#musings

[plaidos]

petition for the Bechdel test to be repurposed to refer to whether or not a "trans ally" was a regular michfest attendee

[thatdisasterauthor]

How did we decide cyanide smells like bitter almonds? How many people knew what bitter almonds smell like and also encountered cyanide enough to make the comparison our main point of reference? When was the last time anyone checked if it’s even true and not just something one random Victorian decided one day and we all went along with?

[themosthatedbeingg]

@heaven-saidx

[plaidos]

you can tell which TME feminists are safe to be around as a trans woman by calling Alison Bechdel a terf seeing how they react. works every time. they can’t not take the bait

[shamebats]

Not only do I believe that if someone who was previously assigned the role of woman/girl transitions out of it because they want to escape certain expectations that come with that role & organs they happen to have been given by nature, I also believe this will on the long term benefit cis women.

They should have all the same options available to them as trans people do & they should be aware that they have them.

Don't enjoy having periods? Take medicine to skip them. Womanhood =/= suffering through periods.

Don't like your boobs? Yeet them. Womanhood =/= having a non-flat chest.

Don't like having vaginal sex? You don't have to, there are other things you can do. Womanhood =/= putting up with unsatisfying sex just because you have the organ for it & your partners want to use it.

Dont like that you can get pregnant? You don't have to. Womanhood =/= suffering through pregnancy & childbirth.

Don't like the idea of being a mother? You can be a father instead. Or neither. You can opt out entirely. Womanhood =/= motherhood.

Don't want to be a girlfriend/wife? You can be a boyfriend, a husband, a partner, neither, anything you want. Womanhood =/= being a girlfriend/wife.

You don't like having a vagina? There's surgeries for that too. Womanhood =/= having a vagina.

We're still at a point where people in the social role of woman think there's this whole laundry list of things they just have to suffer through & put up with because of their assigned role & anatomy.

There's no virtue in suffering and if we help women learn this, they will put up with less bullshit from society.

(I also think this is a huge element of the transphobia afab trans people face. Misogynistic men don't want women to know that they can have that kind of power over their own lives & bodies, and a lot of cis women who've suffered needlessly all their lives have the instinct to push back against afab trans ppl exercising our bodily autonomy for the same reason that ppl who sacrificed a lot to pay a fortune for their education don't want it to be made free.)

[thatdisasterauthor]

Apparently Turner Classic Movies has been playing non-stop anti-Nazi movies and I love that.

[nessieac]

but i don't want to be anyone else can you believe what i say? do i have schizophrenia? 😭😭😭

i wish i was born as someone who could handle life

[gwaindrifter]

TikTok is closed. The doors are shuttered. I scrolled through my FYP until the app came apart and spat me out. And when I tried to pop back in, hoping against hope, what greeted me was a message, saying that the app is banned, but trump may be its savior. If that's so, then I'm tempted to say salt the earth and never return; but also know when to take a victory, however phyrric, and gather what ground you can.

But enough of tomorrow, let us drink to the last day of TikTok, if this may truly be it. As I scrolled tonight, basking in the revelry and remembrance, I felt like I got to see some of the best of the human spirit. A mix of the last day of high school, an Irish wake, and a stage door. Telling old jokes, singing mourning songs, and thanking audiences. And it felt so beautiful.

[johannestevans]

Water nymphs used to being grabbed and fucked roughly by various denizens of the forest - fucked all the way through whilst used as sleeves by trolls and giants, bent over and bred by satyrs and centaurs, filled by driders

Quite offended when a band of humans come through who just LOOK at them

Very admiring looks, yes, and very poetic in describing their bodies and dances to one another, and seeming quite yearning... But no touching? No grabbing, no fucking? What the fuck? What has the world come to? Have they no decency, keeping their lust to themselves, and not sharing it out?

[teresablogs]

You are capable of achieving the dream that’s been planted in you.

[submissivejberry]

@javierfogarty

Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars

[sherdnerd]

Sometimes I think about the why of archaeology. Like its cool and all but why is it important? Why do we have legislation protecting artefacts and sites, restricting construction and export and ownership? I figured it out while I was, ironically, at a paleontology exhibit. There are only 13 Archeoptorix fossils in the world. 2 are in private collections. Scientists and the public have no access, and so in order to own some trinket, these individuals are holding back science. And that put my thoughts on the fundamental value that underpins my professional views as an archaeologist: Knowledge is inherently valuable, regardless of its age. We work to bring back lost knowledge for its own value, and preserve that which we have through materials

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[sitronsangbody]

It will never not baffle me how hard society tries to insist that fatness is an abnormality. The average western woman wears plus size clothing. One of the smallest garments on the scale is called a medium. Most people with anorexia are in the overweight bmi category, yet somehow that's known as "atypical anorexia". Fatness is often labeled the cause of a number of diseases, but there are literally no diseases exclusive to fat bodies. Looking at movies and television, you'd think the world was 98% thin people. It's not.

My point isn't that if it was pretty rare to be fat, fatphobia would be okay. Of course not.

My point is that we're surrounded by all these artificial indicators that fatness is unnatural and uncommon and it's just not true?? Humans are not always thin and we've never all been thin and we're not all meant to be thin. Fat humans are a normal type of human. Fatness is a feature, not a bug.

[rsrevan]

@alaraselwyn

REIGN S01E19 • Toy Soldiers