2024 in Cologne, Germany.

[byler-alarmist]

If your support of Palestine includes apologizing for SA on the part of Hamas, you'd better block me before I come for your ass

[statiicstag]

[ ta da, brand new blog graphics so very kindly made by @ducktastic-dad look how BEAUTIFUL they are !

on that note, pinned update with a brand spanking new carrd, including updated rules & an about page for alastor ! pls give it a read if you don't mind ! ]

[transexualpirate]

at this point you could waterboard me and i wouldn't admit to watching anything made by vivziepop and it's 100% because of the fanbase

[hauntedtotem]

ppl when they find out teenagers act like teenagers 😱

[chilapis]

my monthly overthrow the tsaritsa post. you do not need to owe your loyalty to anyone but me i think. abandon your god for the prettiest wife this universe could ever provide a warrior. Ajax I’m speaking directly into your ear

[arctic-hands]

Still mortified from the time I took a picture of a project to my stationery group on Facebook, and the doorstoppers I keep around for pressing papers as I bookbind were visible in the background and those books happened to be all of Lovecraft, a biography of Victoria of England, the United States Constitution, a book of Great American Speeches, and a book on Nikola Tesla that just said "Tesla" on the spine (that one I HAVE partially read), and someone with an American flag in the background of their profile pic wearing wrap around sunglasses commented "I like your taste in literature ;)"