#keeping the brain sharp!

[weevmo]

Long sprink or circular sprink?

They both taste like sulfur infused plastic with a hint of smoke from the rendering.

[krembruleed]

@sirus-zzz it is! (kinda!)

with the power of a four year degree in computer graphics blender, you can also make your projects take 500 times longer than if you just learned to draw!

[boringkate]

I watched Lena Dunham's Sharp Stick (2022) with a babe last month. Which I absolutely loved!!!

It's never explicitly acknowledged, but the main character is clearly supposed to be (despite the producers claiming otherwise) in some way neurodivergent. Or something. She's meek and impossibly sexually naive (to the point where me and the girl I watched it with had initially assumed the character was intended to be a child). Apparently they had approached an autism sexuality advocate to work as a consultant for the film before backpeddling.

Trans girls tend to be autistic.

The main character also had a hysterectomy (as did Lena Dunham).

Trans girls tend to be infertile.

She's shown taking estrogen.

Trans girls tend to take estrogen.

She becomes obsessed with porn and begins having one night stands with random men from the internet in hopes of finding validation by proving her sexual desirability.

Trans girls tend to do that shit.

It ends with her realizing and leaning into her impregnation fetish (while getting fucked by the one black guy she knows who had just brought over some 40s and called them homies and also while her black step sister's hands unexpectedly drift in from off screen to hold her because even when she managed to push it off to the last second Lena Dunham is incapable of being chill and normal about race).

Trans girls can't go ten seconds without making the same joke about how if you don't think you can get a trans girl pregnant then you just aren't trying hard enough (and the frequent fetishization of black men in trans and especially neighboring sissy communities can't really be denied).

Also the bartender is played by Tommy Dorfman (a trans woman) with it being her first time playing a character with a girl name.

But I'm not trying to suggest it's intentionally a movie about the tgirl excperience. That would be silly. Really the takeaway should be that (no matter how varied women's lives may be) we (trans women and cis women etc) can still always find common ground and shared excperiences. We're all in this together.

But anyways I was looking at Lena Dunham's Instagram yesterday (I've been off and on again rewatching Girls, so she's stayed on my mind).

One post features the music video she directed starring famed trans girl Hari Nef.

Another post shows that she recently read trans boy Elliot Paige's memoir Paige Boy.

Another post shows a conversation she had with Jon Bernthal (on his podcast) where she explains the word cis to him and talks about having also explained it to her husband (this is the only clip from her appearance on the podcast that she chose to post).

BTW did you know that she was an executive producer for the 2021 show Genera+ion (which I recall featuring a trans boy actor playing a cis boy character who gets a girl pregnant).

Fascinating!

Meanwhile. Ten years earlier. In 2013 (a year into my transition and a year before Time declared that we've reached the trans tipping point) an episode of Girls features a doorman telling one of the titular Girls that "a tranny walked in last time and he was just walking around the floors, but it was nothing." (lmao)

UPDATE: s05e02 features a "did you just assume my pronouns" bit. (in a way that felt reactionary and gross because the theyfab saying it was an absurd hipster barista that the audience isn't intended to sympathize with)

UPDATE UPDATE: s06e02 features the leader of a group for women entrepreneurs saying "For those of you asking on our Facebook if the group is open to trans women: The answer is: We don't know. Okay?" (which I thought was fun)

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: s06e03 (the literal next episode) "I even went to a couple of hookers and one of them had a dick."

[faaun]

procrastination is starting to have its consequences finally

[zonkedtothemax]

you gonna cry about it :(

[fleshandwires]

shockwave holding bee's spark as it flickers and fades slowly

(cw added for the tags)

[chrispineofficial]

legos are a crazy expensive hobby. unfortunately! they did get me 😔

[swaglet]

considering the state of US education in recent years, and the fact that a considerable amount of this site's userbase is like 20 or younger fresh oit of the system, it's completely understandable that almost everyone on here is a fucking moron who has developed no critical thinking skills whatsoever & probably doesn't even know how to use context clues. bomb the country NOW what are they doing to our youth

[genderfluid-druid]

“what happened to him?” “he read a book so bad he returned it to the library a third of the way through, but now his brain won’t stop chewing on the potential it had 😔”

[bonestrouslingbones]

kinda success???? idk tbh the hardest part about drawing furries is figuring out how to cram in the other fucking eye

[capoteera]

Yes, you can be surrounded by people and still feel alone sometimes. It’s not that deep, it’s doesn’t mean she isn’t married. ////// surrounded by succchhhhh a loving husband and still unhappy??????? Oops!!!! And it wasn't sometimes, she talked about an year????? A whole year with her then bf????? They were in atlanta or MA or LA in 2023 together????😉🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

See this is why reading comprehension is so important kids stay in school for as long as you can because some of you even in your big age still can’t read properly and it’s a huge epidemic with schooling. These poor kids you know they grow up to be illiterate adults because they just don’t have anyone in their life to take the time and teach them to read. She never said it was the whole year she said last year, which could’ve been any month or any block of months in that year, nothing was said about it. And yes, someone can be loving and attentive and if you’re in depression or you’re just generally sad for whatever reason that you are, it doesn’t matter how many people are with you you can feel alone or even lonely. it doesn’t matter how many people love you. You can still feel alone or lonely. This is where the empathy kicks in and none of you have a single ounce of it in your shitty little bodies. The way that you all take a sentence and misconstrue it and turn it into something completely different. So again remember school is very very important. Always keep up on the reading because the older we get the less comprehension works out as we can see here and then you’re gonna end up like this poor dip shit so remember keep reading! Keep that brain sharp! 

[desperatepleasures]

ah and now I'm having a mental breakdown over losing a tack. ain't that just the way

[trujellyfish]

not to sound like a quitter, but.

[tamagotchikgs]

as it turns out taking a whole bunch of pills u are not supposed 2 sometimes does actually have an effect

[daz4i]

i tend to forget it but that dnd stats quiz reminded me I'm quite charismatic. this is why god gave me severe social anxiety he knew if i was able to tap into my full power i would've become unstoppable

[trevisos]

i just think there’s no point if he’s not a little scary is all. he just needs to be kind of freaky.