#I'm not stopping

[lastoneout]

I thought about growing my hair out again, to protect myself, you know? Cuz yeah I'm white and live in a pretty liberal area, but this is still Arizona and I've absolutely had people scream slurs at me just for having short hair and "god hates fags" is graffitied on a light post at my usual grocery store, so yeah. Nerves for sure. I picked a bad time to come out as bigender and butch.

But today I shaved it again. And I felt just as happy as I did the first time I did it. Comfortable in the knowledge that this, this is the real me. I got to look into the mirror again today and see myself. And it helped.

That's it really. I don't have a big message. I shaved my head again. I clipped my stupid carabiner to my belt loop. Wore my jeans and boots. I kept my "that's mr. dyke to you" button on my bag, right next to my "punch nazis" one.

I don't know what's going to happen to people like me. I still think I'm pretty safe, all things considered, I'm white and dating a cis man and live in a liberal city in an increasingly liberal state, and I can go full girl mode without it making me want to die too badly so if I have to hide I can, if I have to flee to a safer state California is literally right there, and I am thankful for that. But I'm still scared, too. Scared enough that I almost didn't cut my hair the way I like it. Scared enough I almost took the buttons off, kept my keys in my bag, switched my men's button-downs for girl-cut t-shirts, my boots for gender neutral sneakers.

But idk. I don't feel like letting the world win this one. I'm not a huge target, not by a long shot, but I won't stop being visibly queer. Not today.

[anachronistic-falsehood]

badly editing qcellbit into homestuck until he comes home: day 12

>Cellbit: Read note in chest.

Note? What note? There’s no note in the oh hey there is in fact a note in the chest you opened earlier. You guess you forgot about it because you were so busy looking for your KNIFE. The note reads: "NOTE TO SELF: DO NOT LEAVE CHARLIE UNSUPERVISED. - PHILZA" Phil must have written this and accidentally left it here. You were kind of hoping for something else, maybe a note he’d pre-emptively written to you for some reason or another, filled with fatherly-ish words of encouragement. He’s not here for that now.

[alex-turners-world]

Just one performance together tonight, boys🙏😭

[mossy-thing]

Guys. GUYS.

It's not about the fucking egg. I couldn't care less about the fucking egg. It's about the way the chicken is treated in factory farming so y'all can get the egg. If I had a farm with chickens I would probably eat their eggs. Why? Because I wouldn't treat a living, breathing thing like a fucking machine for me to abuse. Look me into the eyes and tell me again that I care more for the motherfucking egg, the product that came out of the fucking horror show that is factory farming, than about the chicken that gets abused in said horror show.

LOOK AT THIS AND TELL ME AGAIN THAT IT IS ABOUT THE FUCKING EGG.

If people have less demand for eggs, then factory farming will go down. That is what this is about. I am not a pro-lifer about fucking chicken eggs.

anti-egg vegans are always a hoot. like, she’s not using it. it’s not fertilized. it’s going to rot and attract predators. you want me to just throw it in the trash??

[asoftspotforangels]

some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

[beif0ngs]

Over the Garden Wall 10th Anniversary stop motion short by creator Patrick McHale and Aardman Animations

[soaptaculart]

The cat and the dad she said she "didn't want"

[trainwreck-pumpkin-pie]

Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996) / Mouthwashing (2024)

inspired by this post

[podcastwizard]

cashier: ok that'll be $20

me (visibly sweating): ah, yes, of course! a perfectly reasonable price for a grilled cheese and a small smoothie! that was exactly the price i expected you to say when i ordered a single grilled cheese and a smoothie and my vision is NOT getting blurry as we speak! i am a perfectly normal temperature and my speech patterns are natural and even because this is the countenance of an individual who expected to pay 20 american dollars for a single grilled cheese and a smoothie!

cashier: where's all that blood coming from

[monsoon-of-art]

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

[kensatou]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[canisbeanz]

Silly doodle bc it was the first thing I thought of when I saw Pomni.

[symphonyofsilence]

Let the poor man rest.

[first-ex-wife]

it really is crazyyyyy how much January they managed to fit into this January